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INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

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CROSS CAMPUS From Dakota to Connecticut.

The Association of Native Americans at Yale, Fossil Free Yale and other student groups are hosting Cherokee lawyer Mary Kathryn Eagle for a discussion on the Dakota Access Pipeline today at 7 p.m. in LC 102.

GUT FEELING BACTERIA, WEIGHT LOSS LINKED

(ALMOST) SWEEP

PRO-WHAT?

Six Yale professors and alums earn MacArthur ‘Genius Grants’

PROTESTS AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD

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ELECTION 2016

All eyes on nominees

Everyday IM hustlin’.

Sillimanders now have an extra incentive to participate in IMs. For every selfie taken at the IM fields and sent to the Head of College, students will receive two Sillibucks to spend at the buttery or on Silliman gear.

When they go low, we get high. Saybrook Dean Christine

Muller sent a Saybrookwide email yesterday afternoon asking students to be considerate of others after various undergraduates reported smelling marijuana in the Saybrook library last week.

Yale: 1, Harvard: 0. The

Bulldogs may have lost to the Crimson in field hockey on Friday, but Yale is leading in endowment returns. While this year Yale’s endowment grew by 3.4 percent, Harvard’s dropped by two percent.

Yale: 1, Harvard: 1. According to the Crimson, Harvard is on track to completing their new LGBTQ and Diversity office by 2017. Meanwhile, the location of Yale’s own Office of LGBTQ Resources has been a source of concern among undergraduates. It is currently located in an annex dorm behind Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

The Union and the Constitution forever. In

the first presidential debate last night against Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 , Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump referred to La Guardia, JFK and Newark Airports as “third world countries.” What does that make CT Limo then?

Debates for days. “I have a son, he’s 10 years old. He has computers, he’s so good with these computers it’s unbelievable,” Trump said during the debate. Yale could always use another CS50 teaching assistant.

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Yale students and New Haven residents gathered Monday night to watch the first presidential general elecBY AMY CHENG AND CAITLYN WHERRY STAFF REPORTERS Donald Trump wore a blue tie, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 wore a red dress and Michael McGarry, a legislative council-

man from Hamden watching the presidential debate in Cask Republic, wore tweed.

Monday marked the first presidential debate of an election year that has divided Americans, but the Yale and

New Haven communities came together over the spectacle of two presidential hopefuls going head-to-head on national television. NBC’s Lester Holt modSEE DEBATES PAGE 4

SMASH HITS Volleyball begins title pursuit with a sweep of Brown PAGE 12 SPORTS

Tension in Board of Ed

BY JON GREENBERG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Community concerns about the Elm City’s public schools transformed a routine Board of Education meeting into a heated debate, loaded with accusations of incompetence and selfish behavior against certain Board members.

More than 100 people packed the Beecher School auditorium on Tuesday evening to air their grievances with what they said was a toxic environment among those managing New Haven’s public schools. Responding to recent controversies, especially New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries’ ’95 poor rapport with Board members and other local policy makers, at least 20 community representatives publicly chastised officials for pursuing personal agendas and failing to approach the district’s problems in a unified way.

“It is in the air that we are not getting along,” said a reverend who testified.

“There are different agendas being carried out, and it’s dividing our community.”

An altercation between Mayor Toni Harp, president of the BOE, and fellow member Dr. Edward Joyner at the beginning of Monday night’s meeting hinted at internal division within the Board. Before public testimony began, Harp expressed her views on how the meeting should proceed. Joyner then exclaimed that she “was not a dictator” and the views of other members should be given equal weight.

Later in the meeting, speakers offered their views on the ongoing decision of whether or not to fire Harries, the polarizing superintendent.

Several residents accused Harries of being stubborn and difficult to work with. Even those residents who ultimately came to his defense at the meeting conceded that the criticisms were valid.

“Harries is stubborn, not a good communicator, uncomfortable,” said Marianne Maloney, who teaches at New Haven Academy.

But, she added, “his stats are good.”

This sentiment was echoed by his other supSEE BOE PAGE 6

Panel discussion opens public renaming debate

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY AND CHRISTINA CARRAFIELL STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale’s newly created Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming hosted its first public discussion Monday, focusing

on how universities nationwide handle racially charged naming debates.

The renaming committee, which University President Peter Salovey announced in August of this year, was established in the wake of widespread outrage from students and faculty about the

Yale administration’s April decision to keep the name of Calhoun College. Tasked with establishing principles for all future naming decisions, the committee is composed of two students, six professors and four Yale alumni and staff.

But Monday’s discussion,

“Blackout” event condemns police brutality

which occurred at noon in a classroom at the Yale Law School and featured a panel of five distinguished academics discussed naming, was not widelyattended by undergraduates, the body primarily responsible for catalyzing campus-wide conversations last year about renaming

Calhoun College and abolishing the title “master” for heads of college.

History professor Beverly Gage ’94, a committee member who chaired the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate last year, SEE NAMING PANEL PAGE 4

COMMEMORATING VANISHED STUDENTS

What’s in a name? Tonight

at 8 p.m. the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming will meet with students of Calhoun College at the Calhoun Head’s home.

Trapped in the closet. R. Kelly will perform in Bridgeport early October. A former professional basketball player, the singer and producer is known for his collection of hit singles like “Bump N’ Grind” as well as his hip-hopera.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1960 Timothy Dwight College administration debate requiring female visitors to carry passes on weekends.

Women are already required to have passes on weekdays.

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Around 200 Yalies wore black in solidarity with black communities nationwide.

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BY ZULFIQAR MANNAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In solidarity with black communities on campuses nationwide, a group of around 200 Yalies — all dressed in black — took to

Cross Campus Friday afternoon for National Blackout Day. The demonstration, organized by the Black Student Alliance at Yale, was held in response SEE BLACKOUT PAGE 6

GROUPS REMEMBER DISAPPEARED STUDENTS On Sunday, several local Mexican-interest groups, including Unidad Latina en Acción and MEChA de Yale, organized an installation on the Cross Campus lawn. Organizers set up 43 empty desks to protest the disappearance of 43 students from a teacher’s college in Guerrero, Mexico, in September 2014, after a confrontation with local police.

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.COMMENT “These are false equivalences at work” yaledailynews.com/opinion

De vino veritas

GUEST COLUMNIST CHRISTIAN WO L P E R T G A Z TA M B I D E

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tanding in the Forum of Rome after the gruesome murder of the most prominent man in the republic, Marc Antony readies to speak to the masses gathered to bury Julius Caesar. Calling for the attention of the crowd, the statesman declares: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” So, friends, Yalies, countrymen, lend me your ears: this two thousand year old statement rings as true as ever today, in the light of ongoing conversations about the naming and renaming of campus buildings.

While many members of the Yale community claim to be guardians of “light and truth,” they are in fact blinded by hypocrisy. In prioritizing the evil over the good, or vice versa, in judging the legacies of historical figures, Yalies exhibit double standards. What is needed is an even-handed consideration of a man’s actions and contributions. This standard should be common sense, which has sadly been lacking in recent controversies.

LET US BE PATIENT AND THOUGHTFUL WHEN ARRIVING AT DECISIONS Let us begin with Benjamin Franklin, the namesake of one of the two new residential colleges. From his work in the physical sciences to his influential role in shaping the system of government of the bourgeoning American republic, Franklin’s good lives after him whereas his evil is interred with his bones. At the same time, it is true that he owned slaves, was constantly entangled in relationships with prostitutes and had a mistress in France. Both proponents and opponents of Benjamin Franklin College privilege one narrative over the other, doing violence to the complexity of Franklin’s character.

Elihu Yale is another example of a man whose virtues have been brought to the light but whose evils remain, at worst, hidden and, at best, ignored.

One of the first benefactors of the Collegiate School, both students and administrators usually highlight these moments of generosity and willfully neglect to mention his wickedness as president

of the East India Company in Madras. Yale was heavily involved in the slave trade and enforced a law whereby ships bound for Europe had to carry no fewer than ten slaves.

Moreover, he imposed cruel punishments on slaves during his tenure. Yet nobody seems to be picketing Woodbridge Hall because of him; no one is petitioning for the removal of Yale from their diplomas.

By contrast, the contributions of John C. Calhoun, Class of 1804, have been downplayed. Before anybody accuses me of bigotry, let me be clear: I firmly oppose the institution of slavery and racism. What Calhoun is most well known for advocating is deplorable. Yet, slavery is part of our nation’s history, and if we wish not to repeat it, we must never forget it. Just as we must not deny his role in the formulation of the Nullification Theory and the defense of slavery, we must not overlook the positive aspects of his legacy. For instance, he opposed the Mexican-American War, which he feared would put the union at jeopardy and was the leading political theorist in proposing the Theory of the Concurrent Majority. The latter doctrine curtailed mob rule in democratic societies by allowing minorities to block unilateral majoritarian measures. Yet many seem to overlook these contributions of the nation’s former vice president, deciding to leave the good interred with his bones.

Double standards and hypocrisy must be rooted out of our community to create a space for productive intellectual discussion. Men have flaws, but they also have positive contributions worth commemorating. We must take time to reflect on these individuals in a balanced manner. It is our job to promote rationality and critical thought on all questions, not just those that present themselves within the confines of a classroom. I ask that we evaluate both the good and the evil that historical figures have done and avoid favoring one or the other to fit our ideological aims. So, friends, Yalies, countrymen, let us not arrive at rash judgments. Let us be patient and thoughtful when arriving at decisions, for judgment is “fled to brutish beasts” and through it “men have lost their reason.”

CHRISTIAN WOLPERT GAZTAMBIDE is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at christian.wolpertgaztambide@yale.edu .

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magine this: You’re at a party. You’re there with one of your suitemates who has been drinking throughout the night. By now, your friend is clearly intoxicated and expresses strong interest in hooking up with someone at the party with whom they hooked up previously but had an unenjoyable experience. Ask yourself: Would you let your drunk suitemate do it? Or would you encourage them to hold off and reconsider when sober?

Over the past week, members of Yale’s sophomore class navigated this hypothetical scenario as part of the mandatory Bystander Intervention workshop engineered to prepare students to intervene in troubling sexual situations. When I attended this workshop last year, the above scenario seemed like one of the most open-andshut cases I could envision.

Your friend is intoxicated. Their decision-making ability is compromised. Take them home and discuss casual sex later. End of story.

However, my answer provoked disorienting and wholly insufficient objections from the Communication and Consent Educators leading the workshop — namely that you can still tell whether a drunk person consents to sex and that alcohol does not fundamentally change one’s desires. Rather, it merely “reduces inhibitions,” a fact that they treated with complacency, rather than caution. Throughout the workshop, the CCEs failed to engage with the reality that alcohol can cause temporary physical desire to obscure longer-term personal values. Similarly, they did not discuss how alcohol can

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d a n ge ro u s ly a m p l i f y both sexual aggression and willingness, choosing to emphasize the claim that alcoSHERRY hol does not LEE make you a different perA classical son.

This reluctance to act identify alcohol as a critical factor in most unwanted or risky sexual encounters betrayed an unsettling myopia in our campus dialogue about sexual assault.

Judging from the responses of current sophomores to the workshop, this tenuous exculpation of alcohol in sexual situations continues to confuse and frustrate. One sophomore pointed out that alcohol often facilitates unsafe sexual behavior, citing difficulties in negotiating condom use or communicating that the encounter is progressing beyond one’s comfort level. The CCEs protested: “It is important to remember that regrettable sex is not sexual assault,” a recurrent theme of the workshop discussions this year. While an obviously true statement, it unfortunately overlooked the fact that preserving a hard line between “regrettable sex” and “sexual assault” tacitly enables the former. We have an obligation to look out for our friends and protect them from situations they might be ill-equipped to manage — precisely the sort of intervention that this workshop should promote.

However, the CCE web-

site claims that it doesn’t “tell women to rely on ‘safety tips,’ or tell men not to get drunk in case they rape someone by mistake” because “latest research … shows those methods don’t work.” Yet one of the footnotes to this statement is a study (“The Role of Alcohol Policy in Sexual Violence Protection,” published in 2013) claiming that “students’ alcohol use was a predictor of rates of rape.” Regardless of whether or not such methods “work,” it is imperative that the CCE program not downplay or misrepresent the correlation of alcohol to sexual assault simply because it doesn’t “make you a different person.”

The hesitation to talk explicitly about alcohol is understandable. Discussions about alcohol and sexual assault have had a long history of defaulting to victim blaming. But if such a fear prevents the CCEs from exposing the correlation between alcohol and sexual assault, then they are doing campus culture a disservice. As the central organization of sex education on this campus, it is precisely the duty of the CCEs to fully equip and empower students with the knowledge they need to preempt potentially vulnerable situations.

The CCEs cannot afford to gloss over the realities of alcohol in sexual assault, especially on a college campus where alcohol is easily accessible and consumption enjoys the privilege of a tolerant eye. Their workshops need to help initiate and contribute to difficult but necessary conversations about alcohol and assault, rather than permitting a dangerous drift toward its normalization — and

even worse, exoneration — in sex. Otherwise, their promises to “revise sexual scripts” ring sadly hollow.

JUDGING FROM THE RESPONSES OF CURRENT SOPHOMORES TO THE WORKSHOP, THIS TENUOUS EXCULPATION OF ALCOHOL IN SEXUAL SITUATIONS CONTINUES TO CONFUSE AND FRUSTRATE The CCEs’ goal of "respect, mutuality and mindfulness" cannot be realized in a culture of implicit complacency toward sexual encounters under the influence of alcohol, which necessarily inhibits mindfulness as much as it disinhibits desire. Although “in vino veritas” might be a true axiom, honesty might not always be the best policy — lest the sobering reality hang over us a little too heavily.

SHERRY LEE is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at chia.lee@yale.edu.

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Leaving the climate bubble W

hen I was an undergraduate at Yale, I experienced a latent anxiety about climate change. But I did not act on this anxiety; this campus felt like its own neatly contained world and bringing climate change into daily conversations felt irrelevant, even impolite. It was as though I and everyone around me were living in a state of double consciousness: both aware and living as though we were not aware, making plans for a future that was preposterously unstable.

But almost as soon as I left Yale, this co-created illusion fell apart. After I graduated in 2015, I read book after book, article after article, all citing the world’s best climate scientists, and still felt I must be misunderstanding, overreacting or hysterical.

I did not understand the silence all around me — even in the most liberal, climate science-accepting communities. No one seemed to talk about it or acknowledge the problem that undermined the premise of nearly everything we did.

I spent the year after graduation trying to understand climate science, but also trying to understand my own sense that discussing it remained a taboo. I still am. Being back in New Haven, I am confronted daily with the contrast between the narratives about my future that I received at Yale, and the way I spend my days now, trying to spread the truth that climate change stands

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to collapse human civilization within our lifetimes.

This truth, if we embrace it, gives our voices unique moral authority in this time. The adults in power today have gotten to live full long lives, have already held their children, maybe even grandchildren. Most of us have not, and many of us want to have the same chance.

WE JUST NEED THE WILL, AND THE WILL SHOULD BE EASY TO FIND IF WE LET OURSELVES FEEL WHAT IS TRULY AT STAKE After months of not knowivng how to grapple with this knowledge, I began working with a group called The Climate Mobilization, which is dedicated to ensuring the U.S. government launches a response to climate change actually commensurate with the current reality of the crisis.

Governments have waited so long to act that for a good chance of avoiding irreversible levels of warming, we must reach net

Support all reproductive choices I was very excited to read Katie Martin’s article, “What to expect when you’re expecting (at Yale)” (Sept. 23, 2016). It is commendable that the Yale Health Basic plan covers abortions at full cost. Too many people face obstacles accessing abortion care, and the costs associated with those obstacles are a significant burden.

However, I’m disappointed to learn that prenatal care is not included in the Basic plan, and that the only group advocating for pregnant students’ rights is an anti-abortion group. The rights of pregnant women and parents are just as much a reproductive-justice issue as access to abortion and birth control. Those who hope to advance reproductive rights do themselves a dis-

zero emissions within the next decade. The kinds of gradual cuts that would leave us emitting into the middle of this century embraced by most politicians are no longer feasible.

TCM is a social movement startup that has largely worked behind the scenes to bring the idea of an emergency climate response into the political mainstream. They and their allies were responsible for the Democratic platform this year declaring that we are in a global-climate emergency and must respond at wartime speed, on a scale not seen since World War II. On the heels of that success, TCM launched the Climate Year program (kind of like the Americorps of climate activism) in an effort to recruit skilled leaders and rapidly scale up our outreach and organizing operation.

TCM has a comprehensive strategy to build a massive, unified social movement that will make sure leaders commence the kind of just climate mobilization we need — at the speed that we need it — within the next year.

Such a mobilization would require changing our economy and society on a speed and scale we have not done since we retooled our entire industrial and consumer economy during World War II. The good news is that it’s happened before. There’s no reason we can’t change everything again. We just need the will, and the will should be easy to find if we let ourselves feel what is

truly at stake.

I am part of Climate Year’s inaugural class, repurposing the skills I learned working as a Managing Editor at this very paper.

It’s not what I planned to do when I left Yale, but it gives me great clarity and a constant source of hope.

Student movements have changed history before and have already moved trillions of dollars in investments out of the fossil fuel industry. It seems important that we who are young and stand to live out our lives in a crumbling world fully embrace the truth of our situation, let it change the way we live and ultimately withdraw our consent from institutions and structures that do not dedicate themselves to helping us survive.

But if we do not acknowledge the truth of the climate emergency in our daily lives, we cannot even support one another as we wrestle with it, let alone act. Gestures as small as starting conversations and creating pockets of sanity and open discussion are important because they break us out of our individual units of anxiety and create the seeds for joyful, beautiful and collective resistance. And if you’re interested in starting such a conversation, my email is below.

service when they separate abortion from other forms of reproductive health care. Advocates for reproductive justice must be advocates for systems that promote fair and dignified access to all forms of health services involved in establishing and sustaining families. These include abortion, contraception, adoption, assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy, prenatal care, child health care, child welfare, paid parental leave, paid family leave and flexible work and school policies. Furthermore, advocates must ensure the institutions and systems providing these services are antiracist, accessible to those with the fewest resources and those with dis-

abilities, and affirming of all genders and sexualities. We must work alongside our allies across social justice movements and learn to view all of our goals as aligned.

These are not easy tasks, but they are critical for those who seek to do this work. I was only beginning to grasp these concepts while I was at Yale, and I have grown in my understanding of these intersectional issues since graduating seven years ago. Yale needs a group that takes up the cause of pregnant students and students who are already parents without marginalizing other reproductive choices.

ANYA GRENIER is a 2015 graduate of Silliman College and a former Managing Editor for the News.

Contact her at anya@theclimatemobilization.org.

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“Lovefest” defends reproductive justice

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, dozens of Yale students and community members donned pink and waved signs as part of a peaceful pro-choice counter protest near Planned Parenthood on Whitney Avenue.

The “Lovefest for Choice” — co-organized by University coalition Yale Students for Reproductive Justice and community group Women Organized to Resist and Defend — unfolded in response to a planned protest by Operation Rescue, a national pro-life organization. Members of the pro-life group traveled from Colorado to New Haven early last week to demonstrate on Saturday alongside a dozen pro-life activists from Milford. Yale Students for Reproductive Justice, a recently formed coalition of reproductive justice groups at the various graduate schools, heard about Operation Rescue’s protest plans and organized the Lovefest in response, said organizer Anna Fiastro SPH ’17. On the opposite sidewalk, at least 40 pro-choice students and city residents peacefully advocated for reproductive justice.

“What we’re trying to do is not really create an environment of hostility with the protestors,” Katie Liptak ’19, a member of Reproductive Justice Action League at Yale, said. “We’re just trying to create positive energy to counteract the hate that they’re giving off for people who might be coming into Planned Parenthood today or passing by.”

Operation Rescue members met at the New Haven Green on Saturday morning to protest, but decided to join the weekly protest at Planned Parenthood. Counter-protesters followed along to the new location, where protestors, armed with angry signs and violent rhetoric, shouted at the pink-clad cluster across the street.

RALY member Katherine Hong ’19 said there was no point in engaging with the “hostile” protestors, many of which had directly confronted pro-choice counter-protestors on the sidewalk, as they were “lying and spreading false information.”

Counter-protesters highlighted that the reproductivehealth services extend beyond abortions. Planned Parenthood, and the broader umbrella of reproductive justice, offers paid family leave and support for women who choose to have children, Liptak said.

Reproductive rights matter across lines of race, economic status, class and ability, and supporting reproductive justice and

Planned Parenthood can alleviate other problems, she added.

One of the counter-protesters, who did not wish to be identified, argued that women of color fight for their choices every day and reproductive health shouldn’t have to be one such fight.

New Haven’s Planned Parenthood chapter sees protests beyond the one on Saturday, as the pro-life group from Milford pickets the property every week, said Yale Students for Reproductive Justice member Sonia Taneja MED ’19. Volunteers from community group WORD serve as support for Planned Parenthood patients and employees at these weekly protests, said IV, a WORD volunteer who asked to be identified by first name only. The group also does mass action events about once a month, which can attract between 50 and 80 prochoice community members.

According to IV, at these events, representatives from the Yale community include both undergraduate and graduate students, with an especially large number coming from the Yale Divinity School.

What we’re trying to do is not really create an environment of hostility with the protestors.

KATIE LIPTAK ’19 Member of Reproductive Justice Action League “Our focus is to try to make the experience as OK as possible for patients and workers, which is why for example, when we started doing our weekly clinic defense, we made a strategic decision to stand here on Whitney as opposed to actually being at the [Planned Parenthood] entrance, because [protestors] can get very violent and vitriolic verbally, and when they get loud it makes it a lot harder for patients,” IV said.

“We tend to station ourselves over here and have a positive display up and down the street, and when patients come off the bus or are walking over here, we can escort them safely.”

After about two hours, prolife demonstrators packed up and moved to the New Haven courthouse to condemn abortion, although court was not in session on Saturday.

Planned Parenthood is located at 345 Whitney Ave. Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu.

Microbiology retreat showcases research

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Yale microbiology students, faculty and associates gathered at the West Campus Conference Center

BY ANAMIKA VEERAMANI STAFF REPORTER On Friday, over 150 Yale microbiology and microbial pathology faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral associates gathered in the West Campus Conference Center to celebrate the 18th annual Microbiology Program Retreat.

The day’s program, which started with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and ended with a reception at 5 p.m., included research poster presentations and a smorgasbord of diverse faculty talks, which featured topics such as the Zika virus, microbiome variation and genetic analysis. Both graduate students and postdoctoral associates were invited to present their research during the poster session. Bonnie Lemelin, senior administrative assistant to Yale’s Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and event organizer of the retreat, said that 58 posters were presented and, from them, the judges chose one postdoctoral and one graduate student as the winners.

The origins of this microbiology retreat are rooted in the history of microbiology at Yale, a department that disappeared for a period of almost 20 years

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to showcase their personal work but also an opportunity to represent their lab and illustrate the scope of research that their lab conducted, said Maren Schniederberend, an associate research scientist in Barbara Kazmierczak’s lab.

Stephanie Shames, a postdoctoral associate in Roy’s lab, spoke about her research involving Legionella pneumophila, an opportunistic pathogen of humans that infects freshwater amoebas.

After Shames presented to the small crowd that had gathered around her poster, microbiology faculty members offered suggestions for methods that she could use in future research.

Sam Fels, a postdoctoral associate in Department of Microbial Pathogenesis Chair Jorge Galán’s lab, agreed that hearing from others was an added benefit to presenting research at an event like the Microbiology Program Retreat.

“I wanted to get feedback [on my research] because I’m in the early steps of my project,” Fels said.

The retreat was not only beneficial for the presenters: over 60 of the 150 attendees were simply there to experience

the event. Justin Toh GRD ’21, a second-year graduate student, said that the retreat was “a really nice way to see all of the topics and projects that are going on in this area at Yale.”

He added that the retreat’s showcase of research projects helped him choose which labs to rotate in during his first year as a graduate student.

Christina Lin ’11 MED ’20 said that having attended Yale as an undergraduate interested in research, but not knowing the best way to begin, the retreat was something she thought would be helpful for undergraduates in the same position.

“To undergrads, know that every [science] department [at Yale] has an event like this,” Lin said. “So if you’re interested in a particular field of research, you should find out when the retreat is, go to it and look up whatever you’re interested in.

It’s the best way to explore your interests and see what’s really out there.”

Nineteen Yale labs were represented at the 18th Annual Microbiology Program Retreat.

Contact ANAMIKA VEERAMANI at anamika.veeramani@yale.edu .

CT voter registration gains steam

BY JINGYI CUI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Pro-choice students and city residents advocated for reproductive justice rights directly across from an anti-abortion protest.

in the late 20th century.

“Yale dissolved the microbiology department in the ’70s,” said Craig Roy, vice chair of Yale’s Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and the event’s chair. “Their thinking there was the war on infectious diseases is over, so microbiology could be broken down into different roles.”

But the Yale administration quickly found out this was not the case, Roy explained. Microbiologists had become experts at manipulating different biological systems, and so microbiology still possessed great tools for studying biological systems. That is when the University realized it needed to bring microbiology back, Roy said.

Out of the rebirth of the new microbiology department 18 years ago came the Microbiology Program Retreat, a program initially started in order to create more dialogue between faculty members, Roy said. But in recent years, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have also played a more direct role in the dialogue by presenting research posters.

The graduate student and postdoctoral presentations provided not only a platform

More than five times as many voters registered through the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles this past month than in all of last year thanks to a federal investigation and new automatization, state officials announced earlier this month.

Since the beginning of August, the state’s DMV has been immediately registering any potential voters when they apply for driver’s licenses, obtain state identification cards or update their addresses, resulting in roughly 17,000 registrations this past month compared to 2,700 in all of 2015, according to the Connecticut Secretary of State’s office. Secretary Denise Merrill and the DMV instituted this new program in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s April investigation earlier this year into a potential violation of a federal law mandating that state DMVs register voters. Previously, officials at the department were not transmitting paperwork to the Registrar of Voters in time, leading many citizens to not be registered when they thought they were.

Under the new system, voters are registered by default, and computers play a larger role.

“Even while we know the collection of past data is an imperfect science, we do know this: more people will get registered to vote if we give them fast and easy opportunities to do so,” Merrill said in a Sept. 19 press release. “The new system proves that.”

Of the new voters in the past month, roughly one-third registered as Democrats. Onesixth registered as Republican and the rest as Independent.

With this new exponential growth in registrations, the DMV will soon surpass mailing, online and in-person registration as the state’s most popular if this pace remains constant.

In two years, the department will also institute a fully automated system, leading to even more efficiency in voter registration, said Patrick Gallahue, the communications director in the secretary’s office. The DMV will soon begin researching requirements for hardware and software upgrades to continue to computerize the system.

“The secretary has noticed that it is potentially time consuming for the staff of DMV to offer a paper registration, to assist the voter, answer their questions and mail the document to the registrar of the voters,” Gallahue said. “So this will do it electronically. It is also understood that this will take some time.”

Previously, Connecticut voter registration numbers through the DMV were dismal compared to those in other states, Gallahue said.

But critics remain concerned about whether the DMV is competent enough to shoulder more responsibility.

“We have numerous examples over the past year of things at the DMV not working the way they are supposed to: very basic, very fundamental things,

whether it’s being late with renewals, people kind of disappearing from the system or being registered to the wrong town,” said Zachary Janowski, director of external affairs at the Yankee Institute, a conservative state policy think tank in Hartford. “If any of those things [happens, it] could be very frustrating on the election day.”

Other institutions that col-

lect citizen information, such as colleges and various state agencies, can also step in and register voters, said Cheri Quickmire, executive director of Common Cause in Connecticut, a citizen’s lobby dedicated to state government reform.

The 2016 presidential election will be held on Nov. 8.

Contact JINGYI CUI at jingyi.cui@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.”

SIMON SINEK AUTHOR AND SPEAKER

ELECTION 2016

Students gather for first presidential debate

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Around 100 million people were predicted to watch the debate between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton LAW ’73.

DEBATES FROM PAGE 1 erated the debate, which took place at Hofstra University in New York.

Debate-watching parties scattered across Yale’s campus and New Haven drew modest crowds. Viewers fell on all sides of the political spectrum, including Bernie Sanders supporters, Clinton fans, Trump voters and even some who watched for pure entertainment.

With less than two months until the general election, Trump and Clinton met on the national

stage to discuss a host of important voter concerns including income inequality, race relations, climate change and the meaning of a presidential temperament.

A record-breaking 100 million viewers were expected to watch Trump and Clinton Monday night, but Yale students and locals alike anticipated the debate would change few minds.

“We saw exactly what we have seen for the past few months,” said Voter Registrar of the Yale College Democrats Nick Girard ’19. “[The candidates] have stuck to exactly what they have been

saying for a long time.”

Although the debate was the first between the Democratic and Republican nominees this election cycle, students interviewed said the issues, and the roughand-tumble political mudslinging from both sides, remained largely unchanged during Monday’s debate.

Calling it “a polarized election,” Girard emphasized the irreconcilable differences between the parties’ nominees and the policies they champion. Fellow member of Yale Dems Daniel Vernick ’19 agreed that prior to the debate,

both Trump and Clinton had made their positions clear to the public.

Monday’s debate merely accentuated their respective pre-established values and beliefs, Vernick said.

Victoria Hewlett ’18, who joined the Dems in Saybrook College’s television room, said the presidential debate evoked a “general sense of dread,” citing the community’s high rate of dissatisfaction with both major party nominees.

“This debate proves that Donald Trump is volatile and dangerous for America,” Vernick said.

“We cannot afford his fascist values.”

The Yale College Republicans hosted their own watch party in Linsly-Chittenden Hall.

McGarry, standing in the doorway of Cask Republic, peered up at a television during a watch party Monday night. He said that in downtown urban centers like New Haven, most voters fully support Clinton, but in the greater New Haven area, voters are more likely to support Clinton simply because they dislike the Republican alternative.

McGarry said that because

she is a woman, Clinton is under greater public scrutiny than Trump, citing recent concerns about Clinton’s health as evidence of this disparity.

“The bar for [Trump] is so low,” McGarry said. “So long as he does not talk about his genitalia, he is presidential.”

The Yale College Democrats are holding a voter registration drive on Cross Campus today.

Contact AMY CHENG at xiaomeng.cheng@yale.edu and CAITLYN WHERRY at caitlyn.wherry@yale.edu .

Naming panel touches on broader discussion

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University President Peter Salovey formed the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming on Aug. 1.

NAMING PANEL FROM PAGE 1 added that it would be “silly” to focus solely on Yale students and not consider the discussions at other universities with similar naming controversies.

The five professors who attended Monday’s panel were Edward Ayers GRD ’80 of the University of Richmond, Daina Ramey Berry of the University of Texas at Austin, Tamika Brown-Nagin LAW ’97 of Harvard, Matthew Carnes of Georgetown, and Brent Henry of Princeton.

During the 90-minute discussion, the panelists parsed different aspects of the naming issue, citing their own experiences with racially charged disputes on college campuses.

Ayers, a historian who studies the American South, defended keeping historical names, but added that current issues must inform our treatment of the past.

Brown-Nagin, who served on the committee that voted to change a controversial Harvard Law School crestlast year, argued that universities should use questions of naming as an opportunity to honor influential civil rights activists.

“I very strongly favor adding new symbols, monuments, so that there can be a variety of perspectives that are represented or a variety of conversations that are had,” Brown-Nagin said.

The poor undergraduate turnout, which some attendees attributed to the hour at which the event took place, highlighted the challenges the new committee may face as it seeks to include constituencies from across the University in naming discussions.

In interviews with the News, committee members who attended Monday’s panel discussion emphasized that the naming committee consists mostly of

professors who specialize in racial issues, rather than administrators who were criticized by some undergraduates when the Calhoun decision was announced last spring. These professors also pointed out that naming issues extend beyond Yale College and said the conversation must include stakeholders outside the undergraduate community.

“We’re aware that one of the challenges we face is we’re not working on a blank slate,” said Law School professor John Witt ’94 LAW ’99 GRD ’00, chair of the renaming committee. “We’ve got to take into account the past of this conversation.”

Witt — who invited students to contact him personally with their views on the naming dispute — added that the committee has already begun a listening tour of Yale College that will continue this week with group discussion sections in each residential college.

Still, some undergraduates who attended the panel — which was devoted primarily to the experiences of other universities that have worked through racially charged naming disputes — expressed concerns that the University is once again ignoring their opinions.

“I got here, and it’s hardly any undergraduates,” said Liam Riley ’19. “It’s really ill-advised to talk about how other universities are doing this without talking about what students here are feeling and including their voices in the conversation.”

Riley, who transferred to Yale this fall, added that the event should have been scheduled at a more convenient time and in an undergraduate-focused space.

Riley emphasized that undergraduates are the group most affected by the naming decisions, since they live and work in the buildings whose names are

under debate.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who serves on the naming committee, said the event took place at noon to accommodate the visiting professors’ schedules. Holloway added that undergraduates represent just one of many constituencies the University is obliged to serve.

“It’s certainly a valid point,” he said, in reference to frustration about the timing of the event. “But there are so many different constituencies. Undergraduates aren’t the only students here.”

Still, concerns over the timing and location of the event surfaced on Facebook Sunday night. In a post on the online forum Overheard at Yale, Tobias Holden ’17 noted that the naming event was poorly publicized.

Holden wrote on a Facebook page for the event that “a strong student/faculty showing will

allow us to learn more about the principles the committee is weighing and to provide input.”

Heaven Berhane DIV ’18, a graduate assistant at the AfroAmerican Cultural Center who advises black undergraduates on health and wellness issues, told the News that many students feel exhausted after a year of continual activism.

“You get that you’re a student first, but you also have to work on behalf of a larger community,” Berhane said. “Knowing what we did last year on campus, you get tired.”

The renaming committee is scheduled to issue a report on its findings before the end of the semester.

Contact DAVID YAFFEBELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu and CHRISTINA CARRAFIELL at christina.carrafiell@yale.edu .

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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU AMERICAN ESSAYIST AND PHILOSOPHER

Calhoun protesters allege police harrassment

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER New Haven residents and Yale students protesting Calhoun College’s name this past Friday delivered a letter to the Office of the President describing an incident of alleged harassment by a Yale police officer at a separate rally two weeks ago.

Roughly 20 Yalies and members of Unidad Latina en Acción held up chains and an orange banner that said “Change the Name” as they marched from Calhoun College to Woodbridge Hall. There, they handed a member of University President Peter Salovey’s staff a letter that said a Yale police officer videotaped and warned them they were blocking traffic at a demonstration Sept. 16. The document, which was signed by Elm City residents and Yale students alike, asked that

Salovey discipline the officer and educate the Yale police force on protestors’ right to assemble.

“Last week, this police officer came without announcing and started taking pictures and videos,” said ULA organizer John Lugo.

“It’s a scare tactic they are using against us.”

He added that the officer accused them of blocking the streets, even though they only march across Elm Street when the light is red.

Steven Woznyk, assistant chief of the Yale Police Department, said in a Monday email to the News that Yale police officials are aware of the letter and have begun an internal inquiry into the matter.

“Please know that the Yale Police Department takes very seriously its obligation to serve with the utmost integrity, professionalism and respect,” Woznyk wrote.

ULA has been protest-

ing the residential college’s name every Friday at 12:30 p.m. since Yale employee Corey Menafee smashed a window in Calhoun depicting two slaves. Menafee resigned after the incident, before being reinstated by the University.

The protesters gave speeches in front of Woodbridge Hall before ringing the doorbell at 12:57 p.m.

Although Salovey did not come outside, Director of Administrative Affairs Pilar Montalvo took the letter and thanked the protesters, said ULA organizer Megan Fountain ’07.

Six police officers, including the one implicated in the letter, watched the demonstrations, but declined to comment.

Protestors also held up photos with signs that stated why they believe Calhoun’s name should be changed and encouraged observers to do the same. Menafee, who was

present for part of the protest, also paused to take a photo with a sign.

Wilson He ’20, who participated in the march, said he believes Yale cannot pride itself as a bastion of free speech and diversity when it is not representing people of color or American ideals.

“The constant celebration of Calhoun even a century after slavery ended ignores the suffering slaves burdened and is a moral blot upon Yale’s history,” he said.

“When you honor something with a name you are honoring its legacy and that legacy is slavery.”

Three other protestors interviewed echoed Wilson’s sentiment, saying they decided to take part in the event because the name endorses racism.

Calhoun College opened in 1933.

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

Profs and alumni awarded MacArthur grant

BY HAILEY FUCHS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER One Yale professor and five alumni were named MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious honor for poets, journalists and other creators.

On Sept. 15, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its annual recipients of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowships.

Professor of poetry Claudia Rankine and five Yale alumni — Ahilan Arulanantham LAW ’99, Kelli Jones GRD ’99, Mary Reid Kelley ART ’09, Sarah Stillman ’06 and Julia Wolfe MUS ’86 — were among the 23 winners named.

Each recipient will receive $625,000 over the course of five years to further their creative pursuits. The so-called MacArthur “Genius Grant,” which comes with “no strings attached,” according to the foundation’s website — has only been awarded to 942 people.

“I was totally flabbergasted when I got the news — shocked, ecstatic and, most of all, tremendously grateful for the opportunity to invest more deeply in ambitious investigative work,” Stillman wrote in an email to the News. “It’s an incredible gift to have a vote of confidence not just in my reporting and writing on public policy issues, but also in the type of work The New Yorker still prizes, in a media landscape often starved for resources: that of immersive, deeply reported stories that require a lot of time and resources to pull off.”

Stillman, who received both her B.A. and M.A. in anthropology and graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a Marshall Scholarship, now works as a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. She has also written for other news outlets such as The Washington Post, The Nation and The New Republic. Most of her work involves long-form narratives about social injustices and giving voices to those who usually go unheard. Her writing has won her the George Polk Award, as well as the Hillman Prize.

Stillman is currently teaching a

COURTESY OF EINO SIERPE

Elm City residents have been protesting the name of Calhoun College throughout the summer.

Feminist rockers headline 216

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COURTESTY OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Both Claudia Rankine and Sarah Stillman ’06 teach undergraduates at Yale. nonfiction writing class at Yale.

The MacArthur Foundation receives nominations from high-profile professionals in a variety of areas.

The selection process is secretive: Both the selection committee members and nominators are anonymous.

According to The New York Times, the fellowship does not inform nominees until they are named fellows.

Winners usually receive an unexpected call a few weeks prior to the official announcement, which adds an element of surprise and elation to the process.

“When I met [Stillman] in 2005, it rapidly became apparent that [she] could do more, and do it better, than an ordinary mortal. She had published a book when she was in high school,” said English professor Anne Fadiman, who was also Stillman’s first English professor. “She’s one of the kindest and most generous people I know, always oriented toward others rather than toward herself. And I feel certain that will continue post-MacArthur.”

Rankine, who teaches a course that is cross-registered in English and African American Studies, was awarded the fellowship for her accomplishments in the field of poetry. She is most notably known for her works “The End of the Alphabet,” “Plot” and “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.” Her most

recent work, “Citizen,” reached critical acclaim for its discussion of racial tensions in 21st-century America.

The other recipients are accomplished in their respective fields: Arulanantham, director of advocacy and legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, has dedicated his career to protecting the rights of undocumented immigrants. Jones, who serves as an associate professor in Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology, has spent her career curating art from the African diaspora and introducing it to the mainstream audience.

Another recipient, Kelley, clinched the fellowship for her videos depicting women’s experiences at different places and points in time. Wolfe currently teaches music composition at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is highly regarded as a distinguished composer of music that centers around historical and fabled storylines, with songs ranging from the folk to the classical genera.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation established the fellowship program in 1981.

Contact HAILEY FUCHS at hailey.fuchs@yale.edu.

Raechel Rosen circumcised a banana in the basement of 216 Dwight St. to close the set of her band, The Coven of Mima Good, at WYBCx Yale Radio’s season-opener Saturday.

Aiming to give a voice to artists frequently rendered voiceless in mainstream society, co-organizers A.R. Canzano ’18 and Sara McCartney ’19 selected an all-female line-up for its first show of the year, McCartney said.

The concert featured three Boston and New York City-based bands: Digital Prisoners of War, The Coven of Mima Good and Human People.

“In light of the homogeneity of previous radio house line-ups, it was important to carve out a space for female-fronted groups,” McCartney said.

McCartney added that rock historically comes from marginalized communities, and punk — a subset that emerged within the genre in the 1970s — specifically acts as a means for minority groups to express themselves. Since punk is a natural voice of outrage, she said, it is well-suited to serve as a channel for the expression of modern feminist thought.

Punk music’s origins as an art form with an inherently do-it-yourself ethic — which emphasizes its anticonsumerist ideology through nontraditional means of recording and communication — makes it accessible to individuals from all socioeconomic backgrounds, McCartney said.

In conjunction with the emergence of third-wave feminism, the development of the Riot Grrrl subgenre in the ’90s — fronted by the likes of SleaterKinney, Bikini Kill, and the X-Ray Spex — paved the way for an extended visibility of diverse musical performers, she added.

Marisa, guitarist and vocalist of

Human People, highlighted the disparity between males and females in the music industry, noting that the term “male group” is nearly nonexistent, as bands comprised of “white, straight, cis[gendered] males” are considered the norm. Human People, by contrast, is frequently cited as a “female group.”

“Punk is music for outsiders,” Marisa said, “so it makes sense that now the best punk or DIY bands are female, or people of color, or queer.”

Members of Human People identify themselves by first name only.

Rosen, the frontwoman of The Coven of Mima Good, called her sensationalistic faux circumcision — during which she peeled and cut a banana with a pair of scissors — was a nuanced response to the intrinsic misogyny and objectification of women in media. She pointed to hiphop singer Nicki Minaj’s music video for her song “Anaconda” as a direct source of inspiration, as Minaj similarly chops a banana in her performance.

Rosen added that the broader genre of rock has yet to break through the same gender barriers as punk.

“Rock and roll in particular is very male-dominated,” Rosen said.

“Women deserve to rage ... out.”

She said while Mima Good is frequently categorized as punk due to its strong female presence and the powerful pro-female messages in its lyricism, her band considers itself rock and hopes to open a conversation about diversity within the genre — pushing for the reclamation of rock and roll from its “history of abusive boys.”

WYBC hosts Ante-Fling, a showcase of alternative artists, at Toad’s Place each April.

Contact CAITLYN WHERRY at caitlyn.wherry@yale.edu .

The 2016 Hunt Prize Lecture: To Bear Witness Thursday September 29

Elizabeth Dias, religion and politics correspondent for Time magazine is the 2016 recipient of the George W. Hunt, S.J. Prize for Excellence in Journalism, Arts & Letters. Excellence in Journalism, Arts & Letters.

4 pm Lecture

The Hunt Prize honors young writers who demonstrate integrity and the promise of future achievement in their work. The prize was established in 2014 as a joint initiative of STM and America Media, and was made possible through a generous gift of Fay Vincent, Jr.

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Ms. Dias will be at Saint Thomas More to receive her prize and deliver a lecture relating to her work. The lecture will be featured as the cover story in an upcoming issue of America.

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FROM THE FRONT Yalies condemn police violence BLACKOUT FROM PAGE 1 to the recent fatal shootings of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. Eli Ceballo-Countryman ’18, who organized the blackout, said that the gathering was to serve as a photo opportunity for student activists to show their support for and recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement.

We’re standing in solidarity with campuses all across the nation and the cities most affected by this tragedy.

ELI CEBALLO-COUNTRYMAN ’18 Student Organizer “We’re standing in solidarity with campuses all across the nation and the cities most affected by this tragedy,” said CeballoCountryman, addressing the crowd as participants gathered in front of Sterling Memorial Library.

The demonstration began with a short speech from Ceballo-Countryman about the importance of communal spirit and “collective resilience,” which was followed by a moment of silence to mourn the recent deaths of Crutcher and Scott.

Student activists raised a BSAY banner reading

“Freedom through Collective Struggle” throughout the event.

The blackout, which initially started in front of Sterling library, had to move to the lawn next to William L. Harkness Hall due to the unexpectedly large crowd that showed up. Protestors marched to the new location for a group photo, which depicted demonstrators putting their fists up in unison, while repeating chants ranging from “no justice, no peace, no racist police,” to “shut it down.”

Participants interviewed described a sense of disillusionment with repeated losses for the black community. Most of them declined to comment — one said there is “nothing new to be said.”

“The fact that this is a daily reality stuns me.

I heard about this back when I was in Kenya but the actuality of everything surrounding this has left me speechless,” Ruhi Manek ’20 said.

Tiffany Fomby ’19, who was present at Friday’s rally, similarly expressed frustration at the repeated deaths of black people at the hands of police officers.

BSAY organized a similar event last December, after news broke of the non-indictment in the shooting of Michael Brown. Titled “Hands up, Don’t Shoot,” last year’s blackout drew a crowd of a similar size.

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Co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship, the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration and the Yale Sustainable Food Program.

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“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN WRITER

Discontent at Board of Ed meeting

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Board of Education meetings have become contentious because of controversies over Superintendent Garth Harries, seated left.

BOE FROM PAGE 1 porters: under Harries’ administration, a substantially greater number of students from New Haven Public Schools have graduated from Gateway Community College, said Mark Kosinski, Gateway’s dean of academic affairs.

Maloney added that Board members should make an effort to cooperate with Harries for the good of the Elm City’s children.

“Do we want to exchange

the uncomfortable for the good old days of flag waving and no results?” Maloney asked the crowd.

But Harries’ critics also accused him of mismanaging funds, like spending thousands on a time management consultant.

Kermit Carolina, the former principal at James Hillhouse High School, urged those present not to fire Harris before his contract expires in June 2018. Otherwise, the public school system might

have to spend hundreds of thousands in a severance package, he said.

“The plane is in the air right now,” Carolina said. “Leave the pilot alone until we land.”

Harp’s position on the Board of Education, to which she was appointed last year, was another topic of contention. Several speakers expressed that it was the mayor’s responsibility to oversee every facet of city government and worried that her presence on the Board of Education limited

her ability to focus on all of these areas.

Alicia Caraballo — a former member of the Board who has refused to step down from her position — sat next to the mayor on the Board members’ panel.

Harp prefaced Monday night’s meeting by saying that she was fine with Caraballo being there.

Ten people, including Caraballo and Harp, sit on the Board.

Contact JON GREENBERG at jonathan.greenberg@yale.edu.

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“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”

J. K. ROWLING BRITISH NOVELIST

Santos sheds light on human nature

BY CARINA HAHN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At h e i s ts, s e c u l a rists and the intellectually curious gathered in The Grove on Chapel Street Sunday afternoon to hear Yale psychology professor and Head of Silliman College Laurie Santos discuss the scientific reasons why humans imitate the destructive behavior of others.

The event, titled “How to Think Different,” was part of a “How to be Human” lecture series sponsored by the Yale Humanist Community, a group of Yale students and New Haven residents with common interests in atheism and secularism. In her talk, Santos explored what she said is a distinctively human trait: copying the habits of one’s peers.

“The minds of humans are sponges for other people’s ideas,” Santos said.

“Being a species that wants to share makes us a species who connects positively, but also makes us a species that is especially prone to the negative ideas of others.”

To illustrate her point, Santos presented a series of slides and short videos that demonstrated the human habit of sharing ideas and thoughts with others. She contrasted the behavior of chimpanzees with human children in order to demonstrate that only humans are able to share ideas with one another. For example, while both toddlers and chimpanzees point at objects they desire, a phenomenon known as “proto-imperative pointing,” only human toddlers point with the goal of attracting the attention of other people and sharing the experience.

In the modern era, this desire to share has led to inventions like Facebook and Wikipedia, which Santos said facilitate instantaneous sharing. But the need to share has spawned inventions throughout human history, she said.

Santos told the story of nineteenth-century inventor Henry Fox Talbot, who helped develop precursors to the first camera. Santos said Talbot’s invention arose out of his desire to share his honeymoon trip with his friends back home.

Audience members interviewed said Santos’ ta;l raised new questions about human behavior.

Ali Bandeali SOM ’18 said the lecture made him question the meaning of originality in the context of Santos’ main points.

Incarcerated women speak at Law School symposium

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER On Friday, over 100 attendees gathered to listen to and learn from current and formerly incarcerated women at the Yale Law School.

The symposium, titled “Real Women, Real Voices: Where the People Meet the Policy,” discussed the effects of high incarceration rates on the female population and was hosted by the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. Audience members ranged from Yale undergraduates and New Haven residents to Yale faculty, public health students, ministers, teachers, nurses and prison volunteers.

“We are going to interject our voices into the policy dialogue,” said event moderator Andrea James.

James, a former lawyer as well as the founder of the organizations Families for Justice as Healing and a member of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, was incarcerated for two years starting in 2009. She said the Council’s motto is “Nothing About Us Without Us,” explaining that the voices of women who are or have been incarcerated need to be heard for radical change to take place within the United States justice system.

Speakers at the event chose not to disclose why they had been convicted.

Speaking to the crowd, James recalled a time when Yale Law School students visited the Federal Correctional Institution of Danbury, where she was being held.

She said the students did not interact with any of the inmates, keeping their eyes down even when she attempted to greet them.

“The power of Yale needs to shift into place when you visit these spaces to do more than look at us,”

Bandeali said that in an age of constant idea sharing, being original takes on a different meaning. “[Santos] provided the evidence in a clear and convincing manner,” Sarah Gannett ’20 said.

“Though the presentation itself was short, I think the talk set the foundation for incredibly far-reaching conversations. People around me afterwards were discussing education, formal religion and other rituals, and Santos set the stage for these discussions.”

The talk set the foundation for incredibly far-reaching conversations.

LAURIE SANTOS Head of Silliman College The human desire to transmit experiences is tied to our inclination to imitate the bad behavior we see in others, Santos argued. Another video contrasting toddlers and chimpanzees showed that human children are predisposed to copy others’ behavior, even if that behavior is against the children’s best interests.

Because human minds so easily absorb negative ideas from others, Santos urged her audience to be mindful of the quality of the information that they receive.

“Our filter for bad ideas is not as good as we expect,” Santos said.

In a question-andanswer period after her talk, Santos said that humans can pick up abstract ideas and rituals, either through religion or through culture, that detract from human flourishing.

These lessons are especially important to Yale students, Santos said, as undergraduates are particularly disposed to risky behavior.

“I also worry more about the assumptions t h a t u n d e rg ra d u a te s have about the percentage of students doing bad behavior, such as drinking too much or having unprotected sex,” she said.

“They always think that the percentage is higher than it is, so then they do it more, which perpetuates [the cycle].”

Santos is in her first year as the Head of Silliman College.

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Organizers hung pictures of currently incarcerated women throughout the Law School auditorium.

James said. “Yale students, you are going to rule the world. You have a privilege that far surpasses most people in the entire world. Use your voices to speak up for us.”

Event organizer Topeka Sam wrote in an email to the News that she first came up with the idea for a symposium of this kind when she was incarcerated herself. Since then, she has helped organize similar conversations at multiple other universities, such as American University and Loyola College.

At Yale specifically, the conference included panels on clemency, re-entry and the effects of incarceration on family members.

Four women at the Indiana State Women’s Prison spoke at the event via video conference and detailed a project they are currently working on. The initiative would allow incarcerated women to start to work towards acquiring a home while still in prison through nonprofit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity.

Vanessa Thompson, one of the

four women to speak on the call, explained that incarcerated women often have no home to go back to or must return to the environment that led to their incarceration in the first place. Through the proposed initiative, the women could take healthy living classes and work on fixing abandoned houses when serving their time.

During the second panel, women with family members that were incarcerated spoke about their experiences with the U.S. prison system.

Kyndia Riley, a 19-year-old whose mother has been incarcerated since she was two years old, said her grandparents, who raised her and her sister, passed away while her mother was behind bars.

After the death of her grandmother when Riley was 18, she had to assume financial responsibility for her mother and found she had difficulty reaching her mother to grieve with her, as it was too costly to make phone calls from the prison.

“I couldn’t have a relationship

with my mother unless I sent her money I didn’t have,” Riley said.

Barbara Fair, a New Haven community activist, spoke of the psychological trauma her sons endured while incarcerated. One of her sons was placed in a supermax prison, the most secure levels of custody in the current prison system, at age 17.

Fair added that many people who have been incarcerated suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the treatment they receive in prison, which can include isolation and unnecessary stripsearches.

“You can’t put a person in a cage and expect that not to change them,” Fair said. “After we cage [prisoners] like an animal we put them on the streets and wonder why they act like they do.”

According to Business Insider, the U.S. has the highest percentage of its population in prison of any country in the world.

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

Author discusses Israeli-Palestinian conflict

BY ADELAIDE FEIBEL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Israeli author and journalist Ari Shavit made his second visit to Yale in two this week, speaking to a crowd of just over 50 about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Shavit, the senior correspondent for the Israeli center-left newspaper Ha’aretz, spoke about his experience living and writing in Israel to his audience in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Monday night. A question-and-answer forum hosted by several Jewish groups at Yale focused on Shavit’s 2013 book “My Promised Land — The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel,” a nonfiction book that provides an in-depth yet personal narrative history of Israel.

“I try to combine my patriotism and love for the country with my liberalism and love for peace,” Shavit said.

Shavit’s book, a New York Times best-seller, delves into the nature of both modern Zionism and the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During the talk, Shavit called his book a “biography of a nation,”

Contact CARINA HAHN at carina.hahn@yale.edu .

adding that in order to understand both the internal problems of the Israeli government and the external problems of the regional conflict, people must first have a firm grasp of Israeli history.

“The [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict has to do with history, with identity and with religion,” Shavit said. “If you come with a kind of naiveté that everything happened yesterday without understanding the depth of it, you cannot begin to address it or resolve it.”

Shavit argued that the possibility of a one-state condition is the greatest danger to Israel and to peace in the region, and a twostate vision is essential for creating peace. However, with the increasing influence of the Israeli extreme right, Shavit said he fears the consequences of Israeli occupation and settlements on the peace process.

“Occupation is unfair to the Palestinians,” Shavit said. “It takes away from them the one part of the land that should be theirs. I know that they [Palestinians] want to destroy me, but letting them live and rot in such

a way … would that strengthen me?”

He added that Israeli occupation endangers Israeli citizens because it strengthens the anti-Israel cause of radical Palestinians and encourages terrorism. Asserting that the first step in catalyzing the peace process is to stop the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Shavit said Israel should reconstruct the Gaza Strip and deliver clean water and electricity to Gaza’s two million inhabitants in order to help develop a sustainable Palestinian state.

Shavit’s beliefs are considered left-wing in Israel’s political system. However, unlike many of his leftist colleagues, Shavit identifies as both a patriot and a progressive. Despite his ideological leaning, Shavit said he hopes to build a bridge between conservative and liberal Israelis, Jews of Israel and Jews around the world and progressives in Israel and progressives in the United States.

“I want to see a real alliance between progressive America and progressive Israel,” Shavit said. “I want us to work together,

acknowledging the challenges of the Middle East and yet maintain our values and really make Israel what it must be, a benign nation and a beacon of freedom, social justice and eventually peace.”

Yale students interviewed resonated with Shavit’s message.

Meital Gewirtz ’19 was intrigued by Shavit’s contrast between the objectives of Israel and the objectives of other nations. Gewirtz said Shavit thinks Israel was created more to allow Jews the freedom to be openly Jewish rather than because Israel was seeking power.

Paul Lee ’18, who travelled to Israel on a Yale-West Point program this summer, read Shavit’s book before the trip. Lee said that as someone who studies Korean and Asian politics, Shavit’s efforts to bridge the gaps between different groups of people were inspiring.

The talk’s co-hosts included the Slifka Center, Yale Friends of Israel, YIPAC and J Street U at Yale.

Contact ADELAIDE FEIBEL at adelaide.feibel@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“We’re going out there and doing the best we can as an organization with heavy hearts and an eye towards what matters most.”

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Bulldogs sweep Bears in Providence

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The Bulldogs went 3–1 in four games against Cornell and Columbia last season.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 to a 7–2 non-conference record to start the season, controlled the action against Brown from the outset. With the exception of a 2–0 deficit to start the second set, Yale held the lead throughout the entirety of the match.

The Elis capitalized on a slew of Brown errors in the early stages of the match and jumped out to a 21–13 lead in the first set. Facing an early hole, Brown outside hitter Shirin Tooloee rattled off four kills in response as the Bears pulled within one point at 21–20.

But Rasmussen halted the Bears’ momentum with a kill, and setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 finished the job with a service ace several points later, delivering the first set to Yale, 25–21.

The second set proceeded in similar fashion. The Bulldogs again built an early lead, quickly winning nine straight points on the strength of two kills from Kott and five more errors from Brown.

With the score at 9–2 in Yale’s favor, the Bulldogs had committed nine fewer errors than their opponent. In danger of falling into a two-set hole, the Bears again tightened the score late, pulling within two points at 19–17. At this point, though, the Bulldogs took over, using two kills from outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 and two service aces from outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 to win the next six points and the set.

“Our team embraces challenges and we get excited during close games,” Steinberg said. “We are able to take a step back during a close match, focus on what we need to do in order to win and then execute that game plan.”

Steinberg’s two aces, along with three from Rasmussen, powered the Bulldogs to an 8–2 service ace advantage over Brown.

Through ten games, Steinberg currently leads the team with 13 service aces.

The Bulldogs ramped up their offensive intensity in the third set, completing the match sweep with a 25–19 finish. Yale recorded 17 kills in 25 total points, almost the same tally as in the first two sets combined, while making just one error.

Avoiding mistake-laden volleyball was crucial in Yale’s effort

on Friday, with the team committing just 10 errors compared to Brown’s 20. This efficiency, paired with strong attacking and a significant blocking advantage at the net, powered the Elis to their first win of the Ivy League season.

“It was nice to play as a team a little bit more,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “I think we’re starting to figure things out a little bit.”

Kott and Rasmussen led the team with 11 kills apiece and just four attacking errors between them. Rasmussen filled out the stat sheet in other areas as well, posting nine digs, three service aces and two block assists.

While Steinberg, the team leader in kills, has been most notable for her offense throughout the season, her defense stood out on Friday. The Glenview, Illinois native led both sides with 15 digs over the three-set match.

“I try to contribute in any way that I can every time I step on the court,” Steinberg said. “If my team needs me to step up on defense for a certain match, then that’s my main goal. A lot of our hitters were doing great things Friday night, and by playing good defense, I could help give them opportunities to keep scoring.”

Yale’s diverse offense has been thus highlighted by Kott’s fast start. Appleman identified the freshman as a key replacement for hitter Kelly Johnson ’16, an All-Ivy First Team selection all four seasons of her career. Kott, along with Rasmussen and Wirth, earned last week’s Ivy League Honor Roll, the fourth time in as many weeks that the freshman has received the honor. Kott’s 59 kills rank second on the team this season, and her 0.300 hitting percentage is also among the team leaders.

While Kott acknowledged her own improvement throughout her rookie season, she emphasized that the team is collectively working “exceptionally hard” to reach its full potential.

The Bulldogs, now on a threegame winning streak, will continue their Ivy League schedule on the road next weekend, facing Columbia on Friday night and Cornell on Saturday.

Contact STEVEN ROME at steven.rome@yale.edu .

Chavarin’s late goal secures tie W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 calling the wing backs back in to cover, so at times we were playing more like five in the back,” Hudson said. “[We] knew that their game and success has been from balls over the top to their two forwards, and Lussi is especially elusive up top with her runs. We communicated more, were more aware of their runners and stayed very organized the whole game.”

Despite its sound defense shutting down the dangerous Princeton forwards for most of the game, Yale fell into a trap that has proved all too prevalent this season. For the seventh consecutive game, the Bulldogs conceded the opening goal, this time in the 19th minute. Princeton expertly worked a short corner, with midfielder Vanessa Gregoire curling in a ball behind the Bulldog backline. Tiger forward Abby Givens snuck behind the Eli defenders and just beat Fagel to the ball to head it into the open goal.

“We knew going into the game how dangerous Princeton could be off of set pieces [like the short corner play],” Fagel said. “After they scored off of one in the first half, a big part of our halftime talk was about the mental aspect of the game.

Our team is great in the air and all we needed to do was stay 100 percent focused for the rest of the game in order to avoid another goal.”

The Bulldogs came out fired up for the second half and quickly began to create chances for an equalizer. Midfielder Fran Steele ’19 not only delivered some dangerous crosses from corner kicks but also forced Princeton goalkeeper Natalie Grossi into a solid save with a powerful free kick. Chavarin, the team’s top scorer, constantly proved to be a thorn in the sides of the Princeton backline. Her creative dribbling generated a number of opportunities that fell one pass short of a shot on goal. After 73 minutes, the Elis’ perseverance paid off as Chavarin finished a one-on-one breakaway with tremendous aplomb to tie the game at 1–1. “[Midfielder Geneva Decker ’17] cleared the perfect ball from the back and the defender mishit the ball, so I stole it,” Chavarin said. “The only thing going through my mind was to do whatever it takes to win the game. I have been working on reading [one-on-one situations] with the keeper after practices, so I knew to touch the ball around the keeper in that situation because of the angle that I had.”

Despite having the better chances in the final minutes of regulation and overtime, the Bulldogs couldn’t find a way through the Princeton backline.

Yale’s most promising opportunity, a low drive from Chavarin at the edge of the box, was

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However, the resilient draw against the defending Ivy League champion marks a strong start to Yale’s conference schedule. “[Tying Princeton] was a great feeling and proved how much the team has come together since last season,” Steele said. “Although we were very happy with the result, the draw could have been a win for us, so we don’t want to settle

for being happy with a draw. We had a lot of chances in the game so that gives us a lot of confidence going into the next Ivy game against Harvard.”

Yale has not emerged without defeat from its first two conference games since starting 2–0 in 2009.

Joey Kamm contributed reporting.

Contact CHRIS BRACKEN at christopher.bracken@yale.edu .

Yale falls to No. 18 Stanford FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 ’20 hammering in the game’s opening goal — the first of her career — off a penalty corner just 2:39 into the match.

The Cardinal, though shaken in the first half by Yale’s quick offense, regrouped at half time and emerged with the twopoint victory.

“We really stayed with the game plan throughout the 70 minutes,” head coach Pam Stuper said. “We [came] out strong, trying to do what we do best and trying to break up their play as much as we could.”

The Bulldogs implemented quick attacking play on Sunday against Stanford that was absent from their game against Harvard earlier in the weekend, stringing together their trademark quick short passes up the field. In the first half, Yale received six penalty corners, double Stanford’s total, and the Bulldogs scored their first goal off of the second corner.

Just over ten minutes later, Stanford balanced the scoreboard to tie the game at 1–1, barreling through the Elis’ defense to push the ball past Katz’s left shoe. Yale almost edged ahead again with less than five seconds to play, as a sweeping cross ball flew past the goal, but there was no player on the post to take the shot.

Katz made just one save in the first half, with a save percentage of 0.500, but the Cardinal came back after the break with a more determined and offense-oriented game plan that saw the team maintain more possession and fire in 14 shots.

Katz let in only two of Stanford’s total of 20 shots during the game. She maintains her place on the Ivy League leaderboards, ranked third in save percentage with a 0.746 and second in saves with 44.

“The first half, we dominated,” Stuper said. “We had the momentum and took advantage of it, and I think after halftime Stanford came back aiming to get more of the second half. Our fatigue played in a little bit then, as they were gaining momentum and we were [just] fighting through.”

The penalty corner count inverted during the second half, as the Cardinal upped its number to 14 corners from six in the first half and the Bulldog total dropped drastically from 12 in the first half to just five in the second.

Stanford capitalized on its squad’s speed and brute force, driving counter attacks and long swift passes around the Elis sticks. Yale’s defense was shaken by the Cardinal’s constant barrage of skilled play, but tried to maintain the

tight marking and structured defensive play of the first half.

However, Stanford’s ambitious shooting materialized into two more goals, which even Katz couldn’t prevent.

The Bulldogs ended the day with a successful loss: In the set pieces, Stanford proved too difficult to defend against, but in attacking field play Yale managed to hold its own against a nationally ranked team.

Two days earlier, the Bulldogs traveled to Cambridge to take on rival Harvard in the Ivy League season opener. The Crimson dominated play from the beginning, as newcomer forward Bente Van Vlijmen dribbled through the defenders and scored just 31 seconds after the first whistle. Harvard led 2–0 at half time.

“They played to their strengths more than we did,” midfielder Marissa Medici ’19 said. “[They] basically shut down everything that was our strength.”

Fourteen of Harvard’s 51 penalty corners — a disproportionately high 27 percent — in the Crimson’s eight games this season came from its encounter with the Bulldogs. On Friday, Yale received no penalty corners at all.

The Crimson shut down Yale’s short passing game, allowing the Bulldogs just one shot during the entire contest.

The Elis’ only other opportunity to break onto the scoreboard came midway through the first half, as midfielder Lily Smith ’18 swept the ball into the goal. However, the score was disallowed as it was ruled that the shot came from outside the circle.

After the second whistle, the Elis attempted to make a comeback, stringing together series of passes intermittently throughout the second half.

However, Yale seemed unable to find its players, as long balls cleared from the backline went unclaimed in the attack or ended up on Crimson sticks.

“Our quick attacking play [is our strength], and that didn’t really happen,” defender Holly Jackson ’20 said.

Katz had another brilliant game, denying Harvard 10 times and letting in only two goals. Crimson forward Maria Balleza was unable to contribute her customary goal — she had scored in each of Harvard’s last two games — to the Crimson tally, as Katz saved three consecutive penalty corners taken by Balleza.

Next weekend the Bulldogs take on their highest ranked opponent, No. 13 Princeton, which is currently riding a two-win streak.

Contact SARAH GEACH at sarah.geach@yale.edu .

First half powers Cornell past Yale FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12

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The Yale defense sacked Cornell quarterback Dalton Banks four times on Saturday.

the junior threw two interceptions, Tre Moore ’19 replaced Chapple with 2:21 left in the half. Chapple did not return for the rest of the game.

While Moore played sparingly in the first half, he took over behind center for the entire second half, which proved to be a productive change for the Yale offense. Moore went on to throw for 174 yards and finished with a 64 percent completion rate.

“We thought the game was going fast for Rafe and we felt we needed to make a change in the position,” Reno said. “Rafe and Tre had been competing all spring, and we felt it was time to give Tre an opportunity.”

After throwing for 61 yards on the first possession of the second half, Moore handed the ball to running back Deshawn Salter ’18 for a oneyard run and Yale’s only touchdown of the game. Salter finished with 32 rushing yards on seven carries while

running back Dale Harris ’17, who started the game for Yale, finished with 43 yards on 13 carries.

In another bright spot for the Elis, wide receiver Christopher Williams-Lopez ’18 led both teams with 92 receiving yards on six receptions.

Offensive productivity was not the only way in which Yale improved in the second half. The Big Red offense produced nothing more than a field goal in the second half, as the Bulldog defense ceded just 101 total yards and Yale actually outgained the Big Red by 74 yards. The Elis also led Cornell in sacks 2–1 in both halves, including a third down tackle by defensive end Kyle Mullen ’19 that forced the Big Red to kick before midfield in their first drive of the fourth quarter.

According to defensive back Foye Oluokun ’17, the team did not make many adjustments at halftime but simply played better defensively in the back half of the contest.

Both teams ceded one fumble to

the opposition, though the Bulldogs threw three interceptions to Cornell’s zero. While the Big Red scored just one touchdown off of a turnover, it came on one of Yale’s few productive drives, killing any momentum the Bulldogs had. After two games, the Elis have committed five more turnovers than their opponents.

Safety Hayden Carlson ’18 did his part to move the turnover battle back into Yale’s favor, recovering a fumble for the lone Big Red turnover and his third takeaway of the season.

Carlson finished the game with eight tackles, two behind Oluokun, who had a big impact in his first game back from last year’s season-ending injury.

Yale will seek to end this earlyseason skid next Saturday at home against Lehigh.

Contact MATTHEW MISTER at matthew.mister@yale.edu and SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS at sebastian.kupchaunis@yale.edu .

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7:30 PM Conversation, Anne Pasternak on Public Art and Social Justice. Director of the Brooklyn Museum Anne Pasternak reflects on the dynamic relationships between artists and cultural institutions as well as issues of human rights and social justice. Pasternak is in conversation with David Kim LAW ’17, deputy director and curator of “JUNCTURE: Explorations in Art and Human Rights,” an ongoing initiative sponsored by the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. Sterling Law Building (127 Wall St.).

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Sex differences could affect treatment for alcoholics

BY CAITLIN WESTERFIELD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers at the Yale Positron Emission Topography (PET) Research Center have found that there may need to be different treatments for male and female alcoholics. The finding is based on research that shows differences in the number of kappa opioid receptors (KOR) — a receptor that increases likelihood of addiction when active — in male and female brains.

The study looked at nonalcoholic men and women and determined that men have a higher concentration of KOR in all nineteen regions of the brain that were studied. A previous study considering naltrexone (NTX), a drug that treats alcoholism by binding to KOR, found that NTX decreased drinking primarily in men with a family history of alcoholism, but not in women. In this study, the researchers focused on understanding this difference through PET scans. They looked at the amount of KOR in 18 male and nine female brains, which affects the number of sites for NTX to bind to and therefore its performance.

The study ultimately demonstrates a baseline difference between men and women and suggests consequential differences in the ways they should be treated medically, according to the study authors.

“One regimen does not work for everybody,” first author Aishwarya Vijay ’14 MED ’20 said, adding that this research is a “move towards more personalized medicine.”

This move is reflected in the recent push by Carolyn Mazure, director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, to include the gender of research subjects on grant applications. Though studies primarily included men and male animals, Mazure and WHRY have helped establish the requirement that individuals applying for government research grant state whether the research will include both males and female subjects. If the applicant indicates that only one gender will be used, the application will be heavily scrutinized for lack of inclusion, explained Evan Morris, senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry, biomedical engineering and radiology and biomedical imaging.

Morris added that research on sex differences is a “hot topic” because it has been very underappreciated for years.

“There’s a very good reason for scientists to look for sex differences and to study men and women because we want both men and women to benefit from scientific discovery,” Morris said.

“The more we find differences in the kappa opioid system, the more people [will have to develop] drugs that are different for men and women.”

This specific study was conducted with the aid of a PET scanner, which allows researchers to do biochemistry in the living human brain. Senior author Yiyun Henry Huang, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at Yale, became the first person to develop a tracer labeled with a short-lived radioactive isotope specifically designed to attach to KOR. This tracer was injected into the brains

of the volunteers, whose brains were then scanned by looking at the radioactivity present in the brain for given periods of time.

The amount of KOR in a certain area was determined by the persistence of the radioactivity, which is different between tracers bound and not bound to KOR because non-bound tracers will decay faster than those that are bound.

High persistence of radioactivity equates to a larger amount of KOR in that region of the brain. Once they analyzed the data, researchers found that there was a higher KOR concentration in male brains than female brains in all 19 regions of interest and an especially large difference in nine of those regions.

The researchers also looked at the differences between NTX effects on KOR in male and female alcoholics, both with family history of alcoholism and without, but this research has not yet been published, Morris said.

Vijay said she also hopes the study will shine light on the fact that “there is molecular basis in the sex differences of addiction” beyond the psychosocial reasons usually recognized by the general public.

“This study has the potential to change the way we think about addiction,” she added.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, excessive alcohol consumption is responsible for about 88,000 deaths annually and is estimated to have cost the United States $223.5 billion in 2006.

Contact CAITLIN WESTERFIELD at caitlin.westerfield@yale.edu .

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In mood drugs, budding treatment for defect-inducing virus

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BY ANDREW BALLARD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER There may soon be a treatment for the leading cause of congenital birth defects in the United States, new research from the Yale School of Medicine suggests.

A study published in the journal “Virology” on Sept. 19 reveals the ability of two mood stabilizing drugs — valpromide and valnoctamide — to counter the symptoms of cytomegalovirus (CMV), an often latent virus that is particularly dangerous in patients with weak immune systems.

After infecting a pregnant mother, CMV can cross the placenta and infect a developing baby, causing severe defects in hearing, vision and cognitive functions. The antiviral drugs now used to fight CMV are not recommended for pregnant women, as the drugs are known to induce birth defects. However, the discovery of valpromide and valnoctamide’s inhibitory effect towards the virus brings optimism to those in

search of a treatment.

“I think it’s a hypothetical treatment for CMV-induced birth defects,” said Anthony van den Pol MED ’77, a professor of neurosurgery and psychiatry who served as the senior officer for the research.

“The hope is that something like valnoctamide, which has efficacy and appears safe in fetal animals, may actually be usable to treat [pregnant] mothers with active CMV infections.”

The team that made the discovery, composed of six researchers from various departments in the medical school, had learned that the drug valproate, similar in structure to the two mood stabilizers, had an inhibitory effect on Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), which shares characteristics with CMV. The realization prompted the scientists’ curiosity, said van den Pol, and in March 2015, the researchers began testing the effect of valpromide and valnoctamide on young CMVinfected mice. Although they expected to see some effect on CMV, they were surprised to

observe the same inhibitory quality towards CMV that had been observed of valproate in EBV when their first experiments concluded four months later.

Sara Ornaghi, a gynecology and obstetrics researcher from the University of Milano-Biocca in Italy, designed and carried out most of the experiments in the study.

“We wanted to test these drugs just to see if there was an effect on CMV, but we didn’t expect such an inhibitory effect, such a big innovation,” she said.

The mice in the study’s experiments were induced with a severe prenatal infection; those that did not receive the drugs being tested had a 20 percent chance of survival, whereas the mice treated with the drugs had a 70 percent chance of survival.

Mice who received valpromide and valnoctamide also showed a better overall physical maturation. According to van den Pol, it seemed that the drugs were able to rescue the body from the effects of CMV for the most part.

Ornaghi’s previous experience working in clinics for prenatal

infections largely inspired her to pursue treatment for congenital CMV, she said, adding that during her time interacting with women under her care, it was “really frustrating” when faced with a pregnant patient infected with the virus and to have no treatment.

After connecting with Michael Paidas, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, Ornaghi was introduced to van den Pol, who has studied CMV for nearly 20 years.

After confirming the long-term effects of the studied drugs in February of 2016, it seemed that she and the others had come very close to finding a solution to her frustration.

“We’ve taken a drug that is not teratogenic [related to or causing developmental malformations] and shown that at least in the animal it can prevent CMV infection,” said Paidas, who also contributed to the study. “That has enormous implications for pregnancy.”

The study also revealed that the drugs are able to inhibit CMV using very small doses and that

they utilize a completely different mechanism of action than antiviruses currently prescribed.

This means that valpromide and valnoctamide have the potential to fight strains of CMV that are resistant to current antivirals.

Both Ornaghi and Paidas said they see the drugs’ potential use in multiple-drug therapy of CMV, meaning they could combine the strengths of current antivirals with valpromide and valnoctamide. This is similar to a HIV treatment method, estimated to have saved 700,000 lives in 2010 alone, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Lynn Enquist, professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton University, praised the study.

“There are no significant issues with the data or the conclusions,” he said, adding that it may be some time before the new directions for drug discovery offered by the study prove productive.

Professor of laboratory medicine and epidemiology at the University of Washington Anna

Wald told the News that the step between a mouse study and a treatment for humans is large, but the research is a necessary step in the right direction.

The authors of the study said that they are looking forward to continuing their research in order to test valpromide and valnoctamide’s potential use in the treatment of humans.

Because the two drugs are already approved for the treatment of mood disorders in human patients, the authors indicated that they are optimistic that a possible treatment could reach the public in a relatively short amount of time. Van den Pol said that, whereas the normal timeline for advancing potential treatment could span 10 to 15 years, these drugs might take only one-fifth as long.

It is estimated that CMV infects nearly 85 percent of the American population, although the majority of infected men and women never show symptoms and lead healthy lives.

Contact ANDREW BALLARD at andrew.ballard@yale.edu .

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Study links obesity to gut bacteria

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BY GILLIAN PAGE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In tackling America’s childhood obesity epidemic, Yale scientists are zooming in close, investigating how the condition could be linked to microscopic communities of gut bacteria.

Nicola Santoro, a pediatrics researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, has led a study that suggests obesity is related to not only the food we eat but also the microbes that process it. The study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism on Sept.

20, showed for the first time that gut flora composition is linked to fat distribution in children and adolescents and that the diges-

tive tracts of obese children have a “higher relative abundance of bacteria capable of fermenting carbohydrates” than their peers.

As a result, obese children not only have different communities of gut flora, but these microbes can oxidize carbohydrates into storable fat at a much faster rate.

“We found that differences in gut flora distribution were marked between lean and obese children,” Santoro said.

His team analyzed the gut flora of 84 young people, 72 of whom had BMIs on the obesity spectrum, by extracting bacterial DNA from stool samples.

Study participants kept food diaries, and resonance imaging was used to determine their body fat distributions.

Using this data, the researchers identified six microbe families whose presence was closely associated with obesity and subsequently determined that these groups displayed an increased ability to ferment fructose.

The study represented a new frontier for Santoro, who noted it was his “first time ever” doing research on microorganisms within the body. Santoro began researching childhood obesity over ten years ago during his residency at the Second University of Naples and moved to the United States to pursue this research further.

Despite the study’s positive results, Santoro acknowledged that there are still many answers left to find. In particu-

lar, Santoro said it is still unclear whether humans can actually change their microbiota and leverage the change to lose or gain weight.

While Santoro noted that the immediate practical implications of the study on obesity treatment aren’t yet clear, he said the study represented progress in obesity research related to the microbiome.

“We’re starting to unravel the kind of connections that I think in the long run can really help us understand how we fight obesity,” Santoro said.

Microbiome research itself is what senior Yale School of Medicine researcher Li Wen calls a “young, fast-moving field.”

Twenty years ago, very little

was known about the trillions of microbes that inhabit the digestive tract.

The National Institutes of Health launched the Human Microbiome Project in 2008 to more comprehensively document these species and, in the years since, research on gut flora has expanded dramatically, Wen said.

“This field has been expanding a lot, progressing to studies on obesity and the whole spectrum of disease, including psychiatric disorders,” Wen added.

However, she noted that microbiome research is still a developing field, adding that although researchers are uncovering the close association of the microbiome to diseases, the pre-

cise mechanisms of these relationships are not yet known.

Santoro said he is now seeking the specifics of the relationship between flora and body in the case of child obesity. He added that his team is now looking beyond fat composition to the way humans process energy.

“The next step is really to look at the interactions between microbiota metabolisms and the human metabolism,” Santoro said.

Childhood obesity has affected 12.7 million American children in the last decade alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Contact GILLIAN PAGE at gillian.page@yale.edu .

Research shows video game makes kids smarter

BY CARLOS VELEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Video games — or rather, one video game in particular — have the potential to increase the learning achievements of children in revolutionary ways, according to a recent Yale study.

“Activate,” a program created

by School of Medicine professor Bruce Wexler, is a two-pronged approach at improving the executive functions of children in elementary school. A study that examined the effect of the program over time showed improvements in mathematics, reading and concentration time for students, as well other nonacademic cognitive functions. The program incorporates both physical and mental exercises in order to stimulate the brain for learning.

“We had a program in Fairfax, Virginia with second graders … and what we had found was that our kids achieved significantly higher scores on tests than students that did not participate in the program,” Wexler said. “We had also found that the effects of our program were better than one-on-one tutoring.”

“Activate” works in a six-day cycle, with four 20-minute iPad sessions spread over four days and two days of physical activity each iteration, according to Sarah Lehman and Heather Luckenbaugh, both of whom are educators in the Carlisle Area School District in Pennsylvania. The programs are tailored to meet the individual strengths and weaknesses of the children.

Wexler attributed students’ increased learning abilities in math and reading to the pro-

gram’s success.

Physical exercise accompanies the web-based video game in order to maximize stimulation and learning potential, Wexler said. This is based on the principles of neuroplasticity — the concept that a person’s brain is built to grow and change based off of environmental inputs, according to Wexler.

In recent years, America’s education system has faced criticism for allocating its resources inefficiently and producing lackluster academic results compared to other countries. Wexler said he believes his program can fix one of the biggest issues the American school system faces: the socioeconomic achievement gap.

“Cognitive skills, such as focused attention, self control and memory are better predictors of high school graduation than IQ,” Wexler said. “Growing up in poverty is also shown to compromise these very same skills. It’s not much of a leap to say that if we improve those cognitive functions in kids, we can reduce the achievement gap between students of different economic backgrounds.”

Lehman described seeing results in her students as early as halfway through the school year.

Students who had poor executive functions — such as blurting out answers and cutting in line — had noticeably positive behavioral changes.

The students who used the reading program had grown academically substantially, surpassing higher-performing students not enrolled in the program, Lehman added.

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“Our job as educators is to help create lifelong learners,” Luckenbaugh wrote in an email to the News. “‘Activate’ helps do this by going beyond academic needs. It helps children with daily struggles such as remembering more than one direc-

tion, recognizing patterns and drawing conclusions, being able to control impulses and paying attention. These are skills our children need to excel with academics.”

With mostly positive results so far, Wexler is confident in

the promise “Activate” holds.

Scientific groups such as the National Science Foundation have recently awarded a grant to “Activate” to enable data collection for the physical portions of the program.

“We’ll be able to give immedi-

ate, individual feedback to students, teachers and families,” Wexler said. “We already give class-by-class data. This is the future of education.”

Contact CARLOS VELEZ at carlos.velez@yale.edu .

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Elis open Ivy play with road win

BY STEVEN ROME CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Opening the season without the title of defending Ivy League champion for the first time since 2010, the Yale volleyball team took an initial step towards reclaiming its crown with a road sweep of Brown on Friday.

VOLLEYBALL After losing to the Bears on the road last season, the Bulldogs (8–2, 1–0 Ivy) emerged victorious in straight sets in a performance highlighted by standout contributions

from outside hitters Tristin Kott ’20 and Megan Rasmussen ’18. Following a 2–5 road record in conference competition in 2015, the Elis started 2016 on a positive note, winning 25–21, 25–17 and 25–19 over Brown.

“Friday’s match was great, not only because it was the first Ivy [match] but also because we were all having so much fun on the court while still maintaining a competitive atmosphere,” Kott said.

“This allowed us to keep the pressure and focus on Brown.”

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Wide receiver Robert Clemens III ’17 had six receptions for a total of 30 yards against Cornell.

BY MATTHEW MISTER AND SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While last week marked the first time in 10 years in which the Yale football team did not open its season with a win, this week’s loss to Cornell in the Ivy season opener signified the first time in 19 years that Yale has started 0–2.

The Bulldogs (0–2, 0–1 Ivy) struggled in the first half on both sides of the ball with two interceptions and fumble leaving plenty of opportunity for the Big Red (2–0, 1–0) to establish a 17-point lead.

Although the Eli defense stepped up after the break by only giving up three additional points, the Yale offense was only able to muster 10 points, finishing the game trailing Cornell 27–13. “[Cornell] did a great job of controlling the football in the first half and being opportunistic on defense, limiting some opportunities in the first half for us and making some big plays,” Yale head coach Tony Reno said. “Turnovers really hurt us in the first half [and] put Cornell in some really good field position. We didn’t convert on opportunities we had offensively and defensively.”

For the second week in a row, opposing wide receivers were able to get behind the Yale secondary and go deep in the first half. Cornell quarterback Dalton Banks connected with wide receiver Marshall Deutz on a 43-yard touchdown strike in the second quarter, and then later hit another wide receiver on a 38-yard pass to set up a field goal before halftime, reminiscent of the 39- and 55-yard touchdown passes Yale gave up against Colgate.

“Each side of the ball had [its] moments,” Cornell head coach David Archer said. “Having a first half performance was key because

Bulldogs battle, draw with Tigers

BY CHRIS BRACKEN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s soccer team opened Ivy League play with what may be its stiffest test of the season — a match against defending conference champion Princeton, a team lying just outside the NCAA Top 25.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Despite entering the game as heavy underdogs, the Elis (4–3–

3, 0–0–1 Ivy) battled to a hardearned 1–1 draw on Saturday afternoon at Reese Stadium. The Bulldogs, led again by forward and two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week Aerial Chavarin ’20, produced an inspired second-half performance to fight back from a 1–0 halftime deficit.

“The Princeton game was a whole different feeling [than non-conference games],” Chavarin said. “I knew this game was going to be an intense one based off of all the preparation we did the week before. Everyone on the field

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Sarah McCauley ’18 and the Yale midfield helped hold Princeton to just one goal over 110 minutes of play.

had a type of excited energy that inspired the drive and competitiveness to win.”

The Tigers (7–1–1, 0–0–1 Ivy) came into the match against Yale with an impressive start to the season, marred only by a 3–0 road defeat against then-No. 2 West Virginia. Princeton’s dangerous offense, which equaled Yale’s Ivy League-leading 17 goals scored in one fewer game, warranted a more conservative look from the Bulldogs.

The Elis started in a 3–5–2 formation, fielding three central defenders and two wing backs as opposed to a more traditional back four. Of the three center defenders — Carlin Hudson ’18, Kristina Kim ’18 and captain Colleen McCormack ’17 — Yale used two players to mark the explosive Princeton duo of two-time defending Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Tyler Lussi and defending Rookie of the Year Mimi Asom. The remaining defender was left free to contain Princeton’s long passing attempts.

Yale’s defensive stoutness forced the Tigers to play balls over the Bulldog defense, rather than short passes on the ground. Many of Princeton’s offensive possessions ended on the heads of the center backs or in the hands of goalkeeper Alyssa Fagel ’20.

“A lot of the success came from staying compact in the back and

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[we] jumped on them early.”

Ultimately, the passing game on both sides of the ball has been the biggest challenge for the Bulldogs — who have been outscored 82–26 the last two weeks — thus far. While the Elis were outgained by 370 yards against Colgate last week, they reduced that deficit to only 68 yards against Cornell.

Quarterback Rafe Chapple ’18 started the game for Yale, but was not able to get into a rhythm with his receivers. Chapple gained only 40 yards in the air in the first half on just three completions. After SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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Kelley Wirth ’19 notched seven kills without an error in the Bulldogs’ three-game sweep at Brown.

Yale suffers two-loss weekend

BY SARAH GEACH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While goalie Emilie Katz ’17 could not save the Yale field hockey team from a shutout defeat by Harvard on Friday, the Bulldogs nearly turned the weekend around when they returned home to rattle

No. 18 Stanford’s confidence in the first half of a 3–1 loss.

FIELD HOCKEY Harvard (4–4, 1–0 Ivy) completed its fourth win against Yale (4–4, 0–1 Ivy) in as many years on Friday, beating the Bulldogs 2–0 in

a well-worked game that saw the Crimson dominate both play and possession.

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Bridget Condie ’20 scored the first goal of her Yale career in the Bulldogs’ 3–1 loss against Stanford.

THE NUMBER OF TURNOVERS THAT THE YALE FOOTBALL TEAM SURRENDERED IN ITS LOSS AGAINST CORNELL ON SATURDAY. The Bulldogs have now given up seven interceptions and one fumble in its first two games, a pair of losses to Colgate and Cornell.