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CROSS CAMPUS All Roads Lead to Toads…

Even for the First Daughter.

At 11:45 p.m. last night, the News received a tip that Malia Obama ’20(?) was on the dance floor. In classic Yale fashion, the next stop was GHeav. Come to Yale, Malia, and this party happens every Wednesday.

Speaking of the Presidency,

former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 spoke candidly about wife Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night. He commented on the 2016 presidential candidate’s recent appearance as Val the bartender on Saturday Night Live: “Made me want to take a drink with her.”

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Divinity School hosts emergency simulation to prepare for the worst

GRANT FUNDS BIKE TRAIL FROM ELM CITY TO MASS.

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BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Though members of the baseball and women’s crew teams were diagnosed with MRSA — a strain of staphylococcus infection — earlier this week, the University has

neglected to officially notify all student-athletes of the infection’s presence on campus.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has a higher resistance to certain antibiotics than other strains of staph infection, according to Richard Martinello, medical director of hospital epidemiology at Yale-New Haven Hospi-

tal. Several athletes interviewed expressed concern about the limited information available to them regarding the infection and the number of students on campus who have contracted it. But Yale Health Director Paul Genecin said he does not see “an official need” to notify the Yale community of an infection at this time.

Smooth Criminal. If you

missed the free food during Founders Day festivities yesterday, Lassi Bar — Yale’s newest student entrepreneurship venture — will be giving out free samples of their signature South Asian smoothies from 12 p.m. on Cross Campus. The tasting, hosted by Lassi Bar owner Mustafa Malik ’16, will last until 2 p.m.

Six Feet Under the Stars.

Bring a picnic blanket to the Silliman Courtyard at 6:30 p.m. to take a break from studying and watch “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Inception” under the stars.

Just make sure that you don’t take Ferris Bueller’s message to heart if you have a midterm tomorrow.

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about the recent spread of MRSA through word of mouth, and that a formal announcement would have been a good way to explain the relative severity of the infection.

In a Wednesday email to the News, Genecin said that Yale Health has been cooperating SEE MRSA PAGE 8

Poster condemns lack of faculty diversity

BY MONICA WANG AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS

You Missed It. The accelerated

Yale Dramatic Association’s first show of the year opens tonight. Dramat presents “Mr. Burns, a post-electric play” — a dark comedy exploring a post-apocalyptic world — at the Iseman Theater on Chapel Street at 8 p.m.

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“I am a bit surprised that there has seemingly been no initiative taken to formally alert athletes by coaches or the athletics department to share news of the outbreak and of how to prevent further outbreaks,” Yale women’s soccer player Kristina Kim ’18 said.

She added that she and her teammates have only heard

husband Bill makes more casual talk show appearances, Hillary gears up for the Democratic debate on Tuesday, where she’ll take the stage alongside a Yale alum.

Anderson Cooper ’89 will be moderating the debate. In a Huffington Post interview, Cooper said that while he was still unsure whether Vice President Joe Biden would attend, he is prepared in the event that he does.

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Rates of cancer screenings linked to stricter guidelines

Administration remains quiet on MRSA

Debate Season. While

application deadline for Goldman Sachs was yesterday.

But it’s still not too late to get your networking in. GS is holding an “Investment Management 101” session at 6:30 p.m. at The Study Hotel.

Alternatively, if you’re into another kind of GS entirely, the course “Studies in Grand Strategy” is accepting applications until Nov. 1.

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A poster criticizing Yale’s lack of faculty diversity appeared on Cross Campus overnight but was removed by morning.

Three YaleNUS inaugural deans depart

BY DAVID SHIMER AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS Three years after its founding, Yale-NUS is undergoing significant leadership changes.

Three of the college’s four inaugural deans have announced their departures in the last 10 months, with former Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Kristin Greene leaving just last week. Former Dean of Students Kyle Farley left for another startup university, New York University Abu Dhabi, while the other two deans will both have returned to the United States by the end of the month. Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty and Yale astronomy professor Charles Bailyn ’81, the fourth founding dean, will leave Singapore for Yale after June 30, 2016.

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said he is not surprised by the deans’ departures, as their three-year contracts have expired. But students interviewed expressed concerns that all the turnover might imperil the continuity of the school.

“There were no surprises,” Lewis said. “[The deans] were initially hired for three years.

They have done a good job, but it is also a good opportunity to review the leadership … The overall message is that we are an ongoing institution with people leaving and coming. Overall, the departure rates are no surprise. We are working on attracting strong candidates for our open positions.”

Bailyn said he initially planned to spend just one year at Yale-NUS, but ultimately decided to remain in his position in order to oversee ongoing developments in the college. Bailyn added that the ongoing review of Yale-NUS’s core curriculum, which he is leading, helped convince him to extend his time with the college by another two years.

Former Yale-NUS Dean of Center of International and Professional Experience Anastasia SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a large poster calling attention to the lack of racial diversity among Yale’s faculty members — particularly when compared to the makeup of the student body — was posted on a Cross Campus bulletin board.

But the poster was removed before 9 a.m. on Wednesday and soon replaced with small, lollipop-laden cards advertising Founders Day, a celebration of Yale’s 314th birthday, which took place that afternoon. Alex Zhang ’18, who shared a photo of the poster on the Facebook group “Overheard at Yale,” said he came across the poster between 2 and 3 a.m. on Wednesday. Zhang posted the photo later that morning after he noticed that the sign had been taken down. By late Wednesday

night, Zhang’s post had received 18 comments and nearly 1,000 likes.

The poster drew attention to the current disparity between undergraduate and faculty racial diversity. A bar graph on the poster showed that undergraduate minorities comprise 42 percent of the student body, while minorities make up only 17 percent of the faculty. Pie charts illustrated the ethnic compositions of the current student body in comparison to ladder faculty members within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In large, bold letters, the poster highlighted that historically, Yale has seen a 1 percent average increase in black faculty per century.

“The students are waiting,” the poster said, prompting the University to action with the challenge, “Your move, Yale.”

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Harvard endowment plays catch up 18%

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BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER As the investment returns from Harvard’s endowment continue to lag behind those of Yale and other Ivy League schools, Harvard is altering the way in which the university invests its money.

In a Sept. 22 letter to Harvard alumni, Stephen Blyth, president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company, unveiled a new process, called “flexible indeterminate factor-based asset allocation,” that gives Harvard more flexibility when investing its $37.6 billion endowment. But several professors

and outside experts interviewed by the News said they did not fully understand the new model, and they expressed doubt that Harvard will be able to catch up to Yale’s investment returns, despite the new approach.

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hy bother with the classics?

Knowing Latin won’t help you talk to anyone currently alive, unless you want to chat up the Pope. And knowing Ancient Greek may be good for nothing except learning SAT words.

But we need the classics. We need them as much as we need art, music and the other humanities that make life beautiful and at the very least, more bearable.

The recent push for STEM education, while valuable, tends to suggest to outside observers that the humanities, especially the classics, are merely a curiosity: pretty, but dispensable.

Why do we need to struggle over the scribblings of cultures separated from ours by seas and centuries?

Let me be clear: the Greeks and Romans were not heroes.

Slavery, xenophobia and warfare pervaded their societies. Nor are the classics universal. Ancient Mediterranean values have little in common with ancient Indian, Chinese, or African values — or even generally with modern American ones.

Despite this, the classics have a spark of humanity that we should kindle in ourselves.

The ancient authors had ideas that serve as the foundation for much of modern civilization.

Herodotus was the founder of history and ethnography, the first on record to look with curiosity and eagerness — rather than fear and hatred — at the “barbarians” who surrounded his homeland. Cicero left us the idea that public service and dedication to one’s fellow men are the highest good — indeed, he died advocating for it. And scattered throughout the ancient texts are the first flickers of the wild idea that individual human beings have intrinsic value.

Centuries of darkness — of war, fundamentalism, and passage of time — could not extinguish that spark, but we may lose it if we lose faith in ourselves.

We need to be reminded that life can have beauty and dignity at a time when circus-show politics, irresponsible media and worldwide crises threaten to make us give up. More importantly, the classics have motivated some of the greatest movements for change in our history. They instructed and inspired the Founding Fathers, and Frederick Douglass studied the ancient orators to become the greatest abolitionist speaker of his time. Rejecting them rejects the heritage through which so much good was accomplished. And the classics are more than philosophy; Much of Western mathematics, medicine and natural philosophy descend from the efforts of

the Greeks.

Despite the gulf of centuries, ancient people faced many of the same problems we currently face. Though our responses to wars and migrations should not be the same as theirs, we can use them to examine our own failures and try to do better. It is reassuring to know that our problems were confronted by our predecessors long before we lived. The classics remind us of the deepest roots of our literature, our society and our democracy. It’s a feeling like no other to read something written two thousand years ago or more — something another human being, good or bad, famous or obscure, wrote back when the world was strange and new.

Many criticize the classical authors on the grounds that their views are unrepresentative and exclusive. They point out that we have almost no writings from women or other marginalized groups, and that therefore the classics provide an elitist view of the ancient world centered on wealthy, literate males.

This is true. The lack of diversity makes our intellectual heritage poorer. But it does not make what we do have any less valuable. Authors like Thucydides, Euripides and Aeschylus do discuss the lives of women, foreigners and slaves in the ancient world. However limited, they are the best sources we have on those subjects. The surest way to further marginalize those groups would be to shun the authors who discuss them.

As rare as female authors are, there is no lack of strong female characters in classical literature: Atossa in Aeschylus’ Persians and the title character of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata challenge the critics. As for other marginalized groups, many famous Roman authors, unnoticed by classroom critics, braved discrimination from the city elite for their provincial backgrounds or birth in the bonds of slavery.

I will never claim that the classics are perfect. Rome and Greece could be harsh and cruel, and their authors represent only a tiny portion of society. Yet the classics remain our bedrock.

They have inspired every generation from Petrarch to Milton, from Washington to Martin Luther King. We owe nothing in particular to them, or to Homer or Augustus. We owe it to ourselves to remember the very human classics, because as the playwright Publius Terentius, who was born a slave in Libya, said: We are human, and nothing human is foreign to us.

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etween the crinkle of fallen leaves under tires and flannels flapping in the breeze, there’s something iconic about the fall semester bike ride. Students zip from Old Campus to Science Hill in a matter of minutes, relishing a swiftness we’ll have to give up when the streets are slick with ice. For this eightweek window, we can glide down Elm St., inhaling the crisp scent of fall. But there’s something missing when you imagine this idyllic scene: a helmet.

For how many bikers there are in the Yale community, there are puzzlingly few helmets. In a thoroughly anecdotal study I conducted while walking from SSS to WLH earlier today, I witnessed a dozen bikers — all of whom had their hair in the wind. As a community, we pride our dedication to rational thought and often justify our ungallant romantic and professional decisions with our deep-seated risk aversion. Yet in this regard we seem to reserve rational thought for writing our papers and risk aversion in attending a McKinsey recruiting event. Few of us can bear to shell out $13 for an oblong monstrosity, and fewer still are willing to wear a helmet even if we reluctantly decided to buy one.

When we bike, Yalies often leave our better judgment behind like the pedestrians we pass. No one here wants to look like an egg-

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head. Even our campus’ hippest hipsters would struggle to don a helmet ironically.

To be sure, h e lmetless NATHAN biking is not a KOHRMAN public health priority. As I At the seam have written before, STI testing, cigarette use and sexual violence all represent bigger and badder epidemiological fish for Yale to fry. Still, wearing a helmet keeps you safe. According to a 2007 study published in the journal “Injury Prevention,” wearing helmets provide a 63 to 88 percent reduction in head and brain injury for all cyclists. But we don’t need statistics to know that.

The choice of our community members to bike without helmets is worth lingering over because it illustrates a collision of Yale values: our risk aversion with our sense of invulnerability, our rationality with our image anxiety. Many Yalies sacrifice safety for aesthetic.

This is hardly surprising. Millennials have grown up in an era in which public image pressure is inescapable. The cultivation and curation of our virtual selves can feel paramount. Between

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tinder, we wrangle with the expectation to present our lives through a filter. This anxiety takes on an amplified form at Yale, where the desire to project that we are “doing great” is as common as a social event where the dress code is formal. The Ivy League’s obsession with excellence is as deep-seated as its obsession with elegance.

This pressure is hard to resist.

At a school where we convince ourselves to forgo staples of wellness like sleep or asking for help, why would we need a helmet?

Our reflexes are fast, and our hair could use a little wind-sweeping before seminar. We have been told that our futures are bright and our brains are powerful so many times that we forget that a skull can only withstand so much physical force.

The members of the Yale community who bike without a helmet are not oblivious to the risk that they take on. The body of data related to concussions and traumatic brain injuries is hard to ignore. Just three days ago, Kenney Bui, a high-school football player from Washington, died after sustaining a head injury midgame even when he was wearing a helmet. I cannot recall a single bike injury death in the Yale community during the nearly five years I’ve been in New Haven, but every time I

see one of my classmates hurtling down Science Hill with little more than seven millimeters of bone between their brain and the asphalt, I can’t help but think they’re tempting fate. Two of my friends had to take a semester of medical leave from Yale after their traumatic brain injuries. And while these weren’t bike accidents, the consequences were the same. “The risk of brain injury [only feels] real only after it’s happened,” one of them told me yesterday afternoon. “But that’s true of everything.”

For the majority of people at Yale, the risk of brain injury is abstract, whereas social anxiety is immediate and inescapable. In our collegiate estimation of stakes, headgear seems like a greater risk than head injury. In a warped sort of way this makes sense. In a community where studied carelessness is the norm, helmets are careful to the point of gawkiness.

Then again, I struggle to think that anything — any friendship, party invitation, date, onenight-stand, relationship, election, promotion, recommendation or induction — ever hinged on the decision to look silly and safe and wear a helmet.

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .

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Ready to graduate T

hree days into my senior year, I sat on my therapist’s couch and said, “I’m ready to graduate.” We laughed, but then we talked about how that wasn’t so horrible. The world is huge outside of Yale!

Post-grad life! A kitchen! New boys with different emotional challenges!

Entering the middle of my senior fall, I still feel ready to graduate. The last couple weeks were intense: our campus has grappled with sexual violence and racial injustice, especially amongst Yale’s faculty.

Yale is an institution with a lot of power and prestige that’s very good at reproducing power and prestige. We live in an unequal world, and though there are many people striving to make it a better place, I’m worried that many of the most influential spaces in this country still aren’t doing enough to empower our most disenfranchised peoples.

We spend money decorating our campus with gourds and Dixie cups of “massaged” kale salads, but why aren’t we investing more resources in hiring and retaining faculty of color?

Sometimes Yale makes me feel like I’m living in a sea of prep school-educated sorority clones with puffy jackets. Everyone

seems to have light brownto-blonde hair and major in Econ.

Yet here I am, wearing my sweater arguADRIANA ing over John Donne’s place MIELE in the English canon in Check the JE dining hall. I’m also yourself part white, and I grew up dreaming about this place. But I’m sick of discussing Shakespeare with a bunch of white kids from New York.

The New York Times published a piece this week that declared 2015 “The Year We Obsessed Over Identity,” as though this were the first year that anyone in America ever realized that transgender people exist, or that people of color face more violence and persecution than non-colored people. I scrolled through that piece on my phone last night and laughed. Inequality didn’t begin on January 1st of 2015.

But I also realize that I need to be much easier on the people around me. I am angry that other people don’t think about

all the damages that the gender binary has done, but the reality is that many Americans didn't know about the transgender community until Caitlyn Jenner came out on ABC. I’m disappointed to realize that others didn’t think critically about police violence until Ferguson, but many live in white-dominated neighborhoods where this is a non-issue.

I want to leave this place better than I found it. I want my four years and all the traumas that I overcame to mean something. I want to write about my life and experiences because I think they’re important, and because I think that’s sort of the point of writing. I have things to say, and the News has given me a platform. People can read this while they peel boiled eggs in Calhoun, or they can write tweets insulting my intelligence. Either way, I’m here, and I’m trying to make meaning in a very broken world.

When I was admitted to Yale, my mother started crying, and I started shrieking. She ran into her room and brought back a folder with important papers, and she pulled out a “creative writing assignment” that I wrote when I was ten. In it, I talked about wanting to visit every

island in the Caribbean and how I think I have really cool knees (I was fascinated by a mole on the left one). I talked about what I envisioned for myself: writing, being famous, living in Manhattan and graduating from Yale.

And once I got here, everything in my life would make sense. The New Yorker would hire me upon graduation, and Tina Fey would become my best friend.

I no longer believe that. The world just doesn’t work that way.

Sometimes I think that Yale would be five times easier to manage if I had a boyfriend. Or if I were white. Or if I had gone to a New York City prep school.

Or if I were a fabulous gay man involved in theater. Instead I watch way too much television and skim a lot of old novels. I think I’m cool, and I don’t actually want to be someone else. But my anger stems from an understanding that there is unjust trauma and violence in this world.

Sometimes recognizing that is enough.

ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” HENRY FORD AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7

The story “Students await Barcade’s arrival” incorrectly stated that Jon Miller was an owner of the original Barcade that opened in 2004.

Business academy preps for fall

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER After graduating its first 35 students in late September, New Haven’s Small Business Academy is looking forward to its fall semester.

Established in May, the Academy is part of Mayor Toni Harp’s initiative to encourage the development of small and minorityowned businesses in Elm City.

The Academy, located on Dixwell Avenue, provides business owners with a number of resources, including classes with established professionals and incubator space where companies can work. Run by Small Business Service Center Director Jacqueline James, the program is a collaborative effort between local and state organizations including Springboard Consulting and the Yale School of Management.

“It’s just a tremendous head start in trying to open and successfully run a business from the ground up,” Jason Dorsey, an Academy graduate who now owns carpet-cleaning company Healthy Home and Office, said.

“It’s really hard to do by yourself.

You need some type of support.”

James said that all of the Academy’s first attendees had been in business for 12 months or less. She said she has already received 200 applications for the fall program, adding that she aims to choose applicants in the next two weeks and anticipates beginning classes again in November.

Alongside the Academy, James will also run programs this fall such as Side Street to Main Street, which trains active business owners to expand their companies. James said she also hopes to partner with the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council on an academy for contractors. In the spring, the SBSC will offer a small-business program geared toward recently released inmates.

The Hartford Economic Development Corporation, a partner of the Academy, lends technical assistance at the SBSC, HEDCO Vice President Kim Hawkins said. A consultant from HEDCO walks business owners from SBSC through the steps of applying for state-funded loans and grants, which the corporation then processes, Hawkins said.

“It’s great to have an agency like HEDCO support those entrepreneurs interested in starting small businesses, because we all know that small businesses do most of the hiring and support the economy,” Hawkins said.

James said that last week, the Academy helped graduates secure $150,000 in loans and grants.

Joseph Williams, a business advisor at the Connecticut Small Business Development Center, said his background as a small-business owner helped him develop business classes for the Academy.

Other Connecticut professionals taught classes that covered the legal challenges of opening a business, as well as how to write business plans, Dorsey said.

Dorsey said that although his business education at Gateway Community College provides him with “book knowledge,” the Academy focuses on the practical aspects of running a company. He added that instructors and other professionals at the Small Business Academy worked with him one-on-one to solve concrete problems he encountered in the process of establishing his business.

It’s just a tremendous head start in trying to open and successfully run a business from the ground up.

Yale tests emergency preparedness

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER In August, Yale simulated the unthinkable: a major shooting on campus.

About 100 people, including administrators, law enforcement, student actors and outside experts, gathered in the Yale Divinity School to participate in the seven-and-ahalf hour simulation, meant to assess Yale’s ability to activate reception and family assistance centers in the case of a masscasualty event. Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said previous iterations of the annual simulation have focused on a variety of scenarios — including the outbreak of a flu pandemic — which would threaten the safety of Yale’s campus.

“We hope for the best and prepare for the worst,” Highsmith said. “I don’t go around assuming horrible things will happen, but if they do, we will be ready to respond.”

Director of Emergency Management Maria Bouffard said the August exercise took about a year to plan. The first stage involved briefing par-

ticipants about the fictional incident and assigning them their roles, after which staged reception and family treatment assistance centers were tested for readiness. Highsmith added that the challenge of supporting families during a crisis became clear during the December 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre that took 26 lives.

Yale’s risk manager Marjorie Lemmon said that in addition to preparing the emergency centers, the simulation also helped test Yale’s ability to credential a large number of people in a short period of time. During a crisis situation, people must be easily identifiable and restricted areas must remain accessible only to certain individuals, she added.

Highsmith said that over the past years, the Office of Emergency Management has held emergency preparedness training sessions for various offices and student groups upon request and that the office plans to expand its training sessions to reach more of the Yale community. These meetings would concern the case of an active shooter, she said, and will hopefully be offered later

this fall. Bouffard said such sessions increase awareness and help students understand what they can and should do in crisis situations, adding that recent shootings on college campuses and in public venues make this type of training all the more important.

In addition to the annual simulation and expanded training sessions, the OEM also organizes monthly meetings with roughly 60 people from major offices on campus — including security, facilities and human resources — as well as from New Haven more broadly.

Highsmith said one of the most critical components of the monthly meeting is giving Yale administrators the chance to interact with their counterparts in the city and region.

“The worst thing in the world is to meet your counterpart in the city at the site of an emergency,” she said. “You want to have met and worked with that person long before anything like that happens.”

Bouffard said students can acquire more information about emergency management from the OEM’s website. Still,

six students interviewed — all of whom expressed universal support for the preparedness of emergency operations — said they would prefer increased communication and transparency.

Samuel Lee ’16 said that rather than receive formal training, he would prefer to be made more aware of available information on how to respond to a crisis on campus.

“I do not recall receiving emails about this, so the most fundamental improvement would be more accessible and noticeable information about what to do and what numbers to call,” he said.

Alejandra Campos ’19 said the OEM seems exceptionally well-prepared compared to her high school. Simulating a real life event is especially important because panic often overtakes individuals during times of crisis, she said. Campos added that in light of recent shootings across the country, it is important that more students be trained in emergency preparedness.

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

Seven new senior societies established

JASON DORSEY Small Business Academy Graduate Dorsey, who had been attempting to start a business for the past decade, said the Academy provided the impetus and support he needed to successfully launch Healthy Home and Office. Dorsey also received a $10,000 grant through HEDCO and the Academy, which he intends to spend on equipment upgrades.

Boris Sigal SOM ’14, local procurement and business development director for the New Haven Economic Development Corporation, facilitated a collaboration between SOM students and the SBSC. Members of the SOM Outreach Nonprofit Consulting Club created a road map that small-business owners of the Academy can tap into, Sabrina Ling SOM ’16 said.

The guide lists the main concerns small businesses confront at different stages during their development. It also provides businesses with a number of organizations in the city and state that can provide services like startup funding and legal guidance.

New Haven’s unemployment rate was 7.6 percent in August — 2.1 percentage points higher than the state average, according to the Connecticut Department of Labor.

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

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Students taking part in tap night last spring. Under Avraham’s new initiative, all juniors who want to be in a society can be.

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER There are seven new senior societies on campus this fall, the result of an initiative begun last spring to make the society system more inclusive.

This past spring, former Yale College Council President Danny Avraham ’15 announced an initiative to create enough societies to accommodate all interested juniors. He made the proposal in response to sustained criticism of the existing tap process as hyper-exclusive, stressful and opaque. Since then, Avraham has successfully enlisted the support of alumni in funding and advising his initiative, although he declined to provide the names of these alumni or how much money they have contributed.

“People have been incredibly enthusiastic,” Avraham said. “It’s really been touching to hear some of the feedback, how excited people were and are, and to see how the different groups are meeting now and see how everything’s set up.”

In April, members of the class of 2016 received an email inviting them to sign up for a spot in a new society. This offer would guarantee that they could participate in the society experience, even if they were not tapped by an existing society. Interested students were also asked to fill out an online form indicating their preferences for a society, including time commitment and emphasis on society traditions like “bios” — long presentations about members’ personal histories — or debates. Students were then grouped according

to these preferences.

Though the seven new societies are formally independent, they are all part of a larger collective called the Societies Initiative Network. These societies all receive funding from the initiative, much of which has come from alumni contributions. According to Avraham, most of that money has gone towards initiation for the societies’ new members and activities for the individual societies throughout the year.

Avraham said the new societies, which include roughly 100 students in total, varied in how much initial guidance they received from the initiative, noting that some were even unnamed when students joined. The societies also differ in how much attention they pay to traditions and how much time they devote to bios, for example, but for the most part they are similar to other nonlanded societies at Yale.

A senior who serves as the liaison for their society to the larger initiative said their society is more bio-focused. The student, who asked to remain anonymous to protect the privacy of their society, added that they were glad the signup process allowed them to specify exactly what they were looking for in a senior society.

The student added that the experience is enhanced by the fact that everyone in the society had chosen the format for themselves, rather than joining one with an existing structure.

“Everyone definitely wants to be there,” the student said.

“And since there are biofocused and non-bio-focused ones, everyone in mine specifically wants to be [at that one].”

The seven societies have their own organizational structure, with a designated liaison in each responsible for communicating with the rest of the initiative. The anonymous student has been in touch with Avraham, as well as an alumni advisor, regularly for guidance.

One of the societies in the initiative is Ring and Candle, which is being revived after it went defunct more than 40 years ago. After Avraham’s announcement in the spring, a group of alumni contacted him to help re-establish the group.

“We were all delighted to help the tradition resume,” Nick von Baillou ’64, a Ring and Candle alum, said. “Having done so also means continuing to support it in whatever way we can — particularly in ensuring that … tradition is relevant and meaningful amongst the new classes of Ring and Candle members and [emphasizing] that it needs to be supported in the longer term.”

The Societies Initiative Network will conduct its own recruitment process this spring that will run alongside the traditional tap process. Avraham said an email will be sent to all juniors sometime in January or February inviting students to sign up.

Rather than tapping the next class of members, the outgoing members of the new societies will cooperate to place interested students into their societies according to their preferences, and new members will be initiated on the same night as new members of the rest of Yale’s societies.

“What we’re hoping to do here is basically create a process that puts the juniors in

the center of it in terms of what they’re looking for, whereas the current process is really more predicated on what the seniors who are leaving the society want,” Avraham said.

Avraham added that existing societies will also be eligible to join the initiative and receive funding from it, provided that they do away with their traditional tap processes. He said he will reach out to other societies sometime in January, before the Society Assembly — a University-sanctioned panel of society representatives — convenes to set the dates for the tap process.

The initiative continues a trend of society tap reform that began this winter: in February, the Yale College Council announced that, for the first time, juniors would be allowed to opt out of the society tap process. By removing their names from consideration by any societies, juniors not interested in societies could avoid the discomfort and stress associated with the process.

Though some students have criticized Avraham’s program, arguing that societies formed under such a formal process will not last, it remains to be seen what will become of them.

“Our [society] has no intention of stopping or ending,” the anonymous society liaison said. “You feel a sense of ownership when you do kind of create it, initially. And especially knowing that everyone signed up for this makes everyone more committed to being together and coming every week.”

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

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s part of Yale’s second annual Founders Day celebrations, the Guild of Carillonneurs gave students and visitors tours of the 54-bell Harkness Tower. This year, the Guild celebrated its 50th anniversary. IRENE JIANG reports.

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“If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.”

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Board of Alders welcomes college students “This [Board of Alders] meeting might look easy,” Paolillo said.

“But much of the debate happens during committee meetings, and this final meeting is the finishing line of a long race.”

BY SHUYU SONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Gearing up for election season, the entire Board of Alders gathered in City Hall Wednesday night to submit reports from the aldermanic committees. The alders sat side-by-side with local college students to teach them about city politics.

Approximately 40 students from Gateway Community College and Southern Connecticut State University sat in on the meeting, where they saw tax and finance committees submit reports on tax abatement directed toward helping low-income households and reviewed recently acquired funding. Alders at the meeting also read proposals that they will vote on during their next meeting on Oct. 19, which cover topics including youth, education, safety and finance in the Elm City. Ward 17 Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr., Public Safety Committee vice-chair and finance committee member, chaired the meeting.

ing it difficult for residents to use them when traveling to and from school. She said that because city money gets directed toward repairs for roads in front of YaleNew Haven Hospital, fewer funds are available to fix other roads.

“The cause is that the hospital gets the dollars,” Lafrauer said.

“So the only part of the road that’s fixed is the block in front of the hospital.”

Tax issues are major concerns for the Board of Alders, Paolillo said, adding that to address these issues, the board aims to develop a system targeted toward lowincome individuals who have difficulties paying their taxes. He noted that the system will allow individuals to contact their alders with greater ease. The Communications Committee will oversee the system, Paolillo added.

Paolillo recalled a family who could not pay their taxes and college tuition for their children at the same time, noting that the family then contacted their alder, who helped them apply for permission to delay the payments

This meeting might look easy, but much of the debate happens during committee meetings.

ALPHONSE PAOLILLO JR. Ward 7 Alder Following the meeting, students from GCC and SCSU posed questions about the Board of Alders’ Youth Services and Environmental subcommittees, as well as the status of ongoing transportation and construction issues in the city. GCC student Johnisha Lafrauer said Elm, Chapel and Orchard streets have not been repaired in months, mak-

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The grant, awarded by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, will fund the construction of a bridge in Farmington and an additional path in Plainville, Connecticut. This project — nicknamed “rails-to-trails” because it uses abandoned railroads in parts of the trail — is part of a statewide transportation infrastructure initiative approved by the State Bond Commission on Sept. 29. This broader project has amassed $17.5 million, with half that funding dedicated to bicycle or pedestrian paths.

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The goal of the construction occurring in New Haven is to open up bike access across the city, he added.

“For everyone commuting from Hamden, or from Newhallville/Dixwell down to the downtown, the Farmington Canal will be a great opportunity for regional connectivity on an off-street bicycle network,” Hausladen said.

Though the Farmington Canal Rail-to-Trail Association presents the bike path as a recreational feature, many currently use it for transportation, Hausladen said.

Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison said she has not seen much recreational use of the bike path. In Western Massachusetts, “rails-to-trails” paths are primarily used for leisure, according to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. The paths are frequented by families walking dogs or biking with small children, as well as by more serious bikers.

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“It’s definitely a safe element to have — to get people from one side of town to another side and into the Hamden area,” she said.

Currently, the bike path runs from the north of the city to the south. Eventually, it will also run from the city waterfront to Hamden, Hausladen said.

The path runs through Yaleowned property from Temple Street to Prospect Street, and borders Yale property from the bottom of Lock Street to Munson Street. Students interviewed said the path could prove convenient for traveling across campus.

Analisse Marquez ’16, who lives in an off-campus residence on Lake Place, said she regularly uses the bike path to get to her engineering classes on Hillhouse Avenue.

“It’s just a better, safer and faster way to get to class than the roads because it’s a twoway path, there are no cars and there aren’t any stop lights,” Marquez said.

The bike path, when completed, will be more than 80 miles long.

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

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Youth education is another major concern for the Board of Alders, Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison said. She pointed to a major project in her ward, the Dixwell Q House, which is being turned into a community space after being closed down for more than a decade. Morrison said she is working with other alders to acquire funding to demolish the old 20,000-square-foot building and replace it with a new 54,000-square-foot version. The new building will be used as a city library and community center for senior citizens.

“This is a project that many members in the board [support],” Morrison said. “We gathered $1 million of funding in the past year, and hope to see the project get approved at the beginning of 2016.”

The Board of Alders meets on the first and third Monday of every month.

At a Monday Board of Education meeting, city officials — exploring methods to improve test scores at New Haven’s lowest-performing schools — drew a blank.

The Smarter Balanced assessment, adopted last year by the state to track student progress toward the national Common Core standards, showed that just 29 percent of New Haven students are either at or above the Common Core standard for English Language Arts, while less than 14 percent are at or above this standard in mathematics. Though meeting attendees did not reach a consensus on how to address the achievement gap indicated by the test scores, city administrators said the test results should motivate school systems to tackle holes in their curricula.

“The Smarter Balanced results are a wake-up call for the city and for the school district,” Garth Harries ’95, New Haven Public Schools superintendent, said.

According to the New Haven Independent, board members in attendance discussed whether the best solution was to invest in existing efforts, change tact completely or adopt a combination of both when pursuing proactive change. Additionally, attendees discussed the implications of test results reported by charter schools in the city, which saw significantly higher scores across the board.

The state Board of Education replaced the former statewide standardized test — known as the Connecticut Mastery Test — with the Smarter Balanced assessment following Connecticut’s adoption of the Common Core standards.

The new assessment — administered in May to students in grades three through eight, as well as 11th graders —

yielded scores much lower than the CMT. But this change largely reflects the increase in Connecticut’s academic standards, according to Elizabeth Carroll, director of Education Studies at Yale. She added that the Smarter Balanced assessment is also more challenging than the CMT. “It’s a painful transition anytime you’re raising a standard,” Carroll said. “The generation that’s kind of stuck in that transition has to go through this process.”

The Common Core, officially launched in 2009, was partly a response to the United States’ decline in global education rankings. It was also implemented to reduce inequalities within the U.S. education system.

On average, students from high-income families significantly outperform students from low-income families, with bilingual and ethnic-minority students consistently testing below the national average.

Despite being one of the highest-performing states in the country, Connecticut has the biggest achievement gaps, Carroll said.

New Haven’s scores were comparable to those in other urban centers of Connecticut, including Hartford and Bridgeport. But students at higherincome suburban schools received significantly higher scores.

Jennifer Alexander, CEO of ConnCAN, a statewide education advocacy group, said many steps need to be taken to resolve these issues, such as improving early childhood education, supporting strong teachers, principals and district leaders. She also recommended improving the way schools are funded.

“There’s no clear or mathematical explanation for why kids in some towns get more money than others,” Alexander said. “We’ve got about 11 different ways that we fund kids … It

makes no sense.”

Alexander said the state should continue to implement the Common Core standards so that all students can receive an education that will effectively prepare them for college and working life.

But some displayed concerns about the testing that has come with this new national standard.

Yasamin Sharifi ’19, who attended a public school in Florida that did not use the Common Core standard while she was enrolled, said the number of standardized tests her school still made students take detracted from her educational experience. “[At my school] we just had to quickly learn a bunch of material so we could take tests,” Sharifi said. “A lot of [Yale students] who came from private schools got to spend more time doing qualitative learning activities like writing papers, doing long term projects.”

Still, the Common Core allows schools flexibility in their teaching style. Schools’ main requirement is to aim for the program’s general standards.

Darryl Brackeen Jr., Upper Westville alder and community organizer for ConnCAN, urged people not be discouraged by the city’s low Smarter Balanced scores. Instead, he said the scores represent the beginning of a shift in the public education system.

“This is literally the beginning of a process in terms of how better to execute and implement teaching standards,” Brackeen said. “I believe that the New Haven school district is on its way toward leading the pack in terms of making sure that students are college and career ready.”

Next year, 11th-graders in Connecticut will take the SAT in place of the Smarter Balanced assessment.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT

Anonymous activist calls for increased faculty diversity POSTER FROM PAGE 1 been left up,” Lily Engbith ’17 said. “It’s not slandering anyone and it’s not offensive, it’s just calling for change. It was posted on a bulletin board and I see nothing disruptive or violent about it.

If people are feeling marginalized, that message needs to be heard.”

Though the poster has received widespread support on Facebook, it remains unclear who was responsible for creating it — and who was responsible for taking it down. Twelve students interviewed said they were only aware of the poster after seeing it online and did not see it in person before it was taken down.

Heather Calabrese, director of university events, said she received no instructions to take down the poster. During the Founders Day event, Calabrese said she had not even heard of the poster’s existence.

“We’re not aware of who displayed this poster, or who might have taken it down,” Deputy University Press Secretary Karen Peart wrote in an email to the News.

The poster highlighted aspects of the University that many say are in need of improvement.

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies DUS Inderpal Grewal said faculty diversity has been a consistent problem at Yale, adding that she thinks there has been no improvement in this area in recent years.

Political science professor Frances Rosenbluth, who served as deputy provost for social sciences and for faculty development and diversity, said ideally, the faculty body would resemble the student body in terms of diversity. This would allow students to see a wider assortment of backgrounds and identities in leadership positions, she said.

“Many of us have worked hard to push for the hiring of excellent scholars who are also underrepresented minorities or are in underrepresented fields of study in the Yale curriculum,” Timothy Dwight College Master Mary Lui said. “It’s really been a tough issue that is made difficult with faculty departures and budget concerns.”

Of 12 students interviewed, 11 agreed with the poster’s message, and all 12 believed the University administration was responsible for the poster’s removal.

Liana Murray ’18 said she

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Small pamphlets advertising Founders Day replaced a poster criticizing Yale’s lack of faculty diversity. thinks the poster made an impact by being displayed on Founders Day, noting that it highlighted the lack of progress made in increasing faculty diversity.

Shyamala Ramakrishna ’17 agreed, stating that it was a good idea to capitalize on the crowds brought to Cross Campus on Founders Day. “I’m sure that a lot of people will talk about timing of this — why would they put it up now for Founders Day?” Ana Barros ’18

said. “Someone took it down with the intention of not having it up during Founders Day, and that’s significant.”

Abdul Zachariah ’17 said the lack of faculty diversity is a problem that affects the entire campus. There are constraints on the types of classes Yale can offer because of the limited amount of ethnic experiences represented by professors, he said.

But, while Magdaleno Mora ’17 said he agrees that the Univer-

sity lacks faculty diversity, he said it is unreasonable to demand an immediate solution, as there are many factors at play.

“I think it was a great time to post it because Founders Day is celebrating the history of Yale, and if you want to point out a flaw in Yale’s history, now is the time to do it,” Mora said. “As students, we should inspire movements, but we shouldn’t be upset if they don’t come to fruition immediately.”

Still, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler cited heartening figures for incoming faculty members.

Gendler said of the 28 FAS faculty arriving in 2015–16 or hired during the 2014–15 hiring cycle, three are of African descent and six are of East Asian or South Asian descent. Together, these nine new hires are working in a wide array of departments at Yale, including fields in which minorities are traditionally underrepre-

sented, such as biomedical engineering, computer science and molecular biophysics and biochemistry.

“An excellent faculty is a diverse faculty,” Gendler added.

In 1989, Sylvia Boone became the first black woman to receive tenure at Yale.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Yale-NUS admin turnover leaves students concerned YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 Vrachnos said the distance from her family contributed to her decision to return to the United States. Vrachnos now serves as the vice provost for international affairs and operations at Princeton.

“My reasons for leaving were personal — wanting to be near to family with the birth of our third child and wanting to be of service to Princeton University, my alma mater, on issues of international education, about which I am so passionate,” Vrachnos told the News in a Wednesday email.

There were no surprises. [The deans] were initially hired for three years. They have done a good job.

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Three of Yale-NUS’s four inaugural deans have left the college over the past 10 months.

She added that the goal of an inaugural dean should be to create programs and systems that long outlive his or her tenure, and she is glad to see the new CIPE office running even more strongly without her.

For her part, Greene said she left knowing that the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid is in good hands. But she added that the decision to leave was a difficult one, and one she “didn’t take lightly at all.”

Several students interviewed said the deans’ departures may negatively impact the Yale-NUS community, though some were hopeful that new leadership would bring positive change.

Qi Siang Ng YNUS ’19 said he doubts the deans left because of dissatisfaction with Yale-NUS’s liberal-arts model or tension with the

administration of the National University of Singapore. Still, Ng said the lack of continuity in the college’s leadership could impede the development of campus culture and traditions.

Aadit Gupta YNUS ’19 said it is understandable that the inaugural deans decided not to renew their contracts, as they all moved halfway across the globe to work at YaleNUS. Isaac Lee YNUS ’19 said although he would have liked the deans to stay until the college’s inaugural class graduates next year, their departures are not a major issue as YaleNUS has already gotten off the ground.

Having hired a new dean of the CIPE, Trisha Craig, in July, Lewis said he expects to find a new dean of students by January 2016, in addition to the other two replacements by the start of the next academic year. In the meantime, Yale-NUS Director of Admissions Linette Lim is working as the interim dean of admissions and financial aid, and Brian McAdoo, the rector of one of Yale-NUS’s residential colleges, is the interim dean of students.

Bailyn said the replacement deans will assume their positions as Yale-NUS secures its institutional footing.

“It’s an interesting moment in the history of Yale-NUS,” he said.

“The task is to move from a startup mode in which everything is new to a mode in which things are being set up for the long run. So there will likely be some attention paid to how to sustain our programs for the long run.”

Ng said the college is involving students in the hiring process by asking for their input in selecting the new dean of students.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

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Journalist discusses ethics of covering ISIS

BY SARAH GAVIS-HUGHSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Journalist Mina Al-Oraibi spoke Wednesday about ethical challenges the media faces in writing about ISIS.

Yale World Fellow Mina Al-Oraibi spoke at a roundtable discussion Wednesday evening about how journalists write about ISIS and the difficulties of reporting on a region where there are no journalists on the ground.

The talk, entitled “ISIS and the Media,” took place in the Davenport Auditorium and was attended by about 25 people. One main focus of the talk was the way in which journalists and politicians refer to ISIS. Al-Oraibi argued against allowing the group to self-define as the Islamic State. AlOraibi, who is at Yale for four months as a Yale World Fellow, is an IraqiBritish journalist and political analyst who writes about the Middle East.

She worked as assistant editor in chief and Washington D.C. bureau chief for the Asharq Alawsat, the international daily pan-Arab newspaper.

“None of us want to be the censors, but at the same time we don’t want to be the tools to get the militants’ message out,” Al-Oraibi said.

According to Al-Oraibi, reporting on ISIS can be challenging because of the lack of journalists on the ground in the affected areas of the Middle East.

She said information generally comes from the government or from ISIS itself, making it difficult to receive unbiased information. Other news can come from activists on the ground, though it cannot always be guaranteed to be reliable. Rare refugees and defectors often have the best information for journalists, she said.

Al-Oraibi said that like many other journalists covering the Middle East, she has family in Mosul, Iraq but cannot quote them for fear of retribution.

“You’re always making the call: is the news worthy of risking someone’s life, or not?” she said.

Carmen Baskauf ’17, a liaison to the World Fellows Program and moderator at the talk, said she was most struck by this part of Al-Oraibi’s talk.

Baskauf said she had not previously

thought about the dilemma faced by Iraqi or Syrian journalists who have family members in areas affected by ISIS. During the question-and-answer portion of the talk, Al-Oraibi focused on the portrayal of ISIS in the media.

Part of the issue, she said, is that sensational news of beheadings and other violence consistently makes front pages, while reports on government efforts to address the crisis are pushed further into newspapers’ pages. She also recognized the responsibility of social media users to avoid perpetuating sensationalized news.

“It’s this idea that, quite often, if you’re a young man from Syria or Iraq … that you’re guilty until proven innocent,” she said. “Terrorists win when they inspire this idea.”

Although many journalists disagree, Al-Oraibi said she believes newspapers should not print images of bodies or spread ISIS’s infamous beheading videos, adding that she feels it does a disservice to the families of the victims and easily becomes a terror tool for ISIS to use.

Gemma Mortensen, a Yale World Fellow who has known Al-Oraibi for a number of years, lauded her journalistic integrity. Mortensen said the talk left her with a better understanding how ISIS operates and the types of ethical decisions journalists must make.

Will McGrew ’18, who did not attend the talk, said it is important to accurately portray the facts about ISIS’s brutality.

“The media should be reporting what life is like under ISIS and not just regurgitating what ISIS wants the world to see,” he said. “At the same time it is very, very important, I think, to see … ISIS’s brutality, because it’s something we need to respond to as a world.”

The Yale World Fellows Program was established in 2002.

Contact SARAH GAVIS-HUGHSON at sarah.gavis-hughson@yale.edu .

Yale study assesses cancer screening rates

BY JO-JO FENG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER According to a new study from the Yale School of Medicine, reduced cancer screening rates in the past 15 years may be linked to guidelines about cancer screenings issued by cancer organizations.

Co-authors Sean Maroongroge MED ’17 and therapeutic radiology professor James Yu ’99 demonstrated a correlation between the advice offered in high-profile cancer screening guidelines and decreased screening rates in the U.S. between the years 2000 and 2012. The researchers found that screening rates for breast, prostate and colorectal cancers peaked at around 2007, but declined overall up until 2012 — statistics which mirror the changing “aggressiveness” advised in screening guidelines, Maroongroge and Yu said.

Cancer screenings are a controversial topic in the medical community, researchers interviewed said, adding that it is not always clear when screen-

ing should be encouraged for patients. While there are obvious benefits for higher cancer detection rates, some cancer screening procedures can cause physical discomfort and even pose health risks for the patients, according to Maroongroge and Yu. “There’s a plausible connection between [guideline changes and reduced screening rates],” Maroongroge said. “It’s all correlative — I can’t say if one caused one or the other — but it’s likely that there’s a connection here.”

Maroongroge and Yu also emphasized the importance of distinguishing between different cancers and their respective screening techniques. Notably, while they found that colon cancer screening as a whole decreased over the 12-year span, the rate of colonoscopy procedures — one particular type of colon cancer screening — more than doubled.

Yu said people often have a misconception that all cancer screenings are dangerous or cause considerable discomfort.

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tend to associate colonoscopies with more harmful procedures like breast cancer screenings — which involve radiation exposure — even though colonoscopies are a safe, effective measure that should be highly encouraged.

The researchers assessed screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society and three specialty organizations that release guidelines specifically for breast, prostate or colorectal cancer. These organizations are constantly up-todate with new cancer research, and modify their guidelines accordingly, Maroongroge said.

With the advent of novel cancer screening methods, patient survival rates rose steeply and consequently, organizations published more aggressive screening guidelines, Yu said.

But with more data, organizations are becoming less confident in many screening procedures, and more aware of the risks involved, he added.

“We’re entering a new age of

screening and we’re very enthusiastic about it, but it’s necessary to look at the evidence that opposes excessive screening,” Maroongroge said.

When we talk about guidelines, we make it sound like every person in the United States follows them.

ANEES CHAGPAR SOM ’14 Director, The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital But while these guidelines are crafted carefully, they may not be as meaningful as they seem, Yu said. The task force relies on the best evidence available, but sometimes there are problems with this evidence, Yu said.

“Even ‘evidence-based’ guidelines have limitations,” he said.

And there may be other, less research-based factors considered in the guideline designing process, according to Associate Program Director of Categorical Internal Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center Rebecca Andrews. Previous studies have asserted that guideline creation and screening rates may be driven primarily by political or economic factors, and that the whole screening system is a business as much as it is a science, Andrews said.

Andrews said she believes guidelines can change based on political pressure — which may be the reason different states have different rules. For example, in Connecticut — which has the third highest breast cancer rates in America — medical reports are much more assertive about breast cancer screening as a result of intense lobbying in 2008, Andrews said.

Still, according to physicians interviewed, screening guidelines only play a minor role in patients’ decisions. Some physicians interviewed suggested

that the correlation between guideline changes and declining screening rates is more tenuous than it appears.

“When we talk about guidelines, we make it sound like every person in the United States follows them, but if you look at the data, only about 60 to 70 percent of women [follow the published breast cancer screening guidelines],” said Anees Chagpar SOM ’14, director of The Breast Center at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at YaleNew Haven Hospital.

While guidelines are useful as a starting point, it is important to take them lightly and focus on the specific patient at hand, Andrews said.

According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 60,290 new cases of female breast carcinoma in situ are expected to be diagnosed in 2015, accounting for about 20 percent of all breast cancers in women.

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FROM THE FRONT

“You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn’t survive without them.” BONNIE BESSLER AMERICAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST

No formal communication on MRSA, athletes say MRSA FROM PAGE 1 with Yale athletic authorities to restrict the reach of the infection through increased cleaning of athletic facilities and equipment, though Genecin did not confirm that there are current MRSA cases.

He added that everyone can prevent infection by being careful about hand-washing, keeping breaks in the skin covered and not sharing items that may become contaminated by contact with skin.

Heavyweight crew coach Steve

Gladstone said he would only be worried about the infection if his team shared facilities and equipment with the affected teams.

However, Gladstone said, each crew team at Yale has their own tank, boat bay and equipment.

He added that since there is no possibility of contact between his team and the infected athletes, he saw no need for a formal announcement to him or his athletes.

“If there were shared equipment and shared locker rooms then I think it would be very important for us to know,” Glad-

stone said. “I don’t see any fault in any part of the administrators.”

But the crew teams are an exception, as their members do not use either of the two weight rooms in Payne Whitney Gymnasium. But most Yale athletic teams — including the baseball team — share the rooms.

Female coxswains for male crew teams, however, do share a locker room with the women’s crew team — one of the teams whose athletes are reported to have contracted MRSA — at an off-campus boathouse in Derby, Connecticut.

Despite the shared facilities, Genecin said he does not believe there is any widespread risk to the student population.

“We always work with public health officials as well as University leadership to assess risk and to take appropriate action,” Genecin said. “At this time, I do not foresee any need for official communication to the student body.”

Joe Conlin, offensive line coach for the football team, said he was not aware of any cases of MRSA within the Yale athletic community.

Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 noted that his trainers take extra precautions when other teammates have infections, but since learning about MRSA on campus, he hasn’t seen any change in protocol.

“Our head trainer normally freaks out and makes us cover up all of our open cuts with tape when something like that is going on and that hasn’t been the case,” Roberts said.

Although some cases of MRSA are more serious, causing skin and soft tissue infections that later develop into abscesses,

oftentimes, MRSA causes infections that are easily controllable, Martinello said.

“It is quite common, but thankfully in healthy young people it is usually a skin infection rather than an overwhelming septic condition,” Genecin said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 94,360 MRSA infections in the U.S. in 2005.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

Harvard implements new investment strategy YALE V. HARVARD ENDOWMENT DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS Bonds & Cash

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ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 “I don’t imagine that [Harvard] is going to catch up,” School of Management professor Roger Ibbotson said. “I would bet on Yale.”

According to an Oct. 4 article in the Financial Times, FIFAA is Blyth’s way of closing the gap with Yale, which has consistently outperformed Harvard’s returns since the 2008 financial crisis.

But Yale is not the only school with stronger returns than Harvard: although not all schools have reported their gains yet, available numbers show Harvard trailing several of its peers. For fiscal year 2015, Harvard’s return on its endowment was 5.8 percent. In comparison, Yale’s return was 11.5 percent, Dartmouth’s was 8.3 and Stanford’s was 7.0.

After several years of low returns, the former head of the Harvard Management Company,

Jane Mendillo, stepped down last year and handed the reins to Blyth in an attempt to bring Harvard back in line with its peers. In the September letter — his first major policy statement since he took on the role — Blyth explained that FIFAA is intended to create an investment process that better quantifies the idea of risk.

While most schools, including Yale, account for risk by looking at the standard deviation within a given market, Harvard will now look at risk through the lens of five new factors: global equities, U.S. Treasuries, high-yield credit, inflation and currency.

This method will give Harvard a greater sensitivity to macroeconomic variables when deciding where to invest, Ibbotson said.

But economics professors are skeptical of whether Harvard will ever be able to match Yale’s returns numbers. Furthermore, three of three professors inter-

viewed said they do not fully understand the intricacies of the FIFAA approach based on publicly available information — a result that may be intentional, Ibbotson said, citing the tendency of schools like Yale and Harvard to reveal as little information about their investment plans as possible.

Professors noted that although computers can anticipate how much asset classes — an area of stocks or bonds that behave similarly in the marketplace — will fluctuate each year, no prediction is perfect. Good investment returns are also the result of luck, and changing Harvard’s portfolio may not accomplish much, Ibbotson said.

“People think it’s all skill, but a big piece of it is luck,” Ibbotson said. “You don’t know which asset classes will do the best.”

But some investment strategies, like those at Yale, as well as

MIT and Princeton, where some of Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen’s protégées have adopted similar investment models, have consistently yielded large returns. Swensen’s strategy for Yale’s endowment — dubbed the “Yale model” by financial newspapers — involves buying private equity, natural resources and real estate to diversify Yale’s portfolio and reduce risk. Many schools including Harvard have imitated the Yale model, but not all have succeeded to the same extent as Yale, William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm, said.

Additionally, because Yale adopted this investment strategy before its peer institutions, the University has more negotiating power and can make better deals, Ibbotson said.

“There’s nothing a firm would rather do than take Yale as an

investor. It’s a tremendous certification,” he said. “Yale’s got more prestige at this than Harvard.”

Economists interviewed by the News said they do not know precisely how the five-factor approach will affect Harvard’s investments in the immediate future, but noted that Harvard may want to invest more money in assets that have yielded the highest returns. The breakdown of Harvard’s 2015 investment returns show that the largest returns were from real estate and private equity, which earned Harvard returns of 19.4 percent and 11.8 percent, respectively. Part of Blyth’s FIFAA method allows Harvard to invest more money in precisely these two markets.

Beyond introducing the new five-factor model, Blyth’s report adds four new asset classes to Harvard’s portfolio. In addition to the eight asset classes that Harvard used last year, the uni-

versity is extending its investment ranges and adding domestic bonds, foreign bonds, inflationlinked bonds and “high yield” assets.

“The ranges provide us with appropriate flexibility to execute a variety of investment opportunities and strategies as they arise,” Blyth wrote in his letter.

Ibbotson said Blyth’s opaque language in describing FIFAA is likely a way for him to create his own agenda at Harvard and invest in new markets without being questioned. Investment offices at schools like Yale and Harvard rarely reveal their plans, he added. “[Blyth’s] not going to publicly announce what he’s really doing,” Ibbotson said.

Yale’s endowment is currently $25.6 billion.

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

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Who can’t relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?”

MIKE SHINODA AMERICAN MUSICIAN, RECORD PRODUCER AND ARTIST

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Students navigate aid expectations

Tenure-track women depart

BY AGNES CHAN Features of student financial aid packages, including outside-scholarship reporting and summer-earnings requirements, can cause financial and logistical challenges for students.

The Office of Financial Aid is working with the Undergraduate Council of Students to address these challenges through the creation of a financial aid advisory board which will facilitate direct communication between students and the financial aid office.

“We’ve been working really hard to elevate advocacy efforts around specific financial aid improvements,” said Sazzy Gourley, UCS president. “It is critical to elevate this conversation to the corporation level, so that corporation members as well as other administrators understand how important it is that we’re resolving some of these barriers to success for students.”

44 percent of all undergraduates receive need-based financial aid from the university, said Jim Tilton, director of financial aid.

The university set aside $112.5 million for financial aid for the 2015-2016 academic year — an increase from the $104.1 million budgeted last year.

The Office of Financial Aid determines a student’s family contribution based on two forms: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the College Scholarship Service Profile. The FAFSA uses a formula established by the federal government to calculate a family’s expected contribution by taking into account a family’s taxed and untaxed income, assets and benefits.

But because the university also considers information on the CSS Profile, the amount of aid the university gives to a student is often different from the value derived from FAFSA. The CSS Profile paints a clearer picture of the student’s family background by considering factors such as non-custodial parents’ income and assets owned by siblings, Tilton said. In addition, parents who make less than $60,000 per year will have zero parent contribution, he said.

Outside scholarships may also have an unpredictable effect on students’ financial aid packages.

Federal law states that outside scholarships cannot reduce the amount that parents contribute to the total cost of attending a university. Instead, they can be used to cover the student contribution portion, which includes summer earnings expectations — $2,650 for first-years and $3,100 for sophomores, juniors and seniors, work-study requirements — $2,800 per year — and student loans.

But if an outside scholarship exceeds a student’s expected contribution, the Brown University Scholarship will be reduced. The school determines the amount parents contribute based on their income and this amount does not change — even

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with outside scholarships, according to Brown’s policy. All other Ivy L e a g u e BROWN schools have the same policy regarding outside scholarships.

“Everyone is always telling you, ‘If you need help paying for school, look for outside scholarships.’ When I received outside scholarships … I was very surprised to find out that they actually decrease the amount of Brown scholarship I was getting,” said Lauren Galvan. “I spent the time and effort applying for them hoping that they would supplement the financial aid … that I was receiving from Brown.”

Kiera Peltz also said she was shocked to find out that anything over the student’s expected contribution would be reduced from Brown’s financial aid package. Though the policy stems from Brown’s status as a provider of exclusively need-based aid, the university estimates are not always accurate, “especially for people who are not relying on their parents for any financial support,” Peltz said.

“It’s really a disincentive to get outside scholarships, because there’s only so much you can get it for,” Peltz said. “If a student is willing to go out and try to get scholarships to pay for college, he or she should not be disincentivized from doing that. That should be applauded as a proactive effort to pay for their university experience.”

Since Brown’s outside scholarship policy is based on federal regulations, Tilton said he does not envision a change in policy.

Considering that outside scholarships can take away the burden of work, summer earnings and loans, it seems like a reasonable practice, he added.

These policies do not change regardless of “whether you are the president of UCS, whether you are an athlete or whether you are a concert pianist,” Tilton said.

The summer earnings requirement, which may prevent students from taking on unpaid or low-paying internships, can also be reduced or eliminated in other ways. This summer, 203 students were granted Summer Earnings Waivers by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown to pursue internships paying below $1,000. This marks a jump from the 87 students who were supported with SEW the previous summer, said Aixa Kidd, director of BrownConnect, adding that alums, parents and donors have played a major role in expanding the funding available for the program.

BrownConnect also launched a LINK/SEW program — a bundle that includes one Linking Internships and Knowledge award and one SEW — to support both internships at home and abroad, Kidd said.

Those undertaking internships at home are granted the regular LINK/SEW award, which includes $3,500 from the LINK award and an additional $3,100 to cover the summer earnings expectation. Students traveling abroad for internships can apply for the international LINK/SEW, which includes an additional $1,500 to cover housing and travel costs.

Though funding for internships has increased significantly in recent years, more can still be done to ensure all the needs of students are met, Kidd said. The additional $1,500 for internships abroad may still not be sufficient for students who have “amazing opportunities abroad in more expensive cities,” she added.

“The LINK and SEW programs were incredibly instrumental in me being able to work at the White House,” Peltz said.

“That was one of the times when Brown really stepped it up and made me feel like they really wanted me to succeed.” But the amount of funding that the university has to support students traveling for summer internships is still limited, Peltz said, adding that the amount she received did not cover the full cost of living in Washington, D.C. over the summer.

Increasing funding for internships is one of multiple concrete recommendations that emerged from discussions between students and corporation members, Gourley said. Other recommendations that emerged from this focus group include reducing the costs of textbooks, meal plans — specifically over spring break — and summer storage as well as increasing funding for Brown summer courses and health insurance, reducing summer earnings expectations and increasing clarity around loan options outside of Brown financial aid.

“We’re looking closely at what kinds of expenses students are experiencing throughout the year,” Tilton said. “What that allows us to do is hear directly from students who are affected by our policies. It’s been incredibly helpful.”

Input from students is crucial to driving this conversation forward, Gourley said. This advisory board aims to increase awareness within the administration about students’ main concerns and personal experiences and, through this dialogue, generate recommendations for solutions. UCS will hold campus-wide appointments for this board.

The university needs to work on making outside scholarship policies clear, especially because it is very difficult for students from middle-class families to estimate the amount they will receive, Galvan said, adding that “shedding more light on how outside scholarships could affect the financial package would be beneficial to a lot of students who have a middleclass income.”

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BY KARL ASPELUND AND MEG BERNHARD Citing the “troubling” percentage of women who leave the Faculty of Arts and Sciences before they are up for final tenure review, top administrators on Tuesday decried departmental culture and a lack of mentorship as major factors behind women’s departures from Harvard.

“We’re not doing enough to build a strong enough environment to make sure the women in this case feel they have the best long-term support for their careers,” FAS Dean Michael Smith said in an interview after the semester’s first faculty meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

In interviews with tenure-track women who were leaving Harvard, administrators found a “striking” reason for their departure was the uncomfortable culture in their respective departments, according to the school’s annual report, which administrators presented at the meeting.

Only 66 percent of women on schedule to be considered for promotions to become full professors last year remained at Harvard for the final stage of that process, compared with 78 percent of men. That gap is widening, said FAS Dean for Faculty Affairs and Planning Nina Zipser, who presented the data on Tuesday.

Tenure-track women in FAS have the lowest level of overall satisfaction with their

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experience c o m pared to women of the s a m e profesHARVARD sional cohort from any other Harvard school, Zipser said. They also report higher levels of stress than their male counterparts.

Zipser also noted that the majority of women who depart FAS before their final tenure reviews stay in academia, leaving Harvard for other universities.

Reacting to the trend, administrators plan to create more leadership workshops for tenure-track faculty, add symposia for tenure-track women in different divisions, increase the amount of day care provided to FAS affiliates and review departmental mentoring programs.

Smith said after the meeting that he and other administrators will focus on gathering information from departments about the types of support and mentoring they offer their faculty.

Several faculty members, including Classics professor Richard Thomas and history professor Charles Maier, a former Crimson editorial chair, asked questions about the statistics and expressed concern that last year, a third of women up for their final tenure review left Harvard before the process could be completed.

At the meeting, Smith also

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briefly commented on the “deeply disturbing” results of last spring’s sexual assault climate survey, administered at Harvard and 26 other universities nationwide. The results, released late last month, indicate that nearly a third of surveyed senior women at Harvard College said they had experienced some form of sexual misconduct since matriculating.

We’re not doing enough to build a strong enough environment to make sure the women feel they have the best longterm support.

MICHAEL SMITH Dean, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Smith said FAS is currently planning faculty programs to help prevent sexual assault, including faculty training, Title IX information sessions and Title IX coordinator meetings with department representatives.

Additionally, administrators are currently searching for someone to fill a new Title IX coordinator position for faculty affairs and graduate students. “I think we’re fairly close to hiring someone,” Smith said after the meeting.

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SPORTS

“Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them, either.”

NANCY PELOSI POLITICIAN

Eli defense disappoints

Freshman boost

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successful program for the past several years now, and the core values are very ingrained into the program there,” Stannard said.

“Currently, the Yale program is going through some big changes, and with that comes some change in culture and mentality on a year-round basis. We are in the forming stages of creating a new culture and new core values with the Yale program right now, so there are a lot of differences between the two programs, but there is incredible promise and a good foundation to start with here at Yale.”

Although the Bulldogs are focused on limiting mental errors and mistakes, the number of goals they allow continues to increase. Tuesday’s game alone saw Yale let in five.

Stannard expressed frustration that despite all the work that has gone into improving the defensive wall — the aspect of the game he said the Bulldogs have worked the most on — he has seen little improvement.

“Results have been disappointing, but generally the attitude is trying to fix our mistakes and get better with every game, which includes discipline for everyone,” midfielder Nicky Downs ’19 said. “Losing isn’t fun for anyone.”

Part of that disappointment may stem from the loss of top defender Henry Flugstad-Clarke ’17 due to a torn ACL, but midfielder Archie Kinnane ’18 noted that mental lapses have also played a large role.

Two own goals allowed by the Bulldogs, including one that proved costly in their conference loss against Harvard, exemplify those mental mistakes.

“As a team we do a good job at defending for the majority of the game,” Kinnane said. “It’s just that we will lose focus just for a couple minutes and give up a goal. Something that we really need to work on is defending crosses coming into the box.”

Despite the Bulldogs’ unsatisfying start to the season, players refuted the idea that they have slipped into a losing mentality

In the fifth set, Wirth recorded an impressive six kills as Johnson assisted on each of the points. With Yale ahead 14–11 and looking to clinch the team’s eighth consecutive Ivy victory dating back to last season, the Johnson-Wirth combo produced one final kill and moved the Bulldogs’ 2015 conference record to a perfect 3–0. “[Wirth] really heated up in the last three games against Cornell,” captain and outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 said. “It was great that she rose to the challenge of being down two games and was scoring crucial points. She became a huge threat at the net.”

The freshman’s poise in the pressure-packed match was a welcome sign as Yale seeks yet another Ivy League crown.

Wirth was especially cognizant of the importance of the team’s recent stretch of dominance — a stretch Wirth hopes to help extend.

“I’m not only playing for the seniors or the juniors or myself, I’m playing for the girls that won the Ivy League championships five years ago,” Wirth said. “They want to keep that legacy running and for us to keep going and win six, seven, eight, nine championships in a row.”

As a freshman, Wirth credits the team’s upperclassmen for being welcoming and taking her under their collective wing as a new member of a veteran-laden squad.

For the Moraga, California native, receiving mentorship from the team’s wealth of experienced players, including the three-time first-team All-Ivy selection Johnson, has been key to her development as a player and as a teammate.

“Kelly Johnson is a big role model for me,” Wirth said.

“She embodies a leader on the court physically and emotionally.”

Wirth emphasized the strong social and emotional bonds that the team has

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Stannard said that a new goalkeeper and at least two defenders will join the team’s class of 2020. after four consecutive losses. The issues thus far, however, have given Stannard a clear view of the areas in which he needs to bolster his squad in the future.

Though NCAA rules do not allow coaches to comment on specific high school recruits before the players have matriculated, Stannard said that the team will be adding one goalkeeper and at least two defenders for the class of 2020.

“The area that we have to add the most depth in is our back line,” Stannard said.

Already, in Stannard’s tenure, young players have shown their ability to contribute for the Bulldogs. Forward Kyle Kenagy ’19, who missed three games with a sprained MCL, leads the team in points and has scored in more than half of the matches he has started.

Stannard also named two sophomores, Kinnane and midfielder Ollie Iselin ’18, as additional standout players so far this season. Stannard described Kinnane, who walked onto the team, as Yale’s most consistent player, adding that Iselin leads the team in shots, accounting for almost a third of the team’s attempts.

“Our coaching staff has actually talked about trying to multiply [Iselin] because we’ve literally played him everywhere we could, including center back, center

mid and forward, and we have been really happy with his performance and attitude, as well,” Stannard said.

Currently, goalkeeper Kees Schipper ’19 has been starting in place of Ryan Simpson ’17, who is injured with a tear in a thigh muscle but hopes to return in a week.

Although Schipper has started just five of Yale’s nine matches this year, he is already ranked fifth for number of saves in the Ivy League.

As Stannard augments this core of young players with recruits, he has high expectations for the future.

“I know it sounds ambitious when we only have one win right now, but our goal in the short term, in the next two to five years, is absolutely to win an Ivy League championship,” Stannard said. “[In the long term], I think it can be a program that’s like our men’s lacrosse or women’s volleyball or the hockey programs where they’re competing on the national stage and making runs in the NCAA tournament.”

For now, the focus will be on Saturday, when the Bulldogs face defending Ivy League champions Dartmouth at home. The game kicks off at 4 p.m.

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formed on and off the court, calling this year’s Bulldogs the most cohesive group of girls she has ever played with.

While Wirth’s transition has seemed smooth and natural, being a Yale volleyball player was just a dream a couple short years ago. She reached out to Appleman early in the recruiting process and made it known that Yale was her top choice. Hailing from the Bay Area, Wirth had no hesitations in making the cross-country trip to continue her volleyball career.

Although Appleman kept an attentive eye on Wirth during her high school years, the 12th-year head coach acknowledges that Wirth’s excellent performance this early in her freshman season has been a vital, and perhaps unexpected, addition to the Bulldogs’ lineup.

“She’s gained more comfort in our system which is showing in her play,” Appleman said. “I think she’s always been good, she’s just getting more comfortable playing Yale volleyball and playing with these players.”

The surprise emergence of Wirth and libero Kate Swanson ’19, paired with the return from injury of outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 and the stellar play of Yale’s returning veterans has made for a remarkably deep and flexible

Bulldog roster.

That depth has been a blessing for the Elis’ ability to adjust to and rebound from adversity. As demonstrated in the 2–0 hole against Cornell, lineup changes that display the versatility of players ,such as Johnson’s move from hitter to setter against the Big Red, grants Yale a bevy of options.

“We can put any lineup out there and we can win, our team is so deep,” Wirth said. “I still don’t know what to expect because our lineup is everchanging, but we can rotate anyone in and be successful.”

No matter what lineup Appleman sends out onto the hardcourt, Wirth figures to play a major role moving forward. And as she continues to improve over the next threeand-a-half seasons, Wirth’s teammates believe her future potential is limitless. “[Wirth] has been awesome so far and I know she is only going to get better,” Johnson said. “She [has] played with the composure and strength that is rarely seen in a freshman.”

Wirth and the Bulldogs depart from New Haven for their first Ivy road trip of the season when they visit Dartmouth on Friday before traveling to Harvard on Saturday.

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Wirth has earned one Ivy League Rookie of the Week award and has recorded 10 or more kills in seven matches.

New York teams to visit New Haven FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 I think that we will get the results we want.”

After posting a 2–2 record and scoring six goals in their first four games of the 2015 campaign, the Bulldogs have scored just two goals in the five games since. Defensively, Yale has also seen some worrisome splits this season.

After allowing just 1.5 goals per game over the first four games of the season, the Elis have conceded 4.6 goals per game during their five-game skid.

This drop-off in offensive and defensive production could be attributed to an especially difficult portion of the team’s schedule. Yale has played three nationally ranked opponents during its current losing streak.

Syracuse, the then-No. 2 ranked team in the country, handed Yale its first of five losses on Sept. 20 in a 5–0 affair.

Two weeks later, the Bulldogs traveled to Princeton to battle the then-No.20 ranked Tigers. Yale fell 4–0 in the Garden State and returned to New Haven only to match up with the two-time defending national champions Connecticut.

At that time, UConn was the No. 1 team in the nation. The Huskies demonstrated their might with a 8–0 dismantling of the Bulldogs.

Having already battled opponents with a 0.600 winning percentage, the Bulldogs welcome another nationally ranked opponent in Albany on Sunday — but not before they attempt to earn their first Ivy win of the season.

Cornell visits on Saturday at noon for the second contest of a four-game home stand for the Elis. The Big Red could very well have been undefeated in the Ivy League at this point. They suffered a 3–2 overtime defeat at Penn on Sept. 25 and then stifled Columbia in a 5–2 win this past Saturday.

Cornell’s most recent outing, however, was one to forget: Syracuse drubbed the Big Red 9–1 on Sunday.

“I think the game against Cornell this weekend is really important for our Ivy record and for us as a team moving forward,” defender Kiwi Comizio ’18 said.

Comizio, like several other underclassmen on Yale’s roster, has developed into a leader this season, partly

due to a scarcity of upperclassmen, her teammates said. Back Noelle Villa ’16, who has been in and out of the lineup due to injury, and midfielder Nicole Wells ’16 are Yale’s only two seniors.

The Big Red enter play ranked fourth in the conference in both goals for and goals against, while the Elis have the lowest scoring offense and conceded the sixth most goals per game.

Despite the struggles on both sides of the ball, goalkeeper Emilie Katz ’17 continues to impress in net for Yale, having saved the second-most shots in the nation at 11.22 per contest.

On Sunday, Katz and the Bulldogs will have their hands full as they host the third-highest ranked team they have faced all season in No. 6 Albany.

The Great Danes’ potent offense is orchestrated by junior Paula Heuser, the current NCAA Divison I active career leader in points and goals. The prolific German midfielder has registered 12 goals and has dished out five assists so far this year.

Albany’s signature win came on Sept. 11 when the Danes went into College Park, Maryland and defeated then-No. 2 Maryland in a tight 2–1 duel.

Comizio emphasized that a solid practice week is crucial for the team members if they wish to rebound after their rocky start.

“If we focus and work hard this week, as well as during the game, I think we can be successful this weekend,” Comizio said.

Should the Bulldogs secure a victory in either contest, they will exit with either their first Ancient Eight win of the season or a monumental upset that would rock the field hockey world.

As Stuper has said for the past couple of weeks, the Bulldogs must continue to trust the process. Players like Smith are confident that positive results are on the way.

“We have the skill and the formula to win,” Smith said. “We just have to stay focused on our goals and we will achieve them.”

In addition to being among the country’s leaders in saves per game, Katz is eighth in save percentage in the country at 0.783.

Contact DREW SEMLER at drew.semler@yale.edu .

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Yale can move into a tie with Cornell in the Ivy League standings with a win on Saturday.

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“It sounds ambitious when we only have one win right now, but our goal … [in] two to five years, is absolutely to win an Ivy League championship.”

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YALE MEN’S HOCKEY BULLDOGS RANKED NO. 12 USA Today and USA Hockey Magazine yesterday released their annual preseason college hockey poll, and Yale, which finished last season at No. 13 in the Pairwise ranking, nabbed a No. 12 ranking heading into its first game on Oct. 30. Harvard was ranked fifth.

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Under new head coach Kylie Stannard, the Yale men’s soccer team has allowed a conference-worst 24 goals, but Stannard maintains lofty aspirations for the program’s short-term future.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND LISA QIAN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With an entirely new coaching staff, the Yale men’s soccer team is halfway through a season marked by change and transition. Still, one year removed from a despondent one-win sea-

son — Yale’s worst showing since 1922 — the Elis’ current record is barely better.

Tuesday night’s 5–2 loss at Rutgers pushed the Bulldogs’ record to 1–8–0, just a slight improvement over their 0–7–2 record at this time last fall. This weekend, the team will enter its second game of conference play

at the very bottom of the table on goal differential.

The Bulldogs’ results this season can be attributed to lapses on both sides of the ball. But for new head coach Kylie Stannard, who came to Yale last year by way of Big Ten title defender Michigan State and has plans to mirror that success in his coming years

in New Haven, Yale’s defensive play has been the biggest challenge this season.

“I [come] from a program that for the last couple years led the nation in shutouts, so I take a lot of pride in defending as a team, and it just hasn’t been good enough,” Stannard said.

The only Bulldog victory thus

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far in the season has come against a winless Quinnipiac squad, and at 24 goals allowed, the Elis have conceded nine more scores than the next-closest team in the Ivy League.

This performance stands in stark contrast to Michigan State’s record during Stannard’s time there, when the Spartans posted

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER After a quiet start to her Yale volleyball career, outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 has stepped up her game in concurrence with the pressurepacked Ivy League schedule.

VOLLEYBALL Wirth, who averaged less than seven kills per game in the nonconference season, has recorded 38 kills in

the team’s three Ivy contests, including a career-high 16 in the Bulldogs’ five-set comeback win against Cornell on Saturday. “[Wirth] has been awesome so far and I know she is only going to get better,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16, Ivy League Player of the Week, said. “She is solid in all aspects of her game and is a huge threat on the outside.”

In the match against the Big Red, Yale fell behind two sets to zero in atypical fashion for the five-time defending Ivy League champions,

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losing the first set 25–11 and the following set 25–19. Wirth recorded only one kill in each of those two frames, but when head coach Erin Appleman adjusted Yale’s formation during the third set, the freshman took control.

In Yale’s third-set victory, Wirth had three kills, and she added five more in the 25–18 fourth-set triumph that evened the match and sent the Bulldogs and the Big Red to a final frame.

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Outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 ranks third among Ivy League freshmen in kills with 100 on the season.

14 shutouts in 2014, and 15 one year before that. The team made five NCAA tournament appearances during Stannard’s six years in East Lansing, Michigan.

“While [the Michigan State soccer program] had its struggles in early years, it has been a very

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No. 6 Albany is the third top-10 nationally ranked school to face Yale this year.

BY DREW SEMLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale field hockey team’s season opened in dramatic fashion when forward Carol Middough ’18 rifled home a game-winning goal in overtime to defeat Sacred Heart 2–1, lifting the Elis to an unblemished 1–0 mark.

FIELD HOCKEY But fast forward a little over a month and the Elis (2–7, 0–2 Ivy) are sputter-

ing in search of such an outcome. In the midst of a five-game losing streak, head coach Pamela Stuper’s team has two more opportunities this upcoming weekend to re-enter the win column, hosting Cornell (5–4, 1–1) on Saturday and No. 6 Albany (9–1, 2–0 America East) on Sunday.

“I’m excited for this weekend and I think that we are very prepared for these games,” said midfielder/forward Katie Smith ’18. “If we stick to the game plan, SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF FRESHMEN GOALKEEPERS ON THE ROSTER OF THE YALE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM. Kees Schipper ’19 has started in place of injured Ryan Simpson ’17 for the past two weeks, but William Roberts ’19 and Allec Willis ’19 also play reserve roles behind them.