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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 35 · yaledailynews.com

INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

SUNNY CLEAR

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CROSS CAMPUS

ON THE RAILS COMING HOME TO UNION STATION

VINCENT VAN STAY

BUZZ WORDS

Van Gogh painting valued at $200 million will remain at Yale

SPELLING BEE FUNDRAISER HITS $30,000 GOAL

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After accident, YUAG fellow plans lawsuit

’Dogs in Des Moines.

BY SARA SEYMOUR AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTERS

Eleven hours later. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, who is also vying for the presidency, sat in front of the House Benghazi Committee Thursday to answer questions about the 2012 attack in Libya that killed four Americans. Clinton, whose long-awaited hearing was live-streamed on YouTube, emerged largely unscathed. Getting local. The presidential election isn’t for a year, but time is running out to register to vote in municipal elections in New Haven next Tuesday. While online registration has closed, you can still register in-person until noon tomorrow. Even if you miss that deadline, there’s no excuse not to vote because Connecticut offers same-day registration. A new holiday. Last Tuesday,

Congressman Charles Rangel gathered with community members in Harlem, New York to officially declare Oct. 20 “Lupita Nyong’o Day.” According to The Huffington Post, Nyong’o DRA ’12 was honored for her influence on black communities across the globe.

Nu month, nu look. Dwight

Hall partners with DKE, SAE, Sig Nu and Chi Psi to raise awareness around the men’s health movement associated with “No-Shave November.” Frat brothers will accept donations and sell Movember shirts next month. Will Chi Psi’s golden retriever Buck be participating?

Bases loaded. In the Yale club baseball team’s first-ever postseason run, the Bulldogs claimed the New England Club Baseball Association’s South Division title with a pair of victories over Fairfield and Three Rivers. They will face the University of New Hampshire on Halloween to capture the NECBA championship trophy.

Plagued by injuries and turnovers, the Yale football team saw an early lead disappear in a 34–20 loss Friday night at Penn. PAGE B1

A pedestrian who was hit last week by a New Haven police car is planning to pursue legal action in response to the incident. On Tuesday, La Tanya Autry, a fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery, was crossing Chapel Street at High Street when she noticed a police car coming toward her. Police say the officer was not traveling quickly, but Autry claimed the officer was driving faster than he should have been. “It seemed really aggressive. And then [the police car] just hit me on the side,” Autry said. “I bounced up and got hit on the front, and then I fell on the ground. The driver never came over or asked if I was okay.” Autry said that while she was still on the ground, an EMT told her that Autry did not “want anyone to lose [his or her] job over this.” Now, Autry said, she is preparing to meet with an attorney, partially because witnesses have told her that the officer in question was on his cell phone at the time of SEE ACCIDENT PAGE 4

YALE DAILY NEWS

Gaga, Yale take on emotional intelligence BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Hundreds crowded into the Yale School of Management Saturday to listen to Lady Gaga — but they were not there to hear her sing. Instead, Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, discussed the importance of emotional intelligence, the ability to identify and respond to one’s feelings. Gaga and Germanotta’s organization, the Born This Way Foundation, partnered with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to host the Emotion Revolution. Around 200 high-school and college students attended the conference, which was the culmination of an almost two-year joint project between BTWF and the Center. Together, the two organizations surveyed 22,000 high school students about their emotional SEE GAGA PAGE 6

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Lady Gaga and her mother discussed the importance of emotional intelligence at the SOM Saturday.

Esserman condemns mass incarceration BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER

Six sexy days. Today is the

first day of Sex & Sexuality Week — six days of events designed to promote safe sex and inclusivity on campus. The week kicks off with four events, including a lunch with WGSS professor Inderpal Grewal at 12:30 p.m. in Branford. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1994 Branford College receives a $1.5 million donation from alumnus David Wallace ’48, president of Lone Star Industries. Wallace’s gift contributes to funds for the renovation of college facilities. Follow along for the News’ latest.

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Entrepreneurship groups prioritize social innovation PAGE 5 UNIVERSITY

Yale falls to Penn 34–20

According to a Bloomberg poll, former Yale Corporation member Ben Carson ’73 leads the Republican presidential candidates among Iowa voters. He has overtaken frontrunner Donald Trump with 28 points to Trump’s 19. Voters are drawn to Carson as a noncareer politician, Bloomberg reported.

LIVING SOCIAL

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Esserman said too many children are behind bars in New Haven and across the country.

Yale and Ashoka engage further

Around 60 law enforcement officials, including New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman, rallied against the country’s high incarceration rates at a Wednesday press conference in Washington D.C. The attendees were members of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, a group of 143 current and former police chiefs, federal and state chief prosecutors and attorneys general committed to decreasing incarceration rates in the United States while taking a hard line on violent crime. Thursday, after the conference, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. Wednesday marked the first official meeting of the Law Enforcement Leaders, who hail from all 50 states, but Esserman said New Haven has long been a leader in the national fight against mass incarceration. The city recently received

Yale will expand its collaboration with Ashoka University — a liberal arts university in New Delhi, India — furthering University President Peter Salovey’s goal of increased global engagement. On Oct. 15, Salovey signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University, that codifies and reaffirms how the universities have previously worked together and establishes a framework for potentially deeper collaboration in the future. Faculty members and professors interviewed said the relationship between Yale and Ashoka to date has been driven by faculty interest and initiative, and the MoU will present ways to further collabora-

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SEE ASHOKA PAGE 4

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER


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