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CROSS CAMPUS It begins. With the conclusion
of fall break comes the all-out blitz of finance and consulting recruiting season. Industry heavyweights Morgan Stanley and McKinsey get the party started tonight at the Omni and the Study, respectively.
Flameout. As Yale rolled to
a 43–21 victory over Penn this weekend, Harvard and Princeton duked it out in Cambridge with the home Crimson smoking the Tigers 49–7. As a result, the traditional Princeton bonfire event held to celebrate a football sweep over Yale and Harvard will not be happening this fall. Shots fired. Meanwhile, with
both its football teams rolling, Harvard and Yale students can feel The Game inching closer. The YCC kicked off the annual back-and-forth with its Twitter fact of the day for Sunday: That “crimson” is not listed as a noun in any major English dictionary.
Whetting the appetite. The Harvard Alumni Association is also looking forward to The Game, having announced its Tailgate Luncheon on Sunday night. As an oh-so classy alternative to the normal pregame festivities, the event promises a “hearty buffet lunch” for anyone willing to fork over the $35 admission fee for adults. #FeedVarga. Leading into the
game against Penn, the New York Times published a profile of starting running back Tyler Varga ’15, shedding light on the extreme intensity of his training regimen, including an eat-every-two-hours routine. We got next. Last week,
members of the media ranked Yale second in its Ivy League basketball preseason poll — one spot behind the frontrunning Harvard Crimson. The squad will have the opportunity to live up to (and beyond) those expectations starting Nov. 14 at Quinnipiac.
Trendy. The Yale Alumni
Association hosted a Social Media Summit in San Francisco last weekend to teach graduates — young and old — how to maximize their online presence.
Maximized online presence.
On Sunday, The Yale Record created a Facebook page named “Underheard at Yale,” satirizing the everpopular “Overheard at Yale” group with memes and self-referential humor, accumulating almost 1,000 members in just six hours.
ELIS WIN AGAIN FOOTBALL BEATS PENN TO GO 5-1
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GESO protest fails to sway Univ. BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER The cheers of around 1,000 supporters of the Graduate Employee and Students Organization could be heard from blocks away as they marched towards Woodbridge Hall on Tuesday evening. Their destination: Woodbridge Hall, where they delivered a photo petition demanding recognition as a student union. But since Tuesday, administrators within Woodbridge Hall have remained silent on the matter. With GESO student leaders, presidents of Locals 34 and 35 and prominent state and local politicians — including Gov. Dannel Malloy, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Mayor Toni Harp — in tow, the rally appeared to show substantial support for graduate students’ right to collective bargaining. GESO leaders cited employment shortages, lack of research funds and unfair treatment as reasons for their need to form a union. Nearly one week later, however, University administrators seem to still be unswayed from their longstanding opposition to graduate student unionization. According to University spokesman Tom Conroy, Yale has no plans to recognize GESO SEE GESO PAGE 4
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Yale expands footprint to Beijing BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS
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University administrators, deans of professional and associate schools and the major donors unveiled Yale’s first physical footprint in China Sunday evening. The Yale Leadership Center in Beijing — run by Yale’s School of Management — aims to provide a space for Yale affiliates in Beijing to conduct research and hold conferences, all while promoting the University’s global reach. University President Peter Salovey said the new center fits with SOM’s mission to be the most international American business school. However, the center occupies just one floor of the 41-story International Finance Center. “Management is global now,” Salovey said. “Graduates of SOM are going to work all over the world. They are studying how business is conducted in different cultures and different economic systems with a kind of general focus on the whole world as the market.” Despite the YLC’s primary affiliation with SOM, opening ceremonies for the center — which began last night and will continue through Tuesday — will include discussions on musical creativity, environmental concerns and global health and wellness.
Supporters of GESO marched Tuesday demanding recognition as a student union.
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Efforts to stem Ebola cause uncertainty
On quarantine, admins contradict news reports BY STEPHANIE ROGERS AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS As officials in New York work to quell panic about the spread of Ebola, confusion has proliferated over precisely how many Yale students are currently being quarantined and monitored for symptoms of the virus. After news reports of a third Yale student being quarantined were released on Wednesday, Yale administrators could only confirm that there are currently two Yale researchers being quarantined. On Wednesday night, an article published by the New York Times stated there are currently nine people in Con-
necticut who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus and are being told to stay home and avoid contact with others. The article added that of the nine, three are Yale students — the other six, according to other news sources, are from a family currently quarantined in West Haven. When contacted, the Times reporter said she was relying on an official source, but would check. The article was never changed. All nine people are being monitored by local health authorities for symptoms, the article said. But Yale administrators, including SEE THIRD STUDENT PAGE 4
Family isolated after return from West Africa BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Police stand watch 24 hours a day outside a home in West Haven, Conn., where a family of six that recently traveled to West Africa remains quarantined. On Oct. 16, Gov. Dannel Malloy ordered that anyone who has traveled to Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone — the three countries most affected by Ebola — quarantine themselves for 21 days. The West Haven family, which makes up six of the nine people who are currently quarantined in the state, flew to the U.S. on Oct. 18 from one of these
three countries. Neither the governor’s office nor the city’s department of health has identified which of the three affected countries the family traveled from, nor did they disclose the identities of the six people. No members of the family have exhibited any symptoms of the deadly virus, the Connecticut Department of Public Health said in an article in the CT Mirror last week. While the quarantines are meant to protect the broader public from the virus — which is spread through bodily fluids — some people of West African SEE FAMILY PAGE 6
YLS honors three Supreme Court justices BY JED FINLEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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The Yale Law School Association awarded Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas on Saturday.
On Saturday, a third of the nation’s highest court gathered at Yale Law School to muse about their time at the school and share personal anecdotes from their life outside the court. The Yale Law School Association — the alumni organization of the school — presented its annual Award of Merit to Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas LAW ’74, Samuel Alito LAW ’75 and Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 on Saturday. In his opening remarks, Yale Law School Dean Robert Post said he presented the award to the Supreme Court justices for their contributions to United States law and society at large. Throughout the award ceremony and ensuing panel discussion, the justices talked SEE LAW SCHOOL PAGE 6