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Oktoberfest focuses on German culture, not “drinking to get drunk”

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Schwarzman architect announced

Pitch Perfect. Former

President George H. W. Bush ’48 threw the ceremonial first pitch at a Houston Astros playoff game on Sunday. The Houston team, which Bush has supported for many years, beat the Kansas City Royals 4–2.

Maybe we can enlist Bush’s help in the Yale baseball team’s next game. A stroke of luck couldn’t hurt the Elis, who tied with Brown for sixth in the Ivy League last spring.

Wait, There’s More. In his

newest book about Watergate, Bob Woodward ’65 uses 46 hours of interviews with Alexander Butterfield — Nixon’s deputy assistant who revealed the existence of White House tapes during the investigation — to uncover more details about the scandal.

“The Last of the President’s Men” comes out tomorrow.

Tuesday Is a Latter Day. Catch a nine-time Tony Awardwinning musical on College Street this week. “The Book of Mormon” is coming to the Shubert Theater, and the first show will be Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.

A Royal Affair. In a christening

that rivaled that of Princess Charlotte, Prince Nicolas — the youngest Swedish royal — was baptized in a lavish ceremony over the weekend.

Baby Nicolas is the nephew of Victoria, crown princess of Sweden, who studied at Yale from 1998 to 2000 during a brief stay in the United States.

Move Millions. The Yale Leadership Institute will host a storytelling workshop led by PBS filmmaker Charles Vogl at 7 p.m. tonight. The event, titled “Powerful Storytelling for Leaders” promises the core skills to emotionally move and persuade others.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1927 The Alumni Football Ticket Committee develops plans to rethink ticket allotment for The Game so a greater number of graduates can secure seats on the Yale side.

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Lawsuit hits water pollution company

Benson May ’17 said.

On Sept. 5, a member of the SOBs asked a friend of a friend, who was not a Yale student, to audition for three other all-male a cappella groups under a false name and leave various dead animal parts at each audition: a deer’s head for the Spizzwinks(?) and dead mice for the Alley Cats and the Duke’s Men. As punishment, the group was barred from

As the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority looks to add another town to its network, a lawsuit against the city and the authority may cause complications.

The GNHWPCA and the City of New Haven were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed on Oct. 2, in which plaintiffs, 26 Crown Associates — the Philadelphia-based owners of an apartment building in the Ninth Square neighborhood — have alleged that negligence on the part of the GNHWPCA has left their building’s basement prone to flooding with sewage during storms. The plaintiffs also alleged that the GNHWPCA and the city have violated the Clean Water and Connecticut Environmental Protection Acts by discharging raw sewage into Long Island Sound during storms and other instances of heavy rainfall.

The lawsuit comes a month before Stratford is due to vote on joining the GNHWPCA by selling its wastewater treatment plant and bonded debt to the authority — a move that voters call “regionalization.”

The New Haven Board of Alders approved this regionalization in June, but a citizen-led push in Stratford for a November referendum on regionalization delayed the merger. If it goes through, Stratford will have joined New Haven, Woodbridge, East Haven and Hamden as members of the GNHWPCA. Christopher Rooney, the plaintiffs’ attorney, said the GNHWPCA’s current infrastructure is not equipped to handle the volume of sewage it currently carries. He said 1,500 residential units are due to come online to the sewer system — an influx that might add to strain on the current system.

Much of the sewer system in New Haven does not currently carry storm water and regular wastewater in separate pipes, the plaintiffs said in the lawsuit. They alleged that this failure to separate causes the release of raw sewage onto their property during “significant weather events” that lead to flooding in the area. The plaintiffs alleged that this phenomenon occurs on other properties, not only their own.

Lynne Bonnett, a New Haven environmental activist who has often confronted the GNHWPCA over alleged environmental violations through her work with the New Haven Environmental Justice Network, said much of the area between the West River and the Quinnipiac River has a sewer system that

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The firm Beyer Blinder Belle will strive to preserve the history of Commons while transforming it into a student center.

BY DAVID SHIMER AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS The University has selected the architecture firm that will transform Commons into the Schwarzman Center, bringing the vision of the massive student center one step closer to reality.

On Friday, Yale announced that it had hired Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP to design the

new center. In explaining the decision, a University press release cited the firm’s role in renovating several landmark buildings and sites, including Grand Central Terminal and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At Yale, the firm will be tasked with reimagining uses for the 84,000-square-foot complex currently known as Commons. University President Peter Salovey said in the release that Beyer Blinder Belle’s

track record makes the firm the ideal partner for this endeavor.

“I was impressed by the firm’s ability to take distinguished buildings and renovate them for imaginative new uses while preserving their architectural heritage, and I am confident that they will help us create an exceptional university-wide student center,” Salovey said in a statement.

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SOBs allowed to hold rush

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Dean’s Office has reversed its decision to suspend the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus a cappella group from fall rush, a sanction that resulted from one member initiating a prank against three other a cappella groups.

In a Sunday email, the Singing Group Council — a group of four people that oversees the a cappella

rush process — informed the singing community that the YCDO had lifted all sanctions on the SOBs’ rush process. SGC member Grant Fergusson ’17 told the News that sanctions on a small group of individual students remain, but the SOBs can begin holding auditions this weekend to recruit a new class of members.

“We’re over the moon about being able to have another rush and are really excited about the coming weeks,” SOBs music coordinator

GLOBAL REACH

Debate Season. All eyes

will be on the Democratic presidential candidates as they take the stage for Tuesday’s primary debate. But, for those interested in local politics, New Haven’s mayoral debate takes place tonight. Incumbent Mayor Toni Harp, who is expected to win by a landslide, faces independents Ron Smith and Sundiata Keitazulu.

Conference brings prominent dyslexic leaders to campus

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER

The Class of 1973. Yale

alums continue to dominate in both the Democratic and Republican 2016 presidential primaries. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 remains at the top of The Huffington Post’s Democratic primary poll chart with close to 44 percent of the vote. On the Republican side, Ben Carson ’73, with over 16 percent, inches closer to frontrunner Donald Trump, who leads with about 27 percent.

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Yale, China further engagement

BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Over the past year, Yale has worked to deepen its engagement with China through several initiatives and donations, while over the past decade, more international students have come to Yale from China than any other country.

In China, Yale Center Beijing opened in October 2014 to provide a space for Yale affiliates to conduct research and hold conferences, all while promoting the University’s global reach. The center will host Yale Young Global Scholars-Beijing, an academic program for highschool students, in January 2016. And at Yale, the SOHO China Scholarship, which was established to encourage low-income Chinese students to apply to Yale, was inaugurated last week. The seven scholarship recipients join a growing number of Chinese students at Yale, both in the undergraduate and graduate popula-

tion, while interest in Chinarelated courses has also continued to grow, according to students and professors interviewed.

“More and more college and universities in America want to establish partnerships in China, but Yale has been doing this for perhaps longer than anyone else,” said former U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke ’72, who spoke at the SOHO Scholarship inaugural event last week. “It has a very rich and successful history in interacting with students and institutions in China and clearly Yale’s expansion with the SOHO China scholars will enable Yale to reach more and more people from China.”

Besides the $10 million SOHO Scholarship, Yale last year received a $16 million donation from Neil Shen SOM ’92, Brad Huang SOM ’90 and Bob Xu, which established Yale Center Beijing.

These donations are part of a larger trend of Chinese donations to Ivy League universities — over the past two years,

Harvard received $15 million from the same SOHO Scholarship, while the university’s School of Public Health received a $350 million donation from Hong Kong investor Gerald Chan. Additionally, Columbia University recently received a $5 million donation to establish the Tang Center for Early China, which aims to advance the study of early Chinese civilization.

Steven Roach, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, said he supports the University’s increased engagement with China, which should run both from Yale to China and from China to Yale. Roach added that he would encourage broader and deeper linkages in the years ahead, citing the long-running need for expanded study abroad opportunities for students interested in spending time in China.

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Pro-lifers call to defund Planned Parenthood

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The roughly 35 protesters said Planned Parenthood does not deserve state funding.

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER About 35 Greater New Haven pro-life advocates called on Congress to defund Planned Parenthood at a rally Saturday morning.

The rally — held outside New Haven’s Planned Parenthood center — came as part of a nationwide demonstration sponsored by three dif-

ferent pro-life organizations: Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Created Equal and Pro-Life Action League. Protestors also gathered at four other Planned Parenthood locations throughout the state: Danbury, Enfield, Stamford and West Hartford as part of this nationwide movement.

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Hard core humanities I

n his essay “The Abolition of Man,” C.S. Lewis praises teachers of the past who “initiated the young neophyte into the mystery of humanity which over-arched him and them along. It was but old birds teaching young birds to fly.” I like to think of our teachers at Yale as initiating us into the academic traditions to which they have contributed — and to which we, their students, would like to contribute also.

It seems to me that one way to begin this is to educate students in the core of knowledge of each tradition — the works of each tradition’s greatest minds.

Yale, like many American universities, has no core curriculum. Our studies within our majors, and the departments that administer them, are for us the “core” of knowledge that we gain from our education. But how do departments at Yale fare in giving all the students in their majors the central knowledge of their traditions of thought? I’d like to review some departments’ core requirements, and then suggest ways of further ensuring that students who leave here may say with authority that they truly studied whatever discipline earned the major portion of their time. Although some version of my argument might well apply to STEM majors, I am going to focus on the humanities departments, since I am most familiar with them.

Several departments in the humanities already have core curricula. The Philosophy Department, for instance, requires all students to take ancient and modern philosophy. No student may leave Yale with a philosophy degree without having read Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant. Likewise with English — all students take a yearlong course in English poets from Chaucer to Milton to Elliot. Classics requires a course in Greek and in Roman civilization, where many of the major figures in each society are on the syllabus.

Political Science, the home of political philosophy at Yale, and History, however, have no required text classes. It is possible to graduate with a Political Science degree from Yale without reading Plato, Hobbes or Hegel — in History without glancing at Thucydides, Tacitus or Tocqueville.

It did not always use to be this way, within a specific major or across the college. According to the 1946 Yale Bluebook, for instance, students were required in the summer following freshman year to read certain texts from the “classics of literature, history, biology, science, social science and philosophy.” A student had to pass exams in these books upon return to school.

During summers after sophomore and junior year, all stu-

dents had to read certain books within their majors. And departments administered exams to stuCOLE dents within ARONSON their majors before they Necessary graduated.

I’d like to and proper suggest that when each department’s faculty meets to discuss changes to its undergraduate curriculum, they consider reinstituting departmental exams and creating cores if they don’t have them.

A rigorous intra-major core curriculum will set an example to students for how to study each discipline. Who better to emulate in political science than Aristotle? Who has better stated why we study and write history than Herodotus at the beginning of "The History": so “that time may not draw the color from what man has brought into being, nor those great and wonderful deeds, manifested by both Greeks and barbarians … and, together with all this, the reason why they fought one another?” I think it would profit students immensely if we saw ourselves as parts of great chains of learning, stretching back centuries, rather than mere individuals studying a certain area of a topic.

There is a second reason why departmental cores make sense — they create community among students and faculty. Directed Studies is the archetype. DSers are sometimes derided as cliquey nerds reading a bunch of irrelevant dead white guys. Nevertheless, many of us never truly “leave” DS. Our conversations never stop referring to our seminars, and the books we read freshmen year are our constant companions at Yale. The DSers I knew in the program revered our teachers, and took their closest friends from among their classmates. DS has its own curriculum, but there is no reason why other departments cannot adopt the same sort of program.

Our majors are where we spend the bulk of our academic time. The departments administering them should transform their students into a rich intellectual community based on a common tradition of knowledge. Our company of scholars will be improved by a shared vocabulary, and we will all be able to better study our particular fields of interest if we have a greater appreciation of the giants who came before us.

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The peace of quitting A

s a freshman counselor, I spend a lot of time telling other people to keep

going.

Not getting tapped doesn’t mean you won’t be able to sing with another group later. An emotional breakup may be hard now, but you’ll move on if you give it enough time. One disappointing midterm should not dissuade you from being a chemical engineer.

And, for the most part, I’ve followed my own advice. For years, I stuck to the two majors I liked, the few extracurriculars that appealed to me and the general career trajectory that I found meaningful.

But this year, I did something different: I gave up. I quit. And I’ve never been happier.

The story began in a way that will be familiar to most students here at Yale: The perfect storm of high stress, little sleep and overcommitted extracurricular life meant I had walked into my economics midterm fully unprepared for the slaughter that would await me. It was almost a relief when I got back a failing grade just a couple of days later, giving closure to 48 hours of dread.

As always, first came the initial wave of panic: I’ll never recover from this. My already fragile GPA will take yet another hit. Who was I kidding when I decided to be an economics major, anyway?

Then my FroCo senses started tingling: You’ll bounce back from this! You can get a tutor who will help you! Talk to TYLER profesBLACKMON the sor, and you’ll definitely be Back to able to work something Blackmon out.

But to what end? Why exactly did I want to work things out? With due respect to the professor, I hated this class. I was spending precious hours every week nodding off in lecture, plowing through problem sets and reading a book I’d rather use as a doorstop. At Yale, we get 36 credits — 36 bites at an apple as sweet as we make it. And I was intentionally coming back every week to this rotten fruit in the belief that one day some employer would nod approvingly at the effort I put in. What a waste of my time at this institution renowned for its intellectual vigor.

So after spinning through the stages of grief a few dozen times, I eventually latched onto an idea I couldn’t shake: Just quit.

It was, admittedly, a bit of a radical idea. After racking up 10 of 12 credits necessary to graduate with an economics degree,

I would be dropping my double major just as I was about to cross the finish line. But it’s hard to convey just how relieved I felt after considering what life would look like on the other side of quitting, as if this was the path I was supposed to be taking all along.

So I quit. And it felt good.

I EVENTUALLY LATCHED ONTO AN IDEA I COULDN'T SHAKE: JUST QUIT. Suddenly, I felt the need to tell other people. And soon, I realized my experience was far from unique. It didn’t take long after telling my own story for everyone else at the table where I was sitting to eagerly chime in with a story of their own about quitting. Quitting a varsity sport.

Quitting a leadership position in an extracurricular activity. For a semester, even quitting Yale!

One by one, we ticked off our favorite quitting experience, and the emotion lighting up each of our faces was always the same: shameless joy.

Quitting just feels good.

At Yale, we spend most of our

time trying to jam as much as possible into our daily schedule.

And perhaps some of that is warranted. After all, this place has an incredible variety of experiences to offer its students, and you will rarely have the chance to pursue the kinds of opportunities available to us here ever again. But even so, there are few things quite as thrilling as letting go of the things that drag us down or make us feel bad about ourselves.

And aside from the pure euphoria that comes with hacking off another commitment, the best part of quitting is the opportunity to try something new. For me, it means more time to learn Spanish — a language I decided way too late to start. It means more Netflix. It means more Skype dates with my boyfriend. It means more political science classes next semester that I will actually look forward to taking.

But most of all, it means taking more time for myself. And it took quitting to realize I had almost forgotten how to do that.

So take up your axe, and start hacking away at the drains on your time. You might be glad you did.

TYLER BLACKMON is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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Scrap participation grades

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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t this point in the semester, most section assholes have established a reputation for themselves. As campus small talk shifts from “what classes are you taking” to “how are your midterms,” it is worth thinking about a seldom-discussed aspect of assessment in Yale classes: the participation grade. Not only are participation grades unfair and pedagogically unsound, they also reward and reflect the flaws of modern intellectual culture.

In many classes, the participation grade does not actually seem to influence a student’s final grade, rendering it redundant. In other classes, the participation grade is a giveaway of sorts, contributing to grade inflation.

What about classes in which the participation grade actually makes a difference? The most common argument used in its favor is that it rewards “good citizenship” — showing up for class, doing the readings and making intelligent comments. But class participation is a virtue, not an achievement. We cannot and should not try to quantify it.

After all, we don’t give tax breaks to people who vote, or who attend meetings at City Hall. According to Yale’s academic regulations, instructors can already use “cut

restrictions” to deal with persistently absent students.

WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS IN COLLEGE, HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A GOOD PARTICIPATION GRADE. AND THAT SHOULD SAY ENOUGH. Moreover, participation grades are arbitrary. Research suggests that the human mind is almost always influenced by external biases when making subjective evaluations. There is no reason to believe that Yale professors or graduate students are exempt from this phenomenon. If this is a problem in assessing a piece of

written work, it is an even bigger problem when evaluating something as amorphous as oral participation over the course of an entire semester. How well one dresses and how one speaks are likely to count for just as much as what one actually says in class.

Moreover, there are many reasons why students might not participate actively in section. Perhaps they suffer from some form of social anxiety, or were shut up by a teacher or bullied by their peers in fourth grade for talking too much.

Or maybe it has to do with aspects of race, gender, socioeconomic and cultural background.

Some East Asian cultures, for example, do not stress the loud and sometimes aggressive mode of oration that tends to prevail in classroom conversation.

In addition, we have all heard about “mansplaining” — a man explaining something to a woman in a patronizing manner — and I have observed this dynamic in seminar.

The next time you get bored in a discussion section, look at who is being interrupted or talked over, at who is getting their classmates’ attention and at who is generally speaking the most.

Is it the kid from Choate or the

kid from an underfunded public school? Though there are certainly exceptions, chances are that the pattern will be demographically inflected.

Ultimately, it shouldn’t matter that a student is quiet in class, or even that she never turns up, if she can prove that she has mastered the material. And even if we wanted to encourage participation, assigning grades hurts the aim by discouraging students from putting themselves out there for fear of making a silly remark.

But mostly, we should abolish participation grades because they represent the pitfalls of contemporary civic discourse. They reward provocative sound bites over quiet contemplation, hasty interjections over well-considered arguments, and the illusion of involvement over substantive engagement. Collectively, these effects denigrate intellectual life and undermine the foundations of public debate.

When Donald Trump was in college, he probably would have gotten a good participation grade.

And that should say enough.

JUN YAN CHUA is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact him at junyan.chua@yale.edu .

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

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CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7

A previous version of the article “Yale Center Beijing finishes first year” incorrectly paraphrased School of Management Dean Edward Snyder in stating that the center is run by a strong advisory board that includes the center’s three major donors. In fact, the center is run by a fulltime staff and not by its advisory board, which serves only advisory functions.

New group aims to provide “A Leg Even”

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER A new student organization hopes to ease the difficult transition to life at Yale that lowerincome freshmen may face, in addition to providing them with increased social, academic and professional resources.

The group, A Leg Even, was founded at the beginning of the school year by a group of students looking to combat specific challenges that lower-income students face at Yale. The first group of members includes 42 freshmen from a variety of racial and geographic backgrounds, according to ALE Founder and President J. T. Flowers ’17. The group is set to officially begin regular programming next week, although members have already had several meetings so far. ALE leaders are also fundraising to provide lower-income students with summer stipends so that they can more easily afford to work unpaid internships.

Flowers emphasized that ALE is meant to supplement existing administrative efforts to support lower-income students by centralizing resources and ensuring that students are aware of how to take advantage of them. “[Yale is] really doing a good job of working to increase accessibility at the administrative and institutional levels, and A Leg Even is a student-driven effort to further that same overarching mission that the University has been so adamant in pushing,” Flowers said. “I don’t think you can have the type of growth we want to see on this campus without both sides of the coin.”

ALE will host speakers and small faculty lunches throughout the year to expose its members to a variety of career paths and academic fields. Each student will also be paired with a graduate student advisor, who will offer academic and professional advice, including advice on interviewing techniques and how to build a resume.

Members are encouraged to develop leadership skills by organizing and moderating at least one general discussion meeting during the year for the rest of the members, Flowers said. In the future, former freshmen members will also gain experience in managing a student organization by filling a position on the group’s executive board.

ALE eventually plans to branch out to other colleges and universities to operate on a national level as a support network for lowerincome students.

Freshmen have already begun to take advantage of ALE resources.

Mohamed Karabatek ’19, a member of the group, said his mentor, a Yale Law School student, has already helped put him in touch with contacts for an extracurricular project he is working on regarding the Syrian refugee crisis.

Members interviewed praised the organization for providing a support system for lower-income students.

“A Leg Even is the biggest community-building resource that I have,” Karabatek said. “It puts [lower-income students] in touch with people who are going through the same, and through that we’re able to understand that we’re not alone in the struggle.”

Rayan Alsemeiry ’19 said ALE

is an important network for students who did not participate in a freshman orientation program like Cultural Connections or Freshman Scholars at Yale, programs he said comprise only a minority of lower-income students. Alsemeiry added that ALE has connected him to students with similar personal experiences.

“I think a common thread among people who come from a disadvantaged background is that we don’t really know people who have attended a school like this,” he said.

Burgwell Howard, senior associate dean of Yale College and dean of student engagement, said it can be difficult for students to navigate college life if they are the first in their family to attend college, but noted that Yale’s residential college system provides a useful support structure for students in need of guidance.

Flowers said it can be difficult for lower-income students to adjust to life at Yale, noting that these challenges can be something as simple as feeling out of place raising a hand to speak in a seminar.

“Our goal is to minimize that transition time so kids can get their feet under them as early as possible, and accordingly, really make the most of their four years here,” Flowers said.

One of ALE’s main goals is providing summer stipends for students. Flowers said Yale’s student income contribution — which expects students receiving financial aid to contribute a certain amount of money made over the summer toward tuition — can make it impossible for lowerincome students to pursue unpaid internships that may help them secure jobs after graduation.

The organization’s inception coincides with mounting pressure on the university administration to eliminate the student income contribution entirely. The student income contribution is currently $1,625 for freshmen and $3,050 for upperclassmen. ALE is in the process of raising $100,000 to provide 20 students with summer stipends of $5,000.

“The fact that ALE has to step in and cover that for us rather than Yale that has a $25 billion endowment and can easily do that is kind of unfortunate,” Alsemeiry said.

Karabatek said it may be more productive for him to work fulltime at a restaurant over the summer to make enough money, rather than taking a more rewarding unpaid internship at the Clinton Foundation. Still, he added that even if the student income contribution were abolished, there would still be a need for ALE’s summer stipends, as lowerincome students do not always have the resources to go abroad or pursue opportunities that wealthier students have.

Flowers said although the goal of ALE is not to change specific University policies, he continues to discuss financial aid policy with administrators both informally and through other outlets.

As of fall 2014, 14 percent of Yale College students were receiving Pell Grants, which are cash awards given to students requiring the highest amount of financial assistance as designated by the U.S. Federal Government.

Oktoberfest highlights German culture

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER At the Yale German Society’s third annual Oktoberfest — a traditional German beer festival that is celebrated around the world — event organizers had a clear priority: promoting safe drinking.

The event, which took place at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house on Friday evening, featured a beer garden and traditional German beverages, in addition to culinary specialties such as salted pretzels and bratwurst. But instead of focusing on the event’s alcoholic offerings, which have been highlighted in the past, organizers wanted to promote a campus understanding of German culture without making alcohol a focal point. To that end, this year was the first that organizers — the Yale German Society, in collaboration with AEPi — actively reached out to Yale’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative to ensure that the event was being organized in compliance with undergraduate regulations.

“Despite Oktoberfest being a cultural event, many people perceive it to be strongly associated with drinking,” event head organizer Philipp Arndt ’16 said.

“We were trying to highlight the cultural aspects of Oktoberfest and have good, imported German beer — the kind that you would drink to enjoy and not to get drunk — available for those over 21.”

Last year, AODHRI contacted the German Society with concerns that the group had promoted Oktoberfest in a way that focused on the alcoholic beverages that would be served.

Although a meeting between board members of the German Society and the AODHRI staff resolved all issues, Arndt said, this year he contacted the office right at the start of the semester for assistance in planning the event, and to make the process as transparent as possible.

This year, on the Facebook event for Oktoberfest, organiz-

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At this year’s Oktoberfest, organizers promoted safe drinking in addition to celebrating German culture. ers emphasized that the event’s focus was on German culture and tradition, and not on drinking, “especially not ‘drinking to get drunk.’” In addition, it was not advertised that there would be alcohol at the event, although the German Society did sell beer mugs several weeks in advance.

“The Yale Undergraduate Regulations forbid us to inform you whether there will be alcoholic refreshments available at the event, but note that — just in case you stumble upon some beverage that contains alcohol — you have to be 21 to drink in [Connecticut], and no alcohol will be served to minors at any German Society event,” the event page noted. “Please note that Oktoberfest is a cultural event and not a party.”

In addition, no hard liquor was served at the event, although this policy is not new.

Arndt added that the AODHRI staff emailed the organizers after the initial meeting to tell them that they were pleased with their work.

AEPi president David Ribot ’17 noted that the German Society’s partnership with AODHRI contributed to the fraternity’s

willingness to host the event at its house for the first time.

Johannes Behringer ’18, president of the German Society, said having the support of AODHRI reassured the event organizers that they were not doing anything wrong.

The physical layout of the event also contributed to a safe party environment for all. Previously, the event has been hosted at the heavyweight crew house, but attendees were not allowed inside the building and were required to stay in the yard.

This year, Arndt said, the organizers specifically looked for a group that had a house with a backyard where both spaces would be available.

“At AEPi we also have room inside the house, which means that we can divide the event into two areas — one for people who want to have more chill and one for more partying,” Behringer said.

Students who attended the event said they had very positive experiences, and they commended the German Society for its approach to alcohol and safe drinking.

Lena Nasrallah ’18 said the

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

New campus group to unite students

BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new student organization which aims to combat sexual misconduct will soon make its voice heard on campus.

Founded by Helen Price ’18 and Anthony D’Ambrosio ’18, Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale hopes to foster a healthier sexual climate by using social media, workshops and lectures to raise awareness of sexual misconduct. The group also plans to host the Fearless Conference, an event which explores sexual violence and its prevention, on campus this spring.

Price, who co-organized the inaugural Fearless Conference in New York City this September, and also works as the vice president of the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale, cited the recent publication of the results of the Association of American Universities campus climate survey as an impetus for the new venture. The survey found that 74 percent of undergraduate women at Yale had experienced some form of

sexual harassment.

She added that USAY, like the Fearless Conference, will focus on encouraging members of the Yale community who have not previously been involved with sexual misconduct activism to take a stand on the issue.

“There is no traditional profile of a sexual violence campaigner,” Price said. “We saw an opportunity to found an organization at Yale that will continue the momentum generated by the [AAU campus climate] survey and that is focused on intersectionality and allyship.”

D’Ambrosio, at-large coordinator of Dwight Hall’s executive committee, said that the group plans to harness the power of peer-to-peer influence in affecting change by attracting participation from all sectors of the student body.

He said that USAY will particularly target students in leadership positions, such as those involved with Greek organizations, athletics and student government.

In the coming week, USAY will elect a board of five to 10 students, Price said. Later in

the semester, the organization plans to mount an extensive social media campaign in which students will publicly commit to improving Yale’s sexual atmosphere, a measure the founders said will help generate positive conversation on campus.

“People are often quite disparaging of social media campaigning, but we think it’s a very important tool,” Price said. “We want to be present in people’s minds and encourage people to think about their own patterns of behavior.”

Over the course of this semester and the beginning of next semester, USAY will host a number of workshops and guest lectures at Yale, before hosting the Fearless Conference at Yale in the spring, D’Ambrosio said.

Price noted that the founders have received “promising” support from the Yale community since announcing their plans for USAY. She added that there is already a lot of positive work being done by other University organizations, such as the Community and Consent Educators program, to make Yale’s

sexual climate healthier.

D’Ambrosio also mentioned the possibility of future collaborations with other groups that hold similar goals.

“We would love to partner with as many organizations as possible down the line,” he said.

He added, however, that the organization’s current priority is to establish itself on campus and to build its membership.

Price said that she would eventually like to see students other than the founders be the face of the organization.

“This is not my movement to push,” she said.

Alex Borsa ’16, a Communication and Consent Educator for Silliman College, praised USAY’s goal of attracting a broad range of students from diverse backgrounds, adding that the fact that the group is solely student-run gives it a unique position.

“I think any successful and effective approach [to tackling sexual misconduct] on a campus and community level is going to accommodate actors coming from a lot of different sectors,” he said. “This could be [a] really, really effective way of getting students involved who haven’t found personally compelling reasons to be involved in sexual misconduct prevention.”

Borsa explained that research indicates that personal empowerment and community engagement are the most powerful ways of combating sexual violence.

Still, she said it is important for the leaders of USAY to be aware of other efforts on campus working toward the same objectives, and that they should always be “careful, intentional and considerate” in their activism, even when the emotionally trying nature of the work gets overwhelming.

USAY will accept positions on their managing board through this Friday, Oct. 16.

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fact that the group served food, and did not have hard liquor, made the event less about getting drunk and more about having a good time with friends.

Students also said the number of people who appeared drunk to an unsafe level seemed lower than at other social events, and they again attributed this to the lack of hard alcohol served.

The way Oktoberfest was set up — with distinct wristbands for those under and overage, ID control at the entrance and a diverse audience of undergraduate and graduate students, Yale employees and “non-Yale germanophiles” — made the event a very safe space for everyone, Arndt said.

“Germans have the stigma of drinking a lot, and we are definitely advocating for responsible drinking only if you’re over 21,” Behringer said. “No matter what scale, our events are always held in this spirit.”

Oktoberfest has been held in Bavarian Germany since 1810.

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“Wild animals are just as confused as people now. You’ve got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.” JACK HANNA AMERICAN ZOOKEEPER

GNHWPCA accused of flooding, sewage leaks LAWSUIT FROM PAGE 1 combines storm and wastewater. Bonnett added that the city has known the combined sewer system to be a problem since the early 20th century, and the GNHWPCA is currently in the process of digging up and replacing pipes and separating the systems.

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs seek three forms of restitution. The first is money damages for the flooding, which Rooney said amounts to a “temporary taking” — government appropriation of property for a limited amount of time. The plaintiffs also seek a temporary injunction against the city further expanding the user base for the sewer system until it can protect against overflows into the Long Island Sound and private properties.

The third form of restitution aims to force the city to perform infrastructure improvements to prevent backflow onto private properties and reduce discharges into the Sound.

The last demand might prove particularly burdensome for the city, Rooney said.

“When they fix the system, it’s going to take tens of millions of dollars,” he said. “It’s expensive enough that the city has chosen not to do it for 15 years … The city doesn’t seem to want to remedy it because to fix it, they’ll have to spend a lot of money on redoing the whole system.”

Rooney said the plaintiffs’ allegations of Clean Water Act violations are made under “citizen’s suit standing” — a clause in the Clean Water Act that allows citizens to sue if they witness violations.

City Engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05 did not return request for comment. Annex Alder and GNHWPCA Chairman Alphonse Paolillo Jr. directed requests for comment to the authority’s attorneys.

Catrina Kohn of Robinson & Cole LLP, the law firm representing the GNHWPCA, said in a Friday statement that the authority denies all allegations.

“The GNHWPCA denies any liability and states that it is operating its system in accordance with its lawfully issued regulatory Permits and Consent Orders,” the statement read.

The statement also said that the GNHWPCA is in “constant communication” with the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection so as to be notified of any compli-

ance issues.

Work on sewer separation in the area around Trumbull Street occurred throughout 2014. Sewer separation efforts are meant to stem “combined sewer overflow” events, which often occur during storms and leak raw sewage into rivers that flow into the Sound.

New Haven currently has 22 active CSOs, a large number of which are located around the Mill and Quinnipiac rivers. A 2011 survey by the GNHWPCA found that the removal of all city CSO locations would cost at least $550 million. The plan for removal involves separating combined sewers in Downtown and Fair Haven and constructing tanks to store excess combined wastewater.

From May 2014 to April 2015, the GNHWPCA saw a total of 172 CSO events, totaling 27.7 million gallons of discharge. That figure is significantly lower than the previous year, which had 297 CSO events totaling 104.2 million gallons of discharge.

Now that the Elm City and GNHWPCA have been served with the lawsuit, Rooney said the defendants will have 30 days from Oct. 2 to file a response. That filing deadline means that the lawsuit will not approach resolution until long after Stratford votes on whether to join the GNHWPCA on Nov. 3.

According to Henry Bruce, treasurer of the anti-regionalization WPCA Get Answers group and a talismanic figure in the anti-regionalization movement, it is not yet clear whether the lawsuit will influence the impending Stratford referendum over regionalization.

The Stratford Town Council approved selling the Town’s own WPCA to the GNHWPCA in the spring, but a petition movement garnered enough signatures — roughly 7,500 in a town of 33,000 voters — to force the town to hold a referendum on the proposal in November. Stratford Mayor John Harkins took the petitioners to court, claiming state law did not require a referendum. But the Connecticut State Superior Court sided with the petitioners in June and put regionalization on hold.

Harkins’ Chief of Staff, Mark Dillon, did not respond to request for comment on the town’s reaction to the lawsuit.

Bruce said the lawsuit goes a long way toward supporting many of the points made by

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the anti-regionalization movement.

“I don’t know that it will greatly influence it one way or another,” he said. “But it’s basically another example that supports our claim that, down the road, if the sale goes forward, the GNHWPCA has huge capital expenditures ahead, and all rate payers in the regional authority will bear the brunt of the capital expenditures.”

Rooney echoed Bruce’s sentiment. He said all taxpayers in the authority’s jurisdiction — which would include Stratford residents if the deal passes — will finance any capital improvements to the GNHWPCA system that the lawsuit demands.

But Stratford’s geographic separation from New Haven means that the proposed regionalization would be only a financial merger, not a physical one. Stratford’s sewer system would continue to serve Stratford exclusively, so any updates to New Haven’s infrastructure would not affect the town.

Bruce said the referendum has taken on a significance beyond just the question of regionalization. Much of the discontent over the regionalization plan centered on how the Stratford’s administration has handled it. Critics say the Town Council passed the deal too quickly, without enough time for public input.

“I don’t think it’s a partisan issue. I think it’s a Stratford citizen taxpayer issue,” Bruce said. “I would say that this has become a referendum on Harkins and a referendum on our elected officials acting fiscally responsible.”

The diverse party affiliations of the residents who have signed the petition for a referendum prove that regionalization is a largely nonpartisan issue, Bruce said.

With three weeks to go before the vote, Bruce said he is optimistic about the antiregionalization movement’s chances.

“I’m confident of success,” he said. “I think in the next three weeks, we’re going to go through a process of reminding everyone what they learned in the springtime — remind them that this is not a good deal for the town’s taxpayers, remind them that the mayor wanted to deny us our rights.”

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June 2015

Mayor John Harkins advocates for regionalization in State of the Town address

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Connecticut State Superior Court rules that Stratford must hold a referendum; New Haven Board of Alders approves regionalization

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Activists rally to defund Planned Parenthood DEFUND FROM PAGE 1 tive Affairs at Connecticut Right to Life Chris O’Brien, who promoted the event, said the rally was the second nationwide demonstration this year calling for the government to defund Planned Parenthood, a health care provider that offers a variety of reproductive and maternal services including abortions.

Individuals from several organizations united around a common message at the rally.

“Murder is happening here,” said Martha Ibarra-Beard, a member of Operation Save America, a fundamentalist Christian conservative organization. “There has to be a voice for the innocent.”

The Connecticut branches of

Planned Parenthood receive four separate forms of state funding, CT Right to Life reported in a Wednesday press release.

CT Right to Life described one of these family planning funds as “unrestricted,” in the press release, adding that although the funding may not be directly intended for abortions, the money can be used to finance them. O’Brien said that while more than $296 million was cut this year from state hospital budgets, the unrestricted grant to Planned Parenthood — amounting to $1,060,091 in taxpayer dollars — was left untouched.

Attendance at Saturday’s rally was not as high as it was in August, when 350 Planned Parenthood locations were picketed nationwide, Citizens for a

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Pro-Life Society National Director Monica Miller said. But with 290 picket locations and an estimated 30,000 participants nationwide, this month’s rally was still impressive, especially given the lack of a breaking news story to galvanize activists, she added.

The first of the two national rallies Miller’s organization cosponsored, held Aug. 22, was in direct response to a controversial Planned Parenthood video released by the Center for Medical Progress, a California-based anti-abortion group.

Norma Contois, a pro-life activist who attended the New Haven rally, said she joined the protest because she believes Planned Parenthood makes 86 percent of its revenue from per-

forming abortions. Only 14 percent of revenue, Contois estimates, comes from other women’s health services.

Many of Saturday’s activists scrutinized Planned Parenthood’s choice to brand itself as a health care provider given the limited range of services the organization offers.

“How many mammogram machines do you have?” asked rally attendee Amber Trawick through a megaphone during the rally.

Any doctor can perform a breast cancer screening, O’Brien said. But Planned Parenthood does not offer mammograms because it does not have licensed radiographers, he added.

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of family planning. O’Brien said he would rather see the state invest in social services for parents and children, as opposed to funding Planned Parenthood.

Contois said women experiencing unplanned pregnancies are often unaware of how much pre- and post-natal support is available to them. There are more crisis pregnancy centers — nonprofits that counsel women to carry their pregnancies to term — than abortion clinics nationwide, she said.

Planned Parenthood ended 2014 with a $127 million surplus, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards said during a congressional hearing.

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March calls for lower youth imprisonment

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Social justice advocates called for new legislation to fight the criminalization of youth of color at Sunday’s Juvenile Justice Reform March.

The three-mile march and subsequent demonstration on the New Haven Green — coorganized by Yale’s chapter of the NAACP and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life — drew a crowd of more than 80 university students, state and local legislators and activists from Greater New Haven.

“We need voices, help, interest and obvious demonstration to tell people that all children’s lives matter,” state Rep. Toni Walker, a speaker at the demonstration, said.

Abby Johnson ’16, who came up with the idea for the event, said she drew inspiration from participating in the NAACP’s “America’s Journey For Justice,” a 1,000-mile social justice march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, D.C. She said she wanted to bring people of different backgrounds together to express their frustrations over the racially motivated injustices of the past year.

Brea Baker ’16, president of Yale’s NAACP, said she worked with Johnson and Rabbi Leah Cohen of the Slifka Center to incorporate juvenile justice reform — a hot topic among New Haven and state legislators — into the march. Cohen and Johnson said the crowd, which included representatives from nearly 100 social justice organizations, highlighted the issue’s relevance to all society members.

Walker noted that while ethnic minorities make up only 21 percent of the nation’s youth population, they make up 82 percent of minors in the criminal justice system, reflecting a “ridiculous disparity” and prejudice against

More than 80 people participated in the three-mile Juvenile Justice Reform March on Saturday. youth of color.

“We have become a nation of hashtags,” said Sierrah Smalls, president of W.R.I.T.E. Poetry Club at the University of New Haven, in a poem she wrote and performed at the event.

Smalls added that she hopes the public will eventually internalize the national Black Lives Matter movement’s message.

“Maybe in the next life … we’ll realize that black lives do matter,” she said.

Walker worked with Mayor

Toni Harp to raise the age of adult jurisdiction from 16 to 18, a change that preceded a roughly 50 percent decrease in the number of minors in adult prisons since 2012. Despite this success, Walker said there is more work to be done toward building communities in which fewer minors end up in prison.

Barbara Fair, founder of My Brother’s Keeper, a grassroots organization that speaks out against systems of oppression in the nation, said she has been

pushing for legislation to increase the age of adult jurisdiction to 21.

Her position is informed by scientific evidence that brains are not fully developed until the age of 25, she said.

Fair added that she believes the only way to produce change is by dismantling what she called the core of our criminal justice system: white supremacy and black inferiority.

Common Cause’s Director of Voting and Elections Allegra Chapman said part of the problem

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is that America’s democratic body is not representative of the population, as 92 percent of legislators are white men.

“It can feel very discouraging when black and brown boys and girls are being targeted by the community that is tasked to care for them,” Chapman said.

Chapman added that there is an immense amount of work to be done to bring justice and equality to young people of color. But she said the responsibility lies with the millennial generation, which

can encourage progress through means such as attending marches.

Aidan Kaplan ’17, who learned about Sunday’s event from the Slifka Center, said he plans to make attending social justice demonstrations a priority.

“There’s no march without marchers,” Kaplan said.

Connecticut abolished juvenile life sentences without parole in June.

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In an effort to accommodate students of all cultures, the Berkeley dining hall now offers chopsticks.

BY SONIA WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In an effort to make students feel more at home during meals, chopsticks will now be provided by the Berkeley College dining hall.

Last Thursday, Berkeley began offering chopsticks as an alternative to traditional Western dining utensils. The addition is part of an effort by two Berkeley students to make students feel more comfortable in the dining hall.

“Just having chopsticks there can make the dining hall feel more like home,” David Liu ’18, one of the organizers of the initiative, said, adding that making Yale students feel at home is part of Yale Dining’s philosophy.

Andy Hill ’17, Liu’s co-organizer, said the initiative started during the 2014–15 academic year when he and Liu were both Yale College Council representatives for Berkeley College. As they looked to improve campus in ways other than their university-wide YCC projects, Liu brought up the idea of offering chopsticks in the Berkeley dining hall. Liu mentioned that some of his friends had previously approached him about offering chopsticks on days that Asian food was served.

Hill and Liu then sent out a survey to Berkeley students

about their dining hall experiences to gauge their interest in chopsticks.

“It was an interesting spread actually,” Hill said of the survey results, which measured interest on a scale of one to 100. “The mean score was only 55, but the standard deviation was 23 … which showed that the people who wanted it, really, really wanted it.”

Liu added that around 20 percent of the University’s students are Asian, and many regularly use chopsticks at home.

Hill said Berkeley Dining Hall Manager Monica Gallegos played a key role in proposing the idea to administrators within Yale Dining.

“For [these students], eating with chopsticks is eating at home,” Gallegos said. “[The chopsticks are] to make them feel at home — that’s what we at the dining halls are doing.”

Hill mentioned there has already been an “overwhelmingly positive response” to the pilot program.

Peter Wang ’18, an international student from Hong Kong, said some students may be more used to eating with chopsticks as opposed to a spoon, fork and knife with cultural foods like noodles.

“Since freshman year I’ve been wanting to bring my own chopsticks to the dining hall,”

said Jonathan Shao ’17, a student in Berkeley who uses chopsticks for every meal he eats at home.

“Now that it’s socially acceptable to use chopsticks in the dining hall, I think it’s a great way to practice using chopsticks.”

Wang and Lucinda Peng ’18 said they hope all other dining halls will provide chopsticks as well.

“I’m curious how many [chopsticks] they will lose,” Silliman chef Stu Comen said. “In Silliman, we’re already short on soup bowls.”

Hill said that if students enjoy the chopsticks option, the initiative has the potential to spread to other colleges. Though neither Hill nor Liu will themselves push for the addition of chopsticks in other dining halls, they welcome other students to ask for advice in bringing them to their own residential colleges.

“For the most part I think it’s introducing some good fun right now,” Liu said, adding that he hopes the chopsticks in Berkeley will foster conversation about Asian culture and history.

In February, the Berkeley College Master’s Office sent an email to its students asking them to return mugs to the dining hall, which at the time was missing 394 of its 400 mugs.

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With SOHO China, Yale extends reach in China CHINA FROM PAGE 1 China,” which focuses on the changing nature and future of the Chinese economic system — said the University could take steps to expand its course offerings on contemporary Chinese subjects.

Enrollment in Roach’s class has increased by nearly 40 percent over the past five years, signaling heightened student interest in the field, he said.

Maggie Furlong ’18, who is currently enrolled in “The Next China,” said she values the course because it not only covers the recent history of the Chinese economy, but also the country’s modern state and future prospects.

“I think it is really important for liberal-arts schools not just to offer classes about the past, but also about modern-day insights,” she said.

Yale is increasing its engagement not only with Chinese college students and alumni, but also with China’s high-school population. Over the summer, the University announced that it would use Yale Center Beijing to host the inaugural session of YYGS-Beijing in January. Modeled after the existing YYGS program — a twoweek summer academic experience at Yale for rising high-school seniors — YYGS-Beijing will likely include Yale faculty lectures, seminars taught by Yale students and career panels led by Yale World Fellows and alumni, said YYGS Deputy Director Erin Schutte ’12.

YYGS Director and Special Assistant to the President Ted Wittenstein ’04 LAW ’12 said increasing exchanges between Yale and China made now the right moment to bring YYGS to Beijing.

“We’re very excited to support the new Yale Center in Beijing, promote the center in China and

to bring Yale faculty and students to China to interact with talented high-school Chinese students and others from across Asia,” he said.

Schutte said there were many inspirations for expanding YYGS to China, including Yale’s strong alumni network in Beijing, the University’s popularity among Chinese students and its strong relationship with China, dating back to former University President Richard Levin’s Yale-China Initiative. Schutte added that her team plans to reach a wide spectrum of Chinese students through targeted outreach and social media.

Roach said YYGS-Beijing will enable Yale to deepen its links with prospective students living in China, adding that he supports the new program and plans to lecture for it.

Asia Project Manager for YYGS Daniel Tam-Claiborne GRD ’14 said YYGS-Beijing should help Yale expand its reach in China.

“I’m excited to get Yale’s name out there and recruit folks who would be interested in YYGS but never could have attended it in its original incarnation,” he said. “I’d like to tap into areas in China and Asia that are less developed, with less of an idea of what Yale and YYGS are.”

In New Haven, the percentage of Chinese students at Yale is higher than that of any other international group. According to the Office of Public Affairs, over 500 Chinese students attended Yale College and its graduate and professional schools in the 2014– 2015 academic year.

With the large influx of Chinese students, Chinese student organizations have also taken on a more prominent role on campus, both in providing a community for these students and in promoting Chinese culture to the wider

Yale community.

Qiao Lu GRD ’16, former president of the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, said the organization offers support for new Chinese students by organizing airport transportation, hosting welcome parties and even planning group trips to IKEA. The ACSSY has also hosted three major events, aim-

ing to bridge the gap between the Chinese student community and the wider Yale population. On the most recent Chinese New Year, the ACSSY hosted the Spring Festival Gala in Woolsey Hall, and in April, the group organized a U.S.-China forum.

Through these events, Qiao said he hoped the organization would help Yale students understand

Chinese culture through the eyes of their peers, rather than through television or through a political lens. Ultimately, though, he said every Chinese student can help promote Chinese culture through small acts.

“The easiest way is to bring non-Chinese students to Chinese festivals and events,” he said. “For me, I always bring mooncakes to

the lab during the Mid-Autumn Festival.”

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YCDO reverses SOBs decision

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The Yale Society of Orpheus and Bacchus a cappella group will hold a delayed rush process this weekend.

SOBS FROM PAGE 1 participating in this year’s a cappella rush, prompting the rest of the singing community to rally in support of the SOBs. More than 100 current and former students signed an open letter to Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway in early September calling for more information about the administration’s decision to sanction the entire group for the actions of one individual, and the Singing Group Council acted as a liaison between administrators and the SOBs. The leaders of the SOBs, alongside the prankster, appeared before the Executive Committee on Sept. 30, and on Oct. 8, Holloway told the group over email that his office had lifted the suspension of the group’s rush pro-

cess, according to May. Holloway could not be reached for comment Sunday night.

May added that over the past month, the SOBs have held about 15 hours of internal discussion to talk about group culture and why one member felt it was acceptable to conduct such a prank.

He added that when the prankster appeared before the Executive Committee, he expressed deep regret for his actions and the consequences that followed.

In addition, as the person who planned and executed the prank, he received the harshest penalty, May said. Fergusson said the student is now effectively on probation, so the YCDO is monitoring his behavior.

While highly unusual in timing, the SOBs’ rush process will feature many of the same compo-

nents as traditional fall a cappella rush, which concluded on Sept.

15. The group will hold auditions this weekend, rush meals and a “singing dessert” later in the month, culminating in callback auditions and a tap night in early November. Fergusson said he met with May almost immediately after the reversal of the suspension to talk about how to craft a worthwhile rush process on such short notice.

Though a cappella group members interviewed said they support the reversal of the suspension, some questioned whether the SOBs could fully recover.

John Augustine ’18, rush manager of the Baker’s Dozen a cappella group, said the SOBs might struggle to maintain the culture, character and level of singing

talent they have had in previous years, as many talented singers have already joined other groups.

Others noted that in hindsight, the YCDO should have allowed the SOBs to recruit freshmen and then reprimanded the group afterward, since not having a freshman class can undermine the dynamic and quality of an a capella group.

Still, May said he expects the reversal of the suspension to repair most of the damage that has been done to the group over the past month.

“I am a huge believer that every freshman ends up in the right group,” he said. “There are still so many people out there who want to rush us.”

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In their planning, architects will consider a report currently being compiled by the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee, a group of 27 students, faculty and senior administrators that Salovey assembled last spring to solicit and synthesize community hopes for the project. The report will be completed and presented to Salovey by Thanksgiving, according to Skyler Ross ’16, a member of the committee.

University spokesman Tom Conroy said Salovey will subsequently share the report with the architects.

Ross said that Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, led the search for the architecture firm, but Salovey made the final decision. Senior Counselor to the President and Provost Linda Lorimer told the News in September that Stephen Schwarzman ’69, the donor whose $150 million gift made the transformation possible, even flew back to the United States from Europe at one point to participate in the selection process for the architect.

Salovey told the News in September that bridging the report’s recommendations with the architects’ actual design will be “maybe the most important part” of the entire planning process.

Elizabeth Leber, a partner at BBB, told the News that the goal of the project is not to erase the history of the site, but to modernize it to reflect current times.

“As we have at other historic buildings, our goal is to find a balance between preserving a building’s character and transforming it to accommodate new uses,” Leber said.

The way to achieve this balance between the historic and the modern, Leber added, is through extensive research of the building’s current condition as well as its past role as the Univer-

sity Commons and Memorial Hall. The firm’s vision is to bring the historic building up to date in terms of its architecture, technology and building systems.

Salovey, Alexander and other administrators did not return requests for additional explanation on the process of selecting an architect.

Leber emphasized that the caliber of her firm led to its selection.

“We pride ourselves on being excellent listeners, and [we] value the knowledge and enthusiasm that the Yale community has for this project,” Leber said.

“We can’t think of a better project than the Schwarzman Center, and a better client than Yale, for us to bring these skills and passion to bear.”

The hiring of the architecture firm comes alongside administrative efforts to solicit student input in the design of the center. The Advisory Committee just concluded a series of listening tours across various University constituencies, including undergraduate organizations, residential colleges, administrators and the various graduate and professional schools.

Like Leber, Ross emphasized that collaboration — both with the Advisory Committee and with the Yale community more generally — will be a critical component of the planning efforts.

“They really are hitting the ground running on engaging with us and our community to make sure the center matches what our communal hopes for the center are,” Ross said. “The senior architect is coming to [the Advisory Committee’s] meeting next Wednesday, and I assume they will send us ideas for feedback.”

Beyer Blinder Belle was founded in 1968.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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“Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say ‘ but you can’t do that’ aren’t actually very important. I don’t take ‘no’ too seriously.” RICHARD ROGERS ARCHITECT

Yale holds conference on dyslexia

BY QIANYI QIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Professors and leading scientists in learning development at the Yale School of Medicine hosted a conference on dyslexia Friday to advocate for public awareness of the learning disability and improved public policy addressing the needs of students with dyslexia.

The conference, entitled “Slow Readers, Fast Thinkers: It Takes a Dyslexic Brain,” took place at the Yale School of Management and drew a wide range of prominent dyslexic speakers who shared stories about dealing with the learning disability. According to Sally Shaywitz, professor in learning development at the Yale School of Medicine and co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, 10 million people in the U.S., including as many as one in five students, are affected by dyslexia.

“It is highly appropriate that this event takes place at Yale University, the national leader in implementing scientific knowledge of dyslexia in its practices,” Shaywitz said during her welcome remarks. She also congratulated Yale’s Admissions Office and the administration for developing state-of-the-art knowledge of dyslexia over the past three decades and adopting appropriate accommodations, including foreign language waivers and extended exam times, that allow dyslexic students to thrive.

Bennett Shaywitz, Sally Shaywitz’s husband and the other co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, explained that in the last two decades, neuroscientists have come to understand the neural bases of dyslexia. Evidence from functional neuroimaging shows that dyslexic readers have insufficient functioning in the poste-

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The “Slow Readers, Fast Thinkers: It Takes a Dyslexic Brain” conference brought together politicians, entrepreneurs, writers and artists. rior neural systems of their brain, making it difficult for them to form connections between written words and their pronunciations, he added.

In her remarks, Sally Shaywitz discussed the “Seas of Strengths” model, which offers an alternative understanding of dyslexia.

The model focuses on the “sea” of strengths dyslexic individuals have, including critical thinking, concept formation, problem solving, vocabulary and creativity. She added that the key in treating dyslexia is to “remediate the weakness but not to forget the strength.”

Shaywitz said that according to research from 2010, for dyslexic readers, reading ability has

little correlation with intelligence level — in fact, individuals with dyslexia tend to be fast and outof-the-box thinkers despite their difficulty with reading. With early diagnosis and evidence-based intervention programs, students with dyslexia can improve their reading skills, develop their strengths and achieve academic success, she added.

The panelists present at the conference served as living examples of high-achieving individuals with dyslexia.

David Boies LAW ’66, an attorney who has represented the U.S. government and former Vice President Al Gore, shared his story of dealing with dyslexia when he was a student at

Yale Law School. Boies said he learned to listen “really carefully” in class. “[Dyslexia] doesn’t relate to who they are, doesn’t relate to their intelligence, or doesn’t relate to what they can do,” Boies said. “It is an input issue. As you grow older, input gets less and less important and processing becomes more and more important, and the processing part is where we excel.”

Brian Grazer, Academy Awardwinning producer of the film “A Beautiful Mind,” co-founder of Imagine Entertainment and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015, recounted feeling humiliated as a child because he was not

able to read and could not answer the teacher’s questions.

Shaywitz reminded the audience that these successful panelists only represent a small portion of the dyslexic community, adding that many dyslexic individuals are not diagnosed.

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, who also spoke at the conference, emphasized the need for the government to address dyslexia, noting that the learning disorder affects 20 percent of the population and could account for 80 percent of illiteracy in the nation.

Cassidy asserted that social policies must be sensitive to the socioeconomic differences that make it even harder for the socioeconomically disadvantaged to

have their dyslexia addressed.

The day before the conference, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution, introduced by Cassidy, that designates October 2015 “National Dyslexia Awareness Month.”

“What we face now is not a knowledge gap, but an action gap,” Shaywitz said, adding that there need to be more efforts to raise public awareness about dyslexia.

Famous entrepreneurs, scientists and artists with dyslexia include Charles Schwab, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and John Lennon.

Contact QIANYI QIN at qianyi.qin@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.� REP. BOBBY SCOTT

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College will hold town halls on sexual assault

Cornell relaunches first-year spring admissions program

BY ZACHARY SILVER

COURTESY OF THE HARVARD CRIMSON

BY NOAH DELWICHE AND IVAN LEVINGSTON Following widespread concern over the prevalence of sexual assault at Harvard, the college will host a series of student-run town halls for identitybased groups later this month to solicit feedback on how the issue affects different students on campus.

Undergraduates will lead the series of discussions, which will include sessions specifically tailored toward women, men, transgender and genderqueer students, students with disabilities, and students who identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender or queer.

According to Emelyn dela Peùa, Harvard college’s assistant dean of student life for equity, diversity and inclusion, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will coordinate a discussion for students of color as well.

The college decided to host the meetings after analyzing the results of the spring’s campus sexual assault climate survey, which were released

late last month.

The data show that respondents from specific identity groups, including women and people who identiHARVARD fied as LGBAQN — lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, questioning or not listed — reported experiencing higher rates of sexual misconduct.

Among LGBAQN undergraduate females, 17.9 percent reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact involving physical force or incapacitation since fall 2014; 12 percent of straight undergraduate female respondents, meanwhile, reported experiencing it during that time. For LGBAQN undergraduate males, that rate of experiencing nonconsensual penetration and sexual touching was 10.9 percent in that time, compared to 2.7 percent among their straight male peers.

Students with disabilities also

reported experiencing sexual assault at a higher rate, with 14.2 percent indicating that they had experienced nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching involving physical force or incapacitation, compared to an 8.3 percent of students university-wide who did not indicate having a disability.

Following the data’s late September release, the college hosted a series of general town hall events. At these discussions, dela Peùa said undergraduates said they wanted the college to host further conversations geared toward specific identity groups.

The upcoming town halls, dela PeĂąa added, fit into recent conversations about the intersectionality of sexual violence, or how discrimination affects different students in unique ways. Those discussions have become more common recently, she said. “We recognize that violence and harassment and discrimination intersect with different forms of identity, and so we wanted to acknowledge that this happens,â€? dela PeĂąa said.

THE MACMILLAN CENTER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 11:45 a.m. Paul Bracken, David Bach, and David Cameron, Yale University, “Volkswagen’s $87 Billion Crisis: The Larger Consequences of the Emissions Cheating Scandal.� Sponsored by European Union Studies and the School of Management. Room 4430, Evans Hall, SOM, 165 Whitney Avenue.

6:00 p.m. Flight, Transit, and Arrival: A Panel Discussion on the Current Migration and Refugee Crisis with Seyla Benhabib, Yale University; David Cameron, Yale University; Georg Fischer European Union Fellow; Chris George, Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, New Haven; and Sigrun Kahl, Yale University. Sponsored by European Studies; European Union Studies; Hellenic Studies; Middle East Studies; Global Justice; the MacMillan Center; and Ethnicity, Race and Migration. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 11:30 a.m. Roger Petersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “A Social 6FLHQFH *XLGH WR WKH ,UDT &RQĂ LFW Âľ Part of the MacMillan Comparative 3ROLWLFV :RUNVKRS DQG WKH 2UGHU &RQĂ LFW DQG 9LROHQFH 6SHDNHU 6HULHV Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 12:00 p.m. Baladas Ghoshal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, “Indonesia under President Jokowi: An Assessment.� Part of the Brown Bag Seminar Series sponsored by Southeast Asia Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

4:00 p.m. Carina Ray, Brandeis University, “Sexual Panic and the State in Colonial and Post-­Independence Africa.� Part of the Lecture Series sponsored by African Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

7:00 p.m. Sholay (Embers, 1975), directed by Ramesh Sippy. $IWHU ÀOP discussion with Rohit De, Yale University. Part of the SASC Cinema Series sponsored by South Asian Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 12:00 p.m. Daniel Strum, University of SĂŁo Paulo (USP), Brazil, “The Brazilian Sugar in the Formation of the Early Modern Atlantic World.â€?

Part of the Brazil Lecture Series sponsored by Latin American & Iberian Studies. Co-­sponsored by the Latin American Series at Yale Law School, the %UD]LO &OXE DW <DOH DQG WKH <DOH 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH RI ,QWHUQDWLRQDO $IIDLUV 5RRP Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall Street.

1:30 p.m. Jeffrey Bachman, American University,â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flipping the Script: Politicideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Communist Victims.â&#x20AC;? Part of the Politicide Seminar Series sponsored by Genocide Studies. Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 12:00 p.m. Jonathan Kramnick, Yale University, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three Novels and the Problem of Consciousness.â&#x20AC;? Part of the Fall Workshop sponsored by Yale CHESS. Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.

12:00 p.m. Paul Losensky, Indiana University, Bloomington, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Poet Peeks from behind the Poem: Interactions of Audience and Artist in the Signature Verses of Saâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;eb Tabrizi.â&#x20AC;? Part of the Colloquium Series sponsored by Iranian Studies and Middle East Studies.

Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

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Approximately 125 first-year students will be joining the Cornell community in January through the First-Year Spring Admissions program, according to Jason Locke, associate vice provost for enrollment.

This will be the first time the program will run since 2003, when the university previously had a similar program called â&#x20AC;&#x153;J Frosh,â&#x20AC;? according to Locke.

The primary reason for the revival of the FYSA-type program, according to Locke, is the drastic increase in first-year applicants and the desire to accommodate the influx of qualified candidates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Applications to Cornell have more than doubled since the former J Frosh program was discontinued,â&#x20AC;? Locke said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s class, Cornell reviewed close to 42,000 applications for a class of 3,182 new first-year students. In order to allow more students to benefit from a Cornell education, the University approved the FYSA program.â&#x20AC;?

Locke added that the evolution of higher education has also forced the university to change the way it looks at firstyear applicants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students are approaching a college education in a way that is no longer bound by time or place,â&#x20AC;? Locke said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More students desire the opportunity to take time in the transition from high school to work, travel or volunteer.â&#x20AC;?

Only four of Cornellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colleges have accepted FYSA students for this coming January.

Thirty-one FYSA students will be entering the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 62 into Arts and Sciences, 20 into Human Ecology and 12 into the School of Hotel Administration, according to Locke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For some of our undergraduate colleges and schools, it is not possible to begin in the spring semester due to curricular requirements and course

sequencing,â&#x20AC;? Locke said.

While Locke said the North Campus Residential Initiative, which was put into place to bring a sense of unity CORNELL among freshmen, created a desire to have first-year students enroll in the fall, considerations for reinstating the FYSA program began through the Enrollment Assessment Task Force. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In March 2014, the Enrollment Assessment Task Force recommended to Provost [Kent] Fuchs that the topic of January admission for freshmen deserved analysis, for a variety of strategic, academic and budgetary reasons,â&#x20AC;?

Locke said.

While many FYSA students are excited to join the Cornell community, some worry about the amount of work that must be done in order to catch up to students who began in the fall.

Jenna Steele, a FYSA hotel student, said she was accepted off the waitlist and is spending the fall semester studying at a local university to try and limit the impact of starting late. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because the hotel schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s courses are so specific, I had to work very hard to find a place that would allow me to take the specific courses I need,â&#x20AC;? Steele said.

In addition to catching up on school work, she also said she felt the emotional toll of starting late. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was very hard watching all of my friends go off to school, being the only one left behind,â&#x20AC;? Steele said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get to hear about everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences, see their lives on social media and be jealous of them all from my bedroom.â&#x20AC;?

However, she added that she did not feel that temporarily attending a different university and having catch-up work should keep her from attending her university of choice.

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WEDNESDAY

High of 71, low of 54.

High of 67, low of 48.

A WITCH NAMED KOKO BY CHARLES BRUBAKER

ON CAMPUS MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 11:45 AM Volkswagen’s $87 Billion Crisis: The Larger Consequences of the Emissions Cheating Scandal. A panel discussion with School of Management professors Paul Bracken and David Bach and political science professor David Cameron to discuss the implications of the Volkswagen scandal on environmental regulation, corporate risk, and consumers. Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.), Rm. 4430.

12:30 PM Making Meaningful Mischief with The Yes Men. How can you get media attention for your low-budget or no-budget activist campaign? The Yes Men will lead this workshop that walks you through techniques they’ve learned and tested over the years. In collaboration with the Yale School of Art and Film and Media Studies Program, the Digital Media Center for the Arts hosts The Yes Men for this experimental production workshop.

Loria Center (190 York St.), Third Floor Lounge.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 10:30 AM Poynter: A Conversation with Wei Leng Tay Wei Leng Tay is a photographer and artist based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Tay has collaborated with art organizations and institutions in countries such as Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan to produce works intimately linked to ideas of identity, displacement and the self. Her photographic works are in public and private collections across Asia. School of Art (1156 Chapel St.), Rm. G32.

7:00 PM Choctaw Lessons. Want to learn Choctaw? Come to the Native American Cultural Center from 7–8 p.m., Sundays and Tuesdays. No knowledge of Choctaw necessary, all Yale students welcome. Choctaw is offered through the Native American Language Project, an exciting new initiative at Yale, and a joint collaboration of the Native American Cultural Center, the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and the Center for Language Study. Native American Cultural Center (26 High St.).

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his weekend, the Yale men’s club water polo team hosted their first home tournament in five years. They were victorious in three out of their four matchups, including an impressive 14–13 win over Boston University in a game that went into sudden-death double overtime. The club team is the highest level of water polo that can be played at Yale, but the program is one of the most competitive and successful among all club sports. The men’s season is concentrated in the fall, while the women’s season begins in January and continues throughout the spring. IRENE JIANG reports.

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YALE SOFTBALL ELIS SPLIT SCRIMMAGES Before the New England winter forces activity indoors, the Yale softball team took part in four scrimmages over the weekend, earning a 2–2 record. The Bulldogs defeated Southern Connecticut and Hartford, but lost to New Haven and Connecticut.

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MONDAY

COLUMBIA FOOTBALL LIONS LOSERS NO LONGER After 24 consecutive losses spanning the past three seasons, Columbia’s football team returned to the win column with a 26–3 shellacking of Wagner College. The victory leaves Cornell the lone team in the Ivy League without a victory this year.

“We started off slow … and relied on our ability to come back and fight, which obviously wasn’t enough.”

KELLY JOHNSON ’16 VOLLEYBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

Bulldogs undefeated no more

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Saturday was a long day for the Yale football team, which fell 35–3 to Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire.

The game, which stretched on for three hours and 43 minutes, was marked by both offensive and defensive struggles for Yale (3–1, 1–1 Ivy). The offense entered the game averaging 457.7 total yards per game but on Saturday managed just 276 — its lowest total since the Elis put up 264 yards, also against Dartmouth, in 2013 — while the defense was unable to contain Big Green quarterback Dalyn Williams, who led Dartmouth (4–0, 2–0) to victory with a school-record 435 passing yards.

The loss marked the third straight year in which a loss to Dartmouth ended an undefeated start to Yale’s season. This one, however, was the worst defeat that the Elis have suffered at the hands of the Big Green since 1996.

“We had a lack of execution,” head coach Tony Reno said. “You name it, it happened. Dartmouth, to give them a lot of credit, has a

great defense that made a lot of plays. We equally made as many mistakes, which cost us a lot of plays. We dropped more balls than we ever had. We didn’t read covers the way we usually do. We missed some blocks we normally don’t miss.”

For the first time all season, the Bulldogs — who played without seven starters — seemed to struggle with the consequences of their injuries. While the players who stepped in battled through all four quarters, they could not overcome a team that started eight seniors on offense and nine on defense.

The seven missing Elis included wide receiver Myles Gaines ’17 and offensive lineman Jon Bezney ’18, both of whom played in last week’s win over Lehigh, as well as running back Candler Rich ’17, defensive end Nick Crowle ’18, defensive back Foye Oluokun ’17 and wide receivers Bo Hines ’18 and Robert Clemons III ’17, who missed time last week.

After the game, Reno said that other than Saturday, he could not recall a time when seven Yale starters were out. Though he praised the players who took on

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larger roles against Dartmouth, he said everyone needed to play better.

“Obviously [Dartmouth is] a good team, but I think we’re a good team too,” quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 said. “We just didn’t play well today. We’re young, and we played young today … There were some moments where we panicked.”

The lone score for Yale was a 35-yard field goal from kicker Bryan Holmes ’17 late in the first half. The field goal was one of five times the Elis pushed the ball past Dartmouth’s 35-yard line, but three of the chances were cut short by red-zone interceptions, and a fifth ended with a turnover on downs.

Dartmouth, meanwhile, scored once on the ground and four times through the air, led largely by Williams. Going into the game, Yale knew that stopping Williams was a top priority and established a game plan, according to Reno, of mixing up pressure and zone coverage in order to contain the dual-threat quarterback.

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Big Green running back Bryan Grove’s early rushing touchdown preceded four passing scores for Dartmouth.

Losses drop Yale from top

Meredith reaches milestone

BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s soccer team broke its five-game winless streak and pulled out a 1–0 victory over Dartmouth this past Saturday night, marking the 200th career victory in head coach Rudy Meredith’s Yale career.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Bulldogs (4–5–2, 1–2–0 Ivy) finally found the key to success: playing solid defense all the way through the game. After two disappointing losses to open up conference play, the Elis knew they had their hands full with the highest-scoring offense in the Ivy League in town. The back line was able to shut out the Big Green, who entered play having scored 29 goals in 12 contests.

“We made sure to stay compact as a team and to communicate in order to keep track of their players,” goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 said.

The Big Green’s (7–3–2, 0–2– 1) Lucielle Kozlov came into the game leading the Ivy League with 9 goals, but Yale was able to suppress the senior captain, allowing her to only attempt one shot on goal. Ames said Yale stayed on top of their game, applying consistent defensive pressure.

Forward Michelle Alozie ’19, who leads the Bulldogs with five goals, was lively throughout the first half, constantly pushing the ball up the wing and creating scoring opportunities. With 22 seconds left in the half, however, a challenge in the air brought Alozie to the ground with a head and neck injury. She was escorted off the SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE B3

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The Bulldogs had not lost two consecutive conference matches since 2010 but fell to Dartmouth and Harvard this past weekend.

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER The Yale volleyball team entered the weekend undefeated and alone atop the Ivy League. Two blowout losses later, however, the Bulldogs sit tied for third place behind both of this weekend’s opponents, Dartmouth and Harvard.

VOLLEYBALL Yale (8–6, 3–2 Ivy) fell in four sets to the Big Green (7–7, 4–1) on Friday, dropping the first two frames and failing to duplicate last weekend’s miracle comeback against Cornell.

Against Harvard (8–7, 4–1) on Saturday, the Bulldogs lost the first two sets of a match for the third consecutive time and eventually fell 3–0. The weekend marks the first time since 2010 that the Bulldogs dropped two consecutive Ivy League matches.

“I think that we lacked our usual tenacity, and didn’t battle defensively as we needed to,” captain and outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 said. “We struggled to get our rhythm going at the start of both matches, and then didn’t play catch up well.”

In the loss to Dartmouth, the Bulldogs got off on the wrong foot, falling down 6–0

in the opening set before a kill from outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 got Yale on the board. A furious comeback kept the Bulldogs close in the first set, but they eventually fell 29–27.

In the second set, Yale took an 18–12 lead and seemed set to tie up the match at one set apiece. A Dartmouth timeout stymied the Elis’ momentum, however, and the Big Green came back to tie the match at 18. From there, the teams traded punches before Dartmouth pulled out the final two points and took the set 25–23.

The Bulldogs won the third set, but Dartmouth dominated the fourth, winning the

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final six points to close out a 25–15 set and complete a comfortable victory. A week after coming back with three straight set wins to beat Cornell at home, Yale proved unable to do so on the road against a more talented Big Green squad.

“We lacked the focus we usually have in our own gym,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “We started off slow in both matches and relied on our ability to come back and fight, which obviously wasn’t enough.”

Facing Harvard the next night, the Bulldogs sucSEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B3

ROBBIE SHORT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Hannah Coy ’18 and her fellow defenders shut out Dartmouth, which entered the weekend tied for the most goals scored in the Ivy League.

THE NUMBER OF VICTORIES YALE WOMEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH RUDY MEREDITH HAS NOW WON IN HIS TIME AT YALE AFTER A 1–0 VICTORY OVER DARTMOUTH ON SATURDAY. In 21 seasons with the Bulldogs, Meredith’s career record now stands at 200–132–29.

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SPORTS

“I think golf is literally an addiction. I’m surprised there’s not Golf Anonymous.”

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Sixth out of 16 for Yale WOMEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE B4 Sabrina Long ’19, Sara Garmezy ’17, Jayshree Sarathy ’18 and Julia Yao ’18 formed the Yale B team, which beat out Long Island-Brooklyn’s varsity squad to secure 15th place out of the 16 teams in attendance.

Though Long turned in a total score of 20-over — a lower tally than three of Yale’s A team golfers — the biggest highlight for Yale’s second team may have been Sarathy, who shot a hole-in-one on the par-three 13th hole of round one.

After opening the tournament with an 83 in the first round, Garmezy bounced back in the second round with a much-improved score of 73.

She finished the Yale Invitational at 22-over.

This weekend’s tournament was the last competition for the Bulldogs until they next compete in the BYU Entrada Classic on Mar. 14.

“The Yale Invitational is a great tournament to end on,” Luo said. “It’s always a ton of fun and no doubt my favorite tournament so far. It’s been a solid season, but I think the team is ready to work hard in the winter to come back stronger than ever in the spring.”

The Bulldogs have competed in three tournaments this fall, placing 17th at the Vanderbilt Invitational on Sept. 20 and fifth at the Princeton Invitational on Oct. 4.

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

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After losing by a combined score of 17–0 to three nationally ranked opponents earlier this year, the Elis fought to a 2–0 defeat against No. 6 Albany.

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Playing for Yale’s B team, Jayshree Sarathy ’18 shot a hole-in-one on the 13th hole of the first round.

Bush Cup ends fall season MEN’S GOLF FROM PAGE B4 The Bush Cup concluded a busy fall season for the Bulldogs — the event was Yale’s sixth intercollegiate competition in the past month. The Elis played Friday after participating in the Macdonald Cup less than a week before.

Yale’s fall season featured four top-10 finishes in tournaments, including capturing the first-place title in September at the Doc Gimmler Invitational, where the Bulldogs also competed against Army. In that tournament,

Danes drop ’Dogs

the Black Knights ranked fifth in the team standings.

“We started off the fall on a really strong note in the first couple events, but lost some momentum in the second half of the fall season and had a couple disappointing results,” Willis said. “There were flashes of great play from a lot of members of the team, though, and I feel confident that we are going to have a great spring.”

Although Bush was not in attendance for the event, he wrote a letter thanking John Schneider, president of

Winged Foot Golf Club and organizer of the event, and wishing Yale and Army luck in the tournament. The festivities for the Bush Cup included a singing performance by the Yale Whiffenpoofs and, like last year’s Yale-Army football game, a parachute jump by the West Point Parachute Team.

At an evening reception following the tournament, the Whiffenpoofs performed, and Yale athletics director Tom Beckett and former Army chief of staff Raymond Odierno both delivered speeches.

“I knew that we were going to have a banquet, but I had no idea that it was going to be to that magnitude,” Lai said. “There were probably 200 people at the closing ceremony, and we were announced into the banquet room to a bunch of cameras and applause. It was an incredible experience, even without playing our best golf.”

Yale resumes play on March 24 at a tournament hosted by Stanford.

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

FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 seen its five-game winning streak snapped at the hands of conference opponent Maine on Friday.

“We have played [then-ranked No. 1] UConn and [then-ranked No. 2] Syracuse. We had a game plan going into [Albany],” forward Evagelia Toffoloni ’19 said. “[Wells] did a really great job covering [Paula Heuser]. She stepped up for that game … that’s why we could shut them down for the first period and a half.”

Heuser currently holds the distinction of being the active leader in all of Division I in career points and goals and ranks third in the nation in scoring, but was held scoreless on Sunday, though not due to lack of effort as she rattled off nine shot attempts.

The Great Danes as a whole dominated the Bulldogs in shots, taking 21 in the first half and 20 in the second half while limiting the Elis to just one on each side of the break.

Despite the one-sided attack, the Yale defense, led by Katz in goal, kept the Great Danes off the board for the entire first half and the

majority of the second.

However, once Albany forward Kelsey Briddell found the back of the net at 54:12, the Great Danes quickly surged ahead to a 2–0 lead, scoring another goal within four minutes of the first. Yale could not close the gap in the final minutes, and the match ended in an Albany shutout — the fourth-consecutive game in which the Elis have been held scoreless.

“We did really well, but we just couldn’t get the shots on net that we needed in order to get an opportunity to win the game,” Toffoloni said. “With the next Ivy games we’re really going to try and get some more opportunities … We need to create more [of an] attack.”

The Bulldogs will take on Dartmouth next Saturday in a matchup of squads hoping for an Ivy victory.

Both teams are winless in the conference and sit at the bottom of the Ancient Eight standings.

The Big Green will face Maine on Tuesday afternoon before journeying to New Haven to face the Elis.

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

Stagnant offense does in Elis MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 the goal. Dartmouth had much better chances, but Yale made several strong clearances, averting an early deficit.

When the ball did enter the box, Schipper held strong between the posts. In the 21st minute, Schipper did well to dive forward and pry away a rolling ball before a Dartmouth forward could send it into the empty net. Through the air, he was also strong, preemptively denying Dartmouth goal-scoring opportunities by interfering with crosses into the box.

After a scoreless first half, both teams returned to the pitch with greater offensive intensity. Midfielder Henry Albrecht ’17 dribbled into the box and served a cross, but his pass was intercepted by a Dartmouth defender.

On more than one occasion, the Bulldogs saw their offensive attacks fizzle as multiple Eli crosses into the box failed to find a recipient.

In the 52nd minute, it was Dartmouth that managed to break through when senior midfielder Samuel Rosen struck a curling shot from 25 yards out.

The ball eluded Schipper, who jumped to meet it, but was unable to bat the bending ball away. Still, unlike in previous matches — when the first goal conceded opened the floodgates for Yale’s opponents — Yale did not allow a second goal for the first time all season..

“The goal they scored was a really strong shot that there wasn’t much any of us could do about it beyond obviously denying the shot attempt,” defender Lucas Kirby ’19 said. “It wasn’t a soft goal to give up, where in past games, we’ve been giving up goals that were very easily defendable.”

The 1–0 scoreline displayed a vast improvement over the past two games,

especially, in which the Elis allowed a combined eight goals.

The backline answered Dartmouth counterattacks well, and although the Big Green often raced forward into threatening territory, Yale’s defensive wall did not allow many of these attempts to score.

“Now that we’ve been playing together with this same group of four [defenders] in the backline for a few games now, we’ve started to settle into our roles and now know how to shift as a unit and communicate with each other,” Kirby explained.

Kirby also said there was a palpable improvement in the team’s one-onone defending, which was the team’s Achilles heel last Tuesday against Rutgers. Still, despite progress in the defense, Yale’s offense regressed against the Big Green.

Yale’s best chance of the game came in the 59th minute from midfielder Ollie Iselin ’18, who ranks third in shots in the Ivy League. Iselin struck from 15 yards out but saw the ball just skim over the crossbar. Beyond that, Yale did not challenge the Dartmouth defense much and was outshot 12-6. Those six shots represent the team’s second lowest total of the season, as the team managed just five against Iona on Sept. 23.

“We really struggled in offensive transition,” Iselin said. “We need to relax and be confident which I think we can do given the encouraging performance against Dartmouth, one of the Ivy league’s strongest teams.”

Yale will look to enter the win column in Ivy League play next Saturday against Cornell. The match, which takes place at home at Reese Stadium, kicks off at 1 p.m.

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

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Two games into the Ivy season, the Bulldogs are one of three Ancient Eight schools without a conference victory.

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“In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.” PAUL PIERCE NBA FINALS MVP

Dartmouth stymies Yale

Volleyball falls to third

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Unlike last week against Cornell, Yale could not overcome early 2–0 deficits in either of its matches this weekend.

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QB Morgan Roberts ’16 attempted 58 passes, completing 29 of them for 229 yards in Dartmouth’s 35–3 rout of Yale.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 Though the Bulldogs were able to sack Williams three times, the Big Green adjusted early and exploited Yale’s blitz-heavy defense almost exclusively through the air. Williams finished the day as the Big Green’s all-time leader in total offense with 7,525 yards, surpassing former NFL quarterback Jay Fiedler’s mark of 7,249 in the second quarter. In addition to setting school- and career-best marks for passing yards in a game, he became the first Dartmouth gunslinger to pass for at least 300 yards in three consecutive games.

Pressure from the Yale defense often forced Williams out of the pocket, potentially playing a factor in his 0.547 completion rate in the game. But his 29 successful passes went for 435 yards, with eight plays totaling 20 or more yards. He also rushed seven times for 32 yards.

“It’s hard [to defend Williams] because the thing that’s so striking is his accuracy,” Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens said. “I’ll say that even though today wasn’t his most accurate day passing.”

Reno emphasized that winning against a strong offense requires the ability to score often, something the Yale offense struggled to do. Yale’s total of three points was the lowest the Elis have scored since 2012, the final season of former head coach Tom Williams.

The impressive performance that punter Bryan Holmes ’17 had, averaging 40.0 yards on 11 punts, signaled the offense’s difficulties.

After rushing for 233 yards in his first collegiate start a week earlier, running back Deshawn Salter ’18 picked up just 45 yards on 19 car-

ries. The passing game did slightly better, as Roberts completed 29 of his 58 passing attempts for 229 yards, but this still marked his lowest passing yardage as an Eli since his lone start in 2013.

Eight different receivers caught at least one ball, including Michael Siragusa Jr. ’18, who led the team in receptions for the second time this season. The sophomore, who also caught the go-ahead touchdown in Yale’s opening win over Colgate, set a new career-best with 12 catches for 132 yards.

Four of Siragusa’s catches came on a single 48-yard drive in the fourth quarter. Although Siragusa managed to bring the Bulldogs down to Dartmouth’s two-yard line, the Big Green defense picked off Roberts at the goal line, one of three red-zone interceptions by Dartmouth in the game.

While the turnovers cost the Bulldogs scoring opportunities, the defense prevented Dartmouth from capitalizing: Yale allowed no points off turnovers.

“The defense played great, and I’m excited about the rest of the season, but offensively, this is worst game I’ve been a part of since I’ve been at Yale,” Roberts said. “It is what it is. We move on to next week and we’ll get some guys back and things will turn up.”

Still, it remains unclear whether injured players will return for Yale’s next game. Reno said he had no definitive time of return for any of the seven injured starters.

Next week, Yale travels to take on its final non-conference opponent. Kickoff at the University of Maine is at 3:30 p.m.

cumbed to the same slow start that plagued them in the Dartmouth match. Yale committed five errors early on to fall behind 13–6 and could not make up that ground, losing the set by the same sevenpoint margin.

Just as in the first set, the Elis never led in the second set.

Harvard won five consecutive points to open up a 24–15 lead, and although two service aces from setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 and two Harvard errors held off an immediate Crimson victory, the Cantabs even-

tually took the set on a kill by middle blocker Jocelyn Meyer.

The third set told the same story, with Harvard winning the first five points and easily closing out the Bulldogs. All in all, Yale was unable to hold a lead at any point in a set, resulting in a blowout loss at the hands of its biggest rival.

This weekend’s disappointing results marked a major swing from the past two weekends’ conference successes.

While Harvard and Dartmouth appear to be Yale’s biggest competition atop the Ivy League, the Bulldogs’ inability to compete on the road may

cause trouble against lesser opponents as well.

“We are getting back to the basics in practice, getting better everyday, and focusing one game at a time to move forward this season,” Crawford said.

While the Bulldogs were able to recover from last year’s loss at Harvard to eventually win the league and beat the Crimson in the NCAA tiebreaker game in Cambridge, this weekend’s pair of lopsided defeats marks an uncertain future for Yale’s season, especially given the heightened expectations that come after

five straight Ivy League titles.

Nonetheless, the veteran Bulldogs are confident about their chances moving forward.

“We aren’t out of the race for the Ivy championship,” Johnson said. “This weekend is going to push us to be that much better so the next time we play Harvard and Dartmouth, there will be a different story to report.”

This upcoming weekend, Yale returns home to play Penn and Princeton in another pair of conference contests.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

Bulldogs emerge victorious W. SOCCER FROM PAGE B1 field and substituted out of the game, but was walking around on the sideline within the hour. Alozie is currently awaiting clearance to play next Saturday against Cornell.

Alozie has been a key figure in the Elis’ attack all season long, and her absence was certainly felt. Yale managed just one shot after the half, but the Bulldogs made it count.

Shortly after the second-half whistle, the Bulldogs broke open the scoring. Passing the ball back and forth while surrounded by six Dartmouth players within the Big Green’s box, midfielders Keri Cavallo ’19 and Sofia Griff ’19 were able to link up

with Cavallo ultimately beating Dartmouth keeper Casey Cousineau in the 48th minute.

Cavallo’s first conference goal — she now has three on the season — was also the Bulldogs’ first score in Ivy play.

Cavallo noted how great it felt to contribute, especially as a freshman, to the team’s first Ancient Eight victory this season.

“We were really hungry for our first win of Ivy League play,” Cavallo said. “It felt amazing to score for my team.

For our seniors, it was the first time they have beaten Dartmouth, so it was a really special feeling to have helped win that game for them.”

Ames posted four saves to maintain her clean sheet, her fourth of the season and first of Ivy play. Dartmouth’s

best chance at beating Ames came at the end of the first half, when Yale’s goalkeeper made a falling save to create an open-net opportunity for the Big Green. But left winger Lauren Lucas blasted her attempt well over the crossbar, preserving the blank scoreline.

The Bulldogs have been working hard in practice to come back from their two game deficit in the Ivy League table as they near the halfway point of the conference season. Griff said the team is finally playing to the level that they have been looking for all along, adding that it was a special bonus to contribute to the coach’s milestone victory.

“We had a shaky start to our Ivy League season, but things finally started coming

together for the Dartmouth game. I think it boosted our confidence and will help us moving forward with the rest of the season,” Griff said. “It was also our coach’s 200th win, so it was great that we could help him achieve that goal on our home field.”

Meredith has been the women’s soccer coach since 1995, making him the longest-tenured head coach in the Ivy League. Over the past 21 seasons, he has established himself as the winningest coach in program history.

The Bulldogs’ next task will be conference foe Cornell, fresh off a 2–0 defeat to Harvard, at Reese Stadium next Saturday at 4 p.m.

Contact ANDRÉ MONTEIRO at andre.monteiro@yale.edu .

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

STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS YALE FOOTBALL AT DARTMOUTH VS. AVERAGE IN PRIOR THREE WEEKS Average in first three weeks Saturday against Dartmouth

Offensive yards 457.7

Points 276

Punts 4.0

3

Third down rate 11

Yards per play 5.7

29.7

45.7

14.3

First downs 3.1

25.7

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Yale’s victory propelled the Elis from eighth place in the Ivy League table to fifth, six points behind co-leaders Princeton and Harvard.

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“I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.”

FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH ’48

Yale ties Army in Bush Cup MEN’S GOLF

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER

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The inaugural Bush Cup was held at the historic Winged Foot Golf Club.

On Friday, the Yale men’s golf team competed for the final time this fall, tying Army 6–6 in match play at the inaugural Bush Cup. The to u r n a m e n t , hosted at Winged Foot Golf Course in Mamaroneck, New York, was played in honor of former President George H.W. Bush ’48. The Yale and Army showdown included both team and individual portions of match play, in which competitors are awarded a point for each hole on which they score lower than their opponents. The event began with team play: four Eli pairings faced off against counterparts from Army, with each duo playing 18 holes. Yale’s eight golfers then played individually against Black Knight foes, with eight points up for grabs. Yale won the team rounds 2.5–1.5, but Army bounced back in the individual portion to win 4.5–3.5 and tie the overall score.

“It was great to get to play a match play event,” captain Joe Willis ’16 said. “Overall, I think the team played fairly well.

We showed how deep our team is and showed that

we have a lot of guys capable of some great play.”

The Bush Cup kicked off on Friday morning with two Yale pairings each scoring a full point in team play: Nick McNiff ’17 and James Nicholas ’19 won their match 5–3, while Li Wang ’17 and James Park ’17 emerged victorious by a score of 3–2.

Willis and Will Bernstein ’18 tied Army’s Peter Kim and Parker Harris, and Jonathan Lai ’17 and Eoin Leonard ’19, two regular starters for the Bulldogs in tournaments this fall, were defeated 2–4.

“Foursomes are very tricky because it can be hard to get into a rhythm, but having a partner and playing as part of a team gives you a sense of camaraderie and makes the tournament much more enjoyable,” Leonard said.

The Black Knights fared better in the individual portion of the competition. Henry Cassriel ’18, Jake Leffew ’19 and Park were the only victorious Bulldogs in the afternoon, though Bernstein did tie in his match against Army’s Nick Turner. With the four victories in the individual matches, Army outscored Yale 4.5–3.5, evening the score at 6–6.

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Women’s golf ends fall at home

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER Hosting 14 schools at its home course this past weekend for the annual Yale Invitational, the Yale women’s golf team finished in eighth place with a team score of 62-over.

WOMEN’S GOLF The Elis were looking to defend their title after winning the tournament at Yale Golf Course last season behind strong performances from Elisabeth Bernabe ’17 and Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17.

This year it was Bernabe and

Jennifer Peng ’18 who paced the Bulldogs, each shooting scores of 12–over in the three-round event to tie for 20th place individually.

Furman University won the tournament with a team total of 16-over, five strokes ahead of second-place Clemson.

Princeton, Harvard and Penn captured the fifth, sixth and seventh places, respectively, in the team standings.

“The level of competition at the tournament this year was far above anything I’ve seen at any other Ivy League tournament,” Sydney Babiak ’19 said. “We had four teams playing from the ACC, SEC and Big 12 conferences,

and we knew that although this may make a victory significantly more difficult to obtain, we would in the end benefit from the experience of being challenged in such a way. I know personally that I appreciated being able to compare my game to the games of some of the best teams in the NCAA.” The Yale Invitational, which ends the Elis’ fall season, marked the third straight tournament in which Peng led her team with the low score. The Ivy League Rookie of the Year last spring, Peng also finished in the top-20 at the Yale Invitational last season.

After 52 holes of play, Bernabe was at 10-over for the tournament, a score that would have been good for a 13th place finish individually. But the junior bogied the 17th and 18th holes to move to 20th and tie with Peng. Bernabe scored four-over in every round of the tournament.

Julie Luo ’19 finished nine strokes behind Bernabe and Peng at 21-over, also cracking the top-50 in the individual golfer standings. Babiak and Wongwaiwate rounded out the team with scores of 22-over and 25-over, respectively.

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Elis fall to defending Ivy champions

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The Bulldogs had won two consecutive home matchups against Dartmouth before falling 1–0 in Saturday’s meeting.

BY LISA QIAN STAFF REPORTER On Saturday afternoon, the Yale men’s soccer team lost 1–0 at home to Dartmouth, a familiar result for a team whose record now stands at 1–9–0 for the season.

MEN’S SOCCER Despite a losing streak of five games, the match against Dartmouth (6–3–1, 2–0–0 Ivy) demonstrated a marked improvement over previous contests this season, and Yale did well to keep the defending Ivy League Champions at bay for the majority of the game’s 90 minutes. After a few particularly poor performances, the Yale defense took a positive step forward, showing more stability and resolve. Instead, it was the Yale attack that failed to establish itself against the Big Green.

“Yesterday was our best defensive game we’ve ever had this year,” forward Kyle Kenagy ’19 said.

“Holding the Ivy League Champions to only one goal is somewhat of a defensive accomplishment, but our offense struggled against Dartmouth.”

Neither team was extremely active in the first 16 minutes of the game, with no shots registered on either side. However, once Dartmouth forced Yale keeper Kees Schipper ’19 to make the first of his five saves in the 17th minute, the Bulldogs were unable to muster much of an offensive response.

The Big Green rattled off four shots, three of which were on goal, before Yale finally managed its first shot of the game in the 38th minute. Keith Bond ’16 dribbled by the left post and struck from a tough angle, but was unable to beat goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland, a FirstTeam All-Ivy pick last season and the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week.

In the first half, Bond’s shot was the closest the Bulldogs got to SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2

Close but no cigar for Bulldogs

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER A single goal kept the Yale field hockey team from securing its first Ivy League win of the season on Saturday, and a 3:44 minute stretch on Sunday precluded the Elis from earning a historic upset victory.

FIELD HOCKEY The Bulldogs (2–9, 0–3 Ivy) saw their losing streak swell to seven games after a pair of losses, 1–0 to Cornell (7–4, 2–1) and 2–0 to No. 6 Albany (10–2, 2–1 America East). The Elis are tied for last place in the Ivy League and possess the worst goal differential in the conference, having allowed 32 goals and scored just eight.

“We played really tough, but unfortunately didn’t get the results we were looking for,” forward Carol Middough ’18 said. “We know what we need to work on this week to get the win against Dartmouth this weekend.”

Saturday’s game against Cornell proved to be a battle on the defensive end.

Goalkeeper Emilie Katz ’17 stopped six of the Big Red’s shots on goal. Meanwhile, of Yale’s eight total shot attempts, the Elis failed to put a single one on target.

But the Bulldogs did manage to shut down Cornell’s Krysten Mayers, an offensive force in the Ivy League, by ending her four-game scor-

ing streak and holding her to just one shot.

As the team fights through this arduous season, the Bulldogs have made a concerted effort to recognize and take away positives, such as slowing down Mayes, from each contest.

“Something new we started recently is celebrating the small victories on the field,” said midfielder Nicole Wells ’16, a staff reporter for the News. “I think breaking apart the game into these little moments really keeps the team together and promotes positive energy on the field.”

The lone goal of the day came from Cornell freshman forward Kate Fitzpatrick at 21:51 into the first half. Neither team managed to find the net in the second, sealing a win for the Big Red, who were rebounding from a 9–1 loss to the top program in the country, No. 1 Syracuse. Saturday’s game marks Cornell’s second Ivy League victory after taking down Columbia 5–2 on Oct. 3.

Both Middough and Wells had three shots during the game, but even Yale’s top point scorers could not capitalize on the opportunities for an equalizer.

Following the tight Ancient Eight defeat, Yale was in search of an upset yesterday afternoon in its match against nationally ranked Albany, who entered play on Sunday having just SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B2

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After allowing 16 goals over its past three games entering this weekend’s slate of action, Yale allowed just three goals in its two games this weekend.