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FOOTBALL BACK ON WINNING TRACK

How not to get in. Today’s issue of The New Yorker contained a piece called the “College-Application Essay” in its Shouts & Murmurs section. Penned by Paul Rudnick ’77, the piece satirizes the application of an impossibly accomplished and unbearably arrogant high school senior who would likely fit in best at Harvard.

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER

Rep represent. At least one member in the audience of the Yale Repertory Theater’s rendition of “Arcadia” came away impressed: Longtime New York Times reviewer Sylviane Gold. On Friday, Gold wrote about the show, imploring readers to see School of Drama Dean James Bundy’s DRA ’95 “inexhaustible” take on the Tom Stoppard production.

“Study fuel.” On Saturday

afternoon, the Orangeside Donuts Twitter account asked its followers for suggestions on where to host a square donut study break. Bass Library is an early contender after its own account responded with a picture of Nemo Blackburn ’16 claiming that “Bass donuts are [his] study fuel.”

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week after Dartmouth snapped their 3-0 record, the Bulldogs faced Colgate in the Yale Bowl Saturday. Despite a close first half, the Elis, largely through the efforts of Tyler Varga ’15 and Morgan Roberts ’16 pulled away in the second half to redeem themselves with a 45-31 victory. See PAGE B1 for a full report.

Less than a half-mile away from Old Campus, the Webster Bank was robbed last Thursday afternoon.

Officers from the New Haven Police Department arrived at 80 Elm St. on Thursday at 2:23 p.m. after bank officials reported the robbery. While the police did not immediately release information about the robbery, NHPD spokesperson David Hartman sent an email Friday detailing reports from bank officials. These officials, according to the email, said that the suspect approached a bank teller and passed a note that read, “Empty all the drawers or get shot.” According to Hartman, the suspect did not reveal a weapon to bank employees or customers.

“We’re just relieved that no one was hurt,” said the bank’s Vice President of External Communications Sarah Barr.

This incident took place just a few days after a robbery at the Ion Bank in Waterbury, a nearby town just over 20 miles from New Haven, according to a representative from the Waterbury Police Department who asked to remain anonymous because of police department policies. Hartman said this bank experienced a similar robbery to the one in New Haven, adding that the suspect of the Webster Bank robbery has a similar description to the Waterbury robbery suspect. Hartman added that NHPD SEE WEBSTER PAGE 6

Not all about that Bass.

The Orangeside exchange wasn’t Bass’s only moment in the social media sun this weekend. Minutes later, the Yale Undergraduate Admissions’ Facebook page named the underground space as one of the best study spaces on campus. Less obvious choices included the Hewitt Quadrangle, the Becton Center Ground Cafe and the School of Forestry’s Kroon Hall.

New Haven loves you. On Sunday, ILoveNewHaven.org published a Humans of New York-esque photoset entitled “People and Their Surprising Facts.” Chris Randall, the man behind the lens, went around town snapping pictures of people and asking for facts about themselves. Among them: “I really like people” and “I like all kinds of people.”

DeLauro navigates Old Campus, meets freshmen

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Thanks to an impromptu campus visit by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, a few more freshmen now know who represents New Haven in Congress.

DeLauro came to Yale Sunday afternoon to speak to the Yale College Democrats before they set out for a few hours of canvassing dorm rooms to rally support for Gov. Dannel Malloy, who is facing a tight race against Republican Tom Foley. Seeing the crowd assembled in Old Campus for the annual Freshman Barbeque, DeLauro, a Democrat, decided to go meet some of her

newest constituents.

“I said ‘Wow, I’m stunned at the number of people that came to canvas,’” DeLauro said of her initial reaction to the gathering on Old Campus — which she figured was the Yale Dems.

Accompanied by Yale Dems President Rebecca Ellison ’15, DeLauro marched past smoky grills and booming speakers to introduce herself to groups of freshmen. Most of them had never seen or heard of the politician, who is known in Connecticut and in Washington, D.C. as one of the most liberal members of Congress. Facing a poorly ISABELLE TAFT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro made an impromptu campus visit to speak to the Yale College Democrats.

Family business. Tonight, the

YPU is hosting a debate with conservative businessman Sean Fieler on the concept of family and policy’s role in shaping it. Fieler, a Williams graduate, currently lives in Princeton, N.J., with his wife and four children.

Lights, please. The Hindu Students Council’s Diwali Pooja takes place tonight in Commons to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights, complete with sparklers, dance and food.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1988 With a participation rate of 95 percent, the senior class raises $85,000 in activities funds. At $73 per person, senior dues are earmarked for a variety of college-specific and classwide events for members of the Class of 1989, including Paul Giamatti ’89 and Anderson Cooper ’89.

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BY SARA JONES AND GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTERS

A total of only 11 students showed up to their Saturday afternoon training session.

The Yale College Republicans co-hosted the twohour event, which was part of the NRA’s university program. The program seeks to educate college students across the country about the NRA’s functions and teach students to become more effective activists in firearm deregulation. During the training session, NRA representative Susannah Kipke redefined certain firearm terms used in contemporary politics and encouraged students to get involved with the NRA — often considered the leading advocate against tighter gun regulations.

“Put a yard sign up in your dorm or home and a bumper sticker on your car,” Kipke said when suggesting ways to drive up young membership of the NRA. At the end of the event, Kipke distributed hats with NRA’s logo sewed onto them and offered the attendees a one-year membership to the organization. She also

Allen Forte, a former music theory professor at Yale and an internationally renowned leader in the field, died in his Connecticut home on Thursday morning. He was 87.

Forte was the Battell Professor of the Theory of Music and a specialist in 20th-century atonal music, music analysis by Schenkerian methods and the American popular ballad. He began teaching at the Yale School of Music in 1959, and his 12 scholarly books and roughly 100 articles received wide acclaim. Colleagues and students alike remember Forte as a pioneer in his field and a remarkable educator.

“Allen was arguably the single person most respon-

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The politics of profanity J

ust as a little background, I’ve been writing book reviews for the Weekend section of the News for nearly as long as I’ve been writing columns for this page.

Last week, I came into the News’ building to edit my book review, as usual. My editor and I spent about 45 minutes tightening the language and streamlining the thesis, as usual. I left, went back to my room, did some homework and fell asleep.

I woke up the next morning to a message informing me that my column had not run because it contained too much profanity.

I think, at this point, I should tell you that the book was “Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing,” by Melissa Mohr. Mohr, a recently minted Stanford PhD, took a surprisingly academic approach to her subject, and the book’s almost slavish devotion to detail and historical context was perhaps my only substantive criticism. Mohr did make unflinching use of every swear word you could possibly think of, and many more you couldn’t.

In my review, I too repeated the words without caution.

One of these began with the letter "c" and ended with a "t."

Another started with the letter "f." Many of the book’s central arguments were about the evolution of these particular words.

I thought — and still think — it would be absurd to write about the history and politics of a word without using the word itself, or by using it only sparingly.

The News’ management disagreed (as did other editors).

Though I don’t want to parody their argument, I will attempt to state it here. They believed I was not merely profane in the review; I was excessively profane. I used words that truly offend many people. I used them throughout the entire column — I didn’t just isolate them in one paragraph or section, which might have been more palatable.

I met with the editor in chief and discussed the issue with him. I argued that this book was an important and original work by a respected academic, that it was my duty as a book reviewer to review important and original works and that to further stigmatize these words only gives them more power over us. I quoted the immortal Albus Dumbledore: “Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.” Besides, I pointed out, “Holy Sh*t” had been widely reviewed, swear words often included.

He responded that the words risked alienating readers with little justification. He said the News would consider printing swear words if they advanced dialogue on a relevant campus issue; he felt my review did not do that. Further, he felt that my use of the offensive words was gratuitous.

It seems to me that characterizing particular words as o ffensive , and therefore unsuitable for a SCOTT newspaSTERN per, is conforming to A Stern a disturbing Perspective standard of propriety.

Upon my soapbox on this page, I’d like to put the question out there: To what extent should a newspaper conform to the politics of respectability? What is problematic about the very concept of respectability in the first place? At what point does writing about offensive topics become offensive in and of itself? Is it important to consider that I, a man, was using the c-word and b-word?

I hope this column will cause someone to ask herself, What exactly is wrong with printing a swear word in a newspaper? It is, after all, how nearly all of us speak. By avoiding these words or by using euphemism, who exactly are we helping?

This is my opinion column, so obviously I cannot resist giving my opinion. I think that avoiding swear words for the sake of respectability, even in print, even in a newspaper, is ridiculous. “Respectability” in print or speech or decorum has always been a straitjacket that constrains any deviation from the status quo. It has always been a tool for those with power to police those without.

Further, to claim that the f-word or the c-word are offensive is to be selectively offended.

There is nothing inherently troubling about these strings of letters that make a sound.

Offense is different for different individuals. Offense is arbitrary. In the 19th century (as Mohr writes), “leg” and “trousers” were offensive. In the fourteenth century, the f-word was fine but “God’s bones” was vulgar. Just a few decades ago, actors basically couldn’t swear on television. History does not look too kindly on censorship for the sake of propriety or prudishness.

Words are political, and words are important. I just don’t know who exactly was served by censoring a review that merely stayed true to the language of the book itself. Without staying true to the language of a book about language, there’s no point in the book review. And I write a column of book reviews!

It was certainly the News’ right to refuse to print my review. But were they right to do so?

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For a better place

ive minutes from campus is a different world, one that not many Yalies know. A few weeks ago, I visited the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School on College and Crown Streets to observe a senior journalism class as part of an assignment for one of my courses. What I saw taught me that there’s still much work to be done for New Haven youth.

I walked into a room of about 12 students who were working independently on a variety of projects, from memoirs to journalistic reporting. The teacher asked a student to share her most recent piece with her classmates.

As she read, three of her peers chatted, two students had their heads down on the table, one student was asleep and a guy and a girl giggled as they commented on their classmates. Aside from three students who seemed somewhat engaged, most of the class largely ignored the presenter.

After the student shared her piece, the conversation shifted to Hong Kong’s protests, then to a discussion of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Only one student knew the content of the Constitution, and none had heard of the Declaration of Human Rights or

about the protests in Hong Kong.

I was struck by how isolated these students were from the world, and from what I thought was considered general knowledge for high school seniors.

During the discussion, one student pulled out crackers and began to eat. The teacher asked her to stop, and the student responded, “But I’m hungry,” and proceeded to put a cracker in her mouth. The bell rang and the classroom quickly emptied as the kids hurried to lunch. I spoke with the teacher after class and what she shared with me completely changed my perspective on what I had observed in the previous hour.

Over two-thirds of the class is on food stamps and come from low-income families. Many of these students are battling problems of their own. The girl who was eating crackers was actually hungry — she had no food at home — and the teacher felt that it was unnecessary to stop her from eating her crackers because of an arbitrary school rule. The boy who was sleeping had serious problems at home and always has trouble staying awake in class. The discipline problems I observed before suddenly seemed trivial in comparison to the real problems at hand.

She shared with me the story of how, one year, her students continually came in distraught, until she finally sat them down and asked what was wrong. What she heard shocked her. These students had lost parents, family, loved ones and friends to the increasing violence of the city that year. She was astounded by how little psychological support existed for students.

That year, her class put together a 200-page book called “A Better Place.” The book was a compilation of expressive poems, creative pieces, letters and drawings for the loved ones they’d lost.

Some students had seven entries, for the seven people they’d lost, and some had just one. Together they created an outlet for grief, and learned to heal as a community.

When I asked whether their book was for sale, she sighed and said, “Man, we published all these books and I don’t even use them. I don’t even have time to think about getting other people to use them.”

As I walked back to campus, I thought about the fact that, although the school was only five minutes from my dorm, it took me until my senior year to discover it. I suddenly felt terribly guilty. I began to read through a

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copy of “A Better Place.” I read the students’ words for their lost fathers, brothers, mothers, uncles and best friends. At the end of the book were student bucket lists that included their hopes to one day “Go to red lobster,” “See dad again in some way, shape or form” and “Say I love you and really mean it.”

The more I read, the more convinced I became that I had to do something. Perhaps I will volunteer my time to mentor students, perhaps I will promote and sell copies of “A Better Place” to put together a snack fund for her class, perhaps I will speak to the student groups I’m involved in to see what we can do.

I’ve worked with countless organizations whose mission it is to provide educational opportunities to students around the world, and yet I didn’t even bother to look at the students who could use our help here in New Haven. With all of the traveling we do to help students in far away worlds, what about the students right here at our doorsteps?

They’re in a completely different world from us as well, but they’re just five minutes away.

GRACE CHIANG is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact her at pingjung.chiang@yale.edu .

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Just disconnect L

ast Thursday, I opened my computer to do some reading before class and the unthinkable happened: It would not turn on. After charging it for an hour, holding down the power button periodically for ten-second increments and calling every member of my family twice in the hope that any of them would somehow be able to fix it from more than 300 miles away, I found myself late for class and still without a working computer.

I resolved to take it to the Apple store as soon as I had time, but with five hours of classes ahead of me, I knew that wouldn’t be until the end of the day at the earliest.

I struggled to copy down by hand the exhaustive notes I’m used to taking when typing and felt helpless in my Italian class when we were asked to find articles online. I didn’t know how to explain that my laptop was broken in Italian and I couldn’t turn to an online translator for assistance. It quickly became clear to me how much I rely on technology on a day-to-day basis; even to make an appointment at the Genius bar to get my computer fixed, I had to borrow a friend’s computer.

But after the initial adjust-

ment to taking handwritten notes for the first time since high school, I realized I was absorbing just as much, if not more, inforALLY mation than I DANIELS normally do. than Taking the Rather re g u rg i t a t Back Ally ing word-forword what my professors were saying onto Microsoft Word, I was summarizing their points in a few sentences, which forced me to listen more intently to their arguments.

I also learned the reliability of taking notes by hand. Though less efficient than typing and easier to lose, a notepad will not crash in the middle of a paper or freeze while you’re studying for an exam.

The absence of my computer also left me without any of the typical distractions during class that the Internet provides. I usually try to avoid using my computer for anything other than

taking notes during class, but I still occasionally fall victim to the temptation of checking my Facebook or returning an email during lecture. It’s easy to forget how disrespectful that act is to our professors, who spend hours preparing the lectures they teach each week and are so passionate about the material they are imparting to us. But we are also doing a disservice to ourselves. Each lecture we attend is worth a small fortune, and if we are spending the majority of our days sitting in class, we might as well make use of our money and time and stay focused on what is being taught. Not having a laptop in class makes it that much harder for you to stray from the lesson at hand.

When I finally took my computer to the Apple store, they said they would need to hold it for three days. I was forced into taking a break from technology — not just inside the classroom but outside as well.

Looking back, I found those three days to be a much-needed digital retreat. I clocked some much-needed face time with friends rather than communicating with them over Facebook. I spent my free time read-

ing or running errands rather than browsing through pictures posted by people I haven’t spoken to since elementary school.

We spend so much time staring at our computer screens, scrolling through our newsfeeds and typing keystrokes until our eyes hurt.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there’s a way to exist without such a desperate dependence on electronics.

Though a total break from technology isn’t always practical, a temporary respite — even if not totally voluntary — can be a necessary relief. My fondest childhood memories are from summers spent at camp miles away from phone towers and the wifi routers. The only way we could interact with each other was faceto-face. The only way we could stay in touch with our family and friends back home was by writing letters. A break from technology provides us with a breath of authenticity, pushing us to be more present and to find value in our immediate surroundings.

ALLY DANIELS is a junior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Mondays. Contact her at alexandra.daniels@yale.edu .

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“For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.” JAMES FORRESTAL FORMER US SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

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A previous version of the article “Tikkaway to open second location” misstated where Gopi Nair received his MBA. It also misstated Tikkaway’s weekend hours.

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A photo that ran with the WEEKEND article “The Sound of Silence” was credited to the wrong photographer. The photo was taken by Melanie Brigockas.

Protesters criticize U.S. global health priorities

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER Fewer than 24 hours after tests for Ebola on a patient at Yale-New Haven Hospital came back negative, students gathered outside the Yale School of Public Health to generate awareness of healthcare discrepancies between Africa and the United States.

The students, all members of the Yale Global Health and AIDS Coalition, held the demonstration to draw attention to cuts in federal global health programs that invest in healthcare in Africa. Protestors also questioned whether the media response to American Ebola cases is proportional to the severity of the epidemic in the U.S. “There has been so much media coverage about one Ebola case at Yale,” said YGHAC President Emily Briskin ’15. “We want to draw attention to the 9,000 cases in Africa getting seemingly little coverage.”

The five demonstrators — four Yale undergraduates and one public health student — stood outside the School of Public Health at 60 College St. at 9 a.m. on Friday. They held signs featuring critical messages — “Obama: Strengthen Health in Africa Now,” “4 cases in the US, 9000 in West Africa” and “African lives matter just as much as American lives do.”

Planning for the demonstration began on Thursday afternoon shortly after news outlets reported that a patient had been admitted to YNHH with Ebolalike symptoms, Briskin said.

“The topic of increasing funding to global health programs is always on our mind,” Briskin said. “We thought this was a prime opportunity to draw attention to this issue.”

The demonstration aimed to address recent actions in Washington that have undermined the U.S.’s ability to invest in African healthcare, including a $6 million cut from the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, Briskin said.

These cuts have coincided with the growing need for healthcare infrastructure in Africa during the ongoing Ebola epidemic. The weak healthcare systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone contributed to the escalation of the Ebola outbreak in those countries, said YGHAC member Teresa Logue ’15.

YGHAC Co-Founder, lecturer at Yale Law School and Co-Director of the Global Health Justice

Partnership Gregg Gonsalves ’11 GRD ’18 agreed, adding that the Ebola epidemic could have been contained if the health systems of the affected countries had been strong enough to identify, isolate and treat cases.

“Africa’s healthcare system appears to operate on a ‘damage control’ rather than a preventative system,” said Adedotun Ogunbajo SPH ’16. “By not having effective systems in place, emergency health situations such as the Ebola outbreak cannot be adequately addressed.”

The demonstration also criticized the media for its lack of coverage of the Ebola epidemic in Africa. American media focuses disproportionately on the few cases of Ebola in the U.S. despite the prevalence of the disease in West Africa, Gonsalves said.

Ogunbajo said the media also fails to focus on success stories, like those in Nigeria, a nation that managed to mobilize its public health resources and contain the disease. He added that although concerns about the cases in Texas are legitimate, the burden of the disease is still predominantly in Africa.

“While media coverage of the Ebola crisis in the United States is warranted and necessary, little attention to countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leone, where people are dying daily, is inexcusable,” Ogunbajo said.

Response to the demonstration has been largely positive, Briskin said, noting that the group has received emails and messages from students expressing their support for the largely neglected issue.

YGHAC hopes to take more action on this issue in the coming weeks. They will be calling on Sen. Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, to encourage fellow senators to increase funding for African healthcare systems, Briskin said.

Yale students can also play a role in fighting for improved public health policies, beginning by addressing healthcare inequities at home, Gonsalves said.

In an increasingly connected world, healthcare issues do not exist in isolation, he pointed out.

“Crumbling health systems thousands of miles away can have unexpected effects right where we live,” Gonsalves said.

“I think we all learned that lesson this week.”

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

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Members of the Yale Global Health and AIDS Coalition held a demonstration to draw attention to cuts in federal global health programs for Africa.

Af-Am House celebrates 45th anniversary

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND TRESA JOSEPH STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Ten years ago, Elaine Rene ’07 participated in festivities for the African-American Cultural House’s 35th Anniversary as a student. This past weekend, she returned to the house as an alumna and guest for the next decennial celebration.

Rene was among the hundreds of alumni who flocked to campus starting on Friday for the 45th Anniversary celebration, entitled “Inspiring Global 21th Century.” The three-day celebration included a discussion forum with the founders of the Af-Am House, a series of panels featuring notable alumni and a lecture from Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway.

Micah Jones ’16, president of the Black Student Alliance, said that the anniversary celebration was an avenue for students and alumni to discuss the potential for impact that African-American students have, both on campus and beyond. “[The event] is an opportunity to come back and reflect, not just on what Yale can be doing to prepare us for the

future, but also what we can do together once we graduate,” she said.

Holloway said the changing demographic of students that identify as African-American necessitates ongoing discussions on identity and integration within the cultural house.

These discussions should also be going on across campus, and should reflect the importance of fostering a culturally aware environment, Holloway added.

“The world is not homogenous, the world is everything, and if we aren’t prepared to understand that world by having that world here, we’re not fulfilling our educational mission,” he said.

Over the past 45 years, several groups have been formed under the umbrella of the AfricanAmerican community, including the Black Men’s Union, the Black Student Alliance and Yale’s Black Women Coalition.

Rene said ongoing conversations at the house have focused on topics such as the benefits and drawbacks of having a cultural center, access to financial aid and divisions within the black diaspora. Although discussion is positive, Rene

said, she said the fact that the focal issues have not changed also means they have not been resolved.

[The event] is an opportunity to come back and reflect … [on] what we can do together.

MICAH JONES ’16 President, Black Student Alliance “It’s good to see how that conversation is evolving, but you could also be concerned that those concerning themes continue to be there,” she said Three of the six students and alumni interviewed said they have noticed a growth in the number of leadership positions for women within the AfricanAmerican community, particularly among organizations like the Black Student Alliance and Yale African Students Association. The Yale Black Women’s Coalition also greatly contributed to this development, they added.

But three students said they

were dissatisfied with the scarce number of black females occupying leadership roles in the Yale administration.

“It’s not like there aren’t black women that are qualified to be in those positions,” Alexis Halyard ’16 said.

Cora Daniels ’97, one of the alumni who served on panels throughout the weekend, said black females occupy a distinct space in society with its own challenges.

“I am not just a Yale alum, I’m not just a Yale black alum — I am a Yale black female alum. That is a very specific experience and is something that should never be overlooked,” she said.

Dara Huggins ’17 said she hopes that the African-American Cultural House will able to greater influence the larger Yale community over the next 45 years. She said she hoped for more discussion about the “black experience.”

The first African-American student graduated from Yale in 1857.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and TRESA JOSEPH at tresa.joseph@yale.edu .

Despite strife, study abroad numbers remain constant COMPARISON APPLICANT BREAKDOWN BY PROGRAM LOCATION

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BY JON VICTOR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite international turmoil, student interest in the University’s study abroad programs remained consistent this year.

Yale Study Abroad received 90 applications last Wednesday night for the Spring 2015 semester, a number consistent with last year’s applications, according to Director of Study Abroad Tina Kirk. Last spring, the department sent 82 students abroad to over 25 different countries. However, because the applications are not binding, it is not clear exactly how many students will end up actually traveling abroad for the spring 2015 semester, Kirk said.

Still, despite turbulent situations from Ukraine to Liberia, she warned against making decisions to study abroad based on media reports that may be sensationalized.

“I think that it’s incumbent upon all of us to actually pay attention to the news sources that we’re reading to try to get a clearer and better picture of what’s actually happening and sometimes we may not know,” Kirk said. “We’re not there, and the news may be actually very balanced about what’s happening in a region. It’s hard to say

when you’re not on the ground.”

According to Kirk, there were three, two and six participants last year in programs in Israel, Russia and Africa, respectively.

This year, there were four, one and five applications for those locations.

After violence broke along the Ukrainian-Russian border, the State Department advised U.S. citizens to avoid large public demonstrations in Russia, noting that U.S. diplomatic facilities have been a common target for protests.

Now that [Russia is] … a bit more applicable to world affairs, people might be more interested.

SYDNEY TREUER ’15 As of Sept. 10, the U.S. State Department has asked that potential travelers take into account “the risks of traveling to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza due to the complex security environment there, and the potential for violence and renewed hostilities.”

And last week, the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention advised against non-essential travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea because of the Ebola virus disease outbreak.

Still, there was no general consensus among students and faculty interviewed whether current events in high-profile regions like Israel, Russia and Africa would impact study abroad enrollment.

Folake Ogunmola ’15 said she believes that students already interested in studying abroad will not allow current events to color their decisions.

Likewise, Josh Altman ’17 said he believes that study abroad enrollment would not be significantly affected.

Others suggested that recent tension between the U.S. and Russia would make it a more interesting environment for academic study.

“My prediction is that there will probably be more [participants],” said Sydney Treuer ’15, who spent all of last year studying in Irkutsk. “Now that it’s interesting and maybe a bit more applicable to politics and world affairs, people might be more interested.”

P ro fe sso r Co n s ta n t i n e Muravnik, a senior lector in Russian who runs the Yale Summer Session in St. Petersburg, said he would not be sur-

prised if interest in Russian study abroad programs rose because of the geopolitical tensions.

The recent conflict between Hamas and Israel might have also increased student interest, professor Shiri Goren, a senior lector in the Modern Hebrew Program, said.

“I do know some students who are as interested [in studying in Israel] as they were before or perhaps even more interested because the area becomes more attractive to some of them,” Goren said.

While students can still travel to Russia and Israel, Yale has restricted travel for Yale College students to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria due to the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease. According to the Center for International and Professional Experience website, the University will not fund or award credit for undergraduate work in any country to which the U.S. State Department advises U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel.

Morocco and South Africa, the only two African nations to receive spring semester study abroad applications, both have zero confirmed cases of Ebola.

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

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“Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.”

P.J. O’ROURKE AMERICAN POLITICAL SATIRIST

Few attend NRA event DeLauro rallies Dems NRA FROM PAGE 1 suggested that campuses like Yale invite pro-gun candidates to visit and host firearm safety classes in order to boost involvement in the NRA. Of the handful of students attending, most identified themselves as “shooters” — in other words, firearm users.

NRA member Emily Taylor ’16 said that while the event went well, she was disappointed that so few students came.

“I kind of wished they would have had a larger turnout. It was well-advertised so I’m not sure why more people didn’t come,” she said. She added that people who are opposed to guns would not have felt uncomfortable at the event because the facts were delivered respectfully, without addressing polarizing issues outside of gun control.

Will McGrew ’18, a member of the Yale College Democrats, said even if he was aware of the event, he would not have attended.

“Even though I support the Second Amendment, I don’t want any involvement with an organization that opposes background checks and restrictions on military-style weapons,” he

said.

Still, McGrew said the group “had every right to speak” on campus.

During the presentation, Kipke alluded to “trouble” regarding Connecticut’s recent gun control laws. In April 2013, Gov. Dannel Malloy signed a bill into law that mandates universal background checks before purchasing or borrowing a firearm, adds more firearms to the list of state-prohibited assault weapons and bans magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

The law was passed in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Though Kipke expressed opposition to this legislation, Yale College Republicans President Andrea Barragan ’16 emphasized that the visit was not planned as a response to Malloy’s legislation. She did note, however, that voters should keep in mind that in casting a ballot this November, they are selecting which candidate will uphold their Second Amendment rights.

While the NRA stresses no political party affiliations, members of the Dems said that they

do not feel that the organization is nonpartisan. DemsPresident Becca Ellison ’15 said she was not surprised when she heard that the NRA was doing an event with the GOP because both organizations tend to pursue firearm deregulation.

“The Republican Party has closely aligned itself with the NRA in opposing even the most basic gun safety legislation,” she said. “I think people are tired of the obstructionism and misinformation when it comes to gun safety and want to move to productive conversations about how to prevent unnecessary gun violence.”

Both she and Barragan agreed that a better understanding of firearms and their use would be key in creating productive legislation moving forward.

When it was founded in 1871, the NRA worked with the New Haven-based Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which was the largest industry in New Haven. Now, the plant has moved to Utah, and Connecticut has some of the most progressive gun safety laws in the country.

Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .

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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s impromptu visit to campus was an effort to introduce herself to freshmen.

DELAURO FROM PAGE 1 funded Republican challenger — former high school math teacher James Brown — DeLauro is likely to win a 13th term in the House of Representatives this November.

Carlin Hudson ’18, Hannah Coy ’18 and Kristina Kim ’18 were eating hamburgers when DeLauro approached them. She asked where they were from and how they were adjusting to Yale and urged them to engage with New Haven.

Interviewed after DeLauro walked away, all three said they were glad for the chance to meet her, but had no idea she represented New Haven in Congress until meeting her.

“We all just got here a month ago,” Hudson said.

DeLauro spent about 15 minutes mingling with students. Not every freshman was unaware of her reputation.

Will McGrew ’18 was on his way to get in the line for burgers and hotdogs when he saw the woman he calls his “idol.”

The New Orleans native became familiar with DeLauro when he was working for Planned Parenthood back home — the congresswoman is one of Congress’s strongest supporters of reproductive rights. He shook her hand and thanked her for her

work in the House of Representatives.

“I love her,” McGrew said.

“She fights against all kinds of attempts to cut family planning funding. She’s literally one of the most important people in Congress.”

To most of McGrew’s classmates, however, DeLauro’s name means little. Of 60 freshmen surveyed on Old Campus after DeLauro’s visit, just two said they knew who represents New Haven in Congress.

DeLauro said her lack of wide name-recognition at Yale doesn’t bother her, but she hopes students will take time to learn about issues affecting New Haven and Connecticut.

“I understand the ties to home, but where you live and the quality of life where you live is important as well,” DeLauro said.

In a brief speech to the Dems just after she arrived on campus, DeLauro thanked the organization for providing her with the opportunity to meet students.

She also praised the Democratic Party more broadly.

“Fundamentally, people believe the government has the opportunity to make a difference, and that’s where Democrats are on the issues,” she said.

She also noted that election day is only two weeks away, leav-

ing a crucial window of time for candidates to make their case to voters. Though she said she is confident Malloy will retain his office, a poll released by Quinnipiac University on Oct. 8 found him locked in a dead heat with Foley.

Of the 60 freshmen surveyed, 22 could name Malloy as Connecticut’s governor.

While DeLauro spoke to freshmen on Old Campus, the team of about 15 canvassers from the Yale Dems spread out across residential colleges to visit the suites of registered Connecticut Democrats and urge support for Malloy.

Jackie Qiu ’18 estimated she knocked on between 40 and 50 doors. Only about 10 people were home to hear the Dems’ pitch, but Qiu said those who were home were responsive. Qui, who is from Ann Arbor, Mich., said she was not surprised that so few of her classmates had heard of DeLauro and Malloy.

“It’s really easy to get absorbed in the Yale bubble,” Qiu said. “It’s understandable.”

DeLauro represents Connecticut’s 3rd District, which includes New Haven, Middletown and Stratford.

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

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“If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.”

WOODY ALLEN AMERICAN ACTOR

Museum screens home films

Law, public health come together at conference

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Many attendees who submitted film to be screened at Home Movie Day had not seen their films in decades.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Images flickered onto the screen as a reel of film spun through an old projector at the New Haven Museum.

Home Movie Day, an international celebration of amateur films, returned to New Haven on Saturday for the first time in seven years.

Established in 2002 by an international group of film archivists, this year’s event was held on Oct. 18 in hundreds of towns and cities around the world. The project seeks to both educate people about proper film care and to offer a chance for the community to view local home movies, said event co-organizers Molly Wheeler and Brian Meacham. Nine people submitted a total of 20 individual home movie reels to be screened at the event.

“Home Movie Day really brings together historians, librarians, film archivists, film enthusiasts and [audiovisual] geeks to create an environment in which film can be safely screened,” said Meacham, who also works as the archive and special collections manager at the Yale Film Studies Center.

Because many attendees of HMD lack the equipment to view old films, the screenings were the first time in many years they had seen the footage, Meacham said. The movies were all silent and shot between the 1930s and 1970s — an era before the widespread use of video or digital cameras.

Peggi Ford Cosgrove, a New London resident and attendee of HMD,

said she did not know what to do with her father’s old home movies until she heard about the New Haven event.

Because her projector was broken, she had not seen the footage since the 1970s.

“In some ways it’s restored my childhood to me,” Cosgrove said.

Both Meacham and Wheeler emphasized the historical value of preserving home movies. When a film is transferred to a digital format, it can often get damaged, Meacham said.

The film can be cropped improperly or transferred at the wrong speed.

When cared for properly however, film outlasts other mediums like VHS and digital video.

The home movies were shown from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., with subject matter ranging from people visiting an amusement park in the 1950s to a trip to Niagara Falls in 1932. Philip Rosenthal ’67, who both photographed and participated in HMD, showed and narrated his own home movie from the early 1980s. He said home movies record things with a thoughtful eye and are created not just for the moment, but for future viewing.

One movie from the New Haven Museum’s collection showed a 1938 festival in the Yale Bowl where New Haven Public School students performed dances and gymnastics in traditional colonial costumes.

The last showing was the home movie footage of an attendee named Holly Green.

“Oh my God, oh my God,” said Green as the Regular-8 film began to roll and the image of her grandfather

showed on the screen. Despite never having viewed the footage herself, Green described the black and white film over a microphone to the rest of the audience. The movie showed her brother learning how to walk and ride a bike, her childhood friends playing in a sandbox in the 1930s and even Green herself in a bonnet as a baby.

“That little two year old now has seven grandchildren,” Green said, gesturing to a small boy on the screen. When the footage cut out and the screen went white, the audience clapped to show their approval.

A display table at the event offered a variety of pamphlets, including instructions on how to care for family videotapes and digital video files and a timeline showing the evolution of motion picture technology.

The organizers also created a bingo card, where attendees could mark off certain moments during the movies, such as “decorating Christmas tree” and “RV/trailer.”

Meacham characterized home movies as a kind of popular or folk art, adding that the films capture the unique and unvarnished daily life of their makers in a way that no other medium does. He added that the advent of the iPhone has made the mundane aspects of life less interesting and less worthy of documentation.

Founded in 1862, The New Haven Museum is located at 114 Whitney Ave. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Colleges pilot Yale Degree Audit

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER This fall, the University Registrar’s Office is trying to bring Yale College into the 21st century.

Starting this month, all Berkeley and Morse college students will have the opportunity to pilot Yale Degree Audit, a new online system designed to track students’ progress toward a bachelor’s degree by showing which graduation requirements their classes have fulfilled. Though the pilot program officially began last spring when the Registrar’s Office worked with the Morse and Berkeley College deans and 20 students on an initial version of the software, it was expanded to all undergraduates in both colleges in early October.

If the pilot succeeds, University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski said, it may be extended to more Yale College students in spring 2015. “[The Yale College Dean’s Office] and the [University Registrar’s Office] believe that advising can be enhanced for students and their advisers by providing a shared program to count courses [and] track degree requirements,” Olszewski wrote in an email.

“A degree audit system can make this change a reality and could perhaps replace the paper academic record in the future.”

The Degree Works software that runs the online system lists relevant student information including class year, major, GPA and faculty advisors, and even details such as country of citizenship and sports team, if applicable.

It also enumerates the distributional requirements for each year and indicates whether these have been fulfilled.

One section, called “Course History,” lists every course a student has taken, any distributional credits associated with the courses and the grades the student received.

The system also enumerates any acceleration credits that students may have transferred from summer courses or classes they completed before matriculating at Yale.

The current, first phase of the pilot does not include a system for tracking the requirements of a student’s major.

Though the pilot program did not begin until spring 2014, the University licensed the software several years ago, Olszewski noted, explaining that the implementation has been deliberately slow so that administrators can be absolutely confident in the program before it becomes the system of record for degree requirements.

Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway said that the program will greatly improve the college’s efficiency, but noted that it is crucial to ensure that it does not lessen the time that advisers spend with students.

“It would be a travesty if we developed online systems that students felt took the place of advising,” he said.

“That’s wrong.”

Olszewski said that one of Yale Degree Audit’s goals is to allow students and advisers to focus on choosing courses and determining goals instead of tracking requirements.

The system also aims to make it easier for directors of undergraduate study and registrars to keep track of their majors’ progress towards completing their degrees, Olszewski said.

Several professors and students interviewed said that the system will be helpful, especially when it begins to track major requirements as well.

Professor Roman Kuc, the DUS of Electrical Engineering, explained that he expects the system will be especially helpful for the engineering department.

“Once implemented, such a system would especially be useful for the DUS in advising engineering majors, who have to take as many as 23 courses to satisfy the accredited program requirements,” he said. “Having an online program would eliminate the many paper forms that need DUS and adviser approvals.”

Assistant DUS for Astronomy Victoria Misenti said that currently, she keeps track of each astronomy major’s progress towards completion manually — a time-consuming system with great potential for human error — and that she would welcome an automated system to compile all the information in a more efficient and standardized way.

An online system listing requirements for each department and how

many classes had been completed would be incredibly helpful, Graham Ambrose ’18 said, especially for a freshman exploring potential majors. He added that current method — in which students must refer to the Bluebook or to a department’s website to check a major’s requirements — is inefficient.

Petr Vitkovskiy ’16, a pre-med philosophy major, said that keeping track of all of his obligatory classes would be much simpler with an online system, especially given the specificity and quantity of his requirements.

“For me, the biggest plus is just the convenience of it,” Christian Soler ’16, a Morse College student who has used the system, said. “Rather than having to check transcripts or think back to what your schedule was like freshman spring, it’s all just crammed into one place with nice, bright red letters that point out what requirements you’re missing.”

Berkeley college student Aileen Huang ’17, who has used the pilot, said that as a computer science major, she has felt especially frustrated with many of Yale’s online platforms, which she considers antiquated and not very user-friendly.

However, some students who have used the pilot were less thrilled.

Berkeley college student Eugene Kim ’16 said that other than its online availability, the system does not seem to offer anything more than an unofficial transcript does. Still, he noted that the current system is only a work in progress.

Neyen Romano ’18 said that while the program may be helpful in later years, he thinks it is “not much use to freshmen” whose requirements are relatively simple and easy to track.

The University’s Registrar’s Office has also begun discussing beginning a pilot of the degree audit system for the Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Olszewski noted.

Columbia University students use a similar system called Degree Audit Report to track their progress in completing core requirements.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

Experts from the legal and medical fields gathered on campus this past weekend to discuss the constitutionality of the Food and Drug Administration.

On Friday and Saturday, the Yale Law School, in collaboration with the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, hosted a conference entitled “Public Health in the Shadow of the First Amendment.” The event, according to the conference organizers, brought together legal and public health experts to discuss the intersection of their fields, and focused on the difficulties that arise when health concerns conflict with First Amendment principles. Through a series of panels and keynote addresses, experts ranging from a state secretary of health and mental hygiene to a Ninth Circuit Judge to a distinguished constitutional scholar, focused on a consistent theme — for the past 60 years, legal decisions concerning public health may have violated the First Amendment. “[Reconciling these concerns] will have a very significant effect on the future of healthcare in this country,” YLS Dean Robert Post said.

According to panelists, many of the restrictions placed on the drug industry may be a direct violation of the First Amendment. Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern illustrated the issue by speaking about the Ebola scare in New Haven, in which a Yale graduate student was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with Ebola-like symptoms. In that instance, HIPAA — a law that protects the privacy of medical patients — prevented medical personnel from disclosing the names of the affected students, as well as identifying details. It was an incident that directly implicated free speech issues, he said.

“This is a very serious issue — not just playing around with the words of the Constitution,” Alpern said.

The panels conducted during the conference included discussions of FDA regulation, health behaviors in children, professional conduct and the intersection between democratic values and scientific inquiry.

In a panel focused on the competing aims of the First Amendment and drug regulations, Yale law professor and Global Health Justice Partnership Director Amy Kapczynski said there are questions about whether the two inherently contradict or complement each other. Protections afforded to consumers against misleading advertisements,

though a boon for the field of public health, may actually be unconstitutional, those on the panel said.

Informed consent laws — which require doctors who perform abortions to convey to their patients specific information about the fetus that is often geared toward discouraging pregnancy terminations — could very well be hindering doctors’ freedom of speech, said Joshua Sharfstein, Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene for the state of Maryland.

“Effective medical care requires a special kind of trust between doctor and patient,” Sharfstein said. “Unfortunately, recent decisions are undermining this trust.”

The conference also focused on the extent to which scientific research, as currently conducted, is democratic.

When scientists conduct studies, they are either sponsored by the federal government or private institutions. In the case of the latter, scientists are required to sign stringent non-disclosure agreements, preventing them from reporting findings like adverse side effects and particular demographics who respond negatively to the drug. Though nondisclosure agreements are also used in federally-funded studies, commercial agreements are much stricter. According to panelists, they can be so strict that they may actually violate the First Amendment.

Wendy Wagner FES ’84 LAW ’87, an environmental policy-making scholar, said that although it is hard to quantify how pervasive commercial suppression of scientific results is. Some findings, she said, are delayed or not reported at all because of legal barriers to free speech.

“Some scholars have avoided entering certain controversial fields of inquiry altogether,” she said.

Panelists consistently emphasized the conference’s unique perspective.

It is rare that legal, medical and public health experts gather in the same room to talk about their fields, they said.

As a result, it did not previously occur to experts in these fields that these problems existed, they added.

“The origins of this conference would have been inconceivable 30 years ago,” Post said.

The conference was sponsored by the Information Society Project, the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

Yale-NUS pushes global recruitment

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER In their effort to recruit more students for the still-new Yale-NUS College, admissions officers from YaleNUS will travel to over 40 countries.

The recruitment effort attempts to raise awareness about the college beyond Singapore and New Haven.

Yale-NUS’s recruitment cycle runs from March until November, YaleNUS Admissions Dean Kristin Greene said. On these recruitment trips, admissions officers give presentations on Yale-NUS and meet with students, families and college counselors to talk about the school’s curriculum.

In addition, Greene said, throughout the recruitment season, admissions officers host college counselors from around the world. On these visits, the counselors to meet with faculty and students and attend sample classes. Recruiting globally is a chief aim of the admissions office, Greene said.

Currently, she added, the school’s 320 students come from 41 different nationalities and six continents.

“We’re really unique in that we’re 40 percent international, and that’s pretty much unheard of elsewhere,” Greene said. “We’re really looking to build a global community.”

The admissions office at Yale-NUS also enlists the college’s students in spreading the word about Yale-NUS. Greene said that by telling people in their hometowns about Yale-NUS, students can influence others to apply.

Yale-NUS professor Amber Carpenter, who sits on the school’s Admissions Faculty Committee, added that in the future, the geographic makeup of the college is likely to shift.

“In the future we may have more students, say, from Europe than North America,” Carpenter said. “At the moment the plan is for the Singaporean constituency to decline slightly, which will increase the plan for people coming from around the world.”

Walter Yeo NUS ’18 said he chose to come to Yale-NUS because it gave him the unique opportunity to pursue a legal education and a liberal arts education simultaneously, but he has also been impressed by the school’s diversity.

Greene said the school aims to increase its class size from 190 for the class of 2019 to 250 per class. This will result in the expansion of the college to about 1,000 students in total.

We’re really unique in that we’re 40 percent international, and that’s pretty much unheard of elsewhere.

KRISTIN GREENE Yale-NUS Admissions Dean Still, faculty interviewed said they do not want this expanding class size to affect the small class format of the curriculum. Yale-NUS professor Brian McAdoo said the school’s 10:1 faculty ratio and the small discussions that this ratio makes possible are essential to the Yale-NUS experience. Seminars are capped at 17 students, he said.

But Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said the expansion of the student body will be complemented by an increase in faculty by 100 members over the next five years. Therefore, other areas of the college are expanding to meet the demands of having more students on campus, he said.

Yale-NUS professor Shaffique Adam said that going forward, it will be important to strongly support the need-blind admissions policy and highlight it to potential students.

Yale-NUS welcomed its first class in 2013.

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

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“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.”

JESSICA SAVITCH AMERICAN TELEVISION BROADCASTER

Police investigating robbery of Webster Bank MAP SCENE OF THE CRIME Corner of Elm Street and Orange Street corner where the robber ran 2. and red dye pack exploded

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121 Elm St. New Haven County Courthouse location where robber left red dye on a fence

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80 Elm St. Webster Bank location where the robbery occurred

JILLY HOROWITZ/PRODUCTION & DESIGN EDITOR, JENNIFER HA/PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

WEBSTER FROM PAGE 1 and Waterbury Police Department detectives are working together to investigate both robberies.

Images from security footage and descriptions from bank officials identify the suspect for the Webster Bank robbery as a black man, approximately six feet tall.

The images also reveal that the suspect wore thick-framed eyeglasses and gray sweatpants. The images show that the man wore

a gray sweatshirt with the word “Columbia” printed on the front.

After reading the note, the teller gave the robber an unspecified amount of cash. The bundle of money contained a red dye pack, which exploded on the suspect as he fled from the bank to the corner of Elm and Orange Streets. The red dye stained the suspect’s clothing and the stolen cash.

Hartman said that while tracking the suspect police found some scattered cash. In

a nearby alleyway, the police recovered more red-stained cash as well as the suspect’s clothing.

Hartman added that the NHPD forensic unit also collected evidence from the scene, the specifics of which were not revealed in the email.

The police were able to track the suspect to the rear of the New Haven County Courthouse at 121 Elm St., where they found red dye on a fence that they suspect he climbed.

The police also used the K-9

unit to track the robber, but the police dog sent to track the suspect lost his scent several blocks away from the courthouse.

Hartman said the loss of a scent trail indicates that the suspect may have continued in a bus or vehicle.

Barr said the police interviewed all of the bank’s employees present at the time of the robbery, but she did not provide further comment due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.

Following the robbery, the bank was temporarily closed as detectives worked inside. A sign posted on the front door informed visitors that the bank was closed due to an emergency.

The bank reopened to customers on Friday.

Police tape blocked off the area surrounding the bank as officers and detectives carried out their investigation. Red dye from the exploding dye pack could be seen on the side of an Orange Street building.

Hartman said the police are encouraging people who can identify the suspect or have information that could help detectives to contact the NHPD. Calls to the police may be made anonymously, he added.

Webster Bank signed a sponsorship agreement with Yale University Athletics last February, designating Webster as “The Official Bank of Yale Athletics.”

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

Forte pioneered a novel approach to music theory FORTE FROM PAGE 1 sible for the development of music theory in the U.S. as a scholarly, as well as a pedagogical discipline,” said Patrick McCreless, a professor of music theory at the music school.

Forte was born Dec. 23, 1926 in Portland. After serving in the Pacific with the American Navy during World War II, Forte returned to the United States, where he received his Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University with the aid of the GI Bill. Before assuming tenure at Yale, Forte taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

Daniel Harrison, the Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory in the department of Music, said that Forte’s work, “The Structure of Atonal Music,” remains one of the most important texts in music theory today and draws greatly upon his use of computer-aided research techniques.

“He achieved his stature and influence...by writing brilliant and original scholarship (mostly in the areas of post-tonal theory, tonal theory and American popular song) [and]by creating and fostering institutions that sustain the field,” said Joseph Straus MUS ’81, a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. “He was a founder and editor of the Journal of Music Theory, still published at Yale, and a founder and the first president of the Society for Music Theory.”

During his 45 years at Yale, Forte served as primary adviser for over 70 doctorates. Harrison said that with fellow professor Claude V. Palisca, Forte was instrumental in promoting a novel approach to the music theory Ph.D., one that emphasized teaching and a broad basis in both contemporary and historical repertories.

“When, as a student, I knew him in the early 1980s, he was a formal and commanding presence, with a very dry sense of humor,” Harrison added. “Most of all, he was extraordinarily generous with time for students outside of class, in office hours, optional sections and even a weekly lunch at Commons.”

Despite Forte’s retirement in 2004, his legacy continues to inspire students still studying music theory.

Tahirih Motazedian MUS ’17 said that Forte’s work has had a major influence on the modern music theory profession.

“I do not think I exaggerate when I speak for the field in saying that Allen Forte is a legend — an inspirational force — for us,” said Stefanie Acevedo MUS ’18. “He was one of the first theorists that I embraced in my early studies, and his work inspired me to become a music theorist.”

Forte is survived by his wife, Madeleine Forte, her sons and her grandchildren.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu and GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

KEN YANAGISAWA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Allen Forte, a former Yale music theory professor who passed away on Thursday, wrote one of the most important texts in music theory. He worked at Yale for 45 years.

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“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” ERNEST RUTHERFORD BRITISH PHYSICIST

Libraries digitize papyrus collection

Physics Olympiad hosts high schoolers

BY GEORGE SAUSSY STAFF REPORTER

McCarthy said prior to digitalization, scholars had to come to the Beinecke to see the materials. Now, researchers will be able to view the material remotely and begin their research — regardless of where they are in the world.

Zyats said the protocol for conservation is fairly standard, but she spoke with representatives from libraries around the world to learn more about treatments tailored to specific types of papyri.

“Conservation is a continuum of options,” McCarthy said.

She added that these options are dependent upon the types of papyri in the collection. Zyats, for instance, has worked at Yale with cartonnages, which are layers of plastered papyri — often recycled fragments of text — used in the construction of mummies’ masks and body coverings.

Other sorts of papyri, from more conventional sources, were folded and twisted when discovered, Dobbin-Bennett said. She added that excavators would often hold the fragments together with packing tape to ensure pieces were not lost — though pieces often were not in proper alignment.

The earliest papyri uncovered thus far date to 2560–2550 B.C. and were found on the coast of the Red Sea.

How many bananas would it take to fit around the state of Connecticut? High schoolers at Yale’s 17th annual Physics Olympiad Competition gathered this past weekend to figure it out.

On Saturday, 200 high school students from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts descended on Sloane Physics Lab to join in a competition designed to test students’ functional understanding of physics. The Olympiad, which started in 1998, began as an effort to get more high school students interested in physics.

“We do it because we all really love science and physics and we really want to share that,” said physics professor Steven Irons, who manages the physics department’s instructional labs and directs the event.

In all, 50 teams from 39 schools competed.

Students were split into teams of four and competed in each of five events. The events were all focused on getting students to practice the skills needed in the world of experimental physics.

There was no charge to compete, and lunch was provided at the competition — schools only had to provide transportation.

“We wanted to put as low a barrier as possible to come,” Irons said.

Each competition provided students with a different problem. Students predicted where a ball rolling off a ramp would hit the ground, deduced the weight of an object using only a ruler and a cup of water and calculated the number of bananas necessary to encircle the state. The latter was the department’s requisite Fermi quiz, named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who was known for asking surreal and ridiculous questions. The Fermi quiz, for example, was meant to teach students order of magnitude approximations. It also made students think about what they should expect in an answer.

“A big part of science is when you get a number, you ask yourself, ‘Is that reasonable?’” Irons said.

Corey Adams GRD ’17 said he had been a part of planning the event since the beginning of the semester. The ramp problem proposed to students was a modified version of an idea he had come up with in response to a department email soliciting problems. According to Adams, many of the high schoolers had more accurate predictions in the ramp problem than some graduate students who had tried it before.

While the competitions were being scored, students had the option of attending a lecture on cosmology by physics professor John Harris, and a few physics demonstrations. The demonstrations featured a thermal imaging camera and a smoke ring generator, as well as a fire extinguisher that propelled a tricycle.

Members of Newtownian Physics, a team of juniors and seniors from Newtown, Connecticut, said they enjoyed coming to Yale and participating.

Irons said that planning for the event had been going on since September, although fewer faculty members were involved this year.

The awards ceremony was held in Sterling Chemistry Laboratory.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

Contact GEORGE SAUSSY at george.saussy@yale.edu .

AMANDA BUCKINGHAM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Yale’s papyrus collection is undergoing an extensive conservation and digitalization process. Prioritizing the order is based on readability and scholarly interest.

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER Ensconced within the Conservation and Exhibit Services Laboratory at Sterling Memorial Library, a twoperson team pieces together fragments of the ancient past.

These artifacts are part of Yale’s papyrus collection, which is currently undergoing extensive conservation and digitalization. After Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s previous papyrologist — who oversaw the University’s papyrus collection — left in 1997, the post remained vacant until about two years ago. While all papyri are in a stable condition at the Beinecke, some require additional conservation treatment. In light of the library’s renovation — beginning May 2015 — current papyrologist Tasha Dobbin-Bennett and Assistant Chief Conservator Paula Zyats have been tasked with conserving items in the collection. All of Yale’s papyri are to be digitized by the time of the renovation.

“There are folders full of scarylooking piles of crumbly papyrus,” said Ellen Doon, the Beinecke’s manuscript unit head. “With the renovation coming up I really wanted to get some control over these things before we move them around.”

Dobbin-Bennett said the papyrus collection, which spans 13 different languages and over a thou-

sand years of history, contains about 7,000 items. Though the collection is broad, she added that it depicts elements of everyday life, such as correspondence between husbands and wives.

Established in 1889 with the donation of three papyri from textile supplier Jesse Haworth, Yale’s papyrus collection is one of the oldest in the country. Doon said the last acquisition in the collection was in the mid-1990s.

Doon said previous papyrologists worked on conserving the sprawling collection, but the most recent acquisition was largely untouched due to lack of appropriate staff.

However, Dobbin-Bennett said all papyri have been in a stable condition and have been particularly well treated because of the Beinecke’s temperature and humidity control system — which surpasses the standards at other universities.

“At the Beinecke, the [papyrus] collection is treated like art,” she added.

Prioritizing the order in which papyri are conserved is reflective of readability, scholarly interests and unique or unusual text, Doon said.

She added that the work conducted on the papyri is not too costly in terms of the materials used. The main expense is time, she said.

Dobbin-Bennett said she works on stabilizing the papyri, realigning the fibers so that the text is leg-

ible and the piece is structurally sound. She said she uses a reversible adhesive in a conservative manner, employing small amounts of new material and moisture to join the fragments.

The field of papyrology changes with technology. It’s not static — we’re adapting and changing.

CHRISTINE MCCARTHY Chief Conservator “The field of papyrology changes with technology,” Chief Conservator Christine McCarthy said. “It’s not static — we’re adapting and changing.”

Improvements in technology have also allowed the collection to be more accessible. While McCarthy said the papyri collection was one of the first available for online viewing, many of the images were taken in the late 1980s and 1990s — and some papyri have never been imaged.

All papyri are to be associated with high-resolution images before the Beinecke’s renovation, making the collection completely accessible, Dobbin-Bennett said.

Ash & Honey opening warms Morse buttery

BY KELSI CAYWOOD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At its grand opening in the Morse Buttery this past Saturday, Ash & Honey became the latest addition to Yale’s pop-up restaurant scene.

Y Pop-Up, an undergraduate umbrella organization that helps organize student-led eateries in residential colleges, spearheaded the new eatery — its third in the last month.

Earlier this fall, Y Pop-Up’s leadership auditioned potential chefs to join the Ash & Honey cooking team, and four were then selected to head up the new pop-up based on the idea of a gastropub — a pub setting with high-quality food. On Saturday night, Ash & Honey’s initial menu featured a range of dishes, including a honey cake dessert, a shaved poppy seed salad and a steak selection, among other choices. The meals include locally sourced, seasonal and fresh ingredients, according to the cooking staff.

“The menu is focused on cooking the food you missed,” Anna Lipin ’18, one of the gastropub’s business managers, said.

Ash & Honey drew a significant crowd during its grand opening. Approximately 40 students attended the eatery,and 10 parties were placed on the waitlist for the evening, according to Lipin. She added that reserva-

tions were filled within one hour of being posted on the gastropub’s Facebook page.

In response to the strong showing on opening night, she said that the team would offer a more streamlined and updated reservations system in the upcoming weeks. The gastropub also intends to add additional seating to the Saturday night set-up. Though Y Pop-Up cofounder Kay Teo ’16 and other members noted that the Morse buttery is smaller than other Y Pop-Up venues, a communal table for walk-ins will likely be added to the seating area.

Our ultimate goal is for even one customer to look back … and remember one of our dishes.

MICHAEL PARK ’17 Ash & Honey Head Chef Y Pop-Up cofounder Lucas Sin ’15 said that the buttery offers a unique vibe when compared with the settings of Y PopUp’s eateries in other residential colleges, lending itself to a more intimate experience than a space like the Davenport Dive.

“Personally, I find Ash & Honey’s gastropub environment to be

unique in creating a chic, classy feel suitable for a Saturday night out with friends,” said Charles Wong ’18, a business manager at House of York, the eatery in Davenport. “Given the limitations on how extensively the space can be transformed for the night — due to the pop-up nature of the project — the lighting, table arrangement, selections of furniture and music play a big role in determining the environment.”

Wong added that the House of York in Davenport focuses on delivering a casual, family-style dining experience, while Ampersand in Jonathan Edwards seeks to provide a laid-back environment to chill out or study.

Ash & Honey Head Chef Michael Park ’17 said he is confident from Saturday night’s showing that Ash & Honey will continue to be a sought-after dinner destination throughout the rest of the semester.

“Once doors opened, everyone was totally immersed in the moment, which is a pretty miraculous thing to see,” Park said.

Lipin said that she believes Y Pop-Up overall has excelled in reaching a significant portion of the Yale community, and each of the eateries provides undergraduates with a different type of dining experience.

“Our ultimate goal is for even one customer to look back 10 years from now and think of Yale and remember one of our dishes,”

KEN YANIGASAWA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Ash & Honey was the third Y Pop-Up to open in the past month. Its cuisine is based on the idea of a gastropub.

Park said. “Taste is so subjective that its hard to design a menu just for the customer, but we make our choices in hopes that our food will leave that type of impression.”

While Y Pop-Up members do not need to have cooking experience, they often bring unique experiences and interests to

the table. Park, for example, has worked in previous Y PopUps and formally trailed during the summer at Per Se — one of the top-rated restaurants in New York City — and cooked at Gramercy Tavern in New York City. Y Pop-Up’s chefs work voluntarily and rotate out after each semester. Each pop-up is open

once a week — House of York on Fridays, Ash & Honey on Saturdays and Ampersand on Sundays.

Ash & Honey will open again on Saturday, Nov. 1st, following fall break.

Contact KELSI CAYWOOD at kelsi.caywood@yale.edu .

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“Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.” MICHELLE BACHELET SOCIALIST PARTY POLITICIAN

C O L U M B I A S P E C TAT O R

Lunch questions what it means to be a ‘bold, beautiful Barnard woman’

BY ELIZABETH SEDRAN Students at Thursday’s Got Gender? forum on Thursday tackled issues on how gender and feminism are presented at Barnard.

The forum, which was cohosted by the Student Government Association’s Committee on Inclusion and Equity and Q, was part of a series of gendercentered lunch discussions that are being hosted by SGA. Much of the conversation at Thursday’s event, which had around 15 student attendees, focused on how Barnard presents feminist role models, and what students perceive to be a disconnect between what Barnard projects as a typical Barnard student and actual Barnard students.

“No one on the website looks like my friends or me,” Jo Chiang said, suggesting that the disconnect could perhaps be part of Barnard’s branding to attract candidates.

“I just pulled out the lookbook that Barnard sent me when I first got accepted,” Chiang said in an email. “Despite the ‘diversity’ of the faces, they all present a similar image. Upper middle class, ablebodied, feminine, ‘beautiful.’ I know for a fact that this alienates potential applicants who could find a home here.”

Chiang runs a tumblr called Barnard Baby that offers advice for prospective Barnard students, and said that many students ask her if they’ll fit in at Barnard.

“I’ve had so many anxious prospective students ask me whether they would fit in if they didn’t come from a high income family or if they dyed their hair pink or if they identified as non-binary or if they were fat,” Chiang said.

“While students who fall within some or all of these categories do attend this college, Barnard has somehow presented a very different image of the ‘typical Barnard

woman’ (woman being a key word) in their promo m a te r i a l s, an image causes COLUMBIA that this sort of sense of alienation before prospective students even step onto campus.”

“Honestly, I don’t think this is going to change until Barnard puts their students and mission first, and their branding second,” she added.

Q President Lauren Malotra-Gaudet said that she wanted Thursday’s event to focus on more than just non-binary gender.

“We wanted to make sure that it wasn’t exclusively about gender,” Malotra-Gaudet said. “We didn’t take it in a very pointed way.”

Malotra-Gaudet said that often conversations at Barnard focus on feminism without explicitly addressing gender identity, and that Thursday’s event was a forum to discuss that intersection.

One topic that was left out of the discussion was trans admissions at Barnard. An email sent out from SGA inviting students to the discussion said, “We will not be talking specifically about trans students and admission policies; there will be other spaces for that.”

SGA did not respond to request for comment by press time.

Malotra-Gaudet said that she believes this was specified because trans admissions policies tend to be controversial.

“There are many people with opinions, and there are many people without opinions on the subject,” Malotra-Gaudet said.

“If there’s a workshop about talking about gender, it could be easily assumed it’s talking about gender variance, and then leading that up

KAYA TIBILOVA/COLUMBIA SPECTATOR

Thursday’s Got Gender? forum allowed students to discuss how gender and feminism are presented at Barnard. to trans policy.”

GendeRevolution President Caleb LoSchiavo said they were happy that the event provided a space for students to discuss these issues.

“A lot of the student groups I’m involved in, we have conversations about this all the time, and I feel like I see the same people there, and it’s a very selfselecting group of people thinking about this in relation to queer

and trans identity,” LoSchiavo said. “I think it’s a really useful way to either bring it to the campus community, I think it might be more accessible by people who don’t know as much already about queer and trans identity.”

LoShiavo believes there are important topics that Thursday’s conversation didn’t focus on.

“We didn’t talk so much about gender, and what it means to be a woman at Barnard, or what

BY KATIE RAFTER Safety and Security is not imposing a curfew or changing its party-monitoring practices. A rumor circulating Wednesday and Thursday suggested that Safety and Security would shut down parties and require nonmembers to leave Greek houses by 1 a.m. on weeknights and 2 a.m. on weekends, but College officials have confirmed that this is false.

“We’re not changing our practice whatsoever,” Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said.

The Dartmouth Review reported on Wednesday that the administration would begin enforcing the supposed curfew during Homecoming Weekend. Students also created a “Stop the Curfew at Dartmouth” group on Facebook.

The exact origins of the rumor remain unclear, but representatives from Safety and Security and the Greek Letter Organization and Societies said there have been no changes to policy or practice, nor are any planned in the near future.

Chet Brown, president of Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, said he sent a screenshot of an email outlining this rumored policy to other Greek presidents on Wednesday.

“So it has just been brought to our attention that S&S has decided that today is the first day that they are enforcing a new SEMP policy,” the email read.

The email described the policy as prohibiting parties and drinking after 1 a.m. on weeknights and 2 a.m. on weekends.

Brown said he did not receive the original email and could not identify its author. He said he had received a screenshot of the message, with a subject line reading “very important,” in a text and said he did not remember from whom.

The rumor of a curfew took the Greek community by storm, Brown said, noting that he was not surprised, considering the changes the Greek community is currently undergoing.

He said he has not noticed an increased Safety and Security presence at Greek social events.

“I have not experienced anything other than business as usual,” he said.

GLOS standards and management assistant director Sam Waltemeyer said he heard about the rumor for the first time Wednesday night. GLOS has had the same policy since 2011, he said, and no changes have since been made. He said that GLOS is not planning on changing its Social Event Manage-

ment Procedures in the near future.

Current SEMP policy requires that social events be registered between 5 p.m. and 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and between DARTMOUTH 12 p.m. and 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Groups wishing to hold an event fill out an online registration form, adhering to the policies put forward by GLOS. Waltemeyer said that when Safety and Security becomes involved, it is usually at the end of an event to help clear people out of a house. There have not been many instances where registered events have lasted longer than they reported that they would, Waltemeyer said. If Greek organizations do not register an event or do not end an event on time, sanctions are handled on a case-by-case basis, usually by the judicial affairs office.

Kinne said Safety and Security follows the information they are given on social registration forms, using that as their cue for when a party should end.

“If it’s below the number of people that would qualify the congregation for an event, people can congregate any time of day or night they want,” Kinne added.

SEMP policy requires events with more than 50 people in attendance to be registered.

Social events must also comply with Hanover’s noise and fire restrictions established by the town of Hanover.

At a meeting with the Hanover Police chief and fire department chief on Oct. 6, Brown said he and other Greek leaders discussed community safety.

This term, Hanover fire department chief Martin McMillan and Hanover Police chief Charlie Dennis held three meetings with Greek organization representatives — advisors, house managers and presidents — to explain Hanover town policies regarding safety and occupancy in public spaces at Greek houses. McMillan said he is primarily concerned with situations where the occupancy limit of public assembly rooms in Greek houses is exceeded, which puts students at serious risk.

McMillan said he would shut down parties at Greek houses if they are overcrowded because this violates fire code.

“I want to treat everybody in a fair and equitable manner,” he said, “and not give a break to one organization or another and then hold somebody else accountable.”

gender at Barnard.

“The goal of the discussion is to get people to question what gender means, and that’s for starting the conversation,” MalotraGaudet said. “We don’t need to talk to queer and allied population in the same way about transgender and sexuality issues as people who’ve never thought about them before, so this is supposed to be a space for people who’ve never thought about them before.”

C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N

THE DARTMOUTH

Curfew rumors false, officials say

it’s like to be someone who isn’t a woman at Barnard, or what it means that Barnard is not currently accepting of all women,” LoShiavo said. “Gender itself wasn’t explored as much as I was expecting it to be.”

However, Maoltra-Gaudet felt that while the conversation didn’t focus on calling out the stereotype of the Barnard woman, it did successfully raise questions about the meaning and importance of

Alumni seek answers about fire

BY TYLER ALICEA It was arson, they argue.

A group of alumni consisting of former six-year-Ph.D. students — participants of an accelerated program at Cornell in the 1960s — and curious Cornellians claim that a fire at the Cornell Heights Residential Club in April 1967 that killed eight students and one professor was started by a student arsonist.

Official accounts of the blaze say that the cause of the fire is unknown, although some speculation over what caused the fire followed immediately after the death of the nine individuals; The New York Times reported on May 31, 1967, that both the district attorney and the Ithaca fire chief at the time thought arson was a possibility.

Yet despite suspicions of arson, no one was charged for the April 5, 1967 fire.

Within the next two months, two additional fires would break out at residences containing the six-year-Ph.D. students, known at the time as “Fuds.” A fire broke

out at the Watermargin Cooperative on May 23 and another at the 211 Eddy St. on CORNELL May 30 or 31. Both of these locations housed “Fuds.”

Following the fires, Cornell would reevaluate its fire safety measures, with the Board of Trustees allocating $750,000 in June 1967 for an “accelerated life safety program,” The Sun reported a year after the “Res Club” fire.

LOOKING FOR ANSWERS

More than 40 years later, a group of over 20 survivors — who believe they have found some of the answers to one of the biggest life-taking tragedies at the university — are now asking Cornell to investigate the incident, according to documents sent to The Sun. In a series of documents and letters — signed by H. William

Fogle, Jr. — sent to The Sun, the Tompkins County District Attorney and the Phoenix Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fogle argues that based on discussions with survivors of the fire along with other research, the group of alumni has determined the identity of the alleged arsonist and says that the three fires in April and May 1967 were connected.

In addition, he argues that Cornell was purposefully silent during the investigation.

“The extraordinary silence that the Cornell University administration imposed on a cascade of disasters beginning with the six-year Ph.D. program’s deficient admission process, the spring 1967 arson attacks, the botched criminal investigations and the program’s shutdown directed by the Ford Foundation in 1969,” were among the claims made by Fogle, who is the alumni historian of Cornell’s chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Fogle, however, was not a resident at the Res Club.

CORNELL DAILY SUN

A group of alumni believe that a fire at the Cornell Heights Residential Club in 1967 was started by an arsonist.

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“Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.” ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AUSTRIAN-BORN AMERICAN ACTOR

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

In Keynote, Abramson Urges Women To Be Resilient

BY JALIN CUNNINGHAM Jill E. Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, encouraged young women to persevere through setbacks in their personal and professional lives during her keynote speech at the Intercollegiate Business Convention at Hynes Convention Center on Saturday.

“The main point I’m getting at here,” Abramson said, “is that women are damn resilient.”

Abramson was fired from her post at the Times last spring and now teaches in the English department at Harvard. She has previously taught at Yale and Princeton and worked for publications such as Time Magazine, The American Lawyer and The Wall Street Journal.

In her speech Saturday, Abramson paid homage to the women, such as veteran journalists Sandra Burton and Nan C. Robertson, who mentored and inspired her throughout her career.

When speaking about Burton, Abramson said, “Sandy kept pushing on doors, however firmly closed they were.” Burton, who was initially hired as a secretary, climbed the ranks at Time Magazine to become one of the first female correspondents for the magazine. She worked at the helm of the Boston bureau of Time while Abramson worked there.

Abramson also discussed Doris Kearns Goodwin, who was one of the first women to become a full Harvard professor when she received tenure in 1975 at age 31. Abramson applauded Goodwin for her resilience when the professor was stripped of tenure after a “silly dispute” with her publisher.

“That experience could have crushed her, but she went on to publish her book and many more. One of which, ‘No Ordinary Time,’ won the Pulitzer Prize,” Abramson said.

Abramson also noted the efforts of women who are still active and ambitious in their careers to this day, such

as politician Hillary Clinton and University President Drew G. Faust.

“I can definitely see how [Abramson] a cco m p l i s h e d what she did now. She gets her message across very strongly,” said Jane Z. Chen, a member of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business and an organizer of the event. “Resilience is an important message to pass on to others.”

Abramson also encouraged attendees to create and foster female support networks. That message rang true for Camila L. Rey. “Women also need to support each other,” she said.

When asked about her legacy, Abramson said that she not only wants to be remembered for her work as a journalist and efforts to break down gender barriers, but also for her personal and family life. She said that she plans to continue teaching at the College, continue writing and hopefully have grandchildren.

The convention, which was hosted

by Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business, attracted over 1,200 attendees and also featured career fairs, networking sessions and seminars in which participants learned various business techniques. Maureen Chiquet, chief executive officer of Chanel, and Lyndsey Scott, a model who has launched an effort to encourage more women to learn coding, also delivered keynote speeches.

Conference participants noted that Women in Business has made an effort to invite strong female role models to speak at its events.

“We try to promote female empowerment and equality in the workplace, especially in fields like finance and consulting, that are extremely maledominated,” Chen said.

HARVARD

THE HARVARD CRIMSON

Jill Abramson shared personal and professional advice during a keynote address at the Intercollegiate Business Convention.

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In new media push, DPS goes mobile

Princeton endowment rises

BY DANIEL JOHNSON

BROWN DAILY HERALD

Brown University’s Department of Public Safety released a campus safety app, which allows users to send tips about suspicious behavior.

BY BAYLOR KNOBLOCH Following the Department of Public Safety’s release of the Rave Guardian Campus Safety App at the beginning of the semester, the app has been downloaded over 1,100 times, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. The Rave Guardian app allows users to send tips about suspicious behavior, have their locations monitored when walking on campus and call emergency response lines with one click, Shanley said, adding that the app can function as a “virtual Safewalk.”

The app is just one of several new media initiatives, including an online safety portal and series of promotional videos, that DPS launched this semester.

DPS announced the initiatives in a community-wide email last month that also provided tips for staying safe on campus. These new features come in response to findings from focus groups that took place last spring.

“We felt that our community really wasn’t aware of all of the services that were offered in terms of public safety,” Shanley said.

Students registered with Rave Guardian can input their intended destinations and estimated times of arrival. If they do

not reach their destinations in time, the software sends an alert to DPS, which responds to the situation. As of date, DPS has not received any Rave alerts, Shanley said.

BROWN The University started using Rave software in 2012, and the recent switch to the mobile app was intended to “make it more user-friendly for our community, especially the students,” Shanley added.

Though Eliot Green downloaded the app, he has not finished registering with the program. “My mom said that I needed to download it,” he said, adding that his mother learned about the app from an article in another college newspaper. But Green found the registration process after downloading the app confusing and “was having some trouble figuring it out,” he said.

For the app to receive campus-wide use, Green believes one of two things must happen. “Either it works really well and saves someone from a compromising situation, or they run a finely-targeted campaign.”

Jaclyn Licht said she had never heard of

the app and does not feel in danger when walking on campus at night. “Maybe it’s a token of the safety measures that I do feel safe on campus,” she said.

In addition to the Rave Guardian mobile app, DPS also launched a new website featuring its own safety tips as well as information from the Transportation Office, Environmental Health and Safety and Campus Life, said Michelle Nuey, community relations manager for DPS. “We really wanted it to be a one-stop shop for all things safety,” Nuey said. The site, which was launched with help from Computing and Information Services and Public Affairs and University Relations, displays phone numbers of University hotlines, emergency response services and transportation requests.

The site also spotlights “Bear Tips,” a series of four video tutorials about safety featuring the athletic mascot Bruno.

“We’ve designed the modules around the most important safety methods that we wanted to get out to the community,” Nuey said. The four current videos focus on cell phone theft prevention, reporting suspicious circumstances, Safewalk and shuttle services, she said, adding that DPS plans to add more videos in the future.

The University’s endowment realized a 19.6 percent return for the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The total value of the endowment rose to $21 billion, the University announced on Friday afternoon.

This is above Harvard’s return of 15.4 percent, while slightly lower than Yale’s 20.2 percent return. Overall, the University has the second highest return in the Ivy League this year, not counting Cornell, which has yet to release its results. Harvard, which has consistently trailed behind other Ivies despite having a larger endowment, had the lowest returns.

A typical portfolio mix of 65 percent stocks and 35 percent of equities and bonds would have returned 17.5 percent over the same time period. However, the University’s endowment is invested in a larger part in illiquid investments, which may have greater rates of return.

Last year, Princeton’s endowment was valued at $18.2 billion after an 11.7 percent return.

The endowment shrank slightly in 2012 because a 3.1 percent return did not outpace the percentage taken out and used in the University’s operating budget for that year.

The Princeton University Investment Company, which manages the University’s endowment, certified the return on Thursday at meeting of its board of directors.

Princo President Andrew Golden said he was pleased with the results.

“It’s a very satisfying year,” Golden said. “Endowment management is really thinking about how to balance opportunity and risk in the pursuit of creating funds to support the University’s mission.”

Golden explained that the 10-year annualized return is more important when considering Princo’s performance.

“While it is natural for the world to focus on annual num-

bers I think its much more important to focus on the long term,” he explained. “ I ’m m o re satisfied with PRINCETON the 10.5 percent annualized return over 10 years than how we do in any given year.” Golden also noted that this return spans the period of the global financial crisis.

The 10-year average return on the endowment places the University among the top percentile of the 520 institutions reporting to the Trust Universe Comparison Service, according to a University press release.

Among Princo’s best performing assets were illiquid investments, according to Golden. The endowment has seen particularly strong performance in venture capital and the biotech industry, he explained.

Golden noted that both of these categories are inherently riskier than the broad-based market, but Princo seeks to address that risk by diversifying across a variety of asset classes.

While the endowment saw a particularly strong return this year, Golden says that returns of this magnitude are not typical.

“It makes sense to think of returns as reflecting a random number generator. All these systems have a result of inherent variability,” he explained.

“In any one given year, you are pleasantly surprised when you can produce a 19.6 percent return. If you had to bet if next year would be above or below 19.6, the smart bet is below.”

Earlier this year, a report by the Priorities Committee noted the need to “reset community expectations for growth that were driven by almost 20 years of exceptionally favorable investment conditions that may well not return in the foreseeable future.”

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hese photos were taken between June 1 and mid-August of this summer in various locations across Israel and the West Bank, mainly Jerusalem. They depict the perspectives of people from all walks of life. They aim to provide a picture of what daily life is like for people in the area, and to better show the humanity of the residents of both Israel and Palestine. ANNELISA LEINBACH reports.

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SPORTS QUICK HITS

YALE WOMEN’S HOCKEY SCRIMMAGE VICTORY In their first action of the year, the Bulldogs dominated Sacred Heart 10–2.

Seven different players scored — including two goals apiece for forwards Jamie Haddad ’16, Hanna Astrom ’16 and Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 — and the Elis took a preposterous 77 shots on goal.

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SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The Elis’ captain was named to the Preseason All-Ivy First Team by collegesportsmadness.com over the weekend. She led the Ivy League with 3.6 assists per game and 2.4 steals per game last season, and her 1,047 points put her 16th in Yale history.

“Both teams … were pretty evenly matched.

But it came down to the fourth quarter and being able to make big plays.”

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Wide receiver Robert Clemons ’17 gave Yale a fourth quarter lead on this 68-yard touchdown reception.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER For the fourth time this year, an explosive offense was the key to victory for the Yale football team.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs rallied in the fourth quarter to win 45–31 over a Colgate team that had been riding a four-game win streak.

The dynamic duo of quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 and running back Tyler Varga ’15 was at it again with another pair of his-

toric performances. Roberts went off for a career-high 379 passing yards, while Varga’s five touchdowns — a feat that, before Varga did so twice this year, had not been accomplished at the Yale Bowl since 1931 — were more than the entire Colgate squad tallied.

Yale’s nation-leading offense put up these numbers, and 633 total offensive yards, despite beginning the game with its worst first half of the season. The score was tied at 10 after two quarters,

but a jumpstart of the Bulldogs’ running game opened up several offensive opportunities in the second half.

But the Elis (4–1, 1–1 Ivy) pulled away from Colgate (4–3, 2–0 Patriot) with 35 second-half points and two long touchdowns in the fourth quarter, while two crucial defensive stops at the end of the game — including one pass breakup by cornerback Dale Harris ’17 on Yale’s five-yard line — sealed the Bulldogs’ second

Bulldogs snap scoreless streak

straight victory over the Raiders.

“Both teams, when you look at them, were pretty evenly matched,” head coach Tony Reno said. “But it came down to the fourth quarter, and being able to make some big plays.”

When asked about the predictability of his spread offense a week ago, Reno said that there was only one predictable aspect about Yale’s explosive attack: When the Bulldogs get into the red zone, they give the ball to

Varga.

That is exactly what Yale did for 10 of its 14 red zone plays, but the predictability did not help the Raiders. Excluding one shortened drive at the end of the first half, the Bulldogs ended all four of their red zone chances with a Varga touchdown. He finished with a total of 184 rushing yards, 168 of which came in the second half.

Varga credited the offensive line for his success, while Rob-

erts added that the Elis’ receiving corps has created a threat that opens up holes for Yale’s running game.

Colgate head coach Dan Hunt summed up the league-leading offense of a Yale team that was ranked fifth in the Ivy League preseason poll.

“We knew that they were probably the most talented team we’ve faced all year,” Hunt said.

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Volleyball breaks Ivy tie, takes first

BY ALEX WALKER AND ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS Yale volleyball nailed two more wins at home against Cornell and Columbia this weekend, catapulting the Bulldogs into first place in the Ivy League.

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Yale (6–4–2, 1–1–2 Ivy) traveled to Ithaca to take down Cornell (7–7, 1–3 Ivy) in a one-goal game that was decided within the first five minutes of play. Forward Melissa Gavin ’15 scored off of an assist by midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15 at 4:57, the only score of the entire match.

“Scoring early was key to our success,” Coxe said. “Being up 1–0 after the first five minutes of the game allowed us to

After losing four out of their first five games, the volleyball team has not taken their foot off the pedal, winning the next nine of 11.

The Bulldogs (10–6, Ivy 6–1) swept the Big Red (3–14, Ivy 0–7) in three sets on Friday, breaking the tie for the lead in the Ivy League the Bulldogs held with Princeton. The scores were 25–16, 25–17 and 25–14. Kelly Johnson ’16 led Yale with nine kills, and Mollie Rogers ’15 put in 12 digs.

On Saturday, the Elis beat the Lions 3–1 (7–9, Ivy 3–4), fighting back from a loss in the third set to finish Columbia off. The Bulldogs jumped out to a 2–0 start before dropping the third match and coming back in the fourth with scores of 25–23, 25–23, 22–25 and 25–22. Yale served up eight aces and hit 0.220 to Columbia’s 0.206.

Rogers recorded 26 total kills, while Johnson posted 22. Rudnick led the team with 23 digs.

SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE B3

SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B3

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Midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15 had the assist on Yale’s lone goal — and the lone goal of the match.

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After five straight games without a goal, the Yale women’s soccer team pulled out a 1–0 victory over Cornell on Saturday, gaining three points in the Ivy League standings and moving from last place to fifth in the conference.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 has the second-most assists per set on the season, accumulating on average 1.94 assists for every set played.

NUMBER OF TOTAL TOUCHDOWNS FOR RUNNING BACK TYLER VARGA ’15 IN THE WIN AGAINST COLGATE. Varga tied the Yale single-game record for touchdowns for the second time this season, and he is currently on pace to break the single-season touchdown record held by Mike McLeod ’07.

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“I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.”

MISTY MAY-TREANOR OLYMPIC VOLLEYBALL CHAMPION

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Captain Nicole Wells ’16 scored her second goal of the season against Dartmouth.

FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 opponent’s scoring output in the second half.

Still, in both games the team allowed its opponent a quick lead while being shut out for the first 35 minutes of play.

This weekend’s games, however, showed some improvement from the Bulldogs. Despite being swept, the Bulldogs were able to score often. They scored five goals in their two games this weekend, compared to the 10 they had scored in all 11 of their previous games.

“This past week at practice, we really

focused on getting in the circle and shooting. Our practice translated into our game play, leading to the most shots we’ve ever had in a weekend and more goals too,” Nolan said. “Our offense has definitely improved since the beginning of the season. We’re being more opportunistic, taking advantage of the chances we get.”

The defense also had a big weekend, with goalkeeper Heather Schlesier ’15 making 10 saves against Dartmouth and 11 against Connecticut. Back Noelle Villa ’16 also made a defensive save against the Big Green.

This upcoming weekend, Yale will make another push for a win against Penn on Saturday and then No. 17 Albany on Sunday, both at home.

“Our schedule is not light,” Wells said.

“We are not a team that believes in playing ‘easy’ games. We strive to play good hockey at all times against whoever our competition is. That is why our coach has strategically planned our season’s opponents in order to prepare ourselves for the more important league play games.”

Penn currently has the second most goals scored in the Ivy League with 36, only trailing first-place Columbia’s 43.

Elis drop Ivy match

The Quakers are coming off their first shutout win, beating Longwood 5–0 on Sunday.

Albany is also having a successful run as it holds the top spot in the America East conference and is in the midst of a seven-game winning streak.

Sunday’s game against Albany is the team’s senior night, which, according to Wells, is an exciting time to play.

The Bulldogs will face Penn at noon on Johnson Field this Saturday.

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

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In 12 games played, Henry Albrecht ’17 has started 11 times and leads the Bulldogs in assists with two.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 points. This inability to finish has been a frustrating Achilles’ heel for the Bulldogs all year, as they have scored just five goals in 12 games.

“Unfortunately our ability to execute in front of the goal and take advantage of good play has been a recurring issue this season, and Saturday’s game was another case of playing well but not punishing our opponents when we had the chance,” head coach Brian Tompkins said.

Having taken just over 140 shots this season, the Elis sport one of the worst shooting percentages in the entire Ivy League at 3.6 percent. Despite taking 11.7 shots per game, both the Elis’ goal per game average, which stands at 0.4 goals per game, and their shooting

percentage are historically belowaverage. If the Bulldogs continue at their current offensive clip, they will post their worst shooting percentage in over five years and their worst goals per game average in the same length of time.

Despite a relatively strong defense all season, the Elis’ inability to score has proven their downfall in almost every game.

In fact, their third straight Ivy loss against Cornell also marks their sixth 1–0 loss of the year.

Notably, 10 of Yale’s 12 games have been decided by one goal or fewer, emphasizing the team’s critical need for some sort of production. Despite the Elis’ run of bad form, however, Tompkins stated that his team would not be discouraged.

“Our players have too much

pride, talent and drive to concede the rest of the season,” the 19thyear coach said.

Midfielder Pablo Espinola ’16 echoed his coach’s sentiments and added that the team’s only future goal right now is focusing on and winning their next game.

The Elis’ next contest comes against the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, Oct. 25, at Reese Stadium.

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

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Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 won his individual match outright after dropping the morning foursome, in which he was paired with Captain Will Davenport ’15.

GOLF FROM PAGE B4 all produced impressive wins against their Harvard opponents in the afternoon, and despite the narrow loss I feel that the positivity gained from the afternoon’s singles performance is something we can all look at with great encouragement for the future.”

Wang agreed that the team’s effort mattered more than end results. According to Wang, each team member gave their best effort and enjoyed the tournament as a capstone to the fall season.

Wang also noted that the loss to the Crimson at the end of the Fall serves as motivation to train through the winter leading up to Spring competition.

This tournament marks the end of a success-

ful fall season for the men’s golf team. The Elis played in four tournaments prior to this weekend, placing first at both the Doc Gimmler tournament and MacDonald Cup. Though the team suffered a narrow loss this weekend, Davenport said he believes the tournament reflected highly upon the potential of the team.

“Despite the narrow loss, there are a lot of positives to take away from this weekend,” Davenport said. “We are going into the offseason with a very high level of confidence in the depth and talent of this team.”

The Bulldogs will next compete at the Linger Longer Invitational in the spring on March 21, 2015.

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

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“Wouldn’t it be great if we just ended up tied?

I think it would be beautiful.”

MARK MCGWIRE PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER

Yale offense shines in win

Early goal nets Yale win

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Forward Melissa Gavin ’15 scored Yale’s first goal in nearly a month.

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Running back Tyler Varga ’15 rumbled for 184 rushing yards and scored a record-tying five touchdowns against Colgate.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 The only other two Yale scores were long fourth quarter touchdowns that gave the Elis the lead they would eventually keep. One pass went for 68 yards to wide receiver Robert Clemons ’17, and the other was a 69-yard breakout rush by Varga.

Both of the plays could have been attributed to Colgate’s defense being tired from Yale’s hurry-up offense and 43 rushing attempts.

“When you pound any defense with the run enough, they start to get worn out. That’s just the way that works.” Varga said. “We’ve got a good stable of backs that can keep the pressure on in the run game, keep the defense on their heels.”

Roberts added that the training the Bulldogs put in during the offseason prepared them to wear out any defense late in the game. In its first five games, Yale has outscored its opponents 62–31 in the fourth quarter and overtime.

At the outset of the game, however, that level of offensive production was virtually nonexistent.

For the first time all season, the game was scoreless after the first

quarter as Varga found inconsistent holes and Roberts was sacked twice.

Colgate quarterback Bret Mooney, subbing in for an injured Jake Melville, brought his team past midfield three times but could not finish with better than a missed 39-yard field goal.

In the second quarter, the two teams then scored a field goal and rushing touchdown each, the first of multiple touchdowns for both Varga and Colgate running back John Wilkins.

Wilkins was one of four Raiders, including Mooney, who was effective on the ground. Throughout the game, Mooney’s threat as a rushing quarterback opened up holes for the Colgate running game, which took credit for all three of the Raiders’ offensive touchdowns.

Yale and Colgate closed out the first half locked in a 10–10 battle, but the Bulldogs made a statement as soon as they received the second half kickoff.

Varga rushed for positive yardage five consecutive times to start the drive, and then he finished it off with two more, ending in a touchdown to push the score to 17–10.

“At the end of the first half, we thought we had some missed oppor-

tunities,” Reno said. “We got the ball to start the second half … and we got in a rhythm.”

Wilkins and Varga then traded touchdowns again as the two offenses continued to heat up, and midway through the third quarter a 24–17 Yale lead was erased when Colgate’s Chris Morgan returned the ensuing kickoff 93 yards to the end zone.

Varga scored for the fourth time in the fourth quarter, set up by a 53-yard pass to wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15. Though a Yale fumble later in the quarter allowed the Raiders to tie the game, Yale soon put the nail in the coffin with its pair of touchdowns over 60 yards.

In Colgate’s final opportunity to make a two-score comeback, the Raiders made it to the five-yard line and went to the end zone on fourth down, but Harris jumped in front of his man to break up the pass and snuff out the threat.

Now finished with all of its nonconference matchups, Yale will take on Penn at home on Saturday. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m.

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

set the tone of the game and control the tempo.”

Cornell started the contest strong, attempting two shots within the first minute and a half of play, but the Big Red defense was no match for the CoxeGavin combination early on. Coxe kept the ball in her possession while moving past the Cornell defender and curved the ball to the goal. Gavin took advantage of the great pass and tapped it in, giving Yale a one-goal lead.

Yale’s defense had to stay on its toes however, as the Big Red offense applied heavy pressure in the first 45 minutes.

Cornell took a total of 10 shots in the first half, compared to only five by Yale. Goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 had another stellar showing, making three saves in the first half alone.

The less-than-ideal field conditions after a day of showers left the team playing a bit cautiously to get used to the surface, Gavin said.

“We came out a little flat at the beginning of the game, and it took us a while to get a feel for the surface, because we haven’t played on a grass field of that poor condition yet,” Gavin said. “It was nice to get the goal early because at that point we didn’t feel like we had control over the game, and it was nice to have that burden off our shoulders.”

At the start of the second half, Cornell kept applying pressure, taking eight of the 11 combined shots, five of which were on goal. Yale’s three shots came from Gavin, Coxe and forward Paula Hagopian

’16, with the Cornell goalkeeper stopping Coxe and Hagopian’s attempts. Gavin’s shot, however, went wide.

Wilcox kept her team in the winner’s position, saving all five of the shots by Cornell, the last of which came with only three minutes left in the game, effectively shutting down the Big Red momentum and sealing the win for the Bulldogs.

“Our defense has been playing really well, and it’s great to see that consistently throughout the season,” Wilcox said. “I’m just happy I was able to do my part to bring home the win.”

The Elis have not had a home game since Sept. 27, as the last four games have all been at opponents’ fields. The team finally gets to come home for three games in a row, starting this weekend against Penn.

Gavin and Coxe both commented that being able to play at home is exciting and having fans there for support when they take on a strong Penn team will be encouraging.

The Bulldogs take on the Quakers on Saturday, Oct. 25, in Reese Stadium. Play is slated to begin at 4 p.m.

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“I thought we did really well with passing and staying calm and making sure that we always got a good ball to our setter, which is really important for us,” Rogers said.

Maddie Rudnick ’15 had 10 digs in the match, putting her at second place on Yale’s all-time digs list. With 1,382 digs, she surpassed Anja Perlebach ’06 and currently sits behind Kelly Ozurovich ’10, who hit 1,753 in her career wearing blue and white.

“I can’t attribute all of my success to myself. I think the blockers play a huge role in getting digs and there is a lot of other aspects to that,” Rudnick said. “It’s great that I am able to contribute to an awesome team.”

After Friday’s sweep, the Bulldogs headed back to John J. Lee Amphitheater to take on the Columbia Lions.

On Saturday, the squad managed to hold Columbia at 22 points in the third match as Rogers and Johnson put up three kills and Kelsey Crawford ’18 served an ace.

Columbia, however, was unfazed by the four-point run and only allowed Yale two more points in the third set.

“That third set was definitely tough because it was close and they got away from us in the end.

In the fourth set we sort of just

came together. We got a big lead, which was a nice cushion to have,” Rogers said.

The Bulldogs’ largest lead in the fourth set was 14–6, and the team never trailed Columbia.

Overall, the match against Columbia resembled a ping-pong match, according to head coach Erin Appleman. Neither team could get any major runs until the third set.

“Columbia was one of the best teams we’ve faced this year. They were very challenging, very good and steady. We had to continue to believe in ourselves and fight hard to get the job done,” Appleman said.

Following Princeton’s loss to Dartmouth on Friday, Yale now currently stands alone atop the Ivy League. As both Rogers and Rudnick noted, the team believes they can extend their success by continuing to take on one game at a time.

The Bulldogs will face Brown for the second time this season at home on Oct. 24.

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

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“I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.”

JOSE CANSECO PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER

Elis swept despite offensive improvement

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite a positive outlook going into the weekend, the Yale field hockey team returned home with another two losses after facing Dartmouth and defending national champion Connecticut.

FIELD HOCKEY Yale (2–11, 0–4 Ivy) fell to the Big Green (5–8, 3–1) 4–2 on Saturday and then to the Huskies (11– 3, 3–0 Big East) 8–3 on Sunday, continuing a trend of a lack of defense. In 10 of the Bulldogs’ 11 losses, the Elis have allowed at least three goals.

“Dartmouth has been having a successful season, especially in Ivy League play. Playing teams with confidence is always a challenge,” midfielder Kelsey Nolan ’17 said. “It’s always a great opportunity to play top-10 teams. We have nothing to lose and anything can happen.”

Dartmouth opened with two goals within the first ten minutes, both by forward Ali Savage. Both the Bulldogs and the Big Green scored twice in the second half, with Yale’s goal coming from captain Nicole Wells ’16 and Nolan. This was the second goal of the season for both players.

Although being outshot 16–7 in the first half, Yale came out strong after the break, taking an additional 15 shots, finishing with just three fewer shots overall than Dartmouth. The Elis also had more penalty corners than the Big Green in the second half.

But in the end, the Elis’ effort was not enough.

Dartmouth’s victory puts the Big Green in a threeway tie for second place with Cornell and Princeton.

On Sunday, the first half against No. 4 Connecticut was also tough for the Bulldogs. The Huskies scored five unanswered goals in the first half, starting less than two minutes into the game. In the second half, UConn once again scored within the first two minutes. But just four minutes later, forward Jessie Accurso ’15 put Yale on the board for the first time.

“It’s an awesome opportunity to go up against strong teams,” Accurso said. “We really get to focus on utilizing all of our strengths so that we can be successful.”

Despite two more goals, one each by midfielder Catherine Kurtin ’18 and Nolan, the Bulldogs still lost to UConn by five goals. However, for the second time in the weekend, the Elis equaled their SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE B2

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The Bulldogs have just 15 goals in 13 games, ranking last in the Ivy League.

Low goal production plagues men’s soccer

Golf falls in final Fall tourney

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Captain Will Davenport ’15 partnered with Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 in the first round of play against Harvard at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, New York over the weekend.

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Forward Cameron Kirdzik ’17 has started seven games and taken 12 percent of the men’s soccer team’s shots this season with 17.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER After a long-awaited first win in an overtime thriller versus Temple, the Yale Bulldogs (1–9–2, 0–3–0 Ivy) lost in familiar fashion to Cornell (8–4–1, 1–2–0 Ivy).

Yale men’s soccer fell victim to a seemingly irreversible pattern once again: losing 1–0 after conceding a second-half goal.

MEN’S SOCCER Despite taking 15 shots, the Elis landed only four on target, hardly challenging Cornell’s Zach Zagorski, who saved each

one. Cornell, however, loosed a barrage of on-target shots, firing 16 with nine landing on frame. Despite accurate shooting from the Big Red, Blake Brown ’15 came up with a stellar performance, saving eight shots before conceding a heartbreaking goal to Cornell’s Conor Goepel in the 81st minute.

Despite the tough loss, Ollie Iselin ’18 was once again a bright spot for the Elis, launching four shots during the game, which led the team. Teddy Mauze ’18 also had a strong performance that nearly culminated in a late equalizer, which was barely cleared when at a standstill on the goal line. Strong performances from these freshmen bode well for the future of Yale men’s soccer.

“Going up to Cornell and playing in the wet conditions definitely tested us, but I thought our guys did really well competing,” Keith Bond ’16 said. “Unfortunately they slipped in a goal on us with not much time left in the game, and we weren’t able to respond.”

Yet again Yale’s stiff defense held its own against an offensive onslaught, buoying an anemic Eli offense that simply could not finish one of its myriad of opportunities.

Despite leading the game in corner kicks by a margin of 7–2, Yale was unable to convert any of these precious scoring chances into SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2

This past weekend, the men’s golf team competed against rival Harvard at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, New York. This tournament takes on a special format — the teams compete in alternate shot matches in the morning and matchplay in the afternoon.

Each match is worth one point, and the first team to earn 6.5 points wins. Despite a resilient comeback following a 0–4 loss in the morning, the team lost to Harvard by a narrow 6.5–5.5.

GOLF In the morning alternate shot matches, the team split eight players into four twosomes: captain William Davenport ’15 and Thomas Greenhalgh ’15, Li Wang ’17 and Joe Willis ’16, Jonathan Lai ’17 and Will Bernstein ’18, and brothers John

McNiff ’15 and Nick McNiff ’17.

The Elis lost all four matches and headed into the afternoon with much ground to make up, being at a 0–4 disadvantage.

In the following matchplay, however, the Bulldogs staged an almost miraculous comeback, winning the singles 5.5–2.5. Davenport, Greenhalgh, Willis, Lai and Jimmy Park ’17 all won their matches, freshman Henry Cassriel ’18 tied his match and Wang and Bernstein lost to Harvard. The team fought resiliently to compensate for its earlier loss in the alternate shot matches, but lost narrowly in the end 6.5–5.5.

Despite the loss, members of the team were proud of their valiant comeback effort.

“I was very proud of the whole team’s bounce back in the afternoon,” said Greenhalgh. “Davenport, Park, Willis, Lai [and myself] SEE GOLF PAGE B2