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ULA leader arrested at Atticus protest

Day one. Whether you’re on

the waiting list for the most sought-after seminar or trying to find a seat in the upstairs balcony of SSS 114, the News wishes you the best of luck on the first day of fall semester classes. Enjoy shopping period while it lasts.

If Howard Dean’s seminar doesn’t work out. By contrast,

many seminars seem quite lonely as of this morning.

Elementary Classical Tibetan has one shopper. A Judaic studies seminar about revelation at Sinai has one shopper as well. This course lists reading fluency in ancient Hebrew as a prerequisite.

Other firsts. If you make it

through the first day of classes, there’s reason to celebrate at the first Woads of the year. For the class of 2020: Woads is the storied Wednesday night Yaleonly dance party at Toad’s Place. For Yale students over 21, penny drinks are served at 11 p.m.

Election 2016. According to Public Policy Polling, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 has a five-point national lead over her Republican opponent. GOP hopeful Donald Trump is polling at 37 percent, while Clinton has 42.

Third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein have the rest of the vote.

For your next happy hour. The Elm City’s newly reopened Anchor Bar got a shoutout in The New York Times Style Magazine yesterday. The review praises the bar’s “new cocktails, old vibe,” and points to the “Yale Beets Harvard” as a particularly enticing cocktail offering.

The reason J. Crew has nothing good left. If you

see several smartly dressed Yale students making their way to The Study or Omni hotels, you can follow them to snatch some free refreshments. Consulting firms and investment banks will soon arrive on campus for recruitment. Bain & Company will make a presentation to interested juniors and seniors on Sept. 13 at the Omni.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2012 Just a day after University President Richard Levin announced plans to step down at the end of this academic year, Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72 rolls out the Corporation’s plans for picking a successor.

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the warrant was issued. Lugo spent a night in jail before ULA raised $5,000 for his bail.

Lugo said a warrant went out for his arrest after he did not appear at a court hearing for charges of civil disobedience following a July protest in Hartford. The protest, which took place outside Hartford’s U.S. Immi-

Several hundred Yale graduate students in 10 departments filed petitions Monday with the National Labor Relations Board requesting an election that would certify Local 33 UNITE HERE as a union, following the NLRB’s Aug. 23 ruling that graduate students at private universities have the right to unionize.

Last week’s NLRB decision overturned a 2004 ruling by the board that stated that graduate students at Brown University were students, not employees. The latest ruling, which was 3–1 in favor of unionization, opens a path toward unionization for Local 33, a decades-old Yale graduate student group formerly known as the Graduate Employees and Students Organization that has long pushed for unionization.

Since the ruling, Local 33 organizers have shifted their strategy, requesting union elections by department. Graduate students in 10 different departments are testing this tactic, becoming the first groups of graduate students at Yale to file for a unionization election.

“We are really excited to file in 10 departments that have a very strong desire to unionize,” Local 33 Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said. “We are

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Long shots. With the new

preliminary course schedule deadline, students can browse course demand statistics online, and the chances of getting into some seminars seem slim. For example, former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean’s ’71 “The Politics of Foreign Policy” has 81 shoppers. And as expected, the most popular class is Intro to Microeconomics with 468 students currently signed up.

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ULA organizer John Lugo was arrested at a protest Saturday.

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER A workers’ rights protest conducted by Unidad Latina en Acción was halted Saturday evening after ULA organizer John Lugo was arrested by the New Haven Police Department.

The protest, held outside of Atticus Bookstore and Cafe, was in response

to claims that former employee Basilio Santiago was unfairly dismissed without sufficient compensation last November. Lugo was arrested less than an hour into the protest by four NHPD officers. The officers on scene said Lugo’s arrest was unrelated to his behavior at Saturday’s protest. Instead, they said NHPD had an outstanding warrant for Lugo, but declined to comment further on why

Salovey delivers freshman address

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Talented poet, beloved friend dies at 25

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER “My genes are in mice, and not in the banal way that Man’s old genes are in the Beasts.

BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Welcoming the class of 2020 against the backdrop of unceasing campus debate on inclusivity, discrimination and free speech, University President Peter Salovey encouraged freshmen to engage with ideas that differ from their own.

At his annual freshman address in Woolsey Hall Saturday morning, Salovey told hundreds of students and their families that “false narratives” — like the notion that a university has to set aside free speech in order to foster a welcoming community — can be incredibly damaging.

“I have a thick shelf of contemporary books assuring me that students at elite universities are merely excellent sheep … that students these days are fragile hothouse flowers, that it is not possible to achieve an inclusive campus culture without giving up on free speech and that our colleges and universities are cut off from reality,” Salovey said, citing a long list of false narratives about higher education. “You are now embarking on an ambitious and hopeful effort to understand the world, your place in it and what you can contribute to forward progress. How can you address the seductive power of false narratives, especially in a time when grave mistrust on many sides seems to be fueling ever more of them?”

Salovey said Yale is a place for students to engage with differing viewpoints.

“It is also a place to learn why it takes extraordinary discipline, courage and persistence — often over a lifetime — to construct new foundations for tackling the most intractable and challenging questions of our time,” he said.

The president and Yale College dean have traditionally used the annual freshman address as an opportunity to launch campus conversations on some of the biggest topics in higher education. In past years, Salovey has spoken on the importance of freedom of expression and socioeconomic mobility.

Last year, the president used the occasion to tackle the contentious campus debate on the naming of Calhoun College, challenging the class of 2019 to join in the discussion.

Neither Salovey nor Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway made reference to continuing controversy surrounding the namesake of Calhoun College, fervent slavery advocate and Yale alum John C. Calhoun, SEE SALOVEY PAGE 4

My doctors split my tumors up and scattered them into the bones of twelve mice. We give the mice poisons I might, in the future, want for myself. We watch each mouse like a crystal ball.”

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Max Ritvo ’13, an English major in JE, died last week of cancer.

So begins “Poem to My Litter,” a work about living with cancer by Max Ritvo ’13 that appeared in a June 2016 issue of The New Yorker. An English major in Jonathan Edwards College, Ritvo died of cancer on Aug. 23 at his home in Los Angeles. Family members and friends interviewed by the News lamented the loss of a gifted poet who had made a profound mark on American literature despite his youth, as well as a cherished friend, a loving son and a devoted husband.

Ritvo was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, an extremely rare form of cancer, when he was 16. He spent one year during high school at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where his cancer eventually went into remission. Ritvo became a member of the Yale College class of 2013 and soon walked through the gates of Phelps Hall as an excited freshman who impressed those around him with his poetic muse and sharp insights. His cancer, however, resurfaced in 2012, during his senior year, but he went on to graduate from Yale, complete an MFA program at Columbia University and marry his wife, Victoria Ritvo, last August.

“Max’s distinction at first lay in his extraordinary critical intelligence; his was a voice quickest to pay homage,” said Louise Glück, an award-winning American poet and Yale English professor who taught Ritvo when he took her introductory poetry course and who later became his senior project adviser. “He was as hungry, as determined, as passionate a student SEE RITVO PAGE 4

2020 by the numbers: beliefs, experiences

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

In the past few days, freshmen have milled about — in dining halls, in courtyards, across Old Campus and Cross Campus — repeating the same introductions: name, hometown, residential college.

While these initial meet-andgreet moments only skim the surface of who the class of 2020 really is, these freshmen, who hail from all 50 states and 50 different countries, who play competitive sports and who have excelled in academic and artistic fields alike, have begun to build the connections that will follow them through their next four years.

And through late-night buttery trips

and bluebooking parties, Yale’s newest undergraduate cohort will begin to uncover what renders the class multifaceted: their backgrounds and experiences.

A News survey distributed to the class of 2020 earlier this summer sheds light on these personalities.

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.COMMENT “Everything is tolerated at Yale, except that which is not.” yaledailynews.com/opinion

A rose by any other name

GUEST COLUMNIST CHRISTOPHER LAPINIG

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o the incoming class of the College Formerly Known as Calhoun: Just as I did 13 years ago, you have joined the residential college at the corner of Elm and College streets. I write to ask you, beginning with your first weeks in your new community, to take action. Over the coming weeks on campus, you will be told repeatedly that you are a member of Calhoun College. I ask that you refuse to let the University hoist this name upon you.

I ask that you draw upon the anger and frustration that Yale dining hall employee Corey Menafee expressed this summer. Menafee temporarily lost his job at Yale for smashing a stained-glass window in our college that depicted slaves carrying bales of cotton. The image was “racist” and “degrading,” Menafee told the New Haven Independent. “It’s 2016, I shouldn’t have to come to work and see things like that.” To be sure, I do not ask that you destroy or deface any property. But I ask that, like Menafee, you resist becoming complicit in John C. Calhoun’s persisting presence on our campus.

Like most of you, I did not ask to be assigned to Calhoun College. I arrived at Bingham Hall in the fall of 2003, and the Calhoun upperclassmen welcomed my class with open arms. We were told that we were members of a small but proud community — indisputably the best residential college at Yale. We were showered with shirts, lanyards and other paraphernalia, all emblazoned with the Calhoun name. We were encouraged to commit to heart Calhoun songs and chants, and we were taught about Calhoun traditions that we needed to carry forward.

Early on, at least, some members of our class greeted our assigned college with concern. Members of our class — familiar with John C. Calhoun’s role in U.S. history — expressed uneasiness with our college’s namesake. Soon enough, however, those conversations about our namesake dissipated, giving way to discussions about classes, extracurricular activities, friendships and romance. We came to accept — or perhaps, we were led to believe — that the Calhoun name was something that could not be changed.

Your class need not share the same fate. The Calhoun name can be changed, and it should be. Refuse to be complicit. Refuse to wear the shirts with Calhoun’s name that you are given. Refuse to repeat the Calhoun chants you are taught.

And, most importantly, refuse to identify yourself as a member of Calhoun College. Do not waste your breath uttering a name as despicable as John C. Calhoun.

In early August, after Menafee’s resignation prompted nationwide outrage, President Peter Salovey announced the creation of a “Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming,” suggesting that the University may reverse its Calhoun decision.

But do not let these gestures tempt you into complacence.

You must hold the University accountable until our college is renamed.

By no means should my request hinder you from embracing the people that make up your college and the experiences you have in it.

Like many others, I developed wonderful friendships in our college, many that last to this day. I keep fond memories of the people I met in our college, the experiences I had there and even the building itself. But you can appreciate everything and everyone that makes our college special while challenging the legitimacy of its name.

Your class may find it helpful to rally around an interim name, to be used until our college receives a more proper and permanent renaming. I imagine your class will have plenty of ideas, but in the interest of expediency, may I suggest something innocuous as a placeholder, a name that pays tribute to no individual in particular, slaveholder or otherwise. Perhaps, for now, “Elm College” — a reference to our building’s location in the Elm City and to the mighty elm tree that once stood in the center of our college’s courtyard — would serve your class well.

Your class is unique — it is the first to arrive after the University’s decision about our college’s name, after Menafee’s resignation from Yale and after the creation of Salovey’s “renaming committee.” Many of us who came before you grudgingly came to accept our college’s name, although many of us have since disavowed it. Your class, from the very start of your time on campus, can refuse to be a part of this project. Embrace the opportunity your class has, and help us find a new identity — a new name — more fitting for a college as special as ours.

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ears ago, Malcolm X was asked: What do you call an educated Negro with a Ph.D.?

His response?

“You call him a nigger, because that is what the white man calls him, a nigger.”

This sentiment still remains true today.

Many Yalies — more specifically, white liberals — claim to champion racial diversity, while spending inordinate amounts of time in fear of not appearing politically c orrect. Take the following examples: The word black is often switched out for African-American. A smiling Native American student is placed next to an Asian student on a brochure in the admissions office. We as Yalies pat ourselves on the back. All the while, faculty diversity on campus and other peer institutions continues to decline as more faculty of color leave. And even Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates ’73 — a man with a Ph.D. — can be arrested on his own front porch for “robbery” simply because he is a black man.

At Yale, we often mull over books with Big Ideas while we sit in grassy courtyards. It’s too easy for us to talk about revolutionary movements using scholarly language without trying to bring those ideas into action. We all have those white friends who can’t stop using the word “antiblackness” after reading Ta-

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Evidently, when we try to valorize our political correctness, without focusing on systemic issues of both race and class, it only further alienates those who don’t have the privilege of a Yale education and further entrenches ignorance. As a result, it is very easy for candidates like Donald Trump to target political correctness as a rallying cry among working-class whites who may feel unjustly shamed simply because they lack “appropriate” vocabulary.

STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY DOES NOT DISSIPATE AS SOON AS WE USE THE TERM AFRICAN AMERICAN INSTEAD OF NEGRO But this alienation extends beyond Trump’s fan base. A student from a working-class background in a seminar may not know what “biopolitics” means if they haven’t been exposed to Agamben or Foucault. I often find it difficult to reconcile my own middle-class background — and

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my blackness — with many discussions about race on campus.

This over-intellectualization in the context of race has always struck me as odd. I am used to speaking in African-American vernacular when I’m around my black peers at home, so hearing a phrase like “safe space” when applied to race is jarring.

We must first recognize the role class plays in our language when we seek to form intersectional movements.

This is not to say that we should use racial slurs like Trump has, or completely decry any use of trigger warnings as the University of Chicago has suggested. Rather, my point is that it is important for us to explain what we actually mean when we use common, so- called politically correct phrases. We also must recognize that structural inequality does not dissipate as soon as we use the term AfricanAmerican instead of Negro.

The next time you’re on the verge of using the word “problematic,” think about why it is actually troubling. Think about what you can do to address the problem — instead of just hiding behind the word itself. After all, a rose by any other name does not make it smell any sweeter.

ISIS DAVIS-MARKS is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at isis.davis-marks@yale.edu .

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ISIS DAVIS- In a struggle to impress MARKS our peers, we embelThe dark lish our sentences with side words and phrases like “safe spaces,” “emotional labor,” “agency” and “problematic” until they’ve become devoid of any meaning.

Honestly, how many times have you heard the word “problematic” in the last year? Perhaps more times than you can count.

We are putting lipstick on a pig.

Merely switching out one term for another may make us feel relieved of guilt, although it does little to address why we must use such sanitized terms in the first place. In her New York Times article, “How ‘Political Correctness’ went from Punch Line to Panic,” Amanda Hess writes that it is often “coastal Ivy League whites” who employ pedantic language on social media to absolve themselves of their privilege and “[wield] it against poorer, less worldly and less educated white people.”

CHRISTOPHER LAPINIG is a 2007 graduate of Yale College and a 2013 graduate of Yale Law School.

He is a former editor for the Yale Daily News Magazine.

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oan Didion opened her 1979 essay “The White Album” with the famous assertion, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” She meant by this that we impose a narrative structure on disparate, incoherent events in order to make sense of our world.

We seek order in the phantasmagoria that makes up our daily lives.

The stories we tell ourselves impose rules by which we live. We construct an image of who we are supposed to be and live by that image. We are a certain type of person … until we aren’t.

Our self-spun narratives break down under the weight of reality. In “The White Album,” Didion recounts a series of nervous breakdowns she had from 1966 to 1971, when the stories she told herself — about what it meant to be a writer, what it meant to live in Los Angeles, what it meant to be American — became unsustainable.

Didion was a creature of the ’60s who embodied the contrarian attitude adopted by her generation. She told stories about California. She told stories about

rock ’n’ roll.

She told stories about the hippie movement.

The era imposed a rulebook and she played by it. However, DANIEL the ’60s TENREIRO- as p ro g re s s e d , BRASCHI she became increasingly Notes from disillusioned the culture underground by she inhabited.

The music of the time became uninteresting, free love became dangerous and politics became violent. In the wake of the Manson murders and race riots around the country, Didion could no longer tell the stories she had been telling.

She began to suffer from extreme anxiety and paranoia, and made several visits to psychiatric facilities. Realizing the assumptions on which she had built her life were arbitrary and meaningless, her mental health continued to deteriorate.

At Yale, we tell ourselves many

stories. Life at a college campus, whose foundation is the extracurriculars and social groups we are a part of, is particularly ripe for telling stories. We all have ideas about what it means to be at Yale.

We are either STEM kids, humanities kids, athletes, intellectuals, fraternity brothers or musicians.

The stories we tell ourselves shape the ways we go about life here.

However, eventually these stories fail to hold up. The ideas that shape the contours of our reality prove insufficient. We discover new interests or we make new friends or our political views change. We encounter new perspectives and different narratives.

We change.

I dwell on Didion’s life because last week, 1,373 bright freshmen moved into Old Campus and its environs. They are high-achievers who have a set of expectations to fulfill. They have heard stories about what it means to be at Yale that will determine what classes they take, what extracurricular groups they partake in and whom they decide to be friends with.

They will look for their “thing.”

They will try to fit the image they

have created for themselves.

To the class of 2020: If you cling to your stories, you will inevitably restrict yourselves. You will only be friends with those who fit into your stories. You will only engage intellectually with topics pertinent to your stories. You will only consider views that align with the stories you tell yourselves.

Question the narrative that you impose on yourself. College affords the unique opportunity to reconstruct the person you think you are. The social and intellectual landscape of this campus provides a plethora of identities with which to experiment, modify, keep or reject. By meeting different people and trying new classes and activities, you can avoid falling into a one-dimensional, dissatisfying and ultimately untenable niche.

Dare to reimagine your personal narrative. There is no better time to do it.

DANIEL TENREIRO-BRASCHI is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at daniel.tenreiro-braschi@yale.edu .

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“‘Retiring’ — within that word is ‘tiring,’ and I’m not tired. I don’t believe in retirement, really.” THEODORE BIKEL ACTOR

Malloy relents on watchdog cuts PIE CHART PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS

Yale sued over employee retirement plans

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BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER With a federal probe investigating the finances of his 2014 re-election bid, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration made an announcement early this month that sparked a political firestorm: the state will proceed with cutting $183,000 from three government watchdog agencies meant to combat corruption. Weeks later, on Aug. 19, following a barrage of criticism from both sides of the aisle, he reversed that decision.

Malloy backed down and restored the $183,000 in question to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, the Office of State Ethics and the Freedom of Information Commission, making the announcement after a meeting with the three agencies’ heads.

Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, R-North Haven, took the announcement as a victory, but vowed that the fight to protect clean government in Connecticut has not yet ended.

“To see that a complete turnaround from the governor’s office did not come until after I sought a formal opinion from the attorney general on the matter is very telling,” Fasano said in a statement.

The cuts first drew criticism when they were announced in early July.

These denunciations only multiplied in early August when Malloy’s administration doubled down on its position. At issue was not only the funding itself, but also whether Malloy and his appointees have the legal power to unilaterally rescind already budgeted funding from the watchdog committees.

The controversy began in July before the probe was launched but escalated in August when the directors of the three good-government agen-

cies sent a formal letter to Ben Barnes, Malloy’s budget chief, requesting an explanation for the withholding of funds. They argued that a 2004 law, intended to protect the independence of the watchdogs, bans the executive branch from making unilateral cuts in the agencies’ funding, citing legislative debates that occurred before the passage of the law.

Barnes responded in early August, and it was his written response which touched off bipartisan fury in Hartford. Speaking for Malloy, Barnes wrote that he disagreed with the agencies’ interpretation of the statute, noting that the agencies “were not unfairly or disproportionately targeted in assigning the holdbacks.” He asked the agency heads to “continue to recognize [their] shared responsibility to act in partnership rather than contest the application of the holdbacks.”

“Please let me know whether you are willing to do your part,” Barnes’ Aug. 2 letter ended. Then the tensions escalated.

Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, chair of the Appropriations Committee, was among the first and must virulent critics of Barnes’ stance, declaring it “totally inappropriate” and herself “vehemently” opposed.

Looking through American history, and to Malloy’s own predecessors in the governor’s chair, the need for a robust slate of watchdogs is self-evident, she said in a statement.

“From Watergate to Rowland-gate, we are all too familiar with the willful destruction of the public trust by those in power,” Walker said. “The watchdogs cannot face additional cuts outside of the budget process and do their job effectively.”

Fasano, a persistent critic of Malloy and the Connecticut Democrats, joined in the chorus, decrying the cuts as part of a pattern that has hurt

the confidence of citizens in their own government, noting that the cuts were made as Malloy faces a federal investigation into his re-election campaign’s finances.

In a statement released Aug. 4, the day Barnes’ letter was made public, Fasano argued that Malloy never had the power to cut the watchdogs’ funding unilaterally. Even if he did have the power, Fasano said, the watchdogs should remain untouched.

Later in the month, Fasano formally requested an opinion on the legality of the cuts from Attorney General George Jepsen, a Democrat. In an Aug. 16 letter to Jepsen, Fasano laid out his case for the illegality of Malloy’s action, asking that Jepsen present his own opinion on the matter.

Fasano and Walker were joined by a host of voices from around the state, all of them denouncing the cuts. The editorial board of the Norwich Bulletin noted that an upcoming ethics panel decision on Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade’s role in the controversial proposed merger of the insurance companies Anthem and Cigna means the administration cannot claim the ability to act “objectively.”

The Bulletin’s editorial urged Malloy to reverse the cuts, writing that “it is crucial that [the watchdogs] remain independent, and therefore insulated from the gubernatorial budget ax.”

The summer’s drama is not the first time that Malloy’s plans to cut funds from good-government agencies has landed him in hot water. In December, his proposal to gut the Citizens’ Election Program, which provides public funds for state elections, prompted outcry from the Democratic base and led to a rapid backtracking from the governor’s office.

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

Yale is being sued by six of its employees who claim the University charged them excessive fees on their retirement savings.

On Aug. 9, three groups of plaintiffs filed separate suits against three major universities: Yale, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University. The plaintiffs — all represented by well-known retirement plan lawyer Jerome Schlichter, based in Missouri — allege these universities offered employees needlessly expensive, poorly performing retirement plans with unduly high fees for administering the plans.

Yale, in response, has said it provides robust and competitive retirement packages for all employees.

“We believe these allegations are without merit and, working with our legal team, we will be responding to these allegations and intend to oppose this suit vigorously,” Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel wrote in an Aug. 11 email to all faculty and managerial and professional staff, which a Yale spokesperson provided to the News.

The three cases focus on retirement plans which differ from the more common 401(k) plans offered by many employers. Yale, along with other public schools, nonprofits and hospitals, offer what is called a 403(b) plan.

The six plaintiffs in the class-action suit against Yale work across the University and include web developers, facilities and maintenance workers and library staff.

They claim Yale’s retirement plan — which in June 2014 held $3.6 billion in assets and had over 16,000 participants — had a bloated administrative system which led to excessive fees for employees.

The suit, filed in the Federal District Court of Connecticut, alleged Yale paid multiple record-keepers, had investments which were too similar and performed poorly and used high-cost funds rather than low-cost ones. More cost-effective plans have been on the market since 2010, the suit contends. “[Yale’s] plan participants could have and should have been paying far less for the same investment since that time,”

the complaint said. Representatives from Schlichter’s law firm could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Representatives for Locals 34 and Local 35, Yale’s pinkand blue-collar unions, also did not return repeated requests for comment.

Peel, who is named in the complaint as the main overseer of Yale’s retirement plans, said Yale’s plan has never been criticized in this fashion before.

“Yale faculty and staff members have both pension benefits and retiree medical benefits that rank among the most generous in the nation, not only in higher education but in all industries,” he told the News. “Yale’s plans have long been praised for the unique level of financial security they provide to long-service faculty and staff, as well as for the range of investment options that participants get to choose from,” Peel said.

He added that Yale’s Retirement Plan Fiduciary Committee regularly reviews the performance and costs of Yale’s plan.

In April 2015, Yale streamlined its retirement services by switching to a single provider named TIAA, and also eliminated some higher-cost investments. By switching to a single record-keeper, Peel said, Yale reduced administrative costs.

Furthermore, Yale said it has retained good retirement benefits even as programs have become more costly across the market.

The fees on Yale’s 403(b) packages are less than 1 percent of the total package and have some of the lowest fees on the market, Peel added.

But the lawsuit claims Yale has not done enough and that fees for items like “administrative expense” and “mortality and expense risk” remained high.

The lawyer representing the plaintiffs in Yale’s case is a big name in the world of retirement-plan litigation. In the last year alone, Schlichter has represented workers in more than 20 lawsuits against employers.

NYU has also promised to challenge the case vigorously, and an MIT spokesperson told The New York Times that the university does not comment on pending litigation.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

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Yale’s clerical and technical unions rallied for superior benefits — the issues at stake in this lawsuit — during a rally in May.

Yale unions call for job security during frosh move-in

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

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UNITE HERE members tabled outside Old Campus to call for approval of a new contract with the University.

As Yale prepared for the arrival of 1,373 freshmen last Friday, it did not predict over 400 labor union members to contribute to the commotion on Old Campus.

Members of Local 34, Yale’s white- and pink-collar union representing technical and clerical workers, and Local 35, Yale’s blue-collar labor union representing dining, custodial and maintenance workers , gathered in front of Old Campus to pressure University leadership to include “job security language” in their ongoing contract negotiations. According to UNITE HERE member and event spokesman Aldo Cupo, such language includes onefor-one replacement when a worker is fired, no outsourcing of jobs to workers outside of the union and maintaining job positions through transition periods. UNITE HERE is the national labor union that funds Locals 34 and 35 as well as Local 33, the union formerly known as Yale’s Graduate Employees and Students Organization. The two current contracts, which were officially enacted in January 2013, are set to expire in January 2017.

“We are seeing layoffs because of [budgetary reasons], not because the work itself is gone,” Cupo said. “As Yale grows, we

should grow.”

In light of ongoing and slated expansions, such as two new colleges scheduled to open in 2017 and academic facilities, union members are questioning a lack of growth in Yale’s support staff.

As recently as January 2016, Local 34 members and leaders asked University President Peter Salovey and University Provost Benjamin Polak to rescind the layoffs of 10 staff members from Yale Information Technology Services.

Starting at 9 a.m. last Friday, union members donned shirts calling on passers-by to ask them about labor peace and tabled near the intersection of College and Elm streets where they handed out fliers to Yale’s newest arrivals and accompanying parents.

Featuring a large number “13” on one side, the navy blue flier highlighted the 13 continuous years of labor peace between Yale and its unions. The last instance of unrest was in 2003, when University workers went on strike multiple times and pushed the administration into contract negotiations with the two unions. The flyer also identified the unions’ current main point of conflict with the University: the shrinking work force despite Yale’s ongoing growth.

According to Cupo, UNITE HERE chose to gather during freshman move-in because they wanted to alert Yale’s new-

est parents and students of the ongoing interactions between Yale and its unions. Cupo said the unions wanted to highlight the potential impact of an insufficient workforce to the undergraduate community.

“I see Yale growing and the staff shrinking,” said Mary Thigpen, a UNITE HERE member who has worked at Yale’s health clinic for 25 years and who was also present at UNITE HERE’s Friday demonstration.

As a result, Thigpen said, it is “very important” to approve a fair contract. Currently, Local 34 President Laurie Kennington and Local 35 President Bob Proto are negotiating with the Yale administration over the new contracts, Thigpen said. She added that the unions members do not yet know when negotiations will be finalized.

Others expressed concern over the length of time passed in this year’s negotiations. UNITE HERE member and event spokeswoman Elia Vollano said that in the past, contracts have been settled over half a year in advance of the ones set to expire. Though negotiations have been ongoing since March, the absence of an agreement by late August means that negotiations are running later than usual.

“It just does not seem like the administration is taking [negotiations] as seriously,” Vollano said.

In a Friday statement to the News, University spokesman Tom Conroy said Yale “hopes to reach agreement” on new contracts before the current ones expire.

Friday’s manifestation was the latest in a series of clashes between UNITE HERE unions and the Yale administration.

Tension has grown steadily between Local 33 and the University over the past few semesters, as graduate students continue to call on the administration to recognize them as Yale’s employees.

Perhaps more contentiously, the New Haven Independent recently reported that the University threatened to hold back a $5.6 million annual donation to New Haven after “repeated fights with its UNITE HERE union Locals 34 and 35 and their employees who serve on the Board of Alders.” According to the Independent, the Board of Alders had delayed the approval of a University project to build a new biology laboratory on Whitney Avenue, which is now expected to be approved at the board’s next meeting on Sept. 6.

But despite conflicts, union members did not bring up the possibility of labor strikes on Friday.

“We are out here about job security,” Cupo said.

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

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LARA GIDDINGS FORMER PREMIER OF TASMANIA

Remembering Max Ritvo ’13 RITVO FROM PAGE 1 as I have ever encountered. And he made himself into an unforgettable poet, and irreplaceable friend.” Ariella Ritvo-Slifka, Ritvo’s mother, said Glück became the biggest influence on his work.

Ritvo’s poems often dealt with the topic he encountered the most — cancer — but his friend Shon Arieh-Lerer ’14 said Ritvo did not glorify the fight in writing or in life.

He lived knowing that he would die sooner than most his age, AriehLerer said, so his poetry explored the real human emotions that only death and suffering could evoke.

It was natural that he wrote about the experiences that accompanied cancer, but Ritvo had no choice in the matter. He did not want to be remembered as “the cancer boy,” Arieh-Lerer added.

“While Max wrote about his illness and talked about it, Max wasn’t about cancer — his ardent concerns, always, were poetry, friendship and love,” said English professor Cynthia Zarin, who taught Ritvo in 2010 in her advanced poetry class. Zarin called Ritvo a “hilarious and electrifying presence in class,” and the two continued to work on his poetry after he graduated from Yale.

Arieh-Lerer remembered that Ritvo never hesitated to find humor in his situation. With their close friends John Griswold ’14, Nathan Campbell ’14 and Andrew Kahn ’14, Ritvo and Arieh-Lerer founded the comedy troupe His Majesty, The Baby. It was previously known on campus as Outside Joke, and when Ritvo learned around Thanksgiving break of his senior year that his cancer had returned, the group performed a comedy show on the topic. In retrospect, Arieh-Lerer said the show might have disturbed some people in the audience — for example, when the performers reenacted a medical emergency — but he added that it was a therapeutic way for Ritvo to express himself.

Salovey rejects “false narratives” SALOVEY FROM PAGE 1

COURTESY OF VICTORIA RITVO

Max Ritvo ’13 is survived by his wife, Victoria Ritvo.

Those close to Ritvo agreed that his personality extended into his poetry. He was a promising young poet who had won the 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for his work, “Aeons.” Ritvo’s debut collection of poems, “Four Reincarnations,” will be published as a book by the end of this year.

“I am so grateful for Max’s writing because Max as a person comes bursting through in his words,” said Ritvo’s friend Rachel Nalebuff ’13. “And in this way, new people can continue to meet him, to be charmed by him, to be moved by his wisdom, and those of us who knew him can continue to get to know him, to think with him and to see the world through his mischievous and very kind blue eyes.”

Former Head of JE Penelope Laurans said Ritvo “never compromised in poetry or life.” He was admired and loved by his friends and by those who crossed paths with him. Those relationships, Laurans believed, were even more important to Ritvo than poetry.

Since his death, Ritvo has been remembered nationwide as an artist, a scholar and a poet, but those close to him said it was their friend that they missed the most. AriehLerer said Ritvo taught him what friendship meant, and he described their relationship as something that became “metaphysical.” Ava Kofman ’14 noted that Ritvo’s “inexhaustible sense of astonishment” for every part of the world made him extremely fun to be with.

Sarah Matthes ’13 said it is easy to remember Ritvo in terms of superlatives and elegies, but the Ritvo she missed the most was the fashion consultant, noodle expert, consummate editor, emotionalphone-call partner and friend.

Bonnie Antosh ’13, a close friend of Ritvo and his wife Victoria, also noted the special bond that the couple shared. The two kept inventing new languages to express how much they loved each other, Antosh said, adding that Ritvo loved his wife “beyond words.”

Ritvo’s wife, Victoria Ritvo, told the News that they met during a

philosophy summer camp at Cambridge University in England. Max Ritvo was 14 that year, and she was 15. She confessed that she had a crush on him since the very beginning. The two were best friends before they became lovers in the summer of 2013, when Ritvo moved to New York after his Yale graduation.

“Max is my best friend, and I’ve always been in love with him,” Victoria Ritvo said. “He just loved everyone in his life so much. He wanted to take care of people he loved. Even when he was the sickest he had ever been, he was still taking care of people.”

Ritvo grew up in a close-knit family, and he was a precocious child who learned to read at three and began to write at three-anda-half. He went everywhere with a book in his hand, his mother said.

“He was born with a smile on his face,” she said. “And he was the best son a mother could ask for.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

who graduated in 1804. Nor did they directly address the fierce campus protests and dialogue about institutional racism that dominated campus life last academic year.

Instead, Salovey used the opportunity to challenge freshmen to keep a fair perspective on polarizing issues.

“My sense is that we are bombarded daily by false narratives of various kinds, and that they are doing a great deal of damage,” Salovey said. “I am only hoping to persuade you that advocates on any side of a question can be tempted to exaggerate or distort or neglect crucial facts in ways that serve primarily to fuel your anger, fear or disgust.”

Holloway, in his address, which preceded Salovey’s, espoused the ideals of a “Yale citizen.” He similarly called on the freshman class to celebrate its diversity and to understand and tackle the complexity of Yale.

“Given that we are in the final months of a tendentious presidential campaign and given the local, national and global events that are testing us to our core, I feel it important to talk about your responsibilities as citizens of this community at the moment of your becoming,” Holloway said.

Because neither Holloway nor Salovey directly named ongoing campus

debates in their speeches, freshmen interviewed said they felt the addresses could be understood both generally and as relating to events at Yale. In a survey of the class of 2020 distributed by the News, 95 percent of the 942 respondents said they knew about racial controversies last year at Yale and 55 percent said they had actively followed media coverage.

“The false narratives was an interesting theme. In the context the speech was given, I felt like [Salovey] was addressing more the mechanics about how society works, but obviously it can be applied to Yale,” Nick Zhang ’20 said.

Michael Doppelt ’20 said Salovey’s speech was compelling and fitting for a first address to freshmen. He said that discerning fact from fiction and questioning inherited wisdom are of “paramount importance” in college.

Alfredo Calvo ’20 said he thought that the address was directly responding to campus events and said Salovey did a good job of bringing a sense of community and unity back in his speech.

“For me, the campus discussions made me want to come here,” Calvo said.

“I wanted to be part of the conversation and contribute in some way to this community.”

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

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Dhall to depart AACC, leaving legacy

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER In 2000, the Asian American Cultural Center was made up of furniture donated from graduating seniors — several couches had stains on them that were covered up with throw blankets — and the space was shared between Asian and Chicano students until La Casa Cultural was established that same year.

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Saveena Dhall became the director of the Asian American Cultural Center in 2000.

Now, 16 years after Saveena Dhall arrived at Yale to lead the AACC, the center has undergone a significant transformation, both physically and in terms of its influence on campus.

This fall, as Dhall transitions from her position as Yale College assistant dean and AACC director to become an associate dean at the School of Nursing, she leaves behind a legacy of growing and strengthening the AsianAmerican community on campus. Students interviewed spoke highly of Dhall’s leadership at the center, and many said they will miss her presence. Dhall told the News that sending her Aug. 18 farewell e-mail announcing her departure was one of the “hardest things” she has done in life.

“Dean Dhall has been the AACC community’s rock throughout the past 16 years,” said AACC’s Co-Head Coordinator Hannah Thai ’17. “During both happy and challenging times, Dean Dhall has always remained a patient, caring and inspirational mentor and leader.

As a result of Dean Dhall’s fierce advocacy for the AACC and Asian-American community, she has changed Yale, the AACC and

my life for the better.”

Reflecting on her time at the AACC, Dhall said she dedicated most of her energy to improving the center’s physical infrastructure and building a sense of community, both on campus and among Yale’s Asian-American alumni. In fact, she requested a budget from the administration to buy new furniture as one of her first actions upon becoming the center’s director in 2000. Since then, the center’s kitchen has been renovated, the building’s brick exterior has been cleaned and all of the windows have been replaced. Just last school year, the AACC went through an extensive interior renovation and opened the Gary Y. Okihiro Library, which Dhall hopes will become a lending library in the near future.

Progress over the years is reflected in hard numbers as well — in 2000, the AACC had around 800 undergraduates and 12 affiliated student groups; in 2016, those figures have grown to 1,600-plus Asian-American undergraduates and nearly 60 student groups, 12 of which are organized by graduate and professional school students. To

accommodate this growth, Dhall said her duties have also evolved to manage a much larger and more diverse community.

“A big part of my job is to help people realize how unbelievably diverse, multilayered and rich the Asian-American identity is,” she said. “It’s immensely difficult but rewarding work to be able to find threads that appeal to different people. [The AACC] is an affirming and brave space, and I want to see all sides of you: the artistic side of you, the ethnic side of you, the gender side of you.”

LiLi Johnson GRD ’19, a graduate assistant at the AACC, noted that Dhall inherited a legacy of advocating for Asian and Asian-American students on campus from influential alumni like Don Nakanishi ’71, who is considered among the founders of Asian American Studies. During student demonstrations surrounding racism and discrimination last fall, Johnson said Dhall gave the AACC community the necessary space and support to start difficult conversations about race and ethnicity. Dhall is also an advocate for Asian American Studies on cam-

pus — in 2015, the AACC hosted Yale’s first Asian American Studies Conference. Dhall said she was inspired to do so because she sensed a resurgence of interest in Asian American Studies among students.

During her time, Dhall also invited a series of speakers to the center, including Nakanishi and former United States Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, and organized annual holiday parties and other events to cement a sense of identity and belonging among Asian-Americans on campus.

“Dean Dhall is an incredible advocate and mentor in our community,” said Peter Hwang ’18, co-moderator of the Asian American Students Alliance.

“She would take the time to drop by various student-organized forums at the AACC, even during the hectic events of last fall when she would be running from meeting to meeting.”

Yale College Council President Peter Huang ’18 also said Dhall has been a mentor to him since he first stepped on campus for the Cultural Connections preorientation program.

Dhall’s reach extends beyond

Yale’s immediate campus as well. The first Asian-American reunion among Yale alumni took place on campus in 2014.

Planning for the reunion took two years, Dhall said, but she believed that these gatherings allowed current students to witness firsthand the ways they can continue to engage with the community after graduation.

“It’s the students,” Dhall said in response to a question about what motivated her throughout the years. “For me, the individual relationships with people who have allowed me into their lives have been the most profoundly impactful. It’s what matters the most. There’s no way I would’ve worked here [at the AACC] so long if it hadn’t been for the students.”

Dhall starts her position as Associate Dean at the School of Nursing on Sept. 15, stepping down from the AACC as well as her role as the director of the Mellon-Bouchet Fellowships Program. Even so, she will continue her duties at the AACC until fall break.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

SOM plans to cap MBA class size

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Over the past five years, the School of Management has expanded its MBA class size by almost 50 percent to meet growing demand from applicants.

But it will not keep expanding: administrators have decided to cap enrollment in the near future in an effort to preserve the school’s tight-knit community.

In its latest MBA admissions cycle for the incoming class of 2018, which ended this summer, the SOM received 3,649 applications — exactly 200 more than the record-breaking number last year. The school admitted 692 applicants, registering an admissions rate of 19 percent, one of the lowest in its history. The MBA program is now 150 percent larger than it was six years ago, having ballooned from 238 to 334 students.

As the number of applicants has continued to grow, the school’s board members have been faced with the question of whether to control the class size or keep expanding. Some alumni and students had cautioned against rapid expansion at the risk of a change in the school’s culture.

For those concerned about the growth, the school’s plan is

good news.

“We decided to approach 340 [full-time MBA students] in [the] next few years and keep it at that for the foreseeable future,” SOM Dean Edward Snyder told the News.

SOM Senior Associate Dean for the MBA Program Anjani Jain said the goal this year was to have a class of 325 MBA students, the same as the class of 2017. Though the school made 3 percent fewer admissions offers compared to last year, its yield improved and the current firstyear class includes 334 students.

“We are bucking the trend.

All the schools have not seen the same increase [in applicants] that we have,” SOM Assistant Dean of Admissions Bruce DelMonico said. “It is a testimony to all the positive things happening here.”

This year’s first-year class, in addition to being the school’s largest ever, is also one of its most diverse.

According to DelMonico, 43 percent of first-years are women, the highest ratio in almost two decades. 46 percent hold international passports and 13 percent belong to underrepresented ethnicities. Notably, more than a quarter of students have a STEM background, an unusual case at business schools, DelMonico said.

Jain said the growing popularity of the school is due to the fact that employers are increasingly recognizing the unique aspects of the Yale MBA program: its integrated core curriculum, its connection to its home university and the global exposure it offers.

Moreover, applicants are attracted to the school’s traditional areas of strength, Jain said, such asset management, financial stability, behavioral economics and social enterprise.

Anuradha Sowani SOM ’18, who is from India, said she chose the SOM because its mission statement emphasizing building leaders for both business and society resonated with her.

Its focus on global studies was also a bonus, Sowani said.

The school also recently changed its application essay question for the new admissions cycle, asking applicants to write about the biggest commitment they have ever made. Previously, it asked prospective students to reflect on an occasion when they positively influenced an organization.

DelMonico said the change in essay topic is unrelated to the school’s increased selectivity.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

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SURVEY: Diverse experiences in class of 2020 SURVEY FROM PAGE 1 bers responded, yielding a response rate of 69 percent.

The results were not adjusted for selection bias.

DEMOGRAPHICS

The class of 2020, 1,373-strong, is more diverse than its predecessors. Just over half the class is Caucasian, and 19 percent is Asian-American, according to admissions office data. 11 percent is AfricanAmerican, an increase from 10 percent in the class of 2019.

The percentage of Hispanic/ Latino students has stayed steady around 13 percent. In the News survey, 17 percent of respondents, identified with more than one ethnicity.

Slightly more than half the current freshman class attended a public school. Of the 48 percent who did not attend a public, noncharter school, almost two-thirds went to a nondenominational private school. Just under 10 percent of respondents attended parochial school.

The News survey indicated a correlation between type of high school and students’ preparedness for Yale: About 38 percent of students who attended a public, noncharter high school felt academically prepared for Yale, while 53 percent of students who studied at a private, nonparochial school felt the same.

Just under one-third of the class come from families whose annual income is $250,000 or greater, putting

them in the top 5 percent of the national income distribution.

For nearly 60 percent of students, Yale contains a little bit of home. Though onefifth of the class said that nobody from their high school had attended Yale, 58 percent said someone from their high school was currently at Yale.

The remaining 22 percent said that somebody from their high school had matriculated at least three years ago.

There are advantages to being international and a little bit older.

ROB BRINKMANN ’20 Another fifth has some type of family connection to the University, as 20 percent indicated that a family member — parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or another relative — received an undergraduate degree from Yale.

These legacy students had slightly different expectations than nonlegacy students. As opposed to the 42 percent of nonlegacy students who said they felt academically prepared for Yale, 51 percent of legacies said they felt prepared. Legacies’ and nonlegacies’ expected majors also differed: one-third of legacies indicated they wanted to pursue a major in a STEM field, as opposed to 46 percent of nonlegacies, and 19 percent of leg-

acies said they wanted to major in the humanities compared to 11 percent of nonlegacies.

Fifty-one students admitted to the class of 2019 took a gap year before arriving on campus and an additional 38 students admitted to the class of 2020 deferred their enrollment to join the class of 2021, according to the admissions office.

Of the survey respondents who indicated they had taken a gap year, 47 percent were international students.

“There are advantages to being international and a little bit older,” Rob Brinkmann ’20 said. Brinkmann, who hails from South Africa, had begun studying at the University of Capetown when he decided to take a gap year, tutoring and interning before arriving at Yale in what he calls an “interesting journey.”

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The class of 2020 also arrived with a broad crosssection of experiences with drugs, alcohol and sex.

As freshmen have reported in previous News surveys, the most commonly used substances were alcohol and marijuana. Almost 16 percent of the incoming class arrived with a fake I.D. and 6 percent of the class said they drink alcohol at least once a week. 2 percent said they smoke marijuana multiple times a week.

Still, drugs and alcohol do not appear to be the class of 2020’s favorite pastime.

While 45 percent of respon-

dents said they drank alcohol at least once a month, 34 percent of the class self-identified as teetotalers. Of the third of the class that said they did not drink alcohol, 52 percent said they did not intend to begin drinking in college.

An additional 34 percent said they were unsure, and just 13 percent said they planned to drink.

“I don’t plan on drinking — alcohol doesn’t really appeal to me,” Marie Gaye ’20 said. “It’s still possible to have a good time without drinking.”

A much larger percentage of incoming freshmen — 71 percent — said they have never tried marijuana, and threequarters of those students said they do not plan on trying it.

An additional 20 percent said they were unsure, and only 5 percent said they wanted to try marijuana.

Only 14 students said they have tried ecstasy, molly or another MDMA-based drug, and 37 said they have taken study drugs such as Ritalin or Adderall.

A greater percentage of students raised in an urban community said they had tried alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and study drugs than the percentage of suburban and rural students who had experimented with the same.

The 60 percent of respondents who said they have never had sexual intercourse is lower than years past, as approximately two-thirds of the classes of 2018 and 2019 identified as virgins according to

News surveys.

Over a quarter of respondents said that, at the time of the survey, they were in a relationship. About a third of those respondents did not anticipate staying together in college — and more of their peers might join them by December, after the inevitable Thanksgiving turkey dump.

Almost 5 percent identified as bisexual or pansexual and 6 percent reported being gay or lesbian. An additional 4 percent said they are questioning their sexuality.

The current 11 percent of students who identify as either bisexual or homosexual is similar to numbers of years past, as the past two News freshman surveys revealed that 12 and 10 percent of the classes of 2019 and 2018, respectively, identified as bisexual or homosexual.

About one in five incoming freshmen said they have sought out mental health counseling in the past. This figure is consistent with Yale Mental Health and Counseling’s estimate that 20 percent of the student body accesses services during their time at Yale.

Of this fifth, the greatest percentage came from the pool of students in the top two income brackets from families with combined incomes greater than $250,000 per year.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Lugo arrested at Atticus rally ARREST FROM PAGE 1 gration and Customs Enforcement, was in response to a recent wave of deportations. Lugo said he missed the court date because his mother in Colombia was unwell and he had to visit her. He added that he went to the clerk’s office in Hartford upon his return to explain his absence and was told he must turn himself in, which he plans to do.

“I don’t have charges for assaulting another person or dealing drugs.

The only reason I have this charge is because I have been fighting for the rights of the workers,” Lugo said.

The Hartford community clerk’s office confirmed the details of the warrant but could not confirm if Lugo visited the office to explain himself because of the high volume of visitors the office has each day.

NHPD spokesman David Hartman declined to comment on the incident.

Lugo was handcuffed and forced to the ground by officers. New Haven resident and active ULA member Edger Sandoval said the sight of the arrest was aggressive and upsetting for the many children who were on the scene.

“It’s traumatic to see how the police acted. I understand that if it’s a dangerous criminal maybe they have to take certain actions, but we were peacefully protesting,” Sandoval said. “These children are going to see the police as aggressors; no one asked us how they were affected.”

Following Saturday’s arrest, NHPD officers threatened to confiscate the phones and cameras of bystanders who recorded Lugo being taken into police custody. The officers said those devices would be used as evidence of Lugo resisting arrest.

Sandoval said he often feels like the police take the side of business owners during wage theft disputes.

Sandoval, who said he has twice been a victim of wage theft, testified before the Connecticut Legislation last year in favor of a double damage law which would allow victims of wage theft to claim twice what they are owed. He said ULA has been working with Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ‘73 to ensure the state and nation enforce labor and wage laws.

Megan Fountain ’07, who has volunteered with ULA since graduating Yale College, said she wants to see the police enforce labor laws more stringently.

“We have laws and yet every year, employers are stealing millions of dollars from workers,” she said. “We don’t necessarily need new laws, we need the state to enforce the law. The police could arrest owners for larceny.”

Lugo attended court on Monday and Tuesday. His next court hearing is on Sept. 17.

Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

Grad students in 10 depts file for union election UNION FROM PAGE 1 also hoping that in filing departments separately, there will be no questions about legal games and we really hope that the University will respect the democracy of the departments.”

When a group of employees files for an election with the NLRB, the board decides whether that group of employees is eligible for an election and then sets the terms of that election. The departments that filed for elections are Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Geology and Geophysics, History, History of Art, Mathematics, Physics, Political Science and Sociology. All graduate students in each of these of departments would be eligible to vote for their department’s union membership.

Graduate students in these 10 departments filed for membership in a single union — Local 33 UNITE HERE — but would have to do so through 10 separate elections in their various departments. The approach takes advantage of a 2015 NLRB ruling that allows unions to assemble in “microunits” through separate elections.

Despite Local 33’s swift action and unorthodox tactics, much remains uncertain and the orga-

nization’s leaders said they do not yet have answers to essential questions such as the criteria for participation in the election and whether the elections would extend to all professional schools as well. Greenberg said those details will be determined by the NLRB. University spokesman Tom Conroy said that the University’s opposition to graduate student unionization has not changed since the ruling. He would not comment on what Yale’s response to an election would be.

“Everyone’s view should be heard on the important question of graduate student unionization,” Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said. “However, the strategy of dividing up graduate students into multiple ‘microunits’ is not an inclusive approach. These GESO/Local 33 petitions from ten departments add up to fewer than 300 graduate students — a mere 10-11 percent of those enrolled at the Graduate School. Attempting to exclude so many in the graduate community raises questions about whether the union has the best interests of all graduate students in mind.”

University President Peter Salovey said in an Aug. 23 email to the Yale community that he

disagrees with the NLRB’s decision, noting that it was the third time in 16 years that the board had changed its position.

This week’s efforts are not the first time Yale graduate students have attempted to form a union.

In 2003, an unofficial, unbinding vote by the graduate student body — one not approved by either Yale or the NLRB but monitored by a nonpartisan political organization, the League of Women Voters — lost majority support by 43 votes. Furthermore, Local 33’s recent organizing has been tainted by accusations from graduate students who accused the group of using strong-arm tactics including harassment and coercion. In January, female graduate students, LGBTQ graduate students and graduate students of color wrote an open letter to the organization’s leadership to express concerns about the group’s aggressive union-organizing practices.

The rules surrounding the union elections will be set by the NLRB. Local 33 has long pushed for a “neutral election,” one without interference from University administrators. The NLRB will also determine whether Yale faculty may participate in debate with students, and whether this constitutes intimidation.

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Graduate students have long advocated for a union.

Hari Ramesh GRD ’19, a student in political science, said a union would allow him to fight for more undergraduate courses about race and gender, subjects he feels passionate about. Ramesh said the “formal authority of a union” would give political science graduate students a “strong voice” when

talking to Yale about resource allocation for specific fields.

Emily Sessions GRD ’19, a student in history of art, called the teaching fellow assignment process in her department “opaque and uneven,” explaining that she was assigned to teach two sections of an introductory course when

she expected to teach only one.

Sessions said a union could potentially address such issues.

The NLRB was founded in 1935.

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

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NEWS

“The decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we’re talking about the brutality against black people from the police.” D’ANGELO AMERICAN R&B AND NEO-SOUL SINGER

Goldman ends on-campus interviewing

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Goldman Sachs, which has traditionally sent scores of recruiters to campus each year to interview students for summer analyst positions, will no longer conduct on-campus interviews at Yale or at other colleges, in an attempt to draw talent from beyond just elite universities.

Starting this fall, the bank is transitioning to a videobased interview platform that increases access for students from all colleges but hastens the application process to almost a year before the job’s start date.

The move, announced in June, marks a shift in how students move from college to the finance sector, an industry that recruits heavily on elite campuses like Yale’s. For the past two years, Goldman has been among the top eight employers of Yale students after graduation. But Goldman officials said the change would not weaken the firm’s relationship with Yale.

“Goldman Sachs continues to have a strong relationship with

Yale,” Leslie Shribman, vice president for media relations at Goldman, said. “Given our expanded on-campus presence and relationships built at Yale, we would not envision our new interviewing platform to have a material impact on the number of hires we make.”

Shribman said the new interviewing policy allows the firm to broaden its search for candidates while increasing efficiency for both Goldman and prospective hires. Apart from interviews, Goldman will still actively recruit on campus this fall, with 11 different events scheduled for later this semester.

Jeanine Dames, the director of the Office of Career Strategy, said video interviewing could actually result in a greater number of students taking jobs at Goldman, since the online system allows the company to recruit for other internal departments, like compliance or human relations, that did not have on-campus interviews.

The new system also changes the timeline for finance recruiting, giving students the oppor-

tunity to submit applications as early as July 1.

Goldman’s announcement is part of a larger trend of investment banks beginning their recruitment processes earlier and earlier, Dames said, which limits students’ opportunities to explore other career options.

To push back on earlier deadlines for summer internship applications, OCS instituted a new policy that asks companies to allow students to respond as late as April 1 if they are also considering jobs in public service. Goldman has been known in the past to extend offers as early as September, according to Chadd Cosse ’17, who has worked at the firm for the past two summers.

As of August, 79 percent of employers posting jobs with OCS said they would grant the extension if a student requested one, Dames said. Goldman is among those firms that have agreed to honor the exemption.

To compete with investment banks giving job offers increasingly sooner, OCS has also pushed its networking events for

other industries to dates earlier in the academic year.

“We want students to make smart decisions,” Dames said.

“If you know you want to explore these other industries, I think it’s really important that you be able to do that.”

But Cosse, a campus ambassador for Goldman, said the earlier timeline for the application process would reduce stress for people who were set on working in finance during the summer.

The video interview requirement will also ensure that students applying are serious about eventually working at Goldman, Cosse said.

“At Yale, it’s a given that you can get a first-round interview pretty much if you have a resume to submit,” he said. “Yale is in a fortunate situation in that it’s a target school and we have a lot of alumni that come recruit.”

No other investment banks that recruit at Yale have yet decided to abolish on-campus interviewing, Dames said.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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Goldman Sachs will no longer conduct on-campus interviews at Yale or elsewhere for summer analyst positions.

Study shows CT cops Taser minorities disproportionately

BY JAMES POST STAFF REPORTER Connecticut police officers disproportionately use their Tasers — electronic defense weapons — against minorities, according to a landmark report released this summer by researchers from

the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at Central Connecticut State University.

The report, the first of its kind in the country, was mandated by a bill passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in 2014, less than a month after 22-yearold José Maldonado died from an

and traffic stops in Connecticut involved the use of Tasers.

Among these incidents involving Tasers, police officers were significantly more likely to fire their Tasers against racial minorities. Officers fired their Tasers 60 percent of the time in conflicts involving white people, 69

East Hartford police Taser stun.

The bill requires police departments to carefully document incidents of Taser use and report the details of those incidents to Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management. The data for 2015 showed that less than 1 percent of the 700,000 arrests

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“Public safety, not subconscious or conscious biases, should determine whether and when police draw their Tasers,” said David McGuire, legislative and policy director and interim executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut as well as an advocate of the bill that led to the report. “Now, it’s time to ask some tough questions about why police are disproportionately pointing Tasers at minorities and people in crisis, and how our state can prevent more tragedies and misuse.”

The report also found that many of those involved in Taser incidents with Connecticut police officers had problems with their mental health. According to the report, 33 percent of those involved were “emotionally disturbed,” and 13 percent were suicidal. Nearly half of those involved were under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or appeared to be.

Police officers primarily use Tasers as tools to constrain noncompliant or disruptive individuals without severely injuring them. Yale Police Department officers just began carrying Tasers this year. “[A Taser] provides alternative means of dealing with a certain degree of various resistance

or aggressive behaviors,” YPD Lieutenant Von Narcisse said.

Although deaths from Taser stuns are rare, there have been several recorded instances. In Connecticut alone, at least 17 people have died from Taser stuns since 2005, according to data released by the ACLU. The high level of incidents of Taser use by police against minorities is likely related to factors other than race, such as poverty and mental health, said Eugene O’Donnell, a lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at The City University of New York. According to O’Donnell, the report’s observation that Connecticut Taser use disproportionately affects racial minorities was “not surprising.”

“Poverty is not distributed equally,” O’Donnell said. “Mental health is not distributed equally. The idea of perfect symmetry — that would be shocking to me.”

Taser use by Connecticut police officers occurs primarily in urban areas where there exists both a large minority population and a large amount of crime, such as Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven.

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Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“I loved [Yale]. It’s cool for me to see what university life is like and it kind of shows me the life I never got to live.”

EUGENIE BOUCHARD CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER

Practice prohibited after road trips, season IVY LEAGUE FROM PAGE 12 ings, and our coaches were not surprised some type of timedemand legislation passed,” Bray said in an email to the News.

“Student-athlete time demands have been a centerpiece of a national discussion on collegiate athletics for years.”

In a June press release, Harris highlighted that the Ivy League already has time demand limits that are more “protective” of student-athletes than the general NCAA rules. These Ivy League measures help to balance the academic and athletic lives of student-athletes in the conference, Harris said.

“Being a student-athlete at Yale is challenging because it makes for a very difficult schedule that can be tough to balance,” women’s tennis player Elizabeth Zordani ’18 said. “The time demand of our sport is tough and comes with some setbacks, but that’s what we signed on for.”

Zordani said she did not expect the new rules to significantly impact her team or her schedule, as the women’s tennis team already typically gets one day off after returning from a match as well as two weeks off at the end of their season. Women’s squash player Celine Yeap ’19 agreed, and said her team had already been following these guidelines before it became an official rule.

Speaking for the department as a whole, Bray said some teams may need to make some adjustments to their schedules, but that nothing specific has come up so far this season.

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Similar measures were proposed at the last NCAA convention, but they were deferred to the upcoming convention next January.

The new rule requiring a twoweek recovery period is nearly identical to one proposed at the last NCAA Convention in January 2016; there, three proposals

on time-demand limits failed to pass, and were instead deferred to the upcoming convention in January 2017.

The second NCAA proposal

McNamara discusses return to Yale

would prohibit all athletic activity for an eight-hour overnight period, and the third would require a full day off during the week to address the “impact of

travel time,” somewhat similar to the Ivy League’s new 10-hour post-travel restriction.

The NCAA restricts in-season practice hours to 20 per week, or

four hours on any given day for all student-athletes.

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

World’s best compete in New Haven

WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 not the right fit [for me] with the amount of international travel, and me having young kids. I was missing coaching and wanting to get back into it with the right fit. that you recruited the QGiven current junior and senior

classes at Yale and coached the senior class when they were freshmen, what is it like to be back with them?

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I haven’t spent nearly enough time with them yet since it’s still early in the year, but I’m thankful to have the opportunity to work with them again, get back on the court with those I recruited and even those that I didn’t — just getting to build on those relationships and build new relationships with others.

the final Intercollegiate QInTennis Association rank-

ings last spring, the Ivy League was the only conference in the nation to have all of its teams ranked. How will you adjust your approach to coaching in the Ivy League with the overall improvement of the league’s level of competition in the past few years?

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I don’t know that it will change my approach, but I think [the increase in level of play] is great. One of the things we need is a strong conference so that our matches in April can be more valuable wins. It’ll help more teams get into the tournament and helpful in terms of exposure. It was pretty competitive a few years ago, so we’ll approach it the same way that we did and rise to the challenge.

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Eleven of the top 30 women’s tennis players in the world competed last week at the Connecticut Open.

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McNamara will look to guide the turnaround of a Yale program that went 2–5 in the Ivy League last season.

will you and the team How will you take advantage I don’t spend very much QHow approach this season from Qof the months of training that Atime thinking about perfora mental standpoint, given last year’s 8–13 overall record and the effects of the recent coaching carousel?

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I had a chance this summer to talk with all the players on the phone and receive lots of feedback from them … One of the biggest things we’ll focus on is developing a team culture and team chemistry, understanding what it means to be a part of the women’s tennis team. What do we stand for, what are we all about, on the court and off the court — so much more than just hitting forehands and backhands. That’s critical to the success of a program, and it starts now. I think that will make a really big difference. It will be really fun.

lead up to the Ivy League schedule?

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It’s kind of an art. You have to have a good finger on the pulse of the team and know what needs to be worked on. The fall will be relatively new and will be a lot of assessing and coming up with developmental plans, which I’ll develop throughout the year with constant evaluation and work and tracking progress. We want to be playing our best at the end of the season … we’re taking the early part of the season to get match tough and mentally tough, emotionally tough. We’ll have a process approach to everything.

any goals for the QFinally, coming season or the years ahead?

mance or outcome goals. What I’m most focused on in the short term is getting to know players and forming relationships. If at the end of the year we can look back and say everyone grew and improved as a tennis player and individual, we can be the best version of each of us — that is a huge step forward. Ask any player, what does Yale Women’s Tennis stand for, and you can tell that we share a common vision, common values, and all bought into that together. That would be huge for us. We’d know that the foundation has been laid, and in terms of results, I’m confident we can return to Ivy League championship caliber.

Contact MATTHEW STOCK at matthew.stock@yale.edu .

CT OPEN FROM PAGE 12 able, I felt like she could have been in college with me.”

Outside the stadium, booths lined the pathways, peddling everything from United States Tennis Association memberships to life insurance to ice cream. Yale students, New Haven locals and tennis fans from around the Northeast reveled in the lighthearted atmosphere that surrounded the week of action.

Zordani added that the organizers did an excellent job at amplifying the fan experience, with such promotions as Kid’s Day and a Women’s Day. Beyond meeting some of the competitors, just last year one Bulldog tennis player even played in the tournament. Carol Finke ’18 battled American Louisa Chirico in the first set of qualifiers of

the 2015 tournament, before falling to the current No. 76-ranked player.

“It’s an incredibly special feeling of pride to play at Yale where you represent not only yourself, but [also your] family, coaches and school,” Finke said. “I was up 30–0 on the scoreboard, and I motioned to my dad and friends watching to take a picture because it was the only time I would ever be up against a professional player.”

In addition to the tournament itself, the CullmanHeyman Tennis Center also played host to an exhibition tournament featuring male legends of the game. On Thursday night, seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe fell 6–4 to former great and Westport, Connecticut resident James Blake.

On Friday, former U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick was ousted 6–4 to Aus-

tralian Mark Philippoussis — Philippoussis went on to defeat Blake 6–2 in the exhibition final.

According to McEnroe, the retirees still treated these single-set matches seriously.

“I think [with] any athlete that you speak to, I don’t think the competitive juices ever leave,” McEnroe said during a pre-match press conference. “The cliché ‘one match at a time’ is more irrelevant when you get to be my age. I’m about at the end of my [career] so this could be the final walk off the plank.”

The Connecticut Open was broadcast on ESPN2 and is the final of eight summer tournaments, known collectively as the Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series, linking to the U.S. Open, currently taking place in Flushing, New York.

Contact HARRY BROWNE at harry.browne@yale.edu .

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CULTURE

“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.”

PETER JACKSON NEW ZEALANSD FILMMAKER AND SCREENWRITER

Photography exhibit puts lens to Lenz

BY NATALIE SHENG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new exhibition in Silliman College’s Maya’s Room gallery highlights photographer Richard Lenz’s images of the urban landscape.

Lenz’s eponymous show, “Richard Lenz: Photographs,” opened in the gallery space on Aug. 27 with an evening reception.

Bringing together a handful of black-and-white photographs by the Baltimore native, the exhibit was curated by last semester’s Maya’s Room coordinators, said Catherine Bui ’19 and Leigh Vila ’17, two of the students currently responsible for the gallery space.

Alluding to the influence of cities on the artist, who studied Fine Arts at Columbia University and

currently resides in New York City, the show’s pictures feature snippets of architecture, automobiles, train tracks and foliage — the same types of images that appear in Lenz’s first b o o k , “ P h o tog ra p h s,” forthcoming from independent publisher Turtledove Press. Nora May ’17, a student visitor, noted that the photographs’ simple color palette forces the viewer to consider these details. May added that she thought the “drama” of the installation and the presence of the pictures within the gallery space heightened her experience of the artist’s work.

Colleen Kenney ’17, a Silliman College resident who also visited the show, said she appreciated how the exhibition managed to demonstrate the potential

for collaboration between students and professional artists — a quality, Kenney explained, that she believes remains very much unique to Maya’s Room.

“While students can hang their own artwork in the space, Maya’s Room also provides the unique opportunity for students to curate exhibitions with professional artists,” Kenney said. “Maya’s Room is one of the only art galleries on campus run by undergraduates, and it makes photography and art more accessible to the student body because we can walk in whenever we want to see incredible artwork.”

“Richard Lenz: Photographs” will remain on view through Sept. 10.

Contact NATALIE SHENG at natalie.sheng@yale.edu .

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A new exhibition in Maya’s Room highlights the work of New York-based photographer Richard Lenz.

YCBA debuts film on conservation project

BY VEENA MCCOOLE STAFF REPORTER Commemorating the completion of a forward-looking conservation project and plan, a new short film — “Conserving the Yale Center for British Art” — reflects back on the center’s history.

The documentary, which examines the Building Conservation Project in the context of the center’s history, premiered Tuesday in the YCBA’s newly restored lecture hall. Alongside interviews with key project leaders, the 12-minute-long documentary also features original music composed by Martin Bresnick, a professor at the School of Music.

“The new installation presents the center’s outstanding collection in a way that accentuates its beauty and inter-

est, while providing a clear and compelling narrative of British art within a global context,” said Scott Wilcox, the YCBA’s deputy director of collections, who supervised the team of curators responsible for the reinstallation of works in the collection following the conservation project.

Wilcox added that the restoration of the center represents the return of one of New Haven’s “greatest architectural treasures.”

In the film, YCBA Deputy Director Constance Clement distinguished between the center’s 2013 refurbishment — which focused chiefly on two curatorial departments — and the recently completed project, with its emphasis on addressing the building’s infrastructure issues. Clement highlighted the creation of

a conservation plan, which sets forth guidelines for conservators to ensure future renovations remain faithful to Kahn’s vision for the building.

According to Clement, the short film is designed to educate visitors on the historical context of the center’s Kahndesigned building — and Yale’s efforts to conserve it.

“We felt it was important to describe the history of the center and the way in which the curators approached the reinstallation of our outstanding collection of British art,” she added.

The documentary also highlights further additions to the center made during the Conservation Project, such as a painting conservation studio. Though the studio was not included in the initial plan, the film explained, YCBA admin-

istrators took advantage of the opportunity to expand the center’s conservation facilities.

George Knight ARC ’95, whose architecture firm served all phases of the conservation project over the course of eight years, also made an appearance in the film, in which he discussed several challenges of the center’s restoration, such as the need to expand sprinkler, security and plumbing systems without degrading the original architecture.

“Beyond the academic and cultural value of the collection, the center serves a respite for the study-weary, a place of visual pleasure and an inspiration for all who visit,” Knight said.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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A short film seeking to situate the YCBA’s Building Conservation Project in historical context premiered yesterday at the center.

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ontinuing the New Haven Jazz Festival, which opened on Saturday, “Jazz Week” will bring musicians to Elm City restaurants, bars and performance venues through Sept. 3. On Tuesday evening, The Red Planet — a Connecticutbased ensemble formed six years ago — performed at The Owl Shop on College Street. With a set that included guitar, bass, drums and vocals, the quartet paid tribute to the week’s festivities and New Haven’s rich landscape of live jazz.

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TODAY’S FORECAST Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning.

TOMORROW High of 82, low of 65.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 12:30 PM Making and Meaning: A Conversation about the Art of Weaving and the Social World. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles,” Andrew Hamilton, lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, re-enacts how objects in the exhibition were made and discusses what this reveals about the ancient societies who created them.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 2:00 PM Guided Tour of the Cushing Center. Named for Dr. Harvey Cushing, class of 1891, regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery, the center includes more than 400 specimen jars of patients’ brains and tumors, Cushing’s surgical illustrations, personal diaries, black and white patient photographs, memorabilia, as well as historical anatomical and medical materials. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library.

5:00 PM First Thursdays at the Peabody. The Peabody is keeping its doors open until 8 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month. The museum has three Pokemon Go Pokestops and a gym. The 5:30 p.m. battle at the Torosaurus Gym will be followed by a special 30-minute tour with The Professor, where you will see some of the creatures that may have inspired your favorite Pokemon! Free Admission. Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

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AERIAL CHAVARIN ’20 OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT Most incoming freshmen dream of contributing at one point during their inaugural season. For Chavarin, that meant scoring the game-winner with 1:55 left in the Bulldogs’ season opener against Bryant on Friday, en route to earning Ivy Rookie of the Week honors.

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“[Training] is kind of an art. You have to have a good finger on the pulse of the team and know what needs to be worked on.”

DANIELLE MCNAMARA HEAD COACH, WOMEN’S TENNIS

YALE WOMEN’S SOCCER WILL WINNING WAYS CONTINUE? Following Chavarin’s game-winner on Friday, Yale carried that momentum into a 4–0 victory on Sunday versus Sacred Heart. The Bulldogs host Stony Brook at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in search of just their second 3–0 start in the past seven seasons.

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Back to her old stomping grounds WOMEN’S TENNIS

BY MATTHEW STOCK STAFF REPORTER

Ivy League adds new practice restrictions

The Yale women’s tennis team begins its 2016–17 season with its third head coach in as many years. But this year’s head coach, Danielle McNamara, is no stranger to the Yale athletic department. McNamara coached the Bulldogs for eight seasons, posting a 56–10 overall record and winning three Ivy League championships, before leaving in 2014 to take a head coaching position at the University of Texas for one season. McNamara, now back in New Haven for her ninth season at Yale after a year off from coaching, spoke with the News about her decision to return to Yale and plans for the season ahead. went into your decisionQWhat making process that led you back to the Yale head coaching job?

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College coaching is a real passion of mine — I love working with young women and having a positive impact on them as people and players. I realized during my time away from Yale it wasn’t just coaching I missed, it was the players and the people here. I couldn’t believe there might possibly be the opportunity for me to return here.

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The changes will not alter the activities of most Yale teams, as practices just after road trips or after the end of a season are rare.

did your experiences at Texas QHow change or enhance your coach-

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

ing strategies, and how will you apply that experience to coaching again at Yale?

New regulations passed by the Ivy League over the summer and set to go into effect this season will add new limits to the time demanded from studentathletes by their sports.

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Texas is different in a lot of ways, the school itself and the athletic director are very different. It was an interesting experience, and I learned a lot there about why I loved coaching: relationships with young women and the ability to help them grow.

Because of what that program needed at that point to take the jump to where it was possible to get to, it was SEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE 8

IVY LEAGUE

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Danielle McNamara last coached the Yale women’s tennis team in 2014.

One new rule will require a 10-hour window without any athletic activity after athletes return from road trips, while the other institutes a two-week recovery period for athletes at the end of their seasons. Athletic directors from

all eight Ivy League schools approved the two proposals at their May athletic directors’ meeting, and Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris announced the decision in early June.

Yale student-athletes interviewed and Director of Compliance Christian Bray said the new rules will not require any significant change in the activities of Yale teams, but all highlighted the importance of balancing a student-athlete’s athletic and academic time commitments.

“For these particular pieces of legislation, the conversation was happening prior to the May athletic director’s meetSEE IVY LEAGUE PAGE 8

Connecticut Open serves up excitement

BY HARRY BROWNE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On a breezy summer day, topseeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland captured the individual title Saturday at the 2016 Connecticut Open, hosted at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale.

PRO TENNIS Currently ranked fourth in the world, Radwanska outlasted Ukraine’s 19th-ranked Elina Svitolina in a tense final, winning 6–1, 7–6 (7–3). The tournament, now in its 19th year in the Elm City, plays an important role both for the New Haven community and for players looking to sharpen their play ahead of one of the biggest weeks in their professional season. Radwanska, speaking to a Women’s Tennis Association reporter after her match, emphasized the importance of the New Haven tournament in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. Open that begins this week. “[This] kind of title helps a lot,” Radwanska said. “I hope I can keep it up and play the same tennis in New York. That was great preparation.”

In the doubles tournament final, world number one Sania Mirza of India and her partner, No. 15 Romanian Monica Niculescu, dispatched Ukraine’s

Kateryna Bondarenko and Taipei’s Chuang Chia-jung in two sets, 7–5, 6–4.

The Connecticut Open has been held in New Haven since 1998. Throughout its nearly twodecadelong history, the tournament has brought the Yale and New Haven communities a taste of the grandeur of professional tennis, drawing in legends like Caroline Wozniacki and Venus Williams in recent years. The tournament also featured a men’s competition between 2005 and 2010, featuring stars like Croatian Marin Cilic and American Mardy Fish.

“I think it’s such a good opportunity to see high-level tennis up close,” said Yale women’s tennis player Elizabeth Zordani ’18, who was watching her sisters compete at Cullman-Heyman in a U.S. Open qualifier. “We got to interact with the players; we see them all around campus.”

One of the players Zordani met was Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who toured the Yale campus with Caroline Lynch ’17 in a video posted on the University’s website.

Bouchard, once ranked as high as fifth in the world, reached the finals at Wimbledon in 2014. “[Bouchard’s] 22, so she’s around my age,” Zordani said.

“She was so sweet and approachSEE CT OPEN PAGE 8

COURTESY OF YALE NEWS

University President Peter Salovey and New Haven Mayor Toni Harp were present for the opening ceremony of the Connecticut Open.

STAT OF THE DAY 3

THE NUMBER OF HEAD COACH CHANGES THAT THE YALE WOMEN’S TENNIS TEAM HAS SEEN OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS. When Danielle McNamara left the Yale program in 2014, Taka Bertrand and Matej Zlatkovic each spent a year as head coach before McNamara unexpectedly returned to New Haven for the upcoming season.