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ULA calls for Zedillo’s ouster

Hit reset. October Recess

begins officially today at 11 p.m. Some are heading home and others wandering Yale’s empty grounds over the next five days, but the entire Yale community is eagerly awaiting the chance to escape midterm season and the monotony of October.

Wherever you are. If you happen to find yourself missing Yale over break, catch a glimpse of something familiar by tuning into Saturday’s home football game against Penn, which will be shown on national TV, courtesy of the NBC Sports Network.

Fast feet, Fast Company.

Likely to be among those watching the game is former defensive back Casey Gerald ’09, who is set to be featured on the cover of Fast Company magazine’s November issue.

Gerald is best known for co-founding and serving as CEO of MBAs Across America.

He is earning his own business degree at Harvard.

Crunch numbers, we must.

The Yale University Open Data Access Project announced a partnership with Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical branch to handle information from clinical research trials.

Not quite done. Despite the

beckoning of days off, there remain on-campus events to attend. Among them, a conversation with Viacom Media Networks Executive Vice President Ross Martin, hosted by the School of Management in Evans Hall.

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1977 The Yale Police Department reveals that it called for support from the New Haven Police Department in controlling an on-campus demonstration the day before.

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Quarantine seeks to “play it safe”

president stemmed from a 1997 massacre in the village of Acteal, Mexico, which occurred during his presidency.

According to protestors, the Acteal massacre falls within a longer history of state-sponsored terrorism aimed at marginalizing members of the lower class in Mexico.

A little after 5 p.m. on Thursday, Connecticut public health officials breathed a sigh of relief as preliminary test results for the Yale graduate student who had been admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital exhibiting Ebolalike symptoms came back negative. Five days later, the Yale researcher is still under quarantine — and will remain so for another 16 days.

Although the test came back negative, President Salovey said in a Thursday email that the researchers would continue their quarantine for 21 days, in adherence to guidelines established by the state of Connecticut. Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin said the decision to continue the quarantine came from the commissioner of the Department of Public Health Jewel Mullen ’77 SPH ’96 in accordance with Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Oct. 7 state order declaring a public health emergency in Connecticut.

The hospitalized researcher and his companion have returned home for their 21-day quarantines, said Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern. The School of Public Health has not made either of the researchers’ names public.

Dean of the Yale School of Public Health Paul Cleary said he did not want to comment on the condition of the researchers in order to maintain their privacy. YNHH spokesper-

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Tickets for the YSO’s annual Halloween Show went up for sale on Monday night at 11:59 p.m. and promptly sold out in less than 2 minutes. But fear not: Because Halloween is on a Friday, students can expect a full lineup of consolation prize events.

Going elsewhere. A Monday article in the New York Times’s Upshot section reported that young college graduates are beginning to flock to cities like Houston, Nashville, Denver and Austin at increasingly high rates. Though recently graduated Elis still tend to end up in the New York-DC-San Francisco triumvirate, there might be something to be said about these new, hip locales.

Or they could stay in New Haven.

Matthew Oplinger ’18 talks about his first season as a Bulldog

BY APARNA NATHAN AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS

Better luck next year.

Starchy serenade. The Whiffenpoofs traveled to the land of the potato this week, staging a performance with Miss Idaho 2014, 20-year-old Sierra Sandison, at the Sun Valley Lodge in Hailey, Idaho.

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Members of Unidad Latina en Accion protested against former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81 Monday..

BY SKYLER INMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Monday evening, a crowd of about 30 protestors gathered outside of Betts House on Prospect Street, near the Yale Divinity School. Armed with posters and a large paper coffin, the protestors shouted chants towards the building, which houses the office

of adjunct professor and former president of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81, now director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

The protest, organized by Unidad Latina en Acción , the Amistad Catholic Worker, Yale students and Mexican nationals living in Connecticut, denounced Yale’s employment of Zedillo. Their qualm with the former

CS department short on faculty

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Last Tuesday, computer science department chair Joan Feigenbaum received an unpleasant reminder in her mailbox. Scanning two new postcards from the computer science departments of University of Illinois and Johns Hopkins University, she saw 17 headshots of new faculty members.

Finding newsletters of this sort in her mailbox is not an unusual occurrence. But while University of Illinois hired six new faculty members and Johns

Hopkins hired 11 this past year alone, Yale’s computer science department has not seen an increase in faculty within the past 10 years. Feigenbaum wonders if she will ever be able to send out newsletters like these.

Computer science is now the seventh most popular major at Yale, and according to the Office of Institutional Research website, the number of junior and senior computer science majors has doubled since 2011.

The number of undergraduate course registrations for computer science classes has gone from 600 to 1,400 undergradu-

UWC repeals time restrictions

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Starting this month, students and faculty members seeking to bring a complaint to the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct will be able to do so even years after the alleged incident.

In the UWC’s most recent review of its procedures, published on Oct. 2, the body decided to abolish time limits for both formal and informal complaints.

Previously, formal complaints could only be lodged up to two years after the incident, and informal complaints could not be filed after more than four years.

These restrictions were repealed based on community feedback, UWC Chair David Post said.

However, most students interviewed said they did not know about either the change or the original policy.

“We want to give complainants sufficient time to process their experiences and consider

their options, and eliminating time limits advances that goal,” Post said.

While Post could not comment on specific cases or feedback the UWC had received, in general, he said most complaints are filed within a year of the alleged episode of misconduct.

We want to give complainants sufficient time to process their experiences.

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ates. And these numbers do not include the increase in students from this year, which are even larger, Feigenbaum said. Meanwhile, the computer science faculty size has not grown larger than 20 faculty members since 1989, a year when just over 400 undergraduate students were registered for computer science courses. Feigenbaum and other faculty voiced their frustrations with the lack of growth and said they feared the Yale computer science department is slipping behind its peer institutions’ departments.

“The degree to which we are

understaffed has all sorts of confounding problems,” professor of computer science Bryan Ford said. “All of the specializations in CS are taking a toll because we really only have one person in each area, and that is the norm in this department.”

Ford said Yale is slipping behind many other schools like Princeton, which have no upper-bound limit on the amount of offers they are able to make in a single year. In contrast, over the past five years, when the Yale computer science department has been given the opportunity to hire, it has only

been allowed to make an offer for one slot. According to Ford, that policy — what the department calls a slot-limited model — forces the computer science department to put all their hiring eggs in one basket. If the candidate who they are courting rejects the offer, they are left with no one.

According to Ford, last year Princeton interviewed 25 candidates and made offers to 12 candidates, four of whom accepted.

Those low acceptance rates are surprising, considering that SEE CS DEPARTMENT PAGE 6

Amid scandal, University community defends Dach

BY TYLER FOGGATT, PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS Three weeks ago at Jonathan Edwards College’s first reunion, co-chair Jonathan Dach ’08 LAW ’13 could be seen tending to tasks seemingly beneath his senior planning position. Not wanting to attract attention, Dach hustled to make sure all attendees had enough to drink and that the lights were properly dimmed, behavior described by his friend Alexandra Brodsky ’12 LAW ’16 as “very Jonny.”

Two weeks later, Dach was thrust into the spotlight when national media scrutiny focused on his months spent as a White House aide.

An Oct. 8 Washington Post article linked Dach to an April 2012 prostitution scandal that led to the termination of several secret service agents. At the time, Dach was volunteering as a White House aide — and had traveled to Cartagena, Colombia, with President Barack Obama and his staff, arranging travel and accommodations for the president and his team. A 2012 Department of Homeland Security investigation following the trip found that several Secret Service agents hosted prostitutes in their

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hen I came to Yale as a freshman with several food allergies, I quickly discovered that Yale Dining was a mess. Just weeks into the fall semester, I scooped a heap of infamous vegan ravioli onto my plate.

At least the label said it was vegan. One hour and a large dose of Benadryl later, I was fast asleep in my bedroom on a cherished Friday night having experienced a severe allergic reaction. I later discovered that the label was actually correct — vegan ravioli was the intended dish — but the chef had instead cooked and served cheese ravioli. I learned not to trust Yale Dining.

As a senior, my skeptical attitude toward Yale Dining and its food remains unchanged. Until now, I have resisted the urge to speak out publicly. Just the other day, however, Commons was serving none other than vegan ravioli (although the label read “vegan tortellini”). Biting into a piece, I sensed that something was amiss. Three years wiser, I took a closer look and found that I was eating ravioli stuffed with cheese. Ignited by this jolt of déjà vu, I can remain quiet no longer. Yale Dining is still a mess and fails to serve its students adequately.

YALE DINING FALLS SHORT While my experience as someone with food allergies might not be representative of the average Yale dining experience, I firmly believe that it is indicative of a broader problem with Yale Dining. I have nothing against the men and women who work in our dining halls — they are affable and do their best to answer questions about ingredients. But an unmistakable air of laxity permeates our dining spaces.

The margarine is labeled as butter, the butter is labeled as cream cheese and the cream cheese is labeled as margarine. Entrée dishes are mislabeled — sometimes laughably so — or not labeled at all.

Ingredient lists are often radically incomplete or nonexistent. And worst of all, the persistence of these sloppy mistakes and omissions suggests that Yale Dining is apathetic toward improving its services.

The crisis in labeling and laxity is not a deficiency that Yale Dining can simply ignore.

While it may just be a daily point of humor for most din-

ers, it makes life in the dining halls inordinately difficult and frustrating for anyone with dietary restrictions.

My restriction is physical, but vegans, vegetarians and members of certain religions also have dietary restrictions. One wonders if any vegans unwittingly ate the “vegan” ravioli that night three years ago.

Even beyond the initial problem of our food conflicting with our immune systems or dietary restrictions, the issue of overall quality of food remains. Back in August, Yale Dining emailed its annual welcome back update, promising a continued commitment to enhancing its menus.

As a customer, I have found no evidence that any such overall menu enhancement has taken place, and indeed, there is a frustrating disparity that exists between dinner menus from one night to the next.

While one night’s menu might include a healthy mix of comfort and world flavors, the next night’s menu will include only exotic dishes and tastes. Also, the menus seem to operate on a rotating schedule, meaning that the food we ate on Monday this week was likely the same food we ate on Monday a few weeks ago. For me, redundancy detracts from an essential virtue of any dining service: variety.

While these latter observations verge on personal preference and may not seem irksome to some, I do not think I am alone in my scathing criticism of Yale Dining. Many upperclassmen have told me that the quality of the food and salads has only worsened in recent years. The food in Commons remains greasy, slimy and stale. While the food in the residential college dining halls is generally fresh, one cannot deny that there are some truly head-scratching combinations of ingredients.

Ultimately, we must admit that Yale Dining does not fulfill what should be its basic function: to provide all Yale diners, dietary restrictions or not, with consistently good food. I don’t trust my food, and neither should you, at least until Yale Dining decides to address its shortcomings once and for all. On Yale Dining’s website, Executive Director Rafi Taherian claims that “[o]ur goal is to exceed your dining expectations at every meal.”

Unfortunately, it is difficult for Yale Dining to exceed expectations when they aren’t even coming close to meeting them.

ROBERT BATISTA is a senior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at robert.batista@yale.edu .

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ne of the more memorable conversations I’ve had in the last few months began with the usual sharing of upcoming summer plans with a Yale friend. I mentioned I’d be spending two weeks living in a monastery in Jerusalem before a summer internship began. As (mostly) a joke, I added that I might just stay there and join the monks for good.

It’d be a liberating break from the rat race of college life and beyond.

Her response: “Talk about a waste of a Yale education!”

I thought she was completely wrong. And yet it can be difficult to go through Yale and not end up catching yourself judging, in the back of your mind, those who don’t put their education “to good use,” whatever you understand that term to mean. Far from just a benign conversation starter, the “What did you do this summer?” question is loaded with expectations. The interrogator is waiting to be dazzled.

But while on the topic of what constitutes a good use of our four years here and what constitutes a waste of time and effort, let’s do a bit of soul-searching. It’s a question many freshmen are in the midst of trying to answer right now.

I don’t know how many Yale freshmen were student council presidents in high school, though I’m told the number is disproportionately high. Fine. For these students, who are already famil-

iar with what an e l e c te d student b o d y does, the college versions are JOHN retty AROUTIOUNIAN psimilar, if on a Johnny Come slightly larger Lately scale.

T h e limitations — we are, after all, just students in a huge corporate institution with a brand and image to maintain — are also similar. And yet, large numbers of freshmen pursue positions in student government, apparently ready to consign college life to a sort of high school 2.0. Many will find out, sooner or later, that only one person out of the hundreds who want it will end up being president — and then they’ll either settle for a lesser role or quit altogether, hours wasted in committee meetings discussing toilet paper or dining hall cereal options.

I don’t want to belittle the work that administrative committees or the student council do. The typical Yale College Council insider will tick off the list of accomplishments in recent years. But that response misses the point. Many changes could

have been implemented without the bureaucratic black hole of the college and class council apparatuses, which often acts as a rubber stamp rather than a brain trust of innovative ideas.

But there’s a deeper point to be made. There are more pressing demands on a student’s time than student government or its counterparts. By this I mean either more pressing moral responsibilities to serve other communities or an obligation to invest time not into an organization’s day-to-day operations but into one’s personal ethical growth.

PUT DOWN THE SALAD REPORT AND START PUTTING TOGETHER YOUR LIFE MANUAL It is too easy to treat life as a continuation of high school. A leadership post in college, a string of glossy internships, a polished seat at a top graduate school, a cushy job. LinkedIn is teeming with these profiles.

Is anything wrong with this setup? Most will agree that an unexamined life is not worth liv-

ing, but a life of examination isn’t necessarily incompatible with this. It’s more about the motivations, I think, than the outcomes.

Some iteration of the life description above could very well be a productive, interesting, meaningful one. But if you believe in something like the importance of learning how to lead the good life, of discovering truth, a high school 2.0 life doesn’t provide it.

I’ll cut the philosophizing and get to the punch line: In all likelihood, you can spend the next four years doing something much more valuable than student government. Your Yale degree, for better of worse, will get you far, so take some liberties you otherwise wouldn’t. Communities next door and far away could really use your help. And you need yourself to spend these years creating the manual you’ll refer back to for the rest of your life. Many overcompensate for not having a deep sense of who they are and what they believe by just continuing to climb until an existential crisis hits.

And you won’t have time to start putting together your life manual if you’re at committee meetings by day and sending out survey emails by night.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College.

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Ask questions about Yale-NUS Nathan Steinberg’s column (“Stay Home, Yale,” Oct. 10) is an important, independent contribution to Yale’s understanding of what’s wrong about its venture in Singapore. Yet the response to it (the letter "Intellectual freedom at Yale-NUS,” Oct. 14) by professor Bryan Garsten, a very fine scholar and teacher but also an energetic framer of and apologist for Yale’s academic venture in Singapore — and now chairman of its Consultative Group on academic freedom — demonstrates the smooth convergence of two very flawed systems, in Singapore and the United States.

Students of government propaganda and administrative dissimulation should study this sentence about the film “To Singapore With Love”: Garsten writes, “The only action taken by the Yale-NUS administration was to ask the Singaporean MDA to clarify the relevance of its restrictive rating to universities. Perhaps partly in response to this request, the MDA issued a public statement, reported in the main Singaporean newspaper, indicating that restricted films could be shown in relevant academic settings in universities.”

So, not only did Yale-NUS fail to consult the filmmaker herself; instead of protesting the nationwide ban, it scurried to the government for an exemption in what has become an all-too typical “Yale way,” tactfully asking the MDA “to clarify the relevance” to universities of a blanket, “national-security” ban. And the MDA — "perhaps partly in response to this request,” Garsten hypothesizes — helpfully issued a public state-

ment, not a response, to Yale-NUS, which of course had requested only “clarification” and didn’t want to press the point.

How old does one have to be to recognize a dance like this for what it is, especially in a tiny island city-state of 5.6 million where little moves without the government having a finger in it? Why is Yale dancing as if it were a business investor or consulate? If “Yale” is not actually involved here, why is its name on the college? And why has Yale refused for five years to let its own faculty see the contract that it signed with Singapore?

We’re witnessing a subtle evisceration of essential freedoms of speech and expression in this too easy convergence of chilling regulatory practices in Singapore and in the United States since 9/11. The Yale Corporation’s long-time investors in Singapore who framed the Yale-NUS venture underestimated the costs of this convergence even as they facilitated it. And, step-by-step, we are paying the price. It would be appropriate for Yale to remove its name from the college, instead of giving the impression that it sold its name to a regime that wanted to acquire it for reasons incompatible with Yale’s own purposes and principles.

JIM SLEEPER Oct. 17 The writer is a lecturer in political science.

On Parkinson's As a person with Parkinson’s disease, I try to keep up with the latest research developments.

That’s why I read George Saussy’s

article (“Study hints at cure for Parkinson’s,” Oct. 14) with some interest. Unfortunately, I found it lacking in many respects.

What I found particularly disturbing was the quote attributed to postdoctoral fellow Levant Mutlu: “We found an alternative, easy way to cure Parkinson’s.” Though I wish Mutlu’s claims were true, they are at best disingenuous.

For one thing, the research Mutlu is touting is small in scope.

How small? Well, 16 St. Kitts Green Monkeys (eight male and eight female) were studied. That’s hardly definitive.

While scientists say that stem cells might — and that’s the key word here — have enormous therapeutic potential for people with Parkinson’s disease, I don’t know of any that claim they can cure the progressive neurological disorder.

Moreover, the research published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine doesn’t claim that it’s found a Parkinson’s cure, at least that’s the message that I got. In fact, the paper describes itself as “preliminary” and notes that its findings “deserve more extensive and detailed study for therapeutic potential in future clinical applications.”

The idea of using stem cells to treat Parkinson’s is not new, and there are plenty of scientists both in the U.S. and Europe who could have addressed the significance of Mutlu’s paper with far more authority than I can provide.

The Yale community certainly deserves better.

JONATHAN BERR Oct. 16 The writer is a freelance journalist.

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CORRECTIONS MONDAY, OCT. 13

A previous version of the article “Health hackathon kicks off” misstated the role of Ayesha Khalid in organizing the MIT Hacking Machine and the number of people that Yale’s hackathon had to turn away this year. The article also incorrectly stated that a group, Bumble Beetics, invented a video game diabetes meter, when in fact, the game is not a video game. In addition, the article misspelled the word “stent.”.

TUESDAY, OCT. 14

A previous version of the article “Study hints at cure for Parkinson’s” used a quote from one of the study’s lead authors stating that an alternative cure for Parkinson’s had been found. In fact, the results are only preliminary, and a cure for the disease has not yet been discovered.

FRIDAY, OCT. 17

A previous version of the article “Elm City Market to retain employees” stated that Elm City Market’s Board of Directors voted to discontinue the co-op model. In fact, the board did not vote on this, though the market will no longer operate as a co-op.

MONDAY, OCT. 20

A previous version of the article “Protesters criticize U.S. global health priorities” incorrectly stated the amount that has been cut from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

A previous version of the article “Music theory professor dies” identified Patrick McCreless as a professor at the music school. In fact, he teaches in the music department.

Further, the article mistakenly identified two students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as students at the School of Music.

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Former Local 35 leader protests current union

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER In his 42 years as a member of Local 35 — Yale’s blue-collar union — Tom Gaudioso rose in the ranks from grounds maintenance worker to union president in the 1980s and 1990s. Yesterday, a year and a half into his retirement, Gaudioso was back on Yale’s campus, this time to protest the very union and university to which he dedicated almost his entire adult life.

From 8:30 a.m. yesterday morning into the late afternoon, Gaudioso stood beside a white pick-up truck decorated with signs encouraging current members of Local 35 to demand more a more honest relationship with union leaders and Yale as a whole.

“Local 35 members, who is fighting for you?” read one.

“Local 35, I am here to help you,” read another.

Gaudioso said his outspokenness against the union’s current leadership has put him on a blacklist of people barred from playing any role in union or University proceedings.

“Yale was uncomfortable with me being around the campus because I’d been a strong union leader for years and I had not been very cozy with the University,” Gaudioso said. “I’m a straight-up working man’s guy.”

Gaudioso said tensions between himself and the union leadership started running high during the most recent union election in which Gaudioso campaigned against Bob Proto, the current Local 35 president.

Gaudioso said he was perceived to have undermined Proto’s leadership and executive board, and that he was slowly marginalized as a result.

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Former Local 35 Union President Tom Gaudioso started his service to Yale as a grounds maintenance worker. ings, but he has been barred from even entering the building at 425 College St. A new union rule was suddenly instituted in the spring, he said, stating that retirees could not be present at meetings. Policemen carrying a photo of him and his wife were present at all subsequent Local 35 gatherings, Gaudioso said. He added that he has been escorted off of union or University property on multiple occasions.

In a memo obtained by the News dated April 17, University Facilities Operations Director Roger Goode said anyone who sees Gaudioso on University property must contact campus police.

“I’m still asking, ‘What did I do?,’ ‘Why am I being banned from meetings?’” Gaudioso said. “They can’t give me an explanation. I could enjoy my retirement but I can’t forget the people I care about. I still have people that I love that are here.”

Proto declined to comment on specific union proceedings, though he did say that Guadioso’s claims were unfounded.

“The man has a problem,” Proto said.

Others who have known Gaudioso for decades, however, said they staunchly defend his dedication to the union and his hardworking nature.

John Borelli, who has been a Local 35 member for 33 years, said the union saw some of its best days under Gaudioso’s leadership.

“He was just heart and soul, and the custodians got the best rates at that time,” Borelli said.

“Everything he told you, you could bank on it.”

During Gaudioso’s leadership in the early 1990s, tensions between the union and the University ran high — throughout the 1990s, the union went on strike several times. It was not until 2003, under Proto’s lead-

ership, that the University and union reached a breakthrough agreement that led to 10 years of organized labor peace at Yale.

Borelli said that since Gaudioso’s retirement, current union leadership has worked to undo many of the policies Gaudioso worked to enact. He added that the union’s treatment of Gaudioso since his retirement is unprecedented.

One worker in the grounds maintenance department, who spoke on the condition on anonymity to protect his job, said Gaudioso had always been a crucial resource to other union members, and that to have him ostracized at a time when the union needed strong leadership was ridiculous.

The University currently employs 1,162 Local 35 members.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

S’Wings closes, building sold

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER Yalies exiting a weekend fraternity party on High Street will now have to search for a new spot to satisfy their late-night cravings for wings.

S’Wings, a student favorite and late-night food spot, closed its doors for the final time yesterday after being sold to Metro Star Properties. The real estate developer announced on its website that it has also purchased the parking garage adjacent to Swings, in addition to lots 254 through 260 on Crown Street.

According to the Metro Star Properties website, 280 Crown St., the former home of S’Wings, and the parking lot next to it will become a “high-end, boutique residential building, with modern architecture” called Metro 280.

S’Wings manager Carlos Perez said the restaurant hopes to relocate closer to Yale, since many of the business’s customers were students.

“Our idea is to stay around in this area,” Perez said. “But the few places around here are so expensive.”

Perez said S’Wings received a letter and a phone call six months ago notifying the business of the ownership change. According to Perez, in the letter, Metro Star Properties said that the business needed to pack up and leave by Oct. 20th.

According to S’Wings employee Alex Rivera, all the employees at the restaurant will lose their jobs as a result of the building’s closure.

“They [Metro Star] never come here or talk to us — I’m guessing these are rude people” Perez said. “The whole block is being sold, basically.”

According to Metro Star’s website, the purchased property also includes BAR Pizza, located at 254 Crown St., and the Neon parking garage. While Perez said he believes BAR’s future is uncertain, the developer’s website said that it “plans on performing needed differed maintenance and restoring the building’s façade.”

On the last day of operation at S’Wings, many Yale students visited the restaurant, and several said they were disappointed to hear the restaurant would be closing.

Trey Pernell ’17 said he was a regular customer at S’Wings, adding that the restaurant’s closing is “devastating.”

“I was just really getting into wings, so I’m really sad that S’Wings is closing,” Djenab Conde ’15 said. “Now I have to go all the way to Whitney!”

Wings Over New Haven on 56 Whitney Ave. and Buffalo Wild Wings on 76 Church St. are two other wings-focused restaurants in the city.

Other students interviewed expressed concerns about the availability of affordable, latenight food in the wake of recent business closings around campus.

Justin Moore ’15 said that, since A1 Pizza closed and Gourmet Heaven is scheduled to close, he is unsure of what will be available to students in the near future.

“It’s always sad to see local businesses closing down,” Moore said.

According to the Metro Star website, Metro 280 is scheduled to be completed in 2015.

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

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S’Wings closed its doors this Tuesday. The property will be converted to a luxury residential building.

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FROM THE FRONT

“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ENGLISH NURSE

Peers say Dach is “upstanding” DACH FROM PAGE 1 House was involved, according to the Washington Post.

But according to recent reports by the New York Post and Washington Post, DHS investigators did in fact find evidence that a prostitute had been checked into Dach’s hotel room.

The New York Post reported that information implicating Dach may have been withheld in order to avoid political embarrassment before the 2012 presidential election.

Dach, who now works at the State Department in the Office of Global Women’s Issues, declined to comment for this story.

Dach’s lawyer, Richard Sauber ’72, said that the allegations against Dach are completely false.

“Anyone who knows Jonathan Dach, as I have since he was born, would recognize just how ludicrous these allegations are,” Sauber said.

Indeed members of the Yale community who know Dach personally refute any possibility that he could have been involved in the scandal. According to 32 sources interviewed, Dach’s character is best represented by the way he interacts with others on a regular basis.

“He is such a wonderful person that the accusations seem ridiculous,” Brodsky said. “He’s also far too careful of a person with far too much respect for the [Obama] administration to ever do such a thing.”

Friends recalled Dach’s regularly scheduled “tortilla nights” hosted at his New Haven apartment, as well as the Aaron Sorkin television marathons he planned.

Others spoke fondly of an annual Christmas party Dach planned for weeks, complete with a calendar of events for the first 25 days of December.

Melina Shannon-DiPietro, co-founder and director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, said Dach regularly led Wednesday workdays at the Yale Farm, where he taught fellow students volunteer skills.

“He would go out of his way to help others,” Shannon-DiPietro said.

While an undergraduate, Dach was an Ethics, Politics and Eco-

nomics major and served as the editor in chief of the New Journal. A member of the Society of Book and Snake as a senior, Dach has in the past organized the meeting of the Society Council, a group of representatives from each secret society that determines the rules of tap season.

Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken said she first met Dach when he was a student in one of her seminars. Gerken said she once asked Dach to call a prospective YLS student who was not able to come to the school’s admitted students weekend.

Gerken said Dach instead organized a group of friends to meet the student at the train station, took him to Pepe’s Pizza for lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon showing the student around New Haven and talking about the law school.

Gerken added that while Dach was working as an aide, he had a deep respect for the White House and President Obama. “[Dach] had such reverence for the president that he never, not once, referred to him casually as ‘Obama’ — he always called him ‘the President,’” Gerken said in an email to the News. “And he never, not once, revealed an anecdote or information that would be embarrassing to the campaign or the White House.”

YLS professor David Grewal said that Dach was one of the best students he has taught, adding that many other YLS faculty shared the same sentiment.

Grewal suggested that the allegations against Dach are instead the result of misconduct on the part of someone else.

“Someone registered [overnight guests] using Jonny’s room number, which is what you’d do in a big hotel if you were trying to hide the fact that you were bringing in a prostitute,” Grewal wrote in a Monday email. “The shocking thing is that the [Washington Post] decided to revive the story, when there are really no new facts about it.”

Ashley Jackson — who said she got to know Dach through her husband when he attended YLS — said Dach is responsible and professional, particularly when it comes to women’s issues.

“Jonny is a deeply moral and thoughtful person who genuinely

respects women and understands the damaging impact of soliciting sex work,” Jackson said.

Dach’s sense of morality was far-reaching, Ayaska Fernando ’08 said. During his freshman year, when he and Dach lived in the same Old Campus suite, Fernando said Dach criticized him for illegally downloading music.

Susan Ikenberry, Dach’s AP U.S. History Teacher at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. — where Dach attended high school — said Dach had a reputation for being an engaged and upstanding student in high school as well.

Ikenberry remembered one instance where she handed out a copy of Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Constitution, and Dach began scrutinizing Jefferson’s wording. Students in the room said Dach’s reaction was a perfect example of how deeply he thought about his studies.

“Jonny argued that one of Jefferson’s noun choices could be improved, and I remember a student muttering ‘Only Jonny Dach would improve on Jefferson’s writing,’” Ikenberry said.

“It sounds a bit snarky in writing, but really the tone clearly meant that he thought so highly of Jonny that he had that right.”

While Jonathan Siegel LAW ’13 was not particularly close with Dach while at YLS, he said the unyielding support of Dach by his peers is the ultimate testament to Dach’s character.

“I think Yale Law School is unfortunately in its way sort of a catty place, and I think there are a lot of people where if there was something negative written about them in the newspaper, people would be falling over themselves to talk to reporters and rip that person apart,” Siegel said. “Either people are just not talking about [the allegations] out of respect for [Dach], or if people are talking about it, it’s like ‘Poor Jonny, I can’t believe the Washington Post ran a story like that.’”

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu, PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu

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Researchers to remain quarantined at home QUARANTINE FROM PAGE 1 son Mark D’Antonio added that the hospital has no new information to share on the status of the researcher.

According to new Connecticut guidelines established after Malloy declared a state of emergency, the department may quarantine anyone who the commissioner reasonably believes has been exposed to or infected with the Ebola virus.

The Yale doctoral student admitted to YNHH last week was the state’s first test in rolling out the new guidelines. The patient was quarantined in the hospital, and placed in a negative pressure room to prevent the spread of contaminated air out of the room, according to Alpern. Alpern described the latter measure as “overkill,” and added that negative pressure isolation is only necessary if the disease is airborne. The Ebola virus can only be spread by direct contact with bodily fluids of people who are symptomatic.

I think it’s erring on the side of being too careful, because we’d rather be too careful.

ROBERT ALPERN Dean, Yale School of Medicine Potential loopholes in the Ebola tests necessitate the quarantines, Alpern said. Two tests exist to detect Ebola; one measures viral RNA, an important genetic material, and the other measures antibodies, markers of the body’s immune response. Both tests may come back negative in the early stages of the infection if the virus has not grown to sufficient quantities to be detected.

Twenty-one days is a safe length of time, Alpern said, noting

that most patients develop symptoms of Ebola earlier.

“I think it’s erring on the side of being too careful, because we’d rather be too careful,” he added.

Recent debates have surrounded Drexel professor of environmental engineering Charles Haas’s Oct. 14 paper in PLOS — a scientific journal — claiming that a 21-day quarantine is insufficient. However, Alpern said that he trusts that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are competent to decide the proper protocol.

The decision by the state of Connecticut to quarantine the researchers comes after the University decided not to quarantine the researchers when they returned from Liberia. Before the researchers’ return, the School of Public Health had announced that the researchers had agreed to selfsequester themselves for 21 days.

But just over a week ago, Cleary announced that the researchers would not be quarantined.

Alpern said the change in decision was a judgment call based on CDC recommendations that state that unless a person shows Ebola-like symptoms or has come into contact with an infected person, quarantine is unnecessary.

Although the researcher did come into contact with NBC reporter Ashoka Mukpo fewer than 24 hours before he became symptomatic with Ebola, Alpern said neither of the students were at risk of contracting the disease, and the latest decision is solely to “play it safe.”

In an Oct. 16 report in the New England Journal of Medicine, the World Health Organization Ebola Response Team stated that 95 percent of Ebola cases in the first nine months of the current outbreak showed symptoms within 21 days.

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

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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A Yale doctoral student was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital last week for Ebola-like symptoms, and was quarantined as a preventative measure.

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NEWS

“There’s nothing more important than our good health — that’s our principal capital asset.”

ARLEN SPECTER FORMER U.S. SENATOR FOR PENNSYLVANIA

Ebola unlikely to impact endowment

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER The direct threat of Ebola to global financial markets remains undiagnosed, but its risk to the University’s pocketbook is likely minimal.

According to the most recent data issued by the World Bank, the estimated cost from the disease could reach $32.6 billion by 2015 if Ebola spreads throughout West Africa. While the impact on University assets — including Yale’s $23.9 billion dollar endowment — remains uncertain, financial experts in the field largely agreed that Yale’s returns will not be affected over the long term.

“The Yale endowment is really focused on long-term appreciation, and the illiquidity provides a bit of a buffer since those assets will not be liquidated in the course of the week,” MIT finance professor Andrew Lo ’80 said, referring to Yale’s holdings in asset classes such as leveraged buyouts, real estate and natural resources. “So

the ups and downs will not cause returns to be too affected.”

Lo added, however, that financial markets could be affected by the Ebola virus.

He said the current analysis of the financial implications of Ebola breaks down into two categories: the direct economic consequences of an outbreak and the consequences due to investor response and strategy. He added that while the current risk and cost of an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. is relatively minor and straightforward, questions regarding investor psyche are “quite severe.”

“Markets are often driven by animal spirits,” he said. “When you have something as deadly and frightening as Ebola virus, clearly markets will reflect that public sentiment.”

Charles Skorina, publisher of the Skorina Letters — a publication providing analysis on institutional asset managers and tax-exempt funds — said a more serious Ebola threat could generate a great deal of panic. He added

that this poses a risk to financial markets since they often react poorly to uncertainty.

Still, the ultimate impact any fluctuation will have on the returns of the Yale endowment or the University’s investment strategy remains small. Most experts interviewed said Yale’s emphasis on diversification and reliance on illiquid asset classes — assets that cannot be easily sold or exchanged — may help immunize the University from shortterm spikes.

Since endowments are often diversified, even if some institutions were more heavily invested in health care stocks currently seeing a rise in price, the impact would occur largely on the margin, said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute.

He added that if the U.S. maintains a relatively small number of Ebola cases, there will be no effect on the market and endowment investment strategy. More generally, Jarvis said it would be difficult to provide a clear invest-

ment strategy that fully accounts for the financial consequences of unpredictable market forces.

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen could not be reached for comment.

When you have something as deadly and frightening as Ebola virus, clearly markets will reflect that public sentiment.

ANDREW LO ’80 Professor of finance, MIT Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health for the Council on Foreign Relations, said that investors with a long-term perspective could benefit from sectors that are currently under- or overvalued as a result of the fears surrounding Ebola.

“If you are buying for the long

term, and hedging against the insanity of the fearfulness, it is a great time to buy stuff,” Garrett said. She cited hotel and airline stocks as two examples of sectors that were unnecessarily undervalued in current economic conditions.

But others advised Swensen that the best financial response to the Ebola crisis is to do nothing at all.

Professor of finance at the Yale School of Management Matthew Spiegel said he hopes Swensen will ignore the fears regarding Ebola, since they will likely have no impact. Financial markets will not be hurt in the long term since they are based in relatively unaffected locations such as the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia, Spiegel added.

“People in the stock market are betting real money with real companies with real earnings,” he said. “When you buy a stock, you are buying a future earnings flow well into the future, and this Ebola crisis will not affect 99.9 percent of companies in the next

month.”

He said that recent fluctuations in the financial markets are more likely to be attributed to a wide range of other issues — including continuing instability in the European economy, uncertainty about retail sales and even interest in Apple products.

While Lo said concerns regarding Ebola likely will not drive Yale’s investment decision making, it is a factor that is worth considering in light of Yale’s future spending plans. He said since Yale will be building two new residential colleges and will require greater liquidity, fluctuations in those types of assets may carry greater weight.

“In that case, liquid markets matter … so they must be fully aware of conditions that would drive these types of market panics,” he said.

Yale’s endowment had a 20.2 percent investment return for fiscal 2014.

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

Principals knock on doors to fight truancy

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Parents are beginning to receive unexpected visits from school principals as part of the city’s latest effort to curb frequent student absenteeism in New Haven Public Schools.

This initiative — the brainchild of Mayor Toni Harp — attempts to bring to light the importance of kids attending classes on a regular basis. Harp’s office sent an email last week to the leaders of five different schools in Fair Haven requesting that they mobilize volunteers to knock on the doors of families with students identified as chronically absent — those who missed at least 10 percent of school days — according to Quinnipiac School principal Grace Nathman. Principals, staff members, teachers and officers did the first stages of neighborhood canvassing last Thursday, and they plan to meet today to organize for an additional round.

Nathman said that the canvassing efforts were wellreceived by parents.

“Even though we may have approached the door with too many people ... they valued the fact that we need to get their kids to school every day,” she said.

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Cutting down absenteeism and truancy are key elements of Harp’s efforts to improve graduation rates, City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer said.

Research shows that there is a significant correlation between attendance levels and academic success from an early age. A study published in August by Attendance Works — a national organization that promotes better attendance policies and practices — shows that being absent three times in one month can result in a drop of a total of 24 points in the

reading and math sections of the National Assessment of Education Progress standardized test.

Considering this relationship, Harp has initiated a proactive approach to ending truancy, which involves going to the student’s home to ask what city services can help the student overcome whatever obstacle prevents them from attending school.

Rather than having predefined programs, the city is trying to provide individualized strategies to combat absenteeism. “[There are] different reasons why kids aren’t attending school,

and so there’s not going to be one silver bullet answer to improving attendance,” said Laoise King, vice president of education initiatives at United Way of Greater New Haven, a nonprofit organization that works on education issues in New Haven.

Kids often miss school because they are dealing with issues at home, King said, noting problems related to health and housing, which can vary according to age group and income level. Canvassing can help identify a family’s individual needs, she said.

NHPS parent Yury Maciel-

Andrews said that although she is uncertain of whether canvassing will actually curb absenteeism, it is a productive starting point for some families, since it demonstrates a more human and caring side to a very complex and challenging issue. Maciel-Andrews has participated in several canvasses, which she said allowed her to form connections with many other NHPS parents.

In addition to these recent canvassing efforts, Harp began another program in January — the Attendance and Engagement Clinic — following a similar strat-

egy. She started it as a pilot program at both the Quinnipiac and Strong Schools. Through the program, community experts schedule meetings with parents of chronically absent children in order to discuss the issues that might be preventing school attendance.

To implement the program, NHPS partnered with the State Department of Children and Families and the State’s Probate Court System.

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

Academic job search support expands

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER This year’s Academic Job Search Series, an annual set of workshops with the objective of preparing Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral students to enter the academic job market and become professors, has undergone a change in leadership, resulting in double the number of events that were offered last year.

The 12-part series began in September and is a joint effort of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Office of Career Strategy and Postdoctoral Career Services. The program consists of seven workshops and five panels, many of which are led by distinguished Yale professors and alumni, as well as members of the CTL and Postdoctoral Career Services. The workshops cover a range of topics from the development of a CV and cover letter to interview strategies, and they are aimed at graduate and postgraduate students looking to work in academia.

Lorna MacEachern, the new director of Postdoctoral Career Services, said she was responsible for this year’s expansion of the series and the choice of new topics.

“Being new here, I got a little overambitious,” MacEachern

said. “I was like hey, let’s make this a whole series over two months and double it in size.”

MacEachern said she wanted this year’s series to be a mixture of discussion panels and interactive, how-to workshops.

While the workshops actually provide step-by-step explanations of how to do things like prepare a teaching statement or for an interview to teach in the humanities, the panels expose students to more real-life examples. In the past, professors and lecturers who led the panels have always presented both the positive and negative experiences they had in their academic work, she said.

Large academic departments across the country — including economics, history and political science — hire very early on in the year, Dames said. Students attend large conferences in the first few months of fall, where they present themselves and do several interviews. Smaller departments, on the other hand, tend to hire as late as the spring.

The goal of the series is to give people a solid foundation for job applications in all departments before recruitment begins, she said. This way, Dames added, students will be prepared regardless of when their desired department actually begins its search.

A recent survey conducted

by Postdoctoral Career Services found that 70 percent of Yale postdoctoral students aspire to a career in academia. Current statistics indicate that only about 20 percent of these students will be successful, MacEachern said.

“The big controversy is that [Ph.D. programs] are preparing people for jobs that aren’t there,” MacEachern said. “A lot of [students] end up in these kind of adjunct positions for a long period of time, which for their level of qualifications, are extremely underpaid.”

Despite these discouraging numbers, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have shown great interest in the series, MacEachern said.

The first two events were oversubscribed and organizers had to turn people away — the room they were held in only seats 100 people, and 170 students registered for the first talk while 120 registered for the second.

More specific lectures, such as “Women in Academia” and “Academic Job Search and Preparing the Cover Letter in the Humanities” saw fewer attendees, Sodi said.

Two postdoctoral students said they attended the workshops, which were full of valuable information for those interested in entering academia.

Christal Sohl, a postdoctoral student in the pharmacol-

ogy department said she already attended several workshops this semester, as well as many of the workshops offered in the past.

Although some of the topics covered were exactly the same as last year’s, the workshops are not repetitive because the process of entering the academic job search is so complex and daunting.

The big controversy is that [Ph.D. programs] are preparing people for jobs that aren’t there.

LORNA MACEACHERN Director, Postdoctoral Career Services “It’s really nice to have a lot of different perspectives to let you know what the expectations are, what a successful application looks like, and what experiences you might expect to have,” Sohl said. “It takes a lot of the mystery out, which is really comforting.”

Hans Aerni, a postdoctoral student in cellular and molecular p hysiology, said he does not believe that postdoctoral students receive as much attention from the University as graduate students do. The series, he said,

is a good example of one of the ways in which Yale does effectively cater to its postdoctoral students. Still, Aerni added that it would be helpful if the workshops were offered in different locations across campus, such as West Campus.

However, six Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students interviewed said they had heard about the workshops but did not consider attending.

CTL Associate Director Risa Sodi said that in the past, workshops were always the result of a strong collaborative partnership between Graduate Career Services, YTC, Postdoctoral Career Services and the Center for Scientific Teaching. This summer, the GCS was absorbed into OCS at the same time that the YTC and CST were absorbed into the CTL. But despite these structural changes, the commitment to collaboration remains strong across offices.

“Having OCS, including its graduate career services unit, and Jeanine Dames, director of Career Services, as our interlocutors brought additional resources and manpower to the table,” said Sodi.

There are currently 6,501 graduate and professional students at Yale.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

ELIE WIESEL JEWISH POLITICAL ACTIVIST

ULA protests Zedillo

UWC time limit abolished

ULA PROTESTS FROM PAGE 1 On Oct. 6, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case against Zedillo, ending a process that began in 2011 when 10 unnamed plaintiffs — who claimed to be survivors of the attack and families of those killed — filed a lawsuit against the former president for crimes against humanity.

In a press release following the Supreme Court’s decision, Zedillo’s lawyer Jonathan Freiman LAW ’98 expressed relief that the suit had come to a close. “Mr. Zedillo served his nation with ‘tremendous vision and courage,’ as President Clinton once noted. The calumnious claims against him are now put to rest,” Freiman said.

Despite the ruling, organizers of Monday’s protest called for continued action on the part of local residents, Yale students and University faculty to bring Zedillo to justice.

In addition to protesting the immunity granted to Zedillo by both the U.S. State Department and the University, the protest also called attention to the murder of two Mexican students and the abduction of 43 more from Guerrero, Mexico in late September.

Protestor Joe Foran, a New Haven resident, claimed that the crimes in Guerrero, which occurred at a protest against the Mexican government’s privatization of the education system, were another instance of the “state-sponsored terrorism” that occurred under Zedillo and, he said, continues to this day.

“They were taken alive — we want them back alive,” was one refrain protestors shouted towards Betts House.

Organizers said demonstrators and family members of the students fear that the Mexican police, who took the students, may have given them to the drug cartels.

Zedillo, who served as president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, now teaches classes in political science and international relations at Yale.

“We are here to hold Yale University accountable for harboring a war criminal in our community,” said Foran, reading from the protest’s official press release.

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Unidad Latina en Acción members protested the U.S. Supreme Court’s dismissal of the case against director of the Yale Center for Globalization Ernesto Zedillo for massacre.

For many in the crowd — Mexican nationals themselves or migrants from other Latin American nations — the recent events in Guerrero, as well as the 1997 Acteal massacre, are a sign of the violence that undocumented migrants to the U.S. try to escape by crossing the border.

“This shows the reality in Mexico,” said protestor Fatima Rojas, another New Haven resident.

The protestors, who drew parallels between the Acteal massacre perpetrated during Zedillo’s presidency and the violence in Mexico today, spoke out at a time of heavy criticism in Mexico for the country’s current president, Enrique Peña Nieto. Both Nieto and Zedillo align with the Institutional Revolutionary Party — a party that formerly dominated the Mexican political sphere — which some believe may contribute to the recent revival of interest in Zedillo’s case.

A few Yale alumni attended the rally,

including Stephen Kobasa DIV ’72. Kobasa said that, although Yale is not the only institution to do so, he is disappointed by recent decisions that he said prioritize the University’s interests above that of the public.

“There’s no neutrality anymore — the University is identifying itself with this kind of institutionalized horror,” Kobasa said. “One must stand and say no.”

All of those who spoke at the rally highlighted the importance of undergraduate student involvement in fighting Zedillo’s presence at Yale.

In addition to his role as the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Zedillo is one of 11 former heads of state now serving as members of The Elders, an international human rights organization founded by Nelson Mandela.

Contact SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu .

— including the Title IX coordinators, the Yale Police Department, the Communication and Consent Educators, the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center and residential college deans and masters, Post said. UWC members, including faculty as well as graduate and undergraduate students, also participated in an all-day training session on Oct. 10 in which they were briefed on policy updates and discussed how the committee should handle upcoming cases, UWC member Marija Kamceva ’15 said.

Yale regularly revisits its sexual misconduct policies to make sure that they align with national and state standards, University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler said. But this change to the time limits came more from internal assessments and discussions than from legislative changes, she said.

There have never been any time limits on bringing complaints to Title IX coordinators, Post said. But for students, seeking the help of the Title IX committee is similar to filing an informal complaint with the UWC, because both appeals cannot result in formal disciplinary action.

Faculty and staff who speak to the Title IX coordinators may obtain more formal outcomes, he added.

Whether a respondent brings a complaint to the UWC or the Title IX coordinator is entirely up to him or her, said Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Yale College Angela Gleason.

“It’s really up to the individual,” she said. “There are so many moving parts that it’s not predictable.”

While Post said the updated policies were published on the provost’s website as soon as they were revised, 15 out of 16 students interviewed — including one CCE — said they did not know that the time limits had existed in the first place.

Adriana Embus ’17 said the fact that there had ever been a time limit is “crazy.”

Jessica Gao ’17 said she was angry that the limits had existed and relieved that they were now eliminated.

“It’s really important, especially in our rape culture, to give sexual assault survivors the time that they need to work through the process themselves and decide what course of action to take,” she said.

Chloe Tsang ’17 said she was aware of the former time limits but not of their recent repeal. She added she thinks this is a positive development.

Despite the recent change, Post said the UWC will continue to encourage individuals to come forward as soon as possible with their complaints.

“As time passes, evidence may be lost. Quicker complaints are also important for protecting the community from serial offenders,” he said.

The UWC, established in 2011, is just one of several options for University community members seeking help after sexual assault.

Complainants also may choose to discuss their incidents with Title IX coordinators, SHARE or a variety of other resources, according to the Sexual Misconduct Response at Yale website.

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

For CS department, hiring a major barrier CS DEPARTMENT FROM PAGE 1 Princeton’s department is eighth in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report, Ford said.

Princeton’s department, like all computer science departments, is limited by the pool of qualified candidates, but not a set number of slots — what Yale computer science professors call a “candidate-limited model.” Computer science departments are not only competing for faculty applicants with their peer institutions’ departments — they are also competing with big industry companies like Google and Microsoft, Ford added.

STRAINED FACULTY

Of the 15 most popular majors at Yale, computer science is the only one that has not made it on U.S. News & World Report’s top 10 ranked majors list. It is ranked 20th on the list.

The average faculty size for the current top 10 computer science departments in the nation is 67

faculty members — Yale’s department, coming in at 20 faculty members, is less than a third of that size. The next top 10 universities have an average of 39 faculty members, still almost double that of Yale’s faculty.

According to Ford, even though the University’s department has top-notch faculty, in a field that is growing as fast as computer science, having a few of the very best people is just not enough. Universities need both quantity and quality in faculty.

In addition, those schools that ranked in the top 11 to 20 — five schools were tied for the 20th spot — have shown an average growth rate of 21 percent over the past 10 years. Meanwhile, Yale’s growth rate is virtually non-existent, Ford said.

Given how poorly Yale compares to its peers in faculty size, the University only has one way to catch up — it must convert from a slot-limited to candidate-limited model, Ford said.

“That would be clearly the

right thing to do, and certainly Yale could afford it,” he said. “It is not like the money doesn’t exist, it just needs to be done.”

Feigenbaum said every time Yale has been given the opportunity to hire someone, it has acquired an excellent professor. She said the department has presented its case for new faculty to the administration again and again, but the administration has consistently responded by saying it cannot give them more professors — it is restrained due to financial reasons.

The growth problem is not unique to computer science, Feigenbaum said, noting that most FAS departments are likely experiencing the same pushback against faculty growth because of the University’s financial situation. But she said the computer science department is most vocal because an unprecedented number of undergraduates have expressed interest in the major and the department’s courses.

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sor Holly Rushmeier told Feigenbaum that she would like to teach a new class entitled “From Physical to Virtual and Back Again.”

The course would focus on converting digital models to physical models through 3-D printing.

But Rushmeier cannot teach the course now because the department needs her to teach Computer Science 201 — “Introduction to Computer Science” — one of the core courses of the major.

Ford said this year’s increase in diversity of computer science classes is an improvement for the department, but he added that continuing to grow the department’s course diversity will not be possible without additional faculty.

Richard Yang, who teaches two highly regarded networking courses at Yale — CPSC 433/533 and CPSC 434/534 — is the only one among faculty who specializes in networking. Since he is on leave this semester, no networking courses are being taught, Feigenbaum said.

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Daniel Spielman ’92, a professor in the computer science, mathematics and applied mathematics departments and a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, is the only person at Yale specializing in algorithms. He said many of the computer science specialties only have one faculty member, making it difficult to attract graduate students.

Yale needs to have strong departments teaching the topics that its students most want and need to study.

JULIE DORSEY Spielman said last year’s efforts to attract graduate students fell short — none of the three he admitted chose Yale. They instead chose MIT, Stanford and Princeton. Spielman said he was most upset by the choice of Princeton because in the past, Yale’s computer science department was considered to be better than Princeton’s.

“But now [Princeton] has five or six young faculty in my field that he can work with,” Spielman said. “So, what can I say? Maybe, he made the right decision. It’s upsetting because we used to be pretty comparable. Now, we look like a less exciting place to land. The graduate students [who want to specialize in algorithms] can ask me ‘Well what happens if you leave?’ ‘Well then you are screwed.’”

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In 1989, Yale had over 90 PhD candidates in computer science.

Two years ago, there were fewer than 50 graduate students. Ford said these low numbers result in fewer teaching fellows for undergraduates, which means most of the large lectures do not break down into smaller sections.

Spielman said this increase in the number of undergraduate students — without an accompanying increase in faculty or TFs — has led to less satisfactory class experiences. Undergraduates have less of an opportunity to get to know each other and the professors. According to Spielman, there are no longer sufficient resources to target students who need addi-

tional help or to cater to those who need more challenging material.

According to professor of computer science Julie Dorsey, because graduate students are funded by individual faculty grants, having fewer faculty means fewer graduate students .

“Regardless of how Yale reached its current status, in order to remain one of the world’s top educational institutions in the long run, Yale needs to have strong departments teaching the topics that its students most want and need to study,” Dorsey said.

“Computer science is fundamental to a liberal arts education.”

Spielman said he fears that without more faculty, the department will have to change the structure of the major entirely.

As of now, each senior completes an individual project under the guidance of a department advisor, with whom they meet at least once a week. Each faculty member can only handle so many students, and an increase in undergraduate enrollment in the major would mean getting rid of the mentorship requirement.

According to Feigenbaum, without guaranteed growth, the department may have to come up with some interesting alternatives — like the recently proposed possibility of importing Harvard’s well-known CS50 course to Yale. The joint learning experience would involve using Harvard professor David Malan’s video courses with a Yale professor supplementing his lectures.

Last semester, Yupei Guo ’17 walked into Computer Science 112 , “Introduction to Programming,” excited to see what the course had to offer. She found her answer immediately after scanning the auditorium — too many students.

She ultimately decided against the course because of its overwhelming enrollment.

“You literally had to fight for a seat in the class,” Guo said. “Students were sitting in the aisles.”

At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., sophomore Billy Matchen sat in a room with fewer than 20 other students, engaged in a computer science recitation section. CMU’s computer science department is considered one of the best in the country.

Matchen’s professor is one of almost 140 in CMU’s computer science department.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”

ARTHUR C. CLARKE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION WRITER

Malloy, Foley trade energy jabs

BY JAMES BARILE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In one of the nation’s most contested gubernatorial races, one issue receives little press but much weight in the eyes of Connecticut voters: energy.

Connecticut remains the fourth costliest supplier of energy in the United States, a reality highlighted by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Republican challenger, Tom Foley, as the state nears election day Nov. 4. However, the Malloy campaign insists that the state has made great strides despite Foley’s criticisms.

Appointing Yale Law School professor Daniel C. Esty LAW ’86 as the department’s commissioner, Malloy’s adminis-

tration merged two existing departments to create the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in July 2011. Faced with dried out renewable energy funds, Malloy also oversaw establishment of the nation’s first continuously growing “Green Bank,” which currently leverages an estimated $27 million from electric ratepayer fees to help fund residential solar projects.

Still, the Foley campaign tells a different story.

Four years after Malloy ran on a campaign of “cleaner, cheaper, more reliable energy,” data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration places Connecticut 43rd nationally in gross renewable energy production.

Compared to a national average

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of 11.7 percent and a New York rate of 20.5 percent, Connecticut only generates 2.6 percent of its electricity from hydroelectric or other renewable sources in 2014.

On the price side, Connecticut is also behind many other states. State electricity delivery costs increased during Malloy’s term. Energy supplied through Connecticut Light & Power increased from 9.75 to 11.21 cents per kilowatt hour, and energy from United Illuminating increased from 8.21 to 8.66 cents per kilowatt hour, according to figures released in July 2014. In a recent interview with the Connecticut Mirror, Foley said he blames the increase on a hike of the renewable energy Conservation and Loan Management fee, among other laws. If he were

elected governor, Foley pledged to repeal the aforementioned fee once in office.

Asked recently how his “cleaner, cheaper, more reliable” energy campaign promise panned out, Malloy responded saying that he believes the state has reached its goal in becoming more a reliable energy deliverer.

Nonetheless, Malloy plans a tenfold expansion of the residential solar program by 2020, with added funding to the Green Bank — Connecticut’s Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority. In recent interviews with the press, Foley has openly admitted that he does not know exactly what the solar program is.

Foley still emphasizes a freemarket approach to energy in the

state, by which he would remove fees and allow private enterprise to choose available sources, like coal, over expansion of Connecticut’s maxed-out natural gas infrastructure.

De m o c ra ts i n te rv i ewe d embraced Malloy’s direction, even if his energy policies to date have not reaped significant benefits. Yale College Democrats president Rebecca Ellison ’15 added that Foley’s failure to formulate a concrete energy plan displays a “total disregard” for the issue.

Republicans, too, showed a similar distaste for Foley’s ambiguity.

“I do laud Malloy for having a detailed plan, and I would like to see Foley be less vague on this issue, but I do think that Foley’s

claims have merit,” Yale College Republicans president Andrea Barragan ’15 said.

However, Barragan added that “relying more on the free market and less on government mandates will reduce the financial burden of energy costs on citizens.”

In a state that consistently votes democratic, students wondered whether the new renewable energy programs would have been passed regardless of the governor.

Nuclear energy and natural gas account for 94.1 percent of Connecticut’s net electricity generation, compared to a 48.3 percent national average.

Contact JAMES BARILE at james.barile@yale.edu .

Foley’s wealth draws controversy

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER While both Yale and New Haven are both home to vibrant arts scenes, the two rarely intersect.

Emily Hays ’16 is trying to bridge that gap by creating a new undergraduate organization that connects University and city musicians, artists, poets and arts organizations. The group is based out of a series of events that Hays helped organize last year called “comminglings,” including an art show with both New Haven and Yale artists.

“I really want this to be a long term connection between Yale undergraduates and New Haven,” Hays said.

The idea for the organization came to Hays at the beginning of her sophomore year after she returned to Yale from a summer trip to India. The incarnation it took last year was in the form of small events that Hays organized on her own, an experience she described as “really stressful.” This year, she said she hopes to involve everyone who wants to join so that some areas in event coordination that were neglected last year, such as publicity, are wellsupported. To attract members to her organization, Hays sent emails to various panlists who have worked with New Haven. So far, 10 people have expressed interest in joining the group, in addition to the handful of students who helped her with events last year.

Hays also said that part of her reasoning for starting the organization was that she felt that most Yale organizations that interact with New Haven focus on service rather than collaboration.

“I think that creates a very one-sided relationship,” Hays said. “It also creates a sense of New Haven that it doesn’t have its own resources to offer, which I completely disagree with,” she added.

One of the group’s first collaborations will be in conjunction with the New Haven Future Project, a nonprofit that works to empower teens in under-served urban areas to develop their talents. Hays said that after a number of conversations she has had with George Black, a dream director at New Haven’s Riverside Academy, the plan is to have Yale student music composers work with kids served by the Future Project to write a song together, with the ultimate goal of performing it for an audience.

A number of students who participated in last year’s commingling events expressed interest in participating in the organization this year.

Alexander Dubovoy ’16, a jazz pianist and singer heavily involved in the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective, said he not only had a great time performing at one of the commingling events last year, but was also heartened to see the undergraduate population come together with the New Haven population.

“There’s been a lot of New Haven organizations that have really tried to foster the local culture and local arts scene, and as a result of that, there’s been some really great things going on that are very exciting,” Dubovoy said. “To let Yalies know what’s going on just outside the gates of campus is a great experience for everyone— it gets people out into the community, it gets people playing not just at Yale venues but at local venues — and so it makes both arts scenes kind of complement each other.”

Dave Harris ’16, a member of the Yale spoken word poetry group Word, said his performance at a commingling event last year was one of his favorites.

A standout moment for Harris was when, right before he stepped on the stage, he made the spur of the moment decision to invite Sarah Lemieux, a New Haven-based singer-songwriter who was also performing at the event, to accompany his poem.

The name for Hays’s organization has yet to be decided — she is currently considering Blue Haven and NHVLove.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

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Critics have pointed out that gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley paid virtually no federal taxes in 2013.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER A report released last week reveals that Connecticut Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley paid virtually no federal taxes in 2013, fueling controversy over whether the candidate’s personal wealth is relevant to his campaign.

According to a summary report of Foley’s federal tax returns released by his campaign last week, the businessman paid only $673 in taxes despite personal wealth abundant enough to allow him to spend $11 million on his 2010 gubernatorial campaign. The report revealed that after “losses” were accounted for, the only tax that Foley had to pay was for self-employment.

Foley founded NTC Group, a private investment firm.

The report did not provide information on the source of the losses, which offset nearly $90,000 that Foley reported in dividend incomes and capital gains in 2013, according to an article published in the Hartford Courant.

While Democrat state lawmakers argued that Foley’s wealth illuminates a problematic gap between the candidate and middle and working class citizens, Republican lawmakers defended Foley, adding

that the candidate should not be punished for personal success.

Republican State Senate Deputy Minority Leader Toni Boucher said the tax summary is “just noise” and not information that voters should focus on the November election.

“There’s too much negativity,” she said. “Let’s be smart and strong. We’re not going to [vote] in an unemotional, unbiased sort of way.”

Connecticut is on its financial knees, and what we need is a turnaround specialist.

TONI BOUCHER Deputy minority leader, State Senate She said that instead of focusing on Foley’s tax payments, voters should keep the state of the economy at the forefront of their minds on Nov. 4. She cited that the 2011 and 2013 state budgets introduced the highest-ever taxes into the state, which has contributed to Connecticut’s ranking as one of the lowest-performing economies in the nation by multiple publications. Boucher called Foley a

“turnaround specialist” because of his experience working with NTC group, which buys and sells companies.

“The state needs different people at different times,” Boucher said.

“Connecticut is on its financial knees, and what we need is a turnaround specialist with a clear head and strong policies.”

But while Boucher regarded Foley’s tax payments as irrelevant to the election, Democrats thought differently.

State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, a Democrat, said that because the tax report related to Foley’s fitness as a gubernatorial candidate, the information was pertinent.

He said that the tax summary further emphasizes the gulf between Foley — a wealthy investor — and the average Connecticut resident.

Students, for the most part, agreed that Foley’s tax summary is relevant to the elections. Of 15 students interviewed, 13 said the tax summary would influence their votes on Election Day. “It would affect my decision,” said Amey Mahajan ’17, who did not disclose his political affiliation. “I think the richest people need to be taxed more.”

Iain Barr ’17 said the information

would not influence his decision because Foley did not break any laws, and so could not be judged for paying $673 in federal taxes.

Meanwhile, political science professor at Sacred Heart University Gary Rose said that because the vast majority of voters has already decided who they will vote for, the tax summary was not a “bombshell.” He added that throughout his campaign, incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy has portrayed Foley as a candidate who is out of touch with voters because of his wealth.

Thus, the tax summary does not add anything new to the campaign.

Connecticut GOP Communications Director Zak Sanders said the state’s poor economic situation would motivate voters struggling after losing their jobs and homes to support Foley.

“Voters know that a Tom Foley administration would mean lower taxes and new higher-paying jobs,” he said. “Tom understands that Connecticut’s hardworking families are struggling under the weight of the largest tax increase in state history.”

The gubernatorial election will take place on Nov. 4.

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

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SPORTS

“I remember my dad asking me one time, and it’s something that has always stuck with me: ‘Why not you, Russ?’ You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl?”

RUSSELL WILSON NFL QUARTERBACK

Football’s youthful defense FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 pump faked, and I was like, alright, he pump faked, he’s probably not going to throw it here. And then he just threw it at me, and I was actually surprised. I went up to catch it, and I bobbled it, and thought I missed it. I went up again looking for it and caught it again, and there was so much green in front of me, but I got tackled from behind. of course, there was QThen, the two-point conversion on Saturday. What was that like, as a linebacker?

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Unfortunately [tight end] Sebastian Little ’17 got injured, and so I was just stepping in for him. We have all these formations and plays and stuff [for the two-point conversion], but I just never thought they’d run one of them when I was in there. We usually shift back [to kick the field goal], but then we ran it.

It felt cool, getting a reception as a linebacker.

played both tight end QYou and safety in high school.

Do you see yourself in an offensive role later on in your Yale career?

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I have no idea. I have to learn the defense before I can even think about doing something like that. It would kill me if I had to learn the whole offense too. Mentally, school is so much work, and learning the defense is also a lot. The other thing is that we have so many talented guys on offense that it would be difficult to crack into two roster spots when it’s already tough to crack into one.

you know coming to QDid Yale that you would play linebacker?

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They told me I’d play linebacker … We have

really, really fast safeties, and those guys need to be really good in coverage. I don’t know if I’d be able to play man on a receiver in college right now. It also helps that I’ve always been taller, and I still have a lot more weight that I can put on.

COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 after an investigation marred by questionable tactics — The New York Times reported that the TPD never obtained any DNA samples from Winston — FSU is conducting an investigation into the alleged incident.

Winston does not seem to have learned from any of these transgressions, as he stood up on a table at the FSU Student Union just a month ago and yelled a phrase from an Internet meme that is both so inappropriate and so disrespectful towards women that I will not repeat it here.

were a tri-varsity QYou athlete at the Delbarton

School in New Jersey. What’s the biggest difference between being an athlete here at Yale and being one in high school?

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I would say you’re a lot more humble in college.

In high school, you’re usually like a big fish in a small pond. Once you get into college, you see how good everyone else is. That’s definitely a change. Second, you’re a lot closer with your friends. In high school, the kids you play with in each season change.

It’s almost like a semi-annual thing, where you hang out with these guys, and then you hang out with these guys. On football, you’re always with football guys. That’s a complete change. You spend so much more time with them, that the relationships are much stronger.

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brother, Justin QYour Oplinger ’10, was an outside linebacker at Yale a few years ago. What has it been like having him a few years ahead of you with more experience?

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It’s actually really cool.

When I was in middle school, he was in college, so I was living vicariously through him, watching Yale football, being excited about it, and I always wanted to be a Yale football player.

Once I got into high school, I stopped worrying about colleges, just worried about my own career. Once I decided to go to Yale, now my brother’s living it through me. I

Winston’s troubles

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While upperclassmen power the Elis’ nation-leading defense, four out of the top five tacklers this season are underclassmen. think he’s staying over for one weekend; he’s been at all the games. He loves it. It’s cool to see the roles reversed a little bit. are your thoughts QWhat on the defense’s performance overall this season?

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We’ve been okay, but we need to be better. We’ve

messed up a few plays here and there because of mental mistakes. I think physically, we’re talented. We’re a little young right now, but I think we’re very good. There are a lot of great leaders on the defense who are helping us get better every week.

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

Elis take Princeton invite GOLF FROM PAGE 12

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The Bulldogs shot a combined score of 896, enough to clinch first place at the Princeton Invitational.

field.”

The most notable performance of the final day belonged to Liu, whose even-par 72 marked the lowest score of all players that day and propelled her to the top of the leaderboard (75–72– 72). Her consistently low scores reflect not only her progression throughout the season but also her ability to outperform herself and carry the team in crucial moments. Liu also mentioned that a putter switch was instrumental to her success.

“On a personal level, to win my first individual title was quite a thrill,” Liu said. “My putting has been holding me back a little this year, but I switched putters this week, and it made all the difference.”

Her teammate Wongwaiwate, who fell out of the lead on the last day of the tournament with a less competitive round of 79, still took second place overall thanks to her remarkable performance in earlier rounds (71–70–79). Peng and Bernabe both finished the tournament with a 77 and contributed to the team’s overall top score.

After this win, the team now ranks No. 54 in the nation.

Wongwaiwaite said the Bulldog’s national team ranking has only been getting better this season and that the players look forward to keeping it up in the spring.

Though the Princeton Invitational marked the end of fall season for the Bulldogs, the win gave players motivation to work hard during off-season.

“To win our last tournament of the semester is a wonderful achievement and leaves the team hungry for further success in the spring,” Liu said.

Wongwaiwaite added that the team’s biggest tournament is the Ivy League Championship in the spring and that the players hope to secure the win this year.

The Bulldogs’ first tournament in the spring will be at Georgetown on March 29, 2015.

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

For this latest stunt, the star was originally suspended for one half of a football game, but then FSU extended his suspension to cover a whole game.

Nothing I have written so far is new — you could have found it out just as easily by googling “Jameis Winston” as you did by reading my column. What drove me to write about Winston, however, is that as long as Winston continues to excel on the field, too many people seem to be willing to ignore his off-thefield misbehavior.

Not only that, but during the broadcast of Saturday night’s game between then–No. 2 FSU and then–No. 5 Notre Dame, the ABC announcers continually called Winston a “leader.”

They praised Winston for his play on the field — as a Notre Dame fan, I begrudgingly admit

that the praise was warranted — but also for how he acted with his teammates. When he yelled at his offensive linemen on the sidelines, the announcers said he was a leader who set an example and took initiative.

When he literally just stood in a huddle of players on the sidelines while FSU coach Jimbo Fisher cajoled the offense after a bad series, they praised Winston for taking charge of the situation.

Regardless of how Winston played and led his team on the field, Winston has not earned the title “leader.” College athletes should be able to make mistakes, but the litany of miscues and poor decisions made

by Winston far exceeds what is acceptable. Even if we presume innocence regarding the sexual assault allegation, which we should, Winston has demonstrated a pattern of disrespect for authority and for other human beings that not only disqualifies him as a role model, but makes him a prime example of how you should not act.

By continually calling Winston a leader, even if only in reference to his glory on the gridiron, the announcers on Saturday and others who have lauded Winston have been sending a mixed message about what it means to lead.

Until Winston has proved that he can make life decisions as well as he can make decisions with the football, Winston cannot continue to be raised above the rest. There are too many other good football players who deserve our respect for how they act off the field, as well as how they play on it, for the media to focus on Winston and forget what leadership really means.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former sports editor for the News.

Yale rows the Charles CREW FROM PAGE 12 35 participants with a time of 19:58.05 In the Men’s Championship Lightweight Eight event, Yale came in seventh out of 17 total participants.

Additionally, the Bulldogs had two entries in the Men’s Championship Lightweight Fours. The “A” boat started off well but collided with Penn’s boat at under a mile into the course. The Yale crew was given a one minute, 15 second penalty and was thrown off its rhythm.

Yale came in at 18:41.75, placing 19th out of 22.

Yale’s lightweight “B” boat fared better. After a not so great start, the crew found its rhythm, said Pavle Krivokapic ’18, part of the “B” boat crew.

In the end, the Bulldogs finished in sixth place, only two seconds behind Columbia and New York Athletic Club. The “B” boat’s total time was 17:16.89, placing it ahead of Yale’s “A” boat.

Krivokapic was satisfied with the race, as his particular crew is a very young squad, composed of all freshmen. He also spoke of the tough weather conditions throughout Sunday’s event.

“It was extremely cold all day long and pretty windy. These weather conditions, especially a strong head wind that blew during most of the course, had a great impact on every team,” Krivokapic said.

This made an already difficult race increasingly challenging. Still, Nina Demmerle ’15, the women’s captain, believes that all boats managed the conditions very well.

Teams had an increased incentive to perform well. The Head of the Charles Regatta has been known to attract over 400,000 spectators, and, as this was its 50th edition, the race held an additional aura of charm.

“It was a huge privilege to be a part of it. The crowd of fans was enormous, and everyone was frantically cheering from the bridges and shores,” Krivokapic said.

The head coach of the women’s crew team, Will Porter, stated that fall races have very little bearing on spring speed.

Gladstone agreed.

“Our objectives throughout the fall are to increase our efficiency and endurance capabilities. We stage our work to peak in the spring time and not right now,” Gladstone said.

Therefore, teams will continue to focus on conditioning and fundamental form at practices throughout Fall Break in preparation for their next race.

The upcoming Princeton Chase on Oct. 26 will signal the end of the Crew’s fall season.

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

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The men’s heavyweight “B” eight boat finished in 23rd place in the Championship Eight event at the Head of the Charles.

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TOMORROW High of 57, low of 46.

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 12:00 PM Grand Opening: Leica Center of Excellence at West Campus. West Campus will open the doors to a new microscopy Center of Excellence made possible through a partnership with Leica Microsystems. Scientists will have access to cutting-edge imaging tools. West Campus Conference Center (800 West Campus Drive), Rm. 218. Rm. 220.

5:30 PM Open Ballet Technique Classes. The Dance Studies curriculum/Theater Studies, Alliance for Dance at Yale, and Yale undergraduate Ballet Company are pleased to sponsor a series of ballet technique classes this fall, taught by Ruth Barker of the New Haven Ballet. (60 Sachem St.), Rm. A30.

5:30 PM Two Diagnoses of Spiritual Fatigue: Nietzsche and Vico. Robert Mine, a visiting professor of philosophy in the Honors College at Baylor University, will give a talk about the distinct views of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Giambattista Vico.

William L. Harkness Hall (82-90 Wall St.), 3rd floor. Open to the public.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 3:00 PM Conversing with Things: Drawings, Paintings and Pastels by Karsten Harries. Come view this art exhibition with works by the Howard H. Newman Professor of Philosophy. Harries has taught at the University since 1961. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 108.

5:00 PM “The Writers’ Circle” Launch Party, featuring Allan Appel. The Arts Council of Greater New Haven has partnered with The Institute Library for a launch party featuring a literary performance by Allan Appel, a New Haven novelist, poet and playwright. The Institute Library (87 Chapel St.).

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 5:30 PM Offensive Vulgarity in an Age of Enlightenment.

Steve Bell, a professional cartoonist, will discuss Hogarth’s continuing legacy for contemporary graphic satire, while also addressing the question of just how necessary it still is to offend.

Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.) Lecture Hall.

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25 Big primate 27 Tall and thin 28 “In memoriam” essay, briefly 29 Make one’s position known 30 New-customer incentive

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Fat burning process uncovered

BY AMANDA MEI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A brain pathway underlying the browning of fat cells may guard against obesity, a new study from the Yale School of Medicine has found.

The study, published Oct. 9 in Cell and led by professor of Comparative Medicine and Physiology Xiaoyong Yang, identified the neurons that are key players in regulating fat burning in human bodies.

By deactivating these neurons in mice, energy-burning white fat to energyburning—thermogenic—brown fat. The transformation process protected the mice from obesity, and researchers suggest it could have the same effect in people.

“This browning process is very dynamic,” said lead author and associate research scientist in comparative medicine Hai-Bin Ruan. “It can happen very quickly. ” The neurons the researchers studied, called AgRP neurons, are responsible for regulating how much food humans consume, and how quickly they metabolize it. But Ruan and his team did not initially expect that the neurons would play a role in the conversion of white fat to brown fat, or what the researchers called “browning.” Activating those neurons deactivates white fat cells, preventing them from burning energy. But deactivating the neurons does the opposite, activating fat cells, speeding up fat metabolism and beginning the process of browning.

“If you block [these neurons], you can suppress food intake and also promote energy expenditure,” Ruan said.

Unlike adaptive thermogenesis — the process of burning energy — which relies on long-term adaptation to the environment, the browning of fat depends on short-term environmental conditions.

Active AgRP neurons support energy conservation when mice undergo fasting and release the hunger-inducing hormone ghrelin. Inactive AgRP neurons allow energy expenditure through thermogenesis, allowing mice to burn fat quickly.

The AgRP neural pathway may have evolved as a sensing mechanism to maintain energy homeostasis, Ruan said. The mechanism now works against people who want to burn fat through fasting — hunger ends up suppressing thermogenesis in fat.

Deactivating the AgRP neuron function, which activates fat-burning, may help prevent obesity in the future. In particular, ion channels in the neurons can be modified to reduce neuron activity, leading to quicker metabolism of fat.

“We cannot target fat,” said author and postdoctoral associate in comparative medicine Jay Singh. “What we can target is channels.”

According to Singh, this target shows promise for people who want to control their weight. Ruan added that increasing rates of thermogenesis by converting white fat to brown fat would be the easiest way for people to prevent obesity because changing exercise and eating behaviors

can be extremely difficult.

Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Joel Elmquist, who was not involved in the research, noted the importance of the study in understanding the role these neurons play in quickening metabolic processes.

“If we have more and more understanding, then there are more places of potential intervention,” Elmquist said.

Shingo Kajimura, professor of cell and tissue biology at the University of California San Francisco, also said that identifying the neural circuit was an important step in the research.

Nevertheless, further research on the mechanisms behind browning will be needed to understand its therapeutic implications. Ruan suggested researching how different brain areas and different hormones like insulin and leptin, both of which play a role in metabolic and hunger regulation, work together to regulate the browning process. He said he would also like to know how drugs might affect the neural pathway.

A potential inhibitory drug might specifically target the enzyme that catalyzes the AgRP neuron activity, permitting fat cells to burn more energy and protecting the consumer from obesity.

To date, Orlistat is the only anti-obesity drug approved by the FDA. Dieting and exercise remain the most common obesity treatments.

Contact AMANDA MEI at amanda.mei@yale.edu .

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Neurotherapy more successful for some

BY JIAHUI HU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine studying obsessivecompulsive disorder are moving closer to personalizing treatments to individuals’ brains.

The researchers are the first to use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to predict whether

neurofeedback — a technique in which patients are shown a realtime graph of their brain activity while they experiment with various treatment techniques — will work for certain patients. Using 13 patients, researchers found that individuals with a stronger connection between the orbitofrontal cortex, a region responsible for decision making that also

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becomes hyperactive when people become abnormally anxious about dirt and grime, and the rest of the brain respond better to neurofeedback.

“Some people will have a certain brain pattern and respond to certain types of treatment, while others will have a different brain pattern and respond to different types of treatment,” senior author and assistant professor of diagnostic radiology at the Yale School of Medicine Michelle Hampson said.

Researchers used fMRI technology to measure the brain activity of different regions of patients’ brains while they lied in a resting state with their eyes open and mind relaxed, free of specific thoughts. Afterwards, researchers compared the activity of various brain regions to see which were most connected with each other — similar activity patterns indicated higher connectivity. The OFCs of patients who showed the most improvement after neurofeedback had stronger connections with more regions of the brain than the OFCs of those who responded less successfully to neurofeedback.

Patients undergoing the treatment are first taught a variety of techniques like deep breathing and mindfulness, the latter of which consists of acknowledging and accepting OCD-aggravating stimuli like uncleanliness. Researchers then show patients images of filthy and unkempt objects such as mud or dirty toilet seats, along with a graph of a patient’s activity in the OFC. Techniques that lower OFC activity are then identified as those most effective for an individual patient. Patients are then given a quantitative measurement to confirm if a method works and do not have to rely on feelings or qualitative measures. “[Neurofeedback] gives you something very concrete and you can know what works for sure,” said Christopher Pittenger ’94 GRD ’94, a study author and director of the Yale OCD Research Clinic. “You want to try random stuff, and if you hit on something that happens to work, you can practice it.”

Because scientists do not know exactly how connections in the brain are related to OCD, they cannot know ahead of time what

will work for individual patients.

What is more, over the course of months, the accumulation of trial and error treatments can become very expensive.

This latest study offers hope that doctors will one day be able to immediately point their patients to specific treatments.

“The main implication of this current study is that we always want to try to put someone in the best treatment for them,” said Dustin Scheinost, a postdoctoral fellow in diagnostic radiology and one of the study’s authors.

“If we can guide someone from one treatment to the other it can reduce cost.”

However, the uses of fMRI technology to predict optimal treatment and neurofeedback as a treatment of OCD are still in their early stages, and scientists will have to carry out years of additional studies before they become widely used. A 2008 study conducted by Patric Hagmann from the University of Lausanne suggests that the prediction of resting state connectivity in the brain using fMRI — which the researchers relied on to predict which

patients would most successfully respond to neurofeedback — is “constrained by the largescale anatomical structure of the human cerebral cortex.”

Similarly, the Yale study also acknowledged that there is very little evidence to suggest that neurofeedback permanently improves OCD symptoms.

The next step for the Yale scientists on this project will be conducting clinical trials on a larger population of patients with OCD. Researchers were only able to run tests on three OCD patients because they are often hesitant to participate in studies that will trigger OCD symptoms.

The majority of participants in the study were not clinically diagnosed with OCD, but rather with strong contamination anxiety — a common symptom of OCD — which has effects on the brain similar to those of OCD. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, around 1 percent of Americans suffer from OCD. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

Self-esteem tied to aggression in male teens

BY QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new Yale study may help psychologists deal with aggression among high-risk male youths.

Researchers from the Yale Child Study Center and Florida State University observed the behaviors of 119 adolescent juvenile offenders to understand the relationship between selfesteem and aggression levels.

They found that both extremely low and extremely high levels of self-esteem were correlated with aggressive behaviors in male teens. The study suggested an alternative way of approaching

juvenile offender rehabilitation: Instead of focusing exclusively on modifying behaviors, it may be helpful to target the way adolescents perceive themselves. The study was published in the October edition of the journal Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

“I felt this study was greatly needed considering risk factors for aggression are typically studied in less severe populations and then generalized to juvenile offenders,” said lead author Stephanie Smith, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Yale Child Study Center.

The research was conducted

at a maximum-security residential facility for male youths who had a history of criminal behavior and had been found guilty of felonies. The researchers assessed the adolescents’ self-perception and level of aggression. According to Smith, the study differed from others in the field because it relied not on self-reported measures of aggression, but instead on behavioral observation.

But Yann Poncin, a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale, cautioned against describing self-esteem as the cause of violence.

“It might be one of the possible factors,” Poncin said. “But

aggression is a complicated concept to which there is no straightforward answer.”

He noted that other potential factors might affect levels of aggression, pointing to culture, IQ and levels of community violence as possibilities.

James Comer, professor of child psychiatry at the Child Study Center, agreed, adding that there are multiple factors that contribute to aggression. Nonetheless, he said he is not surprised by the research results, since he believes that people with low self-esteem might be aggressive out of resentment toward their low status, and those with high

self-esteem tend to be aggressive when their expectations are not met.

Comer added that the research might provide tips on how to more effectively interact with aggressive teenagers. It is more effective to address self-perception than the behavior itself, he said. When children behave inappropriately, adults should use the opportunity to help kids develop a sense of belonging and responsibility. He tied the implications to zero-tolerance policies in schools, which require teachers and administrators to punish students for even minor infractions, without taking into account extenuating circum-

stances.

“We are about to look for another way to work with young people, other than zero-tolerance,” he said.

Smith said that more work is needed to determine what factors are most responsible for aggressive behaviors among high-risk youth. Once researchers are able to identify those factors, clinicians will know what to target in treatment, she said.

As of 2011, more than 53,000 male adolescents were in juvenile prison.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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In the Yale football team’s 4–1 start to the season, much of the spotlight has focused on the upperclassman leaders powering the Elis’ nation-leading offense. But younger players have made an early impact on the defensive

side of Yale’s squad. One notable example, linebacker Matthew Oplinger ’18, has been a major contributor as starting linebacker in his freshman campaign.

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version reception in Saturday’s win over Colgate. The News sat down with the Summit, New Jersey native to discuss his freshman season. made a big QYou’ve impact so far in your first year, especially with 11 tackles against Dartmouth and the pick against Cor-

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Leading the Noles astray Jameis Winston has two resumes.

One reads like a Hall of Fame plaque.

He won the 2013 Heisman Trophy and the 2014 BCS National Championship. He was named a consensus first-team all-American and the ACC Athlete of the Year. The quarterback stands 6’4”, weighs 230 lbs., has a rocket for a right arm and enough athleticism to make every NFL (and MLB) scout in the country quiver with anticipation at exactly what Winston will do as a pro athlete.

The other reads like a rap sheet. Police were called in 2012 when he allegedly brought a BB gun onto the Florida State University campus, although no charges were filed. In July 2013, Winston was accused of stealing soda from a Burger King, and then he was charged in April 2014 with stealing crab legs from a store in Tallahassee, Fla. He was suspended from the baseball team until he completed 20 hours of court-ordered community service.

The worst bullet on this resume, however, is an alleged sexual assault that occurred in December 2012. Although the Tallahassee Police Department declined to press charges

Matthew Oplinger ’18 has 16 tackles and two sacks for the Bulldogs in his first season as a linebacker for Yale.

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BY JULIA YAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This past weekend at the Princeton Invitational, the Yale women’s golf team placed first overall, led by a stellar performance from captain Marika Liu ’15, who earned first place individually after a round of even par on the last day of the tournament.

WOMEN’S GOLF After two solid rounds of play, Yale went into the last day tied with Columbia for first place. Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17 shot a sensational two-under par 70 following a first round of 71 and secured first place before the last round. Right behind Wongwaiwate was Liu, who tied for third after scoring 75 and 72 in the first and second round, respectively.

Jennifer Peng ’18 also delivered a solid performance of 74–75, in line with a downward trend in her scores this fall.

In order to win, the team needed four of its five players to post an aggregate score lower than Columbia’s, and despite harsh weather conditions, the team achieved just that. In the last round, the Bulldogs turned in an impressive aggregate score of 305, 12 strokes lower than that of Columbia.

“We really wanted to win the tournament since we lost to Columbia by one stroke at Penn State,” Elizabeth Bernabe ’17 said. “Despite the extremely cold weather conditions … we held it together and were able to surpass Columbia and the rest of the SEE GOLF PAGE 8

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The heavyweight eight “A” boat took 10th place in the Championship Eight event.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale’s crew program drove up to Boston to participate in the 50th Head of The Charles Regatta this weekend, competing in front of hundreds of thousands of fans.

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This year marks the 50th edition of the Head of the Charles Regatta, considered the world’s biggest two-day rowing event.

According to the Regatta’s official website, more than 9,000 athletes competed in 61 different race events. Yale had nine entries

in total, with all teams performing well within their expectations for the race.

Yale’s heavyweight crew had two entries in the Men’s Championship Eight event. Its “A” boat completed the nearly three-mile course with a time of 14:42.99, awarding it 10th place overall. The “B” boat arrived in 23rd place, with a time of 15:26.75.

Head coach Stephen Gladstone said various national teams participated in this particular event in addition to collegiate programs. Within the top 10 teams, only six were collegiate.

Of those six, four were within four seconds of one another.

According to Gladstone, four

seconds over the entire course is negligible.

“We demonstrated that we’re very much in the thick of the very top echelon in collegiate rowing,” Gladstone said.

Gladstone added that he would have liked to see a better result from the “B” boat but that the selection process is still in its infant stages. It has not been defined who will be in the B boat this spring.

The Yale lightweight crew team participated in four different events. Eric Esposito ’17 was the first to race in the men’s club single. He finished fourth out of SEE CREW PAGE 8

THE NUMBER OF RACE EVENTS AT THE HISTORIC HEAD OF THE CHARLES REGATTA. The Bulldogs headed to Boston to compete in the Head of the Charles over the weekend, racing among 9,000 athletes in front of over 400,000 fans.