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CROSS CAMPUS Underway at Broadway.

Construction crews were seen milling around inside 1 Broadway, days after a mysterious wooden structure went up outside the property’s doors. It would appear that work to build out Kiko Milano and EmporiumDNA has begun, much to the delight of Yale’s eager students.

Word. Today, Noah Webster turns 256. The iconic lexiconical legend graduated from Yale College in 1778 before going on to play pivotal roles in the founding the modern dictionary and American political philosophy.

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Obama cancels, but protest continues

BY MRINAL KUMAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The last-minute cancellation of President Barack Obama’s Wednesday speech in Bridgeport, Connecticut did not prevent activists from holding a politically charged rally for immigration reform down the street from where the president was supposed to speak.

The president was scheduled to speak at a rally for Governor Dannel Malloy, who is in the midst of one of the nation’s tightest gubernatorial races. But the visit was

postponed due to an unplanned meeting with cabinet agencies to coordinate the government’s response to the Ebola outbreak.

Unidad Latina en Acción, a grassroots organization based in New Haven, had planned to use the publicity surrounding the speech as a platform to protest an immigration detainment request for one of its members, Esvin Lima.

Obama’s late withdrawal did not alter their plans.

“The members of the ULA are frustrated with the broken promises of the Democrats,” said Megan Fountain ’07, one of the organiz-

ers of the ULA. “They really felt they couldn’t remain silent anymore with Obama coming to Connecticut to campaign and Governor Malloy making campaign promises.”

Roughly 30 activists stood outside of the Bridgeport Correctional Center — where Lima is held — Wednesday evening, holding up signs condemning Obama’s immigration policies, said ULA leader John Lugo. One sign read “No More Deportations,” and another pictured Obama with the caption “2

Money editor Octavio Blanco is coming to campus this evening to screen “An Artful Revolution: The Life and Art of the Taller de Grafica,” a documentary that he helped produce, in the YUAG.

We’re all heroes. A Wednesday

article by Vox.com explored a Yale study about the science driving our natural hero complex. Conducted by researchers David Rand and Ziv Epstein, the study found that humans are wired to save others from dangerous situations because of a neurological impulse to do so without overthinking things.

Little bear. 13-year-old

pianist Emily Bear will be performing at the Shubert Theater tonight. Commanding ticket prices of up to $74, the virtuosa has all the makings of a future Yale applicant, what with her displays of talent at a young age.

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1962 The University issues a report analyzing the effectiveness of a series of academic initiatives such as expanded international and non-Western studies and engineering programs and a reimagined curriculum for all freshmen.

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Union members gathered on Cross Campus on Sept. 24 in a show of solidarity for organized labor at Yale.

Chem lab upgrades displace classes

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Seventeen months after renovations on Sterling Chemistry Laboratory began, students and faculty are still dealing with the effects of working alongside a major construction site.

The $130 million project, which began in May 2013, will upgrade the facility’s teaching laboratories. The renovation of the chemistry building is part of a broader Science Hill development that seeks to consolidate science facilities and facilitate interdisciplinary conversation between STEM majors on campus, said Deputy Provost for Science and Technology Steve Girvin. Though the SCL project is on track to be completed in August 2016, Associate Provost for Science and Technology Jim Slattery acknowledged that it has not come without a certain level of inconvenience.

“It has been somewhat noisier

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As the University continues cutting costs, union members are now making the case that the cuts do not only affect their job positions, but also the life of the community as a whole.

After Local 34 — Yale’s pinkand white-collar union — voted to action to reverse budget cuts last week, the union’s members convened in two meetings on Tuesday to establish a united front with Local 35 and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, the unrec-

Revenue jumps as YSM eases budget woes

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night, the Yale Symphony Orchestra officially kicked off promotional efforts for its annual Halloween Show by creating a Facebook event for the concert. Within five hours, roughly 800 people had RSVPd, likely with several more to follow and hundreds of others hoping to buy a ticket on time.

ognized graduate student union.

“We’ve always worked together as a coalition, but it’s been a while since we’ve all been dealing with the same problem at the same time,” Local 34 President Laurie Kennington said. “We’re going to be coming together and talking to other groups on campus that will be affected by budget cuts, and deciding whether we can stand together to address them at the same time.”

The coalition of unions will hold a demonstration on Oct. 21, Kennington said.

Meanwhile, administrators have insisted on their commitment to

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maintaining the University’s relationship with its unions.

“While we will need to manage our budget expenditures carefully for some time to come, we are hopeful that the most difficult adjustments are now behind and will be less a source of tension with our unions,” University Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel said.

While the relationship between the unions and the administration is strained, the one between Local 34 and its sister union — Local 35,

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Cuts harm community, unions say

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An unexpected rise in revenue from the Yale School of Medicine may be just what the doctor ordered for the University’s deficit woes.

For the 2014 fiscal year, the School of Medicine eliminated its $12 million projected deficit and finished the 12-month period with a $42 million surplus. According to YSM Dean Robert Alpern, the unexpected black on the balance sheet is due largely to the rise in YSM clinical revenues, in addition to Yale-New Haven Hospital support, malpractice credit and other royalties. Although the positive results are a primary reason the University may see a balanced budget in 2014 compared to the $39.2 million deficit in fiscal 2013, administrators cautioned against extrapolating the surplus for future years.

“We are continuously strategizing to increase our revenue,” Alpern said. “We’re always trying to get more grants, and make the clinical practice more efficient and better.”

University Provost Benjamin Polak said that under the leadership of Alpern, YSM has continued to expand the school’s total revenue — nearly $1.4 billion — by expanding its number of practicing clinicians.

However, while the costs and revenues of this expansion have been previously “tracking each other,” Yale witnessed a net gain in clinical revenue for the first time this year, he said.

Alpern said the School of Medicine is distinct from the rest of the University since its revenue flows from entirely different sources than other schools. Tuition is about 1 percent of revenue, the endowment is roughly 8 to 10 percent, and the vast majority of revenue therefore comes from two main sources: grants and contracts, or medical services.

As well, the School of Medicine’s revenue is calculated separately from New Haven Hospital. However, YNHH provides financial support to many School of Medicine departments and co-invests in recruiting new faculty or launching new programs to provide destination medical care.

“Because there are so many uncertainties, it’s very hard for us to predict the revenue and predict the expenses, which is why we sometimes close the year with a different revenue than we expected,” Alpern said.

“It’s good that this time it’s positive.”

According to the YSM’s budget data for fiscal 2014 obtained by the News, medical services had been budgeted to bring in $635,465,000. In reality, those services — which include over 1,000 practicing physicians as part of Yale Medical Group —

Y SO popular? On Wednesday

Climbing the ladder. President Barack Obama announced plans to appoint Vanita Gupta ’96 to the position of Department of Justice Civil Rights Chief on Wednesday.

Gupta, most recently the deputy legal director for the ACLU and its Center for Justice, was destined for the job, having examined relevant issues as a Co-Moderator for the Asian-American Students Alliance during her time at Yale.

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and more intrusive than anyone had hoped,” he said. He added, however, that such problems are inevitable in any major construction project.

The project aims to completely renovate the inside of the building while maintaining the exterior’s appearance.

Currently, the north half of the building, where the main teaching laboratories are located, has been excavated and the roof has been removed. “[The construction is] basically a building going up inside a building,” said Patrick Vaccaro, director of undergraduate studies for the chemistry department.

Meanwhile, administrators have done their best to preserve day-today operations — including classes and research — in SCL, Slattery said.

He added that some faculty’s offices and teaching spaces had to be moved SEE CHEMISTRY LAB PAGE 4

Candidates’ unemployment plans fail to reach voters

BY SARA SEYMOUR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Although many New Haven residents are concerned about unemployment, most are unclear on how Governor Dannel Malloy and gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley plan to tackle the issue.

Combating unemployment in Connecticut — where the unemployment rate of 6.6 percent is seven-tenths of a point higher than the national average — has found its way to the center of both candidates’ platforms.

As Malloy gears up for the gubernatorial election on Nov. 4, he has proposed several measures to increase businesses’ ability to hire, including providing tax credits to small businesses and expanding the Small Business Express Program, a state program that provides small businesses with loans and grants. Foley, meanwhile, has compiled a seven-point

plan that includes improving access to jobs in suburban areas and distributing municipal and state-funded jobs to people of minority backgrounds.

But even though this year’s gubernatorial election is among the closest in the country, the candidates’ plans have failed to garner much attention amongst New Haven voters.

Of 30 New Haven residents surveyed, 20 had not heard about the candidates’ plans to tackle unemployment, but many of those same residents surveyed felt that the state is not doing enough to create new jobs.

Of those who have been paying attention, neither plan appeared particularly attractive. Several New Haveners, including John Gehm, Jr. — who owns a hamburger cart in New Haven — equated this election, particularly in terms of candidates’ plans for unemployment, “to choosing between SEE UNEMPLOYMENT PAGE 6

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his fall, White House staff unveiled a promising program as part of an effort to end sexual assault on college campuses. The campaign, “It’s On Us,” involves student leaders at Yale, among a host of colleges.

Together, a coalition of these leaders — students from the Yale College Council, the Communication and Consent Educators program and the Women’s Center, along with Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd '90 — gathered on Sept. 2.

This was the first of a series of regular, extensive meetings in which we attempted to craft an approach to this campaign that was worthy of Yale.

The White House campaign presented an important baseline by reiterating something I believe bears repeating: We cannot tolerate sexual assault in any form. Toward this end, the White House decided on a pre-set pledge that they wanted all students to sign, whether through social media or some other platform. The White House's promotional videos for the pledge emphasized the responsibility of men to intervene and prevent sexual assault.

But student leaders and administrators at Yale are not just stopping at the White House pledge. Rather, we have called for an individualized pledge approach that asks groups at Yale to make their own pledges. We did not want to settle for prominent student leaders taking what YCC President Michael Herbert '16 calls the “sign the pledge, pat yourself on the back” route. Instead, we wanted to simultaneously capitalize on our campus’ sensitivity to issues of sexual violence and actually effectuate an impactful shift in campus culture.

Ultimately, we decided student clubs and organizations were best-suited to begin conversations about the specific changes we want to see in our Yale. By letting each group craft its own pledge, we are asking them to sit down and think about how they can set up their own tangible goals for how they can contribute to a safer campus environment.

The decision to run the campaign the way we have so far was also based on a lot of research concerning the most effective ways to engage students in social movements. On this point, the research shows that students’ mindsets are much more easily swayed by the opinions of their more immediate friends and peers than by listening to President Obama, Jon Hamm or another stranger deliver a sound bite. Furthermore, a big issue with the initial approach suggested by the White House was its focus on a male-centric “noblesse oblige”: the idea that

it is the role of the macho gentleman to fly in, cape billowing, and save the damsel in distress.

Such an outlook perpetuates problematic gender roles.

I genuinely believe that the campaign has been a resounding success. That isn't to say there weren't moments of tension and difficult conversations.

But these moments are essential to tackling this problem. I have joined multiple groups in the pledge-making process over the course of the campaign. In many of them, the conversation flowed naturally and enthusiastically; other groups may have needed to revisit the pledge over the course of two meetings. Yet in every group I have worked with, from the YCC to the Arab Students’ Association, a common denominator remains: the delightful amount of thoughtfulness Yalies are bringing to these discussions. Yale’s undergraduate organizations are partaking in an organic, grassroots campaign, and it is that same authenticity that makes our goals meaningful, more than their loftiness or specificity.

On the subject of specificity: One of the more relevant critiques I have heard seems to liken the “It’s On Us, Yale” Facebook campaign to the “slacktivism” criticized in the ALS Association’s Ice Bucket Challenge. But to address this concern, I would like to remind everyone that this campaign is not meant to be an all-encapsulating approach to addressing sexual violence on our campus. On the policy side, I hope to see the Title IX Undergraduate Advisory Board and the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct implement meaningful reforms this year. The commitment of administrators such as Dean Boyd and University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler to meet with a wide array of student leaders makes me optimistic that, on the topic of sexual assault more than many other hot-button issues, student voice can be heard.

Ultimately, I am proud of the direction this campaign has gone in. I feel lucky every day to be associated with a campus of students so creative, so inspired and so committed to social justice. Looking forward, however, we cannot settle for congratulating ourselves on a campaign well done. If we are to truly secure a Yale free of sexual assault, then we must build on these promises and keep having these difficult conversations.

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n today’s rapidly globalizing society, it seems just about everyone can agree that learning a second language is essential. It gives you an upper hand in the job market, business, politics and just about everywhere else. Beyond its real-world utility, learning a second language opens your mind in a way that other studies don’t. It exposes you to different cultures and ways of living.

For that reason, Yale requires its students to study a foreign language before graduating, as one of its foundational distributional requirements. The Yale Center for Language Study writes, “As knowledge of more than one language and familiarity with more than one culture is becoming increasingly important, the distributional requirements include foreign language study.”

In line with this requirement, most students will need to complete at least three semesters of language classes. And I completely agree with this policy — learning a foreign language is one of the most practical skills you can have and opens up doors that otherwise would remain closed. As practical as learning Kant is in the real world, you might actually use your foreign language outside of Yale. It’s a

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good thing that we promote this, even if it is in the form of a mandated requirement.

But then the question LEO KIM remains — what happens On Us after those three semesters? Well, for many, the road ends there. Because, as one of my friends bluntly put, “No second semester sophomore ever takes Friday classes.” The vast majority of L4 language classes meet five days a week.

Yalies are some of the most motivated, driven people who I’ve ever met. From researching cancer treatments to staying up all night to finish a paper, we don’t flinch in the face of work. But at the end of the day, we’re still human beings, not machines. And speaking from experience, as much as I love the idea of a class, if I have the option to not take it on a Friday, I go for it.

That’s not to say that we’re inherently lazy — it’s just that if we’re faced with two options, class on Friday or no class on Friday, most of us choose the latter. So when it comes to

choosing classes, L4 languages are the first things to go for many people. If we don’t absolutely love the language or if they can find another class that doesn’t meet on Fridays that we like just as much, we try to get the same bang for less buck.

Still, I think that we should try to maintain our language education. Second languages have notoriously steep forgetting curves, with a huge drop in knowledge occurring within the first few years of not practicing. It doesn’t take an expert to realize this (although experts do agree) — my Italian after summer break can testify to it.

So if you stop after only three semesters of a language, by the time job or internship hunting comes around — even if that’s just a semester or year away — your learned language will be fairly useless. As such, the doors that the second language initially opened, such as potential internships in a foreign country, will have already begun to close.

So what are we to do? Continuing the education of a second language beyond three semesters seems important. But to state the reality of the situation, no one wants classes on Fridays.

We should hold all L4 language classes on a Mon-

day through Thursday schedule, instead of on the Monday through Friday schedule that most L4 languages have now.

Losing one day wouldn’t necessarily mean lessening the rigor of the class. We could even add on a little extra time each day.

Students at other schools with less frequent language classes seem to be doing just as fine. Harvard’s fourth semester French meets twice a week for 90 minutes, plus a section. As much as I’d like to say that Harvard students aren’t learning good French, they probably are.

To be clear, I’m not saying that we should change academic schedules whenever students are lazy. But given how important we consider language study to be — we give it its own distributional requirement alongside quantitative reasoning and writing — we should make the option of continuing a second language more accessible. By eliminating Friday L4 language classes, we would give upperlevel language courses a fighting chance of retaining students beyond the distributional requirement.

LEO KIM is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His columns run on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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am currently reading, and recommending to pretty much anyone who will listen, Edwin Baptist’s “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.” Baptist’s focus is on the way slavery developed in the United States, especially in the 19th century before the Civil War. His main thesis is that, far from being a premodern regional phenomenon restricted to the South, slavery became utterly central to the accumulation of our national wealth; many northerners profited handsomely from enormously expanded entrepreneurial opportunities made possible by a massive increase in the production of cotton. Whereas in 1791 the U.S. produced only one percent of the world’s cotton, by 1860, U.S. cotton production had soared to 67 percent of a vastly larger world total (over five times its size in 1791). Cotton represented in 1860 fully 61 percent of all U.S. exports.

Baptist also describes how nineteenth-century cotton slavery was even more draconian than it had been in the plantations on the eastern seaboard in the eighteenth century. Ripped from their families on the eastern plantations, slaves were taken to newly claimed lands in

the Cotton Belt (some in forced marches in chains). Although slaves could distinguish themselves on the old plantations by special skills, for example, as blacksmiths or seamstresses, the new cotton slavery called only for laboring “hands.” Slaves were subjected to a “pushing system” that extracted ever-increasing productivity through the threat (and fact) of torture during virtually every waking hour.

MANY OF US HAVE PROFITED FROM SLAVERY IN WAYS WE DO NOT KNOW Economists and political scientists — such as Samuel Huntington, Gregory Clark and Thomas Piketty have noted that it was not until the beginning of the industrial revolution in England in the 1790s that Western economies could escape the “Malthusian trap” and begin accumulating national wealth.

This “Great Divergence,” as Huntington called it, ultimately led to the standards of living we in the developed world experi-

ence today. No nation showed any significant economic growth before the end of the 18th century. Only when the knitting machines in Manchester’s textile mills could hum with cotton (provided, by 1850, almost entirely by American slaves) could wealth accumulation take off and begin to make possible the investments on which even our current prosperity depends.

This brings me to Eli Whitney, and to us here at Yale. In 1793, Whitney invented the cotton gin, a device that separates cotton fibers from seeds, making it possible to process significantly larger amounts of cotton than can be done by hand. To take advantage of this invention, however, ever-greater amounts of cotton must be grown and picked, and this is where the new cotton slavery came in.

Whitney was not a Southern planter, and he did not himself own slaves. He was a Massachusetts native who graduated from Yale in 1792, the year before he invented the cotton gin. Whitney’s invention, however, reinvigorated what had become a declining slave economy. Moreover, it provided an essential support to the more torturous form that slavery took in driving the cotton-led national expansion of wealth.

“Eli Whitney 1792 Occupied this Room,” it reads atop the door of the office of the chair of Yale’s Philosophy Department in Connecticut Hall, where I sometimes sit. But Whitney is only an especially vivid example of many of us at Yale who have profited from slavery in ways we tend not to think about, or perhaps even know.

This past spring, Ta-Nehisi Coates published “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. If you haven’t read it, I hope you will. Coates bases his case on indignities, exploitation and theft — Jim Crow “kleptocracy” — to which AfricanAmericans were subjected after emancipation. That is part of its eloquence. Even not taking into account slavery at all, there is a strong case for reparations. When we add to this the role slavery played in the capital accumulation on which our very national treasure depends, the case for reparations strengthens immeasurably.

Sitting here in Connecticut Hall, it occurs to me to ask: What is our responsibility, here at Yale?

STEPHEN DARWALL is the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale. Contact him at stephen.darwall@yale.edu .

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Divinity School eliminates deficit

A photo that ran Wednesday with the article “No Gluten, No Problem: Pasta Flyer visits Yale” incorrectly credited Jen Lu as a contributing photographer. In fact, she is a staff photographer.

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City receives YSM grant

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER A grant from the Yale School of Medicine may soon help improve the health of families in New Haven.

On Wednesday night, the Board of Alders approved a grant from YSM to fund enhanced care for pregnant and parenting women. The $300,000 grant will primarily pay the salaries of staffers of the city’s MOMS Partnership — a consortium of several organizations, including the city Health Department, dedicated to protecting the health of New Haven families. The funding will be allocated over the course of three years from July 2014 to June 2017.

“Having healthy families transcends every public health issue,” said Maria Damiani, director of women’s health and child health at the city Health Department. “The MOMS Partnership is an intensive case management initiative for pregnant women and their families.”

While the grant will help pay staffers across several organizations in the MOMS Partnership, Damiani said that the grant funds will largely be used to pay the salaries of the Health Department’s staff members.

According to Damiani, the MOMS Partnership aims to provide assistance to women applying for insurance to counsel them in case management, which is the process of evaluating several health care options to determine which best fits a patient’s needs.

Damiani said this type of counseling is essential to ensure families have access to quality health care and support services during the prenatal stage and the early stages of parenting.

The board’s Human Services Committee heard the grant proposal from Damiani, who spoke on behalf of proposal writer and Community Service Administrator Dr. Martha Okafor.

Human Services Committee Chair and Ward 14 Alder Santiago Berrios-Bones said he was confident the proposal would be

approved.

“It’s a grant. It doesn’t cost the city anything,” BerriosBones said. “It was a sure bet to be approved.”

Berrios-Bones nonetheless raised concerns about the $10,000 dollar implementation cost outlined in the proposal, which would accompany the grant.

Damiani dispelled doubts by clarifying that the cost was already accounted for in the city’s general operating fund and, as a result, would pose no additional stress to the city budget.

The MOMS Partnership is an intensive care management initiative for pregnant women and their families.

MARIA DAMIANI Director of Women’s Health and Child Health, city Health Department Mayor Toni Harp, who had expressed her support for the grant in previous meetings with Okafor, was eager to see its approval.

She said the grant would allow MOMS to continue to operate and provide assistance to mothers and babies at a critical time in development. Harp added that the initiative would lower infant mortality rates in New Haven, which she said were indicators of broader health issues in the city.

“We hope this collaboration between the city and the Yale School of Medicine will lead to a greater awareness of the need to maintain good health,” Harp said.

The MOMS partnership is based in the Temple Medical Center at 40 Temple St. in New Haven.

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

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The Yale Divinity School recently eliminated its budget deficit.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER After three years of budget deficits, the Yale Divinity School is out of the red and back in the black.

From 2011 to 2013, Yale Divinity School spent approximately $2.2 million of reserves to cover its deficits, Yale Divinity School Dean Gregory Sterling said. During these years of deficit, Yale Divinity School reduced some of its non-faculty positions — including adjunct and visiting professorships — left several faculty positions temporarily unfilled and stopped increasing financial aid, he said. Sterling said the high endowment performance of the University, in addition to these cost cuts, has helped the school eliminate its budget deficit.

With the budget stabilized, Yale Divinity School was able to remove the cap on financial aid but is still focusing on expanding opportunities for tuition relief.

Ideally, Sterling said, Yale Divin-

ity School aims to be tuition-free for all students who need it by 2020, which would require raising about $40 million.

“The single biggest concern is student financial aid, so we’re working very hard to try to expand what we can offer,” Sterling said.

Senior Director of Development Jim Hackney said all of the money from the Yale Divinity School annual fund — the primary fundraising account — and other donations is put towards financial aid.

Yale Divinity School is looking to become more aggressive and creative in its fundraising efforts looking forward, Hackney added.

“We know now that this is a good time for us to be very active in fundraising,” he said. “We really try to be very transparent with all of our donors and our alumni [so they can] know what an investment will mean toward future leadership.”

James Jenkins DIV ’15 said the Divinity School is very accommodating to the many students

who need aid.

“I think 90 percent of the students receive significant financial aid, and I think the Divinity School is doing a lot to raise money and support for financial aid,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins added that despite the deficit, he did not see a big difference in his aid package from year to year.

Yale Divinity School Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Hopie Randall could not be reached for comment.

Sterling said the Divinity School faculty, together with the advisory council and alumni, is planning on creating a 10-year plan for financial strategy that will be ready by the end of the academic year. The plan is still in the drafting stage, but will include methods to realize the school’s goals for ongoing increase in the financial aid budget.

Students interviewed said there are also other areas which Yale Divinity School should invest in, starting this year.

Donna Desilus DIV ’15 said

now that the Divinity School has a balanced budget, she hopes the administration will hire more faculty members to refill the positions that were not replaced during the cuts.

But Yale Divinity School professor Harold Attridge said despite reductions in non-faculty positions, the deficit did not cause any profound changes to the way Yale Divinity School functions.

Lecia Allman DIV ’16 said this year Yale Divinity School has been able to bring in more guest lecturers than they could when there was a deficit. Many of these guest lecturers, she said, come from a variety of intellectual and ethnic backgrounds, which makes students feel that Yale Divinity School recognizes and appreciates diversity.

Yale Divinity School tuition for the 2014-’15 school year is $25,490.

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

Pike to offer new Chapel St. apartments Yale students will soon have new off-campus housing options when four upscale apartment units finish construction above the new art supply store Artist and Craftsman on Chapel Street, near the New Haven Green.

Pike International — a major local real estate firm that owns off-campus buildings such as the Baker’s Dozen house and the Men’s Rowing house — is funding the building of the apartments at 817 Chapel St. Project designer Fernando Pastor said this particular initiative is part of a larger series of refurbishments along the entire Ninth Square district — the area along Chapel Street south of the New Haven Green. Pike has led the charge on many of these building renovations.

“The whole fabric of the neighborhood is improving,” said Barbara Hawes, assistant manager of Artist & Craftsman.

The space for the new apartments previously housed Karma, a nightclub, and Golden Rock, a pizzeria. After these two businesses closed, Pike acquired the property in 2012. While the building — constructed in the 1940s — will soon feature apartment units, Pastor stressed that the original façade and parts of the original ceiling and floor will be kept.

“We use the bones of a historical building and make it modern,” Pastor said. Because the building will be categorized as “mixed use,” Pastor said that the renovations will include new safety precautions.

Pastor said other developers had offered plans to tear down the building and put up a new five- to seven-story building. Pike instead plans to use the third floor of the building, which previously featured unused office space, to build the new apartment units. Pastor stressed that this particular project is not an example of gentrification, considering that

the buildings were already abandoned.

Pastor said he instead sees the new developments as part of a recent nationwide trend of people migrating from the suburbs into the city to live closer to their workplace. He said these new apartments could potentially be attractive to Connecticut residents looking for a place in the Elm City.

According to Pastor, Yale undergraduates and some faculty members already occupy Pike’s apartment units adjacent to 817 Chapel St. He added that he is confident that the company will soon find tenants for the new apartment building units. He noted that Pike generally does not experience difficulties filling its properties in New Haven — which has a high occupancy rate of 98 percent.

Although Pike owns over 1,000 apartments in New Haven, making the company the city’s largest residential apartment owner, Yale

students who have lived in their buildings have reported poor customer service and management.

Sylvie McNamara ’16, a Pike tenant last year, said she did not receive a single response from Pike after multiple requests to have her heater fixed in January.

Songhee Bae DIV ’15, a former tenant, said Pike’s rapid expansion could be a reason for their poor service.

Despite the student criticisms, Hawes said Pike has helped make Ninth Square a “destination” area for New Haven residents and tourists alike.

“Pike mission is revitalization on a local level supporting local economy,” said Christina Rossetti, director of operations at Pike International. “We work very hard to preserve the already existing beauty of New Haven.”

The units’ monthly rent spans from $2,000 to $2,500.

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FROM THE FRONT

“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” DAVID ALLAN COE AMERICAN MUSICIAN

YSM expands revenue, aiding University budget MED SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 brought in nearly $30 million more at $664,981,000, which shattered the actual revenue of $580,053,000 brought in during fiscal 2013.

Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King wrote in an email that the reason behind the growth of YSM’s clinical revenues was due largely to new physicians joining the YSM faculty, citing Yale-New Haven Hospital’s acquisition of St. Raphael’s hospital as one example.

Chief Operating Officer for YMG Fred Borrelli explained that the expansion of Yale’s clinical faculty parallels broader industry trends.

“In the past decade, private practice of medicine is quickly disappearing and largely aggregating into large group practices, so YMG … has been growing in light of the national trend,” he said. “When the hospital absorbed St. Raphael’s Hospital last year, YMG experienced a fairly significant rise in faculty that used to be private practice doctors … and also absorbed a number of practices in greater New Haven.”

Chief Financial Officer for YMG Roger Deshaies concurred and said this type of expansion is necessary for YMG to remain competitive with other clinical operations. If Yale does not hire these physicians, they will simply go somewhere else, he said.

Still, Deshaies warned against simply attributing the net gains in YSM revenue to the clinical side, since hired physicians receive salaries based precisely on the estimated revenue they are able to bring into the group. But, he added that the YMG needs to operate at a slight surplus.

“We have to operate the clinical practice in the black,” he said.

“The numbers are too big and it is not the responsibility of the University to underwrite the provision of clinical services in the community.”

YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FY2014 BUDGET

FY14 Budget FY14 Actual In thousands of dollars

523,185

522,394

664,981

635,465

176,269

206,956

41,607

-12,279 Grants & Contracts

Medical Services

All Other Revenues

Net Revenue/Deficit RENEE BOLLIER/PRODUCTION & DESIGN STAFF

Simply focusing on the revenue of medical services, however, neglects the other half of the revenue flow for YSM: grants and contracts for research.

According to the submitted reports for fiscal 2014, grants and contracts for research were budgeted at $523,185,000. However, the actual total was $522,394,000 — almost $800,000 shy of matching the projection.

“Research … across all medical schools, both clinical research and basic science research, is almost impossible to operate without a loss,” Polak said.

Polak added there is a lot of uncertainty regarding research funding, specifically from the federal budget following the sequester in 2013. He added the National Institute of Health (NIH) grants and contracts peaked in

real terms in 2003, and have been gradually falling since that highwater mark.

Alpern said the amount YSM budgets for research in its fiscal years is heavily influenced by prospective funding from the NIH, which may be difficult to ascertain in changing political climates.

“The research revenue will depend on the NIH budget, and I can’t predict that,” he said. “My guess is that it will be similar, maybe go up — if something happens in Washington it could go down.”

The final major sources of revenue to the School of Medicine stem from endowment income, tuition, contributions and other services. For fiscal 2014, there was a nearly $30 million surplus reported in this category.

Deputy Dean for Finance and

Administration at the School of Medicine Cynthia Walker said that another principal contributor to the revenue flow was the support of Yale-New Haven Hospital — YSM’s main affiliated teaching hospital, which also provides financial support to YSM. “[Yale-New Haven Hospital] co-invests with the medical school in recruiting new faculty or launching new clinical programs to provide destination medical care,” she said. “In terms of the budget, the financial support from YNHH was larger than anticipated in the budget by $9 million.”

Despite the unexpected surplus for the 2014 fiscal year, it appears unlikely the positive balance sheets will change the University’s course to reduce spending, at least for the time being.

Sterling Lab renovations continue CHEMISTRY LAB FROM PAGE 1 as a result. While most of these arrangements were made over the summer so that students would not have to move around once classes had begun, Slattery said a few classrooms had to move during the year when the noise from construction was too loud.

Still, both Slattery and Vaccaro said they were happy with the way renovations were progressing.

However, the project has not come without trouble.

Chemistry professor Kurt Zilm said that while he believes the renovations are necessary and looks forward to the final product, his research has been set back by the construction and his lab probably will not be fully functional until this coming Janu-

ary.

“My lab lost over half of the past year in operating time because of construction related moves and outages,” Zilm said in an email. “Much of this was planned, and some was unplanned. We’re not fully operational yet. We had hoped to be up and running by the beginning of September, but the project just didn’t develop as hoped.”

Herman Nikolayevskiy GRD ’17 said the constantly changing maze of corridors that resulted from the construction makes traveling between SCL and the adjacent Class of 1954 Chemistry Research Building an inconvenience.

Slattery added that these plans have been in the works for several years and will remain largely unaffected by any University budget issues.

“We’re conscious of spending and not

changing a lot of plans, but overall I think it’s just about making smart decisions,” Slattery said.

Slattery said no renovation plans have been scaled back.

Still, Zilm expressed doubts about the cost-effectiveness of the project, given the added inconveniences.

“Whatever small savings renovating was imagined to bring must have long since evaporated, as extra work has been added to keep the activities in SCL continuing,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll remember this as a community the next time there is a large building effort.”

Planning for SCL’s renovation began in 2008.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

“The main benefit here is the stability of the medical school,” Polak said. “[The surplus] does not have major implications for undergraduates, except perhaps for more labs to do research during the summer.”

Large uncertainty exists with the healthcare industry as a whole, Polak said. He said the Affordable Care Act may have unpredictable effects on the revenue of the School of Medicine.

He added that while federal legislation enjoys most of the attention, changes at the state level with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements can also have large-scale effects on the patients that receive care through the YMG. Deshaies added that physician compensation is not rising as quickly in the past, and many

ULA PROTESTS FROM PAGE 1 million 2 many,” a reference to the number of people who have been deported during Obama’s presidency.

ULA is also unhappy with Obama’s inaction on Immigrations and Customs Enforcement policies. The executive branch has legal authority to set ICE policies.

According to Fountain, Lima’s incarceration exemplifies what she characterized as Obama and Malloy’s broken promises. An immigrant from Guatemala who settled in Norwalk, Connecticut, Lima has been incarcerated for seven months because his landlord told the police he stole tools after Lima reported housing code violations to the Norwalk Health Department, according to Fountain.

Further, the Connecticut Department of Corrections is honoring an immigration detainer request on Lima because Lima was deported in 2012 when he first traveled to the United States.

DANIELLE BRIAND Attorney

Construction on the Sterling Chemistry Lab began in May 2013 and has continued through this fall.

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

No Obama, but ULA protests nonetheless

The original idea behind the protest was to be able to garner the attention of […] the state politicians.

JOEY YE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

medical groups are looking for ways to cut back on operating costs.

He added the main goal for YMG given the political and economic climate is to weather any price reductions, while also offering the faculty competitive salaries.

“Our faculty know that, and as the environment squeezes rates and squeezes fees, it is going to impact them and their paychecks,” he said. “We are looking for things that are helping us avoid that.”

The 2013–2014 Financial Report, which includes the University’s audited financial statements, will be released in full later this month.

The DOC is honoring the IDR despite having no obligation to do so — IDRs are optional, and local jails do not have to hold people for ICE, Fountain said.

ULA and members of the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance met with Malloy on Aug. 4 to discuss Lima’s detainment and the TRUST Act, which allows the state to submit detainment requests to ICE only if there is a serious felony conviction.

Because Lima was only convicted of a misdemeanor, the TRUST Act would suggest that the state couldn’t submit a detainment request.

Danielle Briand, Lima’s attorney, said Lima’s situation shows that the TRUST Act is not tightly enforced.

“He’s completely innocent of anything he’s been charged with,” Briand said. “I think the activism that is taking place in order to call attention to this particular case is completely necessary in order to avoid this kind of injustice going forward for other people.”

Briand said she was sure Lima would be exonerated of all charges at the end of the criminal process, but she was frustrated with his inability to fight his criminal case as a free man.

Obama’s absence did nothing to minimize Briand’s faith in the impact of the protest.

“It will be possible to have a more localized impact,” she said. “The original idea behind the protest was to be able to garner the attention of some of the state politicians, and obviously the president, about issues of national import. And this is an issue of national import.”

Fountain agreed that the scope of the issue stretches beyond Lima. Referring to it as a “crisis situation,” she said that Latino families are faced with a flawed deportation system that has not changed despite Obama’s efforts to reform the country’s immigration system.

“People want action and not rhetoric,” Fountain said.

Devon Puglia, a spokesman for the Connecticut Democratic Party, said in an email that Obama may still visit Connecticut before the polls open in November.

The Bridgeport Correctional Center is less than half a mile from where Obama was scheduled to speak.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Alders delay Brewery Square action

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The owners of the beleaguered Brewery Square apartment complex in Fair Haven will have to wait to receive financial help from the city, after the Board of Alders delayed approval of an assistance package at their meeting last week.

After the brewery shut down following World War II, the building sat empty until developers converted it into apartments with the city’s assistance in the 1980s. As a part of that assistance, the city delayed payment of taxes for a set time period to limit expense on the project at its outset. But, in the intervening 30 years, the project has proved less profitable than expected, leaving it to face significant debts.

The owners of the Square requested a deal that would have allowed the owners to pay $300,000 of their $525,000 deferred tax bill — which is due in 2025 — immediately. The city would forgive the remaining $225,000.

The Shoreline Corporation, which owns the apartments and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hopes that, after paying the deferred tax debt, it will be able to locate new funds to keep the complex afloat.

Ward 5 Alder and Board President Jorge Perez said that the alders delayed approving the deal due to a lack of information.

“The reason we didn’t want to vote on it last time was that someone had put it on the agenda, but none of us knew it was coming to a vote, so none of us had any idea what to think of it,” he said.

He said the alders gave the bill a first reading at the meeting last week, but it will come up for consideration at a later date.

In the meeting, Perez raised questions over the forfeiture of $225,000 in tax revenue. But Matthew Nemerson, the city’s economic development administrator, said that the city was not concerned.

“The net present value is the same as if it was paid at the later date,” he said. “Sometimes it’s

better to get the money now — and in financial terms we’re getting the same amount of money.”

Laurence Grotheer, the director of communications for Mayor Toni Harp’s administration, echoed that sentiment.

He said that the city would not view the $200,000 in forgiven tax debt as a loss.

Instead, he suggested, it would be considered an investment that did not fully come to fruition.

“The city always works to balance its investments with private developers with the potential return on those investments,” he said, adding that, in negotiations, the city would treat the tax credit as an investment in the apartment complex.

A representative from the Brewery Square Limited Partnership, the organization that directly runs the project, said the complex has only two or three vacancies. Under the terms of the deal, the owners would be required to keep a certain percentage of apartments as city-subsidized affordable housing units.

Perez added that the City Plan Commission recommended to approve the deal in June, but he said that they failed to provide the alders with enough warning on the vote.

The apartment complex, built in 1896, sits at the corner of Ferry and River Streets in Fair Haven Heights, about 200 feet from the Quinnipiac River.

The deal further stipulates that the owners of Brewery Square would surrender an area of undeveloped land between the apartments and the Quinnipiac River. Nemerson said Shoreline Corporation had planned to build townhouses there, but financial conditions prevented that goal from being realized.

Nemerson said he was hopeful about the future of that land.

“We don’t have any plans right now,” he said. “But it’s a spectacular piece of land in a neighborhood we’re particularly bullish on.”

Grotheer said the city has plans to redevelop Fair Haven Heights. He pointed to the

Connecticut Main Street Center project — an effort championed by Harp to increase economic activity along four of New Haven’s “major arteries” including Grand, Dixwell, Whalley and Congress Avenues.

Nemerson concurred with Grotheer and said the city has high hopes for Fair Haven Heights and eastern Fair Haven. He cited the Grand Avenue project, adding that the city is eyeing the industrial buildings around River Street for a “long-term renovation project.” If that project goes through, he said, the buildings will likely be converted into apartments, or another nonindustrial use.

Though the Brewery Square project started 30 years ago, Nemerson said that many similar projects, aiming to repurpose old industrial buildings, are appearing throughout the city. He pointed to numerous efforts to repurpose unused buildings for high-tech and residential purposes.

“The most prominent one is the supply building on the corner of Nichol and State,” he said. “It’s about to be converted into several hundred apartments.” Other examples, he said, include the old coal building at the corner of Water and Chestnut and the former clock factory on Hamilton Street.

None of these projects are currently receiving financial assistance from the city, Nemerson said.

Similar projects have been completed across the state.

In Waterbury, part of the former Waterbury Clock Company factory was converted to apartments about 20 years ago. In Stratford, the conversion to apartments of the former Southern New England Telephone Company building is underway, and the empty Addison Mill building in Glastonbury was recntly turned into luxury apartments in 2009.

The Board of Alders will give the bill its second reading and a vote at its meeting at 7 p.m. on Oct. 20.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Journalist tells story of violence

BY STAPHANY HOU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Sept. 21, 2001, Mark Stroman walked into a convenience store and attempted to murder Raisuddin Bhuiyan. Ten years later, in a twist of fate, Bhuiyan campaigned against the Texas courts to save Stroman from the death penalty.

In his most recent book, “The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas,” New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas, who spoke at a master’s tea in Ezra Stiles College on Wednesday afternoon, tells the story of Stroman’s shooting spree and Bhuiyan’s mission to prevent his execution. At the event, which drew about 30 people, Giridharadas talked about the process of writing “The True American.”

Giridharadas explained the backstory to his audience — Stroman was a white supremacist who wanted to retaliate against the racial group he held responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi Muslim, was the sole survivor of the shooting.

His campaign to prevent Stroman’s execution ultimately failed, and Stroman was executed in July 2011.

Giridharadas said he wanted to write about the story of Stroman and Bhuiyan because of its far-reaching implications.

“I was excited by telling a story that was small in its contours but big in its ramifications,” Giridharadas said. “I saw an article about Mark Stroman’s death penalty case at 9 a.m., and by 11 a.m., this amazing story had formed in my mind.”

As an Indian-American, Giridharadas said he had to approach Bhuiyan and Stroman’s family cautiously in order to write his book.

Unlike his previous writings, which involved sourcing a multitude of individuals, this book only focused on two men and the worlds around them.

By the time Giridharadas began writing, he said, Stroman had already been executed, making the reporting process even more difficult. But Giridharadas said he managed to obtain access to restricted information, such as the court documents from the case —

sometimes using unorthodox means.

“I sweet-talked a woman in the courts of Dallas,” he said. “For three days, eight hours each day, I took pictures on my phone of every single page of the documents and ended up with a 88GB file.”

After discussing the writing process for “The True American” Giridharadas shared his opinions on modern journalism and society.

Giridharadas said he is optimistic about the current state of the journalism industry.

Problems people frequently bring up, such as declining revenue, increasing layoffs of journalists and diminishing readership, are only temporary, he said.

I was excited by telling a story that was small in its contours but big in its ramifications.

ANAND GIRIDHARADAS Author “The New York Times has become 10 or 100 times more influential than it was 30 or 40 years ago,” he said. “The quality of investigative reporting has also improved, and journalists are doing complex, data-driven work.”

Audience members interviewed said they were impressed by Giridharadas’ talk, and that they found his views compelling.

Kevin Escudero LAW ’15 said he was struck by how Giridharadas challenged his idea of the American dream.

At the conclusion of the tea, Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti ’91 said Giridharadas’ work is an example of remarkable investigative journalism.

“I very much admire what you [Giridharadas] do with race as a person and how you develop the characters over time,” he said.

Since 2011, Texas has executed 53 people.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Originally a brewery, the building was converted to an apartment complex in the 1980s with financial assistance from the city.

Tikkaway to open by hospital

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Tikkaway Grill, which many students and city residents dub New Haven’s “Chipotle of Indian food,” got one small step closer to national ubiquity Wednesday morning when owner Gopi Nair announced that he will open a second Elm City location within a few weeks.

The new shop, located at 2 Howe St. near Yale-New Haven Hospital, will operate like the existing Tikkaway on Orange Street: customers choose a salad, rice or roti roll and add their choice of meat, vegetables and sauces.

The restaurant has attracted a devoted following since it opened in August 2013 and now claims the top spot on New Haven’s Yelp page.

Nair, who cites as inspirations Henry Ford, Subway founder Fred DeLuca and McDonald’s Corporation founder Ray Kroc, said he will explore other expansion opportunities, but is focused for now on ensuring the second Tikkaway is as successful as the first. He said he hopes the new location, about a mile from the Orange Street store, will give hospital workers a healthy option for lunch or an afternoon meal.

“The intent is to make Indian food accessible, approachable [and] easy to understand,” Nair said.

After helping operate restaurants in India, Nair immigrated to the United States in 2001 to pursue an MBA at the University of Northern California. Prior to opening Tikkaway, he worked in Norwalk. Conn. as managing partner at the Coromandel Group of Indian restaurants. Nair said it took him six years to craft the concept for Tikkaway, including designing the restaurant’s brand and developing the recipes.

Though the fast-casual style of

the restaurant is recognizable to diners who have embraced chains like Chipotle and Panera, Nair and several customers said that the cuisine itself is less familiar.

Tikkaway is among the first restaurants of its type in the country. Toronto and the San Francisco Bay Area are each home to a fastcasual Indian chain, and New York City has a few takeaway Indian restaurants. But the concept has yet to fully take off.

Nair said he believes Tikkaway could be a “game-changer” to catalyze Americans’ interest in Indian food, adding that the restaurant serves as a way for people to get comfortable with new flavors.

The intent is to make Indian food accessible, approachable [and] easy to understand.

GOPI NAIR Owner, Tikkaway Grill “My thought process is, if I do this right, and I do well, the standard Indian restaurant will benefit in the long run,” Nair said.

Hospital employee Orville Abbott said he had never been to Tikkaway but that he would consider trying the new restaurant, particularly since many of the food trucks near the hospital stop serving in the winter.

He noted, however, that the location could present problems, considering there is not much parking near the hospital, and few employees walk along Tikkaway’s new block.

Navjot Kaur and Mansoor Ahmed, post-doctoral researchers at Yale-New Haven, saw Nair’s announcement on Facebook and made a special trip over to 2 Howe

St. to check out the restaurant.

They were disappointed that, for now, the only resemblance it bears to the Orange Street location is a few brightly colored signs.

“I can’t count the number of times I’ve eaten there,” Ahmed said of the original location.

“Maybe 50.”

They said that, when the restaurant opens, it will likely become a frequent lunch break destination.

Yale undergraduate fans of Tikkaway also said they were excited to hear that New Haven will have a second location, though many said the Orange Street store, about a mile from 2 Howe St., is more convenient.

Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17 said she appreciates that Tikkaway provides a “Chipotle-like option” in a city filled with more upscale Indian restaurants, like Zaroka and India Palace.

“It’s good to have a range in terms of affordability and style,” Sawyer-Kaplan said.

Anirudh Sivaram ’15 said he now often eats at Tikkaway over Panera or Tomatillo, but still opts occasionally for meals at sit-down Indian restaurants in the area as well.

Ram Shrestha, the owner of Zaroka, said that he has not been to Tikkaway but has heard of it.

Since Zaroka opened 14 years ago, Shrestha said, he has noticed Indian food becoming more popular but is not concerned about additional competition among New Haven Indian restaurants.

“Everybody is doing good,” Shrestha said. “That’s all. Everybody should do good, and may God help everybody.”

The original Tikkaway, at 135 Orange St., is open on the weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.” DANNEL MALLOY GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT

Malloy, Foley prioritize unemployment MAP UNEMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTICUT COUNTIES Litchfield County 6.1%

Fairfield County 6.3%

Hartford County 7.3%

New Haven County 7.6%

Middlesex County 5.9%

Tolland County 5.8%

UNEMPLOYMENT FROM PAGE 1

Windham County 7.3 %

New London County 6.8%

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the lesser of two evils.”

Tom Knowlton, who was recently unemployed for two and a half years, noted the lack of incentives for companies in Connecticut to stay here as a major unemployment issue.

“They are all leaving and we have no jobs,” he said.

Malloy’s main talking points about unemployment and underemployment for this election include plans to provide $20 million dollars in new tax relief for small businesses and increasing funding for science and technology startups.

He also has emphasized his ability to maintain a balanced budget this year as evidence that he will be able to successfully fund his new programs.

“I am not satisfied until every Connecticut worker who needs a good paying job with benefits has one,” Malloy said at a press conference on Sept. 16. “That’s why I want to continue Connecticut’s progress with these proposals to help train unemployed workers and help small businesses grow and expand.”

Malloy has also pointed to the fact that Connecticut’s unemployment rate is at its lowest point in the past five years.

Despite the fact that both candidates have listed unemployment as a critical issue in this election, several residents noted that neither plan is concrete.

Yale College Democrats President Becca Ellison ’15 said that Foley has been vague about his plans for unemployment, and avoids getting into specifics.

Others raised concerns that without raising taxes — as Malloy claims he will avoid — it is unlikely he would be able to subsidize small businesses further. Malloy has not specified on his campaign website how he plans to fund efforts to stimulate the economy.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, New Haven’s unemployment rate is 7.2 percent.

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

Central campus jobs key to union strife LABOR UNIONS FROM PAGE 1 which represents blue-collar workers at Yale — is as close as ever, according to union leaders.

Secretary Treasurer of Local 35 Tyisha Walker that it is crucial for the unions to learn about the concerns their allies face, in order for both to realize their goals.

“When people’s minds are separate only to their organization, I don’t think that really accomplishes anything,” said Walker, who was present at Tuesday evening’s meeting. “Things that affect Local 34 also affect Local 35.”

A SHIFT AWAY FROM CENTRAL CAMPUS

Despite Local 34’s complaints, the number of unionized employees has actually increased at the University in recent years. In 2010, the University employed 3,375 Local 34 members, according to Peel. Today it employs 3,651.

Nevertheless, union members have taken issue with the reduction of positions on central campus. According to Kennington, Local 34 employees have lost 91 positions on central campus over the last six years, amounting to a nine percent reduction.

As the University has continued to reduce administrative costs over the last five years, union members have frequently voiced grievances that more work has been left to fewer workers on central campus. The shift, union members and leaders say, suggests that the administration is shifting its focus from central campus to other parts of Yale.

Over the last six years, the School of Management increased by 22 positions, while the School of Medicine added 255 positions to its staff, according to Kennington.

The reduction in positions, union members also argue, has diminished the quality of the undergraduate experience at Yale.

Senior Administrative Assistant at the School of Engineering and Applied Science Ben McManus said he was concerned by the fact that the University has declared its commitment to expand engineering, but still continues to lay off staff in these and other departments. The engineering school has seen a 19 percent reduction in staff, from 21 Local 34 employees in 2008 to 17 today, Kennington said.

“We are constantly operating in crisis mode; therefore, the quality of life for the support staff is suffering, and by extension undergraduate life — the qual-

ity is suffering as well,” McManus said.

Nicholas Bernardo, manager of the machine shop at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said he used to have additional assistance from staff in teaching students how to use machinery for their coursework. But as the number of students involved in the department has grown and the number of staff has diminished, Bernardo has had to single-handedly man the shop and meet students’ requests.

The University agreed that as they grow, we would grow, but they’re not doing that.

CARMELITA MORALES Facilities senior administrative assistant But, Peel said the majority of position adjustments over recent years have not occurred in areas affecting undergraduates on central campus. Instead, they have been concentrated in support functions, rather than academic departments. He added jobs eliminated or changed have comprised just 20 to 30 of Local 34’s positions.

administrative cost reduction targets: by five percent in three years and nine percent in the next five years.

Student Financial Services Senior Loan Specialist Steve Fortes said that for the 37 years he has been employed at Yale, the University has repeatedly justified budget cuts with slow endowment growth. Even now that the endowment has rebounded, he said, the University has continued to claim they are struggling and require additional cost reductions.

Yet according to Peel, the endowment, adjusted for inflation, is still more than $2 billion in real dollars below its value six years ago. The University’s costs have also increased by 28 percent — in fiscal year 2009, the University spent $2.5 billion, compared to $3.2 billion today.

“Should the investment markets fall dramatically, like we all saw them do in late 2008, the recent progress we have made could easily evaporate,” Peel wrote in an email.

He added the financial plan developed prior to fiscal 2014 is working well and is important to pursue. In particular, he said

practicing caution could help the University avoid layoffs and hardship in the future.

Fortes said recent cuts to administrative staff are of a different nature than what he has experienced during his years at Yale. In the past, losses of this scale were justified by the rise of computers and technology, which increased efficiency and allowed remaining employees to accomplish more work with fewer individuals in their department.

“Even then, you still had the amount of staffing you need,” Fortes said. “Now it’s nothing to do with computerization, it’s just someone quits or retires, and that job is gone.”

Still, Peel said technological change has been a factor in determining which positions to eliminate or expenses to scale back.

New systems and tools introduced since 2001 do not require as much manual work, Peel added.

When unit members consider reducing administrative costs, they identify what work is nonessential or can be restructured more productively.

“Very often, we continue to do work the same way we had

for decades,” Peel said. “There clearly was, and is, opportunity to be both more efficient and more effective.”

MOTION TO EXTEND

Fortes was part of the first negotiating team between Local 34 and the University just after the union’s founding in 1983.

Over that time, the relationship between the union and the University has had its ups and downs, he said. The formation of the Shared Services Steering Committee — intended for Union members to discuss Yale’s reorganization of administrative work — led to an effective period of dialogue and discussion for the union.

But now, he said, relations are yet again heading downhill.

Similarly, Kennington said the union’s progress in negotiating its demands has stalled. The process has proven difficult compared to the last decade, when many issues between the University and Local 34 were resolved internally without confrontation.

“With budget cuts coming to an extreme point — the cuts have gone too far and services have been cut to the bone — we have to

say to the University … it’s time for you to figure out how to bring to the table solutions and take action,” Kennington said.

University President Peter Salovey said Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander, Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel and Polak have continued lines of open communication with Yale’s unions.

Salovey said the Policy Board, which supports Yale’s Best Practices Initiative and the partnership between University management and the unions, has proved to be an effective forum to discuss challenging issues that have arisen in the past.

Still, workers continued to express concern over the state of the relationship.

“The University agreed that as they grow, we would grow, but they’re not doing that,” Facilities Senior Administrative Assistant Carmelita Morales said. “So here we go again, but I haven’t given up.”

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

CONFUSION AMONG CUTS

Last month, the University’s endowment reached an all-time high. Given that, several union members said the continuation of budget cuts is a surprise.

Furthermore, several expressed skepticism about the University’s justification for continued cuts.

Mechanical Engineering Administrative Assistant Janet O’Dell said she has often been told cuts are necessary to ensure costs for students remain low.

But in reality, she said, the cuts do not reduce student costs at all, as tuition and student financial aid contributions rise each year.

Since 2008, the student income contribution — the portion a student on financial aid must contribute to their tuition from summer earnings — has risen from $2,400 to $3,050 this year for upperclassmen.

University Provost Benjamin Polak said in September that the 20.2 percent return on the endowment, and higher than anticipated revenue from the Yale School of Medicine, dramatically reduced the fiscal 2014 deficit.

But Polak said the positive 2014 results do not warrant complete confidence, and the University will continue to work towards its

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Labor unions have noted that despite the fact that the University’s budget is at an all-time high, cuts continue.

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NEWS Stone talks Cold War

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.� PABLO PICASSO SPANISH PAINTER

YCBA celebrates founder Paul Mellon

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER An Academy Award-winning filmmaker and a Cold War historian came together Wednesday night to present a glimpse into the history of the atomic bomb.

Film director Oliver Stone, along with Peter Kuznick, a history professor at American University, visited the Whitney Humanities Center to host a showing of “The Bomb,� the third chapter in a 10-part documentary series titled “The Untold History of the United States,� to a packed audience of roughly 200 people. After the screening, they participated in a discussion moderated by American Studies professor Matthew Jacobson. The duo said the series was created in hopes of exposing a different side of 20th-century American history than what is traditionally claimed as doctrine. “We’re about deconstructing fundamental myths,� Kuznick said. “The Bomb� offered arguments against three primary claims: that the United States was the force that won World War II, that dropping the atomic bomb was the reason World War II ended and that the Cold War was started because of Soviet aggression. In reality, Kuznick said, the Soviet Union was a far more powerful force in ending World War II than the U.S. both in Europe and in the Pacific.

The film explored the two atomic bombings in Japan by the U.S. during World War II. Stone and Kuznick turned a critical eye toward the behavior of the United States. According to the documentary, the Truman administration lied in asserting that dropping the atomic bomb was both necessary to end the war and successful in doing so. Stone and Kuznick presented evidence that the Japanese feared the invasion of the Soviet Union enough to surrender. This, they argued, would have been enough to end the war: the dropping of two atomic bombs was both unnecessary and a cruel means of demonstrating power on the global stage.

Stone and Kuznick also presented a historical figure that they described as an unsung hero of his time: former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, a progressive Democrat and an active opponent of the atomic bombs. When Roosevelt wanted to make Wallace his running mate in what would become his final term, the Democrats pushed against him and pressured him to nominate a less-popular Harry Truman. Had Roosevelt selected Wallace, he presumably would have ascended to the presidency upon Roosevelt’s death. Stone and Kuznick noted that such an outcome would have dramatically changed the American landscape after World War II. Because Wallace never would have dropped the bomb, the U.S. relationship with the Soviet Union would have been maintained and the arms race and the Cold War would never have begun.

Stone said he was largely inspired to begin the documentary when he read his daughter’s high school textbook and realized how much was amended or missing in order to paint a more appealing picture of U.S. history. He said he wanted to show a more complete picture. “Look, kids love horror stories,� he said. “If you make history the horror story it has often been, you get the kids’ interests.�

The duo are also releasing shorter editions of their 750-page ‘Untold Histories’ book, geared toward a broader and younger audience base. A currently available ‘abridged’ version checks in at 450 pages, and a “Young Reader’s Edition,� geared towards middle-schoolers, will be released in a few weeks.

Audience members interviewed said that they were fascinated by the story portrayed. Two men, both war veterans, said that they felt they had gained a new perspective on the historical subjects discussed in the film.

Carl Kreitzberg ’16 said he was most compelled by the relationship between Kuznick and Stone. “You can really see the storyteller and the factchecker chemistry,� he said. “That comes out in the film, too: the substantive facts, and the sly narrator moving the story along.� “The Untold History of the United States� first premiered on the Showtime network in 2012.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

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Over 100 visitors toured the Yale Center for British Art’s “Founder’s Room� during Tuesday’s open house.

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER Tuesday called for celebrations dedicated to founders of all stripes, including the Yale Center for British Art’s own Paul Mellon ’29 and his wife Bunny.

The centerpiece of “Founders Day� festivities at the YCBA was the opening of the appropriately dubbed “Founder’s Room� — located on the Center’s fourth floor — to the wider public, allowing visitors a glimpse into a space typically reserved for official functions, special occasions and museum staff meetings. Over the course of its Tuesday opening, YCBA Director Amy Meyers said that more than a hundred people visited the space. “[Founders Day] is a special day, referencing, obviously, the founding of the University and Elihu Yale’s early contributions,� Meyers said. “But it gives us an opportunity to look to the founder of the Center as a very important part of Yale and

to celebrate Paul Mellon as one of Yale’s most important benefactors.�

Various pieces of Mellon memorabilia are scattered about the room, including a silver platter thanking Mellon for his “distinguished services to [his] country and to Yale� and a table-size model of his Virginia home. Such mementos are interspersed with a baker’s dozen of oils and a large painted screen depicting a polo match, as well as bits of Mellon’s private library — a slew of leather-bound volumes spread across two cases, with titles like Milton’s “Paradise Lost.�

Meyers said that the space’s color scheme was a nod to Mellon’s love of horse racing, noting that the room’s two dominant hues — blue grey and dusty yellow — were Mellon’s racing colors. Pieces of furniture, such as the sofa and plush trio of armchairs that greet visitors upon entry, were commissioned, and antiques were brought from the Mellon’s personal collection to

furnish the room, with the intention of creating a comfortable space for museum personnel and guests alike, Meyers added.

In 1999 — the final year of Mellon’s life — the Mellons’ personal decorator Bruce Budd helped the Center redesign the room, suggesting subtle changes that would make the space feel more domestic, as well as reflective of the couple’s personal style. The room was conceived as a more intimate space within the institution, Meyers explained, noting that the room offers a glimpse into the ways in which the Mellons incorporated pieces from their extensive collection into their daily lives.

Meyers noted that the room also serves as a fixture in the Center’s daily operations, adding that she spends many hours in the room every day. “Really more than anything, it’s used as a space for important conversations: by scholars who visit us, by staff grappling with issues of

running the Center,� she said. “It’s a kind of ‘think-tank’ space where we do the deep-thinking that makes the institution run.�

Visitor reactions to the Founder’s Room opening were positive. Stratford resident Rita Fitzsimmons said she did not know she would have access to the space when she visited the center, adding that she was glad to have had the opportunity to see the room. “Obviously, the whole collection was [Mellon’s], and the pieces in the museum were donated by him, but this collection seems more personal ‌ and it’s nice to kind of see into which bits of art he kept for himself,â€? added Eleanor Hutchinson, who stopped by the Center on Tuesday. “It just gives a little more history about him.â€?

The YCBA houses the largest collection of British art outside of the United Kingdom.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

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“Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers — six if one went to Harvard.” EDGAR FIEDLER AMERICAN ECONOMIST

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Law School profs condemn new sexual harassment policy

BY MATTHEW CLARIDA Twenty-eight Law School professors called for Harvard to withdraw its newly installed sexual harassment policy in a pointed open letter published on Tuesday night.

The letter represents the most extensive public criticism of the new sexual harassment policy since it was announced this summer. It comes while Harvard’s compliance with Title IX anti-sexual discrimination statutes continues to be investigated by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

The letter, which was addressed to the Boston Globe and posted on its website Tuesday evening, outlined the professors’ grievances regarding the policy, which centers on what they characterized as a lack of “the most basic elements of fairness and due process.”

The professors complained that the policy far exceeds the scope of the Title IX legislation

with which H a r vard seeks to co m p ly, a n d that it was drafted and impleHARVARD mented without appropriate consultation with the faculty.

The group of more than two dozen wrote that the policy has reasonable aims but that its investigative and punitive elements are unfairly disfavor accused parties. They pointed specifically to the lack of opportunities for the accused to see the facts against him or her, face the accusing party, and have counsel available.

“Harvard has adopted procedures for deciding cases of alleged sexual misconduct which lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process, are overwhelmingly stacked against the accused, and are in no way required by Title IX law or reg-

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The authors also attacked the University for language in the policy stipulating that any instance of sexual conduct that occurs “when a person is so impaired or incapacitated as to be incapable of requesting or inviting the conduct” will be deemed “unwelcome.”

The professors characterized this procedure as “starkly onesided...and entirely inadequate to address the complex issues involved in these unfortunate situations.”

The authors went on to criticize the University at length for what they said amounted to bowing to the dicta of federal authorities instead of conceiving its own policy.

“Harvard apparently decided to simply defer to the demands of certain federal administrative officials, rather than exercise independent judgment about the kind of sexual harassment policy that would be consistent with law and with the needs of

our students and the larger University community,” they wrote.

The authors also wrote that the policy was conceived and implemented without appropriate consultation with Harvard’s schools and faculty members, accusing central administrators of having “undermined and effectively destroyed the individual Schools’ traditional authority to decide discipline for their own students.”

Harvard has adopted procedures … which lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process.

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL PROFESSORS While some bodies, including the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have held open meetings to dis-

cuss the changes, the professors noted that none of the policy’s most substantive provisions were up for alteration as a result of these gatherings.

Late Tuesday night, University spokesperson Jeff Neal defended Harvard’s new policy while acknowledging its opponents and praising the discourse around it.

“The University appreciates that not every member of the community will agree with every aspect of the new approach,” Neal wrote. “Some believe the policies and procedures go too far; others believe that they do not go far enough. This type of discussion is fundamental to any vibrant academic community.”

Neal added that, in an attempt to better respond to community feedback, a new faculty, staff, and student committee was formed in September and “will offer advice to the University... [about] whether there might be opportunities for improvement either in the new policy and procedures or in their implementa-

tion.”

The letter is by no means the first hiccup for the new policy.

Since its launch this summer, advocates have loudly complained about its lack of an affirmative consent provision, an element that has been adopted by other universities and that would require explicit consent before any sexual acts.

Tuesday’s letter carried 28 signatures: Elizabeth Bartholet, Scott Brewer, Robert C. Clark, Alan M. Dershowitz (Emeritus), Christine Desan, Charles Donahue, Einer R. Elhauge ’83, Allen Ferrell, Martha A. Field ’65, Jesse M. Fried, Nancy Gertner, Janet E. Halley, Bruce L. Hay, Philip B. Heymann, David W. Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy, Robert H. Mnookin ’64, Charles R. Nesson ’60, Charles J. Ogletree, Richard D. Parker, J. Mark Ramseyer, David Rosenberg, Lewis D. Sargentich, David Shapiro ’54 (Emeritus), Henry J. Steiner ’51 (Emeritus), Jeannie Suk, Lucie E. White ’72, David B. Wilkins ’77.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 10:00 AM “Michel Foucault: After 1984.” Thirty years after Foucault’s death, this art conference undertakes a reassessment of his career and legacy. With the interval of time, what more do we see about his intellectual millieu? Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. Free admission.

7:00 PM Film Screening: “¡Qué Viva Mexico!” (Soviet Union, 1932/1979) 90 min. 35mm. Come view the latest installation of the “Vida y Drama de México Film Series” with a multi-part film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. Free admission.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 5:00 PM Yale Volleyball vs. Columbia. Cheer on the Elis as they challenge Ivy League opponent Columbia University. Payne Whitney Gym (70 Tower Pkwy.), Lee Amphitheater.

3:30 PM “Angles on Art, The Art of Paradox.” Gallery guide Iason Togias TC ’16 will lead a tour that will explore a series of paintings and scultures that draw power from conflict and contradiction. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.), Main Lobby. Free admission.

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SPORTS

“If I’m in a slump, I ask myself for advice.”

ICHIRO SUZUKI MLB OUTFIELDER AND 10-TIME ALL-STAR

Elis are city champs BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 catcher Robert Baldwin ’15 drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.

“I put a bunt down to put pressure on the defense [in the third], and they threw it away,” Toups said. “After that, we just wanted to keep putting pressure on their defense, and make them make a play.”

Toups, who singled and scored a run in the game on Sunday, was named City Series Most Valuable Player at the conclusion of the series. But the honor had more to do with his performance in the semifinal game, when he capped off an Eli rally with a two-RBI single that gave Yale its final lead.

Yale ace Chris Lanham ’16 got the start in the opening game against New Haven and pitched five strong innings for the win, allowing two earned runs while striking out seven.

“It’s nice to get back in the game setting, especially after

some time off,” Lanham said. “All my pitches seemed to be working pretty well, especially since it’s just the fall.”

The Bulldogs’ first victory, however, did not come as smoothly as it would in the championship game.

Yale took the initial lead in the first inning, when Baldwin doubled and outfielder Brent Lawson ’16 brought him home with a single. But New Haven came roaring back in the top of the third to take a 2–1 lead with two consecutive RBI singles.

The Elis then responded with a rally of their own. After Yale loaded the bases, center fielder Green Campbell ’15 tied the game with a walk, and then Toups brought in another two runs with his single.

That two-run lead would prove difficult to keep. The Chargers tacked on another run later in the game to reduce the deficit to one, and relief pitcher Chris Moates

’16 loaded the bases in the ninth inning after pitching a scoreless sixth, seventh and eighth.

Outfielder and pitcher Eric Hsieh ’15 then stepped on the hill in a jam and came through for the Bulldogs, getting his first batter to ground into a double play to end the game.

“We loaded the bases towards the end of the game, and that got a little suspenseful,” Lanham said. “We all just kept our heads cool and took care of business, and it happened to work out in our favor.”

Now finished with their only in-game practice of the fall, the Bulldogs are running through individual workouts in preparation for their spring season.

Yale’s first game is slated for March 7, the beginning of a multi-game trip in the North Carolina area.

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

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The Elis beat Quinnipiac 6–0 in the City Series championship behind six strong innings from Chasen Ford ’17.

Yu ’15 talks Regionals

Yale finds success on water

WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 example, on and off the court.

Q

How has the transition been for the team going from one coach to a new coach, as well as with the addition of four freshmen?

A

I think that it has definitely gotten a lot better. In the beginning it was still very new.

Having new coaches plus four freshmen, which we have never had before, is a completely different experience. Our team is very small — we only have 10 players, which is the most we’ve ever had since I’ve been a freshman. But it has been really great. The freshmen are more comfortable with us, we’re starting to understand how our head coach coaches [and] what her style is, so I think everyone is really fitting in.

have the freshmen perQHow formed so far this year?

A

— and Henry Lewis ’16 and Charles Skoda ’17, who placed 11th in Division B. Yale’s third-place showing at the Moody Trophy, meanwhile, was largely due to the pair of Mitchell Kiss ’17 and Clara Robertson ’17, who won Division B. Yale sailing next competes in the Navy Fall Invite at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis on Oct. 18.

They have done really well.

I’ve been really impressed with them. In practice, they have been working super hard, and they’ve definitely shown results in their first tournament [the Cissie Leary Invitational in Philadelphia]. Carol [Finke ’18] and Val [Shklover ’18] played in the quarterfinals in the “B” Draw and ended up making it to the semis of doubles, which is really impressive. Sunday [Swett ’18] with her debut last weekend, her first collegiate match, pulled a tough one out, which is really great to see.

And Elizabeth [Zordani ’18] has been doing very well too. She won her first round at Penn, then played one of the top players in our region and won consolation doubles at Penn.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

are you thoughts on QWhat how the team will perform at

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For the third consecutive year, the Bulldogs won the New England Championships.

SAILING FROM PAGE 12 against Boston College.

In the final race, Landy said that the sailors “finally hit [their] stride.” Yale defeated Boston College 2–0 and triumphed in the event for the third year in a row. The New England Championship win also qualified Yale for the ICSA Match Racing National Championship in November.

When asked about the team’s spectacular comeback on Sunday, Landy said that

Yale did a great job playing to its strengths.

“We were one of the faster boats there, so we tried to simplify the races and let our speed work [to] our advantage,” Landy said.

Barrows added that the team’s success on the second day was attributed to better communication within the boat and quicker boat maneuver transitions.

Isler agreed with Barrows, saying that communication and positivity were the keys to

the team’s success.

“Graham and Ian continued to stay positive throughout the weekend, and having that mindset going into the second day allowed us to make the gains we did,” Isler said.

At the same time, other sailors competed at both the Southern Series No. 5 at Roger Williams and the Moody Trophy. Notable performances at the Southern Series include Christopher Champa ’18 and Sanam Rastegar ’16 — who placed third in Division A

ITA Northeast Regionals, which is coming up this weekend?

A

We just found out who is playing. Unfortunately, the freshmen won’t be playing in the singles because only a limited number of people can play. But Carol is playing with Sherry [Li ’17] and Val is playing with [Madeleine Hamilton ’16] in doubles.

We hosted regionals my freshman year, which was a lot of fun.

So it’s great to be able to host senior year since we’re used to our courts, obviously. Everyone may not be playing, but everyone will be contributing to people’s wins.

I’m really excited. It’s going to be a long, long couple of days.

are the team’s goals for QWhat this year?

A

In terms of ranking, we’re definitely looking to take the Ivy [championship] back. We had won three years in a row, and last year we tied for second, so that’s been our main goal. But in general, having fun is really important since tennis is very stressful, a huge time commitment, so there are definitely some rough days. But I think in general being able to have fun, and really being great teammates, and just continuing the great Yale women’s tennis culture that has been going on for years.

what are your own QAsgoalsa senior, for this year?

A

I just want to win Ivys again.

In terms of lineup, where I’m playing, or whom I’m playing with, that’s not really under my control. So, my goal is for the team to win Ivys and the team to be successful. That is what will make me most happy.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

Dartmouth, UConn up next FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 As the Elis prepare for the weekend, they are focusing on attention to detail and strong fundamentals, according to back Noelle Villa ’16.

“Combined with our strong midfield play, we hope [that focus] will translate into capitalizing on the opportunities we create — both on attack and defense,” Villa said.

Most important for the Bulldogs will be getting the ball into the back of the net, as the team has only scored 10 goals the entire season, 12 behind the seventh-place team in the Ivy League, Princeton.

Right now, for every goal that Yale has scored, it has given up three.

Despite a difficult season, and a winless Ivy campaign thus far, the players say they will continue to give every game their all.

“I’d say one of the best things about Yale field hockey is our tenacity,” Villa said. “Yes, we’ve had some tough competition, but we’re still fighting and we’re not

giving up.”

Being a young team, however, has already started paying dividends for Yale. Midfielder Carol Middough ’18 was honored this week as an Ivy League Rookie of the Week. Middough has scored three goals in nine shots, which accounts for 30 percent of the team’s goals. She has only played in seven games all season, missing the first four contests, all of which were non-conference matches.

Middough is the first Rookie of the Week for Yale since Erica Borgo ’14, who was awarded the honor in November of 2010.

“Each and every week is an opportunity to play the sport we love at a high level of intensity,” Villa said. “We get to do it together — that’s not something we take for granted.”

Saturday’s game starts at noon, while Sunday’s game against Connecticut begins at 2 p.m.

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

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YALE FOOTBALL ALL-ERA TEAM 1978–1997 The latest Yale football all-era team was announced this week, continuing the season-long celebration of the Yale Bowl’s 100th anniversary. Included on the team are eight All-Americans and four Ivy League Most Valuable Players.

MOLLIE ROGERS ’15 WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL The San Diego native was named the Ivy League player of the week for the second time in three weeks for her double-doubles against Penn and Princeton last weekend. Rogers put up a combined 32 kills and 31 digs in the two games.

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about [our team] is our tenacity. Yes, we’ve had some tough competition, but we’re still fighting and we’re not giving up.”

NOELLE VILLA ’16 FIELD HOCKEY

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Yale baseball bests local rivals BASEBALL

Elis sail to success in New York

BY JULIA YAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale coed sailing team had a successful weekend.

SAILING

“[Ford] had command, he had confidence and he was getting after guys with his fastball, which is what he needs to do,” Toups said.

While the Eli pitchers allowed Quinnipiac’s hitters to beat themselves with many ground outs and fly outs, Yale’s offense used a similar strategy, taking advantage of several Quinnipiac blunders in the field.

Yale’s big inning came in the third, when six bunts and three Bobcat errors resulted in five runs for the Bulldogs. Yale’s sixth run — which came later in the game — also resulted from small ball, when

The Bulldogs won the New England Match Race Championship at the New York Yacht Club. In addition, the Bulldogs placed third at the Moody Trophy, held at the University of Rhode Island, and eighth at the Roger Williams Invitational, also held in Rhode Island.

But the win was in no way guaranteed. The Bulldogs fell behind on the first day of the New England Championship, finishing last with a 1–6 record. Captain Graham Landy ’15 attributed the team’s poor performance to its minimal experience with Yngling boats, which handle differently than what the team is used to.

Skipper Ian Barrows ’17, Mary Isler ’16 and Landy were the only Elis to represent Yale in New York.

“Match racing in 21-foot Yngling class boats with three people tests a lot of skills that normal college sailing does not,” Landy said. “We were only able to practice five days in keelboats before this event, so Saturday presented many difficulties with teamwork, communication and our maneuvers.”

Barrows agreed and said that the team was struggling because it was the first regatta sailing together.

Despite Saturday’s setback, Landy said that the sailors felt they would be competitive the next day given their speed, tactics and improved boat handling. Indeed, the Bulldogs quickly found success on Sunday, winning their first race in the quarterfinals 2–1 against top seed Roger Williams. In the semifinals, Yale faced Tufts and had to win three out of five matches to advance. The Bulldogs started off strong with wins in the first two races, but losses in the third and fourth upset their momentum. In the fifth race, though, the Elis crossed the line first to advance to the finals

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Catcher Robert Baldwin ’15 had an RBI sacrifice fly and an RBI bunt in the series.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale baseball team has been a program on the rise in recent years.

After first improving upon a lastplace finish in the Ivy League in 2012 to go 0.500 in conference in 2013, the Bulldogs came just one win away from earning a spot in the Championship Series this past spring, also taking a game from national powerhouse — and No. 3 team in the country — Louisiana State along the way.

If fall ball is any indication of a team’s potential five months in advance of the season, Yale showed even more improvement this past

weekend, emerging victorious against Quinnipiac and the University of New Haven in the annual City Series for the first time since 2011.

Led by small ball in the third inning and a stellar pitching performance by Chasen Ford ’17, Yale defeated the Bobcats 6–0 on Sunday in the final game of the four-team tournament, which is played every October at the Yale Field among teams in the New Haven area.

In the semifinal round the previous Friday, the Bulldogs came from behind to beat New Haven 4–3. Southern Connecticut was the fourth participant.

“It was definitely a good feeling,

setting the tone for the rest of the fall with a City Series win,” right fielder and captain David Toups ’15 said.

Toups added that although the wins were a good sign, they are a small part of the work that the team needs to put in between now and the beginning of its season.

Ford, who went 3–4 last year as one of the Elis’ four starters, was lights out against the Bobcats in his six innings of work, striking out three and scattering just two hits.

A pair of freshmen, Eric Brodkowitz ’18 and Drew Scott ’18, finished off the shutout with five combined strikeouts in their first collegiate innings.

Field hockey heads north

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After two weeks away from conference play, the Yale field hockey team is ready to once again face an Ivy League opponent.

FIELD HOCKEY Yale (2–9, 0–3 Ivy) will travel north this weekend to New Hampshire to take on Dartmouth (4–7, 2–1) on Saturday and No. 4 Connecticut (9–3, 2–0 Big East) on Sunday.

“We are hoping to come home with two wins after this weekend,” back Kiwi Comizio ’18 said. “We’ve been training hard all week and we are really excited to get to play another league game and against a top 10 team.”

Currently in third place in the Ancient Eight, Dartmouth is coming off an overtime victory against Holy Cross on Monday. This game marks the halfway point in conference play for both the Bulldogs and the Big Green.

In order to get a win against Dartmouth, the Elis will need to take advantage of a porous Dartmouth defense. The Big Green leads the league in number of saves per game, with 9.30 per game, compared to second place Yale’s 8.73.

Straight shooting with Yu ’15

The Big Green, however, has also allowed the most goals scored against it in the Ancient Eight, averaging 3.47 a game.

By contrast, Ivy leader Cornell averages only 0.88.

“We are very focused on getting on our first Ivy League win this Saturday versus Dartmouth,” forward Jessie Accurso ’15 said.

“We’ve been training hard all week, and we are really excited to get to play another league game and against a top 10 team.”

KIWI COMIZIO ’18 Connecticut is also having a successful season, as the team currently leads the Big East conference, just barely ahead of No. 10 Temple, and is in the midst of a three-game winning streak. The Huskies also won last year’s national championship.

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Captain Hanna Yu ’15 went 24–6 last year in singles play and was named to the All-Ivy first team.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s tennis team, led by captain Hanna Yu ’15, plays in the ITA Northeast Regionals this week. The News spoke with Yu about her experience at the ITA All-American Championships, her captaincy and the team’s goals moving forward.

WOMEN’S TENNIS was your experience at the QWhat ITA All-American Championships

like? What did you learn from the experience?

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It was a really great experience. I went my sophomore year, and to be able to play in the tournament you need to be ranked pretty high from last year’s rankings. It’s really great to be able to see all the top players and play the best players from all around the country. The big thing is not being intimidated by the big schools like UCLA … but just focusing on your game and seeing what happens from there.

were elected captain for this QYou year. What does that mean to you, and what is your role as captain?

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It definitely meant a lot when I found out that my teammates had voted for me for captain. It is definitely a great responsibility and a huge learning process still with four new freshmen and new coaches. It’s still a work in progress, but I think that with time people are starting to figure out their roles. I’m focused on trying to lead by SEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE 10

RUNS SCORED BY THE YALE BASEBALL TEAM IN THE THIRD INNING OF THE CITY SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. The Bulldogs put the ball in play often during the inning, bunting six times, and title game foe Quinnipiac helped them out by committing three errors. Yale won 6–0.