NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 21 · yaledailynews.com
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CROSS CAMPUS
SUITING UP NEW GEAR FOR WOMEN’S TRACK
LACTOSE TOLERANT
WEIGHT FOR IT
Dairy shop replaces failed oil vendor at 1020 Chapel Street
NEW INITIATIVE TARGETS OBESITY IN THE ELM CITY
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Alcohol initiative forges ahead
Brain power. President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative — a $300 million investment to advance neurotechnology — awarded two Yale Medical School professors $5 million. Radiology professor Todd Constable and neurobiology professor Michael Crair will use the funds to develop methods for neuron activity research.
“V to Shining V Party.” The Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale and Lady Parts Justice will host a party in the Davenport Crosspiece at 9:30 p.m. tonight. Lady Parts Justice recently launched an activism app “Hinder,” which mocks popular dating app Tinder by allowing users to swipe through profiles of politicians who have expressed anti-abortion views. Stereo Love. If you, like Lady Parts Justice, are sick of Tinder, WYBC offers a dating alternative. Yesterday, they sent out applications seeking Yale students willing to blind date on the air. The News wishes you luck in finding love.
Healthcare reforms spur little change for poor New Haven families PAGE 7 SCI-TECH
Harsh sexual climate for “other genders” BY VICTOR WANG AND PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
by the time classes resumed in the fall. The program has not yet hired a director, but the interns were hired in the spring and have already begun planning how to address big drinking events on campus, like Halloween and The Game, according to Student
In the wake of a massive campus sexual climate survey by the Association of American Universities, national media attention has mainly focused on the high rates of victimization for female college students. But for certain types of sexual misconduct — including sexual assault that meets a criminal standard — another demographic reported even higher rates of victimization: students who identify outside the traditional gender binary. The discrepancy appears both at Yale and across the 27 universities nationwide that participated in the survey. At Yale, 28.4 percent of undergraduates surveyed who identify as “other genders” — not female or male — have experienced sexual assault via force or incapacitation. This figure is significantly higher than the 18.1 percent reported by undergraduate participants in general, and .3 percent higher than the rate reported by undergraduate females. Additionally, 84.2 percent of undergraduate participants of “other genders” have experienced sexual harassment, compared to 74 percent among females and 57.6 percent among males. Students and administrators expressed dismay, but not surprise, at the results. But they also pointed to causes for hope in
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Into the digital age. This fall, Yale switched from Philo Streaming to Comcast IPTV. According to a Wednesday email from Yale ITS, Philo will be cut by the end of November. The new service, which offers 100 channels, allows Yale students to stream HD video on up to three devices. Hurricane J. According to NBC Connecticut, this week’s downpours are the effects of a tropical storm. Hurricane Joaquin is expected to make landfall south of New Jersey next week. While New Haven will likely be spared from the eye of the storm, don’t expect the rain to stop anytime soon.
OBAMA CARES?
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Yale’s alcohol policy office is overseen by Student Affairs Fellows who operate out of Swing Space. BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Despite an unsuccessful search for a new alcohol policy director this summer, the University is moving forward with its plans to expand alcohol safety programming and offer more safe alternatives to Yale’s exist-
ing party culture. In late April, the Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative — a unit of the Yale College Dean’s Office — announced plans for significant expansion, including hiring seven paid student interns to develop new programming and selecting a new director to oversee the initiative
Investments Office targets 2016 allocations BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER After bringing the Yale endowment to a historic nominal high in the 2015 fiscal year, the Yale Investments Office is looking ahead, with target asset allocations for the 2016 fiscal year including a notable increase in bonds and cash, as well as a decrease in real estate and
domestic equity. On Sept. 24, the University announced that the Yale Investments Office had beaten market estimates to post a return of 11.5 percent, growing the endowment from $23.9 billion to $25.6 billion over the 2015 fiscal year. The University also outlined the investments office’s asset allocation targets for the upcoming fiscal year. Real estate allocations are
targeted to fall from 17 percent to 13 percent, and domestic equity will drop a third, from 6 percent to 4 percent. Bonds and cash are set to increase from 5 percent to 8.5 percent. Finance experts interviewed said these changes signal the investments office’s recognition that stocks and real estate are becoming overvalued and that Yale should seek opportunities
elsewhere. “Going from 17 to 13 percent [real estate] could simply mean that there were some real estate properties that they felt were fully priced and decided to sell, and that could be where some of that bonds and cash could be coming from,” William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm said.
Yale School of Management finance professor Roger Ibbotson added that although equity markets have performed very well since 2009, they have started to weaken in the past few months, prompting speculation that the current market may be overvalued. The investments office would then want to allocate its SEE INVESTMENTS PAGE 6
Hit the slopes. The Yale Ski
Team invites students to join their annual winter break ski trip. The six-day trip to Mont Tremblant ski resort in Montreal is attended by roughly 100 students each year. We hear temperatures on the mountain drop as low as minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
Buck Yeah. With the mention
in yesterday’s XC, Chi Psi’s golden retriever Buck got 80 new followers on Instagram — increasing his total count nearly sixfold. Also, after his visit to the vet on Tuesday, Buck has made a full recovery and has started teething. Updates to follow.
“We’re almost there” reads
the sign outside Junzi Kitchen on Broadway. Lucas Sin ’15 — co-owner of the Chinese restaurant — told the News Junzi would open at the end of September. We’re hoping to try our first Chunbing wraps soon.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Attendance halts savings decision BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER A meeting to identify potential cost savings in city administration was stymied Wednesday night when only three city figures turned up. The Cost Savings Working Group, chaired by Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, was created this spring to evaluate contracts for city workers and identify potential cost savings. An offshoot of the Board of Alders’ Finance Committee, the working group includes fewer than 10 officials from a variety of organizations: the Board of Alders, the city administration, local unions and the Board of Education. But Wednesday’s low attendance — partially due to committee members missing the meeting to attend parentteacher conferences — stunted the group’s productivity. Only Morrison, Office of Legislative Services Director Albert Lucas and Matthew Brokman — a representative for Connecticut’s branch of the AFSCME union, which represents city workers — attended Wednesday’s meeting. “The idea is to review contracts that the city has put out
to bid over the years,” Brokman said. “One of the things we’ve found is that the city will put something out to bid … but they didn’t ask whether it still makes sense to have that contract.” Morrison said the group has identified one leading cost-saving measure in the groundskeeping staff of the Board of Education. Currently, the Board hires private contractors to perform tasks — such as replacing lightbulbs and fixing air conditioning filters — that the custodial staff could do at a lower price, Morrison said. The city can realize other cost savings by turning to public workers, she added, noting that custodial staff’s overtime labor is cheaper than the high rates charged by private contractors. Last winter, for example, the city saved money when custodial staff, rather than private contractors, plowed school parking lots. The committee had originally planned to spend Wednesday evening discussing the addition of a new maintenance position to the Board of Education staff. If the “floater” position is approved, the staff member who fills the role will go from school SEE SAVINGS PAGE 8
Yale-NUS rethinks curriculum
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Yale-NUS is conducting a review of its Common Curriculum this year. BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Three years after opening its doors, Yale-NUS is addressing student concerns regarding its Common Curriculum — namely arbitrary grading and exceedingly difficult science courses. An academic report sub-
mitted by the Yale-NUS student government earlier this year coincided with the administration’s commencement of a regular common curriculum review. While the review was not conducted in direct response to student dissatisfaction, Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn ’81 said student concerns would be
noted and taken into consideration. President of YaleNUS Pericles Lewis said the review was scheduled two years prior, adding that routine examinations are set in place for most courses, with the next curriculum review scheduled to take place in five SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 8