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Unequal funding plagues STEM equipment

No longer Biden his time.

According to Fox News, Vice President Joe Biden will soon announce his bid for the presidency. When he spoke at Class Day 2015, Biden joked about presidential ambitions to Yale grads. He referenced an “Overheard at Yale” post in which a student said he dreamed of being vice president, saying “I never had that dream. For the press out there, that’s a joke.”

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Eze overtakes Eidelson in fundraising

Funding for Yale’s laboratories is not uniform across the Yale Medical School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and West Campus.

While some researchers said their laboratory equipment is outdated, other professors interviewed said their labs were functional and modern. Equipping and repairing scientific laboratories at Yale is funded

With two weeks until the November election for Ward 1 alder, the most recent campaign finance filings reveal that Republican Ugonna Eze ’16 has eclipsed Democrat Sarah Eidelson ’12 in fundraising by a 12-toone margin.

Eze has raised $4,670 since June 1, roughly $3,500 of which was received after July 1. Eidelson, meanwhile, raised $370 before her primary victory over Fish Stark ’17 last month. Eidelson’s campaign has not received any further donations since then. In fact, her campaign has taken on an extra $1,800 in debt, leaving it with a total of $3,400 in unpaid expenses.

Eze’s campaign, which focuses on its connection with students on campus, received donations from 89 students, averaging just over $5 each. Only 21 students have donated to Eidelson’s campaign.

Despite the number of student donations Eze has received, the bulk of his campaign’s funding has come from 27 non-students, who have contributed an average of $175 each for a total of $4,200 — nearly 10 times Eze’s total from student donations.

Of those non-students, three donated $250, the maximum individual contribution to a campaign allowed under state law, and eight others gave $242. Not a single non-student who donated to Eze’s campaign lives in New Haven, but Eze received $250 from the New Haven Republican Town Committee.

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presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 will testify before the House Benghazi Committee and answer questions about the September 2012 attack in Libya that took four American lives. Her longawaited testimony follows those of several of her top aides, including Jake Sullivan LAW ’03.

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Undergraduate Aerospace Association received a mention at the 2015 White House Astronomy Night yesterday evening. The Yale students were recognized for designing a motorized and computercontrolled telescope. The team has begun work on the prototype, which will be able to track the movement of celestial objects and capture long-exposure photographs.

Governor’s polling numbers on the decline, according to Quinnipiac

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Damn emails. On Thursday,

Flying high. The Yale

MALLOY? MALAISE!

Professors can buy new equipment through a variety of sources, including external grants and Yale funding.

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS Amid calls for graduate student unionization at the Oct. 15 Graduate Employees and Students Organization rally on Beinecke Plaza, Shari Yosinski GRD ‘17, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering, raised concerns about the upkeep of Yale’s laboratories.

“Yale ignores issues that prevent

me and other engineers from doing work,” Yosinski said in an interview with the News before the rally. “My fellow researchers have to tape the ducts [in their lab] because mold is contaminating their samples.”

Yosinski told the crowd Thursday that her graduate student colleagues in the sciences struggle with broken equipment. She did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article.

Staying in tonight? Mayor

Toni Harp will host a “mayor’s night in” 5–7 p.m. at City Hall tonight. During these evening office hours, the mayor invites city residents to ask questions and raise concerns about city issues. Harp is running for a second term on Nov. 3.

Into the digital age. The University launched the new and improved www.yale.edu yesterday. The website features a white backdrop instead of the old Yale blue. We’re not saying that we’re trendsetters, but Yale’s site revamp comes three weeks after the News launched its own new website.

Are you a Rory or a Lorelai?

You’ll have another season to decide. According to CNN, Netflix will revive the hit series “Gilmore Girls” with original actresses Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. One of the more famous pop-culture icons to represent Yale, Rory Gilmore was in Branford College and served as editor-in-chief of the News.

Taking a break. And with that, the News begins fall break. We look forward to resuming production Sunday night. This evening marks the start of Yale’s fourth fall break — before 2012, classes continued until the week of Thanksgiving.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1994 The University spars with unions and local advocacy groups over its policy of hiring homeless workers. While unions take issue with the practice of subcontracting labor, advocacy groups protest the homeless workers’ low pay.

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Wellness grant draws significant interest

BY MONICA WANG AND PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Wellness Project — Yale’s newest University-wide initiative aimed at promoting mental wellbeing on campus — received over 50 applications for its student wellness grant, which will provide funding for student-

led projects ranging from guest speakers to study breaks to focus groups.

In a Sept. 10 email to the student body, University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews invited interested students and student groups to apply for the grant, which will provide up to $1,000 in funding for pilot ini-

Initial Spring Fling date draws ire

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS After last week’s Spring Fling Headliner survey showed that most students would prefer this year’s Spring Fling be held on Saturday, Apr. 30, the Yale College Council sent out a second survey this Sunday, with statements from both the Yale Student Athlete College Council and Yale Hillel — two organizations which are against the Saturday date.

Spring Fling has traditionally been held on the first full day of reading period, which is usually a Monday. Two years ago, however, organizers moved the event to the Saturday before reading period, due to complaints from students who had exams on the day of or after Spring Fling. Last year, the Saturday date meant student-athletes from nearly half of Yale’s varsity teams could not attend the event because of athletic competitions. The conflict led YSACC and the Whaling Crew — a non-athlete organization that supports Yale athletics — to draft a letter to the Spring

Fling Committee criticizing its decision. The letter had a total of 750 signatures, 60 percent of which were student-athletes, YSACC co-president Caroline Lynch ’17 said.

“Over 350 spring athletes could not make it this day due to varsity competition both home and away,” Lynch, a member of the women’s tennis team, said. “By moving [the date of Spring Fling], YCC was directly excluding a significant portion of the student population.”

For this year’s event, YCC Events Director Amour Alexandre ’17 met with YSACC in order to hear its perspective and ensure that the considerations of student-athletes were taken into account. Spring Fling Chair Tobias Holden ’17 said that in this year’s headliner survey, he made sure to ask not only which date students preferred, either Saturday, Apr. 30 or Monday, May 2, but whether they would be able to attend the alternative option. He added that the number of student-athletes in the SEE SPRING FLING PAGE 8

tiatives related to improving campus wellness. The deadline for proposals was Friday, and roughly half the applications came from students and student groups within Yale College. The other half came from students and student groups associated with the graduate and professional schools, Goff-Crews said.

In an email to the News, Goff-

Crews expressed her satisfaction at the volume and diversity of funding applications received. She emphasized the importance of student involvement in improving Yale’s wellness culture and added that the grants allowed students to focus on what they see as most important to this issue.

“The goal of these grants

is to let students have a direct hand in shaping campus culture around wellness,” she said.

“Shaping culture requires effort from the top-down and the bottom-up; we want students to be actively involved in our efforts to enhance well-being across campus.”

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Solar panels energize West Campus

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The solar panels will provide up to 5 percent of West Campus’ total yearly energy consumption.

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Google Earth users scrolling from West Haven to Orange, Connecticut will soon no longer just see the dark tan roofs of Yale West Campus buildings. Instead, they will see the glint of the sun on dark-blue solar panels arrayed across about 350,000

square feet of warehouse roof — part of the University’s efforts to make West Campus a leader in sustainability.

The panels will generate over a million kilowatt-hours every year, providing up to 5 percent of the total yearly energy consumption of West Campus, according to facilities utilities and engineering director Anthony Kosior,

whose team ran oversight and technology during the installation. The photovoltaic cells themselves, however, were installed over the course of the summer by Solar City, a California-based energy company.

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One missed call too many

Freedom not rigor

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s a Phone Program Caller for the Office of Development, I am becoming uncomfortably familiar with the relentless drone of the phone dial. Every shift, I solicit more than a hundred alumni from Yale’s graduate or professional schools for donations, mainly to support Yale’s two-year initiative to raise $250 million for financial aid.

Most of my calls go to voicemail. When people do pick up (and don’t immediately hang up on me), I already have their personal profiles and giving histories open on my laptop. I adjust my script depending on who they are — non-donors, lapsed donors or regular givers — mix the appropriate amount of professionalism and friendliness into my voice, and hope for the best.

There is something aggressive about this process. If an alumna does not answer the phone, her name remains on the calling list. My coworkers and I keep calling her over and over again until we get a definite yes or no answer, day after day.

And the no is hard.

We are encouraged to introduce ourselves by name, by residential college, by anything, to remind prospective donors that solicitors are real human beings at Yale. We remind them of the privileges they enjoyed here, and repeat just how thankful we would be if they contributed any dollar amount. I hear guilt, or at least nervousness, behind many alums’ voices when they finally refuse to donate after — I scroll down the calling history — 11 missed calls in the past 20 days. “I’m so sorry,” they say. “I hope you understand.”

Many others cave in to get Yale off their back, at least until the next fiscal year.

The group can raise upwards of $1,000 for Yale every day.

Phone solicitation is fast, easy and effective. It is also comical when uninterested alumni recognize Yale’s caller ID and struggle to speak before we do, lest they fall victim to our honeyed speeches. “Why hello there, Yale University. You’ve come to ask me for money again, haven’t you? I’ve been prepared for this! The answer is no!” The line disconnects and I lean back in my seat, momentarily lost for words.

One gentleman asked me to tell my supervisor that he would make a contribution once Yale divested from fossil fuels. Another demanded that Yale improve alumni resources.

Diversify faculty. Et cetera.

Their assertiveness and desire for change are admirable, but abstaining from donating as an activist gesture is unfor-

tunately ineffective because of Yale’s sheer number of alumni. We simply mark people as refusals and move on.

The overwhelming majority of donors do not care about Yale’s apparent shortcomings. Callers just want to feel good about donating.

A few others criticize the whole system. “Yale has too much money. Why are you even asking for donations?”

Or, “You should be asking the Bush family to give, not me. I’m trying to make ends meet.” One woman said she would rather donate to her local university because it was “actually suffering.”

It’s a shame that so many graduates share this sentiment, because Yale does need money to maintain its quality of education and student services.

Most of my coworkers are working at the Phone Center to cover the student income contribution of their financial aid.

It’s their job is to raise money for financial aid. There is the lingering thought that maybe, if we got enough donations, Yale would be able to support us enough so that we wouldn’t have to call so many people.

But other times, my work is gratifying. Some alumni ask me to send them a pledge card right away. A widow pledged to donate annually on behalf of her late husband, an alumnus of the Yale Graduate School.

A Canadian exchanged stories with me about being an international Yalie before making a generous contribution. An excitable man told me about mixing Bloody Marys for his house party later that night, slurring his words a little as he explained how ripe and beautiful his tomatoes were. He donated $100 as an afterthought. Hopefully out of real generosity rather than drunkenness.

Though solicitation may be uncomfortable on both ends, donating to Yale is ultimately a very good cause. Beyond reducing financial burdens on low-income students, Yale uses alumni contributions to conduct high-end research, hire eminent professors in all academic fields, renovate facilities and maintain different student groups and fellowships. Everyone benefits from generosity. So we shouldn’t be nervous about the first solicitation call coming our way after we receive our Yale diplomas. When your phone rings, greet the Phone Program Caller on the other end and contribute to the best of your ability.

T

hough some have often dubbed Tsinghua University the MIT of China, it may now be time to call MIT the Tsinghua of America.

According to the latest US News 2015 college rankings, Tsinghua University topped MIT and became the best university for engineering in the world.

Ironically, Tsinghua, which was founded 50 years after MIT in 1911, was established for the purpose of preparing Chinese youngsters for further studies in the United States. Now it seems that after a century, the student has finally surpassed the teacher.

But the rankings, based on statistics such as the number of papers published, citations gathered and Ph.Ds awarded, are only part of the picture.

What really distinguishes a university from its peers is the type of mind it cultivates — something that is very difficult to measure with rankings. For a long time, the West, the birthplace of the modern university system, clearly led the world in nurturing top scholars. But now, with both eastern and western teaching institutions producing competitive students at the highest levels, the question remains: which system is better?

This is a difficult question to answer, since very few have ever had to try to compete under both education systems. Even after attending primary and second-

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from material abundance, not the Chinese education model itself. Since the underlying reason for Chinese education’s hostility to creative thought is more political than cultural, any sort of academic freedom is an accident, and the authorities are fully cognizant of this fact. Last November, an official Chinese newspaper published an article denouncing university professors who repeatedly criticized Chinese society in politics classes (all Chinese undergraduates must take five semesters of politics). In recent years, a few prominent Chinese professors with dissenting views were dismissed from their positions.

These crackdowns are certainly in tension with the Chinese authorities’ longing for innovation. Indeed, innovation requires freedom and involves creative destruction, either of which threatens the very existence of China’s current political as well as educational systems.

Therefore, most of China’s top students will ultimately seek out more freedom. Even if Chinese universities dominate in world rankings, absent greater liberty, China’s brightest minds are still likely to prefer the Tsinghuas of America.

YIFU DONG is a junior in Branford College. Contact him at yifu.dong@yale.edu .

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tor. Many students, either willing or forced, work hard, but only a fraction of them succeed.

Today, top Chinese students are successful at home and abroad not because they benefit from a rigorous education, but because they have enjoyed increased independence in a system that is supposed to offer little.

In China, creative thoughts in classrooms are not always “suppressed,” as is often claimed in the West, but creativity is generally not encouraged. When textbooks are the only readings available, when authoritarian teachers are the only literate adults around or when exams are the only criterion for success, students have almost no incentive to think independently.

But with increased economic prosperity, which opens up alternative opportunities and experiences, students in China have started to learn — and think — differently. Today, in China’s big cities, it’s not rare to see schools offering students a wide range of opportunities that go well beyond the traditional classroom format. Still, compared to the general population, only a few fortunate beneficiaries have the chance to study in Chinese high schools and colleges that offer them freedom, change the way they think and eventually influence their characters.

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ary schools in China and later studying in elite American universities, Chinese students like me still wonder which element of the Chinese education system makes us successful.

As a Chinese tour guide at Yale, I sometimes get asked what I like most about going to college in the U.S., and I always answer without hesitation: “Freedom.”

Although most of us Yalies take this aspect of our education for granted and even consider the word clichéd, the concept is still foreign to most Chinese students.

When I entered an American public school for sixth grade, my father was worried about my English grammar. My teacher, on the other hand, expressed a different concern. “Everyone will eventually learn to talk,” he said.

“But not everyone will learn to think.”

Indeed, the primary difference between the American and the Chinese education systems is the degree of freedom afforded to students within each. The common belief is that American students succeed because they have more initiative, while Chinese students excel because they work harder. But success is usually the product of both freedom and rigor.

For students who stand out in the Chinese education system, discipline is a common denominator and thus a nonfac-

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hen I was a freshman, a certain sort of senior girl existed within a completely inscrutable realm. Her various incarnations appeared all over campus, undoubtedly on the way to somewhere important.

She nonetheless had enough time to fall into conversations that I desperately wanted to overhear.

At night, she walked with a cute significant other, or with friends, never unsure of her next destination. A master of layering, she always had a silky tank on under her sweaters so she never overheated in class. Her ideas and ambitions seemed to populate the reality surrounding her as if she had simply turned on a spout and let them into the world.

These semi-mythical creatures have been on my mind for months now as I’ve stumbled through the beginning of senior year ill at ease with the suspicion that everything I do is just not quite right. I’ve sat silent through seminar, left parties shortly after arriving, stayed up and slept too late, gone days without speak-

ing to some of my closest friends. I thought that senior year was supposed to be the point where everyCAROLINE thing clicked and everyone SYDNEY felt closest and most selfSelfactualized.

For a while absorbed after the end of August, I’d felt anything but. None of the pieces of my days fit together. I’d start a reading and then turn to another and then forget to do the one actually assigned for the next day. No place felt right. I couldn’t get comfortable in my routines or classes. I’d walk into my apartment and feel the relief of home, but after a little while of trying to work at my kitchen table, the discomfort, the off-ness, would creep back over me.

Finally, finally this week somehow felt different. I don’t under-

stand why, but I suspect that I’m the only person on this campus put at ease by the midterm.

Balance has been restored and things feel right again — I’m able to comfortably spend time with friends and finish my reading and approach my thesis and wander the farmers market. For all the relief this has brought on, I still don’t quite understand what has changed.

I quit one commitment and tied up some loose strings on some side projects. I’ve stopped leaving New Haven for Jewish holidays. I’ve started checking my email only twice a day. So maybe it is simply about having more time to allocate as I wish. I can feel more comfortable with my choices because I have more time to make them.

Maybe the real lesson isn’t in simple time management fixes, but in expectations of stability and comfort. I don’t know why I thought that Yale would feel more manageable than ever before or that I could project total control onto my experience. In many

ways, the beauty of my time here is its tendency to run off the rails — away from art history and into math, away from the Silliman dining hall and into spontaneous brunches for twenty, away from Haas and into the Sterling Nave.

When I got back to campus at the end of August, I wanted to feel like I’d just pressed play on a paused film. But that doesn’t happen at the beginning of any year, not even this last one. Comfort does not have to go hand in hand with stability here. It is a process that we must initiate if we are to best engage with this environment.

Comfort can’t just be about adjustment periods or headspace. It’s not about projecting power onto one’s surroundings.

And while it can’t be something we expect to happen automatically, it is something we’re each capable of finding.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a senior in Silliman College. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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“Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won’t fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.” JARON LANIER COMPUTER PHILOSOPHY WRITER

Lecturer creates website for would-be shooters

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER While in high school, James Kimmel — now a lecturer in the psychiatry department — faced a challenge familiar to millions of students: constant bullying. Although the taunts started with more minor verbal and physical abuse, the bullying slowly became more serious and extreme, Kimmel said. One night, a group of students drove up to Kimmel’s home and shot his pet beagle in the head. The following week they blew up his mailbox. It was on that night, he said, that he reached a breaking point. Kimmel said he grabbed one of his family’s loaded guns and pursued his bullies by car, catching up to and cornering them outside a barn. With one hand he grabbed the gun, and with the other he reached for the car door. But — in what he attributes to a “spiritual experience” — Kimmel said he realized that by shooting the bullies, he would effectively be ending his own life in the process, as well as taking everything away from these students. He put down the gun and drove away.

Decades later, Kimmel is starting a website called Saving Cain to provide resources and support for others contemplating murder or mass shootings. Kimmel said the website includes the phone number for the national crisis hotline, as well as a nine-step roleplaying tool that enables users to release tension and satisfy harmful urges in a nonviolent way. Just as the focus of the war on drugs has shifted from mass incarceration to individual treatment,

Kimmel said efforts to prevent shooting should include both stricter gun laws and preventative mental health resources.

Because would-be assailants often spend significant amounts of time reading about mass shootings and conversing on the “dark side of the Internet,” Kimmel said it is important to provide an alternative online resource.

He added that the inspiration for the website came from the recent shooting that killed ten people at an Oregon community college, as well as his own traumatic high school experiences.

“Late one night last week, I was awakened by the idea of what supports are out there for someone who is thinking about murder,” Kimmel said. “If they were on the Internet searching about why they are having these thoughts and what they can do about it, they would have found nothing. I’ve also been there — I held a gun and stared at my victims right up until the last second. I did that because I wanted justice. I know that feeling deeply, and I have worked for decades trying to find ways of controlling it.”

Kimmel said he believes the website is the first of its kind, adding that evidence supporting its effectiveness is two-fold.

First, the part of the brain that contains the desire for revenge — an urge associated with murder — is also associated with drug addiction, he said. By offering tools that have proven successful in treating substance abuse, the website could be effective in reaching would-be shooters, Kimmel said. Additionally, he

said that because mass shootings commonly result in suicide or long-term incarceration for the shooter, suicide hotlines — like the one included in his website — could make a difference.

While those interviewed said Saving Cain can only have a positive impact, they still doubted the effectiveness of Kimmel’s approach.

Stacy Spell, a former law enforcement officer and the New Haven project manager for Project Longevity, an initiative which aims to reduce violence in Connecticut cities, said an online platform meant to curb the problem of mass shootings could work, though the success of the website will only become clear with time. However, Spell said he doubts Saving Cain will ultimately be effective because its target audience typically would not be interested in exploring such a resource.

“The problem is that people so mentally ill will not normally reach out to an alternative site or mental health alternative, because they are geared toward becoming infamously known or linked to a shooting incident,” he said. “But anything that provides a ray of hope for these people — anything that would give them a way to articulate, vent or direct them toward the proper resources — is of course worth trying.”

Emma Speer ’17, a cognitive science major, said one potential issue with the site is that motivations for mass shootings vary greatly — from mental illness to a bad day — but the website’s content is fixed.

However, because Saving Cain

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A new website by a Yale psychiatry lecturer aims to help would-be shooters. could help would-be shooters feel like they are not alone, psychology major Luca Eros ’18 said she supports the website.

Ashlynn Torres ’19, a prospective cognitive science major,

Div school announces LGBTQ scholarship

BY WILL REID CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Oct. 12, at a student-led prayer service devoted to National Coming Out Day the day before, administrators at the Yale Divinity School announced the creation of a scholarship specifically for students who identify as LGBTQ. The scholarship, endowed by a joint gift of $50,000 from Stephen Henderson DIV ’87 and his husband, James LaForce, will supplement the education of one LGTBQ student pursuing a Masters of Arts and Religion degree at Yale each year, starting next fall. As the endowment grows, the number of students funded may increase. The YDS has many endowed aid packages earmarked for students who identify with a range of underrepresented groups, including two scholarships created last year for Latino students.

Just last week, another such scholarship was announced for students preparing for Lutheran ministry. But the Henderson-LaForce Scholarship is the first for LGBTQ students.

Multiple students and alumni interviewed said the YDS is known for its progressive stance among institutions of religious education. This coming Thursday, the school will award its William Sloane Coffin ’56 Award for Peace and Justice to Anne Stanback DIV ’85, who has worked for marriage equality at state and national levels.

Henderson told the News that even during his time at YDS in the 1980s, the school was an intellectually and religiously freeing community.

“I’m not sure that Yale Divinity School saved my life, but it definitely saved my mind, in that I just felt freer to think and to question,” said Henderson, who attended the YDS on a scholarship.

He added that he was motivated to donate by the hope that he may be able to provide the same opportunity for an LGBTQ student today. Henderson noted that though the LGTBQ community has made great gains for legal rights and social acknowledgement over the last 25 years, there are still communities in the US — especially religious communities — where homophobia runs rampant.

Henderson said he believes this intolerance stems in part from fundamentalist readings of certain Bible passages, and added that he hopes his scholarship will contribute to a growing number of religious scholars who contest intolerant readings of the Bible.

According to Jim Hackney DIV ’79, senior director of development at YDS, the school has a large active LGBTQ population, some members of which have been kicked out of other educational institutions for their sexual orientation.

“There are other seminaries around the nation where people who are out are not welcome, and we very much

want members of that community to know that they are welcomed at Yale Divinity School,” Hackney said. “By having this scholarship for people who are looking to come to YDS that identify in that group, this is a very specific invitation to say, ‘We welcome you.’”

The $50,000 gift from Henderson and LaForce was matched by a contribution from the Yale Divinity Challenge, part of the University’s Access Yale Fundraising initiative, which is designed to encourage donations for minority-specific scholarships. The University’s contribution raised the initial principal of the endowment to $100,000.

The announcement at the studentled service came after three LGTBQ students shared stories about their experiences with coming out. Though students and faculty in the pews kept quiet in order to respect the solemnity of the service, they were visibly excited by the news, according to Michael Kurth DIV ’18, who was in attendance.

“To have that kind of prayer service together as a community was really impactful,” said Kurth.

Since the scholarship is self-identified, students need only indicate on their applications that they are LGBTQ in order to be eligible for the scholarship.

Contact WILL REID at william.reid@yale.edu .

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The Yale Divinity School will offer its first-ever scholarship specifically for LGBTQ students.

said there are only advantages to launching Saving Cain.

“I think it’s worth trying, because there’s a chance it could reduce the number of mass shootings,” she said.

Kimmel is the author of Suing for Peace: A Guide for Resolving Life’s Conflicts.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Grad students call for better mental health services

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER Concerns about the lack of adequate mental health resources for graduate students surfaced again during a rally held Thursday by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization when protestors spoke through a loudspeaker about their personal struggles obtaining mental health services from the University.

GESO’s demands are not unfounded — across Yale’s graduate and professional schools, 25 percent of students have reported using mental health services at Yale each year, but access to mental health resources continues to be an issue beyond Yale College where students claim the University does not provide enough support to meet student needs.

Following the open forums Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews held last spring to discuss the University’s new mental health website, the Wellness Project — an umbrella organization for new and existing mental health programs for all Yale students — has been unveiled this fall as mental health issues draw increased attention from students and administrators alike. The Project’s new website lists an array of mental health resources available to students, and other initiatives such as the student wellness grant — which provides up to $1,000 to support student well-being — have been added to encourage student participation in reforming Yale’s mental health system. But despite the range of new mental health offerings this semester, graduate and professional students interviewed expressed the need for more substantive improvements in their respective schools.

“We want to negotiate a contract with the Yale administration because too many graduate teachers and researchers who seek mental health services are experiencing long wait times and inadequate options for care,” Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, GESO chair, told the News, citing GESO’s focus on improving access to mental health resources.

Jifeng Shen GRD ’17, who said he had to wait six weeks to see a therapist at Yale Health in order to treat depression, also said a union with a contract would be able to guarantee adequate mental health care and secure the necessary administrative changes.

According to Yale Health’s 2015–16 Student Handbook, all eligible degreecandidate students enrolled half-time or more are covered by Yale Health Basic, which provides primary care services including mental health and counseling.

The MH&C system, however, remains flawed.

“The main concern for those who need long-term care is that they are unable able to get it at Yale Health,” Alicia Steinmetz GRD ’19 said, emphasizing that Yale Health is mainly set up to accommodate

short-term mental health care.

A member of the Graduate Student Assembly as well as a representative on the newly formed Wellness Committee, Steinmetz added that she is concerned that the lack of access to non-Yale physicians, which Yale Health Basic does not cover, is clogging the current mental health system because students can only seek in-house care covered by the insurance. In addition, Steinmetz said, students seeking mental health care for the first time are unable to enter an alreadycrowded system. The only real outlet students can turn to is the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, she said, which can provide mental health care to around 60 students a year on a first-come, first-served basis. Yet even this option is limited, Steinmetz said.

Danielle Bolling GRD ’16, a Ph.D. candidate in the child psychiatry department who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, said she has not been back to Yale Health’s MH&C since last winter, opting instead to see an outside therapist because she found the care at Yale Health inadequate.

Bolling added that because Yale does not offer Magellan — a health insurance option that provides for alternative mental health coverage outside of Yale Health — to students, she is required to pay for the outside care herself. Magellan is, however, included in the health plan for University employees.

“I think it can be especially problematic for graduate students who do research in the psychology or psychiatry departments, who might be deterred from MH&C because they have either direct or indirect academic connections to the providers on staff,” Bolling said, adding that she does not understand why Magellan is not offered to students so that outside care is a viable alternative, especially for those who seek more specialized treatment than what Yale Health currently offers.

But with the launch of the Wellness Project this past September, hopes of improving the current status quo have risen among students and administrators interviewed.

Bryan Yoon FES ’18, facilities and healthcare committee chair for the Graduate Student Assembly, said he believes the administration is moving in the right direction by engaging students in the process and offering the students wellness grants.

According to Goff-Crews, the Wellness Project Committee received more than 50 student wellness grant applications, roughly half of which came from graduate and professional school students and student groups. A subcommittee will review the proposals and notify applicants of the final decisions by Nov. 13.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AMERICAN AUTHOR

Harp praises Elm City tap water

BY REBECCA KARABUS AND NITYA RAYAPATI STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Mayor Toni Harp declared Oct. 19 “South Central Regional Water Authority Day” on Monday.

South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, a nonprofit organization that supplies water to Greater New Haven, has called on Elm City residents to drink tap water in lieu of bottled water as a way to eliminate plastic waste.

Mayor Toni Harp declared Oct. 19 “South Central Regional Water Authority Day” and joined RWA leaders to praise New Haven’s high-quality tap water at a community engagement event on the New Haven Green Monday afternoon. Approximately 30 RWA leaders and employees encouraged residents to take advantage of the prevalence of clean water in the city by drinking from the tap.

RWA representatives asked New Haven residents to sign a pledge to use reusable water bottles instead of disposable bottles in order to reduce plastic consumption and contribute to larger efforts for environmental sustainability. At the event, Harp joined the ranks of approximately 60 residents who pledged to drink tap water.

“The point of this is that we should not — and we cannot — take for granted good stewardship of water supply sources, the infrastructure that delivers water into our homes and an assurance that the water we drink is safe, healthy and tastes good,” Harp said.

Harp said New Haven has an excess supply of water that she hopes will attract water-dependent businesses to the Elm City

Malloy’s approval rating drops

BY SHUYU SONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A year after his heated race for re-election, Gov. Malloy’s voter satisfaction rating has dropped, according to a poll released by Quinnipiac University on Oct. 15.

The poll of 1,735 Connecticut voters shows that Malloy’s voter satisfaction rating has decreased by 11 points in the past seven months — from 47 percent to 36 percent. The poll asked voters to evaluate Malloy’s performance as governor, as well as give their outlook on his future performance. While 64 percent of registered Democrats polled said that they approved of the way Malloy is handling his job as governor, only 17 percent of Republicans agreed. And though some city leaders expressed shock at Malloy’s dropping approval rate, director of the Quinnipiac University Poll Doug Schwartz said the poll results were unsurprising.

“When people are not happy with the economy, they blame the governor,” Schwartz said.

The 36-percent voter satis-

faction rate is one of the lowest numbers recorded for a governor since Quinnipiac University started conducting polls in the 1970s, Schwartz said. He attributed the drop in the polls to voters’ dissatisfaction with the economy.

Schwartz said negative opinions about the economy stemmed from citizens’ disapproval with Malloy’s tax and budget policies. He added that only 19 percent of over 1,000 registered voters approved of Malloy’s $102 million budget cut, which planned to draw money from executive, legislative and judicial branches, as well as from the municipal aid budget.

The poll also asked the voters to name what they believed was the most important problem facing Connecticut. Seven out of 10 voters listed economic issues, such as concerns about taxes, the budget and the deficit among their chief concerns, Schwartz said.

Malloy’s character ratings, which included reviews on his leadership and trustworthiness, also dropped to negative marks.

“There’s really no good

news for the governor in this release,” Schwartz said.

But despite negative ratings, it is unclear how the poll results will affect Malloy’s plans going forward, Schwartz said, adding that Malloy has not yet indicated if he will seek re-election in 2018.

Andrew Gooch, a postdoctoral associate from Yale’s Institution of Social and Policy Studies, echoed Schwartz’ view that the polling rate is closely related to the state of the economy. However, Gooch added that poll numbers for a political candidate tend to drop over time. Gooch said the decrease in approval rating could be due to candidates’ tendency to “overpromise.”

When candidates do not follow through with promises made during their campaigns, voters grow disappointed, Gooch said.

He added that low polling rates could have a negative impact on an incumbent’s political clout, and could discourage potential campaign donors when the incumbent tries to raise funds for a reelection campaign.

Gooch said if the numbers

remain low, Malloy may decide not to run for re-election.

“Other democratic candidates might decide to join the race because they think they would have a better chance of beating the incumbent in the primary,” Gooch said.

Mayor Toni Harp expressed surprise at Malloy’s rating. She said that Malloy had consistently provided overwhelming support to New Haven, citing the $1 million recently distributed by the state for the city’s Second Chance Society — a re-entry program for former prisoners who committed nonviolent offenses.

“New Haven is very supportive of the governor’s work, so I’m very surprised by the low approval rating,” Harp said. “But I’m optimistic because it’s only the first year of his new term, and he still has three years in office to continue working on his policy.”

Quinnipiac University conducts regular surveys about governors’ approval ratings in nine states.

Contact SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .

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Malloy’s approval ratings have dropped 11 points in the last seven months according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

and contribute to overall economic development. On any given day, New Haven’s excess water supply amounts to 15 million gallons, RWA President and CEO Larry Bingaman said.

Bingaman said one of the event’s objectives was to inform residents that they have access to a “high-quality and secure” water supply. He added that people often buy bottled water because they believe it to be superior to tap water in quality.

New Haven tap water costs less than a penny per gallon, while bottled water can cost more than one dollar for only 12 ounces, Bingaman said. “[Tap water is] a real bargain, and it’s very high quality,” he added.

Bingaman said the RWA has become aware of a movement called conscious capitalism, which encourages businesses to see themselves as serving a purpose higher than turning a profit. He added that the RWA has already encouraged positive change in Greater New Haven by providing water-quality assurance and encouraging conservation within the community it serves.

RWA Communications and Outreach Manager Kate Powell said that within the organization, the RWA runs a small hydropower plant to generate electricity and donates water for urban farms in New Haven. She added that solar power produces 80 percent of the energy used for their water treatment facility. Some of the RWA’s conservation efforts within southern Connecticut include

constructing wetlands to renovate storm water runoff, running paper reduction programs and reusing water treatment byproducts.

“Our company’s higher purpose is providing a healthy, reliable supply of water to the communities that we serve so that they can be healthy, economically vibrant and sustainable for the long term,” Bingaman said.

The RWA received the 2015 New England Water Works Association’s Utility of the Year Award in September. The award honors companies whose work contributes to the improvement of water system infrastructure and public health. NEWWA awarded the RWA in recognition of its water quality assurance, sustainability, conservation efforts and employee and community engagement.

New Haven resident Bennie Morris said he appreciates the RWA’s dedication to outreach and engagement, which has helped community members better understand the economic and health benefits of drinking city water.

“I think education pays it forward, and it’s great to have a group of people educating the community about using tap water,” Morris said. “There needs to be similar education efforts about other New Haven issues, like youths with no place to go.”

The RWA provides an average of about 46,000 gallons of water to 430,000 consumers every day.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu and NITYA RAYAPATI and nitya.rayapati@yale.edu .

Students bring mindfulness to city schools

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER High school students often underestimate how much stress affects their daily lives. To change this, one Yale student group is bringing mindfulness to Elm City schools.

The Yale Undergraduate Mindfulness Education Initiative — which aims to empower young people with the tools and knowledge to manage stress and other difficult life events — has been raising awareness about mental wellbeing on Yale’s campus as an official student organization since last semester. YUMEI began recruiting students to facilitate stress management workshops and practical information sessions this fall. As their application cycle draws to a close Tuesday morning, YUMEI is preparing to pilot a stress management workshop in New Haven high schools this fall and to develop a series of four to five additional workshops that can be taught over the course of a semester.

“Teenagers grapple with stress from a variety of sources: everything from academics to changing interpersonal relationships,” YUMEI treasurer Elizabeth Karron ’18 said. “Especially in New Haven — a city with a lot of single-parent households, lots of families struggling to make ends meet, a relatively high rate of domestic violence — there are so many different sources of stress.”

YUMEI President Aneesha Ahluwalia ’16 said the organization’s desire to serve New Haven schools comes in response to the absence of a mental well-being component in many of the schools’ health curricula.

Ahluwalia said YUMEI reached out to the Office of New Haven and State Affairs to facilitate formal connections between YUMEI and New Haven schools so the group could gain permission to teach at the schools.

YUMEI has designed one workshop so far and will pilot it at a small number of New Haven schools this semester before collaborating with more schools and training more undergraduate facilitators in the spring.

Prior to establishing YUMEI, Ahluwalia created a series of mindfulness workshops that drew on her own experience, including mindfulness workshops she had enrolled in and her research experience at the Yale Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic, Ahluwalia said.

Ahluwalia taught this mindfulness series to high-school seniors at New Haven’s Metropolitan Business Academy during her junior year. During these sessions, Ahluwalia taught her students how to accept life events out of their control, such as college rejection letters or difficult finances, said Leslie Blatteau, who teaches the peer leadership class at the Metropolitan Business Academy.

She added that Ahluwalia also showed students that being mindful is integral to leading a healthy life.

Ahluwalia’s students later conducted their own meditation workshop for freshmen at their high school, Blatteau said. “[Ahluwalia] set a high standard,” Blatteau said. “I hope there will be a cohort of undergrads who continue to have the same commitment to excellence and warm, positive energy that she has.”

I hope there will be a cohort of undergrads who continue to have the same commitment to excellence.

LESLIE BLATTEAU Teacher, Metropolitan Business Academy Though YUMEI’s workshops are currently geared towards highschool students, YUMEI might adapt their curriculum to suit younger students in the future, Ahluwalia said.

Undergraduates interested in becoming facilitators need not have prior experience with mindfulness or stress management techniques, Karron said. The initiative will teach them to handle their own stress as well as to provide others with such tools, she added.

The initiative also aims to teach Yale students about mindfulness, Ahluwalia said, adding that she envisions YUMEI becoming another wellness resource at Yale.

Earlier this month, YUMEI collaborated with the Yale College Council to host a stress management workshop for students.

University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews unveiled a wellness website last month, as part of a broader wellness initiative at the University.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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“The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.”

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN ACTOR AND POLITICIAN

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In a statement shortly after last week’s filing, Eze said the number of student donors to his campaign proves he will be able to serve as a “voice for the community.” He added that he will donate all unused campaign funds to a charity determined by a poll, after the race.

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Eze’s campaign counts 116 donors, but only 23 of those are included in the campaign’s July and October finance filings. State law mandates the disclosure of the names of donors who have made contributions in excess of $50.

Only 23 of Eze’s donors, one of which is a student, have donated more than $50.

Eze said his number of donors reflects his broad base of support on campus. He added that the non-student donors are largely the friends and relatives of his campaign volunteers.

“We have an incredible amount of support within the ward, and a lot of people who are either relatives of people who are working the campaign or relatives of men who are very proud of what we’re doing donated to the campaign,” he said. “A lot of people are really proud and really excited.”

ing, Eze’s campaign had spent just under $3,000, leaving it with a war chest of at least $1,500 for the coming weeks. The bulk of the campaign’s expenditures have gone to printing and food costs.

Eidelson’s campaign finances stand in stark contrast to Eze’s. Eidelson said her campaign has not made fundraising a priority. Instead, Eidelson said, she and her volunteers have worked to engage in face-to-face campaigning to make the case for a third term.

“We have really had our main focus on doing the work of talking to as many students as we possibly can about the issues, and fundraising has not been a priority,” Eidelson said. She added that her campaign — which has not held any fundraisers — has a plan to repay its debts, but she declined to elaborate on its specifics.

Eidelson said the need to campaign for September’s primary left a condensed timeline for the aldermanic race. This forced her campaign to focus on talking to students instead of fundraising, she said.

The largest two segments of Eidelson’s campaign spending has gone towards printing and food, a commonality with Eze’s finances. Eidelson said this reflects her campaign’s push to “get our message out.”

Eze said he does not expect his financial advantage to be a vital factor in the November election.

“At the end of the day — and we saw this with the primary — what decides who wins the seat is the personal connections you have with voters,” he said. “What I’m going to do over the next few weeks is going door-to-door, getting the message out, talking with students.”

Eidelson agreed, stating that the “quality of the conversations we’re having with voters” will likely prove the deciding factor in November.

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

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West Campus improves sustainability

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gotten much better than it has been in recent years,” he said.

“This, coupled with our greenhouse gas reduction goals, made the installation a much better fit than it has been in the past.”

Leaders of West Campus have considered installing solar panels for several years, but only recently has the project become financially feasible.

As part of a 20-year lease with Solar City, the University does not own the solar panels, but rather purchases electricity generated by the panels from Solar City instead of off the grid from the United Illuminating Company, New Haven’s power provider, Kosior said. Alongside the environmental benefits, the photovoltaic array resulted in modest savings without upfront costs due to the lease structure, he added.

The solar power is used as soon as it is generated; there is no battery system to store excess energy, Kosior said. He added that this is helpful because the energy produced comprises a relatively small proportion of the energy consumed by West Campus.

This installation was part of the Yale Sustainability Strategic Plan 2013–16, a set of 25 goals for the University aiming to bring sustainability efforts into everyday life on campus, said Amber Garrard, education and outreach manager of the Office of Sustainability. One of these goals, she said, is to increase the percent of sustainable energy generated on campus to 1 percent.

The University has far to go before it meets that 1 percent goal — according to an Office of Sustainability report, only 0.1 percent of the electricity generated on campus came from sustainable sources in the 2015 fiscal year. Expanded photovoltaic arrays may be a way for the University to reach that goal, Garrard said, adding that multiple requests for proposals are in the works for smaller scale solar panel arrays.

“We are looking at areas [on West Campus, the School of Medicine and main campus] to expand our renewable energy footprint within the next fiscal year,” Kosior said. “We’re going to identify a few potential sites and have the bidders go in and evaluate them to determine

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which ones are the best and most attractive.”

Kosior added that an expanded solar presence, such as increased solar panels on other parts of camps, could be expected within the next few years.

This solar array is installed near West Campus’ Energy Sciences Institute, one of seven interdisciplinary research institutes on the campus. This research site has become one of the testing grounds for campus sustainability efforts, said Gary Brudvig, director of the Energy Sciences Institute.

“As director of the institute, I like to see West Campus having a role in increasing visibility for sustainability efforts on campus,” Brudvig said. “We are now completing the renovation of a building called the Energy Science Center, and one aspect of that has been to have it be a model of energy efficiency for Yale’s campus.”

This facility is outfitted with energy-saving tools, such as immediately visible energy usage data displays at the building’s entrance and controls over the airflow and heat of the laboratories to keep power consumption at a comfortable minimum, Brudvig said.

“The idea is that people living in the building will adjust their behavior and use less power if

usage in the building is displayed on the monitors,” Brudvig said.

“We’re hoping that it serves as a model within Yale for reducing energy use within buildings.”

Although the photovoltaic array was only recently completed and formally opened, sections of the array have been in use since early this summer, said Kosior.

As West Campus increases in size over the years, he added, both the new installations of solar panels and new practices including the Energy Science Center’s energy controls and awareness tools should make West Campus a substantially more environmentally sustainable location.

“There are several other sites on West Campus that we may use to further expand the footprint of renewables,” Kosior said. “There’s been lots of buildout in projects on West Campus, and we evaluate every project to make sure that our energy standards are being employed there to ensure that we keep energy use as low as we can.”

According to Yale’s Office of Sustainability, although West Campus has grown by 14 percent in size since 2005, the campus has decreased its greenhouse gas emissions by 12 percent.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

through a patchwork of external funding, small endowments and shared facilities — a system of funding that the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences described as “complicated.”

Mathias Wipf, a postdoctoral fellow in electrical engineering, said his lab has some outdated equipment and old, poorly functioning furnishings.

During the GESO rally, Yosinski said graduate student researchers have unstable funding. Yosinski said that because funding to hire graduate student researchers often relies on outside grants, students in the sciences do not have a stable source of funding.

“Some advisors run out of funding and then the students are left in a hard position,” she said to the News.

“Yale can provide money to fund them for their salary, but there are cases in which that’s not done.”

Yosinski cited the example of her colleague who, when her professor lost funding and could not hire as many graduate student researchers, had to sell some of her possessions to continue studying at Yale.

Unlike in the humanities and social sciences, where graduate students are guaranteed funding from Yale for their first six years, science graduate students after their fifth year are most often paid through outside funding obtained by their professors. Pamela Schirmeister,

dean of strategic initiatives of Yale College, the Graduate School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences said in an email to the News that if no funding is available through professors or teaching fellow positions, the Graduate School will fund a student’s studies in the form of a stipend.

Some scientific equipment is shared across all the FAS Science and Engineering departments. These shared resources — called “core facilities” — include a chemistry glassblowing shop, a DNA analysis facility and an electron probe microanalyzer used for determining the chemical composition of small substances. The costs of these facilities are paid for by faculty members who must pay a fee to use them. Burger said the fees for using these core facilities are subsidized by the University.

For equipment in laboratories which are not part of the core, faculty members can turn to a number of small endowments that fund the upkeep and purchase of equipment in certain disciplines.

One such endowment exists in the Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center. Faculty members wishing to buy new equipment for their individual labs can make purchases using a number of funding sources, including funds that Yale provides to all new laboratories. Faculty members may also apply for externally funded grants.

Bioengineering professor Stuart Campbell said he receives funding for his lab-

oratory from the National Institutes of Health. Campbell added that while there may be other labs on campus that lack adequate equipment, his own lab receives enough funding from NIH to conduct its research. But according to others interviewed, just because equipment is old does not mean it does not function. Additionally, some Yale researchers described a culture of sharing equipment across departments, one that reduces inequities in laboratory funding.

“My lab uses some equipment that is older than me, but it is still working alright,” said a postdoctoral associate in the physics department who asked to remain anonymous because his contract with his lab is coming to an end. “There is a very good culture of sharing in my department. One lab doesn’t have to buy everything.”

In the event that a department or laboratory wants to make a larger equipment purchase, Yale will occasionally authorize the use of University funds to do so. Burger said these purchases are only made when they are demonstrated to have high academic importance in areas of interest to many faculty members in the sciences and engineering.

Yale’s first formal school for scientific study, the Sheffield Scientific School, was founded in 1847.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Woodward offers fresh Watergate insights

BY SHUYU SONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a talk at the Yale Law School on Monday, renowned journalist and author Bob Woodward ’65 spoke about journalists’ responsibilities as historians and defenders of free speech.

Roughly 100 people attended the talk, which was moderated by Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar ’84 and was intended to promote Woodward’s latest book, “The Last of the President’s Men.” Over the course of the hourand-a-half-long event, Woodward discussed the importance of questioning the historical record, drawing on examples from his own investigation of the Watergate scandal as well as his subsequent reporting on later presidents to show how journalists can challenge common assumptions about history.

“I hope this talk is about ‘How good is history?’” Woodward said.

“And if it’s not complete, how can we learn [the complete story]?”

Woodward highlighted the contrasting reactions of former U.S. President Richard Nixon and his aide, Alexander Butterfield, in the wake of Watergate.

While Nixon continued to deny his crimes after he resigned from the presidency, Butterfield admitted his guilt. Butterfield’s honesty, Woodward said, enabled him to appear “clean” in the public eye, as opposed to others involved in the scandal who still appear questionable.

“Butterfield saw what he did was wrong,” Woodward said.

“That [confession] significantly added to his credibility.”

While he and his colleague Carl Bernstein were investigating Watergate, Woodward said, Nixon was waging a “war against the press.” Journalists were constantly worried that their phones were being tapped. Even after Watergate came to light, Woodward

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Bob Woodward visited the Yale Law School to discuss journalists’ role in shaping the historical record. added, Nixon continued to wage a “war against history” by attempting to cover up scandalous details.

Journalists can also shed a different light on controversial events or figures, Woodward continued. Historically, President Gerald Ford, Nixon’s successor, was blamed for pardoning Nixon’s involvement in Watergate, Woodward said. But after extensive interviews with Ford, Woodward said he learned that Ford made his “courageous” decision in order

to shift the country’s focus from Nixon’s legacy to more pressing current affairs.

The need for transparency in politics is still urgent today, he added. When Amar asked him about presidents after Nixon and the 2016 presidential election, Woodward emphasized the importance of revealing a political candidate’s full character before he or she becomes president, not after.

During a question-and-answer

session at the end, Woodward again highlighted how people’s understanding of history is not always accurate. Alex Knopp, a visiting lecturer at the law school, asked Woodward why Henry Kissinger, who served as Nixon’s Secretary of State, was involved with Nixon when Kissinger was such an admired statesman. Woodward responded that Kissinger was likely fully aware of Nixon’s scandals, but that Kissinger has been able to preserve his legacy through

a highly effective public relations campaign.

At the end of his talk, Woodward asked audience members what they consider to be the biggest problem facing the U.S. right now. Answers varied from gun control to Syria, from global warming to nuclear weapons. Woodward, though, said his answer is “secret government.”

He added that an effective First Amendment is a major factor that ensures the continuing presence

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of democracy.

“No one has come to my door and arrested me, because we have an operating First Amendment,” he said. “The thing I hope for in my old age is that we never fall victim to that darkness that might surprise and devastate us.”

All 17 of Woodward’s nonfiction works have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

Contact SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .

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“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” ADAM ANT ENGLISH MUSICIAN

Students surveyed on Spring Fling conflicts SPRING FLING FROM PAGE 1 30-person Spring Fling Committee also increased from one to three students this year in an effort to better represent the athlete population.

Whaling Crew President Matthew Sant-Miller ’17 highlighted the difference between not being able to attend on one of the dates, versus having a slight preference for one over the other.

A second survey was sent out exactly one week later, on Oct. 18, after a Yale Hillel board member notified the Spring Fling Committee that Saturday, April 30, would be the last day of the Jewish holiday Passover — a holiday whose time of celebration varies year-to-year and thus is not a consideration for many students this far in advance. He asked for another survey which alerted students to this fact, Holden said.

Although the date has already been officially set, with 84 percent of the 2,500 undergraduate respondents preferring Spring Fling to take place on Saturday,

the Spring Fling Committee may reconsider the decision after the second survey closes on Wednesday.

This second survey includes statements from YSACC and Yale Hillel, explaining why each group prefers the Monday date, and raising awareness of how a Saturday Spring Fling may impact the student body.

“If Spring Fling is held on Saturday, Apr. 30, it’ll fall on the last day of Passover,” the statement by Yale Hillel co-president Leon Ebani ’17 reads. “This will affect those who follow Passover restrictions on food and drink.”

While students who observe Passover will still be able to attend the event, they will be unable to consume alcohol. Ebani said he chose to highlight this discrepancy because it would have an impact on the atmosphere of Spring Fling.

Still, Ebani noted that the group most affected would be athletes, since they would be unable to attend the event at all.

If Spring Fling takes place again

on a Saturday, Ebani added, this will mean that senior athletes only had one chance to attend Spring Fling during their time at Yale — freshman year.

“No one’s trying to wage a big movement here, it’s just a survey to see if students would prefer ‘x’ day to ‘y’ day in light of new information,” Ebani said. “I’m just trying to make sure people are aware of what it would mean if the event is held on Saturday.”

The YSACC statement said it is unfair that the Yale student body can control the date of this event and yet the Spring Fling Committee chooses to put it on a day where no spring athletes can participate. The statement, written by Lynch and football player Jackson Stallings ’17, also stated that friends of athletes would be impacted by the date.

All student-athletes interviewed who were unable to attend Spring Fling last year said they would once again not be able to attend if it were held on the Saturday.

“As the YCC spends a sig-

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This past April, teams such as the men’s and women’s tennis and lacrosse teams each had events scheduled on the day of Spring Fling. nificant amount of their budget intended for the entire student body on this event, it would make sense to schedule it on a day when a significant portion of the undergraduate body is not observing religious holiday or representing Yale in a varsity competition,” track and field athlete Torren Peebles ’17 said.

The Spring Fling Committee

also has to take into account other variables when deciding a date, such as when artists are available and the costs of setting up and taking down the show, Holden said. He said the committee also considered holding Spring Fling on a Sunday, but after meeting with the Chaplain’s Office, it was determined that Sunday is not a legitimate option for the event.

While the date of Spring Fling will either be confirmed or adjusted soon after the closing of the survey, the event’s lineup will not be announced until the spring semester.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Fifty applications for first wellness grants WELLNESS FROM PAGE 1 Undergraduate applicants interviewed expressed similar views about the need for collaboration between students and the administration in changing the climate for mental health on campus.

Jackee Schess ’18, treasurer of Mind Matters — an undergraduate organization focused on increasing awareness of mental health and wellness — described the Wellness Project’s efforts to engage students as “empowering.” She said that while she is glad to see continuing administrative reform of Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling services, she is happy the administration is supporting students in their own initiatives as well.

“Obviously, reforms in Mental Health and Counseling need to keep happening, and this is a process I’m happy is underway, but [the Wellness Project] is also the other side of things,” Schess said. “It supports initiatives that students can get done on their own.”

Mind Matters’ application for the grant hopes to bring Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison — a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University who has written about her experience

of suffering from bipolar disorder as a mental health professional — to campus to speak, according to Mind Matters co-president Audrey Luo ’17. Schess said the grant money would be helpful because the funding available through the Yale College Council for student groups would not be sufficient to bring Jamison to Yale.

Graduate and professional students interviewed also communicated their enthusiasm for the Project, which they said signals Yale’s progress in addressing mental health.

Bryan Yoon FES ’18, facilities and healthcare committee chair for the Graduate Student Assembly, submitted two proposals for the grant on behalf of GSA. One proposal asks for funding to conduct a mental health focus group study for graduate students to identify the common causes of mental health problems within that population, with a view to using the data acquired to develop wellness-related programs in the future. The second proposal is for a smallerscale event on Science Hill called “DeStress Fest on the Hill,” which would feature therapy dogs, snacks and stress-relief activities in an effort to encour-

age graduate students in the sciences — who Yoon said often have busy lab schedules and feel obliged to stay indoors — to take time off from their studies.

“Unlike undergraduates and professional students, PhD students in the Science Hill area have limited control over their time. If not teaching, they are in lab,” Yoon said. “And it may sound silly, but we can’t always get out of our labs. Sure, there’s a crazy concert in Old Campus and free massages in [the Hall of Graduate Studies], but many Science Hill students can’t go because of our lab schedules.”

When asked if he believes the University’s mental health resources for graduate and professional students have improved since last spring, when the conversation surrounding wellbeing gained significant momentum, Yoon said there has been no new data on the topic, but he feels that Yale is moving in the right direction.

He added that the direction of University policy is more important than the speed at which improvements to mental health services are introduced.

“Of course, we all wish we could hire more mental health professionals, improve the cov-

erage, have more student programs and make all problems go away,” he said. “But the issue at hand is much more complicated than just speed or the capacity of our mental health care facilities.

In short, what we need is not just faster progress, but progress in the right direction.”

But other students said the most substantive changes must still come from administrative policies.

Luo said change in campus culture comes from the University administration rather than exclusively from the student body. She added that a unified mental health policy is needed for progress.

According to Goff-Crews, a subcommittee of The Wellness Project — which is composed of students, faculty and staff — will review all applications for funding from the student wellness grant and make decisions based on the thoughtfulness of the proposals, the areas of need the proposed project will address or the value it will bring to the student community. She added that she sees the high level of participation from students looking to improve wellness on campus as “extremely positive.”

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SPORTS

“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”

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Lightweights third among college teams Head of the Charles].”

Also competing in the event was reigning IRA National Champion Washington, a boat from the United States National Team and Ivy League rival Harvard. The Crimson, which placed first out of collegiate teams last year, finished in third this year, 2.39 seconds behind the Bulldogs.

Yale head coach Steve Gladstone explained that because the Charles River acts as Harvard’s home course, besting the Bulldogs’ Ancient Eight foe is far more difficult in Boston than it would be elsewhere.

“Given the nature of the head race, which is twisty and turn-y, being familiar with the course is a significant advantage,” Gladstone said. “Being able to go up there, on [Harvard’s] home water, and prevail was a good thing.”

This is the heavyweights’ second victory in as many events this fall. Last weekend, Yale took home the top prize at the Head of the Housatonic.

The crew returned all rowers from their 2014–15 varsity eight this season, but newcomer Charlie Elwes ’19 was added to the top boat this season, upping the talent level of the team early in his Yale career.

Though the varsity eight does look quite similar to the one that claimed the Ivy League title last spring, Gladstone said that Yale is not currently focused on repeating as Ivy League champion, nor on winning any specific trophy during the remainder of the year.

“I don’t have long-term goals for results, because they are meaningless. The results of the races in the spring time are going to be completely contingent on the quality of the workouts,” Gladstone said. “The key piece is

today, doing quality work today … That’s what I would say any year, any time, all the years I’ve been coaching.”

Also in the Championship Eights race, Yale raced a second boat that included five freshmen.

That boat placed 24th out of 26, while an Eli boat in the Championship Fours race finished eighth out of 13.

ELI WOMEN SHOW DEPTH

The Yale women’s crew team placed two boats in the top 11 of the Women’s Championship Eights on Sunday, giving the team confidence for both the upcoming spring and seasons to follow.

Captain Colleen Maher ’16 was impressed by the performance of her relatively young team.

“The Head of the Charles is a crowded, exciting event, and I thought our team handled the environment well,” Maher said.

“We have a lot of work ahead of us, and we are starting to think ahead toward our winter training and really increasing our fitness for the spring. We have a fairly young team this year, so we are constantly looking to build and improve.”

The varsity eight boat finished fifth overall. The boat’s time of 16:40.07 was less than a minute behind first place California, which finished in 15:58.63.

Rounding out the top four were Brown, Virginia and Princeton.

The varsity California boat dominated the race, finishing 24.72 seconds ahead of the second place Brown eight.

The Bulldogs’ second boat finished 11th, ahead of the top varsity boats from Ivy League rivals Dartmouth, Penn and Cornell.

Thus, the Elis finished two boats before several other competitors placed one.

“The second varsity had a very good race,” Maher said. “Any time you have two eights placing

in the top 11 is a decent weekend, but we are still working for more speed in all boats.”

In the Women’s Championship Fours, Yale’s boat placed 11th out of 19. Only seven of the 10 crews that finished faster than the Bulldogs were collegiate teams, and the USA Women’s team took first place.

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LIGHTWEIGHTS THIRD AMONG COLLEGES

The Yale lightweight crew team raced to a fourth place finish, behind collegiate crews from Princeton and Harvard, in the Men’s Lightweight Eights race.

The Elis crossed the finish line just 0.38 seconds slower than the Crimson.

The second Yale eights boat finished 13th overall. Highlighting Sunday’s races for the Bulldogs was Eric Esposito ’17, who individually placed second in a field of 39 in the Men’s Club Singles event.

“Competitions are great to see how we measure up against the league,” captain Austin Velte ’16 said.

A boat from Canada’s National Training Center finished first in the Lightweight Eights with a time of 14:49.84.

Rowing for Narragansett Boat Club, Esposito finished 14.39 seconds behind the first-place finisher but ahead of 37 other rowers. “[Esposito] is a great athlete in his ability to successfully switch between the big sweep boats and the single,” Velte said.

“He was excited about his race and even passed some boats along the way. The [Yale lightweight team] is proud of him for laying down a great piece in a big field.”

The Bulldogs also raced a varsity four against fourteen other boats, earning the ninth fastest time.

Velte said the team is look-

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ing forward to the upcoming Princeton Chase, the third and final race of the season. Last year, the Bulldogs finished second in the Varsity Eights race

Elis unable to claim berth

behind Cornell.

“We like this regatta because the whole team gets to throw down together,” Velte said. “The guys feed off of each other’s

Harvard and Dartmouth’s coed teams beat out Yale to qualify for the National Match Racing Championships.

SAILING FROM PAGE 14 and crews Claire Huebner ’18 and Kira Woods ’19 came in second in the B division at the regatta, which included 12 of the 15 nationally ranked programs. “[Knapp] and I just placed second at our regatta last weekend, so getting another second under our belts is great,” said Woods. “This regatta had all of the best women’s teams in the country, so placing second is quite a feat.”

Meanwhile, the coed team took to the seas in three regattas outside of Connecticut.

With two berths for the National Match Racing Championships up for grabs, skipper Ian Barrows ’17 teamed up with crews Marly Isler ’16 and Nick Hernandez ’19 to compete in the regatta. The head-to-head event, which saw the Elis qualify for Nationals each of the past three years, was held in Newport, Rhode Island.

Although both Isler and Barrows were part of a Bulldog team that won the regional event last year, the trio lost to No. 6 Harvard in Sunday’s semifinals, falling short of the top-two finish neces-

sary to advance to November’s Nationals. Yale came in third after defeating No. 15 Bowdoin in the two schools’ final match on Sunday.

“The cold and windy conditions made the racing hard for a team that grew up in places like San Diego, Florida and the Virgin Islands,” Barrows said.

“The team was disappointed to not qualify for Nationals but we know our team has a lot of talent and will hopefully perform in future regattas.”

Perhaps the highlight of the weekend for the Bulldogs came when skipper Mitchell Kiss ’17 and crew Clara Robertson ’17 captured the A division at the Captain Hurst Bowl on Mascoma Lake in New Hampshire.

Combined with the results of the Bulldogs’ B and C divisions, the Elis earned a second-place result overall at the Dartmouth-hosted regatta.

Overcoming below-freezing temperatures, a snowfall and wind shifts that Robertson called “particularly tricky,” the juniors clinched a two-point victory over Boston College in A when they finished five spots ahead of the BC boat in the division’s 14th and final race.

“I am originally from Michigan, so I had a lot of experience

while I was growing up sailing on lakes and in cold weather,” Kiss said. “This regatta played to my advantage in that respect.”

Some of the duo’s teammates nearly matched the strong effort put forth in the A division. The freshman-senior pair of skipper Nic Baird ’19 and captain and crew Charlotte Belling ’16 placed third in the B division. In the C division, skipper Malcolm Lamphere ’18 and crew Chandler Gregoire ’17 turned in a fourth-place finish to cap off Yale’s performance at the regatta.

The No. 4 Eagles of BC, in large part thanks to a dominating performance in the C division that included five victories in 14 races, captured the overall event title.

A quintet of Elis also secured a seventh-place finish at the 16-school coed Providence College Invite in Rhode Island.

The A division team of Dobronyi and skipper Eric Anderson ’16, though tied atop the division with Brown in points, finished second to the Bears due to a tiebreaker. Skipper Patrick Buehler ’18, along with the crew of Elizabeth Tokarz ’17 and Ayla Besemer ’19, placed 12th in the B division.

“The windy conditions were excellent for sailing, and allowed us to use our size to our advantage because we were able to sail faster than smaller teams,” Dobronyi said of the team’s performance on the Narragansett Bay. “The biggest takeaway from this weekend is that we are making progress toward our goals and that we are focusing on improving the right things.”

As the fall regular season nears a close, members of the coed team will again head north for competition this upcoming weekend.

Two groups will travel back to Rhode Island, with one racing in Brown’s Hoyt Trophy and the other participating in Roger Williams University’s Southern Series 7.

A third coed crew will head to MIT, where Yale will try to take home the Oberg Trophy.

Those Bulldogs will be joined by their teammates on the women’s squad, who will head to Cambridge to compete in MIT’s Mrs. Hurst Bowl.

Sebastian Kupchaunis contributed reporting.

Contact DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

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energy, so having everyone there will be great.”

the latter of which entered the box as a cross from the corner.

Lancor’s strong performance against Yale increased her season scoring total to five goals.

“There were a few defensive letdowns early on in the game that created an offensive task that we could not surpass,” Shannon Conneely ’16 said.

The Bulldogs were shut out in the game despite leading the Blue Devils in shots on goal, 7–4. Yale goalkeeper Maritza Grillo ’19 made two saves in the game, while Central Connecticut State’s Ashley Cavanaugh stopped all seven of the shots on goal attempted by the Bulldogs.

Yale goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16, the usual Yale starter, did not play in Monday’s non-conference contest.

Forward Michelle Alozie ’19 led the team with eight shots attempted, though neither Alozie nor her teammates were able to put the Bulldogs on the board.

Alozie presently ranks sixth in

scoring in the Ivy League with five points through 13 games this fall.

Midfielder Keri Cavallo ’19 took six shots during the game against Central Connecticut State, three of which came as shots on goal.

“The whole second half we were pressuring their back line, and ended up having 24 [shots],” defender Chrissy Bradley ’16 said.

With all non-conference contests now complete, Yale will look to bounce back this weekend against Penn, the first of three Ivy League games that conclude Yale’s regular season. The game against the Quakers will be an important matchup, as the two teams currently are tied for fifth place in the Ivy League standings.

The game on Saturday in Philadelphia will kick off at 5 p.m.

Andre Monteiro and Nicole Wells contributed reporting.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

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Yale outshot Central Connecticut 24–8, but none of those Eli shots ultimately found the back of the net.

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ON CAMPUS 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 Spatz will lay out an approach to cardiovascular health for women of all ages. From her perspective as a cardiologist, she’ll discuss why blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar intake matter, and how lifestyle behaviors — nutrition, fitness and stress management — can make a genuine difference. She will also examine the promise of new technologies and explain what the advent of personalized medicine will mean to current and future generations. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Rm. 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 YSM alumni.

Presented by the Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 9:00 AM Bringing Japan to Yale: a talk by Robert Wheeler.

All are welcome to join for this talk by Robert Wheeler, professor of engineering and applied physics. A curator of the current Peabody Museum exhibit “Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace,” he will discuss some of the featured objects donated by individuals whose papers are in Manuscripts and Archives. In addition, aspects of the science of swords and lacquerware will be illustrated. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Rm. 8:00 PM The Skin of Our Teeth. The All-American Antrobus family is faced with an onslaught of natural and manmade disasters—the Ice Age, catastrophic flood, global war. The wheel of history threatens to flatten them in their suburban home; the play itself nearly falls apart. But again and again the Antrobuses bounce back. Is this farce? Or tragedy? Both. And more. The Skin of Our Teeth is a confrontation with the dark heart of America, the ferocious underground fire that threatens to consume us all. Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel St.).

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Study suggests medical marijuana research insufficient

BY ROBBIE SHORT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new Yale study indicates a possible link between marijuana use and negative health outcomes for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder — a qualifying condition for medical marijuana in at least nine states, including Connecticut.

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found a correlation between recreational marijuana use and higher levels of PTSD symptoms, violent behavior, alcohol abuse and drug abuse among veterans completing specialized Veterans Affairs treatment programs between 1992 and 2011. The connection, although not confirmed as causal, points to a need for more research into marijuana’s effects as a medical treatment, the researchers said. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry in September.

“What I hope this paper does is it gives psychiatrists and other providers pause before they go ahead and give the green light for folks suffering from PTSD to smoke as much marijuana as they want and consider that it might not help and might even be associated with a worsening of the disorder,” said fourth-year Yale psychiatry resident and lead study author Samuel Wilkinson.

The study involved analysis of data, taken at program admission and four months after discharge, from 2,276 veterans in the Veterans Health Administration system. The researchers split the veterans into four groups: “never-users,” who did not report use at either time point; “stoppers,” who reported use at admission but not after discharge; “continuing users,” who reported use at both admission and discharge and “starters,” who reported use after discharge but not at admission. The veterans reported recreational use, and none were prescribed medical marijuana.

The researchers found that outcomes across all four measures — PTSD symptom severity, violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse — were worst for starters, who, along with continuing users, had significantly

higher measures of PTSD symptom severity after discharge than stoppers and never-users.

Starters also showed significantly higher measures of violent behavior after discharge than all other groups. Continuing users also reported higher levels of alcohol and drug abuse than never-users and stoppers, who reported the best outcomes.

The researchers selected the veterans from a sample that included more than 47,000 who entered the Veterans Health Administration’s programs with a PTSD diagnosis during the 20-year period. They excluded those who reported prior excessive alcohol use, those who reported recent use of drugs other than marijuana at admission and those who entered treatment from programs that would have restricted their access to alcohol and drugs to minimize confounding effects of substances other than marijuana. The study’s results contradict those of several recent preclinical and survey studies that suggest that medical marijuana may hold therapeutic benefits for PTSD patients. Though a definite answer on marijuana’s potential as a medical therapy is outside the study’s purview, the study’s results underscore a need for more research into the drug, which has been legalized more on the basis of public opinion and political pressure than scientific evidence, according to Robert Rosenheck, senior author and professor of psychiatry and public health at the Child Study Center at the School of Medicine. Medical marijuana is now a legal prescription for various conditions in at least 23 states, according to the study.

“This is a particularly dramatic test case because the [Connecticut] legislature had come out with a treatment recommendation on the basis of no scientific evidence,” Rosenheck said.

Wilkinson and Rosenheck are not the only researchers at Yale to argue that medical marijuana should be subject to a stricter approval process. In June, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial written by Deepak

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Cyril D’Souza and Mohini Ranganathan, both researchers and psychiatry professors in the School of Medicine, in which the authors argued that legislators lack sufficient evidence to approve marijuana as a medical treatment and, by doing so, are putting “the cart before the horse.”

D’Souza, who recently received funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to conduct research on the effects of concurrent alcohol and marijuana consumption on driving ability, said states should shoulder the responsibility of supporting research to answer the

questions that still remain about the effects of marijuana use.

“The process by which states have approved new indications for medical marijuana leaves a lot to be desired,” D’Souza said.

“I think that there should’ve been more careful review of the evidence, which I don’t think happened.”

Other conditions that can qualify patients for medical marijuana in certain states include cancer, glaucoma, HIV/ AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease and epilepsy.

Contact ROBBIE SHORT at robert.short@yale.edu .

Yale researchers create safer, more effective sunscreen

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER Sunscreen may get safer and more effective, thanks to Yale researchers.

The researchers from the biomedical engineering department created sunscreens composed of nanoparticles with bioadhesive properties. Most sunscreens on the market are partially absorbed into the body through the skin, which poses certain health risks including cancer, according to study co-author Yang Deng, researcher alumnus from the department of biomedical engineering. But Yale researchers found that the nanoparticles with bioadhesive properties remained on the skin, both improving the efficacy of sunscreen particles and inhibiting their absorption into the skin. Unlike most current sunscreens, the particles of the new sunscreen could very easily be removed from skin through active towel drying, Deng added.

Because of this difference, using the bioadhesive nanoparticles made sunscreens safer and better at preventing damage from the sun, Deng said.

“Our nanoparticle sunblock formulation can provide just as effective [ultraviolet] protection when compared to commercial sunscreen, with the added benefit of preventing ROS-mediated cellular toxicity,” co-author Asiri Ediriwickrema MED ’14 said in a Sunday email to the News. “The fact that our particles do not penetrate the skin is key in preventing these toxicities.”

Although sunscreen has several benefits, such as preventing skin from burning on sunny days, it is not without its downsides, the researchers said. Many commercial sunscreens’ active ingredients work by absorbing ultraviolet rays, preventing the rays from reaching the skin, according to the study paper. But many particles of active ingredients are small enough that they may be

absorbed into the skin, potentially disrupting the body’s systems, according to the paper.

Some sunscreens, like those that include titanium dioxide or zinc oxide, have larger particles that sit on top of the skin, minimizing absorption. However, these tend to look semiopaque once applied, giving skin a chalky, white layer that some might find unappealing, according to Michael Girardi MED ’92, one of the authors of the paper and a professor at the Yale School of Medicine.

Additionally, the organic filters used in commercial sunscreens have posed health concerns for years, Deng said. They can penetrate skin and reach the bloodstream, causing direct cellular toxicity and systemic side effects, according to Deng. For instance, several UV filters have been detected in human urine and breast milk samples after topical treatment, and may bring about systemic effects including endocrine disruption, he added.

The combination of UV light and sunscreen can form reactive oxygen species in skin, and may cause significant damage in the cells, according to Girardi.

Researchers used pig skin to test the penetration of UV filters of sunscreens using different formulations and two mice models to demonstrate the unique properties of their sunblock, Deng said. He noted that pig skin was a reasonable substitute for human skin in penetration studies, and that it has been previously examined in a variety of topical applications, including penetration studies from chemicals and nanoparticles. The absorption of sunscreen into skin was dramatically reduced when bioadhesive nanoparticles were used in sunscreen formulations, Eridiwickrema said.

“Developing safe and effective therapies using nanotechnology is a primary focus of the Saltzman Lab,” said Eridiwick-

rema. “We realized that the particles we were engineering could provide effective topical therapies and so we decided to explore those ideas.”

Deng added that they had originally designed the particles

to attach to ligands — a molecule that bonds to another larger molecule for targeted delivery, but they found that the particles have excellent adhesion properties. They then decided to use the particles for topical applications,

like sunscreens.

Bioadhesive nanoparticles like these could lead to changes in sun-protective products.

Deng said that the bioadhesive nanoparticles will likely be incorporated into commercial

sunscreens within the next few years.

The study was published on Sept. 28 in the journal “Nature.”

Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .

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New study creates buzz

BY JOSH MANDELL STAFF REPORTER For most people, the word “swarm” suggests buzzing clouds of hungry locusts, angry bees and bloodthirsty mosquitoes — all things to be avoided.

But recently, a group of Yale engineers brought insects into their laboratory to discover how the mathematics behind swarming behavior could guide technological advancements.

In an article published in Physical Review Letters this September, three former members of Yale’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a current Yale physics professor described a novel approach to comparing models of insect swarms with data. The scientists analyzed the swarming behavior of Chironomus riparius, a small fly, in

a laboratory environment. Former Yale mechanical engineering professor and study author Nicholas Ouellette said his research contributes to the scientific understanding of collective behavior across the animal kingdom, from schools of fish to herds of antelope.

James Puckett, a physics professor at Gettysburg College who helped conduct the experiment when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale, pointed out that their research is also central to the daily life of humans, citing traffic patterns as a prime example of collective behavior. The Yale experiment was funded by a grant from the U.S. Army Research Office, which is interested in applying these new models of collective behavior to robotics.

“If we are to make robots

smarter and work better together, then these systems that have been optimized through millions of years are a good place to start looking,” Puckett said.

They swarm, mate and die.

NICHOLAS OUELETTE Former Yale Professor and Study Author The work of Puckett, Ouellette and their colleagues could also create new ways to stabilize electronic systems like power grids.

Ouellette’s lab maintained a C. riparius colony in water-filled tanks, and let the aquatic larvae grow into their winged adult form. In the experiment, the scientists disturbed the swarming flies with an amplified recording of a male riparius’ humming

wings. Three cameras in the flies’ tank captured 100 images per second of the swarm as it reacted to the noise. The researchers used computers to track the movement of every individual fly in swarms of up to 100 insects, according to the study.

“If we simply played a sound at a constant amplitude, nothing happened. However, if the sound was modulated we observed that we could drive the swarm back and forth,” Puckett said.

The researchers found that the swarm’s movement was a direct, linear response to the noise disturbance. The swarm’s collective center-of-mass velocity increased as the researchers made the sonic stimulus louder, according to the study.

“Dr. Ouellette has shown that even these seemingly chaotic swarms exhibit striking order at

the group level,” said Ryan Lukeman, a mathematics, statistics and computer science professor at St. Francis Xavier University who was not involved with the study.

Ouellette said his lab’s experiment was different from previous studies of collective movement in animals because of its manipulation of the insect swarm’s behavior. While other researchers have focused on identifying patterns in systems that they can only observe, the Yale team used a materials science approach, manipulating the object of study to empirically understand its physical properties, Ouellette said.

Ouelette’s study is the first to do this with swarms of macroscopic animals.

“By perturbing and observing the response in real systems, we

can then perturb our model systems in similar ways and determine whether the experimental observations are borne out in the model,” Lukeman said. “It is how science should be done, but the difficulty of performing these studies on animals can often get in the way of this process.”

Ouellette said that the flies’ small size and high swarming tendency made them ideal for laboratory experimentation.

“In the adult stage of their life cycle, swarming is all that [the flies] do. They swarm, mate and die,” he said.

In his new lab at Stanford University, Ouelette said that he is continuing to use swarming insects in experiments to build upon the research he did at Yale.

Contact JOSH MANDELL at joshua.mandell@yale.edu .

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Gene for nicotine addiction identified

BY MIRANDA ESCOBAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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A smoker’s chances of developing a nicotine dependence may be determined by genetics, suggests a recent study published in the journal “Translational Psychology.”

The study, co-authored by Yale School of Medicine psychiatry professor Joel Gelernter determined that nicotine dependence can be associated with variants in a particular gene: CHRNA4. The study — the largest to date investigating the genetics of nicotine dependence — provided statistical evidence for the link between CHRNA4 and nicotine addiction. Study authors and experts on nicotine dependence said that by identifying the genetic cause of nicotine dependence, the research has potential to assist in the development of smoking-cessation treatment.

“This study, for the first time, was able to … provide very strong statistical evidence that indeed the variants of [CHRNA4] are associated with nicotine dependence,” said Dana Hancock, study author and genetic epidemiologist at Research Triangle Institute International.

Hancock and her fellow researchers began by assembling a cohort of 17,074 smokers of European descent. Next, they collected data about study participants’ nicotine dependence by asking not only how often they smoked, but also under what conditions. Hancock added that including questions such as “How early in the morning do you smoke?” or “Do you still smoke while you’re ill?” allowed researchers to assess subjects’ smoking dependence, as opposed to just smoking patterns.

When the researchers compared the results of these surveys to the smokers’ genomes, they found that smokers with a particular variant of the CHRNA4 gene had an increased risk of developing nicotine dependence by about 10 percent. Though the findings of previous studies have strongly suggested that CHRNA4 is responsible for nicotine depen-

dence, none had been able to provide definite statistical evidence, Hancock said. The larger sample size made the study results confirming that CHRNA4 plays a role in nicotine dependence more significant and definitive than the results of previous studies.

“This study raises the possibility of developing treatments for nicotine dependence that selectively act at nicotine receptors that contain the [CHRNA4 gene variant],” said John Krystal, Yale School of Medicine psychiatry department chair.

According to Krystal, the study’s findings allow for the development of more precise methods to aid smokers in the process of quitting. By targeting a specific gene, the research also guides future treatment development for nicotine dependence, he added.

However, Caryn Lerman, codirector of the Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center, said further research needs to be conducted before the study’s findings can be applied for the development of further nicotine-dependence treatments.

“It’s conceivable that the genetic regulatory mechanism could be targeted [for treatment], but the next steps would be to validate the findings,” Lerman said.

Lerman, whose primary area of research is the genetics of smoking cessation, added that eventually this research may contribute to the development of medications that target the CHNRA4 gene.

Still, Hancock said that she hoped the study would spur further research in the field of nicotine addiction, with the intention of ultimately of reducing the public health effects of smoking.

“Our ultimate goal, [is] to reduce the risk of the public health burden on cigarette smoking,” she said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 18 of every 100 U.S. adults 18 years or older currently smoke cigarettes.

Contact MIRANDA ESCOBAR at miranda.escobar@yale.edu .

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“We go back to work on Tuesday, whether we come in 15th or first.”

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Historic victory at Head of the Charles CREW

COURTESY OF BETSY CAROTHERS

Though the spring crew season is months away, the Eli heavyweights have already made history with their first-ever Championship Eights win at the Head of the Charles Regatta on Sunday.

BY KEVIN BENDESKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A historic first-place finish by the Yale heavyweight crew team highlighted the performances of Eli rowers at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston this weekend. The heavyweights

won the Men’s Championship Eights race at the regattta for the first time in program history, while the Yale lightweight and women’s team finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in their equivalent races.

The three teams compete next at the Princeton Chase on Nov. 1.

VICTORY BY A HAIR

The Yale heavyweights claimed victory in the Championship Eights race by 0.68 seconds, achieving their first title in 51 years of competing in the storied event.

The Bulldogs, reigning Ivy League champions, finished just

faster than second place University of California, Berkeley.

The Elis’ time of 14.18.97 on the three-mile course was not only the fastest in the Championship Eights division, but also the fastest time in the regatta overall.

Captain Hubert Trzybin-

No. 1 Elis sail across east coast

ski ’16, who was in the sixth seat on the Eli varsity boat, described capturing top place on the podium as enjoyable and rewarding.

“We are very happy that we won the Charles,” Trzybinski said. “The regatta is a great event to see where we are com-

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER

In their first competitions of the year as the No. 1 teams in the country, the Yale coed and women’s sailing squads looked to continue their strong fall seasons at several New England regattas this past weekend.

In their first Monday night game of the 2015 season, the Yale women’s soccer team dropped a 2–0 decision to Central Connecticut State, despite outshooting the Blue Devils 24–8 in the contest.

SAILING

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Split between four contests in a trio of states, the teams turned in multiple noteworthy performances in a weekend marked by tough racing conditions. Members of the coed team competed in three events in Rhode Island and New Hampshire while the women’s team hosted 18 schools from across the country at the Yale Women’s Intersectional Regatta.

Though both teams entered the weekend atop the Sailing World’s coaches’ polls for the first time this year, crew Amelia Dobronyi ’17 said she believes that the new distinction did not change the teams’ mindsets as they continued their defense of three national championships.

“It is rewarding that our effort is translating directly into regatta

With two goals, Central Connecticut State forward Delaney Lancor led the Blue Devils (6–4–3, 1–2–1 Northeast) past the Elis (4–7–2, 1–3 Ivy), who have now lost two games in a row following Saturday’s 1–0 defeat against Cornell. The loss marks the fourth time that Yale has been shut out in its last five games, with a 1–0 win over Dartmouth being the only game with a Yale goal since Sept. 20.

“The team worked hard this game, but once again we learned that we need to be ready to go right from the start,” midfielder Maggie Furlong ’18 said. “While [Central Connecticut] had

Yale, Georgetown and Coast Guard make up the top three in both sets of sailing rankings. results, but the ranking has no effect on how hard we work or the discipline with which we approach training,” Dobronyi said.

Two top-five divisional finishes propelled the women’s team to a third-place result in a windy and at times even snowy Branford Harbor. Both divisions were won

by No. 3 Coast Guard Academy, which finished with just 157 points for the regatta, good for a top-five

average finish over the 32 races.

Yale, which entered the weekend tied for the top national ranking with Georgetown, finished with 235 points, 52 better than its D.C. foe. Skipper Casey Klingler ’18, along with crews Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17 and Emily Johnson ’16, placed fifth in the A division, while skipper KB Knapp ’18

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Yale falls despite 24 shots

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pared to the other top crews of the nation. It is also such an established and high-caliber event with a great atmosphere that attracts many spectators.

Of course, it is fun and rewarding to be very successful at [the

two goals early on, the main lesson from the game was that if we don’t score, we will never win. So we are going to focus on this for the rest of the season and hope that we can achieve this.”

Both of Lancor’s goals occurred during the first

half, when the Blue Devils seized control of the game.

The goals came roughly two minutes apart, and Lancor burned the Yale defense following assists from Emma Hubbard and Brianne Casey, SEE SOCCER PAGE 9

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Forward Paula Hagopian ’16 registered two of Yale’s seven shots on goal.

NUMBER OF YEARS THAT THE HEAD OF THE CHARLES REGATTA OCCURRED BEFORE THE YALE HEAVYWEIGHT CREW TEAM WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP EIGHTS RACE. The Bulldogs took home the top crown in the race Sunday for the first time in program history.