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“Rocky” start. The Yale
College Council issued its first newsletter of the year yesterday, featuring updates, announcements and profiles to kick off the semester. In a letter to the student body, YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 likened his cabinet to Rocky and the Statue of Liberty for their commitment to justice, honor and freedom as they toil to bring iPhone chargers to the Bass Media desk.
by campaign promises for accessibility and openness, Herbert also listed office hours at which students can pitch their ideas for a better Yale. Typos aside, the letter effectively conveys Herbert’s earnestness, which will be on full display starting Sunday in Silliman.
to be outdone, the Yale International Relations Association — the only other Yale student organization that matters — also released its weekly news production on Wednesday. Among the letter’s highlighted items were previews of the Global Perspectives Society’s Thursday event with Ambassador Robert King and solicitations for followers on YIRA’s new Instagram page. How are we doing? The
University released its 2014 Workplace Survey on Wednesday, inviting staff to comment on labor conditions at Yale. Workers have until Oct. 21 to complete the form (and slightly more time to settle negotiations between their unions and the administration).
Media & Millennials. A Wednesday column in the Boston Globe chose BriefMe, a media startup cofounded by Hari Ganesan ’13, as the most exciting project currently at the Harvard Innovation Lab, noting that the company’s success hinges upon “whether millennials will choose to digest the news of the world.” An exhibit for ants? The Peabody Museum launched its “Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants” exhibit on Wednesday, making a grand spectacle of the miniscule insects. The display features live ant colonies for visitors to observe closely. Cult of the Walrus. Morse
College was abuzz with chatter on Wednesday after news of a 35,000-walrus gathering in Alaska circulated around the internet. Experts told the Associated Press that a lack of available ice was responsible for bringing together more walruses, Morse’s mascot, than the college can house in its perpetually crowded dining hall.
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the common causes of financial crises. In particular, Geithner focused on the 2008 financial crisis, in which he played a critical role as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Following the University’s recent announcement that its endowment had risen to a record-high $23.9 billion, University administrators and officials praised the Investments Office. But not everyone was pleased. As Yale announced its fiscal year 2014 endowment returns of 20.2 percent, Yale’s unions learned from newspapers that jobs lost as a result of budget cuts during the 2008 financial crisis would not be restored. And on Sunday, the New York Post published an op-ed criticizing the tax-exempt status of large university endowments, such as Yale’s and Harvard’s, amid rising college tuition fees nationwide. The columnist Jonathon Trugman said that rather than targeting corporate tax evasion through inversions, Washington should focus on taxing the “largest tax dodge on the globe … [the] $500 billion of tax-free pool of cash housed in Universities across America.” However, finance professors and outside experts interviewed said that tax exemptions for university endowments are necessary for their growth and institutional operation. “There is this concern that university
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Former Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner spoke about the circumstances surrounding the 2008 Great Recession. BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Financial crises extend far beyond Wall Street, former Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner told a crowd of 400 at the School of Management Wednesday.
What is more, Geithner said, policymakers have not gotten dramatically better at addressing the crises. His lecture, which was delivered as part of a SOM course entitled “Global Financial Crisis” Geithner is co-teaching with the SOM Deputy Dean Andrew Metrick, focused on
Sexual health task force formed BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS As sexual climates at universities have come under national scrutiny, the Yale College Council has shifted its attention to the issue. In an attempt to reform campus sexual misconduct policy, the Yale College Council has formed a sexual health task force to research current conventions and propose policy changes. The task force will speak with University administrators and students to assess current policies, YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said. The YCC will then use this research to write a sexual misconduct report, which will advise the administration on what current policies should be revised and how resources can be reallocated to better meet the needs of sexual assault victims. YCC representative and task force member Sarika Pandrangi ’17 said the report will be published by the end of the semester. “[The task force will] help the administration facilitate creating a positive sexual climate on campus,” Herbert said. The task force’s efforts will be coupled with YCC’s branch of the “It’s On Us” campaign — a nationwide initiative launched by the White House to combat sexual violence, Padrangi said. According to the campaign website, “It’s On Us” invites students to outline their pledges and visions to create a safer campus. It is also intended to be a grassroots movement to foster dialogue about sexual violence at colleges across the country. The difference between the two initiatives, Pandrangi said, is that the task force is geared towards reforming University policy, while the “It’s On Us” campaign targets student behavior and attitudes. She also said the creation of the task force is part of the YCC “It’s On Us” campaign pledge. In implementing the platform
prescribed by the national “It’s On Us” initiative, the YCC has worked closely with the Community and Consent Educators to ensure that the vision of the national campaign aligns with the CCEs’ approach to combating sexual violence, said Josh Feng ’17, a CCE. A similar collaboration between the YCC and CCEs could be helpful in shaping the task force, Feng said, to ensure transparency and cohesion across efforts. YCC initiatives can also be the key to integrating topdown, administrative policy change with bottom-up cultural change, Feng said. “I think they have a lot of control over certain events that happen on campus that could really change the campus environment, like dances or Spring Fling,” he said. “They have the direct ability to change those things.” But Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale College President Isabella D’Agosto ’16 said that though she admires the YCC’s attempt to reform the sexual climate at Yale, she thinks they are ignoring one key component of the fight: empowering Yale women. “If YCC really wants to build an environment, it needs to focus on female empowerment,” D’Agosto said. “Focus first on the unique challenges women face at Yale.” Lindsay Falkenberg ’15, who is involved with the task force through Students Against Sexual Violence at Yale, said one University policy the task force wants to reform is the statute of limitations on sexual assault cases. If a Yale student wants to bring forward a sexual assault complaint, the event must have taken place within the last two years, Falkenberg said. Such a limitation, she said, can be a serious problem for students who take a long time to process assault experiences. Both Pandrangi and FalkanSEE YCC PAGE 6
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Yale President Peter Salovey travels to locations as far as China and Singapore while on the job. BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS For Peter Salovey, the job of university president extends far beyond Woodbridge Hall. Since classes began in August, Salovey’s travels have taken him to Singapore, New York City and Cincinnati, with plans to go to Washington, DC and Beijing in the coming weeks. While the events — ranging from a College Board meeting at Yale-NUS to a celebration honoring the 150th anniversary of the first Yale Alumni Club — bring Salovey all over the globe, students and administrators interviewed said Salovey’s on-campus presence remains strong. “I don’t really think that [his busy travel schedule] detracts from his presence or his role as president, but actually the opposite,” Tiwa Lawal ’17 said. “I think it just makes him a really active member of the community.”
Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said that Salovey is the type of person who would want to spend time with students in the dining halls or in meetings with faculty members, but the demands of the job make that kind of accessibility difficult to secure. Salovey said that in a typical day in New York City, he might have six one-on-one fundraising appointments, plus another couple of conversations over lunch and dinner. “The fact of the matter though is that his schedule is surreal,” Holloway said. “When he’s on campus, he has wall-to-wall appointments often, and there are moments where people like me will say ‘I need 20 minutes of your time in the next three days.’ The time that could have been spent going to a residential college dining hall just to see people is actually spent in the latest emergency … that he needs to attend to.”
Still, Salovey’s busy travel schedule seems to figure little in how students and faculty perceive the president, now in his second year on the job, and his presence on campus. To some, Salovey — who was spotted on Monday eating lunch in Commons — is a figure working from behind the curtain, while others feel he is as engaged as ever. Silliman Master Judith Krauss said it is more important for a university president to be accessible on campus when needed than to have a consistent campus presence. She added that Salovey is very much in touch with campus leadership while maintaining a global travel schedule. Yale College Council President Michael Herbert ’16 said Salovey’s time spent away from campus has not affected the YCC because the council’s current policy initiatives have yet to be SEE SALOVEY PAGE 6
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n Sept. 21, I was floored by a moment I experienced at the People’s Climate March. As we started moving, a chant rose up: “Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow Wow Wow! We want climate justice and we want it now!” As a member of Fossil Free Yale, seeing countless familiar faces from my college community uniting around this issue was immensely powerful. More than 300 Yalies joined 400,000 others from across the country and the globe in the historic march to demand climate action from our world leaders. This march reflected a major turning point for the climate movement. People across the country have been connecting the dots between climate change and social justice, sparking the surge of energy and people power displayed clearly in last week’s march.
KEEP FIGHTING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE This movement is not yesterday’s environmentalism, as proven by the physical organization of the march. At the head of the march were the communities already facing the effects of climate change. These predominantly poor communities of color have often done very little to cause the problem and yet are disproportionately affected. Their strong voices gave a human perspective to climate injustice. Behind them, organizing in solidarity and for our collective stake in this issue, were people from a remarkable diversity of backgrounds, from faith to labor and more. As it becomes apparent that climate change affects the lives of real people, often in an unequal and unjust manner, folks are starting to realize that we need to stand up for what we believe in. The march was a beautiful show of this movement’s inclusiveness and strength, but the work must continue. The momentum we’ve built should be used to bolster the strength of the countless groups around the world already fighting for climate justice. For Yalies concerned with this injustice, there is no battle more significant on our campus than the one against our university’s morally reprehensible investments in the fossil fuel industry. The climate violence gradually affecting more of the world’s population demands an almost immediate stop to the use of fossil fuels, but these companies have blocked efforts to find solutions. This makes sense; their business model relies on wreck-
ing our climate, and they won’t give that up without resisting. The increasing abuses these companies inflict on communities through fossil fuel extraction should not be understated either. This abuse takes many forms: from the trampling of indigenous lands in the pursuit of Canadian tar sands, to the surge of fracking and its epidemic water contamination, to even the not-so-far-away fight against coal and air pollution in Bridgeport. These problems that hurt real people are all the inevitable result of an abusive, extractive industry — and our university is profiting from them. Coming to Yale as a freshman this fall, my first day of college classes was marred by the announcement that our university had decided to ignore the voices of its students. Our administration looked past divestment, instead implementing sustainability initiatives that, while necessary, completely sidestep the moral imperative to address climate injustice. I joined Fossil Free Yale because I personally abhorred our school’s choice to ignore the 83 percent of students who were in favor of divestment while legitimizing an unprecedentedly destructive industry. As students, we have a personal stake in our school's engagement with this issue, but divestment is also part of a movement that is much bigger than Yale. There are more than 400 active campus divestment campaigns and an uncountable number of people who are fighting for climate justice all around the world. It is imperative that we lead the way in this rising tide of action, or else we risk being on the wrong side of history. We’re at a tipping point where the consequences of our actions now will have resounding effects for generations to come. Through divestment, we must leverage our collective power and the weight of our institution to help radically shift the course of our society toward a world that is more just and livable. But to change everything, we need everyone. I know that joining this movement has likely been the most empowering thing I have ever done. At the march, the solidarity I felt extended beyond just my fellow Yalies to a community across the planet. It put into perspective just how much this fight matters. We all have a stake in climate change — it presents a unique opportunity to unite all of humanity to mobilize against the biggest threat we’ve ever faced. And we can start here with making a Fossil Free Yale.
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the lyrics in the song “Protect Ya Neck” don’t exactly scream “community values.” In short, we’re taking artists whom I would consider practitio ners of “hippop,” with an emphasis on
the pop. But if we’re going to invite more uncontroversial artists such as Hoodie Allen — the types who appeal to a suburban upper-middle class audience — then we need to seriously reevaluate what we call the artists we choose to invite. It would be a form of cultural insensitivity to keep on calling them, even in casual conversation, our “hip-hop” acts. Because hip-hop isn’t just a genre — it’s a culture. And moreover, it’s a culture that grew out of socioeconomic struggle, pentup energy, racial tensions and discrimination. Its origins aren’t pretty, and hip-hop often reflects that. Yes, hip-hop, at its best, is inspirational and communal, but it’s also intentionally provocative at times. At times, its objective is not to lionize community values but to challenge them. To be a hip-
hop artist isn’t merely to rap. It’s to be immersed in precisely that culture. You’re not a hip-hop artist if you can come up with clever rhymes; you’re a hip-hop artist if you embody the culture that it comes from. A lot of people called it “cultural appropriation” when Katy Perry wore a kimono in an “Asianthemed” performance. Just as a kimono brings with it a specific culture and history, so, too, does the label “hip-hop.” To treat a kimono or hip-hop as just a piece of clothing or a song is to strip away its meaning in the broader context of a complex culture. When artists such as Hoodie Allen dub themselves hip-hop artists, they are treating the genre as just a spectacle or a label. And we’re complicit every time we call someone a hip-hop artist just because he can rap. And that’s essentially what we’re doing when we call someone like Macklemore a hip-hop artist. By putting the label “hip-hop” on anything and everyone who rhymes, we’re actively diminishing the significance and history of that word. We’re calling something authentic when it’s not. Just because it’s often considered a subculture doesn’t mean that it’s not a culture, and we should treat it with the same respect that we treat all cultures.
That doesn’t mean we need to hire hip-hop artists. Hoodie Allen, Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea are catchy. But if we choose to hire these people then we need to stop referring to them as hip-hop artists and give hip-hop the respect it’s due. All that starts with us, the students, realizing that hip-hop isn’t just a genre but a culture. And Yale itself can also do its part to educate people on hip-hop culture, make them more sensitive to what it is in the same way that we make people sensitive to other cultures found on campus — we have the AACC, the Af-Am house, etc., and we have classes offered on various cultures. As much as I hate to say it, maybe we could even follow Harvard’s example and establish a Hip-Hop Archive — an institute dedicated to studying hip-hop. Yale only offers one class on hip-hop. There are many more classes on Ancient Egyptian. I’m not saying that Ancient Egyptian isn’t a valid area of study or education. I’m merely trying to say that we should at least elevate hip-hop — a global and currently vibrant culture — to that level. It’s the least we could do. LEO KIM is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His columns run on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .
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ale’s Spring Fling lineups in recent history have seemed to follow a set formula. One indie artist, a more “pop” oriented artist or a DJ and a “hip-hop” artist. While these aren’t the official names of the categories, there seems to be a prevalent notion on campus that the headliners will generally be grouped into one of these three genres. And I think it’s safe to say that, generally, we group the rappers whom we invite under the umbrella “hip-hop” and address them as such. Recently, as part of the Yale College Council “It’s on Us” campaign, the YCC promised that the artists that it hires for Spring Fling will “uphold our community values.” In essence, the artists that we invite shouldn’t be offensive, provocative or disparage any particular group of people. That’s not what this column is about. Spring Fling should be about having a good time together, and I am absolutely behind that. We should do our best to avoid using student money to invite artists that could make people feel uncomfortable. However, I think that this does have implications for the “hiphop” artists we invite. It seems like in accordance with this principle, we should be inviting more Hoodie Allens, fewer Ja Rules. More Iggy Azaleas, fewer Wu-Tang Clans —
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n its fall issue, the Yale Economic Review, a student magazine on campus, ran a cover story titled “Africa: The Last Frontier,” an economic survey of the benefits of investing in the African continent. The designation of Africa as “the last frontier” ignores centuries of history and perpetuates the idea that the Western gaze is the only thing that can validate a whole continent’s existence. What may have begun as an enlightening piece about investment on a continent often forgotten by investors has disappointingly re-enforced the patronizing, neo-imperialist clichés too often invoked in discussions of Africa. First off, there seems to be some confusion about what region of the world, exactly, is the focus of this article: Is it the continent of Africa, as suggested by the headline? Or is it just subSaharan Africa, from the subtitle (Why Sub-Saharan Africa is the New Investment Hotspot)? Perhaps it’s West Africa, as the editor-in-chief suggests in his introduction to the fall issue. The cover shows the beaded anklet and dark foot of a Maasai — so maybe the locus is Kenya (which, for the record, is in East Africa)? The photo accompanying the feature was of grassland, zebras, sun and more grass. The connection between the grazing
zebras and foreign investment in Africa is tenuous at best. Why not show an image of a city or town, wherein there are human people? Are the zebras buying things? This piece is not about Africans or local economies. There is no mention of any African individuals or their contributions to the global economy. Corruption, economic underdevelopment and the lack or high cost of infrastructure are not listed as concerns because of how they affect African citizens, but because they make it a “nightmare for individuals and corporations looking to generate high returns on investments.” More than anything, I find it disheartening to see that this exploitative mindset is being presented as a legitimate way to interact with the world. The countries leading this renewed investment in Africa are “not Western countries with a history of providing aid and development,” the article states, but Asian nations, particularly China. Here I am struck by the word “history.” How far back does this history of aid and development stretch, and how do those few decades of humanitarian aid compare with the centuries of exploitation that these same Western countries inflicted on Africa? This article identifies the 1970s as the time when
the potential investing value, and “uncertainty,” of Africa first emerged. This decade was, not coincidently, the one that followed the independence of most African countries from Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal in the 1950s and 60s — and yet, this continent can be reduced to “a region just entering the globalized world.” Africa’s unpalatability to investors could thus be attributed to the reluctance of imperial, Western powers to invest in lands and people they used to dominate. Much of the continent’s political troubles today can be traced to this bitter transition into nationhood. Asian investment in Africa does not diminish the implicit neoimperialism. The article’s blindness to the human cost borne by Africans during investment is exemplified in the brief mention that “Nestlé [has] always had a presence in Africa,” which fails to explain how controversial this presence was: A boycott of Nestlé was launched in 1977 for its harmful marketing of baby formula in poor, underdeveloped countries (including several in Africa). A report from just last year concludes that Nestlé continues to violate WHO’s code for marketing breast milk substitutes, and estimates that “95 babies could be saved every hour … if new mothers across the
world breast-fed immediately after giving birth.” By viewing mothers, African or otherwise, as simply a new, untapped market and potential source of wealth, the Swiss company has likely contributed to the deaths and worsened health conditions of thousands of children around the world. Articles like the cover of this issue of the Yale Economic Review suggest that economics is a discipline seriously lacking in a sense of moral responsibility and historical context. Might we be looking at a fundamental failing in elite education? In the past year, about 17 percent of graduating seniors at Harvard, Yale and Princeton had some kind of economics concentration. Are we seriously graduating hundreds of students each year who will go into the fields of finance, business and consulting without any consideration of critical race theory and the complex histories that have disenfranchised whole populations around the world? We can’t prevent history from repeating itself when we fail to acknowledge that colonial and imperialist ideologies, like the ones perpetuated in this article, are what have brought us to the world that we live in today. DIANNE LAKE is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at dianne.lake@yale.edu .
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For her campaign to promote local businesses, Mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78 made a shopping trip to Broadway. BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78 shopped alongside New Haven residents at Broadway retailers last night to launch her new campaign to promote local businesses. Harp’s trip to the Broadway Shopping District kicked off a series of biweekly visits to retailers in several neighborhoods around the Elm City, including Ninth Square, Chapel Street and Whalley Avenue. City Hall partnered with a number of economic development and retail organizations, including New Haven’s Economic Development Corporation and the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, as part of a larger effort to attract attention to local businesses. Harp’s campaign will stretch into early December. “A lot of people think that, if they want to go shopping in New Haven, they have to go to the mall,” said Harp. “This is a part of marketing New Haven.” Harp said that her campaign not only aims to advertise the city to visitors, but also encourages New Haven residents to shop locally. Support for local businesses was a part of Harp’s mayoral campaign platform last year, according to Laurence Grotheer, direc-
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tor of Communications for Harp’s office. As the city seeks to attract large businesses for multimilliondollar projects, including the Coliseum Redevelopment Project, Harp’s visits over the next few months hope to keep the public spotlight on locally owned shops. City Hall is conducting the campaign in conjunction with other efforts to promote business, such as Restaurant Week, Harp said. Preparation is also already underway for promotional events to turn attention to New Haven retailers during the holiday season, she said. CEO of New Haven’s Economic Development Corporation Ginny Kozlowski stressed that keeping shoppers in locally owned stores is critical for keeping money in the Elm City. “By shopping in local businesses, we keep people employed, and we keep businesses vibrant,” said Kozlowski. Although business owners on Broadway were largely unaware of Harp’s most recent campaign, many interviewed expressed positive feelings toward the initiative. “For people who don’t like to go out into New Haven, this promotes a feeling of safety,” said Shelley Stevens, manager of Trailblazer. Stevens added that although publicity for the Broadway Shopping District usually draws in
a few new customers, business was not expected to dramatically increase as a direct result of Harp’s campaign. City Hall partnered with Yale University Properties and seven other organizations to debut promotions. Patrick O’Brien, marketing coordinator for Yale University Properties, said he believes the campaign is a crucial, tangible sign for shoppers that City Hall is supporting local businesses. “I think her attendance helps relay the idea that Broadway is part of the community,” O’Brien said. “It creates an umbrella over all of these neighborhoods to support local business.” Harp also hired the Connecticut Main Street consulting firm in March to look into expanding businesses on Dixwell, Congress, Grand and Whalley avenues. While the consulting firm was not related to Harp’s campaign, consultants say that building relationships with local retailers is important, said John Simone, President and CEO of Connecticut Main Street. Harp won New Haven’s mayoral election last November in a race against Independent candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .
Drawings of butterflies, Arabic writing and scorpions now adorn what was once a barren highway underpass dividing two New Haven neighborhoods. In an effort to reclaim bare concrete passageways and to bridge two New Haven communities, hundreds of volunteers painted murals under Interstate 91 this past weekend. Part of the Under 91 Project, over 400 people flocked to Humphrey and State Streets on Sept. 27 for a block party and mural painting. The event marked the first time in New Haven’s history that the city allowed a community group to paint a permanent mural on a stateowned underpass. The project organizers said they hoped the mural would help bridge the East Haven and Fair Haven neighborhoods, which are divided by the highway. “It was an inspiring process,” project organizer Yonatan Landau SOM ’15 said. “It was the first time I had really seen the East Rock and Fair Haven communities come together.” The Under 91 Project set out early this summer to install a mural that would permanently transform the barren stretch of featureless concrete under the interstate into an inviting public walkway. In early March, project organizers — led by a group of Yale graduate students and New Haven community members — administered surveys to New Haven residents, asking their impressions on the underpass and what type of art they would like to see on its walls. Based on these results, the organizers solicited calls for artists to design the mural and then allowed community members to vote on their favorite design. By this weekend’s block party, the group had received over 20 submissions from talented artists, Landau said. The winning mural design named “Bright Big Wall” was created by the collaborative team of local artists Damian Paglia, Alberto Colon and a graffiti group dubbed Hi Crew. At Saturday’s block party, community members had the opportunity to paint a part of the underpass wall. Under 91 Project organizers said they hoped the mural and residents’ contributions to the artwork this weekend would liven the concrete wasteland underneath the highway. Boris Sigal SOM ’14, a leader of the Under 91 Project, emphasized how dark and uninviting the highway was before this weekend’s event. Another leader of Under 91, Aicha Woods ARC ’97 echoed Sigal’s observation. “The highway makes a very inhospitable passage even though it is a boundary that a lot of people have to pass everyday,” she said.
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Woods also commented on the deep-seated social and economic divisions between East Haven and Fair Haven. “The highway really makes a pretty brutal division line at the ground level through neighborhoods,” she said. Landau added that most Yalies are unaware of what exists beyond the Interstate 91 underpass that connects Upper State Street and Jocelyn Square neighborhoods at Humphrey Street. He noted that most of his classmates do not know where his apartment is, even though it is only a few blocks away from key landmarks such as East Rock and the business school. In spite of the divide between the two neighborhoods, the block party was a huge success, Sigal said, because hundreds of people from different neighborhoods in New Haven contributed to the wall by adding drawings and paintings. “The Block party was one of the most truly diverse and cross-over community events I’ve been to in New haven,” Woods said. “Credit for its success should go to the artists, to community for supporting it, and the hardworking volunteers.” The Under 91 Project stems from the Inside Out project, an effort to post temporary black and white portraits in the same highway underpasses in 2012, Woods said. Like the Inside Out Project, the Under 91 Project is sponsored by the Urban Resources Initiative — a nonprofit organization supporting community development initiatives — and local businesses such as Artist and Craftsman Supply supported the event by donating thousands of spray cans. Despite the similarities between the two projects, though, Woods said that the organization and scale of the Under 91 project is unprecedented for the city. “What is on the wall is truly incredible because of the diversity of language, expressions and positivity,” Woods said. Due to its novelty, the process of gaining state-issued permission for this project was complicated, Woods said. The team of organizers had to acquire a temporary encroachment permit and maintenance agreement from the city in order to have the block party event, and Woods said organizers are still negotiating with the city to ensure that the mural can remain on the underpass indefinitely. Organizers said they may add artwork to other barren underpasses in New Haven in the future. Some of the artwork added to the wall this weekend includes Arabic writing, butterflies and scorpions. Contact MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm.yale.edu .
Connecticut to consider constitutional amendment BY JAMES BARILE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Y Pop-up is a student-run business currently with three projects and locations. Each will have specifically themed food and ambience. BY STAPHANY HOU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the coming weeks, students will again be able to savor restaurant-quality dishes in residential colleges, with dishes ranging from peach melba to stuffed leek. Starting from Friday, Y Pop-Up — a non-profit student-run food business — will be opening up three pop-up locations every Friday, Saturday and Sunday that will serve food in a restaurant-like setting. This year, Y Pop-Up has expanded from only one location to three: House of York in the Davenport Dive, Ash and Honey in the Ezra Stiles Buttery and Ampersand in the Jonathan Edwards dining hall annex. Each pop-up will set a specific theme for its food, serving style and ambience, co-founder of Y Pop-Up Lucas Sin ’15 said. The staff team for each pop-up restaurant was chosen at the beginning of the semester, and includes a chef, a business manager, several cooks and an “owner.” Sin said the “owner” is in charge of all non food-related matters, including interior design and general operations. “We’re focusing on making Y PopUp into a legacy of sorts,” Sin said. “It’s important for us to make a difference in the food community.” Sin said the group is in constant flux — beyond the menu and locations, the staff is refreshed every semester. “Every year it’s about getting new
people to try this out,” he said. “People do come back to work as waiters or frontof-house staff, though.” House of York, which opens this Friday, focuses on the idea of “feast food,” Sin said. In other words, food that is “meant to be pushed around and shared.” Sin, who works at the pop-up as chef, said that every week, House of York’s staff team comes up with a 12-course dinner menu revolving around this theme. Ash and Honey, which is slated to open on Saturday Oct. 11, is based on the idea of a gastropub — a pub setting with highquality food. Owner Michael Park ’17 said Ash and Honey made the Stiles buttery kitchen and minimal looking spaces around the buttery a fundamental part of their decor. The food at Ash and Honey, business manager Angeline Wang ’16 said, is also intended to be reminiscent of childhood food, not just typical comfort such as grilled cheese or tomato soup. “We’re trying to capture this kind of ethos where the food is something you remember your mom making, such as a specific ethnic dish.” Park said. Park said that in order to realize this ethos, he is communicating with the Yale Farm and local beekeepers so that the pop-up can use sustainable ingredients and honey. Ampersand, a pop-up café that will be open on Sundays, is Y Pop-Up’s third project of the semester. Its main concept
is based on pairings of food and drinks, but the food served will also be paired with poetry, music and art. The team plans to have art hanging on the walls and groups performing music throughout the meals. Y Pop-Up cofounder Kay Teo ’16 said that as it expands, the business plans to prioritize sustainability and wastereduction. All the money that the popups make goes back to buying quality ingredients, making the menu cheaper and purchasing new kitchen supplies, Sin said. Teo said the group is also making an effort to maintain communication between projects. “We want to market ourselves as a brand with three different entities, as a start-up group,” she said. But House of York owner Monica Chen ‘15 said that more than a start-up, Y PopUp is about teamwork and sharing passions. Sin also said the projects led to camaraderie between team members. “Everyone’s in a machine mood — people are clinking glass and talking loudly and every cook is in the zone and doing what they’re supposed to do as best they can,” he said. “And it feels like a well-oiled machine.” Y Pop-Up was founded two years ago, and its first project was the Underground Noodle Collective. Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .
A referendum on Nov. 4 will give voters in the Constitution State the opportunity to amend their state constitution for the first time since 2008. Connecticut residents will be asked whether state citizens should be permitted to cast a ballot without visiting a polling place on election day, regardless of reason. The measure would eliminate the existing requirement of disability, sickness, travel or religious observance in order to cast an absentee vote and would expunge associated deadlines for vote tabulating. If the referendum passes, Connecticut could follow the 33 other states that have adopted no-excuse absentee voting rights. Across the nation, state constitutions have served as laboratories for instituting democratized voting laws. Currently, 23 states have already enacted an early voting process, and Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill said that her explicit vision for the amendment is to create an early voting process. Democrats interviewed extolled early voting for increasing the accessibility of the ballot box. “Allowing early voting in Connecticut is a civil rights issue, ensuring that all eligible voters have the opportunity to participate in the democratic process,” said Rebecca Ellison ’15, president of the Yale College Democrats. Nonetheless, some experts fear that the measure could open elections up to fraud and reduce civic efficacy — discouraging, for example, pollsters who see a candidate reportedly in an early lead — without significant positive effects. Yale professor of political science Eitan Hersh, who teaches two courses in election strategy, said he questioned the amendment’s implications for voter turnout. “If your goal is to make voting
easier and more pleasant for the people who already vote, early voting is a policy to get behind,” Hersh said. “But, if your goal is to increase voting among the kinds of citizens who do not vote regularly in elections, the research suggests that you’ll be disappointed. Early voting does not appear to increase turnout among voters who aren’t already regular voters.” Since Connecticut is not typically a swing state in national elections, Hersh expressed doubt that the early voting period could be used to mobilize supporters, but conceded that such a law would have that effect on the national scale. Nonetheless, new laws have made their way into the federal statutes before. Since U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis articulated in the state’s role as a riskfree policy laboratory in the 1932 case New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, voters have seen federal policies, ranging from universal healthcare to minimum wage tax hikes, emerge from state law. Democrats such as Gov. Dannel Malloy have said they hope no-excuse balloting also enters national norms. Many believe the implications are extensive, particularly in close elections like that for the presidency in 2000, in which an early lead for one candidate could have led to greater mobilization by the opposite party. Conservative arguments, however, still persist for maintaining current laws. “I don’t think early voting is an issue we know enough about in terms of consequences … to merit space in a constitution,” said Hersh. As it currently stands, according to Headcount.org, Connecticut is the only state in the country with neither early voting nor in-person absentee voting. Contact JAMES BARILE at james.barile@yale.edu .
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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AMERICAN STATESMAN
Geithner looks to past, future crises GEITHNER FROM PAGE 1 “We came to that panic in the fall of ’08, even with the pretty formidable amount of talent around the table [we had] no knowledge [of crises],” he said. After beginning his lecture by stressing the human consequences of financial crises, as well as policymakers’ inability to effectively address them, Geithner reprimanded financial regulators, including himself, for failing to recognize warning signs of the crisis brewing in the late 2000s and to properly deal with the crisis once it occurred. Geithner then focused on the broader issue of why crises occur and on the nature of the 2008 Great Recession. The period of relative calm in the markets that stretched from the Great Depression through the early 21st century created an illusion of perpetual stability amongst financial actors, politicians and the public at large, he said. This general sentiment of calm, Geithner said, enabled the proliferation of fragile and risk-prone businesses such as hedge funds and holding companies. Geithner further noted that these developments in the financial markets in the years before the crisis limited the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department’s abilities to contain risk within one part of the economy. The policymakers in charge of responding to the crisis made some mistakes in responding to the 2008 financial crisis, Geithner said, further admitting that his own actions were not beyond criticism. Specifically, he said he and other regulators failed to force more capital into the far-reaching financial system to anticipate the consequences of what began, in 2007, with a collapse in home prices. “We didn’t force the system to run with a big enough set of shock absorbers,” he said. But Geithner also noted that policymakers, in attempting to respond to the crisis, were hindered by legal constraints. “This was not about the failure of authority,” he said. “It was about the absence of authority. It was about the laws.” Geithner, who along with then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and then-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke coordinated unprecedented measures to prevent a complete collapse of the financial markets in September 2008, said that the
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Geithner expressed his concerns about the ability of market regulators to “firefight,” or respond to financial crises once they have been set in motion. constraints prevented policymakers from controlling financial risk. In the questioning portion of the talk, Geithner touched on, among other topics, the ability of regulators to predict future crises. He said he was most concerned about the limitations placed on the “firefighting authority” — the
ability of regulators to respond to the crisis once it has begun. Benjamin Rubenstein ARC ’17 said he agreed with Geithner’s claim that, although the Federal Reserve’s power has been curbed, crisis prevention measures have still generally improved since 2008.
“It’s a bittersweet response — he feels that the powers the Fed has aren’t quite as large, that these shadow banks need to be watched. It’s a net gain, but there’s a worry that authority in the system has diminished,” he said. The former secretary of the
treasury was introduced by economics professor Robert Shiller. He will speak at Yale twice more this term — on the United States’ response to the crisis and the prospect of future crises. Shiller praised Geithner’s performance during and after the crisis. “As Treasury Secretary
[in] very difficult times, [he] has done immeasurable benefit to this country,” he said. Geithner’s memoir, “Stress Test,” was released last May. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
Endowment’s tax structure criticized ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 education is becoming less and less affordable,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Finance Andrew Lo said. “[Trugman’s] issue is this elitism, and I think what the author misses is the fact that it is university endowments that are fighting against elitism.” According to Lo, Yale’s sizeable endowment covers a significant portion of the University’s operating budget and provides the University with support for its needblind admissions policy. The policy allows all students, regardless of financial background, to attend. If Yale’s endowment were taxed, he added, the University’s ability to provide need-blind financial aid, in addition to funds for research and teaching, might be jeopardized. William Jarvis ’77, Managing Director of the institutional investment firm Commonfund,
noted that the ability of endowments to grow under a tax-free status is a consistent source of support for a university’s operating budget. Furthermore, he said it is crucial to furthering the institution’s educational mission. Endowments allow universities to be free from the “vagaries of the economy” and to plan for the long-term, he said. He added that if endowments were subject to income tax, they might grow more slowly or may not be able to grow at all in real terms after inflation, which might significantly impact research and endowed professorships. Still, others supported taxing university endowments. Last April, U.S. Congressman David Camp, who chairs the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives, introduced a tax reform bill that called for a tax on investment income earned by private colleges and universities.
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Harvard Law School Professor David Halperin, author of the 2008 paper “Does Tax Exemption for Charitable Endowments Subsidize Excessive Accumulation,” said he supports taxing endowments because tax-exemption is inconsistent with income tax policy.
[We] have the assumption that when Yale grows, so do the good jobs in the community. LAURIE KENNINGTON President, Local 34 He recognized that large endowments are good for organizations and public welfare, but from a policy point of view, Halperin said the current size of
endowments may be excessive. He referenced the focus of many university administrators on growing endowments to boost their reputations as an example of irresponsible wealth accumulation. “One person not getting anything out of this is the taxpayer,” he said. “Therefore, why should they be subsidizing endowments?” Halperin added that universities like Harvard and Yale can use greater proportions from their endowments to fund their operating budgets than schools with more limited resources. It is not in the interest of federal taxpayers to perpetuate this inequality among institutions, he said. In light of rising tuition bills, the New York Post article also called for the government to require larger tuition disbursements from endowments. In 2008, Congressman Peter Welch introduced a bill mandating that universities spend 5 percent of
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their endowments over three to five year periods. Yale spends about 5 percent of its endowment each year. However, Halperin, said he does not think the policy would solve the larger issue of excessive accumulation by endowments. If universities were required to disburse a higher percentage of their endowments, they could easily accumulate more donations, he argued. According to Jarvis, mandated spending from college university endowments might even discourage donors from giving. “The idea of mandating spending is interference with the private contract between the donor and a private university,” he said. Jarvis added a mandated spending rate would significantly jeopardize an endowment’s ability to retain purchasing power and thus decrease its attractiveness to donors. Local union leaders were also
displeased that the University’s strong endowment growth would not translate into reduced budget cuts. According to Local 34 President Laurie Kennington, who runs the union for Yale’s clerical and technical workers, budget cuts over the past five years have left many positions unfilled and have restricted services provided to students and faculty. “Today we have the assumption that when Yale grows, so do the good jobs in the community,” Kennington said. “We’re disappointed in Provost [Benjamin] Polak’s position that the budget cuts will not be reversed.” Local 34, Kennington said, will convene next week to plan a formal response. Yale has the second-largest endowment of academic institutions in the world. Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .
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“Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby.” WILLIAM BALDWIN AMERICAN ACTOR
FBI report motivates gun control
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In the wake of FBI reports that show an increase in mass shooting, Connecticut lawmakers are looking to curb gun violence with legislation. BY SARA SEYMOUR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In response to a recent Federal Bureau of Investigations report documenting active shootings, Connecticut lawmakers are looking to renew efforts to curb gun violence. After President Barack Obama signed the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012 into law, the FBI began a study in an attempt to make sense of the recent rise in active shootings, defined as shootings conducted in populated areas. Released on Sept. 24, the FBI study cites 160 shooter incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, finding an average of
11.4 incidents each year, increasing over the 13-year span. Following this report, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) LAW ’73, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) held a press conference in Hartford this week to reinvigorate gun control efforts nationwide. “This study shows a chilling and appalling rise in incidents of mass shooting,” Blumenthal said of the FBI report. “I hope that this report will give renewed momentum to common sense, sensible measures like background checks, mental health initiatives and bans on illegal trafficking.” Special Agent Katherine Sch-
Activists decry police brutality BY MARTHA LONGLEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite dreary weather, a small group of roughly 20 city activists gathered on the New Haven Green at the corner of Church and Chapel Streets yesterday evening to commemorate the beginning of a month of resistance to police terror and mass incarceration. A national group known as the Stop Mass Incarceration Network has declared October as a month to build awareness about criminal issues such as mass incarceration and racial profiling. The movement started in 2011, but New Haven organized its own chapter of the organization this year. At Wednesday evening’s event, people took turns telling their personal experiences with police brutality as well as taking the “Pledge of Resistance,” which involved speaking out against police brutality, methods of criminal punishment and racial profiling. Yale School of Medicine research assistant Timothy Pham, who is a leader of the New Haven chapter of the network, also read a list of 35 cases of police brutality suits from the past two years in New Haven. “These examples are only the ones that have been reported,” Pham said over the loudspeaker. “Imagine all of them that have gone by unnoticed.” While many of the allegations made during Wednesday’s event were personal accounts of police brutality, the New Haven chapter of the network the wake of the public’s concerns about police brutality in New Haven, notably the death of Yale professor Sam See last January. The larger movement, Stop Mass Incarceration Network, was founded in 2011 by AfricanAmerican activists Carl Dix and Cornel West. New Haven developed its own chapter in response to nationally recognized cases from this year, such as that of Eric
Garner, an African-American teenager in New York City who was strangled by police officers for selling loose cigarettes and Michael Brown, another young African American, who was shot multiple times in Ferguson, Missouri while unarmed. Stan Nishimura, one of the leaders of the New Haven chapter, said the primary goal of the network is to raise awareness of problems with the criminal justice system and to prevent deaths such as Garner and Brown’s. He hopes that once people realize what is going on they will not permit it to continue. Yet the movement does not just focus on the extreme cases. The movement also aims to eliminate marijuana busts and also stands against New York’s previous policy of “stop and frisk.” New Haven resident Germano Kimbro, who said he was arrested in New Haven after an aggressive stop and frisk that was later ruled unconstitutional by the State of Connecticut, said he would like to see more community based policing. “We need police to understand that these unjust practices are imbedded in their training,” Kimbro said. Geraldine White, a New Haven resident who was at the event on the Green, said it is important to first consider sources of the criminal activity that result in police terror. She explained that many repeated arrests stem from people’s upbringing, which often revolve around drugs and a culture of criminal activity. She said she wishes that people would treat many of the recurring crimes as mental health issues. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network will celebrate its month of awareness by wearing orange, rallying on the New Haven Green and showing a film at the Stetson Branch Library next Wednesday. Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .
weit, a co-author of the study and Senior Executive Program Manager leading the FBI’s active shooters initiative, said in an email to the News that she hopes the study will help law enforcement officials and the public better understand active shootings. 486 people were killed, and 557 were wounded in the 160 shootings cited in the report. 60 percent of these shootings ended before police arrived, and 40 percent of them would be defined as mass killings by federal definitions. In the report, the authors stressed that while the report does not cover every type of shooting, it does provide specific data on a certain type of
shooting that law enforcement and the public face. The point of this study was not to be all encompassing, but to serve as a jumping-off point for officials to work from when considering how to better understand active shooter incidents, according to the authors. “We get from this study a baseline of incidents that we can compare and contrast,” Schweit said. Blumenthal also acknowledged that this study and the recent press conference in Hartford were a starting point for combatting gun violence. While the press conference focused on asking storeowners to ban firearms from their shops, Blu-
menthal said this encouragement of voluntary action will not be enough. He stressed that “a comprehensive program is necessary [but these moves] can help send a message and change the culture.” At the press conference, Blumenthal and Murphy encouraged Kroger Corporation — the nation’s largest supermarket retailer — and all other store owners to urge shoppers to not bring guns into public stores. “Nearly half of all the shootings occur at stores, malls, offices and that’s a profoundly important fact,” Blumenthal said, explaining the drive to direct attention to storeowners. Blumenthal went on to stress
that these measures would simply be common sense. “Kroger bans customers from bringing food into the stores,” said Blumenthal. He noted that someone who was carrying an ice cream cone into a Kroger store would be stopped, while someone carrying a gun would be free to enter. Following up on of this study, Schweit said behavioral experts at the FBI plan to use the data on the 160 shootings to do further research on the motivations behind active shootings. Only six of the 160 shooters listed in the report were female. Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .
Journalist criticizes Chinese influence
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Journalist Michael Forsythe spoke about the integrity of international reporting at his talk at the MacMillan Center on Wednesday.. BY NOAH STEINBERG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER International news agencies covering China are losing their integrity, according to journalist Michael Forsythe. Before a crowd of nearly 75, Forsythe, a correspondent for The New York Times and former China-based reporter and editor for Bloomberg News, said Chinese politics and money are impacting major news organizations in a way that often compromises the integrity of international reporting. The reporter gained attention last year when Bloomberg did not publish an investigative article by Forsythe because of fears that the agency would be expelled from China. Forsythe left Bloomberg as a result. In the Wednesday afternoon talk, Forsythe claimed that the Chinese government can effectively prevent news organizations from publishing controversial articles by exerting financial power, restricting journalists’ work visas and blocking their websites. “In the Chinese gilded age, money talks and morals walk,” he said. Forsythe added that because large corporations with economic interests in China own many major news organi-
zations, press coverage is vulnerable to external influence. He described how Bloomberg News, his prior employer, refused to publish an article on the wealth of a particular Chinese political family because they were afraid of losing press and visa privileges in the country. Forsythe said this experience indicated larger problems with freedom of the press. If foreign news agencies are unable to expose corruption within China for fear of retribution, no one will, Forsythe added. He referenced how business tycoons with ties to Beijing have taken control of several previously independent Hong Kong newspapers. “Freedom of the press is under assault in Hong Kong,” he said. “Those who want to protect independent voices are marginalized.” Forsythe referenced a paper called the “Apple Daily,” which lost two major advertisers — both of which were large British banks — due to alleged pressure from the Chinese central government. In response to questions about whether Western countries exerted the same level of influence over journalists, Forsythe strongly disagreed, arguing that Western political leaders would be exposed by
the media if they behaved like their Chinese counterparts. He added that Chinese politicians are often much wealthier than those in the West. Students and faculty interviewed said that Forsythe clearly articulated the accumulation of money in Chinese politics and its implications for independent journalism. “The most interesting part of Forsythe’s talk was the idea that no leaders of other countries have amassed as comparably large a fortune as those in China,” history professor Valerie Hansen said. Christina Wong ’16 said Forsythe aptly characterized China’s immense economic power to be both its offense and defense. She also applauded Forsythe’s focus on Hong Kong and the importance of preserving civil liberties. “As we are ever aware that, given China’s huge influence among the business and political elite of Hong Kong, our freedoms could be taken away from us,” Wong said. Forsythe was visiting as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale. Contact NOAH STEINBERG at noah.steinberg@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.” JAMES K. POLK 11TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Students laud Salovey’s presence, despite travel
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Even though his work brings him around the world, University President Salovey sends weekly email notes to be better connected with students and the larger Yale campus. SALOVEY FROM PAGE 1 fully developed and require more time before Salovey’s presidential review. He added, however, that later in the academic year it will be more important to communicate with Salovey face-toface. Herbert also said he thinks Salovey’s weekly emails — dubbed “Notes from Woodbridge
Hall” — increase his connection to campus, a sentiment echoed by Eve Houghton ’17. “President Salovey’s email communications make me feel in touch with him since they often have a more personal tone, even when he is away from campus,” Houghton said. Other undergraduates interviewed say they sympathize with Salovey’s need to spend
large amounts of time both on and off campus, adding that they believe Salovey manages to find a healthy balance. Some students said even though they do not often see Salovey around, they do not think that causes any problems for the University or Salovey’s on-campus presence in general. Aaron Troncoso ’17 said even though he has never seen Salovey
“not in front of the podium,” he does not think Salovey is disconnected from what is happening on campus. Tyler Caldwell ’18 agreed, adding that Salovey’s absence from campus only goes to show how busy he is in his position. “I guess I’ve seen him twice: Once was at a speech to the freshmen, and another time I just saw him passing by on
the street,” Caldwell said. “I’m fine with it. I don’t feel like he’s somebody I need to see that frequently since behind the scenes he’s doing so much for the University.” Julietta Garbasz ’18 said she interacted with Salovey when he attended a meeting of the “Great Big Ideas” seminar, in which Barbasz is a student. However, she noted that the visit was the
only time she had seen Salovey in a more informal setting. According to Salovey’s Chief of Staff Joy McGrath, his travel schedule is the same as what it was by October of the 2013-2014 academic year. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale. edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
Amidst national push, YCC turns to sexual health YCC FROM PAGE 1 berg said they looked to the September 2013 YCC report on mental health as a model for the task force’s upcoming research on sexual health. Falkenberg said she plans to meet with the creators of the mental health report because the task force hopes to bring the same quality of research to the sexual health task force report. In particular, Falkabnerg added that the mental health report was particularly inspiring because of its incorporation of many student perspectives. Annemarie McDaniel ’16, public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said the Center encourages the task force to seek out diverse viewpoints to determine what issues it can address most effectively. Everybody has a role to play in making the campus safer and healthier, McDaniel said in an email to the News. The task force, she said, should feel free to reach out student groups, administrators, survivors and others who are passionate about these issues. The YCC released its four-part “It’s On Us” campaign pledge on Sept. 28. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.wang@yale.edu .
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“If I had gone into professional football, the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.” GERALD FORD LAW ’41 FORMER PRESIDENT
Tough losses for Bulldogs
To Derek, with love JETER FROM PAGE 10
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The Elis notched just nine shots on goal combined against Princeton and Stanford. and we had to maintain that both Saturday and Sunday.” According to players, maintaining that high level of physical and mental work throughout a weekend with have multiple games can be a challenge as well, but that the squad is prepared for these sorts of tough weekends. This upcoming weekend, the team will only be facing one opponent: the current Ivy League leader, Cornell.
FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 Players interviewed also said that while it is disappointing that the team’s record does not reflect this progress, they remain positive about the season. “I knew we had to attack the weekend with a high intensity and really trust in our conditioning and strength to play our best,” back Noelle Villa ’16 said. “It’s what we demand of ourselves at practice,
“I’m ready to focus on the next game,” Villa said. “Each weekend so far has been another step forward, another learning opportunity. Now it’s time to capitalize.” Villa also added that the players’ commitment to this team and to each other is a key tenet to the team’s positive chemistry and is emphasized in every practice. As the team practices this week, the players will have the game plan and hopes for a win this weekend in
mind. “With our team it’s really an overall focus on the game plan that allows us to be successful,” Accurso said. “We’ll be out on Johnson Field this week working hard to grow from last weekend and prepare for Cornell.” The team will travel to New York to face the Big Red on Saturday. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
ordinated southpaw. Last Sunday, Jeter played his final Major League game, exactly 12 years and one day after I first saw him play in person as a 10-year old, overwhelmed by the bright lights of a Friday night game at Camden Yards. Long ago I realized that I would not be the next shortstop of the New York Yankees, but I still got the same thrill every time I watched Jeter dig into the batter’s box. And when he pulled off yet another superhuman feat, I still called Poppy. As Jeter’s retirement loomed over the Yankees (and my life) this past season, people have praised him for many things. They’ve lauded Jeter’s work ethic, his charitable foundation and his ability to navigate the paparazzi in New York for two decades with his dignity still intact. But what has gone unheralded is how Jeter connected people. These past few months, it has been comforting to watch Jeter and hold onto that connection to Poppy. It has taken me back to those hours in front of the television as the sun set outside, watching baseball and hanging onto Poppy’s every word as he launched into one of his stories. Many writers infinitely more talented than myself have discussed Jeter’s retirement these past weeks and months. I originally did not want to join in the chorus just to reiterate yet again the same compliments about a great ballplayer. But I do want to say thank you for making a difficult loss just a little easier. CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former Sports Editor for the News. Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .
Elis go to Cambridge WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 10 against Quinnipiac, said that she is sure the team will remain professional, even under competitive pressure. The two teams have not yet faced any of the same opponents, as Yale’s only conference game was a loss against Princeton. Harvard, on the other hand, took down Penn in a 3–0 victory on Saturday. This season, the team has been using video footage and team research to better understand what their opponents are bringing to the table. The Bulldogs are typically better prepared for Ivy opponents as they face them every year. Scouting reports on teams’ strengths and
weaknesses remain essential, however. Morales added that they are fully prepared for the Harvard game and plan to apply what they have learned when they are out on the field. Ivy League play has brought a more balanced schedule to the Elis, which both Hudson and Morales said they are grateful for after weeks of multiple games in short time spans. By the time the Elis kickoff against the Crimson, they will have had a full week off from their game against Princeton. Hudson and Morales added that being able to focus on one game for a long period has allowed them to prepare to perform their best on Saturday. Concentration will be essen-
tial for the game, as the YaleHarvard rivalry brings out many fans. The Bulldogs will have to play through a strong Crimson fan base, but they feel that they will be able to perform their best. “We don’t typically have a problem with enemy territory. We played Hofstra at their field and won, so I don’t think it will affect our play at all,” Morales said. “We have also played [at Harvard] every year, so the majority of the team is very familiar with the field.” The Elis head to Cambridge on Oct. 4, and they will kick off at 4:00 p.m. Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .
Leonoff ’15 starring on ice HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 tial members of the 2014-2015 team. Among the 58 participants was Yale goaltender, Jaimie Leonoff ’15. “It was really amazing … it’s a great experience to get play at the level, to be around those players who have made the top level of women’s hockey,” Leonoff said. Leonoff, who is currently second on Yale’s single-season save list, was part of the festival comprised of rising stars in women’s ice hockey, including 10 players who were a part of the national team that went on to win a gold medal this year. Players present at the festival participated in a number of practices and scrimmages over the course of the week and received advice from the national team’s coaches. “There’s all kinds of position-specific things that I learned, and the coaching staff over there — just like the amazing coaching staff we have here — are very good with working with you one-on-one and finding these things,” Leonoff said. Leonoff noted that the purpose of the event this year was to evaluate for the upcoming World Championships and the Four Nations Cup, an annual tournament involving the four major powerhouses in women’s ice hockey — Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States. She also noted that Hockey Canada relies on the festival as a way to field players for the Meco Cup, a tournament composed of six nations and attended by the Canadian development team. Now in her fourth year in goal for the Bulldogs, Leonoff has more than earned her spot among possible Team Canada
members. As second on Yale’s career save percentage list and fifth on Yale’s career saves list, Leonoff has been a strong contributor to the team’s success in recent years. “She’s been our starting goaltender the past two years, and she’s won team MVP the past two years … that certainly speaks volumes of the role she serves on our team,” head coach Joakim Flygh said. Beyond just stopping the puck, Leonoff serves as a leader among her teammates. “Her biggest role is just stepping up and leading when the rest of team isn’t having our best game,” captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 said. “It’s a lot different for a goalie because they are not as involved during periods, so between periods she just does a great job motivating us and helping us see things we need to do better for next periods.” The Bulldogs look to build off of a seventh-place finish in the conference and a strong playoff run against Harvard last season. Kennedy said the Bulldogs are contenders for the Ivy League title and that the program is built on a solid foundation. “We have a lot of talent; we have a great coaching staff around us. We have a lot of people who really care about our program,” Leonoff said. “We’ll have a great year if everyone just does what they’re here to do.” The women’s season begins on Oct. 12 with an exhibition at McGill University. Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
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The Elis are averaging 1.8 goals per game so far this season.
Bulldogs fall to Knights MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 10 the shooting battle 20–9 and proved unable to counter the Knight’s highoctane offense. For the third straight time, the Elis fell. “The FDU game was a difficult one for us. We had a hard time playing at our normal tempo and were not at our sharpest,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “We made too many mistakes in our possession play against a team that found ways to capitalize on our errors.” Yale is set to face Harvard (5–3, 0–0–0 Ivy) in their next match and first Ivy contest. Containing the Crimson’s offensive onslaught will surely prove a challenge, since Harvard has scored at a remarkable clip of 2.2 goals per game, formidable for any team. The winners of five straight games, Harvard will look to add to their undefeated home record and topple the Bulldogs in their Ivy opener. “The game with Harvard is always a battle, and we’re looking to get the Ivy League season started on a good note by getting a win,” Keith Bond ’16 said. Tompkins also noted his hopes for Yale. The 19-year head coach said that Ivy play brings out the best in players and that the Elis were looking to get back on track against Harvard. Given Harvard’s generous 1.66 goals against per game defensive average, Yale very well could get off to a scoring start against the Crimson. Unfortunately for the Elis, shutting down Harvard’s offense will prove especially difficult given Harvard’s balanced scoring. Remarkably, the Crimson have had 10 different goal scorers in their eight games, reflecting an offensive machine that is more than capable of producing goals when
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Yale snapped a 480-minute scoreless streak against the Knights. a key forward is heavily marked. Ultimately, Harvard will enter the game as favorites, especially given the momentum of their five-game win streak placed in opposition to Yale’s winless record. “We love being perceived as the underdogs in this year’s matchup,”
Pablo Espinola ’16 said. “We are all looking forward to getting at Harvard and settling all of this years setbacks on the field, under the lights in Cambridge.” Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .
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TYLER VARGA ’15 RUNNING BACK, YALE FOOTBALL After his five touchdown game against Army, national awards keep rolling in for the Ontario native. Varga was named national offensive player of the week by The Sports Network and was also given the Gold Helmet by the New England Football Writers.
YALE FOOTBALL TEAM LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP The Bulldogs recently announced a 12-game series with Holy Cross, starting in 2017 and continuing through 2028. While the games are certainly far down the road, the Elis will retain longterm bragging rights, since they currently lead the all-time series 27–4.
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Elis swept but still hopeful BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Yale field hockey once again finished the weekend without earning a win, but the team remained positive as its play continues to improve. Yale (1–7, 0–2 Ivy) faced league rival Princeton (3–5, 2–0) on Sept. 27 and Stanford (10–1, 1–0 NorPac) on Sept. 28, with both games ending in losses for the Bulldogs. “These teams were both big challenges for their own individual reasons,” captain Nicole Wells ’16 said. “[The Tigers are] always a tough, high-emotion and intense-energy game because they are in our league and are always sound in their field hockey play. Stanford came onto our field as a top 10 team with a great season record.” In the game against Princeton, the squad entered halftime tied with the Tigers, as midfielder Carol Middough ’18 erased Princeton’s 1–0 lead with an unassisted goal just 3:52 after Princeton’s first score. Coming off the half, Princeton went on to score an additional three goals, and the game ended with a final score of 4–1. The next day, the squad faced then-No. 9 Stanford, who shut out the Elis with a score of 3–0. “It’s always a fun opportunity to go up against strong teams,” forward Jessie Accurso ’15 said. “It’s an awesome opportunity to be able to compete with teams at a high level. Playing teams like Princeton and Stanford is always a good learning experience for us.” Accurso added that she felt good about the forward progress of the team, which has been a trend as the season has progressed. SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 7
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Goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 has won two straight team MVP awards for the Elis. BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Nowhere in the world is ice hockey more beloved than in Canada.
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Midfielder Carol Middough ’18 scored the lone goal for the Elis on the weekend.
For this reason, Canadian national teams have often dominated international competition, with both the men’s and women’s teams taking home the gold at the
Sochi Olympics earlier this year. In fact, the women’s team has not finished lower than second place in any major international tournament since 1990, and spots on the roster are contested by some of the most promising figures in women’s ice hockey. From Sept. 22-28, Hockey Canada hosted the National Women’s Team Fall Festival in Calgary to evaluate potenSEE HOCKEY PAGE 7
Elis challenge in Crimson territory
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Dear Derek My grandfather passed away in June at the age of 89. I’d never met my other grandfather — I’m named after him, but he died before I was even thought of — so Poppy filled a role normally held by two men. He was more than up to the challenge, and he became my hero — a man who served his country and his family. He was quiet, steady, the salt of the earth. He was the kind of man who raised his sister-in-law’s children for months at a time when she was sick. He was the kind of man who sat by his dying wife for hours every day even when Alzheimer’s had robbed her of any memories of him. He was the kind of man who was always there. When he died, I tried everything I could to fill the void. I cooked the special meal he used to make whenever he’d come to visit: fried chicken cutlets with peas. I scoured the internet for his service record from World War II — his ship was once sunk out from under him in the Pacific by a Japanese torpedo. I talked to relatives I hadn’t seen in years, desperate for another story to cling to. But nothing helped nearly as much as watching Derek Jeter play baseball. The Yankees hold a sacred place in my family’s heart, sitting just a rung below the Catholic Church. The men in my family don’t speak much, but they do when they talk about the Yankees. Especially when they talk about Derek Jeter. He was the one player who brought all of us together, transcending eras to relate to fans 67 years apart in age. When Poppy and I watched baseball, which was whenever we were together from April through October, Jeter did something almost every night that sparked my grandfather to go off about how Jeter played hard, like the Yankees of his era: Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri. He told me to play hard like Jeter. I took his advice literally, waggling my bat above my head and trying to play shortstop as an uncoSEE JETER PAGE 7
BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In what is sure to be its most difficult challenge yet, the Yale women’s soccer team will take on archrival Harvard (6–2–1, 1–0 Ivy) in Cambridge on Saturday. Both teams have performed similarly up to this point this season, indicating the game is sure to be a tough match for both teams.
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Yale faces Harvard this weekend in each team’s second Ivy game.
The Bulldogs (5–3, 0–1 Ivy) are more than ready to face off against the Crimson, and the tension between the two squads will be sure to make play
intense. Yale’s 10 freshmen are excited to participate in the rivalry for the first time and are prepared to play their best for the team. “Of course, there is always a lot of tension between our two teams, but that’s what makes it exciting,” Aria Pearlman Morales ’18 said. “I think our team is prepared to handle it, and I’m excited to be a part of it for the first time.” As with any rivalry, emotions can come to the forefront, but the Bulldogs are confident that they will stay collected. Carlin Hudson ’18, who scored her first collegiate goal in Yale’s game SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 7
Yale looks to improve at Harvard BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After 480 minutes without a goal, Yale (0–6–2, 0–0–0 Ivy) finally broke their scoring drought in a game against Fairleigh Dickinson (2–7–1, 0–0–0 Northeast Conference). Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, netting the ball triumphantly did not pay the dividends they hoped for as Yale fell 3–1 to FDU in their final match before the start of Ivy League play.
MEN’S SOCCER Thirteen minutes into the game, FDU’s Enver Caymaz rushed toward the Yale box and fired the Knights ahead, demonstrating to Yale that the Elis needed to score quickly and often to come away with a win.
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After nearly 30 minutes of solid defense, it looked as though Yale would be able to head into the locker room trailing 1–0 with a chance at equalizing in the second half. However, Leo Saiti dashed the Bulldogs’ dreams with a well-worked goal that put the victory out of Yale’s reach before the second half whistle even sounded. Down 2–0 after the first 45, a comeback was simply too much to ask of a team that had scored just twice all season. Despite the odds, Yale played an admirable second half. Mitch Wagner ’16 scored Yale’s first goal in five games, providing the Elis with a bright spot and something to build on going into the Ivy season. Despite shooting well in previous matches, FDU dominated Yale offensively, who lost SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 7
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Forward Mitch Wagner ’16 scored the lone goal for the Elis against Fairleigh Dickinson.
THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE SCORELESS MINUTES FOR THE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM. A goal from forward Mitch Wagner ’16 ended the skid, but the Bulldogs were still unable to beat Farleigh Dickinson, losing 3–1.