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CROSS CAMPUS The love spreads. The

sidewalk outside Vanderbilt Hall was decorated with chalk on Tuesday — taking the message across Old Campus from Durfee.

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CONCUSSIONS

Head-On: After the hit

Go forth. The application

deadline to study abroad next term is today. Be ready: They say you’ll never know what you’re missing until you go.

Screwfall. Stiles screw is

Friday, and the residential college has a sleek website for the dance. Featuring a tuxedo and the famous “007” logo, the event’s “Screwfall” name is more likely an allusion to the 2012 James Bond movie “Skyfall” than a play on the “Snowfall” term used to describe digital journalism (i.e., the News’ concussion series).

“Bad Paper.” Jake Halpern ’97 published his latest book, “Bad Paper: Chasing Debt From Wall Street to the Underworld” on Tuesday, spinning the buddy cop-esque tale of a young financier who returns to Buffalo, N.Y., to launch a private equity firm, alongside his mismatching, but streetsmart partner.

Living up to the name. A

Tuesday Quartz article reported that the Ivy League has spawned more S&P 500 and Fortune 500 CEOs, 68, than any other NCAA conference. And though the Big Ten claims more than twice as many CFOs, the Ancient Eight continues to churn out high numbers of high-quality workers, adjusting for school size.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1958 Ingalls Rink — then nicknamed “The Turtle” or “The Dinosaur,” rather than “The Whale” — enters its final stage of pre-opening tests after months of construction.

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spent on the ground, Courtois was allowed to continue playing for 15 minutes until he became dizzy and began to bleed from his ear.

The incident left Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho screaming at the referee to stop the game and led to a bevy of controversy heaped upon the soccer world.

Flugstad-Clarke gave his own thoughts on the issue, relating it to the inherent competitiveness of professional and college athletics.

“As an athlete, there is a pressure

Two days after students discovered swastikas outside Durfee Hall on Old Campus, the Yale Police Department is continuing its investigation into the incident — but leads remain elusive.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who in a Monday night email encouraged members of the Yale community to submit tips to the YPD, confirmed Tuesday that the YPD is actively investigating the case. But on Tuesday, YPD Assistant Chief Steven Woznyk said the police station has not received any tips about suspect perpetrators or their motivations. Woznyk added that any tips should be directed to the YPD either directly or through an anonymous text messaging service.

Holloway said that he is unaware if Sunday’s incident was related to a similar one in September, when two swastikas were found on whiteboards in Vanderbilt Hall.

The swastikas outside of Durfee were reported by a student at 10:30 p.m. Sunday night to Holloway and Rabbi Leah Cohen, executive director of the Slifka Center for Jewish Life and senior Jewish chaplain. The student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said it was surprising that news of the graffiti took so long to surface.

The student added that finding the perpetrators will be difficult. “[The incident] happened at the end of [Family] Weekend when there’s a lot of different people around, including security,” the student said. “It could have been anyone.”

The student who reported the case said that although the administration has been very supportive, it was initially unclear to whom the incident they should report the swastikas. There is no campus equivalent to a Title IX coordinator designated to support victims of hate crime, the student added.

On Tuesday, students and administrators alike expressed shock and abhorrence at the incident.

University President Peter Salovey said he hopes the perpetrator is not affiliated with Yale. Salovey added that the graffiti is a challenge to an atmosphere of respect on campus.

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Don’t hack Yale. Research

Prepare for the worst. The New Haven Register reported Tuesday that Yale-New Haven Hospital has procedures in place to handle suspected cases of Ebola. As quickly as the common cold has managed to spread across campus recently, doctors are nurses are ready to kick into gear.

After eight losses, Yale notches its first win of the season

Police investigating swastikas

Culture in Commons. The Muslim Students Association’s flagship event, the Eid Banquet, takes place this evening. Dubbed “the largest annual cultural event on campus,” the banquet will take place in Commons and will feature keynote speaker Dalia Mogahed and halal cuisine.

done by Seattle-based Seely Security pointed to two unnamed Ivy League schools as particularly prone to hacker activity with potentially devastating consequences.

Firm CEO Bryan Seely told Credit.com that the schools in question run the risk of having sensitive financial, medical and academic records leaked.

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Yale athletes who suffer concussions experience adverse effects on their athletic and academic performance.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER Contact sports and concussions go hand in hand. As players become stronger, faster and bigger, technology and science are left playing catch-up.

Concussions, by nature, are different than any other kind of athletic injury. Rather than a twisted ankle or a broken arm, for example, brain injuries are hidden from plain sight.

But even when diagnosed, concussions are often ignored, raising the question of who is responsible for taking action on head injuries — players, coaches or trainers?

“The onus for reporting concussions is really on the player,” Yale soccer defender Henry FlugstadClarke ’17 said. “Competitiveness makes it tough for players to make calls. You want to keep playing and try to fight through it.”

THE PRESSURE TO PLAY

For athletes, the drive to win and the desire to avoid injury are often in conflict. Athletes across competi-

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he dangers of concussions have become more well-known in recent years. But the clinical symptoms mask the true experience that Yale student-athletes have had, both on- and off-the-field.

When the pressure to play is combined with the difficulty of diagnosing concussions in games, it is the players who ultimately suffer the consequences. MARC CUGNON reports.

tive levels — from recreational Sunday soccer players to top-flight Premier League stars — are incentivized by their competitive nature to stay in the game.

Underreporting is more than an issue of scientific and technological dawdling, as even highly funded professional sports teams get things wrong on a regular basis.

In an Oct. 5 clash between top English teams Chelsea and Arsenal, Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois collided with Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez, hitting his head on the striker’s knee. After a few moments

Inaugural Founders Day draws hundreds

BY JOEY YE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Three hundred and thirteen years into its history, Yale is still developing new traditions.

On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of students, faculty and alumni participated in “Founders Day,” a new campus-wide event that commemorates the formation of the school in 1701. Set to be held annually, Founder’s Day is meant to encourage everyone on campus to explore the diverse resources available on campus, according to event organizers. This year, the occasion featured a variety of student performances, open houses, tours and presentations held throughout the day.

University President Peter Salovey said it is important that Elis come together as a community and that Founders Day

may help encourage that.

“I really believe in trying to create a campus where we are more interdependent in the sense that we know what each other is doing and that we care about everything that’s going on on this campus,” he said. “The idea behind Founder’s Day is to reinforce those notions.”

According to Salovey, the inspiration for Founders Day came from his visits around campus in the weeks preceding his formal inauguration in October 2013. In the week leading up to his inauguration, Salovey visited as many workplaces on campus as he could.

It was his way of hearing what was on peoples’ minds across the University, Salovey said.

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On Tuesday, the Yale community celebrated Yale’s diverse resources as part of “Founder’s Day.”.

Marijuana dispensaries look to curb illicit use

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER When licensed marijuana dispensaries began opening in August, Connecticut patients were optimistic they could legally access medical marijuana. But state officials say new laws have not significantly curbed illegal use of the drug in recent months.

Medical marijuana was legal-

ized in Connecticut in 2012 to open up more treatment options for patients with conditions like glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. State leaders signed the legislation in hopes of providing a legal and regulated option for patients who were already self-medicating with cannabis. However, while state police officials have just started monitoring the effects of the

dispensaries on illegal drug use, many say the new laws and dispensaries have not significantly changed consumer drug habits.

“It would stand to reason that if people are going to acquire marijuana, and now they have a legal means, then it would decrease the number of illegal marijuana users,” New Haven Police Department spokesperson David Hartman said. “There’s

no reason for people with a prescription to get it illegally — that’s if the system works.”

Still, Hartman said that not enough time has passed for police to make accurate predictions regarding the dispensaries’ impacts on illegal marijuana use in New Haven.

Hartman added that, when compared to illegal use of other drugs like narcotics, marijuana

use has generally provided fewer problems for the city. He noted that, instead, New Haven has seen a recent surge in use of illegal pain medications.

In Branford, which houses the dispensary closest to the Elm City, police officers are starting to monitor the effects of the dispensaries on illegal drug use. But SEE DISPENSARIES PAGE 6

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GUEST COLUMNIST S H UA R O S E N S T E I N

THE SWASTIKAS, AS PAINFUL AS THEY ARE, DON'T WEAKEN US. THEY MAKE US STRONGER. The Torah teaches "a drop of light dispels much darkness," requiring us to kindle flames whenever darkness rears its ugly head. Therefore, I encourage all my friends and colleagues to respond to this unfortunate incident by kindling another flame. Acts of selfless goodness and kindness toward others spelled the ultimate defeat over Nazism and, indeed, hatred and persecution throughout history.

In a time of darkness, these acts created light, and preserved the spirit of humanity that we all share.

Monday evening, we were

reminded of that darkness, confronted with a display of hate from which most of us are usually sheltered.

The values of religious freedom and protection of human life have become a moral standard in the Western world. We read the news and watch with horror as anti-Semitism and human rights violations unfold.

Yet we remain removed from these horrors to some degree.

MONDAY EVENING, WE WERE REMINDED OF DARKNESS The graffiti on the sidewalk of Old Campus brought hatred and bigotry not only to our shores but also to an esteemed institution of study that justly prides itself on tolerance and and freedom.

As members of the Yale community, this incident gives us a unique opportunity to pause and carefully consider how we deal with adversity. It is a stark reminder that even our ivory towers are not immune to acts of hate and ignorance. And that realization must propel us to act.

In the early 1970s, the leaders of the Jewish Federations of North America approached the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, with a proposal to encourage every family celebrating Passover to add an empty chair at the Seder table in memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. He responded that families should indeed add the chair, but they shouldn't leave it empty. Rather, the best way to commemorate the victims was to find someone that might need a Seder, and invite them to join.

I believe this can and should inspire our response as a community. The Jewish community at Yale is strong and firm, evidenced by the hundreds of students who went to Old Campus to express their Jewish pride.

The swastikas, as painful as they are, don't weaken us. On the contrary, they can make us stronger, if we allow this incident to inspire us to increase positive action. Let's respond by each doing one extra "mitzvah" — a good deed — reminding ourselves and those around us that the swastikas have failed. Rather, humanity, light and goodness have prevailed.

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Vigilant Love C

arl Orff’s setting of the medieval Latin poem, “O Fortuna,” is one of the most popular pieces of orchestral music. When the Yale Concert Band and Glee Club performed the work this past Saturday night, there were probably few audience members who were not already familiar with its striking opening and jubilant conclusion.

More members of the audience, perhaps, had never considered the poem’s meaning.

The work is an extended protest against fortune, a grievance against the indiscriminate forces that govern human life. Fortune threatens to take away everything we hold dear in an instant: “Monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent; wellbeing is vain and always fades to nothing.” For the poet, man cannot evade fortune; his virtue, wealth and power are useless against its whims.

The idea that the capricious forces of fortune might win the day is antithetical to our notion of progress, to the certainty we would hope to feel in democracy, the social sciences and the advancement of humankind. It is an approach more akin to the tragedies of the ancient Greeks; to

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the Stark family that proclaims, “Winter is coming”; and to the imagined apocalypses of science fiction.

Yet, fatalism is not a sentiment at all foreign to my tradition, Judaism. Two weeks ago, my community recited, “… On Yom Kippur it is sealed … who will live and who will die.” Six months from now, on Passover, Jews across the world will read, “Rather, in every generation, there will be those who stand against us to destroy us.”

There is a fatality to history that the Jewish people have witnessed too many times to ignore.

The other evening, three swastikas were chalked outside Durfee Hall. A week ago, swastikas were found painted on a Jewish fraternity house at Emory University.

Immediately after Yom Kippur, a synagogue in Spokane found a swastika painted in its courtyard.

Some — pointing to incidents such as these, and others in Paris, Berlin and Brussels — have claimed that the world is experiencing a resurgence of anti-Semitism. I have no idea if this is true, but the lesson of “O Fortuna” is to steel ourselves for the worst.

Upon viewing the swastikas outside Durfee, we might express confusion: How could this hap-

pen? What sort of people could be driven to such hatred? But a more productive reaction is to nod sadly, to realize that some people are less loving than we might have hoped and to recognize that nothing that we value in this world will persist of its own accord. No forces of progress or humanity can be counted upon to save the day; we must fight to protect that which we treasure most.

Fatalism is not paralysis. It is an approach to thinking about history that never allows us to relax from protecting the things we care about, because the world might never actually get better.

After all, why should we suspect that anti-Semitism will abate as humanity becomes more civilized and progress marches on? In many ways, Judaism fits in less with our society than it ever has. Judaism is a community that is difficult to join, at a moment where inclusion is the byword of so many of our institutions. It is a group of people governed by arbitrary norms, in a time when so many proclaim that arbitrary norms are oppressive. It is a set of particular claims for particular people in an era ruled by universalisms. It is a religion in a secular age. It is anachronistic, when so

many decry being “on the wrong side of history.” The perception that the worldwide Jewish community is implicated in the decisions of the Israeli government certainly does not help matters.

In theory, it shouldn’t matter how many people are opposed to the project of Judaism as long as they engage peacefully and respectfully. Yet, there will always be fewer people able to say, “I disagree with you but love you anyway" than those who treat their intellectual and political opponents as existential enemies and objects of hate.

It is a cliché that in the face of hate, we must love — but in the face of Fortuna, we must also be vigilant. This Thursday, when Yale’s Jewish community and I dance around campus with the Torah, I will be joyful and passionate about the Book that my community loves above all others. But I will also grasp the Torah as tightly as possible, close to my chest and to my heart, because we can never afford to stop being vigilant about the things that matter most to us.

SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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Combatting hate It was shocking and painful to learn that Yale property had been desecrated by individuals who drew swastikas on Old Campus in chalk.

I applaud the rapid and thoughtful response to this incident issued by Dean Jonathan Holloway and the Yale administration. The horrors of the Holocaust remain very much alive, deeply ingrained into the hearts, minds and souls of humans everywhere. These humans include the children and grandchildren of survivors, many of whom are part of the Yale community as students, faculty, staff and alumni.

As a child, I used to read and hear many stories from survivors, stories that still inspire me on a daily basis.

I remember visiting the Holocaust museum in West Bloomfield, Michigan. I remember listening to an elderly Auschwitz survivor, who described how she shared her tiny daily ration of stale bread with a starving friend who was suffering from a terrible disease. Another told of hiding his young son under hay in a shed, picking berries to keep him alive for more than a year.

These stories don't just tell of atrocities against humanity; they teach us lessons about the spirit of survival. At their core, they speak of the unique and beautiful human ability to help others, even at the greatest cost. The Holocaust was a terrible darkness that befell humanity, and each story of survival through acts of selfless kindness is a small, yet powerful flame.

came together.”

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everal weeks ago, I was sitting in my common room with a friend from East Africa.

While we were talking, my friend brought up a question she had been meaning to ask for some time: Why is anti-Semitism such a powerful force? Why is so much emphasis placed on the Holocaust when so many other genocides have since been perpetrated?

A million thoughts rushed into my head. I began with Paul’s Letter to the Romans, proceeded to explain the Inquisition and described the cycle of pogroms that characterized life in Eastern Europe for countless generations. We each create little individual bubbles, but living at Yale with so many different people helps us pierce these bubbles and learn from one another.

Too often, we conflate our victory over the Nazis with a victory over anti-Semitism.

Centuries of oppression and violence culminated in the premeditated murder of six million Jews. But the roots of this hatred are so deep, and its grip so strong, that despite our best efforts, we’ve failed to eradicate it. Holocaust education is now mandatory in the United States, and is taken very seriously in Germany. Yet mobs are throwing

Molotov cocktails at synagogues in Paris, gunmen are murdering Jewish schoolchildren in Toulouse, neo-Nazis are marching in parades in Dresden and virulently right-wing nationalist parties are rapidly gaining ground in European elections.

The number of French Jews moving to Israel has never been higher; it has now surpassed the immigration levels of American Jews and shows no signs of slowing. Not for nothing are some of the most thoroughly integrated Jewish communities of Europe choosing to leave.

I certainly don’t mean to imply that anti-Semitism is limited to Europe. Just over a week ago, a Jewish fraternity house at Emory was vandalized with swastikas. A quick search for “swastikas at colleges” on Google News brings up similar instances at Eastern Michigan University, Penn State and Oswego State University, among others.

On Monday night, an email from Dean Jonathan Holloway brought to life the history I explained to my friend. As I read it, my stomach curled into a little knot. Swastikas? At Yale? On Old Campus? Apprehending the perpetrators seemed unlikely; I was more concerned with the administration’s response and

the student body’s reaction. But my first thought was that this answered my friend’s question.

The Holocaust is still central to Western collective memory because its driving force, antiSemitism, continues to rear its head.

By the time this piece is published, I’m sure that this vandalism — along with the swift and overwhelmingly supportive response — will be national news. The average American might be shocked because Yale is such an august part of the American mythos, and scandal at such respected institutions is always juicy gossip. What disturbed me most, though, was the violation of what I considered to be a safe, open space. Yale, like the America it aims to reflect, is a place where people are valued for their character and contributions to society. This guarantee of personal safety and free speech is what allows us to share our opinions, ideas and values with each other. Only such an environment can create a place for meaningful and productive academic and personal growth.

I’m grateful to Dean Holloway for denouncing the vandalism with such strong language, and I’m also grateful to him for notifying the entire student body. Bringing the vandal-

ism to everyone’s attention not only affirms the University’s zero-tolerance policy toward hatred but also creates space for the massive response of solidarity and support that was organized in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Had the swastikas simply been erased and the report quietly filed away in a cabinet, I would have felt defeated and isolated. Instead, our community banded together to cover the walkway in front of Durfee and Vandy in beautifully colored messages of love and peace. The snowball effect was incredible, and my heart swells with gratitude to think about the brotherhood and sisterhood that my peers pledged to each other. There is power in numbers; by standing together we can beat back hatred, racism and anti-Semitism. Our differences strengthen us. Although I wish that the swastikas had never appeared in the first place, they have reinforced my conviction that sharing our diversity, our stories and our values with each other not only enriches each individual, but also the entire community.

ESTHER PORTYANSKY is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at esther.portyansky@yale.edu .

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Stern delivers U.S. climate vision

BY JAMES BARILE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The United States’ lead climate negotiator, Todd Stern, unveiled the nation’s new climate vision in a televised speech from the Yale Law School Monday afternoon.

Three weeks after hundreds of Yale students and 400,000 people stormed Manhattan for the New York City climate summit, Stern detailed the government’s new diplomatic model for international climate order. Stern outlined a potential global pact for the 2015 United Nations climate summit that touts flexible standards, an effective accountability system and financial assistance for developing nations. While Stern praised marchers for giving exigency to the climate negotiations, he cautioned the country against a plan that is not inclusive of all nations.

“The usual brinkmanship of holding cards until the eleventh hour is a bad bet because too much is riding on this negotiation,” Stern said. “We can’t afford to miss the opportunity to estab-

lish an ambitious, workable, new international climate order.”

Stern recognized that developed nations must keep developing countries in the front of negotiations, or risk leaving them behind. He said the United States would be willing to temper its demands for foreign emissions reductions in order to ensure inclusiveness of all countries.

Abandoning 1992 distinctions between developed and developing nations, America’s climate mitigation strategy would permit each UN member state to decide on its own nationally determined contribution by which it could reasonably reduce its own emissions by 2025.

Many developing nations in the UN advocate for a shared but variable responsibility to protect the environment among UN states, as determined by each state’s circumstances. The U.S. would embrace the flexible standard, but proposes holding nations accountable with quantifiable metrics, Stern said. An imperative in the climate talks, Stern said, is to quiet developing countries’

fears that cutting emissions would poison their growth models.

After detailing the history of weak climate negotiations from Kyoto to Cancun, Stern identified clarity, domestic targets, unconditional baseline emissions goals, clear norms of measurement and a non-punitive review system as solutions.

“Taken together these measures would add up to a coherent accountability system that would be clear by virtue of upfront information, real by virtue of being unconditional and credible by virtue of being buttressed by domestic measures,” Stern said.

Faculty members interviewed concurred on the pivotal nature of the speech.

Stern’s speech was in part a diplomatic play itself, said law professor and former Law School Dean Harold Koh. “You have to remember that hundreds of people signed off on this speech, and that there are hundreds of audiences outside this room,” Koh said.

Koh flagged a distinction between the concluding ques-

tion-and-answer session, during which Stern conceded to a doctrine of common but different responsibility, and the hard lines of Stern’s speech, where he rejected the 1992 development characterizations. “[This] is a clear signal that we’re beginning the public aspects of the negotiation now,” Koh said.

Monday’s speech achieved unprecedented openness and pragmatism, law professor Douglas Kysar said.

By going on the record that the U.S. is the largest historical greenhouse gas polluter, Kysar said, the Obama administration did something no previous administration would.

“Not because they didn’t believe it to be true, but because they didn’t want to acknowledge that as a valid, relevant detail in the negotiations,” Kysar said. “So, that, for me, was a very eye-opening and important moment.”

Students in the crowd did not express the same optimism.

Philip Kunhardt FES ’16 said there were “no real surprises” in

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Todd Stern spoke about the future of international climate policy. ing now [nationally-determined contributions] by 190-plus countries, and also get early release of targets, that’s huge,” he said. “And that also can be communicated out there to civil society … in ways that feel hopeful, rather than just a repeat of ‘Nopenhagen,’ which is what we all thought of Copenhagen,” Kysar said.

Following the United Nations framework convention in Peru, heads of state will attend a climate convention in Paris in 2015.

Stern’s talk.

“I’ve heard from many students say, you know that was a long talk, there really wasn’t anything new,” he added.

Kunhardt did, however, give credit to Stern for recognizing the innovation and activism of citizens on the ground.

As the nations of the world head into a U.N. climate framework convention in Lima, Peru, this December, Kysar articulated his own vision of a clear victory for Stern on climate policy.

“If he can get a handshake agreement on what we’re call-

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Before 2009, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies never had more than one female professor at a time.

When Sir Peter Crane became the dean of FES in the summer of 2009, there were zero tenured women on the faculty. But over the last five years, FES has made strides in recruiting female professors, and four have joined the school as tenured faculty. In the 2014’15 academic year, four of the 22 tenured faculty members at FES are women. Still, Crane said the school faces many more challenges on the path towards a gender-balanced faculty.

“That’s better than it was but it’s not as good as it need to be,” Crane said. “We’ve still got a long way to go, both in terms of the male-female representation and just as importantly in terms of diversity more broadly.”

According to the American Association for University Women, women’s participation in doctoral programs, and the number of women faculty on college campuses, has grown.

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60% After years of deficits, women city sees surplus

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER After two years with a combined $12.5 million in deficits, the city closed out the 2014 fiscal year with a surplus, Mayor Toni Harp announced Tuesday.

In a press conference with City Controller Daryl Jones, Budget Director Joe Clerkin and several New Haven alders, Harp projected that the city will add another five million dollars over the course of the 2015 fiscal year — which started on July 1, 2014 and will conclude on June 30, 2015 — by refinancing its outstanding bonds. Since the start of the 2015 fiscal year, low interest rates have already allowed the city to save $14.5 million through refinancing. The savings, Harp said, will allow the city to end the fiscal year with a $2 million surplus.

“The bedrock of progress is wholly dependent on a sound fiscal condition of the city,” Harp said.“We are confident about the forecast of a sustainable recovery.”

Harp emphasized that for its continued recovery, the city would depend on recurring sources of revenue, such as property taxes and parking fees, as opposed to one-time fixes, such as asset sales.

The Elm City ended the 2013 fiscal year with a $8.7 million deficit in the city’s general operating fund.

In the 2014 fiscal year, the city saved $4.1 million by refinancing bonds. An additional $600,000 in operating budget surplus reduced the deficit by a total of $4.7 million, enough to break even.

Jones said the $14.5 million saved in the 2015 fiscal year thus far would, in part, be allocated to pay off the city’s debts and begin to rebuild its “rainy day

fund,” which was left empty by recent budget troubles.

According to Clerkin, in several cities similar to New Haven, the ideal rainy day fund represents five percent of the city’s operating budget. With a budget of $510 million, New Haven should save close to $25 million in total, Clerkin said.

But this ideal is not yet attainable for the Elm City, Jones said.

“I would be happy with 10 million, he said. “I think that’s a realistic number.”

In her announcement, Harp acknowledged the New Haven Police Department and the Board of Education for ending the fiscal year within their respective budgets.

She added that the city saved money while also expanding insurance coverage for city employees by switching providers.

“The new administration is slowly but surely changing the cultures within the city departments,” Jones said. “[Mayor Harp is] the coach, and she said we’ve got to work on balancing the budget, so we did.”

Harp said the Elm City’s immediate goals include continuing to rebuild the depleted rainy day fund and improving the city’s retirement funds.

Clerkin added that the city’s finance department was eager to report good news on the budget front for the first time in several years.

“It’s encouraging,” he said. “We hit a trough, but now we’re on an upward trajectory.”

The city’s budget for this fiscal year is $510.8 million, according to the Mayor’s budget summary.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

Women make up 27 percent of tenured faculty at colleges and universities that grant fouryear degrees. At FES, 18 percent of tenured faculty are women.

FES faculty members interviewed suggested that the twobody problem — when two partners do not both receive positions at the same university or region, forcing one of them to reject an otherwise desirable offer — was the major contributing factor for this gender imbalance.

Under Crane’s tenure, two additional women were recruited for tenure-track positions, but neither woman accepted the offer because her spouse — who also worked in academia — could not find employment at the University.

Crane noted that this two-body problem is difficult to solve because it is a university-wide problem.

FES professor Kenneth Gillingham echoed Crane’s sentiments, adding that the gender balance among faculty is a continual challenge at Yale that requires collaboration among departments and schools.

According to a 2008 report

from the Stanford University Clayman Institute for Gender Research, 70 percent of professors in American universities are in dual-career relationships, emphasizing that this trend is especially relevant for women scientists.

To tackle gender imbalance, Crane said, FES must focus on recruitment of a diverse set of top candidates. Crane added that he believes female representation in FES will increase over time.

“We want our school to reflect our society broadly,” he said. “We need to connect with a range of communities.”

Karen Seto, a tenured professor at FES, agreed that recruitment is a way to improve female representation in FES faculty, but added that the two-body problem must be specifically addressed as well.

For women in heterosexual relationships where their partner is older and established in their career, it is unlikely that he will move, Seto explained.

“A lot of women don’t even apply because moving is not an option,” Seto said.

Michelle Bell, a tenured pro-

fessor at FES, said in an email that this problem might be exacerbated by Yale’s location in New Haven because employment opportunities here are more likely to be limited than other universities in larger cities.

Seto added that policies to accommodate the two-body problem would be “revolutionary” and would dramatically improve the gender balance.

Avana Andrade FES ’15, coleader of Yale Environmental Women (YEW), said that the issue of women’s underrepresentation is discussed among students.

The student-body gender ratio at FES is skewed towards women, but the opposite is true for FES faculty, Crane said.

The gender ratio of FES faculty does have an effect on students, Andrade said.

“It’s important to have female mentors and models that can clue you into their challenges,” she added.

The Yale School of Forestry was founded in 1900.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

Dwight residents seek input on hotel

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A proposal to build a new Marriott Residence Inn on Elm and Howe Streets has led to increased tension between developers and Dwight residents.

A scheduled meeting in early October between residents and hotel developers went south when the developer did not show up. At the meeting, planned for Oct. 2, developers from Newport Hotel Group were supposed to present their revised construction plan to the Dwight Central Management Team, a group of residents and businesses within the district that helps provide residents with a voice in community affairs.

[Their absence] was yet another form of disrespect towards the community.

TYISHA WALKER Alder, Ward 23 “It was yet another form of disrespect towards the community,” said Ward 23 Alder Tyisha Walker, who attended the failed meeting. “It was disheartening considering all the people that were there.”

President of the Newport Hotel Group Douglas Cohen first presented a model for the new hotel at a New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals this past July. The six-story, 115-room Residence Inn is to be constructed behind the Courtyard Marriott on Whalley Ave. The Newport Hotel Group — a real estate development and management group that served as the developer for

the Courtyard Marriott in New Haven — has been working to resolve zoning issues that have so far impeded their plan’s approval. Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, the economic development administrator for the city, explained that these zoning issues — including the required number of parking spaces and access to the site from the sidewalk — are relatively minor.

Nemerson added that albeit minor, these issues have generated complaints from Dwight neighborhood residents, as they would be the ones most directly affected by poor zoning decisions.

Residents have also complained that developers have not fully presented their plan to the neighborhood community.

Nemerson added that developers had updated the Dwight Central Management Team on the project when they first proposed it earlier this year, but had not been back for a full presentation.

Executive Director of the Whalley Avenue Special Services District Sheila Masterson said that at the very least, the Dwight Central Management Team should have been contacted earlier and allowed to see design plans.

“That’s just common courtesy if you consider the citizens will be the ones most affected,” Masterson said.

Misunderstanding may explain the current bleak relations between Dwight residents and hotel developers.

Cohen said in an emailed statement to the News that “regrettably, the company did not identify the Dwight Central Management Team as one of the groups they should have met with in advance of filing plans.”

In order to correct their error, the Newport Hotel Group scheduled the Oct. 2 meeting with the Dwight Cen-

tral Management Team.

However, when time for the meeting came, the company felt it best to postpone the meeting because their architect and civil engineer were still working to complete the most recent plan revision, Cohen said.

Although the Newport Hotel Group sent an email to Head of the Dwight Central Management Team Lorita Gillespie on the morning of Oct. 2, news travelled slowly, and over forty people showed up to the meeting that night.

The Newport Hotel Group is trying to make amends. Cohen said he apologized for missing the meeting, and suggested they could schedule a special meeting before the next Dwight Central Management Team meeting on Nov. 4.

Nemerson added that listening to the neighborhood management teams has been a focus of Mayor Toni Harp. As she was endorsed by over 20 Alders, “neighborhood empowerment” has become very significant in New Haven under her leadership, Nemerson said.

Cooperation between the developers and the neighborhood management team could allay any issues with the hotel; Walker said she sees no issue with the construction of the hotel as long as residents have a chance to actively participate.

“We’re a development friendly place. People want to see development come to town, but they want to be respected at the same time,” Walker said. “It has to be a partnership where people will be happy to help the developers.”

In addition to the Courtyard Marriott on Whalley Ave., the Newport Hotel Group also owns the New Haven Hotel.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you’re going to get hurt … and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.” RANDY JOHNSON FORMER BASEBALL PLAYER

Concussions impair athletes, in and out of the game of having to perform,” FlugstadClarke said. “You don’t want to lose out.”

Incidents like this show that concussion underreporting extends to all athletic levels. Even teams afforded the best technology and training staffs still seem to falter in their ability to deal with head injuries.

“I currently have a concussion,” Yale women’s soccer forward Lillian Bitner ’17 said. “I wasn’t officially diagnosed and I continued taking headers with the issue. Since I’ve already had concussions, it was even easier for me to get this one. I waited to tell my trainer and when I finally did they told me to stop playing.”

With 22 players on the field in a soccer game, head collisions are easy for even the most talented trainers and referees to miss.

Other sports, such as football and hockey, are no different.

Additionally, though doctors do their best to diagnose players immediately, the desire to avoid letting down one’s teammates leads many players to refrain from speaking up.

“The trainers at Yale are really strict about concussions,” Bitner said. “It’s definitely my fault that I didn’t tell someone. I should have said something right away.”

Flugstad-Clarke argued that American football has actually increased the awareness of concussions in other sports. He added that media scrutiny on America’s most popular game has made American soccer leagues and teams follow concussion protocol more closely.

“We don’t just ignore it here at Yale,” Flugstad-Clarke said.

“People are willing to report it.

We got information at the beginning of the season and I think college soccer is more aware now than ever.”

But the dual incentives faced by players — competing and preventing serious injuries — can incentivize players to treat concussions as something to overcome and fight through, Flugstad-Clarke said. The fact that players are rarely qualified to diagnose their own injuries also does not help.

And while Yale may be making strides in pushing players to report injuries, Flugstad-Clarke said, other parts of the soccer world are not.

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LIFE AS A CONCUSSED YALE ATHLETE

“Yale has a concussion protocol that basically is just ‘protect your head’,” said one former athlete, who spoke about his experiences with head injuries and Yale’s medical protocol on the condition of anonymity. “That means live in total darkness and stay in your dorm.”

The student’s varsity career came to an end as a result of a particularly bad hit and ensuing concussion, but not before he made a brief return to his team.

Even being allowed to return, though, involved risks.

“When you want to come back, you have to pass a baseline reaction and memory test,” he said.

“I failed it three times, and on the fourth I drank coffee and took Adderall to make sure I would pass it.”

“Good athletes,” he said, follow directions. In his personal experience, many will do anything, including compromise their own health, for the good of the team.

It thus remains unclear who, exactly, is responsible for athletes’ health.

For student athletes, the perceived invisibility of concussions only exacerbates their difficulties, even when they are properly cared for.

But even with proper care, concussions can result in traumatic social and academic ramifications for student-athletes.

“Because we have so many other forms of stress, the effort that we put into athletics is extremely amplified,” the student said. “The fact that you have a concussion, piled with other stuff, can lead to psychological trouble. When you’re concussed, you start to doubt your brain, and that changes how you interact with friends and other individuals.”

The concussion soon hampered the student’s ability to perform in the classroom.

The problems quickly spiraled out of control.

“I took a test and then didn’t remember taking it after I finished,” he said.

After that, he said, he knew it was time to end his varsity career.

He added that athletes suffering from concussions are not sporting some sort of visible indicator of an injury, like crutches or a cast. Thus, it is often difficult for those with whom concussed athletes interact to truly recog-

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nize the kind of ailment that these players have suffered.

He also said that many concussed athletes begin to doubt themselves. The student began to wonder if he was interacting in the same manner as he had been before his injury. In his own words, he was “questioning his brain.”

The social stresses of concussions can put injured student-athletes in difficult situations. Showing up to class or even looking at a computer screen can quickly become problematic.

For relief, the student said, some players are forced to turn to measures outside the law.

“A lot of kids with concussions that I’ve talked to, myself included, gravitated toward marijuana to alleviate the symptoms,” the student said. “It made me feel better when I smoked. Also, the drugs we were given by our doctors here at Yale were basically mild antidepressants. I found that they masked my symptoms, basically making my brain feel numb, but they made me totally unaware of entire days.”

It was only when the student stopped taking his medication that both his everyday awareness and his symptoms returned.

He suffered through problems that seemed to morph rather than improve, resulting in insomnia and lasting issues that still plague him to this day.

Even though his symptoms have abated, the student said his concussion still has an impact.

“Sometimes I still deal with concussion symptoms after an increase in academic-related stress, like back-to-back midterms,” he said.

The student’s story is one that speaks to both the difficulty of dealing with concussions as well as the added struggle of dealing with them in a rigorous academic setting like Yale. Although players are willing to compromise their well-being for the perceived good of the team, oftentimes the true gravity of a head injury can be lost in the equation.

HEAD INJURIES, IN-GAME

“There’s no doubt head injuries are prevalent in football, and athletes are only becoming bigger faster and stronger,” Yale football starting quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 said. “I think technology in helmets is drastically different than it was only four or five years ago. I feel it is important we are equipped with the best possible headgear to prevent concussions. As players, we are encour-

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0.85 0.45

0.04 0.08

0.37 0.23

0.42 0.61

Total of football, wrestling, baseball, softball, volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer and basketball

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aged to leave the game after any big hit.”

Roberts did acknowledge, however, that several of his teammates have suffered concussions this season. He chalked this up to the inherent violence of football, saying that the risk for injury is inevitable and that the sport’s violence is part of its appeal.

Brian Tompkins, head coach of the men’s soccer team, said that reporting concussions has become part of the program’s culture.

“The treatment of concussions has become an important part of what we do,” Tompkins said. “If there is some sort of head contact, I defer to our trainer, who goes through a specific concussion protocol with the injured player.”

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According to Tompkins, trainers go through initial screenings with players immediately after the injury takes place. If the player is deemed concussed, or if there is thought to be some sort of medical issue surrounding the injury, trainers will refer the players to further medical attention with a physician.

Both Tompkins and football head coach Tony Reno asserted that the medical staff has the final say in letting players back on the field.

“If the trainer says a player looks fine, I would consider putting him back in,” Tompkins said.

“Otherwise, that player is shut down until he is medically cleared to play.”

Symptoms and effects also vary from person to person, mak-

ing evaluations — already complicated by the subtlety of most symptoms — even more difficult, Tompkins said.

Part of accurately diagnosing and treating head injuries is making sure that everyone involved with each athletic team puts player health first. To aid that, Reno said, the football team talks with every player before his Yale career begins to discuss the dangers of concussions and what potential danger signs are.

Players can be encouraged and made aware of concussion dangers ad infinitum, but as Flugstad-Clarke pointed out, players must be willing to act on their knowledge.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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“Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.”

GIADA DE LAURENTIIS ITALIAN CHEF

No Gluten, No Problem: Pasta Flyer visits Yale

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday afternoon, Pasta Flyer, a gourmet and gluten-free pasta truck served up dishes to Yalies on Cross Campus as a part of its tour across the East Coast.

Head chef and company founder Mark Ladner and his team used Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website, to launch Pasta Flyer. Kickstarter helped Ladner pinpoint which cities to target based on expressed interest indicated through funds contributed to the project. Ladner, who also serves as the executive chef of the upscale Italian restaurant Del Posto in Manhattan, said that the truck has already visited 10 locations so far, concentrating on college campuses including Harvard, Johnson & Wales, and Drexel University.

During the most recent stop in New Haven, Ladner gave a lecture on sustainable food practices at Saint Anthony Hall on Monday, and then served Yale students and faculty pasta bowls yesterday after preparing his ingredients in the kitchen at Heirloom, the restaurant at The Study at Yale.

“The cities we wanted to go to were also the cities that showed the most support — so, that was encouraging,” Ladner said. “We are very interested in trying to attract the demographic of the Northeastern, collegiate quarter.”

Ladner said that the tour’s ultimate goal is to help spur permanent businesses in some of

these locations.

Signs surrounding the truck encouraged customers to snap photos with the dishes. Pasta Flyer will then combine these photos with graphic art and post them on their website. On Instagram, #pastaflyer garnered a few public posts with tags at Yale and Cross Campus on Tuesday afternoon.

Ladner said that he believes the truck was well received by students and fills an untapped market.

“There isn’t really any precedent that I know of in either Italian or American culture for quick-service pasta,” Ladner said.

In the three hours on Cross Campus, Pasta Flyer served about 120 customers, and many students interviewed who visited the truck offered positive reviews.

Allie Banwell ’17, who has a wheat allergy, said that she usually has to skip out on pasta. After visiting the truck, she said that the dish satisfied her pasta craving.

“I appreciated the more upscale items on the menu, like truffled eggs,” Banwell said. “It made it seem like a restaurant, and not just a food truck — the presentation was beautiful.”

Pasta Flyer’s website describes the product as a “soulful, Italianstyle bowl of pasta [served] to a hungry customer’s belly as fast as a bowl of Japanese ramen, for under $10.”

Ladner said that, although his

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On Tuesday at Cross Campus, the gourmet, gluten-free Pasta Flyer truck sold upscale dishes that drew on international culinary roots. business is targeted towards college students, he intends to cater to not only the Yale community in New Haven, but city residents as well.

Yen Truong ’15, who tried the spiral noodles with pesto, truffled eggs and meatballs from the truck, said she enjoyed her meal, adding that she could not tell the difference between the glutenfree pasta and standard wheat pasta.

Truong said she abandoned eating in the dining hall to eat at the truck considering Pasta Flyer’s price point — a lunch swipe in any Yale Dining hall totals a little over $9, and Pasta Flyer bowls are in the $8 to $10 range.

Ladner said that Pasta Flyer’s business and advertising model, in addition to its cuisine, aims to fuse together a variety of cultures and practices. For example, Ladner uses a significant amount of

social media and cross-cultural images in Pasta Flyer’s advertising materials.

“It is about the convergence of inspiration taken from Japanese culture, Italian culture and American culture” Ladner said.

Ladner added that the truck is heavily influenced by Japanese culture in its design and business model, citing the avatar in the company’s logo and the use of monja, a pan-fried batter used in

many Japanese fast-food dishes, in the pasta bowls.

In addition to the Japanese influence, Pasta Flyer offers authentic Italian ingredients in its dishes, using a combination of rice and legume products imported directly from Italy.

Pasta Flyer’s Kickstarter campaign began last June.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .

Going green could spare flood damage Silliman limits dining hall for transfers

BY DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven’s flood problems might be solved with green infrastructure, according to a project currently under review in City Hall.

The City Services and Environmental Policy Committee of the New Haven Board of Alders announced yesterday a resolution that would allow Mayor Toni Harp to apply for funding from the Connecticut Office of Housing and Community Development. If awarded the $31.5 million grant, the city will use the money to develop anti-flooding measures on some of New Haven’s main streets and to implement green infrastructure, according to Executive Director of New Haven’s Livable City Initiative Erik Johnson, one of the three people leading the project.

“There has been flooding for many years, for a long, long time, so we’re going to give authorization to the mayor to make a request for the funds,” said Ward 18 Alder Salvatore DeCola, who also serves as the chair of the Environmental Policy Committee.

The funds would be taken from the nearly $138 million granted to Connecticut in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the form of Community Development Block Grant

Disaster Recovery funds. The city would not have to contribute additional money to the project, Johnson said.

Johnson, along with City Engineer Giovanni Zinn, assured the committee’s alders that by investing in green infrastructure, the City will be spared from higher costs in the future. One of the proposed projects that Zinn brought up during the meeting is installing enhanced tree pits, designed to filter and store excess water from storms. The enhanced tree pits would be based upon similar designs attempted in other cities, such as New York.

“That’s really the key part of the plan, we’re trying to mitigate as much [potential storm damage] as possible with the infrastructure,” Zinn said to the committee’s alders.

The committee explained that their project will focus on the provision of standardized, low-cost items that would be easily reproduced and maintained. They said that because the items would not require custom engineering, the actual cost of implementing the infrastructure may be minimized.

Zinn added that the team feels confident that the project will see positive results because the city’s engineering team is familiar with the terrain in the area.

However, the alders in the

committee were sure to carefully question the city employees who brought the proposal during Tuesday night’s meeting, as some other projects implemented in recent years have strained the city’s budget.

One such project is the State Street Bridge, started in 2009 with a budget of $5.1 million, and whose defective planning has made its cost balloon to over $30 million, said Ward 25 Alder Adam Marchand.

The committee voted to have the resolution read publicly next Monday at the Board of Alders’ meeting. DeCola said the resolution will likely be voted upon on Nov. 6. Johnson stated that, realistically, the team expects to get around $7 million to $10 million from the fund, instead of the full $31.5 million they are requesting.

Johnson and DeCola said their greatest challenge will now be to convince the State that their proposal is a comprehensive solution to the flooding disasters that have struck New Haven in the past.

Along with the State Street Bridge and the CDBG-DR funds, some city representatives at the meeting discussed their proposal for a renewed Snow Emergency Plan, which will focus on proper shoveling of New Haven’s main streets.

Contact DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ at diego.rodriguez@yale.edu .

BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER From 5:45 to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, students in Silliman College will still be able to study and talk with their peers from other colleges — just not in their dining hall.

Beginning last week, the Silliman Dining Hall stopped serving transfer students for half of the dinner period during the school week. The move makes Silliman the third college — after Morse and Stiles colleges — to deny transfer students access to the dining hall for the majority of the week.

While students were divided on the need for Silliman’s dining hall restriction, Silliman College Master Judith Krauss said the college faced overcrowding for all three meals, especially after Commons stopped serving dinner in 2011. “[W]e serve the largest number of breakfasts by far,” Krauss said in an email. “Our dining hall has always been crowded at lunch and also at dinner, ever since Commons closed for dinner.”

Krauss added that this change is meant to provide Silliman students with “a small window of peace” during the dinner service. Still, she noted that the college is working with Dining Services to keep track of the effects of this change and whether the timing might need to be adjusted.

The Silliman College Council and the Council of Masters supported Master Krauss’s decision. Marvin Chun, master of Berkeley College, said that Krauss came with data that clearly showed that Silliman was dealing with many more students in its dining hall than other colleges.

Chun said that ideally, dining would be evenly split between the colleges, but in reality it is “almost a necessity” to have these restrictions.

“It is unfair to those college students who can’t find a seat in their own dining hall,” he said.

Despite administrative support, student reactions to this decision have been more mixed.

On one of the first nights after the change was implemented, Alex Borsa ’16, a student in Silliman, said he had forgotten about the new policy until he stepped into the dining hall and was struck by how much more space was available.

Borsa said he enjoyed being able to sit with his friends and not face limited space or large crowds. Before the change, he added that he avoided his own dining hall during peak hours.

Still, others have been less satisfied with the new policy.

Alex Reinking ’16, a member of Trumbull college, said in the past, he always ate dinner at Silliman because it was the most convenient dining hall on his way back from classes. Since the change, however, he has not

eaten there once. Because his class ends at 6 p.m., he would have to wait an hour to eat at Silliman.

The policies at Morse, Stiles and now Silliman are unfair to students across Yale College, Reinking said. He added that while he pays the same amount for his meal plan as every student in Morse, Stiles or Silliman, for four days of the week they have greater access to dining halls than he does.

Elizabeth Vincent ’15 disagreed, saying she empathized with both sides of the debate.

“As someone in Morse, I definitely make sure to get dinner before the transfers … storm the dining hall … and all the food runs out,” she said. “But I was also on the women’s crew team … so I know how important it is for team building to be able to get dinner with your teammates after practice, which is obviously not feasible in dining halls that don’t allow transfers.”

Vincent added that the transfer restriction makes sense for some overcrowded dining halls. She also noted that because Morse, Stiles and Silliman colleges have large dining halls that naturally attract large groups, they are more prone to busier dinner service.

Commons stopped serving breakfast in August.

Contact MICHAEL SULLIVAN at michael.p.sullivan@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Yale police still searching for swastika vandals SEE FOLLOW-UP PAGE 1 The incident provoked a quick response from an array of campus groups, who transformed the sidewalk outside of Durfee Hall into a mural castigating intolerance Monday night.

In addition to the mural outside Durfee, other messages of support were drawn outside Vanderbilt on Tuesday, including one that said “Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue” in English and Hebrew.

Shayna Otis ’16 managed a table on Old Campus on Tuesday afternoon where students could share their thoughts with each other.

Visitors to the table were invited to write something they took personal pride in on a slip of paper, place it in a bowl and then exchange it for a slip a previous student had written.

“Well over 100 students have come to fill out to a card, and hundreds stopped to look,” Otis said, adding that not many had known about the swastikas beforehand.

Rabbi Shua Rosenstein of Chabad at Yale, who also helped coordinate the table with Otis, said students he had spoken to were distressed the Sunday incident.

“They were very hurt that at a place like Yale something like this should happen, and that pain is understandable and very real,” he said.

He added his hope that a negative action such as this will act as a prompt for further demonstrations of good.

Holloway applauded the students who took part in the creation of the mural.

“I’m enormously proud of them for taking that action,” he said. “I was moved by it.”

Stephan Riemekasten ‘17, a student from Germany, said the swastikas were a chilling reminder of his home country’s past. Riemekasten said he was taught from an early age that signs of anti-Semitism were strictly forbidden in German society.

Riemekasten said he knew to expect comments from peers about his German heritage and the graffiti on Tuesday.

“I’m always going to be judged because I’m German, and I’m always going to be connected to [the Nazi’s] policies even though they’re very different from my actual beliefs,” Riemekasten said. “[The graffiti] was disrespectful to all kinds of people. The reaction from the students was so awesome, and it reminded me that that’s why I decided to come here.”

Jonathan Pierce, former International Pres-

ident and current spokesperson of the executive board of Alpha Epsilon Pi — an international Jewish fraternity — said AEPi brothers across the country are showing their support in response to recent instances of anti-Semitism on college campuses.

“We are doing everything we can to preserve the safety of our brothers, while still encouraging them to be advocates of Judaism and of Israel,” he said.

Sunday’s incident was not the first instance of swastikas in public places on campus this year.

Branford Master Elizabeth Bradley said she was shocked when, in early September, two swastikas were discovered on whiteboards in Vanderbilt Hall, which houses freshmen in Branford. When that incident occurred, Bradley and Branford Dean Hilary Fink sent an email to all freshmen and freshman counselors within the college to offer support. Rather than alert the entire student body, Bradley said she thought it best to monitor the situation from within the Branford community.

Bradley said that to her knowledge, the September incident was the first of its kind in Branford, and that she was invested in monitoring the situation.

“This was the first and only event that I can remember experiencing, so we said, ‘let’s start this way and keep our eye on it,’” she said.

Despite the sense of shock on campus following Holloway’s Monday night email, Yale’s campus has not been immune to acts of antiSemitism in the past few years.

In 2013, graffiti threatening arson at the Slifka Center was discovered at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory by YPD. University Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives Linda Lorimer told the News in May 2013 that the Chemistry lab graffiti prompted an investigation involving University officials, YPD, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Connecticut chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.

In 2008, Swastikas fashioned out of snow were also found on trees in the middle of Old Campus, though no perpetrators were ever determined.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addebrooke@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

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Yalies celebrate Founders Day FOUNDERS DAY FROM PAGE 1 will not occur on a regular basis, Founders Day can evoke a similar sense of community, Salovey noted. “[Founders Day] is coming at the same time as the inauguration,” Shalmoli Halder ’15 said.

“It’s great fun, all the people and the festivities, and I think that the sense of community is really great.”

While many of the students interviewed were unaware of the various tours and events occurring throughout the day, most had a general sense of what Founders Day was meant to celebrate. Still, most students said that it was a nice way of coming together as a community and celebrating Yale’s achievements.

Pratik Ghandi ’18 conceded that he did not know the exact details of Founder’s Day, but added that he thought the celebrations did promote a sense of Yale spirit.

Founder’s Day allowed students to gather and celebrate together, Joseph Balsells ’18 said.

During the closing ceremonies on Cross Campus, food and beverages were provided. According to Adam Millman, a Yale Dining employee, the University prepared 3,000 pumpkin cupcakes with blue and white frosting for the attendees and 500 pumpkins for decoration.

Many of the open houses — for buildings such as the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Association of Yale Alumni and the Peabody Museum of Natural History — had more than 30 visi-

tors during the day. Salovey’s own residence at 43 Hillhouse, which featured works of art from Yale collections, was particularly popular.

Libby Van Cleve, director of oral history of American music at the Music Library, said she was pleased that her exhibit was chosen to be displayed during Founders Day. “We are a fairly obscure collection in the library but we have an interesting collection,” she said.

“There’s many treasures at Yale and we were honored to be chosen as one of particular interest.”

Yale is the third oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

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

CT illicit marijuana use unchanged DESPENSARIES FROM PAGE 1 because the dispensary has only recently opened its doors, Branford police also say making predictions about its effects on illegal drug use remains difficult.

“It seems fairly obvious that a medical marijuana law would allow patients to be free of arrest and prosecution,” said Americans for Safe Access media specialist Kris Hermes. “Why wouldn’t patients avail themselves of that protection?”

While the six dispensaries were opened in the state to offer easier access to the drug, patients still face barriers to using cannabis legally.

Medical marijuana from a dispensary — which is not covered by health insurance — can be more expensive than buying it from the

street, said Brett Sicklick, director of operations at a South Windsor dispensary called Prime Wellness. He added that, within four to six months, prices would decrease and become more competitive with street prices.

“There’s a threshold when it comes to price,” Sicklick said, adding that more competitive prices would give more patients access to the treatment.

According to Sicklick, the dispensaries have not generated a dramatic drop in illegal marijuana use. He said that while Connecticut has over 2,300 registered medical marijuana patients, there are likely tens of thousands of unregistered patients who could benefit from the program, but have limited access to the treatment.

High prices are not the only obstacle to patients legally pur-

chasing medical marijuana. Those who are not driven to the illicit market by high prices may still face difficulties accessing the dispensaries, Hermes said. He added that patients can legally grow their own marijuana in Connecticut — the most inexpensive and easiest way to access marijuana. “If there’s inadequate access to medical marijuana, either through a dispensary or delivery service, then patients will be forced to go to the illicit market,” Hermes said.

New Haven County is home to largest proportion of patients certified to use medical marijuana legally in the state, with 706 patients as of Sept. 9. At 591 certified patients, Fairfield County has the second highest number.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS TYLER VARGA ’15 Varga, the starting running back for the 3–1 football squad, was named to the Walter Payton Award Watch List. He leads the Ivy League with 131.2 rushing yards per game, and he also has nine scores on the season, including five in a 49–43 victory over Army.

Late-game drama for Yale Though Yale had been defending resolutely and keeping the Owls at bay throughout the game, Temple fared better in the second overtime.

The Owls’ pressure almost paid off through a shot that deflected off Elis defender Phillip Piper ’17 and wrong-footed Brown in net. The ball trickled towards goal and just stayed out of the net, hitting the post before being cleared by the Bulldogs.

Brown, who had a quiet day in net with just a single save, came up with a crucial stop with two minutes left after Jared Martinelli found himself in acres of space.

The Yale keeper managed to get big after coming off his line, stuffing the Temple striker and denying the game-winner.

Playing off of Brown’s save, Yale streamed upfield on a counterattack. Kirdzik cut inside off the left flank and played a ball in the box towards Albrecht. Under pressure, the Temple defender pulled down the sophomore inside the box. The referee did not hesitate in pointing to the spot, awarding the Bulldog a penalty kick opportunity with just 1:33 remaining in the game.

Lachenbruch stepped up and calmly dispatched the kick into the right side, netting for Yale’s first win of the season and sending the team into frenzied celebrations.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 a great spell of play in the 85th minute, resulting in a number of chances for Yale. The best came from Iselin, who sent the ball just over the bar on a looping attempt from outside the box.

The London native’s effort would be the last clear-cut chance of regulation, with the whistle blowing at 90 minutes with the two teams still locked in a scoreless tie.

The first half of overtime was more of the same, with Yale dominating possession through Lachenbruch and the other midfielders.

“I think everyone came into the game today with a positive mindset that if we played up to our potential, we could really control the game,” striker Keith Bond ’16 said. “We were able to gain the lion’s share of possession thanks to some really strong play from our midfielders.”

Defender Tyler Detorie ’16 almost had the play of the game with just four seconds left in the first overtime. Striker Cameron Kirdzik ’17 found Detorie with some nifty play before Detorie showed off fancy footwork to beat his defender.

But, from a tight angle and under intense pressure from the goalkeeper, he put his shot off the post and out.

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Captain Conner Lachenbruch ’15 scored the game-winning goal in the 108th minute on a penalty kick.

“We always knew that if we stuck to the way we have been playing the goals would come,” Schwartz said.

“We are excited that we got the win today, but we are keeping the game on Saturday in mind. The league games are what it’s all about, and we want to bring this momentum

to Cornell this weekend.”

The Bulldogs head north to take on Cornell in their third Ivy League matchup of the season this Saturday at 4 p.m.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

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the team have any special played for the Bulldogs QDoes QYou’ve pre-game rituals? for three years now. Has the team

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How excited are you guys to be back after the [five week long] road stretch?

We have a dance party before every game. No matter where we are, home or away, we bring speakers and we have a dance party.

It gets us really pumped up and we get weird and dance, and it kind of just loosens us up and gets us ready to go.

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So excited. It was really tough with all the travel. It’s going to be so great to be back on the home court and now it’s our volleyball parents’ weekend so all of our parents are going to be here, so we’re all really excited.

does the team do to stay QWhat calm?

the four-time Ivy League We really try to focus on [what] QAs defending champions, does that Awe call “Yale Volleyball” and it’s put a lot of extra pressure on the team this season?

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It’s nice to have the confidence of four Ivy League championships, but I personally think it makes us work harder because we know people will be gunning for us when we go out on the court. We don’t talk about it, we don’t use it as an excuse for playing poorly. I think it motivates us to keep that tradition up and keep working to become the best team that we can [be].

how we play our game. Other teams are going to do crazy stuff. They’re going to have different rotations and plays and the only thing that we can control is what’s on our side of the court, not the other team, not the fans. When things are getting a little crazy or out of system, we just try to come together in the middle and talk to each other and figure out what we need to do to keep it in our control rather than letting other things dictate how the game is going to be played.

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changed a lot since you were a freshman?

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The team changes every year.

It’s really great though because our coach does a great job recruiting girls who are very similar, so although there are different girls on the team we’re all still so close.

Those 15 girls are 15 of my best friends … and it’s just an unbelievable team dynamic that I’ve never experienced before in all of my middle school, high school and club years. Even though there are different people, it’s still a really great environment to be in and have a great group of friends.

is your most memorable QWhat game?

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I think it was my freshman year when we won the Ivy League championship at Princeton. We swept them in three games and it was the first time I had ever won any type of championship. That moment with my team was just something that I will never forget. It was so unbelievable … When I was a

freshman the other girls on the team were so supportive and so awesome to play with that it just made it even better to win a championship with them. as an upperclassman, do QNow, you try to help out the new freshmen?

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Absolutely. We have a really good dynamic on our team where we try to include the freshmen and sophomores as much as possible. We don’t do freshmen hazing. I think that’s what really makes us such a great team because we have such a good dynamic in that we all see each other as equals. It’s not that the upperclassmen have more authority than the freshmen.

I think that just equalizes us and makes us a better team for it … We all work so well together and we’re able to communicate freely without worrying about who is playing what position or what year they are.

The fact that we’re all just such good friends makes it even better.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu and ERIN WANG at erin.wang@yale.edu .

the “Crucial Catch” program, has received considerable criticism regarding its effectiveness.

While these efforts are still commendable, their uncertain effectiveness has made them feel more like a PR scheme and less like strides toward real change in breast cancer research and treatment.

The NFL’s efforts are, of course, highly imageconscious, with a particular focus on appealing to female fans. The sale of pink merchandise and the support of a cause that affects mostly women approaches this goal. However, especially in light of the league’s recent issues with domestic violence, these efforts can’t help but seem insincere.

October also happens to be Domestic Violence Awareness month, and many fans are crying out for the league to recognize this issue in October.

Like breast cancer, domestic violence is an all-too prevalent issue that deserves recognition, particularly for the sake of its victims. So should we, or will we, be seeing purple on the playing field this month?

DO PRO SPORTS LEAGUES HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO RAISE AWARENESS? The answer to the latter, at least for now, seems to be no. As to the former, however, it’s more complicated. That is, does the NFL have an obligation to champion particular social causes? I have no doubt that the people at the NFL — and indeed, most decent people everywhere — share similar sentiments about breast cancer and domestic violence. But how much should we expect the NFL, and other professional sports leagues, to address these issues?

As a fan of the NFL, and as a female fan at that, I’m torn. I certainly think that the NFL has an obligation to respond to issues such as the Ray Rice incident more responsibly and sensitively.

I think it serves all individuals and organizations well to use morals to guide their actions, the NFL included. That being said, I don’t know how much social obligation a sports league actually has to address these issues beyond internal situations.

That is not to say that the NFL and individuals within it don’t care about these issues; it is just that they might fall slightly outside their jurisdiction.

Just because the NFL doesn’t have an obligation to address larger issues doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t. The social reach of professional sports in America is vast. The NFL’s endorsement of certain ideals or causes can have a great impact spurring social change. This is the great power and responsibility of professional sports and their athletes in the U.S. and is perhaps one reason why there has been such an outcry for a domestic violence awareness campaign in the NFL. It would be great if national sports leagues had the money and time to publicly raise awareness for each and every important social cause. But, as fans, we shouldn’t fault them if they don’t.

SARAH ONORATO is a senior in Silliman College.

Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

Elis prep for Northeast Regionals WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 has extensive experience this season, with only five combined tournaments between the two teams. The men’s team, however, is coming off a strong showing at the Yale Shootout, where they had a combined record of 27–4 over the weekend.

Though neither team has announced their draws, players are aware of what to expect.

“We’ve had three tournaments so far, and Coach Dorato has been gauging how the guys have been playing,” Stefan Doehler ’18 said. “We’ve had sort of a standard lineup since the beginning and have just been shifting guys around, and now also we have a lot of guys who are injured, unfortunately, so that kind of narrows it down to who can even play at all.”

According to Doehler, among the injured Bulldogs is men’s captain Zachary Krumholz ’15, who broke an ankle earlier in the season. Krumholz is a twotime Intercollege Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete.

However, the men have been able to step up without Krumholz. At the Yale Shootout on Oct. 5, the Bulldogs won all eight doubles matches against St. Bonaventure and Bryant.

“As a team, we’ve been getting better as the fall goes on so I am hopeful that we’ll post some solid results [at the Regionals tournament],” Dorato said in an email. “Since all of the Ivy teams will be there, this will be a great barometer of where we are and of what we need to do going forward to prepare for the Ivy League season in the spring.”

There are two major differences

between the men’s and women’s tournaments: the number of players entered and the locations. The women only enter six singles players, while the men receive eight spots for singles. According to women’s captain Hanna Yu ’15, the singles players often play doubles as well.

Yu said that both regional rankings as well as recent performances are relevant to the draw.

The two tournaments are also played more than 70 miles apart. The men’s competition takes place in Flushing Meadows, New York — the site of the U.S. Open. The women, on the other hand, are playing on a more familiar court: Yale’s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.

Additionally, women’s tennis coach Taka Bertrand is directing the women’s competition, meaning that Yale players will have less coaching attention before, during and after each match.

“We’re hosting it at home, so Coach Bertrand will definitely be busy with the tournament,” Yu said. “Whoever is not playing will have to be out there, making sure our teammates are cheering for each other, because the coaches will probably be busy.”

Self-sufficiency aside, the Yale women have proven themselves on the court. At their most recent competition, the Bulldog Invitational on Oct. 12, the women won 10 of 11 matches, including all four doubles matches, on the final day of competition. The team finished with an overall record of 24—11 on the weekend.

The Bulldogs begin play in the Regionals on Thursday, Oct. 16.

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

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ARTS & CULTURE New play discusses anarchy, metaphysics

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“The Man Who Was Thursday” is an adaptation of British author G.K. Chesterton’s namesake novel. The play explores the relationship between hope and despair and will premiere tomorrow night.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new undergraduate production will take audiences to the depths of London’s secret anarchist societies while exploring philosophical questions of life and religion.

“The Man Who Was Thursday” opens tomorrow night at the Morse-Stiles Crescent Theater. Set in Edwardian-era England, the play is an adaptation of British author G.K. Chesterton’s novel of the same name.

Alexi Sargeant ’15, who wrote the adaptation and is directing the production, said the play reminds him of several wellknown authors’ writing styles, adding that a common theme among works by Chesterton is the relationship between hope and despair.

“It’s as if it were an Alfred Hitchcock film co-written by Oscar Wilde and John Milton,” Sargeant said.

The storyline centers on a poet named Gabriel Syme who is recruited by Scotland Yard — London’s police force — to infil-

trate a secret society of anarchists with anti-establishment intentions. Syme’s codename, Thursday, gives the play its title.

What begins as an outrageous tale of intrigue and adventure, develops into a commentary on the purpose of suffering and the meaning of life, Sargeant said.

Cast and crew members each emphasized a different theme in the play when describing the show’s most prominent characteristics. Eliza Stein ’18, who plays Dr. Bull in the play, highlighted the world domination plot by anarchists in the play, while Sargeant focused on the work’s blending of whimsical humor with serious philosophical issues, such as the role of God. Several ensemble members said they believe that the transition from adventure to philosophy was one of the play’s most defining characteristics. Costume designer Isadora Milanez ’18 said this transition is reflected in the way she designed the clothing for the show.

“What starts off with men

in suits turns into a masquerade,” Milanez said, adding that the work of the French painter René Magritte had a large influence on the artistic design of the show.

Sargeant said the plot of the novel includes a number of elaborate chase scenes, which posed a challenge when adapting the book into a play. He added that he was able to bring these scenes to the stage by following in the steps of English playwright Patrick Barlow’s 2005 play adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film “The 39 Steps.” Both plays use a small cast to create the illusion of headlong chase scenes, Sargeant noted. Sophia Eller ’17, who plays the show’s central villain Sunday, said the cast must create the effect of a car chase, a crowded bus and a foot chase throughout London. She explained that the ensemble will move around the stage to create the effect of Syme’s pursuit through London alleyways and byways.

There will also be several swordfight scenes in the show, Sargeant said, adding that explosive effects may also make an

appearance. He noted that the show had cleared out the undergraduate production’s weapons inventory.

Tomorrow’s premiere of “The Man Who Was Thursday” is the culmination of years of work on Sargeant’s part. After reading the book in his senior year of high school, Sargeant began the process of theatrical adaptation. The process, he said, involved reading drafts of the play at various dramatic organizations, including the ShakesPEER group in Philadelphia, the American Shakespeare Center’s Young Company Theater Camp and a talent show hosted by the Shakespeare Academy in Stratford, Conn.

Sargeant added that he made slight alterations to the script throughout the rehearsal process, noting that several of these changes were made after actors made impulsive interjections while saying their lines during rehearsal.

“The Man Who Was Thursday” was first published in 1908.

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

YDC workshops teach theater techniques

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER Since the beginning of the semester, Yale Drama Coalition has been actively preparing both new and experienced members of the undergraduate theater community in a variety of roles in campus productions.

The YDC hosted two workshops yesterday — one on Vectorworks, a lighting design program, and Sketchup, a set design program. YDC President Nikki Teran ’15 said that the YDC workshop series allows crew

members of current shows to become more acquainted with technical skills such as sound engineering, adding that such workshops also help introduce students to software that they will work with in future productions.

“It is a good way to lay down a foundation so these skills can be strengthened,” Teran said. “That all definitely benefits shows in the future.”

The idea for the series grew out of conversations held between YDC board members during the organization’s

retreat this past spring, Teran explained. She said she believes that the basic theater skills workshops would inspire students to feel more comfortable participating in undergraduate theater productions and quicken the learning curve when working on such productions. Teran noted that roughly a quarter of the workshops in the series this fall are taught by YDC board members, while the rest of the workshop leaders were chosen based on their experience in the undergraduate theater community and their history of using

software known to have a steep learning curve.

Gabrielle Roberts ’18, who attended the workshop on Vectorworks, said she thinks that the workshop made the software much more accessible, and that she now feels prepared to work with the software in the future.

She added that she thinks the YDC workshop series benefits the theater community in exposing students to programs they will need to use when working on a production team, but noted that she does not believe it is possible to master any of

the software programs simply by attending a workshop.

“None of the workshops will necessarily teach you how to be good designers — you can’t do that in two hours,” Roberts said.

“But, they give you the basics you need so you can go into a show and not feel lost.”

Shoshana Bieler ’16 led a workshop Tuesday afternoon on SketchUp. She said that the YDC workshops provide an important chance for students to begin using software such as SketchUp, which may seem daunting at first. She added that

she hopes the workshops will inspire less experienced users of these programs to be more comfortable with employing them in undergraduate productions.

Harry Shamansky ’16, who taught the Vectorworks workshop, said he believes that the workshops can potentially target a wide range of participants in the theater community, including experienced designers.

The next event in the series is a costumes workshop on Oct 28.

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

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“If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.”

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Musicians combine cocktails and classics

BY JIAHUI HU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At the School of Music, cocktails and classical pieces now go together.

Next Friday, classically trained musicians will combine cocktail parties with orchestra concerts to present classical music in a fresh, innovative way.

“Hitchcocktails and Music,” which will take place at Salon Lulu on Chapel Street, is the third in a series of concerts in which an ensemble from the School of Music plays orchestral works in non-traditional spaces.

Described by the planners as “a modern masquerade,” the event will incorporate cocktails and masks, and projections of scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s film “The Birds” will accompany performances of five reworks classical orchestral pieces.

Samuel Suggs, co-director of the event, said that he and Jans Peterson, the other co-director, felt musicians need to make classical music more accessible. One way to do that, he said, was to experiment with new formats.

“The orchestra is really a machine which is a compromise between the conductor’s will and the composer’s intent,” Suggs said. “We want to break free of the dogma that is within orchestral repetition and allow the individual room for creativity.”

Suggs said he and Peterson created the concert series in response to financial struggles of major orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Suggs added that the duo came up with the idea of integrating a cocktail party into an orchestra performance because the energy of such a setting would engage the attention of the audience, which is normally uninvolved at a traditional concert.

Jake Fridkis, a new member of the ensemble who plays the flute, attended a concert in the series last year and said he found

that the small ensemble of nine that mingles with attendees, as well as the more intimate venue, made the music more accessible to audience members.

The music ensemble for the event consists of classical and contemporary instruments, including the violin, vibraphone and drum set. At the event, attendees will first be served the drink “The Miraculous Mimosa” — a citrus juice and champagne mix — to accompany a remix of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” which will incorporate the dubstep genre. Other performances include a rework of Messaien’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” which was re-written so that a vocal part and a vibraphone part were added to replace the cello and piano parts, as well as a disco-inspired remix of Messaien’s “Oiseaux Exotiques.”

The final score, a remix of Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Firebird,” is served with the drink, “Igor’s Potion” — a mix of Fireball cinnamon whiskey and apple cider.

Suliman Tekalli, the violinist in the ensemble, said he wants viewers to walk away with the sense that music is not confined by genre.

“I would want them to walk away with the impression that with classical music and really any type of music, that there can be a common thread that can be tied together,” Tekalli said.

According to Suggs, attendees at the last two concerts focused more on the socializing aspect and less on the music as the night progressed. At “Hitchcocktails and Music,” he said he plans to take longer pauses between pieces and actively call the listeners’ attention to the music, rather than letting the ensemble become background music performers.

Hitchcock’s “The Birds” was released in 1963.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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At the Yale School of Music, clasically trained musicians will refresh the concept of classical music concerts by serving accompanying cocktails.

John Adams to conduct Yale Philharmonia

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER

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Composer and conductor John Adams will perform with the Yale Philharmonia during a weeklong residency.

The Yale School of Music welcomed the famous composer and conductor John Adams earlier this week for a weeklong residency that will culminate a concert with the Yale Philharmonia.

Adams will conduct the Philharmonia and the Brentano String Quartet in two concerts, one in Woolsey Hall on Friday and the other at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on Sunday.

Adams will also be on a panel discussion with University President Peter Salovey and Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker tomorrow at Morse Recital Hall. Dana Astmann, the manager of communications at the Yale School of Music, emphasized the common themes found in Adams’s compositions and Salovey’s academic background.

“One of the reasons the

discussion between Adams, President Salovey and Dean Blocker will be interesting is that President Salovey’s specialty is in emotional intelligence and Adams’ operas are very psychologically probing,” Astmann said. “This combination will be very interesting to explore.”

Astmann said she thinks that discussion of Adams’s ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ — a piece that has generated debate in past years over accusations of antisemitism — will contribute meaningfully to the panel conversation with Blocker and Salovey because of the relevance of such themes to controversial political trends around the world.

The concert at Yale will feature Adams’s Beethoveninspired piece “Absolute Jest,” performed with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 and Stravinsky’s “Orpheus.” Adams once described “Absolute Jest” as “the most extended expe-

Students stage Sondheim in concert

BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Heartbreak, lust and hilarity will come to life this weekend as a group of undergraduates prepare to stage one of history’s most famous musicals.

Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s “A Little Night Music” opens this Friday in Harkness Auditorium. The show will be staged in concert, meaning that actors will stand with their scripts at the front of the stage and the music ensemble will be seated behind them. Skyler Ross ’16, the show’s producer, said the production will be the first undergraduate production in recent years to be staged in concert.

“This is the first time undergraduates in recent memory have ever tried something like this

where we are stripping away all of the [show’s] normal and technical elements,” Ross said. “We have the opportunity now to put on a large, exciting musical that normally would not be possible.”

Musical Director Dan Rubins ’16 highlighted the difficulties of staging the show in its original form on campus, noting that the costs of microphones, lights, costumes and sets render such large-scale productions financially impossible. Rubins and Ross said they think that concert productions provide valuable opportunities to perform shows without a large financial and temporal burden.

Ross said he believes that since actors do not have to worry about typical theatrical logistics like set or costume changes, they can focus more on the script and the music. He and several cast mem-

bers added that they think the show can stand alone without theatrical extravagance. “[The production] does not have all the bells and whistles of the typical musical with the elaborate costumes and sets,” said Michelle Fogarty ’16, who plays Fredrika Armfeldt in the show.

Max Sauberman ’17, who plays Henrik Egerman, said the audience can look forward to absurdity and ridicule in the performance, noting that his character falls in love with his stepmother.

Fogarty, whose character is an illegitimate child, echoed Sauberman’s thoughts but noted that she thinks the characters are also very relatable.

Ross said that performing the show in concert has allowed for more students from different extracurricular backgrounds to participate. Sauberman, who

sings in The Yale Spizzwinks(?), said that he and several others in the show who are interested in drama have never had the opportunity to participate in a full production at Yale because of the time commitment required of most theater shows.

There is currently a dialogue on campus about improving the structure and accessibility of musical productions, Ross added.

Since this is the first undergraduate concert production they know of, Ross and Rubin said they hope the production of “A Little Night Music” will serve as a model for future shows on campus.

“A Little Night Music” first opened on Broadway in 1973.

Contact MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

rience in pure ‘invention’ that I’ve ever undertaken … a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design.”

During his residency, Adams will hold private workshops with students in the School of Music. Astmann said she believes that the opportunity to work directly with Adams will allow music students to observe a composer-conductor’s musical approach throughout an entire creative process, rather than simply appreciating a finished product.

“It involves not just reading about someone or seeing their work, but working with them day-to-day in rehearsal and experiencing a musical mind at work,” Astmann said.

Yale awarded Adams with an honorary Doctor of Music degree in 2013.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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“It’s nice to have the confidence of four Ivy League championships, but I think it makes us work harder … We know people will be gunning for us when we go out on the court.”

CAROL MIDDOUGH ’18 ROOKIE OF THE WEEK After coming up with the eventual gamewinning goal in a 1–0 victory on Oct. 7 against Bryant, Middough was named the Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week.

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Late goal gives Yale first win

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER It took almost 17.5 hours of playing time this season, but the men’s soccer team got its first win of the year in thrilling fashion, beating Temple 1–0 after a penalty kick in the 108th minute of the Tuesday night contest. The Bulldogs (1–8–2, 0–2–0 Ivy) faced the Owls (2–9–2, 1–2–1 American Athletic Conference) for the first time in program history in their secondto-last non-conference game of the year.

“This win is a huge morale boost for the guys and exactly what we needed before going to Ithaca this weekend,” goaltender Blake Brown ’15 said. “This win means that the pieces of the puzzle are finally falling together. We have stuck to the plan and it’s great to see it reflect in the result. The win definitely took a lot of weight off our shoulders.

We got a taste of what it feels like to win tonight and are eager to have more of it.”

The Bulldogs dominated the first half, streaming forward in numbers and creating chances throughout the 45 minutes. Midfielders Ollie Iselin ’18 and Conner Lachenbruch ’15 controlled the midfield throughout the night, giving Yale the lion’s share of possession. Midfielder Peter Ambiel ’15 and striker Avery Schwartz ’16 looked lively as well.

In the sixth minute, Ambiel played a through ball from the center to find Schwartz streaking into the box, but the striker’s shot did not have enough power to beat the keeper from a tight angle. Schwartz created two more chances for himself in the opening period, but nei-

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fortuitously bounced off Scheck, who then pounced on the ball to avoid further danger for Temple.

However, the Owls responded quickly through midfielder Dan White, who launched a powerful header that beat the stranded Brown in net but hit the crossbar and stayed out.

Despite the brief lapse, the Elis remained composed and produced

For the past five years, the National Football League has run an extensive Breast Cancer Awareness campaign in October. This October, however, the NFL is scaling back its awareness efforts.

As the league gets less pink, fans continue to talk about the relationship among the NFL, its female fans and larger social issues.

This surprising move on the part of the NFL — reportedly their plan for several months now — comes on the heels of the league’s domestic violence scandal last month. The league’s handling of the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson controversies has alienated many fans and forced others to question the integrity of the league. The NFL’s “Pinktober,” reduced or not, presents another opportunity to question the social responsibilities of the league and its players.

The NFL’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign has received its fair share of skepticism. I should qualify this by saying that very few people would argue that the awareness campaign itself is not a worthy cause, and that many people affected by breast cancer are deservedly recognized in the process. It is a disease and a problem that touches many lives, and deserves to be brought to light.

That said, there have been questions about the motivation and methods underlying the NFL’s campaign. While the NFL has reportedly raised $7 million since 2009, the bulk of that money has gone not to cancer research, but instead to cancer screening and community health-based interventions. One of the league’s largest screening efforts,

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In head coach Brian Tompkins’s final season at the helm, the men’s soccer team won its first game against Temple. ther found the back of the net.

Yale’s best chance of the half fell to midfielder Pablo Espinola ’16, who managed to head a long free kick toward goal — but right to Temple goalie Dan Scheck, who posted four saves on six shots in the first 45 minutes.

“I think we had a great first half,” Schwartz said. “We worked well tactically together as a unit and that allowed us to control the game.”

In the second half, the Elis

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picked up where they left off with sustained pressure on the Owls, who spent most of the half defending against Yale in their own half.

Despite a faster overall tempo, chances remained scarce for both teams.

The match came to life in the 76th minute when Schwartz crossed the ball into the box. Freshman forward Teddy Mauze ’18 towered over his defender to launch a header towards net, but the ball

Yale tennis prepares for Regionals

Johnson ’16 sets the record straight

BY ALEX WALKER AND ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS As a setter for the Bulldogs, Kelly Johnson ’16 has been instrumental in the team’s success over the past two years as Ivy League champions. In 2012, she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, earned first team AllIvy honors and finished second on the team in assists, kills and total points. She was again awarded first-team All-Ivy recognition in 2013 and was named Ivy League Player of the Week twice. The News sat down with Johnson to discuss her hopes for the rest of the season and to get the inside scoop on Yale volleyball.

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really, really close loss. Are you doing anything differently to prepare for the next match against them?

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The men’s team dominated the Yale Shootout against St. Bonaventure, Bryant and Army, finishing 27–4 overall.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In their biggest tournament of the year, the Yale men’s and women’s tennis teams take to the courts this weekend at the Northeast Regional Championships. Each tournament serves as an automatic qualifier for November’s National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship.

WOMEN’S TENNIS Regional competitions begin with a draw, in which each school enters either six or eight singles players and three doubles teams. According to men’s coach Alex Dorato, the main singles draw has 96 players and the doubles draw has 48 pairs. Neither team SEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE 8

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Right now, we’re just focused on Cornell. We have Cornell and Columbia this weekend. Harvard’s not for a couple more weekends and when Harvard’s our next game we’ll focus on them. But for right now, we have a lot of great competition in front of us, so we’re going to focus on that before we move on to what we have to do to beat Harvard.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 was named to the All-Ivy First Team for the past two seasons.

THE NUMBER OF WINS FOR THE YALE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM, WHO WON ITS FIRST GAME LAST NIGHT AGAINST TEMPLE. Captain Conner Lachenbruch ’15 scored on a penalty kick in the second overtime period to beat the Owls and clinch the victory.