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Eze, Eidelson clash in debate

Parallel universe. As Ward

1 candidates Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Ugonna Eze ’16 sparred on city issues last night, the GOP presidential candidates — including Ben Carson ’73 — took the stage in Boulder for their third debate.

Carson had the support of the crowd, which booed the moderator when he asked Carson about his connection to Mannatech — a nutritional supplement company that has been scrutinized for false advertising.

Quindia. Earlier this week, DNA India ran a Q&A with Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan — who visited Delhi and Mumbai as part of an outreach program — titled “What does in take to get into Yale University?” Yale currently has 50 Indian undergraduates, Quinlan told DNA. This number, he said, is second only to China.

Welcome to the good life.

Yale’s Divinity School got a mention in the Huffington Post yesterday. The article, which was the transcript of an interview with Divinity School professor Matthew Croasmun GRD ’14, detailed two new courses: “Life Worth Living” and “Christ and the Good Life.” The courses, the Huffington Post wrote, mix pop culture with history, philosophy and theology.

Blood money. In anticipation

of Halloween, TIME Money published a list of the most lucrative horror films Hollywood has produced. In third place is “The Silence of the Lambs” — the first of two films about fictional cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter starring Jodie Foster ’85.

Talking about tragedy.

Tonight, author Jeff Hobbs ’02 will read from his book “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace” — a biography of his Yale roommate who was murdered at the age of 30 in Newark during a drug deal.

Hobbs will speak at 8 p.m. in the Branford common room. ’Dogs on the hunt. The Yale

women’s and men’s basketball teams will jointly host “Blue Madness” — a season kickoff event — at Payne Whitney tonight at 7:30 p.m. The event promises a dunk contest as well as the chance to win a $300 Apple gift card.

Candy Conn. According to a

poll released by social media analytics company Influenster, the state-favorite candy in Connecticut is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. The most popular favorite candy across all 50 states was candy corn — the Halloween classic.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2012 Anticipating the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the Yale Admissions Office elects to extend the application deadline for Early Action four days from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5.

Harvard, Columbia and Penn also extend their deadlines.

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EASY BEING GREEN US environmental assessment ranks Connecticut high PAGE 7 CITY

Budget surplus grows

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too, are residents of New Haven.

“I think that, for the most part, New Haven residents tend to have fairly low expectations for Yale students, and I think that they tend to expect us to come into a conversation thinking that we’re better than we are,” Eidelson said. “We are New Haven residents already, and we make choices every day, political or not, of what kind of neighbors we’re going to be … we ourselves can have better lives by being part of this city.”

Yale’s budget is squarely in the black again this year with a surplus of $194 million, an increase of $143 million from last year.

The University’s annual budget report, released Wednesday, showed substantial revenue increases in the 2015 fiscal year, including the recognition of the $250 million gift from Charles Johnson ’54 to fund the building of two new residential colleges. As the national economy improves and Yale’s endowment continues to yield high returns, University Provost Benjamin Polak said he thinks Yale’s financial outlook has almost returned to its level before the economic bubble.

“I think the campus has made a lot of progress from when the endowment dropped,” University Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance Stephen Murphy ’87 said. “We’ve put the economic downturn behind us.”

But administrators in Yale’s Division of Finance said the surplus is only $17.3 million in practice, as Johnson’s donation is a bequest, meaning it is written into his will and will not be paid to Yale until his death.

This year’s report marks the first budgetary recognition of Johnson’s pledge, although it was announced in 2013. Johnson promised $250 million, but the amount was valued in this year’s budget report as $100 million. This difference is caused by the way Yale evaluates Johnson’s gift, University spokesman Tom Conroy said.

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Ward 1 aldermanic candidates Ugonna Eze ’16 and Sarah Eidelson ’12 met in LC 101 Wednesday evening to debate city issues.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER On a night when many expected heated debate on policy issues, discussion between Ward 1 alder candidates Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Ugonna Eze ’16 at the aldermanic debate Wednesday evening instead centered on one simple question: What role should Yale students play in New Haven?

The debate, which was hosted by the News in a packed LC 101, featured questions on issues ranging from

homelessness and unemployment to how Yale students engage with the city. Throughout the night, Eze and Eidelson expressed few policy differences. The two hold similar positions on fossil fuel divestment, the student income contribution and homelessness in the city.

But their divergences surfaced during discussions of the roles Yale students and the Ward 1 alder play in New Haven. As the debate drew to a close, Eidelson called on Yale students to project a better image of themselves into the city and remember that they,

Amid concerns, Coalition App pushed back

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER On Sept. 28, the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success — a group of over 80 colleges and universities nationwide that includes Yale — announced an alternative to the Common Application that would make applying to college more affordable and accessible for students from underprivileged backgrounds, set to launch in January of 2016. But on Oct. 7, creators of the new platform pushed the introduction to April — a four-month deferral from its initial launch date — in order to put finishing touches on the new application and publicize it in a more effective way.

The new platform, called the Coalition Application, will give students the opportunity to create an online portfolio during their freshman year of high school and add to it over the next three years. In addition, colleges will be able to com-

municate with registered users and provide feedback on their applications before students reach senior year. But despite the application’s more modern features, the platform has received mixed responses from experts and administrators in higher education.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan — a member of the Coalition’s board of directors and one of the project’s lead architects — said one of the most immediate pieces of feedback the Coalition received was that more information needs to be released before students can begin using the platform.

“Our intention was always to use the next few months as an opportunity to get feedback and make the platform as robust and user-friendly as possible,” Quinlan said. “We felt like moving the release from January to April would provide us a few more months SEE COALITION PAGE 6

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The debut of the Coalition Application has been delayed by four months and will now take place in April 2016.

Science Park outreach initiative ends

BY MICHELLE LIU AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS After six years of providing aid to New Haven schoolchildren and the city’s homeless population, Yale’s Science Park Outreach Committee is closing up shop.

Founded in 2009 after large numbers of Yale’s information technology and administrative staff relocated from Yale’s central campus to offices in the Newhallville neighborhood, the committee was formed to

bridge the gap between Yale and city residents nearby, as employees were concerned that locals might negatively view the influx of outside workers.

Since the committee’s founding, members stationed at 344 Winchester Ave. or at 25 Science Park have helped wrap gifts and raise money for the New Haven community. But now, with Yale continuing to keep a close eye on its spending, employees at Science Park are finding themselves burdened with more work and less time for community outreach. Without sufficient

volunteers to plan annual raffles, gift-giving and fundraising for the communities surrounding Science Park, the committee has no choice but to cease its services after this holiday season, according to committee leadership.

“People are working through lunches,” said Stacey Smart, a business analyst at Yale’s Shared Services division at Science Park who has co-chaired the committee every year since its inception. “Due to some of our staff retiring and recent layoffs and restructuring, our staff are

expected to do more with less and are pressed for time so are unable to volunteer.”

Smart said she has sent repeated emails over the last few months to the Science Park community asking for volunteers, but to no avail. Smart, who will retire this year, said she no longer has time to fulfill the responsibilities of chairing the committee.

Smart attributed the decrease in committee volunteers to a gradual change in the “culture” of Science Park. Smart said that in past years, all departmental

branches at Science Park took the day off to hold the annual raffle event, but now, only some departments give employees the day off. She added that working on the Committee requires between 40 and 120 extra hours of work each year — hours that have become harder to find as the University restricts the growth of administrative staff.

This year, in a final gesture, the committee will give a holiday present to each child at Wexler-Grant Community SEE OUTREACH PAGE 4

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GHeav by any other name I

n the 2001 Disney classic, “The Princess Diaries”, the protagonist receives “princess lessons” from her queen grandmother as the fictional kingdom of Genovia prepares to announce her as the heir to the throne. Mia, played

by Anne Hathaway, is a sixteen-year-old learning how to be a royal. Her grandmother makes her memorize classic quotes and phrases, such as the famous line from Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

That line resonated for Mia since it reflects the changing of her own name and identity throughout the film.

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME SMELLS JUST AS SWEET, EXCEPT WHEN ONE OF THOSE ROSES IS TAINTED WITH A TROUBLED SCENT I wanted to write a column exploring how a name relates to identity on a smaller scale.

In fact, I wanted to declare my right to call GHeav, GHeav.

Sure, the store is now technically called something else, but it’s still the same rose: virtually the same menu, still the same plastic-looking, overpriced buffet at the center, still the same wooden floor, still the same shelves of chips and teas and still the same 24/7 hours and fluorescent, yellowish lighting. It’s still the GHeav that I met in the fall of 2012 as a drunken frosh, scooping orange noodles into a Styrofoam bowl.

I wanted to write that column: a nostalgic indulgence of why I wanted GHeav, at least in name, to remain the same.

The truth is that it isn’t. It’s now Good Nature Market and it’s under new ownership — for good reason. The new name didn’t fundamentally change the role of the store as the go-to provider of late-night food for Yale college students. The name was changed after the previous management committed wage theft and abused its power as an employer of immigrants.

I told some friends about how I want to still call GHeav, GHeav, and they squealed, “YES!” It’s ours — and to us, it was GHeav for so long. My affection for the store that sits at 15 Broadway in New Haven, Connecticut is a deep one. To me, its legacy extends beyond 24-hour service. It’s a late-

night mecca, a pilgrimage for food on the weeks when the dining hall is serving infinite trays ADRIANA of acorn squash and MIELE vegan burritos. It saves Check and sustains me. So, yourself I figured, I should be able to call it whatever I want — right?

Calling Good Nature Market (on Whitney or Broadway) “GHeav” isn’t a crime, and I don’t want to admonish people for doing so. It’s often nothing more than an innocent habit.

But the question of names and their legacies is one that has cast a harsh light on this campus. When we think about the histories of a place, we must think about how names relate to identities and values.

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet, except when one of those roses is tainted with a troubled scent.

Good Nature Market isn’t robbing its workers of a livable wage. GHeav did.

In “The Princess Diaries”, Mia Thermopolis learns that she’s actually Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi, the royal name she would now inherit. A culminating moment in the film comes at the end when she announces herself, not as Mia, but with her noble moniker. This young woman undergoes a transition in identity, but that change is only possible when she accepts the responsibility associated with her new title.

Though I may be talking about a film adaptation of a young-adult book series, and I understand that this is a pretty frivolous connection, it does carry resonance in the way we, as Yalies, identify the places and ourselves in our community.

The more I considered what I would call my beloved convenience store, the more I considered the ramifications of my own beliefs. I realized that I couldn’t turn a blind eye to this issue, no matter how small it seemed. How we refer to Good Nature Market doesn’t wield the same impact on students that a residential college’s name does. But we should not neglect the histories of all the places we inhabit. I think we should question our smaller actions as well — we need to do more than just critique this institution’s decisions without critiquing our own.

Our castles matter, but so do our breakfast sandwiches.

ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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Raising the bar A daily coolfor everyone down space E very year during Camp Yale, a new class of freshmen is introduced to the sexual landscape of Yale through a series of sex education workshops. Among these is the CCE’s Myth of Miscommunication workshop on affirmative consent and reading social cues in sexual situations.

Of course, what students seem to retain best from this exercise is the famous froyo analogy, a frequent punchline at Yale.

However, in light of the recent release of the Association of American Universities' Campus Climate Survey results, institutions such as the CCE program that are intended to combat sexual violence have taken on a new sense of urgency.

The main interaction between undergraduates and CCEs occurs through two mandatory workshops: the Myth of Miscommunication workshop for freshmen, and Bystander Intervention, for sophomores.

Through these workshops and other initiatives, the CCE program aims to “intervene” in “troubling [sexual] dynamics” and to “raise the bar above consent.”

Yale does, indeed, need an intervention. The one that currently exists, however, is in itself quite troubling.

The "Myth of Miscommunication," in focusing on the importance of affirmative consent, provides no background information on what hookup culture at Yale actually looks like. Students who come from cultural backgrounds that have not exposed them to the liberal sexual mores predominant at Yale are given no practical knowledge of how to navigate hookup culture when they encounter it. They are taught only how to recognize when someone is consenting to sex.

This model is premised on American-centric assumptions that fail to accommodate an ideologically and culturally diverse freshmen class. It thus presumes a certain baseline of prior knowledge about sex that many students do not in fact meet. Without a full understanding of how sex at Yale really operates, students cannot be expected to safely and happily engage in a positive sexual climate, nor are they sufficiently prepared to make their own decisions about hookup culture and casual sex. The CCE program’s attempt to respect a wide range of sexual choices de facto normalizes and implicitly encourages behaviors that simply are not right for all students.

It therefore falls short of the allinclusive education it purports to offer.

Even more troubling is the fact that the only other mandatory workshop is a Bystander

Intervention training. I recently participated in the workshop and was disturbed by the way it entirely dismissed the role of alcohol in unwanted sexual encounters. The CCEs repeatedly and explicitly stated that alcohol does not conflict with perceiving consent because it does not remove or create desires, but merely lowers inhibitions. This response fails to acknowledge that there are troubling sexual situations where consent is not the problem. Even if a student “desires” their partner, they may not have wanted to have sex for personal reasons — they may, for instance, not want to complicate a friendship. Just because alcohol does not necessarily prevent affirmative consent from being given does not mean that we should delude ourselves about the role it often plays in unwanted or regrettable sexual encounters. The CCEs are right that affirmative consent is a necessary condition for a positive sexual climate, but it is not a sufficient one. As far as I can see, they have not “raised the bar” very high.

This year, the Bystander Intervention workshop took place in the wake of the publication of the AAU survey results.

And yet, there was no option at all for sexual assault survivors to opt out of the training. A close friend of mine, a rape survivor, was forced to out herself to a CCE, who thankfully was understanding and helped her anonymously withdraw from the program. But if one in four women have been assaulted at Yale, it is deeply insensitive to demand that they undergo the exact same training as their peers who have not experienced sexual assault. At the very least, an alternative program should have been offered that catered to their needs. Yale does not seem to have taken the AAU statistics very seriously if it makes a monolithic demand for vigilante justice from the entire community, survivors and nonsurvivors alike.

The CCE program’s myopic reification of the sexual status quo at Yale, its failure to account for the diverse backgrounds of students and its lack of consideration for the needs of survivors sends a clear message: take care of yourselves, because Yale can’t take care of you.

This should not be the lesson students are left with. We can and must do more. We must actually raise the bar above consent, and stop fooling ourselves into thinking that the current conversation is enough.

It’s not.

SHERRY LEE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at chia.lee@yale.edu .

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here have been many moments so far this semester that have provided unique opportunities to scrutinize our campus’ sexual climate.

Perhaps most notably, the Association of American Universities’ survey results evoked a range of emotional responses throughout our community. We’ve also witnessed spikes of discussion following the publications of personal stories about sexual violence and criticisms of University response systems. While these events received campus attention, there are countless other stories unfolding more privately around us. Having worked as Communication and Consent Educators (CCEs) for the majority of our time at Yale, we share the campus’s concern about the very real problem of sexual misconduct at Yale.

Our job as CCEs is to use our status as fellow students to help build a more positive sexual culture on campus. We aim to create more normalized opportunities for Yalies to consider their role in a community working to prevent sexual misconduct by encouraging Yalies to think about our everyday actions. We try to identify campus traditions and social dynamics that could lead to anything from slight pressure to sexual violence. If we address those root causes and rewind those situations back to their earlier stages, we can figure out how to slightly alter the course of events in order to produce a safer, more positive outcome. Our projects as CCEs provide tools for Yale students to recognize their agency to reflect and decide on what they want out of their time on campus.

There are a lot of different ways in which we can provide these spaces for people, depending on the situation. Take Halloween, for example. The CCEs have established a “cooldown” room at Pierson’s annual Inferno dance, which is happening this Saturday night. There will be a photo booth with costume pieces, chairs to sit on and give your legs a break, fans and water to literally cool you down.

Whether or not you’ve been drinking, you can slow down for a second and think about your night and where you want to go.

These kinds of spaces provide opportunities for people to think about their many options, and to choose the ones that feel right to them.

So why does it help to take a break and stop for a second?

Sexual violence can start at lowstakes scenarios and quickly escalate into tricky or even dangerous situations. Dances like Inferno might be overwhelming and disorienting, making it more difficult for us to process the

interactions we have with others. You might not recognize the situation you are in until you are given a moment to slow down, cool down and think. As a result, we are also able to better recognize the boundaries of others and how our desires can respectfully coexist with theirs.

It is precisely because we take sexual violence very seriously that we think about its underpinnings in everyday life. The same dynamics that can play out at school-wide dances like Inferno can be seen in much quieter settings as well, but the same thought process applies. We want to provide space for people to analyze whether the situation they are in reflects their values and desires.

The fact is, desire is both intensely personal and also intensely varying moment-tomoment for every person. It is not something that we can generalize across any two different people, let alone an entire undergraduate student body. This strategy of support and positivity may not provide dramatic resolutions to problems after they have occurred, but it’s an important step in preventing these scenarios from happening in the first place.

Everyone is on their own unique and challenging quest of self-discovery. One of the most important things we take from Yale is how to reflect on our values and our priorities. We’re not just talking about sex, we’re talking about relationships on any level, including between people who don’t want to engage romantically or sexually. When we talk about making a plan with your suitemates before going out, we aren’t talking about deciding whom to hook up with. We are talking about creating the night you want.

Our approach of positivity and self-reflection should not be misconstrued as an attempt to encourage a specific type of hyper-sexuality. The fact is, we don’t care what type of sex you are or are not having, as long as you and everyone around you feel respected. Our goal is to help each and every Yalie create their own cool-down space in their everyday life, so they can reflect safely upon their desires whenever they want. By making this a common practice for ourselves, respect can become the baseline for how we interact with others.

SARIKA PANDRANGI is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact her at sarika.pandrangi@yale.edu .

ARI ZIMMET is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at ari.zimmet@yale.edu . They are both Communication and Consent Educators.

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“You don’t learn to walk by following rules.

You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

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CTL consolidation raises concerns

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28

A previous version of the story “Church Street South lawsuit filed” incorrectly stated that attorney David Rosen had already filed a lawsuit on behalf of Church Street South residents. In fact, the lawsuit has not yet been filed. The headline of the article has been altered to reflect this change.

Hartford gains trans-Atlantic flight

BY WILLIAM VESTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Gov. Dan Malloy announced last Wednesday that Hartford’s Bradley International Airport will resume trans-Atlantic service in September 2016 — a move that local businesses applauded.

The airport ceased transAtlantic service in 2008 due to restructuring after Northwest airlines merged with Delta. Once service resumes, a new transAtlantic flight from Bradley to Dublin will be operated by Irish airline company Aer Lingus.

The continuation of service was announced after groups such as the Connecticut Airport Authority, Connecticut congressmen and the MetroHartford alliance lobbied for trans-Atlantic flights to return to Bradley. The lobbyists said the new Bradley to Dublin flight will help develop business in Connecticut and connect them to European markets.

“It’s an extraordinary asset to have,” Oz Griebel, CEO of MetroHartford Alliance, said. “It helps in retaining jobs we have, and in growing jobs.”

The successful lobbying was due largely in part to Malloy’s involvement, said Kevin Dillon, executive director and CEO of the Connecticut Airport Authority — the group charged with revitalizing Connecticut’s airports. Dillon said Malloy proposed financial incentives that helped to attract Aer Lingus to Bradley. The incentive will provide up $4.5 million taken from the Department of Economic and Community Development to cover any of the airline’s potential losses. Bradley will also give Aer Lingus an additional $5 million in fee waivers and marketing money as part of a separate agreement.

Dillon said the state-funded financial incentive is worth the benefits of having international flights in Connecticut. The new flights to and from Dublin will make shipping international cargo more convenient, he said. He added that the Bradley-to-Dublin flight also has the advantage of being pre-cleared, so travelers will not have to go through customs upon arrival.

“When you arrive back here in Bradley you arrive as if you are a domestic passenger, a big time saver to the business community,” Dillon said. “You don’t have the hassle of clearing cus-

toms at JFK.” Dillon added that Dublin also provides a convenient connection for travelers in Europe. He said many travelers who currently connect through London area airports will consider switching to a Dublin connection. Because Aer Lingus looks to build up the Dublin hub to rival Heathrow, travellers may find that the airline has made the connection more convenient, he said.

Proponents of the flight said the Dublin airport will provide easy access to the European marketplaces for business travelers, the group to which these flights will be most heavily marketed. “[Access to international flights] opens up some doors in terms of international cargo and gives us an opportunity to get back into the cargo business.”

Dillon said. “It’s good for area businesses to be connected to the global economy and to be able to ship goods internationally.”

Dillon said the Connecticut Airport Authority looks to the business community to support the flight from Bradley, which does not attract equally as many travelers as surrounding airports like New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Boston’s Logan International Airport.

Yale students who fly regularly from surrounding airports said the addition of the flight will likely not have a big impact on their commutes home, even if they plan on travelling internationally.

“If they offer direct flights to Paris then I’ll probably consider this, but so far I would still fly through JFK because of the convenience of a direct flight,” Yannis Messaoui ’19 said.

Dillon said while consumers may have concerns that the single-destination flight from Bradley to Dublin does not fit their needs, increasing community buy-in will “snowball” into additional carriers, flights and destinations. For instance, he added, if consumers demand more trans-Atlantic flights, the airline might be persuaded to expand their services in Bradley.

The new flight will include one evening departure from Bradley and one afternoon departure from Dublin.

Contact WILLIAM VESTER at william.vester@yale.edu .

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BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER The Center for Teaching and Learning has pushed ahead with plans to physically and structurally consolidate various academic support resources around the University, despite some staff members’ reservations.

The CTL was established in July 2014 to integrate oncampus services for undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members in areas like writing, language study and technology use. Since then, the consolidation process has progressed both physically and in less visible ways, such as online. While the CTL’s constituent programs originally operated out of seven different locations on campus, over the summer the center reduced that number to three. All the units now share the common CTL website instead of their individual websites. The Center plans to physically unify all these services into one central location on two floors of Sterling Memorial Library by December 2016. But as that date nears, some of the center’s staff have raised concerns about the implications of the consolidation.

CTL Executive Director Jennifer Frederick, who has already met with architects

to discuss preliminary ideas, said she envisions a space that is flexible and will promote a sense of community. She said the design may include minimal walls and flexible dividers. But some staff members have expressed worries about whether they will still have access to enclosed working spaces.

We are making a better “cake,” rather than focusing on the individual ingredients.

JENNIFER FREDERICK Executive Director, CTL “I really value collaboration, but some of us want to retain our offices because we feel our most important collaborations work best in private,” said Ryan Wepler, associate director of the Yale College Writing Center. “Others involved in the merger have voiced similar concerns about how working in an open-air space would negatively affect the collaborations they already have as teachers, mentors, advisors and consultants.”

But Frederick said a more open model will make col-

laboration easier, adding that office spaces create a defined hierarchy that the center is trying to avoid.

Deputy Provost for Teaching and Learning Scott Strobel agreed. The design must take into account the fact that the Center will be a public space, he said.

“If we are going to have a whole set of small offices that walls us off, it creates an unfriendly and unwelcoming space in the library,” Strobel said. “That really isn’t the vision for the space where people come to interact and engage.”

The center’s structural organization is also in flux, including whether the individual resources will retain their own name and brand.

Wepler said he is “mildly concerned” that the merger will lower the visibility of individual centers and resources. The Writing Center has an established presence on campus which may become less recognizable if it is merged with the overall CTL brand, he said.

Staff members at two other CTL resources voiced similar concerns about the organizational and physical merger, but declined to comment further.

Frederick acknowledged that preserving the distinct recognizability of each

resource is challenging, but said having centers within centers would be “nonsense.” Instead, she said, the resources will become substructures of CTL and continue to provide their trademark services. Some of the resources will maintain their brands, she said. For example, while the Yale Teaching Center and the Center for Scientific Teaching no longer exist and their services have been integrated into the CTL, the Writing Center will retain its name until the entire CTL moves into the Sterling Library space.

Strobel also noted that the individual resources will still be highlighted and showcased, but that it is “unmanageable” to have each resource maintain a more distinct identity.

While Frederick and Strobel acknowledged staff members’ concerns, they maintained that the organizational and physical consolidation supports the University’s goal of making the CTL a highly visible and utilized resource on campus.

“We are making a better ‘cake,’ rather than focusing on the individual ingredients,” Frederick said.

Roughly 70 staff members will work within the new CTL. Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Scarce STEM grants imperil research jobs

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS Science faculty across the University are struggling to find ample funding for their research even after they get tenure, due to the financial landscape of both the University and the country’s STEM fields.

STEM professors’ laboratory research is largely funded through grants, either from federal organizations like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, or from private foundations like the American Cancer Society, according to biology professor Joel Rosenbaum. When professors come to Yale, the University provides funds to equip their laboratories, but most future costs — such as paying postdoctoral fellows and research technicians — must be covered by grants. Science professors interviewed expressed irritation with the current process for funding research at Yale — troubles that stem from both the University’s funding policies and a fiercely competitive grant market, in which only around 10 percent of all NIH and NSF grant applications are approved.

“Yale, in spite of its huge endowment, does not support our research activities other than supplying its name … and keeping up the facilities in which we do research,” Rosenbaum said. “One either gets outside funding, or one’s research activities here die.”

Much of the funding researchers receive does not go directly to them — Yale collects around 40 percent of NIH grant money to pay for the indirect costs of running lab facilities, Douglas Brash, professor of therapeutic radiology and dermatology, said.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean Robert Burger ’93 said that in certain cases, Yale pays directly for science equipment that has broad interest across departments, such as computing hardware or an astronomy telescope.

Remaining laboratory equipment is paid for by grants or through set-up funds for new professors. Rosenbaum said that in his 50 years of research at Yale, he estimates that Yale has pocketed more than $20 million of his grant money.

Faculty members never fund research out of their personal salaries, Burger said. When faculty members have gaps in funding, Yale has mechanisms in place to provide “bridge funding” to keep labs oper-

ating until the next grant is secured, he added.

But when Rosenbaum was recently denied NIH funding and appealed to the Office of the Provost for bridge funding, he was also denied that, he said. Now 80 years old, Rosenbaum decided to stop applying for grants, close his lab and continue on at Yale solely in a teaching capacity.

“To say I was a bit pissed off would be putting it mildly,” he said.

Alongside the challenges for professors, careers are far from secure among postdoctoral fellows and graduate researchers. Brash estimated that as many as a quarter of the labs he knew of had laid off, or failed to renew, a postdoc due to a lack of research funding.

Brash said these layoffs occur when researchers do not receive the federal grants they apply for, a phenomenon that has grown increasingly common over the last 10 years.

These budgetary challenges largely stemmed from the steadily decreasing amount of federal funding for research.

In Yale’s annual budget report, released Wednesday, the University announced that the $355 million in federal government funding from the Department of Health and Human Services was a 3.6 percent drop from last year.

While there have not been direct budget cuts, funding for the program has not kept up with inflation since 2003.

“Who has had to forego hiring a postdoc due to lack of money? That would be everyone,” Brash said. “Laying off postdocs is a smaller number because the lab has to have been able to hire them in the first place.”

When a postdoctoral fellow is laid off or not renewed by a laboratory due to budget constraints, the laboratory’s professor generally tries to find a new post for the fired researcher — at Yale or at other universities. Because postdoctoral positions must be renewed regularly, the most common method of cutting researchers is to simply not renew the contract, Brash explained.

While this courtesy helps, Brash said, it can force the postdoctoral researchers into becoming “nomads.”

“The [principal investigator] makes some calls, the postdoc asks his friends or the postdoc responds to ads in Science or Nature,” Brash said. “The new position may be here or at another institution; and the spouse may or may not be able to move to the same place.”

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Roughly 10 percent of National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation grant applications are approved.

This problem is hard to measure because there is a stigma among professors surrounding the loss of funding, Brash said. Further, since postdoctoral fellows are often placed in alternate posts when their contracts are not renewed, it is not clear how often these cuts occur.

These concerns have been raised by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization during protests on campus over the past two years.

“Some advisors run out of funding and then the students are left in a hard position,” said Shari Yosinski GRD ‘17, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering and GESO supporter.

“Yale can provide money to fund them for their salary, but there’s cases in which that’s not done.”

Yale does not pay FAS science faculty for the full calendar year. Instead, they are paid for the nine-month period during which they teach. In the summer months, these faculty members turn solely to research and their salaries come from grant money. For Rosenbaum, transitioning to a solely teaching position meant taking a roughly 30 percent pay cut.

Faculty positions in the FAS are “hard money” positions, meaning that Yale fully supports faculty salaries during the academic year, Burger said.

This method of funding is different from “soft money” positions at the Medical School, where faculty must pay their salaries and their research through grants, he added.

Securing funding can be more difficult for non-tenured faculty, Rosenbaum said.

In many cases, getting exter-

nal funding is the difference between getting tenure and not, since receiving tenure in the sciences depends largely on regularly publishing research.

“If you are non-tenured in the research sciences, and do not get your grants funded, you can almost kiss your Yale appointment goodbye,” Rosenbaum said.

The struggle for funding in the sciences has consequences on the quality of professors’ teaching, Rosenbaum said. Although Yale praises good teaching when hiring new assistant professors, the greatest demand on science faculty is excellence in research, not teaching, he added. Research is where the money is, he said.

In cases where an FAS faculty member can no longer find funding, Yale usually gives that person an administrative position in their department, Rosenbaum said. He added that more faculty are “dropping out” of research as federal grants become harder to get.

Brash said this “dropping out” extended to the graduate student level as training grants become harder and harder to obtain from the NIH and the NSF. “Wisely, someone realized that if there are no jobs for graduates and little grant money for graduates who do get jobs, then maybe we are training too many grad students,” Brash said.

Yale received $507.1 million of federal government spending in the 2015 fiscal year, or 75.3 percent of Yale’s grant and contract income.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Eidelson, Eze face off in debate DEBATE FROM PAGE 1 Eze disagreed. He said New Haven residents do not have low expectations of Yale students, citing his experiences at Lyric Hall, a theater in Westville, during the Dwight Hall Day of Service. Eze said the owner of Lyric Hall said the Yale students’ work has been integral to his business.

Though Eze warned against Yale students adopting what he called the “savior complex” at the University, he said they should still be involved in New Haven.

Throughout the debate, Eze outlined how he would spark this community engagement among students as alder. Highlighting his involvement with groups such as the Hip-Hop Collective, Eze said he would reach out to groups who might otherwise be uninterested in politics and involve them in the city in other ways. Additionally, he referenced his collaboration with a small group of engineers at Yale who launched a mentorship program for young women

and minorities in New Haven public schools who are interested in STEM. He added that he would encourage Yale students to support city administrators using their research skills.

He said students could crunch data for the Board of Education, investigate causes of unemployment in the city and work with homeless shelters to provide essential services.

Eze said that he is better positioned than Eidelson to encourage students to venture beyond the “Yale bubble.” He criticized Eidelson for what he described as a lack of involvement on campus, arguing that her disengagement contributes to the divide between Yale and New Haven. A key role of the Ward 1 alder, Eze said, is to meet with city officials and nonprofits, identify how Yale students can help the city and coordinate this engagement at Yale.

Eidelson defined the position slightly differently, stating that the role of the Ward 1 alder — like the role of all 30 of the alders — is to build relationships with

city leaders and organizations.

“That’s about more than just having a set of meetings with people,” she said. “That’s about committing to them, about being a partnership in this struggle.”

Eidelson said Yale students have proven instrumental in bringing about change in the city, citing the critical role Yale students played in pushing for high school students to sit on the Board of Education. She added that Yale students can and should “[press] and [hold] the University to a higher standard.”

One of the starkest policyrelated distinctions between the candidates centered on how to address the high unemployment rate among black and Latino residents of New Haven.

Eze responded first, stating the issue should be examined “holistically.” He said that, as alder, he would push for programs that expand employment opportunities. But he said he would also aim to combat structural barriers to employment,

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such as high illiteracy rates and poor public schools. He said he would work with advocacy organizations such as Literacy Every Day and New Haven Reads to improve literacy in the city — a pledge he has maintained throughout his campaign.

In contrast, Eidelson said education might play some role in unemployment, but that the roots of the problem lie elsewhere. Yale and other employers in New Haven, she said, need to “step up” and hire more New Haven residents.

In a direct response to Eze’s comment, she said it is “disrespectful to suggest that New Haven residents can’t get jobs because they can’t read.”

Eze, electing to use one of his two rebuttals after Eidelson’s response, said his comment was based on a recent study commissioned by the Board of Alders, and restated his desire to investigate the city’s structural barriers to employment.

“If we’re not willing to have these conversations that talk about the structural barriers that exist to employment in New Haven, I don’t think it’s just enough to look at Yale’s role,” he said.

Eidelson’s restated her wish to see Yale contribute more to the city several times throughout the debate. In response to a question about how Yale can involve itself more in city improvement, she said the University’s current level of financial contribution to the city is too low and suggested it should increase. Eze struck a similar tone, saying the Board of Alders should look more closely at Yale’s financial impact on the city.

Ward 1 residents can vote in the Nov. 3. general election at the New Haven Free Public Library on Elm Street.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

RONALD REAGAN FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT

Committee outreach ends in Science Park

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The Science Park Outreach Committee will cease its giving after this holiday season.

OUTREACH FROM PAGE 1 School in the Dixwell neighborhood, as well as Christmas gift bags for homeless families from the school, Smart said. Any leftover toys will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House, which provides support to families whose children are being treated at nearby hospitals.

Wexler-Grant has been the primary recipient of the committee’s support over the years.

Along with hosting a holiday party for the schoolchildren each year, the committee has gifted students warm-weather accessories and toys.

Wexler-Grant principal Sabrina Breland said the committee’s services have boosted morale in the school, providing students with a positive outlook during the holiday season.

“We’re going to have to reach out to other agencies that may be able to help support us,” Breland said. “But I don’t think we’re going to be able to replace the generosity and hard work that Science Park did.”

In the past, the committee

has also raised funds to purchase laptops, headphones and other resources for New Haven Reads, a nonprofit aimed at improving community literacy. NH Reads assistant director Fiona Bradford said the committee has been very supportive of the nonprofit’s tutoring program. Additionally, the committee has donated winter clothing, food vouchers and personal hygiene items to over 300 members of New Haven’s homeless population.

Stocky Clark, executive director of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, said the loss of the committee’s support will negatively impact his organization’s work, which depends on the time and money of volunteers.

“It hurts to lose people,” Clark said.

Science Park sits on 80 acres of land to the north of central campus and was established in 1982.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

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Paid internships on the rise, survey shows Yale students pursued fewer unpaid internships and more paid internships in summer 2015, continuing an increase that has been ongoing since OCS started tracking the data in 2013.

According to the Summer 2015 Activities Report — which is based on a survey administered to all returning undergraduates by the Office of Career Strategy from August to October — 28.8 percent of respondents participated in a paid internship last summer, representing a stable increase from 24.9 percent in 2013 and 27.4 percent in 2014. The survey — which was completed by 2,321 students — also tracked notable increases in the number of students employed in functions related to law, education, engineering and finance, as well as decreases in functions like writing and editing as well as administrative and support services. Functions refer to the actual work being performed in a job as opposed to the industry in which it takes place.

Jeanine Dames, director of OCS and associate dean of Yale College, suggested the increases could be due to a stronger economy creating more paid internship opportunities, in addition to students taking full advantage of career planning resources at Yale.

“I think the economy has definitely improved in the last couple of years,” Dames said.

“I also think students have become very good at their job search. I hope that’s a credit to how we’re doing in this office.”

Dames added that student engagement with the OCS —

as measured by the number of student appointments made this semester — is the highest the office has ever seen.

But the increase in paid internships is not distributed evenly among classes — rather, the change is largely concentrated among returning seniors. Since 2013, that figure has risen 10.4 percent to 45.3 percent, while there has been a slight increase of 3.9 percent for juniors and a decrease of 0.4 percent for sophomores.

Travis Gonzalez ’16 suggested that the marked increase among seniors may be due to employers wanting to hire older students for paid internships.

I think the economy has definitely improved in the last couple of years.

JEANINE DAMES Director of OCS “People are more willing to give money to older students because they’re more invested in what they’re doing as opposed to underclassmen who are still experimenting,” he said.

Students also noted that the availability of a paid internship depends greatly on the industry. Sam Kim ’18 said the increase in students pursuing internships in finance may be because it is one of the only sectors that can afford to pay college interns. By contrast, Gonzalez said that in film — the field he is pursuing — paid internships opportunities are relatively rare.

However, Kim added that it was unclear from the survey data whether the change is

occurring because of students or employers. For example, students may be applying for more paid internships, but it is also possible that employers are offering more paid positions. Gonzalez also said that ongoing lawsuits over unpaid internships may have contributed to the decreasing trend.

Still, Jacob Bennett ’16 said he believes the jump in paid internships has to do with a disproportionately large interest in finance on campus. If the importance of finance and banking for students rises, he said, the survey results will show an increase in paid internships. And indeed, the number of students employed in functions related to finance increased from 6.5 percent to 11.2 percent since last summer, according to the 2015 report.

In writing and editing, Dames posited that there may have been fewer opportunities for students since the field is in a transitional state caused by the advent of alternative forms of media. The number of students participating in roles related to writing and editing decreased by almost half since 2013, according to the survey data.

One element that has remained consistent since the survey was introduced in 2013 is language study: around 20 percent of returning sophomores participated in language study programs from 2013 to 2015. In those programs, sophomores exceed the number of juniors and seniors combined.

Research was by far the most common employment role for students in 2015, encompassing 17.6 percent of all respondents.

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Roughly two weeks ago, Arvinas — one of the city’s most successful biotech companies — grew its New Haven office by 5,000 square feet, aided by city officials who feared the company would otherwise relocate.

Arvinas CFO Sean Cassidy said the company started to consider leaving New Haven during the summer, after directors struggled to find sufficient lab space in the city to accommodate their growing business needs. The city’s economic development offices caught wind of these discussions, Cassidy said, and quickly directed Arvinas to potential lab spaces. Cassidy said the city helped Arvinas secure additional space in Science Park after around three months of negotiations. Matthew Nemerson, the economic development administrator, said New Haven worked to prevent Arvinas from relocating because of the prominent role the biotech industry plays in the city’s job-expansion strategy. He said high-tech employers improve economies because their employees spend disposable income at local businesses.

“High-tech companies are laid out with people who eat out a lot, don’t do their own laundry and don’t clean out their own apartments … younger people who … have a lot of money to spend and spend it on personal services,” Nemerson said.

Nemerson said a 2013 study by economist Enrico Moretti found that cities with a large high-tech industry also have larger job markets. Moretti argued this corre-

lation is caused by tech company employees spending large proportions of their salaries on local businesses such as housekeeping, therapy and personal grooming.

According to Moretti’s estimates, Nemerson said, each high-tech job could bring five new jobs to a city.

Arvinas currently has 29 employees, Cassidy said, adding that this number could grow to around 40 within the next four years. According to Moretti’s estimates, Arvinas could bring around 200 additional jobs to the city if it grew to this size.

There has been a boom in restaurants and food carts.

People are just buying stuff.

MATTHEW NEMERSON Economic Development Administrator New Haven has seen its restaurant scene explode over the past few years, partially because of the growth of high-tech companies, Nemerson said.

“There has been a boom in restaurants and food carts,” he said.

“People are just buying stuff.”

Vinny’s Food Store owner Vincent Yik said he has seen the area around his shop — located just a block away from Arvinas — become the home to a handful of new restaurants. He added that he has also noticed that more professionals have moved to the area.

New Haven’s job market’s continued growth will depend on the

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city’s biotech growth, Nemerson said.

Still, New Haven has seen mixed results in attracting biotechs. In his 2013 book, Moretti cited New Haven as an example of a city that had not become a world-class biotech hub, even though it plays host to a prestigious university.

He explained that this is partially because talented graduates are not choosing to stay in the city.

New Haven, Cassidy said, must do more to attract more biotech firms.

In particular, the city should have more buildings that can easily be converted to house labs, Cassidy said, adding that such spaces are common in cities that are biotech hubs.

Despite its shortcomings, New Haven has several strengths that could attract biotech companies, Cassidy said. Arvinas stayed in New Haven to remain near Yale’s research resources and faculty, including Arvinas founder and Yale faculty member Craig Crews, Cassidy said.

Cassidy added that the Elm City has become a more desirable place for Arvinas employees to live over the last few years. Workers can easily find affordable, comfortable living for themselves in the city, Cassidy said. He added leisure options have also grown over the last few years, especially downtown.

Alexion, another biotech founded in New Haven, will be relocating to 100 College St. from Cheshire, Connecticut in January 2016.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.” BILL CLINTON FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT

Budget surplus hits $194 million BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the nonprofit consulting firm Commonfund Institute, explained that Yale must have calculated the amount of money today that will be worth $250 million at the time of John-

son’s anticipated death and assessed it at $100 million, taking into consideration factors like interest rates. If Yale’s calculations are off, any difference between the $100 million figure and the actual value of the bequeathal will be recorded in future years, Conroy said.

“It’s not actually revenue [for the operating budget],” Polak said of Johnson’s gift, the largest single donation in Yale’s history. “We don’t have this money to spend.”

According to the generally accepted principles of accounting (GAAP), an institution like

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aid — make Yale’s surplus this year appear larger than it is for immediate spending purposes, also known as the “management view,” Murphy said.

While the figure given by the management view is the one administrators consider when allocating resources from year to year, only the GAAP view is audited annually by independent financial firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers, which assessed the University’s economic standing.

“The GAAP view is giving us a totally unrealistic view,” Polak said.

Still, the management view of the budget’s surplus does show an increase of $4.2 million from last year. Murphy said this year’s practical surplus of $17 million is actually slightly lower than it should be due in part to the ongoing renovations of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which were paid for through the endowment income and are artificially depressing the budget’s surplus, Murphy said.

Polak noted that while on paper Yale’s central campus — which includes Yale College and the graduate and professional schools — is running a small deficit, if the budget did not include the Beinecke renovations, central campus would have a surplus.

Polak attributed the overall surplus to two factors: the current strength of the endowment, which is at an all-time high of $25.6 billion, and a University-wide effort to control costs

by limiting the growth of the administrative staff. By keeping Yale’s costs down, Polak said the University frees up money for projects like new programs for undergraduates, new equipment and larger financial aid.

Revenue from Yale’s medical services represented 23.3 percent of the University’s operating revenue. Federal grants, like those for scientific or medical research, did not increase. Looking at Yale’s budget from either the management or the GAAP angle, Polak said there is cause for optimism.

“The news is good relative to where we’ve come from,” Polak said. “During the recession it looked pretty grim. That’s not true any more.”

Yale’s finances have recovered to pre-recession levels, but this is not true for all schools in the United States, Jarvis said, adding that schools with smaller endowments are less dependent on their endowments to fund their operating budgets. It is only in the last year that the endowments of schools across the country have begun to return to pre-recession levels.

According to the budget report, Yale’s net revenue from tuition, room and board increased by 9.5 percent. By far the largest budgetary cost last year was the salaries and benefits for Yale employees, taking up $2 billion of the University’s $3.2 billion in expenses.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Coalition App release delayed four months COALITION FROM PAGE 1 to perfect the tool and educate those who work with students about it in as effective a way as possible.”

Since its announcement one month ago, the Coalition Application has prompted significant dialogue among college counselors and those working in higher education, with many expressing concerns over the lack of available details regarding the platform.

On Sunday, the New York Times published letters from the Jesuit High School College Counselors Association and the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools in which members outlined criticisms of the initiative. Specifically, the letter mentioned that the pressure to start putting together an application in the ninth grade would create excessive anxiety for students during a time when they should be focused on developing their own interests. Furthermore, the letter questioned how the application will help students who attend schools without guidance counselors or with inadequate college counseling resources.

“We are just hoping that [the letter] doesn’t fall on deaf ears and that our concerns are heard,” Erik Michels, head of

college counseling at Bellarmine Preparatory School in Tacoma, Washington and a co-signee of the JHSCCA letter, told the News. “As counselors we’re trying to advocate for our students by addressing these concerns.”

Michels added that with changes to the SAT as well as federal financial aid applications — which will use twoyears prior tax information as opposed to one — impacting future admissions cycles, the implementation of the Coalition Application will create difficulties for students navigating the new system.

On Monday, the Coalition responded to the JHSCCA letter affirming its commitment to addressing feedback from counselors but also acknowledging that many aspects of the Coalition Application are still in the works.

“We understand counselors’ desire for more information, but we hope that ‘the answer depends on the institution’ and ‘this is in development’ are acceptable responses while we continue to work on these tools,” the letter stated. “The intention behind our initial announcement was to communicate news about the Coalition early in development so we could use the time between September and January for gathering feed-

back from other constituents … before using the time between January and July to conduct tests with intrepid students who were in the live platform.”

Still, many others are optimistic about the Coalition Application. Sara Urquidez, executive director of the Academic Success Program — a college-access program that serves Dallas-Fort Worth high schools — said that in order for students to have a successful college search, students need to become aware of affordable options before their senior years.

Urquidez said that many outstanding students stand the risk of being “undermatched” for schools because they think more selective schools are not available to them or do not know they exist. The Coalition Application is intended to provide access for these students by making them aware of affordable college options early on.

“It shouldn’t be acceptable to us as educators that that kind of lack of knowledge exists in our public school,” she said. “We should all be doing what we can do close that gap, and the coalition is just one solution to that.

It’s not the only solution, it’s just another resource for kids to access.”

Urquidez added that critics of the initiative may not

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The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success announced a Common Application alternative on Sept. 28. understand the challenges that under-resourced schools face, specifying that the Coalition Application would provide tools to students that are already available at wealthier high schools in the form of pro-

grams like Naviance, a college and career readiness software provider.

In the coming weeks, the Coalition will be hiring staff to manage operations, as well as expanding access to the plat-

form to member institutions, Quinlan said.

All eight Ivy League universities are part of the Coalition.

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“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

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Connecticut leads in energy efficiency SCORES CONNECTICUT IN COMPARISON TO OTHER STATES

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Utility and public benefits programs and policies 15/20

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Transportation policies 6/10

40 Building energy codes 5/7

Combined heat and power policies 3/4

State government-led initiatives 5.5/7

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BY ELLEN KAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Connecticut is the sixth most energy-efficient state in the nation, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2015 ranking.

Released last week, the ACEEE’s annual State EnergyEfficiency scorecard evaluated and ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their commitment to pursuing energy-efficient programs and policies. The team of seven ACEEE analysts assessed states according to their performance in six categories: utility and public benefits programs and policies, transportation pol-

icies, building energy codes and compliance, combined heat and power policies, state government-led initiatives and appliance efficiency standards. Connecticut ranked in the top 10 for each category. Massachusetts, California and Vermont topped the list. Connecticut trailed just one point behind Rhode Island and Oregon, which tied for fourth place.

According to Seth Nowak, a senior analyst at ACEEE and a co-author of the survey, an all cost-effective energy efficiency mandate played a large role in securing Connecticut’s high ranking. The mandate requires the state to prioritize energy efficiency when meeting resource

needs, and allows Connecticut to save significantly more money in electric utilities than states with more traditional policies.

As of April 2014, seven states had adopted similar mandates.

Six of the seven states that operate under these mandates ranked in the top 10 of the ACEEE scorecard.

“It makes a huge difference. A policy that maximizes all costeffective energy efficiency really drives the utility and government regulators and companies to implement the program,” Nowak said. “They know that it’s going to be the top priority, so it really cuts across lots of complexities.”

The all cost-effective energy

efficiency mandate is one of several programs and policies that the state adopted in 2013 as part of Connecticut’s first-ever comprehensive energy strategy, according to Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Director of Communications Dennis Schain.

Connecticut’s Green Bank sets it apart from many states and contributed to its high ranking, according to the ACEEE scorecard. The Green Bank is an initiative that replaced the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund in 2011 as part of Gov. Dan Malloy’s commitment to addressing energy issues. Professor of environmental law and policy Daniel Esty said he believes that

Connecticut’s energy efficiency ranking would be even higher if the ACEEE scorecard calculations fully took into account Connecticut Green Bank activity.

“The metrics they use don’t fully account for the way the Connecticut Green Bank creatively uses limited public money to leverage private capital for scaled-up clean energy projects,” Esty said. “It’s still a very good result, and if metrics fully tracked the work that Connecticut is doing, [the state] would be in one of the top couple of positions.”

Although Connecticut achieved a high ranking this year, DEEP still seeks to improve the

state’s energy efficiency, Schain said. In the next year, the organization plans to focus on making the benefits of energy efficiency available to residents across the economic spectrum, he said. Schain said DEEP aims to involve more private investments, rather than tax dollars, in energy efficiency projects. That way, organizations that require state money to improve their energy performance can do so without concerns about insufficient funds, he added.

Connecticut has ranked in the top six on the ACEEE scorecard for the past four years.

Contact ELLEN KAN at ellen.kan@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“If you don’t like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?” MAYNARD JACKSON AMERICAN POLITICIAN

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

Months in, some students still skeptical of admissions lawsuit

BY DAPHNE C. THOMPSON

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The acceptance letters are sealed by members of the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid.

As the plaintiffs of a lawsuit against Harvard continue to allege that its admissions policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants, some students have questioned the college’s transparency on the issue, but a group of Asian and Asian-American student leaders on campus are still not convinced of the plaintiffs’ claims.

The lawsuit, filed last November by anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions, accuses Harvard of enacting illegal quotas to limit the number of Asian-American students admitted to the college. Edward Blum, the man organizing the lawsuit, previously advocated against race-based affirmative action in the high-profile 2013 case Fisher v.

University of Texas at Austin — now slated for a return to the U.S. Supreme Court this December.

The allegations have attracted a lot of attention from outside media outlets, and Harvard administrators have said that the lawsuit represents a threat to values of diversity they hold dear.

Several Asian-American student leaders at Harvard, though, are skeptical of the plaintiffs’ logic. According to Alex Pong, a Chinese-American student who is a president of Harvard’s Asian American Association, the lawsuit represents another attack on affirmative action by Blum, “just using a different lens this time.” Blum declined to comment for this story.

“It’s very clear that this lawsuit has an agenda that’s not actually about helping Asian Americans and Asians,” Pong said.

Phebe Hong, an Undergraduate Council representative who is Chinese American, agreed with Pong and argued that the fact that the lawsuit did not originate from within the Asian-American community is troubling.

“The truth is, this lawsuit was nei-

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

Trustees hear divestment arguments

BY SOFIA HU “If shared governance is to have any real meaning, you must respect this unique, united decision and consider this matter seriously,” said David Shalloway, professor of molecular biology and genetics, as he urged the board of trustees to divest the university’s endowment from fossil fuels.

Shalloway’s presentation at Friday’s board of trustees open session meeting marks the latest step in an effort towards divestment, a movement that began when the Student Assembly passed a resolution in February 2013 calling for Cornell to divest from the fossil fuels industry. Since then, all four other shared governance bodies have passed similar resolutions, and a letter in support of divestment addressed to President Elizabeth Garrett and the trustees has garnered over 1,200 signatures in 10 days.

“This unanimity is unprecedented in Cornell’s history,” Shalloway said.

Shalloway was followed by trustee Donald Opatrny, chair of the Investment Committee, who presented several points against divestment, and by a discussion where other trustees voiced mainly anti-divestment opinions.

The passed resolutions call for divestment over a 20-year period from the 100 coal and 100 oil and gas companies holding the largest fossil fuel reserves. These companies’ shares currently make up 0.5 percent of the endowment, according to Shalloway.

While the Office of University Investment previously claimed that Cornell would lose over $100 million over the past 10 years had it divested, Shalloway said this statistic was not based on data from the past decade, but rather from market fluctuations between 2004

and 2013. “ I t ’ s likely that divestment will earn, not lose, us money,” S h a l l oway CORNELL said. “The same analysis, but for the real past 10 years, ending in 2015, shows that divesting would earn $47 million.”

Additionally, Shalloway highlighted the harm climate change will have in the future and Cornell’s role in combating it.

“Hurricane Sandy gave us a $65 billion taste of what climate inaction means,” Shalloway said.

“We’re actually raising the level of Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island and siting its buildings’ entrances on high ground, because 500 year floods are now 25 year floods in New York City. Our planet is its hottest in millennia, and we’re on track to exceed the safe maximum temperature by the time Cornell freshmen reach middle age.”

Shalloway urged the board of trustees to make Cornell the first Ivy League university to divest from fossil fuels.

“Indeed, it will require courage for Cornell to be the first to stand out from the pack,” Shalloway said. “But living up to our progressive tradition will bring rewards beyond fulfilling our duty.”

Shalloway’s arguments for divestment from an ethical and financial standpoint were followed by a presentation from Opatrny, chair of the board of trustees’ Investment Committee, which voted unanimously to recommend opposing any divestment action.

One of the greatest concerns relating to divestment is that it may make it more difficult to find quality third-party managers to

run Cornell’s endowment portfolios. This could result in “significant underperformance as a consequence,” Opatrny said.

Additionally, the decision to politicize the endowment investment by letting environmental concerns overtake financial analyses may set a dangerous precedent, according to Opatrny.

“Should we decide there’s a marginal cost for taking this type of action, what’s the next step?”

Opatrny said. “Other debates that exist are water, Palestine, Israel, Russia, food genetics; you choose.

Where are we going to make that type of determination? I think it’s a fairly slippery slope.”

As Opatrny’s presentation concluded, the board of trustees segued into a discussion over the issue. Trustee Barbara Novick said she did not believe divestment is a viable option.

“Energy companies are the largest investors in alternative fuel, so if we divested from them, it’s sort of like cutting off your nose to spite your face,” Novick said.

“They are going to be the future in the alternative side. I think this is interesting and interesting to talk about, but I don’t really think that the goal is going to be achieved by divestment.”

However, the board of trustees should do more than say no to divestment, trustee Bruce Raynor said.

“Clearly, there’s not this sentiment today, here, to consider divestment,” Raynor said. “But, I think we need to listen to the faculty, who are such an important part of Cornell, and the students, who are such an important part of this university, and not say what we won’t do and say what we will do to take leadership on climate change. It’s not divestment. And I don’t think it’s just public relations.”

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ther initiated by Asian Americans, nor is it supported by a majority of Asian Americans,” Hong said.

HARVARD Students for Fair Admissions does purport to represent a number of anonymous Asian-American rejected and prospective applicants and their parents.

The group recruited complainants last year through a site dubbed “Harvard Not Fair.”

Still, said Hong and other students, the plaintiffs cannot claim to speak for all Asian Americans.

“There is no singular ‘Asian-American community’ that is dissatisfied with Harvard admissions,” said Kirin Gupta, an intern at the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations who is Indian American. Gupta argued that factors such as immigration and class differences make the term “Asian American” “a legally negligent characterization of many diverse communities.”

While the plaintiffs’ complaint advocates for race-neutral admissions because “it is lamentable for Harvard to lump all Asian Americans together in the admissions process,” Shaiba Rather, a UC representative who is South Asian, took issue with the plaintiffs’ claim that Harvard considers its applicants as members of broad racial categories, not as individuals.

Jenny Choi, a Crimson columnist who is Korean American, added that the discourse surrounding the lawsuit perpetuates the harmful perception of Asian Americans as “model minorities” — hardworking, compliant and disproportionately successful.

Although several student leaders interviewed were highly critical of the lawsuit, some students have raised concerns about the transparency of Harvard’s admissions practices in light of the ongoing litigation.

In a Crimson op-ed earlier this year, undergraduate leaders of the Asian American Brotherhood—a social and service organization geared toward Asian-American men—addressed the lawsuit, condemning the “use of an unofficial quota in university admissions” but acknowledging that it was still unclear whether Harvard in fact employs one.

“We don’t know exactly what is going on behind the closed doors of admissions offices,” the students wrote, calling on universities like Harvard to promote “greater transparency within their admissions process and releasing the ethnographic statistics of their applicant pool.”

“We wish that Harvard were large enough to accommodate all who wish to study here,” they wrote. “Given that it isn’t, we should work to ensure that the available spots are accorded to those who most deserve them.”

Pong, for his part, also said he would not approve of the use of quotas, although he emphasized that he does not know if Harvard uses them.

“It’s really hard to judge what is going on here, but if there is a quota in place, it would really be problematic,” Pong said.

Still, on the whole, several student leaders seem to align with Harvard’s defense. Choi, Gupta and other students criticized the plaintiffs’ argument that affirmative action policies have a “stigmatizing effect on the supposed beneficiaries of these policies” — namely, black and Latino applicants — who suffer from being “academically mismatched” to elite schools.

Much like Harvard officials have defended their affirmative action policies on the grounds that they are critical for diversity, Gupta and others defended the college’s use of affirmative action as necessary to creating a diverse campus and righting what Gupta called Harvard’s “legacies of deep complicity in systemic racial oppression.”

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SPORTS

“I apologize for all the accolades we received as a team and individually. I’m very, truly sorry, and we’ll rectify that situation this year.” STEPHEN CURRY GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS GUARD

Yale hits the road for two contests

BY DREW SEMLER STAFF REPORTER With three games remaining on their schedule and senior day on the horizon, the Yale field hockey team has an opportunity to end a tough season on a positive note.

FIELD HOCKEY The Elis (2–12, 0–5 Ivy) play their final two-game weekend, as they visit Columbia (8–6, 2–3), who is tied for fourth in the Ivy League, on Saturday and Lafayette (7–9, 2–3 Patriot) on Sunday.

“It would mean a lot to us to finish the year strong [for seniors, back Noelle Villa ’16 and midfielder Nicole Wells ’16],” defender Kiwi Comizio ’18 said. “The season hasn’t gone the way they wanted it to go. We want to give them some nice memories and win these last three games.”

Villa and Wells, this year and last year’s captains respectively, are the only two seniors on a very young Yale roster in the midst of a ten-game losing streak. The Bulldogs battled in two close contests a weekend ago, falling short in a comeback attempt against Penn

before squandering a 1–0 lead to Bucknell.

“Obviously both games were pretty disappointing,” Comizio said. “But we want to go out on a high note because we’ve worked so hard for it — even though the results don’t show it.”

Almost exactly one year ago, Columbia visited New Haven and routed the Bulldogs, notching a 4–0 victory en route to a 5–2 Ivy season to finish second in the Ancient Eight.

Wells, who has seen the Lions three times now, was impressed with last year’s Lions squad.

“Columbia was a very strong team last year — definitely the strongest that I’ve seen them so far,” Wells said. “Playing them was a struggle because they had a very well-organized style.”

While Columbia boasts impressive wins over Penn and Michigan State, this year’s campaign has been a rocky one for the Lions.

They have alternated wins and losses on their way to a 2–3 mark in conference play and are eliminated from title contention with two conference games remaining.

Meanwhile, Yale feels better prepared to potentially take

Predictions as NBA tips off COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 can’t stay healthy, Joakim Noah might not actually be good and this team still can’t figure out how to rotate its players. Compound all of that with the fact that Fred Hoiberg has exactly zero NBA coaching experience, and you’ve got a recipe for disappointment. The Bulls will make the playoffs, based largely on the play of Jimmy Butler and Pau Gasol, but they’re not a threat to make any serious noise in the postseason.

Atlanta Hawks — Mike Budenholzer isn’t Gregg Popovich, and the Hawks aren’t the Spurs. While their Spurs-esque offense might have worked last year, Washington and Cleveland exposed the Hawks in the playoffs.

This rotation simply isn’t that talented and teams have figured out the Hawks’ passhappy offense. Two of its best players last season, DeMarre Carroll and Paul Millsap, had career years while gunning for big contracts and Kyle Korver is basically an NBA geriatric at age 34 — the Hawks aren’t a contender.

In the dumps: New York Knicks — Honestly it was hard to pick just one New York team for this section, given how embarrassingly awful the Nets are going to be. But, Phil Jackson’s train wreck is still the bigger eyesore. Get ready for 82 games of Kristaps Porzingis getting mauled in the lowpost while Carmelo Anthony jacks up 35 shots a night.

Excited yet, New York fans?

THE WEST

Teams that can make the NBA Finals: San Antonio Spurs — Congratulations to the Spurs on the 2015–16 NBA championship! Seriously, the starting lineup looks menacing enough with Tony Parker, Danny Green, Kawhi Leonard, Tim Duncan and LaMarcus Aldrige all sharing the floor, but factor in David West and Manu Ginobli off the bench and this roster is downright terrifying. Gregg Popovich is one of the three best coaches ever and the Spurs look incredible. The only way this team misses out on the Finals is if Tim Duncan’s pact with the Devil ends and Father Time finally catches up to him.

Los Angeles Clippers — Will this be the year Chris Paul and company finally make it out of the second round? Given the Clippers’ excellent summer signings, Los Angeles’ second team can compete for its first title this season. I love LA’s added

bench depth, I love watching Blake Griffin crush dreams in the low-post and I really love playoff Paul Pierce. The biggest questions the Clips will face this season is whether Chris Paul can continue to produce MVP-caliber numbers and whether the Lance Stephenson signing will pan out.

Oklahoma City Thunder — A lot of basketball pundits forgot about the Thunder last year after Kevin Durant’s injury troubles. Despite missing one of the three best players in the NBA, the Thunder still came within one game of making the playoffs in the murderous West. With its big three back intact, the Thunder could very well win 65 games this season and take the conference by storm. And although losing a head coach is rarely viewed as a positive, the firing of Scott Brooks only makes the Thunder look better on paper.

Playoff locks, but championship long shots: Golden State Warriors — This is disrespectful, I know. These guys are the champs, but frankly, the Warriors didn’t get any better this offseason. Golden State may have the reigning MVP and it may have one of the most disruptive defenders in the league, but the Warriors caught just about every lucky break possible en route to the 2015 title. Any team with Steph Curry is competitive, but the Warriors won’t repeat.

Houston Rockets — Even though Ty Lawson’s addition solves the point guard problem on paper, the Rockets don’t really have a legitimate shot at the title. Dwight Howard has always been, and will continue to be, too soft in the playoffs. Furthermore, James Harden doesn’t really have anyone to ease the crunchtime scoring burden. Trevor Ariza and Corey Brewer aren’t going to cut it.

In the dumps: Los Angeles Lakers — What happened? We’re five years removed from the Lakers being title contenders and this team looks like a GM’s worst nightmare. Kobe is approximately one million years old and still one of the highest-paid players in the league, Nick Young is being relied upon as a crunch-time shooter, and Julius Randle’s 2014–15 season ended in less than 20 minutes. Simply put, it can’t get any worse, even if Roy Hibbert’s offensive play makes it look that way.

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advantage of the slightly down Lions, with its seniors as well as several of Yale’s productive sophomores, such as Comizio and leading scorer forward/midfielder Carol Middough ’18, leading the charge. “[Columbia seems] a bit weaker this year,” Wells said. “I think the game this weekend will be more of an equal battle between us two than it was before.”

About six weeks removed from their last win — a Sept. 18 victory over Bryant — the Elis have recently made some offensive improvements. After being shut out for four consecutive contests, the Bulldogs have scored five goals in their last three games.

“We definitely had opportunities to score and capitalize on our chances [last weekend],” Wells said. “We still expect to win and want to maintain that determination for a full 70 minutes.”

Yale will head out of the conference Sunday to take on Lafayette.

The Leopards are currently trying to claw themselves out of a threegame losing skid, and have lost eight of their past 10 games.

Unlike Columbia, Lafayette is a relative unknown for the Bulldogs.

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The Elis travel west to play Ivy foe Columbia and then south from there to face Lafayette.

No one on Yale’s current roster has faced the Leopards during their time as an Eli. “We have never played Lafayette in my time as a player,” Wells said. “So we will be walking in with no previous experiences against them, which can work in our favor.”

Yale has lost each of its match-

ups versus Patriot League opponents this year, while Lafayette has only had one Ivy experience this season, a 5–0 defeat at the hands of Penn.

Despite the unknowns, Middough said the strategy heading into this matchup is fairly simple.

“Our game plan going into these games is to just win honestly,”

Middough said. “Everyone wants to give it their all, especially as the season is winding down. We want to end on a high note.”

A week from Saturday, Yale will play the Brown Bears on senior day.

Contact DREW SEMLER at andrew.semler@yale.edu .

Championships on Elis’ minds MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 than we did last year. It starts with building chemistry early on this year.”

Defensively, the Elis will look to build off last year’s stellar performance, which saw them rank first in all of Division I with just 1.64 goals allowed per game. A significant part of that effort was superstar goalkeeper Alex Lyon ’17, who led the nation with both his 1.62 goals against average and his 0.939 save percentage.

Lyon, a starter since his freshman season, was named to the AllAmerican First Team but missed out on the Mike Richter Award, given to the most outstanding goaltender in the NCAA. The netminder eschewed NHL interest for one more year to return for his junior season and should continue to tighten his rapport with the Elis’ returning defenders to form one of the nation’s most stalwart back lines.

“Having the best goalie in the country definitely helps your team morale,” Izmirlian said. “You know you can take a couple more chances here or there just because you know he’s back there to back you up.”

In front of Lyon, the Bulldogs will once again rely on defender Rob O’Gara ’16, who was rewarded for his 21-point season with a firstteam All-American selection.

O’Gara, a top prospect drafted by

the Boston Bruins, will serve as a veteran role model alongside captain and defender Mitch Witek ’16 and blueliner Ryan Obuchowski ’16.

Beyond those three seniors, though, the Bulldogs return rising star Nate Repensky ’18 — who was Yale’s second-highest scoring defender behind O’Gara — as well as adding two freshmen on the blue line in Charlie Curti ’19 and Anthony Walsh ’19. For Curti and Walsh, this season provides a unique opportunity to learn and train from the defense’s experienced foundation before taking on a larger role in the team’s future.

“You watch the seniors, they set a good example,” Curti said.

“They set a precedent through the preseason of how hard we have to work at this level. Obviously we’re going to fight for spots in the lineup every night and try to bring it on the ice.”

Those newcomers make up the last Eli class to skate alongside members of the 2013 Yale squad that won a national title.

This season also provides the team’s seniors a chance to end their careers the way they started and to cement their tenure as the greatest four-year stretch in program history.

For everyone else on the team, on the other hand, being led by a group of veterans who reached the sport’s pinnacle as freshmen provides inspiration as they begin the

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Defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 will anchor an experienced Yale defense that ranked first in the NCAA in scoring defense last year. campaign in pursuit of the same goal.

“The stories and just what it takes to get to that level, you dream of stuff like that,” forward Andrew Gaus ’19 said. “Everyone in the locker room would be lying if they said they don’t wake up every morning hoping to put on a ring like the seniors do.”

With an explosive offense,

strong veteran defense and budding star in net, the Bulldogs have a good shot at fulfilling those dreams.

Yale opens its season on Friday at 7:30 p.m. against Princeton before facing either Massachusetts or Maine on Saturday.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

High hopes for 2015–16 W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 Murray said. “In order to carry [that success] over into this year, we have to be on the same page and make sure [that] especially the returning players are setting good examples day in and day out.”

Yale, who opened its season on Saturday afternoon with a 6–3 loss to then-No. 8 Quinnipiac, retains 19 players from last year’s roster, including the top five point-earners in captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16, forwards Jamie Haddad ’16, Phoebe Staenz ’17 and Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 and defender Taylor Marchin ’17.

Haddad and Yip-Chuck led the team in goals last season with 11 apiece, while Ferrara assisted on 19 goals to pace the Elis’ attack.

“The strong number of returning offensive forwards is important for this year’s team’s success,” Murray said. “It reestablishes depth in our roster for this year and gives the freshmen a positive model to go off of.

Because we are so offensive, however, we still have to make sure we learn to play both sides of the puck.”

While the majority of Yale’s defenders are underclassmen, the Bulldogs still boast a veteran presence thanks to Marchin and defender Kate Martini ’16, who

has appeared in 92 consecutive games for the Bulldogs and ended last season with a plus-13 rating.

Perhaps the biggest loss for the team is the absence of Jaimie Leonoff ’15 in the Eli goal.

Leonoff, who over four years played in 99 games and made 3107 saves for the Bulldogs, now plays in the newly established NWHL as a member of the Connecticut Whale.

Hanna Mandl ’17 will be the starting goalkeeper in charge of defending the Yale net in the 2015–16 season. She has appeared in 11 games for the Elis with six of those being starts during her first two years. In Mandl’s limited action, her goals-against average was 2.06 last season, slightly lower than Leonoff, who allowed 2.41 goals per game on average in 29 games.

As Mandl takes over responsibilities between the pipes with relatively little experience, five newcomers will also join Yale’s roster. The Bulldogs’ freshman class consists of two forwards, two defenders and a goalie.

“The freshmen we have added to our roster are all hard-working both on and off the ice,” Mandl said. “They all have the speed that our team prides ourselves on, which is crucial for their integration into our program. They also have all bought into our program

and are really positive individuals.

Everyone is really excited to have all our new members aboard.”

While the majority of the roster has been left intact, there has been some turnover in the coaching staff. Rob Morgan, formerly the head coach at St. Norbert’s in Wisconsin, will take over as Flygh’s associate head coach. Mandl said Morgan has already contributed to the team by implementing new coaching tactics and providing some fresh encouragement.

In the ECAC Coaches’ Preseason Poll, Yale was ranked eighth out of the 12 conference members, though there is significant separation between the Elis and the ninth team in the rankings, Colgate. Leading the field are a pair of reigning ECAC cochampions — Harvard, thanks to a league-leading eight firstplace votes, was tabbed the preseason favorite followed closely

by Clarkson.

The Bulldogs will face a tough schedule that includes 11 games against teams currently ranked in the top 10 in the nation. Two of those contests, taking place Nov. 20 and 21, will be against national powerhouse Minnesota, currently situated at the top of the rankings.

The Golden Gophers have won three of the past four national championships, with Clarkson being the lone exception in 2014.

Despite the difficult road ahead that includes the past two national champions and a conference loaded with talent, the team believes it can leave its mark on the ECAC. “Over the last few years the team has improved immensely and I think this year we can do even better than last year,” defender Mallory Souliotis ’18 said. “As a team, we want to make the ECAC playoffs and go from there.”

But as the season-opening loss to the local Bobcats demonstrated, the Bulldogs cannot afford to take a step back if they hope to be a serious contender.

Murray said that while the team is definitely headed in the right direction, there is still much room for improvement.

“The belief [in ourselves] is already there,” Murray said. “We just need to come together as team and get down to business.

Each class needs to make a conscious decision to get out of their comfort zones and make it easier for the next class to feel welcome.

There should be no barriers.”

The Bulldogs will take on Princeton in their first ECAC contest of the season on Friday night at Ingalls Rink.

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

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SPORTS

“Hockey is a very, very, very, very difficult game to play. You are probably terrible at it.” JOHN BUCCIGROSS COLLEGE HOCKEY WRITER AND COMMENTATOR

MEN’S HOCKEY

HARVARD Coaches’ Poll: 1st Media Poll: 3rd 2014–15 Record: 21–13–3 (11–8–3 ECAC)

Coming off its first ECAC Hockey Tournament title and NCAA Tournament bid since 2006, the No. 11 Crimson enters this season with heightened expectations after seeing its 2014–15 title run, like that of every other ECAC team, cut short in the first round. Forward Jimmy Vesey, who led the NCAA with 32 goals last year and turned down an NHL offer to return to Cambridge, is the clear standout on Harvard’s roster. The Crimson, whose only two wins against Yale in the past three years came in last year’s ECAC Tournament, look to continue that momentum against the Bulldogs on Nov. 6.

ST. LAWRENCE

Coaches’ Poll: 2nd Media Poll: 4th 2014–15 Record: 20–14–3 (14–7–1 ECAC)

QUINNIPIAC Coaches’ Poll: 4th Media Poll: 2nd 2014-15 Record: 23–12–4 (16–3–3 ECAC)

Two years after falling to Yale 4–0 in the NCAA Tournament final, the No. 9 Bobcats could not clear the first round of last year’s tournament, despite a first-place finish in the ECAC Hockey standings during the regular season. Though Quinnipiac was predicted to drop from first place in the preseason polls, it has raced to a 6–0–0 start thus far in 2015–16, with two wins against then-No. 9 St. Cloud State standing out in that perfect start. Forward Sam Anas, who was seventh in the nation with 23 goals last season, looks to be the key contributor for the Bobcats’ offense.

Coaches’ Poll: 7th Media Poll: 9th 2014–15 Record: 11–14–6 (9–9–4 ECAC)

Coaches’ Poll: 5th Media Poll: 5th 2014–15 Record: 22–12–4 (11–7–4 ECAC)

Coaches’ Poll: 10th Media Poll: 10th 2014–15 Record: 12–26–3 (8–12–2 ECAC)

2014–15 Record: 18–10–5 (12–6–4 ECAC)

At the end of last season, Colgate looked to be a program on the rise with its two top forwards returning as seniors this year. But with Kyle Baun, who scored 14 goals last year, now playing in the AHL for the Rockford IceHogs, the Raiders’ offense, which scored 2.68 goals per game last season, is now more of a question mark. Goaltender Charli Finn returns to lead a defense that last year ranked sixth in the nation with 2.16 goals allowed per game. Colgate skated to a victory and tie over Yale last year, making the Raiders a key target for the Bulldogs this season.

Coaches’ Poll: 8th Media Poll: 8th 2014–15 Record: 12–20–5 (8–11–3 ECAC)

No. 19 Clarkson was one of four teams this season to be predicted by both polls to finish in exactly the same spot as it did last season. In the Golden Knights’ case, that meant an eighth place out of 12 in the ECAC Hockey standings and a quick end to their season when they fell to lower-seeded Rensselaer in the first round of the conference tournament.

Led offensively by five of its top six point-earners from last season, Clarkson is currently 5–1–0, with notable wins over New Hampshire and Western Michigan but a 7–1 loss to Merrimack.

Coaches’ Poll: 6th Media Poll: 6th 2014–15 Record: 19–18–2 (8–13–1 ECAC)

Coaches’ Poll: 11th Media Poll: 11th 2014–15 Record: 8–20–3 (5–14–3 ECAC)

Yale boasts an exceedingly veteran lineup heading into this season, giving the team lofty expectations as it hopes for another national title after the first in program history in 2013.

Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, who led the NCAA in both save percentage and goals against average last season, returns to the net behind a stellar lineup of defenders. Defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 leads the blueliners alongside captain and defenseman Mitch Witek ’16. As for the offense, 86 percent of Yale’s goal production in 2014–15 came from players who are returning to the team this season.

Though the Dutchmen were likely disappointed with their regular season performance last season, they proved themselves in the postseason, handily defeating Cornell in the first round of the ECAC Tournament and then taking a game from No. 1-seeded Quinnipiac in the second round. Union had two of the top 10 point-scorers nationally in forwards Daniel Ciampini and Mike Vecchione, but just Vecchione returns of the two in 2015–16, leaving the Dutchmen’s offense a relative unknown as they seek to match their national title performance from two years ago.

DARTMOUTH Coaches’ Poll: 9th Media Poll: 7th 2014–15 Record: 17–12–4 (12–8–2 ECAC)

BROWN

Brown, one of two Ivy League teams at the bottom of both last year’s ECAC Hockey standings and this year’s preseason polls, has not posted a winning record in ECAC Hockey since 2003–04, which was also the last time the Bears won the Ivy League championship. Head coach Brendan Whittet has struggled to put together a successful season in his six-year tenure, and last year, Brown ranked 50th or worse in the NCAA in both scoring offense and defense. The Bears, who play the same opponents as Yale each weekend of the conference season, play Yale on Jan. 15th and Jan. 16th this year.

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RPI will seek to rebuild its offense after losing two of its top three point-scorers, Jacob Laliberte and Matt Neal, to graduation over the offseason. Their offensive unit was already a weak one — ranked 53rd in the nation with just 1.88 goals per game — making goal-scoring a significant hurdle for the Engineers to get over heading into the season. Defensively, RPI was not much better, ranking 49th with 3.20 goals allowed per game. Though two of their top defensemen have graduated, the Engineers return NHL draftees in goaltender Jason Kasdorf and freshman defenseman Mike Prapavessis.

Coaches’ Poll: 3rd Media Poll: 1st

COLGATE

CORNELL

The 2014–15 season was the worst for Cornell in the 20 years that Mike Schafer has served at the helm of the program, making this season key for Schafer’s Big Red as it looks for a turnaround season. Cornell managed a middling seventh place ranking in the conference during the regular season, and it threw away its chance at an NCAA Tournament bid with 4–2 and 7–0 losses to Union in the ECAC Tournament. All three of last year’s goal scorers return, including forward Christian Hilbrich, who scored the game-winning goal against Yale in the Elis’ 3–2 loss to the Big Red last November.

As was the case with Yale, the defining characteristic of St. Lawrence last year was its stingy defense, which was fourth in Division I hockey with 2.03 goals allowed per game. That will likely remain the case this season, as the Saints have graduated defenseman Chris Martin but return every other member of the defensive unit, as well as sophomore goaltender Kyle Hayton, Defenseman Gavin Bayreuther was named to the Preseason All-ECAC Hockey team along with Yale’s Rob O’Gara ’16.

Dartmouth, which finished its season ranked fourth in the ECAC Hockey standings but failed to secure a big to the NCAA Tournament, enters this season as an underdog with two preseason rankings in the bottom half of the conference. The Big Green earned seventh and ninth-place rankings despite experience throughout its roster, with 10 seniors stepping onto the ice this season. Much of Dartmouth’s predicted drop in performance can be attributed to a significant challenge for its offense: the team’s seniors last year combined for 57.1 percent of Big Green goals.

PRINCETON Coaches’ Poll: 12th Media Poll: 12th 2014–15 Record: 4–23–3 (2–18–2 ECAC)

Cellar dwellers in the conference for the past two seasons, the Tigers were predicted by both coaches and the media to have the same difficulties in 2015–16. Princeton’s struggles extended to both ends of the ice last year, ranking 52nd of 59 Division I squads in team defense and dead last in team offense. The Tigers do return their top three goal scorers from last season, but none of these forwards scored more than four goals — a feat that seven Yale players accomplished.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY HARVARD Coaches’ Poll: 1st 2014–15 Record: 27–6–3 (16–4–2 ECAC)

In a notable upset to start the season last weekend, Harvard fell to Dartmouth and saw its national ranking drop from No. 5 to No. 8. Nevertheless, the defending ECAC champions are favorites to repeat. Harvard, who knocked Yale out of the ECAC tournament last season, returns some of its top players, including Mary Parker. Parker, who registered 39 points last season, leads an offense that was the most prolific in the ECAC last year. In net, veteran Emerance Maschmeyer has begun her last season in a Crimson jersey, just 294 saves away from the most in program history.

CLARKSON Coaches’ Poll: 2nd 2014–15 Record: 24–11–3 (16–4–2 ECAC)

CORNELL Coaches’ Poll: 4th 2014-15 Record: 19–11–3 (14–6–2 ECAC)

Cornell received a rude welcome to the 2015–16 season last weekend, dropping a pair of contests to No. 2 Boston College.

The Big Red are without its top offensive talents from 2014–15, as forwards Emily Fulton, Brianne Jenner and Jillian Saulnier graduated last spring. The trio were the three leaders in goals, assists and points last year. Despite the roster turnover, Cornell opened the season as the No. 9 team in the country. If its four new forward recruits can replace most of that lost production, Cornell could be a legitimate contender for the ECAC championship.

Coaches’ Poll: 7th 2014–15 Record: 13–15–2 (9–11–2 ECAC)

Coaches’ Poll: 5th 2014–15 Record: 19–12–5 (13–5–4 ECAC,)

Coaches’ Poll: 10th 2014–15 Record: 7–23–4 (5–16–1 ECAC)

Coaches’ Poll: 3rd 2014–15 Record: 26–9–3 (15–5–2 ECAC)

St. Lawrence, who has already played nine games, including five conference tests, has had mixed success on the ice thus far en route to a 3–5–1 record. That being said, the Saints opened their season against three ranked opponents, playing a pair of games each against Northeastern, Clarkson and Boston College, resulting in five losses and one tie. Sophomore Kennedy Marchment leads the team in points and goals this season, and has done so in efficient fashion — she has scored five times on 17 shots.

Coaches’ Poll: 8th 2014–15 Record: 15–15–1 (12–10–0 ECAC)

Yale depends on a veteran core of offensive players, including forwards Janelle Ferrara ’16 and Jamie Haddad ’16, to continue the progress during coach Joakim Flygh’s tenure. Despite a defeat at the hands of Harvard in last year’s postseason, the Bulldogs had one of their best seasons in the last decade, ending the campaign with a 0.500 record. Goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17 takes over in net after the graduation of star Jaimie Leonoff ’15. Although the Elis are 0–1 to start the season after a loss to Quinnipiac, the team has the talent to make some noise.

Coaches’ Poll: 6th 2014–15 Record: 15–14–2 (13–8–1 ECAC)

Coaches’ Poll: 11th 2014–15 Record: 4–22–8 (1–16–5 ECAC)

Thanks to a pair of victories over Mercyhurst last weekend, this season marks the first time Princeton has opened with two wins since 2012. The Tigers have not won a postseason game since 2008 despite seven appearances in ECAC tournament. With only four newcomers to the roster, Princeton fields an experienced core of players led by Molly Contini and Kelsey Koelzer, the top two goal scorers from last season. The Tigers will face Yale in both teams’ first ECAC contest on Friday night at Ingalls Rink.

COLGATE

Coaches’ Poll: 9th 2014–15 Record: 7–25–2 (4–16–2 ECAC)

UNION

Consistently near the bottom of the ECAC standings, Union’s season has gotten off to a winless start, beginning 0–5–2. The Dutchwomen have not had a season with double-digit wins in the last decade. Offense will be key as the only two times Union has scored more than one goal, it has earned a draw.

Senior Kathryn Tomaselli has scored half of the team’s six goals this season, but has lacked a partner in crime. Freshman Jacyn Reeves could serve that role, as she has taken the second greatest number of shots thus far, one of which resulted in a goal in a tie against UConn.

Off to an impressive 4–0–1 start, Quinnipiac is fresh off its best record in program history a year ago and its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. This year’s roster retains the team’s top three point scorers in Taylar Cianfarano, Nicole Connery, and Nicole Kosta, who combined for more than one third of the team’s points last season. Cianfarano and Kosta have already scored nine times in the team’s five games.

Quinnipiac’s most recent contest was a 6–3 victory over Yale in the Bulldogs’ season opener. The two schools meet up again on Saturday.

PRINCETON

YALE

RENSSELAER

Rensselaer kicked off its season for the second year in a row against powerhouse No. 7 North Dakota, which resulted in a pair of losses. Having graduated a large senior class last spring, the freshman class is the largest on the team.

Rensselaer has already shown offensive depth with this season’s 14 goals coming off the sticks of eight different Engineers, including three from last year’s top goal-scorer Alexa Gruschow. Rensselaer has potential, but in the competitive ECAC, it will be difficult for a rebuilding program to emerge near the top of the field.

QUINNIPIAC

ST. LAWRENCE

DARTMOUTH

After a losing season that nonetheless ended with Dartmouth’s sixth consecutive appearance in the ECAC postseason, the Big Green returns the majority of its team. The team’s top three point-earners, forwards Lindsey Allen, Kennedy Ottenbreit, and captain Laura Stacey bolster its offense. Back in net will be Robyn Chemago, who had a 0.910 save percentage in 30 starts last year. Dartmouth could be a dark horse contender, having defeated then-No. 5 Harvard in its season opener last Friday and consequently sneaking into the ranking in the No. 10 spot as of Oct. 26.

After three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, Clarkson figures to contend for the ECAC crown. The Golden Knights are currently undefeated (9–0–0) and are ranked No. 4 in the nation. Two years removed from a national championship, four of the team’s top scorers have returned, including Cayley Mercer. The junior forward leads the team with 10 goals this season, including a pair of hat tricks this past weekend.

The Golden Knights are supported in the goal by sophomore Shea Tiley, whose season stats thus far include a 0.951 save percentage and two shutouts.

Colgate opened its season with several successful non-conference results, earning four victories in six contests.

The Raiders also notched a draw against UConn, a perennially strong program. This marks a big improvement over the 2014–15 campaign, which began with eight losses in 10 games. The Raiders have not qualified for ECAC tournament since 2013. However, with sophomore Breanne WilsonBennett, the team’s top point-earner last year and eight new freshmen coming on board, the young squad has a chance to revitalize this season.

BROWN Coaches’ Poll: 12th 2014–15 Record: 5–23–1 (2–19–1 ECAC)

After losing twice to Maine this past weekend, Brown, like Yale, will also face Quinnipiac and Princeton to kick off conference play. Each of the past seven seasons, the Bears have earned less than eight wins. Brown has proven that it can win big games — such as an overtime upset of Yale last January — but has not elevated its play to a consistent level. However, the young squad, with only a third of the roster composed of upperclassmen, may see more progress under two senior defensive leaders, captains Kelly Micholson and Alli Rolandelli.

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National ambitions for experienced Bulldogs MEN’S HOCKEY

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The Elis, ranked No. 15 to start the season, hold high expectations after seeing their title run cut short in the first round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament.

BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER After a promising season that ended with close losses to Harvard in the ECAC Championship and to Boston University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Yale men’s hockey team enters the 2015–16 season with some of the highest expectations it has seen in recent history. Boasting a loaded veteran roster, the Bulldogs

look to advance beyond the NCAA first round for the first time since their magical national title run in 2013.

Given last year’s success and the sheer volume of returning talent for the Elis — including one of the top goalkeepers in the nation and their top six scoring forwards from last year — it comes as no surprise that coaches and media alike foresee a promising campaign for Yale.

The preseason media poll slotted

Yale as the projected conference champion, while the coaches’ poll predicts the Elis to finish third, just behind Harvard and St. Lawrence.

In the latest USA Today national rankings, the Bulldogs rank No. 15, just under the No. 13 ranking that secured Yale an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament last March.

For the team’s veterans, though, even another tournament appearance is not enough.

“I wouldn’t say [last year’s fin-

ish] was disappointing, but it’s definitely not where we want to be,” forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 said. “We want to win ECAC’s … and obviously we want to win the national title and the Ivy League again. We think we have the team to do it, and we’re really excited to get going.”

Offensively, the Bulldogs will see a whopping 86 percent of last year’s goal-scoring output return to the rink this season. In partic-

last season. In the faceoff circle, Yale will rely on Carson Cooper ’16, whose 60.4 faceoff win percentage ranked second in the nation last year.

“Having a lot of returners is pretty special,” forward John Hayden ’17, who had seven goals and 11 assists last year, said. “We’re really heavy offensively, and obviously we want to score more goals

ular, Yale will be anchored by forwards Frankie DiChiara ’17, who led the team in points with 23 last season, and first-team All-Ivy honoree Mike Doherty ’17, who lit the lamp a team-high 12 times.

Beyond those returning stars, the Bulldogs expect an offensive boost from 2014–15 Ivy Rookie of the Year forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18, who will look to make a major step forward in his sophomore campaign after notching 15 points

SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10

Yale seeks step forward

MARC CUGNON

NBA Season Preview With the NBA season having tipped off Tuesday night, I’ve taken it upon myself as a truly amateur sports analyst to separate the Association into tiers. Without any further ado, let’s take a look at each conference.

THE EAST

Teams that can make the NBA Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers — I could have just written “LeBron James” here and left it at that. The Cavs are the odds-on favorite in the East, and for good reason. Cleveland still has the best player in the world, they didn’t lose any of their major weapons from last season and the Cavs have had an entire season to gel.

Washington Wizards — If the Wizards weren’t in the abysmal Eastern Conference, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. The only reason I’m convinced that my Washington Wizards — can you guess where I’m from? — are one of the two or three best teams in the conference is because of how

deplorable I expect the East to be. Still, John Wall is a bona fide superstar, Bradley Beal is one of the five-best shooting guards in the league at age 22, and Otto Porter Jr. might actually be good. I don’t expect the Wiz to win it all, but they’re my pick to battle Cleveland for the East.

Miami Heat — This pick might be a bit controversial, given how much success last year’s one-seed Atlanta had with their 3-and-D style, but Pat Riley really put together a talented roster after the King’s return to Cleveland.

Chris Bosh is healthy, Dwayne Wade can still post 19-plus PPG, Hassan Whiteside is a rebounding machine and Justise Winslow is probably the best value pick in this year’s draft. That’s a recipe for success, and I haven’t even mentioned point guard Goran Dragic.

Playoff locks, but championship long shots: Chicago Bulls — Derrick Rose SEE COLUMN PAGE 10

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Yale placed seventh in the ECAC standings a year ago, earning a 12–10–0 mark in the conference.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s ice hockey team returns this season with a strong core of returning players hungry for postseason success and looking to continue its upward trajectory despite a difficult schedule.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs, led by sixthyear head coach Joakim Flygh, finished the 2014-15 campaign

with 15 wins, just one short of its record mark earned in 2005. According to players, the team’s recent success coupled with determination to break into the class of elite programs means an even better season to come.

“We have so much grit and even more depth than last year,” forward Eden Murray ’18 said. “ I think this season is about turning heads and proving our spot amongst the topranked teams.”

It is easy to forget how far the

program has come in the last few years under Flygh’s lead.

Just five seasons ago in 2011– 12, the Elis earned a single win in a 29-game season, marking a low point in program history. Yet the team’s rapid turnaround was evident last winter as the Bulldogs achieved their best win percentage in eight years, finishing 15–15–1.

Perhaps the most impressive stretch of the program’s transformation took place in the final games of the 2015 regular season. Yale defeated its

final five opponents, shutting out two ECAC foes including a 3–0 dismantling of then-No. 5 Quinnipiac. Although the season ended with a disappointing playoff series loss against Harvard, Yale’s team hopes that the momentum from its winning streak at the close of last year’s campaign can carry over into success on the ice in 2016.

“Near the end of last season we were relentless in our work ethic and played as a team,” SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE 10

THE PERCENTAGE OF GOALS SCORED FOR LAST YEAR’S YALE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM BY PLAYERS WHO ARE BACK ON THE ICE FOR 2015–16. The Bulldogs return their top six scoring forwards from last season, and they also boast a veteran defense in front of goaltender Alex Lyon ’17.