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Gravestone or Blackstone?

University President Peter Salovey and Marta Moret sent the student body official invitations to their annual Halloween celebration at Commons — oops, we mean the Schwarzman Center — on Oct. 31 at 9:30 p.m. Some things don’t change, though.

Shades will be performing at 10:15 p.m., as per tradition.

Anthony Hall will host Melissa Gira Grant, journalist and sex workers’ rights advocate, in a discussion tomorrow at 4 p.m. Grant will question conventional beliefs about the prostitution industry — ideas raised in her book “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.”

Unmasked. “Malia Obama’s College Pick … ” — the Sunday New York Times article that got us to reminisce on the First Daughter’s New Haven visit — did poorly in omitting Hannah Gonzales ’16 from its list of presidential campus representatives. Gonzales earned the gig en route to becoming a head tour guide this year. Information is only as good as the source, and, apparently, the Times is slipping.

Simchat Torah. At 10 p.m. last

night, close to 50 students visited the News at 202 York and included us in their celebration of Simchat Torah — a holiday celebrating the Jewish people receiving the Torah. Visit again: We’re here for production five nights a week.

Mazel Tov. Speaking of Jewish

celebration, James Franco became a man over the weekend when he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at age 37.

Franco participated in the event for pal Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity, an organization that raises money for Alzheimer’s awareness.

Mango Moose. Stiles FroCo

Mustafa Malik ’16 plans to launch his startup Lassi Bar — a South Asian smoothie business — in the spring. Malik has developed a signature recipe for the famous mango lassi and assembled a business team of four. We wonder if Lassi Bar will be open before Junzi Kitchen.

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1941 Twenty-two thousand fans watch as the Yale football team overcomes a 19-point deficit in the first half to beat Virginia 21-19. The Elis scored all 21 points in a 15-minute window in the second half of the game.

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State senators call for more gun control

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ing from the movement’s relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to current presidential candidates to the contact celebrities have had with the Black Lives Matter movement. Mckesson’s responses most frequently highlighted the power of Twitter and education in advancing the cause of racial equality.

In particular, Mckesson said,

Following a mass shooting at a community college in Oregon, Connecticut’s delegation to the U.S. Senate has called for tighter restrictions on gun purchases.

Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy announced the “No Check, No Gun” bill at a Friday press conference in Hartford, scheduled before Thursday’s shooting.

The bill would mandate a full background check before all gun purchases from federally licensed dealers, shutting down a loophole that currently allows gun purchases to proceed without a background check if the check has not been completed after 72 hours. The senators were joined by Rep. Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85, Connecticut Against Gun Violence Executive Director Ron Pinciaro, police chiefs from Connecticut towns and the Newtown Action Alliance.

“The simple fact is that our nation faces a public health crisis,” Blumenthal said.

“There are common sense measures that can be taken, and the nation needs the resolve to meet this public health crisis just as it would a disease epidemic.”

Blumenthal described the bill as “common sense” and “fairly modest” throughout his remarks. Murphy echoed this sentiment, stating that the bill, if passed, would pose a “tiny, small inconvenience” to a minority of gun purchasers — those with complex criminal records whose background checks would

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Eid Mubarak. Also at the Schwarzman Center: the Chaplain’s Office and the Yale Muslim Students Association will jointly host Eid Banquet — their 14th annual dinner celebration for Eid — at 6 p.m. this evening. Eid-al-Adha, an important date on the Islamic religious calender, translates to the Festival of Sacrifice.

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Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson spoke to roughly 250 students Monday night at the Af-Am House.

BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER DeRay Mckesson, a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter social movement, spoke last night to a packed audience at the AfroAmerican Cultural Center about the importance of social media and educational reform in affecting meaningful social change.

Mckesson is a former middle

school math teacher who is now an activist within the Black Lives Matter movement, which seeks to reduce police violence against and systematic oppression of African Americans. He delivered a two-day guest lecture on leadership at the Yale Divinity School on Oct. 2 and 3. At the conversation at the Af-Am House, Mckesson responded to questions from the roughly 250 students in the audience about topics rang-

Powdered alcohol banned state-wide

BY CAITLYN WHERRY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In accordance with a slew of new alcohol regulations that came into effect last Thursday, Connecticut residents will no longer be allowed to purchase powdered alcohol.

Connecticut State Senate Bill

386, passed June 4, will bring several changes to alcohol policy, such as allowing bowling alleys to sell alcohol later into the night, lowering the age at which an employee can sell alcohol from 18 to 16 and permitting farmers markets to sell beer. The bill will also limit the amount and types of alcohol

Students unite against styrofoam

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS For only the second time ever, the Yale College Council, Graduate Student Assembly and Graduate and Professional Student Senate have joined forces to call for change on campus.

But while their last joint project was a September 2014 request for a Universitywide student center — now being answered with the Schwarzman Center — the common resolution the three groups have now endorsed has humbler goals: the eradication of Styrofoam food containers from campus.

A resolution to form a committee that would investigate a possible ban on Styrofoam containers at Yale passed the GPSS in May, the GSA last week and the YCC on Saturday. Although no Yale dining halls use Styrofoam products, the GSA resolution cited a “waste audit” of Science Hill dumpsters by the Yale Office of Sustainability which found high concentrations of Styrofoam waste on Science Hill and at the Medical School campus, where small, independent food trucks often sell their food in such containers on or near University property.

“All students want a more sustainable campus,” said Bryan Yoon FES ’18, the resoSEE STYROFOAM PAGE 6

wholesale retailers can provide as samples, as well as allowing liquor stores to sell cigars.

Support for the bill was widespread, with 23 state senators and representatives standing behind it as co-sponsors.

But much of the bill’s support was due to its prohibition of powdered alcohol.

“[Powdered alcohol] really doesn’t have any place in our society,” Executive Director of the General Counsel Peter Berdon said. “We have enough problems with the liquid kind … It can be a very dangerous thing.”

Powd e re d a l co h o l — approved for sale in the U.S. by

the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau in March — is a powdered or crystalline substance that, when mixed according to the instructions on the packet, produces a liquid with a potency of 10 percent.

The product has yet to enter the SEE ALCOHOL PAGE 6

Chi Psi house unfinished

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Yale’s youngest fraternity is having trouble settling in around campus.

Chi Psi, which was re-established at Yale in 2013 after being inactive for 50 years, has not yet been able to secure permanent housing for

its members despite a long-standing search for a suitable home. The fraternity planned to move into a 12-person house at 48 Dixwell Ave. in August, but ongoing renovations have temporarily relegated some members to a house almost two miles away in Newhallville, a neighborhood described as among New Haven’s

most dangerous in a recent report published by the Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven.

“This house is not comparable at all,” said Taylor Rogers ’17, president of Chi Psi. “There are a lot of things wrong with it. Obviously the increase SEE NEWHALLVILLE PAGE 8

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While Chi Psi’s new house is being renovated, the fraternity members are being housed alomst two miles from campus.

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alies have often taken the liberal rather than the narrow approach to injustice. Take the apartheid government during the 1980s in South Africa, a Cold War ally of the United States.

The ruling minority Afrikaners had for years treated their dark-skinned countrymen like so many disposable workers, while America attempted to rid itself of the remnants of Jim Crow. During the mid-1980s, Yalies set up mock-shantytowns — the decrepit villages in which South Africa’s blacks lived — on Beinecke Plaza and occupied administration buildings to protest the University’s investment in the country.

Take also a more recent, local example: wage theft at Gourmet Heaven. Continuing into last year, Yale students protested alleged wage theft and poor working conditions at the convenience store. University Properties decided not to renew the offending manager’s lease.

He recently filed for bankruptcy during litigation for $218,000 in wage theft, according to the Connecticut Department of Labor.

Yalies might have decided that each case wasn’t their problem. “Let the South Africans organize their country how they like — who are we to tell them otherwise?” they might have huffed. “If GHeav wants to pay employees $5 an hour, that’s for the manager and workers to negotiate — at any rate, I want my steak, egg and cheese.”

But they decided that the actions of the South African National Party and GHeav management were wrong — not just options among many morally equivalent ones, but affirmatively wrong (albeit to different degrees). It may seem obvious why, but for clarity’s sake, let’s go through each case briefly.

On apartheid: human beings are morally equal beings. There may be good and proper reasons why some people govern — they were elected democratically, for instance — but race is arbitrary and surely not among them. On wage theft: the managers of GHeav ignored their contractual and legal obligations to their employees. They stole something rightfully belonging to someone else, an offense no different in kind from walking into someone’s home and taking his sofa without asking. Besides that, they took advantage of the more vulnerable (one of the victims was an immigrant) simply because they could.

Yalies made the following connection: the wrongs of the National Party and the managers at Gourmet Heaven obligated those with power and influence, like Yalies, to take action to remedy them. Many have written in these pages about the influence Yale has in

the world and how using that for anything other than the greater good would be a dereliction.

COLE But does ARONSON moral obligation stop Necessary at South and proper Africa and B roa dway ?

I urge Yalies to direct their moralism — used here non-pejoratively — at malign activities on campus as well. We should start with the most vicious, and sexual assault tops the list. But excessive drinking, recreational drug use and careless, noncommittal sex also deserve our attention. The last three may seem victimless, and I think we have a strong intuitive bias against unfavorably judging someone else’s purely personal decisions. But can we not hurt ourselves?

Can’t someone make a wrong decision affecting only him? I see no reason why just because the object of an action is also its subject, the action does not carry moral weight. And if such an action does carries moral weight — if, say, chopping off one’s own arm is intrinsically wrong — than do others not have obligations to stop selfdirected wrong actions?

I think most people intuit that when a friend is drinking himself sick every weekend, something’s not right. And further, that a good friend would step in. This is not to single out drinking, only to say that the idea that we might interfere in other’s behavior when it’s both self-directed and wrong isn’t as foreign as it may seem initially.

So, which self-directed actions merit interference? What shouldn’t we let other people do to themselves?

There are many good ways to answer this question, and what follows is only one. Philosophers from Aristotle to Maimonides have argued that one thing distinguishing a human from an animal is his intellect. We are rational. Inebriation from alcohol, a high from pot or the release of pressure that is the end of casual, heartless sex treats humans as simply a series of emotions and passions. This is to treat humans as sub-rational, as mere chemical objects. We should avoid this and encourage our friends to do likewise.

No matter which problems are most urgent, one thing seems certain to me — we are not only morally obligated to the underprivileged. Sometimes we are our own victims.

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level of safety in our democracy.

At this point, the case for maintaining the current gun laws is weaker than ever. The argument that more weapons will prevent more murders might sound reasonable, if it checked out empirically. But the data to the contrary is exhaustive. According to several studies by the Harvard School of Public Health, more guns equal more homicide. That is to say, states that have higher rates of gun ownership have higher rates of murder. Countries that have fewer restrictions on gun ownership have higher rates of murder. And individuals who have more access to guns are, not surprisingly, more likely to be victims of murder.

If private gun ownership increases the likelihood of death, it similarly fails to prevent it.

Despite the presence of 300 million guns in the United States, not one of 62 massacres in the past 30 years has been stopped by a private citizen with a gun, according to a September 2012 Mother Jones article. Further, the Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey estimates that fewer than one percent of all violent crime victims used a firearm successfully or unsuccessfully for selfdefense.

To those who attribute the

blame to the people rather than the weapons, it should not matter whether the killings are driven by mental sickness, by racial prejudices or by terrorism.

These motivations will always exist in society, and it is the job of communities and law enforcement to correct these harmful attitudes and the job of hospitals to remedy the illnesses. But governments must ensure that these individuals cannot obtain these deadly weapons in the first place. Rather than writing off these incidents by saying “stuff happens,” as Jeb Bush did earlier this week, the government has the ability and obligation to do more.

Lastly, there are those who champion a mentality of civic liberty and Second Amendment rights. These are certainly valid claims, but all liberties and rights must be weighed against the consequences they permit.

In this case, the consequences of our current laws and procedures are the senseless killing of thousands of men, women and children each year. At least in my mind, no civil liberty can measure up to these moral tragedies and real life consequences.

After all, what right is prior to the right to life? What freedom is more important than the ability to live in safety? And how many lives must we, as a nation, lose

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column usually runs on Mondays.

Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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Too much to bear

he shooting that occurred at Umpqua Community College in Oregon this past Thursday was a tragedy for us all.

It was a tragedy for us, as human beings, to come to terms with the loss of 10 lives and to empathize with the families who will no doubt spend their days grieving the losses. It was a tragedy for us as a college community to see fellow students slaughtered in their halls of study. And, perhaps most of all, it was a tragedy for us as citizens of America to witness once again the helplessness of our nation’s law and order in the face of a gun-wielding maniac.

That a disturbed individual came into possession of a gun and shot up a building is tragic; that such incidents have become routine in the most advanced democracy in the world is simply inexcusable. Over the past 50 years, gun laws in America have remained steadfast even as massacres and murders number in the tens of thousands.

Charleston, Newtown, Sandy Hook and Aurora are but a few of the massacres we have witnessed over the past several years. These massacres, in turn, are collectively but a fraction of the total number of homicides in the United States. These are not mere statistics, but a testament to a failure at the individual and political level to ensure a basic

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before we can have a constructive discussion about reforming our outdated policies? Effective change does not require one to advocate complete constitutional overhaul. Bans on assault rifles, increased background checks, campaigns against the gun lobby and limits on opencarry laws are all ways of imposing accountability on a reckless industry.

This is not a partisan issue, let alone a political one. It is an issue that concerns a basic tenet of humanity, namely a genuine concern for human life. It is the same concern that underpins the pro-life, anti-war and pro-divestment movements, and individuals ought to extend a similar vigilance on this issue.

Following the horrific massacre at Charleston earlier this year, President Obama remarked that, “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.” As we once again mourn as a nation for the lives lost this past week, it is our duty to ensure this moral reckoning happens before we witness yet another tragedy.

BENJAMIN MARROW is a junior in Berkeley College.

Contact him at benjamin.marrow@yale.edu .

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number of anxieties may arise when one considers the multiverse. Personally, I wonder whether or not I am the smartest, most accomplished, happiest version of myself. The idea that another me might be better than this me seems to be the very definition of self-defeating. Given that I only get to live out one version of my existence, there’s something sad about the near certainty of moving blindly through a network of a less-than-perfect one.

I have a friend who works as a nice metaphor for this dilemma.

All through middle school and high school, Mariel was the older, more self-assured, more complete version of who I could be. I studied her progress and decisions as though they were a prophecy I could fulfill, if only I chose correctly. Now, she’s a first year physics Ph.D. student here and we share a campus again. Something about being in the same place underlines just how much I’ve strayed from her trajectory. At this point, I’ve stopped looking for myself in her. Our dissimilarities are

too complicated for me to retrace the many divergences.

But obviously, she’s a great perCAROLINE son to talk to about the SYDNEY m u l t ive rse .

Unlike me, she Selfdoesn’t feel she’s in some absorbed sort of “Game of Life” race against her other selves, but rather feels left out of their games. She doesn’t envy their experiences; she just wishes that she too could take part in them.

The multiverse is what fills the infinity of the universe with every possible iteration of space, time, matter and energy. Given this understanding of the universe, we’re not only cut off from the possibility of certain events, but also the possibility of the relationships between our various selves. All of these collective selves take up so much space, space in the universe that we

never get to visit. Mariel was sad because the person and the place and the time were each contingent on the others, and because they could not be separated, they could never overlap.

So where do we go from here?

The blinders that keep us from seeing these potential companions cannot be removed.

We greedily enter into every moment, claiming all of it for that most present self. From this vantage point, moving through time seems like a selfish activity, one that prevents every other you in the wings from entering.

I’ve always felt that time is the resource I have the most and least control over. We have so many expressions to this effect — time is money, me time, borrowed time, race against time — phrases that either claim the possession of time or argue that this is an impossible feat.

More often than I’d like, I crawl into bed wondering what I did with a day. Where it went, what marks it left, but mostly how those hours failed to leave any marks at all. But there are also good nights, ones when I’m in

bed before 1 a.m., satisfied with the tally of words and pages and conversations and explorations on the day’s balance sheet.

Time isn’t really money, but a currency in and of itself. The things we purchase with it can’t be replaced by cold cash. It’s valuable, and so we’re protective of it. Not just in relation to the other selves, but in the way we allocate time toward friends, classes, creative endeavors, exercise and sleep.

Maybe because I’m a senior, it’s especially hard for me to decide what I want from the time I have to spend. Too often I commit the time equivalent of an impulse buy, coming home from the library with unwritten pages or the party with snippets of mindless conversations. I’m trying not to envy those other selves and their decisions and instead be happy that somehow, somewhere, another me is always entering into the right moment.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a senior in Silliman College. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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“There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety or how to cope with relationships.” HOWIE MANDEL CANADIAN COMEDIAN AND ACTOR

State, city experience tourism swell 719,254 Visitors

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lies. Smith said that along with corporate and University events bringing travelers into town, she anticipates no slowdown of business in the fall. New Haven Village Suites will undergo renovations this winter in preparation for a swell in guest numbers for the next spring and summer seasons, she added.

The Study Director of Operations Anthony Moir said that the hotel does not see higher occupancy numbers from summer boosts in tourism. The summer is The Study’s slowest season, Moir said. He added that during this season, The Study still serves prospective students and their parents, along with weddings and conferences.

Although the cycles of hotels like The Study and New Haven Village Suites may not directly coincide with others across the state, the general trend of occupancy rates across the state is on the rise, Kozlowski said.

She added that the core of New Haven is considered to be a yearround destination, with events like medical conferences at YaleNew Haven Hospital attracting visitors.

Jewelry store Derek Simpson Goldsmith has also felt an increase in business as a result of

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A summer spike in tourism across the state of Connecticut has also hit New Haven, according to data released by Governor Dannel Malloy’s office on Monday.

A survey across 23 of Connecticut’s leading attractions — including the Yale University Art Gallery — demonstrated a 12 percent increase this year in visitors between June and August.

These destinations also reported a four percent increase in spending by tourists when compared to last year’s. These rising numbers are a result of coinciding economic and weather factors, such as 13 rain-free weekends between June and September and low gas prices, Visit New Haven Executive Director Ginny Kozlowski said.

“This demonstrates we’re making gains — jobs are growing significantly each month, our efforts to make our state a tourist destination are paying off and the needle is no doubt moving in the right direction,” Malloy said.

Malloy added that the state economy is reinforced by a strong tourism sector, which contributes to a large number of people in the

workforce and impacts job creation and business development.

According to the Connecticut Department of Labor, the state’s hospitality sector added 5,300 jobs between August 2014 and August 2015. Kozlowski said this growth is a boon to the overall state economy, which took a hit in the 2007 national recession.

The governor’s office highlighted positive results in Connecticut’s hotel industry, naming the Groton/Norwich and New Haven/Waterbury markets as leading the state in terms of occupancy rates — the percentage of occupied hotel rooms in the region.

Kozlowski said that hotel occupancy rates have risen back to levels last seen prior to the recession in June 2007.

“We have been watching the trends of the numbers and they’re fabulous,” Kozlowski said.

But local hotels say that the boom in business has stemmed from sources other than tourism.

New Haven Village Suites Director of Sales Falisha Smith said that though she did not consider New Haven a vacation area, she did tend to see business pick up at the start of the fall semester as students arrived back on college campuses with their fami-

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visitors to YNHH, manager Gene Dostie said.

“We have had the best [sales of] April, June and July ever,” Hello Boutique sales representative Michele Bernstein said.

YCC mental health projects stall

Data released by the state follow a state marketing initiative to promote the tourism industry. A fall version of this initiative, called Still Revolutionary, has begun running two television

advertising spots as part of a $1.1 million ad campaign, according to Malloy’s office.

OCS introduces career advising panels

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The Yale College Council discusses its agenda at a meeting. This year, the YCC will focus on the Student Income Contribution.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Despite considerable campus dialogue about student mental health and reinstatement policies last spring, several Yale College Council projects designed to tackle those issues have stalled this fall.

Last spring, the YCC approved a Readmissions Peer Liaisons project and a Student Mental Health Fellows project. The first was designed to pair students who withdraw from Yale with those who have already been through the reinstatement process and the second to bring upperclassmen into each residential college to discuss mental health concerns and resources.

While both projects had significant support in the spring — the proposal for readmissions liaisons passed unanimously — neither has made progress since.

According to YCC Vice President Maddie Bauer ’17, this semester, the council has focused its energies on other projects that are still intended to improve student well-being and safety on campus. For example, she noted, the YCC has successfully implemented both a sexual health task force and a financial aid task force. It is also working on a number of new projects in this area, such as improving freshman programming by the Women’s Center and the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center, Bauer added. “[Readmissions liaisons] was something that was very much [former YCC President Michael Herbert’s ’16] pet project, and this year has been very much about starting new initiatives,” Bauer said. “That’s not to say we’re not going back to old ones, but sometimes it’s hard to go from year to

year since every project has a different status.”

Herbert proposed the readmissions liaisons project last winter, and it was approved by the YCC in February. Similar to the peer liaison program at the cultural centers and LGBTQ Resource Center, the program would help mediate some of the loneliness and confusion that withdrawn students feel by connecting them to students who had already successfully returned to campus. But both Bauer and YCC President Joe English ’17 conceded that the project has made no headway since last spring, although they agreed it should be brought back for consideration this year.

The initiative is not listed on the YCC’s project assignments for this fall.

Ensuring that the campus understands the full range of options is ongoing work, but we’ve taken a few important steps already.

MELANIE BOYD Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Herbert acknowledged that he did not push the project vigorously, especially in light of a number of reforms the University announced last spring for reinstatement policy.

The Student Mental Health Fellows project has not seen much progress either. Joseph Cornett ’17, YCC member and project lead, said the project would not be completed until at least the end of this semester. He added that the YCC is still in talks with

Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling division, as well as other administrators. While it was originally proposed as a standalone program, Cornett said the initiative — which will mirror the Communication and Consent Educators program for sexual climate — will now likely be part of the University-sponsored Student Wellness Project, which was announced by University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews in September. That broader project will consist of a committee of students, faculty and staff dedicated to improving programming on student well-being.

Still, YCC members emphasized the progress they have made in other areas, especially sexual misconduct. Last spring, the University’s Title IX Steering Committee committed to a series of recommendations that emerged from a joint task force formed by the YCC and Women’s Center.

Some of those recommendations have begun to materialize, such as the creation of an advisor pool for both complainants and respondents of sexual misconduct. Conversations about the topic have continued in light of alarming new statistics from a survey by the Association of American Universities, Bauer said.

“We haven’t taken [the AAU survey] lightly and we’re looking for ways to increase student awareness and also create an impact and address the findings of the survey,” Bauer said. “We’re looking to see what kind of projects we’re implementing to combat this.”

Bauer said a key component to the YCC’s effort in advancing campus safety has been increasing pre-orientation programming for freshmen and transfer students during their first week

at Yale. In a September email to the News, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd said her office worked over the spring and summer to develop a new segment of freshman orientation on Yale’s sexual misconduct policies and resources.

In addition, she said, the Title IX Office worked with students over the summer to better explain options for reporting sexual misconduct and developed a new set of explanatory online infographics about all the channels available.

“Ensuring that the campus understands the full range of options is ongoing work, but we’ve taken a few important steps already,” Boyd said.

But according to English, the YCC’s primary focus for this year is not sexual misconduct or mental health at all. Rather, he said, the YCC will focus its energies on the ongoing debate over the elimination of the student income contribution — a fee of up to several thousand dollars that students on financial aid are expected to contribute to their tuitions.

Last year, the University froze the student income contribution for the first time in three years, but the YCC has promised to advocate for its complete elimination.

“Our biggest priority this year is eliminating or reducing the student income contribution for next year,” English said. “We are making sure a decision comes out for the class of 2020.”

In addition to the Student Mental Health Fellows project, the YCC currently has 22 other project assignments for the fall semester.

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

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

Through a new series of panels offered by the Office of Career Strategy, students can get a taste of five different career paths before applying for jobs.

The series — called “What Is … ” — included six events to introduce students to five different industries: education, finance, consulting, non-profit and engineering, which was the subject of two panels. The panels, which began at the end of August and ended two weeks ago, featured professionals working in relevant fields who shared their work experiences and answered questions from students. Jeanine Dames, OCS director and associate dean of Yale College, said the series was scheduled before many campus recruiting events in order to expose students to different fields before they began meeting with employers.

“In creating this series for Yale, the intention was to introduce various industries before students started the application process, and thereby show students what it is really like to work in these industries,” Dames said.

“Each program was a panel of representatives — mostly alumni — from organizations across that industry to show an honest snapshot of what it is like to work there.”

OCS Assistant Director Stephanie Waite, who organized the “What is Education” session, said panelists’ topics spanned from teaching to operations to policy work. In addition to presenting their various roles, Waite said, the panelists also spoke anecdotally, discussing the greatest rewards and challenges in their positions, and offering advice for current students interested in pursuing education careers.

Brian Frenette, OCS associate director and organizer of the two “What is Engineering” events, said panelists were selected to offer a wide range of perspectives and to give the panels as broad a scope as possible.

The first engineering panel focused on software engineering and programming, while the second centered on chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering. The events featured professionals from Facebook, Google and Bloomberg LP, among others. “‘Engineering’ is such a sweeping area, professionally speaking, and therefore it is important to understand

that each panel was designed to offer insight into a specific and targeted aspect within the field,” Frenette said, adding that he hopes to host similar panels on other engineering fields in the future.

Nedgine Paul ’08 — the co-founder and CEO of Anseye Pou Ayiti, which means “Teach For Haiti” in Haitian Creole and a panelist at the “What is Education” event — said she encouraged attendees to understand how a career in education intersects with other sectors including law, policy, social entrepreneurship and healthcare. Paul said she addressed questions ranging from “Should everyone interested in education start their career as a classroom teacher?” to “What are charter schools?”

The intention was to introduce various industries before students started the application process.

OSC DIRECTOR JEANINE DAMES “My experiences at Yale have shaped my career path in several ways, so it was great to connect with current students and share some lessons I have learned along the way,” Paul said, adding that the panel was helpful not only in bringing up ideas related to education, but also in offering concrete ways for students to get involved.

Four students interviewed spoke positively about OCS’ goal in hosting the events, though none attended the panels. Amber Tang ’18 thought the series would be helpful because students could get advice on real-life experiences, though it can be difficult to find time for such sessions with many things happening on campus.

Nathan Ewing-Crystal ’19 said such events hosted by OCS will become more valuable as he progresses through his Yale career.

“I think [the series] will be useful when I become a senior, trying to figure out what to do with my life and what directions to possibly go into,” he said.

OCS will continue to organize “What Is … ” panels next semester that highlight other industries.

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“Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.” LADY GAGA AMERICAN SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND ACTRESS

Taft Cosmetics shuts its doors

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER After 35 years in business, Taft Cosmetics — a locally-owned convenience store at 2 Whitney Ave — will close its doors at the end of October.

The store, which sells snack foods, drugstore items and greeting cards, posted a sign on its door last week announcing a retirement sale. Store owner Shalom Lemel said he told his landlord, University Properties, months ago that he would retire and would not renew the store’s lease at the end of this month. Students in nearby Timothy Dwight College expressed disappointment over the store’s closing.

“Yale is trying very, very hard to find a replacement,” Lemel said.

Lemel said he heard from University Properties that the organization is seeking a replacement for Taft Cosmetics that sells similar products. University Properties could not be reached for comment before the end of the business day.

This area still has mom and pop shops, local individuals who own the business, which is good for the area.

SHALOM LEMEL Owner of Taft Cosmetics Sarah Xiao ’17 said the store was particularly convenient because of its location and diverse products.

Similarly, Emmy Reinwald ’17 said she visited Taft Cosmetics twice a week for toiletries such as nail polish and shampoo, adding that the store is by far the closest convenience store on campus for students in TD. Though she no longer lives in the residential college, she continues to visit the store, Rein-

wald said.

“Almost everyone I talked to in TD definitely goes to Taft,” Reinwald said. “I’ve known people who go there [for] a last minute Mothers’ Day card to send their mom.

I’ve also known people who’ve gone in there and bought a bandana for a theme party.”

Several patrons in the store Monday afternoon also expressed disappointment that the store would be closing.

Lemel said he hopes University Properties will find a tenant who markets similar items. But maintaining a convenience store like Taft Cosmetics has not been without its challenges, Lemel said, noting that the profit margins are small and the store must also carry a wide variety of inventory at once.

Lemel added that he is optimistic about the surrounding neighborhood’s economic growth.

Though high rises have been built and more businesses have opened shop around Whitney Ave., the surrounding neighborhood is still home to an impressive assortment of successful mom and pop shops, Lemel said. The store is on the same block as locally-owned restaurants Choupette Crêperie and Café and Katalina’s Bakery.

“The problem today probably in the big cities is there is no more mom and pop stores, that personal touch,” Lemel said. “But this area still has mom and pop shops, local individuals who own the business, which is good for the area.”

Yale has also played a role in the area’s economic development.

University Properties bought the building housing Taft Cosmetics a few years ago and continued the store’s lease, Lemel said.

Whitney Grove Square, the building housing Taft Cosmetics, is also the site of several Yale administrative offices.

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

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After 35 years in business, Taft Cosmetics is serving its final customers this month.

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“Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine.”

NICHOLAS CAGE AMERICAN ACTOR

ACLU lauds CT Supreme Court decision

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Employees in Connecticut will enjoy greater free speech protections following Trusz v. UBS Realty Investors, LLC, a Connecticut Supreme Court decision released Monday.

The court ruled in favor of Richard Trusz, an employee who was fired by a real estate company after he reported business errors to the company’s highlevel administrators. The judges wrote that Connecticut freedom of speech laws protected Trusz and that the company, UBS Realty Investors, should not have fired him, Connecticut American Civil

Liberties Union Legal Director Dan Barrett explained. According to Barrett, the ruling is significant because it clearly names the standards that protect Connecticut employees who report their employers from labor discrimination. Unlike federal statutes that protect employees from retaliation only under certain cases, the Connecticut Supreme Court decision guarantees generally broader protection, Barrett said.

“There are individual federal statutes kind of within a patch and quilt,” Barrett said. “Some of them have anti-retaliation, but you have to be engaged in an activity the statute protects …

[Today’s ruling] is a much more general protection than the retaliation protected under each specific federal statute.”

[The ruling] is a much more general protection than the retaliation protected under each specific federal statute.

DAN BARRETT Connecticut ACLU Legal Director

Barrett added that the court’s ruling reversed an almost decadelong trend of Connecticut workers losing free speech protections. The pattern began after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 ruling in Garcetti v. Ceballos, when the court decreed that federal free speech statutes do not protect a worker’s speech if it relates to his or her profession, Barrett said.

For years, employee attorneys in Connecticut were unsure whether the Court’s decision in Garcetti applied to cases in the Connecticut state court, he added.

The judges began the opinion with the question of whether Garcetti overruled Connecticut statutes in state cases dealing

Panelists discuss growing refugee crisis

with workers’ rights. The judges finally ruled in favor of Connecticut statues.

In their opinion written for Trusz v. UBS Realty Investors LLC, the judges established that in state cases, Connecticut laws will take precedence over the Garcetti v. Ceballos ruling.

Andre Manuel ’16, the former chair of Yale’s undergraduate ACLU chapter, said he believes the opinion rightfully respects employees’ First Amendment rights in cases where employees possess information relevant to the public good. Manuel added that the decision will help employees feel safer when reporting employers that engage in ille-

gal or harmful behavior.

Kerry Burke-McCloud ’17, who interned with a law firm and the public defender’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, said these developments are a clear victory for employees.

“I think this is a great win,” Burke-McCloud said. “Most companies have one goal, that is to make a profit.”

Barrett said New Haven’s size and commerce makes the case relevant for many of the Elm City’s employers and employees.

The ACLU was founded in 1920.

YNHHS affiliation raises union concerns

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Five activists challenged Yale to act against the current international refugee crisis at a panel on Monday.

BY CAMERON HILL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Five experts called on the Yale community to take action against today’s international refugee crisis at a panel on Monday.

The panel included former International President of Doctors Without Borders Unni Karunakara and Director and Senior Adviser at UNICEF Nicholas Alipui. Discussion focused primarily on the plight of child refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, though the speakers addressed a variety of issues ranging from refugee families in Turkey to the need for the U.S. to refocus its attention to refugees admitted to the country.

The event was hosted by two Yale Child Study Center faculty members in conjunction with the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute and Yale UNICEF. “[The United National High Commissioner for Refugees] has

released many statistics that are alarming, but one of them that has come out recently is that as of the year 2014, about 59 million people were displaced.

Fifty-one percent of those are children,” said Angelica Pongutá YSPH ’09, one of the two YCSC faculty hosts. “We have hope. We believe in our Yale community.

We truly believe that by informing ourselves and thinking seriously about action, we will be able, we hope, to make sustained difference.”

Panelists represented organizations ranging from UNICEF to Turkey’s Mother Child Foundation to New Haven’s Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services. Each panelist was asked to describe the actions his or her organization is taking to address the refugee crisis, particularly with respect to young children and families. The panelists also spoke about what Yale could do in the short term to help support and solve the refugee crisis, such as invite commanders of peacekeeping operations to campus to discuss the crisis’ social, envi-

ronmental and political implications. Karunakara urged Yale to start a campaign urging the United States to ratify the Convention of the Rights of the Child, a United Nations human rights treaty outlining children’s political rights. Since Somalia approved the convention last week, the U.S. is the last remaining nation in the U.N. that has not ratified it, he said.

“This will address not just the problems of refugee children, but also children in the U.S. who are getting shot every day in unsafe environments,” Karunakara said.

In her opening remarks, Ponguta described the talk as a “landmark event” organized in under three weeks. Ponguta said the widespread campus support for the event spoke volumes about the community’s ability to mobilize when action is needed most.

Katie Murphy, early childhood development technical advisor at the International Rescue Committee, called on Yale to use its notable scholars to help transform published research

into practical solutions. She advised the Yale community to remember that the world’s refugee crisis is widespread, rather than confined to the Middle East.

Alipui said he was appalled at world leaders’ lack of leadership training.

“Yale has the name recognition, has the clout, to be able to bring about change in leadership training that is directed specifically at leaders that generate conflict,” he said.

Danilo Zak ’18, a member of the Yale Refugee Project, which works directly with IRIS, said he appreciated that the panelists came from such diverse backgrounds.

“We have the knowledge, we just need to use it to incite a protest and organization, and actually get something done,” Zak said.

The talk drew over 50 members from both Yale and the larger New Haven community.

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In July, L+M Healthcare and the Yale New Haven Health System announced a joint decision to place three neighboring health centers — Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Westerly Hospital and the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeastern Connecticut — under the YNHHS administration.

As part of the agreement, YNHHS will invest $300 million into expanding service offerings in the new affiliate hospitals and health centers.

But some union leaders have questioned how the affiliation may affect employees and unions operating under both systems.

The majority of the workforce at L+M Healthcare’s clinics and hospitals is part of one of three unions. After the affiliation was finalized, the three union presidents, Harry Rodriguez, Stephanie Lancaster Johnson and Lisa D’Abrosca wrote in an email to AFT Connecticut, a statewide labor federation of more than 90 unions, to express their concerns about how the new affiliation might impact unions.

“It is critical that we make our voices heard to ensure ‘patients before profits’ at our community hospital and throughout our health network,” they wrote.

Matt O’Connor, communications director for AFT Connecticut, explained that the heads of the unions met with L+M Healthcare leadership to discuss their concerns. O’Connor added that AFT Connecticut “intends to see that caregivers have a voice in the process.” As of now, there have not been complications with the unions, and both sides of the discussion are open to conversation, O’Connor added.

In July, the Hartford Courant reported that it is

unlikely that there will be any changes in the union contracts; no major alterations in internal structure are expected.

O’Connor said that the unions are learning from similar health systems’ past affiliation processes. He added that the union leadership does not want to see program cuts or caregiver layoffs, which would be “devastating to New London”.

YNHHS plans to spend the $300 million to implement a new electronic medical record system in L+M Healthcare hospitals, amongst other initiatives that have not yet been specified, according to the Courant.

It is critical that we make our voices heard to ensure “patients before profits.”

RODRIGUEZ, JOHNSON AND D’ABROSCA Presidents, L&M Unions Vincent Petrini, senior vice president of public affairs at Yale New Haven Hospital, said the affiliation happened largely because the two health systems have a long-standing clinical relationship, and this affiliation serves as a natural extension of the collaboration. He added that the goal of both YNHHS and L+M remains to preserve access to patient care in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. Petrini said that YNHHS agreed to recognize existing union employees and is committed to continue work with existing employees. But Petrini added that there were no current conflicts with union members.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN ACTOR

State sees shifting alcohol policies ALCOHOL FROM PAGE 1 Connecticut market.

Met with public confusion regarding whether powdered alcohol has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA responded with a March 13 “clarifying statement” about the product’s safety.

“We did not provide an approval, nor did we conduct any testing [on powdered alcohol],” the statement read. “However, at this time the FDA does not have a legal basis to block market entry of this product.”

The FDA also noted that its evaluation of powdered alcohol was solely based on its nonalcoholic ingredients.

Beyond restricting sales, the new alcohol laws also allow more freedom for small breweries. Small manufacturers can now obtain permits to sell beer at up to three farmers markets a year. But beer may not become a staple at all state farmers markets — the bill allows individual cities to revoke this new liberty at their discretion.

Not all state residents support every aspect of the bill.

Chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University Gary Rose said introducing beer to farmers markets seems like a contradiction, explaining that it appears inconsistent to sell beer at an event where patrons are buying organic vegetables to make their diets healthier.

Students interviewed said it is unlikely this bill will affect Yale’s drinking culture.

“I don’t feel like it will have that much of an impact on campus life,” Eugene Lee ’19 said. “Most people I know don’t drink beer that much compared to other types of alcohol.”

But the issue of whether beer will be sold at farmers markets near campus is another question altogether.

CitySeed, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable food, has a strict application process for their vendors and automatically prevents the sale of any goods without “an agricultural component.”

This policy would limit the number of breweries able to approach CitySeed in the first place, as breweries would have to grow their own grain.

Though alcohol has been converted into crystalline form for more than 200 years, the powdered alcohol brand “Palcohol” marks the first powdered product to enter the U.S. alcohol market.

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

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Beer can now legally be sold at farmers’ markets across Connecticut.

Students target styrofoam STYROFOAM FROM PAGE 1 lution’s author and chair of the GSA’s Facilities and Healthcare Committee. “We hope [the resolution] will help start a new dialogue across the divisional boundaries that consolidate the voices of all students regarding our shared concerns.”

Styrofoam is a type of inexpensive lightweight plastic that does not degrade in landfills, but can be dangerous to human health and the environment.

If a ban were implemented, it would apply only to the food trucks outside Ingalls Rink on Science Hill, as those vendors rent parking spaces from Yale.

The food trucks at the Medical School often park on the street, off Yale’s campus, Yoon said.

According to the GSA resolution, many of these food vendors are reluctant to switch to more sustainable options due to cost and competition. Yoon acknowledged that a waste management committee, if formed, would have to be cautious when working with these vendors and cognizant of costs associated with moving away from Styrofoam. To do this, Yoon suggested that the committee — which would contain faculty, students and local business owners — use Yale’s resources and connections to help vendors find the most affordable alternative containers.

“Those small vendors don’t have the larger institutional contact [of Yale],” Yoon said, adding that the transition should not force the vendors to raise their prices. “Although businesses on Yale campus properties … are not run by Yale, we should use our institutional leverage to change New Haven.”

For example, he said, ven-

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Many food vendors on Science Hill and at the medical school use Styrofoam food containers. dors who comply with the Styrofoam ban and try to further reduce their waste could be awarded “Yale Green Badges” that might attract environmentally conscious student customers.

While the YCC, the GSA and the GPSS share a common goal in reducing Styrofoam, the groups’ resolutions have slightly different wording.

The GSA asked the waste management committee to investigate a possible ban, while the GPSS’s resolution tasked any potential committee with looking into a reduction.

YCC Vice President Maddie Bauer ’17 said in the past, the YCC has not worked with the graduate student councils outside of student committees such as the Schwarzman Center committee. She noted that the last joint project between the three organizations was a partnership and mentorship

program between student governments proposed last year, but it never materialized.

“It’s still the beginning of the year and the YCC is still focusing on getting our projects off the ground, but this sets the bar high for a working relationship with GPSS and GSA,” Bauer said. “We can possibly bring our projects to them like they brought their projects to us and we can get their support depending on what the project is.”

YCC Student Life Director Phan Nguyen ’17 said she thought the group resolution was especially sensible for graduate students, as many do not have access to undergraduate dining halls. She added that if the proposal proves economically sustainable, there is no reason undergraduates should not support the initiative as well.

In addition, Nguyen said,

she hopes this project will serve as a catalyst for further collaboration between the undergraduate and graduate student councils.

“Sustainability is a mission that the entire generation of students feels very passionate about, as shown in our unanimous support of this joint initiative with the graduate and professional schools,” YCC member Joseph Cornett ’17 said. “I’m excited to be working with them, and the more often that the different schools cooperate, the greater an impact we can have on Yale University.”

New York City banned the sale, possession or distribution of Styrofoam on July 1.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Twitter was integral to his own rise to prominence as an activist. He praised Twitter and social media more generally for providing a space for the discussion of issues that have not historically received mainstream attention.

“Social media has become the space where we tell the truth,” Mckesson said. “It not only makes people woke but allows people to stay woke.”

Mckesson went on to note, however, that social media can also be personally hurtful to individuals involved in campaigns for recognition and social change. He recognized that the tool has been used in the past to provoke infighting within the Black Lives Matter movement.

Still, while acknowledging that social media brings out “the good, the bad and the ugly,” Mckesson said that ultimately it “renders the invisible visible.” It allows minorities to tell their own story, rather than have it told by mainstream media, he added.

Mckesson also emphasized the role of education in influencing social change.

“Twitter and the classroom are the last two fully democratic spaces in America,” he said.

He added that teachers who work with young children need to be very conscious of how power is represented in the schoolbooks they use, noting that the history of protest in America is often “whitewashed” in schools, though the roots of protest predate whiteness itself.

Yale students in particular, he said, need to be proactive in expressing their ideas. He encouraged students to make the University work for them and not to be complacent about their learning. “[Just] because you are at a good school doesn’t mean you will get a

good education,” Mckesson said.

“You have to work for that.”

In response to a student’s question about the relationship of other minorities to the Black Lives Matter movement, Mckesson said the conversation the movement created has resulted in more discussion of other issues, including those surrounding immigrants and LGBTQ individuals.

Mckesson did not directly address the topic of the name of Calhoun College during his remarks. But students interviewed after the talk said Mckesson’s presence on campus is especially relevant in light of current discussions of racial issues, including the question of whether Yale should rename a college named after a vocal proponent of slavery.

“The only reason the [Calhoun College] issue has resurfaced is the Black Lives Matter movement,” said Lex Barlowe ’17, president of the Black Student Alliance at Yale, which hosted the event along with the Yale College Democrats.

But Barlowe added that she was glad no one directly asked Mckesson about the issue, noting that hearing his broader perspective on racial issues was preferable to discussing issues too internally focused on Yale.

Hedy Gutfreund ’18, communications director for the Yale College Democrats, also recognized the relevance of the movement to the Calhoun conversation, but noted that because the Democrats focus on non-Yale political issues, the organization has no official stance on the Calhoun question.

Near the end of the event, Mckesson emphasized the inclusivity of the Black Lives Matter movement and its push for African-American rights.

“In fighting for black lives, everyone is freed,” he said.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“America is the land of the second chance and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.”

GEORGE W. BUSH 43RD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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Med School program launches

Prison program receives $1 million

BY VICTOR CHANG T h e A l p e r t Me d i ca l School’s new MD-ScM dualdegree program in primary care-population medicine — the first of its kind in the United States — accepted 16 students to its first class, said Paul George, assistant professor of family medicine and director of the program. The PC-PM program’s class of 2019 was chosen from about 1,000 applicants.

The program integrates population health into the traditional medical education. Students in the Program in Liberal Medical Education are allowed to apply to the program.

“We designed nine new courses that will be integrated in the MD curriculum,” George said. PC-PM students take courses in areas not usually required for medical school students, including health systems and policy, quantitative methods, research methods in population medicine and leadership. Toward the end of the program, students complete a master’s thesis in an area of population health of their choosing.

PC-PM students will also participate in a new style of medical rotations during their third year called Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships that “allow students to build long-term relationships with patients they are seeing,” George said.

While traditional students do medical rotations in sixweek blocks in each different health care specialty, the dual-degree students will follow a panel of patients for

a yea r in order to have a “more longitudinal p r i m a ry c a r e BROWN f o c u s ,” said Shayla Minteer. “I want to make a change in a larger way than just the individual scale,” she said. “We are being asked to improve health outcomes in entire communities. I feel like this kind of curriculum should be almost ubiquitous and hopefully we can serve as a model.”

The dual-degree program was created to provide students with a more in-depth education on how health care systems work and a better understanding of how to improve health care outcomes in populations, said Jeffrey Borkan, assistant dean of the PC-PM program and chair of the department of family medicine. “Students who graduate medical school need to know how systems work, why some medications are expensive and some are cheaper and what are worthwhile interventions for testing,” he added.

“We want to help achieve the triple aim: better outcomes for patients, lower costs (and) better patient experience,” Borkan said.

Jonathan Staloff, who is part of the inaugural PC-PM class, said he applied to the program because during his undergraduate years at Brown, he “got very interested in how the health care system is structured, how the health care system is changing and how health care pol-

icy directly influences … every interaction between a physician and a patient.”

“This program is largely focused on trying to breed a new type of physician, one who excels in clinical patient care but also thinks in terms of population health and broader health outcomes — what the programs call ‘physicians plus,’” Staloff said.

These “physicians plus” have a wide variety of interests in the health care fields, ranging from tackling global health challenges with the Peace Corps to working with prisoner populations, he said.

PC-PM is trying to shift medical treatment from “reactive health care” to “proactive, value-based care,” he added.

As PC-PM is a new program, faculty members will prioritize student feedback and make changes accordingly, Minteer said.

The medical school was one of 10 in the country to receive a $1 million grant from the American Medical Association’s “Accelerating Change in Medical Education” initiative. The grant money “is being used primarily for curricular development, teaching, building the infrastructure for the program and giving legitimacy to the program,” Borkan said.

Looking ahead, both George and Borkan expressed a desire to extend some of the values of the PC-PM program to the entire medical school.

“We have to impart these skills to all our students, not just primary care students,” George said. “All students need to be able to lead teams.”

BY MAXWELL DOPSCH The Cornell Prison Education Program received a $1 million grant from The Mellon Foundation on Thursday, which will allow the program to double its presence in central New York correctional facilities, according to Rob Scott, executive director of CPEP. “We offer more than 30 courses right now with over 100 students within prison walls,” Scott said.

“With this grant, we’ll jump to over 60 classes a year and probably more than 200 students once it’s fully implemented.”

The program currently offers courses taught by Cornell faculty and graduate students at Auburn Correctional Facility and Cayuga Correctional Facility. So far, CPEP has held two commencement ceremonies — the first in 2012 and the most recent in 2014 — and conferred more than 15 associate degrees to inmates each time.

The grant money will enable CPEP to expand its services to Five Points Correctional Facility and Elmira Correctional Facility.

The $1 million grant comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which “supports a wide range of initiatives to strengthen the humanities, arts, higher education and cultural heritage,” according to the foundation’s website.

“The Mellon Foundation has a long-standing history with Cornell as sponsors of humanities scholarship and education,” Scott said.

CPEP was established to provide a college education to the region’s inmates and to engage Cornell faculty and students to the incarcerated population, according to the program’s website. The program, unique among Cornell’s Ivy League peers, has been offering courses for credit to inmates without charging tuition or fees

since 1999.

“In the past decade, we went from barely o f f e r ing one or CORNELL two creditbearing courses to now basically being the leading institution for higher education in prison in the entire region,” Scott said.

Amber Aspinall, a teaching assistant for CPEP, said she has been interested in the criminal justice system since grade school and that the program has become the focus of her academic life at Cornell.

Universities could do a world of good in helping to shift the prison culture.

ROB SCOTT Executive Director, Cornell Prison Education Program “The Prison Education Program gave me an opportunity to go into a prison and learn with some of the brightest people I have ever met,” Aspinall said. “Most of the time, we study numbers, statistics and theories. The program puts a face behind them, centering the voices often overlooked in academics.”

Having spent three semesters assisting instructors at Auburn Correctional Facility, Sophie Allen noted that the students often engage their coursework with an enthusiasm that often times exceeds that of her peers back at Cornell.

“At Auburn, people are jumping out of their seats to answer ques-

tions,” Allen said. “In addition to bettering their employment prospects after incarceration, education for them is about learning. It’s about expanding their minds.”

Allen also said she believes education in prison benefits those beyond the individual students.

“The ability to say ‘my dad is getting a degree’ rather than ‘my dad is in prison’ is huge,” Allen said.

Interaction between the students also improves through their education, according to Scott. The cultural climate in prison settings often divides inmates based upon race and ethnicity. In the classroom, these barriers are broken down and connections are fostered through shared academic work.

“Universities could do a world of good in helping to shift the prison culture,” Scott said. “In a long-term prison, people will often associate in racialized gangs for protection … We create a multicultural space.”

Evidence indicates that education continues to benefit the inmates after their release by reducing recidivism, according to the CPEP website.

“The primary impact that the program is designed to have is in the prison system, but a very close second is the impact on the volunteers from campus who are transformed by engaging the complexity of the human situation in prison,” Scott said.

Aubrie James, a teaching assistant for CPEP, said the program has had a large impact on her.

“I think one of the first steps in solving the problems of the prison system is to raise awareness that the problems exist,” James said.

“In CPEP, I have firsthand experience to share with others what’s going on in the prisons. It makes me feel like a responsible citizen.”

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FROM THE FRONT

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

MAYA ANGELOU AMERICAN AUTHOR, POET AND DANCER

New bill takes aim at gun purchase loophole GUN CONTROL FROM PAGE 1 take more than 72 hours.

Blumenthal said 15,729 people who would otherwise have been prohibited from purchasing firearms have bought guns through the background check loophole.

The case of Dylann Roof — who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina in June — is one such gun purchaser to whom the bill would have applied, Murphy said. Roof’s purchase was allowed to proceed even though he had not had a full background check because his complex multi-state criminal history made his check take longer than 72 hours.

Blumenthal noted that the bill is not comprehensive. Because it would apply only to federally licensed dealers, purchases at gun shows would be exempt.

Despite this bill’s limited scope, Blumenthal said all purchases should eventually be made contingent upon a successful background check.

The bill Blumenthal plans to present to the Senate this week was introduced in the House by Rep. James Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina.

Miranda Pacchiana, a resident of Newtown, Connecticut who is affiliated with the Newtown Action Alliance, said she has seen the consequences of the current system firsthand.

The current loophole in the law, she said, makes it all the easier for criminals to access firearms.

“We are willing to live with a little inconvenience when the alternative is handing over deadly weapons to would-be mass murderers who would otherwise be legally prevented from purchasing guns,” she said.

Murphy took a strong stance against Congress’ failure to act on gun control in light of the spate of highly-publicized mass shooting over the past few years.

He said Congress’ inaction amounts to “quietly endorsing this mass slaughter.”

Esty, who serves as vice-chair of the Congressional Gun Vio-

GRAPHIC FIREARM MURDER RATE (per 100,000 people)

Washington, D.C. 12.5

Connecticut 1.7

South Carolina 4.7

Louisiana 7.7

Maine 0.9

Hawaii 0.4

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lence Protection Task Force, expressed similar views.

“We are not powerless,” she said. “This is not a tragedy like an earthquake that we couldn’t predict and couldn’t stop. These are man-made tragedies, and they’re tragedies caused by the inaction of the United States Congress in taking steps.”

Pinciaro, who spoke after the officials, said Connecticut is “lucky” to have a congressional delegation fiercely committed to advancing gun control. He said Connecticut residents should

support their congressmen in these efforts.

But not all Connecticut residents agree with the measures their senators have proposed.

Scott Wilson, president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, said senators should instead focus on mental health screening.

“I think that we have [had] years and years of gun control measures in the last 75 to 80 years, and I think that they’re really starting to reach into [...] the wall of our Second Amend-

ment rights,” he said.

Wilson added that “gun-free zones” in public areas cannot stem the tide of gun violence.

A statement released by the CCDL after Thursday’s shooting described gun-free zones as “Utopian fantasies.”

Gun control reform is not the only measure Murphy advocated for in an effort to address mass shootings. He introduced the Cassidy-Murphy Mental Health Reform Act to the Senate in August, in partnership with Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana

Republican.

In a statement released by his office Thursday afternoon, Murphy said improving access to mental health care across the country can help reduce mass shootings.

“It’s long past time for Congress to make this issue a priority and pass a comprehensive bill to ensure Americans have access to the care they need before they become a danger to themselves or others,” Murphy said. “Last week’s tragic shooting in Oregon is a painful reminder of what

can happen when individuals fall through the cracks.”

The Cassidy-Murphy bill is supported by a bipartisan coalition, with Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Democrat Al Franken of Minnesota as two of its proponents in the Senate.

Daniela Brighenti contributed reporting.

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

Frat bides time in Newhallville house NEWHALLVILLE FROM PAGE 1 in danger is incredible.”

Rogers said before signing the agreement for the house on Dixwell Avenue, he had a clause put in the lease that obligated the landlord to provide the prospective residents with “suitable and comparable” housing in case the house was not ready by the time school started. Throughout the summer, Rogers said he was told by the landlord that the house would be ready by the second week of September at the latest. However, at the beginning of August, Rogers was informed that the house’s construction crews would have to redo the house’s entire foundation to make it more stable. A local historical society prevented the house from being demolished, as it predates the Civil War, Rogers said, adding that the house should now be ready by the first week of November.

Braden Currey ’17, a resident of the Chi Psi house in Newhallville, said the brothers had the option of splitting up and living in separate houses closer to campus.

But, wanting to stay together, the brothers opted for the larger house farther from campus, Currey said.

The Taurus Cafe, which is across the street from the Chi Psi house on Winchester Avenue, has a history of being home to drug trafficking and shootings.

According to NBC Connecticut, the city successfully pushed to have the bar shut down in the past, only to have it reopen again.

But despite the neighborhood’s reputation, residents of the Newhallville house said perceptions of danger there are exaggerated. Crime across the city has dropped significantly over the last five years, according to City-Data.com. Last October, Newhallville received a federal grant of $1 million to bolster community relations with the police and ensure safer streets.

“The neighborhood just gets a bad rap because of the bar across the street, but whenever the bar is open, there’s a police presence,”

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Construction on the new Chi Psi house on Dixwell Avenue is still in progress, despite claims by the landlord that the house would be finished by the second week of September at the latest.

Isaac Morrier ’17, another resident of the Chi Psi house, said.

Morrier said the brothers take standard safety precautions like using an alarm system and locking their doors, but added that he does not feel particularly unsafe living in the house on Winchester Avenue.

According to three house residents, the brothers are engaging well with the community and have met many of their neighbors.

“We’ve definitely seen some stuff and heard some stuff, like gunshots one day,” Rogers said.

“But for the most part, it’s been fantastic. It’s really a community

that we’re just out of touch with at Yale.”

Last Sunday night, Rogers said the brothers were sitting on their porch observing the lunar eclipse.

He said patrons from the Taurus Cafe came over to talk to them and to look at the moon with the brothers in front of the house.

The fraternity’s unexpected relocation to Winchester Avenue marks the latest chapter in a search for a permanent house that has gone on since last November.

Last fall, Chi Psi bought a house on Lake Place, where they hosted mixers and social events while it was being renovated for full-time living. However, two

months later, Chi Psi withdrew its application to zone the property as a fraternity house due to complaints from neighbors to the city government.

Baker Duncan ’48, a former member of Chi Psi at Yale, purchased the house for the fraternity at the beginning of last year but sold it amidst the controversy.

Chi Psi was then forced to look for other housing. Over the next few months, Chi Psi looked at other properties, but each one ended up being unavailable or not properly suited to the fraternity’s needs.

When it came time to register for on-campus student housing, the Chi Psi brothers were forced

to choose between accepting dorm rooms and taking the risk that they might not have a house by the time classes resumed.

“Some people dropped because of the worry that it wouldn’t happen,” Rogers said. “Eventually we got 12 guys that were ready.”

While Currey said he was glad to be moving closer to campus on Dixwell Avenue before the winter cold set in, he, Rogers and Morrier noted that there are some positive aspects to living so far from Yale’s campus.

“We can just kind of escape school for a little bit, which is nice,” Rogers said. “We come home, the grill’s on, we hang out.

We’re all getting so close, which is the whole point of this.”

Currey added that everyone in the house has bikes, and that the commute is only about a five to 10 minute ride to campus.

Despite housing troubles, the newly revived fraternity is growing: Chi Psi just extended nine new bids this semester. The fraternity also just adopted a golden retriever puppy named Buck, who lives in the house with the brothers.

Chi Psi has active chapters at 31 universities.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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4:00 PM CEAS Japan Colloquium Series, “Culture and War: Material Culture and Samurai Sociability in 16th-Century Japan.” What connects the 16th-century samurai practices of collecting and displaying art at social gatherings to counting and examining heads after battle? How do the rituals of gift-giving among warlords relate to the politics of falconry? This talk will link the extreme violence of this age of civil and international war to the increasing significance of samurai social rituals and cultural practices. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 203.

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SPORTS

“It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”

MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Yale displays depth

Bernstein ’18 leads way MEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE 14

COURTESY OF KEN LEGNER

Members of the No. 2 Yale coed sailing team said that rankings this early on are not a major concern.

SAILING FROM PAGE 14 ors to both the Hewitt Trophy and the Danmark, which was hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Of the three Eli sailors who qualified for the Men’s Singlehanded National Championships last week, for example, two sailed in the Hewitt Trophy and one competed at the Danmark.

The top Eli finish at the Hewitt Trophy came in the C division, where skipper Nick Hernandez ’19, sailing with crew Emily Johnson ’16 and Caroline Colwell ’18, recorded a first place finish — 24 points ahead of the second-place finishers from Boston University, and 44 points ahead of thirdplace Connecticut College.

In the B division of the Hewitt, Nic Baird ’19 served as the skipper alongside crew Belling and Colwell. The boat tallied 48 points to land a second-place finish, nine points behind the first-place finishers from Dartmouth.

Baird, after placing third in the New England Singlehanded Championships — and earning himself a national

championship berth in the process — switched to doublehanded this past weekend.

Leonard said switching from single to doublehanded is not uncommon for skilled skippers.

“There is nothing to indicate that someone who is good at singlehanded wouldn’t be good at doublehanded, but singlehanded is a little bit of a specialty,” Leonard said. “You have to have sailed that boat growing up. But it doesn’t necessarily go the other way.

Doublehanded sailors might not be good singlehanded.”

In the A division, Malcolm Lamphere ’18 raced with Chandler Gregoire ’17 and finished fourth.

Over at the Danmark Trophy, Ian Barrows ’17 and Natalya Doris ’17 finished third in the A division, while Mitchell Kiss ’17, Clara Robertson ’17 and Christopher Champa ’18 finished ninth in the B division.

Belling noted that finishing towards the top in two major events requires a deep team, with talent across the board.

“It is becoming increasingly

apparent that we can achieve top results at many events in a given weekend,” Belling said.

“Many teams were not able to send two groups of competitive sailors to both of these events.”

Competing at multiple events in the same weekend also allows younger sailors a chance to perform on a big stage early on in their careers.

Lamphere said that he sees these busy weekends as opportunities for growth among many sailors, and as an indicator of future success.

“Plenty of people got a chance to sail and learn, which will help us a lot moving forward,” Lamphere said. “Giving the less experienced [sailors] opportunities is great for our success later on.”

The women’s regatta, The Connecticut College Invitational Regatta, was canceled due to inclement weather.

The Eli women will compete next at the U.S. Naval Academy Women’s Fall Regatta in Annapolis, Maryland.

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

New tennis scoring system WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 dani both dropped to the consolation bracket after two rounds, Ree Ree Li moved on to the quarterfinals after dispatching a Princeton opponent in another two sets. She did not move to the semifinals, as a St. John’s challenger took her down, 6–0, 6–2, and the captain was also unable to last more than two sets against a Columbia opponent in her consolation match.

Sherry Li and Zordani, meanwhile, won their Sunday consolation matches.

Zordani’s match was a straightforward 6–3, 6–3 victory, but Li’s required a tougher battle. After dropping the first set, Li began her second with a 5–1 deficit, just one game away from losing the match. She rebounded to win six straight games, taking the set and carrying that momentum into a 10–6 tiebreaker victory to take the match.

“It was incredible, because she stayed calm throughout the entire time,” Ree Ree Li said. “Even when she was down 5–1, she was still working the points, sticking to her strategy. She was really brave in the way that she stepped up on the big points and wasn’t scared to go after her shots.”

Notching an early win in the B singles draw, Shrivastava was one of two Bulldog freshmen to come out well on the first day, as Caroline Amos ’19 was also victorious in her first match of the draw.

The two freshmen both won their opening matches in two sets, with Amos winning a tiebreaker in her first set but putting her Drexel opponent away 6–1 in the second set. Amos dropped her secondround match to a St. John’s player in two sets, but Shrivastava, after felling her Drexel opponent 6–1, 6–2 in the opening round, moved on the quarterfinals with another two-set win, 6–3, 6–4, over a St. John’s foe. With eight players then remaining in the draw, Shrivastava lost in two sets to end Yale’s chances at a title in the B singles draw.

While fellow B draw competitors Caroline Lynch ’17 and Sunday Swett ’18 were unable to advance past the first round of play, both won their conso-

lation matches the following Sunday.

Swett had a straightforward 6–4, 6–3 win while Lynch held off a late comeback by her opponent to take the match 6–2, 7–5.

Though Zlatkovic was pleased overall with Yale’s performance in singles, he said that the Elis’ doubles play could have be improved. The four doubles squads, two in each of the A and B draws, combined for a 3–6 record, and none could not advance past the final eight of 16 teams in each draw.

“In doubles, we played well the first round but the second round was a little tougher,” Zlatkovic said. “I think there is room for improvement, and that’s what we’ll do this week.”

There were two main differences between this Cissie Leary Invitational and its 2014 iteration, both of which impacted the players involved. The first was unexpected: rainy weather conditions forced the tournament to move to Penn’s indoor courts. Li said despite the fact that Penn’s indoor courts are faster than Yale’s, the team needed only 20 minutes to adjust.

The second change, however, will remain a factor throughout the rest of the season. The NCAA has changed scoring rules for Division I teams in the 2015–16 season, requiring that all men’s and women’s matches score using the no-ad scoring system, which requires just a one-point advantage, rather than two points, to win a game. Li said she thought this change was a part of an effort by sport officials to raise the popularity of the sport by shortening the length of matches.

“The no-ad scoring is definitely something that we’re adjusting to,” Li said. “That definitely changes the way you play those points. It changes the way you think about the match overall, because there’s less time [in the match].”

The Bulldogs host their next tournament, the Yale Invitational, this weekend. Play begins on Friday, Oct. 9, and concludes the following Sunday.

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

Bulldogs, finishing tied for 13th at +6. Although he turned in a 75 in round one at the par-70 course, Bernstein bounced back to finish strong with a round two score of 71, tying for the eighth-best round on Saturday.

“I thought I played pretty solid given the conditions,” Bernstein said. “I was happy with how I dealt with the conditions, but I still think that I could have been better. I am looking forward to our match on Friday and for this spring to hopefully win the Ivy League this year.”

Bernstein was followed closely by a set of teammates. Leonard, Willis, Lai and Wang — in that order — all finished within five strokes of Bernstein, though Wang’s score of +11 did not count since only the top four scores contribute to Yale’s team score.

In addition to those five selected by Sheehan, Henry Cassriel ’18, James Nicholas ’19, James Park ’17 and Jake Leffew ’19 all competed in the Macdonald Cup as individuals. Cassiel’s

+9, good for a tie for 28th, put him alongside Willis, and ahead of both Lai and Wang. Nicholas and Park pitched in with rounds of +13, while Leffew rounded out the Bulldogs’ play with a +17.

All nine players improved their scores from the first round to the second, highlighted by Leonard’s 10-stroke improvement. His 69 on Saturday tied for the secondbest round score in the entire tournament.

“In the second round, I think every player on the team improved and it’s a shame the event was cut to two rounds instead of three because I think we would have improved even more and would have finished [closer to] the top,” Leonard said.

The tournament featured seven of the eight Ivy League schools, with only Columbia absent from action. Harvard dominated the event as four Crimson golfers rounded out the top five individual scores after the Cup’s individual winner, Jon DuToit of Minnesota. Besides Harvard, Dartmouth was the only other Ancient Eight school to fin-

ish ahead of the Bulldogs. The Big Green finished in 5th place, three strokes ahead of Yale.

“It’s always a joy [to compete against other Ivy League schools],” Sheehan said. “It’s a healthy, friendly rivalry as a conference. The conference is getting stronger every year. It’s so easy to be excited about the matchups.”

The University of Stirling traveled across the pond from Scotland to participate in the Macdonald Cup. Stirling finished four strokes behind Harvard, which would have been good for second place in the final team standings, but since Stirling is an international school, the team’s results are not officially recognized by the NCAA. The Bulldogs tee off for the last time of the semester on Friday at the inaugural Bush Cup in a match-play event against Army, which will be hosted at Winged Foot Golf Course in Mamaroneck, New York.

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

YALE MEN’S GOLF BALANCED AT THE TOP The Doc Glimmer

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Penalty kick seals loss MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 10 threatened the Harvard wall. At halftime, the only Crimson goal was off the foot of a Yale player.

The second half, however, saw Harvard come out of the locker room with more energy, outshooting Yale 3–1 in the minutes leading up to the Crimson’s second goal. Harvard forward Jake Freeman dove to head in a long cross that put Harvard ahead for its first lead of the night — and the first multi-goal game for the Crimson since its win over Stony Brook on Sept. 13.

Yale had several chances in the final 20 minutes to equalize. The contest was not over until a Harvard player was found down in the box two minutes from time and a penalty was called against Piper, who was visibly upset with the call. Schipper dove to the left as Crimson midfielder Tim Schmoll tapped the penalty to the

right, effectively sealing the result of the match.

In an otherwise tight contest from start to finish, the difference, perhaps, was the own goal. In addition to Downs, midfielder Ollie Iselin ’18 also played particularly well, accounting for six of Yale’s 10 shots. But the Bulldogs could not maintain their offensive intensity throughout the game, a problem they have struggled with throughout the 2015 season. Yale lost efficiency in the second half and only reclaimed it in the closing minutes while searching for an equalizer.

Goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17, who has been out with a leg injury for four games, said the attack is the area that the Bulldogs will focus on in the coming week of practice.

“Defensively, again, we were really strong and the goals we let in were just lapses — small lapses — but it’s all preventable stuff,” Simpson said. “I think

we’re going to work on putting more balls in the back of the net, and we’ll look to be more effective doing that moving forward.”

Ivy play takes a pause on Tuesday as Yale faces Rutgers on the road. On Saturday, the Elis will return home and attempt to regroup for their next conference match against Dartmouth, the defending Ivy League champions. The match kicks off at 4 p.m.

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

EDITOR’S NOTE This article was scheduled to run in yesterday’s paper. However, due to an editing error, a former article was printed in its place.

The News regrets this error.

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Though Yale played tight with Harvard for the majority of the game, a late penalty kick gave the Crimson its two-goal lead.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Auras may not protect epileptic drivers

BY NITYA RAYAPATI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new Yale co-authored study suggests that experiencing warning signs before seizures may not contribute to an epileptic individual’s driving safety.

Yale researchers found that people with uncontrolled seizures who experienced “auras” — reliable warning signs before a seizure — had motor vehicle accidents just as often as those who did not have auras.

The findings, published in September in the journal Epilepsia, have implications for legislation in states where auras are used to gauge whether someone with epilepsy can drive safely.

“Having an aura before your seizures doesn’t protect you from having an accident while driving, which means that, unfortunately, we should not be allowing patients who have a warning before their seizures to drive if the seizures are still uncontrolled,” Hal Blumenfeld, neurology professor and director of the Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center, said.

However, past epilepsy research has yielded opposite conclusions. Some former studies have found that auras decrease the number of motor vehicle accidents incurred by patients who had a seizure while driving, while other investigations have found that auras have no protective benefits.

Using data from the Multicenter Study of Epilepsy Surgery, the researchers examined two groups: patients who had an accident due to having a seizure while driving and patients who were able to prevent accidents despite having a seizure while driving. In a questionnaire, the researchers asked epileptic subjects about their auras and other details about their seizures, including duration and frequency.

Researchers recorded the percentage of auras within the two groups and found that motorists with auras had an equal chance of having an accident when compared to those who did not have dependable warning signs prior to their seizures.

The researchers also explored whether longer auras provided benefits to patients, finding that auras did not help motorists

drive more safely, regardless of their length.

Most states do not allow a person with episodes of impaired consciousness to drive, Andrew Cole, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Epilepsy Service, said. States have varying time limits on how long a person has to go without an episode before he or she is once again permitted to drive an automobile, Cole said. These limits range from three months in Arizona to a year in many other states.

“Obviously the time limits

are arbitrary. If one state says three months and one state says a year, it’s clear that there’s not very good data to decide what the right length of time is,” Cole said. “But everyone agrees that some length of time seems reasonable; how long depends on how conservative you are.”

In 1994, the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society recommended that individuals who had “consistent and prolonged auras” should have shorter bans before they were permitted to drive again. In 11 states,

auras continue to be considered in creating legal guidelines on these issues. Because of this consideration, some epileptic individuals begin to drive again earlier than they would have if they had not experienced or reported their auras.

But according to Vineet Punia, co-author of the study and epilepsy fellow at Cleveland Clinic, auras may not help protect epileptic motorists.

“So that means it gives [the patient] a false sense of safety that ‘Oh, I can drive, I have a warning and I won’t have an

accident.’ But that doesn’t pan out in reality on the road,” Punia said. “The most important implication is that we should be cautious and not over-rely on this warning they had before their seizure.”

Punia noted the biggest limitation of the study is the questionnaire’s retrospective nature.

He added that future testing could administer driving simulation tests while monitoring the electrical activity in patients’ brains.

Still, there are limitations on studying epileptic populations.

“These are patients from the epilepsy surgery database.

These are patients who have bad epilepsy. If it’s bad enough that you’re getting epilepsy surgery, it’s bad enough that you shouldn’t be driving, period. So it’s hard to think [the patients] are representative of the general epilepsy population,” Cole said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 2.4 million adults have active epilepsy.

Contact NITYA RAYAPATI at nitya.rayapati@yale.edu .

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Infidelity has profound effect on veterans’ PTSD

BY MIRANDA ESCOBAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Approximately 50 to 60 percent of military couples seek marital therapy as a result of infidelity, according to a paper released by researchers at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Connecticut. Military relationships are marked by frequent and extended periods of separation, which prompted researchers at the National Center for PTSD in Connecticut to investigate the issue of infidelity among deployed service members.

Research at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System at the West Haven Campus examined the impact of infidelity on combat-exposed service members. The study suggested that infidelity, though often overlooked, is a pressing issue for veterans’ mental health.

Experts said the findings underscore the need to further investigate the effects of infidelity on deployed service members and develop clinical methods to better treat those effects.

“There’s not really many people studying [infidelity], even though it’s probably something that we showed in this study that really does have implications for post-deployment mental health,” study senior author Dawne Vogt, a research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD and psychiatry professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, said.

Vogt and her fellow researchers began by distributing surveys to recently deployed veterans who were in a relationship at the time of their deployment.

The participants answered questions about their infidelity experiences and concerns, PTSD and depression symptoms and postdeployment stressors. Of the

573 veterans who participated, 22 percent reported that their partners were unfaithful during deployment. Of the participants who did not report infidelity, 37.8 percent indicated that they were concerned that their partners may have been unfaithful.

The results of the surveys also indicated that veterans whose partners were unfaithful during deployment were significantly more likely to experience depression and symptoms of PTSD. Vogt said the research suggested that infidelity can function as a contributing stressor during deployment and ultimately leads to greater post-deployment stress.

According to Lorig Kachadourian, study author and research fellow at the Clinical Neuroscience Division of the VA National Center for PTSD, the study’s findings on the effects of infidelity on service members suggest new directions for clinical methods in post-deployment mental health.

“Just knowing that this can be a significant stressor for those who are deployed can definitely be of assistance for clinicians and mental health professionals and those who are there with [service members] to provide necessary treatment or counseling,” Kachadourian said.

Psychiatry experts interviewed agreed that post-deployment counseling is a field that requires further development.

Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine John Krystal said while service members receive extensive support in navigating their romantic relationships during deployment, that level of support often deteriorates once they return home. “[Military leaders] monitor their [platoon members’] relationships closely and try to pro-

vide support when people are struggling with these problems,” Krystal said. “But this level of monitoring does not continue after deployment even though the risks to the well-being of military personnel and veterans persists.”

Robert Pietrzak, psychiatry professor at the Yale School of Medicine and director of the Translational Psychiatric Epidemiology Laboratory in the Clinical Neurosciences Division of the National Center for PTSD, added that it would have been valuable for researchers to conduct the survey on service members middeployment, as well as postdeployment.

The survey asked combatexposed veterans to describe their emotions during combat after their return home, but Pietrzak said this may not provide fully accurate data because perceptions of infidelity may be influenced by psychological symptoms at the time of survey completion.

Vogt and Kachadourian both said they hope their findings have opened the door for additional research on the topic of infidelity and deployment in the future.

Vogt particularly emphasized that there is still much more to learn about the effect of infidelity on veterans.

“What I think would be great would be to expand the assessment. What kind of infidelity was it? And, did [service members] engage in infidelity?” Vogt said.

“So, I think there’s a lot more questions that would be useful to ask, and that we don’t currently have in our existing data set.”

According to the National Center for PTSD, about 8 million adults are affected by PTSD in the United States each year.

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

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“Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations— but its counterspell has always been infidelity.”

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Children assess warmth differently from adults

BY CAMERON HILL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER An article published in August

by Yale researchers Gina Roussos and Yarrow Dunham describes how children perceive warmth and competence when assessing social groups.

Roussos, a graduate student working in Yale’s Intergroup Relations Lab, and Dunham, a psychology professor and the director of the Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale, said that research has long suggested that warmth and competence are key components in how adults understand social groups. But this study aimed to determine whether children also use perceptions of these attributes when classifying and understanding community networks. The study found that although children are aware of the presence of both warmth and competence in different groups of people, they do not treat the characteristics as independent of one another.

The researchers studied children reacting to images of eight different social groups — Americans, the rich, the blind, the old, the homeless, the poor, scientists and teachers — who all displayed different combinations of warmth and competence. They recorded how the children classified each image and subsequently judged the warmth and competence of that image, by asking the children how “nice” or “smart” that person was. The children’s responses were then compared to adult classifications of the same social groups.

Although children’s judgments and understandings of a person’s competence reflected those of adults, their perceptions of warmth were shaped by factors that, for adults, only influence perceptions of competence.

In other words, children are more likely to base their perception of someone’s warmth on the person’s reliability and intelligence,

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whereas adults only use those factors to assess competence. For instance, adults viewed blind individuals as “nicer” than the children did, and the children viewed the rich as nicer than the adults did, because the children considered competence an indicator for warmth.

Dunham said children’s understanding of competence develops earlier than their understanding of warmth. “[The study’s] results suggest that from quite early in development children are young sociologists, trying to understand how groups function in their world and

what characterizes those groups,” Dunham wrote in a Friday email to the News.

Knowing the childhood origin of different types of biases or stereotypes, like those implied by valuations of warmth and competence, may help researchers develop methods to curb those biases, Roussos said. She added that childhood is an important time to study the development of prejudice because attitudes are most malleable during this period. The next step of studying children’s perceptions of warmth and competence would involve determining whether information

about warmth has greater influence on perceptions of competence, or vice versa, she added.

“It’s a challenge to study children that young reporting impressions of social groups, but if we are ever going to understand the origins of prejudice, we have to start young,” said Susan Fiske, a psychology professor at Princeton, known for her work studying the relationship between warmth and competence in adults.

While the current research suggests that children are able to view competence as a distinct trait before they can do the same for warmth, further studies would

need to manipulate either the competence or warmth information given to the children and then see whether their reactions to those traits change, Roussos said.

The study also noted the differences in children’s understanding of groups that were warm versus those that were competent.

“Children have a hard time understanding groups that are high in competence, but not in warmth,” Roussos said. “They seem to think that if you’re competent, you’re also really nice.

It’s interesting to think that kids might not understand that people who are smart aren’t necessar-

ily good or nice, and that’s important for studying kids’ attitudes to groups.”

Dunham said further studies could investigate how children view the relationship between warmth and competence and social status, for example, whether they expect groups that they see as more competent to have a higher social status than groups perceived as less competent.

There were 72 child participants in the study.

Contact CAMERON HILL at cameron.hill@yale.edu .

Children choose tasty over healthy

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER Kids may not be able to keep their hands out of the cookie jar, even if they know the treat is bad for them, according to a new study.

Research released by the Rudd

Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut found that children can accurately assess food products’ healthfulness, but often choose to ignore that information, instead making selections based on flavor. Researchers created a virtual grocery store for

children aged seven to 12 to use.

The store included both healthy and unhealthy items, and children were asked to rate the health benefits of each food item before putting it into their cart.

Although children accurately rated the healthfulness of each item, the biggest factor in their

selections was perceived tastiness of product.

“It’s a common misperception that kids are eating unhealthy foods, and that if they knew what was healthy, they would choose healthier things,” Jennifer Harris, one of the study authors and researcher at the Rudd Cen-

ter, said. “What this study really shows is that they know what’s healthy and what’s unhealthy, and that this doesn’t have any effect at all on what food they choose.”

Researchers randomly divided 61 children into three groups. The first group was exposed to adver-

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tisements for unhealthy products, the second to advertisements for healthy products and the third — the control group — exposed to no advertisements.

Children were asked to rate the healthfulness of foods before making their selections, but completed the exercise without the direct supervision of adults.

According to Amy Heard, a Loyola graduate student in psychology and one of the study authors, this procedure eliminated the need for children to make the “right” choices to appease grown-ups, more accurately reflecting what children would choose in real life.

“They could put anything in their cart,” Heard said.

Researchers then ran statistical analyses to disentangle the relationships between perceived taste, healthfulness and the presence of promotional advertisements.

For example, the study suggests a different role for advertising in improving children’s health choices. Heard said the group of children exposed to promotions for healthy foods rated those healthy foods tastier, making them more likely to select those products. Children within the selected age range are generally able to understand the persuasive intent of advertising, but are not yet able to defend themselves against it, Heard noted.

Researchers also emphasized the importance of ensuring that kids have access to healthier foods. Heard said that children often need to be exposed to a food multiple times before they perceive it as tasty. Junk food, on the other hand, is designed to be extremely palatable, incorporating large amounts of fat, salt and sugar to create products that appeal to a majority of people, she said.

Heard also noted that the online simulated grocery store creation can be used in future studies and open doors to better understanding kids’ food choices.

According to some studies, nearly 40 percent of children’s daily calories come from solid fat and added sugars.

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

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Elis sail to victory at Hewitt COED SAILING

Men place sixth at home

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s golf team hosted 12 NCAA schools this weekend at The Course at Yale for the 40th annual Macdonald Cup, one of the most prestigious full-field tournaments in the Northeast. Tournament founder and former Yale head coach David Paterson was on hand as the Bulldogs finished the two-day event in sixth place with an overall team score of +31.

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Ian Barrows ’17 and Natalia Doris ’17 raced to a third-place finish in the A division of the Danmark Trophy.

BY KEVIN BENDESKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Splitting its squad between a pair of regattas this past weekend, the No. 2 Yale coed sailing team coasted to a 60-point victory to repeat as champions at the Dartmouth-hosted Hewitt Trophy, while notching a fourth-place finish at the Danmark Trophy in New Lon-

don, Connecticut as well.

Also over the weekend, the Sailing World College Rankings — out for the first time in the fall season — ranked both the coed and women’s teams second in the nation. But captain Charlotte Belling ’16 said that in October, Yale’s sailors are more focused on their progress than on specific statistics and rankings.

“We try not to focus on [rankings] at the beginning of the year,” Belling said. “It’s interesting to see how we match up against other teams so far, but we’re taking the season week-by-week and focusing on how we can use each event to improve and ultimately achieve top results [later in the season].”

Asked about the rankings,

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head coach Zachary Leonard said he “tends to ignore those.”

He added that his focus is more on the Atlantic Coast Championships in the fall and the ICSA National Championships in the spring.

The Bulldogs divided themselves fairly evenly for the two regattas, sending top sailSEE SAILING PAGE 10

The Yale men’s soccer team extended its losing streak to three games this past weekend when the Bulldogs lost to Harvard at home in an intense rivalry matchup.

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Captain Ree Ree Li ’16 was the lone Eli to reach the quarterfinals of the A singles draw.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER After mixed results during the first two days of competition, the Yale women’s tennis team found a way to finish strong at the 19th annual Cissie Leary Invitational this past weekend. Four of the five Bulldogs who competed on Sunday secured wins in the consolation bracket, and the tournament saw two Eli players reaching the quarterfinals of their respective draws.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

The University of Pennsylvania, which hosted the 10-team tournament, walked away with titles in both the A and B singles draws. Captain Ree Ree Li ’16, Sherry Li ’17 and Elizabeth Zordani ’18 all advanced to at least the second round in the A singles draw, with Ree Ree Li as the sole Eli to advance to the quarterfinals of the A draw. In the B singles draw, Sonal Shrivastava ’19 matched her captain’s performance, reaching the quarterfinals in her first collegiate outing.

“In general, we are moving in the right direction,” interim head coach Matej Zlat-

kovic said. “There are still some things that we have to work on this week and in following weeks, but we’ve improved tremendously.”

In the A singles draw, Ree Ree Li and Sherry Li both advanced to the Round of 16 after winning in two sets. Zordani’s match stretched to a tiebreaking set, which the Eli sophomore won 10–5. Zordani played her next match to a tiebreaker but did not prevail the second time around, falling 10–6 to a player from Penn.

Though Sherry Li and ZorSEE W. TENNIS PAGE 10

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Eight of Yale’s nine golfers finished within the top 40 of the 73-golfer field.

Harvard spoils Ivy opener

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Prior to this weekend, the Bulldogs had finished either first or second in each of the past eight iterations of the Macdonald Cup. “It’s a great sense of pride for the team and the program, the players and myself, to host all of these teams at our home course,” head coach Colin Sheehan ’97 said. “The guys just got off to a slow start and in a 36-hole event, it’s hard to come back from that.”

The short recovery time — this was the Elis’ fourth tournament in just 22 days — and poor weather conditions combined to make the Macdonald Cup a challenging event for the Bulldogs. The tournament was moved up one day due to potential travel concerns for the visiting schools, shortening the Cup from three rounds to just two.

“While the conditions were tough, I suspect that the team may have been showing signs of being a

little run-down,” Sheehan said.

With the exception of Nick McNiff ’17, every player on the Bulldog roster competed in the tournament. Before the Macdonald Cup, Sheehan designated five golfers to play as Yale’s primary squad.

Those five were captain Joe Willis ’16, Jonathan Lai ’17, Li Wang ’17, Will Bernstein ’18 and Eoin Leonard ’19. Bernstein recorded the best individual score for the

Despite the 3–1 scoreline, the match was far from one-sided, and Yale (1–7–0, 0–1–0 Ivy) was competitive even up to the game’s waning moments. The Bulldogs were the first to get on the board with an early goal by midfielder Nicky Downs ’19, and although an own goal quickly ended that early Eli lead, the Crimson never held more than a one-goal lead until a penalty kick in the 89th minute of play. Nevertheless, Eli players were quick to point out they did not feel they had earned a better result.

“It’s definitely disappointing, [because] we’ve been working hard, training hard and [we] put up a really good fight, but you can’t get into the mindset that you deserve something to go better,” midfielder Saul Downie ’18 said. “You just have to go out there and make it better.”

Within the first two minutes, the Crimson (2–4–2, 1–0–0) saw the first goal chance of the game as a long Harvard ball cut across the box. Goalkeeper Kees Schipper ’19 dove to his left and got one hand on it, deflecting it just enough to see it roll harmlessly out of play.

Five minutes later, it was the Bulldogs who took the early lead

through Downs’ first career goal.

Midfielder Archie Kinnane ’18 passed a corner ball to midfielder Henry Albrecht ’17, who then fed it to an unmarked Downs.

The Harvard goalkeeper could only watch over his shoulder as Downs’ shot smashed the upper right corner.

“It was something we drew up this week, and we trained [the set piece play] a decent amount in practice, although not as successfully as it ended up working out in the game,” Downs said.

“The [pass by Albrecht] was really good. I had enough space to get the shot off, and I just hit it and it went in. You catch a lucky break once in a while.”

The goal wasn’t Downs’ only bright spot in the game — he repeatedly earned applause for

outsmarting and outmaneuvering a host of Harvard defenders.

After Downs’ goal, however, Yale’s defense failed to maintain the 1–0 lead. Seven minutes later, Schipper moved forward to defend a dangerous Harvard ball, but a mix-up saw captain and defender Philip Piper ’16 pass the ball back to an empty Yale goal.

The Bulldogs were helpless as the ball crept into the net behind them.

Still, Yale’s first half ended as the best opening frame for the Elis since their win over Quinnipiac on Sept. 19. Unlike the previous two matches, when the Eli were held shotless in the first 45 minutes, the Bulldog attack in Saturday’s match regularly SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 10

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Nicky Downs ’19 scored his first career goal in the seventh minute of play.

THE NUMBER OF GAMES IN A ROW THAT YALE WOMEN’S TENNIS PLAYER SHERRY LI ’17 WON IN THE SECOND SET OF A CONSOLATION MATCH DURING THE CISSIE LEARY INVITATIONAL. Facing elimination, Li came back from a 5–1 hole to win the set 7–5, before winning the tiebreaking third set.