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The Golden Ticket. Today at
11 a.m., the News will begin accepting bids for a first balcony ticket to Friday’s YSO Halloween show. For details, visit the online Cross Campus page. All proceeds from the auction will be donated to Water Collective, a nonprofit organization that develops clean water projects in Africa.
Money meets medicine.
Today, World Bank Health Economist Aaka Pande ’02 will give a guest lecture on public health in the Arab world in an event hosted by the ASA and MedX Yale. Having graduated with degrees in International Studies and MCDB, Pande was destined for a career in the field that she eventually entered. Leading Ladies. An email from
Yale Leading Ladies invited the University community to nominate female students for recognition on the group’s Facebook page and potentially at its Women’s Leadership Initiative Leading Ladies Gala. Current nominees include prominent figures from Yale athletic, political and musical organizations, among others.
ACR report faces scrutiny
neering Sciences. The program was created by molecular, cellular and developmental virology professor Robert Bazell , who is also the former chief science and health correSEE COMMUNICATION PAGE 4
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Theater Throwback Thursday.
Night at the museum.
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Although six months have passed since the Academic Review Committee released its report on allocating faculty positions across departments, few have felt the impact of the findings. Last spring, the ARC — responsible for reviewing the “accounting and management of faculty positions” — issued a report outlining new hiring and appointment procedures, including the creation of a faculty resource committee, a common pool of faculty slots and principles for reducing slot vacancy. The April 30 report, which follows the investigations done by the Nordhaus Committee in 2012, aimed to create a system of distributing resources in a “a fair and responsive way,” while also providing a blueprint for the development of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Although administrators urge that it is too soon to judge their effectiveness, faculty remain largely unconvinced that the new procedures will spawn large-scale change. “A key point is that it is still very early. We are halfway through the first term of its implementation,” ARC chair and economics professor Steven Berry said. “So far, the ARC is being implemented exactly as intended. The Faculty Resource Committee, chaired by [FAS Dean Tamar Gendler], is meeting regularly and is committed to a complete implementation of the ARC report.” Following the instructions of Provost Benja-
Wednesday morning, the YCC emailed the entire student body to solicit applications for four committees, spanning issues of alcohol and traffic safety, career services and provost’s office initiatives.
Tonight, the Peabody Museum will attempt to one-up Wednesday’s costume party at Toad’s with its Haunted Hall Crawl & Costume Ball. The institution’s halls will open up after-hours for attendees to “dance with the dinosaurs.”
Offensive line crucial to team’s success so far this season
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The first performance of The Crucible will take place this evening at the Off Broadway Theater at 7 p.m. Characters like Abigail Williams, John Hale and the Proctors will evoke the days of the Salem witch trials for some and of high school English classes for most.
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A new Yale program teaches postdoctoral students how to discuss their discipline with wider audiences. research and threw themselves into improvisation exercises. The night was a part of a new, four-course program cosponsored by the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning and the Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engi-
BY JOYCE GUO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At 17 Hillhouse Avenue on Wednesday evening, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students in the sciences took a break from their
Conn. biotech company developing Ebola vaccine BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER A Connecticut biotechnology company hopes to be one of the frontrunners in the race to develop a vaccine to fight Ebola. Protein Sciences, located in Meriden, is a month away from having vaccine material ready to be shipped to the National Institutes of Health, with human clinical testing in sight by the end of the year, said Manon Cox, president and CEO of the company. Although it will not be the first Ebola vaccine to reach clinical trials, it
may help to fill a long-standing void in prevention for a disease with a fatality rate exceeding 50 percent. Clinical-grade protein will be sent by Nov. 25 to the NIH, which will then carry out primate screenings, a white paper from the company stated. Monkeys will be vaccinated in December and exposed to the Ebola virus in February 2015. In contrast to the majority of vaccines for various viruses, which contain an attenuated form of the actual virus, the vaccine in development is SEE EBOLA VACCINE PAGE 6
Foley and Malloy split on gun control BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER As tensions run high in the gubernatorial debates leading up to the Nov. 4 election, Connecticut residents are raising questions about the candidates’ proposals for gun control. Gov. Dannel Malloy and Republican challenger Tom Foley have disputed gun control in most of their public debates. Malloy, who signed into law one of the strictest gun control measures in the nation in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has called for even stricter restrictions on carry laws dur-
ing his campaign. Foley, on the other hand, contends that Malloy’s policies restrict the rights of gun owners and that he is ready to sign a repeal of those laws. While supporters of each candidate claim that significant changes to gun control laws are inevitable in the next term, some say that drastic change is unlikely. “Unless there’s an unanticipated Republican sweep, you’ll have a Democratic general assembly that will not make any significant changes,” said Ronald Schurin, political science professor at the University of Connecticut. SEE GUN DEBATE PAGE 4
Oct Club. A post from the Feb
Club Emeritus’s Twitter page on Wednesday night noted that one doesn’t need a local Yale Club to schedule a Feb Club event. Apparently, one doesn’t even need it to be February these days, either.
HOCKEY SEASON PREVIEW
Let’s get weird. Fuel Coffee
Shop is hosting “Strange Night” this evening at its Chapel Street location, complete with an art exhibit and a donut truck, courtesy of Orangeside Donuts.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1968 Daniel P. Moynihan, then the director of the HarvardMIT Joint Center for Urban Studies, comes to campus for a debate with the YPU. Eight years later, Moynihan was elected to the first of his four terms as U.S. Senator for New York. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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Sweater weather season is upon us, and with it comes perhaps the epitome of winter sports — hockey. The Yale men’s team, now further distanced from its 2013 National Championship, looks to again contend for the ECAC and national titles. The women’s team, on the other hand, hopes to continue its upward trajectory and make its presence felt on a national level. SEE PAGE 12
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arlier this month, researchers at George Mason University released a report that shed light on the most pressing issue in American higher education today: the rise in adjunct faculty. Last year, American graduate programs awarded 160,000 doctorates; however, only 16,000 tenure-track professorships were given. Now, more than 50 percent of all university-level instructors have adjunct appointments. Between 1975 and 2005, the amount of tenure-track faculty members at Yale decreased by 96 percent while the number of adjunct acquisitions increased by 100 percent. Yale euphemistically classifies these adjunct members as “non-ladder” faculty. University administrations must understand that replacing tenured positions with adjunct appointments is harmful to academic freedom, student learning and professor wellbeing. The once-prestigious doctorate has been disgracefully reduced to a five-year path to low-paying and unstable employment. When a young professor signs onto adjunct status, he is at risk for disposability from the outset. How then is he able to encourage students to petition against an unpopular university policy or organize gatherings to discuss dissenting opinions? At a panel at Columbia College Chicago earlier this month, professor Steven Salaita of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and professor Iymen Chehade of Columbia recalled run-ins with academic unfreedom, the college's student newspaper reported. Salaita said that the Illinois administration annulled his job offer after reading radical posts on his Twitter page regarding last summer’s conflict in Gaza. Chehade’s course on IsraeliPalestinian conflict was cancelled after a student deemed his teaching biased, he said. Adjunct professors like Salaita and Chehade are vulnerable, since their employers can choose not to renew their contracts. Joe Berry, an adjunct at the University of Illinois, cites the “disempowerment” of faculty members as “the greatest threat to academic freedom and activism on campuses" in his 2005 book on improving working conditions for adjuncts. Students, too, suffer from the rise in adjunct professors. Most adjuncts are paid a sum of money for a semesterlong class. That is, they don’t receive any additional money for time spent working outside the classroom, including office hours and other meet-
ings with students. An American Association of University Professors press release notes that while tenured professors are subject to university-sanctioned classroom observations, reviews of courses taught by adjuncts come only from student evaluations. Furthermore, adjunct professors have to meet different, usually lower criteria for departments to hire them, meaning that under-qualified professors can end up teaching. Meanwhile, tenure-track status grows further out of reach for new professors, forcing them to research more and teach less. Turnover rates are also high among adjuncts. Universities dismiss a great number of them at semester’s end and reenlist a fresh batch in August. As terrifying as it sounds, we soon will see a growing amount of faculty members approach the poverty line. According to the New York Times, an average tenured professor at a doctoral university earns around $127,000 annually. Instead of getting paid through a yearly payroll, adjuncts are paid by the course at a median rate of $2,700, according to the American Association of University Professors. This, divided by the number of hours the instructor spends working, either in the classroom or in the office, comes to a per-hour sum that is slightly below minimum wage. Furthermore, these adjuncts’ contracts contain fewer healthcare benefits and retirement perks than those of tenured professors. Some non-tenured faculty are forced to pick up second jobs to make ends meet. It seems unfitting to have scholars teaching by day and working the late shift at the student bookstore. Professors should have a yearly salary that properly compensates them for both classroom time and research. The appeal of non-tenure track appointments is found in recent university initiatives that seek cost-minimizing, profit-maximizing outcomes. Now more than ever, administrators at Yale and other universities are willing to swap liberal arts traditions for expenditurecutting practices. But Woodbridge Hall must reassess its priorities. Tenure is essential to professors’ job security. It permits them to research what they please and teach what they think. To replace this custom with a new method that enables administrators to micromanage the work of their constituents is unacceptable.
ne way in which Yale is said to stand out from other universities is the accessibility of our faculty to undergraduates. This is a consistent theme in our admissions office’s publicity materials: “From day one,” reads our admissions website, “students can expect their professors to be accessible and to take a personal interest in them.” Throughout my time at Yale, this platitude has proven more or less to be true; professors in several departments have cheerfully opened their office doors to me, answered my questions about problem sets, entertained my ideas about papers and occasionally offered me tea. However, I’d guess that many Yale undergraduates, like me, find it difficult to approach professors with broader questions: which academic field to choose and how to navigate different schools of thought within a discipline; where to find answers to the big questions we want to explore and how to synthesize all of the diverse things we’re learning. These are questions that we find difficult to ask most professors — probably because we feel that the average professor isn’t responsible for our personal academic journeys. We imagine that we’d be wasting most professors’ time by asking vague questions about which statistical tech-
niques would be worth learning, whether literature or history is a better way to understand the human condition and which political philosophy courses could build on the approaches we just learned about in class. Yet, while many of us feel uncomfortable asking these sorts of questions of the average professor, it is one of the University’s responsibilities to help us answer them. This is why we have academic advisers — specific professors who can give special attention to each student’s academic concerns. Academic advising is predicated on the idea that the student and the university share joint responsibility for the education of the former, the notion that there are better and worse ways of going about one’s eight semesters at Yale and the conviction that faculty members are uniquely positioned to offer advice and guidance. The academy is a big and confusing place, and no undergraduate should have to navigate it alone. Yet does Yale’s current system academic advising really live up to these goals? The University offers us a constellation of advisers — including deans, FroCos, faculty advisers and directors of undergraduate studies. Yet advisers based in the residential colleges are often bestpositioned to comment on personal and procedural matters,
not necessarily academic ones. Meanwhile, I argue that the system of faculty and departmental advisers is not living up to several important principles. Advisers should be able to give accurate information about departments in which students are interested. Yet some of us have heard stories about DUS’s who misrepresent their own departments’ requirements or who make incorrect guarantees to students that required classes will be taught in future semesters. More generally, it is a shame that freshmen are not provided a faculty adviser from within their general area of academic interest. The “Guidelines for Freshman Academic Advising,” which can be found on Yale’s website, provide several useful tips for advisers, including encouraging freshmen to take at least one small course, to explore fields with which they are unfamiliar and to make plans for fulfilling the foreign language requirement. While all of these pieces of advice are valuable, none substitute for a detailed knowledge of a specific part of the academy and the perspective to guide freshmen through their first semesters here. My freshman adviser – a non-faculty member – was a friendly and supportive figure, but he did not, for instance, have much detailed guidance to offer about which major to choose.
Yale’s advising system also fails to live up to the principle that advisers should be able to offer perspective and guidance about every part of a student’s academic experience. Most Yalies only meet with their adviser once a semester: at the end of shopping period when they need their schedules signed. While students certainly have the prerogative to meet with their advisers whenever they wish, an adviser that truly cares about a student’s academic growth ought to make a point of meeting with students several times throughout the course of a semester, if only to talk about bigger and less immediate questions than which courses to take. As it is, my current adviser, assigned to me by the Department of Economics, has never once initiated an email conversation with me. I doubt he knows my name. It’s a common complaint that Yalies are too focused on extracurricular activities and not sufficiently devoted to academics. Perhaps a renewed commitment on the part of the University to excellence in academic advising could impress upon us the incredible academic opportunities we have here and offer us guidance about how to take advantage of them. SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .
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NATHAN STEINBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at nathan.steinberg@yale.edu .
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tudents currently enrolled in professor George Chauncey’s increasingly popular lecture on American gay and lesbian history were tasked this week with reading a series of diaries and memoirs. Among the assigned readings was James Baldwin’s unforgettable essay “Here Be Dragons,” which ran in Playboy in the mid-'80s. Leave it to Baldwin to challenge our conception of masculinity in the pages of what is easily the most recognizable symbol of heterosexual male desire. In the process of reflecting on American sexual culture, he drew attention to a reality all must confront. He wrote: “We all exist, after all, and crucially, in the eye of the beholder. We all react to and, to whatever extent, become what the eye sees.” While Baldwin used the extreme loneliness that physically androgynous hermaphrodites face to introduce the above quote, one need not exhibit anatomical rarity to relate to the sentiment he conveyed. The eye exercises much more influence than choosing a physically suitable mate. Even more, one’s “eye” is not restricted to sight
alone: We all make formulations based on action, speech and attitude. We were all accepted to Yale because KYLE repreTRAMONTE we sented a wide swath Green on of interests, backgrounds The Vine and aspirations. But over our time here, we find ourselves converging in several areas — notably manners of dress, speech and career choice. It is impossible to pinpoint when this transformation manifests itself, but nevertheless homogeneity creeps in year after year until at some point the word “Yale” shifts from operating as a proper noun to an adjective. In the University’s past, this convergence may not have been as noticeable due to the similar backgrounds of most Yale students. Years ago, if the tales are true, one could distinguish a Yale graduate by his merit and character. After many changes to both
this specific University and the nature of post-secondary American education as a whole, I think it is fair to say that one can no longer easily distinguish a Yale graduate in a crowd. Absent character building, we are left with accomplishments and tangible assets (read: wealth and financial stability) to define ourselves as Yalies. Sartorial uniformity is lamentable enough, but much of what we absorb in Yale College cannot be removed at the end of the day. Many of us are trapped in the eye of the beholder, and, as Baldwin points out, we become what the eye sees. We look to one another, our classmates and upperclassmen and other Yale graduates, to help us define the very values and measures of success that will guide us through life. The problem is that we fail to recognize our own place in this system. It’s difficult to admit that we often conform to the expectations of our peers, that they shape our outlook on the world. We often forget that we ourselves exercise tremendous influence over the lives of those very same people. Everyday, we verbally and non-verbally com-
municate to our classmates a series of preferences that categorize and rank the world around us. These communications yield the very commonalities in thought and action that we see — from things as trivial as music choice to issues regarding race or gender or rights or career. Whether we find ourselves in the majority or minority on a certain issue, we should all recognize the responsibility we bear in shaping the Yale community. The attitudes of our peers are informed by what they see around them — the actions and ideas they encounter as well as those that they fail to see. If Baldwin is correct and we do, to various degrees, become what the eye sees, perhaps we are all in need of a good, long look in the mirror. What attitudes or trends on this campus do you find disappointing? More importantly, what have you said or done to correct or reinforce those very trends? KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His columns run on Thursdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .
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“Study the past if you would define the future.” CONFUCIUS CHINESE PHILOSOPHER
Despite hires, history department retains vacancies BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER This year, the History Department welcomed seven new fulltime faculty members — but professors warned this may not be enough to fill existing vacancies. Despite the influx of new faculty, including two senior and five junior appointments, department chair Naomi Lamoreaux said she expects that faculty retirements and remaining empty positions will leave e i g h t - a n d - a - h a l f va c a n t departmental slots — or faculty positions — by December 2015. All but one of the seven new positions are simply filling holes where faculty members retired or died, Director of Undergraduate Studies Beverly Gage said, adding that the hires do not signify an increase in the size of the history faculty. History professors interviewed said vacancies in their department were the consequence of decreased hiring after the 2008 recession. “[The administration] never said there was a hiring freeze, but they certainly slowed down hiring,” Lamoreaux said. “There have been a lot of vacancies they haven’t filled.” History professor David Sorkin, who was one of the seven new hires, said that while adding so many new faculty members at once is slightly unusual, the hiring decisions make sense given Yale’s hiring cutbacks six years ago. According to history professor Peter Perdue, the new hires will help the department get back on its feet after sharp limits on faculty searches began in 2008. “Now we are getting back closer to ‘normal,’” Perdue wrote in a Tuesday email. Still, Perdue said there will still be major gaps in faculty appointments, particularly in Russian and Southeast Asian history. Gage added that only three faculty members — professors Rosie Bsheer, Noel Lenski and Sorkin — were hired as a result of searches in 2014. Professors Rohit De, Isaac Nakhimovsky and Julia Stephens were hired
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Despite recent hires, professors in the history department are concerned that the faculty is not sufficiently large and seek a further increase. several years ago, but delayed coming to Yale in order to finish postdoctoral fellowships. None of these new faculty members were hired under the new guidelines set forth by the Academic Review Committee’s April 2014 report. Stephens, who was hired this year, explained that the unusually large number of faculty joining this year creates new opportunities for collaboration across fields, both in geographic areas and thematic interests like histories of empire, gender, sexual-
ity and law. In addition to these new faculty members, the department is running searches for two more professors: one junior faculty appointment in 20th century Chinese history and one openrank appointment in modern European history. Search chairs began reviewing applications this fall and expect the positions to start in July 2015. While some history majors interviewed said they had never felt the effect of faculty vacancies in the department, others
Students to help plan for new colleges BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Dean’s Office will convene a new undergraduate task force to advise faculty and staff on plans for the two new residential colleges. The creation of the task force, officially called the Standing Committee on Yale College Expansion, was announced Wednesday in a Yale College Council email calling for applicants to the committee. Four students will sit on the standing committee, which will be part of a larger steering committee that includes students, local alumni, faculty and staff, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said. He added that the steering committee will discuss a variety of strategies that could prepare Yale College for a 15 percent increase in its student body, with the overall goal of addressing potential problems in the planning for the College’s expansion before they arise. “[The members come from] very different constituencies, so we’re hoping that there will be a robust conversation from these different perspectives,” Holloway said. Administrators first suggested that a student advisory group be created last May when the Ad Hoc Committee on Yale College Expansion published a report that recommended the inclusion of student perspectives in planning for the new colleges. The report stated that students could advise the University on “concerns that arise ahead of, and in the first years following, the new colleges’ opening.” According to the report, some members of the ad hoc committee will identify ways to preserve “the Yale College experience” when the new colleges open. These members will present their ideas to the new steering committee. Students will then point out the advantages and disadvantages of each suggestion, YCC vice president Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 said. “Holloway has talked about this a lot insofar as, at a minimum, we want the current student experience to be maintained when these new colleges come in,” YCC president Michael Herbert ’16 said. “Hopefully we get even better, but at a minimum, we want it to be maintained.” The steering committee’s findings will eventually be reported back to University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak,
Holloway said. Previously, students could offer advice to the ad hoc committee during two undergraduate forums held last spring — one to discuss academic services one to discuss student life, Polak said. Several meetings also took place with members of the Yale College Dean’s Advisory Committee and students actively involved with the Center for International and Professional Experience. Polak said the membership of the ad hoc committee did not include students because Salovey had specifically requested that it focus on teaching, learning and student services. In addition, an earlier group that included students had already issued a report in 2008, he added. Still, the creation of the new task force will allow students to address issues that the existing committee may not have considered, Herbert said. “I hope that it will help highlight student concerns so that from a student perspective, the transition to an enlargement of the student body will be as smooth as possible,” he said. Applications for the committee are only open to freshmen, sophomores and juniors, because the new colleges’ development is an ongoing process and members are expected to serve for two years, Herbert said. The YCC executive board will interview each candidate and decide on the final committee before Thanksgiving break, Eliscovich Sigal said. “A successful candidate will be involved in various areas of student life at Yale to properly point out the potential problems with the expansion,” she said. After its membership is established, the standing committee will begin meeting either at the end of this semester or the beginning of next, Holloway said, adding that it will probably meet a few times each term. Applications for the Alcohol Recommendations Implementation Committee, Traffic Safety Committee, Career Services Advisory Committee and Provost Undergraduate Advisory Committee are being accepted by the University as well. Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .
expressed concern. “I’ve noticed a gap in a lot of places,” said history major Alexander Jacobson ’17. “Until this year, they’ve actually had a bit of trouble covering a lot of Asia, and Africa outside the Middle East.” Still, he noted that he felt Yale is addressing these areas more actively than other universities. Perdue also explained that though there is still some confusion surrounding the new ARC hiring policy, he thinks that given its focus on increased
faculty input and cross-departmental appointments, it will be much fairer than the former system. Still, other professors were more hesitant about the new policy. “One principle is very important, which is that departments are supposed to, under the new rules, regain control of their vacant slots and how they use them,” Lamoreaux said. “We hope they will live up to that principle, but it remains to be seen.”
Lamoreaux also expressed concern that the new policy will limit the number of hiring searches that can be done each year, adding that she expects some departments will have to wait to hire new faculty. She explained that she and other department chairs plan to meet independently of administrators to discuss each department’s needs and discern how University policies have affected them. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .
Education policy central to gov. race BY SKYLER INMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With just five days until Gov. Dannel Malloy and Republican challenger Tom Foley face off in one of the most hotly contested elections in the country, education policy — long a point of contention between the candidates — is emerging as a focus of the race. Yesterday, Malloy’s office announced a plan to provide $4.7 million for pre- and afterschool programs in New Haven Public Schools. The grant reflects one of the main aspects of Malloy’s platform, which calls for increased funding for public schools and greater availability of early childhood education. Meanwhile, Foley unveiled his “money follows the child” education plan in August, which reroutes state funds from public schools to charter institutions for each child transferring between the two systems. Malloy’s supporters say that the governor has a strong track record when it comes to education policy and that Foley’s plan monetizes a system that should focus on students. But Foley’s supporters claim that Malloy has failed to effectively allocate state money to address Connecticut’s failing schools. “Malloy’s education plan throws money at the problem without solving it,” said Yale College Republicans communications director Amalia Halikias ’15. “With policies where the money follows the child, you allow children the opportunity to attend a school they wouldn’t otherwise get to, and by leaving the schools, they add muchneeded pressure to the schools to reform.” In an August release from his campaign entitled “Restoring Pride and Prosperity in Connecticut,” Foley said that his
“money follows the child” policy intends to “make sure no child is trapped in a bad school.” Critics of the policy — like the Connecticut Education Association, which published an analysis of “money follows the child” in September — say it takes state money from struggling public schools and gives it to third-party charter institutions, undermining the state’s commitment to its public schools.
Malloy’s education plan throws money at the problem without solving it. AMALIA HALIKIAS ’15 Communications director, Yale College Republicans Supporters of Malloy, like vice-chair of the Greenwich Board of Education Jennifer Dayton, said that his education plans address the state’s needs for better early childhood education and increased funds for economically disadvantaged areas. Dayton said her view is not indicative of those of other members of the bipartisan Greenwich Board of Education, but added that she considers Malloy’s long history of involvement in education, such as his service on the Stamford Board of Education, one of his strengths. Connecticut State Representative Tim Ackert (R - Coventry) said that while he struggles with the direction of Malloy’s education policy — particularly with its methods of evaluating teachers and school districts — he sees little that distinguishes the candidates’ education policies from one another. “There are already char-
ter schools available to kids, and money already goes there,” Ackert said, adding that Foley’s “money follows the child” policy is unlikely to pass the Connecticut legislature. “It just sounds good in political speak for conservatives.” According to president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers Dave Cicarella, Malloy — who has gained the endorsement of the New Haven teachers’ union — has proven to be available and has opened a dialogue about education issues. Foley, meanwhile, has “never once reached out” to the group. “I find that odd, with New Haven being so central nationally,” he said. “We’ve done some great work, so you would think they would reach out to us, to say here are some suggestions we’ve had.” Yale students interested in education policy stressed the importance of having a governor who understands Connecticut’s education issues. John Luke Barrios ’16, who has volunteered in New Haven Public Schools, said he would not vote for a candidate who is not passionate about education. Kelsey Miller ’16, the cohead of student-run think tank Roosevelt Institute, said the governor must address inequity in Connecticut public schools. “You have districts like Bridgeport with schools that are really struggling next to districts like Westport that are doing just fine based off of standard metrics,” she said. “Improving resources like teachers, curriculum funding and cocurricular activities at the school level is what I’d really like to see.” Malloy edged out Foley by less than 7,000 votes in the 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial race. Contact SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns.” DAVID SEABURY AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
Biotech company working to develop Ebola vaccine EBOLA VACCINE FROM PAGE 1 protein-based, meaning it is comprised of a protein found on the outer coat of the virus, instead of the virus itself. That protein has been shown to trigger antibodies — agents of the body’s defense system — in primates, said Protein Sciences executive chairman and global head of business development Daniel Adams. “The big advantage is that ours is a simple approach,” Adams said. “We know we’re making the right protein.” The vaccine is very similar to Flublok, which was developed by Protein Sciences to fight influenza. The only difference between Flublok and the newly developed Ebola vaccine is the use of the Ebola coat protein rather than the influenza coat protein, Adams said, adding that the protein is produced in the same way for each vaccine. The methods used to develop Flublok have already been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Since the Ebola vaccine uses the same methods, it is more feasible for the FDA to
expedite the regulatory process, Cox said. In August, in a move that reflected the urgency of the climate surrounding Ebola, the FDA announced that it would be invoking its emergency use authorization powers for approval of diagnostic tests of the virus. In September, the agency announced that it would be expanding use of experimental drugs for the virus. With its protein base, Protein Sciences’ vaccine differs from those being developed at other pharmaceutical companies, which have focused on integrating the viral genetic material itself into the vaccine, Adams said. Cox said that relying on proteins is a safer method because it does not require having actual viruses on site for research and manufacturing and eliminates the risks associated with injecting viral DNA into a human. Currently, the efficacy of other vaccines cannot be boosted without increasing the amount of the virus, she said. “Any regulatory agency is really tough on vaccines because they’re injected into healthy
patients,” Adams said. “The NIH has told us that we have by far the safest approach.” Protein Sciences’s current vaccine development project is a continuation of a project that began four years ago. In the original project, the company was subcontracted under an NIH grant for biodefense, targeted at preventing the weaponization of Ebola for biological warfare. At the time, vaccines were not being developed in order to vaccinate ordinary people or health care workers, Cox said. Rather, a successfully completed vaccine would be stockpiled in case of a future act of bioterrorism. Once NIH funding was withdrawn nine months into the project, work was halted and DNA samples were frozen. “Nobody ever realized that there would be a need for a vaccine,” Cox said. In June, after discussions with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the World Health Organization and the company’s NIH project officer about the renewed need for an Ebola vac-
cine, Protein Sciences thawed its samples and resumed development of the vaccine despite a lack of funding, Adams said. Current research is being funded by the company itself, Cox added. Other pharmaceutical companies, including Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline, have been involved in the production of Ebola vaccines. Two of the vaccines that are farthest along in the regulatory process have proceeded to Phase I clinical trials with five others following, said WHO assistant director-general of Health Systems and Innovation Marie-Paule Kieny in a press conference last week. Due to the urgency of the Ebola epidemic, efficacy trials will be carried out simultaneously, rather than waiting for the results of the clinical trials, she added. “Regulatory authorities in countries where the vaccines are manufactured and in Africa will need to work closely with manufacturers and extremely short timelines to find ways to overcome a number of hurdles in the licensing regulation of these
vaccines,” Kieny said. Lack of funding has been an obstacle to the development of an Ebola vaccine, said School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary. According to Adams and Cox, the unwillingness to finance Ebola research before the current outbreak stemmed from a lack of optimism that the disease could be controlled. Past outbreaks have had fatality rates of up to 90 percent — fatality rates in the current epidemic hover around 50 to 70 percent. Smaller companies like Protein Sciences do not have the resources to pay for the full development, evaluation and production process for a vaccine, Adams said, adding that the five to 20 million dollar price tag for the production of one million doses is daunting even for large companies. What is more, Protein Sciences is no giant in the pharmaceutical industry — in 2012, it reported revenue of $31 million. During the SARS outbreak between 2002 and 2004, Protein Sciences developed a vaccine against the virus. But by the time the vaccine was ready
for approval, the outbreak had ended, so funding was cut and the vaccine never proceeded to trials, Adams said. “If funding hadn’t dried up, there would be a vaccine out there,” Adams said. According to Cleary, many Ebola research studies have not been financed as a result of large cuts in federal science funding. Those cuts are a reflection of the decreased budgets of the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, a ranking member of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding of organizations within the Department of Health and Human Services. The sequester, which began in March 2013 and required across the board budget cuts for the federal government, slashed the budgets of the NIH and CDC by 5 percent each for fiscal year 2013. Over the past decade, the budget of the NIH has been cut by 25 percent. Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .
Candidates stake out positions on gun control GUN DEBATE FROM PAGE 1 Schurin said that if Foley wins, the only changes that would occur are minor alterations that would loosen the state’s laws on reporting stolen weapons. But others predict more extreme changes for Connecticut’s gun laws in the event of a Republican win. Executive Director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence Ron Pinciaro said that based on the candidates’ comments in the debates, gun laws would loosen dramatically if Foley wins. “[Foley] said that he would be opposed to any legislation that restricts the rights of gun owners,” Pinciaro said. “I’ve never seen a gun violence proposal that wasn’t seen as restricting the rights of gun owners.” Rich Burgess, president of Connecticut Carry — an organization that advocates for looser gun control laws — predicted a different future for the state’s gun laws. Burgess said in an email that if Malloy were to win, Connecticut would see more laws passed that place more restrictions on gun ownership. “Connecticut’s gun laws will get significantly worse if Governor Malloy is allowed to continue his anti-rights reign,” Burgess said. “Neither [Foley nor independent candidate Joe Visconti] are what we consider to be ‘prorights,’ they are just better than Governor Malloy.” Candidates and their supporters also pointed to Connecticut’s declining crime rates in the gun control debates. The 2014 Crime in Connecticut Report found an 8.6 percent drop in violent and property crimes last year. Proponents of Malloy’s gun laws say that declining crime rates reflect the success of Malloy’s strict gun control policies. Those opposed to Malloy’s gun control strategy, however, say that the decline would continue even with looser carry laws. In fact, Burgess said more gun ownership is correlated with less crime, adding that violent crime rates have been decreasing at the same time that some states have implemented looser carry laws. The correlation between decreasing crime in Connecticut and stricter regulations does not imply causation, he added. Schurin said that while the states’ gun laws have some impact declining crime rates in Connecticut, the decrease is due to a “constellation of factors,” such as improved policing. Leaders in New Haven also said that the debate on gun control has serious implications for crime in the Elm City. Gun control legislation touches on many issues regarding urban crime, said New Haven’s Democratic Party Town Chair Vincent Mauro. He added that while Foley has said he would repeal Connecticut’s strict carry laws, he still has not presented a clear plan to reduce crime in urban areas like New Haven. Mauro said that lowering crime in the Elm City could be achieved through a number of means outside of gun control, namely providing services to help former prisoners adapt to life outside of prison after they serve their sentences — something that Malloy has supported. The results from a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday revealed that voter support for Foley and Malloy is tied at 43 to 43 percent. Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .
GUBERNATORIAL RACE 2014 GUN POLICIES
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Wants to propose a legislative change that will move up the time that people with restraining orders are not allowed to have firearms
Said that he would veto attempts to pass stricter firearm regulations
Says that the firearm restrictions he signed in 2013 — which included universal background checks, ban on sale of firearms that the state names as "assault weapons" and a ban on selling magazines with 10 or more rounds contributed to declining crime rates in Connecticut
Said that the increased firearm restrictions and decreasing crime rates only show correlation; they do not indicate causation
Speaks out in favor of the firearm restrictions, said the restrictions protect children
Criticized the 2013 firearm restrictions, saying that the restrictions would not have prevented the shooting in Sandy Hook
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“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.” EDMOND DE GONCOURT FRENCH WRITER
Incoming students get math preparation BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Nineteen incoming students got a taste of the Yale experience online this summer, working with a professor and a team of student coaches in order to better prepare themselves for the college’s quantitative reasoning requirement. The program, Online Experiences for Yale Scholars, is one of the measures Yale has taken as part of a series of recent commitments the University made to the White House. At a conference for higher education held in Washington, D.C., in January, which included over a hundred participating institutions, the University made a five-part pledge to continue aiding high-achieving, lowincome students. For this summer’s pilot edition of ONEXYS, the Admissions Office selected a small group of students to follow online lectures, interact with tutors via Skype and complete web quizzes. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said ONEXYS was a way for the University to reach out to students hindered by limited resources, particularly those with weak math backgrounds, and ensure that they have the opportunity to succeed in math courses or pursue STEM majors. “Yale offers a challenging set of freshman classes in the sciences, and we have a requirement that all students take QR courses, so we really wanted to make sure kids were off to the right footing,” Quinlan said. “It’s important to level that playing field for students when they get here.” Edward O’Neill, senior instructional designer of academic IT
solutions, said ONEXYS helps dispel the myth that certain students are locked out of STEM majors due to a lack of math preparation. ONEXYS, Quinlan said, is the online counterpart to Freshman Scholars at Yale — a program that allows incoming students to study on campus for five weeks during the summer. While FSY is an attractive program to incoming students, he added, it can only be offered to a limited number of people. In addition, many incoming freshmen find themselves unable to spend their summer at Yale. O’Neill said ONEXYS is the ideal way to extend the Yale experience to a group of students from as far as 2,000 miles away, while eliminating the costs and challenges of bringing them to campus. “People work over the summer because they need to earn money to get ready for the fall,” O’Neill said. “[The program] offers convenience, allows the students to still work and becomes more like a toe dip. You’re not completely immersed in the environment, but you’re moving towards it slowly.” Math professor James Rolf, who spearheaded ONEXYS, said that a way to measure the success of the program would be to evaluate the number of students who participate, set out to enter STEM majors and stick with the major. But access to such data will not be available for another few years. However, Rolf said two of the nineteen did not finish the program. Rolf added that because the students come from very diverse backgrounds and have different commitments, it is difficult to create a program that perfectly suits
everyone’s needs. “You have students coming from all different sorts of places,” Rolf said. “Some have had calculus, some have not; some are native English speakers, some are not; and all of a sudden they’re dumped in the same pot, and it’s not a for-credit course, and you probably have a job, and you want to go on vacation, and you only have five or six weeks.”
It’s important to level [the quantitative reasoning] playing field for students when they get here. JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean, Yale Undergraduate Admissions
Still, Rolf said he thinks the module — which currently covers about a quarter to a third of a traditional pre-calculus course — can be useful to all students, regardless of their level of experience with the subject. Feedback from the participants indicated that they appreciated the program’s deadlines for completing lessons and quizzes, because it encouraged them to finish the problems and learn the information in a timely manner, O’Neill said. He added that the students said interactions with student coaches were the program’s greatest strength. “The fact that there’s a current Yale student who’s coaching you and meeting with you on Skype - that’s really powerful,” O’Neill said. “And when we asked stu-
dents, they said that was one of the most helpful things.” Kenneth Jackson ’16, student coach for ONEXYS, said he thinks the student he assisted grasped the material, judging from the quiz grades she received and the in-depth questions she asked. But there are no official grades to prove this, he added. Despite the unofficial grading, Rolf said participants probably received scores that were significantly lower than the Yale average. “It’s fair to say that for the most part, the grades the students received on the quizzes were probably not the kind of grades you’d want to get on quizzes when you’re here in a class at Yale,” Rolf said. “But the huge difference of course is that [the module is] not for credit.” Quinlan said the majority of the students who participated in ONEXYS are now taking one or two QR courses during their first semester at Yale. Rachel Paris ’17 said that while she did take calculus in high school, when she re-took the class two years later at Yale, she felt uncomfortable with the material. Paris said she would have been interested in participating in an online math program to brush up on her skills before arriving for her freshman year, had it been offered before she enrolled. Alex Schultz ’17, who also took calculus in high school, said he did not feel like the math classes he took in high school prepared him for college. Although Schultz said he is not a STEM major, he would have been interested in ONEXYS had it been offered when he was an incoming student. “Even in QR classes that are designed for non-science people,
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The Admissions Office advocates for the ONEXYS program, an online preparation service for incoming Yale freshmen. I have struggled with the math component,” Schultz said. “Having this extra resource would have been very beneficial.” Rolf said that future plans to expand ONEXYS include increasing the number of participants to 40 and supplying additional modules, in order to cover the entire pre-calculus syllabus. He said he would also like the program to be more flexible so that each participant can move at their own pace. O’Neill said that now that the module has been built and a framework exists, the focus is currently on opportunities for future
Music Haven currently serves 81 New Haven children, offering them free music lessons and string instruments. BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After changing the lives of more than 500 New Haven children through music, a husband and wife are turning their attention to two other kids — their own. Nine years ago, Tina Hadari MUS ’04 and three other string musicians founded Music Haven, a non-profit after-school organization that teaches string instruments to children from low-income New Haven neighborhoods. Since its founding, the scale of the organization has grown significantly: the same quartet that used to meet in living rooms now has its own office, a communications director and a larger budget, and the number of students enrolled has nearly doubled in just the past five years. This fall, Hadari announced that she and her husband, Netta Hadari MUS ’99 — who serves as the development director — will pass the reins to someone else in order to focus attention on their family. “I’m really committed to seeing Music Haven thrive and grow, but at the same time I’d be making a mistake if I didn’t model the kind of life and family that I wish for all the children and families in Music Haven,” Tina Hadari said. The executive director position will be posted in early November, and a board-led search committee will begin interviewing potential candidates in January 2015. Once hired, the new director will work alongside Hadari until she steps down on June 30. Although several members of the organization attributed the non-profit’s success to Hadari, they also said the organization is currently positioned to continue its growth under new leader-
ship. Colin Benn, the quartet’s violist, said he is excited about entering the next phase of Music Haven under new leadership because the group could “go in any number of directions.” The core of Music Haven’s programs is currently the free music lessons and string instruments provided to 81 children from New Haven’s Empowerment Zone — a collection of congressionally designated underserved neighborhoods. Each member of the Haven String Quartet — Music Haven’s resident quartet — gives music lessons on weekday afternoons and performs in New Haven on some weekends. Each student enrolled at Music Haven, aged five through 16, receives two private lessons each week, except for first-year students, who have group lessons. All costs are covered under Music Haven’s budget, half of which comes from individual donations. The rest of the organization’s funding comes from foundations, the government, the earned revenue from quartet performances and corporations. In the coming years, the organization hopes to expand into untapped neighborhoods to reach a broader range of New Haven students, said Yaira Matyakubova, one of the quartet’s violinists. “Our secret mission is to infiltrate the city with music,” said Netta Hadari, adding that currently, application to the program is highly competitive, with over 20 children currently on the waitlist. To reach the point that Music Haven is at now, Tina Hadari said it went through a few challenging years. She said starting the organization in New Haven was especially difficult because the town houses a lot of transients. Due to the high number of groups that
originate in New Haven and then move elsewhere, neighborhood residents do not expect permanence from local start-ups. She mentioned a four or five year time frame after which the community trusts an organization and is willing to partner with it. Gregory Tompkins, one of two violinists in the quartet, attributed the growth of Music Haven to Hadari’s leadership. The diversity of the board members she recruited also contributed to the continued success of the program, he said. Parents from the organization also praised Hadari for her commitment to the program. “[Tina and Netta] didn’t have a life until her first baby was born. They give everything to the kids at Music Haven,” said Becky Jones, whose granddaughter Denasha also takes music lessons through Music Haven. Inez Valezquez, the mother of a student at Music Haven, said the program and the string quartet had given her son, Noel, excellent role models. Noel shows up to rehearsals even when he doesn’t have to, she said. While the Hadaris are unsure of their plans for next year, they both feel optimistic about what the future might hold. Tina Hadari speculated that both she and her husband would continue to work for social justice in some capacity. “The world is open to us right now,” Netta Hadari said. The Haven String Quartet’s first concert of the 2014–’15 season is this Saturday at the Unitarian Society of Hartford and is titled “The Architecture of Sound.” Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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ACA sheds light on medical industry finances BY AMAKA UCHEGBU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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improvement. “It’s an academic online program with no grades, supervised by admissions and put together by a team of IT service people and scholars and administrators,” said O’Neill. “We spent a long time planning, and we spent a long time talking about what we should try to achieve, what we could achieve and how to achieve it. Now that everything’s built, we’re talking about what worked and what didn’t.”
As the Affordable Care Act enters its second year of offering health care exchanges, it has brought to light the financial links between patients’ doctors and the medical industry. The Physician Payment Sunshine Act, passed in 2010 as a provision of the ACA, requires payments and gifts that physicians receive from corporations to be made publicly available for the first time. A website with all the information about payments, titled Open Payments, launched on Sept. 30. According to data compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, 5,400 Connecticut physicians received a total of $6 million for various services to pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Three of the highest paid physicians in the state of Connecticut were affiliated with Yale. Still, New Haven medical practitioners and industry experts said the unprecedented release of information will not have a discernible effect on doctorpatient relationships. “My gut feeling is that patients won’t know what to do with the data,” Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said. Patients are unlikely to engage with the “fiddly” and unintuitive web interface, which does not provide specific information about the nature of the payments, Alpern said. Peter Swenson, a political science professor who specializes in the politics and economics of health care, agreed that the act will have “virtually no effect on patient behavior.” Even if the act has little effect, industry experts conceded that most medical professionals are not overwhelmingly supportive of the act because they because they believe it can lead to ambiguous interpretations. Alpern, one of the three physicians in Connecticut receiving the highest amount in reimbursements from pharmaceutical companies, explained that the data set does not differentiate between various types of financial interactions in which doctors partake, especially at research universities and teaching hospitals. “If a grant comes to Yale for a doctor to do a clinical trial, those dollars show up as though they are a salary — and those two things are totally different,” Alpern said. School of Medicine professor Bridget Martell and Richard Lifton, chair of the department of genetics and internal medicine at the medical school, were the two other Yale-affiliated doctors featured among the 10 highest-paid physicians in the state of Connecticut. Howard Forman, School of Medicine professor and director of the MD-MBA
program, warned that the information could lead patients to make incorrect conclusions about the incentives under which their physicians operate. “Some individuals may see ‘oh, my doctor got paid $400,000 this year — he must be an expert,’ while others would think ‘he got paid $400,000 this year — he got bought off,” he said. According to Alpern, the intentions behind the act came from a good place, but since so few doctors are unduly influenced by payments from pharmaceutical companies, the law may not have as great an impact as envisioned. While a small number of doctors will make decisions that inappropriately align with the interests of the companies paying them, most will no, he added. Nevertheless, physicians interviewed agreed that transparency is a vital component of functional health care systems. “People have the right to know this information,” Forman said. At Yale, strict policies prohibiting faculty from engaging in speakers bureaus — sponsored talks in which academic physicians promote the products of pharmaceutical companies under the guise of educational talks — have historically minimized conflicts of interest between physicians and outside companies. According to Swenson, the act was intended to impact more than just patients. He said it will impact the marketing practices of drug companies, including their willingness to pay doctors for promotional activities “disguised as information and education [talks] about new, expensive and possibly not very effective drugs.” According to Forman, the new data could also give insurance companies an indication of which physicians are likely to be high or low cost providers. And having information on all of those things is a net plus, he said. “In a social networking able world, increasingly, people look to Yelp for restaurant reviews and similar websites for the input of others,” Swenson said. “We rely very much on information that others provide.” Because this is the first time such detailed information is being made available, it is unclear how hospitals like Yale-New Haven will be impacted, he said. “At this point, all we can do is speculate,” he said. The Physician Payment Sunshine Act was first introduced in 2007 by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and then Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI). Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” JIM HENSON MUPPETS PUPPETEER
ARC report yet to spur change in faculty hiring ARC REPORT FROM PAGE 1 min Polak, the report mandated that the number of FAS faculty remain constant at roughly 700. Gendler said that given a turnover of roughly five percent each year, approximately 35 faculty members can be hired in a year. Despite substantial discussion of the report this year, faculty interviewed noted a lack of clarity regarding the implementation of the ARC recommendations. “It is difficult to understand exactly how the new system is to work,” said English professor Jill Campbell. “I find that most faculty share my confusion and sense of only partial understanding of the implementation of ARC recommendations.”
ONE SIZE FITS ALL?
Several faculty interviewed said that even if the ARC was successful in achieving its aims, it will only have a marginal effect on the University. “The ARC report outlines the very precise procedure of basically keeping things the way they are and precise sub-procedures for making small changes,” computer science department chair Joan Feigenbaum said. She added that even despite its best efforts, the report’s implementation will likely not resolve issues regarding hiring within her department. English professor Jill Campbell said the strict cap on total appointments per year means that departments’ requests for approval of a position will necessarily be in direct competition with each other for a very limited overall supply of approved hiring requests. MCDB professor Joel Rosenbaum said that this year the MCDB department was understaffed by approximately seven faculty members. After requesting permission to hire three more, the department received for only one. Further, WGSS Professor Inderpal Grewal said that last Spring her department’s requests to hire were turned down on the grounds that there were no slots — the unit of faculty positions — to offer. This is due, she said, to the report’s outlined aims to only reserve slots for diversity, new programs or spousal situations. Still, other faculty members interviewed said the findings of the report are a step in the right direction. English professor Wai Chee Dimock GRD ‘82 said there is a clear sense that the new initiatives outlined in the report are being supported in practice. The Department of English is currently in the process of making a senior appointment in Anglophone-African literature, which she said will strengthen the ties between English and other departments, including Afri-
can Studies, African-American Studies and comparative literature. “[This appointment] was unthinkable just a few years ago and putting Yale ahead of virtually all peer institutions,” she said. “While this appointment is made using a departmental slot, the very existence of ‘pool slots’ adds flexibility to the recruitment process.” The report also recommended the creation of a faculty resource pool, in which group of slots would be collected from departments and distributed to meet larger academic goals of the University. She added it is the goal of the FRC to be able to approve searches on departmental slots either that year of the year subsequent, adding this approval is not a question of “whether,” but rather “when.”
TIMELINE ARC REPORT 2005 to 2014 All department slots created during this time are treated as incremental slots, a status that lies between department and FAS slots. April 2005 Provost Andrew Hamilton appoints a committee to review FAS faculty appointment and tenure system, the fourth of its kind since 1950. February 2007 The Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Appointments Policy Committee is released. Outlines current FAS tenure and promotion system.
August 2012 Provost Peter Salovey tasks Academic Review Committee to prepare report to review Nordhaus Committee findings
DIVING IN
Gendler said the flow into this new common pool is based, in part, on the rate of senior faculty departures. When a senior faculty member leaves, a half slot opening enters the common pool. The Faculty Resource Committee has been tasked, according to the report, with allocating these half slots to match with existing half slots in departments. Still, some faculty said felt this common pool system will not solve for larger issues facing the FAS. “What I do understand is that this pool is going to be very, very tiny, so it is simply going to be insufficient in the long run,” computer science professor Michael Fischer said. Campbell said that since departments must compete with each other for a centralized number of slots before they can move to advertise or fill a position, one risk is that departments will lose control of appointing faculty to the “personal judgment” of administration-appointed divisional directors. She added that following the Nordhaus report, the ARC aimed to restore greater autonomy to department. However, she was uncertain if this would be applied in practice. “It is cold comfort, then, for a department to know it ‘owns’ or ‘controls’ those empty positions if it cannot seek to fill them until given approval, as its needs are weighed against the proposals of other departments and programs by a small, appointed group,” she added. Gendler disagreed with the argument that the pool would only offer small changes. “The expectation is that in any given year there will be probably 12 half slots in the pool, which is not a trivial number,” she said. “Over a 5 year period, there are 30 slots that come into the pool; over a decade, there are over 60
March 2012 Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Resources and Budgeting for Faculty of Arts and Sciences ("Nordhaus Committee") issues its report, serves as pre-cursor to ARC report.
Fall 2013 About ten percent of all slots in the "slot book" are designated as University slots (about 80). December 2013 A preliminary recommendation for five percent across-the-board cut in authorized slots in an attempt to lower vacancy rate is made. April 2013 and December 2013 ARC chair Steven Berry makes formal presentations to the Joint Board of Permanent Officers of the FAS. March 2014 Provost presents to the ARC a more principled reduction compared to an initial five percent across-the-board cut. April 30, 2014 Report of the FAS Academic Review Committee is released to FAS ladder faculty.
May 2014 A special FAS faculty meeting discusses report.
Oct. 30, 2014 it is the six month anniversary of the ARC report being issued. SARA SEYMOUR/PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
slots that come into the pool— those don’t seem like a trivial numbers.” Berry said it is still too early to report on the operation of the pool since it is a transition year and departments are still in the early stages of formulating hiring requests for next year. Gendler said the FRC meets every two weeks, and while it does not have formal proposals from departments yet, she hopes the approval process will be up and running by January. She said that in the fall, the committee has learned to read the slot book — a document kept in the Provost’s office that lists all the departmental slots — and hear presentations by chairs of different divisions.
CLEAN-CUT
Another major finding of the report was the formation of principled cuts, which in March 2014 — after faculty backlash — replaced an initial five percent cut across the board in authorized slots. The goal of these cuts is to keep the number of faculty constant while lowering slot vacancy rates across the FAS. Berry said that a clear majority of departments prefer these new procedures compared to acrossthe-board cuts. But he added that while the faculty would have preferred a situation in which the budget allowed for all promised slots to be filled, the current system is a relatively good solution. Still, others said there is
uncertainty about how these cuts would affect departments. Campbell said that although departments now have clearer information about the number of faculty positions they retain post “haircut,” she said the current system of approval for actual use of the positions means that these positions can be on the books without actually being filled. Campbell added that it is a challenge to get a clear understanding of how ARC recommendations are actually being applied. “It is difficult at this point to determine whether the spirit of [the report’s] aim has been preserved in the changes we have seen thus far,” Campbell said. Most faculty members inter-
viewed said a tangible impact of the report will only be seen over time. Political Science Professor Steve Wilkinson said since the regular 2014-2015 department positions were approved under the previous system, the FRC’s contributions will not be fully clear until the next summer. “I have no doubt that there are people who don’t understand its nuances,” Gendler said. “It may be that what they are wondering is what will the process look like, and the answer to that is I don’t know and I wouldn’t presume to impose that from above, that is the FRC’s to determine.” Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
Scientists learn to convey complex topics spondent for NBC News , as a way to teach postdoctoral scholars and graduate students in the sciences how to effectively convey their often technical and complicated work to people outside of the profession. “It was something I proposed when I first came here,” Bazell explained. “I knew it would be very helpful because a big part of working in the sciences is communicating your work clearly to the public.” Wednesday’s session, the first of the series and led by Long Wharf Theatre’s artistic director Gordon Edelstein, focused on
presentation and public speaking. Edelstein led a room of about 20 students through various improvisation and acting games, one of which involved imitating a partner in both speech and hand motions. When asked what they learned from the experience, students commented on the importance of eye contact and body language for informing a partner’s next move. Some of Edelstein’s other activities included using games to highlight the importance of collective group efforts. “A lot of individualists in this room, they need to become more collectivist,” Edelstein announced
at one point in the night. “Nobel prizes go to everyone, people!”
A lot of individualists in this room, they need to become more collectivist. GORDON EDELSTEIN Artistic director, Long Wharf Theatre
According to Bazell, the program was incredibly popular when it first opened it to the Yale com-
munity — 100 people signed up in the first hour alone. Students like Eric Wohleb, a postdoctoral scholar in the psychiatry department, joined the program because he saw it as an opportunity to learn valuable communication skills. He said he especially enjoyed the unorthodox nature of the session because he felt it gave him a new perspective with which to view his field. “It’s really beneficial,” he explained. “When you are in communication, you can’t just stick to your science box.” For others, like Will Olds GRD ’16, a student in the genetics
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department, the program served as an opportunity to delve further into his passions. Olds explained that he is interested in pursuing science policy, which requires the ability to effectively communicate with people who do not specialize in scientific fields. Attending the session on Wednesday afternoon was a step in improving his ability to do just that, he said. Edelstein stated that though he has never worked with science students before, he loved the experience. “It’s particularly fun for me to take willing, highly accomplished
science people, and get them to loosen up and hopefully help them in their communication skills,” explained Edelstein. “It’s actually a tremendous amount of fun for me.” Bazell said that he hoped to continue this program next year, especially since he was unable to accept all the students who tried to enroll this year due to limited space. New York Times science columnist Carl Zimmer ’87 will teach the program’s next session. Contact JOYCE GUO at joyce.guo@yale.edu .
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“America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.” BILL BRYSON AMERICAN AUTHOR
Quinnipiac bans Uber BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER The rideshare service Uber was banned at Quinnipiac University last week, sparking questions in the Yale community over the service’s practices and safety. According to the Quinnipiac Chronicle, the school’s public safety officials said they decided to ban Uber on campus because they concluded that the service does not abide by Connecticut taxi laws and regulations. In the article, Chief of Public Safety David Barger specifically cited lack of thorough background checks of drivers as one of the reasons for the ban. Yale Public Safety declined to comment on the issue and has not released a statement regarding Uber’s presence on Yale’s campus. “[Public Safety is] here to ensure our safety, so if they aren’t approving of it, I guess there’s reason,” Jennifer Wank, a senior at Quinnipiac, said in the article. “If I heard people were using it and were fine, though, I would.” Northeast regional Uber representatives did not return requests for comment on the issue. But, in a September article responding to Uber’s debut in College Station, Texas, Uber Regional Expansion General Manager Pooneet Kant stressed that the service pro-
vides a safe and affordable transit option for students on college campuses. “We have an industry leading insurance policy,” Kant said. “It’s a $1 million policy that covers riders whenever they’re riding in an Uber trip.” According to Uber’s website, each driver undergoes a background check process that includes county, multi-state and federal checks going back seven years, historical and ongoing motor vehicle checks, a national sex offender registry screen and a social security trace. In September, certificates for free Uber ride were placed in the P.O. boxes of Yale students as part of the campus advertising campaign. Since then, students interviewed who have used Uber expressed mixed feelings on the service’s presence on campus. Julia Rosenheim ’16 said she took her friend to a hospital in an Uber because a taxi took too long to arrive. She added that she thought the app’s driver rating system incentivized good driving. After every trip, Uber riders can rate drivers and provide feedback. But other students said they had less positive experiences. “There’s no vetting process — so I don’t feel safe,” Alero Egbe ’17 said. “They only do one background check, and I don’t feel that
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Citing safety and regulatory concerns, nearby Quinnipiac University has banned Uber, a popular rideshare service. that’s enough. Taxis are organized and have a central authority, and, if I was going somewhere late at night, I would call a taxi.” Isi Hummel ’17 said that she thinks of Uber as less of a taxi replacement, and more of a system of connecting “a person who can drive safely a car to someone who needs a ride.” She said that, although she was
not fully aware of the company’s structure, she uses the service because of the expedience and reliability of the vehicles. After Uber’s entry into the New Haven area, the company’s presence has come under fire from local taxi companies, who criticize rideshares for their inaccessibility to disabled people, lack of required vehicle maintenance and
Digital humanities go vogue BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER As digitization of library holdings becomes increasingly in vogue, advancements have been made at Yale in analytical research tools for these digital archives. This fall, Librarian for Digital Humanities Research Peter Leonard and Public Services Librarian Lindsay King released results from an ongoing project that aims to employ data mining tools — algorithms that extract information from digital sources — in the analysis of Vogue magazine’s sprawling digital archives. The project is the first largescale digital humanities project in periodicals at Yale and will precipitate other “experiments” to explore the potential of technology to answer research questions in the humanities. “We think of libraries as buying physical books, and Yale libraries will never stop,” Leonard said. “But we also want to develop ways of making sense of large cultural collections.” Computer science professor Holly Rushmeier said the projects involving data mining tools expand, rather than replace, traditional methods for studying the humanities. In the past, large collections could not be completely analyzed by individuals. The Vogue project occurred because ProQuest, a library resource to which
Yale has a perpetual access license, unveiled the entire archive of Vogue — spanning 122 years — for online access in 2011, King said. Leonard said the research in Vogue is a way to explore the data mining technology. King added that Vogue was specifically chosen because of its relevance in popular culture. “Everyone relates to it,” King said. “It’s a way to talk about the technology without academic discussions about the significance of the material.” With assistance from students and professors within the computer science department, King and Leonard customized free, open-source data mining tools — including Bookworm and topic modeling — to fit the online interface. Bookworm, a word search tool, displays trends in word usage over time and sources that might have led to changes in these trends. In topic modeling, computers “read” the text within the archive to find recurring trends in words that tend to appear together. “We think that only humans can read a novel — these computers don’t understand English or women’s fashion,” Leonard said. “But there were uncanny results with robots reading and making decisions about broad themes.” King said the data mining tools found a shift beginning in the 1970s that emphasized women’s health in the magazines. King said these results corrobo-
rate the work of Grace Mirabella, Vogue’s editor-in-chief at the time, to make the magazine less materialistic. Beyond insights into fashion and culture, the project is just one example of how to best implement digital technology to answer humanities-based research questions, Leonard said. Assistant professor in Slavic languages and literatures Marijeta Bozovic said she focuses on using digitization and search tools to analyze the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s collection of the works of Joseph Brodsky, which is too vast to study in its entirety by hand. The process of digitizing library holdings, Leonard said, also speaks to a greater trend in the digital humanities. “The library is exploring what types of infrastructure to use to get better [tools] for more intelligent queries and for finding patterns latent in the data,” he said. He said one of the main challenges in building these tools is working with items that are still under copyright — essentially all works published after 1923. A joint project from 2008 to 2009 with Yale University Library and Microsoft digitized 100,000 books from the library’s holdings. Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .
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The Vogue magazine project will serve as a precursor to various other data mining projects.
insurance and inadequate background checks. Bill Scalzi, the owner of Metro Taxi, which serves the Greater New Haven and Greater Bridgeport area, said he feels rideshare services are a threat to student safety. “I think Quinnipiac certainly made the right choice — they recognized that there is an inher-
ent danger in the way that these are operation,” said Scalzi. “The problem is, there’s no voice in these rideshare companies — there’s no number to call.” Uber was founded in 2009, and is currently active in over 200 cities worldwide. Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .
West Haven shopping center plans advance BY NOAH KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two developers have taken on one of the most extensive building projects in West Haven’s history by partnering with West Haven Mayor Edward O’Brien on a 350,000-square-foot shopping center called “The Haven.” In early June, developer Sheldon Gordon of Greenwich and investor Ty Miller of Dallas announced plans to construct a $200 million high-end shopping center with around 100 outlet stores, six restaurants, a hotel and apartments. They selected the West River Crossing site, a vacant property on which West Haven has built over the past two decades. The Haven will also feature a parking lot with more than 2,000 above-ground spaces, including areas for valet and covered parking. The project recently generated significant attention when Gov. Dannel Malloy visited the site late last week to pledge his support. “When government comes together — state, local and federal — when the private sector comes to the table and when there are great community leaders … we can get things done,” Malloy said at a meeting held at the site. The West River Crossing site includes a four-acre stretch of contaminated public land along New Haven Harbor that used to be the location of the Connecticut Refining Company. In August, the state pledged $2 million to remediate the soil. The site also includes 20 privately owned properties along Water, Main and Elm Streets, the purchase of which O’Brien and the city are nearly finished negotiating. “This will make West Haven a destination place,” O’Brien said in a meeting at West Haven City Hall. Gordon said The Haven will aim to reach an affluent market extending well beyond West Haven. It will be unique among outlet malls in that it will incorpo-
rate exclusively high-end retailers as opposed to mixing them with mass appeal stores. “We’re taking only the best retailers, so that people know exactly what they’re coming here for,” he said. “This is the only center that we know of in the world that has been designed to have exclusively high-end outlets.” In addition to attracting visitors from outside the city, O’Brien said that the project will generate around 1,200 entry-, mid- and executive-level jobs. It will create hundreds of construction jobs and generate more than $3 million in annual tax revenue for the city, he said. He also said that there has been a large outpouring of support for the project by local businesses, many of which believe that it will help correct the false perception of West Haven as a city unfriendly to businesses. Both of the project’s developers have a wealth of experience in the field. Forbes Magazine described Gordon as “a powerful if underchronicled influence in the mall business over the last quartercentury.” He was responsible for the construction of the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, one of the city’s most popular malls, as well as the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace in both Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Miller was responsible for developing Highland Park Village in Dallas. Gordon said that he expects to begin initial construction by March 2015 and to open in fall 2016. He and O’Brien have already met with Malloy to address the complex implications the project will have for transportation in West Haven and its surrounding areas, including but not limited to enhancements to nearby Interstate 95 exit ramps. Gordon has been building malls professionally for 45 years. Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .
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Giving Day kicks off with high expectations BY DYLAN COOPER Wednesday marks the third annual Columbia Giving Day, Columbia Alumni Association’s day-long fundraising competition for the University’s 25 schools and programs. The schools and programs will compete for over $450,000 in matching gifts, while the University will try to beat its record of the $7.8 million raised last year. As of 2:22 a.m. on Wednesday, more than $1,322,000 had been raised in total with a total of 1,024
gifts. “ W h a t makes Giving Day so unique is the coming together of the ColumCOLUMBIA bia community,� CloEve Demmer, director of the alumni association’s annual fund, said. “It’s a neat day, and you can feel a movement — you can feel the energy throughout the day.� The third annual Giving Day
marks the end of what Demmer calls a highly successful threeyear trial period. Last year’s Giving Day drew in an 84 percent increase in gifts over the previous year from all 50 states and 53 countries, raising $7.8 million after the first Giving Day in 2012 pooled $6.8 million in donations. Although no decisions have been made on whether Giving Day will become an official annual fundraising effort, Demmer is confident it will stick around. “I think the Columbia com-
munity gets to decide what the future of Giving Day is,� Demmer said. “Time will tell. Right now we’re thinking this is feeling like a really cool tradition.� The day is driven by a plethora of on- and off-campus activities, hourly prize challenges, and a huge social media campaign. Columbia’s various schools, programs, and donors, spread the word using the hashtag #ColumbiaGivingDay on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. One particular novelty for this year’s campaign is the introduc-
tion of Columbia Giving Day Advocates — representatives from each school and programs who promote the day on social networks and can earn their respective schools and programs early matching funds. “It’s been a great buzz thus far as we’ve had campus events — Alumni Leaders Weekend in earlier October, Homecoming last weekend,� Christina Sebastian, director for Annual Fund Programs, said. “We already have 3,000 advocates who are backing one of their schools and programs
to show their support in advance and to engage the audience and awareness of Giving Day. If that’s any indication, we’re really excited about a strong turnout.“ Individuals schools are also planning activities aimed at engaging more donors, such as the School of General Studies’ “Drench the Dean� activity where donors will get the chance to drench General Studies Dean of Students Tom Harford by hitting a bull’s eye with a ball that subsequently pops a balloon full of water over Harford.
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dard method for predicting likely voters — surveying people about whether they were likely voters and whether they were going to vote in the upcoming election, Morone said. The second poll’s process for predicting likely voters was more rigorous because it involved calling people who had voted in the 2012 general election and in either the 2012 primaries, the 2010 midterm elections or the 2010 primaries, Morone added. The results of the most recent poll reveal that Raimondo “is having serious problems with her base,� Morone said. According to the Taubman Center’s cross-tabulations, half of Democrats support Raimondo, one-fourth support Fung and one-tenth support Healey. Some Democrats may not vote for Raimondo due to her support of a major pension overhaul, which was controversial and unpopular with union-affiliated voters, MacKay said. “If the election were held tomorrow, Raimondo would win by two points,� Morone predicted. The second poll also surveyed voter preference on the attorney general’s race. Results show that Democratic candidate Peter Kilmartin has a 13-point lead over Republican opponent Dawson Hodgson.
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Less than a week before the Nov. 4 general election, gubernatorial candidates Democrat Gina Raimondo and Republican Allan Fung are in a statistical tie for the lead, according to a Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions poll released Tuesday. This newest poll comes just five days after the Taubman Center’s previous poll released Oct. 23, which showed Raimondo leading by 11 percentage points. Tuesday’s results indicate 38 percent of voters surveyed expressed support for Raimondo, while 37.4 percent showed support for Fung. The poll has a margin of error of 4.4 percent, according to the Taubman press release. Volatility is normal in an election, but “this is really strange,� said Scott MacKay, a political analyst for Rhode Island Public Radio. The disparity between the two polls could be explained by the fact that 500 of the 1,129 people surveyed in the first poll were from Providence, disproportionate to the population ratios, MacKay said. Patrick Sweeney, Fung’s campaign manager, criticized the Oct. 23 poll for “oversampling� people from the Democratic-
leaning city of Providence, the Providence Journal reported. Independent candidate Robert Healey BROWN — whose support increased from 9.1 to 11.8 percent from the first poll to the second — also said the original poll was likely skewed toward Democrats. But the Taubman Center did not run the second poll in response to the backlash, said James Morone, director of the Taubman Center. Instead, it began working on the most recent poll just one hour after releasing the Oct. 23 poll because it was criticized for not originally covering the attorney general’s race, he added. The Taubman Center looked carefully at the differences in voting preferences between Providence and the rest of Rhode Island and found no systematic difference, Morone said. The Taubman Center oversampled Providence residents in order to accurately poll for the Providence mayoral race, he added. “Providence was the perfect microcosm of Rhode Island,� Morone said. The Oct. 23 poll used a stan-
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The Tuck School of Business has placed more of its graduates into jobs within three months of graduation than it has in years. A full 98 percent of Tuck graduates had received job offers within three months of graduation. Tuck Career Development Director Jonathan Masland said that the figure was the highest he had seen during his 10 years at the school. Last year, 95 percent had received job offers within three months after graduation. “It’s definitely an accomplishment,� Masland said. Tuck’s base salaries grew by 2.5 percent to a mean of $117,860. Masland said that he expects the figure will place Tuck among the top four busi-
n e s s schools nationally. T h e lowest base salary re p o r te d by a Tuck DARTMOUTH g r a d u ate was $60,000, while the highest was $225,000. Stanford Business School reported a mean base salary of $129,618 this year. In 2013, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School reported a median base salary of $125,000, while Harvard Business School reported one of $120,000. Eighty-seven percent of Tuck’s class of 2014 received a signing bonus, which averaged $28,712, down from $29,237 last year. In addition to sala-
ries and signing bonuses, 38 percent of Tuck’s 2014 graduates reported receiving “other guaranteed compensation,� which may include guaranteed performance bonuses or profitsharing agreements. Students may also receive relocation aid, tuition reimbursement, stock options and carried interest, although that figure was not included in the other guaranteed compensation figures. Last year, 73 percent of Harvard Business School graduates received a signing bonus, the median of which was $25,000. Sixty-three percent of Wharton graduates received a signing bonus in 2013, with a median bonus of $25,000. In 2014, 50 percent of Stanford Business School graduates reported receiving a signing bonus, which averaged $26,689.
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“I think anything is a realistic option at this stage. We can’t rule anything out in the future.” CHRIS PRONGER FORMER GOLD MEDALIST AND NHL MVP
Bulldogs shoot for another title fact, eight Bulldogs were participants in National Hockey League camps during the offseason. But in their first contest of the season, the Bulldogs fell short. In an exhibition against the University of Alberta, the defending Canadian champions, last Friday, the Elis lost 3–0. Leading this year’s squad is captain Tommy Fallen ’15, who scored seven goals last year to lead all Yale defensemen. Fallen was also named to the ECAC All-Academic team last year and currently sits at fifth on Yale’s all-time goals list for blueliners. “Being elected captain by my teammates is really awesome, and it’s very humbling that the guys and the coaching staff think highly of [me],” Fallen said. “[But] we don’t just have leadership coming from one guy.” Fallen and defenseman Matt Killian ’15 have played integral roles in the team’s success over the past three years. Together, Fallen and Killian have played in a combined 186 games in Yale Blue. Other veteran contributors on defense are Obuchowski and fellow defensemen Rob O’Gara ’16, Mitch Witek ’16 and Dan O’Keefe ’17. Obuchowski, who led the defense with 20 points last year, noted the difficulties the Bulldogs face in competing in such a pow-
BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With the glow of the 2013 National Championship behind them, the Yale men’s hockey team will once again look to establish their dominance in an increasingly competitive college hockey landscape. This year’s ECAC figures to be an incredibly difficult conference, with the last two NCAA champions — Yale and reigning champ Union — as well as three of the last four semifinalists. But 18 lettermen are returning this year after the Elis’ fifth-place finish in the conference last season, and the team hopes to build off of the strong foundation laid by veteran players and capitalize on the skills of a talented incoming freshman class. “I think from a defensive standpoint, and a team standpoint more importantly, our goal is to win championships,” defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. “Winning them is no easy task, but with that being said, our expectation is to win those and be constantly competing for those.” While practice officially began on Oct. 17, the team started working well before then through preseason practices and development programs over the summer. In
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drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the third round of the 2013 draft, acknowledged that more is expected of him this season. “I think I definitely have higher expectations this year,” Hayden said. “With a year of college under my belt, I expect more things. I’m a lot more comfortable with the college game.” An exceptional freshman class also adds to the Bulldogs’ prospects. On offense, forwards John Baiocco ’18, Henry Hart ’18 and Ryan Hitchcock ’18, who was part of the U.S. National Team Development Program, all have the potential to contribute on scoring. Meanwhile, defensemen Adam Larkin ’18 and Nate Repensky ’18, both former players in the United States Hockey League, have the chance to impact the Bulldogs’ postseason chances at the other end of the rink. All three players interviewed noted the potential of the incoming class and explained the role of returning team members in their development. “All of the returning guys are expected to be leaders and to lead by example on and off the ice,” Fallen said. “I think that’s really helped some of the freshmen come along quite nicely.” Last year, the Bulldogs swept
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The Yale men’s hockey team is eager to reclaim their title as national champions. Harvard in the first round of the ECAC Tournament before falling to Quinnipiac and missing out on a bid to the NCAA tournament. In order to make the 2015 tournament, the Elis will have to navigate a difficult conference schedule. Three nationally ranked teams, including two of the top four squads, No. 2 Union and No. 4 Colgate, each appear on Yale’s schedule twice. Additionally, this year’s muchanticipated “Rivalry on Ice” matchup against Harvard, which
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After one of the most memorable national championship runs in recent memory, the Bulldogs fell back down to earth in the 2013-14 season, posting a 10-8-4 ECAC record. Unfortunately for the Elis, their top two offensive options, captain Jesse Root ’14 and forward Kenny Agostino ’14, have both graduated. However, the Elis were also blessed with a multitude of offensive options last season. Yale has 11 returning players who posted a double-digit point total last season, meaning that the core of its offense is still in place. With just five new freshmen and a host of returning players, the Elis will likely have one of the most experienced squads in the ECAC, which should allow them to more easily build on last year’s successes. Both a top three ECAC finish and a deep NCAA tournament run could be in the cards for this Bulldog team.
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The Bears hope to capitalize on the fact that their top three scorers from last year — Mark Nacierio, Nick Lappin and Matt Lorito — are all returning for the 2014-15 season. Head coach Brendan Whittet, now in his sixth year as head coach, is relying on the leadership of Naclerio and Lorito as captains and Lappin as assistant captain to propel Brown further into the postseason this year. The Bears also look to improve on their ninth place finish in 2013-14 with the help of defensive powerhouse Brandon Pfeil. While the preseason coaches’ poll picked them to finish seventh, Brown hopes to overcome the loss of three key senior defensemen through the addition of 10 skilled incoming freshmen.
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Twelve of Cornell’s top 14 scorers are returning this year, and the Big Red have been picked to finish fourth in the preseason coaches’ poll. The team, also ranked No. 15 in national polls, just missed a bid to the NCAA tournament last year. In order to win the ECAC in 2015, Cornell will need its core of six veteran seniors to perform this season. The Big Red will also rely heavily on junior Joakim Ryan, who was ranked 11th in the nation in points per game by a defenseman, to fill the gap left by two graduated blueliners. With seven members included in the NHL entry draft, the Big Red hopes this squad will be the one to capture the ECAC title.
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10-17-4 10th [6-12-4]
The Crimson opens a newly renovated hockey center this season, but it does so with a team picked to finish ninth in the ECAC. Though Harvard returns preseason all-conference forward Jimmy Vesey, as well as all 12 of its top scorers from a year ago, the Cantabs finished last season tied for 10th in the conference with just 16 points. It will take improvement from their skaters as well as a smooth adjustment to the full-time job by goaltender Steve Michalek for Harvard to challenge the conference's top tier. Regardless, the "Rivalry on Ice" at Madison Square Garden against Yale promises to be a highlight of both teams' seasons.
PRINCETON ron fogarty 1st [0–0–0]
KEY GAMES NOV. 8 DEC. 27 JAN. 9 jan. 30
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
12th
9th
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SETH APPERT 9th [114–152–37]
KEY GAMES NOV. 1 NOV. 15 DEC. 5 JAN. 30
@ UNION QUINNIPIAC @ YALE @ DARTMOUTH
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
10th
COLGATE @ QUINNIPIAC UNION @ YALE
15-16-6 7th [8-9-5]
The Engineers posted an 8-9-5 record in the ECAC last season, emerging as the top-ranked ECAC squad with a record under .500. Unfortunately for an RPI squad looking to rise into the top half of the ECAC table, its non-conference campaign this year has not started out as hoped. The Engineers sit at 1-5 after their first six non-conference matchups. Ultimately, head coach Seth Appert’s squad has shown inconsistent results since he took over prior to the start of the 2006-07 season. The Engineers have had mixed results, never emerging at more than seven games above 0.500. Given a slow start for the Engineers, this season may unfold as one of the more forgettable ones for Appert and his squad.
3RD [33–35–8]
KEY GAMES NOV. 8 NOV. 22 FEB. 7 FEB. 28
@ YALE QUINNIPIAC UNION @ RPI
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
11th
6-26-0 11th [4-18-0]
Princeton has nowhere to go but up. The team finished last in the ECAC in 2013 with a 4-18 conference record. Unfortunately for the Tigers, two of their top offensive players, Andrew Ammon and Andrew Calof, graduated. The pair combined for 33 of the team’s 123 points over the course of the season, meaning that their production on offense will be sorely missed. Without a truly dynamic scoring threat, Princeton may struggle offensively once more, as younger players are forced to step up. Fortunately for the Tiger offense, forward Ryan Siiro, who had Princeton’s third highest points total with 11, is returning to the team as a sophomore. If he can develop as an offensive threat, Princeton may find the talisman they need to put up points.
ST. LAWRENCE GREG CARVEL
After being picked to finish last in the ECAC in 2013, the Golden Knights beat expectations when they won 21 games and stormed their way to a fifth-place tie in the conference with Yale. After four of its top five scorers graduated, however, Clarkson — picked to finish eighth this year — is hoping for another unexpected run. With the Golden Knights boasting a tandem of solid goaltenders, it will be up to head coach Casey Jones to replace departed scorers, determine the best goalie for the team and try to win the conference title.
DARTMOUTH
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
HARVARD
21-17-4 6th [11-9-2]
8th
CORNELL MIKE SCHAFER
@ YALE QUINNIPIAC @ MICHIGAN ST. UNION
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
11th [136–156–39]
Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
7th
20-14-5 2nd [13-6-3]
The Raiders capped off the 2013-14 season in second place in the ECAC with a record of 13-6-3. Given that Colgate will return all but two members of last season’s team, a similar performance is likely. A colossal nine-player sophomore class will be the heart of the 2014-15. What is more, the top nine scorers will all be returning to the Raiders. At the top of the scoring list is the Spink brothers, who were one-two in points last season. Finally, a freshman, Charlie Finn, earned most of the minutes in the 2013-14 season and will return this year.
11-17-3 9th [8-13-1]
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
TED DONATO
ended in a 5–1 Yale win in 2014, will once again take place in Madison Square Garden on Jan. 10. But even with that difficult schedule, Yale was picked to finish fourth in the conference in the preseason coaches’ poll, one spot ahead of local rival Quinnipiac. Yale begins the regular season against Princeton in the Liberty Hockey Invitational in Newark on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
ECAC BREAKDOWN TEAM-BY-TEAM ANALYSIS
COLGATE DON VAUGHAN
erhouse conference. “Our league and the rest of college hockey is very deep and every game is a tough one. Every night we go into a game, we have to expect a challenge. Challenges are going to look different night in and night out,” Obuchowski said. No matter how much experience the defense has, much of Yale’s goal-stopping ability will depend on its netminder. Alex Lyon ’17 and Patrick Spano ’17 shared the responsibilities in net last year, though Lyon will likely start the majority of the team’s games this season. Lyon was third in overall saves in the conference last year with 796, while Spano won all three of his starts. On offense, Yale looks to rely on an experienced group of veterans to drive production this year. Three seniors — forwards Anthony Day ’15, Trent Ruffolo ’15 and Nicholas Weberg ’15 — were part of a squad that produced an average of 3.21 goals per game last season, tied for third in the ECAC. Last year’s team also saw great strides from sophomore and junior forwards. Players like Stu Wilson ’16, Mike Doherty ’17 and John Hayden ’17 are among those who had a significant impact on last year’s squad and look to take growing responsibilities as leaders this year. Hayden, who was
21ST [391–248–72]
KEY GAMES NOV. 14 JAN. 9 JAN. 31 FEB. 27
@ UNION RPI @ YALE @ HARVARD
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
24-10-6 3rd [12-6-4]
At 12-6-4, the Bobcats finished third in the ECAC last season. However, despite sitting at third in the league, Quinnipiac allowed the fewest goals amongst the top three ECAC squads. The defensively gifted Bobcats are blessed with much of their defensive core returning this season. The Quinnipiac squad is young, relying mostly upon its juniors and sophomores, and only three seniors are on the Bobcat roster. Two of those seniors, Alex Barron and Danny Federico, figure to provide experience and leadership to a young unit. Regardless of its losses via graduation, Quinnipiac has been a contender in the ECAC for years and there is no reason why that should change as long as Rand Pecknold, entering his 21st season as head coach, remains at the helm.
5th
UNION
15-19-4 8th [7-11-4]
Finishing just below RPI in the 2013 table, the St. Lawrence Saints finished their 2013 season with a 7-11-4 record in the ECAC. Unfortunately for Saints faithful, their most prolific offensive option, Greg Carey, graduated in 2014. Carey accounted for 57 points on the year and was named to the first team All-American squad. Although Carey’s departure is significant, his younger brother Matt was the Saints’ second most productive offensive option in 2013, his first year of eligibility. If he can develop further and fill the void created by his brother’s graduation, St. Lawrence will remain an offensive juggernaut. Furthermore, the Saints have eight freshmen on their roster, giving them a younger corps from which to draw throughout the season and develop for the future. While St. Lawrence may not top the ECAC in the 2014-15 season, they will certainly be well positioned down the road.
In order to challenge for a conference title, experience is a necessity for any hockey team — and the Big Green has that in spades, with the scorers of 98.6 percent of last year's goals returning this season. Senior forwards Eric Neiley, Brandon McNally and Tyler Sikura figure to fill the stat sheet, but the graduation of defenseman Taylor Boldt leaves a void in the back line. Head coach Bob Gaudet has 26 years of experience in the ECAC at Brown and Dartmouth, but his teams have won 20 games in a season just twice. If the Big Green can stave off the injuries that wrecked its 2013–14 campaign, it could give Gaudet his best record ever.
QUINNIPIAC RAND PECKNOLD
10-20-4 11th [7-13-2]
RICK BENNETT 4TH [80–27–16]
KEY GAMES NOV. 14 NOV. 28 FEB. 13 FEB. 21
QUINNIPIAC @ NOTRE DAME YALE @ CORNELL
ECAC PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
2nd
32-6-4 1st [18-3-1]
Given Union’s brilliant 2013-14 season that boasted an 18-3-1 ECAC record and a national championship, nothing less than a repeat Frozen Four appearance will be accepted as success. Union posted a remarkable in-conference goal differential last season that saw them score 83 times while giving up only 42 goals. The key for Union will be avoiding the championship hangover that plagues many successful teams. Yale went through it after the 2012-13 campaign, going from national champions to fifth place in the ECAC. Currently ranked No. 2 in the nation, the Dutchmen will seek to continue their success in a meaningful way this year, and they are off to a blazing start thus far. In its first six non-conference contests, Union is 5-1 and forward Mike Vecchione leads the team with 11 points. Having scored fewer than three goals just once in their non-conference campaign, the Dutchmen are certainly equipped with enough offensive firepower to retain their crown. A repeat ECAC title, if not a repeat national championship, is a distinct possibility for this talented Union outfit.
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“Our team goals for the season are to not get too hyped up by wins and to not get complacent … We’re playing Yale hockey, not down or up to our opponents.”
HEATHER SCHLESIER ’15 IVY LEAGUE HONOR ROLL The San Diego native was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for her performance this past weekend against Penn and Albany. She made 22 saves and posted a save percentage of 0.786 in the two games. Teammate Kiwi Comizio ’18 was also part of the Honor Roll.
MAYA MIDZIK ’16 ACCOLADES ROLLING IN Midzik, along with fellow volleyball players Kelsey Crawford ’18 and Kelly Johnson ’16, was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll after helping lead the Bulldogs to their sixth straight victory. She had 10 kills and a 0.529 hitting percentage, second on the team.
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AURORA KENNEDY ’15 WOMEN’S HOCKEY
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 · yaledailynews.com
Offensive line paving the way for Elis BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a season that has had no shortage of coverage — see, for example, running back Tyler Varga’s ’15 profile in the New York Times last week or ESPN’s coverage of the Army game last month — one group has yet to command the headlines: the Yale offensive line. The five-man unit has been an immovable force as it has dominated opposing defensive lines, protecting quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 and creating holes for Varga to run through. Thanks in part to the robustness of the line, Yale’s offense is averaging 601.8 yards per game, first in the country, and threatening nearly every major offensive school record. The unit’s strength is due in part to its experience, as only two linemen graduated after the 2013 campaign. The remaining three players — left guard Will Chism ’15, center Luke Longinotti ’16 and right tackle Ben Carbery ’15 — all had at least one full season of starting experience coming into the current year. “We were fortunate enough to start all five in the same 10 games last season,” said offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Joe Conlin. That unit, which has remained relatively intact, allowed just three sacks of last year’s starting quarterback, Hank Furman ’14. In the offseason, Longinotti moved from right guard to center, and Khalid Cannon ’17 and Mason Friedline ’17 stepped into left tackle Wes Gavin ’14 and right guard John Oppenheimer’s ’14 positions, respectively. Last year, Cannon played both right and left tackle, but now exclusively lines up on the left and is responsible for protecting the right-handed Roberts’ blind side. According to Conlin, Cannon is
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The Yale offensive line has allowed just five sacks this season, the fewest in the Ivy League. more than up to the task. “He was more comfortable on the right as a freshman,” Conlin said. “Athletically, he’s probably the best athlete we have. He’s probably the best in pass protection, so we felt Khalid as a sophomore had the potential to start at that position.” But athleticism only gets a player so far. The veterans that remained have been invaluable in helping Cannon and Friedline transition to the line, according to the two new starters. “The older guys, like Will Chism, Ben Carbery [and] Luke Longinotti, really helped us,” Cannon said. “They still help me make
my calls sometimes. They help us when we’re watching film, pointing out things we need to be aware of. They’re just really good teammates.” Friedline added that playing next to Longinotti on the line helps, as the junior center is smart and makes all the calls for the offensive line, thus simplifying Friedline’s job. The offensive line’s bonds transcend the field — the group spends significant time together after practice and on the weekends. “I think you can just look at our meeting room to see how close we are,” Friedline added. “We’re really focused when we need to [be], but
we like to joke around a lot, we like to have fun and keep it loose.” It was not until mid-August that the five linemen finally started working together, largely because NCAA regulations prevented the Bulldogs from working extensively in the spring. Even despite this lack of practice time, Cannon and Friedline were able to acclimate to their starting roles. Both had seen game time as backups during the 2013 season, and they increased their repetitions during the offseason. “In spring ball, they got a lot of opportunities and an awful lot of reps,” Conlin said. “They got to compete every day. They both did a
great job learning the offense.” Friedline faced the added challenge of learning a new position; during spring ball, he moved from center to guard. Conlin pointed to Cannon’s strengthened pass protection and Friedline’s improved footwork and pad level as evidence of the effort that both players put in to get ready for the 2014 season. “In the offseason, we lift pretty much every morning of the week,” Cannon said. “[During] spring ball, we’re up at 5:30 every morning to catch the bus to practice. I was here all summer, training and getting ready for the season.” Cannon said he has not been
home since May 30, and Friedline said he has been at school since July. Thanks to this time on campus, however, Cannon and Friedline’s preparations were well underway by the time the season opened. Since then, Roberts has been sacked just five times, the fewest among current Ivy League starters. Despite this impressive statistic, Cannon and Friedline remained modest about their accomplishments. “We’re just taking it one game at a time,” Friedline said. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
Promising start gives Yale hope for season BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
YALE DAILY NEWS
Goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 led the ECAC in saves last year with 1,053 stops in 32 games.
After two straight seasons of improvement, the Yale women’s hockey team hopes to continue its ascent and establish itself as a force to be reckoned with in the ECAC. The Bulldogs kicked off their season this weekend by sweeping Providence, earning two victories for the first time since 1991 — quite a change from the five consecutive losses the Elis began with in 2013 and the seven straight losses in 2011. “We’re really excited about the team and potential we have here heading into this season,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said. “After the growth and experience we saw last year, we’re looking to build off that, and [we] have our sights set on an Ivy League [title] and conference championship, as well as becoming a top 10 nationally ranked team.” With four teams in the ECAC already ranked in the top 10, accomplishing these goals will not be easy for the Elis. The preseason ECAC coaches’ poll picked Yale to finish sixth in the conference, a four-spot improvement from last year’s poll, while rival Harvard was voted first. The team should be fairly similar to last year’s iteration
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after losing just four seniors, with the most noticeable loss being captain Tara Tomimoto ’14, who was named to the AllIvy second team. Even with the small graduating class, however, the Bulldogs are a relatively young team, with eight freshmen and only five seniors. In addition, sophomore forwards Yip-Chuck and Phoebe Staenz ’17 played large roles last season, scoring a combined 21 goals. Staenz was named to the ECAC All-Rookie team last year and earned a bronze medal as a member of the Swiss national team in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Despite the desire for a conference and league title, Yale has other goals on the ice as well. “Our team goals for the season are to not get too involved or hyped up by wins and to not get complacent,” captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 said. “We definitely want to be consistent throughout the year, no matter who we’re playing. We’re playing Yale hockey, not down or up to our opponents.” According to head coach Joakim Flygh, the Yale squad shows promise and depth, and he expects to see all of the players stepping up at some point during the season. If the first two games are any indication, with 11 total
goals, the offense looks strong this season. And with Jaimie Leonoff ’15 in the goal, the defense has a strong base to build from as well. It is Leonoff’s skill in the net, Flygh said, that has propelled the Bulldogs to success in the past two seasons, as she earned the team MVP award both years. With a .924 save percentage or higher in the past two seasons, and with the most saves in the ECAC last year, Leonoff has been a consistently impressive player on the ice. In addition to Leonoff, the Elis have a pair of skaters who have been key in the team’s defense for the past few years. Kennedy and fellow defenseman Kate Martini ’16 each played in all 32 games last season as well as a majority of games in the previous season. Martini led the team in points in 2012-’13, the first time a Yale defenseman did that since the 1983-’84 season. Yale will face tough competition in its schedule, including perennial powerhouses Cornell, Harvard and Clarkson. Flygh also suspects that St. Louis and Quinnipiac will hard games, noting that there are no easy games in this league. According to Yip-Chuck, being in the ECAC always lends itself to a very competitive schedule, and this year is no
different. She is particularly excited for the rivalry game against Harvard, but cautioned the team against looking too far into the future. “Every game in our league is so important that we need to come prepared to play each night and can’t look ahead on the schedule to other games,” Yip-Chuck said. “Heading in to this weekend, our team is viewing [St. Lawrence] as our biggest competition for Friday and Clarkson on Saturday.” The team saw this weekend as a positive indicator of the season to come, as well as a way to help find weaknesses, according to players. “I think we just need to use [this weekend] as a building block,” Kennedy said. “It was definitely a great weekend to see our offense and what they can do. Going forward, we need to focus more on our defense. We can’t rely on our offense to get us out of bad situations in games.” Flygh agreed, saying that the team is excited about its current situation but still has plenty of issues to work on. The Bulldogs will face both St. Lawrence and No. 9 Clarkson on home ice this weekend. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
COMBINED STARTS FOR THE YALE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN. The Bulldogs’ line featured a lot of experience even before this season, as the three returning starters — Ben Carbery ’15, Will Chism ’15 and Luke Longinotti ’16 — combined for 56 total starts entering the 2014 campaign.