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Flight risk. Nobel laureate Robert Shiller and his wife were kicked off an overbooked United Airlines flight to Aspen for paying a lower fare by buying tickets online. He did teach us about savings and investment in ECON 116.

Food for thought. The Yale Sustainable Food program will host writer and chef Samin Nosrat and The New York Times Magazine contributing editor Jack Hitt at Sudler Hall at 4:30 p.m. today. Something to whet your appetite before dinner.

Sorry, Buck. This one’s on us.

Buck, Chi Psi’s newest pledge, is a Golden retriever — not a Lab like we said yesterday.

We’re now following our furry fratty friend at @buck.links on Instagram to stay in the loop.

And one more thing: Buck is short for Buckingham. We like this dog more each day.

Wedding bells. And if you

follow “Girls” star Allison Williams ’10 on Instagram, you’ll know she married boyfriend Ricky Van Veen in Wyoming over the weekend.

We still remember her from the “That’s Why I Chose Yale” video.

Wake me up when September ends. It’s the last day of the

month. We can’t believe it either. And is it just us or do the next six days of rain on the weather forecast seem to foreshadow midterm season misery to come?

Take a shot like a Pi Phi can.

Did we give you this advice yesterday? Yes. But we’re not talking about Phlu shots this time. The News will see you at Toad’s tonight for Pi Phi Highlight 2015.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1992 The Board of Education elects Reginald Mayo as the city’s new Superintendent of Schools. He retired in 2013, and Garth Harries ’95 was elected to replace him.

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versial videos alleging that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue. For about a week, activists across the country have been rallying to oppose efforts to cut the organization’s federal funding. Mayor Toni Harp stood with the CEO and President of Planned Parenthood of Southern SEE PLANNED PARENTHOOD PAGE 6

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Loyal to Lulu no more.

whether to replace the grass at the Yale Bowl with astroturf continues with a study released by EHHI, a North Haven nonprofit, detailing the harmful effects of carcinogens in astroturf.

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Yale is one of 83 colleges and universities nationwide that have teamed up to create a new college application portal that will provide an alternative to the Common Application.

On Monday, the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success announced the rollout of the Coalition Application, which will give applicants the opportunity to create an online portfolio during their freshman year of high school and add to it during the next four years. In addition, colleges will be able to communicate with registered users and provide feedback on their applications before students reach senior year. The platform will go live in January 2016, and some schools will begin accepting applications on it as early as summer 2016.

The initiative is intended to make college more affordable and accessible for students from underprivileged backgrounds by augmenting the availability of college advising resources, according to a Sept. 28 press release from the Coalition.

“Yale is very excited to be part of this highly collaborative effort in the world of college admissions,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said.

Two Yale College grads — Marina Rustow ’90 and Mimi Lien ’97 — won MacArthur Foundation grants. Rustow, a Near Eastern Studies professor at Princeton, and Lien, a set designer in New York, are two of 24 2015 fellows. Boola boola.

Turf War. The debate over

“MAD at Yale” promises good food and good conversation

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Beyond Bright College Years.

Through a new partnership, athletic-apparel brand Oiselle will provide official gear for the Yale women’s track team — a major deal for the small company, which, according to The New York Times, is now projecting $10 million dollars in revenue this year.

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Planned Parenthood supporters met with opposition on the corner of Chapel and College streets.

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Approximately 100 activists swarmed the corner of Chapel and College streets Tuesday, gathering in support of Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and maternal health services. Along the periph-

ery of the crowd, supporters and opponents of Planned Parenthood engaged in heated debate about defunding the organization.

Rallies in support of Planned Parenthood broke out across the country following the recent emergence of a bill allowing states to defund the organization. The bill came to the fore after the release of contro-

YPU debates college renaming

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale Political Union last night debated the renaming of Calhoun College, a controversial issue that has polarized campus and generated national media coverage in recent months.

More than 100 students gathered in Sudler Hall Tuesday to hear African American Studies professors Emily Greenwood and Gerald Jaynes discuss the future of Calhoun College, named for former U.S. vice president and outspoken slavery proponent John C. Calhoun, class of 1804. The college’s name has drawn significant scrutiny in the aftermath of the June massacre of nine African-American churchgoers in SEE YPU DEBATE PAGE 8

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More than 100 students attended the Yale Political Union debate last night on the renaming of Calhoun College.

Sterilization method may be unsafe

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER A decade-old method of female sterilization may be riskier than it first appeared, according to a new study from researchers at the Yale School of Medicine.

At first glance, Essure, a sterilization method introduced in 2002, seemed safe and easy to implement. Also known as “the coil,” Essure works by creating scar tissue in the fallopian tubes, rendering fertilization impossible.

A 2002 study concluded that Essure was safe and effective. But in a September paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, Yale researchers questioned the original study, calling for greater understanding of Essure and its side effects. The Yale researchers noted that after one year, study investigators had surveyed only 632 out of the 926 women who were originally enrolled at

the beginning of the study. After two years, researchers had surveyed just 197 women. Since its publication, the paper has received national media attention from CNN and the New York Times.

“Essure had a lot of promise because there were no incisions and it could be done in the office,” Aileen Gariepy, professor at the School of Medicine and one of the study’s authors, said. “But as I started doing the procedure, it didn’t seem like it was necessarily more advantageous than the traditional way.”

Gariepy noted that the procedure for inserting Essure requires multiple steps, creating more opportunities for mistakes.

To install Essure, physicians place small coils in each fallopian tube. The coils, when placed correctly, induce inflammation and scarring, rendering women sterile after about three months.

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After Calhoun, Princeton students question Wilson

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Posters featuring racist statements made by former President Woodrow Wilson — arguably Princeton’s most celebrated alumnus — currently litter the school’s campus.

Similar to the naming debate centered on Calhoun College at Yale, students at Princeton are beginning to question the legacy of Wilson — for whom the university’s school of diplomacy, a residential college and campus café are named. Students argue that Wilson was one of the most racist presidents in American history, yet, in response to complaints, Princeton administrators have yet to engage in a formal discussion about Wilson’s controversial past. On Monday, members of the Black Justice League, a group of Princeton students focused on promoting justice and equality at the univer-

sity, hung up posters displaying a few of Wilson’s more racially charged quotes — an effort to start a discussion not only about his racist legacy, but about exclusion at Princeton.

The same day, Wilglory Tanjong, a Princeton sophomore and member of the Black Justice League, published an op-ed in the Daily Princetonian describing Wilson’s racist tendencies and a Princeton administration reluctant to address this side of his legacy.

Tanjong told the News that Princeton has yet to engage its community in a broader conversation about Wilson’s racism, adding that university officials should look to Yale for guidance on how to proceed.

“I definitely do wish that Princeton would be more responsive to the situation — our university can definitely learn from administrators at SEE PRINCETON PAGE 8

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or me, the anti-abortion fervor of the last couple months has been surreal. I keep asking myself questions like, “How can these states be de-funding Planned Parenthood when the investigations found the organization to be compliant with all state laws?” and “How can Carly Fiorina lie about images she’d seen in videos on live television in a serious political debate?” But since the Republican base has long relied on the evangelical Christian population for political support, I guess this response is to be expected.

What I wasn’t expecting, though, was the introduction of a new character in the national abortion debate: the apologetic ally. As Planned Parenthood was under siege, I wanted my legislators to stick up for me and my bodily autonomy. I wanted every Democratic congressman on the news, at rallies, on the Senate floor passionately defending abortion as a woman’s right and a positive public good.

What I got instead was a lot of conciliation. Bernie Sanders told students at Liberty University that abortion is “a very painful and difficult choice that many women feel they have to make.” Elizabeth Warren pointed out all the services that Planned Parenthood provides that are not abortion — Pap tests, STI treatment, pregnancy tests, breast exams and prenatal referrals. These are our crusaders. These so-called heroes of the pro-choice movement are afraid to say that, for many women, Planned Parenthood is an abortion provider. And they are afraid to say that the majority of women walk out of abortion clinics relieved that they made the best choice for them.

The apologetic side of prochoice rhetoric is likely an attempt to be nonpartisan. With an issue so polarizing, I imagine Democrats in Congress are willing to make some concessions in order to facilitate reasonable discussions, especially in more conservative spaces like Liberty University.

But the language we use to talk about abortion rights matters. It frames debates that determine what legislation is introduced and which policies are put in place. For goodness’ sake, even though the American Psychological Association has repeatedly refuted the claim that women experience trauma from abortions, Bernie Sanders talks about the procedure as if women who choose it cry themselves to sleep every night. When people on the left mimic the right’s anti-choice rhetoric, it only fuels dangerous misconceptions about abortion. Far from under-

mining right-wing extremism, such rhetorical compromises encourage it.

This is the new normal in reproductive rights debates — and, it’s working alarmingly well in favor of the anti-choice movement. Everyday, federal and state legislatures pass restrictions on abortion that make it more expensive, embarrassing, time-consuming and, in some cases, impossible to access.

When the pro-choice movement adopts an apologetic tone to appease extremists, it silences and shames the numerous women who have had abortions. When we talk about sex on this campus, we work hard to break down stigma associated with sexuality, STIs, and other “taboo” topics. But these efforts have not reached pregnancy. Have you ever heard of a Yale College woman getting pregnant? Probably not, but of course women on this campus do get pregnant. Yet, we don’t talk about them, and we certainly do not talk about what they choose to do with their pregnancies.

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ike many of my fellow students, I spent this past Saturday cheering on the Yale football team against Cornell.

The weather was pleasant; the camaraderie was emotive and of course, thanks to a stirring game-winning pass, my hopes for a Bulldogs victory were fulfilled. The day was a great success! Nevertheless, I still have one lingering disappointment.

As the first quarter was wrapping up, I headed to the concession stand in search of a delicious, ice-cold Budweiser. It was my first game as a 21-year-old and I was eager to enjoy my rights as an American. The tailgate had put me in good spirits, but a rough start by the Bulldogs, combined with the natural forces of alcohol metabolization, had rendered me in need of a pick-me-up. You can imagine my immense dismay when I made it through the line to order only to be told that Budweiser and all other alcoholic beverages were unavailable inside the stadium.

I am sure that Yale’s prohibition of alcohol at college sporting events is a well-intentioned policy. However, as the saying goes, even good intentions can pave the road to hell. In practice, the ban

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Our football team, and our athletes more generally, do not get all of the support they deserve. They sacrifice countless hours to be at their best when they put on our school’s uniform and often receive very little fanfare.

Beer at sporting events cannot solve this problem entirely.

However, creating a more festive and less restrictive environment within the stadium can be a first step. In chemistry, alcohol is a solution. Allowing beer to be consumed during games would undoubtedly help ‘solve’ the question of how we can maximize our enthusiasms in support of Yale, while also generating revenue for the school. Plus, compared to the status quo drinking options, it would facilitate more responsible decision-making.

So let us hope that sometime soon, the authorities will reverse their unnecessary and misguided policy. One day, I hope we can all toast to that.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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hol inside the stadium will not be the factor that stops them from doing so. Common sense and a five-second look into the student section are all that’s needed to know that football games are not so much a spectators sport as a “darty.” Of course, not all students choose to participate in this drinking, but many do. The beer prohibition leaves students over the age of 21 with a series of suboptimal choices. They can drink extra at the tailgate in search of a longer-lasting “buzz,” thus increasing the likelihood of binge drinking, or they can drink a responsible amount and end up sober and sleepy by halftime (when, it is worth noting, many students choose to leave).

So let them drink beer!

A lift on the beer ban can be done in a way that undermines the likelihood of poor choices and also keeps drinking under control. Hard alcohol should still be prohibited. Fans of age should be given wristbands. Students could actually pace themselves. The stands at halftime would not be marked by people fleeing as if on a sinking ship. The crowd would be more ebullient, with a greater frequency of chants and songs.

Maybe there would even be fewer

That is because women at Yale do not feel safe sharing their experiences with pregnancy.

We live in a culture that shames women into feeling like they have to be sorry, not just for having an abortion, but for getting pregnant in the first place, even if they ultimately decide to keep the baby.

I’m tired of apologizing for abortion. Millions of women in our communities are grateful they can end a pregnancy so that they can go back to their jobs, finish college, take care of their other children or anything else that living, breathing women may prioritize over having a child. If tomorrow I found out I were pregnant, I would call the Planned Parenthood office in New Haven and make an appointment for an abortion. I am not ashamed of this, I am not embarrassed about it and I challenge all pro-choice Yalies to join me and refuse to feel guilty about your right to choose.

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Recognizing as much, in 2014, 21 schools across the country and of various sizes allowed the sale of beer at football games, according to an ESPN article from last year. The upshot was not the disaster that the puritanical antialcohol zealots would have you believe. Schools did not report an increase in bad behavior. Alcohol sales accounted for almost half of their concession revenue. In some cases, attendance increased dramatically.

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ll of us receive Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins’ emails. We get them so often, in fact, that they’ve almost become some kind of campus-wide joke. The email seems to always bear the news of some random graduate student on some random street on some random night. And so, we check our phone, heed his warnings not to walk alone at night and move on. No, it could never be any of us.

So when an email noting a series of house fires landed in the mailbox of students on campus a few Thursdays ago, few batted an eye — understandably so. It wasn’t your house, the fires were put out within hours and the situation appeared to be under control.

Unless, of course, that house happened to be your home. My home. The place I share with eight other students. It was our house that someone had — allegedly, of course — set on fire.

On a Thursday morning earlier this month, I was awoken at 3 a.m. by an alarmed friend banging on my door. “Get out,” he screamed. In my daze, I rejected his commands and insisted on the more comfortable alternative of staying in bed. “The house is on fire,” the friend said, now yelling.

As I looked outside and saw the flames grow, I realized this was more serious than a roommate

simply pulling a prank. As I saw fire trucks arrive outside, I quickly ran out in nothing but my underwear and a pair of loafers.

LEO KIM Fortunately, no one was On us hurt — save for a slight blow to my self-esteem — and any damage could be repaired.

Still, the panic and confusion of the event remain in the collective memory of those of us who had been attacked.

Now nearly two weeks later, it still doesn’t make any more sense. It was an illogical act that I simply cannot rationalize. Maybe if it had been a hate crime, I could have come to better grips with the motive. Prejudice and malice would have driven a person to take such an act. But setting three random, student-occupied houses on fire? With no apparent rhyme or reason except to cause harm? I won’t attempt to find logic in that type of behavior.

But this column is not about a fire. It is not about crime in New Haven or even Chief Higgins’ barrage of emails. This is a column about a moment I realized I was part of something bigger than myself.

Throughout the nine hours

following the event, I never once felt alone or scared. Despite the fact that my living room now had a hole in it and our furniture was scorched, despite the fact that the fires could have emblazoned the entire house, despite the fact that the chances of finding the perpetrator were low, I felt safe. Perhaps safe is too strong a word when you are the target of an arsonist, but at the very least, I felt taken care of.

The night of the fire, I was immediately offered a place to sleep at a house across the street.

That same morning, before I thought anyone besides the fire department and police even knew about the fire, masters and deans started contacting my fellow housemates. They offered places to stay, meal swipes — anything that would make life a little easier and safer.

It’s often hard to gauge how deeply our communities run, and it’s easy to doubt the strength of these connections. After all, it’s not often that the strength of these bonds is tested — and we should be thankful for that.

Events that test these communities are rarely happy ones. But to know that these connections really had value, that they were strong enough to make me feel OK despite everything that had happened, confirmed something for me.

This summer, I felt lost. I felt

as if I were between homes. My home in Indiana seemed foreign to me when I visited; the people I had once recognized had now become barely identifiable faces with no names that I could attach to them.

And yet, I wasn’t sure if Yale was my home. I wasn’t sure if this place — a place that I had only been, and only will be at, for a fraction of my life — could take the place of the home where I grew up. This was especially true given the knowledge that my time here — our time here — is so ephemeral.

But after the fire, after the support, after the feeling of safety, I knew this place had taken on a new sense of significance. Rather than making me feel pushed away from my surroundings, I felt reaffirmed that relationships here at Yale are more genuine than the classic “let’s grab a meal” conversation may imply. There’s simply no other word to call a place with this kind of community. Despite the knowledge that this will only be a place I will be at for a few more years, I know that during my time here I’m not merely at a pit stop, at a place between where I was and where I will be. I’m at home.

LEO KIM is a junior in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, SEPT. 25

Church Street South to be demolished

The article “Classics professors explore ancient art” incorrectly stated the number of classics majors in the class of 2016. In fact, there are 12. The article also misspelled classics professor Kirk Freudenburg’s name. Additionally, the article incorrectly referred to Roman vases. In fact, the vases were Greek.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 29

Due to an editing error, the article “Jobs website to offer streamlined application process” incorrectly quoted Qian Liang ’19 as saying that, “[The OCS website] is not designed for this age of technology.” In fact, Liang was referring to the website for student employment, and said that “[The Student Employment Office website] is not designed for this age of technology.”

TUESDAY, SEPT. 29

The article “YHHAP eyes housing inequality” incorrectly stated that YHHAP’s first meeting regarding the task force was with the City Planning Commission. In fact, YHHAP met with only committee chair Edward Mattison LAW ’68, who is working with YHHAP as a private citizen and staff member of Continuum of Care, an organization targeting problems of homelessness in New Haven.

Transit study launches in Elm City

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER City officials and community members gathered Tuesday evening to kick off a new transit study, with many attendees hoping the findings will bring federally funded transportation projects to the Elm City.

Funded primarily by the Federal Transit Administration, the $950,000 Alternatives Analysis study will document the status of New Haven’s current public transportation system. The study will also consider the feasibility of realigning bus routes, improving bus-train connections and creating a centralized transit center.

“This study will help generate data about how the existing transportation system can be updated to allow new commuter patterns, new leisure time references and a new generation of urban dwellers,” Mayor Toni Harp said.

The study’s community advisory committee convened for the first time yesterday at a City Hall meeting led by Director of Transportation and Head of the New Haven Parking Authority Doug Hausladen ’04.

Hausladen said New Haven’s drastic uptick in population density over the past decade and the migration of jobs to the center of the city necessitate an increased focus on public transport provisions. He said it is especially important that New Haven residents have robust public transport systems to get them to work and back.

Though New Haven has a dense network of bus routes and three commuter rail lines, it is difficult to switch from one mode of public transport to another, Hausladen said.

“We haven’t had our bus terminal, or places where buses interact, near train lines,” Hausladen said.

The committee, which will convene roughly once a month, consists of one representative from each of New Haven’s 12 community management teams.

These teams serve as forums to solve problems in New Haven’s

community policing districts.

Present at the kick-off were several alders, including Salvatore DeCola of Ward 18 and Adam Marchand of Ward 25, as well as Randall Davis, who represented the state Department of Transportation.

“The department is very happy that the project is getting underway,” Davis said. “The entire project is structured by involving community citizens like you.”

In a presentation to committee members, Hausladen said that although buses are easily accessible across the city, the level of service available to users is inconsistent.

Hausladen said large-scale changes to New Haven’s entire public transport system would require “big dollars,” hopefully to come from the federal government after the study’s findings are released.

The committee nominated two of its own members — Kurtis Kearney of Fair Haven Heights and Kevin McCarthy of East Rock — to represent the New Haven community at the study’s review committee. This review committee, which will secure a consultant for the study by Nov. 20, hopes to finalize the scope of the study after discussion with a consultant.

The study is expected to be completed within 18 to 24 months, said Lori Richards of the Greater New Haven Transit District, the official recipient of the FTA grant financing the study.

Hausladen encouraged community committee members to investigate other public transit transformations that have been successful in metropolitan areas like Houston. Recently, city officials in Houston doubled the number of people served in their high frequency transportation network to 1.1 million with no increase in operating costs, Hausladen said.

The Board of Alders initially denied a grant for this study in 2011, but the decision was reversed in August 2014.

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Residents of the Church Street South housing complex will be relocated in a year.

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Even more families will be forced to leave their homes downtown after city officials declared the Church Street South housing complex a health hazard.

On Monday, over 200 families living in a housing complex across from Union Station were informed that they must leave their homes in a year, the New Haven Independent reported Tuesday. After they leave, the complex will be demolished. In recent weeks, dozens of families have already been relocated from the housing complex due to safety concerns.

Northland Investment Corporation — the company that owns the 300-plus unit Church Street South housing complex — purchased the buildings in 2008 and brought them under the oversight of a federal program known as Section Eight. The federal arrangement provided $3 million in annual maintenance subsidies to provide low-income families with access to good housing.

Residents, however, brought numerous complaints to City Hall and the New Haven Legal Assistance Association about the slum-like conditions in the complex.

These complaints included cases of mold in the water and chronic ceiling leaks, said Yonatan Zamir, an attorney at NHLAA. Over the summer, Zamir said, the NHLAA filed multiple lawsuits on behalf of families living in the complex, many claiming the mold in the buildings has given them chronic illnesses.

“There are leaks coming from the ceiling and leaks where it rains,” said Zamir. “When you have little children who are nearby and breathing in the air, they’re going to develop asthma.”

Northland moved the families represented by the NHLAA to hotels in the Elm

City following the suit, Zamir said.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reached an agreement with Northland on Sept. 15 to relocate every resident of Church Street South, beginning with those already in temporary housing, City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said. The displaced tenants will receive federal assistance to help pay for their new homes, he added.

There are leaks coming from the ceiling and leaks when it rains.

YONATAN ZAMIR Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance Association “In order of urgency, the property relocator has agreed to relocate its tenants,” said Grotheer. “The federal government has agreed to provide those tenants with vouchers so that they are mobile.”

Ultimately, the Church Street South complex will be torn down and rebuilt into new family housing units, Zamir said.

Though Church Street South residents will be relocated, they may still face challenges from the displacement process.

Grotheer said new housing will be a slow process for most residents — many will have nowhere to call a permanent home for months.

Kiana Marie Hernandez ’18, a lowincome student born and raised in New Haven, said the housing options in downtown New Haven, particularly near the New Haven Green, are likely too expensive for many living in the complex. She said if families must find new homes even farther away from the New Haven Green — a hub for public transportation — many residents will have no choice but to endure lon-

ger commutes.

“Having to spend a whole lot of time getting readjusted and being transported takes away from spending time with the family or relaxing for yourself,” Hernandez said.

“Being low-income and having a job is difficult because often people work more hours or have to put in more effort to make ends meet.”

Zamir said he hopes New Haven residents and officials turn their attention to similar buildings in the city and work to prevent cases of drastic deterioration in housing conditions from repeating themselves.

Referring to the crumbling of 810 Chapel St., which had to be torn down in August, Zamir said Church Street South is not the only building in Downtown New Haven currently too dilapidated to be safe. The Livable City Initiative, which responds to New Haven residents’ housing code complaints, clearly needs more resources, Zamir said.

Zamir added that unlike renters in New York City, prospective renters in New Haven cannot find a database that lists all complaints filed against a landlord. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development does not publish the results of their health inspections either, said Zamir. Landlords in the Elm City will be held to better account with more accessible information about the conditions of the buildings they rent to low-income families, Zamir said.

“Low-income people don’t have the same market power. But one way to fill the gap is technology and transparency,” Zamir said. “It is about holding private and public entities accountable.”

Northland Investment Corp. will lend logistical support to the individuals and families who live in and will be vacating from Church Street South.

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

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“I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls’ schools were nearby.

And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.” JACK CANFIELD AMERICAN AUTHOR

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

For Gen Ed, Harvard Faculty Oppose a System Like Yale’s

BY KARL ASPELUND AND MEG BERNHARD As the College reviews its General Education program that is “failing on a variety of fronts,” its New Haven rival has maintained a set of distribution requirements as its core curriculum — an option available here but favored by neither the committee reviewing the program nor most members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who must vote on any large-scale reforms.

In 2011, Yale reviewed its program — which was first implemented for the class of 2009 — without recommendations for major structural changes.

Instead, it maintained a system that requires students to take classes in the major HARVARD fields of arts and humanities, science and social science. Yale students must also take courses intended to develop their skills in writing, a foreign language and quantitative reasoning.

Unlike Harvard’s program, courses that count for Yale’s distribution requirements only come from departments. Harvard students have the option of fulfilling their Gen Ed require-

ments with departmental courses or those from one of the eight categories, like “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” or “Societies of the World.”

Many faculty members argue that Harvard’s Gen Ed program should be reformed, rather than replaced with a system like Yale’s, emphasizing that distribution requirements would not fit Harvard’s academic culture.

Undergraduates specialize naturally in their academic pursuits at Harvard, where departments are often fairly segmented and encourage students to participate in research in their particular fields, said anthropology professor Mary Steedly, a member of the Committee on General

Education.

Distribution requirements like Yale’s would not necessarily give students the more expansive understanding that the Gen Ed program was designed to give, according to English professor Louis Menand.

According to the Yale program’s website, these requirements “constitute a minimal education, not a complete one, and represent the least that an educated person should seek to know.”

Not everyone at Yale fully supports the distribution model. To Bryan Garsten, chair of the humanities program at Yale, the “minimal education” aim is not ambitious enough. It

is less work for faculty to offer courses in a distributional system as opposed to one like Harvard’s and is not geared for students who are less familiar with different academic fields.

Harvard’s faculty, he said, has a unique opportunity to collaborate and create a cohesive program intended to play a large part in an undergraduate’s academic experience.

The Gen Ed program has yet to live up to that expectation, however, and one of the most significant obstacles for the College’s core curriculum, as outlined in the review and by faculty members, is the lack of a perceived role for Gen Ed in the undergraduate experience here.

Menand, who headed the committee that crafted the current Gen Ed program in 2006, said the program’s identity at Harvard fell short of comparable curricula at other Ivy League schools as well.

He cited Brown, which has no core curriculum whatsoever, as a counterexample to Harvard.

Students attend Brown partly because that lack of a core is well publicized and considered a key part of the “Brown experience,” Menand said. Columbia’s Core Curriculum, in which all freshmen take the same courses, is another example where accepted students are very aware of how it fits into their academic lives once they arrive.

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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength” MAYA ANGELOU AMERICAN POET

White House recognizes Yale-led diversity initiative

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Ciencia Puerto Rico, a diversity outreach network founded and managed at Yale, was recognized as a “Bright Spot” in Hispanic education by the White House on Sept. 15.

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics has honored initiatives across the nation that provide support for Hispanic scholars and students. CienciaPR, a web-based platform that connects more than seven thousand STEM-focused members who self-identify as Puerto Rican, was one of seventeen initiatives to receive an award in the STEM area. Executive Director Giovanna Guerrero-Medina said the initiative, which is entering its 10th year, will be exploring opportunities to expand its reach to other minority groups following this positive feedback.

“CienciaPR connects people who are interested in STEM and Puerto Rico with each other, as well as with resources and opportunities,” she said. “We are also studying to see how this model can be applied to other demographics.”

The Ciencia Initiative, which was the brainchild of Yale School of Medicine professor Daniel Colon-Ramos, is currently divided into CienciaPR and Ciencia Yale — an academic project that analyzes the results of CienciaPR. Ciencia Yale, which is housed in the Center for Teaching and Learning, has used results gathered from Cien-

ciaPR projects to identify the program’s best practices and opportunities for improvement. At Yale, Guerrero-Medina directs both initiatives.

Guerrero-Medina said she and her colleagues decided to submit an in-depth report on CienciaPR and Ciencia Yale after finding out about the opportunity to selfnominate for the White House recognition earlier this year. Following its recognition as a Bright Spot, CienciaPR will be part of a national catalog of over 230 programs, which focus on key education priorities for Hispanics set by the White House.

Colon-Ramos said that the initiative has evolved a lot in the past decade.

“When the project first started, I couldn’t even begin to imagine what it has become today,” he said, adding that he originally wanted to create a database of around 40 to 50 scientists.

Since its inception, Ciencia PR has become a global network, with members from over 50 countries and almost every state.

These members include professors, scholars, graduate students, undergraduates and even members of the public who have expressed an interest in STEM and Puerto Rico. Members are connected with each other, and with job and research opportunities as well, according to Monica Feliu Mojer, the part-time project manager of Yale Ciencia and the vice director of CienciaPR. “The nature of minorities in science is that there are far and

few of these individuals at any given place,” she said. “They are isolated and geographically dispersed. CienciaPR is a neat tool to bring them together and connect them with resources.” She added that CienciaPR also gives members an opportunity to give back to Puerto Rican communities, a feature that first attracted her to the program in 2006.

Recently, CienciaPR has piloted Seeds of Success, a program that promotes interest in STEM among middle school girls. The initiative pairs female Hispanic STEM professors with young girls in Puerto Rico by hosting events and forging mentoring relationships.

Lilliam Casillas, a microbiologist who is involved with Seeds of Success, said she tries to encourage girls enrolled in the program to explore the computational aspect of biology.

“We teach them the importance of mathematics as the language of science, and how to face gender issues in a Latino culture where women [are expected to] follow traditional jobs like pediatricians, lab analysts in a company, nurses, which are all very feminine jobs,” she said in a Tuesday email to the News.

The Ciencia Initiative has also made use of its Yale connections.

CienciaPR promotes Yale STEM programs to a more diverse audience through its network, Guerrero-Medina said. She added that the initiative may pilot a program similar to Seeds of Success in New Haven for the city’s students.

While the Ciencia initiative

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Yale Ciencia Director Giovanna Guerrero-Medina leads the diversity initiative, which is entering its 10th year. has pushed for diversity in STEM communities on Yale’s campus and beyond, Yalies interviewed said this remains very much a work in progress at Yale.

“My experiences in STEM classes have shown increasing levels of diversity, but there are improvements to be made,” Joana Andoh ’17, a Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry major, said. “I

have been taught and mentored by wonderful female lecturers and TAs but I have not had any STEM faculty of color.”

While she had not previously heard about Ciencia, she said the initiative seems to be very promising in promoting diversity, adding that she would participate in the program if possible.

Benjamin Bartolome ’16 had

similar views about the lack of diversity of the STEM faculty at Yale, while also praising the Ciencia initiative for giving a voice to the underrepresented.

CienciaPR was incorporated and established as an independent nonprofit in 2010.

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

University releases campus security report GRAPHS CRIME RATES THROUGH TIME

2013

Forcible Sex Offenses

50

Liquor Law Violations

40 30 20 10 0

2010

2011

2012

2014

15

Burglaries

Number of Incidents

Number of Incidents

60

20

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2014

10

5

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Domestic Violence

Dating Violence

Stalking

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BY JIAHUI HU AND SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTERS Deputy Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Janet Lindner announced the release of the 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report in a campuswide email Tuesday afternoon.

The report included the number of campus sexual assaults reported

to the Yale Police Department over the last three years.

In addition, the report was the second of its kind to abide by the 2013 Violence Against Women Act guidelines for reporting sexual assault.

This new method of reporting categorizes sexual assault into one of three classifications: Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking.

According to the report, domestic violence includes — but is not limited to — felony or misdemeanor crimes committed by a current or former intimate spouse or partner of the victim. The guidelines also state that dating violence includes, but is not limited to, sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse.

It excludes acts covered under the definition of domestic violence.

The report states that Federal law defines stalking as engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or the safety of others or suffer substantial emotional distress.

Following the introduction of these new guidelines, the total number of reported cases of sexual assault increased. Sixteen cases of sexual assault were reported to the

Yale Police Department in 2012.

This number climbed to 25 in 2013, with the introduction of the VAWA guidelines. YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins said the report provides more than just statistics. It shares information relevant to Yale students’ safety, such as procedures for reporting crime and accessing victim services. “[The report] includes … policies and procedures for reporting

crimes, crime statistics, safety and security prevention, victim services, fire safety and other related information that will assist in maintaining your safety and security,” said Higgins in a Tuesday email to the News.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ARISTOTLE GREEK PHILOSOPHER

New alternative to Common App unveiled COMMON APP FROM PAGE 1 “Whether it’s working together to provide tools to students and schools, or thinking in an innovative way about changing the application process and mindset, we are very excited about the potential for the Coalition.”

In order to be considered for membership in the Coalition, institutions must have graduation rates of over 70 percent and demonstrate a commitment to making college affordable for their students. Affiliated private schools, including every Ivy League university, must meet all demonstrated financial need for U.S. applicants; public schools must have “affordable tuition” and need-based aid for in-state residents, according to the press release.

We are very excited about the potential for the Coalition.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Quinlan said conversations about the Coalition — and Yale’s possible involvement — started in fall 2013 when the Common Application experienced technical difficulties, but the plans truly gained momentum when universities saw the potential of newly available technology to transform the landscape of college admissions.

Beginning freshman year, students using the application will be encouraged to upload artwork, written assignments and essays about extracurricular activities.

Users will also have the option of sharing their portfolios with admissions officers and community organizers who can provide counseling on the students’ progress. Furthermore, colleges will be able to customize their sections of the application even beyond just supplementary essays. Quinlan said the details of Yale’s section of the application

have yet to be worked out.

But experts in college admissions and Yale students interviewed expressed concerns that the initiative will only increase the burden upon low-income applicants, because of the Coalition’s selectivity and the expectation that students begin planning for college during freshman year. Critics have claimed the Coalition Application will have consequences that run counter to its mission. Brian Taylor, director of The Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, said the platform will actually discourage students from underprivileged backgrounds from even applying.

“It’s half-baked at best,” Taylor said. “It’s not even baked.

They didn’t even put it in the oven. This is only making the admissions process more complicated and more stressful, which only precludes students who are disadvantaged from applying.”

Parke Muth, an admissions consultant and former dean of admissions at the University of Virginia, echoed Taylor’s claim that the new application portal would make the admissions process more stressful. He said that since the constituent schools of the Coalition are among the most selective in the country, the application will create pressure for students to look at only those.

“There’s already a lot of hype about going to a small set of schools. If this creates more of that, that’s not good,” Muth said.

“The fact of the matter is, not a lot of students can go to those elite schools because they’re hard to get into.”

Taylor added that logistically, the Coalition Application would present challenges for admissions officers, since they will be taking on additional work in responding to students and advising them on their applications. When asked if Yale would hire new admissions officers to work with the portal, Quinlan said it is too early to say if Yale will be communicating with students through the platform.

Students interviewed were

TIMELINE HISTORY OF THE COALITION APPLICATION Fall 2013 Students worldwide sent into panic over Common App technical difficulties.

Late 2013 Talks begin among future Coalition members about developing new college application software.

May 2014 A small group of colleges including Yale and Harvard sends out a proposal to application system vendors outlining the specifications for the platform.

July 2016 Some schools involved in the coalition will begin accepting applications through the new platform.

January 2016 The Coalition Application will be up and running for students to start working on their portfolios.

September 28, 2015 The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success announces their new application system.

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also wary of the Coalition Application. While Ruchita Gupta ’16 acknowledged that the application would be useful for students from large public schools without substantial college advising resources, she shared Taylor’s concern that the initiative would put extra pressure on students.

Alex Jang ‘19 said the system was a “terrible idea,” arguing that high school freshmen and sophomores have little understanding of where they will be in three or four years, so most people would not submit much to their online portfolios throughout their high school careers anyway. But, he added, when it came time to make said decision, “the kids that don’t submit [materials] freshman and sophomore year are inherently going to be at dis-

advantage.”

It also remains unclear what the introduction of the new application will mean for international students. Ladislav Charouz ‘19, who attended a British international school in the Czech Republic, said it is hard for international students to plan years ahead in the application process, as they still may be deciding where they want to go to college.

“Imagine yourself in ninth grade already picturing yourself all the way in America as an international [student],” he said.

“If there is that extra pressure to build a portfolio, I think I would have ended up in Britain.”

Muth also said the portfolio component of the Coalition Application could pose a significant challenge to international

students, as many school systems around the world are more exam-based than those in the United States.

Still, others defended the initiative’s potential to make the college application process more transparent and interactive.

“My hope is that we’ll turn the college admissions process from a stressful, transactional process to one that is much more based on long-term planning and thought,” Quinlan said.

Kat Cohen, founder and CEO of IvyWise, another college consulting firm based in New York, agreed, adding that thinking about college early is important for admissions success. Because students will be logging their activities and other achievements throughout their high

school careers, by the time they apply to colleges, they will have a wealth of information at the ready, she said.

Though Muth speculated that the member schools of the Coalition would eventually stop using the Common Application in favor of the new one, he and Cohen agreed that many other schools will continue to use the Common Application due to the Coalition’s strict membership requirements.

Last year, 860,000 students used the Common Application to submit over 3.7 million applications.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu and AMY CHENG at xiaomeng.cheng@yale.edu .

Planned Parenthood rally draws large crowd PARENTHOOD FROM PAGE 1 New England Judy Tabar in support of the pro-choice activists.

While many of the Planned Parenthood supporters were students, most of the pro-life activists standing on the outskirts of the crowd were unaffiliated with student groups.

“We’re excited that so many people are here to stand with Planned Parenthood and the patients we serve,” PPSNE Director of Public Policy and Advocacy Gretchen Raffa said.

Last week on the Senate floor, Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 spoke in opposition to the Republican Party’s efforts to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and dismantle Planned Parenthood’s reproductive care services across the nation. At the rally, Tabar expressed appreciation for Blumenthal’s support.

Harp echoed Tabar and Blumenthal, asserting that defunding Planned Parenthood would eliminate primary care for many young women.

Yale students rallying Tuesday expressed concerns about how defunding Planned Parenthood might affect Yale students.

Helen Price ’18, vice president of Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, said since Yale Health refers students to Planned Parenthood for abortion services and contraceptive implants, reduced hours or closed health centers would significantly affect the provision of services available to students.

With Planned Parenthood activists occupying all four corners of the Chapel and College street intersection, a smaller gathering of about 10 pro-life activists rallied in support of defunding the organization.

“They’re ripping babies apart and then selling the baby parts for extra profit,” pro-life activist Wendy Brisart said.

Advocates from both sides of the ideological divide engaged in direct, heated discussion throughout the event. When one

Planned Parenthood advocate told a pro-life activist that she needed to “educate [herself],” the activist responded, “you need to repent.”

Planned Parenthood advocate and family practitioner David Ross-Russell engaged in discussion with the pro-life activists about the role of Planned Parent-

hood in providing family planning services.

“If you really want to prevent abortions, you should provide access to good birth control at a low cost,” Ross-Russell said.

“Planned Parenthood does that.”

Jessica Purcell LAW ’17, copresident of Law Students for Reproductive Justice at the Yale

Law School, said that one of the greatest misconceptions about the rally and about Planned Parenthood is that the debate centers on abortion. She added that there is no federal funding for abortions, with the exception of cases of rape, incest and endangerment of the life of the mother.

Emma Roth LAW ’17, the other

co-president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, said access to reproductive care has implications for women beyond solely reproductive health concerns.

“I think women’s access to reproductive health care is the first necessary step for them to achieve full political, economic and social equality,” Roth said.

Yesterday, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards testified in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in response to the release of the controversial Planned Parenthood videos.

Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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New Haven residents stood alongside student activists during yesterday’s rally.

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“The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we’re not apologetic about it.” SARGENT SHRIVER AMERICAN POLITICIAN

Engineering night brings mixed reactions

BY CLAIRE VICTORIA ONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Students gathered at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design Tuesday night for its annual Engineering Industry Night — this year, larger than ever before.

With the demand for science, technology, engineering and math employees ever-increasing, the Yale Office of Career Strategy hosted an Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Industry Night Tuesday to facilitate undergraduate and graduate engineering students’ search for internships and employment. Each fall, OCS holds these events in an attempt to encourage and facilitate Yale students’ efforts to obtain employment in different engineering fields. OCS Associate Director Brian Frenette said the event’s main goal is to link employers in the engineering field with undergraduate and graduate students, providing networking opportunities for students.

Engineering students noted that the mix of large companies, such as Duracell and Aviya Aerospace Systems, alongside smaller Yale startups like Trinity Mobile Networks, made for a very diverse bazaar. Chemical engineering major Nicholas Gomez ’18, who said he attended the event in search of an internship, said he was pleased with the number of “big-name companies” present.

“I’m looking for internship opportunities to get my foot in the door, get research experience, test out the waters [and] make sure I really want to do chemical engineering as a career,” Gomez said.

Fourteen companies with various engineering focuses were in attendance.

Only nine companies attended the event last year, and students said they appreciated this year’s increase. But others said the lack of variety in engineering concentrations left something to be desired, and that the event still has the potential to be much larger.

Chemical engineering major Beau Birdsall ’17 said he would like to see a bigger event in coming years. He said he understands that many major engineering firms do not need to actively recruit stu-

dents, because they can rely on name recognition alone. Regardless, Birdsall said, he would prefer to see more companies in attendance.

Other students interviewed noted a lack of variety in engineering concentrations represented by the employers, and voiced a lack of satisfaction with the event overall.

Olga Wroblewski ’16 said the fair lacked opportunities for biomedical engineers, while Nana Ama Akowuah ’18, who plans to pursue a career in the oil industry, also failed to find a desirable internship.

There were many opportunities for students looking to go into software engineering, Akowuah said, but there was only a single chemical engineering company.

Recruiter Gita Subramony ’06, project consultant for Energy & Resource Solutions, an energy management and consulting firm, said that her company was eager to seek employees at Yale. She added that Yale students not only excel in academics, but are also civic-minded and well-rounded.

“It seems like everybody’s resumes that I’ve looked at [have] not only had really great academics but also [show] involvement in other aspects that are related to engineering but still show a diversity of interests,” Subramony said.

U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service Staff Sgt. BreAnna Nygren said this was the USAF’s first year attending the event because the organization was unaware of it last year. But she added that the USAF is eager to hire, as the organization is especially in need of engineers since the profession is in high demand. Last year, she added, she hired a Yale student who will serve as a future pilot in the Air Force.

Christine Falcha, the human resources representative for Enthone Inc., a chemicals firm, said the company has had a long-standing relationship with Yale. Enthone returns to the event year after year because the company has received “high quality” employees from Yale, she added.

The engineering night was held in the CEID from 6 to 8 p.m.

Contact CLAIRE VICTORIA ONG at clairevictoria.ong@yale.edu .

14 ENGINEERING COMPANIES ATTENDED TRINITY MOBILE NETWORKS

6–8 P.M. SEPT. 29, 2015

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FES to fund Peace Corps volunteers

BY JAMES POST AND SARAH STEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will offer a new fellowship for returning Peace Corps volunteers that will allow them to continue serving their communities while pursuing their educations.

In a Sept. 16 press release, FES announced its burgeoning partnership with the Peace Corps — a service organization that sends American college graduates to underprivileged countries — through the national Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program, set to become available to FES students entering in the fall of 2016. Returning Peace Corps volunteers who qualify for the fellowship will receive $5,000 a

year, plus additional funding to complete internships in underserved American communities.

The goal of the program, according to Danielle Dailey, director of enrollment management at FES, is to attract more Peace Corps returnees to Yale.

“We wanted to feel like we could support students who have done a lot service-wise,” she said.

Though the program will be new to FES, it is not new to Yale; Coverdell has been funding students at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs since 2007 and the School of Public Health since 2009. But administrators felt that the real-world experience of returning volunteers often made them ideal candidates for FES as well.

According to Dailey, one of the major areas of the Peace Corps is natural resources, so many former volunteers have years of experience in environmental education, agriculture and forestry. Bringing these students to FES, she said, is a “natural fit.”

To continue their real-world experience, fellows will also work in underprivileged American communities. Erin Kelly FES ’17, a former Peace Corps volunteer who is not affiliated with the Coverdell program, said this service-driven component will attract even more Peace Corps volunteers to Yale.

“A lot of people in the Peace Corps want to keep doing [volunteer work] anyway,” Kelly said.

“It’s just nice to have it built into your graduate program.”

Several students interviewed noted that Peace Corps volunteers may lack a clear path after their return, adding that the Fellows Program could solve that problem. Helen Tuggle ’17 said the fellowship could provide such volunteers with a sense of direction.

“I knew a graduate student at another school who did the Peace Corps, [and] it was challenging to come back after two years away,” said Sam Geldin FES ’17. “A program like this would definitely help.”

Theresa Wilson SOM ’15, who was a Coverdell Fellow at the Jackson Institute, added that the fellows program would also cushion some of the financial burden of returning to school after two years abroad.

Cristin Siebert, director of student affairs and admissions at the Jackson Institute, said the fellows program will benefit New Haven as well, as many Coverdell Fellows choose to complete their service internships in the surrounding area.

Still, despite these benefits, bringing the fellowship program to FES was not easy. According to Dailey, the application for the program’s installation required the pooling of many resources over several years’ time. The graduate school had to demonstrate its commitment to the volunteers, showing what sort of financial and programmatic support they would provide and detailing how their goals match with the program’s goals.

Administrators expressed

excitement at the prospect of bringing a new crop of serviceoriented students to Yale and New Haven.

“These are people who are interested in engaging in communities,” Siebert said. “They want to improve lives, whether it be through climate and sustainability issues or food security issues or human rights issues or economic development issues.

[These are] people who are out there to be in public service.”

The Coverdell Fellows Program was founded in 1985 at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu and SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” ALBUS DUMBLEDORE HOGWARTS HEADMASTER

YPU tackles Calhoun debate YPU DEBATE FROM PAGE 1 Charleston, South Carolina.

On campus, over 1,500 students signed a petition calling for the college to be renamed. In his annual address to freshmen last month, University President Peter Salovey encouraged “thoughtful and public discussion” of the issue. Additionally, earlier this month at a wellattended Master’s Tea, history professor David Blight discussed the political legacy of Calhoun, who infamously described slavery as a “positive good.”

But despite — or perhaps because of — significant campus conversation on the topic, students interviewed after the YPU debate said the speakers mostly failed to alter their existing opinions.

During her speech, Greenwood argued that the name should be changed because the pro-slavery beliefs Calhoun promoted are at odds with Yale’s core values.

She said Calhoun abused his Yale education by suppressing the liberty and human rights of the slave population, adding that it would be complacent for the University to ignore the offense the name causes to many black students.

“It helps inscribe racial prejudice in the very architecture,” she said. “Future generations of Yale students will look back at these debates as they attempt to reconstruct what was important to us.”

At the end of her speech, Greenwood pushed back against the widespread view that changing the name would preclude further reflection on the United States’ history of racism. In fact, she said, name changes broaden

public awareness of historical issues by drawing attention to the evolution of social norms.

“We have excellent archives,” she said.

But Jaynes countered that the 1933 naming decision should remain in place as a valuable reminder of the problematic yet historically significant views Yale administrators held in the 1930s.

While he conceded that Cal-

houn committed a series of reprehensible “transgressions against justice” during his five years as a U.S. senator, Jaynes argued that renaming Calhoun would create a slippery slope, forcing the University to seek alternate names for several other buildings.

“We can’t go after John C. Calhoun because he’s a convenient target if we don’t root out every vestige of injustice we find on

campus,” Jaynes said.

Three of four students interviewed said they entered the debate with strong opinions about the naming of Calhoun. All four said the debate ultimately did nothing to change their views on the issue.

Cameron Koffman ’19, who does not support renaming the college, said he was disappointed in Jaynes’ speech, even though he

agreed with its conclusion.

“You can use the slippery slope for almost everything,” Koffman said.

He also acknowledged that Greenwood made a strong case for changing the name of the college, although he said she oversimplified parts of her argument.

Julia Salseda ’19 said the two speakers merely reiterated a series of arguments already being

made on campus.

“The arguments bandied about are generally the same no matter where you go,” Salseda said.

Calhoun College Master Julia Adams has declined to take a position on the naming controversy.

Contact DAVID YAFFEBELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

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Classics and African American Studies professor Emily Greenwood argued for the renaming of Calhoun College at a Yale Political Union debate Tuesday night.

Princeton decries Wilson

Study deems coil unsafe COIL FROM PAGE 1

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Princeton students have raised issue with campus landmarks named after President Woodrow Wilson.

PRINCETON FROM PAGE 1 Yale,” she said.

The debate over the name of Calhoun College was sparked by the June massacre of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. The debate has attracted national attention and engaged multiple members of the Yale faculty and administration, among them University President Peter Salovey, who encouraged “thoughtful and public discussion” of the issue. Over 1,500 students have signed a petition calling for the college to be renamed.

Tanjong said the case of Wilson is in many ways grander than the Calhoun issue, because the name Wilson is inescapable on Princeton’s campus.

While one residential college at Yale is named after John C. Calhoun — one of America’s most ardent defenders of slavery — Tanjong said Wilson’s name is omnipresent on campus as his namesake appears on several prominent buildings.

Tanjong added that it is important for places of higher education to question the legacies of honored alumni rather than treat them as infallible. But unlike in conversations taking place at Yale, Tanjong said, students are not necessarily set on erasing Wilson’s name from campus. Some simply wish to work with the university to determine how best to come to terms with Wilson’s past, Tanjong said.

Princeton history professor Rebecca Rix said it would be more effective for the university to have an open conversation about student concerns, both broad and specific to Wilson, rather than simply renaming

the institutions in question.

“Sometimes a controversy is less about the thing at issue itself than about how competing narratives of memory and belonging tie into contemporary identities,” she said. “Just changing a name won’t change those narratives, but honest and substantive conversations might.”

Rix added that recognizing the darker sides of previously celebrated alumni, such as Calhoun and Wilson, could lead to anger and polarization amongst students. If the goal of these discussions is to increase feelings of belonging on campus, potentially negative reactions might have the opposite impact, she said.

Three Princeton students interviewed said that buildings and institutions honoring Wilson at Princeton should be renamed. However, zero of 12 Yale students advocated ridding Princeton’s campus of Wilson’s name.

Still, students from both campuses largely agreed that Princeton administrators should spearhead a discussion addressing student concerns.

Yale history professor Jay Gitlin said it is unfair to judge historical figures based on present day standards.

“People were as imperfect in the past as they still are today — this is a very problematic, slippery slope,” Gitlin said. “Perhaps we should start naming things ‘building number two.’”

A Princeton student who wished to remain anonymous for privacy reasons said it is fair to compare the cases of Calhoun and Wilson, as both possessed racist tendencies. The student added that Princeton should take steps to recognize Wilson’s racist legacy, because failing to do so would

more or less equate to rewriting history.

However, the student said she would be very hesitant to support the renaming of certain buildings, as Wilson did make many positive contributions to the United States—such as leading the nation through World War I and is said to have played a large role in modernizing Princeton. The student that renaming would set a dangerous precedent.

“If we are to rename things like the school of public policy on such arguments, we will find ourselves renaming every institution in the world that was named after a historical figure,” the student said.

Gabe Ozuna ’15 said it is unfair to let one negative aspect of a person’s career overshadow a lifetime of admirable work, saying it is ridiculous to hold historical figures accountable to the moral standards of today.

Though Dylan Wrobel ’18 said he does not support the renaming of buildings and institutions honoring Wilson, he noted that Princeton has a responsibility to start a conversation similar to Yale’s.

“If a school has buildings named after people who were racist and doesn’t make an effort to teach about the bad things they did, then that school is doing a disservice to its students,” Wrobel said. “Princeton faculty and administrators as a whole should make sure they’re teaching the whole picture when talking about figures of the past.”

Woodrow Wilson was president from 1913 to 1921.

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

But some women became pregnant during the three-month waiting period when scar tissue forms. Other complications included abdominal pain and uncontrollable bleeding, in some cases necessitating hysterectomy — the removal of a patient’s uterus that may also involve the removal of other surrounding reproductive structures.

At first glance, the procedure has several advantages, according to Yale researchers. For one, it does not require surgery, meaning patients do not have to undergo general anesthesia or risk scarring. Sanket Dhruva, professor at the School of Medicine and one of the paper authors, noted that the procedure “can be done in an office-based setting.” By contrast, laparoscopic sterilization — the most common form of female sterilization — leaves incision scars and can take several days to heal, Dhruva said.

Gariepy said she hopes the new study will give women a more accurate picture of the Essure’s true risks and benefits. For some women, such as those who cannot tolerate general anesthesia

or who strongly oppose having incision scars, Essure may make sense, Gariepy said. However, for other women, the more traditional practice of laparoscopic sterilization may be the best option.

But Gariepy emphasized that providing women with accurate information is crucial.

Gariepy said that after about three months she found that roughly 85 percent of those who use Essure will be sterile, a figure very different from the 99.7 percent advertised.

“It’s important to know what the complications are,” Dhruva said.

Still, some resource centers do not even advertise Essure as a method of birth control. Farheen Maqbool ’17, a representative from the Women’s Center, noted that their informational pamphlets about contraception do not include a section about sterilization.

About 345,000 women choose to undergo permanent sterilization annually, according to the Yale paper.

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

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Elm City questions development

BY ELLEN KAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last week, City Hall submitted to the Board of Alders a proposal that, if approved, could bring $1.25 million to the Elm City.

Randy Salvatore, founder and president of RMS Companies, negotiated the deal with New Haven this month to pursue development in the “Hill-to-Downtown” area, which connects downtown New Haven with the southwest Hill neighborhood. Salvatore secured support from the mayor’s office to purchase the Prince School and Welch Annexes, two of the many real estate parcels that Salvatore is looking to rebuild. Salvatore hopes to transform three blocks of abandoned schools and parking lots into a more vibrant neighborhood that includes apartments, stores and offices.

He is working in conjunction with New Haven developer Cliff Winkel, who owns the rights to buy the city’s land.

I think it’s an exciting project in an exciting area, and it’s an opportunity to really enhance and create a neighborhood.

RANDY SALVATORE President of RMS Companies “I think it’s an exciting project in an exciting area, and it’s an opportunity to really enhance and create a neighborhood,” Salvatore said. “[The project] has really great pros-

pects for the neighborhood and we’re qualified to bring it to fruition, so it’s kind of a winwin situation.”

Despite support from the mayor’s office, Salvatore’s plans have generated some resistance from the community. When Salvatore and the city’s Economic Development Corporation officials first unveiled the project to the public on Aug. 19, several New Haven residents questioned the project’s direction. Community members continue to voice concerns about the project’s lack of concrete plans and community involvement.

New Haven Urban Design League President Anstress Farwell said she disagrees with RMS Companies’ decision to send the proposal to the mayor’s office and then the Board of Alders without first consulting the residents.

“All of the planning that was going to happen in the implementation phase was supposed to continue and enhance a process of community involvement,” Farwell said. “Besides the failure to move forward with some of the things that would be most stabilizing and help turn an area that has been a real wasteland in the city to a really human-centered environment, the city is really setting aside some of the good ideas in that plan to move forward with simply a developeroriented package.”

Ward 6 Alder Dolores Colón said that it is important for community members to voice their concerns. She said that although the development plans are not very detailed at the moment, she wants to see the project bring steady jobs with benefits for Elm City residents.

Stephanie Odenath, RMS Companies’ senior director of

strategy and development, said that Salvatore will also hold meetings with city residents to gain insight from the New Haven community.

“I hope that we’ll make this process as seamless as possible,” Odenath said. “We’re really working with the community to bring in jobs programs. … Hopefully that will help avoid as many obstacles as possible.”

City officials have been trying to develop the Hill-toDowntown neighborhood since 1989, after Hartford developer John Schnip’s plan to redesign and revitalize the neighborhood failed. The region — home to the Yale-New Haven Hospital and New Haven Union Station — has remained largely isolated from urban growth seen in surrounding neighborhoods.

Route 34 and its Oak Street freeway connector hinder transportation between the city’s medical district and the train station, preventing development in the Hill-to-Downtown neighborhood from matching the speed of development in surrounding regions.

According to City Hall Spokesman Laurence Grotheer, this project is part of Mayor Toni Harp’s initiative to close this gap.

“The Hill-to-Downtown project specifically addresses the artificial divide that has existed in the form of Route 34 and the [Oak Street] connector that was never completed,” Grotheer said. “The idea is to bring different parts of the city closer together.”

RMS Companies will hold its next community meeting to discuss the development proposal this October.

Contact ELLEN KAN at ellen.kan@yale.edu .

Chefs partner with Yale on sustainability

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER In June of 2016, Yale will pilot a leadership program for students and faculty interested in contemporary issues surrounding the food industry.

The program, named MAD at Yale, will be a collaboration between the University and MAD, a Danish nonprofit organization founded by worldrenowned chef Rene Redzepi.

The initiative will bring together chefs, students, environmental experts and Yale faculty members to address a range of political and environmental complications associated with the food industry. In addition to hosting seminars, lectures and workshops, the program will also draw upon campus resources like the Yale Sustainable Food Program and West Campus Urban Farm. Paul Freedman, Yale history professor and academic lead for the program, said students will be matched with and serve as guides for visiting professionals in order to build relationships lasting beyond the duration of the program.

“MAD at Yale is a partnership between a leading academic institution and a restaurant repeatedly acclaimed as the very best in the world,” Director of YSFP Mark Bomford wrote in an email to the News, referring to Redzepi’s Michelin Star-rated restaurant, noma.

“The YSFP sees huge and unrelenting demand from students for academic opportunities to address the complicated issues that define our food systems, and this program epitomizes a multidisciplinary and critical approach to problem-solving, from climate change, soil science and the intersection of politics and markets, to kitchen culture, supply chains and food labor.”

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For the pilot program this coming summer, six to eight chefs and culinary experts will be selected to participate in a week-long summit, during which they will decide which subjects to discuss in depth during their time at Yale. Freedman said students interested in applying to MAD at Yale will not be required to have a culinary background. In 2017, the program will be expanded to two weeks and will involve 15 to 18 participants. The event will mirror MAD’s annual conference in Copenhagen, which convenes food experts to discuss improvements in their field.

Both on West Campus and main campus, there is untold expertise that could be applied to the systemic issues in food systems that chefs encounter inside and outside of the kitchen.

JEREMY OLDFIELD Manager of Field Academics for YSFP Though the program is still seven months away, planning has been in the works for almost a year. Freedman said the idea was suggested by Redzepi in November 2014, four years after his initial visit to Yale. Freedman noted that since 2010, a number of students have gone on to work under Redzepi, including Josh Evans ’12, project manager of the Nordic Food Lab, which Redzepi founded.

“Part of the expectations set for chefs involved in the summer program include long-

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term projects that are to be researched and executed in pairs or groups with students who are academically approaching similar issues,” Jacqueline Munno, programs manager for professional experience at YSFP, said.

Bella Napier ’14, Lazarus Fellow in food and agriculture for YSFP, said YSFP will help plan on-campus programming for MAD at Yale. This will involve sessions at YSFP’s two farms and local restaurants.

The West Campus Urban Farm offers a wide range of resources available for food studies, said West Campus Urban Farm and Sustainability Manager Justin Freiberg FES ’10. Freiberg also highlighted the center’s beehives, medicinal herb collections and sugar maple groves. Freiberg said program participants could also take advantage of resources available through the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and the Center for Molecular Discovery at Yale, as well the Yale Farm.

“The Yale Farm offers a gathering place for many Yale College students with proximity and connections to the CitySeed Farmers’ Market, the Center for Emotional Intelligence, the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, the graduate and professional schools and Yale’s wealth of resources and libraries,” said Jeremy Oldfield, manager of field academics for YSFP. “Both on West Campus and main campus, there is untold expertise that could be applied to the systemic issues in food systems that chefs encounter inside and outside of the kitchen.”

Redzepi will open noma in Sydney, Australia from January to May 2016.

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

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“You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.”

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CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE 14 a good position for important meets throughout October.

The women saw similar success in their race, on the heels of a thirdplace finish at HYP and a sixth-place result in the 11-team field at the Iona Meet of Champions. Dana Klein ’18 emerged as the Bulldogs’ frontrunner, completing the 5K in just 17:32.1, less than 45 seconds off the winner’s pace. She was one of four Eli runners on the women’s team to earn a personal best — her second of the season after she dropped eight seconds off her time in the HYP. Klein was followed closely by Frances Schmiede ’17, who completed the 5K in 17:50.8. Kelli Reagan ’18, Emily Waligurski ’17 and Andrea Masterson ’19 composed the Yale top five. The trio crossed the line in a tight cluster, separated by only six seconds and five places, ranging from 29th to 34th, respectively.

“Over the past few weeks, we have been focusing on running in packs, and we did a great job of doing the

same during the race,” Masterson said. “The course at Virginia was one that had the potential to be particularly challenging mentally. By running in packs, we were able to push each other throughout the entire race.”

Gabrielle Rinne ’19 and Katherine Raphael ’18 both gave strong underclassman performances, finishing the course with new personal bests. The young talent was complemented by a strong veteran performance from Meredith Rizzo ’17, who capped off the top seven performers for the Elis.

Virginia also captured first place in the women’s race, with an even more impressive 30 points, fueled by having the top two finishers in the meet.

“Part of the reason we went to Virginia was to get the chance to race teams we don’t usually compete against,” Masterson said. “We expected to take anywhere from third to eighth place, and we were very happy with fourth. Our finish was a testament to the strong races

run by every person on the team and was a result of our collective effort.”

After an auspicious start for both teams in their first major meet, many of the Bulldogs who ran at Virginia will have two weeks off from competition — one more than is typical between races — before running in the New England Championships.

Waligurski said the team will use the extended rest period to recover and maintain progress before heading into the October championships.

“Everyone is healthy and in great shape right now and as we look towards championship season, we are doing everything in our control to be sure that we stay that way,” Waligurski said. “It was exciting to see so many personal bests on a tough course like this, [which] indicates that we’re still improving as a team and the best is still yet to come.”

The New England Championship will be held at Boston’s Franklin Park on Oct. 10.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

Rhode Island blanks Bulldogs MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 lapse in both the team’s physical and mental defenses.

“I thought we actually defended really well until we gave up the first goal,” Stannard said.

“Unfortunately, the heads went down a little bit after that and we conceded a second goal.”

Midfielder Lucas Kirby ’19, who has been featured in all seven matches for the Bulldogs this season, agreed with Stannard’s assessment, stating that it was difficult for the team to regain focus after those critical mistakes.

Despite the back-to-back goals, the defense could not be blamed entirely for the first-half performance. The Yale attack struggled immensely, recording no shots.

Misplaced passes, well-timed Rhode Island tackles and swarming defenders rendered the Bulldogs’ attacks fruitless, and the Elis rarely penetrated the Rams’ half of the pitch.

The tide appeared to turn at the beginning of the second half, as Yale returned to the field with more aggression and offensive energy. However, the team failed to stop the Rams yet again — allowing their opponents to score their third goal of the night 20 minutes into the second half, when Dominik Richter dribbled past a crew of Yale defenders to score from 20 yards out.

Yale created some of its best chances of the night immediately afterwards. Substitute Ollie Iselin ’18 struck a shot off the crossbar in the 66th minute. Not a minute later, the Rhode Island goalkeeper was called into action for the first time all game when he was forced to save Cameron Kirdzik’s ’17 header off of a corner.

The Bulldogs played at their highest level of intensity in the closing few minutes of the game as they searched for a consolation goal.

Iselin hit the post yet again and seconds later, in a frantic back-and-forth in the box, the Bulldogs came very close to breaking through, but were unable to find the back of the net.

“I thought we came out with some decent energy in the second half and I was really happy with the way we finished the game,” Stannard said. “But unfortunately, we have to do a better job of not allowing goals that we can easily fix.”

Saturday night’s match was the second in a row in which Yale was held shotless for the first 45 minutes and the second straight matchup that saw the defense concede two goals in quick succession. These errors are representative of larger problems, namely a lack of offensive energy and sustained focus.

Both aspects must be fixed quickly if the Bulldogs want to contend for the Ivy League title,

CAA) on Sunday, where the Bulldogs were dealt a 4-1 defeat.

The weekend moved the Elis’ losing streak to three on the season, and it was also the third straight season in which Yale lost to Harvard to open conference play.

“I do not measure our success on wins and losses,” head coach Pam Stuper said. “It’s the process that matters.

I am proud of the work we have put in, the progress we have made, and how we play the game.”

While the Bulldogs failed to ever gain momentum against Hofstra, the Harvard game was a tight battle from the very beginning, one that more than lived up to the expectations of a rivalry matchup. Captain Noelle Villa ’16 put Yale on the board first in the hotly contested encounter with forward Nicole Wells ’16 providing the assist. Shut out in the first half, the Crimson notched an equalizer off the stick of forward Marissa Balleza at the 47-minute mark.

Spoiling the Harvard attack time and time again was Yale goalie Emilie Katz ’17, who had a career day. Katz racked up 16 saves, compared to just four saves for Harvard’s netminder, and prevented dangerous Harvard attempts from materializing in the second half.

Ravaged by injuries, Yale survived for two-and-a-half hours before succumbing to a sudden-death dagger.

Stuper praised her junior keeper, Katz, for helping the Bulldogs beat their bitter rivals. Despite exiting the weekend without a win to show for its efforts, Stuper said the team will build off of the good things she saw on Saturday and Sunday.

“When we stick to the game plan we are capable of playing very good hockey,” Stuper said. “We continue to work on all areas of our game, both offensively and defensively.”

Injuries caused Yale to start a youthful group on Sunday afternoon. Multiple Bulldogs who had yet to receive much playing time were thrust into action against Hofstra. Forward Brooke Reese ’19 of Pacific Palisades, California, making her first career start, earned

her first-ever goal on a redirect late in the contest in Hempstead, New York.

Another freshman, midfielder and fullback Marissa Medici ’19, was happy with how many of her fellow newcomers performed.

“It was nice to get some more experience for the underclassmen, as we started nine freshmen and sophomores in Sunday’s game,” Medici said.

Hofstra, whose victory was its sixth in a row, was not the only tough challenger on the Bulldogs’ non-conference slate this year. Stuper assembled an objectively difficult schedule — Yale has already lost to No. 2 Syracuse, and they will face off against No. 1 Connecticut this weekend — to prepare the Elis for conference play.

It was nice to get some more experience for the underclassmen, as we started nine freshmen and sophomores in Sunday’s game.

MARISSA MEDICI ’19 Yale forward Alyssa Weiss ’17 said she believes scheduling such opponents will pay off in the long run.

“This weekend allowed us to see what we need to improve on so we can be in a good position for success when Ivy play continues,” Weiss said. “Playing [opponents] like Hofstra allow us to see what our strengths and weaknesses are, to allow us to build on them throughout the week.”

If the Bulldogs are to put an end to their three-game losing skid, they will have to overcome a nationally ranked opponent one way or another.

Prior to hosting the defending national champions Connecticut on Sunday, Ivy play will resume on Friday at No. 20 Princeton.

Contact DREW SEMLER at drew.semler@yale.edu .

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with Ancient Eight action set to begin this weekend.

Stannard said the team will look past its results thus far to start with a clean slate and refocus its energy towards conference matches. Similarly, Kirby expressed optimism for the remaining games, explaining that Yale’s record leaves the team no worse off than many of its Ivy League foes.

“Honestly, the Ivy League is wide open right now. About half the teams either have one win or even zero wins for a couple of them,” Kirby said. “We’re not at any disadvantage and we’re going to go in with the same goal, which is to be Ivy League champions at the end of the season.”

That goal will face its first big test this Saturday when the Bulldogs host the Crimson.

The rivalry match kicks off at Reese Stadium at 7 p.m.

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

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Kicker and punter Bryan Holmes ’17 was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday.

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In the Elis’ six losses this season, Yale has been outscored by a 12–3 margin.

majority of special teams coaching duties last season, according to Locke. This season, however, special teams coach and former Yale captain Paul Rice ’10 has stepped into a formal role. Locke noted that Rice’s work has brought special teams to the forefront of Yale’s game plan.

The third of Yale’s blocked field goals, coming last Saturday against Cornell, was also critical to the game’s ultimate decision. With only 3:27 on the clock following a long drive by the Big Red, the unit blocked a 42-yard field goal attempt from kicker Zach Mays. Had the field goal been good, Cornell would have led by 10 points. Instead, the Elis got the ball back at their own 36-yard line and drove for a quick touchdown to tie the game, scoring the gamewinner two minutes later.

J. Hunter Roman ’19, the Bulldog who got his hand — or in this case, his facemask — on the ball, did so in the place of Oluokun, who sat out Saturday’s matchup against Cornell with an injury.

Roman said the “next man

up” mentality that his coaches instilled in the team allowed him to enter the field and contribute quickly on his first collegiate play.

“Coach Reno always talks about roles within the team, and I was given that field goal block role late this [past week in practice],” Roman said. “I knew I could step in and do it right away.”

Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 added that blocked field goals are “demoralizing” plays because they can create shifts in momentum.

The Eli kicking game, led entirely by the leg of kicker Bryan Holmes ’17, has also contributed throughout Yale’s 2–0 start.

Holmes, who was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week after Saturday’s game, made field goals from 26 and 37 yards out against Cornell and is 6–7 on extra points this season, with the only miss coming on a block by the Big Red. The junior handled only punting and kickoff duties for Yale prior to this year. However, with the graduation of placekicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15, Holmes stepped in to kick field goals and extra

point attempts as well. These two additional responsibilities make Holmes the first Bulldog to wear all three hats — kickoffs, place kicking and punting — since kicker Tom Mante ’10 did so in 2008.

Against Cornell, Holmes also tallied three touchbacks on kickoffs and pinned the Big Red inside its own 20-yard line on a punt as well. With strong punting from Cornell’s backfield in punter Chris Fraser, the field position battle was a significant factor in the contest.

“Sometimes, special teams don’t get the same type of fame or respect that they really deserve,” Roberts said. “There are three teams. If you can’t execute in all three facets of the game, you’re not going to win. That really comes down to coaches and players realizing that special teams is a way to win the game.”

Yale next takes the field on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. against Lehigh.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu and SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS at sebastian.kupchaunis@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS 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. 4:30 PM Chef Samin Nosrat in Conversation with Jack Hitt: Advice from a Chef. Trained at Chez Panisse restaurant, Samin Nosrat has since written and cooked extensively. Contributing Editor to the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and This American Life Jack Hitt will chat with Nosrat about her forthcoming book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: The Four Elements of Good Cooking, gender in the kitchen and directions for young people interested in food. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Sudler Hall.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 12:30 PM Peter A. Mutharika, President of Malawi. The Hakeem and Myma Belo-Osagie Forum on Contemporary Africa and the Yale Africa Initiative present Peter Mutharika, President of Malawi. Sterling Law Building (127 Wall St.), Rm. 127.

4:00 PM Paradoxes and Perspectives on Innovation. John Abele is the retired Founding Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation and an early pioneer in the then counter-intuitive concept of “less-invasive surgery.” He holds numerous patents and has published and lectured extensively on the many different disruptive technologies of various medical devices and on the technical, educational, social, economic and political factors influencing their acceptance into global clinical practice. Smilow Cancer Center (55 Park St.), Aud.

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ARTS & CULTURE Yale composer’s piece accompanies papal mass

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A mass given by Pope Francis last Sunday featured an original composition by Julian Revie ’02, Saint Thomas More Chapel’s composer-in-residence.

Entitled “The Love of God,” the piece was performed in Philadelphia during a two-hour service at the World Meeting of Families, a triennial conference established

by Pope John Paul II. Adapted from one of Revie’s longer pieces, “Mass of the Divine Shepherd,” the composition was played by a group of over 600 performers — an adult chorus, a children’s chorus and a full orchestra — as the Pope and over 1 million attendees took Communion. The composer said that he hoped the music could help attendees reflect on their own faith, despite the chaos and crowds.

“I simply wanted to write music that [would] afford the opportunity for the congregation to find a personal spiritual space even in this unusual crowd of a million people,” Revie said.

The decision to use “The Love of God” during the papal mass came out of discussions between Revie and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s choirs. After Jean Madden, the diocese’s associate director of the Office for Divine Worship, mentioned to the composer that the office was having difficulty finding the right “musical setting” to play during administration of the sacrament of Holy Communion, Revie submitted his piece.

During the mass, worshippers heard three lines of a Biblical

verse set to music, the first sung by an adult chorus, the second by the adult chorus with an orchestra and the third — a call to action — by a children’s chorus. Revie said he wanted the call to action to feel as though it was extended to the entire congregation and to those watching on television. He tried to achieve this by allowing the children’s chorus to sing first and then gradually layering melodies from sections of the adult chorus and the orchestra atop the original line, he said.

Elijah St. Clair ’19, a student who attends Sunday Mass in St. Thomas More, said he experienced this effect when watching the services online.

“The music had a flowing sensation that made it feel as if it were reaching out to touch everyone who listened to it,” St. Clair said.

Despite the chaos of over a million attendees in the crowd, Revie said he hoped the piece would create a meditative, reflective space for worshippers appropriate to the administering of Communion.

Dylan Fay LAW ’16, who traveled with Revie to Philadelphia, said he observed the congregation “collectively close its eyes and savor the moment” as Revie’s piece was performed.

“There was an atmosphere that was hard to describe, with a million other Catholics who were all there for the same thing: this unity of purpose,” Fay said. “ I don’t know if I’ll ever see something like that again.”

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Left: Composer Julian Revie. Right: Orchestra and choir members rehearse for the performance of “The Love of God.”

Talk by art historian opens lecture series on Dutch painting

BY NATALINA LOPEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last Friday, the Yale University Art Gallery opened its lecture series on Golden Age Dutch painting with a talk by art historian John Walsh ’61.

“Food for Thought: Pieter Claesz and Dutch Still Life” was the first installment of “View on Dutch Painting of the Golden Age,” a YUAG program that brings nine scholars to the Gallery to speak on a variety of topics in the field of 17th-century Dutch art. The series accompa-

nies 17 new Dutch paintings of the period, which have been installed in the Gallery as part of a threeyear loan from the collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. During his Friday talk, Walsh — a specialist in Dutch painting, as well as director emeritus of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles — said that he hopes to raise awareness among the broader Yale and New Haven communities about the works from the van Otterloo collection now on display in the YUAG. “John Walsh is a gift to this institution,” said Elizabeth

Manekin, the YUAG’s assistant curator of education. “It’s really wonderful that he’s sharing his knowledge with the whole gallery.”

John Walsh is a gift to this institution.

ELIZABETH MANEKIN YUAG Assistant Curator of Education Walsh’s lecture explored various topics related to Dutch still-

life painting, including themes such as time, mortality and prosperity. In his talk, the scholar explained that the genre began as an exploration of an “ancient theme” — the brevity of life — and added that still lives can be organized into six categories based on elements of their composition: breakfast, kitchen, pipe, food, dead game or flower portraits.

Among the elements highlighted by Walsh during “Food for Thought” was the lemon, which made an appearance in every painting Walsh presented. Walsh said that lemons are often pres-

ent in still lives as a symbol of luxury or fidelity, as well as the occasional mark of painterly ability.

“The lemon becomes a compulsory figure for artists,” said Walsh. “It became a competition on form and precision.”

Students who attended the event said they wanted to see Walsh’s lecture because of his prominence in the field, as well as a general desire to learn more about Dutch painting.

Judith Stapleton GRD ’21, a history of art student, said that she was drawn to the event because she did not know very much about

Dutch still-life painting. Jan Cunningham ART ’95 cited a personal interest in the genre as one of the main reasons she decided to attend.

The series follows an earlier iteration —“A History of Dutch Paintings in Six Pictures” — that was delivered by Walsh in January and February of this year.

“View on Dutch Painting of the Golden Age” will be presented from September 2015 through March 2016.

Contact NATALINA LOPEZ at natalina.lopez@yale.edu .

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Windham-Campbell festival brings writers to Yale

BY VEENA MCCOOLE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Teju Cole participates in an event at the Windham-Campbell festival.

On Monday evening, nine writers from across the globe took the stage at Sprague Memorial Hall to collect their prizes at the third annual Windham-Campbell Literary Festival.

Administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the prizes are awarded to three winners each in fiction, non-fiction and drama categories, and feature an unrestricted grant of $150,000 for each winner. Michael Kelleher, the program’s director, highlighted the festival’s importance for the Yale community. “[The writers] bring with them their genius and creativity, and it gives students, faculty and community members an opportunity to experience that,” Kelleher said.

In the Prize Ceremony on Monday, a keynote lecture was delivered

by Hilton Als, chief theater critic at The New Yorker magazine. The lecture, alongside keynote addresses from past years of the festival, will be featured in a series published by Yale University Press entitled “Why I Write.” Before presenting the awards, University President Peter Salovey welcomed the prizewinners to campus and expressed his excitement to begin the academic year with an international literary festival.

Nonfiction winner Geoff Dyer said that he is looking forward to attendees taking advantage of the breadth of the festival’s offerings.

“What I’m hoping is that a number of people might come to one event,

not because they were particularly interested in it, but because they were drawn there from a different event that was part of the festival,” he said.

Dyer noted that he is also grateful the Windham-Campbell Prize recognizes the entirety of his oeuvre — not just one work in particular.

The prizes, administration and promotion of the festival are endowed

by Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell, a couple whose papers are housed in the Beinecke.

“It was really a combination of a good relationship with [the Beinecke] and the fact that he felt this amount of money could really only be managed by an institution with a global scope,” Kelleher said, explaining why Windham chose to donate funds for the endowment to Yale.

Although winners can use the prize money for any purpose, Windham wrote in his will that he hoped the money would give authors time to write without worrying about financial constraints.

The nomination process for the Windham-Campbell prizes is yearlong and anonymous.

“Nobody has any idea that they’ve been nominated,” Kelleher said. “We solicit confidential nominations from nominators and ask them not to tell anybody that they’ve done this.”

Nominations are then presented to a nine-person selection committee, composed of four individuals named in Windham’s will and five appointed

by President Salovey, Kelleher added.

Fiction winner Helon Habila said that he thinks the lack of publicity of the prize-selection process is

precisely what makes winning it so rewarding, and noted that writers do not apply or compete for the award.

Stefanie Markovits ’94 GRD ’01, the English Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies, emphasized the collaboration that occurs during the festival between Yale faculty and the prizewinners, noting that events such as “Art of the Essay” bring professors together with the winning writers to discuss their craft.

“This is a feature of our program that the [English] Department really works to encourage students to take advantage of,” Markovits said. “The experience of literature as a part of public life, as something people actually do.”

Markovits also highlighted the prize’s global nature, noting that it aligns with the department’s goals, which include embracing an international perspective on writing.

Undergraduate students interviewed also expressed excitement about the festival and the possibility to interact with prizewinners.

Erica Wachs ’18, who sat on an undergraduate committee that worked with Kelleher to organize this year’s festival, mentioned that she is especially excited to meet drama winner Helen Edmundson.

“As an aspiring playwright, just to have this opportunity is incredible for me,” Wachs said.

All Windham-Campbell Literary Festival events are free and open to the public.

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

Yale Rep season opener revisits controversial play

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER For its first show of the 2015–16 season, the Yale Repertory Theatre will present a clash of religion and modernity as it stages the world premiere of “Indecent.”

Written by the Rep’s playwright-in-residence Paula Vogel and created with Rebecca Taichman DRA ’00, the play details the events surrounding the 1923 debut of Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” described by the Yale Rep as a “seminal work of Jewish culture.” The production aims to provide insight into the controversy surrounding the original play’s themes and characters, which are often labeled anti-Semitic. After “God of Vengeance” premiered in the U.S. in 1923, the entire Broadway cast was arrested and successfully prosecuted on charges of obscenity, as the play featured prostitution and a same-sex relationship.

According to Vogel, “God of Vengeance” remains relevant because it provides insight into the way women and minority communities are treated.

“It’s very interesting, the alignment between 1923 and 2015,” she said. “Both times [are] perilously nativist and anti-immigrant in a way I feel endangers the value of America, so it’s a good time to look at this.”

Vogel noted that the creation of “Indecent” was a five-year process, involving frequent back and forth between herself and Taichman. Having written her School of Drama thesis on “God of Vengeance” and its obscenity trial, Taichman came into the planning with intimate knowledge of the case. For her part, Vogel read trial transcripts, books on prostitution in Russia and the Pale, as well as literature on the Yiddish

language.

Characterized by Vogel as a “Yiddish-English conversation,” “Indecent” features conversational and historic use of Yiddish language. Joel Berkowitz, an expert on Yiddish theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, provided Yiddish translation for the production.

The play also includes Yiddish music composed by Lisa Gutkin and music director Aaron Halva, as well as original Klezmer music, a musical tradition of Eastern

European Jews characterized by attempts to replicate human sounds such as laughing or crying.

Halva and Vogel said they found Gutkin’s deep knowledge of Klezmer and Jewish music remarkably useful during the creative process.

Halva said the music is a mix of compositional needs and arrangements of popular songs of the era, adding that the musical script is constantly changing and may not be set even on opening night.

“[The music] truly feels like another character in this play. It can be the breath under a blink in time or the full raucous joy of a group number,” he said. “The natural acoustic sound of the wooden reeds of the clarinet and accordion and the strings of the bass and violin without effects or manipulation really can help you travel in your heart and mind to Warsaw, to Germany, to the Bowery.”

Vogel said she had not previously experienced this level of

collaboration and convergence of diverse passions, adding that “Indecent” marks the first time she has ever co-created.

Despite allegations of antiSemitism regarding “God of Vengeance,” members of Yale’s Jewish community interviewed were enthusiastic at the prospect of seeing the show.

Yale Hillel Outreach Coordinator Jordana Gardenswartz ’18 said she views the play as a unique way of seeing Jewish culture manifested on campus.

Juli Goodman, Director of Jewish Student Life at the Slifka Center, said a tentative plan exists for the Center to organize a group trip to the play. She added that she does not anticipate the play will be a problem in Yale’s Jewish community. To expect that, she said, would “undersell most Yalies.

“Indecent” will open Oct. 8 at the University Theatre.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

DENIZ SAIP/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

“Indecent” will feature original Klezmer music throughout, which often includes the use of violins and other instruments.

Performing groups welcome families

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Last weekend, Yale’s campus was alive with student group performances aimed at a fan base older than the usual undergraduate audience.

Beginning on Sept. 25, parents on campus for Family Weekend were invited to explore Yale’s rich cultural landscape through events ranging from an exhibit at the Lewis Walpole Library to a joint a cappella concert put on by the Whiffenpoofs and Whim ’n Rhythm.

Co-president of dance group

Rhythmic Blue Hana Bendy ’17 said her favorite part of the weekend showcase was giving her group’s new members the opportunity to perform for their parents.

“I remember my Parents’ Weekend when I was a freshman, and it was one of the first times I felt like I was a part of a special group,” Bendy said. “I was excited to have our new members feel like they were a part of our family.”

While many groups, such as Mixed Company and the Duke’s Men of Yale, generate profit through ticket and album sales during Family Weekend, for oth-

ers, the three-day event is not a significant source of revenue.

Serene Li ’17, a member of Living Water and the Yale Glee Club, said both groups’ concerts were free of charge.

To lower the cost of renting performance space and stage crews, a number of groups chose to host shows together. For example, Mixed Company and the Duke’s Men held a joint concert Friday night in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, a performance they also gave last year.

“We usually do charge the same price for [Family Weekend as] our semester shows,” Bendy said.

“Most of our revenue comes from [those] shows. During Parents’ Weekend, we really just showcase the new [members]. We don’t make much from Parents’ Weekend.”

Bendy said roughly 40 people were turned away from Rhythmic Blue’s combined concert with Yale Steppin’ Out, even though the groups performed two concerts in the hopes of accommodating more attendees. Similarly, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, Yale Glee Club and Yale Concert Band hosted a combined concert, attracting a large crowd in Woolsey Hall.

This fall’s Family Weekend was held two weeks earlier than last year’s, giving performing groups significantly less time to prepare for their performances than they usually have. Bendy said all members of her group had practiced more than 10 hours during the past week in order to make up for lost rehearsal time.

Albert Cao ’18, a violinist in the Yale Symphony Orchestra, said his group had faced similar concerns about rehearsal times.

Though the group received a standing ovation at the end of the performance, Cao said he thought many YSO members felt “pinched

for time,” and worried that their pieces were “not up to standard.”

Still, all six performers interviewed said the most important part of Family Weekend was being able to share student work with parents.

“One of the best parts of Family Weekend is it allows parents to be a part of the Yale community, even if it is for just a day,” said Allyson Ho ’18, a member of the Yale Gospel Choir.

Family Weekend 2015 was held from Sept. 25 to 27.

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

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Crimson wins shootout

BY DREW SEMLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While the Bulldogs ultimately dropped two contests over the weekend, the Yale field hockey team’s devastating loss to open the Ivy League season on Saturday will be the one to linger on the Elis’ minds this week.

FIELD HOCKEY The Bulldogs (2–5, 0–1 Ivy) fell 2–1 in a heartbreaker to Harvard (5–2, 1–0) on Saturday, as 100 minutes of hard-fought action was not enough to decide a winner. After the seventh round of shootout tension, the Crimson finally closed the door on the Elis.

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The men’s team bested No. 20 Eastern Kentucky on Saturday, as well as schools such as Auburn and Wake Forest.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Building on their early success this season, the Yale men’s and women’s cross country teams showed bursts of speed last Saturday, resulting in impressive finishes at the Virginia Panorama Farms Invitational.

In the first meet that counts toward seeding in the NCAA National Championships, the Bulldogs proved they can run alongside the fastest in the Northeast Region, with both Yale teams finishing in fourth place among a field of 15 squads from across the country.

For the men’s team — whose sole

meet thus far saw the Bulldogs finish second in the three-team HYP race — this weekend’s race proved to be a great stride forward as the men outscored nationally ranked Eastern Kentucky by 49 points and Yalies on both teams earned personal bests.

“We’re definitely very happy to beat the 20th-best team in the country,” captain Kevin Dooney ’16 said. “That’s a big achievement for us. We have a lot more to give as we pick up the intensity.”

Once again, Dooney was the first to cross the finish line for the men on Saturday, completing the course in a time of 24:23.8 — good for 16th place overall. Teammate James Randon ’17 was right behind Dooney, finish-

ing in a pack of runners with only a tenth of a second and two competitors between him and his captain.

Randon earned a personal best by nine seconds, shaving nearly 50 seconds off his HYP pace from two weekends ago. Dooney also dropped 40 seconds from his HYP finishing time.

Several other Elis also picked up the pace. The next three finishers for Yale — Cameron Stanish ’18, Duncan Tomlin ’16 and Andre Ivankovic ’17 — also dropped significant time from their HYP marks, finishing the University of Virginia-hosted race in 25th, 27th and 51st respectively. Adam Houston ’16 and Pascal Ungersboeck ’19 were the remain-

Elis shut out at home

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s soccer team suffered a familiar fate Saturday night, losing at home to Rhode Island 3–0.

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The Elis dropped their conference opener to Harvard in a sudden-death shootout.

Special teams play key role

BY MAYA SWEEDLER AND SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Coming off a season in which the Yale football team led the Football Championship Subdivision in total offense but struggled with a relatively young defense, the Elis are working to create a more balanced identity in 2015.

Through two games, however, a third unit of the Yale squad has shown flashes of dominance: the special teams.

MEN’S SOCCER After dropping last Wednesday’s match against Iona, the Bulldogs (1–6–0, 0–0–0 Ivy) were hoping to rediscover the form that led to their dominant display over local rival Quinnipiac the previous Saturday, but were unable to do so. While other losses this season were close, and could potentially have gone either way, Yale was not able to muster much of a challenge against a strong Rhode Island (5–4–0, 0–0–0 Atlantic 10) team.

Despite the lopsided score, the Bulldogs did not feel outmatched by the Rams, and took full responsibility for the loss.

“We’re giving up shots that we shouldn’t be and not marking people that we should be and it’s 100 percent on us,” captain Philip Piper ’16 said after the game.

Rhode Island controlled possession much of the first half, pressing forward and shooting six times, but the Yale defense managed to hold its line for a good portion of the 45 minutes. In only his third career start, goalkeeper Kees Schipper ’19 made two key

ing runners to receive scores for the Bulldogs.

“All the teams that beat us are very good teams,” Dooney said. “There’s no shame in that. [This race] is reinforcement that we’re going in the right direction, and to see [results] on paper and in races is obviously the most important.”

The race was dominated by the host team Virginia, which had a team score of just 41, compared to Yale’s 130, due to seven of its nine runners finishing within the top 15. Still, Yale had a strong showing as they placed ahead of schools such as Auburn and Mississippi State, placing them in

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again as the Rams doubled their lead. Senior forward Ryan Oakley crossed the ball into the 18-yard box and freshman forward Emil Jesman Sunde capitalized, scoring from 12 yards out.

Coach Kylie Stannard thought that the first goal represented a

Thus far, the Bulldogs (2–0, 1–0 Ivy) lead all of Division I football with four blocked kicks — three field goals and one extra point — and have also gotten key contributions from their kicking and kickoff return units. Two blocked field goals by defensive back Foye Oluokun ’17 eventually decided the Elis’ 29–28 victory at Colgate, while an 84-yard kickoff return by running back Jamal Locke ’18 the following week set up a touchdown that was essential to Yale’s win over Cornell.

“We thought we had a good [special teams] unit last year, and we did some things in the offseason to look at … what schematically you can improve on,” head coach Tony Reno said. “We felt that our personnel could block kicks. The amount of them, at this early juncture, that surprised me a little bit. But this is what we hoped for.”

Reno, who served as Harvard’s special teams coach before coming to Yale, handled the

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The Bulldogs could not overcome a tall task against Rhode Island, the defending Atlantic 10 regular season champions. saves to prevent the Rams from going up early on, but was unable to stop a shot in the 38th minute as Yale’s defensive wall finally broke. Off of a corner kick, midfielder Ryan Bailey smashed the ball into the net, out of Schipper’s reach, to open the scoring.

Three minutes later, the Bulldog defense was exposed yet

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Defensive end J. Hunter Roman ’19 kept Yale’s deficit to seven points on Saturday by blocking this kick with his facemask.

THE NUMBER OF FIELD GOAL AND EXTRA POINT ATTEMPTS THAT THE YALE FOOTBALL TEAM HAS BLOCKED THIS SEASON. The Elis’ total, which includes two blocks by defensive back Foye Oluokun ’17 in Week 1, leads all of Division I football through Yale’s first two games.