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Harp elected president of Board of Ed.

Enter 2017. With today’s issue, the Yale Daily News welcomes the Managing Board of 2017. To our predecessors: we’re ready to one-up you.

YHHAP eyes housing inequality

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Brown University revoked actor Bill Cosby’s honorary degree after he was accused of several counts of sexual assault. All eyes on you, Yale.

the outgoing president Carlos Torre, who stepped down as president during the meeting.

In public remarks after the election, Harp said she looks forward to

Starting last Friday, a new student-led task force has begun to shed light on the dearth of housing options for the poor, young and single in New Haven.

After meeting with the New Haven City Planning Committee last week, The Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project is seeking both Yale law students and undergraduates for a task force to investigate the history and prevalence of rooming houses in the city. The task force will investigate sustainable solutions to homelessness and housing inequalities by looking into boarding houses and other ways cities use Single-Room Occupancy housing, YHHAP cocoordinator Ruth Hanna ’17 said. Landlords for SRO buildings rent out individual rooms to tenants instead of whole apartment units, lowering the cost for tenants.

“I have seen a huge need for this type of housing for extremely poor people,” said local landlord Hugo Miura, who owns two recovery houses for people with disabilities in the Elm City. “We have received calls from

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Warrior Open. Beginning

today, former President George W. Bush ’68 will host a two-day golf tournament in Irving, Texas. Day one of the event is open solely to military personnel wounded since Sept.

11, 2001.

Speaking of the presidency, the Economics registrar sent out applications for the highly popular Yale course yesterday.

Got what it takes to be the next leader of the free world? Well, you missed YDN elections, but apply to GS by Nov. 1.

Hello, my name is… If you’re

not into statecraft, the Office of Career Strategy will host a networking event for engineering majors this evening at the Becton Center. It’ll be intimate — 36 are attending on Facebook, compared to Bain’s 642.

Eclipsed. No, we’re not talking

about the blood moon. Lupita Nyong’o DRA ’12 stars in Danai Gurira’s “Eclipsed” — a play about the Liberian civil war — which will preview at New York’s Public Theater tonight.

Who run the world? “Girls”

writer Lena Dunham recently interviewed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. We wonder if Hannah Horvath is Ready for Hillary.

Pet pledge. Next time you attend a party at the Chi Psi house, look out for Buck, the fraternity’s new Labrador retriever. Sadly, Buck visited the vet yesterday with an upset stomach. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Stragglers. Are we the only

ones still seeing dads hanging around Old Campus? It’s time to let your parents go, freshmen. Family weekend is over, but not to worry — fall break is in just a few weeks.

Guilty pleasure. In honor of the fall, the Morse buttery will sell bottled Pumpkin Spice Frappuccinos. Get your PSL fix without having to deal with right angles.

Take a shot like a Pi Phi can.

Phlu season is upon us. Get vaccinated for free at one of Yale Health’s immunization clinics.

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Pressure’s on. Yesterday,

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Restorative justice and academic proficiency were also discussed during Monday’s Board of Education meeting.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Board of Education has elected a new president — and this time, it is the mayor.

The Board of Education elected

Mayor Toni Harp president by a 6–1 margin during a Monday night meeting in Fair Haven’s John Martinez School. The lone dissenting vote came from Alicia Caraballo, a former principal of the New Haven Adult Education Center. Harp will succeed

Eze pushes for homelessness relief

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Ward 1 Republican challenger Ugonna Eze ’16 kicked off the general election season yesterday with his first event since Democrat Fish Stark ’17 fell to the incumbent, Sarah Eidelson ’12, in the Democratic primary.

Roughly 30 attendees played volleyball and snacked on Buf-

falo Wild Wings on Old Campus Monday as Eze began his discussion of homelessness policy in the city. In his speech, Eze advocated for policies that would alleviate the effects of homelessness. Over course of his campaign so far, Eze has held two policy events. In his first event two weeks ago, Eze addressed environmental sustainability.

Yale mothers lack day care options

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Despite Yale’s national recognition for providing benefits to female employees, many mothers who work for the University are still struggling to find affordable day care for their children.

This month, Yale was selected for the sixth year in a row by Working Mother magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies” in America for working mothers — but the mothers tell a different story. Yale does not have its own day care center, and the seven centers affiliated with the University cost over $1,300 a month for full-time care. Faculty, staff and graduate student employees interviewed said that while Yale’s parenting resources are numerous, many working mothers cannot afford available day care both in New Haven and on campus, forcing them to seek cheaper centers outside the city.

“I would love to see more child care,” said biology professor Valerie Horsley, who sits on the Women Faculty Forum steering committee — a gender equity group for Yale faculty.

“It’s good for the students to see faculty having a life and having a family and having a job.”

When Horsley came to Yale in 2009, she was unable to find a day care slot for her daugh-

ter, who was almost three years old. Finding that there were too few day care spaces for children under three, Horsley said she sent her daughter to the Apple Tree Children’s Center in Hamden. Currently, there are only 16 slots available for babies on Yale’s main campus, excluding the Medical School and West Campus, she added.

Ten years ago, Yale planned to establish a new day care center staffed and funded solely by the University, but these plans came to a standstill after Yale discovered that city zoning laws would require such a day care to be open to all neighborhood children, said Anna Jurkevics GRD ’15. Current day care facilities are housed in Yale buildings like the Divinity School and the Law School, but otherwise operate as independent businesses which set their own tuition prices, run their own facilities and staff their own payroll.

It is expensive to run a childcare facility, Horsley said, adding that tuition is so high at Yale-affiliated centers because the University does not want to take on the financial burden of subsidizing them. Tuition at The Nest at Alphabet Academy, a day care facility for children under three and the most recent addition to on-campus YaleSEE CHILD CARE PAGE 8

“There’s a misconception of homelessness,” Eze said on Monday. “We think of the city’s homeless as an abstract statistic that we go into the city to save.”

Eze added that Yale students should view the city’s homeless population not as a problem to be solved, but as people in need of help. He also expressed support for the city’s efforts to combat homelessness in recent

years, noting that the city is on track to eliminate chronic homelessness by the end of 2016.

Still, despite the city’s successes, Eze said that those policies need to go further. His proposals include expanding services for at-risk populations such as LGBTQ youth and military veterans. A survey conducted in 2013 by Connecti-

cut Point-In-Time — a count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless in the United States — found that veterans comprise 7 percent of New Haven’s homeless population, while people who suffer from mental illness account for 36 percent.

“We need to have a stronger housing authority to make sure SEE EZE PAGE 8

SOM associate dean dragged into GOP brawl

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School of Management Associate Dean Jeffrey Sonnenfeld was caught in the crossfire during the second Republican presidential debate.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, an associate dean at the School of Management, was in a hotel room in Washington D.C. watching the second Republican presidential debate when he heard his name mentioned not once, but twice by two different candidates. Pandemonium ensued.

“I was utterly shocked to hear my name,” Sonnenfeld told the News following the debate. “I thought to myself, ‘Did that just happen?’ Then there was an explosion of electronic contact: emails, twitter, messages and phone calls from everyone I know.”

During the CNN Republican debate, which aired on Sept. 16, GOP candidate DonSEE SONNENFELD PAGE 8

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Summertime inequality “E

ducation then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” So said Horace Mann, a reformer who believed in the power of education to level the playing field for American students.

But at Yale, as a direct result of our financial aid policies, the great equalization stops at summer’s door.

For upperclassmen, this unfair treatment is a reality you already know all too well.

Around this time every year, the scramble for the perfect summer experience begins in haste. For many students of means, a wide range of opportunities will be at their disposal: traveling abroad, working for pay at a company, working for a stipend or even gaining valuable work experience through an unpaid internship. But for those of us on financial aid, Yale grants students only one option: working at a job so profitable that a student can earn over $3,000 in profits.

We know, in theory, the University requires the student income contribution because it expects students to have a stake in their education. But it’s worth considering how this deliberate decision by the Yale Corporation plays out in practice.

For background, the University requires every student receiving financial aid at Yale, regardless of income, to fork over a minimum of $6,400 a year. Of that $6,400, the financial aid office expects at least $3,050 to come from profits from a summertime job. This expectation is slightly lower for freshmen.

To clarify, this policy does not mean a student needs to find a job that will give her a $3,000 stipend for her work. Rather, Yale’s policy explicitly expects a student to be able to make enough money in one summer to pay for housing, utilities, transportation, food and other bills and then make another $3,050 on top of that — a laughably unrealistic feat accomplished by exceptionally few students each year.

So what can low-income students — who dream of participating in the kind of activities Yale promises on its admissions flyers — do instead?

We have a couple of options.

First, we can do what I have done — something Yale promised we would never have to do: take out loans to cover the student income contribution. This, of course, is not inherently a problem. In fact, many universities across the country provide students with loans as an integral part of their financial aid awards. But forcing students at Yale to take out loans is a problem, particularly when our Admissions Office goes into lowincome communities and promises otherwise. We sell ourselves as a loan-free alternative to state schools, only to later revoke that promise well after matriculation.

Alternatively, we can do what

I have never done: take menial jobs close to home (hopefully rent-free) wholly unrelated to our academic or TYLER goals BLACKMON career that will nevertheless Back to come close to adding up to Blackmon Yale’s annual financial requirements. We can trade in the unpaid internship at the State Department for a paycheck at the grocery store or swap biomedical research for tips at a restaurant. Of course, there can be value in working such jobs, but the University is stripping half of the student body of that choice.

As of a year ago, we can’t even afford to study abroad due to the elimination of International Student Award's funding for the student income contribution.

And once you’ve given up one meaningful summer experience, the effect compounds with every year. Like so many scaffolding courses here at Yale, summer internships often build upon each other. One internship gives you connections that you can leverage to apply to a second internship the next summer.

That line on your resume may be the reason you land an interview for your third internship the following summer, an experience that can often lead directly to a job after graduation.

The result is a slow but steady divergence in the Yale student experience and in the opportunities now afforded to students. Low-income students come to Yale already behind their wealthier peers. But whatever equalization occurs during the school year evaporates over the summer, forcing some students to clear $3,050 in profit every summer and allowing those not on financial aid to pursue career and academic interests through unpaid internships.

This bifurcation of the student body does not have to stand. If the Yale Corporation, true to its bylaws, is concerned with creating policy “fit and proper for the instruction and education of the students,” they must look more critically at the effect the student income contribution is having on students’ summer experiences as it prepares financial aid policy for the class of 2020.

Far too often, Yale is a follower of Harvard and other peer institutions when it comes to support for low-income students.

But Yale now has a chance to be bold and lead its peers in the Ivy League. It is time, once and for all, to eliminate the student income contribution.

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ollege is not for everyone.” I’ve heard these words often and everywhere: in the business community, among elected officials and, perhaps most disturbingly, among educators. They get my blood pumping every time.

It’s not that going to college is the sole route to a good life.

Plenty of people thrive without college. But lots of others don’t — including those who would benefit the most from a postsecondary education. Students born in the lowest income quintile who don’t earn four-year degrees are almost five times as likely to remain in that bottom quintile as those who do. And yet, these are the students so often dismissed or discouraged — sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly and always with major costs to their ability to overcome obstacles.

My educational journey started more than 60 years ago, when my grandfather came to the United States from Latin America to pursue a graduate education in economics at Yale.

All these decades later, I know that his path paved mine. When high school graduation rolled around, I followed in my grandfather’s footsteps and went to Yale myself. I did well, graduated

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and headed off to a job at one of the nation’s top law firms.

But after reflecting on the inequities that pervade this country and doing pro bono work for underserved individuals, I knew I needed a job where I could make a difference for our nation’s most vulnerable populations. So I left the law firm, passed up on an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Yale, and joined Teach For America.

That decision changed my life.

For five years, I taught bilingual fifth graders at a Houston school that served predominantly low-income Latino youth. As I watched brilliant, motivated kids struggle to access the resources they needed to prepare for, apply to and attend college, I launched an after-school and summer program called EMERGE to help high-potential students from underserved backgrounds attend the nation’s top colleges.

Then, one spring morning on the way to work, my phone rang.

I looked at the caller ID and took a deep breath. It was one of my EMERGE students, who at 15 became the sole breadwinner for his family after an accident left his father unable to work. This student desperately wanted to go to college so he could get a better job and more easily support his

family — and he had the grades to do it — but financial difficulties were clouding his prospects. I answered the call hesitantly, not knowing if I wanted to know the news on the other end.

“Mr. Cruz,” he said. “I got in!

Scholarship at Yale. Full scholarship.”

I told him I was proud of him and hung up quickly, choking back tears. And though I’ve tried to express it since, I doubt he’ll ever understand just how much he inspires me every day — his questionable decision to ultimately attend Harvard not withstanding.

The other handful of graduating students in the first EMERGE cohort experienced similar success. They were the first in their school’s history to attend a toptier college. All received full scholarships and all were the first in their families to pursue a postsecondary education. A sense of optimism spread within the schools and among the community.

Recognizing that there are countless more underserved students who have the potential to experience similar success, the superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, Terry Grier, promoted me to assistant superintendent and

TYLER BLACKMON is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column usually runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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provided the resources to scale the initiative across the city.

Since then, EMERGE has served over 1,000 students and has defied the mantra that college is not for all. We’ve proven that students of all ethnicities who face homelessness, poverty and other challenges can successfully attend MIT, Tufts, Pitzer, Yale, Harvard, Oberlin, Smith, Rice, Stanford — you name it.

For the past two years, we’ve led a summer EMERGE Program at Yale. We took kids who had never left Houston and showed them that, yes, college is for them and yes, they do belong. With every acceptance letter, that truth takes a deeper hold.

So the next time someone conjectures about who college is or isn’t for, take a moment to think about what college meant for you, the role it played in your own story. We are students and alumni of a school that has opened door after door to our futures and our dreams. It’s our responsibility and privilege to reach back and hold those doors open as the next generation walks through.

RICK CRUZ is a 2007 graduate of Timothy Dwight College.

Contact him at rcruz8@houstonisd.org .

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t was May Day last year and Yale students were holed up in the libraries studying for finals. Distracted by the drama of essays and exams, few paid any notice to a stream of protesters weaving their way down Chapel Street.

That spring, accusations had begun to surface alleging worker abuse at Thai Taste. May Day protester Lupita Tecpa told the News that Thai Taste workers were suffering physical abuse at the hands of their employers.

In recent weeks, these accusations have mounted. Members of Unidad Latina en Accion, a local immigrants’ rights organization, protested outside Thai Taste last Thursday. ULA activists claim that Roger Jaruch, who owns Thai Taste and Rice Pot on State Street, has stolen over $37,000 in wages from his workers.

Granted, the matter of wage theft at Thai Taste and Rice Pot warrants deeper investigation.

The allegations made have not yet been substantiated, and it will likely take time and careful

examination before concrete evidence emerges.

N o n e theless, last week’s protests are a critical EMMA of GOLDBERG reminder the labor violations that Dilemmas contaminate our community. Our campus actively engaged in debate about workers’ rights when allegations arose against Gourmet Heaven.

In recent months, though, those conversations fizzled. But wage theft isn’t an issue confined to that one instance — it’s a widereaching phenomenon, chronic and insidious.

Fortunately, history tells us that New Haven wage theft isn’t something we need to stomach.

When community activists alleged wage theft at Gourmet Heaven in 2013, Yale students joined ULA and other

labor advocates in protesting the store. Students penned op-eds calling for a boycott. The store was investigated by the Connecticut Department of Labor and ultimately University Properties decided to terminate GHeav’s lease.

There are many matters of inequity and injustice in this city that feel removed from our daily lives — it’s hard to imagine our words and actions as students having any effect. But when it comes to labor violations, students actually have a strong tool at our disposal: the power of our wallets. As customers, we can leverage our business to demand fair treatment of workers. When we boycott, we convey — quite urgently — our disapproval of worker abuse. If there’s something to be learned from the GHeav saga, it’s this: Wage theft is an area where student activism can truly have an impact.

The alleged abuses at Thai Taste might demand a more complex solution than those at Gourmet Heaven. Thai Taste,

unlike Gourmet Heaven, is not a tenant of University Properties. Yale thus has limited institutional power over the establishment. That places an even greater onus on us, as customers, to take a stand against worker abuse. We can press for investigation into Thai Taste’s ownership. If evidence emerges confirming the accusations of abuse, we can boycott.

The case of wage theft at Gourmet Heaven elicited months of media attention and public outcry — the store was, after all, one of the campus’s most popular establishments. But labor violations in New Haven extend beyond this incident. They demand our vigilance as students — and customers — in this community. We don’t have to compromise our consciences for a plate of pad thai.

EMMA GOLDBERG is a senior in Saybrook College. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

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Yale School of Architecture appoints first female dean

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Deborah Berke will succeed Robert Stern as the next dean of the School of Architecture, University President Peter Salovey announced Friday morning in a campuswide email.

Berke will be the first female dean to lead the school.

With Berke’s appointment, the School of Architecture will become the third of Yale’s 12 graduate and professional schools to have a female head. Berke — who has taught architectural design at Yale since 1987 — is well-known for taking an interdisciplinary approach to her craft. In addition to teaching at the University, she leads Deborah Berke Partners, a firm focused on designing private residences, hotels, residential and commercial developments, as well as institutional art and music buildings.

In his email, Salovey noted that Berke’s work as a practicing architect, and as a longtime faculty member at the School of Architecture, make her an ideal leader for the School.

“The appointment … will bring a new energy … and we look forward to hearing about her plans for the School,” said Marilyn Weiss, the School of Architecture’s registrar and admissions administrator.

Salovey also emphasized Berke’s interdisciplinary focus, which he said will help integrate the School of Architecture into the broader University community. He noted that during the search process, Berke discussed the benefits of strengthening relationships between the School of Architecture and other parts of the university, as well as incorporating perspectives from other fields into the teaching and practice of architecture.

In his email, Salovey added that Berke’s firm has displayed an exem-

plary commitment to diversity. In addition to employing an equal number of men and women, Berke’s firm recruits from a diverse set of ethnic, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, Salovey said.

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

Cathryn Garcia-Menocal ARC ’17 said that even before being appointed dean, Berke had made clear how aware she was of the lack of minorities and women in the profession at large, as well as within the upper echelon of design education. GarciaMenocal added that she is excited about Berke’s openness regarding her mission to diversify the School of Architecture.

Still, some architecture students interviewed expressed disdain for the kinds of projects Berke’s firm focuses on, which primarily consist of buildings for the wealthy.

Although he said he believes Berke might be a “great administrator,” Wes Hiatt ARC ’17 said that he is not necessarily comfortable with what he feels her appointment symbolizes.

“She is perhaps not the best symbol for what the School of Architecture in the 21st century should be,” Hiatt said. “Her appointment reinforces the status quo at Yale being about money. She builds pretty much exclusively for the wealthy … To a student like me, she is on a completely different planet in terms of how we look at the world.”

Hiatt added that he thinks Berke will maintain Stern’s policies, and

will not be particularly “progressive” with her deanship.

Other students, however, disagreed and called for a distinction between Berke’s professional practice and her deanship.

Garcia-Menocal pointed out that Stern has had a prolific career, realizing many projects that also cater to the wealthy — a fact that has not stopped him from creating a pluralistic environment at the School of Architecture.

“I think Deborah Berke’s success as an architect in a male-dominated profession, her commitment to education and her promise to diversify the student body — racially and socioeconomically — are already very promising and prove that she does not reinforce the status quo,” Maggie Tsang ARC ’17 said.

Faculty members also expressed interest in the possibility for innovation at the School of Architecture under Berke.

Alan Plattus ’76, a professor at the School of Architecture, said he thinks that Berke’s appointment to the deanship signals a new direction for the school — a “change of generation.”

“While we respect and owe a lot to the generation of our teachers, like Dean Stern, my generation — Deborah’s generation — has a somewhat different, more open view of architecture and the design professions,” Plattus said. “That view is aggressively inclusive, collaborative and committed to the role of architecture and the architect in making good local places and communities, as much as international reputations.”

Berke’s appointment will be effective July 1, 2016, pending the approval of the Yale Corporation.

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

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Protesters rally again youth violence

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Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown on Saturday calling for an end to gun violence.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS To the pounding of drums, around 300 anti-violence protesters marched through the streets of New Haven on Saturday, temporarily interrupting traffic as the rally wound through downtown and ended in Dixwell.

Calling attention to high homicide rates in the city, the rally was hosted by the Bereavement Care Network — an organization that helps families touched by violence — and was joined by a coalition of youth groups, dance troupes and grieving families. The rally, in its third year, called particular attention to youth, who make up the demographic most often involved in gun violence in the city, according to protesters and local leaders.

Organizers said the route of the rally — from Chapel to York Street, then onto Broadway and up Dixwell Avenue — was intended to make downtown residents more aware of the gun violence that happens outside the center of the city. The event coincided with Yale’s Family Weekend, which brought hundreds of parents and siblings to campus. But despite the increased number of people in New Haven and the protest’s path through the heart of campus, Yale students interviewed said they were largely unaware of the protest’s purpose.

Saturday’s rally came in response to persistent violence in the city over the past few years, much of it involving young men. In January 2014, Varnouard Hall was shot and killed in Fair Haven at the age of 33. One of his best friends, Erica Green, marched in the rally with a sign bearing his face. In April, 16-year-old Jericho Scott died of gunshot wounds in Fair Haven. By August, New Haven was mourning its 11th homicide of the year.

Still, the city’s homicide rate has fallen in

recent years, with 2014 seeing the fewest killings in a decade.

But protesters said the numbers are still too high.

“So many kids are losing their lives to violence,” said Kim Mozell, a member of the anti-violence group Mothers Demand Action. She said her son, nephew and cousin were all shot and killed in the city. Mozell added that the protest aimed to support the parents of victims of violence, especially through bereavement care.

Not only is the person who died a victim, but also the family members who are left behind.

DARRELL MCCLAM Vice President of the Bereavement Care Network City officials said reducing gun violence is a slow process that both city and community organizations must confront together. Although Mayor Toni Harp did not walk in the rally, she spoke to the protesters when they gathered outside Wexler-Grant School on Foote Street at the end of the protest, emphasizing the role of small communities in reducing violence.

During her tenure, Harp has supported city initiatives like Youth Stat — a group of city agencies that shares data about young people in New Haven — community policing and early childhood education. But she emphasized that grass-roots groups are essential in preventing gun violence and supporting its victims.

“The one thing that a community can do in good times and bad is come together,” Harp said. “We are working with everyone to try to make sure that we

can eliminate youth violence in our city.”

Tyesha Walker, president of the Board of Aldermen, said government policies like community policing can only do so much to reduce violence, adding that violence affects everybody in the city, regardless of the neighborhood.

Aided by drums and bullhorns, the rally attracted significant attention in the downtown area on Family Weekend, with parents and students lining the sidewalks as the rally moved through the Broadway Shopping District. Yet several students interviewed said they were unaware of the protest or its message. Kathryn Ward ’18, who briefly saw the rally, said she had thought the drummers were the Yale Precision Marching Band, not anti-violence protestors. Tamia Tripp, a member of the Bereavement Care Network, said she was not surprised that students were unaware of the issues the protest raised. The violence that occurs in other neighborhoods of New Haven rarely gets the attention of people living downtown, she said.

Homicide was not the only issue for the protesters, who said violence has its roots in drug use, broken families and unemployment. Karen Tyson, director of Prosperity House Inc., said youth violence is largely caused by drug use among young men who lack stable families and jobs.

“The violence in our city is so out of control that we can’t just rely on the police and the mayor to handle this alone,” said Darrell McClam, the vice president of the Bereavement Care Network. He called on the entire city to participate in the fight against violence. “Not only is the person who died a victim, but also the family members who are left behind.”

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

With a new apartment complex and coffee shop set to open at 320 Ashmun St., Science Park and Dixwell residents are looking forward to fresh architecture and a new neighborhood cafe.

Mayor Toni Harp and former mayor John DeStefano Jr. came together in front of the site Monday afternoon to celebrate the ribbon-cutting of the Ashmun Flats, a new three-building apartment complex. The properties, which include eight apartment units and G Cafe — a ground-floor coffee shop and bakery, are the latest in property developer Juan Salas-Romer’s business endeavors with his company, New Haven Redevelopers LLC. Addressing a crowd of roughly 100 Elm City residents, Harp said she is glad the new developments have created new residential spaces in the neighborhood.

Before Salas-Romer purchased the buildings in November 2014, a now-defunct bar occupied the space where G Cafe now stands. “[The] completion of this construction project is another positive sign for a growing city,” Harp said. “The addition of these eight new apartments will address the city’s low vacancy rates while the G Cafe on the first floor contributes to the city’s ongoing economic development.”

At the opening Monday, Salas-Romer’s developments received an outpouring of positive responses from local residents. Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, whose constituency includes most Science Hill residents, said when the newly renovated buildings housed a bar, she regularly received noise complaints from local residents.

Morrison said she wholeheartedly welcomes the new developments, adding that she is particularly pleased that G Cafe will provide employment opportunities and goods residents of all ages can enjoy.

Several Dixwell and Science Park residents interviewed at the opening echoed Morrison’s enthusiasm.

Elaine Jackson and Alexis Perkins, two Dixwell residents living near the developments, said the recent infrastructural changes

in Science Park have markedly improved the residential neighborhoods. Shirley Kelley, who lives in Science Park, added that the developments, with their mahogany and white-brick facades, will improve the look and value of the neighborhood.

“When people come here, they’ll see the beauty of it and see that New Haven is a nice place to live,” Kelley said.

Still, residents expressed concerns about the hefty prices of the Ashmun Flats apartments, with several stating that they hope further developments will bring more affordable housing options as well.

Rent in the Ashmun Flats runs from $1,400 monthly for two-bedroom units to $2,450 for three-bedroom apartments with two bathrooms. Though she acknowledged the developments’ positive effect on the neighborhood, Kelley said she hopes future developers will create housing for lower-income families, particularly those who lived in the area before the new developments began.

Meeting the community’s preferences while sustaining a business is a balancing act, Salas-Romer said.

Salas-Romer frequently met with Ward 22 constituents and acted on their input as the new properties were being developed, Salas-Romer and Morrison both said. Salas-Romer said he designed five of the eight apartments as three-bedroom units after Morrison said his apartment complex should be suitable for families as well young professionals.

After residents expressed a preference for a family-friendly shop in the location, SalsaRomer leased the ground floor of one of the Ashumn Flats to G Cafe, he said.

“Listening to the community and finding out what they like to see is something that through the whole process needs to happen,” Salas-Romer said. “Otherwise we wouldn’t have the people out here being so supportive today. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have had Alder Morrison here being so supportive today.”

New Haven’s original G Cafe Bakery is located on 141 Orange St. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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n Sunday night at 10:48PM, people all over campus gathered to observe a total lunar eclipse, also known as a blood moon. The full moon happened to be passing its closest point in its orbit around the Earth when the eclipse happened, which resulted in the eclipse of a super moon that appears to be 14% larger than the standard moon. The last time this happened was 1984, and the next time this will happen is 2033. KEN YANAGISAWA reports.

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“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.” HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AMERICAN POET

Summer program expands STEM offerings

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER By expanding its offerings in the sciences, the Yale Young Global Scholars Program will give twice as many high school students the chance to live and learn at Yale next summer.

The program — an intensive two-week summer initiative for rising high school seniors — will hold six sessions in 2016, twice as many as were offered this summer. But while only one of three sessions this year was scienceoriented, four of the six sessions next year will focus on science, technology, engineering and math fields. This year’s single STEM session will be split into four, centering on topics including engineering, biomedical science, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

The two remaining sessions will remain the program’s trademark social science offerings: “Politics, Law and Economics” and “International Affairs and Security.”

“We’re not just expanding the program by doubling the size of each session,” YYGS Director Ted Wittenstein ’04 said. “We’re doing it in ways that bring in new types of academic content, new faculty, new Yale students and high school students interested in a wide range of subjects.”

Program organizers and STEM students at Yale said the program’s expansion may help dispel negative perceptions of the quality of STEM programs at Yale, a school that has traditionally been renowned for the strength of its humanities programs.

YYGS Deputy Director Erin Schutte ’12 said the additional sessions are, in many ways, a response to heightened interest in STEMrelated subjects not only from high school students but also from Yale administrators.

“With the University’s interest in developing STEM across the college, it’s advantageous for us to move in this direction,” she said.

To help organize the program’s new emphasis on STEM, YYGS hired a new STEM project manager, Michael Honsberger. Honsberger said one of his main responsibilities is to design a curriculum that will show STEM-focused students what Yale has to offer.

Former YYGS student and instructor Tyler Dohrn ’18 said it is well known that Yale wants to attract more STEM students to

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Yale, adding that he thinks having STEM-focused programs at YYGS will likely help the University in that regard.

Seven of nine students interviewed said they supported the addition of STEM-related sessions to YYGS, and all four STEM majors interviewed said they would have been interested in attending these sessions while in high school.

Wen Yi Low ’16, a STEM student, said the new sessions will familiarize prospective Yale students with the University’s STEM offerings, debunking unfairly negative assumptions about course offerings in the disciplines. Still, Julian Adler ’18, who has been both a student and instructor at YYGS, said the success of the program would largely be based on of the quality of its faculty.

We’re not just expanding the program by doubling the size of each session.

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TED WITTENSTEIN ’04 Yale Young Global Scholars Program Director “What made the original sessions so great is they basically have the greatest professors in the world — Akhil Amar, John Gaddis — intimately involved with the program,” Adler said. “So if they’re able to reach out to Yale faculty and get the right people, it will be a smash hit.”

Schutte said her team is in the process of reaching out to faculty in the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and departments such as Chemistry, Engineering and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

But not everyone agreed that Yale needs to better market its STEM offerings.

“Yale has resources for STEM all over the place, so I don’t think it’s something that really needs more focus,” James Lee ’16 said.

This is the second time YYGS has expanded in the past three years. This year, 12,000 students will attend the program, as compared to 300 in the summer of 2013 and 600 last summer.

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

Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama’s administration at Yale Law School Monday evening.

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER Speaking before the fully packed Yale Law School Levinson Auditorium on Monday evening, conservative Washington Post columnist and FOX News commentator Charles Krauthammer offered a detailed critique of President Barack Obama’s administration, touching upon both the President’s domestic vision and his foreign policy.

As a guest speaker for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale, which aims to “promote intellectual diversity on Yale’s campus,” Krauthammer argued that the Obama administration has led the United States into a state of decline. In particular, Krauthammer criticized Obama’s decision to import a social democratic vision from Europe into the United States, adding that Obama’s passivity in foreign affairs has put the country at risk. Often eliciting laughter and nods of approval from the audience, Krauthammer cited the passing of Obamacare, the Iran Deal, the growth of ISIS and the war in Ukraine, among other examples, as examples of Obama’s dismal performance. “[Obama’s] vision of the world has no connection to the world as it really is, and as a result America has headed for a steep decline,” Krauthammer said, adding that Obama, in both his domestic and foreign initiatives, has moved beyond the tradi-

tional limits of American liberalism.

In the example of health care reform, Krauthammer argued that Obama imposed a one-sided, idealistic vision on the country without a single vote from the opposing side. Obama is moving America away from a country with limited government power into a social democratic country modeled on the European welfare state, Krauthammer said.

In regards to foreign policy, Krauthammer added that Obama’s actions have also come to oppose America’s traditional role as the outside balancer to support weaker states against encroaching powers on the international front.

“Barack Obama came into power thinking of America not as a benign influence in the world, but as having a negative effect,” Krauthammer said. “He thought it would be best to diminish our role [as the outside balancer].”

Obama’s decision to pull American troops out of Iraq left a power vacuum, Krauthammer said, adding that the Obama administration’s failure to understand the effects of troop withdrawal has brought about dangerous consequences.

Matt Robinson ’18, who said he is not politically affiliated, thought Krauthammer raised interesting points about the historical background of the American balance of power. The crowd, Robinson added, seemed very much in agreement with Krauthammer throughout the talk.

Zach Young ’17, president of the Buckley program, said the purpose of the event was to add another angle to Yale’s public discourse through a leading spokesperson for the right.

“I think the Yale campus will benefit from exposure to this viewpoint in our debates on foreign policy,” Young said, adding that Yale’s campus is an environment is one in which the liberals hold larger sway than the conservatives.

Karina Kovalcik ’17 said that though the majority of the people in the room were most likely conservatives, she was confident that the speaker’s reputation drew at least a few attendees from opposing sides.

Before receiving a standing ovation at the end of his speech, Krauthammer assured his audience that there is still hope for America’s future. The way out of decline will depend on the result of the 2016 presidential election, he added.

“These things are reversible with a new foreign policy,” Krauthammer said.

“We’re not going to get into wars, we’re not going to invade anyone, but we’re going to rebuild our allies and maintain a red line that others will respect. That can be done.”

The Buckley Program was founded in 2010 by a group of Yale undergraduates.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.”

STEPHEN GARDINER ENGLISH BISHOP AND POLITICIAN

YHHAP examines Elm City homelessness TIMELINE INVESTIGATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING

relationships between the landlords of rooming houses and tenants, Siow and Mattison said.

Rooming houses can also be run on a for-profit model, Mattison said. Houses run for profit do not depend on government subsidies, meaning they can continue to operate if state or federal funding dries up, he added.

Miura said that his recovery houses — which run on a model similar to that of rooming houses — are currently successful, for-profit organizations.

Although houses can run for profit, securing startup capital can be a roadblock to establishing these houses, Siow said. Approaching nonprofit organizations may be one solution to establishing the houses, Mattison said, adding that many banks consider rooming houses a risky investment given the often unstable income of their tenants.

Another hindrance to increasing the number of rooming houses in New Haven comes from city ordinances, Mattison said. He cited former New Haven Mayor Richard Lee’s 1950s-era urban renewal initiative, which reallocated land away from rooming houses out of a concern that the houses would facilitate drug use.

Rooming houses still have a contentious presence in the city. In 2012, the New Haven Independent reported a dispute between an illegal Cedar Hill rooming house and its neighbors. While the landlord fought to legalize the house’s presence, residents in the area voiced concerns about the potential for illegal drug use in the building. In 2013, officials shut down the rooming house, calling it unfit for human habitation.

A 2014 survey commissioned by the city found that out of the 566 homeless individuals in New Haven, 347 were single adults.

September 2015 Assemble a team of law and undergraduate students Second week of October 2015 Full meeting with city officials to decide on the direction of the task force and establish connections with key stakeholders October 2015 Interview key stakeholders and conduct site visits throughout New Haven November 2015 Second meeting for updates and case study research December 2015 Compile report January 2016 Presentation to the City

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

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everyone. [There are] a lot of people in the streets and a lot of people living in the shelters … There’s still a lot of work to be done in this field.”

Hanna said she expects the task force will be composed of four to seven students, including one to three law students. Members of the task force will meet with city officials in mid-October to finalize their goals for the year before conducting research over the course of the semester. In January, the task force will present its final results to the City Planning Committee.

YHHAP and the Committee recognized that although rooming houses often turn down applicants due to a lack of space, there is little numerical data on the supply and demand for these houses.

The lack of data spurred the creation of the task force, according to YHHAP board member and task force director Stephanie Siow ’17.

According to organizers, the task force will investigate the feasibility of boarding houses in New Haven by interviewing tenants, city officials, nonprofit leaders and other city residents. The task force will also analyze financial data from current rooming houses as well as research supply and demand for SRO housing. The task force will also consider other housing options that could serve the city’s needs.

Chair of the City Planning Committee and former Ward 10 Alder Edward Mattison LAW ’68 originally reached out to YHHAP members about the project in May. He said the initiative will focus on individuals who struggle to earn steady incomes, and finding SRO housing geared toward young individuals without families or drug addictions.

The task force will also look at similar solutions in other cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, where nonprofit organizations mediate

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Mayor elected Board of Ed. president BOARD OF ED FROM PAGE 1 working with the Board to advance education policy in the city.

“I’m very excited about strides we’re making in public education in New Haven,” she said. “We know the number of students enrolled has grown, we know the number of students in high school has grown, and we know the persistence to college is greater.”

Harp commended New Haven’s recent progress in reducing the number of suspensions and expulsions in the school system.

Much of the credit for that success, she said, should go to Youth Stat, a program devoted to engaging and connecting with at-risk youth.

Harp also credited restorative justice programs, which focus on conflict resolution instead of punishment, with helping reduce suspensions and expulsions. While describing a visit to a third-grade classroom earlier Monday, Harp said she saw a teacher leading a restorative justice session as she arrived.

“Helping students learn to be accountable for their behavior, good and bad, is a huge part of our collective responsibility to them,” she said.

Harp’s elevation to president comes at a time of change for the Board of Education. The first student representatives to the board, Coral Ortiz and Kimberly Sullivan, were elected in June and sat along-

side the regular board members during the meeting.

I’m very excited about strides we’re making in public education in New Haven.

MAYOR TONI HARP Sitting in the public gallery, meanwhile, were Darnell Goldson and Edward Joyner, the Democratic candidates for the two newly created elected seats on the board. Neither candidate faces

challengers in the November general election.

Still, the meeting was not without controversy. Before the new officers were elected, community and board members alike raised concerns about the state of the public school system.

For one community leader, Boise Kimber, the city’s education system is failing to train its youth.

He cited recent statistics showing low rates of proficiency in reading and mathematics as indications of a broader failure, and questioned Superintendent Garth Harries’ ’95 commitment to resolving these problems.

“What I wanted to discuss tonight is that the reading scores came back, and that the read-

ing scores for this district were 70 percent underachievement, 80 percent with the math,” Kimber said in public remarks during the meeting. “I do not know whether this board or this superintendent has an urgency for what is happening in this district.”

Kimber added that the low academic proficiency rates are tied to crime and youth violence around the city, encouraging the Board to address education as a means of reducing crime.

Other speakers raised different concerns about the state of the school system.

Ortiz, a current high school junior, said students at High School in the Community had complained to her about crum-

bling infrastructure in the school — the bathrooms, she said, are in danger of collapsing. Sullivan struck a similar tone, asking Harries and Torre what could be done to curb drug use in schools.

Still, Torre ended the meeting on a positive note, stating that New Haven has the 11th-poorest school system in the country, but outperforms academic expectations of schools at that level.

Above all, he said, the Board of Education must continue to work for the benefit of the students.

There are 21,500 students in the New Haven Public School System.

Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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News jobs website to offer streamlined application process

BY PADDY GAVIN AND MANASA RAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS After applying for 12 different campus jobs this semester, Yingzhijie Wang ’19 has not heard back from a single one. There is no way for Wang to view the status of her applications online, and the job opportunities were difficult for her to identify in the first place.

Many students on campus have expressed similar frustrations. Though individuals receiving financial aid from the University are expected to contribute toward their education by working a student job, assistance from the Student Employment Office — and the usability of their current website — is often lacking.

Wang said the most inconvenient aspect of the current website is that after users submit an appli-

cation, there is currently no way to assess that application’s status. Wang added that some jobs on the website are only open to graduate students, and that the website would be easier to navigate if students could exclusively search for undergraduate jobs rather than having to sift through individual descriptions. However, she added that the website is useful in that it notifies students of newly posted positions via email.

Heather Abati, associate director of student financial services, said the Student Employment Office will modify its website this fall to streamline the process of applying for on-campus jobs.

“We are currently testing enhancements to the website that will allow the students to view open positions via preview links, structure job searches more effi-

ciently, manage their job applications — the ability to withdraw an application and view the status of application — and upload a resume or CV,” Abati said.

[The OCS website is] not designed for this age of technology.

QIAN LIANG ’19 Students i n te r v i e we d expressed mixed views on the amenability of the existing hiring system, but spoke positively about the upcoming changes to the website. Several students said that in particular, they eagerly anticipate being able to track the status of their applications, since

typically students never hear back after their applications have been submitted.

Qian Liang ’19 said the website is in dire need of a new design that is easier for students to navigate.

The website is “not designed for this age of technology,” Lang said, describing the system as a “website from 2004.”

Sergio Nazaire ’18, who used the website last fall to apply for his current job as a receptionist at the Children’s Museum of Connecticut, said he did not have to spend much time researching individual positions because they were all presented in a list on the website. But Nazaire echoed other students’ dissatisfaction regarding an inability to track the status of applications. He added that after applying to 20 jobs, he only heard back from one-third of those, despite sending fol-

low-up emails to many potential employers.

In addition, Nazaire said he would like the website to include a rolling deadline for logging each week’s work hours, as opposed to the current system which requires students to log their hours by 9 a.m. Monday morning.

Despite these complaints, Abati described the website in its current state as easily navigable.

“I believe the current student employment website is user-friendly to all students and administrators,” Abati said.

“With that being said, we recognize there is always room for improvement.”

Rosa Chung ’18, a visitor services assistant at the Yale University Art Gallery, agreed with Abati, noting that she is happy with the system overall. Chung

added that it is very easy to find jobs that align with a student’s specific interests, adding that she knew she wanted to work at the art gallery and did not have difficulty finding a position.

But of the 100 positions Hui Yang ’19 applied for this fall, he has only heard back from 20, and he has only received one interview. The other 19 positions had already been filled, he added, though the website had not been updated to indicate that they were no longer available.

“It was not effective at all,” Yang said.

The Student Employment Office website currently lists 87 available on-campus jobs.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and MANASA RAO at manasa.rao@yale.edu .

School of Public Health searches for new leader

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER As the Yale School of Public Health celebrates its 100th anniversary, the YSPH community has begun searching for a new dean to lead the school through the coming decades.

Following an email in June from University President Peter Salovey announcing the stepping down of current dean Paul Cleary, the search committee for the new dean — chaired by public health professor Susan Busch and consisting of eight other Yale faculty — met for the first time last Saturday to discuss the new leadership for the School of Public Health. Although the committee has not set a hard deadline for its search, it plans to identify

a new dean before Cleary’s term expires in June 2016. Both Cleary and other YSPH faculty interviewed expressed their confidence in the search committee’s ability to select the next leader for the school.

“We hope to have a new dean in place by July 1, 2016, but will continue to search until we find the appropriate candidate,” Busch said in a Sunday email to the News, adding that the committee expects a nationwide search for the position.

In a formal announcement that will be placed in scholarly journals targeted at public health faculty within the next two weeks, Yale invites nominations and letters of application from all over the nation. According to the statement, candidates with strong rec-

TIMELINE DEAN CLEARY’S HISTORY Cleary becomes Dean of YSPH

ognition, academic accomplishments and backgrounds in funded research will be preferred.

Cleary, who has led the school through almost a decade of national and international recognition, said he hopes it will continue to develop its excellence in research, education and service activities, while continuing to be one of the world’s top schools of public health.

“I am confident that the search committee will identify an outstanding man or woman who can do a superb job at continuing to develop the school in that way,” Cleary said.

The School of Public Health has consistently been ranked one of the top in the world during Cleary’s tenure. Faculty at the school acknowledged Cleary’s

efforts in expanding the school’s influence at Yale, nationally and globally, and expressed hope that the new dean will carry on his legacy.

Elizabeth Bradley, public health professor and master of Branford College, said she expects the new dean to continue and expand the multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to health that sets the school apart.

Former deputy dean and epidemiology professor Michael Bracken MPH ’70 GRD ’74 said one of the unique features of the School of Public Health is its close collaboration with the Yale School of Medicine, which allows creative research and teaching opportunities. This collaboration needs to be further fostered and encouraged by the new dean,

July 1: Cleary reappointed to second 5 year term by President Richard Levin

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Bracken said.

Bracken added that the new dean must first and foremost support academic excellence in teaching and scholarship.

“This means that the dean, herself or himself, must have the highest academic credentials to earn the respect of the faculty,” Bracken said. “Some universities have recruited public health deans from non-academic professions, such as business, but this is to be deplored.”

He added that Yale has recruited some outstanding junior faculty to the School of Public Health over the last 20 years and that this must be maintained.

Mayur Desai GRD ’97, professor of epidemiology, also said he looks forward to a dean who will

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

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build on scholarly achievements of the school, adding that the new leader’s key priorities include increasing scholarships and fellowships for master’s degree students, growing the doctoral program and attracting new sources of funding to support faculty research.

“I am excited to see how the search evolves and am sure that the committee will identify the best candidate to build on the achievements made by Dean Cleary and lead us in the upcoming years,” said Albert Ko, chair of department of epidemiology of microbial diseases at YSPH. Cleary began his tenure as dean in 2006.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.”

PAUL DANO AMERICAN ACTOR AND PRODUCER

Eze talks homelessness EZE FROM PAGE 1 the city’s least advantaged aren’t being left on the side,” Eze said.

He added that the city should focus on placing the homeless in stable housing arrangements regardless of drug addiction and mental illness, noting that access to permanent housing is critical in solving these issues.

While housing organizations like New Reach — a nonprofit organization that provides 100 units of permanent housing for New Haven and Hamden families — already exist, Eze said that the city should expand their efforts.

Eze added that in addition to housing the homeless, New Haven must also assist populations that have already been housed but are still at risk of falling back into homelessness. He proposed increasing investments in affordable housing as a means to provide stable living conditions for the Elm City’s homeless.

Eze pointed to the current evictions from the Church Street South complex — where the city will evict 289 families

by the end of the year from their apartment units due to crumbling facilities and unsafe exposure to mold — as particularly problematic. The unsafe living conditions that led to the evictions are indicative of insufficient resources devoted to housing, he said.

Attendees’ reactions were largely positive. Students interviewed said homelessness is a visible phenomenon in New Haven that they encounter on a near-daily basis.

Some in attendance said the responsibility for alleviating homelessness lies partly with the University. Susan Aboeid ’19 said Yale should devote more of its resources toward efforts to relieve homelessness, adding that she was shocked at the number of homeless she sees on her walk from Old Campus to the dollar store on Chapel Street.

Andrew Bean ’17 echoed Aboeid’s sentiment, stating that he agrees with Eze’s policy proposal, which includes expanding volunteer opportunities for Yale students.

In his speech, Eze also mentioned

also programs like Housing First, which advocates for ending homelessness as a means to solve other problems like mental illness and drug addiction. Bean said empirical evidence suggests that such programs would likely be more effective in combating homelessness than the city’s current policies.

During his speech and in conversations throughout the event, Eze emphasized the importance of involving Yale students in the city — something he said Eidelson has failed to do as alder. If elected, he would work with Yale student organizations, including the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, to mobilize student resources in the city, he said.

“I don’t just want your vote,” Eze said. “I want your vote and your commitment to get engaged in the city.”

A 2013 survey by Connecticut PIT found that the New Haven homeless population numbered 767.

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

COURTESY OF UGONNA EZE’S CAMPAIGN

Students gather on Old Campus for Eze’s discussion about homelessness in New Haven.

Fiorina calls out Sonnenfeld SONNENFELD FROM PAGE 1 ald Trump referenced an Aug. 14 article written by Sonnenfeld for Fortune Magazine. In the article, Sonnenfeld wrote that former Hewlett-Packard CEO and current Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina had “one of the worst tenures for a CEO that he had ever seen.” Fiorina defended her record on air by attacking Sonnenfeld as a “well-known Clintonite” who “honestly had it in for [her] from the moment that [she] arrived at Hewlett-Packard.”

But Fiorina’s criticism of Sonnenfeld extends past the debate. On her campaign website, she further describes Sonnenfeld as a biased commentator due to his friendship with former president Bill Clinton LAW ’73, husband of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73.

Following the debate, Sonnenfeld wrote a renewed assessment of Fiorina’s leadership qualities on Politico, criticizing her refusal to acknowledge her own mistakes. In an interview with the News, Sonnenfeld stood by his critique of the GOP candidate, noting that she was misrepresenting her record at HP. Fiorina focuses solely on how she doubled the company’s revenue, Sonnenfeld said, ignoring HP’s poor stock performance and lack of profit during her six years at the helm.

“She dramatically distorts her record and I am concerned about correctly conveying the facts of what she did,” Sonnenfeld said. “For our system to work at its best, we have to hold people accountable for what they have achieved.”

Sonnenfeld, in addition to serving as an associate dean at the SOM, is also a contributor to CNBC and a frequent commentator on the performances of business leaders. In his work, he examines leaders across sectors, industries and political parties — an academic interest that first led him to examine Fiorina’s HP tenure.

He defended himself against Fiorina’s accusations of bias, calling her statements about him “pure inventions” and “ludicrous.” He said he had never heard the term “Clintonite” before, and that while he knows the Clintons socially — he said he used to jog with Bill Clinton on New Years Days — he was not an advisor to Hillary Clin-

ton or affiliated with her current presidential campaign in any way.

Sonnenfeld added that he is also friendly with the Bush family and other prominent Republican politicians.

“Fiorina’s accusation was a ridiculous charge of political bias,” he said.

Students interviewed responded differently to Trump’s citation of Sonnenfeld’s article.

Jake Leffew ’19, who read about the incident in a New York Times article, said it is “fair game” for Trump to cite an academic article about Fiorina’s record. He said Fiorina reacted in an unpresidential manner, which may suggest that she cannot handle criticism in an appropriate way.

But Justin Knapp ’19, who watched the debate live and heard Trump’s quote, said Trump was in the wrong for perpetuating personal attacks against other candidates — a recurring trend in recent debates.

“I do wish Trump would stop setting the precedent of launching personal attacks against other candidates, no matter whether they’re based on academic papers or facts,” Knapp said.

While Sonnenfeld himself rejects the label of a “Clintonite,” Yale employees do have a record of supporting Clinton in her latest presidential campaign.

Employees of the University make up the fourth largest donor group to her presidential campaign. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Yale employees have given over $95,000 to Clinton in the current election cycle. Professors and students interviewed after the statistics were released said they were not surprised, due to the education sector’s overall support for Democrats, in addition to Clinton’s affiliation with the University.

“The deep and long-lasting personal relationship that Clinton developed with her classmates and professors provides the key explanation to her popularity among Yale-affiliated members,” said SOM professor Rick Antle. “Many alumni and faculty in the Yale community simply know her better than they know … any other candidates.”

At the SOM, Sonnenfeld is the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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affiliated centers, costs $1,950 a month for full-time care. Most of the other Yale-affiliated day care centers cost between $1,350 and $1,500 a month.

Because the on-campus day care centers are private, mothers like Jennifer Medina, who works as an accountant for Yale, receive little financial aid from the University. And though aid does exist — some Nest parents can be granted a subsidy of around $200 — it is not guaranteed. Medina said she was shocked when she saw how much it would cost to send her youngest daughter to day care at one of Yale’s affiliated centers.

“The resources were extensive, but most of these places were extremely costly,” Medina said.

And figuring out the cost of day care is rarely simple for mothers at the University. Of the seven Yale-affiliated day care centers, only three list tuition costs on their websites. Jurkevics said that at a Yale information session targeted at graduate student parents, tuition expenses were discussed only after day care options were outlined. Unable to afford day care at Yale-affiliated centers, Jurkevics sent her children to Sunshine Preschool in Hamden where full-time care costs $1,170 a month. Travelling in and out of the city each day has restricted her ability to fully participate in campus community life, Jurkevics said.

Jurkevics’ family income — both she and her husband work as graduate students at Yale — was too high to qualify her children for scholarship money at the Yale-affiliated Edith B. Jackson Child Care Program, where monthly tuition costs $1,385.

According to other mothers interviewed, tuition is not the only expense to confront, as many day care centers have additional expenses that are not included in tuition. For example, applications for day care at

the Yale-affiliated Phyllis Bodel Childcare Center require a nonrefundable $35 processing fee.

Additionally, parents wishing to drop their child off early at Edith Jackson must pay $15 per day to do so.

Some mothers interviewed questioned whether Yale’s continued recognition among the top 100 companies for working mothers is deserved. Jurkevics said that Yale’s award should be seen in the context of other American companies, which are not required by federal law to provide paid maternity leave.

Many European universities raise the wages of student employees who have children, and a similar policy exists at Princeton, she said.

“It’s not Yale’s fault, it’s America’s fault,” Jurkevics said. “We have a broken attitude to mothers and parents in this country.

I don’t think it would cost that much [for Yale] to actually be a trailblazer for working families.”

Horsley said the issue of day care provision often falls by the wayside in discussions with University administrators. Jurkevics, who said she spoke earlier this year with Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley, said she felt Cooley was blind to the problems faced by graduate students with children.

But Jurkevics noted that the problem is much larger than day care. Yale faculty members discourage female graduate students to have children and start families, she said, adding that colleagues told her she should not be having children.

Still, the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate recently formed a committee to investigate ways to improve childcare options for faculty.

Other companies listed as the “100 Best” by Working Mother Magazine include Goldman Sachs, Lego and Verizon.

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 12:00 PM Art of Fiction. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham engages this year’s Windham-Campbell fiction prizewinners in a lively conversation on the art and craft of writing fiction. Featuring Teju Cole, Helon Habila and Ivan Vladislavic. New Haven Free Public Library (133 Elm St.).

12:00 PM Sarah Horowitz: The Making of the WindhamCampbell Prizes. Each winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize receives a handmade diploma with its own unique drawing by artist Sarah Horowitz. Join her for this lively show-and-tell as she describes the process for making these beautiful works of art.

Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), International Reading Room.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1:00 PM A Conversation with Cedric Nunn. The Yale Council on African Studies in partnership with the Yale University Art Gallery present “A Conversation with South African Photographer Cedric Nunn: ‘Unsettled: One Hundred Years War of Resistance by Xhosa Against Boer and British.’” The conversation will be followed by a visit to the Art Gallery print study center. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.), Public Education Rm.

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SPORTS

“Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.” ROBERT GRIFFIN III, WASHINGTON QUARTERBACK

Football opens Ivy season 1–0 never took the field, while running back Candler Rich ’17 exited the game early in the third quarter. Yale also played without defensive back Foye Oluokun ’17, who did not dress for the game.

The Bulldogs’ offense looked anemic throughout the first half, going 0–3 on fourth-down conversions and 4–7 on third-down attempts while Cornell — led by the ground attack of running back Luke Hagy — raced to a 26–7 lead late in the second quarter.

After 12 points by Cornell opened the game, the Elis’ first score came on a quarterback draw, when quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 took advantage of strong blocking and darted into the end zone from the seven-yard line, bowling over multiple linebackers on his way. “[Cornell was] playing zone coverage, and we had two outgoing routes,” Roberts said. “I saw some green and I went for it.”

The Bulldogs were unable to put additional points on the board until the end of the second half, when Yale’s special teams provided a necessary spark with the first of three big plays by the unit in the game.

Following a Cornell touchdown that made the score 26–7, kick returner Jamal Locke ’18 fielded Cornell’s kick at the Yale 10-yard line with 47 seconds remaining in the first half. He juked two Big Red players before finding open space at the 35-yard line and shooting down the left sideline. He was ultimately dragged down at the Cornell six-

yard line, completing an 84-yard kickoff return. Roberts found Ross Drwal ’18 on a cross route on the ensuing play, and the Bulldogs cut Cornell’s lead to 13 with 30 seconds remaining.

Returning to the field after halftime, the Elis appeared to have found a better rhythm.

“I went in at halftime and I told [the team] about how they were going to make a memory today, and they did,” Reno said. “It was going to be one of those games they were going to talk about later in life, because they were going to come back and win it.”

On their first possession of the second half, Yale drove 66 yards in 11 plays. The drive concluded with kicker Bryan Holmes ’17 sending the ball through the uprights from 26 yards out — his first career field goal. With two successful field goals and three touchbacks on kickoffs, Holmes was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday.

On the other end of Yale’s special teams, the Elis blocked a pair of kicks, putting them ahead of all other Division I teams with four blocked kicks in just two games this season. One of the blocks was on an extra point following a touchdown, while the second was a blocked field goal at the end of a monster Cornell drive that chewed up almost 10 minutes in the fourth quarter.

These blocks, in conjunction with Locke’s kickoff return and a muffed punt recovered by Hunter Simino ’19, made contributions by special teams key to the victory.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 led the way for the Elis with a match-high 18 kills.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 serving, putting the set out of reach and ultimately clinching the match.

While Yale’s stars such as Johnson and Crawford continued to lead the team in major categories, the surprising contributions from bench players have proved extremely valuable for the Elis.

“Friday really proved the depth and talent on this team,” Johnson said. “We had so many people step up and play awesomely throughout the match.

[Fuller] played incredibly, she is such a smart player and gives us so much energy. [Wu] stepped up at a really crucial time, serving aces and playing great defense.”

Yale moves on to host Columbia and Cornell next weekend.

The two teams faced off in Ithaca this past weekend, with the Lions prevailing in four sets.

With a big matchup at Harvard looming in two weeks, this weekend’s home games could be easy for the Bulldogs to overlook.

But Yale’s veterans said that they know better than to disregard any opponent.

“As long as we focus and work hard in everything that we do, we can avoid letdowns this year,” Crawford said.

The Elis play the Lions on Friday at 7 p.m., while their matchup against the Big Red will be on Saturday at 5 p.m.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

The defense also did its part.

Though it struggled to bring down Hagy outside the tackle box, Yale’s front seven regrouped after halftime, finishing the game with three sacks and eight tackles for losses.

“We make adjustments every second half,” captain and safety Cole Champion ’16 said. “We didn’t change our defensive play, we just did a better job doing our own jobs.”

Not everything improved after halftime, as penalties continued to cause issues for the Elis. After giving up 56 yards on eight penalties against Colgate last week, the Bulldogs committed 12 penalties for 119 yards on Saturday.

Seven of those penalties were called in the second half, including two pass interference calls that handed Cornell 29 yards.

Down 26–19 with just 3:27 remaining, the Yale offense unleashed an aerial attack. Roberts, who ended the day 25-for47 with 371 passing yards and four total touchdowns, threw on seven consecutive plays and completed five of them. The first four of the five completions were for 10 or more yards, and the fifth was an eight-yard touchdown to wide receiver Robert Clemons III ’17, who finished with a team-leading eight catches for 86 yards.

“At that point [in the game], you know you have to throw the football just based on the clock,” Roberts said. “I had a pretty good idea of what I was looking at. It felt like we were right there and we just didn’t execute on a couple of those drives. Some guys made

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some good catches or plays that we had just missed before. They played a bunch of guys man-toman so it was guys winning their matchups.”

With the score then tied at 26 and with 1:12 left on the clock, Reno used his final two timeouts during Cornell’s ensuing possession. The aggressive calls, combined with a forced three-andout by the defense, gave Roberts just 49 seconds to march his offense 71 yards for the gamewinner.

After the game, Reno said that he believed the offense could score and therefore wanted to give them the opportunity to possess the ball once more.

“[Reno] really trusts us and believes in our offense and believes we can execute,” Roberts said. “We’re always no-huddle, playing up-tempo, so it’s not like we were out of our comfort zone.”

The Bulldogs needed just 17 of those 49 seconds, winning the game on Little’s first career touchdown.

Little, who hails from nearby Cheshire, Connecticut, capped the comeback in front of dozens of local youths, many of who wore navy-blue shirts with Little’s name and number emblazoned on the back, in the stands.

“The whole offense just came together,” said Little. “The offensive line did a great job up front.

[Offensive coordinator Joe Conlin] called a great play to put us in a position to succeed. I never would have guessed [my first touchdown would] happen this way … I’m super grateful and humbled.”

With the win over Cornell, Yale joins Harvard, which defeated Brown on Saturday, as the only team to win a league game. Princeton, Penn, Columbia and Dartmouth have yet to open their Ancient Eight seasons.

Yale’s next game at Lehigh kicks off next Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

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

Celebration spoiled in extras BASEBALL FROM PAGE 14 Andrew Herrera ’17 said. “It really hit me when we got the old throwback uniforms and got to try them on the day before the game. Not many programs in the country can celebrate 150 years of history. Even though we did not come out on top, it was such a great experience to be a part of.”

Following the pregame ceremonies and an honorary first pitch delivered by University President Peter Salovey, the Bulldogs jumped out to a 1–0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Newcomer Tim DeGraw ’19, who earned the start in center field, opened the Yale attack with a leadoff single against Wesleyan starter Peter Rantz. Degraw eventually scored on a fielder’s choice by third baseman Richard Slenker ’17, who led the team in doubles and tied for second in RBIs last spring.

DeGraw was not the only freshman sitting atop the Yale lineup, as second baseman Simon Whiteman ’19 batted in the second slot for the Bulldogs in the team’s first action of the year.

“I feel like Simon and I are very similar players and can get on base and provide a spark for the team,” DeGraw said.

“We have a small roster here at Yale so I think it’s vital for all of our freshman to step right in and contribute to the best of our abilities in order to help the team machine run smoothly.”

Eric Brodkowitz ’18 started the game on the mound for the Bulldogs and held the Cardinals scoreless through the first two innings. He tossed two no-hit innings and struck out three of the seven batters he faced. Brodkowitz developed into a reliable starting pitcher for Yale last spring, recording a 3–3 record and sporting a 6.25 ERA. The Elis bolstered the lead for Brodkowitz in the second inning. Shortstop Tom O’Neill ’16 doubled to left field and sprinted all the way home from second base on a wild pitch that Wesleyan catcher Eric Jones was unable to locate.

Despite the miscue, Wesleyan tied

the game at 2–2 in the very next inning.

Tyler Duncan ’18 replaced Brodkowitz on the bump for the Bulldogs, becoming the second of an eventual eight Elis to pitch.

Following an error, a walk and two wild pitches, the Cardinals took advantage of the Bulldogs’ sloppy play with a twoRBI single from second baseman Will O’Sullivan.

Yale and Wesleyan traded runs again in the fifth inning to knot the score up at three apiece, at which point both teams’ bats fell silent until the extra frame.

But the Bulldogs came close to scoring in the bottom of the ninth, as Whiteman singled to left field and stole second base. A pair of walks to right fielder Harrison White ’17 and Slenker loaded the bases for first baseman Griffin Dey ’19.

With a chance to drive in the winning run in walk-off fashion, the freshman rolled into a double play, stranding the base runners and sending the game into extra innings.

Although the rally faltered, Whiteman continued to provide a spark, as his single in the ninth inning accompanied a triple in the fifth inning.

“It was pivotal for me to relax, and after the first time around the bases, I tried to do just that,” Whiteman said. “Once I allowed myself to return to a comfort zone, the game slowed back down.”

Despite Whiteman’s play, Wesleyan took control of the contest in the 10th inning when the Cardinals were able to manufacture the winning run. O’Sullivan drew a walk to lead off the inning, advancing to second on a groundout and to third on a wild pitch by righty Chasen Ford ’17. AJ Ferrara executed a suicidesqueeze bunt to bring home the go-ahead run, before the Cardinals tacked on two more runs to put the game out of hand.

Ford was tagged with the loss for the Elis after pitching 2.1 innings and giving up a pair of runs on two hits. The Lake Forest, California native also punched out three batters.

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While Yale defeated Wesleyan 7–3 in April, the Bulldogs failed to replicate that result in the Saturday exhibition. heads,” Herrera said. “I really liked the way the team performed. We have a lot of younger guys playing, and we are playing fast and hard. I think we have a very high ceiling this year.”

The Bulldogs do not play again until Oct. 9 when they host Southern Connecticut State University at Yale Field in the first game of the annual City Series.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

Princeton blanks Yale in conference opener W. SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 to capitalize on that. Looking forward, we know we have the talent, work ethic and desire to get the job done. We just have to fine-tune the small things in order to get the result we know we’re capable of.”

In a series where the home team has historically struggled — the visitor has emerged victorious since 2006 — Princeton (6–3–0, 1–0–0), which featured last year’s Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Tyler Lussi,

managed to break the streak.

The first half was tight between the two squads, as the Bulldogs were able to shut down Princeton’s attack and hold the game scoreless through halftime. Following the break, however, the Tiger offense came alive. Princeton managed to convert in the 62nd minute off an opportunity created by Lussi.

Later in the half, she added two goals to put the Elis away.

Alozie noted that the team struggled overall, and that the Bulldogs did not bring the same

energy to the table as they have in past contests.

Midfielder Maggie Furlong ’18 mentioned Princeton’s physicality as a major differencemaker in the game. The Tigers committed 13 fouls, over twice as many as Yale.

“Princeton was definitely a tough game,” Furlong said.

“They were fast and fit and possessed the ball extremely well.”

The Tigers dominated the second half, attempting 19 shots in the second half while Yale had just six.

The Elis, who have no midweek games, are now looking ahead to their game this upcoming Saturday, when Harvard will travel to Reese Stadium for a soccer doubleheader against both the men’s and women’s teams. Midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 recognized the harsh loss to Princeton but said that the team is looking to the future rather than dwelling on the past.

“There is no good way to put into words the sting we felt this weekend,” McCauley said.

“However, with that said, we have put it behind us and [have] shifted 100 percent of our focus to doing everything we can to prepare to win in our game against Harvard this weekend.”

The Bulldogs have been training hard all season for the important Ivy games such as the one against Harvard — the defending champion of the Ivy League title.

Ames said that she believes this Saturday will showcase an improvement in Yale’s play after hard work in practice.

“I’m extremely excited to play Harvard on Saturday, and I know my team is ready to compete in the historic rivalry,” Ames said.

“We’ve dedicated a lot of time and energy to prepare for games like this, and it’s time for our preparation and sacrifices to pay off.”

The Bulldogs host the Crimson in their first Ivy League home game at Reese Stadium this Saturday at 4 p.m.

Contact ANDRÉ MONTEIRO at andre.monteiro@yale.edu .

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Feathers play crucial role in birds’ communication

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG AND JUDE ALAWA STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The flutter of bird wings may seem like a distant, inconsequential background noise, but a recent study from the Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Peabody Museum of Natural History suggests these sounds play a crucial role in birds’ efforts to communicate.

Birds use wing fluttering to communicate signals such as those of courtship, the study indicated. The researchers investigated aeroelastic flutter, one method by which feathers produce sound. By analyzing this mechanism, researchers were able to compare and examine tonal, nonvocal sounds that are present in both ordinary bird flight and communication among birds.

“The bird sounds that we study are like the sounds of people when they clap their hands or stomp their feet when they walk,” said Christopher Clark, biology professor at UC Riverside and study author. “Some of these sounds are functional, like when we clap our hands to get someone’s attention, but other sounds are a byproduct of motion, like a person’s footsteps.”

For some birds, feather fluttering serves to attract mates, Clark said, adding that males use the sounds to demonstrate their agility and call for female attention.

Some birds’ sounds are clearly intentional, said ornithology professor Richard Prum, but others could simply be a result of feathers’ structures.

“The [bird] songs are never static,” Prum explained. “It shows that beauty in the animals is like high fashion. It’s never static.

They can sing and use vocal communication.”

In order to replicate flutter sounds for the study, researchers tested detached wing and tail feathers in a wind tunnel. The majority of feathers tested could

produce tonal sounds in the wind tunnel, suggesting that the capacity to flutter is intrinsic to flight feathers even when they are not attached to birds.

According to Glenn WestonMurphy, an engineering design advisor at Yale who was involved in the wind tunnel experiment, the goal of the study was to compare recordings of bird flight in wild areas of South and Central America with their recorded simulations of bird flutter to determine if the frequencies and vibrations matched up. WestonMurphy said most sounds were birds performing high-speed maneuvering activities, such as quick diving and sharply pulling up.

Prum and Clark found that of the feathers from 35 different categories of birds, only 15 produced flutter sounds resembling actual flight sounds. But the study also suggested that of the 20 negative results, 10 were false negatives and the other 10 were true negatives.

The 10 true negatives occurred because some species do not make tonal sounds via flutter. Based on the overall results, Prum and Clark were able to conclude that the production of nonvocal communication sounds by aeroelastic flutter of feathers is widespread in different species of birds.

But the challenge of exploring individual feathers’ functions is that researchers can easily miss important ways in which feathers interact with each other.

“Testing a single feather is like taking a single string of a guitar and testing it without the body,” Clark said. “If you tested the whole guitar you might get something different.”

The three primary feathergenerated communication sounds are based on mechanisms of flutter, percussion and wing whirring.

Contact JUDE ALAWA at jude.alawa@yale.edu and BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

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Weight loss linked to sleep quality

BY NITYA RAYAPATI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On a restless night, some tossers and turners may try to count sheep or drink warm milk in order to lull themselves to sleep. But according to a new study, losing weight can now be added to the list of effective insomnia remedies.

Researchers administered surveys to obese individuals in order to gauge sleep quality through two types of interventions: a diet program and a program with diet and exercise. The findings — a substudy of a larger trial — were published in the journal “Behavioral Sleep Medicine” in September.

As one of the first explorations of lifestyle interventions and their effects on sleep, the study investigated the ways different methods of weight loss affect body composition. Even though the regimens established identical caloric deficits of 600 kilocalories per day, the hypothesis was that exercise would result in improved sleep.

Past studies had suggested that exercise could result in a greater loss of fat around the waist. But to the surprise of Soohyun Nam, assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and coauthor of the study, both the diet method and the joint diet-and-exercise method equally improved sleep quality.

“As long as you lose a significant amount of body fat from the abdominal area, your sleep quality is likely to improve,” Nam said. “The main key is the amount of the body fat lost. It doesn’t matter if you [lose] body fat from diet intervention or diet plus exercise.”

This finding was not the primary focus of the overall research. The researchers recruited participants for a larger study, which was focused on the impact of diet compared to diet plus exercise on the cardiovascular health of diabetic individuals, who often tend to have issues with obesity and sleep.

Meir Kryger, professor of medicine and program director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship, said that some obese individuals find it nearly impossible to sleep due to frequent nighttime movements made to move weight off their pressure points.

Additionally, Kryger said, about a third of obese patients are expected to have sleep apnea, a common condition where people stop breathing in their sleep — leading people to wake up often.

“That’s why we decided to see, well, since we’re already studying these people who are at risk for sleep disorders, let’s just ask them questions about how they sleep,” said Kerry Stewart,

primary investigator and director of clinical and research exercise physiology at Johns Hopkins. “So it wasn’t a primary aim of the study. That’s a serendipitous finding.”

The study measured sleep quality using the Hopkins Sleep Survey, which asks subjects about symptoms of sleep apnea, insomnia, daytime fatigue and a myriad of other sleep disorders.

These results were coalesced into a composite score signifying the participant’s quality of sleep throughout the six-month lifestyle intervention. A dietician and an exercise physiologist closely supervised study participants.

The sleep survey enabled researchers to see that the weight-loss or exercise program positively impacted mood, sleep and psychological well-being, in addition to reducing symptoms of depression.

“One thing we can’t fully sort out is which comes first: the chicken or the egg? Did people become less depressed and then slept better, or because they were sleeping better, they were less depressed?” Stewart said.

“So I think that’s one issue that warrants further investigation.”

As long as you lose a significant amount of body fat … , your sleep quality is likely to improve.

SOOHYUN NAM Yale School of Nursing Assistant Professor The self-reported questionnaires were a major limitation of the study. There are many types of sleep disorders, but the questionnaire was only a general measure of sleep disturbance. Therefore, the researchers couldn’t pin down whether someone was having sleep problems specifically due to apnea, insomnia or a different disorder.

Additionally, because this data was self-reported, it was a subjective measure of sleep quality.

“One of the things that would’ve been nice to do is to actually have an objective measurement of what goes on during sleep,” Kryger said. “In other words, we’re going to study you in a sleep laboratory, we’re going to measure your brain waves, your breathing, your heart rate.”

The results also may have been skewed by a high dropout rate, since 36.8 percent of the diet-only group and 20.5 percent in the diet-and-exercise group did not finish the study.

According to the National Sleep Foundation, more than 18 million American adults suffer from sleep apnea.

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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

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Elites favor efficiency

BY WILLIAM REID CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Are the elite fundamentally different from other Americans, or do they simply have more money?

The results of a study from Yale and other universities suggest that “elites” — defined as such for enrollment in prestigious academic programs, above average wealth or both — differ from other groups beyond just the bank account. The study, published this month in the journal Science and conducted in conjunction with Yale Law School, concluded that elite Americans favor economic efficiency over economic equality, whereas other subjects did not. Researchers also found that affluent subjects more often acted out of self-interest than out of a sense of fair-mindedness.

A sample of elites, comprised in part by Yale Law School students, differed significantly from average Americans in their fiscal preferences. When given the choice between an equal distribution of resources and higher total payout, 79.8 percent of YLS students demonstrated a preference for the latter. Comparatively, only 49.8 percent of average Americans studied selected efficiency over equality.

This finding provides an explanation for why recent attempts to combat the rising levels of economic inequality in the United States have been so unsuccessful, despite public outrage and two two-term demo-

cratic presidencies, according to YLS professor Daniel Markovits ’91 LAW ’00, a co-author of the study.

“Quite possibly, when popular democratic administrations don’t redistribute aggressively, it’s not because they are afraid that if they do, the banks or somebody else will fund their opponents. They actually believe, in good faith, that the right thing to do is what they’re doing,” Markovits said. “That’s not demonstrated by this study, but it’s suggested by this study more strongly than by other work.”

Markovits and his colleagues conducted the study using the “dictator game,” a simulation common to behavioral economic research. In the game, a subjects is given control over a pot of money, then asked to distribute that pot between himself and an anonymous other.

But in this study, the test had an added twist: researchers varied how much it cost subjects to give money or retain it.

In some trials, subjects could be charged up to 90 cents for giving the money to the anonymous other. In others, this cost was reversed so that keeping the money reduced the total payout.

Because researchers could set the cost of redistribution at different levels in each experimental session, they could isolate subjects’ preferences for efficiency or selfinterest.

Results held when researchers studied subjects from two other elite sample sets: undergradu-

ates at the University of California at Berkeley and subjects who make more than $100,000 a year and have a graduate degree.

“This is not a law school effect, or a Yale effect,” Markovits said.

“It’s an eliteness effect.”

All law students interviewed said they were unsurprised by the study results.

According to law student Conor Dwyer Reynolds LAW ’17, president of First Generation Professionals, a Yale Law affinity group for students who are the first in their families to pursue a professional degree, the study provides an important finding that will contribute to the growing discourse about class at the law school and beyond.

It is unsurprising that economic elites tend to prefer efficiency over equality outcomes, regardless of their partisan affiliation, Reynolds said.

“This paper fits in a trend of work that’s beginning to think deeply about not only how elites differ from non-elites, but also — and this is the important thing — how we should care about this because, after all, it is the elites who make decisions on behalf of the rest of us,” said sociology professor Nicholas Christakis ’84.

First Generation Professionals has planned a town hall-style forum to discuss the paper’s findings this week with Markovits. The meeting will only be open to students in the law school.

Contact WILLIAM REID at william.reid@yale.edu .

Study shows alcohol relapse and cigarette smoking correlation

BY JACOB STERN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A recently published Yale-affiliated study may change the way doctors treat alcohol-use disorders in patients who smoke cigarettes.

Smokers recovering from alcohol dependence often continue smoking in an effort to alleviate the discomfort of withdrawal, according to the study. But the researchers determined that this cigarette use has an adverse impact on patients’ likelihood of staying sober in the long-run. Patients in treatment for alcohol-use disorders who smoke cigarettes are far less likely to relapse if they are concurrently treated for cigarettesmoking habits, the study indicated.

“What we found is that adults with a past alcohol-use disorder who were smokers were more likely to meet criteria for alcohol-use disorders three years later, compared to adults with a past alcohol-use disorder who were not smoking,” first author and Yale School of Medicine psychiatry professor Andrea Weinberger said.

Past research on the subject has generally focused on how alcohol use affects patients trying to overcome nicotine addiction, but this study considered the opposite. Using data from two iterations of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, researchers used logistic regression analysis to evaluate the relationship between the respondents’ initial cigarette-smoking status and their alcohol use three years later.

Researchers also adjusted for a number of variables that could have distorted their calculations, including demographics, psychiatric disorders and substance-abuse disorders. Even after accounting for these factors, the data exhibited a clear correlation between cigarette use in the initial survey and higher

likelihood of alcohol dependence in the subsequent survey.

“I think it’s compelling and very applicable to treatment,” senior author and Columbia University epidemiology professor Renee Goodwin said.

Smoking was permissible within the confines of hospital rooms as late as the 1990s, Goodwin said. But while the medical profession’s understanding of smoking as a health hazard has seen enormous progress since the days when patients smoked in their hospital beds, Weinberger said more remains to be done.

“We hope that this will raise awareness of the relationship between smoking and alcohol-use disorders and encourage programs to assess for smoking and consider including services to help people stop smoking,” Weinberger said.

But the way forward is not entirely clear, Goodwin said. Researchers have yet to determine the best way to administer the type of dual treatment this study suggests is necessary, she added.

Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism George Koob said a staggered treatment plan seems the most likely solution.

“It is great to treat both, but it may have to be done sequentially,” Koob said.

But Goodwin hesitated to offer any concrete recommendation without more extensive research on the subject.

“My main message is that we need to try to test these things, then see what [the] evidence suggests,” she said.

According to the NIAAA, between 80 and 95 percent of alcoholics also smoke cigarettes.

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

Study links pesticide exposure to tremor

BY MIRANDA ESCOBAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new Yale study indicates that although pesticides successfully keep insects at bay, they may also have a negative impact on neurological development.

Research at the Yale School of Medicine has identified a link between prenatal exposure to a widely used agricultural pesticide, chlorpyrifos (CPF), and the presence of tremor — involuntary contraction or twitching of muscles — in childhood. The findings of this study contribute to the growing body of research suggesting that exposure to pesticides is associated with a host of neuro-developmental issues.

This study in particular, published in the journal Neurotoxicology on Sept. 15, brings the motoric effects of pesticide exposure into focus.

Researchers tracked children with prenatal exposure to CPF from pregnancy through age 11, then tested for presence of tremor. The researchers said that the results pointed to an overarching need to reconsider the consumption of pesticides.

“This is perhaps one of the only examples in which we can show that in utero exposure to these pesticides leads to longterm health care consequences in the children,” Yale senior author and School of Medicine neurology professor Elan Louis MED ’89 said. “We’re talking about the possibility that fetuses exposed to pesticides through their mother, while they’re in utero, could have tremor eight or ten years later.”

Louis found that most of the research regarding the neurological effects of pesticides was centered around cognition, as opposed to motor abilities. But when his colleague, Virginia Rauh, deputy director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health at Columbia University, told him about a cohort study she was conducting to monitor the effects of CPF, Louis took the opportunity to investigate its influence on tremor, he said.

In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency banned the residential use of CPF, which was prominent in urban areas at the time. However, the study participants — 263 minority mothers and their children, all from lowincome communities in New York City — were assembled in 1997, before the ban was imposed. In 1997, the initial measure of each child’s prenatal exposure to CPF was taken from umbilical cord blood. Then, at approximately age 11, the children were administered a short drawing test, which the researchers assessed for presence of tremor. Once all of the tests

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had been administered, the study concluded that children who had prenatal exposure to CPF were significantly more likely to show tremor.

Among experts who commented on Louis’ findings, as well as Louis himself, there was a general consensus that this study points toward a need for the agricultural industry — the main setting in which CPF is found today — to reconsider their use of pesticides.

“If you go to your grocery store

and sample all of the fruits and vegetables in there, 25 percent of them will have some detectable traces of these [pesticides] still on them, and these are basically toxic. In terms of chemical warfare, they use these same [pesticides] in sarin gas, and we’re eating them, basically,” neurology professor at the School of Medicine Babar Khokhar said. “I think we need to take a look at the entire agricultural industry.”

For Caroline Tanner, neurology professor and Director of the Par-

kinson’s Institute at the University of California San Francisco Medical School, the study had implications for understanding the neurological effects of pesticides on adults, in addition to children.

“I hope [Louis] is able to continue following these children, because I think that it will be very important to find out what the long-term outcomes for them are,” she said.

According to Louis, his next step is to fully finish assessing the results of the study. In addition

to taking drawing tests, the children participating in the study had MRI scans, which Louis and his colleagues plan to analyze for “structural or metabolic changes in certain brain regions,” to further investigate the brain damage caused by CPF. But according to Khokhar, an alternate route for future research might be to examine the effects of pesticides like CPF in demographics other than minority, inner-city children.

“We know that socioeconomic

differences between kids in the inner city and kids who maybe have other resources do affect their development,” Khokhar said.

“So, to [move forward] maybe take a look at children who are not inner-city, but who are brought up elsewhere.”

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the usage of pesticides in the U.S. declined by 8 percent between 2000 and 2007.

Contact MIRANDA ESCOBAR at miranda.escobar@yale.edu .

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Elis celebrate 150th year

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University President Peter Salovey played a key role in the festivities at Yale Field, tossing out the ceremonial first pitch.

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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 passed for 371 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-winner to tight end Sebastian Little ’17.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER The Yale football team gave fans another scare on Saturday, trailing by as many as 19 points early in its home opener against Cornell. But for the second straight game, the Bulldogs pulled ahead in the end, with 26 unanswered points sealing an improbable victory in Yale’s first Ivy League contest of 2015.

Though the defense held the Big Red (0–2, 0–1 Ivy) scoreless in the final 30 minutes, it was not until tight end Sebastian Little ’16 scored on a 52-yard catchand-run with 32 seconds remaining that the Bulldogs (2–0, 1–0) took a 33–26 lead — their first of the game.

“There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that we were going to find a way [to win],” head coach Tony Reno said. “I didn’t quite know what it was going to be, but I knew that

Yale drops first Ivy contest

BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s soccer team fell short in its Ivy opener this past Saturday, facing a tough Princeton team on the road. In a contest between two prolific offenses, the Tigers found the back of the net three times while shutting out the Bulldogs 3–0, the first scoreless contest that Yale has had all season.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Elis (3–4–2, 0–1–0 Ivy), who have scored 14 goals in nine games this season, notched only three shots on goal in the game. The less-

than-stellar performance on both sides of the ball came despite several strong individual performers for Yale early on in the season. Forward Michelle Alozie ’19 and midfielder Sofia Griff ’19 rank third and fourth in the conference, respectively, in both goals scored and points, while goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 is the current leader in number of saves — racking up 54 over the past nine games.

“The game against Princeton was a misrepresentation of the team’s talent,” Ames said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t connect all of the pieces on Saturday, and Princeton was able SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 10

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Yale tied with Princeton in the conference standings last season but dropped its conference opener to the Tigers on Saturday.

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some way, at the end of the game when the clock was at zero, we’d find a way to be on the left side of the newspaper.”

Key plays by special teams and the defense complemented a 479-yard day for the offense, which played much of the game without a pair of significant contributors. Wide receiver Bo Hines ’18 and offensive lineman Mason Friedline ’17 SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER In an exhibition game on Saturday, the Yale and Wesleyan baseball teams added another historic moment to the 150-year legacy of both programs.

BASEBALL The Bulldogs dropped a 6–3 decision to the Cardinals in a night contest at Yale Field that lasted 10 innings.

Both teams donned throwback uniforms for the special celebration. Yale’s cream-colored uniforms featured blue collars and baggy pants reminiscent of those worn in the 19th century, and former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent LAW ’63 spoke before the game about some of the most storied moments to have taken place at Yale Field.

“We have been looking forward to the game for a while,” SEE BASEBALL PAGE 10

Seniors lead victory over Brown

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER A full 10 months after claiming its fifth-straight Ivy League title, the Yale volleyball team began its 2015 conference season against Brown on Saturday, picking up right where it left off.

VOLLEYBALL The Bulldogs (6–4, 1–0 Ivy) initially fought neck-and-neck with the Bears (6–6, 0–1) but pulled ahead in the latter half of the match, winning the fourth set 25–22 to claim a 3–1 match victory.

“There is always a change in intensity within the team once conference starts,” setter and outside hitter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “Everyone knows it is the time to step up, to finally see the results of all of our hard work during preseason and to show the Ivy League everything we’ve got.”

Brown hung with Yale deep into the opening set, at one point taking a 22–21 lead after Yale’s fourth service error of the frame. From there, however, three consecutive kills from Johnson gave the Bulldogs the lead, and a kill from outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 clinched the set for Yale.

Following that key play late in the first set, Johnson continued to excel for the Bulldogs throughout the match. She led the team with 18 kills against only four errors, and also added 11 digs. Johnson was one of four Yale players with 10 or more digs.

In the second set, though, even Johnson’s impressive play could not save Yale.

The Bears jumped out to a 11–7 lead and held off the Bulldogs from there, keeping Yale at least two points behind for the rest of the set. Outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 served two consecutive aces late in the set to bring Yale within a 23–21 margin, but a kill from Bear outside hitter Sabrina Stillwell and an error from Johnson brought the set to a close. It was the first set that Yale has dropped to Brown since September 2012.

In the points that followed, the Bull-

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The Bulldogs, the five-time defending Ivy League champions, are off to a quick start in conference play in 2015. dogs ensured that the set loss would not be repeated. Brown played tight with Yale to bring the third set to 10–11 in the Elis’ favor at one point, but three Bear errors sandwiched in between two points from captain and outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 gave the Bulldogs a commanding lead they did not relinquish.

Yale won the set 25–15, finishing with five straight kills from Johnson, Fuller and middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16. The three seniors combined for 33 kills in the victory.

“We really saw the seniors shine this past weekend,” setter Kelsey Crawford ’18

said. “[Fuller] and [Johnson] showed tremendous leadership and kept putting the ball away.”

In the fourth set, that senior leadership continued with a boost from an unexpected source. Libero Christine Wu ’16, who has seen limited playing time this season, entered the match with Yale trailing early in the first set and contributed a key service ace to sway the momentum in the Bulldogs’ direction.

A few points later, down 9–7, the Bulldogs ripped off nine straight points with SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

NUMBER OF SECONDS DURING WHICH THE YALE FOOTBALL TEAM HELD A LEAD DURING SATURDAY’S WIN AGAINST CORNELL. The Elis, who led for 8:53 of play a week earlier at Colgate, secured a 2–0 start to their season on a last-minute 52-yard touchdown.