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CROSS CAMPUS On your best behavior. With

Parents’ Weekend looming, some of Yale’s flagship groups are preparing for Saturday and Sunday shows. Among them: the Whiffenpoofs, Whim ’n Rhythm, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Yale Glee Club and Just Add Water.

Educate yourself. This afternoon, the Office of Career Strategy will host an Education Networking event to connect students to opportunities in teaching and policy. Representatives from Hopkins School and Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys will be in attendance.

“On the road again.” Rapper Ab-Soul performed at Toad’s last night, drawing a Woadslevel line to the dance club on a Thursday. The Carson, California, product is known for his collaboration with Chance the Rapper on “Smoke Again” from the latter’s “Acid Rap” mixtape, stirring hope that the 21-year-old Chicago performer might consider his own trek to New Haven after being unable to attend last year’s Spring Fling due to illness.

Printing the prizewinner.

After Patrick Modiano won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, Yale Press moved in quickly to tap into the French novelist’s newfound success.

The publisher announced on Thursday that it would begin printing translated versions of Modiano’s “Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas” in November.

In the heat of the race. An

article published by National Review, the magazine founded

by William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, called Gov. Dannel Malloy “America’s Worst Governor,” citing tax increases as a major reason. It also called this fall’s gubernatorial race between Malloy and challenger Tom Foley “the most interesting race of the 2014 season that no one is talking about.”

Winter is coming. Singlegame tickets for the Yale basketball season are now available, alongside tickets for hockey games, through the Yale Ticket Office.

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Yale data server crashes

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Yale’s data server failed yesterday evening.

Members of the Yale community were unable to access websites and email throughout Thursday evening due to a power outage. Beginning at approximately 6:30 p.m., all websites powered through yale. edu — including EliApps and Classes*v2 — appeared to have crashed. As of press time, most services remained unavailable.

This technical difficulty comes at an inconvenient time as students are unable to prepare for midterms, complete online assignments or use Yale printers.

At 10:15 pm, Yale Chief Information Officer Len Peters told the News that the situation was an “ongoing process.”

“This is a very rare occasion for us,” Peters said. “It is a major multi-point power failure, which we are going to need to do a thorough investigation to find out the cause.”

Peters said Yale’s primary data center, located on George Street, may have crashed due to a circuit breaker or computer failure. He added the two backSEE DATA SERVER PAGE 4

VOLLEYBALL Bulldogs look to notch wins against Penn, Princeton PAGE 12 SPORTS

Local 34 to escalate action UNION WILL HOLD DEMONSTRATION ON OCT. 21

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Yale students are feeling the effects of Yale’s data server failure that occurred this evening. Yale CIO Len Peters said the problem is a multi-point failure

Tensions between Yale’s largest union and the administration reached a new high yesterday, when Local 34 — the University’s white and pink-collar union — unanimously voted to take broader action to reverse the budget cuts that the unions say have left fewer workers with more work.

Though the endowment grew to an alltime high in fiscal 2014 and the budget deficit likely shrank considerably, the University will continue its plan to reduce administrative costs — a move that has frustrated Yale’s unions.In the past, when the University reduced administrative costs, Local 34 President Laurie Kennington said the union engaged in discussion and delivered petitions to Yale administrators. Yet, the news that the University would continue its plans to reduce administrative costs, despite a record-high endowment, incited Local 34 to SEE LOCAL 34 PAGE 6

Yale, peers find challenges overseas

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER The cover of the film, “To Singapore, with Love” shows a man staring out across the river into his native Singapore. Forced into exile by the country’s Communist government 50 years before, the man yearns to make a connection with his homeland but ultimately cannot due to his past as a student activist.

“To Singapore, with Love,” became a source of controversy in early September when the Singaporean Media Development Authority deemed the film a threat to national security and prohibited any screening or distribution of it in Singapore. As the MDA makes certain allowances for viewings at academic institutions, however, Yale-NUS administrators said in September that the Univer-

sity would go forth with plans to show the film in a classroom setting.

Upon receiving news that Yale-NUS was planning a screening of her film, filmmaker Tan Pin Pin announced on her Facebook page, and in interviews with different news outlets that she did not authorize the screening. A day later, YaleNUS spokesperson Fiona Soh said that “To Singapore, with

Debate on new college names begins

Love” would not be screened.

Soh said in an email to the News that Yale-NUS would respect the filmmaker’s decision, and thus canceled the screening.

In a Thursday email, YaleNUS President Pericles Lewis said to the News that the school is now waiting to show the film when the filmmaker is ready for them to do so.

Amid the controversy, University President Peter Salovey

said it is of prime importance for Yale-NUS to remain faithful to academic freedom.

“I remain committed to the proposition that faculty at YaleNUS College must be able to make use of any material they deem appropriate for their classrooms, in which they and their students must be able to study and talk about any topic,” SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 4

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No vacancy. An article

published by Multifamily Executive this week named New Haven as the “tightest rental market in the country” over the past quarter-year, with its 2.1 percent vacancy rate. Each of the top seven spots was occupied by cities in California or Connecticut, including sixth-ranked Hartford.

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ELIS LOOK TO CONTINUE WINNING STREAK The Bulldogs went into the 2013 matchup 3-0 and lost to the Big Green 20-13. This year Yale hopes to continue its undefeated season. See page 12.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1929 The Yale Police Department announces that it will levy heavy fines against anyone vandalizing University parking meters after dealing with 10 such cases over the preceding two weeks.

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Students have taken up Salovey’s request for new college names as an opportunity to express the importance of diversity at Yale.

BY DAVID SHIMER AND RACHEL SIEGEL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER From a clergyman to a politician to a professor, 10 individuals and two towns have had the honor of an eponymous Yale residential college.

In preparation for the construction of two new residential colleges, the University is work-

ing to determine who else should be added to that list.

On Wednesday morning, University President Peter Salovey sent an email to all members of the Yale community asking them to submit suggestions for the naming of the two colleges. With construction set to officially begin in Feb. 2015, the Yale CorSEE COLLEGES PAGE 6

Lawmakers discuss Ebola

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER Connecticut legislators and New Haven public health officials gathered on Thursday — a day after Ebola claimed its first victim in the U.S. — to discuss the epidemic.

U.S. congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy led the meeting, at which they described the state’s plans for improving

hospital preparedness to deal both with panicked patients and the logistics of handling suspected cases. They solicited suggestions from officials present, including representatives from local hospitals, public health agencies and biotechnology companies.

“It’s one thing to plan, it’s another thing to be prepared,” State Public Health Commissioner Jewel Mullen ’77 GRD ’96 said. “You can’t prepare after the fact.”

The legislators repeatedly emphasized that there is no cause for alarm in Connecticut, but the state must be prepared to contain the disease.

With the CDC screening incoming passengers at five U.S. airports, Blumenthal advocated extending screenings to the Bridgeport, New Haven and New London seaports to keep the disease from entering the country. On SEE EBOLA PAGE 4

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These Yalies have changed history in their own right and have propelled us forward as a University and a nation. Naming the new residential colleges in honor of two of these graduates would not be a favor or a token gesture of diversity, progress or political correctness. It would be a longoverdue recognition that their accomplishments have shaped our school and our society just as much as those of the white male Elis we already celebrate.

Grace Hopper, Edward Bouchet, Jane Matilda Bolin, Henry Roe Cloud, Laura Johnson Wylie and countless others have earned their places in history. Yale must use this opportunity to recognize these graduates not simply for the sake of diversity but for the sake of truth.

The University’s motto, after all, is Lux et Veritas — Light and Truth. What better way for Yale to uphold such a tradition than to shed light on those who have been forgotten by the discrimination of history? What better way to demonstrate the pursuit of truth than to search for and celebrate those unjustly overlooked by popular textbooks and curricula?

Just as Isaacson’s book reveals the critical but too often ignored role women have played in the digital revolution, we, too, can acknowledge the wrongs of historical discrimination. We, too, can use light to illuminate the truth — that the contributions of the female and minority graduates of this institution have been deeply influential and integral to our society. They deserve our recognition.

With the opening of the new residential colleges, we have a powerful opportunity as a University and as a community to write back into history those who've shaped it.

The Grace Hoppers and Edward Bouchets of Yale’s storied history do not need condescending tokens of appreciation. Their influence and accomplishments stand alone and match, if not top, those of some of the current colleges’ namesakes. Yale’s failure to recognize these graduates would not simply reflect a lack of diversity but a betrayal of the University’s mission. If Yale is truly committed to Lux et Veritas, to the pursuit and illumination of truth, it will use this opportunity to begin setting the record straight.

Another two colleges named after white men is not simply a bad representation of Yale. It’s bad history.

his week, Walter Isaacson released his highly anticipated follow-up to his biography of Steve Jobs. It’s called “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” Isaacson opens his history with the story of one of the earliest pioneers of computer programming, a person who, as Isaacson has said, “defined the digital age,” a person without whom our digital revolution may never have happened — Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace.

Never heard of her? You’re not alone. Lovelace is one of countless women who has been written out of the history of computer programming, a list that also includes Jean Jennings, Frances Bilas and Grace Hopper. Hopper developed the first computer compiler after becoming one of the first women to earn a PhD in mathematics from Yale.

WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE LUX ET VERITAS These female pioneers of programming represent just a few of the myriad examples of historical neglect. In the history of literature and engineering, medicine, law and politics, we confront story after story of women and men who have profoundly shaped their society only to be relegated to a historical footnote by their gender or their sexual orientation, their color, class or creed.

Many of these underappreciated heroes received their educations right here at Yale. And, following the lead of passionate students and faculty, the trustees have begun to consider possible names for the two new residential colleges. In an email to the University, President Peter Salovey formalized this process by asking members of the Yale community to name up to three candidates for this honor.

Much of the discussion surrounding the naming of the new residential colleges has been about numbers and diversity.

Ten colleges named after old white men, many have argued, does not accurately reflect the diversity of Yale (Branford and Saybrook are named after towns in Connecticut). This is certainly true. But this is neither the only nor the best reason to name the two new colleges after female, LGBTQ and/or minority graduates.

CODY POMERANZ is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at cody.pomeranz@yale.edu .

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Republicans are people, too B

reaking news, everyone: Republicans are people, too! I don’t know if you were confused, but they’ve cleared it right up for us with their aptly named new YouTube and social media campaign, Republicans Are People Too. Over the course of a 90-second ad, in which there are no spoken words, no politicians and no sentences longer than eight words (“Republicans read The New York Times in public,” in case you were wondering), political strategist Vinny Manchillo manages to teach us a few lessons about Republicans that he thinks might change our political persuasion.

Included among the pearls of wisdom are factoids like: Republicans like both dogs and cats (phew), they shop at Trader Joe’s (awkward, since I’m more of a Whole Foods girl myself), and they even have feelings (as evidenced by the accompanying stock photo of a woman taking a selfie). On the campaign’s website, Manchillo explains that the point of this campaign is to reclaim the word “Republican” from the slur it has become and to encourage commentators to lay off bullying (his word, not mine) the sensitive Republicans.

Shockingly, I’m not here to deride the Republicans; the campaign has already been hijacked by an internet community all too eager to make light of #IAmARepublican. And while, yes, they made themselves an easy target for mockery, what I

actually take issue with is Manchillo’s claim that this ad campaign was u n d e r ta ke n out of “love VICTORIA [of] political discourse.”

HALLT h e PALERM thought that this ad camNotorious paign helps in any way to VHP bolster political discourse is an impossibly offensive and demeaning assertion to make to the electorate. Some of the contentions in the ad (such as the New York Times dig) do align with traditionally liberal interests; but most really have no bearing on political behavior in the slightest. And even the ones that have a political connotation are so far removed from any kind of substantive policy recommendations as to be of no use in terms of aiding the political discourse.

Sadly, Manchillo isn’t alone: The Democrats are equally culpable of appealing to the lowest common denominator of political participation. This summer, people finally started rightfully mocking the DCCC’s absurd emails to supporters pleading for money. Every single day, my inbox is inundated with emails that can only be described as hysterical. Today alone (I kid you not), I got emails with sub-

ject lines from the moderate “I am worried, Victoria” and “this hurts” to “we’re going home” and “we’re IMPLORING you VICTORIA” (the intriguing capitalization choices are all theirs).

Every single one of these emails contains the same litany of sensationalist updates, accompanied by the same frenzied requests. John Boehner and his evil henchmen, the Koch Brothers, are moving ever closer to their goal to dismantle American democracy piece by piece.

If I can give $3 in the next 10 seconds, I can do my civic duty to try to stop this horrible eventuality.

These emails, while heavy on the drama, are markedly light in substance. And I say that as someone who’s overwhelmingly inclined to agree with the line fed to me by the Democratic Party.

But not a single email touches on the Democrats’ policy platform. None of them calmly puts forth a Republican measure and informs me, in a manner befitting of one of the leaders of this country, of their reasoning in disagreeing with it (let alone suggests a superior alternative).

Nor are the Republicans, in their simplistic new advertisements, doing any better in terms of telling me real reasons to support their cause over the liberals’.

Maybe that’s because taking an actual stance in an ad or a mass email has become too risky: If you actually stand for something, you’re opening yourself up to criticism.

It’s infinitely easier for Democrats to scream and shout about the impending disaster of your opponents’ plan. Meanwhile, the Republicans have opted to pander for votes by appealing to apolitical, unimportant principles shared by almost all Americans. The fact that they listen to Spotify is unimportant to me — and the fact that they think it might be shows how badly political strategists are misjudging what people like me want to hear.

Somehow what is at stake in elections got completely and utterly lost in the fray. No one wants to talk to the voters about where they actually stand on issues, because that’s too contentious and complicated a topic to boil down into a bumper-sticker size. But when we vote, I have to hope that we’re not playing the roles of our worst, least-perceptive selves.

Instead, politicians should be asking of us that we be our best and most discerning members of society, ready to deliberate on questions other than the candidates’ favorite car dealer. But such critical involvement in the political process requires practice, work and encouragement; the longer voters are treated like we’re stupid, the more likely that will eventually come true.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a senior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Fridays.

Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

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Don’t be cynical about early voting James Barile’s article (“Connecticut to consider constitutional amendment,” Oct. 2) understates the power of early voting to enfranchise the politically removed. Though early voting may not increase turnout alone, it boosts turnout significantly when coupled with sameday registration or voting by mail. Early voting is important for college students, who may have midterms on the first Tuesday in November. And early voting is vital for low-income and minority voters, who rely disproportionately on early voting in states that offer it.

Early voting also affirms our belief that no one should be disenfranchised by circumstances beyond her control. This idea is central to expanded voting opportunity, and it lies at the heart of our nation’s constitution, which guarantees that the right to vote is not abridged on account of race, sex or ability to pay taxes. Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Yale, states that early voting, at least now, does not “merit space in a constitution.” On the contrary, there is nowhere it belongs more.

This November, every voter in Connecticut should vote “Yes” on the Early Voting Amendment not only because it will make voting more convenient, reduce administrative costs and improve the accuracy of ballot counts. We should vote “Yes” for every person who cannot make it to the polls — those working non-salaried jobs without flexible hours, those who do not own cars, and those for whom the cost and logistics of childcare are a serious impediment to exercising a fundamental right. Vote “Yes” so that next November,

they can vote, too.

JARED MILFRED Oct. 9 The writer is a junior in Pierson College. He is the executive director of Democracy United.

The merits of positive analysis.

In last Friday’s issue of the News, Dianne Lake responded to an article I wrote in the Yale Economic Review on investment in Africa. Lake’s column (“Reinventing Colonialism,” Oct. 2) — which accused me of pioneering a “patronizing, neo-imperialist cliché” — suggested that my failure to take into account certain aspects of history and race theory regarding the African continent was not only “exploitative” but emblematic of a “fundamental failing in elite education” and in the field of economics For the record, my article merely described the recent increase in investment on the African continent and why it has been appealing to certain individuals and corporations.

It did not offer any normative judgments about whether this investment was a good or bad thing. It did not make any statement or suggestion about what does or doesn’t “validate” a country or continent’s existence. It did not imply that globalization unequivocally helped

the people of Africa.

At Yale, the first thing taught in introductory economics is the distinction between the positive and normative approach. Positive economics describes things as they are; normative, as they ought to be. Economists, more often than not, deal with the positive approach. In many ways the positive informs the normative, but even if the positive is immoral or undesirable — as it can often be in the “dismal science” — that does not make it any less factual or valuable.

The column faulted me for not having published a different article asking different questions and reaching different conclusions. An article about present-day or future investment in Africa is not a history of colonialism nor a treatise about the ethical or moral character of capitalism. Those subjects deserve to be treated on their own terms and in a scope and from perspectives they merit.

But to fault an author for not having addressed another topic, or for portraying the positive facts independent of a normative discussion is guilty of the weakest form of journalistic critique.

BENJAMIN MARROW Oct. 9 The writer is a sophomore in Berkeley College. He is a senior editor of the Yale Economic Review.

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t has been slightly over a year since the grand opening of the YaleNational University Singapore campus. In the past few weeks, the institution has revealed what many critics already knew: Yale-NUS, by virtue of operating in an authoritarian country, will have a censored curriculum.

On Sept. 19, the News reported that the Yale-NUS administration refused to screen a documentary — “To Singapore, with Love” — on campus after the Singaporean Media Development Authority classified it as a “threat to national security.” The incident reaffirmed my skepticism that the singular culture and liberal arts experience of Yale can’t be exported abroad.

Yale’s decision to open an affiliate in Singapore has been controversial from the outset. In a 2012 article published in the Daily Beast, Alex Klein ’12 condemned the University for “climb[ing] into bed with one of southeast Asia’s most despotic governments.” While Klein’s opposition stems from his aversion to illiberal regimes, I would go even further and say it flies in the face of Yale’s distinguished history of respecting and engaging with on-campus dissent.

In 1975, following a decade of social upheaval and Vietnam draft protests, then-Yale president Kingman Brewster called upon the preeminent historian C. Vann Woodward to spearhead a committee to examine the role of free speech on Yale’s campus. In the

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Stay home, Yale report, the committee called upon the University to “protect [Yale affiliates’] right to free expression.” Furthermore, Woodward and his fellow authors urged administrators to encourage dissent and free speech on campus.

The very fact that Yale was willing to publish an official report endorsing free speech at a time of student radicalism is indicative of how much the administration has traditionally valued student opinion. Unlike his counterparts at Yale’s peer schools, Brewster extended a hand and an ear to Yalies of the rebellious sixties. Brewster dismissed the R.O.T.C. program during the Vietnam era and offered Old Campus housing to local protesters. What made Brewster a unique and influential leader was not that he himself was an anti-authoritarian, but rather he introduced aspects of student radicalism into administrative policy.

Since the 1970s, there’s been a precipitous decline in student activism.

In an age when future employers can Google your entire history, today’s students have swapped concerns for civil rights for a step ahead in the professional world. Today’s students are more in lock step with administrators than the generation of Woodstock could ever imagine.

Still, Yale-NUS is one issue where students and faculty diverge from the Yale Corporation and Woodbridge Hall. And we disagree with our leaders in part because we know that even

if we’re a generation that places more faith in institutions, it is possible that we might occupy Woodbridge Hall or visibly protest unpopular policies. And we fear that Yale-NUS’s students will never enjoy the same ability to challenge the administration or the government on issues they feel strongly about.

Although Yale-NUS may be globally representative insofar as demographics, I fear this diversity will never make its voice heard for fear of administrative backlash Every student who thumbs through the bluebook will read this phrase: “the exercise of curiosity and an opportunity for discovery of new interests and abilities.” It embodies the raison d’être of Yale’s liberal-arts education. And it’s an opportunity that will categorically be denied to those who study at Yale-NUS. The Singaporean history of prohibiting “anything that exacerbates racial or religious tensions,” in the words of a president of another university in Singapore, will render the purpose of Yale’s scholastic tradition virtually ineffectual. Want to read Malcolm X’s take on race in America or Thoreau’s advice for would-be protestors? Sorry, but those books will likely always be “checked out” in the YaleNUS library.

The design of the Yale-NUS curriculum, according to the president of YaleNUS — Pericles Lewis — aims to mix the precepts of Western and Eastern education. What the University envisions

is a program that will open new horizons with the pan-hemispheric comparisons of texts, ancient and modern.

In reality, thought at the institution will be at the mercy of what the Singaporean bureaucracy permits.

Those two criticisms, social and curricular, debase the fundamentals of the University. But I also have a more abstract opposition. I sense that this project derives from a paternalistic vision of Yale’s educational model. The Yale experience is unique and valuable, but it is also a practice that, stripped of its home in New Haven, is weaker. Yale’s tradition is not an object to be packaged and shipped across the Pacific. An imitation of the Yale atmosphere is incomplete without its New England environs, the brisk autumnal winds or the Gothic spires. In one sense, it's admirable that the Yale Corporation envisions a global horizon for its higher education expertise; there are so many deserving students who don’t have the chance to study here. There are only so many spots on Yale’s campus. It’s why I support expanding the student body at home with the new residential colleges.

But even if Yale-NUS were made not to build Yale’s brand name but to gift more students a Yale education, it’s a wellintentioned but flawed design. Some things are better staying at home.

sense; tests give us yet another way to form associations between topics.

Plus, it’s much harder to complete the nebulous task of “learning” than it is to accomplish the concrete goal of studying a defined set of material for an exam. In essence, repeated testing not only forces us to engage with material more often, but also serves as a means of learning in and of itself.

If the goal of higher education is to foster an environment of learning, we need to overhaul the structure of the typical college class. Either instead of, or in addition to, midterms and finals, we should have fewer comprehensive and more periodic exams — exams that provide students with an incentive to really engage with material on a weekto-week basis. With discussion sections available for so many classes, it seems like it’d be simple to administer these types of tests, even for large lectures. Of course, for now, midterm season is what it is, so you can find me in Bass printing out the readings we were assigned during shopping period.

he issue of the News delivered to freshmen over the summer contained a collage of images of smiling New Haven residents, all white, with the exception of one black man. This is not a particularly strange narrative, especially at Yale, where the token minority is both exalted and fought over. Nor is it a particularly abnormal set of demographics considering that we rarely see the minority populations living beyond the walls of the Yale bubble. So you may be asking, “What’s the big deal?”

The unsurprising nature of this collage is what makes it a big deal. It is the fact that the one black man is not smiling and welldressed, but instead expressionless and dressed in stereotypically homeless attire.

It is a big deal because the freshmen coming to this campus from various backgrounds, some of whom have not seen positive images of people of color, were instantly bombarded with a problematic narrative. This newspaper needs to make an effort to represent minority individuals in an equally respectful manner. How can we tell our young black and Hispanic children that they are just as amazing as their white counterparts if, when they open up the newspaper of one of the greatest universities in the world, the only face that resembles their own is of an “inferior” man?

You have likely heard of the Clark’s doll experiment: one white doll and one brown doll. Young black and white children choose the one that looks nicest, the one that seems smartest, the one that’s the prettiest. They almost always choose the white one, and the results hold just as true today as they did when the experiment was first conducted in the 1940s and used to prove internalized racism as a consequence of school segregation in the Brown decision. And just as separate does not mean equal, integration does not mean equal representation. And it is equal representation that changes perceptions, especially in the moldable minds of younger individuals.

Misrepresentation of minority individuals is an issue that plagues our communities, and it is perpetuated by an abundance of negative stereotypes in the media. Just to name a few: Sambo, of the children’s book “Little Black Sambo,” perpetuates the image of the lazy, irresponsible and ignorant black man. Or “mammy,” a commonly used trope in early black minstrelsy, portrays an overbearing, large black woman working for a white family. Or “Jezebel,” the sexually promiscuous black woman named after the biblical character who enticed her husband and distracted him from God; White men used her to justify the raping of black slave women. These images continue to demoralize black people and maintain the oppressive social hierarchy in which minorities in this country have always been on the bottom.

People of color are using social media, especially Twitter, to fight back and question the media’s misrepresentation of our lives and bodies. A recent image juxtaposed the media’s portrayal of James Holmes and Michael Brown. Holmes, a white Colorado teen who shot dozens of theatergoers is described as a “brilliant science student.” Brown, an unarmed black teen shot by a police officer, is depicted as a “criminal” who “struggled with the officer.”

The hashtag #Iftheygunnedmedown began trending on Twitter in response to this juxtaposition. Minority individuals have posted two side-by-side photos of themselves — one respectable photo and one stereotypical photo — and are asking the question, #iftheygunnedmedown, which picture would the media use? The point of this movement is to demonstrate how the media criminalizes black and Hispanic victims of police brutality and perpetuates stereotypes that kill.

A powerful Twitter message read: “Black teenagers shoot other black teenagers for the same reason that cops shoot them: because they see no value.” Legislation will only take us so far. We all need to make the effort to not only fight de jure but also de facto discrimination. On paper, black people are equal to their white counterparts in many ways, but in practice we are still struggling with centuries of racist depictions of black lives and bodies. Black children spend most of their lives looking at history books and only seeing images of white people, with a little color sprinkled in. Even the black people in those books are usually victimized, limited to the narrative of slavery and the civil rights movement.

Yale specifically has a duty and a privilege to make sure that the most widely-read newspaper on our campus does not contribute to the negative image of blacks in this country. Even after the end of slavery, the acquisition of equal rights under the constitution and the extensive integration of blacks into mainstream media, we still must fight for fair representation in those same media sources. We fight not only to improve others’ perceptions of us, but for our own perception of ourselves.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

NAILAH HARPER-MALVEAUX is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at nailah.harper-malveaux@yale.edu .

NATHAN STEINBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at nathan.steinberg@yale.edu .

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he White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign looks to address sexual assault on college campuses.

Its message is clear and succinct; that is its beauty. Non-consensual sex is assault. Be wary of common situations where sexual assault happens, according to White House guidelines.

Intervene if you can. Refuse to tolerate it, and support those affected.

The campaign targets common misconceptions and misinformation.

It advocates positive action in specific situations. Now, however, the campaign has been crowd-sourced to social media, and every student organization across the nation has a chance to enhance, or muddle, the message.

The campaign encourages student organizations to have a conversation about sexual assault, release their own pledge and create a banner to complement a perfect Facebook photo-op. Its intentions are noble, but, much like the ice bucket challenge phenomenon, we risk losing the core principles of the campaign along the way. Many have lamented how the ice bucket challenge became more personal stunt than fundraiser, but in the end, donations to ALS foundations spiked.

Yet “It’s on Us” addresses an institutional disease, not a human one.

Sexual assault is an issue that demands

It’s on Facebook not just awareness and money for research, but a fundamental change in how we conduct ourselves. The cure starts in our conversations, not a lab.

But the resulting conversations, at least at Yale, do not seem to live up to the original message. We’ve already seen the Facebook posts; organizations at Yale have churned out some pretty cliché vows.

A fraternity promised to “reject all forms of humor that degrade others.” If they’re honest, this goal is so broad that it is unattainable and probably not desirable. Sometimes, jokes among friends get severe, but a ribbing can mean affection and closeness. If the fraternity meant to reject sexist humor, then they should have said so. Their goal suggests they are subconsciously more preoccupied with being politically correct than changing a culture.

And humor is often how we deconstruct societal woes. I see nothing wrong with using humor to sincerely challenge perpetrators of sexual assault, or to parody ignorance and misogyny. If you shy away from even productive humor about sexual assault, then you inadvertently push the issue further under the rug.

It becomes taboo, a conversation that can only be had with serious faces and the expectation that you will get to post your enlightened conclusions

on Facebook. Progressive-minded comedians from Stephen Colbert to Louis C.K. have made these types of jokes about sexual assault. They, probably more than most political figures, have changed uninformed attitudes. If you don’t believe me, look up Louis C.K.’s bit about how it takes courage to date a man — the butt of these jokes, by the way, is never the sexually assaulted.

Another club at Yale vowed to “foster positive change on campus culture by stewarding an inclusive community in which we are all welcome and safe.” We’ve got some Orwellian equivocation here. How are you being inclusive? What is welcoming? It is a wonderful but vague sentiment. It seems these organizations had general conversations about “making Yale a better place.” I question whether a discussion about how and when to intervene in a possible sexual assault took place.

Maybe I’m asking too much; maybe this is a job for the Communication and Consent Educators; but if we leave it exclusively to the CCEs to have these conversations, then haven’t we already failed? We should make sure general conversations don’t become a smokescreen — a way for us to call a problem solved after an hour-long discussion, only to forget about it when we witness a troubling encoun-

ter and we’re “not sure enough” to say anything.

While the staged photos are meant to gently and positively peer-pressure our friends, I worry they’ve become a way to “score points;” look how enlightened and politically correct we are! To combat this temptation, maybe student organizations should make a banner, but instead of posting to Facebook, put the banner up in a space where the organization often socializes. Our commitments would literally hang over our heads.

Maybe we can re-share the “It’s on Us” video rather than staging a photoop. After all, the words of President Obama, a multitude of celebrities and an exponentially growing list of individual petition-signers might carry a similar weight as a friend’s Facebook post. We should stick to the clear, succinct script of the national campaign, unless we have specific corollaries.

There is a list of very real and practical tips on the “It’s on Us” website as well.

Let’s talk specifically and openly about sexual assault. Otherwise, this becomes just one conversation and one more “like”-fishing Facebook post. This is on us, so let’s not mess it up.

JACK MAHONEY is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact him at john.mahoney@ yale.edu .

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n case it wasn’t already evident by the spike in sweatshirt-wearing students and gaunt faces around campus, midterm season is upon us again. At this point, it’s traditional to offer survival tips — I’d suggest bingewatching Netflix, cleaning your suite or hopping on over to the buttery as study break ideas — but doing so raises an important question: Why must we survive midterms at all? Many courses largely rely on two exams, a midterm and a final, to determine our final grades. This system is neither an effective means of determining student performance nor conducive to longterm retention of course material.

It seems obvious that grades should serve as a metric of student performance, and indeed, in primary and secondary school, they do. In most U.S. school systems, grades are composite scores based on participation in class, test scores, homework scores and other relevant factors. In classes where these factors are weighted, test scores are normally worth a larger percentage of one’s grade.

Yale is similar but the problem is that here, we only take two or three exams — some with as few as five or

More tests, please six questions. That’s a pittance compared to the number you take in a typical high school class. In my AP Calculus BC class, we averaged a test a week. To make matters worse, tests are weighed far more heavily at Yale than in most secondary school classrooms.

What this means is t hat we’ve got two chances, maybe three if we’re lucky, to cement our grades. More troublingly, it means that we almost disregard an entire semester’s worth of work, save for a few all-important moments.

Higher institutions like Yale pride themselves on having a holistic admissions process that contextualizes each applicant’s experiences. Why isn’t this same emphasis on breadth extended to our classrooms? It seems inaccurate to declare our college transcripts measures of our academic achievement if they only encapsulate a few tests — even if most students at Yale aren’t too shabby at test-taking.

The larger issue, however, is that the midterm-final system is a terrible way to promote learning. It’s patently absurd to suggest that Yalies are always on top of course material.

I would applaud anybody who always has enough time to sleep, partici-

pate in extracurriculars, have a fulfilling social life and never procrastinate on assignments, but I’d argue that this Yalie is a creature of fiction (if you do exist, please share your secrets with the rest of us!). Yalies, excellent sheep that we are, constantly find things to do — which means that a reading here or there will inevitably fall by the wayside until it’s absolutely necessary.

And that’s an interesting idea — what does “absolutely necessary” mean? I, along with many other students, only end up seriously studying when a test — for example, a large test that will determine the majority of my grade in a course — is approaching.

Obviously, cramming isn’t a particularly good way to learn, but even when we don’t cram, tests improve our retention of material. Simply skimming over notes every once in a while is all well and good, but a body of scientific literature suggests that a “testing effect” exists. A 2006 study by Washington University, St. Louis researchers Henry Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke supports the idea that students who are tested often retain information for much longer than students who merely study often. This makes

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FROM THE FRONT CT prepares Ebola response plan

“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”

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Questions fly on expansion abroad

EBOLA FROM PAGE 1 Tuesday, the White House announced that the U.S. Coast Guard would be mobilized to screen incoming ships and monitor ports.

Within the nation’s borders, the focus is on improving the response in hospital emergency rooms, said Matt Carter, Connecticut state epidemiologist and director for infectious diseases. Most Ebola patients have symptoms so severe that they find themselves in the emergency room — their point of entry into the health care system. Because of this, emergency room personnel in particular must be aware of their role in dealing with patients who have suspected cases of the virus.

James Paturas, director of the Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response, pointed out that large hospitals’ various “ports of entry” pose challenges to creating a streamlined response during outbreaks.

Many public health officials also worried about the inconsistency of professional knowledge about Ebola at different health care providers across the state. Sue Largarde, chief executive officer of the Fair Haven Community Health Center, expressed concern at the discrepancies between information available to patients who present their symptoms at a clinic rather than at a hospital.

“One of the biggest concerns that we have is that, not only should the messaging be as good as it can be, it should be consistent,” Paturas said. “Consistency is critical.”

The Department of Public Health has sent out letters and checklists to hospitals to encourage “situational awareness,” Mullen said. The letters instruct health care providers in best practices, while the checklists inform the DPH of potential flaws in health care systems across the state.

Blumenthal encouraged a multipronged approach of both improving health care and investing money into research. DeLauro, a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, recently petitioned for the committee to reconvene to discuss the recent outbreaks of Ebola and enterovirus. At Thursday’s meeting, she emphasized the negative effect that recent budget cuts have had on public health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and especially Health and Human Services, which has experienced a 44 percent budget cut.

“If we are to contain and be prepared for these crises, then the agencies who have the responsibilities for addressing these should be provided with the resources they need in order to contain the crisis abroad and save lives,” DeLauro said.

Representatives from local biotechnology company Protein Sciences Corporation were present to speak about the progress they have made in developing a vaccine to prevent Ebola. The project was put on hold several years ago after losing NIH funding, but was recently revived.

Since resuming work on the project, scientists have developed a G protein-based drug that is currently progressing to clinical trials, President and CEO of Protein Sciences Corporation Manon Cox said.

On Tuesday, Gov. Dannel Malloy declared a public health emergency, granting Connecticut Public Health Commissioner Jewel Mullen the power to quarantine.

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

YALE NUS

Since its inception, Yale-NUS has spurred debate over the importance of free speech in an American-style higher education institution.

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This controversy has reignited a campus dialogue over whether the Singaporean college can fairly market itself as a defender of free speech in a country with tight restrictions on public discourse. While recognizing that there will always be cultural gaps when American and Asian institutions enter into academic partnerships, many are raising the question of where Yale draws the line between respecting another nation’s social norms and protecting the basic tenants of the liberal arts.

NOT THE FIRST

The issue of freedom of speech does not pertain to Yale alone.

In June 2013, Wellesley College signed a memorandum of understanding — a kind of academic partnership that does not involve a separate campus like Yale-NUS — with Peking University in Beijing to facilitate research collaborations, as well as exchanges between faculty members and students. In particular, the partnership focused on educating women for global leadership.

But when a Peking University faculty panel voted to dismiss a professor at its School of Economics, Xia Yeliang, known for his criticism of the Chinese government, the MOU no longer resonated well with a number of Wellesley faculty members.

In September 2013, over 130 Wellesley faculty members signed an open letter addressed to multiple members of Peking’s administration, defending Xia’s “right of free speech on issues related to democracy, the rule of law, and individual freedom.”

Still, in October of that same year, Xia was fired.

Thomas Cushman, a sociology professor at Wellesley who spearheaded the letter-writing campaign, said that while he is completely open to exchanges between American and Asian universities, there has to be a clear distinction between respecting Chinese culture and not blindly relinquishing basic rights. “[These partnerships] made a lot of sense in a globalized world,”

Cushman said. “It would be foolish to be isolationist, but somebody has to draw the hard line and say this is a line you can’t cross. You just can’t have a partnership without considering freedom of expression.”

Cushman said he was particularly bothered by the fact that the Wellesley name was being used as a platform to spread the ideological views of the Chinese Communist Party, which he said has substantial influence over Peking University. He said the letter campaign was intended to drive home the message that professors part of the Wellesley partnership were not going to be fired or censored because of their political views.

Despite heated debate, however, the Wellesley administration has not backed away from the partnership.

In June 2012, Yale cancelled a joint program with Peking University, founded in 2005, that offered Yale students the opportunity to spend a semester at the Chinese university.

In its decision, the University cited low enrollment.

In regard to the Singaporean venture, students and faculty have expressed concerns both about cultural differences with Singapore and about legal limits on freedoms considered essential in American society.

French and African American Studies Professor Christopher Miller said that he was initially concerned about Yale-NUS as a gay man, since same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Singapore. Years later, though, Miller is concerned about further controversies that may unfold in the future.

Yale political science lecturer Jim Sleeper agreed, saying that the future of these partnerships will depend on students’ impulses to simply speak up to preserve open discourse.

Sleeper, a longtime critic of YaleNUS, also expressed similar concerns about Yale’s name being stamped on the Singapore project.

Despite his skepticism from the beginning, Sleeper said that Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore was never an attempt to force American values on another country. At the same time,

though, Sleeper said Yale-NUS’ primary role as a liberal arts institution means that it cannot completely disregard freedom of speech.

“Everyone misunderstands — we are not trying to impose Western ivory tower moral values on Singapore,” Sleeper said. “But we are saying that something is going wrong with its liberal education. Artistic creativity is compromised by [the Singaporean government] trying to keep such a tight grip on every.”

But University Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiaties Linda Lorimer said the Yale-NUS project with cultural sensitivities in mind.

“We were keenly attentive to political and cultural differences between Singapore and New Haven as we began to explore the possibility of a liberal arts college in Singapore,” she said.

SPREAD THE WORD

Despite the risks of overseas expansion, experts say American universities often look abroad because of demand.

The rest of the world, particularly the Middle East and East Asia, is eager for access to American education, said Hunter Rawlings, the president of the Association of American Universities. But they do not just want the education, Rawlings said — students living in foreign countries often also want to be taught under the properly American principles that underlie that education, such as freedom of speech and academic integrity.

While President of Cornell University from 1995-2003, Rawlings played a decisive role in the university’s expansion to include a medical school in Doha, Qatar.

When American universities were first beginning to extend beyond U.S. borders, it was easier for the American schools to require that the basic tenants of the liberal arts be adhered to, Rawlings said. But now, when so many universities have some international footing, making those demands is more complicated.

“The Cornell program in Doha started years ago at a time when Qatar was highly desirous of a medi-

cal school, and so it was not so hard for us to demand certain things,” Rawlings said. “But over the course of so many years, Qatar has brought in some other American universities, and so now it’s tougher to negotiate.”

Rawlings said that when the plan for the Cornell’s expansion was being drafted, negotiations brought up some crucial issues of cultural difference. Among these problems was the question of whether or not classrooms would be mixed-gender.

During the early stages of planning Yale-NUS College, University President Peter Salovey said that Yale was fully aware of Singapore’s more restrictive laws regarding political speech.

“Ultimately, we decided that the risks, when balanced against the opportunity to create an entirely new liberal arts educational experience Asia, were worth it,” Salovey said to the News on Wednesday.

Salovey added that he hoped that policies upholding freedom of expression inside Yale-NUS classrooms would lead to the expansion of free speech in Singaporean society.

Lorimer said that regardless of recent and potential conflicts, both campuses hold fast to their values.

“Controversies will always arise, they do right here in New Haven,” she said. “The important thing will be how Yale and Yale-NUS respond in ways that protect the values of academic freedom.”

Still, concerns persist beyond Yale.

Susan Reverby, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley and a player in the college’s campaign to defend Xia, said American universities cannot take the safeguarding of the liberal arts too lightly.

“What’s at stake is the very soul of the American academy,” Reverby said. “Without being completely dramatic, this is really about saying, ‘so are we just going to sell to the highest bidder and do what they want?’ That’s why it seems so serious to us.”

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

ITS scrambles to fix data server DATA SERVER FROM PAGE 1 up systems — an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) and diesel generator — both failed to kick in as well.

Peters added that on Thursday evening, electricians were on site at the George Street location. Yale ITS staff, he said, were rerouting all content to another data center on West Campus. He added that the data center on West Campus is of comparable size to the primary location.

“We will be working all night if we have to,” Peters said. As of 10:15 p.m., Peters said he hopeed sites would be functioning within the next hour. But several hours later, many — including EliApps — remained inaccessible.

While students already logged in to EliApps were able to continue using their emails, those attempting to log in were unable to do so.

When asked why certain sites could be revived while others remained down, Peters said it was due to a combination of factors. He said Classes*v2 — the

central portal for Yale courses, for example — is more technically complex because it has a multitier authentication system and thus relies upon another piece of authentication beyond CAS. Liza Rodler ’17, a student technician for Yale ITS, said she heard the network crash was due to a failed air conditioning, which caused the central sever to overheat.

“We are waiting for someone with access to the data center to turn it back on,” she said. “We are telling [students] to wait and enjoy their Thursday night.”

At 10:30 p.m., Classes*v2 still displayed an error message announcing scheduled server maintenance for Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 from 7:00 am to 10:00 a.m. As of press time, shortly before 3:00 a.m., some students continued to receive an error message when attempting to log in to the site.

Chris Bradshaw ’15, a student technician for Yale ITS, said the incorrect date displayed was likely a result of an archived page from the last maintenance over

the summer.

“You go to Classes*v2, your computer realizes it cannot access it and then it gets redirected to something else,” he said.

“That page is from the scheduled maintenance from the summer.”

However, as of 1:10 a.m., students attempting to access Classes*v2 were redirected to a new website, sorry.its.yale.edu, which replaced the previous August message.

The technical difficulty created widespread confusion among students and staff interviewed.

Rodler noted this has far reaching consequences for the Central Authentication Service (CAS), adding that the printers across campus were not working because they function as one system that depends on the central server.

“We at the library have experienced an epic melt down,” said Eve Houghton ’17, a student employee in Bass. “We haven’t been able to check out books, discharge them or access Orbis to get to patrons.”

Rowillie Ross, a member of

staff for Bass library, said ITS told the library that the issues were due to overheating. She added media equipment also could not be checked out, and the library was issuing temporary slips Thursday evening.

Hale Ross ’18 said that when he tried to access his email, he was met by an error screen that notified him the page could not be loaded. He said the timing was inconvenient as he could not check his email or update any Google docs.

“On Classes*v2, the server said it isn’t working,” Janelle Ferrara ’16 said. “I can’t do my homework or my problem set.”

Still, some students who were previously logged in to Yale websites prior to the crash avoided any difficulties.

Yaa Ampofo ’16 said she could access her Yale email since she had been logged on since earlier in the afternoon, but could not access other websites when she tried later in the evening.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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The data center on George Street may have crashed due to a thrown circuit breaker or a computer failure, leaving students in distress.

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CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, OCT. 9

FORTUNE COOKIE FRIDAY

Malloy, Foley trade accusatory punches

A previous version of the article “Bittman ties food to social change” incorrectly stated that the Master’s Tea was catered with pastries from Bittman’s cookbook. In fact, the event was catered by The Northern Greening, a company led by Emma Schmidt ’15 and Hallie Meyer ’15.

A previous version of the article “New Haven launches first public Montessori school” misspelled the last name of Eliza Halsey.

A photo that ran Thursday with the article “Illegal riders tear down Elm Street” was credited incorrectly. It was taken

by Kamil Sadik ’16.

YLS launches new recruitment efforts

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Students from around Yale interested in applying to Yale Law School can attend the institution’s first “Meet an Admissions Officer Day” next Thursday.

The event offers each interested student a 30-minute, oneon-one meeting with a YLS admissions officer to ask questions about YLS or the law school application process in general.

The inspiration for the open house format came from a similar event hosted for undergraduates at Columbia University

by Columbia Law School, YLS Director of Admissions Craig Janecek said.

He added that YLS has always

I think it’s [the recruitment effort] really a more formal vehicle for what we’ve done in the past.

CRAIG JANECEK Director of Admissions, Yale Law School maintained an open door policy with Yale students, and this event is an effort to streamline and facilitate that same process. YLS Director of Communications and Public Affairs Jan Conroy said one of the goals of the “Meet an Admissions Officer Day” event is to de-mystify the process of applying to YLS, which can be intimidating.

“I think it’s really a more formal vehicle for what we’ve done in the past,” Janecek said. “It might be a way to package what we already do better.”

Janecek said the purpose of the event was not to attract more Yale College students, as the Law School already receives many applications from Yale undergraduates — there is no incentive to recruit more. Over 10 percent of the 2014-2015 first year class at YLS are Yale College alumni, he said.

But Janecek also said students

from Yale College remain a valuable asset for the law school.

“The quality of a Yale College education and the caliber of student that Yale College attracts makes it a great place to draw potential law students from,” he said.

Andrew Tran ’16 said the impression that Yale College has a lot of students interested in attending YLS might be a product of selection bias. He added that he knows many interested in applying to YLS but does not think that there is a disproportionately large number of students on the campus as a whole that plan to apply.

Tran added that coming to Yale College was what put YLS on his radar for law school.

YLS professor Peter Schuck said the faculty members read 40 to 50 applications a year, and the many applicants from Yale College are often extremely well qualified. But, Schuck said, although he has taught students from Yale College who were outstanding, they are generally no more impressive than students who attended other colleges.

“I wouldn’t say I find there to be a striking difference between my students who went to Yale College and other students,” Schuck said. Still, they tend to be more self-confident than others, he added.

Daniel Stern ’16 said the appeal of Yale Law School for current Yale College students is its synthesis of excellent academic credentials, its small and extremely selective student body and its familiarity to students who already know their way around Yale’s campus and New Haven.

Robert Peck ’15 said almost everyone he has met who has considered applying to law school has mentioned a serious interest in YLS. In the past six years, the highest number of students to enter YLS from Yale College was 33 in 2010.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

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The televised debate between incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy and Republican challenger Tom Foley was rife with character attacks.

BY JIAHUI HU AND MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS Gov. Dannel Malloy and Republican challenger Tom Foley exchanged vitriolic accusations during their fourth major televised debate in Hartford Thursday afternoon.

At a previous debate on Oct. 2, Foley accused Malloy of corruption during Malloy’s tenure as mayor of Stamford. In retaliation, Malloy brought up two motor vehicle related infractions involving Foley in 1981 and 1993. After that debate, Foley requested a truce with Malloy to stop these character attacks.

At last night’s debate Foley presented a contract on stage, which outlined the conditions for a possible truce.

However, Malloy instead brought up more accusations against Foley. Malloy said that Foley drove two businesses into bankruptcy, did not disclose arrests to the FBI and refused to negotiate with members of a strike at Pennsylvania plant TB Woods for three years. Malloy also said that Foley is falsifying his success as the owner of the Bibb Company — a national textile company based in Macon, Georgia.

“You should tell the truth about those 3,000 jobs you created in the company,” Malloy said to Foley. “You didn’t create those jobs — you bought another com-

pany and merged it with one,and the company you bought had 3,000 jobs. You had nothing to do with creating those jobs, and that’s in the history, in the newspapers and the reports.”

The bottom line is that the less Foley talks, the more likely he is to win.

FRED CARSTENSEN Professor of economics, University of Connecticut Foley did not deny these accusations, instead asking Malloy to once again focus on current issues facing the state.

Despite this request, Foley continued his own accusations of Malloy’s corrupt actions in the past as governor. According to Foley, Malloy misappropriated funds from the University of Connecticut to travel on personal vacations with his family.

Foley added that Malloy’s inappropriate channeling of funds is one of the reasons the tuition at the University of Connecticut has been increasing.

Malloy denied these accusations.

Gary Rose, chairman of the department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, said that he believes Foley

has been growing increasingly aggressive over the course of this election’s debates. Rose added that Foley also seemed more at ease with questions from the audience.

“The skills and fluidity with which he responds have gotten increasingly better with each debate,“ Rose said.

However, Fred Carstensen, a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut, said in an email that Foley’s failure to elaborate on specifics when questioned during these debates indicates that his policy proposals have become increasingly more similar to Malloy’s.

The latest poll from Quinnipiac University on Wednesday showed Foley and Malloy to be tied. Foley and Malloy each garnered 43 percent of the votes, with conservative petitioning candidate Joe Visconti receiving 9 percent. The last poll in early September gave Foley a sixpoint lead.

Rose said that, with such close poll numbers, Foley is expected to focus on the debates as a way to attract more voters in the next three weeks leading up to the election.

However, according to Mark McNulty, communications director for the Foley campaign, Foley would not be participating in a debate scheduled Oct. 23 at NBC Connecticut’s studios in West Hartford.

“We weren’t able to come to terms with [NBC Connecticut],” McNulty said.

According to Rose, as incumbents normally tend to avoid debating challengers, Foley declining the invitation is an unusual situation.

Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17, communications director for the Yale College Democrats, said this unwilligness to participate in the debate suggests a lack of transparency on Foley’s part.

This lack of openness to voters, Sawyer-Kaplan added, does not reflect well on Foley’s abilities to govern.

Sawyer-Kaplan also noted that it was particularly interesting that Foley chose to drop out of one of only two debates featuring Visconti.

Amalia Halikas ’15, communications director for the Yale College Republicans, said that Foley might have had a good reason for choosing not to debate another conservative candidate.

“The bottom line is that the less Foley talks, the more likely he is to win,” Carstensen said in an email to the News.

The Connecticut Broadcasters Association hosted the Oct. 9 debate at the Hartford Hilton hotel.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

State awarded school safety grant

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Administrators hope Yale Law School’s Thursday open house will demystify the application process for interested undergraduates.

Connecticut’s declining crime rates could be on the verge of dropping even further — the state was recently awarded over half a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Justice to tackle school violence.

Through the Department of Justice’s 2014 appropriations, the National Institute of Justice received roughly $15 million for the purpose of researching the causes of school violence and developing strategies to reduce crime in schools. To participate in the program, called the School Safety Initiative, states could apply for federal grants to conduct research aimed at lowering violence in public schools.

Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management was awarded $566,104 to implement a program called “Effective School Staff Interactions with Students and Police.” This grant comes just days after Gov. Dannel Malloy announced that Connecticut crime rates dropped by 8.3 per-

cent in 2013.

“It’s basically going to take a few sample schools and measure the interactions between students and police and figure out what we’re going to learn from that,” said Mike Lawlor, undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning at OPM. The purpose of the research, Lawlor said, is to pinpoint methods of juvenile justice reform which significantly reduce crime and lower the number of shootings across the sate.

Although OPM has not yet selected the schools which will receive the grant money and participate in the study, New Haven Public Schools has already received around $15,000 this fiscal year in other federal grants that also seek to reduce juvenile violence, NHPS Communications Director Abbe Smith said in an email.

If NHPS does receive part of the OPM award, it will be used to improve security systems already in place, NHPS Chief Operating Officer Will Clark said. He added that local public schools have a

history of collaborating with the NHPD to address school security.

“We have a strong infrastructure in place and a layer of technology to build support systems on top of that,” Clark said. This technology includes a recently installed securitycamera system which uses the same “Milestone” video surveillance program as the NHPD 911 platform. This system provides first responders and local police direct access to public school security cameras, thereby streamlining communication between local police and schools, Clark said.

Clark said NHPS received a school security grant through the state last year, which was used to upgrade video camera systems in schools. He emphasized that improving school safety is an ongoing process and that NHPS is constantly looking to apply for district-wide or school-specific security grants.

New Haven’s work to improve school security is part of a larger statewide effort which has seen

good outcomes, Lawlor said, noting that Connecticut is arguably the leading example of how to effectively reduce juvenile crime rates..

“In essence ,when dealing with younger kids, there’s a right way to do this and a wrong way to do this,” said Lawlor, adding that previous studies show a strong correlation between students acting out in school and ending up in adult prisons later in life.

Lawlor was optimistic that the new grant will help Connecticut continue to move towards lower rates of gun violence, citing current trends as an indicator of future improvement.

“The crime rate is way down, the number of kids getting sent to juvenile court is way down.

Those are the kinds of numbers we look at to see how we’re doing,” said Lawlor.

A survey of Connecticut students in 2005 reported that 16 percent carried a weapon on one or more of the past 30 days.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.”

JONATHAN EDWARDS AMERICAN PREACHER

Labor situation intensifies with cuts LOCAL 34 FROM PAGE 1 change course as the union looks to restore services and positions lost over the last few years.

“We have exhausted our current mode of problem solving and ... it’s time to escalate,” Kennington said.

Kennington declined to comment on specific actions, citing that members of Local 34 will convene on Oct. 14 to discuss and decide on strategies. She conceded, however, that Local 34 cannot strike because the union’s contract lasts until 2017.

Still, the union could mobilize support through various approaches involving its members, allies in Local 35 — Yale’s blue-collar union — and interested Yale students, Kennington said.

Jayme Gordneer, an electronic commerce senior administrative assistant, said she is dismayed by the continuation of cost reduction, considering she has seen the endowment grow “astronomically” for six out of the last seven years of her employment at Yale.

According to Gordneer, the University is not filling vacant administrative positions, and given the same level of work, budget cuts simply should not exist.

An administrative assistant to the registrar of a Yale academic department, who wished to remain anonymous out of concern for job security, declined to comment on ideas raised during Wednesday’s meeting because she did not want to diminish their potential future impact. She added that increasing pressure

on the University is necessary, because past efforts have been ineffective.

During meetings with the unions, administrators previously proposed committees to conduct studies, she said. These studies often resulted in nothing more than delayed discussion and inaccurate findings.

As a result of reductions in personnel costs — which she believes the University has the ability to reverse — the administrative assistant said her department lost its receptionist and her workload increased to include one-third of the receptionist’s duties.

“It’s very stressful and demoralizing to have to provide the same level of customer service with all the duties that are on my desk,” she said. “To have

to diminish the capability that I have to provide that level of customer service is horrific.”

Wednesday’s meeting follows a festive rally of Local 34 and Local 35 members in front of Sterling Memorial Library two weeks ago that sought to demonstrate the solidarity and strength of organized labor at Yale, amid increasingly tense labor relations.

Though University Provost Benjamin Polak said last month that the figures on last year’s budget deficit have not yet been finalized, he said the 20.2 percent return on the endowment during fiscal 2014 and higher than anticipated revenue from the Yale School of Medicine dramatically reduced the deficit. Still, Polak cautioned against extrapolating the positive results from fiscal 2014 to future years. He noted

that the possibility of rising gas prices in the Northeast, coupled with increased pressure on the healthcare system, could have dramatic implications for budget predictions.

We have exhausted our current mode of problemsolving … it’s time to escalate.

LAURIE KENNINGTON President, Local 34 “It’s extremely good news that our medical school had a great year — it’s very likely because of tremendous work over there,”

he said last month. “[But] looking now and looking 10 years out, there’s uncertainty there.”

Looking forward, Polak said two weeks ago that there is no reason to alter previously made budget targets.

Last spring, the University announced plans to reduce administrative costs by 5 percent in three years and by 9 percent in five years. At the time, Polak said that in the vast majority of cases, units were already coming in on or under budget.

Local 34 is part of the Federation of University Employees, a coalition of labor unions that includes thousands of workers at Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

In new college names, diversity sought COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 poration hopes to announce the names within the coming year.

In response to the email, many students, alumni and faculty interviewed highlighted the importance of adding diversity to the existing roster.

“We need diversity,” Maria Burton ’85 said. “This is actually important because [the names] actually filter through culture in a very deep way.”

With the exception of Branford and Saybrook colleges, all of Yale’s existing residential colleges have been named for white males with a distinguished connection to the University.

Burton said that she strongly advocated for at least one of the colleges to be named after a woman. On Wednesday, she started a dialogue on the Facebook page of the nonprofit YaleWomen related to the namings. She was surprised to learn of notable female Yale graduates whose names she had never even heard.

Matt Czarnecki ’18 said that the names should be more representative of the makeup of the student body.

“I feel like one of the colleges should be named after a woman, because [most] residential colleges are named after men,” he said. “That’s not a comprehensive reflection of Yale College or the United States.”

History professor Jay Gitlin — who teaches the course “Yale in America” — said that the naming of the colleges is a way to measure what is important to the current Yale community, adding that he would like for the colleges to be named after someone with some historical resonance.

Gitlin suggested Grace Hopper GRD ’34 — a pioneer in American computer science and a United States Navy rear admiral — and Lucinda Foot as two potential female candidates. According to Gitlin, Yale’s first president, Ezra

Trumbull

Jonathan Trumbull, last governor of the Colony of Connecticut and the first governor of the State of Connecticut.

Calhoun

Branford

Rather than be named for a specific individual, Branford College was named after the town of Branford, CT, which briefly housed Yale.

Timothy Dwight

Davenport

Timothy Dwight IV and his grandson Timothy Dwight V both attended Yale College and served as University Presidents.

Saybrook

Ezra Stiles

Morse

Ezra Stiles, president of Yale College from 1778-1795. He was an American scientist and educator.

Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor. Morse aided the invention of a single-wire telegraph system.

Silliman Benjamin Silliman, early American chemist and science editor. Silliman was one of the first science professors at Yale.

John Davenport, a Puritan clergyman, co-founded New Haven in 1638.

Jonathan Edwards John C. Calhoun, a former Vice President, Senator and Secretary of War, graduated from Yale College in 1804.

Saybrook was named for the original location of the university, Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Pierson

Abraham Pierson, a founder and the first rector of the Collegiate School. The Collegiate School would eventually become Yale College.

Berkeley George Berkeley, dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne, gave Yale land and books in the 18th century.

Jonathan Edwards, a Christian theologian and co-founder of Princeton University, graduated from Yale College in 1720.

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Stiles, recognized that Foot was just as qualified as Yale’s male students when she was just 12 years old but could not attend the school because she was female.

“To go back in time and honor this person who, for no fault of her own, has become somewhat anonymous, I think would make a statement,” Gitlin said.

In addition to lacking genderbased diversity, none of Yale’s colleges are named after individuals of racial minorities.

In particular, the name of Cal-

houn College has been a source of controversy because John C. Calhoun, a member of the class of 1804, was not only a secessionist during the Civil War but also an avid defender of slavery.

Rodney Cohen, assistant dean of Yale College and director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, said that his first choice would be Edward A. Bouchet 1874 GRD 1876. Bouchet was long considered to have been the first African American to graduate from Yale College and is generally regarded

as the first African American to receive a Ph.D. Taylor McHugh ’16 said that times have changed since the first 12 colleges were named.

When the naming of soonto-be Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges was negotiated in the 1960s, Henry “Sam” Chauncy ’57 was an associate dean of Yale College.

Chauncy said that the names were chosen to reflect Yale College at the time.

“Yale, as you know, was all male and all white, so it shows the

nature of how Yale was in those days,” Chauncy said.

After reading Salovey’s email, some students wondered whether their opinions would be taken into consideration.

Farheen Maqbool ’17 believes they will.

“I think if people feel strongly they should definitely email,” she said. “If there’s a strong enough push from students in a certain direction, then the survey could have an impact.”

Other students responded to

Salovey’s email more negatively.

Amelia Nierenberg ’18 said that she was discouraged by the email because it seemed like the Corporation had full control over the decision-making process and the survey was only meant to make students feel more included.

The new colleges are expected to open in the fall of 2017.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

DPops kicks off season

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As Parents Weekend dawns upon the Yale arts community, the Davenport Pops Orchestra is set to perform pieces that range from Disney film scores to Beyoncé’s greatest hits.

DPops opens its 2014–’15 season on Friday with arrangements of Beyoncé songs, film scores from the ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Pocahontas’ and the ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ series. Three of the four featured pieces were arranged by members of the orchestra. DPops’s Head Conductor Tim Laciano ’15 said the group provides many opportunities for its members to arrange music, adding that he believes the group’s diverse repertoire appeals to a broad audience.

“We try to strive for a balance between something that’s fun and that people want to come to and something that is musically successful,” Laciano said.

Dpops Co-President Emily Frost ’16 said that Friday’s concert, titled “DPops Goes Exploring,” was a collaborative effort among DPop musicians. She explained that the orchestra’s board decides a concert theme and chooses what music to play after receiving input from all orchestra members, including freshmen. Frost added that while the concert has its share of crowd-pleasing gimmicks, it still maintains a balance between preserving musical rigor and providing an enjoyable experience. Laciano explained that the concert’s name refers to the literal theme of exploration in the case of Pocahontas and ‘Narnia,’ and a sense of emotional exploration with Beyoncé’s music.

Of the five DPops members interviewed, four pointed to the Beyoncé arrangement as their favorite piece being played in Friday’s concert. Bettina Cheung ’16,

the other co-president of DPops, agreed with Frost, adding that she thinks arrangements like the Beyoncé piece highlight the character of the group.

“I don’t think any other group on campus would play that,” Cheung said.

Frost said the music was selected primarily to fit the current musical strengths of the orchestra, explaining that the brass-heavy portions and challenging string parts in the Harry Potter film score rely on the expertise and talent of both orchestral sections in DPops.

She noted that DPops tends to focus on film scores, Broadway shows and classic pop, referring to these genres as “all the music you wanted to play in high school but never could.” Haohang Xu ’17, who plays first violin in DPops, said she believes the music featured in Friday’s concert is representative of the group’s interest in promoting student-arranged pieces.

DPops will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. This year, the group is composed of over 90 musicians, which is twice as many as the group had two years ago. Frost said that alumni of the orchestra are often surprised at the group’s rate of growth in recent years. Laciano and Assistant Conductor Michael Wang ’17 explained that increasing group’s membership has been a high priority for the orchestra’s leadership, adding that hosting frequent social events to strengthen the group’s sense of community has been helpful in retaining musicians.

“Our major goal recently has been to expand as far as numbers and to musically improve,” said Laciano.

The last DPops concert was held in April and was titled “DPops Goes Vintage!”

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu

5th District race intensifies

BY NOAH KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85, a Democrat, and Republican businessman Mark Greenberg are locked in a fierce battle for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District.

Both Democrats and Republicans have held the 5th District in recent years. With boundaries encircling conservative areas of the state’s northwest corner and more liberal towns and cities such as Esty’s hometown of Cheshire, the 5th District is the closest Connecticut has to a swing district. What is more, 43 percent of the 5th District’s registered voters are not affiliated with a party, making it Connecticut’s most independent district.

Esty previously served in the Connecticut House of Representatives between 2008 and 2010, before defeating State Senator Andrew Roraback in the 2012 general election for her current seat.

“I knew of her even before she was a Congresswoman,” said Kenneth Jackson ’17, a member of the Yale Political Union and a Connecticut resident. “She always seemed to have the best interests of Connecticut in mind.”

While in office, Esty has compiled a liberal record. She has supported the Affordable Care Act and gun control legislation, such as the Minds for Safer Communities Act of 2014, which provides grants to states that strengthen gun regulations for the mentally ill. Esty’s advocacy of gun control has come in the wake of the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which is part of the 5th District.

Esty has also cosponsored the STEM Education Act of

Pop-up shop rotates retailers

BY ROHAN NAIK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven residents have the unique opportunity to shop at a hip downtown boutique of less than 40 square feet during the first two weeks of this month.

Located at 55 Church St. in the Ninth Square, PopUp 55 is a former ATM vestibule turned storefront that houses businesses for one to two weeks. Project Storefronts, a program that works to connect storefronts with entrepreneurial vendors, operates the store. From Oct. 1–13 the space is featuring “Strange Ways,” a curated shop launched by Alex Dakoulas that promotes small brands and independent artists.

Store merchandise pieces range from clothing to accessories to drink covers, with prices ranging from $5 to $80. Dakoulas described the business as having an “unmasked style,” for customers who have unique tastes and are interested in products beyond those available at malls and large retail stores.

Under the Project Storefronts system, landlords either donate the space or work out a reasonable rent agreement, and Project Storefronts provides financial assistance to the entrepreneurs in the form of rent and utilities payments. It can offer storefronts for three to six months, as well as PopUp 55 for one to two weeks.

“Getting the space was huge,” Dakoulas said. “It didn’t cost me any money ... and I had total freedom.”

The idea for Strange Ways has been a long time coming. Dakoulas has vast experience in design and marketing, as he once owned an apparel company and worked as a footwear designer for Puma and Converse.

He debuted the store at the East Rock Festival on Sept. 13 and then established an online store five days later. “[My work experience] made me realize I would love to control how stuff gets out there, whether I’m making it or someone else is,” Dakoulas said.

Dakoulas found the PopUp 55 space rather serendipitously.

After walking by it in late July, he reached out online to Julius Stone, the project coordinator for Project Storefronts, which led to more

in-depth, one-on-one conversations.

Afterwards, Dakoulas filled out an application and, after further conversation, was granted the space.

“We started talking on Twitter,” Stone said. “It was probably the best use of social media I’ve experienced.”

Stone added that he was drawn to Dakoulas because of his design background and great sense of marketing. He said Dakoulas’s use of the space was particularly innovative and fun.

Perhaps the only drawback to the space is the location, according to Dakoulas. Situated on the back of 9th square, the store can be easily overlooked due to its small size and proximity to a bus stop. Dakoulas noted the biggest obstacle was getting people in the store from the street, adding that the bus traffic walking by was not often very interested.

“I can’t lie and say [the location] hasn’t been a challenge,” Stone said.

Despite the somewhat unfortunate location, Dakoulas has been pleased with the shop and the publicity he’s gained from it.

Though some visitors have had hit or miss reactions, Dakoulas reported he was pleased with the number of products sold.

“It’s gone better than I expected,” Dakoulas said. “Either you get [the product] or you don’t ... and some people have definitely loved it.”

While some who walked in the

shop did not grasp the idea of artistry-based products, Dakoulas said he still gained a new customer base, and most reactions around the store were generally positive.

Many Elm City residents were also excited by the idea of a popup shop and the opportunity to discover new vendors that it presents.

Resident Elise Killer said she hoped Strange Ways would reside in the space for longer, and that she liked that pop-up shops are “friendly and intimate.” Rachel Levy, who operates a stall on the corner of Chapel and York Streets, said that she had heard of the popup shop and would be interested in pursuing the space.

While Dakoulas’s ultimate goal is to open up a permanent shop, he is looking to continue to do popup events around New Haven until that happens.

His use of the space will end Oct. 13,and he hopes to expand his business in the future, while still adhering to his business manifesto of using American-made, recycled content and working with LGBT artists.

“I think that if you’re going to run a business, you need to stand for something,” Dakoulas said.

“I’d like to run a business that cares about what it’s doing.”

Strange Ways will next have an event on Oct. 30th at Fuel Coffee Shop, where it will showcase art and merchandise.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

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Businesses will operate in PopUp 55, a former ATM vestibule, for one- to two-week periods.

2014, a bill that added computerscience to the definition of STEM fields in determining federal grants.

While Esty’s background is largely in politics, Greenberg’s is in business. An independent businessman and real estate developer, Greenberg founded MGRE, one of the largest real estate management firms in the Northeast, and has helped develop numerous commercial and retail properties.

Greenberg has run for the 5th District seat during the last two election cycles, spending millions of dollars of his own money to support his campaigns.

“It’s not that I want to run, it’s that I have to run,” Greenberg said in an interview with the Hartford Courant Editorial Board on Tuesday. “This is still the greatest country in the world, but there are still things about it that we need to fix.”

During the Republican primary, many political experts have considered Greenberg to be one of the most socially conservative candidates considering his attitudes toward gun control, abortion and what he refers to as “the un-Affordable Care Act.” Greenberg has extensive Tea Party support and was recently endorsed by Connecticut Senate Minority leader John McKinney. McKinney’s 2014 campaign is particularly focused on reducing the size of government, decreasing tax burden and growing the economy.

With significant support on both sides of the aisle, the 5th District race is currently the fourth most expensive campaign in the country and the most expensive congressional race in Connecticut’s history, according to the Center for Responsible Politics.

The race has been tense, with both sides accusing the

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The 5th District congressional race is highly contested, with many swing voters. other of various forms of misconduct. Recently, Esty’s campaign claimed that Greenberg pulled out of two of four proposed debates. In response, the Greenberg campaign issued a press release stating that the debates had never been scheduled and accusing Esty of dishonesty.

“Unfortunately for the voters in the 5th District, her campaign will do anything to distract attention from the failed policies of Dan Malloy, Barack Obama and Elizabeth Esty which have hurt so many families in the 5th District,” the release read.

Yale College Democrats Elections Coordinator Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff columnist for the News, who plans to canvass for Esty this Saturday

along with the rest of the Yale Dems, said that he was most swayed by Esty’s willingness to fight for gun control following the tragedy at Sandy Hook.

“From what I can tell, gun safety legislation was never something she thought she was going to be too involved in,” he said. “After the shooting, she became a national leader on this issue and played a very active role. She didn’t have to take center stage, but she did.”

The candidates’ first debate occurred in Danbury yesterday at 7 p.m. Jara Burnett of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut served as moderator.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

Odinga talks Africa’s future

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Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Oginga spoke on the future of development for Africa as a whole.

BY TRESA JOSEPH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While the future of Africa’s development looks promising, the continent remains troubled by corruption and lagging economic progress, according to Former Prime Minister of Kenya Raila Odinga.

Before a crowd of nearly 200 students and faculty members Thursday afternoon in Luce Hall, Odinga said that Africa lacks reliable electricity, depends on poor health infrastructure and experiences a high level of political instability. Odinga, who occupied the office of prime minister from 2008 through 2013, lost the most recent presidential election, receiving 43 percent of the general vote. Despite the continent’s challenges, Odinga claimed that he is optimistic about the growth of his home country, highlighting the wide use of mobile phones and increased education to children in Kenya.

“Some people say, ‘where is the hope?’” he said. “I say that hope is everywhere. Change is happening at a dizzying pace.”

Odinga added that Africa’s future depends on its next generation. Educating the expanding number of African youth is the key to progress, he said.

Without education, Odinga said, children are at greater risk for becoming delinquents, drug addicts and criminals.

“Youth can be a blessing, but it can also be a curse,” Odinga said. “What we must do is empower the youth with education from the time of nursery.”

Odinga added that Africa must expand its presence on the international stage. He said that the continent should seek to emulate China’s incredible growth over the last decade.

An important step in the development of the continent will be to control its own history, Odinga said. He added that world perception of Africa is influenced too much by

foreigners and media outlets. However, the African people must assert their voices when describing their own reality, he said.

“Until the lamb learns to write, all the tales about the hunt will favor the hunter,” he said.

Last year, University President Peter Salovey said that expanding the University’s initiatives in Africa would be one of the key points of his tenure. Director for Public Affairs of the MacMillan Center Marilyn Wilkes said this talk contributed to Yale’s push to develop its relationship with Africa. “[Yale is] making a concerted effort to bring people like the prime minister to campus,” Wilkes said. “ The Africa initiative itself is really growing and snowballing … and this [lecture] falls spot on in the middle of that initiative.”

While the talk was well-received by some attendees, students interviewed afterwards said they wished Odinga had been more specific.

Cecil Tengatenga DIV ’16 said that he wished Odinga engaged in less political rhetoric when discussing Africa’s security issues.

Odinga should have elaborated on the recent Kenyan presidential election that he lost, Anna Tovar LAW ’16 said.

Still, others found the talk to be more informative.

“He started to sketch out an agenda for the next decade you could say, and I thought that was interesting,” Yale Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for African Studies David Simon said. “Time constraints limited his ability to elaborate on that but it was a really interesting sort of start.”

Before becoming the Prime Minister of Kenya, Odinga was the Minister of Energy and served in the Kenyan parliament from 1992–2013.

Contact TRESA JOSEPH at tresa.joseph@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“I came back to prove you could go to the best university in the world and play hockey at the highest level.” KEITH ALLAIN ’80 MEN’S HOCKEY HEAD COACH

Bulldogs look to remain undefeated terback coach Kevin Cahill. The Big Green enter the game with the second-best red zone defense in the Ivy League, allowing scores on just 66.7 percent of trips inside the 20-yard line.

“They’re big and they’re physical,” Cahill said. “They’re going to be the most physical defense and the biggest and strongest defense we’ve played this year. Our kids were a little bit shocked coming off the game last year, and a lot of the same team is coming back here this year. It’s going to be a pretty good battle.”

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 and Cornell. Through the first three games, Roberts has passed for 978 yards, captain Deon Randall ’15 has 28 receptions and running back Tyler Varga ’15 has rushed for an average of 140 yards per game. All three are atop Ivy League statistics and are major contributors to Yale’s nationleading 631 yards per game and 51.3 points per game.

Despite these numbers, Dartmouth and its defense are not to be discounted, according to quar-

Dartmouth’s offense poses an additional threat. Their quarterback, three-year starter Dalyn Williams, has run for 171 yards this season and found the end zone four times. Though Yale has faced mobile quarterbacks before, including Army’s A.J. Schurr in the second game of the season, the team has struggled to control the run. Schurr ran for 135 yards in two and a half quarters against Yale.

The Big Green have also shown itself to be proficient on the ground, averaging 182.3 yards per game. Against Penn last week-

Stop the run, make the pass

end, Dartmouth posted 218 rushing yards on its way to a 31–13 win in its Ivy League opener.

“They have a lot of talent on both sides of the ball,” Roberts said of Dartmouth. “The one thing you notice about them defensively is they play hard. They’re always rallying to the ball. When you turn on the film, you’ll see 10 or 11 green shirts around the ball after every play. That’s something we’re going to have to be wary of, matching their effort and intensity because they play hard.”

Dartmouth’s passing defense

even better after a 31–13 win over Penn last week. With both teams fighting to prove their standing in the conference, the Bulldogs will need to live up to the hype and deliver another exceptional offensive performance against Dartmouth.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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STUFF THE RUN If there is anything that Dartmouth’s offense has revealed in the beginning of the season, it is that the team likes to run the ball.

The Big Green has averaged 182.3 rushing yards per game but just 143.7 passing yards — less than half the passing average that Eli quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 has recorded in that time span.

Dartmouth running back Kyle Bramble leads the team’s backs, while quarterback Dalyn Williams is also a rushing threat, having ranked fifth among all players in the Ivy League last year with 56.3 rushing yards per game. This year, Bramble and Williams remain a vital part of the Big Green offense.

The pair has been to the end zone a combined six times in Dartmouth’s first three games, twice on a pass and four times on the ground.

The only game that Dartmouth has lost this year has also been the only game in which neither Bramble nor Williams scored a rushing touchdown, and that is likely

Dartmouth’s statistics through week three show that not only does it excel at running the ball, it also enjoys defending against those who run. The team’s pass defense is last in the Ivy League with 308.7 passing yards allowed per game, but the Big Green has allowed exactly half that number on the ground. Last week, Penn covered just 33 of its 383 total yards with the run, with the other 350 going to Penn quarterback Alek Torgersen on a school record 40 completions.

With this in mind, the Bulldogs should head into the Yale Bowl prepared to deliver an aerial assault like the one they brought to Ithaca last week. Of course, Yale has already shown that the type of defense it faces is generally not relevant to its performance. Defenses that protect up front have allowed big gains by Roberts and his receiving corps, while those that focus on the pass have felt the wrath of running back Tyler Varga ’15. But it is likely that the former will have a bigger impact than the latter in tomorrow’s game.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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Captain Mollie Rogers ’15 leads the team in points with 170 and an average of 4.1 points per set.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 for three weeks.

Several Bulldogs agreed that the freshmen have been instrumental in Yale’s play this season.

Perhaps because of the vital role played by the rookies, Ebner added that the Elis are not preoccupied by the pressure of defending the Ivy title.

“We don’t feel any pressure because it’s

a new team and a new year,” Ebner said.

“We worry about each game versus the big picture.”

This weekend will mark the last of a string of away matches for the Yale women. The Bulldogs have not played at home since the season-opening Yale Invitational Tournament on Sept. 5 and 6.

Libero Tori Shepherd ’17 said she and her teammates were eager to play on their home court again.

Bulldogs seek first win late, boasting a .800 save percentage and sitting at third in the Ancient Eight with a 1.08 goals against per game average. Despite its offensive woes, Yale’s defense has managed to keep the Elis in games long enough to play for an equalizing or winning goal in most cases.

“We really think we can put a stamp on this game, and I like how we match up against them,” midfielder/forward Josh Totte ’18 said.

Yale will rely on its defensive fortitude to try and shut down a Dartmouth offense that has scored 15 goals in just seven games. However, Dartmouth, much like Harvard, boasts impressive scoring balance. Eleven different players have scored for the Big Green, with Alex Adelabu leading the offensive charge with six goals

“Dartmouth is a very good team,” offensive lineman William Chism ’15 said. “It’s going to be a challenge. We’re looking forward to it but not letting the last three weeks change anything. It’s a one day at a time kind of focus.”

Dartmouth travels to New Haven for Yale’s Ivy League home opener. The game kicks off at 1:00 p.m.

not a coincidence. Stopping this duo from getting big gains on the ground will certainly be a key to a strong defensive performance.

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has struggled thus far. The Big Green rank last in the Ivy League, allowing 308.7 yards per game, nearly 50 yards per game more than seventh-place Columbia.

Roberts will look to exploit the weak secondary by distributing the ball to Randall and fellow wideouts Grant Wallace ’15 and Robert Clemons ’17, as he has done all year. Randall is just 21 catches away from the all-time Yale record of 195 career receptions, held by Ralph Plumb ’05.

But players are not discounting the threat that the Big Green poses.

and two assists. Given this balance, Yale will have a tough time picking out just one player to focus on defensively, as Dartmouth is capable of producing quality offense from virtually anywhere. In fact, its top scorer, Adelabu, has scored more goals by himself than the Elis have scored all season.

While the Big Green’s offensive prowess earns them the status of favorite, the Elis insist that their excitement and ability to produce quality defensive matchups mean that they cannot be written off in this match.

“Everyone is getting really excited about playing Dartmouth this Saturday,” forward Keith Bond ’15 said. “We’ve had a couple really solid days of training, and I think everyone can’t wait to get out there and compete.”

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Netminder Blake Brown ’15 has upped his save percentage this year from the previous year from .540 to .800.

potential.

While the Bulldogs may have always had the potential to win, Wells said they recently realized their potential through their mental preparation and practice performance.

“For Yale Field Hockey it has become a mental game of walking out to Johnson field and deciding that we want to win any game no matter what the cost,” Wells said. “We started this winning mentality in practice which ultimately came into our play for Bryant.”

The Elis still have four more conference

games before the end of the season. Yale is the only Ivy League team not coming off a loss as it enters this weekend.

According to Wells, this second half of the season marks a change in momentum for the team.

“The first half of the season is done,” Wells said. “There is no changing it. The second half presents us with a chance to finish out the season the way we want to. It is almost like a fresh start.”

For the team, sticking to Stuper’s game plan is the most important part of practice and play. In the match against Maine, Accurso hopes that the team will stay connected on the field and play two strong

halves of field hockey.

Last season, Yale defeated the Black Bears 4-3 in a memorable overtime, according to Wells, but the team won’t let that be the source of its confidence.

“Our team is constantly preparing for any of our opponents,” Wells said. “We analyze, plan, and strategize for a game up until the time that the first whistle blows beginning regulation play.”

The game will begin at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and be the team’s only game this weekend.

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“It’s always so much more fun to play in the gym when our fans are there to cheer us on,” Shepherd said. “Hopefully, we have a big crowd, and they’re as excited for us to be back as we are.”

The Bulldogs will return to the John J. Lee Amphitheater to face Cornell and Columbia on the weekend of Oct. 17.

Colombian number one!” which Shakira tweeted about afterwards.

The hour-long dialogue between Healey, Flynn and several members of the audience focused on how soccer in America has changed over the past few decades.

Healey and Flynn said that play is improving and the national team is getting better. The pair added that support for national teams is moving away from the wholesome mom-and-kid-at-the-game demographic towards a younger, hipper, rowdier fan base, thanks to grassroots groups like American Outlaws and Sam’s Army.

“Ten years ago, I wouldn’t even be able to tell you what my favorite stadium is. Teams were playing in football stadiums. But now, I can say Portland and I can say Philadelphia. The stadium in Portland is so embedded in the city,” Healey said.

Since its inception in 1996, Major League Soccer has managed to build a stable infrastructure and develop a sensible financial plan, according to Healey, and both fans and stadiums have shifted towards European-style support.

Still, Healey and Flynn remarked that the barriers to entry for children are much higher in America than in the rest of the world.

“Soccer is still very much a white, middle-class sport,” Flynn said. “There’s a lot of money attached to youth soccer. The dream is to get to the point where all you need to play is a ball.”

They also mentioned that there is a severe lack of integration of the Latino community in the U.S., and African-American talent remains largely untapped.

Healey remained skeptical when the subject of the Qatar World Cup in 2022 was brought up. Even though the head of FIFA claimed the organization was attempting to “sow the seeds of the game,” Qatar was still an extreme choice as the host nation, said Flynn. Temperatures can rise to 120 degrees during the day and strict local laws prohibiting alcohol will pose serious logistical issues for fans and locals alike.

Healey and Flynn wrapped up by concluding that FIFA is so powerful that it won’t change its questionable practices until it is forced to, perhaps by an international organization at the level of the United Nations.

Attendees said they were very pleased to match a face to Healey’s ever-present but disembodied voice.

“Commentators have a special place in the heart of every soccer fan because you remember their voice during the best moments you’re ever going to have,” Imani Williams said.

Williams is a cofounder of the New Haven chapter of American Outlaws, an organized fan base for the United States National Soccer Teams. “[For me, that moment was] the Shakira comment. My family is Colombian, and we loved it,” Stefanie Acevedo — secretary of New Haven’s American Outlaws — added. “Watching all the Colombia games for me was just insane. But that’s what sticks with you, that comment.”

Healey currently serves as lead announcer for ESPN’s coverage of Major League Soccer.

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BY ASHLEY WU AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A record-setting offensive pace has propelled the Yale football team to its second straight 3—0 start. But this Saturday, the Bulldogs face off against perhaps their most physical challenge yet in the Dartmouth Big Green.

Last year, however, after beating thenNo. 19 Cal Poly to move to 3—0, the Bulldogs (3—0, 1—0 Ivy) fell to the Big Green (2—1, 1—0 Ivy) in Hanover 20–13. The loss set off a three-game losing streak en route to a 3–4 record against Ancient Eight competition.

This season, the Elis are looking to ride their hot start to their first win against Dartmouth since 2011.

“This is our first home league game, so there’s a lot [of] unknown[s],” quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 said. “I think we have some good momentum, and we’re really confident in our team, but we have to be confident enough that we can beat anybody and humble enough to know that they can beat us.”

The Bulldogs are coming off impressive offensive performances against Lehigh, Army SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Yale (3–0, 1–0 Ivy) will take on Dartmouth (2–1, 1–0) tomorrow at the Yale Bowl in what is sure to be a major test for both Ivy League teams. The Bulldogs fell to the Big Green 20–13 in an ugly game last season, but both teams have changed significantly in a year. If Yale can live up to its recent reputation, stop Dartmouth’s running game and succeed in accumulating yards through the air, the Bulldogs have the potential to write a different story than last year.

LIVE UP TO THE HYPE Three games into their season, the Bulldogs are certainly the talk of the Ivy League. After ranking fifth in the conference preseason poll over the summer, Yale

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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 averages 326 passing yards per game, top in the Ivy League.

has marched out to a 3–0 start. Its offense has shocked many with 51.3 points and 631 yards per game, both figures the highest in the nation.

It is possible, however, that uncertainty about the Elis’ first three opponents may leave some doubtful. Neither Lehigh nor Cornell has won a game yet this season, and though the win against Football Bowl Subdivision opponent Army is certainly impressive, it is difficult to add true context to a matchup between two teams that have not shared a common opponent in years.

Yale’s game against Dartmouth, then, will be a great test of the Bulldogs’ true potential.

The Big Green ranked third on the Ivy League preseason poll and showed that it may have deserved SEE KEYS PAGE 8

Bulldogs resilient in face of pressure

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER The volleyball team aims to shrug off pressure to defend the Ivy title and notch two wins against Penn and Princeton this weekend.

VOLLEYBALL The Bulldogs (6–6, 2–1 Ivy)

have won the last four Ivy League championships, but find themselves staring at a 0.500 record halfway through the season. This weekend, they travel to Philadelphia to play the Quakers (4–10, 1–2 Ivy) on Friday night and to Princeton to battle the Tigers (8–5, 3–0 Ivy) on Saturday. Several Bulldogs said the team was resilient despite the 3–2 loss to Harvard last weekend.

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“We didn’t play to our full potential [against Harvard], which is always upsetting, especially against a rival team,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “But we are going to use the loss to motivate us rather than keep us down.”

Middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 agreed with Johnson that the Bulldogs would be able to put last weekend’s loss aside and focus on this weekend’s foes.

Penn and Princeton both have Ivy conference leaders on their teams. Princeton sophomore Lauren Miller has averaged the most assists per set in the league, while her teammates, junior Kendall Peterkin and senior Nicole Kincade, lead the league in kills and blocks per set, respectively.

Penn players have also earned seats among the Ivy leaders in average assists per set and digs

Adrian Healey, ESPN play-by-play commentator and Kevin Flynn discussed the state of soccer in the US.

BY ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER ESPN commentator Adrian Healey, the voice of the beautiful game since 1998, met Yale soccer fans in the flesh on Thursday night.

In front of a tight-knit crowd of 25 at the Office of International Students and Scholars, Healey and comedian and former professional soccer player Kevin Flynn discussed their favorite stadiums, charted the trajectory of soccer in America over the past 30 years and lamented the English national team’s disappointing performance.

“Being a commentator is like being the pianist at a school choir

show,” Healey said when asked what commentators think about inside the booth. “You’re not the reason why people are there. But if you’re not there, people will miss it.”

He added that he always aims to add something to the game rather than detract from it.

Healey, who covered the FIFA World Cup in Brazil this past summer, named the Colombian reaction to James Rodriguez’s goal in the Colombia vs. Ivory Coast game as one of his favorite moments of the summer. In response to their coordinated victory dance routine, he spontaneously called out, “Move over Shakira, there’s a new SEE SOCCER TALK PAGE 8

ors. She had 17 kills and 29 digs in the two games combined.

Gibbons has been improving all season, head coach Erin Appleman said.

This was the fourth straight week that a Bulldog brought home the Rookie of the Week award. Before Gibbons, setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 held the title SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 8

Field hockey heads north to Maine

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend the Yale field hockey team heads north in an attempt to secure its first winning streak of the season.

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per set.

“The Ivy League is very tough and has a high level of competition,” Johnson said. “Every team is going to have wins and losses.”

Despite the loss against Harvard, the Elis collected a win last weekend by sweeping Dartmouth 3–0. Outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons’s ’18 performance against the Big Green earned her Ivy League Rookie of the Week hon-

The Bulldogs (2–8, 0–3 Ivy) are preparing to face Maine (6–6, 1–0 America East) and stop the Black Bears’ fourgame win streak while starting one of their own.

“We’re excited to have a strong nonconference opponent here on our bye week from league play,” head coach Pam Stuper said, after the game against Bryant on Wednesday.

The Elis’ victory in that match-up

was the team’s first since it defeated Quinnipiac in overtime on Sept. 13, the third game of the season.

Yale took nine shots, three times as many as it did in the game against Cornell on Saturday. Midfielder Carol Middough ’18 put away the team’s only goal of the contest.

Goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15 also had a big game, saving seven shots. ”I think we were more connected this game than we have been in previous games,” forward Jessie Accurso ’15 said. “This is a definite confidence booster going forward.”

The season has been marked with an ability to translate skill into wins, said captain Nicole Wells ’16, but the game against Bryant proved the team’s SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 8

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Nicole Wells ’16 holds the rare honor of being a junior captain for the women’s field hockey team.

Bulldogs prep for red-hot Dartmouth

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After a disappointing loss to archrival Harvard in its Ivy opener, the Yale men’s soccer squad will look to bounce back and seize its first win of the year in a second straight road match-up — this time against the Dartmouth Big Green.

MEN’S SOCCER Dartmouth (6–2–1, 1–0–0 Ivy) comes in with a six-game unbeaten streak and looks to trounce a struggling Eli squad in order

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to cement its status as a top Ivy contender.

With something to prove, the underdog Bulldogs (0–7–2, 0–1–0 Ivy) hope to spoil the Big Green’s red-hot start to the season.

Having scored just three times in nine games, the Elis will be hard-pressed to break a stout Dartmouth defense that has allowed just 11 scores all year, with four of them coming in a big loss to a top NCAA contender, No. 3 Notre Dame.

“Their approach is very different than what we faced last week, so we will need more patience and possession in our play against a strong defensive team,” head coach Brian Tompkins said.

Dartmouth has not just won games — it has also managed to dominate teams in impressive fashion, winning 4–0 against UMass Lowell and 3–1 against Central Connecticut State. Yale will have to score big and score early to measure up to the heavily favored and defensively sound Big Green squad.

Fortunately for the Elis and their fans, Yale boasts an impressive defense that managed to hold a normally high-scoring Harvard squad to just one goal. Goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 has played brilliantly as of SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8

THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF PASSING YARDS ALLOWED PER GAME BY THE BIG GREEN. Dartmouth has given up 926 passing yards over three games, indicating difficulty defending the pass.