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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.
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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
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f you can’t win by reason, go for volume.” The philosopher Calvin once said that. Not the French theologian from the 16th century, but the sage, tiger-befriending boy from Bill Watterson’s comic strip. Only eight years old and Calvin had already begun cultivating a belligerence befitting the age-old American pastime of the shouting match. Any argument can be won, provided you shout enough. This branch of Calvinism enjoys many more followers today than the philosophy of his long-dead namesake. Its practice is almost universal in American politics. For the campaign season, our public discourse is pruned and packaged into sets of tirade-ready soundbites. Voters and politicians don’t abandon reason entirely. Many political attack ads justify themselves with a short blurb about their target’s legislative history. One ad from the National Rifle Association tells Louisianans, “Mary Landrieu voted to take away your gun rights,” imperiling the “safety” and “freedom” of their state. I suppose it helps the political process seem a little more substantive. But nobody adds too much detail for risk of confusing or boring voters with a muddled message. Still, even the most quickthumbed TV-watchers will end up sitting through hundreds of political ads. Four billion dollars will be spent on congressional races this year. The newly permissible spending in modern politics has turned campaigns downright Gatsbian — longer, louder and more colorful. Four billion dollars buys thousands of hours of ad time, most of which are reserved for dimly lit attack ads, in which brow-furrowed mothers tell you that a former senator tried to end grandpa’s social security or that a two-term congressman tried to interfere with their reproductive health. These ads eventually sink in, not by reason, but by roar and repetition. It’s the entirety of their appeal: Americans have a hard time caring about politics. In leaf-reddened late October, candidates have to compete for our attention with each other as much as they do with the Halloweenthemed commercials of Toyota, Verizon and Subway. Voter turn-out determines many elections, meaning they’re as much a choice between a candidate and a couch as a choice between two candidates. Candidates respond to the task of getting us off our couches not by informing us, but by browbeating us. Usually with something catchy: “Stop the War on Women!” is a more moving slo-
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gan than “Most Republicans vote to limit women’s access to contraception, equal pay for equal work and paid maternity leave, among other rights!” The latter can’t quite compete with the imagery of congressional Republicans ordering drone strikes on our nation’s yoga studios. “Vote like your safety depends on it. Defeat Mary Landrieu” is an excitable interpretation of the Louisiana senator’s vote for universal background check legislation, which, incidentally, enjoys support from 92 percent of gunowners and 86 percent of Republicans. But those details get lost in compression. Americans like their rallying cries the way they like their reality TV protagonists: sexy and dumbed down. The political shouting matches are dramatic but, contrary to what Calvin may think, nobody wins. Sure, politicians may get elected, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they made the best case for the role of government. They just shouted louder. Voters head to the polls hardly because they are convinced, but because they have been baited into outrage. In the long run, everyone loses. Nobody wants to share a beer with their congressmen these days, and our congressmen are even less keen on sharing beers with each other. Partisan politics are frustrating, but to a degree they’re easy to understand. We’ve been well-trained to bluster on about our political beliefs, and to bluster more loudly should anyone question them. At such a volume, additional voices don’t provide perspective or common ground. They create a cacophony in which no one is listening and there’s very little to listen to. Volume forces us to react, but reason forces us to think. Why do we believe what we believe — because we’ve been told to repeatedly, or because we can make sense of it ourselves? Reasoned disagreement makes us smarter and more empathic. By listening to disparate beliefs, we realize which of our beliefs stand on sturdy reasoning and which wobbly ones we need to reconsider. Another convenient consequence of actually listening to people with whom we disagree is that we learn more than the perfunctory reasons they believe what they do. It may not feel like winning, but, within reason, politics don’t have to be a zero-sum game. To be sure, the stakes are high. But at the very least we could try to act like we are more accommodating and more mature than eight-year-olds.
Facilities must expand with colleges
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e’ll be gone from Yale by the time the new residential colleges open in 2017. As painful as this is to admit, that fact comes as a relief. We are unanimous in the belief that, as long as other facilities do not expand, a 14-college Yale is less desirable than a 12-college Yale. Because 800 new students won’t just populate the half-dozen acres between the Grove Street Cemetery and Ingalls Rink. They’ll also frequent WLH, the CEID, the Music Library and Payne Whitney — if they can find room. Yale College is crowded. We’ve searched unsuccessfully for library space. We’ve accepted that showing up to Bass doesn’t guarantee us a place to study. We’ve sat on the floor of over-subscribed lectures. We have grave concerns about the expansion in store for the college. We’re worried about what campus will feel like for future students, who will compete with 15 percent more people for already-limited treadmills in Payne Whitney and coveted seats around seminar tables. In a guest column for the News (“The work before us,” Aug. 27), Dean Jonathan
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2. A theater and dance space 3. Mid-sized classroom spaces that can double as spots for rehearsals and student meetings 4. An additional fitness center near Science Hill These recommendations have given way to administrators’ suggestions that it won’t be possible to pursue additional capital projects given the University’s financial straits. The question then is: Why expand now, and why so rapidly? When asked, some professors expressed doubts that their already-packed lectures could handle a 15 percent spike in enrollment. “It seems to me that if Yale is going to recruit 15 percent more students, it should not be relying, for their instruction, on existing levels of faculty or facilities,” said John Gaddis, who teaches the blockbuster Cold War lecture in SSS 114. “Building new colleges while neglecting these basics compromises Yale’s teaching mission, which is why we’re all here.” But the University has given every indication that this is exactly what it plans to do. In forums hosted last semester by the Yale College Council, in which Holloway and other
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Holloway wrote: “With the University set to break ground this year on two new residential colleges and Yale College set to expand by roughly 800 students, the warp and woof of what makes Yale so special must be carefully examined…” The most significant project Yale has undertaken since coeducation, this expansion calls for self-reflection. But Holloway has shown indications that he is not always attentive to the stresses and strains of life in the college. Proof lies in his blithe assertion that shortening reading period is “pretty lowrisk,” despite near-unanimous student disagreement. In 2008, the Study Group to Consider New Residential Colleges — of which Holloway was a member — released a report whose central thesis was that Yale would have to do extensive additional construction to accommodate outsized undergraduate enrollment. Drafted by two committees of faculty, staff and students, the report recommended more than a dozen concrete steps, including the following additions to the University’s physical resources: 1. A “much-needed” lecture hall, capable of seating 200 people
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administrators spoke, students raised concerns about enrollment in large lectures. Among the solutions Provost Benjamin Polak suggested was moving these classes to 9 a.m., thereby curbing enrollment. Talk about compromising Yale’s teaching mission — about artificially moving Yale courses around the supply and demand curve, which is Polak’s propensity as a scholar of economics. Holloway, a humanist by discipline, should know better. If the College is not to suffer as a result of this expansion, the University’s physical plant needs several upgrades. The 2008 study group made this clear, and anyone who spends time in Yale’s shared facilities understands that this campus cannot accommodate an additional 800 students. It is Holloway’s chief duty to ensure academics and student life don’t get lost in this full-speed-ahead, noquestions-asked approach to expansion. He should publicly acknowledge Yale’s need for these facilities and advocate for their creation. To do otherwise would be to put at risk the treasure of being a student at Yale College.
Old colleges, new names
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couple weeks ago, Yalies received an email asking them to suggest names for the two new residential colleges. Suddenly, students, staff and faculty alike were abuzz. Now, that excitement has largely died down. In a few weeks or months, the powers that be will give us their decision. Before that happens, I’d like to weigh in on the question of naming in a slightly different way. I feel — as many do — that the names of the new colleges should more accurately reflect Yale’s present and past. They should not continue our institution’s predictable habit of naming buildings after rich, straight, white, Christian men. It’s 2014. It’s time for some diversity — not for the sake of what critics like to call political correctness, but because it’s time we recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of the full range of Yalies, including our female, non-white or queer alumnae. This idea has almost taken on an air of inevitability. But there is a legitimate fear associated with naming the two new colleges after more diverse individuals. Dean Jonathan Holloway eloquently expressed this concern in a Sept. 19 interview with the News’ “Everybody Has a Story.” Holloway said, “I would personally — speaking not as a dean but as an individual on this planet — love to see the college naming diversified to represent who
Yale is at this moment in time. My concern, though, is that you have these two colleges that are ‘so far away’ SCOTT to Yale underSTERN g raduates’ consciousness, A Stern that they somePerspective how become ghettoized … ” In other words, imagine the message Yale would be sending by geographically segregating, as it were, its new non-white or nonmale colleges, far from the center of campus life. Yet there’s an easy fix to this problem. It’s not innovative and it’s been suggested before. Let’s name the new colleges after more diverse individuals. And let’s rename some of our old colleges after more diverse individuals. That way, diversity permeates Yale’s residential colleges, just as it permeates our community. Nine out of 12 of the residential colleges are named for slave-owners. Calhoun College, located in the very heart of campus, is named for John C. Calhoun, perhaps the nation’s foremost advocate of slavery and states’ rights. Calhoun almost singlehandedly ensured new territories were admitted as slave states and laid the ideological
groundwork for nullification and secession. He was, and remains, a despicable human being. It’s about time we change Calhoun College’s name. As an excellent Herald article pointed out two years ago, we could also stand to rename Morse College. In addition to being an inventor, Morse was a rabid racist and xenophobe, who repeatedly ran for New York mayor as the proslavery candidate. Men like Calhoun and Morse were not mere products of their time. They were unusually, influentially bigoted, successfully spreading hate as they attained power. They are not “mere” racists. Students have been advocating for this sort of renaming for decades. In 1992, Hounies protested in favor of a name change. In 2009, activists chalked the names of people of color over several colleges’ entrances. And this sort of name change is not uncommon. Decades ago, Piersonites dropped the “slave” as their mascot. In 2005, administrators at Vanderbilt University proposed changing the name of its Confederate Memorial Hall. In 2010, the University of Texas rechristened a building that had borne the name of a prominent Klansman. Some Yalies have spoken against such an idea. In 2012, Holloway, then-Master of Calhoun, told the Herald it would be “wrong” to
change the college’s name. “I’ve seen too many instances where Americans have very happily allowed themselves to be amnesiac and changed the name of something and walked away,” Holloway said to a gathering of Calhoun alumni earlier this year. Holloway again makes a good point. But there’s another way to remedy this. Let’s simply continue to teach about Yale’s — and America’s — bigoted past and present, even as we rescind these honors. In fact, let’s beef up this teaching. Renaming Calhoun — or another college — does not necessarily mean we forget or gloss over our history. It means we are telling our community and the world that Yale simply does not honor evil people anymore. Every new student at the renamed Calhoun College should be instructed about the college’s previous namesake. By taking away a great honor from a disgusting man, we need not forget who he was. We need not forget Yale’s complicity. We can name the new colleges after more diverse people, rename some old colleges after less-awful people and do a better job teaching about the hatred that underlies the original naming decisions. These actions are not mutually exclusive. SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His columns run on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@ yale.edu .
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A previous version of the article “CS department short on faculty” misstated the number of Yale College majors that fall within the top 10 ranked Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News and World Report as 15 instead of 13. The article also misrepresented computer science professor Bryan Ford’s view of the slot-limited model.. A previous version of the article “Amid controversy, University community defends Dach” incorrectly stated that Ayaska Fernando ’08 illegally downloaded music. A previous version of the online article “Hundreds demand union in GESO” incorrectly stated that a petition with over 1,000 signatures was delivered to Woodbridge Hall. In fact, protesters delivered a binder containing photos of over 2,000 GESO supporters, not a signed petition. SATURDAY, OCT. 25
A previous version of the online article “FOOTBALL: Yale shakes Quakers in 43–21 rout” incorrectly stated that Yale football will play next week at Brown. In fact, next week’s game will be at Columbia.
Activists rally for improved policing BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Riding on the tails of the Aug. 19 Ferguson protest on Yale’s campus, approximately 60 New Haven activists and Yalies rallied in the rain last Wednesday to protest police brutality. Protesters held signs and chanted on the steps of City Hall before marching to the New Haven Police Department. Once the protesters reached the department, they tied red ribbons to the railings in front of the building. Each ribbon read the name of one person who had been affected by police violence. The rally was organized as a part of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network’s 19th annual Protest Against Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. Wednesday’s rally drew members from the Black Student Alliance at Yale, MEChA, the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, as well as several New Havenbased activism groups. The gathering also drew several speakers involved in issues related to police brutality in the Elm City, including Emma Jones, an activist dedicated to passing laws to protect community members in the wake of her son’s death. Although the rally protested both national and local issues surrounding the police, protesters did not reach out to the New Haven Police, said Fabian Fernandez ’15, one of the rally organizers. According to Fernandez, the issues that the protest addressed cannot be solved through small reforms within the police department. “There has been no direct communication with the NHPD primarily because we disagree with the system,” Fernandez said. “It’s not that the system needs to be reformed, it’s that it needs to be taken down.” According to rally organizer Ifeanyi Awachie ’14, the purpose of the protest was to raise awareness about minority groups’ issues with the police. Awachie said that while the rally placed more focus on issues surrounding AfricanAmericans, speakers also pointed to issues concerning the LGBTQ and Native American communities. “What we accomplished through the rally was exposing the
fact that New Haven community members are upset about police brutality,” Awachie said. NHPD Chief Dean Esserman acknowledged that racial profiling has existed for a long time in the American police force in an Oct. 13 talk with the Yale College Democrats. Esserman added that the discriminatory actions of some officers do not represent the attitudes of the entire police force. Awachie added that, although the protesters did not directly contact the police, the visual demonstrations and chants added New Haven to the list of cities participating in the national day of protest. Members of YUPP echoed Awachie’s statement. “One of the people that spoke said that she marched in every single kind of weather,” said YUPP member Timiebi Souza-Okpofabri ’17. “The point was that we had a presence — even in the worst conditions, we had a point to make.” The rally also provided an opportunity for several of Yale’s political activism groups to collaborate on a project, Fernandez said. MEChA used Wednesday’s rally to draw attention to police brutality and mass deportation against the New Haven’s Latina community and connect with members of other organizations, said MEChA moderator Evelyn Nunez ’15. Outside of the rally, MEChA has been working with the Unidad Latina en Accion on specific cases of police brutality. The day of protest happens every year in New Haven, provided that there are people available to organize it, Fernandez said. “I think it’s important for the protest to happen annually because it shows that while specific cases of police brutality may be closed, this is still an ongoing struggle,” said BSAY Social Justice Chair Alexandra Barlowe ’17. “Of course it’s more important this year, given Ferguson, for other cities to show their support.” The Stop Mass Incarceration Network organizes rallies in over 70 cities nationwide as a part of the Alliance for Global Justice — a social justice organization that focuses on areas such as militarism and economic justice. Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .
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Barbour a poor choice, students say BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER To the dismay of students interviewed, British outerwear and lifestyle brand Barbour will join The Shops at Yale next month at 27 Broadway St. Owned by Yale University, the property sits next to J. Crew and was last occupied on a permanent basis by Cutler’s Record and Tapes which closed down in May 2012. Barbour will open alongside international retailers EmporiumDNA and Kiko Milano at 1 Broadway St., another University-owned property. Although Barbour representatives said the store will appeal to students and residents alike, many students said the store’s prices and highly specialized merchandise will not appeal to the student body. “The Barbour lifestyle will resonate with both domestic and international tourists, students and local residents creating a unique shopping experience in the heart of New
Haven,” said Caroline Regan of Cone Communications — the agency that handles Barbour’s communications and marketing — in an email. Students interviewed raised concerns about the store’s price range and the diminishing availability of affordable retailers around campus. Of 16 students interviewed, none said that they plan to shop at Barbour, where jackets are priced between $200 and $500. “I think it’s going to perpetuate the image of the ‘prep school Yalie,’ and it’s adding to the list of stores on Broadway that are only affordable to a very small percentage of Yale students,” Anna Russo ’17 said. “It will make income inequality at Yale more overt.” Russo’s sentiment has been expressed by a number of students over the past few years as the University has acquired more properties on Broadway and Chapel and brought in high-end commercial retailers that many students cannot afford. After University Prop-
erties announced the two new international retailers to come to 1 Broadway, all 17 students interviewed in late July said they were not satisfied with Yale’s tenant mix. And of 40 students interviewed in February , only 18 had ever shopped at a business on a Yale-owned property. Students interviewed said that instead of Barbour, they would like to see a more affordable clothing store come to Broadway. George Vagnas, manager of nearby Yorkside Pizza and Restaurant, similarly said he thinks students are “not too crazy about the name [brands].” He added that kids “don’t want to spend a lot of money.” While students said they do not intend to shop at Barbour, Adam Juarez, manager at Gourmet Heaven at 15 Broadway, said he doubts the stores even appeal to other New Haven residents. “They complain, ‘Why is this street so expensive’?” he said of locals who come to Broadway.
Vice President and Director of New Haven Affairs at Yale and Director of University Properties Lauren Zucker could not be reached for comment over the weekend, but according to Regan, Barbour was selected as a tenant because of its history. “Yale and Barbour both represent a long history and heritage that are rich with values and tradition,” she said. The announcement of Barbour’s upcoming opening comes amid a number of other openings and closings on Broadway. Over the summer, both A-1 Pizza and Educated Burgher shut down unexpectedly, as did clothing store Jack Wills. A few weeks later, the University announced that Gourmet Heaven will close in June 2015. Barbour’s New Haven location will be the brand’s first standalone store in Connecticut. Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .
Univ. restricts travel to W. Africa MAP WEST AFRICA
Procedures for travel to this region effective October 20, 2014, are as follows: Students, faculty, and staff should not travel to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, except for the most urgent purposes, which may include contributing to efforts to contain and eliminate the Ebola outbreak. Those needing to travel to other countries in West Africa should consult <http:// wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices> for travel advisories and other information and make their plans accordingly. Undergraduates will not receive credit or funding for activities involving travel to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
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BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Due to the spread of Ebola, members of the Yale community will now face heavy restrictions when traveling to parts of West Africa. In a campus-wide email last Tuesday, University Provost Benjamin Polak and Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin issued a three-page document that detailed the University’s updated policy and procedures regarding travel to and from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In order to receive University approval for travel to the region, students, faculty and staff will now need to receive approval from their dean and from Polak, comply with regulations outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and adhere to the 21-day mandatory quarantine issued by Connecticut when they return. In light of a recent Ebolarelated scare at Yale-New Haven Hospital this month, Polak and Genecin said these changes aim to address travel to these countries for both educational and personal reasons. “Recognizing Yale’s mission to create new and useful knowledge, coupled with the responsibility to protect our community from the Ebola threat, the University is restricting student, faculty and staff travel to these
three West African countries,” the new policy stated. “Others may be added to this list if conditions change in the future.” Special Adviser to the President Martha Highsmith said the travel policy was updated to include both the most recent information from the CDC and the directive from the Gov. Dannel Malloy requiring a quarantine for those returning from the West African countries. The updated restrictions, which have been in effect since last Monday, mandate that travelers to this area of West Africa must have an “urgent” need, which may include containing and stopping the spread of the disease. “The Ebola outbreak continues to devastate communities and the health care systems and public infrastructure in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” the updated policy read. “We are continuing to monitor information about the virus and consulting with colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state and local Departments of Public Health.” In order to receiving the provost’s signature, potential University travelers must submit “an approved research protocol,” evidence of arrangements to work for a recognized aid group or organization — such as Inter-
national Medical Corps or Doctors Without Borders — and provide documentation of training in the use of protective equipment. In addition, the new procedures noted that since FrontierMEDEX — which provides emergency security and medical coverage for Yale students when they go abroad — may no longer be able to offer assistance, the traveler must propose a plan for evacuation or support in case of a sequester. Undergraduates, however, will not be permitted to receive funding or credit for travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Still, Highsmith said this restriction on undergraduate travel to these three nations is not new to the updated policy. She noted this ban has been in effect since mid-September, prior to the Ebola-related scare at YNHH. The new travel procedures were met largely with praise from members of the public health community on campus. “The Yale policy on travel to Ebola-affected countries will prompt thoughtful conversations and planning on the part of any individuals who are looking to study or provide aid for Ebola,” said Kristina TalbertSlagle, senior scientific officer for the Yale Global Health Lead-
ership Institute. “I did not interpret the policy as unnecessarily discouraging, but rather as a careful, thoughtful reflection of both the complex issues involved in travel to Ebola-affected countries and also the importance of collaborating with a team to decide how best to contribute to addressing this global health crisis.” She further described the travel policy as a “helpful guide” in implementing and putting these efforts into practice. Erinma Kalu SPH ’15 said she supported the new measures since they restrict travel to Ebola-affected areas when the need is not entirely essential, while also accommodating individuals who aim to provide important aid. “If someone travels to the Ebola-affected areas without proper expertise and understanding of infectious disease transmission, that person puts himself or herself at risk and potentially the Yale community at risk,” she said. This month, Harvard University similarly issued updated procedures, which now require that all travelers to West Africa to receive approval by both the university provost and respective school dean. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
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University holds firm on GESO issue GESO FROM PAGE 1 in the near future, nor has the University had any contact with GESO representatives since Tuesday. “The University has never believed that it would be in the best interest of the University or the students themselves to have a union and change the relationships of the Yale faculty to these graduate students,” Conroy said. Not only does the University disapprove of the formation of a union of graduate students, but it also affirms that graduate students receive adequate support from the graduate schools. Before the rally, Conroy told the News that the Graduate School works to improve the academic, social and living experiences of graduate students along with the Graduate Student Assembly, an elected body of graduate students representing all departments. Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley echoed this sentiment, saying that rather than being classified as employees, graduate students instead are just that — students. Cooley said that graduate students’ primary purpose at Yale is to learn how to be effective teachers. GESO representatives did not respond to requests for comment since Thursday. On Tuesday, GESO Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said that since the organization’s last rally in April — at which GESO leaders delivered a petition demanding the University recognize the results of an election to decide on the union question — both New York University and the University of Connecticut have moved forward in negotiating their first contracts with their own graduate student unions. Greenberg said these developments reignited GESO’s determination to secure the University’s recognition. However, Conroy noted
that NYU is the only one of Yale’s private peer institutions to recognize a student union. Graduate student employees at private colleges and universities are overseen by the National Labor Relations Board, whose rulings regarding student unions have shifted in recent years. Despite years of precedent rejecting graduate student unions like GESO, a 2000 ruling by the NLRB allowed graduate teachers at NYU to unionize and negotiate their first contract later that year. But in 2004, the decision was reversed, preventing a graduate student union at Brown University from being recognized. All of this follows decades of tension between the University and GESO. However, rallies similar to those from last week and the spring are less contentious than past GESO actions. In 2005, some 250 teaching assistants picketed on Wall, High, York and Prospect Streets after presenting then-University President Richard Levin with an ultimatum demanding the group’s recognition. The University maintained its stance against unionization. In 2003, graduate students voted down a proposal to recognize GESO as their union. The election, which was announced just days before it was to be held, was said to be poorly organized and alienated many critics of GESO’s agenda. Despite years of repeated rejections, and no indication that the University will change course on the matter — GESO leaders suggest that they are undeterred. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences enrolls approximately 2,800 students. Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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Yale expands footprint to China CHINA FROM PAGE 1 SOM Associate Dean David Bach said the YLC follows Yale’s long history of engagement in China. “We want [Yale] to take advantage of the Center, so we want to get word out about the space and how it can be used,” Bach said. “We want to entice people to take advantage of it. [The center] will stand and fall with the quality of programs that we can offer there and that is going to depend on faculty in different academic units buying in and supporting it.” Bach noted the center will have state-of-the-art video technology so that faculty can deliver lectures and engage audiences from Yale’s main campus. However, Bach cautioned that it will be a challenge to attract a broad audience in China — including students, faculty and businessmen — for YLC events. SOM Dean Edward Snyder said Yale is addressing this challenge by appointing a board, led by the center’s first donor, Neil Shen SOM ’92, to spread the word about the center to local institutions in China. He added that Yale’s name-brand recognition will be helpful in gathering audiences for the center’s events. YLC Executive Director Carol Li Rafferty and YLC Director of Programs Dan Murphy said they have also been working to raise awareness about the new center. Rafferty said her job is most concerned with furthering existing relationships between Yale and Chinese communities, governments and businesses, while Murphy’s is to work on bringing programs based in New Haven to Beijing. Snyder added that the center’s location in Beijing’s business district is strategic, and he hopes it will facilitate the center’s goal of becoming a hub for the Global Network
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Yale’s new Center in China will be located in Beijing’s Business District. of Advanced Management, a group of 27 businesses schools worldwide, including SOM, that hold forums and conferences together. In addition to being a resource for current Yale students and faculty, YLC will also provide a platform for collaboration between American and Chinese thinkers, Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives Linda Lorimer said. “We want to reinforce that we look forward to true dialogue between scholars from Yale and in China, as well as those from [non-governmental organizations], business and government communities,” Lorimer said. Salovey said there are many ways through which current Yale students and faculty can access the center. Salovey said that any students who find themselves in Beijing, perhaps through semesters abroad or Light Fellowships, would be able to work or study at the center. Likewise, faculty are encouraged to teach programs at the center that might be attractive to business leaders in Asia. Salovey added that Yale affiliates would be free to
use the center’s auditorium, meeting rooms or offices to run programs or convene for discussion. The center was funded by a $16 million gift from Shen, Brad Huang SOM ’90 and Bob Xu. SOM Senior Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations Joel Getz said the center’s opening will hopefully spark interest for future fundraising efforts, adding that the center provides an opportunity for donors to give to Yale who might not have wanted to give to the New Haven campus. “I see this as a way of expanding the giving opportunities for Yale,” Getz said. Penny Liu SOM ’15 said she tried to expand the number of SOM students involved in the creation of the center through the Greater China Club, a group for SOM students of Chinese backgrounds. Liu added that students outside of the Greater China Club have also expressed interest in the center’s inaugural festivities. However, Mo Chen SOM ’16 said he was unaware of many opportunities for students to get involved with the center.
Fiona Zhu SOM ’15, who is the co-head of the Greater China Club with Liu, said that the YLC complements her work at SOM because it is impossible to study international economies without considering China’s place as a world power. “China is such a big economy in the world — there’s no way to ignore it,” Zhu said. “[The YLC] shows that our school is on the frontier of building relationships with Chinese communities and Chinese businesses.” Zhu added that students working at the center can act as a bridge between American and Chinese cultures and help strengthen Yale’s ties in Beijing. Bach said multiple events have already been scheduled at the center for the near future. The first program, he said, will be hosted by the School of Public Health and will compare Chinese and American drug regulation systems. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
University spokesman Tom Conroy, have maintained that only two Yale students — both researchers in the School of Public Health recently returned from Liberia — are under quarantine. William Gerrish, director of the office of communications for the Connecticut Department of Public Health, said four quarantine orders have been issued involving nine people. However, Gerrish could not confirm the identities of these nine people for privacy reasons, or whether the ninth person was also a Yale student. Each quarantine order pertains to one place of residence.
DPH reviews each case and determines … the necessary steps to protect [the public]. WILLIAM GERRISH Director, DPH Office of Communications “DPH reviews each case and determines, based upon the person’s travel history and potential exposures, the necessary steps to protect the public’s health,” Gerrish said. The term “quarantine” refers to individuals who must stay in their homes and are contacted daily by local health officials, Gerrish said. He added that the officials monitor the individuals’ health and record their temperatures. On Thursday evening, WTNH News reported that one of the nine quarantined is the girlfriend of one of the two Yale researchers who returned from Liberia and are now being quarantined. In a Thursday email, Dean of the School of Public Health Paul Cleary said he thought the New York Times article was incorrect. Later that afternoon, Cleary said he had identified a factual inaccu-
racy in the WTNH article in reference to the word “quarantine.” Clearly did not elaborate on what the inaccuracy was or where in the article it appeared. “Regarding Yale students, there are two students under quarantine, which is a legal condition that requires isolation that can be enforced by law,” Cleary said. “As the State Health Department has stated, there may be others who are being monitored for symptoms but are not under quarantine.” Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin said he could not confirm if there was a third Yale student under quarantine because of patient privacy laws. But he said that Yale Health would be made aware if there were a third student under quarantine and that he would be in direct contact with University administrators and the DPH. On Oct. 7, Gov. Dannel Malloy signed an order giving Connecticut State Health Commissioner Jewel Mullen the power to quarantine those who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. According to Connecticut state guidelines, any person who has traveled to areas affected by the virus or has come in contact with infected individuals is legally obligated to be quarantined in their homes for 21 days and take their temperature twice daily. Two weeks ago, two Yale students returned from conducting research in Liberia where one of them had direct contact with an NBC cameraman who was later diagnosed with Ebola. Days after their return, that researcher reported a fever and other Ebolalike symptoms and was immediately placed in isolation at YaleNew Haven Hospital. Two separate tests to confirm an Ebola diagnosis came back negative, but both researchers remain under quarantine. Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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Astronomy dept. sees changes BY EMMA PLATOFF AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS This semester, changes are afoot in the astronomy department. In response to student feedback, the department made several changes that will go into effect this year, including changing the name of the Bachelor of Science degree from “Astronomy and Physics” to “Astrophysics.” The Bachelor of Arts degree will keep its name of “Astronomy.” The department has refocused the B.S. major on the core science skills necessary for a career in science, adding new courses like “Astrostatistics and Data Mining” (ASTR 356), which focuses on statistical analysis. Faculty have also made it a priority to do field work in observatories. Astronomy director of undergraduate studies Debra Fischer also reviewed all of the major’s courses, revising the curriculum to eliminate overlap between courses and ensure that the curriculum is in sequential order. According to faculty members interviewed, these changes are geared at better preparing students for careers in science. “I think the redesigned curriculum prepares the students better for anything they want to do,” Fischer wrote in an email. “They will hit the ground running if they decide to go to grad school.” Victoria Misenti, assistant astronomy DUS, said that the major’s former name, “Astronomy and Physics,” was sometimes mistakenly thought to be a double major. Other professors also said that the major’s new name is much stronger. “[Students] didn’t feel that the name was clear enough for them to be able to successfully go into graduate programs or professional careers as astronomers,” Misenti said. “Astro-
physics was much stronger — it meant something more to these graduate programs.”
I think the redesigned curriculum prepares the students better for anything they want to do. DEBRA FISCHER Astronomy DUS, Yale While Fischer said she is not sure the name change is significant, astronomy professor Louise Edwards said she hopes it will prove important. Edwards added that she hopes the major’s new name will help employers recognize that Yale’s program develops strong analytical skills in its students. Students are pleased with the changes, Misenti said, adding that while only the Class of 2017 and below need to meet the new set of requirements, most upperclassmen want to anyway. She also noted that the increasing number of majors suggests students are pleased with the changes. Astronomy and physics major Hannah Alpert ’15, who participated in a focus group her sophomore year to discuss possible changes for the major, said she was happy to see that many of the concerns voiced by students in the group had been resolved with the recent changes. Many of her peers desired more intermediate classes — before the change, classes were split between lower level introductory classes and higher level classes, she said. “I don’t think the changes are very drastic, but noticeable in a good way,” Alpert said. Though she was a part of the
focus group, Alpert said she is unaware of what all the changes entail. She added there will be a discussion for undergraduates on Nov. 14 about the changes. A new committee will also be formed to review the current curriculum. Astrophysics major Adrian Gutierrez ’16 said he only became aware of the change when he was looking through the course catalogue earlier this year. Although he said the changes were not life-altering, he is happy the name will now properly reflect the major, as he had often been mistaken as a double major in the past. The name “Astrophysics” will not only be more accurate but also sound more impressive to others, he added. Zachary Wilson ’18 said he hopes to be an astronaut one day and feels the Yale astrophysics program is the perfect preparation. He said the new requirements have a more mathematical focus, though the changes still allow enough flexibilty in math courses. “The major was absolutely intense before, and it is still going to be just as challenging with the changes,” Wilson said. Both Fischer and Edwards expressed enthusiasm about the changes, with Fischer noting that these kinds of changes could not happen without complete support from the whole department. Astronomy professor Priyamvada Natarajan, who will take over for Fischer as DUS in the spring, also said she was very excited about the recent overhaul of the curriculum. The Astrophysics major requires 12 courses for completion, not including prerequisites. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .
Haven Collective opens doors BY MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Just two days after opening its doors in East Rock, the Haven Collective has already had to extend its closing hours to accommodate the influx of customers curious to learn more about the store’s “shop / gather / create” motto. Co-owned by Melissa Gonzales and Meg Kazukynas, the Haven Collective at 938 State St. functions not only as a retail space for vintage and handmade goods, but also as a space to feature local artists and designers, according to Gonzales. She said the shop will also host craft classes and other social events. “We really try to diversify the use of the space,” said Gonzales, who runs another store called Vintanthromodern Vintage in Trolley Square. “We’re trying to cover all our bases and make it a place that almost anyone who walks into will find some sort of value in.” The owners of the property offered to waive the first month of rent for Gonzales and Kazukynas, while Project Storefronts — a New Haven program that supports artists, designers and small business owners — and the Haven Collective coowners will split the remaining two months of what Kazukynas calls “a three-month trial.” Kazukynas, who also owns the New Haven handmade clothing store, said that, after these first three months, she and Gonzales will reevaluate the business’s financial standing and determine
whether or not they need further assistance from Project Storefronts. Property owner Susan Frew said she had turned down previous offers on the property from prospective businesses because she was looking for a store that would “blend in and speak to the community.” Gonzales and Kazukynas said their idea for the store developed out of Haven Events, the pop-up parties that they hosted with two other local artists. Kazukynas noted that the Haven Collective stocks items from both of the owners’ other stores, but also provides a separate area within the store for a pop-up — a rotating collection of items from different local artists and designers. Jewelry designer Kate Stephen, whose pieces are currently featured in the Haven Collective pop-up, said the space allows her to network with other local artists and share her designs with a different community. “What’s cool about the Haven Collective is it’s a great place for artists to come together and get inspired, to support one another and just incubate ideas,” Stephen said. Both owners also stressed the communal aspect of the Haven Collective. Kazukynas said the space is meant to draw artists, small businesses and the community at large together. The two co-owners spent only two weeks preparing the property for the grand opening last Friday, according to Gonzales. “People were walking by every day, asking, ‘When are you guys
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going to be open?’” Kazukynas said. Gonzales first sought out the space at 938 State St. after realizing that her store’s location in Trolley Square lacked foot traffic. Part of the space’s appeal, according to Kazukynas, is its location in a part of East Rock that has diverse restaurant offerings but few shopping options or craft studios. After finding the space on Craigslist, Gonzales said she reached out to both the property owners and Project Storefronts to help negotiate the terms of the lease. Gonzales added that Project Storefronts has also helped the Haven Collective by providing marketing services. Both Gonzales and Kazukynas noted that they also had followings from their previous endeavors as small business owners with strong social media presences, which has helped bolster their customer base. Kazukynas, who said that both she and Gonzales have full-time jobs, underscored that gauging the success of the Haven Collective is focused less on financial considerations and more on connecting the community. Gonzales said she has been moving incrementally in her business decisions towards her ultimate goal of this “creative/ maker/retail” space, and that all that is now required is a community response. The Haven Collective is open Tuesdays through Fridays. Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .
Visconti may sway race from right BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Despite slim chances of taking the governor’s office, Independent gubernatorial candidate Joe Visconti could be a major player in pushing one of the two primary contenders over the top in next week’s election. Visconti, a Tea Party Republican, collected over 10,000 signatures and entered the race as a petitioning candidate in late August. According to the candidate’s website, his campaign promises voters a repeal of the comprehensive gun control package passed by Gov. Dannel Malloy after Newtown and a relaxation of Common Core education standards in the state. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released last Wednesday, Visconti has garnered support from nine percent of Connecticut voters. Yet, while this data indicates that Visconti will not win the governor’s seat, the third party candidate has pulled votes from both Republican Tom Foley and Malloy. Tyler Blackmon ’16, elections coordinator for the Yale College Democrats and a staff columnist for the News, said Visconti’s clarity regarding his positions on these issues has made him an attractive candidate for conservative voters. “Visconti offers at least a clear position for Republican voters, even if it is a little far right,” Blackmon said. In an interview with the News in late August, Yale College Republicans President Andrea Barragan ’16 said Visconti’s candidacy could potentially complicate conservatives’ effort to unseat Malloy, but added that the
Independent candidate could also not ultimately impact the race. Of 15 Yale students interviewed, only two said that they knew of Visconti. While some said Visconti is pulling votes from his Republican opponent, others said there is a fair share of Democrats supporting Visconti over Malloy. Gary Rose, political science professor at Sacred Heart University, said that despite Visconti’s own political affiliation as Republican, only about 50 percent of Visconti’s voters would say their second-choice candidate was Foley, while the other half would support Malloy as an alternative. But Blackmon said he thinks the nine percent supporting Visconti is mostly Republican. According to Rose, the 4.5 percent of voters that Visconti is taking from Foley are Second Amendment enthusiasts — Connecticut residents unsatisfied with Foley’s position on the Newtown bill against gun violence. “If the legislature handed me a repeal provision of that bill, I would sign it,” Foley said at a debate on Oct. 9. “That’s not saying I would seek repeal of the bill.” According to Rose, Foley’s opposition to the gun bill stems from his belief that the bill, in its current state, is unclear about the distinction between gun rights of citizens with histories of mental health issues and the rights of those without. In contrast, Visconti has stated explicitly on his campaign website that, if elected, he will submit a bill to repeal Malloy’s gun law package. In a debate last week, Visconti said Connecticut gun owners have unjustly been blamed for the fatal shooting at Sandy Hook last year.
Rose said the gun-enthusiast voters in support of Visconti are not all Republicans. Indeed, some of the Connecticut citizens attracted to the Independent candidate’s platform for its defense of the Second Amendment are Democrats who own guns, he said. According to Rose, Visconti’s position on the state’s Common Core standards, which require students to take certain additional tests and standardize math and English curriculums in public schools, has also attracted teachers in both high-achieving districts and inner-city schools. He added that teachers in high-achieving districts believe that the standards are “dumbing down” their curriculums, while inner-city teachers take issue with the pressure to meet the several standards. Rose said he believes that the nine percent of Connecticut residents currently supporting Visconti are doing so to make a statement against one of these two issues. “I think it’s largely a protest vote,” he said. “I would say it’s disaffected Democrats and disaffected Republicans who are just against the system of government and against the candidates nominated by the two parties,” he said. Visconti faced Malloy in a debate last Thursday, which Foley did not attend. Visconti underscored his opposition to Malloy’s gun bill and to the Common Core standards, but Malloy geared his attacks towards Foley instead of Visconti. He criticized Foley for sitting out the debate, dubbing the decision “rude.” Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .
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FAMILY FROM PAGE 1 origin have expressed concern that the rising number of quarantines could lead to misconceptions. “Every time somebody introduces you as a Liberian they say ‘Oh, that’s where Ebola is,’ and everyone turns around and looks,” said Joseph Morris Kalapele, president of the Liberian Community Association of Connecticut. “People almost instantly try to distance themselves.” Although Kalapele could not confirm where the quarantined
family traveled, Mayor of West Haven Ed O’Brien told the New Haven Register that he believes the six residents are from Liberia. The six must remain quarantined for a total of 21 days from when they returned from Africa, in accordance with Connecticut’s response procedure. While Kalapele agrees that the quarantines are necessary from a medical standpoint, he said they can also have negative consequences. The quarantines have raised a stigma around those native to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Because police stand watch
in front of the homes, passersby can easily identify those houses under quarantine. This, he added, has caused an “extensive stigma” to surround Western African communities. “Often, they don’t even know if you’re infected or have family members that are infected. Once the connection is made, they walk away,” Kalapele said. However effective or necessary the West Haven quarantine might be, it is also scaring West Haven residents. Knowing local residents are being quarantined within a community is often disconcerting for residents, said
Terry Pesticci, an employee at Jerri’s Luncheonette, a restaurant in West Haven. “I’d be a little scared and hold off if I were to meet [someone who has traveled to West Africa],” Pesticci said. “Just because of everything that’s been happening.” The question of how to deal with Ebola is under increased scrutiny in the face of the upcoming gubernatorial elections, one of the tightest races nationwide. Malloy’s first order in response to the Ebola outbreak was enacted on Oct. 6, when he
declared a state of public health emergency, giving the commissioner of the State Department of Public Health the authority to quarantine or isolate people who are believed to have been exposed to the virus. While there were no cases of Ebola in the northeast at the time, it was important to have precautionary measures in place, Malloy said in a press release. Following a false alarm on Oct. 16 in which a Yale graduate student showed Ebola-like symptoms — but later tested negative — Malloy upped the state’s response. Whereas before, only those
who could have potentially been exposed to the virus were quarantined, under his new order on Oct. 16, anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea in the last 21 days is also included. “I believe we must go above and beyond what the CDC is recommending, just as we did last week when I issued a preemptive declaration,” Malloy said in an Oct. 16 press release. Four people have been diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .
Alito, Sotomayor and Thomas speak at YLS LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 about their lives before joining the court and their personal experiences on and off the bench. “[The award] is our way of recognizing extraordinary alumni who have made substantial contributions to public service and the legal profession,” Post said. “Today we continue that tradition by honoring three alumni who without any question have contributed immensely to the substance of American public life.” Post said the justices have “quintessentially American” backgrounds. Thomas was born in the Jim Crow South, while Alito and Sotomayor are both children of immigrants. While the three take substantially different ideological positions, Post said that the three are united by their persistence and shared dedication to public service. Law School professor Kate Stith, who moderated the discussion, said the end goal of the discussion was to help the audience get to know the justices on a personal level. She asked them questions about a range of topics, from the last books they read to the coffee they most prefer. Alito said his latest reads are “My Beloved World” and “My Grandfather’s Son,” written by Sotomayor and Thomas respectively, generating a laugh from the crowd. Sotomayor, meanwhile, talked about her passion for salsa dancing despite her inability to keep a rhythm. Beyond discussing their preferences, each justice discussed their motivations for pursuing a career in law. Alito and Sotomayor both said they decided to enter the legal profession when they were very young. Sotomayor added that what attracted her to the legal profession was that it is always stimulating. “I had a sense that law gave one an opportunity to learn new things constantly,” she said. Thomas, however, said that while he originally wanted to be a priest, he was later “taken” by the excitement of law. The justices also assessed their expe-
riences at the Law School and offered words of advice to current students. Thomas said students should make the most of both their academic opportunities and the friendships they forge. He added that when choosing a job, students should prioritize integrity over prestige. “I also suggest to them that when they take a job, if all things are equal, work for a good person. A good person can turn a difficult job into a fun job, and a bad person can turn a beautiful job into a miserable job,” he said. “I think it is important to work for good people: people of integrity, people who are positive. And finally, you treat people the way you expect to be treated, whether they deserve it or not.” Audience members interviewed said the justices displayed humility and good humor during the talk, which made a traditionally insulated institution seem more human and accessible. “In law school you read a lot of Supreme Court opinions. You get a good sense of how they view the law, but you never really get a good sense of who they are as people,” Avi Samarth LAW ’16 said. “Listening to them speak about that experience and the experiences they have had elsewhere gives you a much richer understanding of who they are, how the court operates on a day to day basis and how American law unfolds from people rather than doctrine.” Law School professor Akhil Amar said it is important to remember that the law has an important human component, adding that the law is “processed through actual human minds that exercise judgment” and are affected by experiences. Amar said it was entertaining to see “chemistry” between the three justices. The Award of Merit has previously been presented to Gerald R. Ford LAW ’41, John Danforth LAW ’63, Joseph Lieberman LAW ’67 and Hilary Clinton LAW ’73. Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu .
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Alito (left), Sotomayor (right) and Thomas spoke at the Yale Law School on Saturday after receiving the Award of Merit.
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“A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.” DAN RATHER AMERICAN JOURNALIST
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Cornell staff member implicated in UNC scandal BY TYLER ALICEA A Cornell employee who previously worked at the University of North Carolina was allegedly involved in a scandal involving thousands of students taking illegitimate classes over nearly two decades. Cynthia Reynolds — who is currently the academic programs coordinator in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics — is being implicated for her involvement in a scandal where thousands of students, many of whom were athletes, took illegitimate “paper classes,” where students would only have to write a paper that would receive a high grade regardless of the content.
A report released Wednesday was released following an eightmonth-long i nve s t i ga CORNELL tion conducted by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein, who was hired by UNC. Investigators found that Reynolds pushed athletes into taking classes in the Department of African and AfroAmerican Studies, which housed the paper classes. “In football, for example, [Reynolds] and her staff sent [Departmental Administrator Deborah] Crowder lists of players to be enrolled in paper classes
each term, and in some cases apparently even indicated for Crowder the grade or grade range the player would need to earn in the class to maintain eligibility,” the report stated. The report added that Crowder ignored the grade suggestions from Reynolds, “knowing full well that [Crowder] would award any student who submitted a paper with a fairly high grade.” Following the retirement of Crowder in 2009, Reynolds and her colleagues “were also painfully aware that Crowder’s retirement would require the whole football program to adjust to a new reality of having to meet academic requirements with real academic work,” according to the
report. “Ms. Crowder is retiring at the end of July … If the guys’ papers are not in … I would expect D’s or C’s at best. Most need better than that,” she wrote in an email to a colleague. Reynolds — who served as a member of the academic support program for student athletes between 2002 and 2012 — was one employee who refused to cooperate with the investigation, which the Wainstein said he “regretted” in the report because she was a “critical witness to [the] investigation.” In April, investigators emailed Reynolds regarding her time at Chapel Hill, but she refused to comment, according to the report.
“I am now almost four years removed from my last appointment at UNC and not inclined to revisit my experiences at this time,” she wrote in an email to the investigators. After future attempts to reach out to Reynolds, she threatened to take legal action against the investigators. “On May 21, 2014, we received a letter from Reynolds’ attorney stating that any further attempts by Cadwalader to contact Reynolds would be ‘construed as harassment and reported to the police accordingly,’” the report stated. Although Cornell encouraged Reynolds to be involved in the investigation, she refused, according to Joel Malina, vice
president for Cornell relations, who added that the matter is between Reynolds and the University of North Carolina. “Whatever information Ms. Reynolds may have pertinent to this inquiry relates to her prior employment at the University of North Carolina and does not pertain to her position at Cornell,” Malina said in a statement. “Although Cornell offered Ms. Reynolds paid release time to speak with Mr. Wainstein if she chose to do so, this was her decision to make. Cornell has had no involvement — previously or currently — in the matter, and, as such, has no additional comment.” Reynolds could not be reached for comment Thursday.
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Faust Makes ‘Case for College’ in Dallas Speech BY MATTHEW CLARIDA
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A new faculty review committee at Penn will review and interview applicants for a number of competitive scholarships for graduate studies. BY KRISTEN GRABARZ It’s been more than four years since Penn has had a Rhodes scholar — but the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships has revamped the fellowship application process in an effort to add Penn names to the ranks of scholars. For the first time, Penn put in place a faculty review committee to review and interview applicants for the Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell Scholarships — three competitive awards for American students to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland — and select finalists to receive Penn’s official endorsement. Prior to the committee’s instatement, students were welcome to apply and receive Penn’s endorsement so long as they satisfied the minimum requirements for the fellowships. Only a few applicants from regions with application quotas failed to receive an endorsement. The faculty committee sought to emulate the actual fellowship decision-making process in its deliberations, incorporating interviews and even a mock cocktail party during which the applicants and faculty committee could
interact. T h i s year, 51 students applied fo r t h e three fellowships. PENN The faculty review committee selected 25 of those students to receive Penn’s endorsement. Of those 25 students, 20 applied for the Rhodes, 18 for the Marshall, and 2 for the Mitchell. The faculty committee has no predetermined number of candidates to select, allowing them to choose to endorse as many candidates as they deem worthy. The last Penn student to win a Rhodes Scholarship, which allows students to pursue graduate studies at the University of Oxford, was 2009 College graduate SarahJane Littleford, who won in 2009. Penn has produced 11 Marshall scholars — the most recent in 2011 — since 1984. A year ago, 2012 College graduate Meghan Hussey won a Mitchell scholarship, which supports graduate studies in Ireland or Northern Ireland. Hussey was Penn’s first recipient of the Mitchell. “I suspect … that not
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enough Penn students revise their approach toward these fellowships. There is a tendency to replicate what was successful in getting into Penn. And a tendency toward too much autobiography, and not enough forward-focus,” O’Leary said. Penn has produced winners of other prestigious fellowships over the years, however, with particular success in the Fulbright Scholarship, which sponsors research abroad. Since 2003, 159 Penn students have been Fulbright scholars.
The sense is that given how great our students are, we should be doing better in winning. ROB NELSON Exec. director, Education and Planning “The sense is that given how great our students are, we should be doing better in winning these prestigious fellowships,” Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson said. “That sense of ‘Why aren’t our students doing better’ is kind of behind the drive.”
A College senior and one of the faculty committee’s endorsed candidates for the Rhodes Scholarship said that CURF played an instrumental role in her decision to apply for a fellowship. “I never really decided [to apply for the Rhodes]. It was just something that started making sense,” she said. With most fellowships announcing winners in late fall, time will tell whether Penn’s efforts will pay off. “The purpose was to provide greater support for students, and also to bring our processes in line with the vast majority of our peer institutions — who for the most part had internal endorsement processes,” Senior Associate Director for Fellowships and Operations Wallace Genser said. “We also hoped to mirror the experience that students would have in the next step.” The fellowship application process puts college applications to shame, each requiring high academic performance and strong personal statements, in addition to several letters of recommendation. “I would say to start thinking about it early – earlier than you think,” Brooks said, noting that the process “definitely takes more time than you think.”
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University President Drew G. Faust laid out her “case for college” in a speech Friday morning in Dallas, encouraging students gathered at a local high school not necessarily to attend Harvard, but to consider continuing their educations beyond the high school level. Though she began by laying out the tangible indicators — wealth, employment and civic engagement — that are often used to encourage college attendance, Faust spent the bulk of her talk arguing that college is critical for reasons that can’t necessarily be measured. First, she positioned college as a door-opener, saying that it provides students with new and often unforeseen opportunities. “College is a passport to different places, different times and different ways of thinking,” she said, focusing on courses and opportunities offered by Harvard but also by Texas schools like Baylor and Texas A&M. “It is a chance to understand ourselves differently, seeing how our lives are both like and unlike those of people who inhabited other eras, other lands.” Faust’s second point centered on the people that make up colleges and universities. “Even if you go to a school that is local and continue to live at home, your classes will be full of people you’ve never encountered, with views and experiences new to you,” she said, according to her prepared remarks. “One of the most important ways in which students learn, at colleges and universities everywhere, is by interacting with people who are different from themselves.” Faust added that by engaging with the work of historic figures in many disciplines stu-
dents might figuratively “ m e e t ” people like Albert Einstein and Toni Morrison. HARVARD The Harvard president then argued that college allows students to dream big and, as importantly, to “think slow” in a fast-moving world. “In business, huge profits can be made by firms that know more, act first or connect faster. But there is a different kind of profit, a more lasting one, available to those willing to slow down and bear down on a difficult problem,” she said. “College can help you learn how to think, more than what to think.” In closing, Faust echoed previous speeches in talking about the late Harry Parker, the longtime Harvard men’s crew coach who died last year. “One of Harvard’s most beloved coaches, a man named Harry Parker, was described by one of his athletes as ‘making people prove themselves to themselves,’” she said. “For some, a coach holds up that mirror. For others, it may be a mentor, a co-worker, a parent or a friend. But I want to leave you with this thought: For many people, that mirror is college, a mirror like no other — showing us what is possible, challenging us to raise our sights, asking us: ‘Do you want to be that?’” The speech, delivered at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, was Faust’s final public event during a weeklong trip that took her first to Mexico City, where she hosted a private alumni gathering for about 500 attendees. Later Friday night, Faust appeared a similar gathering in Dallas.
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“When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period.” SHANNON LUCID AMERICAN BIOCHEMIST
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SPCSA releases recommendations BY PRIYA RAMAIAH The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault published its 2014 recommendations Friday morning, calling for Dartmouth to release more comprehensive data on sexual violence, support Greek organizations that wish to become coed and ban Bored at Baker, among other suggestions. The 21 recommendations span prevention, education and response. In its report, the committee asks the office of institutional research and office of student health promotion and wellness, among others, to release raw data on sexual violence at Dartmouth, including the type and location of offenses. The committee also recommends that Dartmouth partner with students when developing programs, suggesting that campaigns such as the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative will not be successful unless they reflect
D a r t m o u t h ’s culture and incorporate student input. SPCSA DARTMOUTH c h a i r Sophia Pedlow said the committee intentionally separated its suggestion to transform single-sex Greek organizations into coed undergraduate societies from a recommendation that administrators assist sororities that wish to become local. “We’re not saying either/or, we’re trying to present options,” she said. The recommendations also suggest that Bored at Baker be banned on Dartmouth’s network, with violations encoded in the Standards of Conduct. Title IX Coordinator Heather Lindkvist said banning the anonymous online forum is a “very, very complicated” issue, citing issues of censorship and
web logistics. To further sexual assault education, the document states, Dartmouth should expand the physical education requirement to incentivize health programs such as sexperts, sexual assault peer advisors and eating disorder peer advisors. The recommendations also advise that Dartmouth formalize a varsity and club athletics policy that bans students found responsible of sexual misconduct from participating in Dartmouth athletics, provide financial support covering long-term counseling costs for sexual violence survivors and partner with WISE, a domestic and sexual violence support center in Lebanon, to provide students with more options. Lindkvist said she is interested in furthering Dartmouth’s partnership with WISE, noting that community organizations can provide support services that complement what universities offer. She said the recom-
mendations reinforce and support her office’s work, noting that a climate survey on sexual assault will be completed by the end of this academic year.
[The recommendations] have played a very big role in the changes that have happened over the past couple of years. Every year [they] get more robust. AMANDA CHILDRESS Co-director, Health promotion and wellness Co-director of health promotion and wellness Amanda Childress praised the coherence and relevance of the committee’s recommendations. “They have played a very big
role in the changes that have happened over the past couple of years,” Childress said of SPCSA. “Every year the recommendations get more robust.” She expressed some hesitation over the recommendation that Dartmouth pay SAPAs for their work supporting survivors and building positive sexual and social climates. The documents cite Yale University’s communication and consent educator program as an example of a structure that supports students working on social influence campaigns. “I don’t think there’s a dollar amount you can put to a student who’s supporting someone who’s had an experience like this,” Childress said. “I’m not opposed to it, but I’d really want to work with students about what that could look like.” Survivor advocate Benjamin Bradley said he is currently working on offering increased first responder training. The office of health promotion has
increased trainings to one session per month from one or two a term, in addition to any personal trainings requested by student and faculty groups, Childress said. Childress said that in addition to SAPA training, which spans an entire term and functions as an extra class, the office of health promotion also offers short, one-time sessions on how to help friends who are survivors of sexual violence. The committee’s recommendations build on those of past years’ as well as community feedback from SPCSA’s third annual symposium on sexual assault in April, Pedlow said. She said she is interested in seeing how the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee’s recommendations compare to those of SPCSA. SPCSA, which was established in 2010 by former Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim, plans to host a town hall in the coming weeks.
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Students report sexual assault at frat
Ph.D.s face tough job market
BY CAMILLA BRANDFIELD-HARVEY Two students informed the Brown Office of Student Life and the Department of Public Safety that they suspected they were given alcoholic drinks containing a date-rape drug at a fraternity party in Sears House Oct. 17, wrote Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, and Russell Carey, executive vice president for planning and policy, in a communitywide email Friday. One of the students reported that she was sexually assaulted the same night that she received the date-rape drug. Both students reported “a rapid onset of intoxication out of proportion to what they may have had to drink,” as well as “memory loss for a significant period of time” — effects consistent with consuming common date-rape drugs like Rohypnol, GHB and Ketamine, according to the email. Neither Klawunn nor Carey could be reached for comment Friday on the specific drugs the students consumed or the name of the fraternity where the incident occurred. Though its investigation is ongoing, Brown has suspended the fraternity where the “spiked” drinks were provided and is re-evaluating its policies for alcohol service at campus events, Klawunn and Carey wrote.
T h e B r o w n c h a p ter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is the only fraterBROWN nity housed in Sears, according to the Brown Greek Community website. “We take this matter very seriously and are investigating to determine the facts to inform any action,” wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and Brown University relations, in an email to The Herald. Alex Sherry, Greek Council chair and a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, was not aware of either the alleged date rape or any incidences of drugged alcoholic drinks prior to reading Klawunn and Carey’s email, he wrote in an email to The Herald Friday night. Kevin Carty, a sexual assault peer educator and brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi, said the incident occurred as peer educators embark on a new bystander prevention education program “every member of every” fraternity and sorority is set to undergo this semester. “Sexual assault is committed by people who are shielded by groups,” said Carty, a Herald opinions columnist. “Bystander
prevention education does a good job of educating people who aren’t going to commit sexual assault to make the culture of the group or the house a safer place.” This is the third year that Greek Council has undertaken a sexual assault prevention and education initiative, Carty said. With the help of Marc Peters, the new men’s health coordinator, and a larger group of peer educators, the program has worked to schedule sessions with every house in order to reach as many members as possible, rather than only new pledges in the spring, Carty said. Contacted after hours on Friday, Sergeant Steven Bremges said DPS was unable to release additional information until Monday. Meanwhile, Klawunn and Carey urged community members to contact DPS Sergeant John Carvalho with information about the suspected use of a date-rape drug or the alleged sexual assault. The incident at Brown follows two other episodes of assault involving date-rape drugs this semester, one at the University of California at Berkeley and another at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Five individuals at Berkeley told campus authorities earlier this month that they were given “roofies” and sexually assaulted at an unrecognized chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Daily Californian reported.
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Students reported being given alcoholic drinks containing date-rape drugs at a fraternity party in Sears House.
BY ERICA BUONANNO Amid national discussion about the lack of job prospects for newly minted Ph.D.’s, just four out of the 95 students who received Dartmouth Ph.D.’s in June still seek employment. Dean of Graduate Studies Jon Kull wrote in an email that it is not too difficult for Dartmouth Ph.D. recipients to find positions, particularly because Dartmouth only offers science doctorates. The nationwide unemployment rate for science Ph.D. recipients is around two percent, according to the National Science Foundation. The Atlantic reported in July, however, that STEM Ph.D. hiring has stagnated or dropped across fields. History professor Pamela Kyle Crossley wrote in an email that humanities Ph.D. recipients conventionally face greater challenges when searching for jobs. The U.S. Survey of Earned Doctorates finds that humanities programs consistently see the lowest rate of graduates reporting a definite job or postdoctoral study, according to the Modern Language Association Office of Research blog. Dartmouth offers master’s degrees in the humanities, primarily through the Master of Arts and Liberal Studies program, and various humanities and social science departments hire postdoctoral researchers. The most common areas of employment for Ph.D. graduates are postdoctoral fellowships and faculty positions. A postdoctoral fellowship like the Society of Fellows — which will bring Ph.D. recipients to Hanover for research, teaching and mentorship — will give graduates time to revise and expand upon their dissertations for publication, preparing a potential second project before beginning to teach and establishing themselves as academics, Society of Fellows director and religion department chair Randall Balmer said. Kevin Hainline, a postdoctoral researcher in the physics and astronomy department, said that in many fields, postdoctoral students face three waves of applications for academic jobs when deciding what to do after graduation. The first wave consists of fellowship applications, in which students apply for research funding, and the second is for professorships, which are difficult to obtain coming out of graduate school. Hainline noted the slow pace of hiring in academia.
Although plenty of postdoctoral positions exist, he said, n o t DARTMOUTH ing that p o s t docs are cheaper to hire and require less of a time commitment, these rarely translate into tenure-track faculty positions. “The more postdocs you end up taking, the older you’re getting and at some point you’ll have to admit that you’re not going to get an academic job and go into industry or something, which drives many people out of the field,” he said. There are too few tenure-track jobs to match the amount of Ph.D. graduate interested in academics, according to the MLA. Sarah Henderson, who graduated from Dartmouth with a cognitive neuroscience Ph.D. in 2013 and completed one year of postdoctoral research before leaving for an industry position, attributed the mismatch to reasons like less research funding and higher retirement ages. Had she stayed in academia, she said she did not think she would have found a stable job until age 45. Hainline said that while many postdoctoral researchers pursue their own interests, a third option for Ph.D. graduates is assisting faculty with their work, which is what he has been doing for the past two years. He said one of the reasons humanities Ph.D.’s have more difficulty finding positions after graduation is that there are few postdoctoral positions in the humanities, leading many to change fields or teach in community colleges and overseas. Funding for humanities research was hard hit by the recession, and the percentage of humanities graduates who found tenure-track positions saw a sharp drop, according to MLA surveys of Ph.D. placement. “I feel bad for people who have a degree in something that is not valued by certain slots of industries,” Hainline said. He said universities continue to produce high numbers of Ph.D. graduates and in a “different world,” institutions should stop accepting people into graduate school. “Grad school is a five- or six-year commitment and in the end you have this Ph.D.,” Hainline said. “You go into that and sometimes you’re not told, ‘Oh, you know there’s no jobs at the end,’ and they should be up-front about that information and
they should also not accept so many people.” According to a Michigan State University study released in October, overall Ph.D. hiring is anticipated to rise 20 percent this year. Kull said the College places its Ph.D. recipients in postdoc positions, consulting, teaching or industry. He said that graduate students receive career advice through the graduate studies office and the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. Students participate in career development workshops that prepare them for both industrial and academic positions, he said.
I feel bad for people who have a degree in something that is not valued by certain slots of industries. KEVIN HAINLINE Postdoctoral researcher, Dartmouth physics and astronomy department
Julia Bradley-Cook, a Ph.D. student in ecology and evolutionary biology, wrote in an email that she thinks Dartmouth’s network and name recognition will help her find a position. BradleyCook said she is considering a non-academic job, though she acknowledged that this career path is “much less clearly defined.” Molly Croteau, a fifthyear chemistry Ph.D. student, said that she and other future Ph.D.’s worry about finding a position after graduation, although she will be applying for jobs in industry rather than academia. She said she thinks it is tough to get any job in the current economy, even with a Dartmouth degree. “Just having a Dartmouth degree won’t get you through the door,” she said, although she added that it might help get resumes a second glance. Henderson said that to increase the number of academic positions for Ph.D. graduates, institutions should consider making more positions for research scientists. “Unless people want to go into industry, there is no way to go into academia and just to do research,” she said. Balmer said an institution’s reputation is important for Ph.D. students after graduation. Dartmouth should encourage more scholarly production in order to boost the reputations of existing faculty and the institution as a whole, he said.
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uring Fall Break, Yale Outdoors organized a climbing trip to Mount Marcy. Imagine the rooftop of New York. No, we are not referencing the Empire State Building—at 5,343’, Mount Marcy of the Adirondack High Peaks is the New York state high point, and this fall break Yalies climbed, scrambled and ice-picked their way to its summit. It was the optimal trip with real thrills, including intense mountain climbing and breathtaking scenery! With crampons, mountaineering boots, ice axes, and the most important, passion and persistence, Yalies conquered the 5,343-feet mountain peak and came back to school with glory. PHILIPP ARNDT reports.
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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 5:00 PM German Department’s Kaffee-Klatsch. Join the Yale German Society on Monday for a Kaffeeklatsch — literally: “coffee (and) gossip.” You don’t like coffee? Gossip isn’t your thing? No worries. The German Society is very liberal when it comes to choices of beverages or conversation topics. Attend this event if you’d like to practice your German, if you’ve been to Berlin before and would like to discuss it, or if you’d just like to get to know people in the German department better! Open to the Yale community and invited guests. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), lounge.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 12:00 PM Examining the Life of Oyabe Zen’ichir : The New Formation of Modern Japanese Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Come to a lecture by Kazumi Hasegawa, CEAS postdoctoral associate and lecturer in history. She received her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2013, and her dissertation reconstructs the life history of Oyabe Zen’ichir (1867–1941), examining the formation of his Japanese identity within international racial discourse of the time. The dissertation also analyzes how Oyabe encountered the crucial intellectual discourses of “civilization” at the turn of the twentieth century. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Rm. 218, East Asia Library.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 7:30 PM Film screening: Apparition of the Eternal Church. Come enjoy a film by Paul Festa (Yale College ’96), featuring eight artists with Yale connections. Screening will be followed by a panel discussion. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 7:00 PM Haunted Hall Crawl and Costume Ball. Embrace your Halloween spirit at the Peabody Museum for a spine-tingling evening of terror as you explore the Museum’s haunted halls, enjoy witches’ brew and dance with their delightful skeleton crew. 18 and over. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170
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ast Wednesday, close to 1,000 graduate students, union members and local and state politicians protested to demand a union for graduate students at Yale. The protesters, led by GESO, delivered a “photo petition” showing over 1,000 supporters of the union to administrators in Woodbridge Hall. The protest comes just under six months after another major protest in which GESO leaders delivered another petition to Woodbridge Hall demanding recognition as a union. JENNIFER LU reports.
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MORGAN ROBERTS ’16 FOOTBALL In Saturday’s 43–21 win, Roberts set the Yale single-game completion percentage record — for the second time this season. He completed 26 of 29 passes for 346 yards and four scores, and he remains on pace to break the school record for passing touchdowns.
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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM OPENING SCRIMMAGE Playing against the defending Canadian champions, the Bulldogs fell to Alberta 3–0 in their season-opening scrimmage. The Elis spread around the ice time, playing three different goalies, but two power-play goals in the first period proved to be the difference.
“[Penn was] throwing a lot of different coverages at us ... taking the linebackers out and putting them on me. I just trusted my quarterback.” GRANT WALLACE ’15 FOOTBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014 · yaledailynews.com
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Wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15 set a career-high with 173 receiving yards against Penn. BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER For the fifth time this year, a team has tried, and failed, to stop the offense of the Yale football team. Four different players scored for the Bulldogs (5–1, 2–1 Ivy) on Saturday as they racked up 605 total offensive yards in their 43–21 rout of Penn (1–5, 1–2) at the Yale Bowl. Yale took a two-
score lead early on and never looked back, tallying two touchdowns in each of the first three quarters and securing the victory well before the clock ran out. After the performance, Yale remains first in the entire Football Championship Subdivision in both total offensive yards per game and points per game. “As the game went on, the focus and concentration level was still there,” head coach Tony Reno
said. “We were able to do something for the second week in a row that we couldn’t do against Dartmouth. That’s growth.” But the win, despite the offensive onslaught and relatively strong defensive performance, was bittersweet due to an alarming injury to cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17. Rymiszewski dove to help out on a tackle in the second quarter when he was hit in the head and appeared motion-
less on the ground. Rymiszewski was taken to the hospital for evaluation, and Reno said he has since been released. Though Reno said after the game that Rymiszewski suffered a concussion, he declined to comment yesterday, citing privacy concerns. As has often been the case this season, the game was host to a slate of impressive statistics, despite many of Yale’s starters sitting out nearly all of the fourth
quarter. Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 was near-perfect in three quarters, completing 26 of 29 passes for 346 yards and four touchdowns — more than the number of incompletions he threw. The Ivy League passing leader, who has now thrown for over 300 yards in five games this season, broke his own Yale record for completion percentage in a game at 89.7 percent.
Seven of those passes went to captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15, enough for the senior to break the previous Yale record of 195 receptions in a career. Four games still remain for Randall, who noted a specific appreciation for the historical significance of the accomplishment. “At a place with a lot of tradition, any time you’re able to SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3
Women’s hockey starts with sweep BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the first time since 1991, the Yale Bulldogs are off to a 2–0 start after sweeping the Providence Friars (0–7–1, 0–0–0 Hockey East) in two games on Friday and Saturday.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY Friday’s game in Providence featured goals from six different Bulldogs, in addition to 21 stops from goaltender Jamie Leonoff ’15. It was not until nearly the end of the first period that Yale managed to put one in the net, but from then on the Bulldogs maintained clear control over the Friars. Yale eventually extended its lead to 5–0 until Providence put one past Leonoff in the third period. The game ended in a 6–2 Bulldog victory. In total, Yale had won 49 faceoffs on the night compared to just 28 for the Friars. Defenseman Taylor Marchin ’17 had four assists on the night, the most for any Bulldog since 2007. “It feels great … I didn’t really pay much attention to it during the game. I didn’t really know until my coach told me after. It’s fun when that many people are scoring,” Marchin said. At Ingalls Rink on Saturday, the Bulldogs were once again successful against the Friars despite giving up an early lead. Yale put up four goals before the Friars scored again, and the game ended on a power play goal by Stephanie Mock ’15 for a 5–2 Yale win. Yale had 33 shots on goal on Saturday, while Providence had just 26. The Bulldogs also managed a shorthanded goal late in the second period to put Yale up 2–1. Down one player, forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 put one past the Friars goaltender on an assist from Krista SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3
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Forward Eden Murray ’18 has two goals and an assist and is +4 in her first two games as a Bulldog.
STAT OF THE DAY 197
CAREER RECEPTIONS FOR YALE FOOTBALL CAPTAIN DEON RANDALL ’15, A NEW SCHOOL RECORD. The senior from San Diego caught seven passes for 78 yards and a touchdown against Penn, breaking the previous record of 195 held by receiver Ralph Plumb ’05.
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“My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.” DWAYNE JOHNSON PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER
Soccer ties ’13 Ivy champs
Volleyball sweeps Brown
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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 is second on the volleyball team in points with 185. Johnson posts a 2.77 kills per set average. VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B4 annual Dig Pink campaign, which raises donations and awareness for breast cancer. Each team in the conference reserves one night a year to fundraise for the cause. Before the match, the Elis publicized the event on Facebook. On Friday, the Bulldogs wore pink warm ups and pink ribbons, and two players collected donations at the door. “We weren’t expecting that many people to be around since it was fall break, but there were a lot of people at the game,” Midzik said. “The whole football team actually ended up showing up to support us.” So far, Yale has raised $190 towards its $1,000 goal, accord-
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ing to the 2014 Yale Dig Pink Rally website, though Appleman said this may not reflect the total number of donations collected during the match. The Bulldogs will face off against Dartmouth on Friday at 7 p.m. and Harvard on Saturday at 5 p.m. Yale beat Dartmouth 3–0 earlier this season, but fell to Harvard in a close 3–2 loss. Contact ERIN WANG at erin.wang@yale.edu .
YALE 3, BROWN 0 YALE
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25
25
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13
12
17
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Forward Keith Bond ’16 scored Yale’s only goal against Penn in the third minute of the match. MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 have been its best performance of the season. With 84 minutes remaining in the game, the Eli back line held the Quakers to just a single shot on target, bringing their on-target total to two for the game on only nine shots. “Our defensive group deserves credit for closing down the most prolific scoring duo in the league,” head coach Brian Tompkins said. “[Duke] LaCroix and [Alec] Neumann are a handful, but Phil Piper [’16] and Henry Flugstad-Clarke [’17] did a good job of restricting their chances at goal. I was encouraged by the confidence and spirit of our group; they fought hard in midfield, created a lot of chances and looked dangerous from start to finish.”
With just three Ivy League contests left for the Bulldogs, Yale will look to build upon performances like this one. Despite a poor season statistically, the Elis have bounced back in their last three games. Yale soccer has gone 1–1–1 over that threematch stretch, including its first win and a tie against a heavily favored Penn squad. Despite scoring woes, Yale has also exceeded its season average in scoring over this period. It remains to be seen, however, whether this uptick in form can translate into a string of meaningful wins. “I thought the team put in a really solid performance last night, and I thought we were a bit unlucky not to get the win,” said Bond, the Elis’ lone goal scorer against Penn. “Even though the season hasn’t been going as desired, the guys are still extremely motivated and competitive,
and I thought it showed during the game. Penn was a solid team, and I thought we had the better of the play for most of the game.” Yale takes on the University of Connecticut in its next game on Tuesday. After the UConn game, the Bulldogs play three final Ivy contests to close out the season. Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .
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1
0
0
0
1
PENN
1
0
0
0
1
Bulldogs fall in regional championship WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE B4 secure the win. Amos earned a spot in the main singles draw after overcoming Drexel’s Ryshena Providence, 6–2, 6–1. In the first round of the main draw, Yale swept its opponents. Sherry Li opened her tournament with a comfortable 6–0, 6–3 win over her Farleigh Dickinson opponent, while Amos defeated her Providence College competitor, 6-4, 6-3. Ree Ree Li had a come-from-behind win over Emma Alderman of UConn, posting a 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 victory. “I felt that our performance at Regionals, both as a team and for myself personally, displayed that we’ve made progress since the beginning of the year,” Sherry Li said. “We’ve come out of Regionals with a good sense of what’s been working for us and what needs to be improved, which is a good thing this early in the year.” Yu and Hamilton, who received byes in the first round, joined the tournament in the second round of singles play. Yale was able to capture wins in three out of its five singles matches. Sherry Li, Yu and Hamilton all advanced to the third round after three-set victories. Yu, ranked No. 103 in the nation by the ITA, continued to excel. After the third round of singles play, she was the only Yalie still alive. She earned a quarterfinal spot after defeating Johanna Hyoty of Boston University 7–6(4), 6–3. She then recorded a decisive 6–2, 6–1 win over Boston College’s Lexi Borr, advancing to the semifinals. In one of the most competitive matches of the weekend, Yu overcame Taylor Ng of Dartmouth, 7–5, 3–6, 6–4, sending her into the championship match. However, Yu did not walk away the singles victor, as she lost to Jessica Waknik of Boston
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Hanna Yu ’15 advanced to both the singles and doubles finals in the Northeast Regional Tournament. College, 3–6, 2–6. “I was pretty surprised,” Yu said of her success at the tournament. “I didn’t really have many expectations. It’s my senior year; I was just trying to have fun. It turned out to be a great way to almost finish off the fall season.” The Elis were equally impressive in doubles play. Three doubles pairs entered the tournament — Yu and Ree Ree Li, Carol
Finke ’18 and Sherry Li, and Hamilton and Valerie Shklover ’18. Yu and Ree Ree Li set the tone with a comfortable 8–1 victory over a pair from Niagara and followed up with an 8–6 win over Ivy League rivals Marika Cusick and Priyanka Shah of Cornell. Similarly, Finke and Sherry Li swept over a duo from LIU and later defeated a St. John’s pair.
“It was a thrill to play doubles and represent Yale at home,” Finke said. “Sherry and I played solid matches together and we are just improving together as a team.” While Finke and Sherry Li were defeated by a Cornell tandem in the third round, Yu and Ree Ree Li continued to impress. The duo overcame pairs from Syracuse, Harvard and finally St.
John’s to earn a spot in the championship match. Yu sought redemption in doubles after her loss in the singles final, but Yale walked away empty-handed from the doubles championship as well. Yu and Li were defeated in two sets by the Columbia pair of Rima Asatrian and Kanika Vaidya, 6–2, 6–2. “After last season, people are underestimating us, but
this was a great tournament to show everyone in the northeast region that we are definitely still up there,” Yu said. “We made a statement.” The Bulldogs will next travel to Evanston, Ill. to compete in the Wildcat Invitational beginning Nov. 7. Contact KATIE SABIN at kaitlyn.sabin@yale.edu .
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“Maybe I’m old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.” BRETT FAVRE FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK
Elis sweep Providence
FOOTBALL IVY 1 3 5
7
LEAGUE
SCHOOL
W
L
%
W
L
%
Harvard
3
0
1.000
6
0
1.000
Dartmouth
3
0
1.000
5
1
0.833
Yale
2
1
0.667
5
1
0.833
Princeton
2
1
0.667
3
3
0.500
Brown
1
2
0.333
3
3
0.500
Penn
1
2
0.333
1
5
0.167
Cornell
0
3
0.000
0
6
0.000
Columbia
0
3
0.000
0
6
0.000
VOLLEYBALL IVY SCHOOL
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W
L
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7
1
0.875
11
6
0.647
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Harvard
6
2
0.750
13
4
0.765
3
Princeton
5
3
0.625
10
8
0.556
4
Dartmouth
4
4
0.500
13
6
0.684
5
Columbia
3
5
0.375
7
10
0.412
Brown
3
5
0.375
8
12
0.400
Penn
3
5
0.375
6
13
0.316
Cornell
1
7
0.125
4
14
0.222
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The women’s hockey team put up 11 goals in its first two games of the season against Providence. WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 Yip-Chuck ’17. Captain Aurora Kennedy ’15, who had one assist on Saturday, attributed the wins to a solid effort at both ends of the rink. “I think offensively we did a great job hemming them in their zone. Defensively, we did a great job communicating with each other so it just made it a lot easier to break out,” Kennedy said. Although both Kennedy and Marchin noted that the team had room for improvement, they also
stated that they were happy with the results of the season-opening series. Despite an early exhibition against McGill and a scrimmage against Sacred Heart, Marchin stated that the series against Providence was the team’s first true test. Leonoff, who had 24 saves on Saturday, also approved of the team’s start. “It’s great to already be starting at such a high level,” Leonoff said. The undefeated start is a good sign for the Bulldogs, who are looking to expand on the
improvements made last year. After finishing seventh in the conference during the 2013–’14 season and losing to Harvard in a close playoff series, Yale looks to head further into the playoffs this season. “We have two big games next weekend, so hopefully we [will] build off what we did this weekend,” Marchin said. Yale will play St. Lawrence at home on Friday.
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2
2
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1
0.625
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4
0.654
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Princeton
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1
0.625
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3
0.654
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Penn
2
1
0.625
6
6
0.500
5
Cornell
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2
0.500
9
4
0.679
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2
3
6
6
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2
0.375
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6
0.458
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0
2
2
7
Brown
1
2
0.375
3
5
0.423
8
Yale
0
3
0.125
1
9
0.192
Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
Records for Roberts ’16, Randall ’15 FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 accomplish something, put yourself in the history books, be a part of this tradition, it’s an honor,” Randall said. For most of this game, however, Randall passed the spotlight to his teammate on the other side of the field, wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15. While the Quaker defense keyed in on Randall and running back Tyler Varga ’15, the senior leader snuck downfield for 10 catches, 173 yards and two touchdowns. “[Penn was] throwing a lot of different coverages at us … taking the linebackers out and putting them on me,” Wallace said. “I just trusted my quarterback. I knew he’d make the right reads.” Wallace said that a strong game plan by Yale was the reason Penn’s defense left him open, but he also made a few highlight reel catches even when the Quakers did have him covered. Generally used as an outside option, Wallace impressed with several catches over the middle, including a grab in the back of the end zone for his first score and a 43-yard reception in strong single coverage later in the game. That passing attack both contributed to and was assisted by another exceptional showing on the ground. Varga made his presence as a premier FCS running back felt, powering through defenders to score or to set up Roberts through the air. “That’s the best part about this offense,” Randall said of Yale’s versatility. “The ball’s being distributed to everyone, and when [a person’s] number gets called, [he] makes a play.” Varga rushed for 140 yards and two touchdowns, including the first of the game. The Quakers blocked up the holes to stuff Varga’s first three rushes, but Yale would not back down from giving the ball to its main playmaker as he scored from 23 yards on his fourth attempt. Linebacker Matthew Oplinger ’18 caught a pass to complete his second two-point conversion of the season, and he then made another big play on the very next drive. Linebacker Charles Cook ’15 blocked a Quaker kick on fourth down, and while most players on the field thought the ball was dead, Oplinger picked it up and rumbled 48 yards downfield to set the Elis up for Wal-
lace’s first touchdown. Penn quarterback Alek Torgersen found his favorite target, wide receiver Conner Scott, for the Quakers’ first score on their fourth possession. Scott would later account for Penn’s second touchdown on another big play, eventually finishing with 167 yards on nine receptions. Though Yale held Penn’s rushing attack, which was back to full strength after the return of running back Kyle Wilcox, to just 47 yards, the deep ball has consistently been effective against the Bulldogs. In the Bulldogs’ lone defeat, two touchdowns of 30 yards or more proved detrimental to the Elis. “We still have given up too many big plays on defense,” Reno said. “That’s got to continue to get better.” Those two scores, however, would be it for Penn in its seven first-half possessions, and touchdowns by Randall and running back Candler Rich ’17, the fourth Eli to score, kept the Yale lead safely intact at 29–14. Yale distanced itself further in the third quarter with touchdowns by Varga and Wallace, the second of the day for both players, and Penn could not make a drive last more than four plays in the meantime. By the fourth quarter, Reno removed many of his starters, including Roberts, who was replaced by quarterback Logan Scott ’16. Though Scott led the offense all the way to the Penn two-yard line, Yale was stopped on fourth down. After a touchdown early in the fourth quarter, Penn made its ultimate drive last 11 plays and over two minutes, but it could not score as the clock expired and the 43–21 score became final. Before the game, Yale honored Penn head coach Al Bagnoli, a Connecticut native, in his last game at the Yale Bowl. Yale will continue its conference season next week at Columbia, which has not won a game since 2012.
COMPARING YALE TO THE REST OF THE IVY LEAGUE
COMPARING CURRENT YALE TEAM TO 2012, 2013
Points Per Game
Points Per Game
YALE
45.3 Harvard Princeton Dartmouth 32.3 31.2 29.0 Penn 20.8
2014
45.5
Brown
20.3 Cornell Columbia 11.5
2013
10.3
26.9 2012
15.8 Total Offensive Yards Per Game 601.8
YALE
Total Offensive Yards Per Game
418.0
366.0
2014
Harvard
475.3
Penn
399.3
Brown
359.5
Princeton Dartmouth
601.8 2013
274.0
Columbia
230.5
Cornell
403.3 2012
354.8
Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
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“I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.” TOM BRADY THREE-TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION
Bulldogs extend streak to six VOLLEYBALL
BY ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale volleyball team swept Brown 3–0 for the second time this season, extending its winning streak to six games and holding fast to its first-place league ranking. The Bulldogs (11–6, 7–1 Ivy) kicked off the second half of Ivy League play by soundly beating the Bears (8–12, 3–5 Ivy) in three sets this Friday, 25–13, 25–12 and 25–17. Yale hit 0.333 to Brown’s 0.053 and put up nine blocks, 57 digs and three aces to Brown’s modest two blocks, 45 digs and zero aces. “I think we played the best volleyball we have this year,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “We were able to get [middle blocker] Jesse Ebner ’16 back in the match, and I think it’s great because she’s been injured for a while. She had a lot of energy and hit very well.” Middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16 and setter Kelly Johnson ’16 led the team with 10 kills each. Midzik and captain Mollie Rogers ’15 each put up four blocks, and setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 had 36 assists of her own. Rogers led the Bulldogs with 11 digs, contributing to nearly 20 percent of Yale’s total digs. Ebner, who had not played since the first weekend of the season, made her 2014 Ivy League debut in style, pitching in eight kills and hitting a team-best 0.583. Ebner noted the team consistently executed their coach’s directions and followed the Brown scouting report very well, which led to their numerous serving runs and blocks. “Our serving got [the Bears] out of system a lot, so they only had one or two options, and our blocking was really solid,” Ebner said. “We worked a lot on blocking this week and it really showed.” In each set against Brown, the Elis went on a run to put some distance between themselves and the Bears. A 6–0 run early in the first set gave Yale a 9–4 lead that it never relinquished, and similar nine- and six-point runs in the second and third sets, respectively, helped the Bulldogs avoid any danger. Midzik said the players appreciated having time over fall recess to focus on practice, in addition to only having to play one game this weekend. She added that the team played as a more cohesive unit than they have in previous games, and that the consistent hitting percentages proved that the Bulldogs pulled off a well-balanced offense this weekend. This match was also the main event of Yale’s SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B2
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The Bulldogs have won six straight matches, losing just one set out of 19 in October.
Strong defense nets Yale tie
Two second place finishes for tennis
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Sherry Li ’17 played in every Ivy match last season, finishing 4–3. BY KATIE SABIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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After just two points in their first 10 matches, the Bulldogs have notched four points in their last three games. BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER With a goal from forward Keith Bond ’16 just two minutes into their fourth Ancient Eight matchup of the season, the last place Yale Bulldogs (1–9–3, 0–3–1 Ivy) managed to steal a point in their weekend clash against the Penn Quakers (6–6–1, 2–1–1), who currently hold the Ivy soccer crown. In its first Ivy match on home ground, Yale — a strong defensive team — got the cushion it needed to hold off a surging Penn attack.
MEN’S SOCCER Despite that early strike, however, the Elis produced a poor offensive finishing performance. The Bulldogs launched 17 shots, but only four were on target. Though the offense has been inefficient, Yale’s defense has been quite productive all season, holding teams to 1.22 goals per game, with a 4–1 loss to Dartmouth standing as an outlier. While the Elis have a penchant toward conceding late, Penn’s equalizer came just four minutes after Yale took the lead, when Forrest Clancy slipped
a 25-yard free kick past goaltender Blake Brown ’15. “I thought our guys played with a lot of heart all game,” forward Teddy Mauze ’18 said. “Their one goal was a highlight-reel free kick that we couldn’t do anything about. I don’t think any of us were too happy about the result, but I can say with confidence that all of us were proud of the way we matched a very talented Penn team.” Once Clancy equalized, Yale’s defense clamped down for what may SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2
The Yale women’s tennis team made the most of its home court advantage at the United States Tennis Association/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Tournament, advancing to the finals in both the singles and doubles draw.
WOMEN’S TENNIS The Elis were represented in both championship matches — captain Hanna Yu ’15 advanced to the singles final and the tandem of Yu and Ree Ree Li ’16 advanced to the doubles final. While the Bulldogs were unable to secure a win in either match, according to players interviewed, the tournament was a large success for the team. “Overall, our team did really well,” Yu said. “It was great to be at home and dominate.” The tournament, which Yu referred to as the most important event of the
fall season, took place at the CullmanHeyman Tennis Center from Oct. 16 to 21. Numerous schools from across the northeast, including some of the Ivies, traveled to the Elm City for the competition. The Elis had the opportunity to play against rivals they will face again in the spring season, including Harvard, Dartmouth and Boston University. “It was incredibly fun to host such a huge event and have the whole region see what Yale women’s tennis is all about,” Sherry Li ’17 said. Five Yale players were featured in the singles draw: Yu, Ree Ree Li, Madeleine Hamilton ’16, Courtney Amos ’16 and Sherry Li. Amos and Caroline Lynch ’17 began the tournament playing in the qualifying singles draw. Both players recorded straight set victories in the first round, advancing to the second and final round of the qualifying draw. Lynch played a tough threeset match against Shreya Pasricha of Farleigh Dickinson but was unable to SEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE B2