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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 30 · yaledailynews.com

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IN RETROSPECT MEMORIAL EXHIBIT HONORS ART PROF

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Alumni link up with current students in pilot mentoring program

New Mediterranean cafe comes to Med School campus

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Student activities fee increased

National Spotlight. While

Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 didn’t explicitly mention Yale in last night’s Democratic primary debate, she alluded to an ongoing campus debate. She said students should work 10 hours per week to contribute to tuition — an idea that has drawn ire among Yale students and faculty members alike as campus groups advocate for the elimination of the income contribution.

Eli — Who Dat? The University honors its namesake Elihu Yale today. An annual tradition, Elihu Day celebrates Elihu Yale’s 1718 donation to Yale College by thanking those who donate to the Alumni Fund.

There will be a station with cider, donuts and “thank you” cards to sign on Cross Campus.

“Writing Is Hard Work,” wrote

late Yale professor William Zinsser in his famous book “On Writing Well.” Tonight, four of Zinsser’s former students — all of whom are now successful journalists — will reflect on how their professor taught them to write at 8 p.m. in the Branford common room.

Not Ashton Kutcher. The Yale

Film Society will host a prescreening of “Steve Jobs” — the biopic in which Michael Fassbender plays the former Apple CEO — at 7 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center.

The screening is free and open to all students.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1992 The College Board releases a report comparing college tuition nationwide that indicates that Yale has the highest tuition in the Ivy League and the fifth-highest tuition in the country. In 1992, the cost of attending Yale was $23,700.

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Despite growth in endowment, spending steady

tor Daniel Tovbin ’17. This money may allow for a bigger-name artist at this year’s Spring Fling, and it will also fund a number of smaller YCC-hosted events, such as the Fall Show comedy performance or the Harvard-Yale dance party in Commons before The Game.

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Students awaiting this year’s Spring Fling headliner may hear a bigger name, thanks to the SAF increase.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER For the first time in six years, the student activities fee has risen.

Last spring, after several years of discussion, the Yale College Council and Yale College Dean’s Office agreed to raise the amount from $75 to $125, partially because

the financial aid office announced that it would now explicitly cover the fee. The increase generated an additional $131,195 for the YCC’s annual budget, giving the organization a total budget of $360,000 for the current year, excluding the budget for the Undergraduate Organizations Committee, according to YCC Finance Direc-

Eighty-Seven Seconds.

Tickets for the 2015 YSO Halloween Show — one of Yale’s most popular traditions — will go on sale at 11:59 p.m. tonight. The News recommends taking a break from midterm studying to secure your seats as soon as the site goes live. The show sold out in less than a minute and a half last year.

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Following three years of strong endowment returns, Yale’s rate of spending for fiscal year 2017 may not increase much, even as the University’s expenses continue to rise.

Beginning in the fall of 2017, 200 students will be added to each Yale College class, increasing the University’s yearly operating costs for heat, electricity and facility maintenance. More teaching staff will likely be added to the University’s payroll, and Yale Dining must staff two new residential college dining halls. But in the face of these new expenses, Yale’s effective spending rate — the amount of money, adjusted for inflation, that the University spends each year to cover financial aid, athletics, faculty salaries and facilities — will continue to hover at around 5.25 percent of the total endowment value. Though professors interviewed said they want more budgetary funding to hire faculty in the coming years, Yale’s long-term financial goals may overlook present needs.

William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm, said one of the advantages of endowments is that they have an event horizon that is perpetual. Jarvis quoted a 1974 paper on endowment management written by former Yale economics professor James Tobin, which begins, “The trustees of an endowed institution are the guardians of the future against the claims of the present.” Because the University will outlive its current faculty and students, it can make financial choices that build its wealth for future gen-

campuswide notice yesterday evening alerting the student body of a computer virus circulating via email.

According to ITS’s warning, the virus disguises itself as an email with “the seminar” or “Order” in the subject line.

Scary stuff — consider yourself warned.

Two Thousand And Late.

New women’s lacrosse coach to refocus team on the fundamentals

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER

There’s Something Going Around. Yale ITS sent a

After promising a September opening, the quick-service Asian fusion restaurant Junzi Kitchen finally opened its doors yesterday. Unfortunately the invite-only soft opening was more exclusive than SigEp Presents: Thank’d. If you are one of the lucky few who attended, come tell the News if Junzi lives up to the hype.

RE-LAXING

Elm City boasts budget surplus

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTERS New Haven ran a budget surplus for the second year in a row, Mayor Toni Harp announced at a press conference in City Hall Tuesday.

The city finished fiscal year 2015, which ended on June 30, with a surplus of roughly $1.7 million, down from last year’s surplus of $4.7 million but still considerable, given the deficits the city ran in 2012 and 2013.

Harp said that as a result of the surplus, the city was able to pour the entire $1.7 million into the Rainy Day Fund — whose value only became positive last year. High revenues from SEE FISCAL PAGE 8

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Mayor Toni Harp announced that the city ended the 2015 fiscal year with a budget surplus of around $1.7 million.

Harp presides over first BOE meeting

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp unveiled the 10 Point Education Plan Tuesday at her first meeting as the president of the New Haven Board of Education.

The education plan calls for efforts to improve literacy, mentoring services and technology in schools. Harp emphasized the importance of students and teachers feeling optimistic and empowered, adding that academic success in the classroom depends on self-confidence and support. Harp said she considered it important to clearly state her vision for a proactive BOE,

given public concern about her assuming the presidency in late September. As the mayor of New Haven, Harp has the power to appoint BOE members, and the sitting member who voted against Harp — cochair of the board’s Teaching and Learning Committee and a former New Haven school administrator Alicia Caraballo — said during the election that her appointment would be a conflict of interest.

“I know each of us shares the same wide goals: educating students and preparing them for college and life,” Harp said.

“Our responsibility is precious SEE BOARD OF ED PAGE 6

Homicide count reaches 14

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Though crime rates are unequal across the state, Connecticut communities, organizations and local governments are all taking a stand against violent crime.

Tuesday night, the Elm City saw its 14th homicide of the year. According to a New Haven Police Department press notice, officers were dispatched to 210 Davenport Ave. after reports of gunfire. The victim, an adult male believed to be in his late teens or early 20s, is also the second homicide victim this week. And last Thursday, 29-year-old Antoine Heath was shot on Chapel Street, west of the Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.

Despite these two recent

shootings, this year’s current homicide rate is a far cry from the 34 homicides seen in the Elm City in 2011, and far better than statistics seen in the state capitol. This year, New Haven had three two-month periods without a homicide. NHPD spokesman David Hartman said Tuesday morning that this is not entirely unusual, but that the department is not celebrating yet.

“We’ll celebrate when nobody gets killed in New Haven,” Hartman said.

Still, community organizations and local leadership have been taking action to ensure violent-crime statistics continue to decrease.

Project Longevity, an effort launched by city, state and federal officials, aims to target the small communities which

cause the majority of the city’s gun violence.

“There’s always going to be a criminal element to society as long as there are humans walking the earth,” Stacy Spell, the New Haven project manager for Project Longevity, said. “[But] we’re seeing people actively being engaged in their communities. You have people taking active roles in the destiny of their communities.”

The project has been frequently cited as a key contributor to reductions in violent crime. But Hartman said any number of factors could have caused the recent decline in crime rates, adding that it is difficult to identify the cause of a spike or drop in crime SEE HOMICIDE PAGE 8

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.COMMENT “There are no such things as 'natural human rights.'” yaledailynews.com

Who let the dogs out?

GUEST COLUMNIST NANCY ALDERMAN

Keeping our field safe W

hen the Yale Bowl was built in 1913–14, it was the first stadium of its kind. It inspired many other stadiums to be built using the Bowl as the model — including the Rose Bowl.

The Yale Bowl has had a grass playing field since its inception. Tom Pepe, Yale’s sports turf supervisor in charge of the field, told Landscape Online in an interview that “to keep the natural playing surface in the Yale Bowl in pristine condition, the staff aerates the soil and performs sand-top dressing.” He added that this has been done for about 15 years, and Yale has not had to sod the football field in three to four years.

Yet the Yale football coach, Tony Reno, who wants an artificial turf field, said in the Hartford Courant in August, “The stadium is actually below sea level, so it's hard to maintain a grass surface.”

WE WILL HOPE YALE'S BETTER THINKING WILL PREVAIL AND THAT THE GRASS FIELD WILL REMAIN IN THE YALE BOWL The Yale Bowl is a National Historic Landmark. This designation is a grade above being on the National Register of Historic Places. How will acres of plastic, which is what a synthetic turf field is, look in this Historic National Landmark?

How will putting down acres of plastic be in compliance with Yale’s desire to be environmentally responsible?

First, let’s explore the health issues of synthetic turf fields.

A recent study conducted at Yale looked at what chemicals are in synthetic turf. The study found 96 chemicals in synthetic turf, and many of them are carcinogens.

Environment and Human Health Inc. has studied the harmful effects of synthetic turf for over nine years — and its conclusion is these fields are toxic.

EHHI recommended a moratorium on installing synthetic turf fields in 2007 because of the carcinogens in the fields, but the recommendation was not adopted. EHHI said at that time that we would start

to see cancers among our student athletes who have played on synthetic fields in about 10 years. It has now been about 10 years and we are indeed seeing cancers develop — especially among soccer players. In fact, the soccer-playing goalkeepers are the most heavily impacted with lymphomas and leukemias. Among the 127 lymphomas and leukemias reported among soccer players, 85 of these cases are goalkeepers. Both those cancers are environmentally influenced.

Joel Smilow ’54 has been very generous to Yale. The Yale University Medical Center now has the Smilow Cancer Center, and the University also has the Smilow Head Football Coach, who is now Tony Reno. How ironic — the Cancer Center at Yale, funded by Smilow, now also has the Smilow football coach pushing for a toxic synthetic turf field with numerous cancer-causing chemicals.

Now, we turn to the Yale Bowl being designated as a National Historic Landmark.

Nationally significant historic places are defined as National Historic Landmarks by the Secretary of the Interior because they are deemed to possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. What will our heritage look like when the surface of the Bowl is covered, not with natural grass as it always has been, but with acres of plastic?

What will the preservation community think of what Yale is proposing to do to the Bowl?

We have not even mentioned that the proposal also includes putting a bubble over the Bowl.

If Yale follows through with this proposal — what will they do next? Will Yale recommend plastic grass for the Cross Campus lawn so that they won’t have to mow it?

The proposal to install a synthetic turf field in the Yale Bowl, as well as cover the Bowl at times with a bubble, is compatible with neither the way Yale renovates its buildings or how Yale aims to reduce its carbon footprint and be environmentally responsible. We will hope Yale's better thinking will prevail and that the grass field will remain in the Yale Bowl. There is no safer surface for students to play on than natural grass.

'GBC' on 'BEHLING: Fetal rights are human rights'

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ampus buzz is often difficult to identify. Yale does not have any regular opinion polling, and the surveys students receive are self-selecting and thus often of dubious value.

Yet on rare occasions student passions will be stirred in such a way as to cast aside all doubt about our sentiments. We didn’t need Gallup in 2014 to tell us that we loved the course, “The Structure of Networks.” We don’t need a poll to know that chicken tenders are Yale Dining’s most popular dish. And we don’t need a survey to know that everyone’s favorite Instagram is of Harkness Tower.

This year we have seen student opinion coalesce around our shared love of pups! The winds began to turn last year when Sasha Pup, the Timothy Dwight college pet, won the student vote for Rumpus’s 50 Most Beautiful People, perhaps Yale’s most sought-after honor. Since then, Sasha Pup’s social media presence has blossomed and other dogs, such as Vandy’s Napoleon Bonabark, have followed suit.

Most recently, our love affair with pups was invigorated by Chi Psi’s new golden retriever, Buck, and his precious Instagram with over 250 followers. Of course, these dogs collectively supplemented our pre-existing affection for the

ultimate Yale campus dog: Handsome Dan, now in his 17th iteration.

I think many are tempted to MICHAEL take these HERBERT realities at face value and Scoop of push the envelope no furHerbert ther. The pups are adorable, that’s why we love them — end of story. However, like the scene in “The Lion King” in which Rafiki shows Simba his reflection in the pond, I’d encourage us to “look harder.” What, really, is going on here? Why have the campus pups engendered so much ebullience and good will?

Their cuddliness is undoubtedly a decisive factor, but I think our enthusiasm also speaks to the lack of exciting alternatives on campus. As Yalies, we don’t really have anything, other than the name of our school, which binds us together as one community.

Previous events that fostered such unity — the Safety Dance, Bladderball, etc. — have been sentenced to a premature death, quashed for a variety of reasons. Sporting events, without

beer inside the stadium, unfortunately gain little attention or attendance. Spring Fling is probably as close as we get to a shared communal experience, but even that event is not embraced by large swaths of the student body.

Particularly as the long malaise of winter approaches, we need something exciting to happen. It’s time to let the dogs out.

In practice, I think there are a number of different ways we can make this happen. Improving campus morale could be as simple as increasing the number of animals at Yale. These halfhearted, once-a-semester “barn babies” study breaks are not going to cut it. The Law School, for example, has a permanent mental health dog that students can rent to relieve their stresses and heal any pain in their hearts.

We could have more than just dogs at Yale — cats, turtles and bunnies — that students could borrow for the weekend and have a good snuggle. If we really wanted to experiment, we could even allow students to apply to have pets in their suites.

Alternatively, I think we would benefit from a new big event for the fall that incorporates the pups of Yale. Seniors and juniors will recall the conviviality and excitement that permeated campus during President Salovey’s

inauguration in fall of 2013 — the community was energized in a unique and memorable way.

Much of the history and pomp that characterized that event cannot be replicated year to year.

Nevertheless, adding a signature college-wide event to the fall calendar would promote school spirit and improve morale, especially if we had fireworks.

Sometimes when I look around Yale, I feel like so many students, for all intents and purposes, are going to different schools. What binds together the football player in Silliman with the a cappella performer in Ezra Stiles? Where can the frat star on High Street and the bookworm in Berkeley find common ground?

I don’t want Yale to become an amorphous entity streaming classes from other schools on projectors and failing to provide a shared sense of identity. We are the Bulldogs, and that should be source of pride!

Perhaps by looking to our campus dogs, we can draw inspiration to create that sense of community. And, at the very least, we’ll have a few more cuddly pups running around.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

NANCY ALDERMAN is a 1994 graduate of Trumbull College and 1997 graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

She is the president of Environment and Human Health Inc. Contact her at nancy.alderman@ehhi.org .

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s I pass by the halfway point of my college career, I’ve learned a few things: dining hall food isn’t as good as Bulldog Days led me to believe, every winter somehow manages to be the “worst winter in years” and, most important, I simply don’t have the time for things I don’t care about.

Coming to college, I saw an expansive four years ahead of me. Boundless opportunities to explore, to try new things, to transform myself into the perfect “Yalie.” I joined residential college student government, I signed up for panlist upon panlist at the extracurricular Bazaar — I even joined a little studentrun newspaper!

Some of these things I did because I thought I would be interested in them; others I did because I felt that I should do them. I was at Yale, after all, and everything oozed prestige. I had to do everything lest I fall behind.

Unfortunately, this meant that many activities I was interested in before coming to Yale — dance, hip-hop, community outreach — fell by the wayside. There simply wasn’t time in this brave new world for those old habits. I had

to explore, and I couldn’t do that without sacrificing a few things.

But now as I enter the twilight half of my LEO KIM Yale career, I don’t see the On us same expanse in front of me. Instead, I see myself racing against a deadline: the day I enter the “real world.”

With the clock ticking, I find that I simply don’t have the time to waste doing extracurriculars for some vague artificial sense of prestige or tradition. I don’t have time to sit through meetings, yawning because I don’t care.

As the last two years of my life at Yale start to speed by, I’ve realized the need to cut down.

Somewhere along the way, I realized that I had been so blinded by the lights at this place — by “the world’s oldest this” or “Yale’s first that” — that I had lost that simple fact. I wanted to become a “Yalie” so much that I latched on to Yale’s values at the expense of what made me, me.

While I’m certainly glad I explored while I could, I now find myself returning back to those things I left neglected during my time of exploration — back to what I really cared about before Yale told me what to care about.

I find myself remembering the passions that made me an individual, that helped get me here in the first place.

I SIMPLY DON’T HAVE THE TIME FOR THINGS I DON’T CARE ABOUT The old me is the reason I am where I am.

College is inevitably a time of change, but that change should be on our own terms. At Yale, we can and often do feel obligated to sacrifice our time and energy to endeavors that we only pursue halfheartedly because we feel some abstruse cultural need to.

This phenomenon takes many forms, whether it’s taking one

extra credit so you don’t feel “lazy” — whatever that means at Yale — or joining one extra club. I’m as guilty of this as anyone. But to identify and reject the values imposed on us by Yale’s culture, to think for ourselves and pave our own path, is precisely what we should do. Yale shouldn’t be wasted on things we don’t care about just because “it’s Yale.”

They say that it’s only at the end of a story that you begin to see how all the pieces fit into place. As all of the various pieces come together, I’ve come to understand that each person’s Yale career is unlike anyone else’s, and that’s how it should be.

At the end of the day, we came to Yale to find ourselves.

We won’t do that if we follow a script, even if it’s the script that’s given to us by Yale. So explore, but do so with purpose, and when something doesn’t click, throw it away. There’s no time to waste.

LEO KIM is a junior in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS

Yale Health Plan enrollment stable

TUESDAY, OCT. 14

A previous version of the article “CS50 excitement, enrollment drop” incorrectly stated that CS50 is the most popular class in Yale College history. In fact, CS50 is the most popular class at Yale this semester.

Lack of faculty diversity goes beyond hiring

BY MONICA WANG AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS On Founders Day morning this past Wednesday, a large poster condemning the lack of faculty diversity at Yale appeared on Cross Campus, only to be removed several hours later.

Still, the poster, which survives digitally on the popular Facebook page “Overheard at Yale,” has prompted discussion among professors and students about not only the composition of Yale’s faculty, but also the underlying issues that led to the problems identified by the poster.

“The students are waiting.

Your move, Yale,” the poster read. The yards-wide sign also illustrated the disparity between undergraduate and faculty diversity in several large charts and graphs: 42 percent of the Yale College student population is of minority descent, compared to just 17 percent of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, there has been just a 1 percent average increase in the number of black professors each century since Yale’s founding — a number that appalled many of the poster’s Facebook viewers.

But while students and faculty interviewed agreed that the statistics are concerning, they also identified different factors beyond Yale’s hiring practices that contribute to the lack of faculty diversity on campus.

Fiona Scott Morton, an economics professor at the School of Management, said the major problem lies with the lack of diversity in the hiring pool for professorships and not with the University’s reluctance to hire professors who come from minority backgrounds. Academic careers usually attract people with some financial stability, Scott Morton said, adding that many talented prospective professors who come from immigrant, first-generation or underprivileged families end up choosing to work in industries that generate higher incomes than academia.

Scott Morton added that while the Economics Department at the SOM tries hard to recruit underrepresented faculty, the place to make a real difference is within the current undergraduate population. The University can encourage more undergraduates of color to pursue careers in academia, Scott Morton emphasized, so that the pool of individuals qualified to become professors can be more diverse in the future.

Crystal Kong ’18, co-community development chair for the Asian American Students Alliance, expressed a similar sentiment.

“It’s very well-documented that students with lower incomes tend to major in ‘useful’ fields, such as pre-law and pre-med,” she said. “The same demographics who are low-income also tend to be minority.”

In addition, if students do not see professors of color at their

schools, they may be less motivated to enter academia themselves, said Katie McCleary ’18, social chair for the Association of Native Americans at Yale. She said professors with the same ethnic and cultural backgrounds as students are able to act as role models for students. There is only one Native American professor in the FAS, she said, adding that the University is sending the message that professors from Native American backgrounds do not have a place on campus.

Still, Kong noted that the lower number of minorities in the pool of prospective professors is not an excuse for the lack of faculty diversity on campus, which she attributed largely to the University’s inability to retain faculty of color. In recent months, English and African American Studies professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84, who recited a poem at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, as well as two other black professors with ties to the African American Studies department, have announced that they will leave Yale at the end of this academic year. Alexander and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor Vanessa Agard-Jones will go to Columbia University, which recently committed an additional $33 million to its faculty diversity initiative.

Titania Nguyen ’18, political chair of the Vietnamese Students Association at Yale and co-chair of the Asian American Studies Task Force, said Yale has not made a comparable effort to invest in faculty diversity. Yale’s reputation has been successful in bringing minority professors to campus, but the administration has failed to offer enough support to make them stay, she said.

“Yale is Yale, [and] unless the number of talented minority faculty is zero, Yale should be able to get them to come,” Nguyen said. “[But] many minority professors have left, being lured away by better tenure offers.”

Reminding minority faculty members that they are wanted on campus, Kong said, is an important role that students can play to address the lack of faculty diversity. The support that the poster garnered online is a positive sign, she added.

Scott Morton said the discussion the poster sparked is part of a healthy debate that will make campus a better place. As a faculty member, Scott Morton expects and relies on students to direct the way they want Yale to go.

“I think students should always push the University to try hard,” Scott Morton said.

According to a faculty head count performed in the fall of 2013, 2.8 percent of FAS professors were Hispanic, 3.5 percent were African-American and 9 percent were Asian.

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

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Nearly half of all Yale students waive Yale Health Hospitalization/Speciality Care coverage, according to Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin.

BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite a constantly shifting national health care landscape, undergraduate student enrollment in the Yale Health Plan Hospitalization and Specialty Care coverage has held steady, with more than half the student body electing to waive the University’s specialty health insurance.

According to Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin, several changes were made over the past several years to the Yale Health Plan to comply with the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in March 2010.

The University’s former insurance plan, which covered both hospitalization and specialist care, was merged with Yale Health’s prescription plan, which was formerly an optional

rider. In addition, the student plan now includes free generic contraceptives as well as free immunization, as per the specifications of the ACA. Still, because of the prior comprehensiveness of the Yale Health Plan, these changes have had no major effects on student coverage, Genecin explained.

Approximately 45 percent of Yale undergraduates are enrolled in Yale’s specialty coverage, Genecin said, adding that this figure has been stable in recent years.

Yale Health has also removed the dollar limit on covered durable medical equipment, increased outpatient mental health services for children of students and adjusted its inpatient mental health benefit in accordance with the legislation.

Genecin said there has been

no incremental cost to students because the full health plan is priced in order to ensure affordability.

Yale Health has also submitted documentation to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services to check that its health insurance constitutes minimum essential coverage and will not result in penalization by the government, Genecin said.

Yale Health does not record the demographic information of students who enroll in its healthcare plan, although international students interviewed noted the relative convenience of taking out the University’s health care policy rather than searching for a private provider in the United States.

Yuki Hayashi ’17, president of the Yale International Stu-

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dents’ Organization, said she could not think of any international students who were not on the Yale Health Plan.

“Oftentimes the plan [international students] are [on before college] only covers their own country,” Hayashi said. “They don’t have a reason to waive [the Yale Health Plan].”

Hayashi added that, after talking about the University’s special coverage insurance with international upperclassmen, she felt safer enrolling in the Yale Health Plan than searching for an alternative private insurer in the United States.

Nasim Mirzajani ’18, who lives in Dubai, also cited the inconvenience of searching for a U.S. healthcare plan other than Yale’s.

“As an international student, I wouldn’t have had insurance in the U.S.,” she said.

“If it wasn’t for Yale’s health insurance plan, getting insurance would have been an added tedious task added to everything else I had to do before I could study here.”

Other students said they waived the special coverage insurance because they were already covered by another health care plan prior to coming to college.

Marcie Tran ’17 said that opting for her family’s health care plan over Yale’s full coverage saves her approximately $2,100 annually.

“I waived Yale health insurance, because I have insurance through my Dad’s work,” Avery Thompson ’17 said.

According to the United States Government Accountability Office, approximately 80 percent of college students in the U.S. aged 18 through 23 had health insurance in 2006.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

AYA launches mentoring program

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The Association of Yale Alumni is piloting a new mentor program this fall to provide students with general professional guidance, rather than just networking opportunities.

The program falls under the umbrella of a new joint initiative, “Careers, Life, and Yale” that the AYA, Students and Alumni of Yale and the Office of Career Strategy developed this year to connect students and alumni and increase alumni engagement on campus. The mentoring program was conceived in the spring, and alumni mentors were recruited during the late spring to early summer, according to Steve Blum ’74, senior director of strategic initiatives for the AYA. Over the last three weeks, 21 undergraduate, graduate and professional student participants were matched with their mentors, many of whom live outside of New Haven, to begin conversations about their career interests.

“Mentoring programs have popped up organically all over campus,” Blum said. “It’s one thing for that to happen, it’s another thing to have a program that draws on the entire alumni universe.”

Nancy Stratford ’77, an executive officer on the AYA board of governors who is spearheading the initiative along with Blum, said the AYA reached out to around 700 alumni from around the world inviting them to participate in the pilot program. Of these 700, about 100 expressed interest, and this pool was ultimately narrowed down to 21 alumni for a one-to-one pairing with students.

Stratford added that because of high alumni interest, the program plans to accommodate 20 additional student-alumni pairs in a second round of matching, which will likely take place in November. About half of the students currently involved are undergraduates and half are from the graduate and professional schools, she said.

“I think we have a wonderful opportunity for Yale alumni to engage themselves working with Yale students and serving as mentors — not just career mentors but sort of life mentors,” Lise Chapman SOM ’81, chair of the AYA board of governors, said.

Student recruiting for the program was organized through Students and Alumni of Yale with an email that was sent out to the group’s pan-

list inviting members to sign up for a mentor. Participating alumni were asked to submit biographical information including gender, academic focus, current career focus and geographic location, as well as other personal characteristics, Blum said. Students then ranked their mentor preferences according to their responses, without having the names of the alumni.

The pilot program is set to last for six months, although some student-mentor pairs may choose to continue the relationship after that initial period. Program organizers will check in with each pair after two months, Stratford said.

“We’re hoping that these pairings create sustained dialogue for at least six months to see how it goes,” Blum said.

“We all know that there’s nothing that guarantees that the dialogue will be robust and permanent, but we wanted everyone to give it a six-month try.”

Andrew Steffan DIV ’15, a participant in the program, said he signed up to have a mentor last spring because graduation was approaching and he did not have definitive career plans. Steffan added that one of the most important

factors for him in choosing a mentor was enthusiasm for the program, which he determined by paying close attention to the alumni’s personal statements.

Lucie Tvrznikova GRD ’19, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, said she had similar concerns for her future career, adding that she signed up for a mentor because she thinks she can benefit from the guidance of an alumnus who has already figured out a career path.

Tvrznikova said that while she is undecided about whether she wants to stay in academia or go into industry after graduation, she hopes that having an alumni mentor can help her with the decision process.

Both students said they have already spoken with their mentors and are happy with the relationship that they have established so far.

“My mentor has been very helping in giving me human advice and a human perspective on interacting with individuals who are in career fields that I want to explore,” Steffan said.

There are over 120 domestic and 40 international Yale Clubs and Associations for alumni.

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

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“We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu.”

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New Med School cafe offers healthier fare

BY SARAH STEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale Dining officially opened the redesigned Café Med on Sept. 28.

The cafe, previously known as Marigolds, had been closed for renovations since June. The most notable changes include the customizable, healthfocused menu and the layout of the seating area.

Even the new name serves a dual purpose, representing both its location at the medical school and the Mediterranean focus of its new menu, according to Adam Millman, director of auxiliary operations at Yale Dining.

“The concept — fresh, healthy bowls on a foundation of greens, grains, pita and inspired by the bold flavors of the Mediterranean — that’s sort of what we’re focused on here,” Millman said. According to Millman, the cafe is now a combination of a made-toorder salad station and a Chipotle-style pick-yourown service. Customers pick a base for their dishes — either grains, greens or a pita — and can then add a “flavor explosion”: spicy feta, charred eggplant, hummus or haydari — a yogurt-based sauce.

Customers can finish off their meals with a skewer — either spicy meatballs, Moroccan chicken or falafel — extra toppings and a sauce.

The concept — fresh, healthy bowls … inspired by the bold flavors of the Mediterranean — that’s sort of what we’re focused on here.

ADAM MILLMAN Director of Auxiliary Operations, Yale Dining The cafe continues to serve ready-made sandwiches and snacks, all made from healthy and natural ingredients. Other hot food items, such as soups and stews, are also available. The cafe also has a new coffee machine, and the most popular new option has been the freshly squeezed juice, Millman said.

“People taste the orange juice and they are impressed by the difference between a packaged orange juice and one that’s squeezed fresh,” Millman said. “That machine cuts the orange, squeezes it and with that we build the juice. There’s one called the ‘detox,’ which focuses on turmeric, ginger, cayenne and water.”

Millman emphasized the cafe’s new focus on health and wellness, noting that students and faculty alike have responded positively.

Given all these changes, the cafe has become more like a restaurant than a dining hall, Millman said. But, without a grill station or a make-your-own salad bar, some say the new cafe has less variety than before.

“It used to be a full-service dining hall, so some people are disappointed by the more limited options,” Nick Economos MED ’23 said. “But it occupies a niche of healthier food that we don’t get at the hospital.”

The layout of the cafe has been remodeled to include more windows and promote a more open atmosphere, as guests have the option of sitting at high counters or in soft or hard chairs.

Brian Funaro, a staff member at Yale Information Technology Services, said he loves the cafe’s new food selection but noted that seating has been reduced by about half. Funaro said as the weather gets colder and fewer people want to sit outside, there will not be enough room inside the building.

Seven students interviewed spoke largely positively about the renovation. Café Med is popular not just due to the appeal of healthy foods and a spacious eating area, but also thanks to its proximity to the medical school and School of Public Health, they said.

“I finished my discussion and it’s close to the school, so I came here,” said Zijie Su MPH ’16, who was visiting Café Med for the first time. Su also complimented the quality of his bowl of greens.

Business may actually increase because prices have been reduced, according to TuKiet Lam, associate research scientist at the School of Medicine. One past concern was that food at Marigolds was expensive, Lam said, but Café Med’s new dishes cost as little as $5.

The changes to Café Med were brought about by students and faculty at the medical school who suggested providing healthier foods. They also requested a menu more similar to the food carts on Cedar Street, which offer a variety of Mediterranean dishes.

“The student groups wanted a menu that was focused on health and wellness, that was customizable and healthy,” Millman said.

“Mediterranean speaks to all of those terms.”

All undergraduates can use a meal swipe to eat at Café Med, which is located at 367 Cedar St. Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR

University budget holds despite investment gains ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 erations, Jarvis said.

But this approach is disappointing to some faculty who want a larger share of the endowment to fund their departments as Yale looks to expand.

Deputy Provost Lloyd Suttle said the 2017 fiscal year budget is currently being planned with the opening of the new colleges in mind, but added that it is too early for him to comment on the specific allocations of money across the University. Suttle said most budget increases will not be needed until the 2018 fiscal year, since the new colleges will not open until the fall of 2017. Fiscal year 2018 begins in July 2017.

“That extra cost will have to be met somehow in the operating budget,” Jarvis said of the costs associated with expanding the student body. The full cost of tuition, room and board is currently $63,250, but Jarvis said Yale spends much more than that on each student, even those who do not receive financial aid.

Professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology Joel Rosenbaum said that the University’s budget in the next few years should be expanded to provide additional faculty to account for the 15 percent increase in the student body with the opening of the new colleges. Last year, when the Provost’s Office asked Rosenbaum’s department to cut $125,000 from its budget, MCDB faculty voted to cut a popular but expensive electron microscopy lab from its course offerings. Rosenbaum said classes that cost more money should be reinstated and that new scientific equipment should be purchased for the MCDB Department.

But other professors interviewed are less concerned about how the new colleges will impact

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the University budget. School of Management professor Jim Levinsohn, who currently serves on the University Budget Committee, said he is optimistic that the provost will prioritize research and teaching when drafting the budget. Levinsohn added that the new colleges are not a surprise, and that he thinks the University will be able to handle the financial impact of expanding Yale College.

“I think it’ll all be fine,” Levinsohn said. “Better than fine, actually.”

Concerns over how Yale spends its money are hardly new. The University was publicly criticized by writer Malcom Gladwell in a recent New York Times op-ed, which claimed Yale spends a rela-

tively small amount on its students compared to the amount spent on managing its endowment.

But Jarvis said the budget is often misinterpreted. To the outside observer, Yale’s budget in fiscal year 2017 may not be as large as people would expect, despite recent high endowment returns, he said. Since 2010, the endowment has grown from around $16.6 billion to $25.6 billion in 2015.

During that same period, Yale’s operating expenses increased from $2.6 million to $3.1 million in 2014. The spending rate, however, remained at roughly 5.25 percent.

Jarvis said Yale aims to keep its spending rate more or less the same each year, regardless of how markets fare or how operat-

ing costs change, because of the smoothing rule — a method of gradually adjusting Yale’s spending in response to market fluctuations. According to Yale’s 2014 Endowment Report, the smoothing rule is meant to ensure that the University is not affected by the ups and downs of the market.

Jarvis said the smoothing rule makes it easy to misinterpret Yale’s yearly spending rate. Growing the student body will increase Yale’s operating costs in fall 2017, but the smoothing rule may prevent the budget from increasing too much during that year. The effective spending rate will appear to be lower during good economic times, and uninformed people will criticize Yale for not spending

more, Jarvis said.

The part of the endowment that’s not for scholarships can’t be used for [scholarships].

WILLIAM JARVIS ’77 Managing Director, Commonfund Institute

With professors like Rosenbaum calling for more funding, Jarvis said deciding how to spend the endowment is not always simple. The endowment, which

is made up of many small donations, is restricted by the donor’s intended purpose for the money.

For example, if a donation to the endowment was intended to be spent on financial aid or scholarship money, it cannot be used to pay for athletics, Jarvis said.

“The part of the endowment that’s not for scholarships can’t be used for [scholarships],” said Jarvis.

The budget is determined each year by the Provost’s Office, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, the Yale College Dean’s Office and the Budget Office.

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

Harp, new BOE president, leads first meeting BOARD OF ED FROM PAGE 1 and high because we are developing the future of this city and may even be developing the future of this nation.”

The first two ideas in Harp’s 10-point initiative focus on ensuring that there is a strategic reading plan for students of all ages. Harp asserted that reading and communication are vital life skills, adding that public-school educators must intervene for all students who are failing to read at grade level in elementary, middle or high school. Harp intends to create a Blue Ribbon Reading Commission of educational experts from around the state that the board would task with identifying issues in the current curriculum and presenting alternative practices.

Harp noted that she was deeply troubled to learn that some New Haven teachers and administrators do not believe they could effectively instruct students at underperforming schools in the Elm City. She argued that these teachers had an “unconscious bias” against minority students that prevents progress in schools.

I know that all the kids that look like me and had all the challenges I had in my life can learn as well.

TONI HARP Mayor of New Haven “I know that all the kids that look like me and had the challenges I had in my life can learn as well,” Harp said. “If we have teachers that believe that little black and brown children can’t learn at grade level, then it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Harp also emphasized the need to tailor curriculum to 21st-century learning, implementing a combination of digital and social-emotional learning, while also providing internships and vocational opportunities.

She added that she would like to see more city money invested in classroom computers, especially in the lowest-performing schools in the district.

Harp, who said she thinks the New Haven Public Schools

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Tuesday marked Mayor Toni Harp’s first meeting as the president of the New Haven Board of Education. system does many things well, encouraged an intensive review of the best practices employed by every public school. She said this review process would allow school administrators to see which strategies are improving student growth in other schools and thereby determine equity of resources and best practices in

all classrooms.

“We need to canvass all our schools to figure out and make sure [the best] practices are instituted at schools that haven’t done as well on tests,” Harp said.

New Haven Federation of Teachers Vice President Tom Burns said tremendous progress

had been made in the district since 2012, when NHPS received a $53 million federal grant. Burns added that test scores do not fully reflect students’ academic abilities and argued that teachers perform “miracles” each day in the classroom.

Caraballo said she does not think teachers in the NHPS sys-

tem are doing as well as Burns claimed. Kimberly Sullivan, a senior at the Sound School and one of the two nonvoting student BOE members elected in June, said she sits in classrooms every day and has yet to witness the “miracles” Burns described.

According to an August report by the state Department

of Education, 29.1 percent of New Haven students are meeting Common Core standards for literacy and 13.5 percent are meeting the standards for math, compared to 55.4 percent and 39.1 percent statewide.

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

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Running a start-up is like eating glass.

You just start to like the taste of your own blood.” SEAN PARKER AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR

T H E D A I LY P R I N C E T O N I A N

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Grads enter startups, finance

Title IX office hears assault cases

BY SHRIYA SEKHSARIA The number of university students pursuing careers in startups and technical services has increased substantially in the past decade, while participation in finance and insurance jobs has remained relatively steady, according to the Office of Career Services.

The professional, scientific and technical services industry has seen a 200 percent increase in alumni employees. For the classes of 2006 and 2010, this sector hired between seven and nine percent of the graduating class. This number jumped to between 12 and 14 percent for the classes of 2011 and 2014.

Meanwhile, finance and insurance employment rates have fluctuated only between 11.5 and 12.9 percent in the past five years.

Between nine and 15 percent of the classes of 2006 through 2014 have chosen to work in these industries, according to data from the post-graduation career plans survey from the university’s Office of Career Services.

The time frame for the postgraduation career plans survey was changed from three months to six months, beginning with the class of 2011. In the same year, the Office of Career Services began using the North American Industry Classification System as well as the Hoover’s Business Database for the survey.

Director of External Relations and Operations Evangeline Kubu said that while there are students interested in finance and consulting, they are certainly not representative of the majority of university students.

“The financial services industry has been recruiting at Princeton for decades, and they have a long, established history here,” Kubu said. “So they tend to have very visible hiring processes in place, and sometimes, that may be driving the perception that most students are going into finance.”

Pulin Sanghvi, executive director of Career Services, said that one trend that is emerging amongst the career choices of graduating classes is the popularity of technological startups and entrepreneurship in general. He added that companies in the professional, scientific and technical services industry are much more able to create attractive opportunities for recent college graduates and to give them meaningful work to do.

“I think [the increase in popularity of startups and tech companies] is because that sector of the economy has become structurally larger than any time in history,” he said. “There is innovation that is happening now in so many different areas that part of the economy keeps regenerating itself.”

Sanghvi said that startups are an extremely popular career choice because they allow students to graduate college and take on positions of significant responsibility very early.

“Our alumni serve as powerful role models as students look to them as examples of what nontraditional paths can look like

over time,” he added.

Entrepreneurship professor Derek Lidow noted that PRINCETON i n c r e a s e d m e d i a attention is another reason for the popularity of startups.

“The media makes some successful entrepreneurs into sensations — they promote how much money is created by those entrepreneurs — so those are certainly things that attract students and many others into wanting to be entrepreneurs,” he said, noting the media-generated profile is unrealistic because most successful entrepreneurs are not high-tech billionaires.

All other industry sectors employed less than five percent of the graduating class.

“What we are experiencing anecdotally and what we expect to see happening as the economy continues to evolve is that our students will aggregate less,” Sanghvi said. “What will happen instead is that they will spread out across a much, much broader number of companies, industries, functional roles.”

He added that despite the increasing popularity of the startup environment, there would always be a lot of interest in opportunities that have been traditional paths for university students because some of those platforms help students in learning skills.

Shafin Fattah, an economics major now employed in the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., said he first tried his hand in the financial industry through an internship during his junior summer. He explained that he wanted to see whether he liked the work and whether what he had heard about the industry was true.

“I don’t know where the future would take me,” Fattah said. “It’s just the first few months at work — you don’t know how the rest of your life will pan out — but yeah, I wouldn’t mind staying in the financial world.”

Fattah noted that there was a strong negative stereotype about people in the financial industry.

“A lot of people are thinking, like, you know, people who are going into finance are doing it for money or something,” he said.

“You know there’s a very blackand-white picture portrayed by popular culture … which shows that it’s a really glamorous world and everything. That’s not really true.”

Markus Brunnermeier, director of the Bendheim Center for Finance, said that the glamour factor is rapidly shifting to tech firms like Google and Apple.

“Mark Zuckerberg and other tech gurus, and not bankers, are the heroes of young people these days,” he said. “Tech firms are changing our world, but they also need to solid finance knowledge to be successful enterprises.”

Brunnermeier added that many interesting new developments at the intersection

between finance and technology make the financial industry difficult to predict and also have important implications for financial regulations and monetary policy.

Brunnermeier said that the interest in the program in finance has remained relatively stable over the past few years, though the global financial crisis in the late 2000s caused a slight increase in the numbers. He attributed the uptick to curiosity in what had caused the Great Recession.

According to Melanie HeaneyScott, academic administrator for the undergraduate program in finance, 82 students in the class of 2015 received the finance certificate, while the classes of 2016 and 2017 currently have 109 and 91 students enrolled in the program, respectively.

According to statistics from the post-graduation survey for students enrolled in the program in finance, 59.6 percent students pursued careers in the financial industry while seven percent went on to further their education.

Lidow said his classes in entrepreneurship and design have always been very popular with students across majors. He added that student interest in these classes is growing beyond their capacity, leading to additional sections of classes like EGR 392, “Creativity, Innovation and Design.”

Lidow said it is much harder now for a university graduate to feel like they can have a positive impact on a large organization because large institutions have become complacent and riskaverse.

“Large organizations build forces within them to resist change,” he said. “You know, Princeton is a place with a lot of ambitious students, a lot of talented students, a lot of students with tremendous capabilities.

And how frustrating is it to go in and spend 40 to 50 years doing something that’s really not using all your talents?”

He added that using best practices, a Princeton student’s chance of starting an enterprise that has a positive impact on the world can be beyond even 50-50, though this is unlikely in fields like technology which attract a large number of startups.

“If you approach a startup using best practices, it is probably a less risky way to ultimately lead a high-impact organization than rising through ranks of a huge corporation where your chances are measured in one in a thousand,” he said.

Sanghvi noted that students who choose certain industries immediately after graduation are not signaling that they are going to continue to work in the same place forever.

“We do not see students that are saying, you know, I’m joining a certain opportunity and I know that I’m going to retire in that opportunity,” he said. “What we see instead are students that are thinking of this two- or fouryear experience as a building block towards their longer-term identity.”

BY NOAH J. DELWICHE AND MARIEL A. KLEIN Harvard has heard a record number of sexual assault cases — between 25 and 30 — since it opened a new centralized Title IX office to handle the issue last fall, according to university Title IX Officer Mia Karvonides.

Since it opened with the implementation of Harvard’s new university-wide sexual harassment policy last fall, the Office for Sexual and GenderBased Dispute Resolution has heard cases from 11 of Harvard’s schools or divisions, Karvonides said in an interview on Friday. Those cases have involved faculty, staff and students, and a third involved allegations of nonconsensual sexual penetration.

The 25-to-30 figure at least doubles an already spiked caseload Karvonides said the ODR had heard in its first semester alone last fall, which she said surpassed the total annual caseload across the university in previous years.

The ODR investigates and determines guilt in all sexual harassment and assault cases filed against students and staff, and most against faculty, across Harvard before handing verdicts off to school disciplinary bodies, except at Harvard Law School. At the urgings of professors there, a separate body investigates cases involving only law students.

Of the 25 to 30 cases the ODR has heard since fall 2014, between 10 and 15 are still open, said Karvonides, who oversees the body; more than half of the open cases were filed in the last two months.

O f cases the investigatory body has resolved, K a r vo n i d e s HARVARD said the office has found an “even mix” of sexual harassment policy violations and non-violations.

It has also reached informal resolutions in some cases.

One-ninth of the resolved cases were administratively closed, meaning that the complaint did not lead to a full formal investigation.

Complainant and respondent demographics were not uniform, Karvonides added.

Just more than half of the cases that the ODR heard last school year involved a female complainant and a male respondent; the rest involved a combination of varying gender identities.

Previously, administrators had not released such detailed information about the ODR and its early caseload. Karvonides, though, offered more information about Harvard’s most recent sexual assault case statistics just weeks after Harvard released the results of its university-wide sexual conduct climate survey.

The survey, which administrators described as “deeply troubling,” revealed that 31 percent of senior female respondents at the college reported being victims of some kind of sexual misconduct during their time at Harvard. Among senior undergraduate males, a subgroup that includes Extension School students, 8.4 percent reported having experienced

some kind of sexual misconduct in that time. Undergraduates who identified in the survey as LGBAQN — lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, questioning or not listed — reported experiencing sexual assault at higher rates.

The survey also found that many students — including undergraduates — were unaware of and placed little trust in the university’s sexual assault policy, its procedures for handling cases and existing reporting bodies.

More than 70 percent of Harvard students surveyed reported that they were not at all or only a little bit knowledgeable about what happens when a student reports an incident of sexual assault or misconduct, and only 20 percent were very or extremely knowledgeable about where to make a report. Rates of reported sexual assaults were also low, with 69 percent of respondents who experienced penetration by force indicating that they did not file a formal report.

Responding to the survey, Karvonides said the prevalence data “was of most concern” and that her office will push to increase universitywide knowledge and trust surrounding the issue.

“It identifies an area where we have so much more work to do. Without question, that is my takeaway,” Karvonides said. “The issue is that we need to build more trust.”

To that end, Harvard released a 10-page “Frequently Asked Questions” document clarifying its sexual harassment policy and the procedures governing case investigations on Monday.

THE CORNELL CHRONICLE

Students crowdfund tuition

BY KIMBERLY LEE Recent student-run crowdfunding campaigns to finance University tuition have attracted the attention of many in the Cornell community and raised questions about the necessity of change in the school’s financial aid system.

Most recently, following the success of Jonah Hephzibah, Nikolai Lumpkins took to the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe in hopes of raising $25,000 for tuition in order to remain enrolled at Cornell. As of Tuesday night, Lumpkins’ campaign has raised nearly $6,000.

Originally anticipating “average” reactions, Lumpkins said he was surprised at the strength of the responses he received, both positive and negative, when he made his online page.

“There’s so much animosity and so much support,” he said. “I guess both extremes happen when you put something like this on the Internet.”

“SO DODGY”

Lumpkins said his father and mother divorced when he was one year old, and that his father did not respond to him when he requested his father’s tax information for his financial aid application.

Lumpkins said he reached out to the Office of Financial Aid prior to the start of the semester to discuss the removal of a noncustodial parent from his financial records at school.

“Financial aid was so dodgy,” he said about the response he received at the time.

Later, after the start of the semester, he learned about a noncustodial waiver petition form of which his counselors over the summer did not mention, he said. By that time, the deadline for the waiver’s approval had since passed. “[This] is definitely an issue within the system,”

Lumpkins said.

“I don’t feel any a n i mosity toward t h e CORNELL school, however I do believe the financial aid system needs to be revised.”

MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE

Juliana Batista, president of the Student Assembly, described recent crowdfunding efforts as the result of “an issue that needs to be taken up at the university level.”

“Not that it’s the job of the financial aid to ‘hand-hold,’ but [the university] needs to be cognizant about the mental pressures on students and to have an understanding of what students need in order to help them with their situations,” Batista said.

Batista said this issue is also occurring at the national level in colleges across the country, adding that she and John Lowry, the president of the class of 2016, are working on initiatives to tackle this problem.

“We’re looking for solutions to alleviate the cost of financial aid and also to make going through financial aid less emotionally tolling on students,” said Batista.

Lowry described his impression of the crowdfunding pages as “a final cry for help.”

“GoFundMe only helps people who sign up for it,” Lowry said. “It is not a longterm solution, and it is not equitable in the sense that people who also may need it may not feel comfortable reaching out for it.”

TOWARD A MORE FLEXIBLE SYSTEM

Lowry said there needs to be more sustainable solutions designed to alleviate the stress placed on students.

“I think there is a logic behind the way financial aid works, but what we’re find-

ing is that it is not adjusting to specific issues,” he said. “It could be more flexible.”

The initiatives underway will attempt to adjust the financial aid system to cater more directly to students, according to Lowry.

“It is not a matter of payment, but more a matter of how smooth the process is,” he said. “A large portion of that is helping students understand how they can pay in a more simplified manner, in layman’s terms, outside of a counselor’s office.”

He also emphasized the emotional components of the financial aid process, describing money as just one of the items of baggage that handicaps students.

“There needs to be a more organized and structured manner [so] people who need it can get it,” he said. “Within the larger context, these students [require] emotional support, so there [has] to be more understanding within the system itself for specific cases.”

Lowry suggested making more digestible resources available to students, so they know what to expect before going into the financial aid office.

“There are three simultaneous projects we are working on,” said Lowry about the initiatives. “Out of respect for the administrators with whom we wish to discuss these plans, we will release more information about [the initiatives] after administrators have received a first courtesy notice, as they will be instrumental in this process.”

GRANTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY

In response to the growing debate about the school’s financial aid system, Gretchen Ryan, associate director of financial aid, said, “Cornell University makes admissions decisions without regard to the ability of students or parents to pay educational costs.”

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FROM THE FRONT

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” ALAN BLOOM AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER

Higher SAF could bring pricier Fling performer, better events SAF FROM PAGE 1 “[The SAF] was preventing YCC from doing more activities, and it was getting to the point where it was getting impossible to even put on what we put on the past,” former YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said. “Last year, once we got approval to get it covered by financial aid, it became a nobrainer because it wouldn’t be a problem for students from lowincome backgrounds.”

Herbert added that the question of raising the amount will be revisited every two years. Students also have the option of opting out of the fee.

Each year, the SAF provides funding for student organizations, sports and events. Including the annual $40,000 the President’s Office gives the YCC specifically for Spring Fling, Tovbin said, this year the YCC has $276,000 earmarked for the event. This is a 41.5 percent increase from last year’s $195,000 allocation.

There may be some changes to the Spring Fling experience due to the increase in our budget.

TOBIAS HOLDEN ’17 Chair, Spring Fling Committee

Spring Fling Chair Tobias Holden ’17 said it is possible the increased budget will allow the YCC to bring a more expensive artist to campus, adding that the supporting acts could also have more name recognition.

“There may be some fun changes to the Spring Fling experience due to the increase in our budget, depending on feedback from the Spring Fling 2016 survey

KEN YANAGISAWA/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Spring Fling is just one of a number of YCC events that will benefit from the increased SAF. regarding improvements from past iterations of the event,” Holden said. “As of right now it seems like what Yale students want more than anything else is an increase in the caliber of artist we book for the show.”

YCC President Joe English ’17 said the change in the SAF also contributed to an increase in the UOC budget, which funds registered student organizations, including providing grants to pub-

City sees another budget surplus FISCAL FROM PAGE 1 building permits and reduction in overtime expenditures were among the chief factors in generating the surplus.

“These positive operating results for fiscal year 2015 send a strong, consistent and positive message to residents, property and business owners that my administration is operating a fiscally conservative enterprise,” Harp said.

Harp said sound finances are the “bedrock” of all city projects. This year’s results will send a positive message to credit-rating agencies and investors, she said.

Harp identified three main reasons for the surplus: continued budget discipline, increased revenue from building-permit fees and reducing overtime expenditures by hiring and training more recruits in the police and fire departments.

City Budget Director Joe Clerkin said the city had planned for receipts of roughly $10 million from building permits. But by the fiscal year’s end, those receipts totaled $17 million, the bulk of which has come from the construction of the University’s two new residential colleges on Prospect Street.

A d d i t i o n a l ly, ove r t i m e expenditures have come down considerably over the last year.

Last fall, the city spent roughly $300,000 each week on overtime pay for police officers and firefighters. That figure has now settled at around $100,000, City Controller Daryl Jones said, largely due to new hires.

The city will continue to employ overtime control measures to balance the budget, Jones said. He added that the city also hopes additional training for firefighters and municipal staff will help cut costs by improving workers’ efficiency in the coming months.

“Overtime has been putting a lot of pressure on the budget for the last four or five years,” Jones said. “We’ve made a lot of headway.”

Jones said the city holds bimonthly meetings to iden-

tify possible savings in overtime expenditures, adding that while those meetings are “never easy,” they are an important part of ensuring the city stays within its budget.

New Haven’s budget surplus will also positively impact the city’s credit rating. When the city last ran a deficit, in FY13, creditors downgraded the city’s rating several times, Jones said. Positive budget surpluses beginning in FY14 have allowed the city to steadily improve its credit rating over the last 15 months, he added. Higher credit ratings will allow City Hall to continue cutting costs from past years by borrowing at lower interest rates, according to Jones.

The surplus means that the Rainy Day Fund — an emergency financial cushion intended for use in times of unexpected revenue shortfall — now totals $1.7 million. Jones said municipalities aim for a rainy day fund of around 5 percent of the budget.

For New Haven to reach that target, its rainy day fund would have to total roughly $25 million.

Jones said achieving the surplus was only possible by working closely with various branches of government and city departments, especially the Board of Alders and Board of Education.

Harp said the city will seek to maintain a budget surplus for the third year running in FY16, adding that doing so will require the city to seek state funding so as to reduce the need to raise taxes on residents. Clerkin noted that revenues from building permits are currently running higher than they were at this time last year, a trend that may point to a bright year ahead.

New Haven currently has an A- credit rating from ratings agencies Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s, an improvement from last year’s BBB+ rating.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

lications as well as funding regular meetings and internal activities. Thirty-five percent of the SAF goes to the UOC budget.

Tovbin highlighted the equalization of class council budgets as another important aspect of the raise.

“We balanced out the subsidiary class councils to have the same amount of money,” Tovbin said.

“Last year [the Freshman Class Council] was given $2,000, [the

Sophomore Class Council] and [Junior Class Council] were both given $3,000, and this year they’ve all been given $3,500.”

The YCC will also be able to host a number of other, smaller events, such as a “Harvest Hoedown” at Harvest Wine Bar and Restaurant this Saturday, or tailgates in collaboration with the Whaling Crew and Yale Student Athlete College Council, YCC Events Director Amour Alexandre ’17 said.

Still, Yale has the third-lowest SAF in the Ivy League, trailed only

by Harvard at $75 and Princeton at $65. The next-closest school is Brown, which has an annual SAF of $214. Harvard is the only other Ivy League school which gives students the option of opting out of the SAF. “From what we can see, there is a huge discrepancy between what students are requesting for their organizations and what the YCC

is able to given them,” English said. “This increase in the student activities fee is able to alleviate some of these concerns and will also certainly help them to throw more events to add to the diversity and vibrancy of student life.”

Last year, the average student activities fee in the Ivy League was $159.57.

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

Two homicides hit in one week HOMICIDE FROM PAGE 1 rates because New Haven is such a small city.

Barbara Tinney, the executive director for the New Haven Family Alliance, said community policing helps lower crime rates by allowing officers to be more sensitive to community concerns. And communities themselves have also become less willing to accept criminal behavior that affects their daily lives, she added.

“The community over time gets less and less tolerant and gets more willing to get folks that need to be out of our community out of our community,” Tinney said.

Spell echoed this idea, not-

ing that even when just a small number of people in the Elm City own illegal firearms, the entire community is put at risk.

For years, nonprofit organizations have been working toward community interventions in crime and addressing socioeconomic factors associated with crime such as joblessness and poverty. At the start of this month, City Community Services Administrator Martha Okafor announced a $1 million grant that aims to curb recidivism in New Haven through coordinated interventions known as Project Fresh Start.

“This trending down has national implications,” Tinney said. “It reflects a more collaborative effort that our commu-

nities are safer.”

While New Haven’s homicide rates have been declining, on Sept. 1, Hartford became the New England city with the most homicides in 2015. So far this year, the city has had 26 homicides — seven more than 2014’s count.

Yet, Hartman stressed that homicides are not the best indicators of the level of violence on New Haven’s streets, adding that shootings provide a more accurate gauge.

Hartford saw 105 shootings this year, according to an Oct. 3 report from the Hartford Police Department. This 22 percent increase in shootings stands in contrast with a 136 percent increase in Hartford homicides

this year.

The Hartford community and local organizations are working closely to reduce this violence, efforts that have been mirrored in New Haven.

“The community is united to stand against violence, as it has been. Hartford is steadfast in its commitment to see an end to senseless gun violence,” Tiana Hercules, project coordinator for Project Longevity in Hartford, said.

Mayor Toni Harp will hold a joint press conference with Gov. Dannel Malloy today at 10 a.m. to discuss Project Fresh Start and other local efforts.

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

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TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

A slight chance of showers between 9pm and midnight.

High of 63, low of 47.

BRAZIL VS. GERMANY BY DOO LEE

ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 4:00 PM Women Addressing Food in Healthcare. Marydale Debor founded FreshAdvantage after recognizing the urgent need to revolutionize traditional institutional food service. Her most recent project has reformed food service in New Haven’s Connecticut Mental Health Center, to great acclaim. Anne Gallagher is a chef and culinary instructor instrumental in creating youth cooking programs in Connecticut. Francine Blinten is a nutritionist with experience addressing a wide range of health conditions through food. Hear Debor, Gallagher and Blinten explain their operations at the nexus between food and health care. Pierson College (231 Park St.), Pierson House.

4:00 PM Jackson Town Hall with Karl Marlantes. Karl Marlantes ’67 is a graduate of Yale University and a former Rhodes Scholar. He served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation medals for valor, two Purple Hearts and 10 Air Medals. He is the author of “What It Is Like To Go To War” and “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War.” Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Ave.), GM Room.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 4:00 PM Building the HistoryMakers: Public Humanities Meets Digital Humanities. Julieanna Richardson is the Founder and Executive Director of The HistoryMakers, the largest national collection effort of African-American video oral histories on record.

Committed to preserving, developing, and providing access to an archival collection of 5,000 African-American video oral histories, The HistoryMakers currently includes interviews with over 2,700 interviewees from 180 cities and towns as well as internationally, in addition to tens of thousands of documents, photographs, and digital images. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall.

4:30 PM On Women and Cheese: Cheesemaker Allison Hooper, Cheesemonger Laura Downey, and former Cheesemaker Maria Trumpler. A cheesemonger and a cheesemaker take part in a discussion led by erstwhile cheesemaker Maria Trumpler GRD ’92. Allison Hooper runs Vermont Creamery and Laura Downey runs Fairfield and Greenwich Cheese Company. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Sudler Hall.

DOO LEE is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at doo.lee@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

JOHN WOODEN LEGENDARY BASKETBALL COACH

Work remains for Yale, NFL

LaGrow seeks program growth build on the fundamentals. The biggest thing for me is that we’ve got to get better each day. That’s first and foremost.

LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 it as a challenge and they’re willing to step up to that challenge.

That’s why we’re so happy with this group.

do you see as the future of QWhat the Yale women’s lacrosse pro-

you have significant changes QDo to the program in mind?

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gram?

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I think we want to be as deadly as any team in the country.

We want to be playing with the best of the best [and] competing on the national level. Yale has the ability to attract a lot of recruits.

You get a world-class education and a world-class experience here. What an opportunity it is to come to this university and to compete on the lacrosse team.

It’s wonderful to be at a place like Yale. We’re hoping to bring in a lot of strong recruits. [Young players] are going to be the group that’s responsible for building a program of high expectations for women’s lacrosse.

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I’m not sure what they had in the past. The style I have is very fast and very competitive. We do a lot of fundamentals at a fast pace. Practice moves very quickly, and I hope that will translate into the games and help us to do the little things well. Hopefully we can put all of that together and make some big plans on the field.

students on athletic teams and in Greek organizations. Reinstituting such a panel would be a welcome step.

In the Outsports.com article in which Darrow came out, Princeton head coach Bob Surace said, “Here at Princeton, if we can’t handle this and say, ‘we’re supportive of everybody no matter what their background, religion, race or sexual orientation,’ then we don’t have the right guys in the locker room.”

I hope the Yale football team, and all Yale teams, have that attitude. From my time covering Yale football in 2013, I believe Tony Reno’s squad does. The football players that I know personally are stand-up, high-character guys, and I would expect them to act with class under any circumstances. But that doesn’t mean Yale athletics can’t do more to create a welcoming space for all competitors — perhaps there could be a specific sensitivity and sexual orientation workshop for incoming student-athletes during their first team meetings.

On a national scale, however, change is much harder to come by. Only two-and-ahalf years ago, in the buildup to Super Bowl XLVII, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver said that he would not tolerate a gay teammate in the locker room. His remarks were swiftly condemned, and that summer, the annual NFL Rookie Symposium included a talk about sexual orientation for the first time. But given what some perceived to be homophobic treatment of Sam during his brief stint in the NFL, and given the lack of publicly gay players currently in the league, the NFL has an obligation to improve its climate toward homosexuality. The NFL dominates the American sports landscape and taking such steps would spark progress across all sports and levels.

Twenty-five years ago, according to Outsports.com, during the Yale-Princeton football game, Tigers fans chanted “That’s all right, that’s okay, one in four of you are gay.”

And twenty-nine days ago, Mason Darrow said coming out to his teammates “was the best decision [he had] ever made.”

Let’s make sure other players feel comfortable enough to make that same decision.

are you looking forward QWhat to for the 2016 season?

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LaGrow’s Elis are slated to begin Ivy competition at Cornell on March 5, 2016.

I feel very fortunate. We have a great group of young women. They are a great foundation for building a really competitive program and having a competitive season. We’re looking to

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

Mixed results for tennis TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 Rutgers pair 8–4. The third doubles pair, Jiang and Valerie Shklover ’18, also fell to Pitt on Saturday, 8–3, for Jiang’s only loss of the tournament.

In one of two chances that Yale had to face Ivy competition on the weekend, Madeleine Hamilton ’16 played alongside captain Ree Ree Li ’16, though the two fell 8–3 to Brown.

Elizabeth Zordani ’18, paired with Columbia’s Alex Solovyev, defeated opponents from Brown 8–4.

Against Harvard, the Yale-Columbia duos also split their matches, bringing Yale’s overall doubles record to 5–6 on the weekend. The doubles performance marked a slight improvement over last weekend, when the Elis combined to go 3–6 in the Cissie Leary Invitational and interim head coach Matej Zlatkovic named doubles a main focus for the ensuing week of practice.

GRANT BRONSDON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College and a former Sports editor for the News.

Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

“In singles, players are getting much more comfortable, recognizing the weaknesses of opponents,” Zlatkovic said last week. “There’s definitely some room for improvement in doubles.”

In the singles portion of the composite match that brought Columbia and Yale together against Brown, the Lions and Bulldogs had limited success, as the six women from Brown swept their matches.

Two states away in Hanover, the Eli men faced the same results when matched against Brown. One of few Ancient Eight squads at the Dartmouth Invitational — with the other being host team Dartmouth — Brown defeated Yale in both a singles and doubles match.

But the Bulldogs found success against nearly every other team. The Elis performed well in tight matches, compiling a combined 5–2 record in three-set matches, with several

standout performances from a variety of players.

“A number of our players’ performances exceeded expectations this weekend at Dartmouth, not to mention [Lu’s] exceedingly strong showing at the All-American tournament in Tulsa against the nation’s best players,” Ziqi Wang ’18 said. “Our singles lineup is looking strong, barring injuries, and though the doubles lineup could be improved, we do expect a strong showing in both regards come Ivy season.”

Wang himself moved to 7–0 in singles matches on the season after defeating Army’s Kyle Barnes and then Dartmouth’s Max Fliegner, the latter of whom had dispatched Wang’s teammate Martin Svenning ’16 the day before.

Alex Hagermoser ’17, meanwhile, was one win away from moving to 10–0 when that season streak snapped late in the weekend. After beating an

opponent from Williams, Hagermoser fell in the finals of his draw to Brown’s Mladen Mitak. With partner Svenning, Hagermoser rebounded to win his doubles match — and therefore the doubles consolation draw — over Buffalo, 8–6.

Other doubles pairs from Yale fared well. After beating a pair from Fairfield, Stefan Doehler ’18 and Nathan Brown ’19 resoundingly defeated their opponents from Dartmouth on Saturday by a score of 8–2.

Yale’s two teams will switch schedules for their next competition: the women will travel up to Dartmouth, as the Big Green host the USTA/ ITA Regional Championships in two weeks, while Yale plays host for the men’s USTA/ITA Regional Championships the same weekend. Both tournaments begin on Oct. 22.

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

MIDWEEK UPDATE BY THE NUMBERS FOOTBALL VOIDS TO FILL

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Meredith, who had served as a Yale assistant coach under Felice Duffy for three years, was named head coach and led Yale to an 8–9–0 season, one year after a 5–10–0 mark for the Elis in 1994.

Despite finishing fifth in the Ivy League, Meredith's Elis secured a bid to the NCAA College Cup after a 12–5–2 season, Yale's best record since 1998.

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ARTS & CULTURE School of Art retrospective highlights work of Robert Reed

BY TÉA BEER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A retrospective exhibit of the work of the late professor Robert Reed ’60 ART ’62 opened Monday in the School of Art’s Green Hall Gallery.

Curated by School of Art Dean Robert Storr, “Robert Reed: Non-Stop Paintings” incorporates around 30 works that Reed produced during his over 40 years at Yale, hung chronologically across four rooms.

The memorial exhibition is one facet in a series of initiatives

the School has put forth to recognize and celebrate Reed’s life, work and teaching, including renaming a Green Hall classroom where Reed taught many of his introductory art courses in the artist’s honor. In addition, the School plans to establish a scholarship fund in Reed’s name, according to Samuel Messer ART ’81, associate dean of the School of Art. Messer explained that the renamed classroom will be the first room in the School of Art to be named after a person of color. “ N o n - S to p Paintings”

explores in depth the formal language Reed developed from the 1960s onward, Messer noted.

“The work itself unfolds and reveals through the show,” he explained. “[Reed] was in a camp of abstraction that from the ’60s till now was doggedly unrepresentation, and he developed his own language of making space and using gesture and how he wanted to insert himself into the paintings.”

Reed’s professorship lasted from 1969 until his death this past winter, during which time he had a profound influence on

many emerging artists. Students interviewed emphasized Reed’s devotion to teaching, stressing how he kept his own work out of the classroom and let students’ needs take precedence.

David Arteaga ’16, one of Reed’s former students, said he was so curious to see what Reed’s work looked like that he went to see the show the night before it officially opened. Meg Mathile ’17, another former student, also said she was excited to see her professor’s paintings represented in a public exhibition.

“[Reed] was often very humble and private about his own work,” Mathile said. “As someone who studied with him, I cannot wait to see his work recognized.”

In addition to being a professor and artist, Messer noted that Reed was also a “family man,” dedicating time to raising his children alongside his other professional and artistic commitments.

“The amazing thing about him is that he was equally dedicated to all of his passions,” Messer said. “I don’t know of

any time when a student asked something of him and he said no. It’s really amazing when you look at the work to think about how he was able to do all that.”

Reed’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Contact TÉA BEER at tea.beer@yale.edu .

ALEX SCHMELING/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Around 30 works by the late professor Robert Reed ’60 ART ’62 are on display in the School of Art’s Green Hall Gallery as part of “Robert Reed: Non-Stop Paintings.”

Contemporary art-activist duo “Yes Men” comes to Yale

BY SUSANNAH KRAPF CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Monday, the Yes Men visited Yale.

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, principal members of the self-described “nebulous activist group,” have worked for nearly two decades in the business of “identity correction,” using satire and careful mimicry to challenge preconceived notions about the ethics of large businesses and organizations like Dow Chemical, Shell and the World Trade Organization.

In conjunction with the Digital Media Center for the Arts, the duo hosted a collaborative workshop in the Loria Center, “Making Meaningful Mischief with the Yes Men,” during which Bichlbaum and Bonanno gave

students advice on designing and publicizing activist campaigns for their own causes. At the talk, held as part of the School of Art’s Monday Night Lecture Series, the duo discussed their history and body of work, in addition to answering questions from the audience and screening clips from their three movies.

School of Art DUS Lisa Kereszi ART ’00 said she thinks the Yes Men’s work responds to pressing needs in contemporary art, adding that their diverse roles as activists, filmmakers and performance artists allow them to appeal to audiences across a wide variety of disciplines.

“Right now, I see a need in activist art that [the Yes Men] fill,” Kereszi said. “They’re activists, film makers, performance artists … The list goes on.”

During their talk, Bichlbaum and Bonanno explained that their work as contemporary artist-activists began in 1999, when they set up a satirical website posing as the World Trade Organization. Soon, Bichlbaum said, the Yes Men began receiving requests to speak at conferences — as the WTO. Initially, audience members at these conferences were used as “unsuspecting members of theatrical productions,” but once the pair realized that people truly believed them, they began to see their productions’ activist potential. From that point forward, Bichlbaum said, they started to identify more fully as activists, realizing that they could harness their satire for various causes.

The duo said their medium

of choice is identity correction, a multidimensional performance that may include creating misleading press releases and ad campaigns, launching fake websites that believably mimic a company or organization’s online presence and impersonating company representatives. In “fooling” viewers, the Yes Men said, they seek to implicate their participation in the satire and, by extension, help hold big businesses and organizations accountable for their flawed practices.

“We wanted to say something nice and get people behind it, maybe change something,” Bichlbaum said.

The movements the Yes Men are involved in often receive widespread media attention, and may involve collaboration

with larger activist organizations. During their talk, the duo mentioned a partnership they began with Greenpeace, with the two groups launching a campaign against Shell’s decision to drill in the Arctic. As a result of that campaign, the oil conglomerate eventually withdrew from the area.

Students who attended the Yes Men’s events at Yale praised their collaborative, discussionheavy approach.

Indrani Lukomski ’15, who participated in the workshop, said she appreciated the opportunity to brainstorm outside of a traditional academic setting.

She added that she thinks more mainstream Yale courses, while not unsupportive, do not always encourage her or her classmates to pursue their own activist proj-

ects, and that the workshop provided an opportunity to consider how they might be able to engage in such initiatives themselves.

“We all came out with the sense that we could do something,” Lukomski said.

Bichlbaum added that he thinks anything accomplished by his and Bonanno’s work is part of a collective effort.

“We contribute, but in the end, it takes many activists, many people and an entire movement to achieve something,” he said.

The Yes Men’s visit to Yale was sponsored by the School of Art, the Digital Media Center for the Arts and the Film and Media Studies Program.

Contact SUSANNAH KRAPF at susannah.krapf@yale.edu .

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“Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.”

HANS-ULRICH OBRIST ART CURATOR, CRITIC AND HISTORIAN OF ART

Works by local artists fill Goffe Street Armory

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER Nearly 200 New Haven- and Connecticut-based artists exhibited their work at the Goffe Street Armory this past Saturday and Sunday as part of Artspace’s “Alternative Space Weekend.”

The exhibition, which has been held annually as part of the larger “CityWide Open Studios” event since CWOS’ founding in 1997, is an effort to highlight underused New Haven historic buildings and offer artists who might not otherwise have the means to exhibit their works publicly a chance to do so, according to Shelli Stevens, co-curator of the Alternative Space Weekend. The Goffe Street Armory has played host to the events site for the past three years, Artspace Director Helen Kauder noted. This year, the exhibition’s theme was “Dwellings,” inspired by an essay by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, entitled “Undwelling Thinking,” Stevens said, adding that the idea was to fill the otherwise unused space with art and “turn it into a dwelling.”

“Our mandate is to activate art spaces, by which we mean activate underutilized spaces and transform them into cultural space,” Kauder explained.

In order to fill the Armory with works of art, CWOS opened the space to local artists, in addition to specifically commissioning over a dozen large-scale pieces.

Among the commissioned pieces is an installation by Hong Hong, who lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut. Hong’s work, which stands 25 feet tall, is composed of multiple panels of plastic tubes that reflect light and oscillate with the gusts of air generated by several strategically positioned fans.

“I wanted a piece whose dimensions would reference both these large public spaces that people inhabit, but also an ephemeral fluctuation,” Hong said.

“I wanted people to experience these temporary movements, and sort of to swim through them.”

A second commissioned piece — a teardrop-shaped trailer, whose creation was funded by the Yale University Art Gallery, the Berkeley College Richter Fellowship and the Chase Coggins Memorial Fund Fellowship — was created by Harper Keehn ’16.

Keehn said his work for the Alternative Space Weekend aims to be a social experiment.

“I wanted to make something that I wouldn’t have to say anything about,” he explained. “An object open enough, unprecious enough, that people could just look at and see how many thousands of hours and touches it took to make it the way it is.”

Artist Mohamad Hafez, whose miniature streetscapes of old and presentday Syria are on display in the exhibition, said he thinks the Alternative Space Weekend is a chance to raise awareness of important issues, as his work aims to do with the Syrian refugee crisis.

Keehn added that the event allows a diverse audience to come together to interact with local art. Joey Loos, a first-time participating artist, noted that she thinks the event adds vibrancy to the community.

“It’s kind of a big diffuse clearinghouse for a wide-ranging group of people who almost entirely seem happy to see one another” Keehn said.

“That seems like a great way to build community.”

City-Wide Open Studios’ art events continue through November.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

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Hundreds of art installations are on display in the Goffe Street Armory as part of City-Wide Open Studios’ “Alternative Space Weekend.”

Exhibition highlights Yale’s book arts collections

BY VEENA MCCOOLE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A diverse selection of typography, calligraphy and illustration inspired by the Bible is on display at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. “‘How right they are to adore you!’: The Song of Songs Interpreted Through Fine Printing” brings together artistic interpretations of the Song of Songs, sometimes referred to as the Canticles, a book in the Bible known for its lyrical and romantic qualities. Artists have looked to it for almost a century, drawing inspiration from its vivid expressions of love and pain, Jae Rossman, curator of the library’s Arts of the Book Collection, explained. In addition to pieces from the Haas Library’s Special Collections, the show features works from the Divinity Library and process materials from a new artistic interpretation of “The Song of Songs” by Robin Price and Barbara Benish. Together, the pieces dem-

onstrate a range of approaches in design, printing and illustration.

“The point of the exhibition is to spark interest as well as educate and entertain,” Rossman said. “It allows the library to engage both the Yale and larger arts community in a conversation about our collections.”

Rossman noted that the artists featured in the exhibition expand beyond the boundaries of “fine press,” and find new ways to create an unconventional reading experience. One such artist, Robin Price, is currently working on a new artistic interpretation of the Song of Songs, in collaboration with artist Barbara Benish, type designer Liron Lavi Turkenich and vocal artist Victoria Hanna, Rossman added. Process materials from this new work, which is a hybrid Hebrew-English edition, are included in the exhibition. Rossman noted that collaboration on this project has spanned over 10 years and the artists have worked together on similar projects in the past, adding that Price and

Benish will be coming to Yale in November to discuss their ideas for approaching the text.

“Traditional methods are carried out to present the text to the reader in a more tactile and well-designed experience than in a traditionally published book or in the digital environment,” Rossman said.

The curator added that the show also contains one of the seven volumes of the St. John’s Bible, a multiyear illumination and hand-lettering project commissioned in 1998 and completed in 2011, on loan from the Divinity Library. Rossman explained that the book is likely the first completely hand-lettered and hand-illuminated Bible in over 500 years. Led by calligrapher Donald Jackson, 10 artists and scribes created 160 illuminations interspersed within 1,150 pages of calligraphic text, Rossman said. One volume from the Heritage Edition, a high-quality reproduction of the original manuscript version, is on display in the exhibition

Students i n te rv i ewe d expressed excitement about the subject matter of the exhibition, as well as the way in which it was curated.

Mollie Ritterband ’17 said she thinks the Song of Songs is particularly interesting because its protagonists are often women, and they are portrayed as equal to men, adding that she is curious to see how this comes to be represented by “fine press” artists in their creation of artistic representations of the text.

Adelaide Goodyear ’17 said she is excited to see how the exhibition shows the process that goes into creating one of these sorts of “fine press” works, as it includes process materials from Benish and Price’s current project. “‘How right they are to adore you!’: The Song of Songs Interpreted Through Fine Printing” will be on view through Feb. 19, 2016.

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

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An exhibition in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library highlights works of fine press, which present artistic representations of the “Song of Songs.”

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The seniors last year were phenomenal, [but] we have a talented group … The freshmen that came in this year are strong. We definitely tried to fill [the graduated seniors’] shoes. As a staff, we’re really happy with this team. I really like our players, I like this group. We set expectations really high for them. They see SEE LACROSSE PAGE 10

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Inheriting a program that has placed in the bottom half of the Ivy standings since 2008, LaGrow hopes to bring a new perspective to the Yale women’s lacrosse team.

Looking toward the future, this past July the Yale women’s lacrosse team named new head coach Erica LaGrow to succeed former head coach Anne Phillips as the leader of the program. LaGrow, a former member of the U.S. Women’s National Team and the assistant coach at Florida for the past seven years, brings high-level experience to the coaching staff. A few months away from the Elis’ season opener this spring, the News sat down with LaGrow to discuss her hopes for transforming Yale’s program into one that can take on top competition in the Ivy League and beyond.

do you think your past Why did you choose to come Yale?

QHow experience, both as a former Q U.S. Women’s National Team member and as an assistant coach for the successful Florida program, will benefit Yale’s team?

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With my experience as a coach and National Team player, I’ve seen the game played at the highest level and have a good sense of where the direction of the sport is going after coaching at Florida. At Florida, we emphasized the fundamentals. We started the program from the ground up. That’s my on-thefield coaching philosophy: to start with the basics and the fundamentals and go from there. That’s what I bring from my past experience.

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This position is a dream co m e t r u e . M a n d e e [O’Leary, former Yale head coach and current Florida head coach] spoke about Yale a lot and how much she loved it. When the position became available, I had to go for it.

Yale has so much to offer to studentathletes … It’s an exciting opportunity to work with ambitious, highachieving young women.

challenges do you foresee QWhat heading into the spring season?

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Honestly, it’s just getting on the same page as the players and teaching different offensive sets and

One in 20,000, maybe more We often hear the refrain “one in four, maybe more” at Yale. Though obviously trite, it speaks to a large LGBTQ presence on campus, one that is mostly welcomed and accepted.

Indeed, following the Supreme Court’s decision this past summer to legalize gay marriage nationwide, and after decades of activism to reduce and eliminate discrimination, support for gay rights is at an all-time high. Marriage, of course, is just one small part of a much larger debate, but it should be noted that a CNN poll released in February showed that 63 percent of Americans believe that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry.

Despite this upswing in support, however, one notable area remains woefully behind the times: collegiate athletics.

There are 253 Division I football teams in the nation. But when Princeton offensive lineman Mason Darrow came out publicly last month, he was believed to be the only D-I player in the country to be openly gay. Given that Football Bowl Subdivision teams are allowed up to 85 players on scholarship and Football Championship Subdivision teams are allowed 63 scholarships, and given that many players do not receive athletic aid, that comes out to a conservative estimate of at least 20,000 student-athletes on D-I football squads.

And only one of them is publicly gay.

Now, Darrow is not the first openly gay player in football history. Arizona State’s Chip Sarafin came out as gay in August 2014, though the scout team offensive lineman never appeared in an official collegiate game. Middle Tennessee State kicker Alan Gendreau was out to his teammates during his career from 2008 through 2011, though it was not until after his playing days were done that he came out publicly.

Most notably, the St. Louis Rams selected Missouri defensive end Michael Sam in the 7th round of the 2014 NFL draft three months after Sam announced he was gay. But Sam, the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year, was released by the Rams before appearing in a single regular season game.

I am not accusing any specific team of homophobia — countless collegiate stars have failed to make the jump to the NFL. However, it is clear that the football world, both collegiate and professional, is not an accepting one for LGBTQ athletes, and something must be done.

Here at Yale, as recently as four years ago, a panel was held to discuss the difficulties of gay

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defensive motions … mostly things such as the language we use on the field [and] terminology. do you intend to combat QHow the loss of graduated key players, including the team’s top three pointearners?

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Tennis teams compete against conference foes

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s and women’s tennis teams both took to the courts this weekend, with each team finishing the weekend on a high note. The men traveled to Hanover, New Hampshire for the Dartmouth Invitational, while the women played at home in the Yale Invitational.

TENNIS The two teams faced league opponents, giving them a better sense of their rivals’ strengths and weaknesses before the start of the Ivy League season this spring. The women’s eight-team tournament

featured the majority of Ivy teams — Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth and Brown, in addition to Yale — while the Eli men faced competitors from Dartmouth and Brown.

However, not everyone on the men’s team traveled to Dartmouth.

Tyler Lu ’17, currently ranked No. 100 in the nation, was the lone Bulldog competing at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lu faced three opponents, including No. 34 Sam Shropshire of Northwestern. He took all of his opponents to three sets but ultimately fell short in each. Against Shropshire, Lu won the first set 6–3 before dropping the next two, 6–3 then 7–5.

“What makes Tulsa particularly challenging, but also enjoy-

able, is the fact that everyone there has proven that they are among the best in the country,” Lu said. “It was an honor to represent Yale at a tournament dominated by typical big conference powerhouses.

Competing on the biggest stage for college tennis while being able to represent my teammates, Yale and the Ivy League was extremely humbling and definitely a highlight of my time here at Yale so far.”

The Yale Invitational ran into some technical difficulties on Friday, with rain and a power outage forcing some of Yale’s morning matches against Boston College to be canceled, and others to be truncated on Saturday afternoon.

One highlight for the Bulldogs on Saturday morning was

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Tina Jiang ’17, who found success in her first appearance since September after straining her hamstring at the Harvard Fall Invitational. Jiang won her first match in straight sets, defeating her Pitt opponent 6–1, 7–5, and went on to win her match against a Rutgers foe on Sunday, 7–5, 6–4.

Doubles teammates Courtney Amos ’16 and Sonal Shrivastava ’19 also won both their matches, 8–6 over Harvard on Saturday and 8–2 against Rutgers on Sunday. Sherry Li ’17 and Carol Finke ’18 matched that performance on Saturday, winning their doubles match over Pitt 8–6, though they dropped their Sunday match to a SEE TENNIS PAGE 10

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Both of Yale’s tennis teams got a chance to face conference competition before the Ivy League season begins in the spring.

THE NUMBER OF REGULAR SEASON CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS THAT THE FLORIDA WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM WON DURING SIX SEASONS WITH ERICA LAGROW AS ASSISTANT COACH. LaGrow, now at the helm of Yale’s program, saw the Gators compile a 97–28 overall record.