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FOOTBALL SCORES ANOTHER WIN
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Sustainability kicks off its “Celebrate Sustainability” initiative today, launching an unprecedented number of events for the week. Monday’s lineup includes 10 items, such as a discussion on food justice and a tour of the Sterling Power Plant. Social media posts about the week’s events will be marked by the #YSustain hashtag.
Morning stretch. One sustainability event will take place from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. today, when Tess Hamilton ’17 is set to lead a hatha yoga session on Cross Campus. Students of all levels of experience and flexibility are encouraged to come and learn how to be one with Yale. Bulldog, bulldog. NCAA.com
featured a piece on Handsome Dan as part of its “Traditions” series. Videos about Iowa’s pink visitors’ locker room and Notre Dame’s “Play Like a Champion Today” sign preceded this weekend’s post, which retold the history of Yale’s mascot — college football’s first live one.
Not East Rock. A group
from Yale Outdoors scaled West Rock Ridge’s 700foot summit this weekend, beating the Friday morning sunrise. The ridge is located in a state park that stretches across the west side of New Haven, as well as Hamden and Woodbridge. It overlooks the Elm City metropolis from the northwest.
Everybody loves nature. On Sunday night, the YCC’s Facebook page shared a letter from Fossil Free Yale that is set to make rounds today as the group hopes to accumulate signatures advocating for divestment. “Bitcoin is [still] evil.” New
York Times columnist Paul Krugman ’74 reaffirmed his disdain for Bitcoin in a blog post entitled “The Long Cryptocon” on Saturday. Krugman, whose models are a central fixture in ECON 184, insists that not much has changed since he penned his “Bitcoin is evil” piece in December, saying he’s not sure that the hot, new currency ‘has any economic value.’
Skin-deep. At 6:30 p.m., Harvard professor Giuliana Bruno will discuss her newest book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality and Media,” which explores the substance of facades and skins in art, buildings and humans. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1964 Silliman College Dean John Palmer, serving the first of his 15 years in the position, opens the first round of interviews for Rhodes Scholarship candidates. The announcement specifies Yale’s unmarried, American students — then all male — between the ages of 18 and 24 as eligible to apply. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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hree games into its season, Yale Football is on a winning streak. After notching wins against Lehigh and Army in September, the Bulldogs routed Cornell in a 51-13 victory. Are more wins to come? See PAGE B1 for a full report.
Over 300 members of the Harvard University community received an email on Friday afternoon threatening them with a campus shooting. Harvard University police continue to investigate the threat, but another email, sent Saturday afternoon from the same address that delivered the first message, issued an apology for the previous day’s threats. The author of the original email signed their name as Boston resident Stephanie Nguyen, though the email name identifies the sender as Eduardo Nguyen. In the email — which was sent to 394 Harvard community members but was addressed to all students at Harvard — the sender said that she would arrive at Harvard University on Saturday at “11 clock” and shoot each student individually. SEE HARVARD PAGE 6
Pinkberry workers claim wage theft BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The apparent closing of the Chapel Street frozen yogurt shop Pinkberry is not as simple as it once seemed. Yesterday, the Pinkberry Corporate office issued a statement over email to the News saying that the store — which has appeared vacant as of late — is only temporarily closed. But employees interviewed believe differently, contending that the store is not only permanently closed, but also failed to pay
its workers. According to several employees, the frozen yogurt shop has withheld payment from many of the employees, even after being closed since late September. Some workers still have not received up to 800 dollars in payment, said Romello Pouncey, an employee who has been working at Pinkberry since it opened in April. In response to questions about worker wage fraud, Pinkberry Senior Vice President of Marketing and Design, Laura Jakobsen SEE PINKBERRY PAGE 4
“It’s on Us” focuses on sexual climate BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Over the past two weeks, student groups have come together to improve Yale’s sexual climate. As a part of Yale College Council’s new “It’s On Us, Yale” campaign, a number of student groups were asked to define how on-campus sexual and social climates can be improved. The YCC’s campaign is part of a nationwide movement announced on Sept. 19 by President Barack Obama,– with a stated goal of ending sexual assault on college campuses nationwide. After last month’s announcement, White House staffers approached several student body presidents at universities across the country, including YCC President Michael Herbert ’16, and asked them to implement the campaign at their respective schools.
While both the national and YCC campaigns ask students to sign pledges promising to fight sexual violence, YCC representatives have tried to make their initiative more Yale-specific. “The White House came out with a really good idea — especially for a lot of campuses who haven’t really begun these discussions yet — to have a pledge that people sign that hits the main points: sexual assault isn’t acceptable, lack of consent is sexual assault, bystander intervention and so on,” said Sarika Pandrangi ’17, who serves as a Calhoun representative for YCC, a Communication and Consent Educator and the Council’s “It’s On Us, Yale” project manager. “But our campaign is slightly different because we think that Yalies already know those things, so we want to push SEE IT’S ON US PAGE 6
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ast Thursday night, the Yale School of Architecture’s Jim Vlock First Year Building Project culminated in the opening of a newly built house, located at 179 Scranton St. The house was designed and constructed by first-year students at the School of Architecture, who began working on their designs in January and then spent the summer building the house.
Bookstore arson suspect arrested BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Three days after an arsonist started a series of small fires in the Yale Bookstore last Monday, the police made an arrest. On Thursday, the New Haven Police Department released a description of the suspect based
on surveillance videos in the bookstore. Hours later, police arrested the suspect — a 14-yearold boy from New Haven — after his foster parent recognized him while watching WFSB news on Thursday evening and contacted the authorities. Police charged the suspect with arson in the third degree, reckless endan-
germent in the first degree and criminal mischief in the first degree. Police are not releasing further information about the suspect’s identity or where he was arrested because he is a juvenile, said NHPD spokesperson David Hartman. The search for the suspect began after the fire depart-
ment was called in to investigate an arson fire on Monday. After reviewing the bookstore’s surveillance footage, authorities found that the suspect used a lighter to start several small fires around the building. The security tapes also suggested that the suspect started a fire in the bathroom.
Following the Yale Police response to the fire alarm, the New Haven Fire Department arrived on site and requested the Arson Unit, University spokesperson Tom Conroy said in an email. The NHPD and fire department handled the subseSEE BOOKSTORE PAGE 4
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Last year the News editorialized on University President Peter Salovey’s transition from Warner House to Woodbridge Hall. This will be the first full year under Salovey’s leadership. As such, it may be the most formative in shaping the trajectory of his tenure. While the President oversees the University at large, no one will have a greater impact on Yale College’s day-to-day operations than its new dean, Jonathan Holloway. Fresh in our roles at the helm of the News, we are keenly aware of the changes around us. As we encourage our reporters to search for change — to find the aberration from the norm — we believe we have a role to play in shaping conversation about the transitions afoot in the College. In the midst of the search for then-Dean Mary Miller’s replacement this spring, debate raged over the role of students in the decisionmaking process. It is true that students lack institutional memory. We depart after only four years. The most important administrative decisions are often incremental; their consequences will likely only be felt years after we have graduated. Still, we believe student input is particularly useful for a dean who was not a Yale undergraduate. While we are optimistic that Holloway’s experiences and qualifications position him for success, no dean — even one who has served as a master of a residential college for eight years — can understand the immediate concerns and values of the student body better than those currently studying at the College. We therefore have an obligation to share with Holloway our sense of the College's future. This editorial
inaugurates a series that will articulate our hopes for what Holloway can accomplish. Indeed, Holloway faces a host of challenges. The University still struggles to diversify its student body and mitigate the role socioeconomic class plays in college life. Work remains in fostering a positive sexual culture, one where students do not fear assault and harassment. We hear from students whose concerns with mental health policies have yet to be assuaged. Athletic recruitment and integration of athletes into the College are open questions. And Yale must decide how to balance fiscal conservatism with the goal of expanding the STEM community. This list is by no means comprehensive. But these problems will only grow when the two new residential colleges open in 2017 — the first such expansion of the College in five decades. Holloway’s central challenge will be to preserve the intimacy yet intellectual dynamism characteristic of a Yale education at a time when our resources will be stretched thin. As we tackle these broad issues in editorials, we ask you, our readers, to join us in this enterprise. Participate in the conversation about the current state of the College and where it ought to go. Whether in the dining halls or the locker rooms before practice, ask your friends: What sort of college do you envision? Too often we accept as foregone conclusions the vision the University’s leaders set for our school. Institutional change of this scale invites an opportunity for communal introspection and scrutiny. Whether or not we agree with the course the College is on, there is room for debate — for questions and alternative ideas.
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his past Saturday was Yom Kippur, the Jewish people’s holiest day of the year. It is a day of atonement during which those observing the holiday fast for a 25-hour period and repent for their sins. For many, the fast is seen as exactly this — an opportunity to right our wrongs, overcoming our fundamental human needs in order to concentrate solely on the act of penance. I started fasting for Yom Kippur when I was 13, and have done so every year since, but I am often conflicted about why I am doing it. Though I understand the sentiment behind the day of atonement, I have a hard time believing that one day of reflection on my wrongdoings can make them right. I’ve begun to realize that the fast becomes a lot more meaningful when I think of it as a privilege, as something I am fortunate enough to opt into. Every other day of the year I wake up knowing that I will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is a luxury to be able to fast for a holiday once a year when so many people spend their whole lives without the reassurance that they will have food on their tables. I spent the entirety of Saturday in bed. The correct observation of Yom Kippur entails not doing any work, but with the stress
of impending midterms, I attempted some reading midday. The fast made it so hard to focus that I could barely ALLY get through a DANIELS single page. I quickly Taking the a c c e p t e d defeat and put Back Ally the book away. I started thinking about people who go days on end without sufficient nourishment, in particular children who go to school hungry and are unable to perform to the best of their ability. If I was unable to do reading after half a day of fasting, how are children who go hungry for days on end expected to concentrate in school? According to the charity Feeding America, in 2013, 14 percent of households in the United States were food insecure, and households with children reported food insecurity at a significantly higher rate. The problem of hunger is immense and complex, with no clear solution. That is not to say that there aren’t ways to improve conditions for households facing hunger, especially
for children who need nourishment not only to grow physically but also mentally. Currently, federal nutrition programs play a critical role in reducing child hunger. Free or reduced-price school lunches have been an effective way of feeding children during the day; this means, however, that many children are still going without breakfast, and therefore spend half the school day on an empty stomach. According to the Food Research and Action Center, children who skip breakfast are less able to differentiate among visual images, have lower math scores, are more likely to repeat a grade and have a higher prevalence of behavioral, emotional and academic problems. School breakfast programs have been introduced around the country to enable schools to provide free or reduced-price breakfasts. The programs have been shown to be quite effective, resulting in improvements in math scores, attendance, punctuality, depression, anxiety and hyperactivity. Still, these breakfast programs are not nearly as widespread as the National School Lunch Program. Although students receiving free or reduced-price lunches should also qualify for breakfast,
fewer than half of them attend schools that provide both breakfast and lunch. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially when children may have gone without sufficient dinner the night before. Although ending hunger is an enormous task, circumstances can be improved for children. Providing free breakfast and lunch for every child that needs it would substantially ameliorate this problem. Children's very basic human needs must be satisfied before they can be expected to learn math and writing skills. When we are constantly surrounded by food, so much that we have to exercise self-restraint, it becomes difficult to remember how fortunate we are. As we scrape our leftovers into the garbage and complain about lowquality meals in the dining halls, far too many people are grateful just to get a single meal in a day. It is crucial that we remember to recognize our own privileges, and in doing so push our communities to become a part of the solution to hunger. ALLY DANIELS is a junior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Mondays. Contact her at alexandra.daniels@yale.edu .
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o the citizens of Germany: You’re welcome. No, no — no need for flowers. Last week, citing the Yale endowment’s extraordinary returns, I wrote a column entitled, “Make Yale Free.” (Its request, I hope, is self-explanatory.) The very next day, Lower Saxony announced it would become the very last German state to abolish tuition, making German universities completely free. As I said: Germans, you’re welcome. Closer to home, the University of Chicago announced that same day that it was creating a program called “No Barriers,” through which it would completely eliminate student loans for UChicago students, waive an application fee for anyone applying for financial aid, remove the work requirement for students and even guarantee eligible students paid summer internships after their freshman year. This is an extraordinary gesture by the university. Seriously, bravo. “With UChicago ‘No Barriers’ and our other commitments,” UChicago President Robert J. Zimmer announced at a press conference, “we are ensuring that people from all backgrounds and all incomes can afford to attend the university, and that they can thrive and succeed in whatever path they choose.” This is yet another moment where Yale has sacrificed the opportunity to lead — I can only hope that it chooses to follow. Tuition accounts for one third ofUChicago’soperatingexpenses.
T u i t i o n accounts for roughly 10 percent of Yale’s operating expenses. UChicago, with an endowment of SCOTT $6.67 billion, STERN announced it will be spendA Stern ing $112 milPerspective lion on financial aid next year. Yale, with its record-high endowment of $23.9 billion, is spending roughly $120 million on financial aid this year. Yale and UChicago have comparable undergraduate populations. Especially in light of the endowment’s outstanding growth, the Yale administration should be pretty embarrassed by this comparison. UChicago has an endowment one quarter the size of ours. They are far more dependent on tuition than we are. Yet they will be nearly matching the sum we put forth to help level the playing field for high-performing, low-income students. From 2004 to 2013, in spite of the 2008 financial meltdown, UChicago’s endowment increased from $3.60 billion to $6.67 billion, with an average return of 10 percent per year. In no small part because they were flush with so much money, administrators likely knew it was time to do something big. But we too are rolling in the dough. At Yale, over roughly the
same period, our endowment grew from $12.75 billion to $20.8 billion. Over the last decade, our endowment’s average annual return was 11 percent per year. Even as UChicago eliminates its student work requirement, Yale’s is still going strong. Upperclassmen on 100 percent aid still must earn $3,350 a year, which might not sound like much — but this requirement can make it prohibitively difficult for students to participate in high-octane extracurriculars or do their best in school. More importantly, Yale truly does not need this money. To put the student contribution in perspective, even if every single Yale undergrad had to pay this $3,350, that would only account for four tenths of one percent of the amount the endowment increased last year alone. Since the 2008-’09 school year, the work requirement has increased by a hefty 34 percent (from $2,500 to $3,350). In other words, Yale is rapidly increasing the student contribution for those on full aid even though it has tons and tons and tons of money in the bank. And this is to say nothing of the additional $3,050 upperclassmen on full aid have to earn over summer break. $3,050 might not sound like much, but it prevents many from participating in unpaid summer internships and forces many more into those old chestnuts, finance and consulting. Again, this sum is like a fly in the headlights of Mother Yale’s aircraft carrier. Meanwhile, loans remain far more of a reality than the Yale
administration is willing to admit. According to a study by The Institute for College Access and Success, 15 percent of Yale students finished college in debt, with the average borrower in the class of 2013 owing $13,009. “STUDENTS NEED NO LOANS,” screamed one postcard that the admissions office sent this summer to 20,000 high-achieving, low-income students, according to a recent Yale Herald article. By covering the student work contribution or beefing up financial aid so Yalies actually don’t need to take out student loans, administrators wouldn’t be making Yale free for everyone. But they would be making this school substantially more affordable for those who need it the most. They may not want to pull a Germany, but they can certainly, easily afford to pull a Chicago. Look, administrators, I know you’re probably not going to make Yale completely free. But this is something nice, easy, reasonable and relatively cheap. Let’s copy UChicago. Seriously, you can plagiarize President Zimmer’s statement — I don’t care. Ensure that your students don’t have loans. Eliminate the work requirement. We can afford this. We can do this. I’m waiting. Until then, Auf Wiedersehen, fair readers. If there are any high school students in the audience, maybe it’s time to start developing a taste for deep dish. SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His columns run on Mondays. Contact him at scott. stern@yale.edu .
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A previous version of the article in WEEKEND “Food Fight” misspelled the name of Amelie Thouvenot ’17. A previous version of the article in WEEKEND “A House Divided” misattributed quotations to Steven Harris that should have been attributed to Steven Reilly.
Students join in farm tours
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Yale students partaking in local farm tours enjoy a home-cooked brunch. BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER This fall, roughly 360 Yale students got firsthand experience being a farmhand for a day. Over the course of four Saturdays, starting in early September, Yale Dining and Yale College Council organized tours of local farms. The series, which started five years ago, has garnered especially high interest this year. The tours, which are sponsored by Yale’s produce distributor FreshPoint, offer students an opportunity to visit the sources that help supply the fruits and vegetables served in dining halls. While participants said they enjoyed learning about sustainability initiatives and eating free food, some noted the apparent promotional nature of the tours as well. Brittney Sooksengdao ’16, who visited Blue Hills Orchard on Saturday, said the tours catered to her personal interest. “I personally am really interested in sustainable food sourcing and locally grown food,” Sooksengdao said. “I think it is cool that Yale is able to support local [businesses].”
[Farm tours are] a key part of Yale Dining’s commitment to sustainability. CATHY VAN DYKE Director, Residential Dining Despite the inclement weather, Sooksengdao said she and her friends were still able to enjoy the home-cooked brunch and fresh fruit from the orchard. Yale Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke said that in addition to providing students with a fun excursion, the emphasis of these tours is to demonstrate Yale’s dedication to environmental awareness. “[It] is a key part of Yale Dining’s commitment to sustainability and educating students about food policy, good agricultural practices and just getting them in touch with the sources of their food,” she said. YCC Events Director Jaime Halberstam ’16, who was involved in publicizing the events and coordinating registrations, said the series was so popular that it was necessary to hold a lottery for allocating spots and to create a waiting list for interested students. Van Dyke said nearly 600 students expressed interest for the tours. Each tour of roughly 90 students departs at 8 a.m. from Commons, followed by a brunch at Rose’s Berry Farm in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. Depending on the weekend, the group will then visit a different location including Cecarelli Farm in Northford, Horton Farm in South Glastonbury, Blue Hills Orchard in Wallingford and High Hill Orchard in Meriden.
Farmers interviewed said they think it is important for students to understand the farm-to-table process. “I have been farming all my life,” said High Hills Orchard farmer Wayne Young. “It is good to connect with younger people and give them knowledge of where the food comes from.” Young said he has been working with FreshPoint for over 20 years. The company, he added, streamlines farm products and delivers them to Yale and other large-scale dining operations that would otherwise be unable to contract with local growers. But Young said both Yale Dining and FreshPoint could buy farm products at fairer prices. “I think the reality is that they are a little too tight with their money on some things,” he said. But farmer Eric Henry, who runs the Blue Hills Orchard with his family, said he has a great deal of respect for FreshPoint, which has been working with his farm for over 40 years. Young added that FreshPoint sponsors trips for students, which includes the cost of reimbursing farmers for the produce picked by students. He said this cost amounts to about four to five dollars per student. Both Young and Henry praised Yale Dining for sourcing locally. Yale Dining Director of Supply Management and Sustainability Gerry Remer said 55 percent of the produce Yale purchases to serve in dining halls comes from regional growers. Henry said he and his wife enjoy leading tours for students from elementary school up to the college level. He said his favorite part of the tour comes when students see 13,000 bushels of produce and truly understand the scale of operations at his 300acre farm. Rebecca Sylvers ’15, a former production and design editor of the News, said she got the impression there was a clear goal in the way the farms and the operations were presented. “That’s the whole reason Yale Dining sponsored it,” Sylvers said. “It’s so that students will say, ‘Wow, isn’t the food of Yale pretty good. Look, it comes from farms — that’s pretty cool.’” But Sylvers added the tours ultimately encourage positive actions such as eating more locally. Still, not every part of the tour was sweet as freshly picked apples. Halberstam said it was concerning to hear about the difficulties small farms are facing in the current economic conditions. “I had always pictured farms in this beautiful idyllic setting,” Halberstam said. “What was most informative is learning about how most of them are really struggling.” The last farm tour will occur on Oct. 11 at High Hill Orchard in Meriden. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
BY JIAHUI HU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale College Democrats and Yale College Republicans came together on Sunday afternoon to pursue a common goal — registering students to vote. The two political groups provided roughly 20 volunteers and publicity for the drive, which was conducted through the Yale College Council Sunday on Old Campus and in the dining halls. The YCC registered 60 voters during the drive, giving students a chance to vote in the upcoming highly contested Connecticut gubernatorial elections. Jonathan Edwards College YCC representative and Yale Dems Elections Coordinator Tyler Blackmon ’16 said he first proposed that the YCC coordinate a voter registration drive because many students are hesitant to register to vote with partisan organizations such as the Yale Dems and the YCR. According to Blackmon, although the Yale Dems have already registered over 200 voters, many students question its motives because the group has
a particular political affiliation. YCR Social Chair Briana Burroughs ’17 said that the YCR chose to participate in the YCC voter registration drive for the same reasons. “We do want people to register and we want them to know there’s political diversity when they register,” Burroughs said, adding that she thought students would be more comfortable registering if they saw political diversity in the groups conducting the drive. Yale student voters might have the chance to play a significant role in the upcoming gubernatorial election. In 2010, over 1.1 million voters in Connecticut cast ballots in the election between incumbent Gov. Dan Malloy, a Democrat, and Republican Tom Foley. However, Malloy won by just over 6,400 votes, which is roughly the size of the Yale undergraduate population. Recent polls indicate that the upcoming race is also narrow — the Huffington Post currently reports Foley to be leading by just three percentage points. “State elections are usually close. Dan Malloy was the
first Democrat to win in over 22 years,” Blackmon said. “This election could come down to a few hundred votes.” Historically, more than a few hundred Yale students have turned out to vote on Election Day. During the 2012 Obama campaign, over 1,000 Yale College students voted, according to estimates from the Yale Dems. In the much smaller 2013 Ward 1 Alderman election, around 800 Yale students voted. Akintunde Ahmad ’18 and Hannah Green ’18 — two new voter registrants at Sunday’s drive — said they were undecided on which candidate they supported. Both students said that in deciding whom to vote for, they would consider the candidates’ approach to solving social issues, such as inequality. “Particularly in New Haven and Connecticut, there’s so much inequality and I’d rather have someone who counteracts that disparity,” Green said. Ahmad added that although he has not yet researched the two candidates, he will likely vote liberal because he thinks that conservative fiscal policies exacerbate inequality.
Meanwhile, Burroughs said she plans to vote for Foley because she favors prioritizing fiscal sustainability. She emphasized that because the two candidates share similar social views but differ on their economic agendas, she hopes that Yale students will learn more about the candidates’ economic agendas. “Yeah, I do think that Yale students are able to make a difference,” Burroughs said. “For most people here, social issues are the main thing, but both candidates are socially liberal.” On the other hand, Olivia Paschal ’18, a member of the Yale Dems, chose to campaign for Malloy based on his economic agenda. According to Paschal, Foley unequivocally believes in cutting spending, which she said is not always the best solution. She added that Malloy has chosen the best economic policies even though they might have been unpopular. The next Connecticut gubernatorial debate is in Hartford on Oct. 9. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
Food and culture celebrated BY MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The second annual Night Market, organized by the Asian American Students Alliance (AASA), lit up the Branford Library Walk with paper lanterns on Oct. 3. Twenty-three booths lined the walk, offering foods that ranged from dumplings to chocopies — Asian-style chocolate moon pies. Resembling a bustling night market in Taiwan, the event allowed participants to move up and down the walk, while performances were held at the High St. end of walk. But this year, AASA faced substantial budget cuts. “This year funding was pretty tight — especially for all the cultural organizations,” organizer and AASA board member Dana Lee ’17 said. “We also applied for council funding and we felt a bit of a budget cut there too. I think that was our biggest concern.” This year, Lee said, AASA was only able to distribute $100 to every organization, down from the $150 available last year. Still, AASA organizers said the event was as successful, if not more, than last year. Lee said she was satisfied with this year’s turnout. Of the 600 tickets AASA printed for the event, all were handed out within little more than an hour, she said. Event organizer and AASA board member Casey Lee ’17 added that the ways in which people participated in the event as a whole improved from the previous year. “We had a really good spread throughout the walkway — [people] weren’t just congregating in the front near the perfor-
mances,” Casey Lee said. The Night Market involved 22 student groups and included performances from 11 different campus organizations — such as dance, music and martial arts demonstrations. Dana Lee added that at this year’s event, attendees lingered longer to watch the performances. The night began with an act by the Yale Magic Society and ended with a improvisational dance show from the group A Different Drum. Casey Lee said that organizers made an effort was made to include other nonAsian-American groups such as the International Students Organization, Yale European Undergraduates and the Black Student Alliance at Yale. Alex Zhang ’18, who performed with WORD at the Night Market, said the diversity within the group, and the relationship of its performances to the cultural identities of its members, lent itself to the inclusive nature of the Night Market. “It feels more like a conversation than if it were at a poetry slam,” Zhang said. “It’s more like a sharing of experience.” The Night Market’s booths offered not only food but also activities. Students manning the Chinese American Student Association (CASA) booth started paper boat races, while members of the Muslim Student Association painted people’s names in Arabic calligraphy at their station. Dana Lee said the event, which catered to not only Yale undergraduates but also graduate students and the greater New Haven community, allowed the various groups to promote their
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Yale’s Unity Korean Drum Troupe performed at the Night Market. own culture and the causes they are devoted to. Students interviewed offered generally positive responses to the Night Market. Deanna Brandell ’16, who attended to see her suitemate perform with Yale Wushu, said she especially enjoyed the food but was confused by the free sample tickets. Each participant was supposed to receive only one ticket, which would allow them to obtain one free sample, as opposed to a sample from each booth, Brandell said. Lee said AASA adopted this ticketing policy this year because in the past students could obtain free samples from as many booths as they wanted, detracting from food sales at the fair. Participating groups, Lee added, were required to provide 50 free samples, but could also have food for sale. Karen Yang ’18 said groups might have had difficulty sell-
ing food because they set high prices. “Some people weren’t incentivized to actually pay a dollar for a dumpling,” Yang said. But other students said it is in the premise of a market that goods are going to be offered at a cost. Garrett Wong SOM ’17 said that expecting the entire event to be free to attendees would put a great strain on the organizations involved. “It wouldn’t be a true night market if we didn’t sell stuff,” Edward She ’18, who worked at the CASA booth, said. This year’s Night Market was sponsored by seven different organizations, including the Undergraduate Organizations Committee, the Council on Southeast Asian Studies and the Intercultural Affairs Council. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .
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“The real minimum wage is zero.� THOMAS SOWELL AMERICAN ECONOMIST
Bookstore arsonist cuffed
Pinkberry employees speak PINKBERRY FROM PAGE 1
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Yale Police arrested a 14-year-old suspect for starting the series of fires in the Yale Bookstore last Monday. BOOKSTORE FROM PAGE 1 quent arrest, he added. Because the investigation is ongoing, police cannot disclose how many fires the suspect lit, Hartman said on Friday. As of Sunday evening, spokespeople from the New Haven Fire Department and the Yale Bookstore could not be reached for comment. The Yale Bookstore was evacuated and temporarily closed last Monday when the fires were first discovered. As of Sunday evening, access to bookstore’s basement and lower level bathrooms remains restricted. However, all but a small portion of the children’s section has been opened and the fans have been removed. As the building was evacuated on Monday, employees could see some books burning, said one bookstore
employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. According to the employee, fire was not the only source of damage — the fires also triggered the sprinkler system, which led to flooding in the basement. Following the bookstore’s reopening on Monday, the lower level and basement of the bookstore were closed off to customers and blocked by security officers. Customers could access the lower level on Thursday evening, but the children’s section remained blocked and full of fans. The bathroom doors on the lower level were also locked. Many students were not aware that the bookstore was closed on Monday. Others were made aware by a photo that Sweyn Venderbush ’18 shared on the “Overheard At Yale� Facebook group. The photo showed a Yale Security guard blocking the store’s entrance. Venderbush had
tried to go to the bookstore on Monday while it was closed due to the fires. When Venderbush returned to the bookstore on Wednesday, access to the basement was still restricted to customers, but customer service representatives were available to access the floor and retrieve textbooks. Representatives told customers that the fire had not caused significant damage to the bookstore’s products, he said. Arson is not a crime common among New Haven youth, said Director of Youth Services Jason Bartlett. Crimes committed by young people more often involve burglaries or violence, he added. Located on 77 Broadway, the Yale Bookstore is the largest bookstore between New York City and Boston. Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .
said that the corporate office is investigating the situation. “It is of the highest priority for us to get to the bottom of the situation with the local franchisee and ensure it is rectified,â€? she said. Jermaine Ramirez Bulls, who recently quit his job at the Chapel Street location, said that Pinkberry still “owes him at least 200 dollars.â€? Pouncey said Pinkberry owes him about 400 dollars in unpaid checks. Desmond Raymond, another employee currently enrolled in Gateway Community College, said one female co-worker was missing 600 dollars in wages even after two months, and that another Pinkberry employee sued the franchise owner in order to receive his payment. Raymond said that although he has received all of his wages, they were never paid on time. “Checks would bounce more frequently than they would ever go through,â€? Bulls said. When the employees, including managers, reached out to the franchise owner about the inconsistency of payment, they received no responses, Pouncey said. Pouncey said that management has become more disorganized after the original manager left after not getting paid. Pouncey said that in addition to the wage theft, he was forced to work long shifts, sometimes alone without a manager. He called Pinkberry “the worst place to work.â€? Three Pinkberry New Haven employees interviewed contend that the store closed because of mismanagement and lack of business. Meanwhile, Pouncey said that Pinkberry closed after receiving an eviction notice. “It closed because the whole franchise was disorganized,â€? Bulls said. “The workplace was horrible, there were fruit flies everywhere and the workers were ‌ working far more hours than they were paid.â€?
Though the workers interviewed said they “highly doubt� Pinkberry will begin functioning again, Jamie Carson, the Pinkberry franchise owner stated in a Sunday email to the News that he was “intending to relaunch in self-serve.� He did not elaborate about why the store closed down. The workers also commented on Pinkberry’s lack of business. Raymond said that Pinkberry was “barely getting business� and that it was expensive relative to other frozen yogurt stores such as Froyo World, which is just down the street from Pinkberry. At least 15 workers quit their jobs before Pinkberry officially closed, Raymond said, including himself and his manager. He added that, “[Pinkberry was] paying its workers correctly when it first opened but it became gradually more disorganized.� Raymond and Pouncey also said that the lack of professionalism on the store premises contributed to the closing. Raymond said that people who did not work at Pinkberry were permitted behind the counter. Chris Walker, the shift manager of the Starbucks next door, also noted that the Pinkberry management frequently sent employees to Starbucks to borrow supplies, like receipt paper and pastry gloves. In addition, Jakobsen, said in a Sunday email to the News that Pinkberry’s management has not yet determined how long the store will be closed. She did not comment on why the store closed in the first place. “Pinkberry enjoys being a part of the community and we look forward to continuing to serve the people of New Haven in the future with our one of a kind experience and light, refreshing and craveable Pinkberry frozen yogurt,� she said. Since its first store opening in 2005, Pinkberry has established almost 250 stores domestically and internationally. Contact MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .
THE MACMILLAN CENTER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 12:00 p.m. Thomas Oatley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ´6HFXULW\ 6KRFNV 0LOLWDU\ %XLOGXSV DQG %XGJHW 'HĂ€FLWV in Postwar America.â€? Part of the Political Economy Seminar Series sponsored by the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy. Joint workshop with the MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. 5:30 p.m. Annual Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture featuring Artemis Cooper, Author, “Patrick Leigh Fermor In Greece.â€? Sponsored by the Hellenic Studies Program. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 6:15 p.m. Stephen Gross, New York University, “Informal Empire in the Balkans, 1920’s-Â1930’s.â€? Part of the Modern Europe Reading Group sponsored by European Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 12:00 p.m. Bill Robichaud, IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, “Saving Unicorns: New Species and the Extinction Crisis in Southeast Asia.â€? Part of the Seminar Series sponsored by Southeast Asia Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. 12:00 p.m. Tariq Jaffer, Amherst College, “Primordial Covenant in the Qur’an. The History of an Idea.â€? Part of the CMES Colloquium sponsored by Middle East Studies. Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 1:30 p.m. Rafeal Reuveny, Indiana University, “Climate Change, Migration, and Violence.â€? Part of the 2014-Â15 Seminar Series: Climate Change, Mass Atrocities, and Genocide sponsored by Genocide Studies. Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street. 4:30 p.m. The Annual Coca-ÂCola World Fund Lecture at Yale presents Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, 2008-Â2013, “Afro-ÂOptimism: Has the Pendulum Swang too Far?â€? Sponsored by the MacMillan Center, the Law School, and the School of Management. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 4:00 p.m. Shenjing He, Sun Yat-Âsen University, “Landgrabs in Wukan Village, China: Identity Building and Communal Resistance.â€? Part of the CEAS China Colloquium sponsored by East Asian Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. 7:00 p.m. Facing to the Ocean: Selected Documentaries from Vietnam. Film screenings of four Vietnamese documentaries followed by discussion with directors and presenters. Room 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street. For more information or to subscribe to receive weekly events email, please visit www.yale.edu/macmillan.
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“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” VLADIMIR NABOKOV RUSSIAN-AMERICAN NOVELIST
Nightclub transformed into art store BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Once filled by disco lights and loud music, a former Chapel Street nightclub turned art supply store now attracts a different crowd. City Hall held a ribbon cutting
ceremony for Artist & Craftsman Supply on Friday evening to commemorate the store’s recent opening at 821 Chapel St. Although storeowners cut the ribbon only three days ago, the store has been open for business since Sept. 19. At the ceremony, Mayor Toni Harp presented stor-
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New art store Artist & Craftsman Supply celebrated its opening on Friday.
Bass Library may add phone chargers BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Students may soon have access to borrowable phone chargers at the Bass Library Circulation Desk. On Oct. 1, the Yale College Council announced plans to coordinate with Bass Library to add phone chargers to its circulation desk. The phone chargers would add to the desk’s arsenal of borrowable media products and computer chargers. While the YCC is still finalizing details with Bass Library Administration, it aims to invest $200 to purchase 12 charger sets to support iPhone 4s, iPhones 5 and 6 and Android platforms. “It always happens that people forget their chargers, and there are not that many options otherwise,” said Huan Kim SOM ’15. Anna Lu ’17, YCC’s project manager for the initiative, explained that the idea for adding chargers to the circulation desk came from a post in the Yale Facebook group, “Yale Ideas.” Since Bass has provided computer chargers in the past, students interviewed said this was the next logical step for the circulation desk. “I think it’s very important to have phone chargers in Bass,” said Gayatri Sabharwal ’17, a staff reporter for the News. “Since Bass provides computer chargers, they should add phone chargers to the list.” Still, some students were indifferent to the prospect of new phone chargers, and commented instead on how slight a $200 expenditure seemed in comparison to YCC’s total budget. In 2013, the YCC’s “Community Fund,” which is dedicated to initiatives that improve campus life, was $23,000. While Jonathan Chang ’17 said he does not feel a particular need for the service, he added that it might be worthwhile because it is a relatively inexpensive initiative to implement.
“If they have $200 to use, I see it as a worthwhile investment,” added Kim. Despite a general level of support for the new chargers, students noted that the YCC should work to better include their voices in future decision-making. After seeing students at the Yale Law School library take advantage of borrowable phone chargers, Zunaira Arshad ’17, a staff reporter for the News, said that Bass should provide them as well. However, Arshad added that the YCC should engage more students’ opinions in their initiatives. “I think the best way for the YCC to go about a project would be to present it to the student body as a viable option, and reach out to them to understand students’ need for it,” she said. “The best approach for YCC as an organization is to always lay out to students what they are intending to do, and to provide a period in which they may gauge student feedback.” Kris Todi ’17 supported the initiative, but cautioned against providing the chargers if there was not enough student demand for their use. Still, YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said that he did not find a survey to the student body on preferences for phone chargers necessary. “The plan is a pretty simple fix to a problem that will make life easier for students,” he said. Lu agreed, adding that there has been little student opposition to the plan, which had also passed unanimously through the YCC. The Yale College Council will discuss details of the phone charger plan with Bass Library Administration today. Both the Yale Law School and Yale School of Medicine libraries include phone chargers at their circulation desks. Contact MATTHEW STONE at matthew.stone@yale.edu .
eowners with a plaque to welcome them to the Ninth Square shopping district. “We’ve had a long summer,” said Barbara Hawes, a manager at Artist & Craftsman Supply, adding that the store managers faced many construction issues while renovating the building. The construction team faced its first challenge when the ceiling sprung a leak following heavy summer rainfall, said Artist & Craftsman Supply employee Lelia Crockett. After repairs were made, a second downpour caused further damages to the roof and flooded the building, leading to a one-month hiatus in construction, she said. A total of seven workers, including the contracting crew, continued construction after cleaning up from the flood. Before opening as an art supply store last month, the Chapel Street property was occupied
by a nightclub that was evicted two years ago due to failing business, said Christina Rossetti, Pike International director of operations and spokesperson for the landlord. The landlord hopes that the addition of a name-brand store will bring in more business than its previous inhabitants, she added. Since construction began nearly five months ago, the building has undergone significant transformation under the guidance of architect Fernando Pastor. While the structure of the building remains largely unchanged, the interior has been given new life with a patchwork of colors covering the ceiling, floor and walls, Pastor said. Stretching the length of the store are lines of shelves housing crafting supplies, sculpting materials and canvases. “The goal is to be inspired as you shop,” said regional manager
Cassie Brehmer. “There’s beauty in chaos.” The design of the building follows suit with its counterparts, Brehmer said, adding that Artist & Craftsman Supply has 23 locations, each with a similar interior design. Although New Haven is home to several other art supply stores, Brehmer said that she does not expect difficulty attracting business. “We’re unique because we cater to everyone from kindergarten teachers to professional painters,” she said. In the wake of the mayor’s recent pushes to develop retail in New Haven, the store has received support from many of the city’s organizations, Crockett said, adding that city alders and the police commissioner have all visited the store. Soon after the store opened, City Hall offered
the store the ribbon cutting ceremony and new bike racks, she said. More new shops will soon accompany the Ninth Square’s latest addition. A glass art gallery called Intelligent Glass Gallery is expected to open next door in November, said Nicole Wilson, the gallery’s co-owner. In addition, the landowners are looking to build four new luxury apartments above the art supply store, Rossetti said. “I see them becoming a part of the fabric on the Ninth Square,” said Michael Piscitelli, deputy economic development administrator for the city. “They picked the right part of town.” In 1985, Artist & Craftsman Supply opened the doors to its first retail location in Maine. Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .
Lit 120 experiments BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER This semester, one of the gateway courses to the Literature major — Introduction to Narrative, commonly known at Lit 120 — is undergoing substantial changes. The course now includes a weightier writing component, with students submitting creative responses for some of the texts read in class. The professors also introduced a course website to create a forum for students to share their thoughts with each other. The course — which, according to Yale’s Online Course Information website, “examines how narratives work and what they do” — will now be co-taught by four professors: Marta Figlerowicz, David Gabriel, David Quint and Ayesha Ramachandran, who serves as course director. “It’s a huge philosophical difference that all of us who teach the course are already committed to and the department is more committed to [now],” Ramachandran said. Ramachandran added that the changes seek to maintain an innovative curriculum for the course.
The addition of the creative writing assignments to the course is intended to make students better analytical writers, Gabriel said. Writing Center Director Alfred Guy said that students can learn more about a writer’s technique by imitating it than by analyzing it, which students will be doing in some of their assignments for the course. Dane Underwood ’17, who is taking the course this year, said he appreciates how the creative writing assignments have enabled him to hone his analytic paper skills. The assignments, he added, illuminate a larger picture of what goes in to making literature. But Hannah Krystal ’17 said she had hoped the course would be more accommodating to students who had taken more advanced courses in the Literature and English departments. “I wish the pace were a little faster,” Krystal said. “I think the focus on the writing is a bit more elementary than it needs to be.” The newly created course website, which has a portion available to the public as well as a private section for students, has enabled students to share their work with each other and
give feedback on shorter assignments. In addition, the course has a teaching fellow dedicated to technology — David Carper GRD ’17, who is a fourth-year graduate student in Comparative Literature and is responsible for managing the course website. Ramachandran said Carper’s presence has been particularly valuable because, by responding to student online assignments, he has given the professors more time to meet with students and prepare the course. Though he said he was generally optimistic about the course website’s potential, he said it has provided one particular challenge. “The crucial problem is there, which is how do we strive for an organic connection between [class] participation and participation online?” Carper said. Alyssa Patterson ’18 said she enjoys reading her peers’ insights on the course website. Ruier Ma ’17 said she felt the website is particularly helpful in organizing the course material, and she has found it to be much more reliable than Classesv2. The creation of the course website, Carper added, fits into
a new trend of using technology in humanities courses. But Edward O’Neil, a senior instructional designer at Yale’s Academic Technology Services, which consults professors on the best technology for their courses, said humanities courses are doing nothing new. Technology pertains not only to websites, but also to everyday class tools, he said. Students who had taken the course during previous semesters said they saw the benefits of altering the curriculum. “A lot of people thought [the course] was unorganized because there was no flow of one lecturer,” Sarah Holder ’17, who took the course last year, said. “The syllabus was a little too random.” Will Theiss ’16, who also took the course last year, said he thought a creative writing component would be helpful for the class because it would enable students to look at the literature in the syllabus in a new way. Lit 120 was the first undergraduate Literature course taught at Yale when it was introduced in 1970. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .
Oktoberfest draws hundreds despite rain BY MRINAL KUMAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The German Society brought a rainy Saturday night to life with its second annual Oktoberfest celebration. Oktoberfest is a 16-day autumn festival held in Germany that attracts more than six million people from around the world. Hosted by the German Society at the heavyweight crew house on Elm Street, Yale’s version of Oktoberfest featured many of the hallmarks of its inspiration, including authentic German soft pretzels, live music and plenty of beer. The event brought together more than 400 members of the Yale community. It was also organized by Yale European Undergraduates and Yale’s Heavyweight Crew Team. “Oktoberfest is a tradition where people get together and have fun,” said Philipp Arndt ’16, the president of the German Society and a staff photographer for the News. “Basically [it’s a celebration of German culture].” Last year, the German Society charged $2 for entry at the door, but this year, prices rose to $5, and tickets went on sale in the days leading up to the event. Arndt said that the inflated prices covered the party’s live music, German food and decorations. Selling tickets beforehand allowed organizers to better predict the number of attendees, Arndt said. He added that over 300 tickets were sold before the event. Arndt was worried that Saturday’s wet weather would
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Yale’s German Society enjoyed its second annual Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday. negatively affect the turnout, but the rain held off for the evening, and several hundred people packed under a large tarp in the backyard. “It’s a great opportunity to talk to people and meet people,” said Romy Carpenter ’18, who attended the event. “Definitely worth $5.” Planning the large party was not without its challenges. Arndt said he had a difficult time earning the administration’s approval of the event. According to the Yale Undergraduate Regulations, admission charges may only be levied for organized social functions in the event of significant entertainment costs, and may never be used to cover the cost
of alcohol. “One of the issues was definitely beer because Oktoberfest is always associated with beer, and Yale doesn’t think that’s too great,” said Arndt. “We had a little bit of trouble with the administration in the beginning … we had to show them that there were a lot of expenses that were culturally related so that we can hold the Oktoberfest with beer and [with] charged admission.” The beer was well received, with dozens of partygoers standing in line for the “Beer Garden.” “There’s a really long line for beer,” said Mike Hanson GRD ’20. “But I’ve had a couple, and I’m having fun.”
Students who missed Oktoberfest have varied cultural events to look forward to, including a Turkish Night in the spring and the Hellenic Society’s Easter celebration. Nasos Abuel ’16, president of the Hellenic Society, said that his organization roasts a lamb on the spit every Easter in Stiles’ courtyard. “It’s not like Oktoberfest, which involves a lot of beer,” Abuel said. “It’s something we do during the day … [and] it’s a free event.” The Oktoberfest celebration always ends on the first Sunday of October. Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .
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“I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.” ELVIS PRESLEY AMERICAN SINGER AND ACTOR
It’s On Us unites students against sexual misconduct
IT’S ON US, YALE
Yale College Council representatives gather in support of the new “It’s On Us, Yale” campaign. IT’S ON US FROM PAGE 1 Yalies forward. We think they can do a lot more than sign a pledge and pat themselves on the back.” To determine how to integrate the national campaign with Yale’s specific environment, the YCC approached members of the CCEs and the Yale Women’s Center. Together, they decided to implement a student-group-specific approach that focuses more on sparking discussion rather than the actual writing of the pledge itself, Pandrangi said. The modified campaign centers on a theme of “Our Yale” and
asks student groups to discuss their vision of an ideal Yale. After completing the statement, “Our Yale is …”, student groups must list several concrete actions that they will take to turn that vision into reality. Each group’s pledge and actions are supposed to be specific to its niche on campus, said Layla Khuri ’16, student life director for the YCC. For example, she said, improvisation groups can promise to make jokes that are respectful, sororities can promise to foster supportive sisterhood and groups that host parties can pledge to provide non-alcoholic
alternatives. Cheryl Xiang ’18, a member of the women’s varsity swimming and diving team, said that because her team’s discussion of its pledge built on existing team values, the conversation will likely carry on beyond the initial pledge. Zachary Kayal ’17, whose a cappella group Mixed Company has signed on to the campaign, added that because the campaign asks for concrete actions, it is more likely to have a lasting impact. “It’s much harder to shove the pledge aside when, instead of just saying that we’re for ‘consent,’ we specifically discussed not mak-
ing our members feel as though they have to drink or participate in hookup culture or do anything else with which they’re uncomfortable,” Kayal said. The campaign has largely been spread by word-of-mouth, Khuri said, with various CCE and YCC members actively proposing the initiative to other student groups. Twenty-four organizations, ranging from a cappella groups to fraternities to athletic teams, have already joined, and the Facebook page for “It’s On Us, Yale” has accumulated nearly 900 likes in 16 days. The entire project is intended
to be a grassroots movement, and momentum is supposed to come from the student body, Pandrangi said. Administrative policy can help by providing resources to those involved in sexual violence, but at the end of the day, “You can’t put a cultural change on a piece of paper and say, ‘Do it,’” she added. Still, this project is just one piece of a larger, holistic effort to bring change to Yale’s campus. It complements the work of many groups, both student-driven and administratively-pushed, who are working to create a community free of sexual misconduct,
ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Post, chair of the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, wrote in an email. “Real change needs to come from all sides — that’s why collaborations like this are so important,” Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd, who directs the CCE program, said in an email. Nationwide, 203 universities have signed on to the “It’s On Us” campaign. Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .
Harvard threat likely a hoax, police say HARVARD FROM PAGE 1 According to emails sent out by the Harvard administration, the Harvard University Police Department is currently working with the Cambridge Police Department and the FBI to investigate the campus-wide threat. The HUPD could not be reached for comment as of Sunday night. Students received an email from the HUPD on Friday evening warning them of threatening emails, said Harvard College sophomore Andrew Liu. However, the HUPD emails did not mention the racially charged language in the email, he added. A notification sent out to students by the HUPD Saturday morning said that while the investigation is not complete, the email appears to be sent from overseas, making the threat less credible. Still, both uniformed and plainclothes security would continue to be present on campus, the email said. Hours after the Harvard community received the HUPD’s message Saturday morning, another email sent out Saturday to over 100 Harvard community members supported the HUPD’s findings. The message came from the same “hotmail.de” address that sent out the threats. This time, it was addressed to “Harvard students and employees,” according to the Harvard Crimson. The sender apologized for Friday’s emails and said that there was no threat. The sender self-identified as a 15-year-old living in France whose younger brother had sent the original emails. According to the Harvard Crimson, the first threatening email was sent at 4:44 p.m. on Friday. Six minutes later, a second email was sent out, also addressed to “All students at Harvard.” While the first email was sent from a “hotmail.de” address — generally regarded as a German email account — the second email came from Google Mail and was sent to some of the people who received the
first email. The second sender was identified by the email as Huy Dinh, according to the Harvard Crimson. The emails were not sent to all students, Liu said. While the sender did not specify a reason for threatening Harvard’s students, the email included racially charged language, calling the email’s recipients “slit-eyes.” The majority of students who received the emails were AsianAmerican females, said Harvard College sophomore Jiayi Peng. The email shocked and scared many of its recipients. While some considered leaving campus, many decided they would stay indoors over the weekend as a precaution. “It made me really nervous when I first read it,” Peng said. “I could be walking down the hallway to the dining hall, look out my window and who knows?” The email left others confused and unsure if the threat was credible, said Harvard student Kimberly Yu. Jonathan Jeffrey, a Harvard College junior, said that it took a few hours for news of the threat to diffuse through campus. Jeffrey added that students seemed confident in the HUPD’s handling of the situation, but that anxiety on campus ran high. “I’ve talked to a lot of people who have just said that they’re going to stay very vigilant tonight,” Jeffrey said on Friday. Harvard College sophomore Hammie Park added that she thought the wording and tone of the threatening email was odd and that there had been a lot of Facebook traffic among Harvard students telling one another to stay safe. Others were dissatisfied with the communication between the HUPD and the students. Aside from the initial notification about the threat and link to the university’s Active Shooter Safety Guidelines, students had not received further information that night, said Adela Kim, a Harvard College junior who received the email.
Harvard has had communication problems before, Kim said. During the bombings at the Boston Marathon in 2013, many students felt that the university did not provide them with sufficient information, she added. By Sunday night, Harvard’s campus seemed to have returned to relative calm, students said. According to Harvard College sophomore Noah Yonack, “Everyone seems to have forgotten.” Some students also received emails from Harvard’s Asian American Women’s Association, Peng said. The AAWA told students that the email used slurs against AsianAmerican students, and the organization provided contact information to group members for students who want to talk about the threat. Members of on-campus cultural groups had planned to host a panAsian discussion on Saturday called “Perspectives: Being Asian American at Harvard.” The organizers of the event requested not to be named for security reasons. On Friday night, the AAWA said that the panel was scheduled to run as planned with heightened security, but a subsequent press release sent by event organizers said that the discussion has been rescheduled for next Saturday, Oct. 11. “We are saddened that someone would go to such great lengths to threaten the safety of our Harvard community,” organizers said in the press release. “In these times we hope that we can come together and be there for each other.” On Friday night, Harvard Women in Computer Science postponed a party scheduled for Saturday night to a date later this month, according to the Crimson. Harvard College is home to approximately 6,700 undergraduates. Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah. bruley@yale.edu and contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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AROUND THE IVIES
“It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.” ANTOINE DE RIVAROL FRENCH WRITER
THE DARTMOUTH
Forcible sex offense reports rise in 2013 BY PRIYA RAMAIAH A spike in reports of forcible sex offenses at Dartmouth is likely due to higher reporting rates rather than an increase in incidents of sexual violence, community members and experts said following Wednesday’s release of the annual security and fire safety report. Data from the report, an annual disclosure of campus crime mandated by the Clery Act and authored by Safety and Security, showed 35 forcible sex offenses in 2013, compared to 24 in 2012 and 15 in 2011. Dartmouth also reported one incident of dating violence and four incidents of stalking. The 2013 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act requires that institutions report dating violence, domestic violence and stalking separately in their safety reports starting in 2015, though some institutions included them this year. This year’s report will be the
last comp r i s e d entirely of data coll e c t e d before Dartm o u t h ’s new sexual assault took DARTMOUTH policy e f fe c t i n June. Under the new policy, a trained external investigator examines reported incidents of sexual assault, conducting interviews, reviewing evidence and producing a factbased report of the incident as well as a conclusion of responsibility. Formerly, students who reported a sexual assault testified in front of Committee on Standards panels comprising administrators, students and faculty. One of the aims of the new policy is to allow students to feel more comfortable reporting assaults, former Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson said in a
spring interview with The Dartmouth. Director of Judicial Affairs Leigh Remy said that no students have filed formal reports with her office for incidents taking place after June 18, though some may have chosen alternative reporting routes like WISE, a support organization for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the Upper Valley. As a result, she said, the impact of the external investigator on sexual misconduct reporting rates has yet to be determined. Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist said that she hopes that the presence of an external investigator will enhance reporting rates and the desire of reporting students to move forward with a formal complaint. “I want to see more reports,” Lindkvist said. “I really do.” The safety report includes reports made to judicial affairs, Safety and Security and Hanover Police, Remy said. She added that all survivors respond differently
in how they decide to report or not to report an incident of sexual misconduct. Citing the attention the issue has garnered in the past year both at Dartmouth and nationwide, Remy suggested that the increase in offenses is due to greater comfort with communicating about sexual assault. “It’s something that’s in our consciousness in a very different way than in previous years,” Remy said. Occidental College professor Caroline Heldman, a co-founder of End Rape on Campus who led a Title IX complaint against Occidental College, said that in the short term, the increase in reporting is a “very positive” sign, even though seeing the higher numbers may be alarming at first. “As numbers go up, it means survivors are more comfortable coming forward and schools can get a better handle on what’s going on,” Heldman said. Of 12 students interviewed, eight said they believed that peo-
ple would feel more comfortable reporting incidents given the June policy and recent media spotlight on campus sexual violence, while four said they thought students will still likely have a hard time trusting both the reporting and judicial process. Caeli Cavanagh of WISE wrote in an emailed statement that the safety report does not factor in the outcomes of student reports or whether or not students felt they had adequate resources throughout the process. “It’s impossible to know the true scope of people’s experience on campus from this report,” she wrote. Victoria Nevel ’16, a member of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, said that the rise in reported incidents still fails to account for the total number of sexual offenses on campus. “The numbers don’t give the full picture of what’s going on,” Nevel said, adding that a campus climate survey is a more reliable
tool of evaluating survivor experiences throughout the reporting process. Susy Struble, cofounder of Dartmouth Change — a nonprofit group of alumni, faculty and other community members advocating for student life reforms — also said a campus climate survey would be more effective than report numbers at gauging the scope of sexual violence at Dartmouth. She added that there is no evidence to determine if the spike in numbers is due to an increase in reporting or incidence. A 2009 study by the Center for Disease Control found that 19 percent of all college women experienced attempted or completed sexual assault since entering college. According to the National Institute of Justice, about 74 percent of sexual assaults go unreported due to self-blame, shame, fear or lack of trust. Annie Ma and Zac Hardwick contributed reporting.
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President-Elect Garrett denounces hazing
Goldberg responds to students
BY SUN STAFF Following the announcement that Elizabeth Garrett, provost at the University of Southern California, would become Cornell’s 13th president, Sun Managing Editor Tyler Alicea spoke with her Thursday about her stance on a variety of issues, including sexual violence, hazing, the rising costs of attending college and the role of the humanities in higher education. This is the first part of the interview. Read The Sun Monday for the remainder of the interview. The Sun: You’ve worked a lot on crossdisciplinary and cross-college programs during your time at USC. What do you think about the importance of both the humanities and having interdisciplinary studies in higher education? Elizabeth Garrett: Typically those two aspects of a university are posed as either separate or even sometimes as opposing. I think that it’s important to understand that humanities and indeed a strong dedication to rigorous disciplinary study is an absolutely fundamental prerequisite to having excellence in interdisciplinary activities. You cannot, I believe, have great interdisciplinary work unless you have scholars and students who are trained in the rigor of a disciplinary analysis. There’s just something unless you have scholars and students who are trained in the rigor of a disciplinary analysis. There’s just something that is unique in the training of the mind and the reasoning facilities that a very rigorous disciplinary approach can provide, and the very best interdisciplinary work occurs either when one person has training in several of those or more frequently when people from lots of different disciplines — who come with this rigorous background — come together and put all of those perspectives to work to solve a really difficult problem.
I think there’s one simple bottom line: Hazing is unacceptable in any form. ELIZABETH GARRETT President-elect of Cornell University In addition, to focus on the humanities is also critically important. A lot of interdisciplinary work is directed towards solving particular problems — problems of health, problems of sustainability, policy related problems. But to really have a sense of what those solutions mean to us as human beings, I think you have to have the humanities to ask deep questions about where progress is leading us, what they do to our bonds as human beings in a community … I think that it is vital that you have both disciplinary training, including that in the humanities, and that you have an interdisciplinary approach to complex problems. Sun: Since the death of [George Desdunes] during a hazing incident at Cornell, Cornell has increasingly toughened its stance on hazing, both inside and outside the Greek system. Could you elaborate how you and USC have addressed hazing? E.G.: I think there’s one simple bottom line: Hazing is unacceptable in any form. It is unacceptable in any of the organizations where it has been practiced in the past. It is not something that, as a com-
munity, we can accept to tolerate. It does not matter if the behavior was commonplace in the past. If it does not respect individuals, if it does not support our understanding CORNELL as a caring community with how we treat other people, it is not an acceptable practice … Longevity of a practice does not equate to acceptability. I was a member of the Greek system, so I’m aware of all the great things that the Greek system brings to a community. I’m aware it has had some challenges in the past. Some of the things that we have criticized some Greek systems for are also occasionally seen in other organizations as well, so we have to be really careful that what we do is focus on the behavior and not focus on only on the context. Sun: President David Skorton often addresses publically that the cost of attending college is one of Cornell’s biggest problems and sometimes he’ll admit that how quickly he addressed it is one of his regrets during his time as president, especially for those in the middle class. Do you have an overall philosophy in regards to trying to reign in the costs of attending college? E.G.: It’s a very important question, not just for Cornell but for higher education in general. I would push back a little bit because I think President Skorton has done a very good job of trying to address this issue for families who would struggle to afford the cost of Cornell. And if you look, one of the important differences in talking about the cost is that the sticker price of attending higher education can be very different than the price of what students actually pay because of financial aid … I know David would always like to do more — all of us would — but President Skorton and Cornell have really done a really good job in addressing this issue, including during very difficult economic times, when I think President Skorton really took this as one of his primary objectives. “[Hazing] is unacceptable in any of the organizations where it has been practiced in the past … Longevity of a practice does not equate to acceptability.” — PresidentElect Elizabeth Garrett I think, generally speaking in higher education, we’ve done a very good job of making it affordable for students and families of very limited means. And of course we have other students at the other end of the scale who could probably afford even more tuition. One thing I think we need to focus on increasingly at Cornell and throughout higher education — it has certainly been my focus at USC — are those families who are comfortable. They live lives of the middle income but will find the kind of investment in Cornell or similar schools really a very difficult stretch for the family. Those tend to be the families that take out more debt, and I think we need to focus on that segment on our student population. My overriding principle is that we should have a world in which those students that have been admitted to Cornell and who we know will thrive here do not face financial hurdles in taking that opportunity. I will continue to work with the trustees, with our supporters [and] the students to identify new sources of funding … to think about ways that we can use the University’s resources responsibly, to help students and their families afford the great education at Cornell.
BY EMMA BOGLER Students who attended a Sept. 9 meeting with University President Lee Bollinger to propose more changes to Columbia’s sexual assault policy received a response last week from Suzanne Goldberg, Bollinger’s special advisor on sexual assault prevention and response. Goldberg sent the eight-pagelong letter — obtained by Spectator and verified by two students present at the September meeting — on Sept. 30 that responds to each of the concerns presented by those students. She answered most questions either by pointing to initiatives already in place and citing specific passages from the policy, or by agreeing to discuss these ideas with students further. Students at that meeting proposed a number of changes, including mandatory consent education and bystander training for returning students and a comprehensive review of the new sexual assault policy by the President’s Advisory Committee of Sexual Assault. The students asked for a response from Goldberg within three weeks, and said that they would “escalate their actions if administrators continue to ignore their demands for a safer campus,” a press release from the group said at the time. Goldberg’s letter sent on Tuesday — exactly three weeks after the meeting — offered initial feed-
back to each proposal p re s e n te d by students. “As you will see, although many of COLUMBIA these issues a re best addressed as part of an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas, I thought it might be useful to offer initial reactions to the specific points you have raised and flag several that would benefit particularly from further discussion,” Goldberg said in her response. In response to the students’ proposal that outside professionals be brought in to replace deans as appellate officers, Goldberg defended the deans’ roles, echoing the opinions of Bollinger and administrators in the GenderBased Misconduct Office, including Jeri Henry, the interim director of the Office of Gender-Based Misconduct. “I am happy to discuss this further but it is not clear to me why individuals not otherwise affiliated with the University would be better positioned to handle appeals than deans, who have ultimate oversight over their students’ experiences, share a commitment to student health, safety and well-being, and are responsible for the operation of their schools,” Goldberg said. She also said that deans’
responsibilities for fundraising should make them implement the policy effectively because the school’s “reputation is linked, in significant part, to the experiences of its students.” Goldberg said in the letter that she would be happy to further discuss students’ suggestions on how to strengthen PACSA and expand consent education training for returning students. She also said that the GenderBased Misconduct Office would implement a system to evaluate the experiences of both complainants and respondents, details of which she would discuss with students. In response to the students’ request that administrators prioritize the voices of sexual assault survivors in discussions, Goldberg said that and Bollinger will continue to discuss these issues with students, but that she wanted to include voices from students outside of No Red Tape Columbia, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence and student governments. “There are many students and others at the University who have excellent ideas and energy to bring to these conversations,” Goldberg said. “With reference to your proposal, as you know, not all survivors or their supporters choose to participate in the Coalition, to be public about their experiences, to go through the disciplinary process, or to engage in public activism or advocacy regarding sexual violence.”
MAGGIE MALLERNEE/SPECTATOR
Suzanne Goldberg addressed students’ proposed changes to Columbia’s sexual assault policy in a letter.
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YALE FOOTBALL OFFENSE SETTING RECORDS After three high-scoring games to start the season, the Bulldogs are well on their way to shattering many school records. Yale is on pace to break modern school marks for passing yards, rushing yards, completion percentage and total touchdowns, among others.
“They really put the team on their back and handled a Harvard front six.” PABLO ESPINOLA ’16
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Yale routs Cornell in Ivy opener FOOTBALL
BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER In its first game of the Ivy League season, the Yale football team affirmed its reputation as an offensive power in the Football Championship Subdivision, routing Cornell 51–13 while racking up over three times as many offensive yards as the Big Red. Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 led the Bulldogs (3–0, 1–0 Ivy) with 312 passing yards and five touchdowns despite sitting out the entire fourth quarter. His 86.7 percent completion rate — 26 completions on 30 attempts — broke a school record that was set last year by quarterback Hank Furman ’14, also against Cornell (0–3, 0–1). Three games into the season, Yale’s hurry-up spread offense is performing like no other. The Bulldogs lead both subdivisions of Division-I football — 252 teams in total — with 631 offensive yards per game and 51.3 points per game. Yale is also fourth in the FCS in both rushing and passing yards per game. “Everyone’s doing their job,” captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 said. “If you look at the offense as a whole, it wouldn’t be what it is if certain guys don’t do their job. [The guys] have the ability to focus and take care of their one-eleventh on the football field.” After allowing 43 points and over 590 yards to each of its previous two opponents, the Eli defense turned it around in week three, stuffing a Cornell team that has found itself lacking significant weapons after the graduation of quarterback Jeff Mathews. Mathews, a four-year starter for Cornell, finished his career as the alltime passing leader in Ivy League history. Yale conceded just 69 rushing yards and 120 passing yards to Cornell’s combination of three different quarterbacks. In the first quarter, Cornell produced negative net yardage while failing to achieve a single first down other than by penalty. One of the only two scores the Big Red did get was not even from its offense. Cornell returned a fumble for a touchdown to first get on the board in the second quarter, and then running back Luke Hagy caught a touchdown reception in the final two minutes of the game. SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3
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The Elis notched their third victory of the season with a 51-13 win against Cornell.
Elis’ resilience earns road split
Elis’ skid reaches six BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale field hockey team failed to break its six-game losing streak on Saturday, losing 4–0 to No. 19 Cornell.
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The Yale volleyball program lost a heartbreaking 3–2 match to Harvard but swept Dartmouth 3–0 over the weekend. BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER The volleyball team followed a tight five-set loss to archrival Harvard with a triumph over Dartmouth in an up-anddown weekend.
VOLLEYBALL The Elis (6–6, 2–1 Ivy) lost 3–2 to the
Crimson (8–4, 1–2 Ivy) on Friday night, but ended the weekend on a positive note with a 3–0 sweep against the Big Green (11–3, 2–1 Ivy) on Saturday. The two matches marked the beginning of a 14-match marathon against Ivy foes. “I would say the highlight of the weekend was definitely our win against Dartmouth,” captain Mollie Rogers ’15 SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B3
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In aiding the Yale defense, goaltender Heather Schlesier ’15 stopped 11 of 15 shots on against Cornell.
Yale (1–8, 0–3 Ivy) was shut out by the Big Red (8–2, 3–0), the second straight game the Bulldogs have been held without a goal. The Elis have averaged just one goal per game, the fewest in the Ivy League and 1.1 goals per game behind seventh-place Princeton. “The team is looking to make a change right now,” captain Nicole Wells ’16 said. “We are on a tough streak, but with all the games we have left we can still turn it around. At this point for [the team] I think it is a mental game: deciding that we want to be winners and players of pride.” Despite a quick score by Cornell midfielder Sam McILwrick within the first five minutes of the game, Yale kept the Big Red from increasing its lead until the very end of the first half, when Cornell scored at the 35-minute mark. Cornell limited Yale to only three shots the entire game, while taking 19 of its own. In the last six games, Yale has scored two or fewer goals every game, while opponents have scored at least three each time. SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B3
THE SCHOOL-RECORD COMPLETION PERCENTAGE FOR QUARTERBACK MORGAN ROBERTS ’16. The Clemson transfer had 26 completions on 30 passing attempts to break the school record for accuracy, set last year by Hank Furman ’14, en route to a 51–13 victory over Cornell.
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“Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced.” EDWARD NORTON ’91 FAMOUS ACTOR
Yale has near-perfect weekend M. TENNIS FROM PAGE B4 nents. “The team gained valuable match experience and confidence going into the next couple of weeks,” Wang said of his first home tournament as a Bulldog. “Overall, we had a strong showing.” Stefan Doehler ’18 lost a tight three-set match against Army’s Michael Nyugen, 6–3, 4–6, 4–6. But Doehler had a significant turnaround later Saturday with a comfortable 6–2, 6–2 win over TJ
Desanto of St. Bonaventure, helping the Bulldogs go undefeated in singles against the Bonnies. The Elis further excelled in singles play against Bryant, finishing the weekend 5–2 against the team. While Daniel Faierman ’15 and Hagermoser both lost to their Bryant opponents in close threeset matches, Photiades posted a crucial come-from-behind victory. After losing the first set, he dominated the second and third sets, defeating his Bryant opponent 2–6, 6–1, 6–0.
Doubles play was just as competitive. Doehler and Lu posted a decisive 8–3 victory against the Army pair of Kyle Barnes and Austin McCasin. Meanwhile, Hagermoser and Photiades built on their success at the Penn Invitational, overcoming an Army duo 8–5. “Every doubles team played with a lot of energy and we all just fed off of each other,” Hagermoser said. The Eli’s doubles pairs continued with an impressive performance against Bryant and
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St. Bonaventure — the Bulldogs were undefeated in doubles plays against the two schools. Doehler and Svenning swept over a pair from St. Bonaventure by a score of 8–2, while Matt Saiontz ’15 and Wang overcame a pair from Bryant, 8–4. The Bulldogs will next compete at the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championships starting Oct. 16.
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Eli defense slows Crimson M. SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 unfortunately we didn’t get the result we were looking for,” Keith Bond ’16 said. “Road games in the Ivy League are always especially tough, but I thought we did an excellent job bringing some great energy to the game. Luckily, the league isn’t decided in just one game, so we have six more Ivy games to look forward to, starting next Saturday at Dartmouth.” Despite a poor offensive showing from the Elis, goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 did his best to keep the Elis in the game. With a five-save performance, Brown showed veteran talent in limiting Harvard to just one goal. All in all, Yale’s defense ruled the day for the Elis, managing to hold a blistering Harvard offense off long enough to prop up the struggling Yale attack. “Our defense especially played outstanding with a special shout out to Phil Piper ’16, Lukas Czinger ’16, Tyler Detorie ’16 and Henry [Flugstad-Clarke] ’17 as well as goalkeeper Blake Brown,” said Pablo Espinola ’16. “They really put the team on their back last night and handled a Harvard front six that has caused a lot of problems for other teams around the country.” Ultimately, the Crimson did what virtually every Ivy League soccer analyst expected them to do: come away with the win. Favored in almost every statistical category, Harvard was
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the clear-cut choice to win their Ivy League opener. Yale showed moxie and determination in making that initial victory far harder than the Crimson would have liked, but defensive prowess was simply not enough to contend with Harvard’s startling offensive pace, balanced scoring and all-star attacking prowess. “We went toe-to-toe with one of the best teams in the Ivy League and fought like true Bulldogs as the game’s serious underdog,” said Ollie Iselin ’18. “Unfortunately the tiny margins between winning and losing became apparent again and they nicked a goal with 25 minutes to go. Another exhibition of great spirit and character but not the result we were looking for.” The Bulldogs will continue Ivy competition against Dartmouth in Hanover this Saturday at 7 p.m. Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .
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shots on goal for the entire second half. “Our defense was solid,” Decker said. “We knew we had a job to do, and [we] were committed 110 percent to making sure nothing got through us.” Harvard goalkeeper Lizzie Durack made a save on a shot by Gavin, which was the only shot on goal for the second half. After 90 minutes, the score remained 0–0. The teams were given a short break before heading into a 10-minute overtime period. Overtime is played under the golden goal rule, meaning that the first team to score wins the game, causing the intensity to heighten. Both goalkeepers came up with big saves for their teams before the period ended, sending the game into a second and final 10-minute overtime frame. Though Yale outshot Harvard in both the first and second halves of regulation, it was the Crim-
son taking control of the overtime periods, out-shooting the Elis 5–2 in the extra time. “We had a lot of chances to score and didn’t put them away, but it still felt great to be knocking on Harvard’s door for the majority of the game,” Decker said. “Every last one of us left everything on the field, and that in itself is something to be proud of. With that being said, we certainly would’ve loved to come away from the game with a win.” Shots on goal were taken by both teams within 30 seconds of each other two minutes into the extra period, with defender Carlin Hudson ’18 shooting for Yale and Haley Washburn taking the shot for Harvard. With less than three minutes left, Wilcox kept Yale in the game by making yet another save, her fourth and final of the game. The second overtime ended scoreless, resulting in a tie, Yale’s first of the year. The result of the game puts added pressure on the Bulldogs
as Ivy play heats up. Two games into the conference season, the Bulldogs already find themselves three points back of Harvard, Columbia and Princeton for the top spot among the Ancient Eight. “Without a win, that puts more pressure on us to win out. We have to now hope for another team to beat Harvard as well, so the pressure is greater than ever,” Conneely added. The Bulldogs head to Dartmouth on Saturday, Oct. 11 for their third Ivy League game of the season. Play begins at 4 p.m. Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .
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“Coach [Tony] Reno…takes a lot of pride in how we play. He wanted to make sure we made a statement this week, and I think we did so.” ROBERT RIES ’17 DEFENSIVE BACK
Elis continue winning streak FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 “Coach [Tony] Reno is a defensive lineman guy, so he takes a lot of pride in how we play,” defensive back Robert Ries ’17 said. “He wanted to make sure we made a statement this week, and I think we did so … The chemistry of the defense is getting better every week.” The Bulldogs had fallen behind early in their wins over Lehigh and Army, but they took the initial lead in this one, as running back Tyler Varga ’15 picked up where he left off from last week’s five-touchdown performance. On Yale’s fifth offensive play of the game, Roberts pitched the ball to Varga on an outside option for a six-yard score and a quick 7–0 lead. During the rest of the game, however, Yale scored primarily with the pass, and the running game provided a supporting role in setting up Roberts’ five touchdowns and eating up the clock in the second half. Roberts said that Yale’s ability to transition from a rushing attack, such as last week’s against Army, to an aerial assault has been a key to success for its dominant offense. “It’s incredible, all the different weapons that we have,” Roberts said. “We have so many weapons that you can’t really key in on one guy. If you key in on one guy, another guy’s going to beat you.” Yale continued to force Cornell’s offense off the field in three plays in the first quarter, and each time, the Elis capitalized with a touchdown
by one of its senior playmakers, Randall and fellow wideout Grant Wallace ’15. Randall caught a deep pass over his shoulder from Roberts for a 33-yard score, while Wallace, after converting a third down situation for 20 yards at the beginning of the drive, broke away from his defender eight plays later for a 13-yard touchdown reception. Each receiver would later add another touchdown to his total and finish with over 100 receiving yards. Yale led 20–0 after the first quarter, having gone a perfect three-for-three on offense and having stopped Cornell on all four of its offensive possessions. “We’ve had a lot of success on offense [before this week], but we haven’t really had any success at the start of the game,” Roberts said. “It was huge to get out there and really focus on not killing ourselves with mental errors on the first drive.” Cornell scored for the first time in the second quarter when wide receiver Robert Clemons ’17 caught a pass on Yale’s 15-yard line but fumbled, allowing Cornell linebacker James White to pick up the ball and run it in for a score. Yale responded with Wallace’s second touchdown, and Randall tacked on his score one possession later, first making a diving catch to extend the drive on fourth-andeight and then catching a 16-yard touchdown pass over the middle. With Yale leading 34–6 in the second half, Reno subbed out
many of his starters to give experience to players further down the depth chart and to avoid injuries to the first-string players. Varga and Randall did not get touches in the second half, and quarterback Logan Scott ’16 replaced Roberts in the fourth quarter. But Yale continued to pound Cornell’s defense, as kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15 put through a 20-yard field goal, and Clemons later avenged his earlier fumble by scoring on a nine-yard reception. Running backs Deshawn Salter ’18 and Everett Johnson ’15 took over the run game and had significant success in the opportunity, as Salter carried the ball 10 times for 64 yards, and Johnson took credit for Yale’s final score with a 34-yard touchdown rush right through Cornell’s defensive line. Hagy scored Cornell’s only offensive touchdown with just over a minute remaining in the game, narrowing Yale’s 45-point lead to the final margin of 38. The Bulldogs will next play a three-game homestand, beginning against Dartmouth on Oct. 11. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
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FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 In the wake of Saturday’s loss, the team recognized this weakness as well. “For the rest of the season, a team goal is to take pride in how we go about our business and capitalize on the opportunities we create,” back Noelle Villa ’16 said before facing Cornell. The Big Red also prevented Yale from taking a penalty corner for all 70 minutes of play. Yale has not been awarded more penalty corners than its opponent since the Bulldogs faced Sacred Heart on Sept. 8, the team’s second game of the season. Goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15 saved 11 shots to help stop Cornell’s offense, slightly fewer than the 15 saves she had in last weekend’s game against Stanford. “We definitely didn’t play to the best of our ability,” midfielder Kelsey Nolan ’17 said, “But we’re using the game as a learning opportunity, hopefully leading to more success in the future.” Cornell currently holds the top position in the Ivy League and earned its first national ranking in program history last week. The team’s seven-game win streak was snapped by American University on Oct. 5. Since the Elis returned from New York, they have been preparing for
their next game against Bryant (3–7, 0–0 Northeast Conference) at home on Wednesday, when they hope to snap the losing streak. “We’re really focusing on supporting each other and communication,” Nolan said. “If we can do that, we’ll be successful.” The skid is Yale’s longest since a fivegame losing streak in 2008. However, Bryant has a 1–6 record away from home, an auspicious sign for Yale. “It may seem like our record is not looking too good right now, but we have made some radical and also subtle changes to the way we go about our business on the field,” Wells said. “The season is not over yet.” The game will begin at 7 p.m. under the lights of Johnson Field. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
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Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 boasted an impressive .538 kill percentage and eight kills against Dartmouth. VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B1 said. “Coming back after a five-game loss and winning the next day says a lot about our team.” Rogers delivered a season-high 21 kills against Dartmouth, hitting .340 overall. She said that she succeeded by blocking out the result of Friday’s match against Harvard and focusing on winning on Saturday. Middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16 gave a steady performance throughout the weekend, contributing 15 kills against Harvard and another 10 against Dartmouth. “I think the team did a great job of focusing on the match at hand and not letting the past bother us,” Rogers said. Yale and Harvard took turns gaining an edge in the match, with each team winning alternate sets. The Crimson picked up the first set in large part due to a 10–2 run in the middle of the game, but the Bulldogs responded by taking the second. The third set was the closest, but Harvard edged Yale 25–23. The Elis were able to force a fifth set after Midzik closed out a 8–0 run with two service aces, but ultimately fell to the
Crimson 15–9. “We struggled to get into a groove,” assistant head coach Kevin Laseau said. Laseau added that in the two games that the Bulldogs did win, they were able to put together strings of attacks and secure leads. He echoed Rogers, saying that the team was able to regroup for the Dartmouth match with resilience. “We know that once a match is over, it’s over,” he said. “And I think the seniors, Mollie and [libero] Maddie [Rudnick ’15], did a good job leading the team.” Rudnick took control of the court over the weekend with 20 digs against Harvard and 13 against Dartmouth. Also dominant was outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18, who hit .538 to deliver eight kills and contributed a team-high 14 digs. As Yale sharpened its focus against the Big Green, Dartmouth failed to respond effectively. The Bulldogs’ margin of victory increased in each set, winning by scores of 25–21, 25–18 and 25–16, respectively. “I thought the team bounced back
really well and did what we needed to do,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “We got the split on the road.” The Bulldogs will travel to Penn on Friday and to Princeton on Saturday to continue Ivy conference play. Yale volleyball is currently tied for second in the Ivy League with Dartmouth and Columbia. Princeton holds the first seat in the league. Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .
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“If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.” MUHAMMAD ALI BOXING CHAMPION
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Men’s tennis hosts Yale Shootout BY KATIE SABIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, the Yale men’s tennis team hosted the Yale Shootout, its first home tournament of the fall season. Building on their success last weekend at the Penn Classic, the Bulldogs opened with a bang, going 27–4 over the tournament.
MEN’S TENNIS The Elis took on Army, Bryant and St. Bonaventure at the annual Shootout tournament. The team has consistently performed well at this tournament in past years and added to that success this weekend. “It was a good weekend for
us,” head coach Alex Dorato said. “Everyone got to play a lot of matches which is really what we needed the most heading into the Regionals in two weeks.” Play opened on Saturday with the Bulldogs boasting a nearly perfect start to the tournament, winning all but two matches. In singles play, Yale went 5–1 against Army. Tyler Lu ’17, who just returned from competing at the All-American Championships, fought for a comeback against his competitor, Army’s Sam Lampman, posting a 6–0, 6–7, 6–0 victory. Martin Svenning ’16, Alex Hagermoser ’17, Photos Photiades ’17 and Ziqi Wang ’18 all contributed straight set wins over their Army oppoSEE M. TENNIS PAGE B2
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Tyler Detorie ’16 contributed to the Eli defensive effort against Harvard.
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BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After producing one of the most memorable finishes in Yale soccer history against Harvard in 2013, the Elis failed to recreate their last minute heroics in this year’s Ivy League opener. Falling 1–0 to the Harvard Crimson (6–3, 1–0–0 Ivy), Yale (0–7–2, 0–1–0) dropped their fourth straight game and went scoreless for the sixth time this season.
Unlike many matchups, Yale versus Harvard was not characterized by a failure on the Bulldogs’ part to take advantage of opportunities. This time, the opportunities were simply non-existent. Launching only four shots, with just one on target, the Yale offense was incapable of pulling together any scoring chances, as a usually porous Harvard defense played brilliantly to shut down the Bulldogs in the attacking third.
Harvard, by contrast, played at their usual high offensive clip, launching 14 shots with six on target. In spite of this, Yale’s defense weathered most of the storm, as they held off the Crimson throughout most of the game until Mark Ashby poached a 65th minute goal from inside the box that broke the Elis’ hearts. “I thought that the effort [Saturday] night was fantastic from the guys, and that SEE M. SOCCER PAGE B2
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Alex Hagermoser ’17 won five matches this weekend, part of 27 team wins for the Elis.
Elis eke out draw against rival Harvard BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The defense showed its worth for the Yale women’s soccer team when it managed to hold Harvard to a 0–0 draw that went into double overtime on Saturday in Cambridge.
WOMEN’S SOCCER The Bulldogs (5–3–1, 0–1–1 Ivy) played their hearts out against the Crimson (6–2–2, 1–0–1 Ivy), with the defense shining — especially goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15, who saved all four shots on goal. Harvard managed to do the same, producing three saves to keep the Elis from scoring at all in the 110-minute match. “We really needed a win yesterday to knock Harvard down a few points and to gain them ourselves,” said Shannon Conneely ’16, “But a tie keeps us alive, so we are content.” Harvard, the defending Ivy League champions, had a tough fight against the Bulldogs. Midfielder Geny Decker ’17, forward Melissa Gavin ’15 and midfielder Muriel Battaglia ’15 led the charge for Yale, taking five shots and three corner kicks in the first thirty minutes of the game. Harvard’s first shot on goal came in the 29th minute, but was stopped by Wilcox. The Crimson managed to finish the half with a strong showing, taking multiple shots and corner kicks before Battaglia attempted another header to end the first forty-five minutes of action. The second half finished in similar fashion, with both teams taking the ball up and down the field evenly. Yale’s defense picked apart the Harvard offense and kept the Crimson from taking any SEE W. SOCCER PAGE B2
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Defender Carlin Hudson ’18 saw time against the Harvard offense in her first year as an Eli.