Today's Paper

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 2 · yaledailynews.com

INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

SUNNY CLEAR

86 67

CROSS CAMPUS

FRINGE-WORTHY “UNDER” STAGED AT FESTIVAL

RENAME CALHOUN

DROP “MASTER”

This was a man out of step with every value we now hold dear.

AND FIND A BETTER WORD FOR RES. COLLEGE HEADS

PAGE 13 CULTURE

PAGE 2 NEWS’ VIEW

PAGE 2 NEWS’ VIEW

Freshmen weigh in on Calhoun debate

First class. Pencils out, boys and girls. School’s in session.

Keep calm and shop on. As if things weren’t difficult enough with the early morning alarms and rusty study habits, the shopping process itself cultivates a unique breed of stress that has, in the past, made some students go to extreme lengths to get into selective seminars. Don’t become the subject of an XC item in Thursday’s paper.

Stress test. But if there is one seminar that’s bound make sparks fly, we’re guessing it’ll be ECON 363/MGT 890: Global Financial Crisis. The much-hyped class will be taught this fall by former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, so something’s going down like the S&P 500.

Stress release. Last night, the

Payne Whitney Group Exercise Team sent out a reminder to students about a completely different array of classes to consider, ranging from Argentine Tango to Zumba.

Nothing like an elevated heart rate to help clear your head.

It’s complicated. Unlike

classes, the job search never stops. Thank goodness for the Office of Career Strategy, which is hosting “What is …

Finance?”, an informational workshop about everyone’s favorite too-big-to-fail industry at the School of Management this afternoon.

Students in the Geithner seminar, however, will be stuck in class at the time, but we’re guessing they already know everything anyway.

On a different note. Over

the weekend, The New York Times profiled Yale’s music scene, noting the crescendoing demand for a jazzier campus.

Are the frequent nights of “Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & friends” at Toad’s not enough?

Brown-bound. Now-former

men’s ice hockey assistant coach Jason Guerriero became the second member of head coach Keith Allain’s ’80 staff to land a new position this off-season. Citing a desire to be closer to family, Guerriero announced yesterday that he will join the Brown Bears in a similar role this winter.

Need a ride? Yesterday, the New Haven Police Department announced a series of arrests made by officers on Sunday after city streets were stormed by dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles, which are forbidden on public property. Police also impounded the vehicles in question, which may eventually be auctioned off.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2010 A burst pipe in a West Campus building causes tens of thousands of gallons of fire retardant foam to spill into the Oyster River. The University responds by hiring a contractor to clean up the spill.

Follow along for the News’ latest.

Twitter | @yaledailynews

ONLINE y MORE goydn.com/xcampus

VARGA, THE VICTOR Tyler Varga ’15 makes waves with the Indianapolis Colts.

PAGE 14 SPORTS

2019 by the numbers: Keeping faith

O

n Aug. 12, the News sent all incoming freshmen a survey with questions running the gamut from family life to post-graduate plans. This is the second in a four-part series on the results.

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE and EMMA PLATOFF report.

MICHAEL MARSLAND/YALE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS & COMMUNICATION

In his address to freshmen, Peter Salovey asked the class of 2019 for input on the controversial name of Calhoun College.

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTERS When Charles Kenney ’19 walked into Woolsey Hall Saturday morning for the Freshman Assembly, he was expecting a standard college welcome address. Instead, he — and his 1,363 classmates — were issued a challenge.

In their speeches this weekend, University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway called for the class of 2019’s input on the controversial name of Calhoun College, which resurfaced as a topic of debate this summer following the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s state capi-

tol. Though most of the audience had been on campus for less than a full day, Salovey asked that the freshmen join the rest of campus in an open discussion regarding Calhoun’s contentious name.

In the following days, University officials formally invited the entire Yale community to contribute to the debate, launching a website called “An Open Conversation” following the address. The website includes a submissions box for individuals to send in their opinions on the issue, as well as a list of upcoming public discussions.

“Members of the class of 2019, here is your first hard problem,”

Salovey said. “Welcome to Yale!”

During his speech, Salovey described the tragic massacre that took place in Charleston, South Carolina in June. He said the shootings ignited an impassioned national conversation about Confederate figures and symbols, a conversation that has also reached the University. Over the summer, members of the Yale community expressed dissatisfaction with the controversial namesake of Calhoun College: John C. Calhoun, a member of the class of 1804 who was a white supremacist and fierce supporter of slavery.

SEE FRESHMAN ASSEMBLY PAGE 6

Belitsky: Sorry for online PA program

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS Despite an unsuccessful attempt in the spring, the Yale School of Medicine may move forward with its plan to create an online Physician Associate program, Medical School Deputy Dean of Education Richard Belitsky announced at a Friday town hall.

Addressing roughly 20 current students, Belitsky began by apologizing for the program’s botched first attempt last semester, stating several times that he hopes to move forward — this time, with more input from students.

This spring, the School of Medicine applied for accreditation for an online PA program by presenting it to the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant as a class size expansion of the existing residential program.

The proposed program would have awarded a Master of Medical Sciences degree to students who did the didactic portion of the roughly two-year PA course through video lectures and online discussion sections. Practical skills would have been taught during roughly two weeks spent on campus and clinical rotations in

preapproved hospitals in the students’ hometowns.

But in April, the ARC-PA rejected the proposal on a technicality, stating that programs must wait four years after submitting a previous proposal before requesting an increase in class size.

Even before the official rejection, the plan was met with fury from current PA students and alumni, who felt they had not been consulted enough in the decision and also worried the online program would devalue their own degrees.

Schwarzman committee seeks student input

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER With little fanfare, the blue plaque that labeled the building on the corner of Grove and College streets as “Commons” was replaced this summer by another sign reading “Schwarzman Center.” But administrators are planning far more publicity for the next steps of the building’s transformation, which will turn it into a massive student center by 2020.

The Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee — a 27-member group of students, faculty and staff formed last semester at the request of University President Peter Salovey — has organized a series of “listening tours” and feedback mechanisms for the next few weeks, during which it will actively seek out student opinion surrounding the $150-million renovation of Commons and Memorial Hall. Administrators say the goal is not only to ensure that the center meets the needs of all campus community members, but also to convey that beloved University traditions, such as the residential college system, will be augmented, not diminished, by the cen-

ter’s creation.

“It’s important to respect our traditions, but we also need to be thinking about ways to improve who we are,” said Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, adding that the next month will be “the most aggressive moment” of soliciting feedback.

The renovation, which was made possible through a gift in May by Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69, will result in a student center that is intended to bring together undergraduates and graduate and professional school students in a central space. Students have advocated for such a place before, such as in a 2014 report by the Yale College Council, Graduate School Assembly and Graduate and Professional Student Senate — the first time all three groups had worked together.

The center will serve as a crossroads for students across the University to collaborate both professionally and socially in a way that has never been possible before, said Senior Counselor to the President and Provost Linda Lorimer.

SEE SCHWARZMAN PAGE 6

On Saturday morning, two groups of more than 600 freshmen each were ushered into a sunlit Woolsey Hall by the deep tones of an organ playing, among other pieces, Maurice Durufle’s “Fugue on the Soissons Cathedral Bell Theme.” The program went on to include a hymn, “Oh God, beneath Thy Guiding Hand,” and concluded with a benediction

by University Chaplain Sharon Kugler.

Each year, the rich chords of religious music and the holy verses of religious rhetoric welcome the incoming class at the Freshman Assembly. For some students, these traditions make the event a familiar, comforting opening to the year, facilitating their transition into a new environment by providing continuity.

Still, for some, the prominence of faith is jarring, or even inappropriate amid the University’s non-religious mission and diverse student body.

Many describe Yale, for better or for worse, as a secular campus. Indeed, 44 percent of survey respondents identified as atheist, agnostic or non-religious.

But those students who did identify with a particular cultural background, be it religious or ethnic, separated themselves from the rest of the class before even stepping foot on campus, demonstrating certain social and extracurricular preferences accordingly.

JOINING THE COMMUNITY

David Schwartz ’19 was still settling into his room in Vanderbilt Hall on Friday when leaders from Yale Hillel arrived at his door to welcome him to campus and invite him to Friday’s Shabbat dinner. Hillel was not the only organization to make early moves — upperclassmen from several religious and cultural groups visited freshman dorms last weekend, carrying gifts like candy and portable phone chargers in hand.

Schwartz, a Conservative Jew, said he is interested in joining the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, and he is enthusiastic about com-

SEE PA PROGRAM PAGE 6

SEE 2019 SURVEY PAGE 8

State budget spells trouble for YNHHS

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER As Gov. Dannel Malloy’s July budget approaches the end of its first fiscal quarter, employees of the Yale-New Haven Health System expect and are bracing themselves for further expenditure cuts.

The budget includes a $67 million reduction in Medicaid payments and has already led to the closures of two YNHHS clinics in Branford and East Haven. The initial proposal levied a $165 million tax on hospitals and reduced the pool of eligible Medicaid recipients in Connecticut by 34,000.

When it was first presented in February, the budget received almost immediate opposition from YNHHS. According to Patrick McCabe, senior vice president of corporate finance at YNHHS, the only way to cope with the cuts is to reduce expenditures using methods including leaving vacancies unfilled. In an April interview, he said the system was not looking to lay off any workers. But since the closure of the two clinics, he

has declined to comment on whether this has changed.

Because YNHH is a large nonprofit that reinvests all its excess revenue into the existing enterprise and community, revenue decreases — particularly those due to lower reimbursement — limit the hospital’s ability to keep investing in the community, said Howard Forman, professor of diagnostic radiology, management and public health.

In an April interview with the News, YNHH Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Vince Petrini echoed these sentiments, adding that the state budget that was passed in 2013 had harsh effects on YNHH, but the hospital was able to make up for it through its merger with the Hospital of Saint Raphael in 2012. This time, YNHH has no such option.

YNHH had a total operating revenue of roughly $2.5 billion in 2014, with a net income of just 6.6 percent. With one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country, YNHH SEE YNHH BUDGET PAGE 6

PAGE 2

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

OPINION

.COMMENT “Been waiting all summer for this.” yaledailynews.com/opinion

'GOLDIE08' ON 'MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS'

NEWS’

NEWS’

VIEW

VIEW

Drop "master"

Rename Calhoun College

I

t would be a small loss and an important, if symbolic, gain to decide as a community that there is a better word than “master” for the faculty members who head the residential colleges.

Few roles are as central to Yale College as those at the helm of these residential communities.

The position dates to the 1930s, when Yale adopted a housing plan modeled on the system at Oxford and Cambridge, where some colleges are led by faculty who enjoy the title “master.” It’s this borrowed nomenclature that Stephen Davis, a religious studies professor who heads Pierson College, repudiated in shedding the title “master.”

“I think there should be no context in our society or in our university in which an AfricanAmerican student, professor, or staff member — or any person, for that matter — should be asked to call anyone ‘master,’” he wrote in August to the Pierson community.

It was a powerful message, catching many by surprise and raising questions about whom Davis had consulted and what sort of authority is involved in formalizing the change he has already begun to implement in Pierson. These are less important questions than the substantive ones raised by Davis, who deserves praise though he clearly isn’t looking for any, about how we use language redolent of tradition and history.

The residential college plan, and with it the installation of “masters,” was at once an innovation and a continuation of longstanding commitments.

Yale was founded on the principle of the small college, premised on bonds that are not only academic but familial. We hold the heads of the residential colleges in such high esteem because they have assumed responsibility for the welfare of a segment of the student body — a community not unlike an extended family. In turn, they exert a form of control that has grown out of a tradition of patriarchal authority long entrenched in household relations.

It is therefore not startling that, for some, addressing the head of a college as “master” evokes relations of slavery and unequal marriage bound up in this tradition of patriarchal authority. The evocation is potent in the United States in ways it is not elsewhere. Plantation slavery doesn’t have the same determinative place in the modern history of England as it does here. In the 1772 Somerset case, a British jurist found that no man could be a slave on English soil — four years before the birth of the American nation.

When a black student is asked to address an authority figure as “master” — and especially when serving that person, as students do in their capacity as “master’s aides” — the association can be disempowering.

What is the purpose of subjecting our peers to this, if some find it painful? We all prize tradition, but we find no great value in this title. Few memories of Yale, few moments of personal growth or shared discovery, stem from calling the heads of residential colleges “master.”

The word “master” holds multiple meanings, and of course we can’t immunize ourselves against every fraught word. A “master” is a skilled practitioner. As an adjective, it can mean “main” or “principal,” as in a master key. At institutions of higher learning, we use the word to denote a type of degree, such as a Master of Science.

But a word’s meaning doesn’t exist in a vacuum. We understand the significance of language in the context of our individual experiences and our shared national history. When the word “master” is used as a term of address, it carries a particularly vexed meaning — undertones not shared by the name of a degree.

We cannot undo the word’s association with slavery. But we can make decisions about how we want to be addressed and how we want to address others. Certain terms, in specific contexts, are more ethical and inclusive, in the same way some are more appropriate and accurate.

For this reason, “master” — as a form of address — should be retired at Yale, altering, too, immediately related terms: master’s house, master’s office, master’s aide, master’s tea.

The opportunity to reconsider what we want to call one another should be viewed as an intellectual challenge, not an exercise in political correctness.

We might look to other terms used at Oxford and Cambridge, among them “principal” and “president.” Perhaps we will choose “magister,” the Latin root of “master,” or simply “director.”

The unique role these 12 — soon to be 14 — people play is shaped by the way we choose to address them. More central is the substantive, multidimensional work they do as scholars, advisers and advocates for students.

As they lose the title “master,” it is our hope they gain something else: an even more profound sense of the effect they have on students and their ability to make Yale an inclusive and intellectually stimulating place for us all.

YALE DAILY NEWS PUBLISHING CO., INC. 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 432-2400 Editorial: (203) 432-2418 editor@yaledailynews.com Business: (203) 432-2424 business@yaledailynews.com

EDITOR IN CHIEF Isaac Stanley-Becker

SPORTS Grant Bronsdon Ashton Wackym

MANAGING EDITORS Matthew Lloyd-Thomas Wesley Yiin

WEEKEND Jane Balkoski Andrew Koenig David Whipple

ONLINE EDITOR Marek Ramilo

YTV Michael Leopold Isabel McCullough Steffi Yuli

OPINION Rishabh Bhandari Diana Rosen NEWS Lavinia Borzi Adrian Rodrigues CITY J. R. Reed Pooja Salhotra

MAGAZINE Jennifer Gersten Oliver Preston COPY Eva Landsberg Adam Mahler Isabel Sperry Sarah Sutphin

CULTURE Eric Xiao

PRODUCTION & DESIGN Sammy Bensinger Alex Cruz Olivia Hamel Jilly Horowitz Carter Levin Marisa Lowe Aparna Nathan Amra Saric PHOTOGRAPHY Wa Liu Elena Malloy Alexandra Schmeling Ken Yanagisawa

PUBLISHER Abdullah Hanif DIR. FINANCE Yuanling Yuan DIR. ADVERTISING Gonzalo Gallardo ONL. BUSINESS MANAGER Steven Hee MARKETING & SALES MANAGER Eva Landsberg

PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER Misael Cabrera ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE MANAGER Joanna Jin ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE MANAGER Christopher Chute

ILLUSTRATIONS Thao Do WEB DEVELOPMENT Annie Cook Aaron Lewis Christopher Wan

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Hannah Schwarz

THIS ISSUE PRODUCTION STAFF: Mert Dilek, Amanda Mei, Jon Rolfe, Holly Zhou NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT EDITORIALS & ADS

COPYRIGHT 2015 — VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 2

The News’ View represents the opinion of the majority of the members of the Yale Daily News Managing Board of 2016. Other content on this page with bylines represents the opinions of those authors and not necessarily those of the Managing Board. Opinions set forth in ads do not necessarily reflect the views of the Managing Board. We reserve the right to refuse any ad for any reason and to delete or change any copy we consider objectionable, false or in poor taste. We do not verify the contents of any ad. The Yale Daily News Publishing Co., Inc. and its officers, employees and agents disclaim any responsibility for all liabilities, injuries or damages arising from any ad. The Yale Daily News Publishing Co. ISSN 0890-2240

SUBMISSIONS

All letters submitted for publication must include the author’s name, phone number and description of Yale University affiliation. Please limit letters to 250 words and guest columns to 750. The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit letters and columns before publication. E-mail is the preferred method of submission.

Direct all letters, columns, artwork and inquiries to: Rishabh Bhandari and Diana Rosen Opinion Editors Yale Daily News opinion@yaledailynews.com

I

n September 1933, James Rowland Angell, then Yale’s president, welcomed freshmen to a college markedly different from the one prior classes had known: a college sorted into seven residential quadrangles.

“It is your duty to see that Yale turns back to the common weal such men and such a wealth of human values that her stability and integrity cannot be challenged,” he told the class, whose members would apply to join a college after their freshman year.

“It’s a great thing to belong to an institution with the traditions and ideals that Yale maintains.”

Eighty-two years later, the colleges, now 12 in number and set to expand to 14, are among the University’s most cherished traditions.

But Yale, and those of us fortunate enough to count ourselves members of this community, will be judged not merely by the longevity of our traditions. We must answer for their moral content. For this reason, we must change the name of Calhoun College, which honors John C. Calhoun, among the fiercest advocates of slavery known to this country. To do so is not to obliterate history but to inscribe different values into Yale’s present and to aspire to a better, more racially just future.

The larger question, of course, is how the University, and the students it trains, can move beyond symbolism and challenge racism in a more direct and abiding way.

Nothing about answering that question requires preserving Calhoun’s name.

Much has changed in this country, and at Yale, since 1933.

President Angell was addressing an all-male and overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, white audience. The men and women of the class of 2019, however, hail from 60 countries; nearly 10 percent is black. This is the sort of class demographically suited for a conversation about “Yale’s complicated and occasionally painful associations with the past,” as President Peter Salovey put it in his freshman address, beginning a campus-wide dialogue about the way Yale’s history is interwoven with the history of chattel slavery. In 2015, we are

YOUR LETTERS opinion@yaledailynews.com

WRITE TO US All letters submitted for publication must include the author’s name, phone number and description of Yale University affiliation. Please limit letters to 250 words.

The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit letters before publication. E-mail is the preferred method of submission.

wise to the many aspects of our University that recall slavery, including our namesake, Elihu Yale, a British merchant who profited from the slave trade.

More than half of the colleges are named for men who owned slaves or defended slavery.

At the same time, some things haven’t changed.

In 1933, 28 people were lynched in the United States, most of them black. In June of this year, a white man who exalted Confederate symbols and confessed to wanting to start a race war killed nine black churchgoers in South Carolina.

The attack spurred an anguished national debate over the rebel flag, which was ultimately removed from capitol grounds in Columbia, S.C. At Yale, the attack reignited a debate over Calhoun College, named for the 1804 graduate of Yale College.

Calhoun was a political theorist and a politician from South Carolina. He was a congressman, senator, secretary of war, secretary of state and vice president (under John Quincy Adams and then Andrew Jackson).

American chattel slavery found no greater exponent than Calhoun, who famously defended the buying and selling of human beings not as a necessary evil, as some of his contemporaries contended, but as a “positive good.”

Calhoun claimed to see slavery “in its true light,” but his doctrine of white supremacy is a perversion of Yale’s commitment to “light and truth.” It is anathema to every value we cherish. And it is alarming that Yale’s leaders chose to honor this person by naming a college for him almost 70 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery.

Renaming the college wouldn’t right that wrong. It wouldn’t exculpate Yale and its benefactors of the guilt of profiting from slavery. And it certainly wouldn’t purge the University of all disquieting relics.

But here we must draw a line.

The prominence and fervor with which Calhoun defended slavery make him ineligible for this public honor. A public dissociation from his legacy is an important gesture that is worthy of an in-

The evolution of traditions “O tempora, o mores!” sounds the cry whenever we discuss changing symbols at this University. Bricks inscribed with distant dates and impressive stone architecture make it easy to forget Yale’s youth. But its 1701 foundation places it nearer to us than it to the construction of the Bastille or the severing of the Sphinx’s nose.

Several of the columns in last Friday’s forum (“‘Debating the title ‘master,’” Aug. 28) on Stephen Davis’ decision to cease use of the term “master” testify to this forgetfulness. Anthony Kronman casts the term as a “tradition” equal to science and “respect for equality”; Isaac Cohen '16 warns that “master’s” obsolescence will let a “childlike parochialism” crowd out things at Yale that he presumes more important. Both surmise that history is frailer than history has proven itself to be, that to change the term is to threaten our community and our knowledge.

The columnists, even those in favor of the term’s repeal, grounded their arguments about meaning and tradition on a different set of institutions: the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, schools so old that their foundation dates are speculative. Even J.T. Flowers '17 sets his opposition in spite of that perceived tradition, saying that in “the British Oxbridge system […] the term applies exclusively to the head of an educational institution in an indiscriminate, nonracialized fashion.”

tellectual community.

One might ask: Why now?

And why judge the past by today’s standards?

We look to the past when we find present means of undoing injustice wanting. Large segments of American society are growing more, not less, segregated, including the pipelines to Yale: the nation’s high schools.

Recent analysis has found that black students are suspended and expelled at rates overwhelmingly higher than those of their white peers. A similar disparity holds among adult men when it comes to rates of incarceration.

THE GOAL IS NOT TO OBLITERATE THE PAST BUT TO INSCRIBE DIFFERENT VALUES INTO YALE'S PRESENT “There is a recognition that American racism was founded in slavery, and a general, if inchoate, understanding that any attempt to address race in the present must also address slavery in past,” wrote the American historian Ira Berlin in 2001.

One might ask: But what about tradition? What about memories tied to Calhoun College, tarnished by a change in its name?

This argument has little purchase. Where were the proponents of preserving Calhoun when Commons, a full three decades older and a hub of student life, was renamed for a private equity magnate, Stephen Schwarzman ’69, who gave $150 million for its renovation? Tradition is sacrosanct, except when financial interests are involved.

Then it’s all a bit more malleable.

Further, memories of Calhoun are of time spent in the college, the people within its walls, not its namesake.

Yet there is no need to concede Oxbridge so easily. The fullness of history scorns consistency; Oxbridge’s history is no different. Indeed, Oxford and Cambridge’s colleges have never exclusively used “master” to refer to their heads of house. At Oxford, a “warden” heads Merton College, and has since its 1264 foundation. The head of Christ Church, who holds his post ex officio as the ecclesiastical head of the Christ Church Cathedral, is thus a “dean.” My college, Kellogg, is led by a “president.” Only five of Oxford’s 38 colleges are run by a "master.” When Yale made the undemocratic choice in 1933 to use “master” as the sole title for the heads of our residential colleges, centuries of tradition actually contradicted this decision. Rather than an “emulation” of the English universities, as Kronman suggests, the title is a sickly parody of them.

“Master” is a “word with many meanings,” but the history of our country and of Yale — different than the narratives of England and Oxbridge — must inform us, as Flowers and Eshe Sherley '16 rightly identify. It was in the United States where the language of “master” and “slave” built the economy of the South, informed the logic of secession and incited the deaths of over 600,000 Americans.

Until only eight years ago, a portrait of Eli Yale, standing with a shackled black slave cowering at his feet, proudly stood in the Yale Corporation Room in Woodbridge Hall. Discarding the term “master” from our colleges will not “impoverish our language and our thoughts,” as Cohen

Finally, there is the argument that changing the name is an attempt to efface history. Some say it is better to live with painful symbols, to let them be open wounds that sting and force us to ask questions of our past, rather than absolve ourselves of it. This is a view Dean Jonathan Holloway, a scholar of African American Studies, has espoused, and it’s one Salovey seemed to favor, even though he did not take a position, in his freshman address.

Stripping Calhoun of the honor of having a residential college named for him, repudiating the ideas he championed, doesn’t erase his name from our history books or wipe it from our lips. He should and will still be discussed in history courses, perhaps even in Holloway’s own lecture this fall.

Further, by being deliberate in how we rename the college, we can ensure Calhoun’s legacy continues to challenge and engage us. Specifically, we suggest his name be removed in favor of one of Yale’s early black graduates, to highlight the moral contest over slavery and freedom that defines our country’s history.

There are a wealth of options.

There is Richard Henry Green, who in 1857 became the first black person to graduate from Yale College. There is Edward Bouchet, who in 1876 earned a doctorate in physics from Yale, becoming the first black person to receive a Ph.D. at an American university. There is William Pickens, who earned a B.A. in Classics at Yale in 1904 and went on to work for the NAACP and the U.S. Treasury Department.

There is Jane Matilda Bolin, who in 1932 became the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School.

Future generations of students will be told that they belong to a college that used to go by a different name, but that sometimes Yale’s traditions and its ideals — the defining features of the University, as President Angell saw it — are in conflict.

It’s not our duty to ensure that Yale goes unchallenged, but to understand when stability becomes a threat to integrity.

suggests — as if Yale undergraduates were so imbecilic as to rely solely on Yale reference points for understanding. What disrespect for tradition, indeed, to contend that all English words must signify identically, whether uttered in New Haven or in Oxford.

Though the example of Oxbridge does not support the use of “master” as those who defend the term might wish, those universities across the Atlantic can teach us about the malleability of longstanding tradition. Both universities abolished their centuriesold matriculation examinations in classical languages in 1960.

Cambridge made voluntary the use of its traditional academic dress, called "sub-fusc," when sitting exams in the late 2000s, and while Oxford still requires it, as of 2012, they allow any permutation of the men's and women's versions in support of gender-nonconforming people.

The Oxford Union, a 200-year old debating society, recently declared itself institutionally racist, and this year, the sitting Rhodes Scholars at Oxford — many Yalies among them — for the first time in a century refused to toast Cecil Rhodes at their annual gala dinner. Our traditions, old as they seem, are young. Even Oxford and Cambridge’s ancient rites are not sacrosanct. If they can adapt their traditions to the institutions they are today, we ought not to bear such hubris for our own.

STEPHEN MARSH The writer is a 2013 graduate of Saybrook College

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 3

NEWS

“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.” -ALFRED HITCHCOCK ENGLISH FILM DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER

New Haven police forces pilot body cameras

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Twenty-seven volunteers within the New Haven Police Department began their duties Tuesday morning with a new accessory: a body camera.

The new pilot program, which tests out different types of body cameras, was announced on Aug. 13 at the NHPD’s weekly data-sharing meetings, known as CompStat. Officers were encouraged to volunteer for the 90-day pilot program, testing body camera equipment and recording their interactions with the community. In addition to the NHPD, the Yale Police Department has gradually been introducing body cameras, with supervisors currently wearing them during their shifts, said Yale Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart.

The decision to institute body cameras within the NHPD and the YPD is part of a national trend of police departments seeking new ways to develop trust between the force and the community. In May, President Barack Obama introduced the $20 million Body-Worn Camera Partnership Program, part of a larger program aiming to bring 50,000 body cameras to local law enforcement agencies.

In New Haven, calls for body cameras intensified after an officer was caught on video arresting a 15-year-old girl by knocking her to the ground.

Meanwhile, on campus, an external advisory board recommended all YPD officers wear body cameras after an interaction between an officer and a student became the center of national scrutiny. On Jan. 24, an African-American student was stopped by a YPD offer during the search for a suspected burglar in Trumbull College. The incident led the University and the YPD to create an ad hoc panel to re-examine policies, which included the use of body cameras.

For both the YPD and the NHPD, discussion about the body cameras has centered on how to balance safety with privacy.

“The critical question for us will be less about the technology and more about the appropriate use of the cameras, and what policies we need to have in place to respect the privacy of students and others on campus while seeking to be open with the public,” Peart said.

Despite campus support for increased use of body cam-

eras, Peart said implementing the devices is not as simple as it sounds. YPD officers frequently have to interact with students in situations that are not classified as police stops, Peart said, which complicates policy about when to use a camera and when the interaction should remain private.

In deciding how to use the new accessory, YPD Assistant Chief of Police Michael Patten said the police force considers statewide legislation.

“We are learning from our own use of the cameras and will be seeking out best practices, here in Connecticut and nationally,” Patten said.

Legislation passed over the summer requires state police to wear body cameras, but the requirement has not yet been extended to local police departments within the state. The most recent legislation, passed on June 2, calls for the development of a model policy that would stipulate how to store video data and which body cameras to use.

We are learning from our own use of the cameras and will be seeking out best practices.

MICHAEL PATTEN Assistant chief, Yale Police Department

City officials back Stark at rally

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS With freshmen just moved into their new homes on campus, Fish Stark ’17 — a Democratic candidate for Ward 1 alder — and a group of roughly 50 political leaders and students gathered on the New Haven Green yesterday to kick off two frantic weeks of campaigning ahead of the Sept. 9 Democratic primary.

The rally on the Green, featuring Connecticut State Senator Gary Winfield and former Ward 10 alder and 2013 mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, among other alders, came only a few days after Stark was asked by a Yale administrator to move his campaign table off Old Campus on freshman move-in day. Since students returned to campus, the second Democratic candidate and current Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 — with whom Stark will square off in the Ward 1 Democratic primary debate next Wednesday — and Republican candidate Ugonna Eze ’16 have not held similar rallies in the ward.

Stark, who had set his table up in the middle of Old Campus last Friday, was simultaneously registering voters and campaigning until Director of Student Life Hannah Peck DIV ’11 demanded that Stark relocate his table to a spot off Yale’s property. Peck said Stark was canvassing without the permission of Yale’s Student Life Office, which governs the events held on campus.

Peck said Stark might have been able to continue to canvas if he had spoken to her or another administrator earlier. Stark protested to Peck, saying that Yale Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews had stopped by his table earlier and raised no concerns.

Stark eventually moved his table to the gate between Lanman-Wright and Durfee halls on Elm Street.

“I don’t see the rationale for telling a candidate that they can’t be on campus,” Stark said, calling his removal “ridiculous.”

He also noted that past Ward 1 campaigns were permitted to campaign on campus. Indeed, Stark’s voter registration drive was one of multiple drives that occurred on campus that day.

Maxwell Ulin ’16, the elections coordinator for the Yale College Democrats, organized a voter registration drive “on behalf of the Yale administration,” he wrote in an email. He invited the three aldermanic candidates to join the drive, noting to them that the drive “must remain non-partisan.”

Ulin added that any campaigning done

by Eidelson and Stark was strictly separate from the voter registration drive he coordinated.

Eidelson was also registering voters on Old Campus on move-in day, but without the campaign paraphernalia worn by Stark’s supporters. Peck did not ask the current Ward 1 alder to leave Yale’s property, according to Eidelson.

Stark’s rally on the Green yesterday was his first since students moved in, and it is the first to occur since he garnered the endorsements of six sitting alders over the summer. Two of those alders — Ward 26 Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. and Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa — were present at the event and spoke in support of Stark’s bid to unseat the incumbent Eidelson.

In his stump speech, Fish said he is the candidate best equipped to address the “dynamic of distrust and suspicion” that he said exists between Yale and surrounding city. He cited the conversations he has had with New Haven public school students as evidence of his ability to work in the city outside the borders of Ward 1. Festa praised Stark for forging a relationship with a city that he has known for only a little over two years.

“I have absolutely nothing against Sarah, but I think the position in Ward 1 was put in place for a Yale student,” Festa said. “I think it’s time to get an insider perspective.”

Eidelson did not respond to multiple requests for comment Tuesday afternoon

The recently passed bill, Senate Bill 770, also highlights cost issues attached to body cameras.

Each camera can cost between $300 and $1,000, with storage costing up to $35 per officer per month.

Derek Puorro, vice president of the Connecticut Council of Police Unions, opposed the bill, with the argument that police departments should be able to decide for themselves whether they need body cameras. At the public hearing for the bill, he said the money spent on body cameras could be better spent elsewhere in the department, such as on police training.

In mid-August, the New Haven Register reported that in a closed meeting, the Board of Alders had approved $90,000 of funding to help the NHPD institute their pilot program, and develop a program to be implemented across the force.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

FINNEGAN SCHICK/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Fish Stark and political leaders gathered on the New Haven Green yesterday to kick off two weeks of campaigning.

and evening.

With the Democratic primary only two weeks away, the rhetoric at the event was notably more aggressive than that which Stark’s campaign has previously used.

Brackeen, who serves with Eidelson on the Youth Services Committee, criticized her for not standing beside him in support for legislation regarding college loans earlier in his term. Brackeen traveled to Hartford to advocate for legislation in the general assembly, but Eidelson did not attend.

He said Eidelson’s unique constituency — almost exclusively college students — would have made her voice particularly valuable in the debate over the issue.

“There have been so many issues on the table this year where your voices were not heard,” Brackeen said to the crowd. “If I were you, I’d be pretty upset about that …

It’s time for a new voice.”

The rally’s attendees were largely upperclassmen who had already committed to the Stark campaign, but about 15 freshmen also attended. One of those freshmen, Michelle Santos ’19, said she was interested in the Stark campaign as a chance to learn about political campaigning and become more active in her new city.

All of the public officials present at the rally had already endorsed Stark. He has also received endorsements from Alders Brenda Foskey-Cyrus, Richard Spears, Claudette Robinson-Thorpe and Carlton Staggers. Those four alders, along with Festa, were members of the short-lived “People’s Caucus,” which formed in 2014 to counter the influence of the UNITE HERE union coalition — which employs Eidelson — on the Board of Alders.

Stark also received statements of support from 19 of 37 Ward 1 committee members. In an early August press release, the campaign said that if the committee had held an endorsement vote, he would have been chosen as the Democratic nominee.

Eidelson has not yet received public endorsements from any city officials. Last week, UNITE HERE released its endorsements for candidates in six of eight primaries in New Haven. The union did not endorse a candidate for Ward 1.

Eidelson’s campaign has also been active in recent days, despite the lack of public events. On Tuesday night, volunteers for her campaign went door-to-door in the residential colleges, handing out flyers and encouraging students to re-elect the incumbent.

Republican candidate Eze, who will face the winner of the primary in the general election, said collecting endorsements is not as pressing for his campaign as it is for those of his opponents.

“Since the Democratic primary is so soon, Fish and Sarah appear to be in fierce competition over who can grab up the most endorsements,” Eze said. “It’s a real blessing that we don’t have to resort to that — it means we can focus on actually reaching undecided voters and engaging them on the issues.”

Eze said he expects to receive endorsements later this week.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

Finnegan Schick contributed reporting.

Warner House sees shake-up

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER After serving as the home of the Provost’s Office for more than a decade, Warner House, situated at 1 Hillhouse Ave., will have new residents this year.

On June 17, Provost Benjamin Polak announced plans to relocate the administrative staff of the Graduate School dean — a position currently held by Lynn Cooley — to Warner House, a brownstone constructed in 1888 that stands at the base of Hillhouse Avenue. As a result, Polak and his staff have temporarily moved to 2 Whitney Ave., the Whitney Grove Square building, in preparation for their relocation to offices within the Hall of Graduate Studies. In his email announcement, Polak said the reorganization is intended to create a “stronger and more cohesive [Faculty of Arts and Sciences]” by bringing the Graduate School Dean’s Office in closer proximity to the FAS Dean’s Office, Yale College Dean’s Office and the office of the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Currently, the YCDO sits on 1 Prospect St. and the SEAS office is located at 10 Hillhouse Ave. FAS Dean Tamar Gendler and her staff occupy the south side of Warner House, while Cooley and her staff are now located on the north side of the building.

“Now that we have reorga-

nized the [administrative] structure of the FAS, we are reorganizing it physically as well,” Polak said in the email to faculty members. “This move will bring the Graduate School, figuratively and quite literally, into the center of campus and the center of the FAS.” This change of addresses comes roughly one year after University President Peter Salovey announced the creation of the FAS deanship, a new administrative role tasked with overseeing matters related to faculty recruitment, appointment, tenure and promotion — duties previously shared among the college and graduate school deans — as well as financial oversight of the FAS departments, faculty and staff. Those duties were previously held by the provost.

Gendler said the collocation of FAS and graduate school staff is beneficial since both deans share many overlapping concerns and interests. For example, Gendler said one advantage of the new arrangement is that the three divisional directors — who oversee humanities, social sciences and sciences and now have shared office space inside Warner House — are involved not only in the oversight of faculty in their division, but are also thinking about improvements for graduate education and the support of teaching assistants in these divisions as well. “[Yale College Dean Jonathan

Holloway, Cooley and I] have regular meetings set up and we actually start our weeks meeting as a trio,” Gendler said. “But it is now easier for us when we need to do it in an ad hoc way for all of us to end up in the same place because that is at most 20 steps away.”

She added that though some conversations with members of the Provost’s Office that were previously face-to-face now happen through phone calls and emails, they are also able to meet in person when necessary since they are only “a single block walk” apart.

In an email to the News, Cooley said the relocation of these administrative offices follows from Salovey’s vision for better integration between different administrative units. She added that while there is not currently a single building that can accommodate the administrative staff across the graduate school office, FAS office, YCDO and SEAS office, this move places the four leadership groups in a much closer vicinity.

In terms of timing for the move, Cooley added that the initial plan was to relocate last summer, but the move was too complicated to do in that narrow window of time. As a result, it was pushed to this summer in order to avoid disrupting the work schedule of administrators during the school year. It remains unclear, however, when Polak and his staff will shift from

ELIZABETH MILES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Provost Benjamin Polak announced plans to relocate the staff of the Graduate School dean to Warner House.

2 Whitney Ave. to HGS. The eventual move to HGS comes on the heels of Polak’s January announcement that the building will undergo a full renovation, in which it may be repurposed into a “central home for the humanities.”

Polak could not be reached for comment.

This is not the first time the provost will be located in HGS. In fact, prior to the move to Warner House in 2002, the building had previously housed the Provost’s Office for over six decades.

In addition to the changes to administrators’ offices, the University-wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct has moved from

1 Hillhouse Ave. to 55 Whitney Ave. Beginning in the late 19th century, Warner House — then called Cloister Hall — served as the home of the Book and Snake Society.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

PAGE 4

recycleyourydndaily

YALE DAILY NEWS 路 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 路 yaledailynews.com

recycleyourydndaily

recycleyourydndaily

recycleyourydndaily

recycleyourydndaily

recycleyourydndaily

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 5

NEWS

“All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.” SAMANTHA MUMBA IRISH SINGER AND ACTRESS

Graduate students envision options for Schwarzman Center

Program brings Puerto Rican med students to Yale

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER

With plans for the Schwarzman Center still in their early stages, graduate students have expressed hope that the center will include a late-night study space and an on-campus pub.

In his May email announcing the plans for the new student center that will be financed by a $150-million donation from Stephen Schwarzman ’69, University President Peter Salovey said Elis of all ages will be united by the common space. The Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee — a group tasked with shaping the center’s development — includes members from Yale College and the graduate and professional schools, including representatives from the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, the Graduate Student Assembly and the Yale College Council. In interviews, graduate student members stressed the importance of spaces that can be used by the entire student body. The primary suggestions included a 24-hour study space and an on-campus pub.

GSA Chair Elizabeth Salm GRD ’18 said that coming to Yale after the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities was a shock — she found few spaces for graduate students and undergraduates to interact.

“There are a lot of gates, a lot of closed doors,” she said. But, in advocating for a pub, she added, “Food and drinks can bring people together.”

Bringing all Yale students together is possible with the new center, said Catherine Xie MED ’22, who sits on the advisory committee.

A new cooperative research agreement between Yale and the University of Puerto Rico has enabled Puerto Rican students of medicine to study in New Haven.

UPR medical students who enroll in Yale’s Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences work with student and faculty mentors and conduct research in Yale labs for eight weeks after their first year at the Puerto Rico School of Medicine.

“This is an opportunity to broaden the spectrum of opportunities our medical students have,” said UPR School of Medicine Dean Edgar Colón. “New Haven is a great place for somebody from UPR to practice and work for a while. There is a very large Hispanic population from Puerto Rico. It’s a very good marriage.”

Students involved in the program will complete one year at UPR’s medical school in preparation for their lab rotations at Yale during the following summer. Then, they will complete another two years at UPR’s medical school. Following that, they will spend four years working toward a Ph.D. at Yale, before returning to UPR to complete their fourth and final year at UPR. This program is the first of its kind at Yale.

Daniel Colón-Ramos, an associate professor in cell biology and cellular neuroscience at Yale who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, said the program’s integration of the two degrees is unique.

WA LIU/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Primary student suggestions for the Schwarzman Center included a study space and pub.

Tyler Godoff SOM ’16, a GPSS representative, said professional school students often feel isolated from the rest of campus. Godoff said he hopes the Schwarzman Center will pop what he calls the “Evans Hall bubble” at the School of Management.

Not only do graduate and professional students feel isolated, but their study space is also often limited. Meeting rooms and lecture halls at both the medical school and Yale Law School are reserved weeks in advance, Xie said. Graduate and professional students lack a central meeting space on campus, she added.

And many of the existing study and meeting spaces have very limited hours, Graduate and Professional Student Senate President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18 said.

Although Bass Library extended its hours slightly last year after repeated requests from the GPSS

and GSA, there are few spaces open in the early morning hours.

“Students work at all different times and we hang out at all different times,” Mo said.

While most students agreed on more late-night study space, and some students like Mo argued for alcohol-free activities, all those interviewed emphasized the importance of properly planning the new center.

Throughout the fall, GPSS senators will hear student opinions about the Schwarzman Center at small “meet your senator” dinners, and the GSA plans to hold town hall meetings and send out surveys to collect student suggestions.

“We need to put the right things in [the new center] to gather people,” Salm said.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

“It’s not just an individual doing two degrees in two different places,” Colón-Ramos said.

“This program is designed to take both experiences and integrate them in a way that services a segment of the population that is underserved in science,” he added, referring to Puerto Rico’s scientific community.

UPR School of Medicine Dean Edgar Colón said the partnership with Yale offers a greater variety of Ph.D. programs than any other partnership that UPR has with schools in the United States. The medical school at the University of Puerto Rico was founded 20 years ago, and it has a similar partnership with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. The University of Pennsylvania also has reached out to UPR about establishing an M.D.-Ph.D. program.

Although Colón and UPR President Uroyoán Walker Ramos Colón visited Woodbridge Hall on July 15 to celebrate the partnership and to meet with University President Peter Salovey, no Yale representatives have visited the University of Puerto Rico, Colón said.

The program with UPR adds to several efforts to diversify Yale’s medical school. The BioMed Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship targets undergraduate students outside the United States in places like the Virgin Islands, who are eager to get research experience. The BioMed SURF program helps convince these students to pursue an M.D.-Ph.D. program, said Kazmierczak.

UPR takes the best applicants from Puerto Rico, said Colón.

Students who go on to complete their Ph.D.s from Yale receive high recommendations from professors. But Colón said he worries students who study in the United States will not return to Puerto Rico and improve medical research in their home country.

“We are clearly interested in promoting this [program] with the idea being that those [students] come back to develop research in Puerto Rico,” he said. “Once they train, they become highly likable training prospects in the United States.

It’s up to them.”

In the past, many Ph.D. trainees would not have returned to their home countries, but Kazmierczak said that trend is changing. The opportunities for a scientific career in developing nations are perceived as better, she said.

At the same time, Kazmierczak said, some medical students worry about stagnant funding for research in the United States.

Meanwhile there are several initiatives that incentivize students to return to Puerto Rico.

A clinical scholars research program helps grow the number of physician scientists in Puerto Rico, said Colón-Ramos.

“This program is kind of like a pilot. The question is whether it is going to have the impact that we think it’s going to have,” Colón-Ramos said. He added that logistical difficulties might prevent Yale from starting similar programs in other countries.

Yale’s M.D-Ph.D. program was established in 1969.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Friends remember Roberson’s life

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Standing under a banner that read “This is the Lord’s doing,” Sherell Nesmith stood to say goodbye to her brother, whom she called “Bobo.”

At 11 a.m. on Saturday, close to 300 people gathered at Christ Chapel New Testament Church on Dixwell Avenue for a memorial service dedicated to Ray Roberson, a homeless man whose dismembered limbs were found across downtown New Haven in July.

Despite the tragic circumstances, the memorial service was not one of sadness or anger. Lasting over two and a half hours, it was instead a joyous tribute to a giving, community-focused man.

“We didn’t come here today for a funeral,” said Pastor Anthony Davis, a close friend of Roberson’s family who performed the ceremony. “We came here for a celebration … we need to celebrate and thank God for life.”

The memorial was religious, with the pastor urging the community to take the time to renew their faith in God. Reading from scripture and singing religious songs, Davis asked the community to lean on their brothers and sisters around them for support.

The congregation was vocal during the service. As Davis read encouraging words of scripture, the congregation shouted out cries of “amen” in response. As friends shared happy memories of Roberson, others stood to applaud in laughter and joy.

But at some points, the congregation was called to reflect on the difficult circumstances that brought them there.

Since July, when the New Haven Police Department first discovered Roberson’s legs close to State Street Station, the NHPD has been investigating Roberson’s death as a homicide. The NHPD has not yet identified a suspect.

“When they find the perpetrator, they shouldn’t just charge him with murder. They should also charge them with robbery,” Davis said, emphasizing the void left in the community after Roberson’s death.

Roberson, born in 1960, grew up on Ashmun Street in the nowdemolished Elm Haven Housing

Project. Carlton White, who grew up in the same project, performed a poem which spoke of the community they found in the project.

Asking others from the Ashmun Street community to stand in solidarity, White said he wanted everyone to know that Roberson did not live a solitary life. White was one of the many friends and family members present who criticized media coverage of Roberson’s death. Friends and family explained that the media solely represented Roberson as homeless and “transient,” failing to acknowledge the large network of friends and family he had around him and the contributions he made to the local community.

“We all got a story about Ray. Some of us got more than one,” childhood friend Leroy Smalls said. “Ray was my best friend.”

Davis described an instance when Roberson single-handedly repainted the walls of a low-income housing complex to impress state officials looking to renovate the place. The home was later reopened through state funding, which Davis attributes to Roberson’s efforts.

Friends and family also described Roberson as a talented artist and an occasional singer.

When the time came for open remarks, a line of people walked to the front of the church to share their stories.

While Roberson was not an active member of the church, his community remembered him in laughter and celebration as a man of faith who felt more comfortable on a park bench than in a church.

As the service came to a close, Davis encouraged the community to open their doors to others, adding that they never know when the “next senseless act” may happen.

After the memorial, the family released doves into the community in remembrance of Roberson. Watching the doves fly in the direction of Ashmun Street, where Roberson grew up, his family and friends embraced in prayer and remembrance.

“You may have touched a body, but you could never touch one of God’s souls,” White said.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

recycleyourydndaily

recycleyourydndaily recycleyourydndaily

recycleyourydndaily recycleyourydndaily

PAGE 6

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

FROM THE FRONT New course charted on PA program PA PROGRAM FROM PAGE 1 At Friday’s town hall, Belitsky said he recognized the mistakes he and other administrators had made in their first attempt.

“Some people believe our effort to mount an online program was a sign of disrespect for the profession,” Belitsky said. “I’m really sorry about that.”

He also told attendees that the wording of the rejection letter suggested that the differences between the current residential program and proposed online program were too significant for the change to be billed just as a class size expansion.

If the online plan is to move forward, the school must create a new, entirely separate program, Belitsky said. Since the ARC-PA doesn’t publicize a time frame for adjudication, it is impossible to predict when the online PA program might launch. Due to the length of the accreditation process, fall 2017 is the earliest the program could be offered, Van Rhee said.

This new online program would be given a different name from the residential program — the word “online” will likely be included in the program name. Van Rhee and Belitsky agreed that it would have a separate program director, faculty and funding stream. Both the residential and online program would award students a Master of Medical Sciences degree, and the online program would also have the same admission requirements and similar graduation requirements as the residential program, Van Ree added.

Van Rhee said the online program could have a focus on primary care and involve a capstone project instead of a thesis.

Belitsky and Van Rhee said the online degree would also have a separate funding stream from the residential program, with funds coming entirely out of tuition. A portion of tuition revenue will go to 2U, the

educational technology company that would partner with Yale to create the program. Enrollment would start at roughly 50 students so that the program can break even by the end of the first year. The aim would be to expand the program’s size in the following years.

Van Rhee said that no money earmarked for scholarships for the residential PAs will be taken away to fund the online PAs. If more money is needed, it will come from the School of Medicine and not from the PA program’s budget, Belitsky said.

Some people believe our effort to mount an online program was a sign of disrespect for the profession.

RICHARD BELITSKY Deputy Dean of Education, Yale School of Medicine But the students at the town hall said they were concerned even about the revised plans. Many of those concerns were raised during the first attempt at accreditation.

Students said they were worried about how the online degree will affect how their profession is perceived, asking repeatedly why the PA students were to be used as “guinea pigs” for the online program and why the medical school was not considering a parallel online medical degree program. One student noted that during her rotations at Yale-New Haven Hospital, doctors and nurses audibly laughed at the idea of an online PA program.

Mark Volpe MED ’15 said that, this spring, while School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern was making grand rounds — a traditional

teaching tool held every week at the medical school — a student asked him if Yale’s MD program, like its PA program, would work online. Alpern, Volpe said, scoffed at the idea of an online MD program.

In a Tuesday email to the News, Alpern said that while he is not sure if an online version of an MD program would work, an online PA program definitely has the potential to be successful and could help address the country’s shortage of well trained primary care-oriented physician assistants.

Students also raised concerns that the online program — which would allow students to do the majority of their coursework from home, but require them to come to Yale for several hands-on immersions — would not be sufficient to teach students important practical techniques.

Belitsky did not seek a formal vote or consensus from the students at the meeting, noting several times that he was there to have a “conversation,” not hold a referendum. He made clear that the goal of the meeting was to solicit feedback, but he took a brief phone call midway through the conversation and made no promise to follow the students’ opinions.

He also told students that those who are interested will have the opportunity to be involved in the planning stages of the program.

Following the town hall, Belitsky said he is not sure exactly how further student involvement will be structured, but he said he was glad to have had the opportunity to hear what the PAs thought about the potential online program.

The PA Class of 1999 was the first at Yale to be conferred Master in Medical Science degrees.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegby@yale.edu .

Admin seeks input on new center SCHWARZMAN FROM PAGE 1 But despite all the center’s potential, Holloway said, it will fail without student input. That was the problem at Harvard University, where various student centers have been largely underutilized because the administration did not seek student feedback, he said.

At a two-day retreat on Sunday and Monday, committee members met to discuss ways to ensure that students’ voices are heard. They are planning meetings in every residential college dining hall, as well as with diverse student organizations, ranging from the Yale Drama Coalition to the athletic Captains Council. They will also meet with the deans of all the graduate and professional schools, alumni and even leaders from New Haven government.

It’s important to respect our traditions, but we also need to be thinking about ways to improve who we are.

JONATHAN HOLLOWAY Dean of Yale College The University will also offer tours of the Schwarzman Center to showcase the basement and second- and third-floor areas that will be converted for student use.

The goal is to compile student recommendations by the end of September and then to present a report to Salovey by Thanksgiving, said Skyler Ross ’16, one of the student representatives on the committee.

Once the information from the committee has been received, Salovey said, the next step will be to

bridge the recommendations with what the architects will actually design. He described this process as “crucial” and “maybe the most important part” of the process. Once mapping is complete, plans will be drawn up and a contractor hired.

“I think we’re going to try and be very creative,” Salovey said. “And the real creativity in this project, from an architectural point of view, is, How do you honor the fact that this space is of a historic nature, while innovating in ways that enable it to be used differently than it has ever been used before?”

University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews noted that the architectural design will also be shaped by the way students want to see the space used. For example, she said, many students have voiced a desire for performance and common spaces instead of study spaces, which may result in a less constricted design for the building.

For this reason, she said, the University will not have a clear sense of what the building’s interior will actually look like until more student input is considered.

Yale is also currently in the midst of interviewing architects, and Salovey estimated that a decision will be made “within the next month or so.”

Though most students interviewed responded positively to the idea of a new venue where undergraduates, graduate students and professional students will be able to connect, four out of six undergraduate students interviewed said they could think of areas in which $150 million could be better spent.

“I think that it’s important for Yale to have an area where students can meet and interact, much in the way that Cross Campus has functioned in the past,” Benjamin Marrow ’17 said. “This is increasingly important as Yale expands in numbers and in breadth with the construction of the new colleges.

Similarly, the diminishing role of Commons as a dining room and social space is a shame, and a symbolic renovation is needed.”

However, Marrow added that he does not think a sum as large as $150 million is needed to develop a new space for students to socialize.

Holloway emphasized that the money is not only for physical renovations but also for programming.

Additionally, the money could not have been allocated elsewhere, he said, as Schwarzman specified that he wanted the gift to be used for a student center.

Benjamin Steinberg ’17 said he loves the idea of graduate students becoming more integrated into the undergraduate community, and vice versa.

Still, though many students liked the idea of a space in which all members of the Yale community have an opportunity to interact, some complained that the current plans for the center are too nebulous.

“What will the center have inside?” Esther Portyansky ’16 asked. “Who will be able to use it, and when? The only concrete information that the student body got was the amount of money someone paid to have the building renamed after themselves. I can’t say whether or not I think it’s a necessary addition to campus because I don’t know exactly what kind of addition it is.”

But Yale College Council president Joe English ’17, who also sits on the committee, said uncertainty is part of what makes the process exciting.

“I think there’s a misconception that it’s already decided what’s going in to the Schwarzman Center,” he said. “It’s truly a pretty wideopen project. I’ve been extremely impressed that the administration is so receptive to student opinions.”

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

recyclerecyclerecyclerecycle

YOUR

YDN

DAILY

“A president, like a college freshman, can’t know in advance which questions he’ll have to answer or what topics he’ll have to master.” WALTER KIRN AMERICAN NOVELIST

YNHHS workers wary of further cuts

YALE DAILY NEWS

Employees of the Yale-New Haven Health System expect further expenditure cuts.

YNHH BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 saw 292,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in 2013 and provided $350 million worth of uncompensated care in 2014.

Forman said patients exist along a spectrum of profitability: When revenue for any patient group is reduced, he said, it ultimately impacts the hospital’s ability to provide charitable care.

“We see every patient without regard to ability to pay, and we can’t cut back on that,” Forman said. “If we receive less revenue, it’s not like we can cut off the less profitable patients.”

But David Dearborn, communications director at the state Department of Social Services, said revenue at hospitals across Connecticut have been growing since 2009.

The state Office of Health Care Access reports that Connecticut’s short-term acute care hospitals made $95 million more in operational income in 2013 as compared to 2009. The state is also spending a greater amount on Medicaid annually at hospitals, increasing from $785 million in 2005 to $1.72 billion in the most recent fiscal year, Dearborn said.

“Meanwhile, executive compensation at CT hospitals continues to be robust, for lack of a better term,” he added.

For instance, Marna Borgstrom, president and CEO of YNHH, made approximately $3.5 million in compensation last year, making her the highest paid hospital official in the state, according to state filings.

Between July 2012 and July 2015, the

state covered roughly 150,000 more Medicaid recipients than it had previously. Dearborn said the additional cost that comes from that will be offset by the rise in privately and publicly insured patients that has come with the introduction of Access Health CT, the state’s health insurance exchange.

“The fact is that as more [Connecticut] residents have health coverage overall, the more revenue sources hospitals see and the less uncompensated care they have to provide,” he said. Total reimbursements to hospitals increased under HUSKY D — the state Medicaid expansion for low-income adults — from $331.4 million in the 2012 fiscal year to $408 million the following year, he added.

But Forman said improvements in the number of insured patients are unlikely to offset the state’s reduction in Medicaid reimbursements, leaving YNHH with less money to provide charitable care. Last year, YNHH lost $221 million to Medicaid underpayments.

Dearborn said the state is reducing hospital payments because an increased emphasis on primary and preventative care is slated to decrease overall costs. “[Medicaid expenditures for hospital care] probably would have been higher, if not for the focus on primary/ preventive care, and intensive care management initiatives,” he said. “This is not just a Connecticut phenomenon.”

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

Calhoun takes center stage at freshman address FRESHMAN ASSEMBLY FROM PAGE 1 “Alumni and faculty have written to me and to Dean Holloway from varying perspectives, some at length and with considerable force,” Salovey said. “And inevitably we found ourselves wondering, and not for the first time, how best to address the undeniable challengers associated with the fact that Calhoun’s name graces a residential community in Yale College, an institution where, above all, we prize both the spirit and reality of full inclusion.”

The call to action came as a surprise to many freshmen who were expecting, as Kenney put it, “basically just an inspirational speech about how smart Yale students are.”

But most students interviewed said they appreciated being included in the important campus discussion so early in their Yale careers.

“Above all, I liked that they made it a discussion,” Franklin Eccher ’19 said.

And the discussion has already begun.

According to Salovey, at least 500 responses have been submitted to the webpage form since it debuted on Saturday. Much of the input has been “incredibly thoughtful and deep,” Salovey told the News, with messages coming from all parts of the Yale community and beyond.

He added that the responses have been “on all sides of the issue,” and that it would be difficult to judge whether the majority of the responders are leaning one way or another.

“I have been impressed at the way the community has gotten engaged, and at people’s willingness to be really thoughtful about what they have to say,” Salovey said. “I was hoping for this and was confident that Yale is the kind of community where you can have a conversation like this.”

When asked if a University consensus on the issue would lead to a change in the residential college’s name, Salovey said that it is still hard to tell where the open discussion will lead, noting that the Yale Corporation has ultimate power over all

campus buildings’ names.

All nine freshmen interviewed said they were pleased that the issue had been raised in such a prominent forum.

Of those nine, five freshmen said they do not believe the name of the college should be changed, while two advocated for change and two said they are still struggling to decide. Most students against the change cited the robust tradition of the college’s name and the disjunct between the man the college was named to honor and the experience of current Calhoun students.

“I agree with keeping the name … not because I agree with what he did, but because it’s a part of history now,” Katherine Melbourne ’19 said. “We’ve obviously learned from our mistakes and are a very inclusive community now. The fact that it’s named after him doesn’t change who we are now.”

These freshmen’s positions clash with those of nearly 1,500 students and alumni who have signed a petition created by a group of Yale Law School students earlier this summer calling upon the University to change the name of Calhoun College.

With ongoing campus debate on the name of Calhoun College and a distinct but related conversation centering on the title of “master,” this fall is an unusual time to adjust to life on campus.

But most freshmen interviewed said that, far from being overwhelmed, they were actually glad to be coming to campus at such an important moment in the University’s history.

“When we came onto campus, I had the idea that campus would kind of slow down and we’d be welcomed, then campus life would kind of start up again,” Lily Mirfakhraie ’19 said. “That hasn’t been my experience at all. Campus and Yale are going in full swing, and we’ve been pushed into it … It’s been a really good introduction.”

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 7

NEWS

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY AMERICAN AUTHOR

Global Scholars expands to Beijing dinated events at the Yale Center Beijing, Tam-Claiborne said he is well-prepared to develop the program.

Tam-Claiborne said his responsibilities are many, from marketing the program and creating its curriculum to recruiting Yale faculty and student instructors. He added that he has set a goal of giving formerly unreachable students an experience similar to that of YYGS. “I’m excited to get Yale’s name out there and recruit folks who would be interested in YYGS but never could have attended it in its original incarnation,” he said. “I’d like to tap into areas in China and Asia that are less developed, with less of an idea of what Yale and YYGS are.”

Luis Cartagenova ’15, a Global Scholars fellow, said YYGS-Beijing has many college preparatory aspects, while also allowing for increased outreach. Participating students will learn about the highly selective college admissions process, he said.

Former YYGS instructors and Yale students said they are enthusiastic about the latest expansion of YYGS. Tyler Dohrn ’18, a former instructor, said the value of YYGS — exposing international students to the Yale community — would be amplified by the new program in Beijing.

“YYGS takes in international kids who don’t really understand what Yale is or the college experience is like — and so many kids apply because of it,” he said.

“Expanding to Beijing is a good

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Yale faculty and students will travel to Beijing in January to teach 100 high school students about their areas of expertise as well as the college admissions process.

The Yale Young Global Scholars-Beijing program is modeled after the existing YYGS program, an intensive two-week summer academic experience held at Yale for rising high school seniors, which was founded 14 years ago.

The expanded Beijing edition of the program will hold its inaugural session next year at the Yale Center Beijing, a space run by the School of Management that opened in October 2014 for Yale affiliates in Beijing to conduct research and hold conferences.

The tentative agenda for the Beijing program includes faculty lectures, seminars taught by Yale students and career panels led by Yale World Fellows and alumni, said YYGS Deputy Director Erin Schutte ’12. The aim of these sessions is to expose high school students to college-level thinking while also preparing them for the admissions process.

YYGS Director Ted Wittenstein said the increasing exchanges between Yale and China made this the right moment to bring YYGS to Beijing.

“We’re very excited to take the Global Scholars model from the Yale campus and make it applicable overseas — and there is no better place to do that than in China, where Yale has a deep historic relationship,” he said. “We’re very excited to support the new Yale Center in Beijing, promote the center in China, and bring Yale faculty and students to China to interact with talented high school students from China and across the world.”

Schutte said participation in the weeklong program will cost students $3,500, though needbased financial aid is available.

Applications for the program were released this summer, and admission is expected to be highly competitive, she added.

To help organize this new undertaking, YYGS hired Daniel Tam-Claiborne GRD ’14. Because he has lived in Beijing and coor-

move, as we’ll do what we did at Yale abroad.”

Julian Adler ’18, who has taught at YYGS for the past two summers and had participated as a student in high school, said he is confident the new program will be successful. YYGS has a history of handling expansion well, he said, and Beijing is an appealing place for high school students from around the world to travel.

Shu Tao FES ’17, who grew up in China, said she expects YYGSBeijing to succeed because so many Chinese students are interested in attending Ivy League schools.

“Young people in China, especially high school students, are more and more willing to study abroad — and they prefer Ivy League colleges. They’re really very passionate about attending famous schools in America,” she said. “This program will definitely have a lot of students in China who are willing to take part in it.”

Tao said she and other Chinese students at Yale would be interested in teaching at YYGSBeijing, because they are familiar with the country and can easily travel there. Familiarity with the Chinese culture and education system, she added, would enable Chinese students at Yale to instruct more effectively than their American counterparts.

YYGS was called The Ivy Scholars Program at its inception in 2001.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

ALEXANDRA SCHMELING/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Yale Young Global Scholars Program-Beijing will be modeled after the program’s current iteration in New Haven.

Elm City launches initiatives to become more bike-friendly

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS Although driving is still the preferred way to travel between home and work in New Haven, the city’s Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking is hoping to incentivize residents to use alternative forms of transportation.

With new bike lanes and a transportation contest called Go New Haven Go, the city is working to reduce its carbon footprint and make New Haven a bicycle-friendly city.

As part of a $135 million Downtown Crossing project aimed at increasing bike and pedestrian traffic in the downtown area, green bike lanes were painted in July on roads that commuters use to travel into the city. The lanes appeared on several blocks of Martin Luther King Boulevard, College Street, Church Street and Elm Street. To supplement these efforts, Mayor Toni Harp and Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 have also championed Go New Haven Go, a month-long contest that challenges residents to find cheaper and safer modes of getting around town.

“Go New Haven Go is all about thinking outside the car, reducing carbon impact and increasing overall quality of life,” said Doug Hausladen ’04, director of transportation and head of the New Haven Parking Authority.

Hausladen, who bikes to work each day, added, “I’ve noticed a difference in my own commute.”

Director of the New Haven/Léon Sister City Project Chris Schweitzer originally organized the pilot program in 2014 with the goal of cutting greenhouse emissions. The Sister City Project is a local nonprofit that conducts educational relief work in León, Nicaragua — an area that was devastated by a 1998 hurricane.

Go New Haven Go was developed as a way to educate New Haven residents about the benefits of biking and walking: improved health, less air pollution and greater access to jobs in the city. A recent report published by DataHaven cited poor transportation as a significant barrier to jobs in the city.

Building off its success in the first year of the program, Schweitzer and the Sister City Project invited New Haven and other partners to get involved in Go New Haven Go’s second edition.

Groups including CTRides and the Yale Office of Sustainability have been meeting with city officials on a monthly basis. This month, Go New Haven Go will advertise NuRides, a website where users can log their trips with alternative transportation and earn restaurant coupons, free tickets and tax discounts.

The month of competition kicked off with an event on Monday called “Walk the Walk.” Blumenthal, Harp and other city officials walked from City Hall to Broadway, where the Office of Sustainability hosted a celebration alongside

The Shops at Yale.

According to Associate Director of the Office of Sustainability Melissa Goodall, the University will take an active role throughout September, planning a series of events on campus and partnering with New Haven organizations to organize other activities in the city.

“Yale is a major employer in the area,” Goodall said. “We are eager to partner with the mayor’s office and other organizations in the area to enhance the environmental, social and economic vitality of New Haven. This initiative is a terrific way for Yale and the city to support each other.”

The goal of both Go New Haven Go and the new bike lanes is to make the streets safer for bikers of all ages and to promote green travel in New Haven. The city was recently certified by the League of American Bicyclists as a “bronze” city, its third-highest award.

The city’s biking community is growing, but Hausladen said there are still not enough people willing and able to make the ride.

“Right now we just don’t have a true gut measure of how many people we could be serving on two wheels,” Hausladen said.

City officials and residents have also said the new lanes are not a cure-all for bicyclists.

Because cars and trucks may accidentally pass or turn into the lanes, bikers should use the lanes with caution, Hausladen said. Educating drivers about respecting the new lanes is as important as the lanes themselves, added Matthew Feiner, founder of the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop.

When Feiner moved to New Haven nearly 20 years ago, he said cycling in the city “sucked.”

However, new state laws that protect cyclists and pedestrians in auto-accidents and mandate three feet of passing space have also made biking much safer in the community. Nonetheless, bike lanes are only a small step in a larger process of improving biking infrastructure in New Haven, Feiner said.

There are still several dangerous intersections in the city, Feiner said. The meeting of Orange and Trumbull streets is a notoriously dangerous spot for bikers, Feiner said, and the Broadway-Elm-Whalley intersection is also congested.

The next step in the design of the bike lanes is to prevent drivers from turning across a bike lane, said Hausladen. He said he hopes to put thermoplastic, a concrete mixture, in the intersection to demarcate where the bike lane continues, essentially making a crosswalk for cyclists.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Creative Dramatics

r

e

c

y

c

l

e

y

o

u

r

y

d

n

d

a

i

l

y

Quality Acting Classes for Kids and Teens at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. Classes are held on Saturdays Sept.-June for ages 7-10 and 11-14 years.

Contact Ingrid Schaeffer, Chair Theatre Dept: 203-795-9011 or ingrids@optonline.net

PAGE 8

YALE DAILY NEWS ¡ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 ¡ yaledailynews.com

FROM THE FRONT

“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.� PLATO GREEK PHILOSOPHER

Class of 2019 seeks religious, ethnic continuity

FORGING DIFFERENT PATHS

In response to a News survey question about what made them most anxious about coming to Yale, one freshman simply replied “loneliness.�

The student, a Protestant Christian, was, in fact, not alone in feeling this way. Religious students were more likely to say they

Which of the following religions does the class of 2019 observe 23% or practice?

2%

2%

None

Agnostic/ Atheist

of their class to anticipate being in a romantic relationship. However, these relationships were most likely to be heterosexual.

Only eight percent of the incoming Christian class did not identify as heterosexual, compared to 20 percent of the agnostic, atheist or non-religious students.

Politically, 87 percent of those who said they were “very conservative� also identified as Christian. “Somewhat liberal� students — the largest political contingent within the class — showed no distinct affiliation to any one religious group.

In addition to fostering diversity within the freshman class, these important cultural distinctions appear to set certain freshmen on different paths throughout Yale.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

AACC

5%

1%

the next four years.

But within the religious demographic of 2019, there existed some discrepancies among different faiths. Jewish students, for example, said they anticipate having sexual intercourse in college at a higher rate than any other religious group on campus, with 76 percent of the Jewish freshmen class responding affirmatively. Only two percent said they definitely do not anticipate doing so. Conversely, Muslim and Hindu students were more likely to say they were going to abstain from sex during college, at 55 and 54 percent. Christian denominations were collectively the most uncertain: 30 percent said they were “unsure� as to whether or not they would have sexual intercourse in college — the highest such rate for any demographic.

While religious students were less likely to anticipate having a sexual experience in college, they were just as likely as the rest

Would the members of the class of 2019 join their respective cultural houses?

AFAM

21%

9%

felt anxious about their social experiences at Yale, with many identifying the party scene as a point of concern, specifically citing a general incompatibility between faith and the typical pillars of a college party scene: sex, drugs and alcohol.

Students interested in engaging with a religious group at Yale already demonstrated that their views may differ from the rest of their class. Seventy-eight percent of freshmen interested in joining a religious organization said they have not ever had sex, compared to 64 percent across the whole class. In terms of anticipating a sexual relationship, the divide continues.

Forty-three percent of students interested in joining a religious organization on campus said they do not anticipate having sexual intercourse at all in college, with an additional 24 percent saying they were unsure. In contrast, 54 percent of total respondents said they anticipate having sex over

Other

La Casa

77% AfroAmerican

45% Hispanic

51% Asian Arab

Protestant

Catholic

38%

Nicole Chavez ’19, who is Hispanic, said she knew she wanted to be involved with La Casa before many of her classmates had even set foot in the center’s facility. During her time at the pre-orientation program Cultural Connections, Chavez learned about the cultural centers’ difficulties with funding and physical space. “Within a few years, a lot of substantial change will be going on with the new heads being appointed, and with the focus students put on it last year,�

Chavez said. “It’s definitely something I want to be a part of.�

South Asian

peting with the Yale Undergraduate Rover Association as well. But while he expects to be involved in some capacity with the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, he added that he is not as sure yet what form that involvement will take.

His uncertainty resonates with many other religious freshmen on campus. Though 56 percent of students identified as religious, only 32 percent of them reported plans to join a faith-based organization on campus. Many students interviewed said they plan to attend services without participating actively in faith-based communities.

Still, for some students, involvement is a certainty, though responses varied across religions. Of the 169 students who identify as Protestant, 68 said they plan to be involved in a Christian student group; 35 percent of Muslim students said the

same for the relevant Yale organizations. Meanwhile, only 8 percent of Hindu students and no Buddhist students indicated such an interest.

In comparison, each of Yale’s cultural centers drew high interest from ethnic students within the freshman class: 71 percent of all self-identified minority students said they planned to have some engagement with their respective cultural house.

Seventy-seven percent of A f r i ca n -A m e r i ca n s u rvey respondents plan to get involved with the Afro-American Cultural Center, while 51 percent of Asian students expressed interest in the Asian American Cultural Center and 45 percent of Hispanic students plan to be a part of La Casa’s community. Four of 15 Native American respondents said they planned to get involved in the Native American Cultural Center.

Some students have already taken steps in this direction.

East Asian

2019 SURVEY FROM PAGE 1

NACC

27% Native American

OTHER

16%

AMANDA MEI/PRODUCTION & DESIGN STAFF

2015 - 2016 COURSE OFFERINGS / DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES HUMANITIES COURSES – FALL 2015 ‡ LECTURES AFAM 162 / African American History from Emancipation to the Present ‡ 6(0,1$56 AFAM 255 / The American South, 1870 to the Present AFAM 346 / Black Atlantic Photography AFAM 377 / Urban Narratives of Injustice in The Wire AFAM 385 / Plantation, Prison, Ghetto in the United States

SOCIAL SCIENCE COURSES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; FALL 2015 Â&#x2021; /(&785(6 AFAM 110 / Freedom and Identity in Black Cultures AFAM 195 / Gandhi, King, and the Politics of Nonviolence Â&#x2021; 6(0,1$56 AFAM 268 / Urban Politics and Policy AFAM 273 / Inequality in America AFAM 399 / Race and Capitalism 'HSDUWPHQW RI $IULFDQ $PHULFDQ 6WXGLHV <DOH 8QLYHUVLW\ :DOO 6W 5RRP 5HJLVWUDU¡V 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH New Haven, CT 06511 | (203) 432-1170 | www.afamstudies.yale.edu For up-to-date course information, consult the students Online Course Selection (OCI) web page at http://students.yale.edu/oci/search.jsp

Images-Top: Selma to Montgomery March, Alabama, 1965 James Karales (1930-2002) Bottom: Black Lives Matter Toronto, 2015, Blair Ryan Photography

YALE DAILY NEWS ¡ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 ¡ yaledailynews.com

PAGE 9

BULLETIN BOARD

TODAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FORECAST

TOMORROW

Partly cloudy. High 86F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

High of 89, low of 67.

XKCD BY RANDALL MUNROE

ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 2:00 PM Choral Auditions. For those of you who have spent Camp Yale running from one audition to another, this Leigh Hall event might provide a bit of relief. One location, one audition process, three choral ensembles: Yale Camerata, Yale Glee Club and Yale Schola Cantorum. Email or call in advance, and enjoy killing three birds with one stone. Leigh Hall (435 College St.).

10:30 PM Dwight Jam. If choral auditions didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quench your thirst for musical fulfillment, come join the Singing Group Council for this sure-to-be-impressive (and free!) a cappella concert featuring fifteen of Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most talented groups. Post-concert, those who are inspired enough to want to join their ranks can sign up for a cappella rush auditions. Dwight Hall.

BAD HAIR DAY BY DOO LEE

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 12:00 PM Is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smarterâ&#x20AC;? Always Better? The Social Impact of Critical Reasoning. Panelists David Rand, Shane Frederick, Erica Dawson and Dan Kahan engage in conversation on the true value of cognitive reflection. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Rm. 120.

7:00 PM Special Screening: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The End of the Tourâ&#x20AC;? (James Ponsoldt, 2015) with Screenwriter Donald Margulies. Option #1: You pay for an $11 movie ticket to see â&#x20AC;&#x153;The End of the Tourâ&#x20AC;? in theater. Option #2: You give your wallet a break and enjoy free admission to this special screening, sponsored by the English and theater studies departments, the Yale Film Society and Films at Whitney, which will be followed by a conversation with screenwriter Donald Margulies. Your choice is clear. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 12:00 PM Beginning Mindfulness Meditation. A four-week series of guided practice on mindfulness, sure to benefit Yalies new and old. Yale Stress Center (2 Church St.).

y SUBMIT YOUR EVENTS ONLINE yaledailynews.com/events/submit To reach us: E-mail editor@yaledailynews.com Advertisements 2-2424 (before 5 p.m.)

2-2400 (after 5 p.m.)

Mailing address Yale Daily News P.O. Box 209007 New Haven, CT 06520

Questions or comments about the fairness or accuracy of stories should be directed to Editor in Chief Isaac Stanley-Becker at (203) 432-2418.

Bulletin Board is a free service provided to groups of the Yale community for events. Listings should be submitted online at yaledailynews.com/events/ submit. The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit listings.

To visit us in person 202 York St. New Haven, Conn. (Opposite JE) FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

CLASSIFIEDS

CROSSWORD Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis ACROSS 1 Flier among hangers 5 Hurt 9 Exams for future attys.

14 Alpine feedback 15 Something to chew on 16 Open courtyards 17 Some Broadway theater handouts 19 Green shampoo 20 Raised on oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own ranch, as a horse 21 Pilot-licensing org.

22 Like many senior part-timers 27 Hemingway nickname 31 Yours, in Toulouse 32 Stadium level 33 __ husky 36 PC exit key 38 Tournament advantage 39 With 40-Across, toy with a crank ... and what each set of four circled puzzle squares graphically represents 40 See 39-Across 42 D-backs, on scoreboards 43 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Red Bookâ&#x20AC;? author 45 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not pretty to look at 46 Certain bond, briefly 48 Tae __ do 50 â&#x20AC;&#x153;The __ lama, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a priest ... â&#x20AC;?: Nash 51 Sherry in a Poe title 55 When doubled, a number puzzle 56 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beatles â&#x20AC;&#x2122;65â&#x20AC;? song 61 Common news hr.

64 Intensely active state 65 Greek storyteller 66 Reject suddenly 67 Field 68 Land maps 69 Ornamental band 70 Socially awkward type

By Ed Sessa

DOWN 1 Interlock 2 Nueve menos uno 3 McAn of footwear 4 NHL great Gordie 5 In flames 6 Camping gear company with a lantern in its logo 7 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait a minute!â&#x20AC;?

8 People working for People, briefly 9 Wash gently against 10 Narrow waterway 11 â&#x20AC;&#x153;__ you coming?â&#x20AC;?

12 Up to, casually 13 Mineo of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exodusâ&#x20AC;?

18 Air rifle ammo 21 Full of gumption 23 Caviar, e.g.

24 Award often blue 25 Pooh pal 26 Philadelphia university 27 __ party 28 Shakespearean call to arms 29 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scarfaceâ&#x20AC;? (1983) star 30 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Try meâ&#x20AC;?

34 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bette Davis Eyesâ&#x20AC;? singer Carnes

Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Puzzle Solved

Available now!

Willow Street 2BR apartment - $1450 per month. Living room, Ă&#x20AC;UHSODFH GLQLQJ URRP VXQ SRUFK ODUJH NLWFKHQ DQG EDOFRQ\ YLSDSDUWPHQWV#DWW QHW

9/2/15

SUDOKU SNEAKING OUT OF A LECTURE

2

8 7 5 2 3 1 4 8 6

8 9 7 8 4 1 Š2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

35 Luke and Leiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father 37 Friend of Fidel 41 Spanish â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;?

44 Woodland mouser 45 Glossy coats 47 Place to dip a quill 49 Piglet of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books 52 Holiday hires 53 35-Down, as a Sith lord

9/2/15

54 Rusted, perhaps 57 Setting of Camusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Plagueâ&#x20AC;?

58 Many a retired racehorse 59 At any time 60 Spent time with Time 61 Gentle touch 62 Oft-smoked fish 63 DOD intel arm 64 Drinks at IHOP

3 5 3 7 4 3 5 9

8 3 8 7 6 1 6 2 5

FRIDAY High of 80, low of 56.

PAGE 10

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

SPORTS

“I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry.

Obviously, I’m not talking about food.”

DWAYNE “THE ROCK” JOHNSON

Varga ’15 scores first NFL touchdown VARGA FROM PAGE 14 The scoring drive, which started from the St. Louis 14-yard line because of an interception, was also produced almost entirely

by Varga. Of the four plays for positive yards, Varga was either the rusher or receiver for three.

“To say that I didn’t expect [Varga] to do this would be a lie,” Yale football head coach Tony Reno said. “I expected Tyler to do on Saturday exactly what he did when he was given the opportunity, because that’s just the type of player that he is. He did the same thing Saturday against the Rams that he did every day for the past three years.”

The Colts have also found use for Varga on special teams. A week earlier in the Colts’ game against the Chicago Bears, Varga returned two kicks for a total of 54 yards.

Varga is one of six running backs on the Colts’ current roster, a list that includes fellow rookie Josh Robinson, who was drafted in the sixth round this year but was out with a concussion on Saturday. The Colts carried four running backs and one fullback on their 53-man roster last season, but all of their backs this year are currently listed as running backs.

Athletic director Tom Beckett said he is following Varga’s progress closely and rooting for him to make the roster this weekend.

“Just like we root for any and all of our students, whether it’s in whatever career path they choose,” Beckett said. “But this would be special, [for Varga] to join the ranks of Yale’s best who have made it at the professional level.”

Varga also showed camaraderie with his veteran teammates on Saturday, as star running back Frank Gore grabbed a microphone during Varga’s post-game interview and asked him a few questions as a reporter would.

When Gore asked Varga about the feeling of scoring his first NFL touchdown, Varga mentioned not the touchdown rush itself, but his actions just after it.

“It felt really good to be able to spike the ball,” Varga said. “You couldn’t do that in college, so I’ve been waiting to do that for a while.”

After Varga answered questions from Gore, the 10-year NFL veteran gave him encouragement entering a pivotal week for the rookie running back.

“I think this week is a big week for you, but I think you can handle it,” Gore said. “I think you’ll do a great job.”

Former Harvard linebacker Zack Hodges, who also signed with the Colts in May, was cut from the Indianapolis roster on Monday.

The Colts play the Cincinnati Bengals tomorrow night at 7 p.m. Eastern time in the final week of the preseason.

May 2, 2015 Despite going undrafted in the 2015 NFL Draft, Varga agrees to sign with the Indianapolis Colts as a free agent just minutes after the end of the draft.

May 7, 2015 Varga flies out to Indianapolis to begin working out with the Colts, just before he graduated from Yale.

Aug. 16, 2015 In his first NFL preseason game against the Eagles, Varga carried the ball three times for 16 yards.

Sept. 3, 2015 The Colts will play the Cincinnati Bengals in their final preseason game at 7 p.m. EST.

Aug. 29, 2015 Varga scores his first NFL touchdown against the Rams on a one-yard rush through the line. The touchdown was one of nine touches that Varga had for 35 yards in the game.

Aug. 22, 2015 Varga returned two kickoffs for 54 yards in the second week of the preseason against the Bears.

Sept. 5, 2015 By 4:00 p.m. EST, the Colts must shave their roster down to 53 members, at which point Varga will know whether or not he will join the likes of Andrew Luck and Frank Gore for the 2015–2016 season.

MERT DILEK/PRODUCTION & DESIGN STAFF

Arkansas tops Elis W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 five players compared to the 2013 season.

“Having such a large roster is really an asset,” midfielder Shannon Conneely ’16 said. “It allows us to play 11 verses 11 and helps us keep numbers up even with injuries. We also have a very deep bench this year. We do not lose any momentum when substitutions are made.”

But those assets were not enough against Arkansas. Forward Ashleigh Ellenwood of Arkansas scored within the first 42 seconds of the game. However, with the high energy provided by the full Bulldog roster, the team jumped right back into the play when midfielder Sofia Griff ’19 scored her first career goal to tie up the game. Grossman assisted Griff on a corner kick 17 minutes into the match.

Throughout the game, Yale had five shots on goal compared to Arkansas’s 17. In corner kicks, the two teams were more even as the Bulldogs earned three kicks to the Razorbacks’ four.

Ellenwood came back into the picture in the last five minutes of the first half to score the second of three goals she scored in the whole contest. It has been 14 years since an Arkansas player scored a hat trick.

“Arkansas capitalized on the little mistakes we made,” Grossman said.

Like Yale, Arkansas holds a roster of roughly 30 players.

However, they held the advantage of experience — nine out of their 11 starters were veteran players. Yale head coach Rudy Meredith began the game by starting only six returning Bulldogs.

Five freshmen — Griff, Michelle Alozie ’19, Fallon Sheridan ’19, Fran Steele ’19 and Keri Cavallo ’19 — all started on the field for the Elis.

“We definitely did not play nearly our best against Arkansas.” Conneely said. “It was a

Aug. 30, 2015 Varga survives the first round of cuts to the Colts roster, making the list of 75 players who will fight for the final 53-man roster.

Elis gear up for rebound M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 lin said. “We are obviously excited for the season to begin, but we shouldn’t hype them up too much, as they are just two games that will prepare us for the season and the upcoming Ivy schedule.”

Aside from all their hard work on the field, the upperclassmen have been integrating the freshmen into their program in order to help bring the team together.

“It is so helpful to have a group of mentors and friends to make the transition to col-

lege more manageable,” midfielder Lucas Kirby ’19 said.

“I love all of the boys, and I am so happy that I will get to spend a good portion of my time in college playing and studying alongside them.”

Forward Keith Bond ’16 added that the team is anxious for the regular season to start so they can see tangible results.

With expectations high, both from the coaching staff and from the players themselves, Yale soccer has the opportunity to have a strong fall season.

The team plans to continue to work hard to move in the direction they want to go as the preseason begins this weekend, and despite the dismal campaign the Bulldogs had a year ago, team members are optimistic.

“Yale soccer is making a comeback, and I am honored to be a part of it,” Kirby said.

The Bulldogs will first take the field against Sacred Heart on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m.

Contact MADELEINE WUELFING at madeleine.wuelfing@yale.edu .

KEN YANAGISAWA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Arkansas’s Ashleigh Ellenwood put together a hat trick to defeat the Elis 4–1 at home. tough loss, but we are a pretty young team and we will bounce back quickly.”

Next weekend Yale will play against Hofstra, who finished 43rd overall in the nation last season according to the NCAA ratings percentage index.

In 2014, the Bulldogs pulled through with a 2–1 win against the Pride.

With some powerful teams in the first few games of the season, such as Arkansas and Hofstra, Meredith appears to be preparing his team for the inconference Ivy play that comes later on, according to goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16.

“Coach Rudy expects us to

give our full effort every minute of every practice or game,” Ames said. “He knows what the team is capable of and holds us to that standard. He knows that mistakes will happen, but only asks that we fix each one as it comes.

Coach Rudy believes that we can win an Ivy title and is doing everything in his power to prepare us for that success.”

The Yale women’s soccer team will compete next in a home game at Reese Stadium this Friday at 7:30 p.m. The event will be televised by the Ivy League Digital Network.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

YALE DAILY NEWS

After 20 years as head coach, Brian Tompkins retired and was replaced by Kylie Stannard.

YALE DAILY NEWS 路 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 路 yaledailynews.com

PAGE 11

PAGE 12

YALE DAILY NEWS 路 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 路 yaledailynews.com

welcome students Visit the Center's newly reinstalled galleries when it reopens in spring 2016.

works on loan Paintings by George Stubbs The Metropolitan Museum of Art Through November 8, 2015 Selections from the Yale Center for British Art Yale University Art Gallery Through November 29, 2015

YOUR YDN DAILY YOUR YDN DAILY

design@yaledailynews.com

r e c y c l e r e c y c l e r e c y c l e r e c y c l e

PRODUCTION & DESIGN

Send submissions to opinion@yaledailynews.com

P&D P&D P&D P&D P&D P&D P&D P&D P&D P&D

OPINION.

Thomas Gainsborough RA, Mary Little, Later Lady Carr, ca. 1763, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 13

ARTS & CULTURE Student musical wraps up run at Fringe Festival

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER While the issue of mental health has been prevalent at Yale, it has also resonated with many others outside of the college community.

After premiering at Yale in early April, “Under,” by Monica Hannush ’16 and Julian Drucker ’16, wrapped up its run at the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival, which concluded on Sunday. The musical follows a student named Serena and the surrounding events that lead to her admission to YaleNew Haven Psychiatric Hospital.

After being selected for the Fringe in late April, the production was one of over 200 shows staged over the course of the festival. Hannush, the show’s playwright, said the production team had been planning to stage the show at the festival before the play opened at Yale.

“As soon as I knew it was going to be a full-fledged production, I knew I wanted to submit it to the Fringe,” Hannush said. “The way we processed feedback from the show when we did it at Yale was almost as if the Yale production was a workshop production.”

In preparation for their New York performance, members of the production team made several changes to the version of the show that was performed at Yale.

Drucker said they added three new songs because ensemble members felt that not enough time was being allotted to musical parts.

Still, Drucker added, the show was cut down to be only 100 minutes in length.

All six cast members interviewed agreed that the most challenging aspect of the prepara-

tion process was making sure that all of the facilities and equipment were set up in time for the show to begin. Jordan Schroeder ’16, who plays a character named Mark, said the team was not able to obtain access to the theater until opening night. He added that for the opening performance, the projectors in the theater did not work.

Drucker said the logistical constraints of staging a show are more stringent at the Fringe than they are at Yale, where productions are given an entire week for rehearsal before opening night. At the festival, the team was give only 15 minutes before and after to prepare for and take apart their show.

“Everything was so fast-paced, and there really wasn’t a lot of time to do tech rehearsal, to be in the space and rehearse with microphones or lights, so it was very crammed,” said Aaron McAleavey ’18, who plays Billy. “It was challenging not being able to have the time to get that down and make sure it went smoothly.”

Hannush said she believes that the show’s performance in New York was an affirmation that the discussions of mental health on college campuses have spread beyond the Yale community. She added that the conflicts faced by the characters are not limited to either Yale or the Ivy League.

Hannush noted that she plans to submit “Under” for the New York Musical Theatre Festival, which staged 22 theater productions in addition to a number of concerts and readings over the course of July.

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

COURTESY OF ROGER BARONE

“Under,” a musical by Monica Hannush ’16 and Julian Drucker ’16, was one of over 200 shows staged at the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival.

Arts groups recruit new members in new ways

New film series depicts heroism, evil in women

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER

IVONA IACOB/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Arts group leaders increase their efforts to attract prospective members, focusing on the incoming freshman class.

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER Amid the hectic nature of Camp Yale, undergraduate arts group leaders are redoubling their efforts to attract prospective members.

Since Friday, more than three dozen of Yale’s undergraduate arts organizations have hosted information sessions, performances and workshops in hopes of attracting new members. Certain traditions, such as the a cappella “Woolsey Jam,” are designed to showcase the diversity within various arts communities and have been held annually for many years. But individual groups have also introduced new means of advertising their organizations to the undergraduate student body, including personalized emails and rare opportunities for members of such groups.

Libby Dimenstein ’16, president of the Yale Concert Band, highlighted the ensemble’s upcoming tour to Italy and Greece as a major selling point to potential members, adding that this season’s concert repertoire will reflect the styles of music from those nations. She added that her group’s recruiting strategy is a gradual process that begins as early as Bulldog Days, when the Band holds

an information session and an open rehearsal. Incoming freshmen who sign up for the group during Bulldog Days received personalized emails tailored to their musical interests during the summer, as well as reminder emails about the audition process, Dimenstein noted.

Leah Meyer ’18, a French horn player in the Yale Symphony Orchestra, said the YSO’s 50th anniversary this year creates a number of opportunities to emphasize the group’s role in the undergraduate community. She added that the possibility of joining the YSO was a major factor in her decision to attend Yale.

YaleDancers president Gracie White ’16 said that her group also begins reaching out to potential members months before incoming freshmen arrive on campus, but noted that she thinks the most appealing feature of this year’s recruiting efforts will be the series of master classes that the group plans to host throughout the year. White added that dancers on campus may be attracted to the unprecedented collaborative projects that YaleDancers is looking to organize with other arts organizations such as a cappella groups.

Other arts group leaders highlighted the importance of improving exist-

ing means of attracting new members in addition to inventing new ways of advertising. Singing Group Council cochairs Grant Fergusson ’17, Reine Ibala ’16, Moriah Rahamim ’16 and James Lee ’16 said their primary aim for this year’s a cappella rush process is to evaluate the council’s policies and ensure that existing restrictions are purposeful and not simply arbitrary. The co-chairs added that the council plans to expand opportunities for freshmen to engage with groups more personally.

“The best vehicle for co-opting freshmen is human interaction,” said Nelson Reed ’17, musical director of The Baker’s Dozen.

Diana Anastase ’19, who plans to audition for an upcoming production of Jean Paul Sartre’s “No Exit,” said that the efforts made by arts organizations during the opening days of the 2015–16 year helped her and others overcome potential barriers to entering the theater community, such as stage fright.

The last official arts event of the 2015 Yale College Freshman Orientation period will be WORD Performance Poetry’s Back to School show on Sept. 12.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

Last night, the Yale Film Colloquium kicked off its fall semester with a coven — a gathering of witches — under the guise of a German ballet school.

Curated by graduate students in Yale’s Film and Media Studies program, the colloquium’s fall series, “Bad Girls,” began Tuesday evening with Dario Argento’s “Suspiria,” a 1977 horror film that follows a ballet student named Suzy who investigates a series of murders at her school. Over 100 Yale and New Haven community members attended the screening, which was held at the Whitney Humanities Center.

Head of Programming Kirsty Dootson GRD ’19 said she believes that “Suspiria” subverts conventional elements of horror movies, noting that the film swaps male violence against women for female violence against women. Yale Classroom Technology and Media Specialist Tony Sudol introduced the film, noting that in spite of Argento’s controversial portrayals of women, the filmmaker does not depict women in a misogynistic manner.

“Women are heroes, men are heroes,” Sudol said. “Women are killers, men are killers. So it’s an equal opportunity here for insanity.”

Dootson said she was inspired to create the series after watching the 1945 Technicolor melodrama “Leave Her to Heaven.”

The film features a female protagonist who becomes so possessive of her husband that “she basically gets rid of anyone in her way,” from drowning his brother to inducing a miscarriage, Dootson explained.

According to Dootson, films like “Leave Her to Heaven,” which contains dark but fascinating female characters who behave in a taboo manner through actions such as cross-dressing and highway robbing, originally had audiences composed mainly of women. Dootson said critics who suggest that the “Bad Girls” series caters only to patriarchal, negative presentations of women fail to recognize that these female characters achieve on-screen what the women in the audience are not allowed to do in real life.

Zelda Roland GRD ’16 described the female characters of such films as “complicated,

dark, driven women [and] antiwomen.”

“Bad Girls” features women behind the camera as well, Dootson noted. The series will show photographer Cindy Sherman’s “Office Killer” — a film about a proofreader at a magazine who murders a number of her coworkers to combat her loneliness — accompanied by a panel discussion on how the film fits into her larger body of work as an artist. In addition, the colloquium will showcase a number of short films made by female filmmakers from across the world, who submitted their works to be featured in the series. The submissions include documentaries, music videos and experimental films on a variety of subjects from transgender rights to playground fights, Dootson explained.

Roland said that the series’ VHS night in November, which will screen Lee Tso-Nam’s “The Challenge of the Lady Ninja,” will highlight Sterling Memorial Library’s recent acquisition of 2,700 VHS tapes. She added that occasions such as VHS night are rare in film screening events, which do not often show films in VHS format.

Women are killers, men are killers. So it’s an equal opportunity here for insanity.

TONY SUDOL Classroom Tech and Media Specialist, Yale Roland emphasized that she thinks the Yale Film Colloquium harbors an exuberant film community otherwise largely missing at Yale.

“I think that with each film, it will be exciting to see faculty, graduate students and undergrads participate in this informal way to interact with an art form that we study and worship and that has become, sadly, less and less accessible.” Roland said.

“Communal movie watching is not something you can replicate at home.”

“Gilda,” the next film in the “Bad Girls” series, will be shown on Sept. 19.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

IF YOU MISSED IT SCORES

MLB Diamondbacks 6 Rockies 4

MLB Red Sox 4 Yankees 3

SPORTS QUICK HITS

CAMILLA OPPERMAN ’16 STARRING IN THE LIBRARY Eight gymnastics athletes — including Opperman, the team’s captain — were named Scholastic All-Americans by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches. In order to qualify for the award, players must have maintained a 3.5 GPA for the entire 2015 academic year.

MLB Mets 3 Phillies 1

MLS NY Red Bulls 3 DC United 0

y

JEFF MALCOLM ’13 STAYING IN HARTFORD Malcolm, former men’s hockey goalie, re-signed with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League. Malcolm is perhaps best known by the Eli faithful for making 36 saves in Yale’s 4–0 win over Quinnipiac in the national championship game in 2013.

MLS Sounders FC 2 Timbers 1

FOR MORE SPORTS CONTENT, VISIT OUR WEB SITE yaledailynews.com/sports

“I expected Tyler to do on Saturday exactly what he did … because that’s just the type of player that he is.”

TONY RENO HEAD COACH, FOOTBALL

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

Varga ’15 makes first pro touchdown

Bulldogs fall in first test

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s soccer team launched its fall season with a loss against Arkansas, a dominant Southeastern Conference team.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Last Friday, the Bulldogs (0–1 Ivy) kicked off their season opener with the Razorbacks (3–1–0 SEC). The game was the first time that the Elis saw action from a team in the competitive SEC. Arkansas’s previous experiences in the NCAA final tournaments showed as they won against Yale in a 4–1 match.

“The team played well

against Arkansas,” defender and captain Ally Grossman ’16 said. “They are an extremely athletic team and a top-level program. We held our own against them. We played our game, possessed the ball and made them work for the win.”

The Elis debuted this season after finishing third in the Ivy League last year — the highest position Yale has held in the conference since its 2011 season of the same ranking.

With seven veteran seniors and a freshman class ranked 12th by TopSoccerDrawer. com, the Yale women’s soccer team has promise for the 2015 season. Thirty Bulldogs comprise the squad, an increase of SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 10

JOEY YE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Tyler Varga ’15 is one of six running backs on the Indianapolis Colts roster. Final cuts will be made by Saturday.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Four months after signing with the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent, former Yale football running back Tyler Varga ’15 is still working hard to make his case for joining the 53-man roster. And if recent developments in the NFL preseason are any indication, the former Eli standout appears to be making a strong impression.

Varga has appeared in all three of the Colts’ preseason games, most recently highlighting his new NFL career with a one-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter against the St. Louis Rams — a touchdown that turned out to be the game winner for the Colts. Varga spiked the ball in the end zone to cap off a nine-carry, 35-yard performance that had the Indianapolis sideline “in a frenzy,” according to the Colts’ online news blog.

“I just try to play my hardest every single game, and I think my effort is evident on the field,” Varga said following the game on Saturday.

The Kitchener, Ontario native survived the first round of roster cuts from 90 to 75 players this past Monday, but he will still need to prove himself this week in order to avoid being in the final 22 cuts by Saturday afternoon, at which point all NFL teams must trim their rosters down to 53

players. Varga may also make the eight-man practice squad, which would strengthen his chances of making a roster in the future.

Varga’s touchdown rush gave him an opportunity to show off both agility and power. From one yard out, Varga took an inside handoff to the left, cut further to the left outside of the tackle and then bowled through a linebacker on a dive into the end zone.

SEE VARGA PAGE 10

KEN YANAGISAWA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Bulldogs will face seven more non-conference opponents before opening Ivy competition.

Men’s soccer optimistic after coaching change

BY MADELEINE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The new semester started a bit earlier for some fall sports, such as the men’s soccer team, which arrived at Yale in early August to prepare for their upcoming season.

MEN’S SOCCER Players began their preseason training on Aug. 12 with the first captain’s practice — but this was not the beginning of their training. Since the hiring of Kylie Stannard, the men’s soccer team’s new head coach, at the end of the 2014 season, the team has been preparing differently than in years past.

“We have a new coach, and so the team has a different outlook, style and dynamic going into the season,” defenseman and midfielder Ollie Iselin ’18 said. “Coach Stannard brings fantastic coaching pedigree as well as a different mentality.”

Coming from an associate head coach position at Michigan State, a top program that made five NCAA tournament appearances in the six years that he was there, Stannard is hoping to help turn around the Bulldog program after last year’s disappointing 1–13–3

season.

Aug. 21 marked the first day of the preseason, but this was not the beginning of training for the team. Players have been working with coaches since the end of last season to strengthen both the physical and mental aspects of their game. They were expected to complete a tough summer workout plan in order to be ready for their season when they returned to campus in the middle of August.

Not only has the training been tough physically, but the team has been focusing on its mental game as well. Sports psychologist Brian Cain, who has worked with other Yale sports teams, spent time with the players, emphasizing visualization, confronting fear and core values for the team.

The Yale soccer program will be able to showcase their improved squad this coming weekend, as their preseason kicks off with Sacred Heart on Friday and Fairleigh Dickinson on Sunday. After a tough month of training, the team is still treating each game with the same level of importance.

“We are preparing for those games like any other game,” IseSEE M. SOCCER PAGE 10

YALE DAILY NEWS

Last season, the Bulldogs went 1–13–3 — their worst performance in recent memory.

STAT OF THE DAY 5

THE NUMBER OF NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES MEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH KYLIE STANNARD MADE WITH MICHIGAN STATE BEFORE JOINING THE BULLDOGS.