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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 33 · yaledailynews.com

INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

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CROSS CAMPUS

FIELD HOCKEY ELIS SHUT OUT IN MAINE

REPRESENTATION

RESTAURANTS

Asian-American students discuss representation in academics

OLEA GETS OFF TO SLOW START ON HIGH STREET

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BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Three days after the largest computer system failure in recent memory at Yale, the root cause has yet to be fully determined. Beginning Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m., the University’s data server crashed, causing all yale.edu websites and accounts to become inaccessible for hours. Over the next day, pages such as EliApps, Central Authentication Services and Yale’s Virtual Private Network were gradually restored, with Classes*v2 — the central portal for Yale courses — the last to be confirmed as fully functional at 10 p.m. on Friday. Although students interviewed said the technical problems created difficulty, Yale’s Chief Information Officer Len Peters said Saturday that he was committed to preventing an outage of this magnitude from occurring again.

Scroll and Keep out. NHV.org reported on Sunday that, while it undergoes renovations, the Scroll and Key tomb remains off-limits to construction workers. “They don’t let us inside the building. Even when we need to use the bathroom,” one worker told the blog. There’s a subject for the society’s next debate.

We are going to work on a full report this week to find the root cause … We will not let the crisis go to waste.

A-List B-Schools. The

LEN PETERS Chief Information Office, Yale

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n Saturday, the Bulldogs walked into the Yale Bowl with a 3-0 record. But it was not to last. After starting off strong, the Elis lost their momentum in the second half against a surging Dartmouth squad. JAMES BADAS and MAYA SWEEDLER report on page B1.

“We are going to work on a full report this week to find the root cause,” Peters said. “We will not let the crisis go to waste and take our learnings from this and incorporate this into our systems.” SEE ITS PAGE 6

Expanded online presence.

The Junior Class Council went digital on Sunday night by creating a Facebook page, complete with photo profiles of its members. Headlining the roster was JCC president and anthropology major Emily Van Alst ’16.

Harp declares today Indigenous People’s Day BY MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Repose en paix. A memorial service for late French professor Pierre Capretz was held on Saturday in Battell Chapel, roughly six months after his April passing. The legacy of the language studies pioneer lives on through his French in Action video series, which is used by more than 2,000 American universities. Job Haven. After recovering almost 90 percent of all jobs lost during the recession, New Haven is outperforming its Connecticut peers, according to the New Haven Register’s latest “economic scorecard” analysis. Growth in the education and health care industries, in particular, helped spur the rebound. Shiller is not impressed. A

Friday article by the Wall Street Journal revealed economics professor Robert Shiller to be unfazed by last Thursday’s staggering 300point Dow drop. “I’m not selling yet,” he said in the article. If the Nobel means anything, then neither should you.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1976 The Energy Control Center turns on the radiators for the winter to maintain indoor temperatures of 65 to 68 degrees. Located at 20 Ashmun St., the center controls the heating systems for most of the residential colleges and academic buildings on campus. Submit tips to Cross Campus

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Building on success in doubles matches, Elis dominate at home

ITS failure investigated

DARTMOUTH SNAPS WINNING STREAK

Expanding the empire. This weekend, Crunchbutton announced the addition of Chipotle, Mamoun’s and Shake Shack to its repertoire, effectively monopolizing the New Haven food delivery game. Though the one-button Wenzel remains the service’s flagship item, Yale students are sure to take advantage of the new diversity of offerings.

Economist released its latest business school rankings on Saturday, slotting the School of Management at 19th in the world and 14th in the country. The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business topped the list for the fourth time in five years, but the SOM’s nine-spot climb since 2013 has its competitors watching their backs.

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Yale’s Blue Feather Drum Group performed during Sunday’s protest.

City hopes to revamp Goffe Street Armory BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New proposals from City Hall could soon transform the Goffe Street Armory — a cavernous, 240,000-square-foot building in Dixwell that has sat vacant for five years — into a storage center and generator of solar power. The building, according to City Controller Daryl Jones, could be used as a storage space for city records. Additionally, proposals from City Hall call for the construction of a new roof for the armory, on which solar panels would be built. The proposed renovations are a part of New Haven’s “Design-Build Program for the City.” On Sept. 7, Mayor Toni Harp’s administration began soliciting proposals — due by Oct. 7 — to partially redesign several buildings across New Haven, including the armory, City Hall and the Goffe Street firehouse. According the municipal document requesting these proposals, Elm City officials expect to select a firm for the armory project by Oct. 14. The building, located about a half-mile from Yale’s SEE ARMORY PAGE 6

Amid beating drums and a traditional Native American Round Dance, roughly 40 city residents and Yale students gathered on the New Haven Green on Sunday afternoon to protest Columbus Day. Richard Cowes, representing the Connecticut Native American Inter Tribal Urban Council, read a proclamation from Mayor Toni Harp declaring today, Oct. 13, to be Indigenous People’s Day. Cowes read the proclamation, authored by Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16,

a former staff reporter for the News, at the end of a two-hour event that included performances by undergraduate student organization Blue Feather Drum Group, speak-outs from attendees and statements condemning the celebration of Columbus Day. “If [Columbus] were here right now, trying to invade, he’d be considered a terrorist — an illegal alien,” New Haven resident Yecenia Rivera said at the event. Rivera, a member of the Taino tribe, said she was attending the demonstration to protest the idealization of Christopher Columbus’s

exploitation of native peoples and the marginalization of indigenous groups. Two different petitions circulated among the audience during the event: one requesting New Haven to officially change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day, and another requesting Governor Dannel Malloy to stop honoring a detainment request on grassroots organization Unidad Latina en Acción member Espian Lima, who has been in detention for almost a year without due process, MedinaSEE PROTEST PAGE 4

Health hackathon kicks off BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER On Friday, undergraduate Selin Isgüven ’15 entered Hacking Health @ Yale without a team, a project or any inkling of what health care problem she was going to hack. But by Sunday evening, her team had come up with an idea of how to give earlier, more cost-effective diagnoses to patients with Alzheimer’s. The event, which is in its first year, is modeled off of MIT Hacking Medicine and took place over three days in the School of Medicine, Center for Engineering Innovation and Design and the School of Management. The Hackathon’s 70 participants came from a breadth of fields, including law, business, medicine, engineering and design. But everyone was there for the same purpose — to find a solution to issues facing health care in the U.S. “It tends to be difficult working in health care because often doctors are working within their own four walls and there is a lack of collabo-

ration,” said Shervin Etemad, a research associate in the School of Medicine’s obstetrics and gynecology department and an event organizer. “We wanted to break down those inter-professional boundaries.” Coordinators began planning the hackathon over a

month and a half ago, said Jean Zheng, engineering director of the Yale Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology and the event’s director. Organizers received many of their materials and slides SEE HEALTH PAGE 4

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Participants in Hacking Health @ Yale focused on U.S. health care issues.


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