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City wins grant to cut recidivism

Students tire of Calhoun debate

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER

advocacy groups driving the Calhoun debate and the wider student community. The controversy over Calhoun — named for former U.S. vice president and vocal slavery proponent John C. Calhoun, class of 1804 — stemmed from national conversations about Confederate sym-

With a new $1 million grant, New Haven will launch a fight against recidivism in partnership with the state of Connecticut and nonprofit organizations — the most collaborative effort to reduce the number of repeat offenders to date.

The federal Department of Justice’s Second Chance Act Grant aims to cut the number of repeat offenders in New Haven prisons by half in five years, City Community Services Administrator Martha Okafor announced Thursday at the Board of Alders Human Service Committee meeting. The project, which is part of a larger state and citywide attempt to address social issues linked to crime, follows years of local organizations tackling the same problem through individual efforts.

Okafor and Clifton Graves, administrator of the New Haven Project Fresh Start Reentry Program, lead the effort to reduce recidivism, which also receives support from three reintegration centers and numerous non-governmental organizations throughout New Haven.

“Our approach is a holistic one to coordinate with the services that fortunately do exist in the New Haven community,” Graves said. “The end goal being that we can provide folks with these services …

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New Kids on the Vlock. The

house that first-year Yale architecture students built as part of the Jim Vlock Building Project has been sold for $155,000. The three-bedroom unit on Winthrop Street in the city’s West River neighborhood was built on a budget of $130,000 as part of larger initiative to push for affordable housing in New Haven.

California Love. Every once

in a while we get to feel good about going out on a Wednesday night. Tonight, Yale Undergraduates for UNICEF will host Coachella Woads, and proceeds from ticket sales will benefit families in need in California’s Coachella Valley. Wear your Coachella finest, and Woads for a cause.

Lil Dicky Comes to Yale. But we’re not saying you can’t feel good about going to Toad’s on any other night. Tickets for Lil Dicky Live in Concert on Nov. 4 go on sale today. The News hopes the up-and-coming rap performer won’t cancel on Toads Place like Lil Poopy did in 2013.

Nothing Suspect Here. The

Yale Office of Sustainability is hosting a series of events this week as part of University President Peter Salovey’s three-year Sustainability Strategic Plan. The celebration of sustainability also includes a social media photo contest.

Tag #YSustain on Twitter and Instagram to participate.

Crimson Versus Prison. In a

contest that received national attention, Harvard’s debate team was defeated by a team of prison inmates. The winning debaters were part of the Bard Prison Initiative, a program that offers incarcerated men and women the opportunity to earn Bard College degrees.

Zero Bucks Left to Give. New information about Chi Psi’s golden retriever Buck does not appear in the News today, for the first time in a week.

We miss our furry frat star.

Send tips about Buck (or other things) to crosscampus@ yaledailynews.com.

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2014 Medical marijuana comes to Branford, Connecticut. The neighboring town becomes the sixth dispensary in the state.

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Picked the Phinest. We hear Yale’s Phi Beta Kappa society has selected its junior inductees in the class of 2017.

Do you wish you had kept MATH 120 Credit/D/Fail? So do we. By the way, the final day to convert to the letter-grade option is Nov. 13.

1701. Visit Cross Campus to take advantage of free food for Founders Day 2015. The second annual celebration of the University’s founding will include tours of Woodbridge Hall and the President’s House on Hillhouse Avenue, which we hear looks good post-$17 million renovation.

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A window in the Calhoun common room was redone in the ’90s to remove a depiction of a slave kneeling before John C. Calhoun.

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A small group of protesters assembled along Elm Street in the cold and rain Saturday afternoon, waving bright yellow picket signs and taking turns shouting into a megaphone to call for the renaming of Calhoun College. But on that stormy afternoon,

only one student joined the demonstration, which was organized by the anti-racism Answer Coalition and the Yale chapter of the NAACP. Nine of 10 students interviewed the following day said they were not aware a protest had taken place.

The low student turnout at the protest signals an emerging disconnect between the administrators and

Yale Center Beijing finishes first year

BY ANDI WANG AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS Inaugurated in October 2014

by University President Peter Salovey, Yale Center Beijing — the University’s physical mainstay in China — has now been in full operation for a year.

In an effort to bridge University interests in Asia and enhance Yale’s global presence, YCB serves four primary functions: sponsoring events; providing a space for Yale entities to hold workshops, symposia and training sessions in China; creating a platform for admissions and recruitment; and renting out space to Yale alumni and friends of the University. From its glasswalled office space on the 36th floor of the IFC Building in Beijing’s Central Business District, YCB hosted several speaker series SEE BEIJING PAGE 4

COURTESY OF DAN MURPHY

President Salovey and leading donors to the Yale Center Beijing celebrated its October 2014 opening.

ESL resources available, but underutilized

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER When Marco Bonett-Matiz GRD ’16, a 7th-year Ph.D. candidate, organized a series of workshops for physics teaching assistants last year, he noticed that almost all of the Asian TAs stopped attending by the second session. Puzzled at first, Bonett-Matiz later received feedback that his workshops were not tailored for or mindful enough of TAs who did not speak English as their first language.

Bonet-Matiz said that while he is not sure how he could solve this problem, his experi-

ence shows that graduate students who speak English as a second language need to be made aware of the on-campus resources available to them.

One such resource is the English Language Program, which was founded to serve all members of the Yale community who do not speak English as their first language. The unit mainly serves graduate and professional students and has been particularly successful in attracting visiting scholars, but program director Jim Tierney echoed Bonett-Matiz’s critique that not enough people SEE ESL PAGE 6

BOE hopefuls gather

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER As the Board of Education race approaches its November finish line, all three candidates vying for a seat emphasized the need for parental involvement in the school system during a public forum Tuesday.

The forum — hosted by New Haven’s Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at the Yale AfroAmerican Cultural Center — featured District 1 competitors Edward Joyner and Jim O’Connell, as well as Darnell Goldson, a former alder who is running unopposed in District 2.

The candidates made great efforts to convince the audience of roughly 20 New Haven

residents and Yale students that they most deserved a seat on the Board. But as questioning began, all candidates coalesced behind a commitment to build the New Haven Public Schools system with the help and input of students’ parents.

“Even if we build a great school system, it is useless if kids don’t take it home with them,” Joyner told the crowd.

Historically, the mayor has appointed each member of the city’s Board of Education.

But in a 2013 referendum, the city’s charter was revised to include four elected members — two nonvoting high school students and two community members with full voting powers — in addition to five appointed members for

the Board.

Joyner, who is running on the Democratic ticket against Republican O’Connell, told the audience he has done “everything you could possibly do in education,” including teaching students at all levels, from fifth-graders to doctoral candidates. He added that he has served in numerous administrative capacities within the field of education.

O’Connell, who has been a teacher at Waterbury’s Sacred Heart High School for 37 years, acknowledged that an overwhelming majority of New Haven voters are registered as Democrats. But during a Tuesday interview with the News, he said his RepubSEE BOE PAGE 6

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Appositives are negatives

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mong the noble fights and feats of activism undertaken on our campus, few are as impassioned as the mission to engage one’s peers in debate over issues of social justice. From casual conversations about microaggressions to ferocious accusations of privilege on Facebook, the exercise of liberal discourse today revolves around promoting the visibility of marginalized voices. Many such conversations at Yale and elsewhere are settled when an individual steps forward, reveals their marginalized identity category and invalidates all other arguments with the non-negotiable assertion of their lived experience.

Herein lies perhaps the most pernicious syntactical construction known to man: the appositive.

An overwhelming number of rebuttals in both online and in-person disputes open ominously with the phrase, “As an x person of y ….” This formula recurs so often in debate that it has come to represent an entire argument unto itself: “I possess the lived experience peculiar to this category, therefore my opinion trumps yours and your arguments are entirely irrelevant.” Its rhetorical use is singular and unmistakable, its political efficacy devastating. The monopolizing power of the "identity appositive" is so effective that I sometimes wonder why people even bother completing the sentence.

As a queer immigrant woman of color, I am frightened — and you should be too.

For all that our debates about social justice purport to secure, there is a real danger in allowing identity categories to take the place of arguments, for both the marginalized and the privileged. No approach could be more intellectually dishonest or uncharitable than refusing to even consider someone’s argument because they do not share a certain lived experience. We do a great disservice to campus discourse when we reject our peers’ arguments based not on flaws in their reasoning but on their inability to use the identity appositive.

We leave ourselves no room for valuable critique of their logic; instead we dismiss it as inherently unworthy.

Another problem with the identity appositive is that its usefulness is contingent on a person’s deliberate decision to out themself as a member of x marginalized category. A forum in which legitimacy is determined by self-reported identity categories excludes

those who are not comfortable with outing themselves.

Someone might give a valid and intelligent argument, but that argument is useless unless it is prefaced by an appositive. A person who fits the image of a "straight white man" but identifies otherwise has no chance of being taken seriously unless they make the decision to publicly out themselves. This judgment is immediate and unforgiving. I am disturbed by how quickly my peers assume that I have no experience with sexual assault, queer identity or mental health issues when I end up disagreeing with them, simply because I choose not to make my "membership" in these invisible categories public. Too often, we confuse identity politics for presentation politics.

The more everyone buys into the identity appositive, the more we promote the idea that lived experience can be sufficiently packaged into a single label. Does it really help the members of a marginalized group to assume that they all have the same worldview, have experienced the same oppression and share the same politics? During Cultural Connections my freshman year, one of my friends confessed that he felt displaced from his ethnicity because he couldn’t bring himself to admit to the other black students that he had never experienced the sort of oppression they described.

He felt "less black" for being unable to relate to their stories of oppression.

This sort of displacement is only encouraged by the identity appositive; minorities who do not conform to the prevailing narrative are silenced in the name of social progress, even though they of course have a valid place in conversations of race, gender and sexuality. Assuming that all people within a given category fit neatly into a monolithic narrative makes those who don’t feel like ethnic outliers.

Our conversations about privilege and oppression are unquestionably necessary and valuable. But we should not delude ourselves into thinking that judging arguments on the basis of someone’s Facebook profile picture will lead anywhere productive. I should not have to earn my voice in a public debate by outing myself. Neither should anybody else.

SHERRY LEE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at chia.lee@yale.edu .

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n 2012, I sat in front of our old television, perched on the couch watching the 84th annual Academy Awards. The camera panned to a stunning Viola Davis, outfitted in a seafoam green, floor-length gown.

We were all expecting her to win, to take home the shining Oscar as a reward for her role as Aibileen Clark in "The Help". When it was announced that Meryl Streep would take home the Oscar instead, I slumped back into the couch, disappointed but unsurprised.

Although Streep is an extremely talented actress, a win for Davis at this moment would have been truly meaningful, especially since the academy has consistently undervalued the accomplishments of women of color in film. Halle Berry is the only African-American woman to win the award for best actress in a leading role since the academy’s inception. No Hispanic or East Asian actresses have won for best actress in a leading role.

Even though some other notable actresses such as Lupita Nyong'o DRA ’12 have won awards for best actress in a supporting role, Nyong’o is still one of only six black women to win in that category. And although Nyong'o played her role beautifully, that role was a relatively stereotypical depiction of a slave. Most of the black women who won for their roles in this category, including Hattie McDaniel in "Gone With the Wind" or Mo’Nique in "Precious" still portrayed broken, subservient and, in some cases, abusive characters.

In the media, roles reserved for women of color, particularly African-American women, often conform to stereotypical tropes. Mammies, jezebels and sapphires are typically the only roles we see reserved for black women on television, if they manage to find any roles at all.

Only around 28 percent of speaking roles are given to women, and a fraction of that percent is given to women of color. Mov-

ies such as "Dear White People" do little to break down stereotypes when the main character ultimately is forced to conform to the tragic mulatto archetype, deciding to turn her back on the struggles of her black peers in a futile attempt to assimilate into white society. Although Shonda Rhimes is known for her groundbreaking depictions of women in the media, one of her most popular shows, "Scandal," verges on slipping back into age-old jezebel tropes. The main character, played by Kerry Washington, is the president’s mistress, after all.

Considering the pervasiveness of negative portrayals of black women in the media, as well as the other structural barriers that black women face in the entertainment industry, I was happily surprised when Viola Davis was awarded the Emmy for best actress in a drama. It was truly a historic moment for America; she was the first African- American woman to win

the award.

Davis’ character, Annalise Keating, in "How to Get Away With Murder" is dynamic and complex. As a queer law professor at a prominent university, her character has nuances that allow it to rise above the sea of mammy, jezebel and sapphire tropes.

These positive images of African-American women are necessary, because they’re lacking in most places. In academia, corporate America, the fashion industry and most other professions women of color are still underrepresented; when harmful stereotypes about women of color are so pervasive, it reinforces our conscious and subconscious racial biases. Black women must have the opportunity to be recognized for roles that accurately reflect their lives if we want to ever eradicate these biases.

ISIS DAVIS-MARKS is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards college.

Contact her at isis.davis-marks@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST GRAHAM AMBROSE

A mind of its own

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ocieties don’t progress linearly. Rather, growth builds exponentially, with success feedbacking even more success.

This theory is a tenet of the technological age we live in. As posited by computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, more progress will happen in the next 10 years than in the previous 150. By 2050, the world may well be unrecognizable to an earthling of 2015.

The promise of that tomorrow intoxicates, thanks to the imminent era of technological revolution. It’s a period that will usher in the most fundamental changes in the history of the genus homo.

The tendrils of this technology will touch every realm and totem of modern life, from the office to the home to even the hallowed halls of universities like Yale.

The advancements in artificial intelligence will yield the most tremendous change. Scientists divide AI into two categories: narrow and general. Artificial narrow intelligence, or “weak AI,” specializes on one specific task with clear parameters and targets. ANI has already become familiar in modern life: iPhone knowledge-navigator Siri, computer competitors in chess or video games like Call of Duty, self-operating vacuum cleaners like Roomba and self-driving vehicles.

Weak AI enhances productivity and improves efficiency and, across many industries, obviates the need for low-skill laborers to putter over menial tasks — especially when they are better completed by a specialized computer.

So what, then, happens to the

worker displaced by mechanization?

Unemployment.

Not for everyone, at least not initially, but for millions in the coming years. Researchers at Oxford predict that by 2035, technological unemployment will threaten at least 47 percent of all U.S. workers — a Luddite nightmare suddenly vaulted to the forefront of international consciousness. The risk of vocational obsolescence imperils more than the likely suspects, such as the 9.3 million workers in transportation acutely at risk to be automated.

Work in finance, education, architecture, engineering and health care will all see massive job transformations and human unemployment as well, according to figures gathered by NPR earlier this year.

Thanks to weak AI already on the market, an additional 15.4 million jobs, representing 10 percent of the workforce, will not exist in the next decade, according to an article from The Atlantic earlier this year. As Yale’s own ethicist Wendell Wallach noted in June, the inflection point has been reached: Technology now permanently displaces more jobs than it creates.

Yet the consequences of weak AI pale in comparison to those of artificial general intelligence, or “strong AI.” AGI represents the apex of technological innovation, at which a computer’s intellect can think abstractly, judge probabilistically, recognize uncertainty and reason as well as any human — if not better. Most

importantly, like any human brain, strong AI is able to learn.

And if a machine can learn, then it can teach itself.

This capability unravels the human monopoly on intelligence. Once a machine reaches human-level general intellect, it can teach itself to rewrite the computer’s coding framework, producing a computer that endlessly builds a better machine.

Minutes, hours, days or months after the arrival at this general intelligence, the computer will have stumbled upon “superintelligence,” the state of brilliance far beyond that of any human who has ever lived.

At this stage, the speculation begins and the expert consensus devolves. We, mortals, know the ceiling of human intelligence.

But what about an IQ of 300? Or 1,000? Or 100,000? Superintelligence destroys comparisons of scale, like a human playing chess against a beetle, or Einstein explaining relativity to an earthworm.

A superintelligent computer potentiates breakthroughs of unmistakable importance: the end to climate change; the eradication of cancer, illness and disease; the unlocking of intergalactic exploration and travel; and perhaps even the realization of human immortality itself.

In the words of writer James Barat, superintelligence may well be our final invention.

But the rosy future darkens dramatically when we abandon the optimists’ predictions. Some, like Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, aren’t so convinced

about a post-AI utopia. A superintelligent computer, after all, might adroitly override human rules. It might craft rules of its own, regulations for how the inferior minds ought to kowtow before their intelligent masters.

These theorists argue this may even culminate in a grand strategic power play to control the entire world’s financial, military, political and social systems.

Whatever the outcome, experts generally agree that superintelligence will emerge eventually, perhaps within our lifetimes. In one recent poll, technologists estimated a 90-percent probability of human-level strong AI emerging by 2075. Superintelligence could follow some short months or years later.

There is still time left to understand the nascent technology, halt the exit music through policy and swing the inexorable momentum toward a future we’d peaceably live in rather than one in which we don’t live at all. Whether we place limits on legal development of AI technology, such as we have with cloning, or standardize industry protocol, there are ways we can better protect ourselves from our future.

There is time left — just not that much. And until we as members of the human race take seriously these issues of existential consequence, so-called progress may well lap us into oblivion.

GRAHAM AMBROSE is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact him at graham.ambrose@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”

ANNIE LENNOX SCOTTISH SINGER AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, OCT. 6.

State laws counter police brutality

The article “YCC mental health projects stall” incorrectly implied that the Yale College Council had discontinued their efforts with Mental Health and Counseling and sexual misconduct policy to focus on financial aid reform.

The council is working on mental health projects, among others, simultaneously. The article also stated that the YCC has successfully implemented a sexual health task force and a financial aid task force, when in reality, the Council successfully convened a sexual misconduct task force last semester and has a financial aid working group. In addition, the Council is working on a dining task force, an LGBTQ task force and a task force for the new colleges. The News regrets these errors.

Clarification: The article stated that YCC has been increasing pre-orientation programming. In fact, this is an idea that the Council plans to raise with the administration.

Dwight, West River talk crime

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Dwight and West River residents gathered Tuesday night to learn about the state of neighborhood crime and infrastructure at a meeting of the Dwight/West River Central Management Team.

Police officers, store managers and alders gave short presentations to the roughly 30 people who attended the meeting at Amistad Academy. At the meeting, police officers gave updates on recent crime developments as well as progress in providing body cameras to the Yale police force. The New Haven Department of Public Works then addressed community members’ concerns about the upkeep of sidewalks and roads.

Sgt. Stephan Torquati, district manager for Dwight and West River, said the area is continuing to have an outstanding year. But his force still has concerns — the actions of some Waverly Townhouses residents have resulted in some crime-related complaints, he said.

Torquati said his team is working with the intelligence and detective divisions to reduce crime in the area, especially after a recent double shooting at the intersection of George and Orchard streets.

“That spot is a continual pain for everyone, except for the folks who live in the general area,” he said. “We don’t get a lot of calls for service from people who live there.”

Part of the difficulty in combating crime in the area is a lack of manpower on the force, Torquati said. He said he only has two officers for the whole district at night. But that dearth of officers may soon be alleviated: Torquati said he has requested four new officers from the next graduating class at the New Haven Police Academy.

Lt. Brian Logan of the Yale Police Department agreed with Torquati, saying crime in the area has been low over recent months.

“From our perspective, this has been a very quiet fall so far,” he said. “We’re continuing to put extra manpower on Howe Street and Dwight Street, and it seems to have a positive effect on our num-

bers, and hopefully it has a residual effect on this neighborhood.”

In response to a question from an attendee about body cameras, Torquati said the force will welcome cameras on officers.

He described body cameras as a “new tool” and compared them to the institution of Miranda warnings in the 1960s.

Logan — who wore a body camera at the meeting — said the rollout of the cameras in the YPD has proceeded smoothly so far. Still, he said it may take time for officers to adjust to the cameras, which they often forget to turn on manually.

Later in the meeting, the attendees heard a short presentation from Jeff Pescosolido, director of the New Haven Department of Public Works. He said the department is entering its last two months of sidewalk repair before shutting down for the winter. He said in the meantime, residents should submit complaints and concerns to the city via SeeClickFix, an online incident-reporting website.

Pescosolido said improving sidewalks can save the city money, as broken sidewalks can lead to lawsuits against the city if pedestrians fall and hurt themselves. He added that handicapped residents, especially, can benefit from improved sidewalks.

The department is also concerned about the approaching snow season, Pescosolido said.

“We’re preparing again for snow season,” he said. “There are some streets in this neighborhood where parking is difficult for residents — we understand that — and it makes it difficult for DPW staff to remove snow.”

Other infrastructure issues have also been on the minds of neighborhood residents. West River Alder Tyisha Walker said she has heard complaints from residents about the parking situation in the neighborhood. In response to these complaints, the Board of Alders is now drafting a new parking ordinance, she said.

The Dwight Central Management Team will host its annual Fall Festival on Oct. 24.

Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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New state legislation mandates measures designed to limit excessive use of force by police.

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Students are showing support for new Connecticut state laws designed to limit excessive use of force by police — but some say the legislation is just a start.

The law will enforce the development of guidelines for the recruitment, retention and promotion of minority police officers, particularly in communities with a relatively high concentration of minority residents, which must be done by Jan. 1. The laws also mandate the implementation of training to promote bias-free policing and prevent the excessive use of physical force. Students involved with civil rights on campus agreed that the legislation is a step in the right direction towards preventing adversarial relationships between the community and the police.

“It’s hard to convince people that the police are working for them instead of against them when they look nothing like them and they’re so highly militarized,” Yale NAACP President Brea Baker ’16 said.

Students interviewed agreed that the legislation was a posi-

tive change, but several identified concerns about excessive use of force by police officers that were not addressed by the legislation.

The increased number of fatalities at the hands of police officers is creating mistrust in communities across the country.

STATE REP. BRUCE MORRIS The new legislation mandates officer training for the use of body-worn recording devices, such as cameras, and the retention of the data collection on those devices. Those devices must be purchased by Jan. 1.

Former chair of the Yale ACLU undergraduate chapter Andre Manuel ’16 said that though he personally agrees with the use of body cameras, many others have concerns about privacy rights.

He added that body cameras alone will not solve the underlying issues of excessive use of

force by police. Other students interviewed echoed Manuel’s statement.

“All of those things are bandaids, but necessary and potentially effective ones, to build trust and accountability,” Nate Bresnick ’18 said. “But I do believe that any meaningful attempt to stop police violence needs to address systemic inequalities and a culture of white supremacy in a much more comprehensive way.”

Another piece of the legislation encourages police departments to recruit officers who reflect the demographics of their communities. Such efforts include community outreach and new policies that encourage the promotion of minority officers when the department has vacant positions.

Both DOWN Magazine Editor in Chief Elizabeth Spenst ’18 and Manuel noted that police forces reflecting the racial demographics of their community are not sufficient to create more trust between communities and police departments.

Spenst said that while having police forces that resemble the communities they serve is imperative, sensitivity training

is also crucial for police officers to understand their communities.

Manuel said officers should also have roots in the community.

State representatives who advocated for the legislation before it was passed in June stressed the law’s importance.

“The increased number of fatalities at the hands of police officers is creating mistrust in communities across the country, including Connecticut, to the point where some cities have experienced civil unrest,” Norwalk state Rep. Bruce Morris said. “We need to be more proactive than reactive and that’s what this law is.”

Hamden state Rep. Robyn Porter noted that the bodycamera aspect of the legislation serves as a deterrent to excessive use of force by police. Porter said that when people know they are being watched, they tend to act differently, so the law serves as protection for both police officers and citizens.

The legislation was signed by Gov. Dannel Malloy on July 6.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.”

HILL HARPER AMERICAN TELEVISION ACTOR

Grant aims to lower Elm City recidivism RECIDIVISM FROM PAGE 1 that will lead to a better social reintegration to curb recidivism.”

The city is also working closely with the Connecticut Department of Correction — which won a similar federal grant — in addition to reintegration programs such as the Community Action Agency, Easter Seals Goodwill and Project More. New Haven will also collaborate with the Yale School of Medicine’s Transitions Clinic and multiple other local organizations.

Working with the Department of Correction will enable project coordinators to address the difficulties incarcerated individuals face when they return to their communities, Okafor and Graves said. The coordinators aim to connect individuals with the services they need after leaving prison, but the ultimate goal is to work with the court system to support people before they are even sentenced, Graves said.

“The key component is identifying early on the people who are going to be going back to the streets,” Graves said. “There are 100 a month.”

New Haven, the first city in Connecticut to secure this grant, won the largest award despite being the smallest city that applied for a grant. Graves attributed this to the program’s uniquely collaborative nature.

Sgt. Roy Davis, the police officer who oversees the Downtown district, said the city’s plan to work with convicted criminals six months before they are released from prison is unusual, explaining that re-entry into community life is usually facilitated during a three-day process.

The program coordinators will also partner with organizations such as the New Haven Family Alliance to support the families of prisoners preparing for release.

“When someone is incarcerated, the family is hurting,” Graves said. “The community

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bols that began this summer following the June shooting of nine African-American congregants at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. In his August welcome address to freshmen, University President Peter Salovey called for “an open conversation” about the name of Calhoun. But in recent weeks, many students have become weary of a debate they say is growing tiresome and repetitive.

Ten of 15 students interviewed expressed some level of exhaustion with the Calhoun controversy. Five said they remain actively interested in the topic.

Otis Baker ’19 and Brandon Rabaria ’19 both said the naming debate has run its course.

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itself suffers.”

The Connecticut Department of Correction, in its most recent study of recidivism in 2012, found that 79 percent of male

offenders were rearrested within five years of release and 69 percent were convicted of a new crime.

Graves said one of the big-

gest barriers the project faces is that social stigma around incarceration prevents many former inmates from finding jobs when they leave prison.

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out,” Rabaria said.

He added that while he initially considered attending public discussions about the controversy, he has now lost interest.

Emma Phelps ’19, who is in Calhoun, said she is tired of answering questions about the debate.

“When you introduce yourself, people are like, ‘So what do you think about the name?’” Phelps said. “You have to have that conversation so many times.”

For some students, the arguments made on each side have become repetitive as well. Madeleine Hutchins ’19 said she has not heard any unusual or original analysis since she arrived on campus.

African American Studies professor Gerald Jaynes, who argued against a name change at a Yale Political Union event last week,

said he was not surprised that activists had run out of new ideas.

“There’s only so many good arguments that either side could make,” Jaynes said.

And Jimmy Shih ’19 and Cameron Stanish ’18 said attention from University administrators and student organizations, including the News and the YPU, has created the illusion that the majority of students are actively engaged in the debate. The reality, Shih and Stanish said, is that the debate has not significantly affected most students’ lives.

Three students said the naming controversy has drawn attention away from more important issues. Shih faulted Salovey for focusing his entire welcome address on the Calhoun controversy.

“I feel like there could have been a lot of more interesting

things to talk about,” Shih said.

He added that students should move on from the Calhoun debate and focus instead on escaping the so-called “Yale bubble” that isolates the University from the rest of New Haven.

But Emily Hays ’16, president of the advocacy group Blue Haven, which works to bridge the gap between Yale and New Haven, said the Calhoun debate extends beyond Yale as part of a crucial nationwide reckoning with America’s racist past.

Hays was the only student who attended Saturday’s protest.

Professors and administrators interviewed agreed that the debate is more significant than the skeptics contend, as interpretations of the past help shape the identity of historic institutions like Yale.

Calhoun Master Julia Adams said she continues to receive daily emails from students across the University inquiring about the name. She added that she expects the debate to evolve over the next few months to encompass more than just the naming issue.

“We’re at a turning point,” Adams said. “The discussion about the name of Calhoun College can remain relatively contained or can link to large reexaminations of Yale’s role in the world.”

History professor David Blight, who spoke about the political legacy of Calhoun at a September Master’s Tea, said he hopes the debate will eventually force students to reckon with Calhoun’s advocacy of states rights, not just his stance on slavery.

But Blight added that he hopes the debate is resolved soon.

“I don’t think that it serves any good to carry it on so long without simply deciding to do something,” Blight said.

On Oct. 29, MIT professor Craig Wilder, the author of a new book on the history of racism in American universities, will visit Silliman College to discuss the naming controversy, as well as other race-related issues at Yale.

DENIZ SAIP/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

Calhoun College is named after John. C. Calhoun, class of 1804, who once famously called slavery a “positive good.”

“People make mistakes,” he said. “But once they’ve paid their dues, you have to at least give them a second chance.”

Gateway Community Col-

lege will hold a reentry job fair on March 24, 2016.

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

YCB enters second year BEIJING FROM PAGE 1 and student-organized activities this year, and the center will host seven Yale deans this fall. As the center marks its one-year anniversary, YCB visitors and staffers alike hope to see more Yale affiliates utilizing the space and increasing awareness about YCB on Yale’s New Haven campus.

“I’m happy about how the first year went, and hopeful that we will do better in the next,” said Carol Li Rafferty ’00, YCB’s managing director stationed in Beijing. “We are by far the most active foreign university in China, with more than 100 events and programs held during its first year since last November.”

Dan Murphy, YCB’s program director in New Haven, said YCB has already welcomed U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, outgoing Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern and e-commerce tycoon Richard Liu. This fall, Yale affiliates such as Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan, School of Management Dean Edward Snyder and Yale Divinity School Dean Gregory Sterling will speak at YCB, Murphy added.

Snyder said he is pleased with the progress he has seen the center make thus far, adding that he supports the University’s decision to establish a center in Beijing. Snyder said the center is run by a strong advisory board that includes the center’s three major donors, the president of Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music and a prominent Internet entrepreneur.

Rafferty said the center’s central location has helped YCB become an intellectual hub for leaders in business, politics, nonprofits, media and academia. Events at the center have cultivated a more active alumni pool in China, Rafferty added, estimat-

ing that the number of active alumni in Beijing grew from around 30 to more than 100 since the center’s founding.

“The center’s aim is really to get scholars to communicate with each other, and I think it’s doing a great job,” said Serene Li ’17, whose a cappella group Living Water performed at YCB over the summer. Li added that the center is a versatile place that can be used for more than academic pursuits and that YCB’s staff was very welcoming. A native of Beijing, Li said that as a Yale student, she was able to use one of the center’s study rooms during the summer. Linshu Li GRD ’19, an applied physics Ph.D. candidate who organized an entrepreneurship forum at the center in August, said YCB made community outreach in China more convenient. Surprised by the number of Yale entrepreneurs in China, Linshu Li added that the center functioned as a hub for Yale alumni.

Still, Li commented that it is too early to assess YCB’s overall impact on Yale-China relations, as the center is still in the process of building a robust community in China and Asia more broadly. Li, however, was confident about YCB’s future, adding that the center is already doing better than many of its counterparts.

Moving forward, the center will actively try to bring more resources from Yale’s schools and associated entities to China, Rafferty said.

“This is your center — this is your home in China,” Murphy said. “We want this [center] to be a space for the Yale family.”

According to its website, YCB has four offices for visiting faculty.

Contact ANDI WANG at andi.wang@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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“To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.” EUGENE JARVIS GAME DESIGNER

Students await Barcade’s arrival

BY NATALINA LOPEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On 56 Orange St., a man walks into a bar. It is also an arcade.

Barcade, part bar and part arcade, is coming to the Ninth Square in New Haven. The owners — Paul Kermizian, Scott Beard, Kevin Beard, Jon Miller and Pete Langway — opened their first Barcade in Brooklyn in 2004 and have secured five locations since. Like its counterparts, the New Haven location will feature classic arcade games and serve craft beer. New Haven’s Barcade proposal has been discussed since July 2015 and was approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals this September. Barcade was originally set to open this fall but after being delayed by zoning issues is set to open early next year, Kermizian said.

“We wanted to expand into New England, and we had been thinking about where to look,” said Kermizian. “We really liked the downtown area here.”

Kermizian — who recently celebrated 10 years of success since the first Barcade opened its doors — does not expect to see strong competition. He noted there are no other similar venues in Connecticut. Although Barcade will specialize in craft beers, it will also have a full liquor bar for cocktails, Kermizian said. He added that there will be 50 types of video games available, including many hits from the last 40 years, such as Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Street Fighter.

The owners said they hope to find a niche for their bar in the downtown area.

“There seems to be a cool nightlife already in downtown New Haven,” said Kermizian.

“We don’t see other people as competition. We just hope to fit in somewhere.”

Barcade will join the ranks of at least four other bars in the Ninth Square.

Neighboring bars include Firehouse 12, Crown 116 and Cask Republic. Though Cask Republic also specializes in craft beers, its business manager, Norman Macdonald, said he does not see Barcade as competition and is

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Barcade, part bar and part arcade, is set to open early next year. excited for its arrival.

“Our entire staff is super into craft beer,” Macdonald said. “A lot of our staff is into video games as well. Some of them even go down to the [Barcade] in Brooklyn.”

Students who had heard about

the upcoming arrival of Barcade expressed excitement about the new addition to Orange Street.

Lyndon Ji ’16, a competitor in Super Smash Brothers tournaments, said he is looking forward to playing and drinking with friends at Barcade. Juan Pablo

Ponce De Leon ’16 said that Barcade will be a unique place for students to hang out as well as an interesting location to bring dates.

“I’m not a ‘going out to drinks’ kind of guy,” said Thomas Aviles ’16. “However, the idea of having an arcade coupled with a Satur-

day-night vibe is a cool idea in itself.”

Kermizian said his love of video games inspired him to open the first Barcade with his college friends. When the Brooklyn business became successful, the owners left their day jobs to pur-

sue the expansion of their new business, he added.

Each video game will cost 25 or 50 cents and will function with tokens.

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

Yale students mobilize for Sanders

BY CAMERON HILL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the Democratic primary for the 2016 presidential election heats up, scores of Yale students are gathering in support of Bernie Sanders — a 74-year-old junior senator from Vermont, who is currently Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 strongest challenger for the Democratic nomination.

When Sanders announced his candidacy in May, a handful of Yalies quickly formed a Facebook group and a plan to organize on campus in the fall, Yale Students for Bernie member Emaline Kelso ’17 said. Now, the small, core group of fewer than 10 students has turned its head toward expanding its ranks in the coming months, just in time for election season. The group attracted a good deal of attention from an event during Family Weekend, Yale Students for Bernie member Scott Remer ’16 said, and now aims to raise awareness and build excitement for Sanders’ campaign platform through promotions such as chalk drawings and other campuswide events.

“Essentially, it’s about the issues,” Remer said. “A huge component of our activities going forward is going to be centered on political education.”

Remer said Yale Students for Bernie will co-sponsor a talk with the student publication Margins: Student Perspectives from the Left on Oct. 27. The talk will feature Joseph Schwartz, a Temple University political science professor and vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Remer said. The talk’s organizers hope to educate students about democratic socialism, Remer said.

Members of Yale Students for Bernie will prioritize community engagement among students on campus, Kelso said.

“We both want to reach out to a few more groups on campus and find more opportunities for collaboration, on the one

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A group of Yale students are gathering in support of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. hand. And on the other hand, we are in contact with the official campaign and want to start doing work with and for them,” she said. “A large part of what’s exciting about a big presidential campaign is the kind of energy it can harness on a college campus … We really need to step up the kinds of events we’re offering so this energy gets harnessed.”

The group is planning a phone-banking event that will likely take place next week, as well as multiple trips to New Hampshire to go door-to-door canvassing with Sanders’ official campaign, Kelso said.

Yale Students for Bernie also hopes to co-sponsor events with other campus groups. Kelso cited a debate that took place at

Harvard between student members of the Clinton and Sanders campaigns in September, stating that she would like to see a similar debate take place at Yale.

Logan Keith ’16, who helps coordinate the Yale campaign with the larger Connecticut campaign for Sanders, said he wants to encourage students to contribute to the state campaign

this year.

“The biggest thing that I think the campaign really needs is any help with the events on campus, certainly, but also volunteering … or helping spread the word on Facebook,” Keith said.

Kelso and Remer noted that the formal structure of the group is very egalitarian — anyone is welcome to the group’s

weekly organizational meetings and there is no application for joining the group.

Sanders currently leads Clinton by 11.3 percent in New Hampshire polls, but Clinton has a 16.3 percent lead nationally.

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

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BOE candidates stress parental involvement

ESL resources rarely utilized ESL FROM PAGE 1 know about ESL resources. Tierney added that ESL faculty members and graduate students also face the stigma of seeking help.

“One significant barrier for advanced second-language speakers is the false belief that language and writing support are inherently remedial, or intended for lower-level learners,” Tierney said, adding that, as a result, some faculty members he works with seek the program’s help discreetly.

The ELP currently offers a range of services, including writing workshops where graduate students exchange and critique each other’s written work and one-on-one consultations with faculty members. Tierney said the program focuses on improving and editing academic writing, such as grant applications and published work, though ELP instructors also offer spoken language and pronunciation tutorials.

Often, Tierney said, the main obstacle for ESL faculty and graduate students is not in the nuts and bolts of grammar, but in the nuances of vocabulary and meaning.

“A lot of our work is diagnostics,” he said. “Sometimes people come to us to proofread their paper, but once you scratch the surface, you realize that there are miscommunications between languages.”

All five graduate students and faculty members interviewed who have taken advantage of ELP resources said they have had extremely positive experiences with the ELP. Several of them said that they feel a stigma against seeking help.

A former Yale postdoc, who is now a faculty member at another university and asked to remain anonymous due to stigma faced

by ESL instructors, said he found the ELP program useful when he was preparing job applications.

Still, he said ESL students and faculty face more challenges in their academic work because of the language barrier but are often reluctant to seek help.

“I have many such experiences, even now as a faculty member,” he said. “And it gets more difficult for me to look for help, because sometimes it is expected you’re already a master

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

of English.”

Economics professor JoseAntonio Espin-Sanchez said his department’s director of undergraduate studies recommended the ELP to him. He said as the University attracts the best professors from all around the world, students should be accommodating of faculty with foreign accents.

Despite concerns about stigma, there appears to be an increasing willingness — among faculty at least — to raise awareness about the ELP. Film and Media Studies professor Francesco Casetti, who was involved with the ELP when he first arrived at Yale six years ago, said he is currently planning a series of workshops between the Film and Media Studies graduate program and the ELP to make his students aware of the resource. He said the program is particularly useful for his department, as many graduate students are international.

Sometimes people come to us to proofread their paper, but once you scratch the surface, you realize that there are miscommunications between languages.

JIM TIERNEY English Language Program Director The ELP is currently located at 370 Temple St., where it occupies several floors of Dow Hall. However, the ELP recently became a part of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Tierney hopes that the ELP will attract more faculty members through this new relationship.

“We are working with our new colleagues at the Center for Teaching and Learning to find better ways of making faculty aware of our services and routing them to us,” Tierney said.

The ELP is part of the Center for Language Study.

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

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The candidates for the two elected seats on the Board of Education gathered at a public forum Tuesday.

BOE FROM PAGE 1 lican affiliation would offer the Board a fresh perspective.

Goldson, a lifelong New Haven resident who has been through the city’s public school system, said his intimate knowledge of NHPS will serve as good preparation to sit on the Board. He added that his work with anti-poverty nonprofit organizations in southern Connecticut and beyond will be particularly useful while on the Board, given the high proportion of District 2 residents below the poverty line.

Alpha Phi Alpha, an organization that has advocated for improvements in ethnicminority students’ education since the 1920s, allowed attendees to submit questions to the candidates online and in writing before the meeting began.

Goldson said parents must feel as though they are being listened to and respected by decision-makers in the school system in order for changes to directly benefit their children.

He added that it is concerning that parents, particularly those in low-income areas, feel illequipped to help their children with homework. The Board should consult with experts to determine creative solutions to this problem, he said.

“If you don’t have parental involvement, you lose half the battle,” Goldson said.

We have a very limited amount of time to make a difference for this generation.

DARNELL GOLDSON Board of Education Candidate In the same vein, O’Connell commended Sacred Heart’s family-like atmosphere, adding that it is important to foster a sense of academic ownership among students. He noted that attracting and retaining qualified teachers should be a prior-

ity for the Board.

Former Board President Brian Perkins SPH ’92, who moderated the event and served on the committee that implemented the Board’s new hybrid system, expressed cautious optimism about the partially elected board. He said it will be particularly important to select candidates uninterested in “self-aggrandizement,” given that the Board members are public servants.

Tuesday’s event was not the first opportunity New Haven residents had to hear from the three candidates. Citywide Parent Team, an organization that allows parents across the district to mobilize around concerns with the school system, hosted a similar forum at Wilbur Cross High School last Thursday.

Jennifer Ricker, who serves on Citywide Parent Team’s steering committee, said the motivation behind the first event was to start engaging parents and encourage them to make their votes count during the Nov. 3 election.

According to Goldson, issues under discussion during this year’s election are especially urgent.

“We have a very limited amount of time to make a difference for this generation,” he said. “The fact that we have 20 people [present] rather than 200 speaks to the fact that this issue — as much as we say it is important — still is not important enough for people to come out and discuss.”

Ugonna Eze ’16, the Republican candidate for Ward 1 alder, was one of the 20 in attendance at Tuesday’s open forum.

Eze said the forum was a great opportunity to hear different visions for NHPS, adding that he looks forward to working with whomever is elected.

Elections for the first high school student members, Coral Ortiz and Kimberly Sullivan, took place in June.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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“Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.” KEVIN O’LEARY ENTREPRENEUR

Introductory Russian enrollment falls

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Over the course of the past two years, enrollment in elementary Russian has fallen from a record high to a record low, according to the five years of data available on the Online Course Selection database.

While 30 students enrolled in the class last fall, only 19 are enrolled this year — nearly a 37 percent drop. This change comes despite Russia’s increasing presence on the world stage, which students interviewed said played at least a part in motivating them to study the language. Some Russian professors attributed the change to natural fluctuations in departmental enrollment, but others said they had expected enrollment to increase because of recent high-profile geopolitical moves

by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In March 2014, Putin attracted significant media attention when he annexed the territory of Crimea, which had formerly been a part of Ukraine.

Just last week, he substantially increased Russia’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Russian lector Irina Dolgova said the department expected enrollment to stay constant or increase because of these events, as well as increased collegial interest in the language nationally.

“We weren’t expecting to go back to 2013 levels,” she said.

“It’s a mystery why it decreased.

Last year it was Crimea, now it’s Syria.”

Rather than associate the decline with politics, however, Russian lector Constantine Muravnik GRD ’10 said the shift can be explained by periodic fluctuations in department enrollment. Overall, he said, interest in Russian is high

and growing, not only because of the language’s importance to politics, but also its relevance in areas like economics and the humanities, from history and music to theater and ballet.

Russian lector Julia Titus GRD ’99 expressed a similar sentiment. While some students may be drawn to the language for its “strategic application” in politics, economics or business, she said, most students come to Russian because of their cultural and academic interests.

Muravnik added that upperlevel courses in Russian are actually fuller this year than they usually are. Interest in intensive Russian has remained constant at nine students.

Still, Dolgova said the department had anticipated increased enrollment in elementary courses. But as a result of underwhelming interest, the elementary course downsized from three sections to two, Dolgova said. She emphasized, though, that this year’s enrollment is consistent with most previous years’, and that the spike in enrollment in fall 2014, while welcomed by the department, appears to have been a fluke.

History professor Paul Bushkovitch, who specializes in Russia, said he has found fluctuations in Russian enrollment to be “mysterious and unpredictable.” However, excitement related to Syria could lead to a surge in interest similar to the spike the department saw after the Ukrainian crisis, he added.

While news related to the Ukrainian crisis had largely subsided by the start of this semester, and news of Russian’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War had not yet broken, students currently enrolled in elementary Russian said the rising geopolitical importance of Moscow did play a role in their

course selection.

Eric Sanderson ’19 said that rather than continuing to study Spanish, he decided to take Russian because of the applicability of the language and his fascination with the culture.

“Russian culture interests me more than Spanish culture,” he said. “And as an ROTC [member], the fact that Russian is such a strategic language can be especially beneficial in that realm.”

Matt Czarnecki ’18, who took elementary Russian last year, said he first enrolled largely due to his interest in the Ukrainian crisis. But as that issue subsided, he said, his interest in the language did as well.

The Russian program at Princeton also experienced a decline in introductory enrollment this year. Princeton Russian lecturer Mark Pettus said about 20 students are currently taking the university’s elementary course, as compared to about 25 students last year.

Pettus added that conversations with students have led him to believe the decrease in enrollment can be attributed to the dangerous implications of recent global developments.

“I get the sense that a lot of freshmen are spooked by the news and are worried they won’t be able to travel to Russia, use the language, get internships, things like that,” he said. “So if they’re choosing between Russian and Chinese, which is typical, it’s hard to convince them not to take Chinese when that seems to be the more practical choice.”

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, which includes the Russian language program, was established in 1946.

GESO plans midOctober rally

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER For the fourth time in 18 months, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization is demanding union recognition through an oncampus rally.

On Oct. 15, GESO and five other allied organizations including Students Unite Now, New Haven Rising and Locals 34 and 35 will convene to call on Yale for a neutral election on graduate student unionization. The University still does not recognize GESO as a union after decades of student protests, but GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said support for graduate student unions is growing at universities across the country.

“Nationally, I think the conversation about unions is changing,” Greenberg said. “[Union] campaigns have really started to grow in the past 18 months, especially in the private sector.”

When graduate students at New York University voted to unionize in December 2013, GESO responded with their first major rally in several years, delivering a 220-foot long petition to Woodbridge Hall. Last October, GESO held yet another rally of 1,000 protesters, joined

by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Gov. Dannel Malloy and New Haven Mayor Toni Harp. This spring, GESO marched on the Provost’s Office calling for racial and gender equity, funding security for graduate students in all departments and improved mental health resources.

Greenberg said GESO’s demand for its upcoming protest is the same as it was for the previous three: a Yale-approved vote by graduate students on whether graduate student employees form a union. Greenberg said the majority of graduate students support GESO’s union recognition, adding that every rally has increased GESO’s support among graduate students.

Support from Yale unions and New Haven

groups is important, GESO co-chair Robin Canavan GRD ’18 said. Graduate students at Harvard and the University of Oregon have made similar efforts to unionize. In addition, graduate students at the University of Chicago, University of Oregon, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and The New School have held similar graduate student rallies asking for neutral elections. Of Yale’s peer institutions, only New York University has a union of graduate student employees.

Greenberg could not confirm the specific oncampus location of the Oct. 15 protest. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was invited to the rally, but his attendance is not confirmed, Greenberg said. Still, according to de Blasio’s itinerary, the Mayor will be in New Haven on the day of the protest: He is scheduled to speak at the Board of Alders Black and Hispanic Caucus’ Fall Gala on Oct. 15.

The unrecognized union has attracted support within local government. In September, Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Ward 26 Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. both penned columns for the News expressing support for the idea of the University allowing graduate student employees to vote to unionize. Harp spoke at the October 2014 rally.

SUN organizer Jesús Gutiérrez ’16 said talking to students about the issues of graduate student unionization and reducing the student income contribution is as important as the rally itself.

SUN organizer Lev Gray ’18 said New Haven Rising sent out over 3,000 letters to New Haven residents asking them to show support on Oct. 15.

“Bottom-up change is good,” Gutiérrez said.

“When I got here there wasn’t much talk about these issues.”

GESO was founded in 1990.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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

KAIFENG WU/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Graduate Employees and Students Organization is planning its next on-campus for Oct. 15.

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SPORTS Students or athletes?

“Don’t walk through life just being an athlete.

Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision.” RAY LEWIS SUPER BOWL MVP

Scarlet Knights down Bulldogs MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12

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MARC CUGNON is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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The Bulldogs, in the midst of a four-game losing streak, return to conference play this weekend at home.

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COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Julie Luo ’19 made a strong charge in the second round, carding a team-best 77 on Sunday.

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

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RB DESHAWN SALTER ’18 VS. LEHIGH, IN CONTEXT

COMPARING SALTER’S DAY TO THOSE OF TOP ELI RUSHERS IN 2014 & 2015 Deshawn Salter ’18, 2015 Week 3, 233 yards Tyler Varga ’15, 2014 Week 8, 204 yards Candler Rich ’17, 2014 Week 7, 202 yards Varga, 2014 Week 2, 185 yards Varga, 2014 Week 5, 184 yards

of the event, tied with Harvard for fourth place at 30 over par.

Wongwaiwate proved the strongest on her team at handling Saturday’s poor weather, completing the first round with a three-over-par 75, good for third place individually after one day.

Peng finished the first round just behind her at four over but fired in a 78 on Sunday, pushing past Wongwaiwate, who tallied 83 strokes in her second round. With a cumulative score of 154 strokes, Peng led the Bulldogs for the second time in as many tournaments this fall.

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development. Great soccer teams like Real Madrid, Juventus and Chelsea have youth academies to train players and ready them for the highest level of play. These organizations recognize this as a necessity because European universities haven’t created mechanisms for recruiting collegiate athletes to professional leagues.

College sports in Europe are not nearly as monetized and are not treated as a door to the professional ranks. Big-name soccer players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Gigi Buffon and Eden Hazard showed promise as youth athletes and pursued athletics instead of academics. That’s a perfectly valid career approach; they just didn’t have to go to university to do it.

American u n i ve rs i t i e s shouldn’t be able to have their cake and eat it too. If athletes are attending schools with lowered academic expectations for a shot at the pros, then the NCAA shouldn’t try to hide behind a propped-up “student-athlete” label in order to avoid paying them. If these players really are student-athletes, no less should be expected of them academically than any other student. But as long as athletes are being treated as a source of income for major collegiate programs, they should be considered university employees rather than students.

As much as I love the roar and awe of a big college crowd, I’d honestly like NCAA sports to look a little more like they do here at Yale and at other small programs.

Our student-athletes might not be No. 1 draft picks, but at least they’re still going to class.

the field after halftime with a renewed offensive aggression. The Elis nearly equaled their season average of 8.8 shots in the second half alone, tallying eight attempts which led to two goals.

“I think that there were some positives that we can take from the game,” forward Keith Bond ’16 said. “We started off a little frantically and needed to be more composed when we had the ball, but we were able to settle in and control some of the possession as the game went on. I thought the team mentality was positive, and even after letting up some early goals, the team stayed together and responded well.”

Although the second half proved more fruitful for the Bulldogs offense, the Scarlet Knights were the first to strike after halftime, as J.P. Correa scored the first of two second-half goals just 3:48 into the period.

Trailing 3–0, the Elis began to fight back in prompt fashion, responding with a goal of their own at the 53-minute mark when defender Ollie Iselin ’18 scored with a header off a free kick for his second goal of the season.

The teams exchanged goals when Correa directed a header of his own to extend the lead back to three with about

25 minutes left to play.

Soon thereafter, midfielder and defender Theo Miller ’18, who had assisted on Iselin’s goal, facilitated another Yale header. At the receiving end this time was Kenagy, who moved into sole possession of fourth place in the Ivy League with his third goal of the season, beating keeper David Greczek to keep the contest interesting.

Despite the action-packed second half, Rutgers never allowed the Bulldogs to pull within a goal and comfortably rode the collective efforts of Wright and Correa to the three-goal victory.

The Bulldogs, now 0–5 away from the friendly confines of Reese Stadium, will return home and return to Ivy competition with a match against Dartmouth this weekend.

“The game against Dartmouth is one of the most important of our season,” midfielder James Kochanski ’19 said.

“We need to remain focused on executing in practice leading up to the game and performing in the game itself.”

Kickoff against the Big Green, which boasts the second-highest winning percentage in the Ivy League, is set for 4 p.m. on Saturday.

nitely made the course harder to play, but I tried to focus on my game and play it shot by shot,” Peng said.

In addition to Peng and Wongwaiwate, Elisabeth Bernabe ’17, Sabrina Long ’19 and Luo also competed for the Elis.

Luo improved eight strokes from a first round score of 85 to shoot a 77 in round two and catapult up the standings to 27th place. Luo finished two strokes ahead of her teammate, Long, who turned in round scores of 83 and 81 for 20 over par, while Bernabe ended the tournament at 25 over.

“Even though I struggled at times with my game, staying very

strong mentally and keeping a positive attitude helped me post a better score,” Long said. “As a team, we all played to the best of our abilities at the time and I’m happy to have contributed in that way.”

Harvard improved 20 strokes as a team from the first round to the second and captured the title, defeating Princeton by a single stroke.

The Bulldogs will get their second chance to play against conference foes this weekend when they host the annual Yale Invitational tournament.

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

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8:00 PM Indecent. Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman’s deeply moving new play with music is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s “The God of Vengeance” — a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. “Indecent” charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it. Yale Repertory Theater (1120 Chapel St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE YSO celebrates 50th-anniversary season

BY SONIA WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

the evening. Albert Cao ’18, a YSO violinist, said that he thought the concert repertoire was structured to “build up” to Tchaikovsky’s symphony, which constituted the concert’s full second half. Lin noted that the symphony is one of his favorite pieces of music to play.

Barbara and John Doyle, the parents of YSO first violinist Virginia Doyle ’17, said that they thought the evening was a fitting opener to the orchestra’s 50thanniversary season. Tuan Dong ’19 added that he thought the concert was likely one of the best he had attended.

Orchestra members said they were excited to share their love of music with audience members, particularly as the YSO celebrates its 50th season.

“I think the way music brings people together is a lot deeper than anything else,” Lin said. “Music speaks to the human soul, and when you make music together you make that connection.”

With a repertoire that included Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance No. 1” and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, the Yale Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 50th season.

Held Saturday evening in Woolsey Hall, the event opened the YSO’s 2015–16 lineup of concerts, which includes a spring performance in Carnegie Hall featuring John Mauceri ’67 GRD ’72 — the YSO’s first music director — as a guest conductor. Current YSO Musical Director Toshiyuki Shimada said each piece in Saturday’s program was chosen with the orchestra’s special anniversary in mind, including a new composition by Brian Samuel Robinson, the YSO’s orchestra manager, commissioned specifically for the occasion. Shimada added that the concert marks the opening of a season that will seek to connect the YSO’s history to its present.

“There is quite an internal theme to this anniversary season, which is to connect the past to the present Contact SONIA WANG at and to look toward the future,” Shisonia.wang@yale.edu . mada said.

The first piece in Saturday’s concert was the world premiere of Robinson’s “Anniversary Fanfare,” which the orchestra dedicated to Shimada in honor of his 10-year anniversary as YSO music director.

Sir Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance No. 1” followed, conducted by Yale Director of University Bands Thomas Duffy as part of a collaboration between YSO and the band. Additional pieces included Igor Stravinsky’s whimsical “Pulcinella Suite” and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 Since its founding 50 years ago, the orchestra has grown to include roughly 90 students, including 27 new taps this fall, Shimada said.

Rehearsals for the 50th anniversary concert began in early September, promptly after new members were tapped, Jacob Sweet ’18, a clarinetist for the YSO, noted.

Percussionist Adrian Lin ’18 added that although there were only four weeks between tap night and the orchestra’s first concert, the new members adjusted quickly to the group. “[The new members] already are capable of playing any of the repertoire,” Shimada said. “[They] know how to collaborate … my job was easy: to put things together.”

Both orchestra and audience members interviewed highlighted ROBBIE SHORT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony as one of their favorite pieces of The Yale Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Toshiyuki Shimada, performed at their 50th-anniversary season opener in Woolsey Hall on Saturday.

Yale-China “fireside chat” highlights Chinese art

BY VEENA MCCOOLE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Roughly a dozen people gathered in the Yale-China Association on Temple Street Tuesday for a talk on contemporary Chinese art.

Led by a team of artists and curators from Beijing, including Tang Xin — the founding director of Taikang Space, Beijing’s first nonprofit art gallery — the event marked this academic year’s inaugural Yale-China “fireside chat.”

The discussion highlighted developments in China’s emerging arts scene, which form the basis of “Pull Left: Not Always Right,” an exhibition that debuted at Ohio State University last year and will be on display at Dickinson College this fall. “Pull Left” is designed to bring Chinese contemporary art abroad, Tang explained, as well as draw global attention to the innovation happening within China’s avant-garde arts scene. It features pieces from 15 emerging contemporary Chinese artists, who work in a variety of media including videography, calligraphy, painting and performance art. Tang explained that the show’s title is both a nod to cultural progressiveness in China and a reminder to the Chinese people of the importance of reflecting on their own history and not always looking to the west.

“Yale-China’s job is really to educate both American and Chinese people about each other,” said David Youtz, Yale-China’s executive director. “‘Pull Left’ is truly an exciting addition to the American arts scene, and it’s really meant as a tool to help educate Americans and American artists about contemporary art [in China].”

During her talk, Tang introduced the curatorial design of the “Pull Left” exhibition, as well as Taikang Space’s broader objec-

tives, such as supporting emerging artists and encouraging them to work freely, make mistakes and continue to take stylistic risks, she said.

She added that her gallery gives younger Chinese artists a chance to do experimental work different from the kinds of pieces they might produce for a “commercial gallery.” Tang noted that she often sees a change in such artists’ styles once they sign with such galleries, and become more concerned, she believes, with selling their work

Yale-China’s job is really to educate both American and Chinese people about each other.

DAVID YOUTZ Executive Director, Yale-China Association than with continuing to innovate.

When she started Taikang Space, Tang added, contemporary art was considered shocking, because it didn’t align with traditional Chinese ideas about art. It was also often misunderstood, she said.

Juliet Ryan ’16 and Alina Sidorova ’16, who attended Tang’s talk, said they have participated in Yale-China Association programs in the past. Sidorova mentioned that, in addition to sharing an interest in Chinese art, she and Ryan are both currently enrolled in a course called “Chinese Media and Society.”

“We figured it would be fun to go to China-related events together,” Ryan said.

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

ROBBIE SHORT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Tang Xin, founder of Beijing’s “Taikang Space,” spoke at a Yale-China Association event on China’s contemporary art scene.

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School of Architecture hosts symposium

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Exhibition view of “The City of 7 Billion,” on display in the Yale School of Architecture’s second-floor gallery.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER This past weekend, the Yale School of Architecture hosted some impressive guests — the first American woman to walk in space, the dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and a Belarusian economist — for a conference discussing humanity’s impact on the world.

Beginning Thursday and ending Saturday evening, “A Constructed World” — a symposium organized by Architecture Director of Undergraduate Studies Bimal Mendis ’98 ARC ’02 and School of Architecture Critic Joyce Hsiang ’99 ARC ’03 —

brought together leading voices in subjects ranging from anthropology and geography to art history and philosophy. Through a series of six panels framed around different “terms of construction” — such as surveys, demolition, excavation, scaffolding, framing and assemblies — the event explored the physical and conceptual development of the modern world. The symposium is complemented by “The City of 7 Billion,” an exhibition on display in the School of Architecture’s second-floor gallery. Mendis said the symposium’s goal was to portray a material representation of global urbanization.

“The city itself is no longer contained but spreads out

into the landscape and what was known as the countryside,” Mendis said. “It’s the idea that the city is something bigger than itself because its tentacles reach out into the environment.”

Each panel featured three speakers and one moderator, who discussed the panel’s topic in relation to human activity across continental and political borders. School of Architecture professor Elihu Rubin ’99, who moderated the “Demolition” panel, highlighted the theme of transnationality, explaining that he thinks the notion of an “urban area” of earth should be extended to include networks of communications as well as intercontinental trade. He added that

“Fantasmagorie” opens

BY NATALINA LOPEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite the downpour, Orange Street lit up Friday evening to celebrate the opening of City Wide Open Studios.

The ephemeral “Fantasmagorie Light Exhibition,” on display between 8 and 9:30 p.m., was installed on a block of Orange Street between Chapel and Crown streets. Featuring works related to this year’s CWOS theme of “dwellings,” “Fantasmagorie” incorporated outdoor light installations as well as indoor displays, utilizing windows in the area’s stores and businesses to display pieces from the exhibition. The exhibit was organized by Artspace, a nonprofit community art organization, in conjunction with guest curator Johannes DeYoung, faculty director of the Digital Media Center for the Arts, and local light artists, including Teto Elsiddique, Aude Jomini, Susan Rogol and Mark Williams.

According to Artspace staff, the exhibition considers art’s role in community building, and also “activates” new social spaces in which community members can come together.

“The arts allow for a diversity of people to come together,” said Judy Rosenfeld, a photographer for ArtSpace. “This is a reflection of people from many different cultures here.”

DeYoung said the exhibition’s name, “Fantasmagorie,” has its origins in a 1908 film by French

animator Émile Cohl, as well as the larger 19th-century trend of phantasmagoric projection.

He added that he thinks both of these historical allusions, which highlight moments in the history of cinema that predate the medium’s industrialization, have links to the work of contemporary light artists in New Haven. “[This was] a period when the potentialities and boundaries of moving-image production were incredibly open,” DeYoung explained. “I find many visual artists works occupy this space today and that’s something I wanted [this exhibition] to highlight in our community.”

Among the works presented in “Fantasmagorie” was a piece made of swinging box fans with purple lights that bounced off nearby brick walls. Another piece experimented with spray bottles and an iMac. Visitors including students, New Haven residents and teachers attended the exhibition.

Bill Richo, who works at the Haas Family Arts Library, said he comes to the exhibition every year, adding that it is always a great experience.

Williams, one of the local artists whose work is featured in “Fantasmagorie,” has been working with light as a medium for nine years. Williams highlighted his experiments with Christmas lights, light drawings and black lights, adding that prior to Friday’s event, he had only seen his work in daylight.

He said that he was disappointed in the show’s low turnout, which he said was likely due to inclement weather.

Jomini, another contributing artist, said she had been conceptualizing her submission for a year. To create the piece, Jomini began with a three-dimensional digital model, which she translated into a sculpture and, finally, the “disembodied heads” featured in the final piece, which uses the medium of light to consider a variety of formal and conceptual issues.

“I’m an architect, so I like to think about light and spaces,” Jomini said.

Although DeYoung noted that Orange Street business owners were “incredibly generous,” working collaboratively with their partners at Artspace and Yale to coordinate the exhibition, turnout for the event remains problematic, some visitors said.

“Turnout is just so bad, every year,” said Matthew Hennessy ’17, who attended the exhibition.

“Some of these artists work all year for this, and it’s just so sad to see.”

“Fantasmagorie” ended with an after-party at Café Nine, which featured light installations contributed by members of Light Artists Making Places, a collective of light artists.

Artspace is located at 50 Orange St. Contact NATALINA LOPEZ at natalina.lopez@yale.edu .

he believes the symposium was successful in prompting consideration of humanity’s global impact.

Similarly, Neil Brenner ’91, director of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Urban Theory Lab and speaker at the symposium’s “Framing” panel, said speakers were asked to reflect on ways to envision the planet as an urbanized space. He added that the conference very productively engaged with the question of how cities and urbanization are transforming the contemporary world.

“The challenges confronting us in this age, the very things that prompted this conference, stem from failing to take proper

account of the natural world — earth’s dynamic systems — in the construction of our ‘human world,’” Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space and the acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in an email to the News. “If ‘The City of 7 Billion’ is to have a resilient and sustainable future, we must fully integrate natural capital and ecosystem services into economic and social decision-making.”

Both Mendis and Hsiang said one of their favorite parts of the symposium was its closing address, given by MIT School of Architecture Dean Hashim Sarkis. Hsiang said she was inspired

by how Sarkis was able to weave together all of the conference’s underlying themes into a cohesive whole that related to architecture. In his closing address, Sarkis highlighted the work of architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, alongside concepts like the horizon line and quotations from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”

“I thought [his closing address] was something we could all understand and very much in the spirit of the symposium,” Hsiang said. “It was inspirational and reminds us how we all need to be speaking to one another.”

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

City Wide Open Studios back for another year

BY JIAHUI HU AND IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTERS Artists and Elm City residents mingled Friday evening at the opening reception of City Wide Open Studios.

Amid an exhibition densely hung with works from CWOS’s participating artists, attendees ushered in another iteration of Artspace’s annual six-week exhibition series. Over the next few weekends, New Haven venues, including the Goffe Street Armory and the New Haven Museum, will host over a dozen events relating to this year’s theme, “dwelling.” Among the series’ scheduled programs is an event focused on homelessness, Artspace director Helen Kauder said, adding that another will welcome Syrian refugees to the city. Julia Hamer-Light ’18, who interned at Artspace over the summer, said that she thinks CWOS allows members of the community to share and experience artworks to which they may not have otherwise been exposed.

“There is usually an idea of the white walls of the gallery as being very exclusive,” HamerLight explained. “Artspace was approaching this as, ‘We are using the walls of the gallery to bring people together.’”

In addition to its strategy of using art as a tool for broader community-building, Kauder said CWOS gives artists an opportunity to build connections with one another. She noted that in the past, artists who met at CWOS have collaborated, married and even raised children together.

Kauder added that one of the exhibition series’ primary objectives is to support local artists by providing exhibition spaces and advertising.

“Our mission is to connect artists and audiences and resources,” Kauder said. “We find spaces for artists who don’t have one.”

Several artists and visitors interviewed echoed Kauder’s and Hamer-Light’s views that CWOS brings the broader Elm City community together and also strengthens ties within New Haven’s artist community.

Kyle Wilmoth, a New Haven artist, described Artspace as a “comfortable space” where people are able to share in the collective experience of art. He added that CWOS offers an opportunity for local artists to get to know one another.

“I know only about 10 percent of the artists in this city, although I have been living here for 10 years,” Wilmoth said. “Here you can discover new art, there are hundreds of artists exposed and that is great because you get to see people with similar ideas to yours.”

Ava Orphanoudakis, another artist whose work is displayed in the CWOS exhibition, said she has been a part of the project since its first two exhibitions. This year, Orphanoudakis contributed a painting from her “Many voices, one song” collection, the rest of which is on display at Yale’s Environmental Science Center.

Like Wilmoth, Orphanoudakis said she sees CWOS as an opportunity for people to participate more deeply in the Elm City arts scene, without the constraints of many other art shows.

“What is great is the fact that everybody who enjoys and appreciates art can get involved,” Orphanoudakis said. “Anyone can be in the exhibitions, there are no juried selections.”

New Haven resident Katherine Campbell, who attended the exhibition, said Artspace has helped her and her husband find a community in the Elm City.

CWOS events will continue through Nov. 19.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu.

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Big Ten foe tops Yale

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Yale pushed across at least two goals for the second time this season, with the first occasion being a 3–2 win against Quinnipiac.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Sixteen years after the Yale men’s soccer team’s last NCAA Tournament victory — a 1–0 double-overtime victory at Rutgers — the Bulldogs were unable to recreate that magic against the Scarlet Knights.

Looking to snap a three-game losing skid, the Bulldogs (1–8– 0, 0–1–0 Ivy) traveled to Piscataway, New Jersey to face Rutgers (5–4–1, 1–3–0 Big Ten) for the second time in program history, the first being the 1999 NCAA tournament matchup. In the 2015

rendition, two first-half goals allowed proved too much for the Elis to overcome, and despite a second-half rally, Yale ultimately dropped the contest 5–2.

“In the last two games, we have made progress, but our execution on all ends of the field needs to be better,” forward Kyle Kenagy ’19 said. “It all comes down to practicing at the same intensity as our games, so we can work on our touch at full speed.”

At Rutgers, head coach Kylie Stannard encountered a familiar opponent, as the Yale newcomer spent six years in the Big Ten as a member of Michigan State’s

coaching staff. But the night opened in less-than-ideal fashion for Stannard and his team.

Less than eight minutes into the game, Rutgers forward Jason Wright ripped a shot into the topright corner of the net to build an early lead that the Scarlet Knights would not relinquish. Wright continued to wreak havoc, scoring again in the 26th minute to double Rutgers’ lead.

Unheard from for nearly an hour, Wright put a fitting cap to the match in the 75th minute for his third and final strike, earning the sixth-highest goal-scorer in the country his first career hat

trick.

After Yale notched an early goal against Harvard in the Bulldogs’ previous game, the team reverted to a quiet first half against Rutgers — a concerning trend established in the team’s prior losses to opponents such as Iona and Rhode Island. Excluding the Harvard loss, the Bulldogs have failed to crack the scoring column in the first 45 minutes of their past five defeats.

After only taking three shots in the first half last evening, Stannard’s Yale squad returned to SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 8

The endangered student-athlete The value of college athletics and the status of the “student-athlete” have been debated at length throughout the past few years. With universities like Alabama and Michigan bringing in tens of millions of dollars through ticket sales and merchandise, there have been numerous calls for players in successful football and basketball programs to get a share of this proverbial pie.

While the NCAA has stood firm in its opposition to paying players, the debate surrounding how these sportsmen are treated raises an even more important question: are these individuals student-athletes at all?

At a university like Yale or Harvard, we can generally feel sure that our athletes are fulfilling the same responsibilities in the classroom as the rest of the student body. Yale athletes face a high degree of academic rigor, with the added responsibilities of practices, lifts and games piled on top of it. But recruiting academically focused athletes to these elite universities can ultimately be a detriment to the talent level of their sports teams. Ivy League schools need to be more discerning when considering the academic qualifications of their recruits than SEC schools or universities in other top conferences, meaning that Ivies have a much smaller pool of high-school athletes to choose from. However, for the athletes, this disparity is likely for the best — current NFL players Eddie Lacy and Jameis Winston were probably better off academically at Alabama and Florida State than they would have been at Yale.

The real divide between being a student and being an athlete is defined by the classroom. When studentathletes face academic rigor,

they simply must dedicate themselves to their classes in order to succeed. But when an educational institution prioritizes its cashcow sports teams ahead of its academic standards, athletes tend to follow suit.

Most sports fans saw ESPN report on the fabricated classes at UNC Chapel Hill — courses that never met and assigned short final papers that amounted to little more than single paragraphs. Ultimately, the players involved in such an academic farce should rightly be called athletes rather than students. While there’s nothing wrong with an individual choosing to be an athlete rather than a student, I’d rather not have educational institutions sponsoring that decision.

That’s my real issue with big-market college sports. Most major programs remove the student part of being a student-athlete. If college competitors aren’t being paid for the millions of dollars they bring to big name programs, then schools shouldn’t be treating their teams like developmental funnels for professional leagues. If a university claims to be putting education first, then that should be the expectation for all its students, not just the ones who can’t dunk a basketball.

I’m not advocating for the elimination of college sports, but I’m simply arguing that there should be a separation between training players for the next level and educating students for the future. Calvin Johnson doesn’t need a degree from Georgia Tech to catch a football, and that’s perfectly fine.

American sports leagues should take a page from the handbook of European soccer when it comes to player SEE CUGNON PAGE 8

Peng ’18 highlights fifth-place finish

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER Led by a standout individual performance from Jennifer Peng ’18, the Yale women’s golf team notched a fifth-place finish out of 15 teams at the Princeton Invitational this past weekend.

WOMEN’S GOLF The Bulldogs finished at 59 over par in the two-round tournament, with 19 strokes separating them from team champions Harvard. Peng tied for fifth in the individual rankings after shooting

10 strokes over par for the tournament — five strokes off the lead — while Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17 finished 12 strokes over par to tie for 12th.

“The tournament was a lot of fun to play, and there were great teams competing,” Julie Luo ’19 said. “We didn’t play as well as we had hoped, but we all helped each other keep our spirits high and not give up throughout the tournament. This definitely inspired us to practice even harder before our last tournament this [fall] season.”

Testing themselves against Ivy League competition for the first time this fall, the

Bulldogs finished behind Harvard, Princeton and Columbia while besting Penn, Dartmouth and Brown with their cumulative score. Yale’s result stood in contrast to its performance last year, when the Elis won the Princeton Invitational behind strong performances from thencaptain Marika Liu ’15 and Wongwaiwate. Liu finished the tournament last year as the top individual performer, and Wongwaiwate shot round scores of 71, 70 and 79 to finish at four over and secure a tie for second place in the individual rankings.

“It was slightly intimidat-

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ing, because it was our first tournament where other Ivies were in attendance,” Peng said. “There definitely was more pressure to see how we were doing in comparison to the other Ivy teams.”

T h e to u r n a m e n t a t Springdale Golf Club was marked by poor weather conditions that forced the tournament, like the Yale Invitational that the Eli men hosted last weekend, to be shortened from three rounds to two. After a windy and rainy first day, the Bulldogs entered Sunday, the final day SEE WOMEN’S GOLF PAGE 8

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Out of the seven Ivies competing in the 15-team field, Yale finished fourth.

THE NUMBER OF SHOTS ATTEMPTED BY THE YALE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM IN THE SECOND HALF OF LAST NIGHT’S MEETING WITH RUTGERS. The Bulldogs, who average just 8.8 shots per game, converted two of those attempts into goals against their power conference opponent.