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CROSS CAMPUS Welcome, class of 2020.

Today, 1,370 of the newest members of Yale College will move into Old Campus, Timothy Dwight and Silliman.

The members of the class of 2020 hail from all 50 states and as many countries. The News welcomes them to campus.

In the spring, the University accepted 6.27 percent of applicants to the class of 2020.

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BY MICHELLE LIU AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS This is the first in a four-part series on the class of 2020.

Today, members of the class of 2020 begin their journey at

Yale, arriving on campus with shower caddies and twin XL sheets, but also with a diverse set of dreams and anxieties.

Earlier this summer, the News distributed a survey to the class of 2020 in the hopes of

providing a clear look at Yale’s newest undergraduates. Almost 1,000 members of the class responded, yielding a response rate of 69 percent. The results were not adjusted for selection bias.

Republicans captured national headlines this summer when members of the group resigned after they officially endorsed Donald Trump for the 2016 election. The Harvard College Republicans did not endorse the controversial candidate.

Stirring the pot. In a welcome

letter to its freshmen, the University of Chicago said that it does not condone the intellectual “safe spaces” or trigger warnings in the interest of preserving academic freedom. The action has been met with both support and controversy.

Well deserved after the poopetrator. In an email to the

Saybrook College community, Head of College Thomas Near introduced several renovations to facilities. Improvements include a refurbished common room and a new 55” television in the college gym.

For free. It’s tax-free week from August 21 to August 27 in Connecticut. Enjoy no sales taxes on all clothing and footwear costing less than $100 at The Shops at Yale today and Saturday.

Not a member of the class of 2020. Olympian Genie

Bouchard, who is in town for the Connecticut Open, toured campus and was so impressed that she considered enrolling right away. Bouchard says, however, that she will stick with tennis for now.

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The Yale presented in glossy admission brochures has now yielded to a more realistic image, one that comes with room assignments and distribution requirements. Yet the thrill of being greeted by a sing-

In Calhoun, even T-shirts reflect debate

undergraduate student was robbed at gunpoint while moving into an off-campus house at 61 Lake Place late yesterday according to a campus-wide email from Yale Police. The victim lost a cell phone and a television. This message comes after an email earlier this week informing the community that a graduate student had been robbed in the area of Mansfield Street.

In the news. The Yale College

Elm City businesses close, open up shop during summer months

Introducing the Class of 2020

Robbery reported. An

In the history books. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 made history at the Democratic National Convention this summer when she became the first woman to secure the presidential nomination for a major political party. Clinton will face her opponent, Donald Trump, in the presidential debates on September 26, October 9 and October 19.

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ing bulldog upon logging into the admission website still lingers.

“When I went there for Bulldog Days, I had imagined Yale SEE SURVEY PAGE 6

Grad students can unionize, NLRB rules

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navy-blue shirt. Another T-shirt with an even more explicitly political message — the slogan “_____ College” set against a white background — will be on sale in the college office, according to Head of Calhoun College Julia Adams.

“There will be some upperclassmen who wish that they had the freshman T-shirts,” Adams told the News earlier this week. “They recognize a liminal moment, and pro-

Graduate student teachers and research assistants at private universities like Yale are now permitted to form unions, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision.

At the heart of the decision was a ruling on whether graduate students are primarily students or employees. The case concerned whether graduate students at Columbia could unionize, but applies to private universities nationwide.

“The board has the statutory authority to treat student assistants as statutory employees, where they perform work, at the direction of the university, for which they are compensated,” states the NLRB majority opinion.

Tuesday’s decision overturned a 2004 NLRB ruling on Brown University students stating that graduate students could not be considered employees. The board this week ruled 3–1 in favor of unionization, signaling a victory for Local 33, formerly known as GESO, which has lobbied for graduate student unionization at Yale for decades.

The decision leaves the fate of Yale’s prounion graduate students uncertain. In a Tuesday afternoon email to the Yale community, University President Peter Salovey

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COURTESY OF JULIA ADAMS

This year’s Calhoun College freshman T-shirts do not feature the college’s name, in a nod to the naming controversy.

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER In the design for this year’s Calhoun College freshman T-shirts, there is a startling omission: the word “Calhoun.”

The naming debate that consumed Calhoun last year has touched nearly every aspect of life in the college, from orientation events to dorm-room debates to the scenery in the dining hall. And now — three months after University Pres-

New Haven to Rio: Yale at 2016 Olympics

ident Peter Salovey announced that the college would keep its name despite student-led protests calling for it to be changed — the fallout from that controversy has influenced the design of the traditional freshman T-shirt given to all the college’s incoming students during Camp Yale.

The new design, which Calhoun administrators showed to the News, is simple: An image of a phoenix twisted into the shape of a “C” adorns the left breast of a plain

YCBA reopens, with face lift

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Yale’s storied history in the Olympics closed another chapter last Saturday when the 2016 Rio Olympics formally concluded.

Among the 11,303 participating athletes were seven Yale alumni and one current student.

The eight Yalies in Rio competed in four different sports — fencing, sailing, rowing, and track and field — and under three different flags.

Though no Bulldogs medaled, two advanced to the finals of their respective events and two others finished in the top 16.

Sailor Stu McNay ’05, one of the most experienced Bulldog Olympians, was also Yale’s top finisher in Rio, as he and partner Dave Hughes finished fourth in the men’s 470 sailing event. After placing 13th and 14th at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, respectively, he and Hughes put together a solid series of races.

In their 11 races, McNay and Hughes finished no lower than 14th among all 26 boats. Though they advanced to the medal race, they were mathematically eliminated from medal contention before setting sail in the finals.

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fter more than a year of renovations, the Yale Center for British Art has reopened to the public. Architects and curators say the revamped building preserves the best of Louis Kahn’s original design while looking forward to the gallery’s future. PAGE 11

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GUEST COLUMNIST K AY L A B A R T S C H

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Exiting the real world A

s my family’s Chrysler Town & Country minivan abandons me on Old Campus along with my ungodly amount of luggage and healthy fear of the unknown, I will be, for the first time, solely on my own.

I will be a sovereign adult, on no one’s schedule but my own, plunging into the triumph and strife independence has to offer. Finally, I will have stepped off the train of childish illusion and into the real world.

This is the picture of gritty, autonomous bliss that my parents, teachers, friends and Netflix have painted for me ever since I could imagine my future as a college student.

Goodbye to the sheltered, homely days of high school, and hello to the flashy, grinding wheel of adulthood. However, I think that this illustration is a bit misleading.

According to my current (albeit very limited) understanding of college life, I would argue that college in modern America is very artificial — rather than diving into the “real world” on move-in day, I will have exited it.

We, the class of 2020, will soon enter a planned society, a learning commune. We will become part of a larger group of people who live together and share common goals, resources and values, united under an umbrella of academia. Nearly all major social activities will be planned, our course requirements predestined, our meals made for us — in fact, some of us may even order housekeeping just to have more time to relish the bounties of college life. I am, of course, simplifying the whole experience, but I am simply trying to communicate that our path is clearly laid out for us.

And, although we might be leaving our families back home, we will be entering a larger, dare I say, more pragmatically supportive family.

Our FroCos, residential college deans, freshman advisers and peers on campus will be entirely at our disposal whenever we need to seek counsel.

Yes, we will be able to make our own choices, but we get to pick from a plethora of shining, prepackaged bundles. Whenever faced with challenging decisions or the great burden of our unknown futures, we are able to ask advice of the experts.

Debating between economics or chemistry? Your freshman adviser can help you decipher your passions and make sure you are registered

for the proper, introductory classes.

Is there a certain country that has always tugged at your wanderlust? The Center for International and Professional Experience can help you select, fund and plan your trip.

Have you always wanted to follow a specific career path?

Head on over to the Office of Career Strategy, and they can help you accomplish your goals.

With such a clear structure and immense support system in place, Yale seems to lack the “real-world” luster so commonly glazed over the college experience. Although the life-path of our next four years may be artificially imposed, by no means is this a negative aspect of college life.

Rather, the meticulous design and step-by-step process to our undergraduate years are imperative, for the very lack of “real-world-ness” in our college experience helps make it so formative.

Entering the college bubble allows us, the incoming students, to focus on ourselves, on our own ambitions and on our own life philosophy.

We can spend nearly every moment of the next four years on self-improvement, seeking the truth, pursuing our passions and building our character.

And, although we will be living in a heavily planned community, this does not mean we will be sheltered from hardship. I am confident that I will face some of my greatest trials over the next four years, but I am equally confident that I will be well-equipped and supported to face such challenges. And this is the real marker of adulthood — the ability to overcome adversity of any kind, calmly and confidently. Regardless of our level of acquaintance with the “real world,” we shall continue to proceed in the quest to overcome strife. Only, our time at Yale is particularly structured to rapidly grow this maturing process.

So, to my fellow incoming freshmen: Do not fear that your existence up to this point has taken place outside of reality. Do not think yourselves totally unqualified to make decisions because you might lack “authentic” experience.

And, finally, do not worry that everyone else around you inhabits the real world; rather, cherish the time we have away from it.

KAYLA BARTSCH is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact her at kayla.bartsch@yale.edu .

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VIEW The challenge ahead How did you feel when you were first accepted to Yale?

You may have cried, overwhelmed by the cheesy “Welcome to Yale” bulldog telling you, yes, this is happening.

Unable to contain your excitement, you rushed to inform your parents, who also began to cry. You swaggered into school the next day, with your future secured and (we suspect) your ego boosted.

All those swim meets, debate practices, standardized tests and science fairs had finally paid off — you were a Yalie, and that felt good.

But perhaps this elation slowly gave way to anxiety.

Tears of joy turned to drops of nervous sweat. Would your brilliant classmates outshine you in everything you tried?

Would you drop from your normal 4.0 GPA to a number appreciably lower (for 99 percent of you, the answer is yes)? What about your social life? How would you adjust to a new peer group of smart, equally driven students, several of whom seem destined for the Senate or Supreme Court? Would your new roommates be accepting of your insomniac sleeping schedule, or your sexual orientation? Would Yale’s stated commitment to meet 100 percent of “demonstrated financial need” turn out to be

smoke and mirrors?

And — this past year in particular — many of you no doubt worried that you would come to feel alienated from your new home. You may have wondered what it meant to be a student of color in a residential college whose namesake’s greatest contribution to American Politics was a vehement defense of slavery. You may have wondered whether Yale, for all its rhetoric, would really care about you as anything more than a convenient statistic to be highlighted or ignored. Perhaps you fretted that your ideas — not always popular in Facebook groups like “Overheard at Yale” — would be dismissed out of hand by your peers.

Here, class of 2020, is the reality: All of these reactions — the tears, the anxieties, the alienation — will rear their heads at various times throughout your Yale career.

There will be days when you look out across Cross Campus, see the sun reflecting from Sterling Memorial Library and think to yourself, “This is paradise.” There will also be days when your papers and problem sets seem so overwhelming you begin to wonder if you were the Admissions Office’s one mistake.

And then there will be the days when no one will listen

to you and you won’t know what to do.

Yale will not hold your hand, and it will not apologize for wrecking your straightA average from high school.

The administration will make some decisions you strongly disagree with, and others you support. When you express concerns about those decisions, your peers will sometimes respond uncharitably, making you feel alone. (Everyone has had this experience at Yale, no matter where they stand on recent controversies. Trust us.)

Sooner or later, the bulldog’s welcome begins to wear off. You’ll wake up one day, cast your eyes around this incredible place and feel an unwelcome sense of disenchantment. You’ll have learned a hard truth: Yale is not perfect.

And as you come to terms with the decidedly un-utopian character of college life, you will make mistakes. You’ll lose your temper, let friends down, miss deadlines and allow emails to languish, unacknowledged, in your inbox.

So will your professors, your classmates, your heads of college, your deans. Embrace these mistakes, and embrace each other, especially in times of difficulty. Recognize that loneliness is not impenetra-

ble, even when it seems that way. Often, asking for help — or a shoulder to cry on — can go a long way. Our campus can sometimes feel less like a university and more like a bureaucratic hierarchy, prizing technocratic efficiency over a supportive learning environment or bonds of fellowship.

Still, you’ll learn that most people here — in the administration and outside of it — are decent human beings, if you are willing to seek out that decency.

Ultimately, Yale is what you make it. The University cannot be reduced to a series of corporate charters and nebulous bylaws. It is an organic institution, inseparable from the students, customs and values that comprise it. Just as Yale will shape you, you will shape it.

So we urge you not to forget that initial magic. In dark times, defeatism is the surest path to defeat. When Yale fails to deliver on all its promises — and it will — recall the sense of wonder that your admission inspired. Before you change the bad parts of Yale, and preserve the good ones, you must recognize that you are Yale. This can be a special, magical, enlightening place.

But only if you make it so.

That’s the task we leave you.

GUEST COLUMNIST ELLIOT CONNORS

Learning to let go I

f you’re anything like me, the opportunity to write a column in the News brought on a familiar sense of reluctant excitement. A Tuesday morning email meant that you would have to shake the apathy from your fingertips and once again put pen to paper. It would be a rewarding experience and you’d be happy once it was complete, but after a summer removed from deadlines and responsibilities, this was an unfortunate wakeup call. I could almost hear the collective murmur of my Type A peers around the globe as we sighed, cracked open our laptops and began to tiredly type out our pitches.

For many people, writing for the News is an optional activity. For others, however, foregoing this opportunity can lead to anxiety and self-doubt. Overwhelmed with selecting classes and packing, I initially considered not submitting a pitch.

Then, almost immediately, I began to question whether I had lost my drive this summer.

People were completing rigorous internships and traveling the world, and all I had done was relax with friends. Would I be ready for move-in day on Aug 26? Needing to cast-off these doubts, I sat down and promptly began to agonize over a topic

to write about. Regardless of whether I had anything to meaningful to say, I was going to write 650 to 800 words.

For a Type A person like myself, passing up any opportunity proves difficult. Working hard is always easier than grappling with the anxiety that you aren’t working hard enough.

This mentality draws us to the Ivy League, since acceptance to a prestigious school is seen as the ultimate opportunity that cannot be squandered.

Type A personalities gravitate towards schools like Yale, but once we’re here, do we actually flourish? Bombarded by Facebook posts advertising countless extracurricular activities and academic programs, we feel an obligation to participate in all of them and simultaneously realize that we can’t. I have no interest in the Western canon, but I seriously considered applying to the Directed Studies program. It took a moment of introspection to dissuade me, but my instinct was to apply, despite the immense amount of work I’d have to dedicate to a topic I don’t actually enjoy. Even after my decision, I let June 3 pass with a touch of regret. Yale can be a lose-lose scenario for Type A personalities: We either try to do everything and fail, or we don’t

and grapple with self-doubt as a result.

With a Type A mindset also comes a compulsion to be the best. At Yale, where every student is uniquely qualified, this can be a dangerous fixation. We are not accustomed to rejection, yet with selective programs like Directed Studies first introduced over the summer, many of us have already experienced disappointment. For the first time in our lives, we have been knocked from our safe perch atop the totem pole, forced to prove ourselves in a new environment where we may never be the best.

Writing a column in the News is probably a subconscious attempt to assert my voice and assure myself of my abilities in a field of highly capable classmates.

What I have come to realize, however, is that speaking loudly is not a surrogate for intelligence.

Regardless of how many columns I write, I need to accept that I will never be the smartest person at Yale.

Is this a defeatist attitude?

Do I really think that as a Type A person I have no chance of surviving college? Far from it. In fact, I think that with a few slight adjustments, Type A personalities can thrive. Of course, this is easier said than done: To shift one’s mindset is to fight instinct.

The first change comes in learning to let go. I mentioned earlier that Type A personalities either seize every opportunity that comes their way or feel anxious about foregone experiences.

The third option, however, is to let that anxiety dissipate. Close the email from the News and realize that some columns are better left unwritten (obviously, you should take my advice with a grain of salt — this is a process for me!). Remind yourself that everything happens for a reason and that passing up an opportunity may be for the best.

The second change comes in understanding the difference between ambition and obsession. Capable peers will push us to attain personal bests, and competition can be healthy as long as we accept that we will not always win. Realizing that we do not need to be the best will allow us to be our best.

Then again, I may be completely missing the mark. Perhaps I have incorrectly categorized my feelings as “Type A.” In that case, I apologize to any true Type A personalities I may have offended. I wish you all the best during your time at Harvard.

ELLIOT CONNORS is a freshman in Morse College. Contact him at elliot.connors@yale.edu .

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FRESHMAN FORUM

OSCAR WILDE “Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”

GUEST COLUMNIST SAHA J SANKARAN

GUEST COLUMNIST EMIL FRIEDMAN

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he winter’s cold hasn’t quite set in, yet there already seems to be a chill hanging over the campus courtyards and winding through the streets of Yale.

For so long, liberal arts universities in America, the Ivy League in particular, have been avowed bastions of democracy, of progress and, vitally, of freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of inquiry — these have been vaunted hallmarks of a liberal arts education at the best institutions on the planet.

Last year, my brother watched as the head of his college, Silliman, which he had called home for three years, was belittled and berated on the college steps. Scorn was heaped upon him by hundreds for daring to suggest that the politics of comfort are complex and nuanced. I will not rehash the larger debate surrounding the incident, yet I cannot help but wonder what my brother felt that day, what students all over Yale felt when a video of the incident went viral. Perhaps they asked themselves, “Is this the price of speaking out?” Perhaps a seed of fear was planted that day: fear of expressing unpopular opinions and fear of going against the words of the authoritarians, lest one be labeled “racist” or “insensitive.” O tempora, o mores!

Liberal arts universities are a

unique phenomenon. Unlike the subject-focused intellectualism of Oxbridge, they are grounded on the traversal of disciplines, the consideration of complicated and multifaceted questions and, most crucially to me, the investigation of perspectives and ideas however radical, however unpopular. These schools are, in this respect, unlike anywhere else in the world. To encourage a culture of fear would mean the death of what makes these institutions unique.

To put it curtly: I am worried.

In India, where I come from, people have been arrested, imprisoned and even killed for everything from speeches to mild Facebook posts against certain religious and political beliefs. The rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead in a crowded street three years ago for his work on laws banning superstitious torture; the student-leader Kanhaiya Kumar was charged with sedition for speaking out against government brutality in the state of Kashmir; two women were attacked and arrested for Facebook comments about a political leader — the list goes on. Despite the metropolitan and fairly liberal nature of Mumbai, a global financial hub, my classmates and I were genuinely worried that a stray Facebook post could get us imprisoned, or worse. Every

new incident heightened my fear of expression, a fear I hoped never to see mar liberal arts universities like Yale.

I am worried that, in the United States, I will have to face an intellectual oppression more subtle, more concealed, yet all the more poisonous. My apprehensions are in no way assuaged by the current behavior of the right or left.

For the first time in my family’s cultural memory, it is not clear that at liberal arts universities, a reasonable, vocal majority places the preservation and exercise of core civil liberties as a top priority. The regressive left, under the banner of cultural-relativist liberalism, voices an increasingly illiberal agenda wherein total freedom of intellectual exploration plays understudy to the politics of comfort and identity. In the process, they achieve nothing more than sharper ethno-cultural rifts and a less vibrant intelligentsia. The right, meanwhile, has descended into a dogged xenophobia founded upon relentless nationalism, with rhetoric that, at times, borders on quasi-fascist.

To paraphrase the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Authoritarians to the left of us, authoritarians to the right of us, authoritarians in front of us volley and thunder!”

If I have ever had a creed, a set of

sacrosanct imperatives, it has been this: Speech should be free and unconstrained by considerations of nicety and convention; ideas should be explored, inquired into and mapped to every possible extent; and, most importantly, never shy away from following the facts and sound logic wherever they lead, no matter how frightening, uncomfortable or radical they might be. These values drew me to the United States, and it is these values I hope to exercise and strengthen at Yale.

And so, my future peers, I am worried. Yale and institutions like it are renowned as bastions of freedom — I am worried the walls are crumbling, the battlements and parapets sinking into the mire, the ballistae unmanned and the mighty gates unbarred from inside. I am worried that the values I’ve always held inviolable are critically wounded; their mourning bells toll across the fields, classrooms and minds of Yale and I categorically refuse to let them go unanswered.

Philosopher Karl Popper’s words have never seemed so fitting: “We should claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

SAHAJ SANKARAN is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact him at sahaj.sankaran@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST ISABELLA CHENG

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To the non-Hounies

ike many other freshmen, I closely followed the news of the campus protests to rename Calhoun College and read about, ultimately, the decision by the administration not to do so.

This controversy concerned me as an incoming Yale student, but I would never have guessed that come June 22 — the day residential college assignments were released — I would be plunged into the middle of the naming controversy as an actual member of Calhoun College.

No longer able to stand on the sidelines, I became someone who would inevitably have emotional ties to this college, and with this came a disheartening realization that a stigma against Calhoun exists.

The day after residential college assignments were released, my Facebook feed was flooded with jubilant posts from my peers, each announcing loudly that they had been sorted into the “best residential college.” When I told one classmate that I was in Calhoun, I was met with a sharp comment filled

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with disgust, suggesting we no longer talk anymore. I can take a joke, but in the tone of the response there was an underlying assumption that somehow, by association, I supported the views of John C. Calhoun.

The more I thought about this person’s comment and how it made me feel — like I didn’t belong, like my integrity was being accused — the more I felt that I had been blamed for something I had absolutely no control over. An algorithm had randomly sorted me into the residential college. The Sorting Hat from Harry Potter did not look deep into my soul and find that I was a secret bigot.

What started as anger turned into sadness and helplessness. I want to unconditionally be proud of my college, my home away from home, just as everyone else is able to do. I should not have to worry about whether the content of my character is being scrutinized when I throw on a Calhoun sweatshirt. I should not have to feel that I am being given an ultimatum — to either choose to shun the home that was given to me or be

complicit in a supremacist’s namesake.

This air of shame and negativity is not representative of the people I’ve met so far who call themselves “Hounies.” From my FroCo to my HounSibs and my Asian American Cultural Center Peer Liaison, Calhoun has shown me unbelievable warmth and support before I’ve even set foot on campus. This community is strong and proactive in trying to help new Hounies make sense of the Calhoun dynamic on campus. I’ve seen for myself CC ’20s take their residential college assignment with incredible grace and positivity, looking to this learning experience as a means of crucial social justice and activism. After all, this hope to grow, learn and make an impact is undoubtedly an important reason why we all chose to come to Yale.

This column is by no means a call for complacency following the administration’s decision this past April regarding Calhoun. But as a new student with fresh perspective, I feel this sensitive and emotion-

ridden conversation has unhinged and warped the way people think about Calhoun College as part of the broader community. We should recognize the clear distinction between the passionate, fair students who call themselves “Hounies” and the negative association of the residential college name. As of now, I’m not seeing this distinction.

So let this be a reminder to the Yale community and the class of 2020 that the majority of students in Calhoun are your allies, not your enemies. Be empathetic. Be kind.

Remember that we’re the ones living under a roof with the name of a person who called for exclusion, prejudice and the enslavement of an entire people. We even more than others understand the pain and frustration involved in this challenging debate.

Most of all, we’re people too. Once we remember this, we can work in harmony to call for real change.

ISABELLA CHENG is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact her at isabella.cheng@yale.edu .

On Yale and privilege A

few months ago I was sitting in a barber chair when the conversation turned to college. A woman who worked at the shop asked me where I was headed in the fall, and I told her I was going to Yale.

Her reaction was a little different than what I usually get. She hesitated and then spoke a little quieter, more like a mumble.

“Remember that Yale kids still put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us,” she said.

Her voice wasn’t particularly angry and she probably didn’t think much of her remark, but it stuck with me.

I had chatted with her plenty before, but for the first time, she began to speak to me with a slight skepticism, scorn and perhaps even jealousy. It occurred to me that by being a Yalie, I’d now be viewed as an elite. And that bothered me in a way I hadn’t experienced before.

I believe firmly in the basic bargain of America: the notion that people who work hard and play by the rules should be able to get ahead. I’d like to think that that’s how I made it to Yale. I took advantage of my public high school’s resources, spent hours studying and ultimately earned my place as one of the handful of students in my high school class accepted to an Ivy League school. My family has no connection to Yale and we wouldn’t be able to give any significant donation to the school. So while, yes, I was privileged in having a supportive family and a great public education, I saw my admission as a representation of that basic bargain in action.

Yale educates some of the best and brightest students on Earth, and exposure to that kind of raw talent is one of the reasons I came here. But it also has a tradition of serving the elite. In the early 1900s, the University educated almost exclusively wealthy, white men. Yale College only began admitting women less than 50 years ago. Today, even though the admissions office prides itself on welcoming classes diverse in every sense of the word, a full 50 percent of Yalies still pay full tuition and only about 60 percent come from public schools. Roughly

three-fourths of accepted students grew up with household incomes above $80,000, while only about a third of all American households fall into that same bracket.

Still, Yalies graduate as future leaders in nearly every industry imaginable: government, medicine, academia, business. Yale Law School is one of only two schools that have graduates currently sitting on the Supreme Court.

In 2015, about two-thirds of graduates started their postYale lives earning more than $50,000 per year — that’s more than the income of at least fifty percent of American households in this country.

Therefore, the question is whether the purity and egalitarianism of the basic bargain becomes blurred at a school like Yale. As Yalies, will we be afforded privileges because of the school we attend instead of the work we do? If so, is it deserved?

A defining theme of this presidential election is that Americans are tired of elitism and privilege: the idea that the folks at the top play by a different set of rules than everyone else. That woman in the barber shop reminded me that Yale embodies elitism and privilege. Yale is one of the few places that produces those folks at the top. In that sense, Yale is different than most other colleges.

I feel the same way today I felt almost exactly a year ago when I told my history teacher that while I certainly believe in Yale intellectually, I’m not sure if I believe in Yale morally yet. In other words, academically Yale stands in a league of its own. But the bastion of privilege that Yale represents, the notions of stratification that going to a school like Yale might exacerbate — these are issues that will take some time getting used to.

I don’t think I’ll ever forget what that woman at the barber shop said. It’s a reminder that despite the exclusivity of Yale, we all share a common humanity. Above all else, I hope Yale doesn’t let me forget that.

EMIL FRIENDMAN is a freshman in Silliman College.

Contact him at emil.friedman@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST STEPHEN LEE

Leaving the nest

Coming out at Yale

he coming days mark the end of another annual migration; a diverse flock has converged on Old Campus and alighted. Finally, the class of 2020 has arrived and is here to stay. We crossed boxes on calendars, watched phone timers dwindle and dreamed about these fateful days of independence. But now that they are finally upon us, as we eagerly settle into our new homes, I ask that we, the class of 2020, give due attention to a more subdued yet still meaningful transition: our parents returning home to an empty nest.

When real fledglings gather the strength to leave their established homes, there is no aviangrief, no bird-heartbreak, no poignant chirp of emotion — just flight. Unfortunately for humans, our own flight is never this simple. Many parents are currently experiencing the loneliness, isolation and pain associated with our migration, a phenomenon known as Empty Nest Syndrome.

Even if an “Empty Nest” sounds foolish, keep in mind that the emotions of our parents are serious and genuine. Though we are embarking on the exhilarating adventure of college, our guardians are disembarking on the similarly fulfilling journey of par-

enthood. Just as they protected and ensured our well-being, we should return the favor and help do the same for our parents.

In a basic sense, Empty Nest Syndrome is a role reversal. The parents we relied upon from birth now need our support more than ever. Our departure abruptly alters nearly two decades of purpose and identity, making parents more vulnerable to stress, depression and anxiety. It seems that by functioning as our guideposts, illuminating the path to our current identities, parents give away part of themselves.

It is imperative that we as new college students give our parents their deserved respect and consideration. We have an obligation to call our guardians, send them a text or two and keep them abreast of our progress. No act of contact is too small; any type of communication can be an ease to parental woes, as well as a strong force to alleviate Empty Nest Syndrome.

From a more reflective view, the emergence of Empty Nest Syndrome confronts us with our own mortality. Today we are the inflictors of our parents’ pain, but tomorrow, we may become the afflicted ones, tearfully watching our future offspring leave the nest. When that day comes, how

will we want our children to treat us? Will they have the ability to understand our complex emotions? These questions should spur a realization and compel us to set a precedent now: to end the lack of awareness and understanding before the last freshman parent leaves New Haven.

We need to recognize Empty Nest Syndrome not because it makes us better children, but because it makes us better adults.

Uniquely poised between adolescence and adulthood, we are mature enough to understand that this new stage in our lives impacts more than just ourselves.

Before fully engrossing ourselves into the kaleidoscopic world of college, we must keep in mind the parents who brought us here.

We cannot allow our absence from their lives to serve as a springboard for pain and depression; rather, we can eliminate sadness and successfully guide them through this challenge. After all, they deserve our effort — those who dutifully wore many hats, acting as mentors, drivers, helpers and confidants — always encapsulating the essence of being a parent.

RYAN GITTLER is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at ryan.gittler@yale.edu .

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s evidenced by recent controversies over Halloween costumes and the debate over renaming Calhoun College, Yalies are not afraid to stand up for their beliefs. This sense of passion and conviction was undoubtedly a major draw for the class of 2020.

However, if my brief interactions with my future classmates are any indication, the overwhelming majority of views on campus skew heavily toward one side of the ideological spectrum: the liberal one.

Allow me to introduce some personal context. I am AsianAmerican, identify as LGBTQ+, and lean to the right on a number of political issues. Over the course of the 2016 elections, I changed my political preferences repeatedly, finally casting a ballot for Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. His platform most closely represents my beliefs as a fiscal conservative and social moderate. I realize, of course, that my decision to support Johnson’s campaign is not one shared by many of my fellow students.

Faced with other alluring college options, I ultimately decided to matriculate to Yale because I believed Yalies would tolerate a wide variety of viewpoints. Indeed, many people I’ve met so far have

lived up to this promise. Yet, I find myself somewhat disillusioned by the events that unfolded over the previous year. I knew Yale would expose me to many beliefs that differed from mine and welcome this intellectual diversity.

But I worry about the disrespect shown towards conservative Yalies last year, such as when a protestor allegedly spit on a student exiting the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program’s conference on free speech, or when former Head of College Christakis was shouted down in the Silliman courtyard. On the popular Facebook group Overheard at Yale, those who express conservative sentiments are berated for their beliefs and subject to ad hominem attacks. Some students have even refused to converse with others who do not share their views.

This was not the Yale I envisioned.

Belonging to several identity groups on campus puts me in an odd position. I am unsure how to navigate these different circles and can’t help but feel that I may eventually face some of the same struggles that my conservative friends — particularly conservative minorities — have had to deal with. I find it difficult to convey all my views, as I must hold back some

of my more controversial beliefs so as not to risk losing friends. Among the LGBTQ+ community, I worry about estranging myself from those with whom I have already formed connections. In a dating pool that is already limited, seeing as I don’t fall into cisgender, heterosexual conventions, I am compelled to wonder if being openly conservative will further diminish my romantic opportunities.

My hope is that my unorthodox amalgam of identities will not significantly inhibit my ability to make genuine connections and thrive at Yale. As I begin a new chapter of my life, I’d like to deliver a message of openness and understanding to my fellow Yalies. It is of the utmost importance that discourse on campus be conducted with respect and cordiality, irrespective of ideology and identity. Lay down judgment and preconceived notions; take time to get to know someone. Be adamant in your convictions, but remain unchained by dogma. Most of all, remember that political views do not determine character — your new best friend could be sitting on the other side of the aisle.

STEPHEN LEE is a freshman in Calhoun College. Contact him at stephen.d.lee@yale.edu .

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Police Chief Esserman serves indefinite leave nifies the office,” Harp said.

“That is only possible if you take this letter seriously and ensure that the actions of Sept.

27 are never again repeated.”

Amidst the controversy surrounding Esserman’s leadership this summer, some city residents have also begun speaking out against the chief.

During his first day of sick leave last week, several dozen protesters gathered at both City Hall and the police-union headquarters to demand that Esserman be fired.

In the Yale Bluebook, Esserman is listed as the instructor for Policing in America this fall.

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tion, retaliation, lack of leadership quality and [Esserman’s] inability to make sound decisions,” according to a statement from the police union.

In a statement, Harp likened the vote to a “performance evaluation” for the police chief, who is appointed by the mayor.

As far back as 2014, Esserman also came under public scrutiny when an assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health accused the chief of verbally harassing an usher during a Yale football game.

Harp publicly reprimanded Esserman in response to the complaint.

“As the City’s chief law enforcement officer, you must understand the importance of the position you hold and behave in a manner that dig-

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As the summer draws to a close, the New Haven Police Department remains without a de facto leader as its chief, Dean Esserman, serves an indefinite paid sick leave.

That leave, which began on Aug. 15, followed a separate, 15-day paid leave of absence that came in the beginning of August due to an incident that Mayor Toni Harp called conduct “unbecoming [of] a public official.” That incident took place at Archie Moore’s Bar and Restaurant on July 22, when Esserman allegedly behaved rudely to the wait staff and disrupted other diners at the venue. Assistant Chief Anthony Campbell, who

served as acting chief during Esserman’s paid leave of absence, continues to lead the department.

Though it remains unclear when Harp will make a decision on the chief’s position, the New Haven Independent reported that Esserman had 335 hours of accumulated sick leave at the start of his leave, which gives Esserman nearly nine more weeks of paid leave.

This recent leave follows a summer of turmoil for the police chief.

In early July, the New Haven police union voted 170–42 against Esserman in a no-confidence vote in light of multiple concerns in the department with Esserman’s leadership — including “poor morale, hostile work environments, intimida-

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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” MAYA ANGELOU POET

Activists protest to “Bring Amyr Home”

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS Dozens of local activists assembled outside New Haven Superior Court Thursday morn-

sage “Bring Aymir Home” — gathered in support of Holland, 17, at a pretrial hearing in which Judge Patrick Clifford continued the case until Sept. 9 — postponing for two weeks a decision on whether to move the case to

ing to support Aymir Holland, an African-American teenager charged with assaulting 79-year-old Yale professor Charles Hill in November 2015.

The activists — some of whom wore T-shirts bearing the mes-

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Community members and activists with the Citywide Youth Coalition protest for Aymir Holland in front of the New Haven Superior Courthouse.

High admin turnover for new school year

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Over the course of the 2015– 2016 academic year, the University confronted departures in more than a dozen administrative positions.

Since last fall, eight residential college deans and heads from Trumbull, Jonathan Edwards, Pierson, Berkeley, Silliman and Ezra Stiles colleges have stepped down from their positions to take up new roles both inside and outside the University. These administrative changes were compounded by the addition of four new inaugural assistant directors for each of the cultural centers as well as the resignation of Asian American Cultural Center Dean Saveena Dhall. The inaugural heads of Benjamin Franklin College and Pauli Murray College will also begin their tenure this fall.

But despite the rate of administrative turnover, perhaps the highest profile Yale College resignations last year were those of Nicholas and Erika Christakis, who stepped down as head and associate head of Silliman College in May. The couple made national headlines following an email sent by Erika Christakis over Halloween weekend defending students’ rights to wear culturally appropriative costumes.

In the weeks and months that followed, many students and alumni called for the couple to resign from their administrative positions, citing concerns that the two were unable to create a welcoming home for undergraduates. While some argued that the Christakises’ actions signaled systemic racism within the University, others came to the couple’s defense and said their resignation would deal a blow to free speech on campus.

Christakis has been replaced as Silliman head by psychology professor Laurie Santos, dubbed a “leading campus celebrity” in 2013 by Time Magazine. In an email to Silliman students after her appointment was announced, Santos reflected on how she first learned of Silliman years before from her graduate school roommate, a Silliman alumnus, who made the college “feel like the kind of place anyone would love to call home.”

This year, Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards are replacing both their deans and heads of college.

Former JE dean Jody Spooner ’91 will become the president of Ferrum College in Virginia, while former JE head Penelope Laurans will retire after working for the University for 43 years. They will be replaced by Christina Ferando

’97, a scholar of art history and recent Chester Dale Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and chemical and biomedical engineering professor Mark Saltzman, respectively.

On the opposite side of Elm Street, Renita Miller, the former director of studies of Forbes College at Princeton University, will replace former Berkeley Dean Mia Reinoso Genoni. Geology and geophysics professor David Evans ’92 will serve as the next head of Berkeley College, succeeding Marvin Chun, a psychology professor who has been at the helm of the college since 2007. In a June interview, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said that having a new head of college and new dean in the same year is tough, but manageable.

“Living at Yale, both as a student and as a dean, was rarely, if ever, easy; but the perspective and peace borne from my own difficult moments and seeming insurmountable challenges have provided me with the strength, courage and faith to believe even the impossible could be achieved,” Spooner wrote in a June email to Jonathan Edwards college. “[It] has led me to personal happiness and professional fulfillment far, far beyond my undergraduate dreams.”

These administrative changes are not unique to Yale College.

The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will have a new dean, Ingrid C. Burke, as will the School of Architecture in Deborah Berke. Berke will be the School of Architecture’s firstever female dean, making it the third of Yale’s 12 graduate and professional schools to be led by a woman.

“Many members of the School of Architecture’s student body and faculty are excited that a woman was selected as the school’s new dean,” Alexander Kruhly ARC ’17 told the News last year. “Women have been historically underrepresented in the architectural profession; the selection of Berke signifies a commitment to broadening the diversity of voices within the school.”

Yale-NUS founding president Pericles Lewis will step down after May 2017 to assume the inaugural role of vice president for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs at Yale. Lewis told the News in July that the position will be similar to one formerly held by Senior Counselor to the President and Provost Linda Lorimer, albeit with a more academic focus.

Contact JOEY YE at shuajiang.ye@yale.edu .

juvenile court.

Holland, one of the three black men allegedly involved in the assault, is currently set to be tried as an adult on five felony charges stemming from the night of Nov. 27, when Hill was mugged near the corner of Bradley Street and Whitney Avenue as he walked home from work.

Hill, who served as a foreign policy advisor in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, told police he was punched, kicked and thrown to the ground. His wallet and backpack were stolen, and he was taken to the hospital with three broken ribs and a broken bone in his right knee, according to a police department affidavit.

Holland, who was 16 at the time of the assault, has spent the last seven months in the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, and faces up to 61 years in prison.

But Holland’s mother, Latoya Willis, insists that her son — who she says has no criminal history and whom friends describe as a kind and likeable classmate — is innocent. She claims that he merely watched as the assault took place. The police affidavit contradicts parts of her account.

Over the past month, a network of local activists led by the Citywide Youth Coalition has campaigned for Holland’s case

to be moved to juvenile court.

That support has already made a difference, Willis said: She was approached earlier this month by a private attorney, Jason Goddard, who promptly took over the case from a public defender who she said was unsupportive and hard to reach.

“I am smiling,” Willis told the News at the protest. “I appreciate the love and support from the community. The love and support is overwhelming.”

Goddard declined to comment, and Willis said the attorney advised her not to go into too much detail about the case.

But that reticence did not extend to the dozens of supporters who assembled outside the courthouse Thursday morning, chanting “Bring Aymir justice, bring Aymir home” as they waved signs and greeted honking cars.

Addys Castillo — the executive director of the Citywide Youth Coalition and one of the leaders of the campaign to move the case to juvenile court — told the News that Holland’s plight is indicative of a broader problem: the mass incarceration of young black men.

“We’re standing in front of High Court, where they prosecuted the Cheshire murderer, for crying out loud,” said Castillo, referring to a notorious murder case from the mid-2000s. “This

is not just about Aymir, but about the criminal justice system.”

In an interview last week, the Citywide Youth Coalition’s project manager, Melanie Gonzalez, said Holland’s case reveals the cracks in state-level reforms addressing problems with Connecticut’s juvenile justice system. Just last spring, Gov. Dannel Malloy called on legislators to raise the age at which young people who have committed crimes can be classified as adults. In Connecticut, juveniles over the age of 16 and juveniles under the age of 16 who have committed violent crimes may be tried as adults.

A team of local high school students worked with the coalition to organize the protest, as well as other gestures of support for Holland, including a GoFundMe page that has raised roughly $1,000 of its $50,000 goal and an online petition.

“The purpose is to spread awareness and try to find out the ways we can crack down on the juvenile system,” said 17-yearold Lowiya Arouna, who attends Wilbur Cross High School. “It could be any of us. It’s just not right.”

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Renaming committee established

BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Debates surrounding the name of Calhoun College are expected to continue into this academic year, as University President Peter Salovey has reopened the possibility of replacing slavery advocate John C. Calhoun, class of 1804, as the college’s namesake just months after the Yale Corporation decided to retain him.

Official administrative discussion of a potential renaming, fueled by widespread protests last fall, seemed to stall in late April when Salovey announced the Corporation’s decision to maintain the namesake of Calhoun College. However, in early August Salovey announced the creation of a “Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming” to formulate guidelines by which all future renaming decisions can be made.

In his email announcement, Salovey said in hindsight that the Calhoun decision could have “drawn more effectively on campus expertise.”

Salovey said once renaming standards are established, he will “efficiently”

evaluate requests from the Yale community to change certain names.

“Renaming decisions will not be made in a vacuum, but the decisions are mine,” Salovey told the News.

“Once these principles are formulated, we can hold any request for the removal of a historical name up against those principles. I expect that a request will come in for John C. Calhoun. And then any outcome is possible.”

The 11-member committee will be composed of alumni, students, staff and faculty, including Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Stephen Pitti, director of the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration and head of Ezra Stiles College.

Two days after Salovey announced that Calhoun would retain its name, hundreds of students confronted the president at an open town hall in Battell Chapel and held protests in front of the residential college. But the creation of the committee has been largely attributed to the reaction of faculty members, according to half a dozen administrators interviewed by the News. While the administra-

tors told the News that they expected students to demonstrate against the Calhoun decision, none foresaw similar behavior from the faculty: In the aftermath of the Calhoun decision, a faculty open letter opposing it garnered more than 400 signatures, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate submitted a letter to Salovey calling for the issue to be reconsidered.

Law School professor John Witt, who chairs the new committee, said developments both within Yale and on other college campuses helped motivate the creation of the body.

“It’s a fact, as President Salovey made clear in his communication … that the conversation over Calhoun College wasn’t quite over.

That there was still a set of unanswered questions,” Witt said.

He added that beyond the debate over Calhoun College, there are hundreds of similar discussions on renaming happening across the country, including the highly publicized debate at Princeton University as to whether to rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The committee, Witt said, has

the potential to create general guidelines that other schools reference in their own decision-making.

Witt also said that the committee is not charged with applying principles to any particular naming controversy, but simply taking a step back to think about broad questions and ideas.

“We are doing what faculty members would hope they are good at, which is thinking about ideas and general principles,” Witt said.

Elisia Ceballo-Countryman ’18, who helped lead student protests last year, said she sees the establishment of the committee as a step forward.

“I think the fact that Yale opened this decision without thinking through the process meant that it was a disaster last year,” she said. “I’m pleased the power seems to have been redistributed in some ways to include the entire University rather than the ever-elusive Corporation.”

Calhoun College was established in 1933.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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Students staged a series of protests against the name of Calhoun College last semester.

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“If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I’d say always be true to yourself. ” BEVERLEY MITCHELL AMERICAN ACTRESS

SURVEY: Getting to know the class of 2020 SURVEY FROM PAGE 1 as this cutthroat, intense place,” Kevin Swain ’20 said. “But I could see myself going there, which makes it all the more great. It’s an amazing school. I want to meet people and make connections.”

The class of 2020 is demographically similar to its predecessors. Just over 50 percent of the class identified as Caucasian, with an additional 20 percent identifying as East Asian or Asian-American; 11 percent as African-American, African or Afro-Caribbean; and 13 percent as Latinx or Hispanic-American.

“My high school was diverse, but split into smaller schools so I felt like I didn’t have access to all the diversity my high school afforded,” Jasmine Kennedy ’20 said. “I’m really looking forward to learning alongside so many people of different ethnicities and sexualities.”

I really see Yale as a transformational experience, because my goal is to not be the same person four years later.

My goal is to be transformed — to be a different person and see things in a different way.

SUSAN CHEN ’20 Approximately one-eighth of the class hails from abroad, and the class of 2020 represents 50 different countries.

Of the students from the United States, the greatest number — more than 30 percent — reside in the Northeast. An additional 16 percent live in the West Coast and Pacific Northwest, as per the University’s freshman class profile.

Many incoming freshmen already have some connection to the University. About one out of five respondents indicated that at least one of their family members attended Yale College.

And 15 percent of students surveyed already knew more than 20 Yale students before having stepped foot on campus today. Another 73 percent knew somewhere between one and 20 students.

These relationships were built through high schools, summer camps and mutual friends, but also through connections made via alumni-hosted events, Bulldog Days and social media, respondents said.

Even though students may not have visited Yale, nearly all respondents demonstrated an awareness of controversial events that enveloped the University over the last year. Almost 95 percent of those surveyed said they were aware of campus protests in the fall of 2015 and almost a quarter followed them in campus publications.

Almost 58 percent of students have already spent time with some of their fellow freshmen in a pre-orientation program, and about half of those students signed up for a hands-on experience in hiking and tortilla meals by going on a Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trip.

In terms of political beliefs, the members of the class of 2020 skew overwhelmingly liberal: 82 percent view President Barack Obama favorably, and 67 percent said they plan on voting for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election — dwarfing the mere five percent of students who said they will be backing Donald Trump come November. In contrast, only one percent of respondents to the class of 2019 Freshman Survey indicated support for Trump.

As it skews liberal, the class of 2020 also skews upper-income. Slightly less than one-third of the class reported that they come from families whose annual income is $250,000 or greater, putting them in the top five percent of the national income distribution.

The class of 2020 was, overall, satisfied with its financial aid. Almost 75 percent of students who indicated they were receiving financial aid said that they were pleased with their packages.

Freshmen are fairly split on how ready they feel for coursework at Yale: 44 percent do feel prepared, while 43 percent are unsure. The other 13 percent said they do not feel prepared.

This year’s freshmen may be a little more virtuous than the class of 2019.

One in five respondents admitted to cheating in an academic context, compared to one in four in last year’s Freshman Survey.

Over the course of the next week, the News will explore the demographics, beliefs and experiences of the class of 2020, sharing their voices and creating a profile of the incoming freshman class it begins to mold and be molded

by Yale.

“I really see Yale as a transformational experience, because my goal is to not be the same person four years later,” Susan Chen ’20 said. “My goal is to be transformed — to be a different person and see things in a different way.”

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Type of high school vs. readiness for Yale

Calhoun T-shirts omit controversial college name CALHOUN FROM PAGE 1 vide a really snazzy T-shirt for the freshmen.”

A team of Calhoun students pitched the shirt ideas last spring in response to an email from Adams soliciting input on ways to unify students in the aftermath of a sometimes-heated debate.

Anand Swaminathan ’19 — who produced the shirt designs with fellow Calhoun sophomores Devon Merlette ’19 and Will Kortum ’19 — said Adams came up with the phoenix idea herself in order to pay tribute to a period of “rebirth” in a college community rocked by controversy. Merlette

said the overall design is intended to offer incoming students a nonconfrontational introduction to the naming controversy.

[The shirts] recognize a liminal moment, and provide a really snazzy T-shirt for the freshmen.

JULIA ADAMS Head of Calhoun College “We wanted to create something that incoming freshmen

could immediately identify with without feeling that they had to pick sides on the naming issue,” Merlette said. “We wanted the T-shirt to have a light, subtle touch without the baggage.”

Still, the political symbolism of the new design is hard to miss. After the naming decision last spring, many student protesters in Calhoun wore their old freshman T-shirts — “Calhoun” in yellow letters splashed across a blue background — with the name covered by tape.

“The idea that not everybody thinks Calhoun should be the name of the college affected the way we thought about the shirt,” Calhoun College Council presi-

dent Anna Sophia Young ’17 said.

“In college, it’s not just one side versus another … it’s an encouragement of everyone’s voice.”

It has become increasingly certain that the debate over the future of Calhoun will continue into the upcoming academic year. Earlier this month, Salovey announced that a new studentfaculty taskforce — the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming — will likely re-evaluate the Calhoun decision in the coming months.

And the prospect of renewed debate has prompted discussion within Calhoun over the proper way to introduce freshmen to the controversy. The freshman

move-in banner on Old Campus will be emblazoned with the letters “CC” rather than the full college name.

Isaiah Genece ’17, the college’s head freshman counselor and a vocal participant in the naming debate last year, told the News he will wear the new freshman shirt proudly — and offer himself as a sounding board for students on both sides of the naming issue.

“We are this new community, this new ‘formerly known as Calhoun’ community,” Genece said. “I’m called more as a person of color than as a FroCo, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to impose anything on them.”

And, despite the new shirt

design, freshmen will still receive their fair share of traditional Calhoun merchandise.

Adams — who said the college is still working on a “retro” shirt that will also omit the word “Calhoun” — told the News she expects the water bottles and drawstring bags given out to freshmen will still feature the college’s name.

“We are a space of contradictions — nor do we have an unlimited budget,” she said. “People may get pure contradiction, and that’s okay. We are what we are.”

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

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“If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.” TOM PETERS AMERICAN WRITER

After smashing slavery-themed window, Menafee returns to work at Yale

BY MICHELLE LIU AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS Weeks after smashing a windowpane in the Calhoun College dining hall that depicted slaves carrying cotton, Yale dining worker Corey Menafee in late July found himself back at work — but this time, in the joint dining hall of the Ezra Stiles and Morse residential colleges.

Kicking off a tumultuous summer, the longtime worker resigned a week after breaking the window with a broomstick June 13. Felony and misdemeanor charges filed by the Yale police consequently launched Menafee into the national spotlight for reigniting a conversation about race and legacy on Yale’s campus and its surrounding community.

Yale later dropped the charges and reinstated Menafee, but that reinstatement came at a cost: The rehiring agreement included a confidentiality provision which limited any parties from further discussing the window incident.

“Things worked out,” Menafee told the News Thursday. “I feel optimistic about working in Stiles and Morse.”

The saga followed a year of debate over Calhoun, named after the fervent slavery advocate and Yale College alum John C. Calhoun, class of 1804. Despite a number of public student protests, University President Peter Salovey announced in April that Calhoun would keep its name.

Yet mere days after Yale dropped its charges against Menafee, Salovey reopened the possibility of renaming Calhoun in an email announcing the creation of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming.

“To bring about some type of change — and obviously I’m not the only one who felt the need for that picture to be removed — does feel good because I was able to do something that a lot of people wanted done,” Menafee told the News in July.

If the window hadn’t been pointed out to him, he might have never noticed it due to his nearsightedness, said Menafee’s lawyer, Patricia Kane of New Haven.

According to a June 13 police report obtained by Buzzfeed and filed by University police, Menafee told an officer that he had first been alerted to the “racist, discriminatory painting on the window” by an alumnus during class reunions two weeks prior to the incident.

Gina Gentile, general manager of the dining hall, had called University police the morning of June 13. Menafee had told her he broke the window because “he did not like what the window stood for because it had the image of a slave in a field on it,” she reported.

Menafee later resigned while “facing termination and worrying about providing for his family,” Local 35 President Bob Proto, the head of Menafee’s union, said in a statement.

The June incident gained traction after the New Haven Independent first reported it July 11.

The shattered window ricocheted across social media and national news outlets, garnering support and sympathy for the 38-yearold father of two. Over $25,000 piled up through a GoFundMe donation page, while petitions and letters circulated by students and alumni demanded that Yale reinstate Menafee and drop the charges against him.

When local philanthropist Wendy Hamilton read about the incident, she offered to find and fund a lawyer: Kane.

Fifteen minutes before Menafee’s first scheduled court appearance on July 12, Kane found him outside the public defender’s office, where she offered up her services as an attorney. When the two stepped outside the courtroom after the case had been continued, they were greeted by a crowd. The media, activists and banners took Menafee by surprise.

“I would strongly suggest to people: If you do have any type of disagreement with anything, that you go about it the proper way,” Menafee told the News in July.

“You use your brain, the written word and the spoken word.

You don’t take action and destroy someone else’s property.”

Yale did not seek restitution for the broken window, which was valued at $2,500. On July 5, Head of Calhoun College Julia Adams

announced that a set of windows in the Calhoun common room depicting John C. Calhoun would be removed and conserved for study and future exhibitions.

The state attorney’s office later officially abided by the University’s request to drop the charges against Menafee at his second hearing July 26.

Even a public offer of reinstatement by the University, released July 19, led to controversy — Menafee’s lawyer said Yale, her client and his union did not negotiate the terms set in the public offer, in which her client would return to a position in a different setting following a fiveweek unpaid suspension.

“That’s not usually how you resolve a dispute,” Kane told the News.

While she disapproved of the reinstatement offer, Kane said she stepped away from her official capacity as Menafee’s legal counsel in his rehiring negotiations so as not to be bound by a provision in the reinstatement contract that Yale Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor described to the News as “a mutually agreed confidentiality agreement so that everyone could move forward as all desired.”

Menafee accepted the University’s reinstatement offer and resumed work for two weeks in the Commons at Schwarzman Center dining hall July 25.

Community activists do not

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Corey Menafee has returned to work at Yale, but in a different dining hall. see Menafee’s reinstatement as closure: Following Menafee’s July 26 court date, John Lugo, organizer of the New Haven-based immigrant and workers’ rights group Unidad Latina en Acción, said that local residents will protest outside of Calhoun every Friday until Yale changes the name.

New Haven residents have stood outside the college, which opened in 1933, for several consecutive weeks now. Activists have plastered duct tape across the sign that indicates Calhoun College’s name; as of earlier this week, the tape had been removed,

leaving residual adhesive around the word “Calhoun.”

Menafee, meanwhile, has moved forward with the job that he still loves and that allows him to connect with students, Kane said. A playwright has even approached him, seeking to adapt his life story into a play, Kane added.

“He got a second chance and he’s not going to blow it,” she said.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

Yale received a record 88 sexual misconduct complaints, report shows

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The University received a record 88 complaints of sexual misconduct between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2016, according to Yale’s latest semiannual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, released Aug. 16. One student was expelled in an update to a previously pending case, and two were suspended.

In addition to summaries of the 88 complaints the University received in the past six months, the report also included aggregate five-year statistics, as its publication marked the University’s fifth year of compiling and releasing information about campus sexual misconduct complaints on a semiannual basis.

Eighty-eight complaints is the highest number recorded by the University since it began publishing summaries of complaints in 2011. But University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler noted that the numbers may not fully capture the incidence of sexual misconduct at Yale.

“While the number of complaints reported to University officials over the past five years far exceeds reporting levels in any prior five-year period, we know from both national statistics and our own participa-

tion in the 2015 AAU Sexual Climate Survey that this number represents only a fraction of the instances of sexual misconduct at Yale,” Spangler wrote in the report, referring to last year’s Association of American Universities campus climate survey, which revealed that more than half of Yale students surveyed had experienced some form of sexual harassment.

The latest semiannual report shows that in the first half of the year, Title IX coordinators addressed 69 complaints, the Yale Police Department addressed 14 complaints and the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct addressed five complaints.

The Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center can also hear complaints, but it keeps all of its information confidential, so the report does not include grievances brought exclusively to SHARE’s attention.

Of the complaints detailed in the report, 30 alleged sexual assault, 44 sexual harassment and the rest alleged intimate partner violence, stalking or “other.”

A total of 623 complaints of sexual misconduct were brought forward to the University between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2016. These included 316 complaints of

sexual harassment and 156 complaints of sexual assault.

Helen Price ’18 and Anthony D’Ambrosio ’18, co-directors of Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale, wrote in a statement to the News that they believe any increase in reported sexual assaults is likely due to more students coming forward, rather than an increase in the prevalence of sexual assault itself.

“While this is positive,” they wrote, “it is clear that the rates of sexual assault at Yale are still very high, and there is still a huge amount of work to be done to make this campus a safe, respectful place for everyone.”

Spangler told the News she feels optimistic about the Yale community’s ability to address and combat sexual misconduct on campus.

“I am very grateful for the high and growing level of community engagement as we seek to identify and reduce barriers to reporting and to expand our initiatives to prevent sexual misconduct at Yale,” she said.

The latest report is formatted slightly differently from previous reports, in that it provides only statistical, rather than descriptive, information about cases that were brought to a Title IX coordinator’s attention but ultimately dropped.

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report, released in February, had already been reorganized to clarify the coordinators’ role, sorting complaints into three categories: incidents where coordinators took action on behalf of complainants, incidents where coordinators worked with complainants who decided to take no further action and incidents where coordinators reached out to potential complainants based on information from third parties but ultimately did not pursue the case. Each complaint, even those that were dropped, still contained brief descriptive information.

This year’s report only details the numbers of dropped complaints, rather than the details of each incident.

“Since those categories contain complaints in which no further action was taken, the descriptions provide little, if any, additional information,” the report read. “That said, the complainants involved always have the option to pursue further action, in which case we will provide descriptive updates in future reports.”

The report also included updates to nine cases that had previously been received but not resolved.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I’ve realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes.” KOHEI UCHIMURA JAPANESE GYMNAST

Grad students may form union after NLRB decision NLRB FROM PAGE 1 stressed his disagreement with the ruling — a stance that the administration has consistently taken regarding graduate student unionization. In February, Yale filed an amicus brief against graduate student unionization with the NLRB. “We’re ecstatic,” said Local 33 Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18. The organization is ready to “work out the terms of an election” — in which Yale graduate and professional students could vote on whether to form a student union — “win that election, and negotiate a contract,” he said.

“The question now is if President Salovey will sit down with us,” Greenberg said.

In his campuswide email, Salovey wrote that the NLRB decision presents an opportunity to engage in a “robust discussion about the pros and cons of graduate-student unionization,” calling on all community members to conduct discussions that are free from intimidation and pressure. Salovey also noted that the NLRB has changed its verdict on the issue for the third time in 16 years.

Tuesday’s ruling effectively swept aside the long-standing argument from private universities that graduate student unions would degrade the educational relationship between students and teachers. Such arguments are “unsupported by legal authority, by empirical evidence or by the board’s actual experience,” according to the ruling.

Instead, the board cited a study of Columbia’s unrecognized graduate student union that suggested unionization was neither harmful nor beneficial to educational relationships or integrity.

“This decision recognizes that our work is work,” said Local 33 Co-Chair Robin Canavan GRD ’18.

The political makeup of the NLRB may have swung the vote this year. Board members are appointed by sitting U.S. presidents. The usual five-member board is now down to just four members, three Democrats and one Republican.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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Eight represent Yale at Rio 2016 OLYMPICS FROM PAGE 1 on a strong note, coming in second in the final race, where the point values were doubled.

“One of the best things about the Games is that it’s a moment

in time where you’re required to put your best foot forward,” McNay told US Sailing after his race. “It’s an interesting opportunity to say, ‘I’m going to be at my very best, here and now.’ You do what you can in the moment.

I would have liked the both of us to do a little bit better, because I know that is well within our abilities.”

Duos from Croatia, Australia and Greece medaled in the men’s 470 event.

Middle-distance runner Kate Grace ’11 also advanced to the final of her event: the 800-meter run. The first-time Olympian, who still owns Yale’s indoor and outdoor records at the 800meter distance, snuck into the

COURTESY OF US SAILING

Stu McNay ’05, right, and teammate David Hughes finished fourth in the men’s 470 sailing event in Rio, just missing out on a bronze medal.

semifinals with a time of 1:59.96, 16th best out of the 24 semifinalists.

Once in the semifinals, however, Grace proved she deserved her spot, finishing third in her heat after sneaking along the inside to pass two competitors in the final 200 meters. She earned a spot in the finals with a time of 1:58.79 — a new personal best.

Grace was the lone American to participate in the eightwoman final, won by London 2012 silver medalist Caster Semenya. Grace finished eighth, completing the race in 1:59.57.

The lone current student competing in Rio was Katherine Miller ’17, a member of the Brazilian epee squad that fell to Ukraine in the Round of 16. She served as the team’s alternate.

The Olympics’ location in Brazil — her father’s native country — made the experience all the more compelling, Miller said. After arriving at Yale, beginning her studies in Portuguese as a freshman and spending a summer in Brazil as part of the University’s summer session program, Miller said she realized her “pipe dream” of competing for Brazil could come true. In the fall of 2015, instead of returning for her senior year, she decided to train in New York and São Paulo.

“It’s probably the only time in my life that I’ll have the opportunity to meet so many people from different sports, countries, cultures and religions,” Miller, who intends to return to Yale this year to finish her degree, wrote in a message to the News. “We all have at least one big thing in common — the effort and desire to get to the Olympics.”

After taking some time off following a bronze medal-winning campaign at the 2012 Games, rower Charlie Cole ’07 rediscovered the effort and desire that

once earned him a podium finish.

Competing in his second Olympic Games as a member of the U.S. men’s coxless four, Cole and his teammates won the B final and finished seventh overall.

Though Cole called winning the B final a “nice consolation prize,” he expressed disappointment in the fact that the Americans missed the medal final.

Sailors Thomas Barrows ’10 and Joe Morris ’12, who competed together in the men’s 49er event, were similarly disappointed with their results. Twotime Olympian Barrows and first-time Olympian Morris finished 19th overall, and failed to advance beyond the preliminary races.

“I don’t think the scores reflect how well we’ve actually been sailing,” Morris said to US Sailing after nine of the team’s 12 races. “In four of the races, we’ve been in the single digits, and had a mishap that dropped us back.

We do feel that we can sail with the fleet pretty well, and our speed and boat handling have been good.”

Their event, which began two days after McNay’s on August 12, was heavily affected by bad winds and saw competition both delayed and canceled. Despite struggles coming out of the gate, Barrows and Morris finished as high as sixth out of 20 in preliminary races.

Rowers Ashley Brzozowicz ’04 and Tom Dethlefs ’12, named to their third and first Olympic teams respectively, served as alternates on the Canadian and American rowing teams and did not compete. The Canadian women won a silver in the lightweight double sculls and the American men did not medal in any event.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” ROBERT FROST AMERICAN POET

Chi Psi, Fence Club relocate

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Fraternities Chi Psi and Fence Club have found new homes for their members — one by choice and the other out of obligation.

Chi Psi, the University’s newest all-male fraternity, has moved a five-minute walk closer to campus with its relocation to 85 Bristol St., a block away from Yale Health. Members opted to move there and end their lease for 48 Dixwell Ave. — where incomplete renovations forced them to live on Winchester Avenue in Science Park last year — after remodeling did not appear to be on track for completion this fall.

“We made an executive decision based on the progress they made over the school year,” house resident and Chi Psi member Brady Currey ’17 said. “We thought it would be smarter and safer to make this right call.”

Also this summer, the co-ed Fence Club, which is not affiliated with the University, relocated from 15 High St. to 401 Crown St. for the year. The club did so after its landlords, brothers and developers Josef and Jacob Feldman, opted not to renew Fence’s lease, according to July and August emails from the club’s leaders to members that were obtained by the News.

The new house has five sin-

gles and one double for seven people, as opposed to seven singles in the old house, said member Eugenia Zhukovsky ’18, who will be sharing a room in the new house.

Elsewhere in the Elm City, the Feldmans are working on a new 300-unit, fully furnished apartment complex targeting Yale international students and young professionals.

The Feldmans and the Fence Club presidents did not respond to requests for comment.

Chi Psi’s recently renovated home on Bristol Street, just a few minutes away from the new residential colleges, is the first in the neighborhood to be occupied by Yale undergraduates, Currey said. While searching for houses in the area, realtors told him that they were looking to raise rental prices in the area in anticipation of the new colleges, he added.

When Chi Psi lived 10 minutes walk from campus, the fraternity hosted many of its activities in spaces near campus, said member Eduardo Macias ’18. He added that he is not sure what role the new house, with its closer location, will play in the brotherhood.

Former Yale College Council Michael Herbert ’16 re-established Yale’s Chi Psi chapter in 2013.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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Fence Club has relocated to 401 Crown St. this year, after its landlord declined to renew its lease.

Yale construction plans stall

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Graduate students, University officials and developers gathered for a ceremonial groundbreaking Wednesday morning in front of construction vehicles and dirt piles arranged artfully at 272 Elm St., the location of Yale’s newest graduate student dormitories.

University President Peter Salovey heralded the project — which will feature two levels of retail space and 41 two-bedroom units in addition to common areas for graduate and professional students — as a new community for its occupants.

While construction continues on Elm Street, another of Yale’s planned construction projects still hangs in legislative limbo: A mile away on Science Hill, the J.W. Gibbs Laboratory awaits demolition.

The University aims to construct a new science building at the current location of the Gibbs lab, a project that would include six floors totaling over

280,000 square feet of teaching and research space. Construction for the project, previously called the Yale Biology Building, was postponed in early 2009 due to economic downturn.

Before those plans can move forward, the city’s union-supported Board of Alders must approve an overall parking plan.

A recently amended city zoning ordinance requires that Yale receive aldermanic approval for an overall campus parking plan for each new building project.

While the board’s legislation and community development committees unanimously approved Yale’s overall parking plan July 27, the full Board of Alders must also approve the plan at their next meeting Sept.

6.

“We are hopeful that we will come to a positive resolution of our overall parking plan at the hearing on Sept. 6, which will then pave the way for our projects to move forward,” Yale spokeswoman Karen Peart said.

“We are looking forward to working in partnership with the

City to further improve parking and transportation in New Haven.”

At the July 27 joint committee meeting, the New Haven Independent reported that alders heard several hours of testimony regarding parking and transportation issues in the city before a debate and vote were held on the parking plan.

According to the Independent, the joint committee approved the parking plan under two conditions authored

by Westville Alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99. The first condition asks Yale to establish a parking lot in New Haven close to Hamden or North Haven so commuting Yale employees can park and take a University shuttle. This condition also includes a request for Yale to “partner with local transit agencies in order to provide reduced cost monthly transit passes to Yale commuters” and to create a bicycle plan for the downtown and campus area in conjunction with the city. The second condition covers future

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Graduate students and administrators gathered Wednesday for the groundbreaking at 272 Elm St. parking plan issues between the University and the alders, clarifying whether Yale would need parking plan approval from the board when it engages with the City Plan Commission or Board of Zoning Appeals for construction projects.

At the groundbreaking ceremony for the graduate dorms Aug. 24, Director of University Properties and New Haven Affairs Lauren Zucker declined to comment on how the University would work to comply with the conditions set by Marchand.

The University says the new building would create 250 construction jobs in the process of upgrading and renovating Yale’s science facilities.

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“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”

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Federal probe dogs Malloy’s summer

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Gov. Dannel Malloy’s tumultuous year has only become more turbulent, as federal investigators have probed into alleged improprieties in his 2014 re-election campaign’s fundraising.

At issue are the mixing of money from the Connecti-

cut Democratic Party’s separate funds for state and federal races and the tenets attached to accepting funds from the Citizens’ Election Program, Connecticut’s clean-election fund.

Malloy used $6.5 million from the CEP in his successful 2014 reelection campaign, but attached to those millions was an affidavit, signed by Malloy, pledging that

his campaign would use no funds additional to the CEP grant.

The alleged illegality began with three pro-Malloy mailings, paid for by roughly $250,000 from the Connecticut Democratic Party’s fund. The State Elections Enforcement Commission settled its own investigation into the party’s alleged wrongdoing for a payment of $325,000, but a

federal grand jury began a separate investigation in July and has begun to issue subpoenas.

Malloy has, for the most part, refrained from commenting on the investigation, noting that any comments he makes could influence the outcome of the probe.

“I certainly understand that people have the right to look at whatever they want to look at,

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Gov. Dannel Malloy has faced criticism this summer.

and understand what transpired,” Malloy said at a press conference earlier this month. “I think people have a right to take a look, they’re taking a look, we’ll see where that goes, and where it ends.”

Emails obtained by the Connecticut Post in August show that the federal probe into Malloy’s re-election campaign has been brewing even before he eked out a narrow victory over Tom Foley, the Greenwich businessman whom the Republicans nominated. Days before voters went to the polls, the Post’s emails show, federal attorneys sought evidence that the Malloy campaign had agreed not to use outside funding, and communication about the campaign’s use of funds continued apace throughout 2015.

The state’s Republican leadership, already giddy at Malloy’s deep unpopularity in Connecticut, have pounced on the federal probe to attack the governor. Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, the state’s top-ranking Republican, challenged Malloy to release the emails subpoenaed by the State Elections Enforcement Commission as part of their investigation into the campaign.

“Gov. Malloy is still withholding his own emails and state Democratic Party emails that have not just been requested, but subpoenaed by his own state’s elections enforcement officials,” Fasano said in a statement. “In what kind of warped reality can a governor challenge someone to release emails when his own

withholding of emails is currently being investigated by the feds?”

The controversy surrounding his re-election campaign comes at a bad time for Malloy, the former mayor of Stamford, who moved into the governor’s mansion in January 2011. Years of fiscal travails in Hartford — a seemingly interminable budget crisis, complete with mass layoffs and tax hikes — have made Malloy the least popular Democratic governor in the country, according to a Morning Consult poll released in May. Sam Brownback, the Republican governor of Kansas, beats Malloy out to the title of the overall least popular governor.

Yet Malloy’s domestic unpopularity is at apparent odds with his national prominence. Not only does he serve as the chairman of the Democratic Governors’ Association, making him one of the most prominent figures in the Democratic establishment; he has also become one of Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 top surrogates, and is widely tipped to receive a cabinet appointment — cutting short his second term by two years — should she win the presidency in November.

Connecticut’s lieutenant governor, who would take charge should Malloy move to Washington, is Nancy Wyman, a former state comptroller who joined Malloy on the Democratic ticket in 2010.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

New Haven eateries see summer turnovers

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER The Elm City’s food offerings diversified this summer with gourmet donuts, assembly-line pizza and a well-known New York City halal establishment.

Ah-Beetz — modeled after popular assembly-line eateries such as Tikkaway, Pitaziki and Chipotle — opened in early August at 182 Temple St., becoming the first restaurant of this kind to serve New Havenstyle pizza. Nearby, The Halal Guys, whose gyros served from food carts have become a Manhattan lunch staple, will open a brick-and-mortar location on Sept. 7 at 906 Chapel St. In mid-October, Connecticut-based Donut Crazy will open its fourth location at 209 York St. between Yorkside Pizza and Toad’s Place. It will serve coffee alongside donut concoctions such as Blueberry Butternut and Root Beer Glaze, owner Jason Wojnarowski said.

“We’re building a really cool store for downtown to serve cool donuts and cool coffee,” he said.

“We came here after we saw a lot of [local] students coming down to our Shelton store. And New Haven is a really metro big city.”

As construction for Donut Crazy began on York Street, Bangkok Gardens closed in midAugust. The store, which oper-

ated for two decades at 172 York St., was one of three Thai restaurants on a one-block strip.

The previous tenant of Donut Crazy’s space’s, Flavors, was also a shop that fell to heavy competition. Last year, it became the third downtown frozen yogurt store to close in a one-year period. Though Donut Crazy is the first such shop in Broadway’s shopping district, it will share its customers with Tony’s Orangeside Donuts, which opened last year at 24 Whitney Ave., roughly four blocks away.

Ah-Beetz replaced a sushi bar while Halal Guys moved into a location once occupied by Radio Shack.

The gyro store, which has franchises around the country and abroad in South Korea and the Philippines, opted to open in New Haven because it hopes to bring its signature chicken gyro to Connecticut, managing director Jack Yeung said. Like Wojnarowski, Yeung described the Elm City as a great place to start a business.

“New Haven is the food mecca of Connecticut,” Yeung said. “The college students certainly bring a different element to the city, but so do local businesses, Yale Hospitals, major corporations and residents from New Haven and its neighboring towns.”

Also during the summer,

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Donut Crazy will open at 209 York St. in October.

Anchor Bar — which closed last year after decades in the Elm City when its owner could not make their payments — reopened as the Anchor Spa,

preserving its iconic blue and white signage. The new locale, funded by Yale alumnus Karl Franz Williams ’97 and under new ownership, modeled itself

after the original 1930s bar — even more so than the version that closed last year.

Vivi Bubble Tea and Juice Box opened on Chapel Street shortly

before students departed for summer vacation.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.”

DAVID HOCKNEY ENGLISH ARTIST

YCBA reopens after conservation project

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER White oak panels and streams of natural light welcome visitors to the newly renovated Yale Center for British Art, which reopened on May 11 after a 16-month conservation project that celebrates the vision of the center’s original architect while welcoming it into the 21st century.

The center’s reopening marks the completion of the third and final phase of the “Building Conservation Project,” started by YCBA Director Amy Meyers GRD ’85 in 2002. After Paul Mellon ’29 donated his collection of British art to the University in 1966, Louis Kahn, who also designed the adjacent Yale University Art Gallery, was commissioned to design the Center, though he died before its completion in 1976. The most recent project both restored the Center’s public spaces and updated its infrastructure while upholding Kahn’s original plans for the space.

“It wasn’t that we were trying to make this building look new, like it was opened yesterday,” said Daphne Kalomiris, one of the architects who worked on the project. “We want to accept that it’s a 40-year-old building, but

bring it to this century in terms of systems and upgrades and essentially refresh it. It needed a glass of water.”

Deputy Director Constance Clement, who oversaw building conservation, emphasized that much of the project was designed to correct the “architectural drift” of aesthetic details that over time had shifted from Kahn’s original design.

The renovation itself was a near-surgical procedure, Kalomiris said. The team made “incisions” into the building that improved the infrastructure while ensuring it would look essentially the same upon reconstruction, she continued. As the team disassembled the building, one of the most exciting parts was delving into the building’s history and uncovering unknown aspects of Kahn’s design along the way, said Nikolaos Tombras, a project architect.

“There is this sense of … what’s permanent and what’s temporal,” Kalomiris said. “Both work together to make this building so beautiful.”

Some of the most costly changes to the building are not immediately obvious to gallery visitors.

Infrastructure and systems were overhauled and improved, while “eyesores” such as obvious secu-

rity cameras or wire molds were removed, Tombras said.

The gallery’s renovation also allowed for a rehanging of the Mellon Collection, which now has the most paintings on display since it has the center’s debut in 1977.

Throughout the gallery, the story of British art is told through both chronological and thematic narratives, reflecting the evolution of British art through time said Scott Wilcox, the deputy director for collections. Starting on the fourth floor with the Tudor period and moving down to the second floor, visitors can walk through a temporal narrative of artwork, he added.

“We feel we are at our best now,” Wilcox said. “The other thing is that I think — and we have gotten some feedback to suggest this is true — that the arrangement actually tells the story of British art very effectively, and certainly in a much more global way than earlier installations.”

In the newly rehung Long Gallery, which Wilcox called the “great hit of the reinstallation,” densely hung panels of artwork are grouped by thematic elements ranging from coastlines to the British Empire. The gallery, which runs nearly the length of the fourth floor, returns to Kahn’s original vision of a study space and contains over 200 paintings.

By hanging thematically tied paintings from across centuries together, students can observe how treatment of different themes changed over time, Wilcox said.

Professors will be able to request certain themes be hung in the Long Gallery for students to study over the course of a semester.

Other renovated spaces include the first-floor lecture hall, which now has increased accessibility and simulcast capabilities, Meyers said. The Collection Seminar Room will offer classes a chance to “close study” artwork by natural light and will first be utilized to its full extent this fall, Wilcox said.

This fall, the Center welcomes two new exhibitions, one that surveys Britain’s “tradition” of marine painting and another that displays the work of British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare.

“We are delighted that our renewed galleries, courts and public spaces are now welcoming students, faculty, visiting scholars and the public to the Center with such a visually captivating experience,” Meyers said. “Ours is one of the most outstanding institutions devoted to the art and culture of a single nation. The challenge that we embrace enthusiastically is to understand, celebrate, interrogate and critique that culture in a global context.”

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SPORTS

“I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I’m the first Simone Biles.”

SIMONE BILES AMERICAN GYMNAST AND FOUR-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

Plans for Handsome Dan XVIII unclear

Coed team title highlights summer SAILING FROM PAGE 16

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Sherman was the 17th bulldog to serve as Handsome Dan, and there is no timetable for the announcement of a replacement.

HANDSOME DAN FROM PAGE 16 sion requires exploring many options.”

Getman, who has been the Yale mascot’s caretaker for all but two years since 1983, said he believes there will be a new owner for Handsome Dan XVIII, but that the selection process is still “very much a work in progress.”

Though he did not have spe-

cific details on the selection process at this time, Getman said the choice of a new bulldog usually involves word of mouth and referrals.

Handsome Dan I, chosen in 1889, was the first live mascot at an academic institution in the United States.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

Post-concussion, Varga ends NFL career VARGA FROM PAGE 16 injured reserve two weeks later, eventually returning to Yale in the spring of 2016 to intern at the Yale Investments Office.

“It was a really tough stretch for Ty last fall, when the concussion happened,” Yale head coach Tony Reno said. “He was here [at Yale] last spring, and he was really shaken for about four or five months from the hit. It was one of those weird collisions that hit him just right, and I said to him, ‘Hey, that’s why you came to Yale.’ It’s the dream of every kid who walks in the door here, to further their career in the NFL, but if it doesn’t happen or if it’s taken from them, they have a great degree to fall back on.”

That great degree — one in ecology and evolutionary biology, in Varga’s case — came in use this fall. When the Colts diagnosed him with a concussion, one of the team doctors offered medicine to help him recover. Varga, an aspiring orthopedic surgeon, declined to take the pills, as he was not familiar with them. He consulted other doctors, all of whom told

him to not take the drug.

He recounted this experience, as well as the lingering effects of his symptoms, in a May feature in the Indianapolis Star.

Sometimes, Varga said, he questioned if he would be able to play football again, or ever fully recover.

“I’d be lying, anybody would be lying, to say that wasn’t a thought that crossed my mind,” he told the Star. “I just remember thinking, ‘Thank God I went to Yale.’”

In his three regular-season games in Indianapolis, Varga picked up 151 yards on six kickoff returns and 20 total yards on one rush and one reception.

The Kitchener, Ontario native graduated from Yale as one of the most accomplished football players in school history. In three seasons, he racked up the fourth-most rushing yards and third-most rushing touchdowns in school history. After his senior season, Varga earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year honors.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Yale’s sailing teams won three national championships in 2015 and took home one this past summer.

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Pair of second-place finishes for Yale at nationals

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

In a quest to claim a national title for the first time since 2011, the Yale lightweight crew came up just short, finishing second to Columbia.

CREW FROM PAGE 16 teams, but the Bulldogs still had more racing to do at the annual Yale–Harvard Regatta, which Yale entered as a heavy favorite. In gusty Connecticut conditions, however, the race was deemed a no-contest when the Harvard boat started sinking and the Crimson rowers had to be rescued. This is the first time in the competition’s 151-year history that the race was not completed, though the Yale boat did complete the race in a record-slow time of 30 minutes and 41 seconds.

“For me personally, and I think for everyone present that day, the win belonged to Yale,” Hurn said. “We had beaten Harvard by significant margins in all previous races against them that year, and it [looked] like another Yale victory in the moments preceding their sinking. For the oarsmen returning, the only thing we can do is turn our focus to next year, and beat them enough for both years.”

LIGHTWEIGHTS MISS AN OPPORTUNITY

In three career NFL games, Varga earned 20 total yards on one rushing attempt and one reception.

five of the six sailors on the team making their nationals debut, the Bulldogs treaded water in the opening stages of the regatta, recording just three top-five finishes in their first 18 races.

Sitting in eighth place with 18 races remaining, the Elis began a surge up the leaderboard in the second half of the regatta, which ended with a narrow victory over Ivy foe Dartmouth.

Third-place finishes by both the Division A pair of Casey Klingler ’18 and Emily Johnson ’16 and the Division B duo of Katharina Knapp ’18 and Clara Robertson ’17 propelled the Bulldogs past the Big Green in the final two races of the regatta and into fifth place.

The Coast Guard Academy cruised into first place by a 40-point margin over runner-up Brown, notching top-two finishes in nearly half of the regatta’s 36 races en route to its first ever Gerald C. Miller Trophy win.

Yale’s momentum carried over from the women’s final to the coed LaserPerformance Team Race national championship. Yale’s six-sailor team, which included ICSA All-Americans Baird, Ian Barrows ’17, Malcolm Lamphere ’18 and Charlotte Belling ’16, breezed through the preliminary round robin with a nearly perfect 14–1 record.

With the field narrowed down in a round of eight and then a final four, the Bulldogs compiled a 7–3 record in their remaining races and won a head-to-head tiebreaker by defeating Georgetown in the final round.

The Elis’ victory in the Team Race final earned them their

fourth consecutive Walter Cromwell Wood Bowl Trophy. They have defended the title since 2013.

“We put a lot of hard work into it and were really excited, but there wasn’t a lot of celebration until afterward because we had to focus for the coed race [the fleet racing national championship],” Baird said. “[The title] definitely gave us confidence going into coeds.”

Yale concluded its competition in San Diego with the Gill Coed National Championship, which began on June 2. Fielding a steady Division A team of Barrows and Meredith Megarry ’17 alongside a five-person Division B rotation, the Bulldogs jostled with Georgetown and the Coast Guard Academy before settling atop the table in the races immediately following the regatta’s midway point.

But Yale could not hold its lead through to the finish, as the Hoyas seized first place after the 11B race and never looked back. Though the Elis’ first boat finished with a regatta-best 119 points, the second boat struggled down the stretch, placing in the top five just three times in the second half and finishing in sixth.

The team combined for a third-place overall finish, scoring nine points ahead of fourth-place Boston College and far ahead of Ivy opponents Brown and Penn.

The Bulldogs begin fall racing on Sept. 10, when the coed team will race for the Harry Anderson and Pine Trophies at Yale and Coast Guard, respectively, while the Eli women will vie for the Toni Deutsch Trophy at MIT.

Like the Yale heavyweights, the Yale lightweight first varsity boat had also been ranked first in the nation for several weeks leading up to IRAs after an undefeated spring season.

However, in the grand finale, the 1V boat fell to Columbia, a team the Bulldogs had beaten twice in the spring, by 2.4 seconds. The Lions, which were ranked No. 2 for most of

the spring, earned their firstever national title with the win, while Yale missed out on a chance to win its first since 2011.

Earlier in the championships, Yale entered a coxed lightweight four, which finished fourth in the grand finale with a time of 6:52.41, more than 10 seconds behind winner Georgetown. Yale also raced a coxless four, which finished last in its initial heat but first out of two boats in the petite finale, ahead of Georgetown.

The Bulldogs then concluded their season across the Atlantic at the Henley Royal Regatta, where Yale again entered a coxed eight, a coxed four and a coxless four. At Henley, the bracket-like setup meant that all races were one on one, from the heats to the final.

The Bulldog varsity eight, competing in the Temple Challenge Cup, advanced to the semifinals by beating three different boats: one with students from Clare and Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge, one from Nottingham Trent University and a third from Cornell. In the semifinal, however, the Bulldogs fell to Oxford Brookes University by just under two boat lengths.

Yale’s other entries had less success. Racing in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup, the Bulldog coxed four defeated University of St. Andrews before losing to Newcastle by over two lengths. In the Visitors’ Chal-

lenge Cup, the coxless four lost by wide margin to Cal. “The entire Henley squad was over there in force, and I was proud of our entire team and how they represented Old Eli,” head coach Andy Card said. “We advanced the furthest of any lightweight crew in the Temple Cup, and we had a hell of a time doing it …

All three entries had seniors in the stroke seat, and the ’16s left their positive mark on the program for sure to the very last stroke.”

Still, despite the loss of the class of 2016, new captain Noah Baily ’17 was optimistic for the season ahead. He cited the team’s depth as reason to believe Yale could replicate and improve upon last season’s successes.

“We are returning 11 seniors this year, and our underclassmen are an even greater force to be reckoned with,” Bailey said. “We feel the loss of 2016, but last year was last year, and this year is this year. We’ll continue to hold ourselves to the very highest standard and build even further upon our results.”

ELEVENTH PLACE FOR WOMEN’S CREW

At the NCAA Championships in Rancho Cordova, California, the highlight of the Yale women’s crew’s performance was a win in the petite finale of the varsity four event.

Having lost just once all season, the varsity four started strong by winning its heat and

besting Brown, the one team to which the Bulldogs had lost.

Yale narrowly missed out on a place in the grand finale by finishing fourth in the semifinals, 1.427 seconds behind Stanford, but came back strong in the petite finale. The Bulldogs won the race by more than two seconds, over Princeton, Texas, Brown, Wisconsin and Indiana.

In its heat, the first varsity eight came in third behind Stanford and Michigan and advanced to the C/D semifinal, where the boat placed second with a time of 6:30.024, less than a second behind Gonzaga, to advance to the C final. In that race, the Bulldogs placed third, which Washington State taking first and Gonzaga second. Yale’s second varsity boat earned a spot in the A/B semifinal, where it rowed to fourth, more than 11 seconds behind eventual winners California.

“Next year we hope to build off our 11th place ranking from this year’s NCAAs,” captain Kate O’Brien ’17, who succeeded Colleen Maher ’16 for the 2016–2017 season, said.

“The standard of female collegiate rowing seems to be rising each year, so the ultimate goal is for YWC to rise with this standard while keeping with our positive attitude and love for what we do.”

Like its men’s heavyweight counterpart, the Cal women’s crew won the national title.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 1:00 PM Library Tour for New Graduate Students. Join us for a tour of Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library, designed especially for new graduate students. The tour will visit the SML stacks and reading rooms, take a peek at some unusual collections and highlight about some important (and useful!) services for students. Students must bring their Yale IDs. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.).

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 10:00 AM Summer’s Last Roar. To mark the end of summer, the museum opens its doors once again for a free day. In addition to all of the permanent and temporary exhibitions, visitors will have a chance to win prizes, participate in craft activities and interact with SciCarts throughout the exhibit halls. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

6:00 PM Richard Lenz: Photographs. Join other members of the community for the opening reception of a new photography exhibit featuring photography by Richard Lenz. Lenz was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1989. He received his B.A. in fine arts from Columbia University in 2012 and lives in New York City. Through September 10, his photographs will be on display in Maya’s Room in Silliman College. Silliman College (505 College St.), Maya’s Room.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 11:00 AM Open Hours at Marsh Botanical Garden. Come out and enjoy the tropical, desert and carnivorous plant collections and the outdoor gardens. Docent-led tours start on the hour at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Admission is free; all are welcome.

Marsh Botanical Garden (265 Mansfield St.).

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Study finds evolutionary explanation for female orgasm

BY ZAINAB HAMID STAFF REPORTER

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While the male orgasm’s role in facilitating reproduction has long been clear, the role of the female orgasm has always remained more of a mystery. But emerging evidence from a recent Yale study suggests that the female orgasm may have helped induce ovulation in our evolutionary ancestors, thus functioning as an aid to conception.

The study, conducted by scientists at Yale and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, began as an inquiry into the ovulatory cycles of various mammals. Study co-authors Mihaela Pavlič ev from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Günter Wagner from Yale’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology discovered that many female mammals release oxytocin and prolactin during sex — the same hormones released by women during orgasms. In certain mammals, such as rabbits and cats, the release of these hormones triggers the release of eggs from the female’s ovaries. The study by Gunter and Pavlicev was published in the Journal of Evolutionary Zoology: Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution on Aug. 1.

“In mammals such as rabbits and cats, copulation is necessary in order for ovulation to occur,” Wagner said.

He added that the study implicates that the origins of the female orgasm can be in part understood by looking at the evolutionary benefits of the female orgasm in other mammalian relatives.

Although numerous mammals, including human women, experience spontaneous ovulation on a monthly basis, Wagner and Pavličev found that male-induced ovulation predated spontaneous evolution. Spontaneous evolution, according to the study authors, arose with the formation of social groups that gave females access to regular sex with males. Prior to this, male-induced ovulation allowed females to take full advantage of rare encounters with biologically compatible males. Based on this, the study authors argued that the human female orgasm could have its roots in a mechanism for the release of eggs during sex. According to the researchers, as women developed the ability to release eggs in a regular cycle, the ancestral ovulatory system became redundant and the female orgasm was relegated to a secondary position.

The study is one of the first of its kind to explore the evolutionary origins of the female orgasm. Elisabeth Lloyd, philosopher at Indiana University and author of the book “The Case of the Female Orgasm,” said the study presented a “very interesting hypothesis” but also found some problems with the hypothesis in terms of the evidence. Lloyd took issue with the fact that the study focused explicitly on the hormonal aspect of the female orgasm, when she considers orgasms to be a “muscular spasm and neurological reflex.”

“The accompanying hormonal surges that go along with it are also very significant, but they are not defining of orgasm,” Lloyd said.

David Puts, an evolutionary anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, echoed Lloyd’s argument, stating that the research addressed one particular aspect of orgasms.

He added that it would be more accurate to describe the paper as exploring the origins of one important component of orgasm, rather than the phenomenon as a whole. However, Puts also voiced his support for the paper, stating that he was “relatively convinced” that the hormonal changes studied by the researchers, albeit later co-opted, were ancestrally a part of induced ovulation.

According to Puts, in exploring the ancestral state of the orgasm, the study provided important new evidence about why the orgasm evolved for its present function. However, Puts added that plenty more work needs to be done to build on existing evidence. Puts pointed out, for instance, that researchers have previously treated women with oxytocin, the hormone released during orgasm, and found that their reproductive tracts moved sperm towards the egg. However, Puts added that such research need to be replicated and further developed before it can provide conclusive results.

The female orgasm has long eluded many, and, according to Puts, relatively sparse evidence together with the subject’s inherent sensitivity come together to make the possible evolutionary functionality of the female orgasm one of the most contentious topics in the study of human sexuality.

Contact ZAINAB HAMID at zainab.hamid@yale.edu .

Yale researchers reaffirm that the Olympics did not need to be postponed for Zika

BY HOLLY ZHOU STAFF REPORTER Researchers and public health officials across the world continue contemplating the spread of the Zika virus as the Summer 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro draw to a close. Yale researchers released a study in July which found that the Olympic Games did not need to be postponed because of Zika. They later reaffirmed their recommendation in an interview with the News.

In late July, Yale School of Public Health researchers published a study estimating a low risk of Zika affecting the international community despite large amounts of travel for the Olympics to and from Brazil, a country which confirmed its first case of Zika in May 2015. The study contradicted an open letter signed by 150 members of the international scientific community urging Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organization, to call for the postponement or cancellation of the Olympic Games over public health concerns relating to the Zika virus.

The letter was issued after WHO issued a statement in May saying the Olympics did not need to be postponed because there was “very low risk” of further spread directly due to the Games. It further noted that Zika would likely follow the trends of other mosquito-borne illnesses and decrease in transmission rates during the winter months, making the Olympics in Rio less risky for trav-

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elers since the games would be held during the country’s winter season.

Using a statistical model constructed based on factors including the risk of infection, travel distributions and seasonal dynamics, the Yale researchers predicted that only 3 to 37 individuals would be infected out of the projected 350,000 to 500,000 visitors to Rio. Gregg Gonsalves ’11 SPH ’18, a doctoral candidate and co-author of the study, said he continues to support this original claim after the Olympics have wrapped. He added that it was important to talk about the Zika risk at the Olympic Games in a quantitative way rather than accept the contents of the open letter at face value.

“There’s a lot of worry and concern about the Olympic scene, but that risk is very small,” he said. “Over the summer, there have been over 1,000 Zika cases in the U.S. that have come from overseas. They have

nothing to do with special events like the Olympics, they just have to do with normal travel from places across the Caribbean and the Dominican Republic.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Zika virus, which currently affects over 50 countries and territories, can cause paralysis in adults and microcephaly — a condition in which a newborn’s head is smaller than expected that is often a warning sign for developmental issues — in children born to infected mothers. Zika is primarily spread through the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito or through sexual transmission and can be confirmed through a blood or urine test.

Lee Igel, one of the main authors of the letter to Chan and a clinical associate professor at New York University, said that the mathematical model could overlook other economic, social and political con-

ditions in Brazil that would affect the spread and transmission of the virus as well as how the virus was evolving.

He cited a recent case of the virus in Salt Lake County, Utah, where the virus appeared to have been contracted through bodily fluids rather than through a mosquito bite or sexual contact, the known forms of Zika transmission.

Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at NYU who was another primary author of the letter to Chan, expressed similar views on the unpredictable nature of the virus’s evolution.

“I don’t have any regret about trying to flag the idea that it might be useful to postpone the event,” he said. “Subsequent new information about Zika transmission and its lingering in the body just reconfirms what we were trying to convey.”

Gonsalves, Igel and Caplan agreed that a strong infrastructure and sup-

port from the state government are necessary in preventing disease outbreaks.

According to University of California Irvine student Ryan Chew, who attended the Summer Olympic Games to support his brother on the U.S. badminton team, no one in his group of 10 individuals was bitten over the two-week time period they were in Rio. While there were a lot of people who brought mosquito repellent, Zika did not seem to be a main health concern of participants at the Games.

“I don’t think I saw a single mosquito while I was [at the Olympics]” attendee Griffin Smilow ’18 said. “I don’t think most people realized it’s winter in Brazil right now.”

Brazil’s winter lasts from June until September.

Contact HOLLY ZHOU at holly.zhou@yale.edu .

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Study associates flexibility of the brain with resilience

BY MANASA RAO STAFF REPORTER According to a recent Yale study, a person’s ability to handle stress could be due to flexibility in the brain.

Researchers at the Yale Stress Center examined how the brain reacts to ongoing stress in 30 adult participants in the New Haven community. With the goal of identifying brain loci and neural networks specific to certain stress processes, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, while participants were shown either stressful or neutral images.

The researchers then compared the brain scans with participants’ self-reported data on their coping strategies of stress, including eating habits and alcohol intake, and found a correlation between a lack of dynamic or “flexible” brain activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, or vmPFC, and maladaptive coping strategies. According to the researchers, the study can be used to make targeted neurological interventions for several damaging stress-related illnesses. The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month.

“We wanted to understand how the brain handles stress from a coping perspective,” said Rajita Sinha, professor of psychiatry, neurosci-

ence and child study and the study’s first author. “People are facing high levels of stress and trauma and there is a range of responses people have in coping with stress. Some are managing and are adaptive and others are barely surviving.”

Co-author and psychiatry professor Dongju Seo said it is important to study the ongoing effects of stress because it is a major factor that triggers both psychiatric and physiological disorders. Seo added that in real life, individuals experience continuous stress, not just stress that overwhelms them in brief moments. She said this study was unique in that it did not create a stressful environment or image in the brain for just a few moments, but instead examined the effects of ongoing stress on the brain by presenting ongoing, acute stressful images to subjects.

In the past, researchers have established how the brain and body responds to stress. For example, according to Sinha, the amygdala is important in alerting and signaling negative emotions in response to stress and the hippocampus is important in matching incoming stimuli with existing memories.

However, this study was the first to image the brain’s response to acute, continuous stress. Sinha and her team of researchers discovered three distinct response patterns to stress in the brain among participants, as

well as what seems to be a neural network related to control of coping strategies.

According to Sinha, the first neural network of brain activity signals and alerts the brain in response to incoming, potentially harmful stimuli. The second pattern of neural activity decreases feelings of distress and the third is related to coping and choosing responses to incoming stimuli that doesn’t simply take care of stress in the moment but is better for a person’s longterm health. Sinha said that with the knowledge of these three patterns of neural activity, it could be possible to target and manipulate specific brain networks to see if they are involved in increasing resilience to stress and have clinical intervention of mental illnesses specific to those brain areas.

“We can try to make people more neural flexible — the ability of the brain to actively process and adapt based on information — to cope with stress in a better way. There are number of stress-related illnesses — anxiety disorders, depression — we can use these kinds of paradigms to test the nature of the three stress networks for specific illnesses and target intervention based on that,” Sinha said.

Sinha’s research also led to finding a neural network related to emotional and behavioral control. According to Sinha, it has been

known that if a person is able to feel in control of a situation, he or she could perceive that control as the ability to manage stress. Consequently, Sinha said, the impact of stress on the body is “buffered” by that perception of control. The researchers found one locus of this network of control in the vmPFC showing dynamic neural activation associated with real-life coping behaviors.

In imaging the brain’s response to ongoing, stressful images — including a mutilated, bloody body and a person being shot — the researchers were able to correlate brain scans to both participants’ levels of stress and their real-life coping strategies.

The researchers measured participants’ heart rate and cortisol levels before and after both the stressful and neutral images. Separately, individuals did a self-report of emotional behaviors, eating behavior, and alcohol intake, allowing the researchers to correlate maladaptive coping behaviors with the fMRI scans. Sinha emphasized the importance of neural flexibility in resilience to, and coping with, stress.

“One piece of a network seems to be involved in active coping. More importantly, it shows us how active the brain is and that a key feature of brain is flexibility; we were able to show that there is active, changing signaling in the brain,” Sinha said.

Seo said they also found that the

brain is dynamic in its responses to stress and can recover from it. She added that this idea of resilience and recovery could be an indication of brain adaptation and could even be used in pharmacology for different illnesses.

Conor Liston, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College’s Brain and Mind Research Institute who was not involved in the study, said the research builds on a number of studies of neuroimaging in animal models and how the animal models respond to and cope with stress.

He said that the study was original in how it looked at dynamic brain changes over time and that its findings were consistent with what is currently know about the vmPFC in animal models.

Rebecca Shansky, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who was not involved in the study, said that while the data is not surprising, the novelty of the study is in its analysis. Shansky said that it would be interesting to find a causality — and not simply a correlation — between real-life, active coping strategies and stimulation of the vmPFC. Shansky also said she would be interested in seeing gender differences in responses to stress.

Sinha founded the Yale Stress Center in 2007.

Contact MANASA RAO at manasa.rao@yale.edu .

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Thrifty gene leads to higher obesity rates in Samoan populations

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER Although obesity rates have been rising around the world, the problem is particularly pronounced in Samoa. In 2010, 80 percent of Samoan men and 91 percent of Samoan women had obesity. A new Yale co-authored study may help explain the high rates of obesity among Samoans.

Researchers genotyped thousands of Samoans and found a genetic variant on chromosome five, which has genes that contribute to more efficient fat storage. According to the study, which was a collaborative effort that included researchers from the Yale School of Public Health, this variant is rare globally, but very common among people living in Samoa. Although this variant, coined as the “thrifty” gene, may once have protected Samoans during times of food scarcity, it now appears to play a role in Samoa’s current obesity epidemic, according to the paper, which was published on July 25 in the scientific journal Nature Genetics.

Obesity is associated with a variety of health problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. However, even though the “thrifty” variant made fat storage more efficient, it also reduced the risk of Type 2 diabe-

tes for carriers.

“Although this variant is extremely rare in other populations, it is common in Samoans, with an effect size much larger than that of any other known common body-mass-index risk variant,” the researchers wrote in the paper. The study was led

by Nicola Hawley, professor of chronic disease epidemiology at Yale.

Researchers studied the genomes of 3,072 Samoans across 33 different villages, genotyping more than 600,000 markers on each genome. A variant on chromosome five was significantly associated with obesity — having the mutation increased the odds of having obesity by 35 percent.

The researchers noted that there were three possible genotypes among the participants they studied. They found that 7 percent of subjects had two copies of the variant, 38 percent had one copy, and 55 percent did not have the variant at all.

“We plan to expand our work in humans to see whether and how the metabolism and body composition differs in individuals with each of the three genotypes,” said Ryan Minster, study co-author and human genetics professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. “We’d also like to understand the distribution of the BMI-increasing version of [the gene] across the Pacific.”

The variant is virtually absent

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from populations outside of Samoa, according to the study.

To understand the mechanism behind the variant’s association with greater weight gain, researchers used laboratory cell models of mice fat cells. Cells that included the “thrifty” vari-

ant were able to store fat more efficiently than were cells without that variation.

Although the “thrifty” variant can make it easier to gain weight, researchers say that it plays only a small role in obesity. According to the study paper, it only

accounts for two percent of BMI variation among Samoans.

“A healthy diet and physical activity are still key to maintaining a healthy weight,” said Stephen McGarvey SPH ’84, study co-author and professor at the Brown University School of

Public Health, in a July 25 press release.

The World Health Organization defines obesity as a BMI of 30 or higher.

Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .

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“This shows how far the squad has progressed, that Yale’s best IRA finish in living memory was considered an underperformance.”

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Handsome Dan passes away

Yale sails to national title

BY MATTHEW STOCK STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s and coed sailing teams entered the InterCollegiate Sailing Association national championship weekend in May with high expectations after last season’s sweep of the three championship regattas.

Though the Bulldogs fell short of their championship total from a season ago, they left San Diego with one national championship and two other top-five finishes, representing the best overall finish of any collegiate program.

SAILING Following their lone national

title — their fourth-straight coed team racing championship — the Elis begin their 2016–17 campaign with high hopes of reclaiming the other two titles next spring.

“In the end, we were pretty happy with how things went,” skipper Nic Baird ’19 said.

“Sailing is not a sport where the same team wins every time just because they’re better. You have to be a whole lot better, just because of how unpredictable things can be.”

The Yale women’s team opened national competition with the Sperry College Sailing Women’s National Regatta. With SEE SAILING PAGE 12

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Handsome Dan XVII, or Sherman as he was known at home, took over Yale’s mascot duties in 2007.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER After nine years of serving the Yale athletic community as its mascot, Handsome Dan XVII died on Aug. 11, most likely due to a heart attack. The English bulldog, whose house name was Sherman, was nine years old.

Chris Getman ’64, who served as Sherman’s caretaker since the bulldog became Handsome Dan at the age of six months, said in a Yale athlet-

ics press release that the dog had experienced seizures earlier this summer but was taking medication and otherwise doing well.

During his nine years as the face of Yale athletics, Sherman met multiple prominent figures, including former presidents George H. W. Bush ’68 and Jimmy Carter. In an interview with the News earlier this year, Getman described Sherman as a “dog of the community,” as he participated in a variety of events throughout

the campus on a daily basis, and attended many Yale football and baseball games alongside Getman.

“He loved his job, was very enthusiastic and brought joy to a lot of people,” Getman said in a statement.

The Yale athletic department has established a committee responsible for replacing Sherman. Director of Sports Publicity Steve Conn said the committee was established to “process the situation” and make a recommen-

dation to Tom Beckett, Yale’s director of athletics, for Sherman’s successor.

Conn would not comment on the timeline for the committee or the names of its members, adding that the only information that would be made public is that the department is currently working to replace the mascot.

“It’s not something that can be done overnight,” Conn said. “A good plan for succesSEE HANDSOME DAN PAGE 12

Men’s crews place second at nationals

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The Yale coed team won the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship, marking its fourth straight victory at the event.

Varga ’15 retires from NFL

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Early this summer, the three Yale crews wrapped up their seasons by competing at the national championships, bringing back two silvers to New Haven.

Tyler Varga ’15, one of the most prolific rushers in Yale history and just the second program alumnus to play running back in the NFL since Calvin Hill ’69, retired from professional football this summer after just one season with the Indianapolis Colts.

MEN’S CREW Despite being the favorites to secure national titles at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships in early June, both the Yale heavyweight and lightweight first varsity boats ultimately fell short and finished second. A week earlier at the NCAA championships, the women’s crew finished 11th as a team, with the first varsity boat finishing second in the petite, or consolation, finale.

UNEXPECTED LOSS FOR HEAVYWEIGHTS

The Bulldog first varsity heavyweight boat arrived in Mercer Lake, New Jersey, as the near-unanimous No. 1 boat in the country, having received 10 out of the 11 first-place votes in the USRowing Collegiate poll.

Prior to the IRAs, the Elis had also claimed the top ranking in eight out of the nine editions of the poll and were undefeated in spring season.

This record, however, did not translate into a national championship, as the Bulldogs fell to a strong University of California team by about two seconds in the grand finale. Yale started the championships on a good note by winning both its heat and its

FOOTBALL Varga, whose rookie season ended late last September due

to a severe concussion, initially indicated an intention to return to Indianapolis for the 2016 campaign. He participated in offseason workouts, but on July 26, the first day of Colts’ training camp, he was placed on the “reserve/did not report” list and was moved to the “reserve/retired” list later that day.

“He just decided that he wanted to move on with his life, and the risk of another traumatic injury was too great,” Joe Linta ’83, Varga’s agent, said. “He knows the career and life he’ll have off

the field, and he didn’t want to take any more risk.”

Linta confirmed Varga’s retirement on July 26, adding that the decision whether to return for a second year had been weighing on the running back for the weeks preceding his announcement.

Varga’s concussion, which occurred on an onside-kick play during a game against the Tennessee Titans, left him dizzy, confused and fatigued for months after the hit occurred. He was placed on SEE VARGA PAGE 12

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

The Yale heavyweight crew capped a year of dominance with a secondplace result at the IRA Nationals. semifinal, but it trailed Cal from start to finish in the final race.

“The 1V was obviously disappointed to finish second at the IRAs,” captain Rob Hurn ’17, who inherited the captaincy from Hubert Trzybinski ’16 after last season, said. “This shows how far the squad has progressed, that Yale’s best IRA finish in living memory was considered an underperformance. Fortunately, we have seven guys from that boat returning to give it another try, and they will be joined by an incredibly strong freshman class that will no doubt push us all to

perform at our best.”

The second varsity eight just missed out on racing in the grand finale when it placed fourth in its semifinal, but the Bulldogs won the petite finale, ahead of four Ivy League boats with a time of 5:53.44. The third varsity eight also raced in its petite finale and earned third place in that race.

Yale also entered a varsity four boat, which ended up finishing fourth in the fourth finale.

The IRAs ended the collegiate seasons of most heavyweight

STAT OF THE DAY 104

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During his time at Yale, Varga ran for nearly 3,000 yards, including 1,423 yards in his senior campaign.

THE NUMBER OF MEDALS WON BY YALE ATHLETES DURING THE HISTORY OF THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES. That figure ranked eighth among American colleges entering the 2016 Rio Olympics.