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Swim coach status unclear
Teacher’s pet. Bob Woodward ’65 will visit the law school at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon to discuss his latest book, “The Last of the President’s Men,” with law professor Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84, who audited Woodward’s journalism seminar last semester. The book — a fresh look at the Watergate scandal — is based on 46 hours of interviews with Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield.
Netflix and chill. Speaking of famous alumnae, Jodie Foster ’85 got a Netflix shoutout this week. Her film “Silence of the Lambs” — the 1991 winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture — was selected as Netflix’s pick of the week. The other YSO. “Twin Paradox,” a team of four Guilford High School seniors, took home the first-place prize at the Yale Science Olympics this weekend. The Guilford team beat 48 other Connecticut high schools for the top spot. The event consisted of several challenges testing students’ ability to think creatively and apply principles of physics. The cold never bothered us anyway. Several surprised
students noticed light snowfall late Sunday morning. Indeed, there was a statewide freeze warning in effect yesterday. The warning is also in effect from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. today. Ice-age heat wave, can’t complain. Though we can’t
deny the charm of the up-andcoming artists like Lil Dicky that Toad’s Place attracts, New Haven has seen some bigger names in music since the opening of College Street Music Hall. If you haven’t bought train tickets home yet, stick around until Wednesday night, when indie band Modest Mouse will be playing at the new concert venue.
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Although the city ordered several food trucks to shut down operations, the beloved Cheese Truck is still standing. Caseus’ food truck will be stationed on Cross Campus from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. today as part of the Yale Undergraduate Society for Biological Sciences’ meetand-greet event.
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Worker falls to death at Yale power plant BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER
be acting as interim head coach until further notice, Norman said. No other information is available at this time about the reason or nature of Wise’s leave, Director of Athletics Tom Beckett and Associate Athletics Director and Sports Publicity Director Steve Conn said.
A 53-year-old subcontractor died following a 60-foot fall at the Yale Central Power Plant Saturday morning. The man, whose name has not been released to the press per a request from his family, worked for International Chimney. The subcontractor was working in the non-active chimney stack as part of a larger upgrade to the entire power plant before he fell. New Haven firefighters were dispatched at 10:11 a.m., immediately after the event occurred, according to New Haven Fire Department Operations Chief Matthew Marcarelli. The firefighters arrived approximately four minutes later. After what Marcarelli described as a “complicated rescue,” the worker was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he died. “Yale extends its deepest condolences to the worker’s family, friends and co-workers,” Karen Peart, a spokeswoman for the University, told the News. “The University is providing support and counseling to anyone at Yale who has been affected by this sad news.”
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Homeland and “Homeland.”
Actress Claire Danes’ hit show “Homeland” has already received both President Obama’s and Vice President Biden’s stamps of approval. And now, according to The New York Times, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has also said he’s a fan of the drama. We forgive Danes from dropping out of Yale to pursue acting in 2000.
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Assistant coach Kevin Norman served as interim head coach in Yale’s scrimmage meet Saturday. BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER On paper, the beginning of the Yale men’s swimming and diving team’s competitive season was much like last year’s, with a scrimmage meet against Johns Hopkins on Saturday. But this year the Bulldogs competed without their head coach, as
Tim Wise has been on administrative leave since August, and no timeline is available for his return. In Wise’s place for the past three months has been assistant swimming coach Kevin Norman. The Yale Athletic Administration contacted Norman at the end of August to inform him that Wise was on administrative leave and that Norman would
Citing “crisis,” Eze unveils education plans BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER As Mayor Toni Harp makes education a primary focus of her campaign for re-election, Ugonna Eze ’16, the Republican candidate for Ward 1 alder, has brought that focus to campus. Eze, who will face incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 in November, discussed his plans for education policy during an event on Old Campus Friday afternoon, attended by roughly 40 people. Eze said his proposals aim to increase parental involvement in children’s education and to address the racial achievement gap. Eze said as alder, he will push for Yale students to become more active in New Haven’s education system, echoing a theme he has maintained throughout his campaign. In remarks before the assembled crowd, Eze said low educational achievement is driving many of the problems that vex the Elm City.
“Education seems to be the biggest barrier to addressing unemployment and addressing the housing problem here in New Haven,” he said. “We won’t make any progress on these issues unless we get Yale involved.” Eze identified “summer slippage” — when students partially regress in educational achievement over the summer — as one of the problems he will seek to address as alder. He noted that the problem hits low-income and ethnic minority students the hardest. Programs that keep students intellectually engaged over the summer are out of reach for many families in those demographics, he said, resulting in an achievement gap between them and their wealthier classmates. The racial disparity in educational achievement is highly visible in New Haven, Eze said, adding that dropout rates stand at 25 percent for ethnic minoriSEE EZE PAGE 6
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Eze said if he is elected alder, he will help create a map of the city’s childhood educational resources.
Schwarzman scholarship popular BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER In the program’s first year of operation, over 3,000 students from 135 countries have applied to be Schwarzman Scholars, the program announced last Tuesday. The program, founded by Stephen Schwarzman ’69 in 2013, offers 100 students full funding to pursue a oneyear Master’s degree in either public policy, economics and business or international studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Inspired by the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, the Schwarzman Scholars program is intended to equip future leaders with an understanding of China’s history, culture and economy
to foster greater collaboration among China and other nations. In 2016, selected students will enroll at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, a residential college similar to those at Yale that is being constructed specially for the program. “We are thrilled by the outpouring of interest in this important, groundbreaking program,” Schwarzman said in a statement. “The sheer number of interested candidates for our first class speaks to the highly unique attributes of the program and the international reputation of Tsinghua University under President Dr. Qiu Yong’s leadership.” Prospective Schwarzman Scholars will go through a multistep selection pro-
cess before the first successful candidates are notified on Nov. 25. According to an Oct. 13 press release by Schwarzman Scholars, a team of readers from around the world will evaluate the initial round of applicants based on factors like leadership potential and personal characteristics, along with academic success. The readers will narrow this pool down to 300 students, who will each go before a panel of interviewers that includes CEOs, former heads of state, university presidents, nonprofit executives and journalists. The approximate makeup of the student body will be 45 percent American students, SEE SCHOLARS PAGE 6
Former prof accused of libel BY CHLOE KIMBALL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A libel probe has been filed against former Yale professor Jan Gross GRD ’75 by prosecutors in Warsaw, Poland following an op-ed Gross published claiming that Poles were responsible for the deaths of more Jews than the Germans during World War II. Gross, a dual American-Polish citizen, wrote about the current European migrant crisis in an article which first appeared on Project Syndicate, an online op-ed platform, on Oct. 13. In the piece, Gross argued that Poland, along with other Eastern European countries, has
favored Christian migrants from Syria over refugees of other religions — demonstrating a type of intolerance and xenophobia that dates back to World War II. In an Oct. 15 article in Time Magazine, a spokesman for Poland’s Foreign Ministry denounced Gross’ statement as “historically untrue, harmful and insulting to Poland.” Still, Gross defends his claim. “I don’t think [the probe] has any merit because one cannot libel if one tells the truth, and I have written the truth so I am not too worried,” Gross told the News. SEE LIBEL PAGE 4
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fter the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, each side of the national gun-control debate turned to women to give their agenda an edge. Such women who testify at House committee hearings usually fall into one of a few predictable archetypes. Batting for the liberal team are grieving mothers, often white, who have lost children to gun violence. This was demonstrated on Wednesday night at the first Democratic debate when Martin O’Malley used an anecdote about a bereaved mother to support his argument for stricter gun laws. On the other side, however, are two more characters: the young, single woman who refuses to be a victim and the fierce “mama bear” who uses firearms to protect her family. The problem is that none of these whitewashed, middle-class archetypes represent the realities of how women encounter guns. In this country, we have an instinct to talk about gun violence as if the perpetrators are strangers far removed from the daily lives of the victims. This just is not the case.
WE NEED TO FRAME OUR DISCOURSE ON GUN CONTROL DIFFERENTLY Women are more than 16 times more likely to be murdered with a gun by their intimate partner than they are to be murdered by a male stranger with all other weapons combined, according to a 2012 report by the Washingtonbased Violence Policy Center. In addition, guns are the weapons used most often in domestic homicides — more than all other means combined. In 2010 for instance, 94 percent of female homicide victims were killed by men they knew, which means that women were 16 times more likely to be killed by someone familiar than an unnamed “criminal.” Statistically speaking, guns in the home are a far bigger threat to women’s safety than they are a means of protection. That this is not represented in gun-control rhetoric plays into the toxic misconception that violence against women is committed by strangers. Perhaps it is easier to digest a myth that most shooters are outcasts on the margins of society, than
the unsettling reality that gun violence is more often committed by the men within our communities. It is the same mindset that exists in regards to sexual misconduct in which we attribute assault to a rogue aggressor, rather than violence by an intimate partner. What’s more, women who do use guns in self-defense are often punished severely for doing so. In the U.S., 90 percent of women in jail for killing men have been battered by the individuals they targeted, according to an article in The Boston Globe. In addition, they received sentences that were about 70 percent longer than those of men who killed intimate partners. It’s also important to note that black women were convicted more often and given longer sentences than women of any other race. In the most vulnerable communities, women have a reason to be afraid to defend themselves. It seems that for men, the dangers from which a gun could serve as protection are abstract. For example, the unknown “criminal” in the home or the improbable, but apparently still scary, tyrannical government takeover. But for women, the threat of violence is better rooted in reality. There are more female teachers in the schools where these shootings happen than there are male teachers. When a gun is in the home, women are faced with a real possibility of violence in a way men are not. Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean to implicate the whole male population in this problem. My point is that ignoring the racial and gendered trends in gun violence leads to ineffective policies. When we talk about gun control, we have a lot of inaccurate and unproductive conversations, which end up costing many women their lives, especially women in minority groups. We need to frame our discourse on gun control differently. If we are to mitigate gun violence in the U.S., we need to stop constructing these false facades about the real impact of guns on women’s lives. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Though this issue is far more complex than its intersection with guns, dismissing these misconceptions about women’s arms possession is an important first step. Only then can we actually work toward tackling gun violence and where it hurts women most. CASSIE LIGNELLI is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact her at cassandra.lignelli@yale.edu .
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'JARTAYLOR' ON 'AN EXCELLENT FACULTY IS A DIVERSE FACULTY'
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able leftist dogma.”
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ale students are riskaverse. I get it. You’re taking the nice job in finance because your alternate plan to save the world doesn’t come with tons of travel or healthcare benefits. You make up for it though, because you vote Democrat! Except not for Bernie, because even though you agree with him more, Hillary is more electable. It’s cool. Whatever. But this risk aversion doesn’t only apply to our major life decisions — it plays out in the small actions of our daily lives. Risk aversion keeps us from trying the espresso fizz at Blue State, because we’ve only ever gotten True Blue. (The espresso fizz is not half-bad, by the way.) A fear of failure keeps us from taking Major English Poets, if only because we’re not English majors. I think saddest of all, it keeps us from saying “Hi!” to people we know we’ve met before, but who also might not reciprocate the gesture. I’ve heard that this phenomenon is peculiar to the Northeast. “We’re so busy and it’s so cold and we don’t know each other,” you say as you walk past me. “So I’m going to not say hello because that would be weird!” Well, Hypothetical Yale Student, it’s quite the contrary. Do you see
what you’ve done? I’m going in for the eye-contact equivalent of a highfive, and you have just, as it were, left me AUSTIN It BRYNIARSKI hanging. hurts! Now, I’m a Guns & sturdy Midw e s t e r n e r, butter so maybe I’m expecting too much from a bunch of risk-averse Yankees, too afraid to acknowledge each other’s mutual existence for fear of being left hanging. But, practical Illinois-bred lad that I am, I think I’ve found the solution: the cold email. I will admit that the idea of the cold email is a little creepy at first. You’re all like, “Why is this strange student asking me to coffee, right after an email from Chief Ronnell Higgins?” But that’s the point! When a significant interaction is packaged just like an insignificant one, it becomes lower-stakes. It’s so much less stressful on the part of the sender, and the recipient. And, like a Sara Bareilles song, it’s so brave! So brash, but in a good way. Confident.
It’s much lower-stakes than sending a text. Sending a text requires a phone number, and procuring a phone number requires stopping whatever conversation you’re having, exchanging a random, really long sequence of digits (Where’s my QR credit?), and then trying to spell so-and-so’s last name in front of them without messing it up (“Yep, it’s ‘I-A-R…S-K-I,’ uh huh”). And then once you send the text, you have to anxiously wait for a response, an experience far too easy to catastrophize. But with email, you can avoid these difficulties. As a Yale student, your EliApps is automatically populated with every other Yale student’s email address, so it’s like having a contacts list of your entire Company of Scholars/Society of Friends. (Hell, my email’s on the very bottom of this page.) With email, there’s not that sense that you should get an immediate reply, so you can go for days without getting a response and not have to fret. On occasion, your cold email for friendship or courtship or what have you might end in rejection. But that’s cool too! We’ve all been rejected through email plenty of times. I’ve gotten my fair share of emails from
the English Department registrar telling me I haven’t gotten into creative writing courses, and a few years ago my plans to get Ina Garten to give a Master's Tea were thwarted. YaleSecure quite literally rejects me sometimes. Rejection is never fun, but via email, it’s fine, because we’ve all been desensitized to it. The brilliant Tao Tao Holmes ’14 once wrote a column in these very pages about how ridiculous it is to let our insecurities forbid us from pursuing our friend crushes. She hoped that our admiration of each other “doesn’t prevent us from taking mutual friend crushes and transforming them into lasting friendships.” I think that, in 2015, the cold email can serve as the pole vault over whatever social weirdness pervades our in-person interactions. It’s time to break out your favorite typeface and make sure your email signature is up to date. If we aren’t going to acknowledge each other in person, cold-email culture has the potential to create a Yale where we’re still able to talk to each other. AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column usually runs on Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .
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Israel and moral myths P
alestinian terrorists are trying to slaughter Israeli civilians. Abetting them are Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza. As Rachel Huebner noted in the Harvard Crimson (“Deafening Silence,” Oct. 15), world leaders have been slow to condemn the attacks. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 offered that Palestinian “frustration” at more Israeli settlements is to blame. John Kirby, spokesman for the State Department, said Israel was not observing “the status quo” in holy places in Jerusalem, and that “both sides” should attempt to “de-escalate the tension.” This kind of moral equivalency has become common in discussions of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It may seem strange that stabbing unarmed civilians is dismissed as the result of “frustration” and that both sides are called upon to de-escalate when only one side’s leaders sponsor violence directly targeting civilians. At any rate, I’d like to review some of the moral arguments often made to justify or excuse Palestinian terrorism against Israel. One argument is that Palestinians are simply resisting Israel. This is surely the case in some sense, but the targeted killing of innocent civilians is intrinsically wrong. One might reply by noting that Israel has killed thousands of Gazan civilians in the last several years, while very few Israelis have died. This response
has the perverse effect of blaming a country for keeping its civilians safe while they are fired upon by rockets — COLE that, ARONSON rockets mind you, Hamas hides Necessary in mosques, and proper hospitals and schools. It also erects a standard for war that no one but a pacifist would apply anywhere else. Every country has the right to self-defense. For a state whose sovereignty is constantly violated by rocket attacks, tunnels and terrorism, Israel is remarkably restrained. Would any country in the world tolerate what Israel tolerates without serious military action? Another argument is that Palestinians are upset because of increased settlement building. This claim is based on a myth. As the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported, settlement construction has slowed under Benjamin Netanyahu when compared with his predecessors, even though the population in extant settlements has increased. Since settlements are often cited as a point against Israel in the conflict, it’s useful to rehash some of the history behind them. What is known today as the West
Bank is simply the territory circumscribed by the armistice line marking the extent of the Jordanian advance during the Israeli War for Independence of 1948– 9. Jordan controlled the West Bank between 1949 and 1967, but its sovereignty was recognized by only England and Pakistan. Israel conquered the West Bank in preemptive defensive war of 1967 — Egypt and Syria planned a surprise attack that Israel thwarted by destroying their air forces — but did not annex the majority of it. Its international legal status is therefore, at most, dubious. Opponents of settlements often cite Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that, “The occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into territories it occupies.” First, as Columbia’s David Phillips has pointed out, the beginning of Article 49 speaks of “forcible” transfers. The Israeli settlers haven’t been forcibly moved anywhere. Second, as legal theorist Julius Stone has pointed out, that particular article was written specifically in response to forcible Nazi population transfers. It would be, in Stone’s words, “an irony bordering on the absurd” if Article 49 were construed to require a Jewish state to make Judenrein land to which they would otherwise have access. Finally, many claim that Palestinian terrorists are upset
only about the occupation, not Israel’s existence, so all Israel needs to do is withdraw from the West Bank. A few things belie this assertion. Israel has in fact reduced its presence in Palestinian-populated territories over time. It began withdrawing from the West Bank in the 1990s, and withdrew completely from Gaza in 2005. It got the Second Intifada and more rocket attacks. Today, most Palestinians live on land controlled by either the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. Besides, Arab hostility towards the Jewish state precedes the 1967 War. Before the Israeli War for Independence, Arab leaders the Middle East over rejected UN and British-sponsored partition plans for the land today known as Israel and the West Bank. The PA’s and Hamas’ problem is not with the occupation, but with the existence of the state running it. The double standards of the United Nations and the State Department should not obscure the simple truth: leaders who encourage their citizens to kill innocent civilians want death, not peace. Supporters of a Palestinian state alongside a Jewish one should condemn Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas as the extremists they are. COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .
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“I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.” BRAD PITT AMERICAN ACTOR
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A previous version of the article “FAS Senate debates faculty disciplinary procedures” incorrectly stated that a Committee on Faculty Advancement was tentatively established, when in fact it was established.
Cooley elected Genetics Society leader BY PADDY GAVIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last Wednesday, the Genetics Society of America appointed Lynn Cooley, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, its vice president for 2016 and president for 2017. Of the society’s 17 presidents this century, Cooley will be the seventh woman to lead the organization. Cooley was selected for the position by an online election which was open to the society’s over-5,500 members. She served as an elected member of the GSA board of directors between 2012 and 2015, and previously served as president of the organization’s Drosophila board of directors — a board within the society focused on fruit-fly research. Cooley said that as president, she hopes to advocate for genetics as an important scientific field as well as the value of basic research. In a Sunday email to the News, Cooley noted that the society’s outreach programs and its sponsorship of science conferences for research communities were contributing factors to her decision to make a presidential run. However, she identified the society’s advocacy for basic research methods in genetic model systems as the most important consideration. “Much of our understanding of developmental biology (fertilized egg to fertile adult) comes from work carried out in flies and other model systems,” Cooley said. “As an added bonus, this research continues to reveal incredibly valuable insight into human biology, disease mechanisms and aging.” She said that she is thankful for the opportunity to continue working with the GSA, now that her term as director has ended. Cooley acknowledged that her GSA presidency will be a significant addition to her existing responsibilities as dean of the Graduate School and principal investigator in her lab, which studies the development of female gametes using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. However, she noted that now is a critical time to strengthen support for basic research in model systems, adding that she looks forward to working with her colleagues at the GSA to ensure that the genetics research community continues to thrive. Susan Baserga GRD ’88 MED ’88, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, genetics and therapeutic radiology at the School of Medicine, described Cooley as an “outstanding choice” for the position of GSA president, due to her exemplary credentials as a Drosophila geneticist.
Baserga added that, in general, women are underrepresented in academic positions in the biological sciences, although they constitute more than half of trainees in Ph.D. programs in the biological sciences. “Fifty percent of our trainees in Ph.D. programs have been women for some time now, and they would have been expected to then join the academic ranks,” Baserga said. “There are many of us who are working hard so that our women graduate students will aspire to academic positions and join us in the pursuit of scientific discovery at major research universities.” Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale School of Medicine, expressed his delight at Cooley’s appointment, describing her as “an extremely talented member of [the University] senior faculty.” In response to a question about the relevance of Cooley’s recognition to current discussions of gender diversity in the University faculty, Alpern said that although it was gratifying to see a senior woman receive acknowledgements of her excellence, he did not believe any of her honors were bestowed because of her gender.
State minimum wage must rise, report says BY JACOB STERN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The $15 per hour minimum wage — advocated for by progressives across the country — could be too little for Connecticut residents to live on, according to a new report. Alliance for a Just Society — a national network of 15 advocacy groups focused on combating racial, social and economic inequity — published the report Tuesday as part of its Job Gap Economic Prosperity Series, an annual state-by-state examination of the conditions for working families across the country. This year’s Connecticut report found that the state’s $9.15 minimum wage is significantly lower than the rate the Alliance for a Just Society calculated a single adult would need to live on in Connecticut: $19.03. The report defined the second figure, the living wage,
as the minimum hourly wage necessary to satisfy “basic needs and maintain some ability to deal with emergencies and plan ahead.” Report author and Alliance for a Just Society Policy Analyst Allyson Fredericksen said that while $19.03 per hour may seem high, it would not pay for much beyond the essentials. “The living wage really is what it takes for, in this case, a single adult to make ends meet,” Fredericksen said. “That $19.03 is not really an extravagant wage.” To calculate the living wage, Alliance for a Just Society aggregated the cost of a number of basic necessities, including food, housing and utilities, transportation and health care. The report’s computations also accounted for annual savings, both state and federal taxes, and a percentage of income to be set aside each year for emergencies.
By the report’s calculations, employees earning the current minimum wage would have to work 83.2 hours a week to earn as much as they would if they worked a 40-hour week at $19.03 per hour. “We think right now that the federal minimum wage needs to be raised to $15 an hour,” Associate Director of Alliance for a Just Society Jill Reese said. The living wage differs drastically from state to state, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s national Living Wage Calculator — an online tool that uses geographically specific expenditure data to estimate the living wage in different parts of the country. Fredericksen said the minimum wage in Connecticut should be above $15 per hour. Some experts, however, said governments must do more than raise the minimum wage
to ensure that working people have enough money to survive. Former Director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling LAW ’85 said that protecting and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Refundable Child Tax Credit — two mechanisms the government uses to offer tax refunds to low-income individuals — are important ways to increase the amount of money people with jobs ultimately bring home. “The battle for the living wage is a war that needs to be fought on many fronts,” Sperling said. “The minimum wage is absolutely critical, but you’ve also got to fight the battle on several different fronts at once.” At $9.15 an hour, Connecticut currently has the nation’s fifth-highest minimum wage. Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .
SOM equips students to give back
Funding for basic science has fallen in recent years. LYNN COOLEY Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Cooley said women are quite well-represented in the Drosophila field and that many of the field’s leaders are women. In her candidacy statement, Cooley identified strong advocacy for genetics and the value of basic research as the top priority of her presidency. In addition, she said she hopes to increase funding for basic science by building relationships with funding bodies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. “Funding for basic science has eroded in recent years,” she said. According to the statement, Cooley also hopes to support efforts to strengthen the presence of the GSA in social media and to look for ways of improving the society’s outreach to the public. Cooley was appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences by University President Peter Salovey in September 2014. Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .
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The SOM Gives initiative will fund student-led projects that contribute to communities worldwide. BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER A new initiative for Yale School of Management students makes giving back to the community a breeze. SOM Gives, formally established last month, will fund student-led projects that contribute to communities worldwide starting this semester. The initiative is run by the school’s Student Government Clubs and Finance Committee, which manages funding for non-academic endeavors on and around the SOM campus. Clubs and Finance Chair Chris Gillings SOM ’16 said SOM Gives aims to remove the financial barriers that can hinder students’ ability to give back to the community. “The school’s mission is to educate leaders of business and society and we do just that once we’ve graduated,” Gillings said. “But we were feeling pretty silly about not being able to do grassroots, community-driven stuff or being able to support it as a school.”
Students planning a service project can complete an online application with a request for funding, said Li Kehl SOM ’16, the Clubs and Finance Committee member responsible for SOM Gives. Clubs and Finance will then review the application within a matter of days, ensuring a quick turnaround time, Kehl said. Before the committee approves funding, its members ensure that applicants have conducted background research and contacted the community group they want to work with, Gillings said. “[It is] obviously required to have already spoken to that group to make sure they clearly want our help,” Gillings said. To remain accountable for the funding they receive, students will submit photos of their event, along with a summary of their project’s “metrics of impact,” such as hours volunteered or the amount of money raised for an organization, Kehl said. SOM Gives could feasibly
support fund raisers, such as fun runs for non-profit organizations, or a career day for local public school students, Kehl said. The initiative would cover costs for a variety of needs, from providing water to runners to funding transportation and books for New Haven students. Gillings said the idea for the initiative arose after previous Clubs and Finance chairs recognized that lack of funding was a roadblock to studentled service projects. He said because the SOM Student Government could only fund events hosted by the Student Life Committee or other campus clubs, students looking to lead service projects lacked institutionalized support. Gillings and Kehl began to structure the initiative over the summer before meeting with administrators on campus at the beginning of this fall, Kehl said. The official launch of the initiative in early October included an “ideation session” hosted by the Design+Innovation Club,
according to Andrea Mak SOM ’16, a co-leader of the club. Mak said that the ideation session allowed participants brainstorm ideas for SOM students to overcome obstacles that hinder them from volunteering in their communities. According to Mak, projects supported by SOM Gives could target locations around the globe, from the Elm City to developing countries. Gillings said that the initiative has drawn students from interests that are not traditionally associated with nonprofit work, such as investment banking. “The student body has shown a real desire to give back to the community,” Gillings said. “It shows we’re not purely focused on bottom line — we also give regard to broader society.” Funding for SOM Gives projects will typically be several hundred dollars, according to the SOM Gives website. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .
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“Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.” MICHAEL PHELPS U.S. OLYMPIAN SWIMMER
Yale Central Power Plant worker dies after fall POWER PLANT FROM PAGE 1 Though Marcarelli would not comment extensively on the nature of the injuries sustained by the worker, he said the injuries were clearly life-threatening when firefighters arrived on the scene. Marcarelli said the incident was initially reported as a fall, but as more information came in, it was upgraded to a “special response,” meaning that along with additional fire companies, the fire department also called in a squad company — a rescue team that has special expertise, Marcarelli said. Marcarelli added that it was a complicated rescue for the firefighters, but it seemed to go as well as could be expected. While firefighters worked to rescue the man, one of his co-workers provided him aid, Marcarelli said. Marcarelli described the area that the subcontractor was working in as “pretty hazardous.” Following the incident, Marcarelli contacted International Union of Operating Engineers to put the other workers in contact with counselors to talk about the traumatic events, he said. Marcarelli added that the worker himself was a member of a New York local of the International Brotherhood-Boilermakers union. According to International Chimney Vice President Edmund Gasiecki, the corporation is working with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in an ongoing investigation to determine what happened at the work site. Representatives for OSHA could not be reached for comment. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this time,” Gasiecki said. “The events Saturday deeply saddened all involved.” Marcarelli said that Yale Public Safety and the Yale Police Department are aiding in OSHA’s investigation. The University has not issued a statement to students regarding the incident. Yale’s Central Power Plant was originally designed to burn coal. Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .
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After firefighters extracted the man from the chimney stack, he was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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No information is currently available about the future of the Yale head coach role. SWIM COACH FROM PAGE 1 “There is also a lot that I don’t know,” Norman said. “There is definitely some uncertainty around the topic of his leave. As to when he’s coming back, I really don’t know.” According to the staff workplace policies available on Yale’s website, an administrative leave — which is different from other leaves such as personal and disability — is “initiated by the University in special circumstances in which it is desirable to continue temporarily a staff member’s association with the University for the period of the leave.” These leaves normally do not include pay or a guarantee of eventual re-employment, according to the website. Wise, who has served on Yale’s coaching staff since 1998, left before any athletes had moved back to campus in August. Norman said his focus since then has been on making sure that the athletes are ready for a successful season despite any adverse conditions.
Up until Oct. 1, the team’s practices were led by captain Brian Hogan ’16. By an Ivy League rule, the team cannot have formal swim practices before that date. After Oct. 1, the coaching staff began to lead practices, Hogan said. “Our biggest concern was initially the uncertainty surrounding the situation,” Hogan said. “But in a credit to [Norman] and the rest of the senior class, leadership is as strong on this team as it has ever been.” Hogan added that he has been impressed by the respect that his teammates have shown Norman during his time as interim head coach. “It’s my sixth year here, and I am very comfortable with the position I am in,” Norman said. “It’s not the best situation to be in, but I do feel comfortable in this role.” Norman added that while the workload for his job has increased significantly, since he is now wearing “two hats,” he has not been having trouble with the position.
The team’s performance also has not been affected by the situation, Norman said. He praised the swimmers’ times during their first scrimmage meet against Johns Hopkins on Saturday, despite this being a time of the season where the athletes are usually very fatigued from high-intensity training. “We’re all in great shape and have been putting up times that we could be proud of much later in the season,” Hogan said. “To do it this early is very encouraging.” Norman added that opponents on Yale’s schedule this season may see Yale as an easy target because of the team’s coaching situation, but that the Yale swimmers have been using this as motivation for their performance. Jacob Limaldi ’19 said that the team morale is extremely high this season, adding that the coaches alongside senior swimmers are doing a good job of making the team work together cohesively and with a common goal. All the information given to the coaches by the admin-
istration has been passed down to athletes, Norman said. He commended Hogan and other senior swimmers on the job they have been doing in keeping the team together and staying focused. “I think that when you face something like this, the value of team chemistry is that much more important,” Norman said. “I feel like this is not the best situation, but at the same time, for team chemistry, I think this is the closest I have ever seen the team.” Wise finished his fifth season as head coach in 2014– 15, when his swimmers finished third at the Ivy League Championships — Yale’s best performance in the conference during Wise’s tenure. For the 12 years prior he had served as an assistant under former Yale head coach Frank Keefe, who retired in 2010. The Yale men’s swimming and diving program was started in 1898. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .
Gross estimates that between high tens of thousands and 200,000 Jews were killed by Poles during the war, citing testimonies of Jewish Holocaust survivors, post-war trials and diaries to corroborate these figures. Moreover, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and the Polish Academy of Sciences have conducted similar research that supports Gross’ claim. While the validity of Gross’ claims remains disputed, his article evidently casts Poland in a poor light. In his piece, entitled “Eastern Europe’s Crisis of Shame,” Gross writes that Poland’s unwillingness to accept non-Christian migrants demonstrates leaders’ “heartless behavior and callous rhetoric” which has been playing into the people’s “intolerant, illiberal [and] xenophobic” attitudes. The basis of the Warsaw investigation is Article 133 of the Polish Penal Code which stipulates that, “Whoever insults the Nation or the Republic of Poland in public shall be subject to the penalty of the deprivation of liberty for up to three years,” according to the website of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Shortly after Gross’ article was picked up by the German newspaper Die Welt, the Warsaw prosecutor’s office received 125 complaints alleging Gross had committed libel under Article 133. The swift condemnation is far from surprising — Gross has been unpopular in Poland since the release of his book, “Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.” The book, which was published in 2001, investigates the massacre of Jews by Polish locals in the summer of 1941. Eleven years after the book’s release, it was adapted into the film, “Aftermath” which was banned in many Polish movie theaters. In 2006, a law explicitly prohibiting accusations of Poles committing Nazi crimes was added to the Polish penal code and nicknamed “Gross’ law” in direct reference to Gross and his anti-Polish writings.
“[Gross] has been very controversial in Poland because of his book,” said The Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.“[Poles] have always been very sensitive on this topic and they are especially allergic to [Gross] … It was well-known at the time that Jews [in Poland during the war] were in as much danger [of] being killed by Poles as they were by Germans … He was probably right because he is an expert.” In Gross’ article, he claims that while Poles have proved reluctant to accept migrants, their western neighbor, Germany, has held its arms open to the massive influx of immigrants. According to Gross, Germany’s “murderous history” during World War II as opposed to Poland’s history of “victimization” accounts for this contemporary disparity. “German historians, German politicians, German journalists and German people have come to terms with this sinful past,” Gross said. “It is a much more complicated history for the rest of Eastern Europe because these countries had been victimized during the war … Poland is portrayed as a victim, which it was, but it also happens that local populations got involved in the persecution of Jews.” Michael Lambert, an Ethics and Excellence in Journalism legal fellow at The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said the Polish government’s response to Gross’ article shows the difference in how Poland and the United States approach freedom of expression. Lambert said when he learned of the libel probe he was sure it was from a country other than the United States. Gross said it remains unclear whether Warsaw’s libel probe will result in a formal indictment against him. “Right now the prosecutor is investigating whether it meets the standard of the law,” Gross said. Gross, a history professor, is currently on leave from Princeton University. Contact CHLOE KIMBALL at chloe.kimball@yale.edu .
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If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation. JERRY GREENFIELD BUSINESSMAN
Students plan out-of-state canvassing BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER The first presidential caucus in the nation is still more than three months away, but Yale students have already begun to rally behind their preferred potential nominees. Several student groups have cropped up on campus in support of specific campaigns. Some groups, like Yale Students for Hillary, in support of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, have formally registered with the University; others, like a group of students supporting former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Republican candidate Carly Fiorina, are more informal and have grown out of established groups like the Yale College Republicans. On both sides of the aisle, undergraduates have called voters, worked with candidates’ official campaigns and hosted debate watch parties to garner support for their choice candidates. In the coming weeks, students will even leave New Haven’s boundaries and travel to battleground states to support their campaign favorites. “Politics of the few are something that young people are not looking for, and politics doesn’t have to be static,” said Emaline Kelso ’17, one of the founders of Yale Students for Bernie, a group of students that supports Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “A lot of people are excited that things might not only change, but that they’ll change around things they care about.” For some students, that change
will come from traveling to swing states to rally grassroots support for their candidates of choice. Over fall break, Kelso said, several members of Yale Students for Bernie will make a trip up to New Hampshire to canvass door-todoor. The group has also hosted phone drives and worked in conjunction with the Connecticut branch of Sanders’ campaign. Delaney Herndon ’17, co-president of Yale Students for Hillary, said that in addition to holding phone drives and a similar trip up to New Hampshire in the coming months, members of her organization will also go to Iowa to canvass before the state’s February caucus. Students will be working closer to home as well. Yale College Republicans Vice President Michaela Cloutier ’18 said she will be gathering group members to canvass for Fiorina in New Haven. Aside from canvassing, student groups have also hosted other events to build excitement for their candidates. In an event this past Tuesday hosted by the Yale College Democrats, Yale Students for Bernie and Yale Students for Hillary, supporters for both Clinton and Sanders gathered to watch the Democratic candidates square off in a debate moderated by Anderson Cooper ’89. While Clinton is currently the favorite for the Democratic Party’s nomination, Sanders has drawn significant support on college campuses across the nation, including Yale. When asked why they support Sanders, students interviewed cited his transparent willingness to meet national concerns head-
on. Scott Remer ’16, a member of Yale Students for Bernie, said Sanders’ reply to Clinton’s email controversy during the debate — he said the American people are “sick and tired” of hearing about the emails — was an example of his desire to focus instead on substantive policy issues. Sanders says what he actually believes and he is not afraid to disregard what would conventionally be regarded as good politics, Remer said. “I think part of the reason why Bernie has garnered such a large gathering among college campuses is because he is speaking to the issues that we care about,” he said. “His call for making public universities tuition-free is something that resonates with a lot of people struggling with student debt.” While Yale Students for Bernie was founded in May, immediately after Sanders formally launched his campaign for president, Yale Students for Hillary officially began in 2013 after Clinton’s visit to Yale, although she did not formally announce her candidacy until April 2015. Haley Adams ’16, founder and co-president of the group, said its ultimate goal was to ensure that Clinton — who ran for president in 2008 and was commonly acknowledged as a strong candidate for 2016 as well — would have a head start and be as well-prepared as possible to run. To this end, the group has focused on gathering voter contact information and signatures at large public events both on campus and off, she said. “We were really excited about the fact she was coming [to Yale]
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Some members of Yale Students for Bernie will head to New Hampshire over fall break to canvass for the senator. and we wanted to take advantage of all the energy,” Adams said. “There was so much enthusiasm and we decided we would continue with it until she did officially announce [her candidacy].” While students have garnered support for candidates on both sides of the aisle, it remains unclear whether the same support can be found at Yale for the two current Republican frontrun-
AYA event connects student and alumni
ners: real-estate developer Donald Trump and neurosurgeon and former Yale Corporation member Ben Carson ’73. According to The Huffington Post, which is tracking 187 polls, Trump currently leads the Republican Party with 29.5 percent, followed closely by Carson at 20.7 percent. Yale College Republicans President Radu Simion ’17 said while there are no groups formally advocating for
The event featured panels hosted by alumni involved in various career sectors. BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The Association of Yale Alumni kick-started its new “Careers, Life, and Yale” initiative on Saturday, with the first of two full-day events to be held this year. The event, titled “Being Useful: Careers in Education, Health, Public Service and Social Entrepreneurship,” is part of a joint initiative by the AYA, Students and Alumni of Yale and the Office of Career Strategy to connect students and alumni and increase alumni engagement on campus. According to AYA Board of Governors Chair Lise Chapman SOM ’81, the intention is to consolidate existing programming like the AYA’s financial literacy courses for students and other one-time alumni events by organizing them under one initiative. Careers, Life, and Yale will hold one other event in February for careers in the arts, and three events per academic year will be held starting next fall. “This effort became a giant collaborative effort across the University,” Chapman said. “It didn’t really start in one place. It’s sort of … connecting things that haven’t been connected before and bringing them together.” Steve Blum ’74, senior director of strategic initiatives for the AYA, emphasized the large role that alumni played in developing the program. Rather than a University-driven initiative, Careers, Life, and Yale was organized almost entirely by alumni, he said. Blum added that alumni spent around 300 to 500 hours organizing
the program. Two hundred and fifty students signed up to attend the event, with a waiting list of 30 people, according to Blum. Of the 250, around 150 were undergraduates, with the remainder of students enrolled in the graduate and professional schools. Blum said there were many seniors signed up, but stressed that students of all years expressed interest, and that seniors did not even constitute a majority of undergraduates in attendance. Around 60 alumni participated in the event. Throughout the day, alumni hosted small sessions where they discussed life skills such as interviewing, worklife balance, business etiquette and global citizenship. There were also panels hosted by alumni involved in four career sectors — education, health, public service and social entrepreneurship — meant to provide students with an authentic view of each profession. Each topical breakdown occurred once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Apart from the event’s main programming, students and alumni were able to connect at a luncheon and a dinner provided for attendees. Blum said the schedule was designed to facilitate networking and frank discussions about careers among students and alumni. “We don’t want to have the situation where [students] ask three or four questions at the panel and then they vanish,” Blum said. Some students took full advantage of the opportunity to engage with
alumni by seeking out specific attendees. Abdul Osman SOM ’16 said he attended the social entrepreneurship panel to see Kristina Tremonti ’11, who created a platform for Greek citizens to raise awareness about government officials accepting bribes. Osman said he wanted to recreate the website in Ghana, where he is from, adding that listening to Tremonti’s experiences would help him manage the challenges of developing the project. Another attendee, William Nyarko DIV ’17, said he saw the event as a good opportunity to meet people in the professional world, adding that his first few weeks of the semester have been very focused on academics, and part of going to Yale is to be able to work after graduation. Bryan Patten ’96, who works in education management and served on an educational panel at the event, said he was invited to participate by his local AYA board, and that he was pleased Yale was offering opportunities for students to learn about a variety of careers. “This is the kind of thing I wished they’d had when I was an undergraduate,” Patten said. He added that when he was at Yale, there was not much guidance for students who didn’t want to pursue careers in traditional fields like consulting and investment banking. There are over 120 domestic and 40 international Yale Clubs and Associations for alumni. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
YEI increases social innovation BY ANDREA OUYANG AND SARA TABIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS
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Trump within his organization, it remains to be seen if there are any official supporters on campus. Both the Yale College Democrats and the Yale College Republicans have chosen not to officially endorse an individual candidate until after the 2016 presidential primaries.
Over the past two years, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute has made concerted efforts to foster innovation on campus through the introduction of two new award incentives designed to tackle real world problems such as health care reform and climate change: the Yale College Dean’s Challenge on Social Innovation and the Miller Award. In a campuswide email on Oct. 9, Dean Jonathan Holloway announced the Yale College Dean’s Challenge on Social Innovation, a new program out of the YEI. The initiative will give undergraduates an opportunity to develop their ideas and innovate for social change. The YEI will select a team of students to participate in its 10-week summer fellowship — an honor that also comes with a $15,000 grant. Students can apply for the challenge starting in December but have until Jan. 28 to submit their applications. “This initiative is really a challenge to the Yale College community to think about serious global issues in health, food and water scarcity, climate change and other concerns, and to put together a business plan that will address one of those problems and which, one day, could affect a million lives or more,” said Jim Boyle, managing director of the YEI, in a press release. Margaret Lee, program coordinator of the YEI, said the challenge is open to passionate students of all backgrounds who are “interested in tackling the world’s biggest problems.” According to Lee, the institute would be excited to see interdisciplinary teams including students with complementary skill sets. The competition coordinators are hoping for teams of two to five students, but teams of all sizes may apply, she added. Although the application requires students to have a project proposal that they have already started working on, the YEI will host events prior to the application deadline to support students in their project goals. In addition, students can take advantage of YEI office hours. Lee advised interested students to “get out” and “start talking to people.” She said it is critical that students make products and services that people want, and to do so they need feedback from community leaders, community members, experts and potential partners. Most importantly, she noted, students need the feedback of the people they are hoping to benefit. Eileen Johnson ’19 said she was excited to receive the dean’s email, adding that she has long been interested in how entrepreneurship can be used to solve educational problems, and has been wondering how to get more involved at Yale. “This challenge seems like the perfect opportunity,” Johnson said.
The University’s recent expansion in innovation has also resulted in initiatives such as the Miller Prize. The award, first offered last year by the YEI, aims to encourage innovation in growing topics in the venture community. The award is funded by Brian Miller, a YEI advisory member and chief investment officer of North Sound Partners. Teams applying for the prize must present a startup featuring technology thematically related to “The Internet of Things,” “Big Data” or “Materials Science.” Eligibility requirements include acceptance to one of three cohorts of the Venture Creation Program at the YEI, and up to five Miller Prize contestant teams may participate in each of the cohorts, according to the YEI website. The winner will earn $25,000 and automatic acceptance to the YEI Summer Fellowship. $15,000 of the prize money will go toward the fellowship slot, with remaining money to be used as working capital, according to the program’s website. “The demand [for awards like the Miller Prize] has been growing, and the Miller Prize fits in nicely with the other thematic prizes offered on campus,” said Erika Smith, deputy director of the YEI, in a Sunday email to the News, referring to the Thorne Prize and the Sabin Prize. Those prizes are offered for ventures with a focus on health or education and sustainability, respectively. Smith added that she expects students’ interest in the Miller Prize to grow, since winning the prize has been linked directly to the YEI Summer Fellowship this year. She added that students are encouraged to get involved with the Venture Creation Program, as well as other workshops, to refine their ideas. The interdisciplinary nature of the prize has resulted from students who are interested in merging their talents in entrepreneurship and other fields. Ikenna Nzewi ’17 said he sees fields such as technology and computer science as media through which to pursue his entrepreneurial interests, and that Yale is making the “right commitment” to entrepreneurship. He clarified, however, that he does not see the various prizes as incentive enough for students to become involved in ventures. “Entrepreneurship is too difficult that you shouldn’t be getting involved just because someone’s throwing your business a check. A check’s not going to make your business float,” Nzewi said. The winning team of the Yale College Dean’s Challenge on Social Innovation will be notified by March 4, 2016. Winners of the Miller Prize will be notified in the late spring. Contact ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu and SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .
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“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.” NNAMDI AZIKIWE NIGERIAN NATIONALIST
Over 3,000 apply to Schwarzman Scholarship
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Schwarzman Scholars will enroll at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing. SCHOLARS FROM PAGE 1 20 percent Chinese students and 35 percent students from the rest of the world, according to the Schwarzman Scholars website. Paula Chirhart, a spokeswoman for Schwarzman Scholars and senior vice president of global public affairs for the invest-
ment banking firm the Blackstone Group — which Schwarzman cofounded in 1985 — said the number of applications exceeded the organization’s expectations. However, Kate Dailinger, director for national fellowships at the Yale Center for International and Professional Experience, said although she could not pre-
dict exact applicant figures since most students applied directly to the program rather than going through the CIPE, she was not surprised at the high level of interest in the program. Dailinger cited the strength of Yale’s East Asian Studies and East Asian languages programs, as well as the Light Fellowship, as reasons why many
students are fluent in Chinese and may be interested in going to China. “Yale students are always looking for interesting opportunities,” Dailinger said. “The fact that Schwarzman visited campus last spring and talked about the program … certainly helped.” Schwarzman’s name has been
especially well-known on campus since he donated $150 million to Yale in May to transform Commons into a state-of-the-art student center. Unlike programs like the Marshall Scholarship that are only awarded to Americans citizens, the Schwarzman scholarship is available to applicants of all
nationalities, and candidates can be graduating seniors, recent college graduates or graduate students. In the coming years, Schwarzman Scholars is set to expand to accommodate 200 students. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
Eze focuses on education EZE FROM PAGE 1 ties and only 10 percent for Caucasians. Eze’s proposals for addressing these problems are manifold. He said that, as alder, he will push for the creation of a map of the city’s educational resources — schools and summer programs alike — for parents to consult, a strategy strikingly similar to a project Eidelson completed last year that plotted the city’s youth programming onto a map for parents. He added that he will work with literacy advocacy groups like New Haven Reads and the Literacy Coalition to improve literacy rates, which he said might help New Haven residents find jobs that pay a living wage. Attendees interviewed at the event largely supported Eze’s proposals. Benjamin Rasmussen ’18 said creating links with parents is crucial. “Growing up, my family motivated me a lot academically,” he said. “If I didn’t have strong
parental guidance, I wouldn’t be here today.” Samuel Kim ’16 echoed that sentiment. He said students spend half the day with their teachers in the classroom, but they spend the other half with their parents. As a result, Kim said, the importance of parental engagement in education should not be overlooked. Kai Dougan ’19 said he concurred with Eze on the need to better integrate Yale students into the city’s educational system. “We have a huge resource here, and a huge money resource, with students with a diverse range of skills, and it’s time we put that to use,” he said. Eze’s focus on educational policy comes as decades of poor test results in the New Haven Public Schools spark a renewed push for improvement. At a Board of Education meeting last Tuesday, Harp unveiled a 10-point plan for raising test scores, which included extended school days,
a review of classroom practices and efforts to help parents improve their children’s reading scores. Harp was elected president of the Board of Education in September, a move that has garnered criticism from some of her opponents, especially mayoral candidates Ron Smith and Sundiata Keitazulu. Both men said her role as president of the board — a body with a largely mayorappointed leadership — is a “conflict of interest.” Eze said he does not share those concerns. He said he has no problem with Harp serving as president if such a move is necessary to deliver the results the city needs. “It’s good that the mayor is getting involved in terms of education in New Haven,” he said. “New Haven is facing a serious educational crisis.” Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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Republican candidate for Ward 1 alder Ugonna Eze ’16 held an event on education on Old Campus Friday.
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“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” HIPPOCRATES ANCIENT GREEK PHYSICIAN
Med school conference explores social justice BY ANDREA OUYANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Medical students from around New England gathered at the Yale School of Medicine Saturday to discuss how to combat social injustice everywhere from the operating room to the research laboratory. The conference, which was hosted by the regional chapter of the Student National Medical Association, centered around the theme “From ‘Do No Harm’ to Do What’s Right.” It drew students from local universities, such as the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University, as well as from universities farther away, such as Dartmouth and Brown. Attendees focused on social justice issues in medicine, ranging from how racism contributes to health care disparities to the role of implicit bias in impairing medical judgment. The attendees, consisting mostly of medical students and pre-health undergraduates, rotated through various workshops throughout the day. The workshops focused not only on bringing attention to issues of social justice, but also on providing tools to help students become more effective at creating awareness of these issues after the conference. “What does being a physician mean, and what are the tools we are being given to combat patient suffering?” presenter Jennifer Tsai, a student at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown, asked attendees during a workshop. “Medical school does not ask the questions or provide the answers that I think really solve these issues.” Tsai, whose presentation centered on race in medical education, research and practice, called attention to the importance of color consciousness in medicine. She explained that health care
providers should not necessarily prescribe treatment options based on a patient’s race, as race can be more of a social construct than a genetic reality. After her lecture, she spoke with students about how to bring these lessons to their own studies back at school. Students offered suggestions for dealing with racism and implicit bias, ranging from improving workshop curriculum in medical schools to involving advocates both inside and outside the medical field. “It was very nice to see medical students from a diverse background, especially coming from a school where there are not that
many minorities in our medical classes,” said Karen Massada, a third-year medical student at the Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. “So it was just nice to have an environment of people who have similar experiences.” The Yale School of Medicine struggles with diversity in its ranks as well; there are only seven black students, 17 Hispanic or Latino students and two Native American students in this year’s incoming class of over 100. Other presentations focused on various other issues, such as LGBTQ concerns in medical education, the decline in the number
of black male enrollees in medical school and the current health care situation for undocumented immigrants. Some presenters provided workshops with more direct applications for students. Yonas Takele ’17, the only undergraduate presenter at the conference — who became involved in the SNMA after he helped organize the Yale SNMA chapter’s community health fair in New Haven last year — presented case studies to help attendees work through some of the challenges associated with creating community health fairs. Takele said he had always envi-
sioned social justice as separate from medicine and did not realize how the two intersected until he became involved with the SNMA. “It wasn’t a facet of social justice that I had previously really thought about,” he said. “We don’t really talk about the doctors who fought systemic inequity. [But] having spent time here and having met people who are interested in this and do know a little more about this, I found that there’s definitely avenues to pursue [social justice in medicine].” The conference concluded with remarks by Cheri Wilson, director of diversity and inclusion at Robert Wood Johnson Uni-
versity Hospital in New Jersey. Wilson emphasized the importance of awareness and openness in discussing race-, gender- and age-based stereotypes in medicine, and she encouraged students to continue the conversation about social justice in medicine when they returned to their schools. Health care disparities for certain minorities and marginalized communities are not improving, she said. “We’re at a threshold, we’re stagnant, we’ve got to do something better,” she said. Contact ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu .
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Medical students from around the Northeast gathered at Yale to discuss the intersection of social justice and medicine.
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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 12:00 PM Navigating Government’s Open Access Information Trail: An Open Access Week Event. To mark international “Open Access” week, the Yale University Library is offering a series of talks focusing on various topics related to accessing collections of U.S. and international government documents. 17 Hillhouse Ave., Room 7. 4:00 PM A Conversation with Paula Vogel. Join us for a conversation with playwright and Pulitzer prize-winner Paula Vogel. For her newest work, “Indecent,” now onstage at Yale Repertory Theatre, Vogel has collaborated with director Rebecca Taichman to stage the story of the controversial reception of Sholem Asch’s 1923 Broadway play “The God of Vengeance.” Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Rm.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 1:00 PM A Heart to Heart: A Woman’s Guide to Cardiovascular Health. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in America, killing nearly 300,000 women a year — more than breast and lung cancers combined. In her talk, Dr. Erica Spatz will lay out an approach to cardiovascular health for women of all ages. From her perspective as a cardiologist, she will discuss why blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar intake matter, and how lifestyle behaviors — nutrition, fitness and stress management — can make a genuine difference. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Rm. 4:00 PM The Future of Eurasia. The Russian Studies Program of the European Studies Council presents a talk by Ivan Safranchuk, deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary International Studies, Academy of Diplomacy of Russia, on “The Future of Eurasia” as part of its contemporary speakers series, “Focus Russia.” Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 202. 7:30 PM Concert by eighth blackbird. The acclaimed new music ensemble eighth blackbird performs Hand Eye by Sleeping Giant, the composers collective comprised of Yale School of Music alumni. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.
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YALE HEAVYWEIGHT CREW ELIS DOMINATE AT HOCR The Yale heavyweights made history Sunday, winning the Men’s Championship Eights race at the Head of the Charles for the first time. The Bulldogs beat California’s crew by just 0.680 seconds. A full report of the regatta will be published Tuesday.
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HARVARD FOOTBALL CRIMSON CHARGES TO 5–0 Though the Bulldogs dominated Maine in their 21–10 victory, that win did not compare to Harvard’s 42–0 annihilation of Lafayette. The Crimson, now 5–0, has scored at least 40 points in all five of its games while averaging just 8.0 points against.
“Our performance today really set the tone for what we are hoping to accomplish in the next couple of weeks.” KELLI REAGAN ’18 WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015 · yaledailynews.com
Yale returns to forms, beats Maine BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER On Saturday the Yale football team returned to the ground game and earned its fourth win of the season, overpowering nonconference opponent Maine 21–10. An excellent showing by the defense bookended a twotouchdown, 139-yard performance by running back Deshawn Salter ’18 as the Bulldogs held the Black Bears to just 10 points and 308 total yards, both seasonbests for the Elis. With the win, Yale (4–1, 1–1 Ivy) finishes a perfect 3–0 outside of Ivy League play for the second consecutive year. Maine (2–4, 2–1 Colonial) falls further beneath 0.500 as both teams look ahead to five weeks of conference matchups. “We came up here and thought we had to play the best football we could possibly play,” head coach Tony Reno said. “Our kids responded to the challenge in all three phases, especially early on defensively, making some stands in really tough field position. They played physical in what I thought were key situations.” After a scoreless first quarter, Maine scored a touchdown midway through the second frame, but Yale responded with a quick field goal before halftime, sending the Bulldogs into the locker room down 7–3. Much like they have all season, the Elis came out looking stronger in the second half, adding three touchdowns
in the final 22 minutes to seal the 11-point win. In total, Yale amassed 177 yards on the ground, while the Eli passing game picked up 182 — the second game this season in which Yale’s offense has been so balanced. Part of that balance was due to a stagnant passing attack, as quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 finished the day 14-for33 — his only touchdown being a 26-yard run that put the game away with 4:07 remaining on the clock. “At the end of the day, we play our hardest and really enjoy playing the game,” Roberts said. Much of the contest took place under cold and wet conditions, as the sun set around the time rain began to fall in Orono. As a result, both teams relied on the ground game in the latter part of the contest. Salter carried the ball 37 times for 139 yards and two touchdowns. Though he averaged just 3.8 yards per carry, Yale’s commitment to the run game paid off, as the Bulldogs scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns on the ground. One of those was a 17-yard run by Salter, while the other, the 26-yard read-option run by Roberts, was aided by Salter’s ability to threaten the defense and draw Black Bear defenders to his part of the field. But Yale did not just control the line of scrimmage when on offense. On the defensive side, SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3
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Yale allowed 10 points to Maine in its best defensive performance yet this season.
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Two statement wins for volleyball BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER Coming off its first two losses of the 2015 Ivy League season, the Yale volleyball team rebounded this weekend to collect a pair of comfortable home wins over Penn and Princeton.
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45 in the event, that performance put the Bulldogs ahead of Ivy League competitors Brown and Cornell, as well as the rest of the Northeast region. Despite a series of personal bests on the men’s side, runners said that Yale’s 19th-place team finish, which was behind Cornell, was ultimately a disappointment. “It is truly just an incredible opportunity for us to get out and compete against some of the best programs in the country,” women’s runner Kelli Reagan ’18 said. “At the end of the day, the race is just a final push before championship season, but our performance today really set the tone for what we are hoping to accomplish in the next couple of weeks.” With more than a minute’s improve-
The Bulldogs (10–6, 5–2 Ivy) dropped just one set all weekend, following a 3–1 win over the Quakers (9–10, 3–4) with a 3–0 sweep over the Tigers (8–8, 3–4). Yale had lost road games at Harvard and Dartmouth the week before to fall into a tie for third place, but the two victories this weekend moved Yale up into a tie for second place, just one match out of the top spot. “This weekend we played with a lot of heart,” captain and outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 said. “We worked really hard last week to improve our game physically and mentally, and that absolutely showed in the matches this weekend. I think we played with a lot of grit and drive, which was fantastic.” The Bulldogs broke out of their slump immediately against Penn on Friday night, opening the match with a pair of service aces from middle blocker Gray Malias ’19. Later in the first set, with Yale holding a slim 22–20 lead, veteran setter Kelly Johnson ’16 and middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 came through with kills, and libero Kate Swanson ’19 added a service ace to close out the set. In the second set, Yale took advantage of some Quaker miscues to open up a 2–0 lead. Penn overcame the early Bulldog advantage to take a 21–20 lead, but the Quakers made errors on five of the next seven points,
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The Eli women finished ahead of all Northeast competition, while the men finished below their expectations. BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER It was a case of déjà vu this weekend for the Yale men’s and women’s cross country teams at NCAA Pre-Nationals. In similar fashion to the New England Championships a week before, the Eli women strode ahead of their main competition while the men fell once more into the middle of the pack.
CROSS COUNTRY The NCAA Pre-Nationals, held in Louisville, Kentucky this past Saturday, mark the first race that can influence whether Yale secures a bid to the NCAA Nationals in November. Though the Yale women’s team placed 14th out of a field of
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After falling 3–1 and 3–0 a week earlier, the Bulldogs achieved the exact reverse of that result this weekend.
NUMBERS OF SHOTS THE YALE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM RECORDED IN ITS 3–2 LOSS TO DARTMOUTH SATURDAY. The Elis had averaged 4.6 shots in their prior seven games but dwarfed that figure in a performance that included 14 shots on net and two goals.
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Elis fall in overtime MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 the line but his attempt found the back of the net for the first goal of the day. Following the critical mistake, Yale responded with a sense of urgency that translated into a flurry of opportunities. In the remaining minutes of the second half following the own goal, Yale outshot Cornell 7–1. “We tried to possess the ball more and let Cornell run themselves out of the game,” Kyle Kenagy ’19 said. “I thought it worked, as we had the majority of possession and accumulated more chances towards the end of the game.” Yale’s first promising attempt at leveling the scoreline came in the 65th minute off a throw-in when midfielder Dylan Onderdonk-Snow ’17 headed the ball to his left, but Big Red goalkeeper Mitchell Meyer was there to intercept the shot. Piper also had a chance to equalize when he found himself with only the goalkeeper to beat from just outside the sixyard box, but his scuffed shot rolled right into Meyer’s hands. With the array of unconverted chances and the likelihood of falling to 0–3 in conference play mounting as the game neared the end of regulation time, the Bulldogs found themselves with one last chance for an attack with
mere moments left before the final whistle. Piper, with less than 15 seconds remaining in the contest, lobbed a pass out of desperation into the box from approximately 50 meters out. The long ball found Onderdonk-Snow, who deftly fed the ball to a sprinting and completely unmarked Downs, who then slammed the ball into the net to keep the Elis’ hopes alive. The goal was Downs’ second crucial Ivy goal of the season and of his career, the first of which came early in the rivalry matchup against Harvard. “It was kind of crazy [because] there were just 15 seconds left. There was a scramble and Dylan squared it back across the box to me,” Downs said. “It was just the right place at the right time because I was there at the back post and just tucked it away.” Downs’ score pushed the match into overtime and the team leader in conference goals continued to be at the center of the Yale attack in the added 10 minutes, accounting for two of Yale’s three shots during the period. But with a minute and 10 seconds remaining in the overtime period, it was Cornell that earned the game-winner. Zach Bialik, a junior midfielder, played a long ball beyond the Yale back wall and Big Red sophomore defender Allen Capo comfortably headed it in. Although Schipper jumped
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and tried to get his left hand on it, he was unable to stop the shot and the game from going Cornell’s way. The loss is Yale’s second overtime defeat of the season. The first came against Sacred Heart in the season opener when, similarly, a Yale own goal drastically affected the outcome of the game. Despite the negative outcomes, the Bulldogs have demonstrated progress between that first game of the year and now, culminating in a seasonhigh 15 shots against Cornell. Looking forward, Kirby said the team will focus on converting more of those opportunities into goals. He cited the Quinnipiac game, in which Yale’s three goals propelled the team to earn the victory despite defensive errors, as an example to strive toward.. “I think that putting away our chances is going to be one of the most important things going forward, if we want to get results,” Kirby said. “We need to take luck out of the equation by not allowing the opposition to gain the upper hand through lucky bounces or defensive and mental errors on our part.” Yale’s quest to create its own luck will continue next Saturday against Penn. The match kicks off in Philadelphia at 7:30 p.m. Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .
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Midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 contributed two of Yale’s 14 shots in Saturday’s defeat. W. SOCCER FROM PAGE B4
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After playing its first three Ivy contests at home, Yale will only host one of its remaining four conference matches.
Elis knew that they would be confronted by some of the best defenders in the nation. “They are an incredible defensive team, so we knew scoring against them would be tough, but the team worked hard,” Furlong said. Yale outshot Cornell 14–10 and produced five corners to the opposition’s one. The Bulldogs believed that they controlled possession after the penalty but they were unable to convert their opportunities into goals on the scoreboard. Ames said she felt that the Elis could not break through against the Big Red because of a lack of execution in their offensive attacks. “Our biggest weakness right now is not playing to our full potential because of turnovers. Sometimes we turn the
ball over too quickly, causing us to defend a lot,” Ames said. “We have great offensive ideas, but sometimes our attack is cut short by a small mistake.” One bright spot for the game was the return of the team’s leading scorer, forward Michelle Alozie ’19, who made a full recovery after a head-and-neck injury forced her to exit last week’s match against Dartmouth. Alozie posted seven shots against Cornell, though she had little space to work with as the Big Red effectively marked her throughout the game, thus subduing her offensive presence. Defender Ally Grossman ’16 said that the Bulldogs simply lacked the ability to complete their chances on Saturday but were making the right plays. “We connected well yes-
terday on the field, offensively, in the midfield and defensively. The difference between Cornell and us was that they capitalized on the opportunities they were given,” Grossman said. “While we had the majority of the possession and more opportunities than them, they put the ball in the back of our net and kept it out of theirs. Overall though, we played good soccer and there was tremendous effort all over the field.” Yale will play host once more on Monday night when they face Central Connecticut State University at 7 p.m. Yale has split the last two matchups against the team dating back to 2012, but was shutout 4–0 in last season’s meeting. Contact ANDRÉ MONTEIRO at andre.monteiro@yale.edu .
Twenty-six shots not enough for field hockey FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 bounced back after giving up two goals in quick succession. “The atmosphere was definitely the highest intensity that it’s been,” Wells said. “We’ve been playing a bunch of tough teams. It was great to get out there and play a competitive league game. Everyone was supporting one another, especially when we went down.” Nine minutes into the second half, Dartmouth midfielder Rebecca Hu scored to extend the Big Green advantage to 3–1. Hu, a fifth-year senior, has tallied a team-leading 21 points through Dartmouth’s 12 games this year with none perhaps more important than Saturday’s strike. As the Bulldogs continued to pressure Duffy and the Big Green’s defensive corps, Yale staged a late-game comeback attempt. With 7:33 remaining in regulation, defender Kiwi Comizio ’18 fired home an unassisted strike to bring the Elis within one goal. It was the first goal Comizio has scored this season — the second of her collegiate career — and it proved to be the final goal of the game. Following the goal, Middough managed one more shot on target for the Elis, but Duffy handled it to preserve the Dartmouth victory. “Even if we didn’t win, all of us felt good about the way we played,” Comizio said. “We needed to finish some of those
opportunities, but we showed that we can create offensive chances. After a few games where we didn’t put up many shots, it helped our confidence.” Yale had struggled mightily as of late in terms of creating such scoring opportunities. Over their last seven contests, the Elis had averaged just 4.6 shots per game, including a goose egg against then-No. 20 Princeton on Oct. 3. Comizio said she was impressed by the team’s ability to constantly remain in attack mode, making runs and threatening the Dartmouth defense in ways that they had previously failed to on a consistent basis in conference competition. “I thought it was really different from usual,” Comizio said. “Part of the problem that we’ve had in Ivy League games is that we come out too reactive and on our heels as opposed to attacking and pushing forward.” The Elis will look to carry the positives, namely this weekend’s offensive flow, into their upcoming weekend of action. Yale visits Penn at noon on Saturday before hosting Patriot League opponent Bucknell on Sunday at 2 p.m. Penn has been on fire since losing its season opener to Liberty, winning 10 of its last 11 matchups. Bucknell, meanwhile, has split its past four contests and is just 1–5 on the road this year. Contact DREW SEMLER at andrew.semler@yale.edu .
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After four consecutive home games, Yale will take to the road on Saturday to face Penn.
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“I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can’t breathe or my muscles are aching.” SANJEEV BHASKAR BRITISH COMEDIAN
Yale’s offense clicks late in victory FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 the Eli front seven made the day very difficult for Maine quarterback Dan Collins and running back Nigel Beckford. The Bulldogs bottled up Maine’s ground game, holding Beckford — who entered the game averaging 4.2 yards per carry — to 78 yards on 25 attempts, an average of 3.1 yards. The secondary also had a strong performance, tallying 10 defensed passes and picking off Collins twice. “We were outplayed, we were outcoached,” Maine head coach Jack Cosgrove said. “When they made the big plays, they certainly got a lot of energy out of their plays. As the game wore on, they just got more and more confidence and executed better.” Captain and safety Cole Champion ’16 got his hand on four passes, including two back-toback balls in the end zone. Cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 came away with an interception in the first quarter and defensive back Roger Kilgore ’16 notched the second late in the fourth quarter to put the game away. When the Bulldogs themselves took to the air, they came away with some impressive plays. Wide receiver Michael Siragusa Jr. ’18, the game’s leading receiver, and tight end Leo Haenni ’17 each made an acrobatic sideline catch in a key situation. “I just thought those [catches] were inspiration plays for them, momentum plays for them, and big plays for them,” Maine head coach Jack Cosgrove said. “Watching them was just spectacular and it just spoke to their performance today.” Siragusa’s 27-yard reception came on a vital first-and-25 situ-
ation during Yale’s three-minute drill before halftime. Following two penalties against Yale, Roberts lofted a ball down the right sideline. Although it originally hit the hands of a Maine cornerback, the defenseman failed to corral the ball. Siragusa snagged the ball as he fell out of bounds, barely getting his toes in-bounds before hitting the turf. His catch brought Yale into field-goal range, allowing the team to put points on the board before halftime. Haenni’s catch was, if possible, even more athletic. On firstand-10 from Maine’s 38-yard line at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the tight end leapt backwards to collect a rainbow from Roberts. Haenni got his right hand on the ball and managed to pull it in as he fell backwards. The 21-yard pass put Yale on Maine’s 17-yard line — the exact same spot where Siragusa’s catch left the team — and set up Salter’s final touchdown. Calling it an ESPN Top 10 candidate, Reno said Haenni’s catch demonstrated the passion and persistence he encourages in Yale players. “We knew Maine had a very physical secondary and linebacking corps, so we knew there weren’t going to be a ton of clean releases,” Reno said. “Catches were going to be contested, and we worked on it all week in practice. Guys were able to finish plays off where we weren’t able to finish them off last week.” Cosgrove noted after the game that Yale entered the matchup “humbled” but played hard. Many of the areas in which the Elis struggled last week — opening holes in the line of scrimmage, protecting Roberts and penetrat-
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ing the line — were less of an issue against Maine. Halftime adjustments in the pass protection game and blitz schemes, Reno said, paid off. Additionally, the Yale special teams unit blocked its fifth kick of the season and first in three weeks. Defensive end Copache Tyler ’17 timed his jump perfectly to prevent Maine from scoring a field goal in the third quarter. “It was huge,” Reno said. “That was a nice drive Maine put
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Yale is now 6–2 at home this season but just 1–3 in away matches.
including the final three of the set, for a 25–23 Yale win. Penn controlled the third set start to finish, however, jumping out to a lead of 9–1 and, later, 22-13. The Bulldogs mounted a late run to close the margin to five but were unable to catch up as the Quakers easily took the frame. Penn soon looked to be in position to take the match to five sets, leading 13–10 midway through the fourth set. The Bulldogs had other ideas, though, and Fuller served Yale to nine consecutive points. During that run, the Bulldogs were led by middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16, who recorded two kills and four block assists. The Quakers went on a streak of their own to tie the score at 23, but two Ebner kills closed the set and the match out, giving Yale its first victory in two weeks. Midzik and Ebner excelled in the match, combining for 17 kills against just four errors. “We really came together this weekend and played Yale volleyball, enjoying being out there on the court with each other, celebrating after every point and coming together as a team,” Midzik said. Against Princeton, Ebner was again a major contributor. The senior recorded seven kills without committing an error, and she came through
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with clutch kills to close out the first and third sets for Yale. In the Bulldogs’ three-set victory, they also received an unexpected boost from middle hitter Meaghan Truman ’18, who recorded her first three kills of the season at key moments in the first two frames. “I think we saw amazing contributions from a lot of people,” Fuller said. “Truman was a threat at the net, and both of our middles made outstanding plays offensively and defensively.” At all positions, the Bulldogs were more consistent and comfortable playing on their home court once again. Yale’s home record now stands at 6–2 on the season — including 5–0 in the Ivy League — while the Elis are just 1–3 on the road. “It was so nice to come back home and be able to play in our gym again,” outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 said. These two matches, however, were Yale’s last home games for almost a month. The Bulldogs play a single match at Brown next weekend before consecutive weekend trips to Cornell and Columbia and then Princeton and Penn. Yale faces Brown in Providence on Friday at 7 p.m. Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .
together and they could’ve put some points on the board, which would distance them a little more from us. For us to get penetration in the A-gap and block that kick, it was a momentum play.” While the effort was complete, there are still areas of concern for the Bulldogs. Three more names potentially joined the already long list of injured Elis, as Siragusa, Rymiszewski and right guard Jon Bezney ’18 all left the game with no information currently available
on their timelines of return. Roberts pointed out the offense’s third-down conversion rate as a weak spot, as the Bulldogs managed a mediocre 38 percent against Maine. Though this figure is up 24 percent from last week’s loss to Dartmouth, the Bulldogs remain second-to-last in the Ivy League with a 36 percent clip this season. Finally, kicker Bryan Holmes ’17 missed two extra-point attempts, though the two missed points,
plus a failed two-point conversion attempt, did not ultimately cost the Elis in the 11-point contest. Yale enters five weeks of Ivy play beginning this Friday, when the team travels to take on Penn. The game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. under lights, the first time the Bulldogs have ever played an Ancient Eight opponent on a Friday night. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
High stakes race in Kentucky CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE B1 ment on her best time of the 2014 season, Frances Schmiede ’17 led the Yale squad, finishing the 6000-meter race 57th overall with a time of 20:52.4. Teammate Dana Klein ’18 was less than two seconds behind, finishing in 61st place. The next pair of Bulldogs, Emily Waligurski ’17 and Reagan, also finished within two seconds of each other with times of 21:12.2 and 21:13.7, respectively. They were followed by a trio of freshmen — Andrea Masterson ’19, Ellie Atkinson ’19 and Gabrielle Rinne ’19 — to round out the team’s point total to 474. The squad saw four personal bests from Schmeide, Klein, Waligurski and Atkinson, while Reagan was less than a second off her best 6K finish. The team finished with a spread of just less than a minute between the first and seventh Eli finisher. “Today was one of the best days we have had in a long time,” Reagan said. “Personal records speak for themselves, but we really stepped up as a team and ran tough from the start … We definitely surprised the field with our finish.” A highlight for the women’s team came when it bested Northeast competition New Hampshire and Connecticut, who came into the weekend ranked higher than Yale by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association but finished 21st and 31st, respectively, in the race. Despite just finishing a few positions lower than the women, as well as a few personal bests, members of the men’s team were frustrated and disappointed by their 19th-place finish, they said. Cameron Stanish ’18 noted that the Bulldogs had entered the race hoping to earn as high as 10th amongst the competition. The quickest Eli time of the day came from James Randon ’17, who finished the 8000-meter course in 23:50.4, ranking 38th in the field of 288 competitors. He was followed by captain Kevin Dooney ’16, with a time of 24:01.1, and Stanish at 24:10.5. “We performed well below our expectations as a team,” Duncan Tomlin ’16 said after the race. “I was especially frustrated with my own performance. There were some bright spots — [Randon’s] performance, for example — but overall it’ll be a pretty dour plane flight back.” Another of those bright spots was the speed the squad showed over the weekend, something Stanish attributed to the flatness of the course. Of the seven Bulldogs who competed on Saturday, six ran either personal bests or their fastest times of the season, including best times from all three top finishers. “We didn’t do what we set out to do as a team, [but] it’s good to know that
we have speed,” Stanish said. “It was fun to get to run against teams like Oregon and Colorado. It definitely gets us ready for Ivy League Championships in two weeks.” Yale will race in the Central Connecticut State Mini-Meet in New Britain, Connecticut on Friday. While the
top seven runners from each of Yale’s teams will not be racing, the Elis will resume their postseason run in two weeks at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
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SPORTS
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” ROBERT GREENE INGERSOLL LAWYER
Late-game heroics not enough MEN’S SOCCER
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Despite a game-tying goal from forward Nicky Downs ’19 with just eight seconds left in regulation, the Elis could not seal the deal and secure an overtime victory. BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Trailing by one goal with just eight seconds left on Saturday afternoon, the Yale men’s soccer team delivered possibly its most thrilling moment of the year: a game-tying goal from forward Nicky Downs ’19 to force over-
time against Cornell. But in the end, another own goal — Yale’s third of the season — paired with a header in the waning moments of overtime proved to be one goal too many for the Bulldogs (1–10–0, 0–3–0 Ivy) to overcome in a crushing 2–1 defeat to the Big Red (3–9–1, 1–2–0).
“It’s disappointing for us to get [that] result and we felt like we deserved more, but we can’t just blame our results on luck as we have to create luck for ourselves at this point,” defender Lucas Kirby ’19 said. The Bulldogs played one of their most attack-oriented matches of the season, bouncing
Big Red defense shuts down Yale
back from last week’s poor offensive performance against Dartmouth in which the team managed just six shots. However, much of that offensive activity came in the second half of play. For the fifth time in the last six games, the first half was a quiet time for the Yale offense, allowing the defense to take center
stage. While the Bulldogs mustered a single shot on goal during the first half, Cornell took four cracks at the net but was denied each time by goalkeeper Kees Schipper ’19. Both teams entered the halftime intermission scoreless. In the 58th minute, a Cornell player crossed the ball into
the box and although Schipper came off of his line to punch away the scoring opportunity, the defended ball deflected off captain and defender Philip Piper ’16 and bounced back toward Yale’s open net. Defender Cameron Riach ’19 tried to clear the ball off SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2
Yale comeback fizzles late BY DREW SEMLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While the Yale field hockey squad did not earn the end result it desired on Saturday against Dartmouth, the Bulldogs made their presence felt on the offensive side of the field after being held without a goal for four straight games.
FIELD HOCKEY The Elis (2–10, 0–4 Ivy) pressured the Big Green (5–7, 1–3) with a dynamic attack that produced 26 shots, the greatest total of the year for Yale. Although the outburst of shots resulted in two goals, the Bulldogs came up one short, falling to Dartmouth by a final of 3–2. Still winless in the Ivy League, head coach Pam Stuper’s squad should be encouraged by the offensive showing, as the Bulldogs had only regis-
tered more than 20 shots on one other occasion this season: a 22-shot performance in their season-opening victory over Sacred Heart. With 14 of Yale’s shots on target, Dartmouth keeper Paige Duffy delivered a strong performance in net, making 11 saves to hold off Yale in a battle between two schools in search of their first Ivy win. “This was the best offense that we’ve had in a very long time,” said Yale forward Carol Middough ’18, who scored the Elis’ first goal late in the first half. “We were moving the ball forward, creating breakaways. It was great to see some improvement on that end.” Saturday’s Ivy League bout remained scoreless until Dartmouth midfielder Brooke Van Valkenburg converted off a pass from senior Clare Detrick-Yee just prior to the 24-minute mark in the first half. Just over two minutes later, mid-
fielder Eliza Becker put Dartmouth up 2–0. Becker has been the primary facilitator of Dartmouth’s offense this season with a team-leading 10 assists. Her third goal of the season capped what Middough considered a period of complacency. “I thought the energy level of the game was really high,” Middough said. “I think toward the middle of the first half we got a little bit too comfortable which is when they scored two goals.” Middough responded less than three minutes later to put Yale on the board and cut the deficit in half. The Oceanport, New Jersey native leads the Bulldogs with six goals this season. No other Yale player has recorded more than one goal so far this year. Senior midfielder Nicole Wells ’16, who assisted on Middough’s goal, said she was proud of how Yale SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B2
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Cornell, now in third place in the Ivy League, sits four points ahead of Yale. BY ANDRÉ MONTEIRO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On the heels of its first Ivy League win of the season last week against Dartmouth, the Yale women’s soccer team could not replicate the result on Saturday against Cornell.
WOMEN’S SOCCER In a game that lacked offensive fireworks, the Bulldogs (4–6–2, 1–3–0 Ivy) were shut out by the Big Red (9–1–4, 2–1–1 Ivy) in a 1–0 defeat at Reese Stadium. The game was relatively even statistically. Cornell managed five shots on goal to Yale’s three, but a defensive lapse in the 26th minute brought a Big Red player down in the Yale box. Goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 stopped the penalty shot off the foot of Elizabeth Crowell, but the Ham-
burg, New York native sunk the rebound and put Cornell up 1–0. Ames has stopped two of three penalties this season on the initial shot, though all three have produced goals for the opposition. “I think that the team has had some small errors in our defensive third that have resulted in goals,” Ames said. “Unfortunately, [in] this game it was a penalty.” Cornell is currently the country leader in goals-against average at 0.214, as the team has only conceded three goals in 14 contests. Thanks in large part to the team’s stout defensive play this season, Cornell is one of only five schools in the nation to have just one loss. Aware of the Big Red’s impressive resume, the Bulldogs understood the tall task ahead of them. Midfielder Maggie Furlong ’18 said the SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2
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The last time Yale scored two or more goals in a game was on Sept. 18 in a 3–2 victory over Bryant.