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CROSS CAMPUS Halloweekend. It’s here.

Finally. Midterm season is mostly done and the YSO concert is tonight. Enjoy the festivities, most of which are listed in the items below.

There’s a concert tonight?

For those with less-than-fast fingers, the consolation prizes are numerous and noteworthy.

The Crucible, a Shades performance, Macbeth, Twiddle (the Halloween show at Toad’s). Anything and everything you could want on a Friday night.

VOTER APATHY YALIES AND THE GOVERNOR’S RACE

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TERRY LODGE

Despite attempts at reform, note-taking system has yet to change

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Univ. $51 million in black SURPLUS FOLLOWS $39 MILLION DEFICIT IN FY13

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Yale was officially in the black for the 2014 fiscal year.

In the newly released 2013-14 report from the Yale Division of Finance, the University saw a $51 million dollar surplus from operations in fiscal 2014, compared to a

$39 million deficit in the previous year. The report also announced that the University’s net assets grew by $3.3 billion to a total of $25.8 billion, which was attributed to the strong 20.2 percent return on investments on Yale’s endowment in fiscal 2014. Other major contributors to the results included returns from the School of Medicine and the cost-saving activity from the University’s five-year plan to reduce administrative costs by 9 percent.

Despite the gains, Vice President

for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King said new challenges lie ahead for the University.

“From a balance sheet perspective, this was another terrific year, and Yale remains a place with the resources to support its varied and important mission,” she said in the report. “We are heartened by the improved operating performance, and it represents Yale’s measured and successful response to the finan-

Don’t press “M.” The Carillonneurs will be playing a concert this evening featuring classics like “Monster Mash,” “Thriller” and “Hedwig’s Theme.” To this soundtrack, Halloween is sure to dazzle and enchant.

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More than tickets.

Communication and Consent Educators have in their possession four tickets to the YSO show that will go to the winner of the group’s Yaleoween Instagram Scavenger Hunt, which will be held from 7:30 p.m. through 10:30 p.m. tonight. Students behind the best pictures have a chance at the prize, which also includes two simulcast tickets and a pizza party for six at BAR. Rekindling the rivalry.

Yesterday, the New York Times reported on the Connecticut race for U.S. Representative between incumbent Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85 and challenger Mark Greenberg, a Cornell grad. Calling the dynamic between the Ivy Leaguers “nasty” the article also called Esty a “cagey fighter,” likely due to her Bulldog spirit.

MICHELLE OBAMA RALLIES SUPPORT FOR MALLOY The first lady made an appearance yesterday at Wilbur Cross High in support of Gov. Dannel Malloy for the Tuesday’s gubernatorial election. See page 6.

Frankel meets Frank. Late last

night, reality TV star Bethenny Frankel posted a picture of herself eating a slice of Pepe’s pizza, which she dubbed “the best pizza [she’s] ever had!”

You and everyone else, Ms. Frankel.

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2012 A state death investigator and a Yale anthropologist research associate collaborate to trace the human remains discovered underneath a fallen tree on the New Haven Green back to multiple centuries-old skeletons.

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Malloy sends $21.5 million to Coliseum project

BY CAROLINE HART AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS On Thursday — just four days before the gubernatorial election — Gov. Dannel Malloy announced a $21.5 million state contribution to New Haven’s Coliseum Redevelopment project.

The project will connect Orange and South Orange streets in order to link Union Station to the downtown city grid and provide commercial and residential spaces.

The state funding will allow the city to begin initial construction on the project this summer. Canadian development firm LiveWorkLearnPlay has taken on the $395 million project, which, when completed, will include a new hotel and bring 4,700 construction jobs and 2,800 permanent jobs to New Haven. LiveWorkLearnPlay partner Max Reim took the stage with Malloy along with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Mayor Toni Harp and President of the Board of Alders and Ward 5 Alder Jorge Perez at a Thursday press conference to announce the new contribution.

In response to a question about why the announcement was made so close to election day, Malloy joked “shame on you.” He said that he has been working on the project since its inception in 2012, advocating for a hotel to be developed in the first phase and SEE COLISEUM PAGE 4

Singapore upholds law criminalizing gay sex

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS In recent months, campus discussion regarding freedom of expression at Yale-NUS has been focused on Singaporean laws limiting free speech.

But on Wednesday when, Singapore’s highest court upheld a

Stay healthy, kids. A Thursday

article published by the Huffington Post revealed that fewer than 10 percent of college students got their flu shot, according to a recent University of Buffalo study. PSA: Vaccinations are regularly available all over campus, mainly through Yale Health (and occasionally Woolsey Hall).

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The fun continues. The perks of having Halloween land on a Friday? Guilt-free extension of the festivities over numerous days. Events like SigEp’s Spook’d at Elevate and Pierson Inferno headline Saturday night.

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law — Section 377A — criminalizing sex between men, questions arose regarding whether students at Yale-NUS are free to explore their sexual orientation.

The verdict to uphold 377A comes after two separate appeals by three gay men in Singapore who claim that the law violates their human rights.

Though the law has been in

effect since 1938, sources say the law is not enforced in Singapore, including at Yale-NUS. More than a dozen Singaporean students and Yale-NUS professors interviewed — as well as members of the Yale community in New Haven – said the law is not an accurate representation of Singapore’s tolerance towards its gay population.

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Teaching and learning, unconventionally

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS A decade ago, if professor Diana Kleiner had had a crucial question about a detail on a Roman ruin in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, she would have had to get on a plane.

But last semester, while she was teaching her massive open online course “Roman Architecture,” no flight was necessary — the 40,000 students in her course lived on all three continents that the Roman Empire contained at its height. Students who lived close to the relevant monuments often offered to take pictures to share with their classmates.

For Kleiner, who admits that she was skeptical of the format at first, this type of interaction is exactly

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OOCs may steal the spotlight, but, recently, the University has been focusing on other online initiatives, hoping to bring to campus classes that Yalies would otherwise go without. EMMA PLATOFF AND STEPHANIE ROGERS report. what makes MOOCs so valuable. While she initially worried that the type of individual student engagement she values even in lecture courses would not be possible with such a large class, she was pleasantly surprised that she could still get a good sense of the class’s active students through their consistent posts on an online forum. Far from feeling alienated from her students, Kleiner got to know the active ones so well that on a trip to Rome

this summer, she visited some of them in person.

“That opportunity to have people on the spot was incredible for the dialogue that ensues,” said Kleiner, an art history professor and member of the University’s committee on online education. “It was one of the most memorable experiences I had in that course.”

For better or worse, Yale’s online platform is expanding, and it is not going to stop any time SEE MOOCS PAGE 6

“[Section 377A] is definitely not enforced on campus,” said Sherlyn Goh Xue Tin NUS ’17, a founder of Yale-NUS’s diversity alliance, The G Spot. She added that while some Singaporeans are frustrated that the law was upheld, others would be more upset if it was repealed.

Most students interviewed said they were not shocked

by Wednesday’s verdict, but added that it will not drastically change social culture in Singapore.

Abdul Hamid NUS ’17, a founder of The G Spot, said the recent verdict did not come as a surprise because it is consistent with the Singaporean govSEE SINGAPORE PAGE 4

Boyko released from quarantine SAYS QUARANTINES WORSEN EPIDEMIC

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two weeks after being admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with Ebola-like symptoms, Ryan Boyko GRD ’18has been released from a state-mandated quarantine.

Despite testing negative in two separate tests for the virus, the 30-year-old Yale School of Public Health graduate student was quarantined in his home by the Connecticut Department of Public Health following the scare on Oct. 16. Boyko returned from his ninth visit to Liberia on Oct. 11, having spent three weeks working on a computer program to track and monitor the spread of Ebola.

Since revealing his identity earlier this week, Boyko has lambasted the state’s quarantine order.

“I am of course happy to be let

out of unwarranted home confinement, but am still upset that Connecticut and other states have adopted unsound, unscientific policies likely to worsen the epidemic in West Africa and make Americans less safe,” Boyko wrote in a Thursday email.

[I] am still upset that Connecticut and other states have adopted … unscientific policies.

RYAN BOYKO GRD ’18 Student, Yale School of Public Health Boyko said that while the incubation period for Ebola is 21 days, the state can only make quarantine orders for 20 days at a time but decided not to renew the orders for a 21st day for reasons unbeknownst to him.

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The way we give L

ast Thursday, my a cappella group was kindly invited to take part in a celebration of Mory’s, held at the Yale Club in New York City. The event was celebrating Mory’s centennial (though given that the club was founded in 1849, I’m shaky on exactly what math they were using); but we realized after getting there the main function of the event was to serve as a fundraiser for the club.

This immediately prompted some questions, the first one being why Mory’s, a very much for-profit organization, was having a fundraiser. I had generally assumed that fundraisers were for nonprofits, which run predominantly on charitable donations. For-profit businesses, on the other hand, support themselves by implementing efficient business models: If a restaurant is struggling to turn a profit, maybe it should find ways to cut its costs or improve the quality of its product. A business’s inability to support itself is usually an indicator that it needs to be driven out of the market — it’s the unflinching law of supply and demand, as any introductory economics class will tell you.

WE SHOULD THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT WHERE WE DONATE OUR MONEY All of which brings us back to last Thursday. The event was grand and beautiful; a dinner of perfectly-cooked fish was served in the sparkling ballroom at the Yale Club. And, as the master of ceremonies proudly announced, after all the profits of the silent auction and ticket sales were tallied, Mory’s had raised $303,000.

That’s an incredible sum of money; and while I hold nothing at all against Mory’s as an institution, I couldn’t help but feel a bit of confusion and concern at that sum given to a forprofit business.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the concept of philanthropy — about what causes to give to, and whether or not there’s ever such a thing as money given out of generosity that is misspent. It’s nearly impossible to criticize someone for giving some of their hardearned money to a cause that has meant something to them, especially since it must always be compared against the alternative of giving nothing at all.

And despite the fact that it’s not a charitable organization by any stretch of the imagination, it’s easy to see why Mory’s meant something to the alumni

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gathered in the room at the Yale Club.

It was a place in which they gathered and made their VICTORIA quintessenHALLtial college memories.

PALERM W h e n p e o p l e Notorious decide to VHP donate, it’s only natural that they return to the institutions that made an impact on them. But where does that lead us in the bigger picture? Consider the sad reality that social mobility in the United States is waning, and the people wealthy enough to make large charitable contributions are those who were raised in relative affluence. What are the institutions that affected them?

Often they’re elite universities or expensive clubs; and so when these men and women go to give to the places that have touched their lives, they tend to be already-privileged social structures.

Again, there is nothing inherently wrong with giving to a place like Mory’s. But if the goal of giving to charity (if you’re thinking about the recipients of the money, not of the warm fuzzy feelings the giver gets as a result of their altruism) is to try to ameliorate some of society’s existing inequalities, is this system working? If men and women who have always been privileged find themselves in a position to give to the causes that touched their lives, are we lessening structural inequality, or exacerbating it?

Perhaps the important thing is to urge people to take some time to think about the causes that affect the world at large.

Don’t stop giving to the places that meant something to you just because they’re affluent; but remember that there are other worthy causes, and give to those as well. People who are lucky enough to have money to spare have, in my opinion, an obligation to take a more sweeping view of the problems that need addressing in the world. And so if they want to bolster a New Haven restaurant, I hope they also give to the scholarship fund, or to malaria-prevention organizations, or to a soup kitchen in their hometown. There’s a lot of good to be done, and if we’re limited by giving only to institutions that have touched us in our sheltered lives, then we won’t even scratch the surface of leveling the playing field.

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Fearmongering and Ebola We write in response to the column published on Oct. 29 entitled, “Stem the Tide of Ebola.”

If the author had simply had a few conversations with clinicians or public health practitioners at Yale, her piece might have been more factually accurate, and her deep anxiety allayed in part. We write to correct her mistakes.

As many public health experts have said, travel bans to or from West Africa would be counterproductive to stemming the spread of Ebola. They are very hard to enforce, as there are no direct flights from the three affected countries to the U.S., which would mean expanding a ban on people coming from other major transportation hubs in Africa and Europe. The borders of these countries are fairly porous, and a travel ban stops no one from driving to a neighboring country and hopping a plane there. But the major objection we have is that such bans would restrict the flow of medical volunteers, public health experts and supplies to these countries, making it difficult to get in and out, and thus hindering the fight to stop the continuing spread of Ebola.

The author cited the U.S. travel ban against people living with HIV instituted by the Reagan administration and pushed forward by the late Senator Jesse Helms in the late 1980s as a model for how to handle Ebola. That travel ban was based on fear, not public health principles. It was a backwards, stigmatizing initiative that called into question the

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commitment of the United States to countering the spread of HIV, and it demonstrated a disdain for science and people living with HIV. The fight against AIDS requires evidencebased approaches to prevention and treatment and humane policies that don’t target individuals for discrimination and stigma because of who they are or where they are from. The same is and will be true for Ebola.

The author also speaks fondly of quarantining every single person who returns from spending time in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea for 21 days. This is not only unnecessary and costly, but as Doctors without Borders and other medical relief agencies have said, it will discourage health care workers in the U.S. from volunteering in West Africa. Most of these aid organizations require a four-to-six week stint with them for the Ebola effort; adding on an additional three-week quarantine at home upon their return is a big disincentive for people who have families and jobs to return to. If we want to stop Ebola in its tracks, we need more — not fewer — health professionals volunteering to fight it. Finally, people without symptoms of Ebola virus disease are not infectious — there is no scientific or medical justification for locking up asymptomatic individuals.

The greatest risk of transmission of Ebola is from prolonged, close exposure (within three feet) to a patient who is very ill, in whom the virus has reached high concentration in bodily fluids (more likely to be vomit, diarrhea and blood than sweat or sputum). We have to remember that although the family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the patient who died of Ebola in Texas several weeks ago

now, cared for him in his early illness, they have remained Ebola-free.

The greatest risk of transmission is to health care workers who tend to patients later in the disease. In the cases in Texas, there were problems in the application of the safety protocols, but since those cases, there have been no onward transmissions in the U.S. There will not be an Ebola epidemic in this country. There may be additional cases popping up until we have the epidemic under control in West Africa, but these will be quickly contained. People traveling through Grand Central Station after Dr. Craig Spencer took a train are not at risk of catching the virus from him. Dr. Spencer did the right thing — he monitored his temperature, and once he saw it was elevated, called the authorities and was put in isolation.

Though only four people in the U.S. have been infected with Ebola, far more have fallen prey to the outbreak of fear and panic in the face of this virus. Misinformed calls for travel bans and indiscriminate quarantine policies threaten the further spread of Ebola — exactly what the author of the October 29th column seeks to avoid. As with any outbreak, early intervention and treatment, accurate information, compassion and evidence-based policies and procedures are called for. That is the correct approach for stemming the tide of Ebola.

GREGG GONSALVES AND KRISTINA TALBERT-SLAGLE Oct. 30 Gonsalves is a research scholar in law and lecturer in law at the law school. talbert-slagle is a lecturer at the school of public health .

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n the first day of early voting in Illinois, President Obama made a conspicuous effort to promote the initiative. “I’m so glad I can early vote here,” he said. Then shortly before leaving, he was sure to add, “Early vote, everybody!”

Pundits and politicians have been quick to praise early voting for its democratic value. After all, it seems logical that early voting would make our elections more participatory. If we make voting easier, then more people will vote.

But studies performed by political scientists here at Yale and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison indicate otherwise.

In “Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout: The Unanticipated Consequences of Election Reform,” researchers from UWMadison write, “One of the most popular election reforms among state governments may inadvertently result in fewer voters at the polls.” They use empirical data gathered from analyses of voter turnout in the 2004 and 2008 elections to demonstrate this paradox of early voting.

By expanding the number of

voting days, you naturally dilute the inherent potency of Election Day. A soft two-week period of early voting makes Election Day a subconscious perpetuity rather than a hard-and-fast deadline.

With this new perspective, it’s easy to imagine how people may procrastinate, forget or outright neglect to vote. Your vote seems much less urgent, less impelling if Election Day can move according to your personal schedule.

Ironically, the greater ease with which you can vote may actually discourage some people from voting in the first place.

In addition to reducing the civic significance of elections for individuals, early voting warps the behavior of crucial voting blocs and can hinder the mobilization efforts of political campaigns. In “Dynamic Voting in a Dynamic Campaign: Three Models of Early Voting,” a study out of Yale, the authors state that in the 2012 elections, high-participation voters took advantage of early voting while low-participation voters did not. Meaning, those who voted early were those who would have voted regardless of the existence of early vot-

ing laws. The authors go on to suggest that early voting tends to demobilize independents and young voters more than their partisan and older counterparts.

If this is the case, early voting may compound the problem of polarization and partisanship.

The gains made by millions voting early are lost when millions more who would have showed up on Election Day fail to do so. The result, as both studies argue, is a net decline in voter turnout. Voters need an Election Day stimulus. Early voting instead depresses turnout by depriving Election Day of its stimulating effects and by its innate design, robbing Election Day of its special camaraderie. Early voting makes voting less and less of a singular jubilee process and more and more of a check-list item to postpone.

These studies don’t toss out the merits of early voting outright, but they do shed light on the complexity of voter behavior and the unintended consequences of election reforms. The debate over early voting is particularly relevant to New Haven because next week, Connecti-

cut voters will have the chance to amend the State Constitution to permit early voting in the state.

Question one on the ballot will ask, “Shall the Constitution of [Connecticut] be amended… to permit a person to vote without appearing at a polling place on the day of an election?”

As democrats (lower case “d”), we should support policies that encourage more meaningful voter participation. Because of this, evidence suggests Connecticut should leave its Constitution be. Early voting neither helps democratize our elections nor improves our politics. We should all seriously reconsider the conventional assumption that anything that makes voting easier will naturally increase voter turnout. As counterintuitive as it sounds, in most places, early voting has had the opposite effect. Like so many other policies, even the simplest and most benign changes can produce cascades of unintended consequences.

DOO LEE is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at doo.lee@yale.edu .

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HENRY KISSINGER “Corrupt politicians make the other 10 percent look bad.”

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Delusion about cheating W

e don’t talk about cheating at Yale. We do talk extensively about plagiarism, because the administration seems to believe that plagiarism is the only kind of academic dishonesty that smart, well-mannered Yalies could ever be guilty of.

But let’s speak seriously. Cheating — as in cheating on tests and exams, often aided by smartphones — occurs with alarming visibility at Yale. At my friend’s birthday dinner this fall, someone I didn’t know very well said, “It’s very easy to cheat during exams. You just sit toward the back and pull out your phone.”

I was dumbfounded by how unbothered he was with both the ease and frequency of cheating at Yale. But it also made sense. Yale has a number of highanxiety students who fear experiencing failure of any shade. My dinner companion’s words made me recall when a friend texted me during an exam with a question about the exam. I was stunned when I saw the text as I left the examination room — that someone would have the gall to attempt such a risky move. I remembered his words again when, during a midterm this fall, it seemed like 60 percent of the class left to go to the bathroom. The fact that a question on the midterm was easily Googleable — “what is a balance sheet

recession?” — made the bathroomfrequenting all the more suspect.

I pointed out how suspicious this was to my professor, who at the next class meeting said, “There seems to have been a crisis of incontinence during the midterm. Someone told me about it, and rest assured it will not happen during the final.” Someone behind me whispered, “Who would do that? What a loser.” Yale should have a culture where such an endorsement of cheating, however implicit, should elicit such public shame that it may be thought but should never be said.

But on the topic of losers, who loses when students cheat? Yale as a community does. Grades are not definitive, but they help determine departmental honors, election to Phi Beta Kappa and job interview invitations. Because grades can determine matters of consequence, Yale should do its best to ensure the grades it issues capture academic achievement, measured however imperfectly, for the sake of fairness.

Not to mention, we as a community recognize that grades are important.

Just look at how spirited a discussion we had about grade deflation last year.

It makes sense that the administration doesn’t like to talk about academic dishonesty. Cases of cheating reflect poorly on Yale and its students, who are

supposed to be above such base behavior. But if we don’t ensure that exams take place with more integrity, we disadvantage students who have put forth bona fide effort and put students with ill-gotten gains on paths toward attractive jobs and graduate school. To imagine someone who has cheated his or her way through college now studying to become a doctor is terrifying.

YALE SHOULD ENFORCE POLICIES THAT PREVENT ACADEMIC DISHONESTY So what should we do about it? First, we should standardize exam procedures across courses to bar any cell phone use during exams. An easy way would be to collect cell phones in bins before exams or, as the French department does it, to leave your phone in a visibly inaccessible place during the exam, like under your desk. There is no legitimate use for your phone during an exam, considering that teaching assistants can easily communicate how

much test-taking time remains. And though this solution may seem paternalistic and conveys to students that professors do not trust them, the harm of cheating is so great that when possible, we must remove even the temptation to do so.

Secondly, we should urge professors to be mindful that cheating does occur and empower them to prevent its occurrence. When I brought up the fact that 60 percent of the class was going to the bathroom, my professor first consoled me by iterating his zero-tolerance policy toward cheaters. But, I pointed out, if he were to do nothing to surveil his students, the punishment is costly but the risk of being caught is so low that cheating begins to look attractive.

Realizing I had made a valid point, he went to the bathroom to see for himself.

Yale should do the same and see the problem for itself, by reviewing the state of affairs and reforming exam policies to prevent cheating as much as possible. Academic dishonesty has no place in developing intellectual and moral capacities, and as such, Yale should act meaningfully to ensure it remains an institution of integrity.

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putting them in my calendar.

Living my life at this pace might be preventing me from falling into the sophomore slump, but I’m realizing that it also means I miss out on the everyday interactions that make me feel human.

In high school, my father used to tell me that the best type of break was the so-called “active resting,” where you put aside your problem set and complete reading for another class. His obsession with constantly working annoyed me. I would keep watching my favorite TV show, resisting the idea that I should write a book summary for my literature class in my precious spare time. Yet now, removed from my father’s efficiency-focused mentality, I find myself doing exactly what he advised: managing my calendar while hanging out with my friends or filling out an another application form while waiting for section to start. In high school I would watch multiple episodes of Prison Break on my weekends, but now I get frustrated by such an idea — I’m always thinking about the three other tasks I have to complete.

GRAHAM AMBROSE is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at graham.embrose@yale.edu .

ADRIAN ABEL-BEY is a freshman in Saybrook College. Contact him at adrian.abel-bey@yale.edu .

I’m not trying to say that all Yalies cram their schedules in this way.

Yale has all sorts of people, and not everyone is actively trying to stay busy. I know people who will not miss a single meal with their suitemates for any activity, and that’s great. I also know some people with hectic schedules that they love, and that’s also great. But there are also people like me who constantly run from one place to another and never spend a single minute doing “nothing” — we feel lost in our lives at Yale and yearn for a comfort zone at the end of the day.

Maybe the sophomore slump is a good thing. It shows us that our lives are so settled and convenient that we don’t feel like changing them. As boring as it might sound, it gives us a sense of belonging and peacefulness.

Figuring out how to balance our lives might involve giving up some of the things that keep us so busy in order to create memories with our friends.

I think this balance is worth finding.

NUR EKEN is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at hatice.eken@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST GRAHAM AMBROSE

Let Maher speak O

n Oct. 3, the comedian Bill Maher reignited the longstanding debate over whether Islam is a “violent” religion. Over the course of an episode of his hit HBO show “Real Time,” Maher argued that Islam doctrinally incites brutality, viciousness and a “mafia” sense of terror in its followers.

In the month following these remarks, scholars, politicians, journalists and increasingly young people alike have lambasted Maher’s condemnation of Islam. Over 3,300 students at the University of California, Berkeley signed a petition this week urging administrators to rescind Maher’s invitation to speak at a university ceremony in December.

Maher ought not to be spared the brunt of the criticism against him. His comments reflect the very unadulterated, ignorant generalizations that he’s made a career of mocking. Never mind that Islamic extremists committed just 6 percent of domestic U.S. terrorist attacks between 1980 and 2005 according to FBI databases. Forget that, when polled, as recently as April of 2013, Muslims across the world overwhelmingly reject the use of any justified violence for religious or political ends. Maher’s comments ignore actual Islamic scripture, which preaches “justice and the doing of good to others.”

But as easy as it is to dismantle Maher’s assault on Islam with words — the most potent weapon in the arsenal of the ivory tower – it’s equally important to leave intact Maher’s right to argue. Behind the veneer of ignorance, there is unexpected value in his argument.

Many people have made Maher’s argument before. They are not original in nature. Just turn on Fox and you’ll see half a dozen pundits insult Islam frequently. But the value of this episode stems from Maher’s political allegiance. Because Maher is one of the comic chieftains of the American left, liberals are forced to confront his arguments in a manner unlike the way they would respond to some blowhard on conservative radio.

After all, it’s simple enough to turn the other way from the endless fountain of Islamophobic vituperations.

In reality, it takes a self-proclaimed liberal such as Bill Maher, who publicly touted a $1 million donation to President Obama’s re-election campaign, to denounce Islam for the defensive machinery of the tolerantminded to snap into motion.

This isn’t a conspiracy between Bill Maher and conservatives. Rather, it’s an unintentional yet healthy process by which the national discourse advances on an important issue in the wake of an unhealthy public utterance. If nothing else, it is a moment for destructive, unenlightened opin-

ions to be overpowered by the undeniable weight of the facts.

Bill Maher does not deserve a medal for his unwitting support of the progressive movement. And, after criticizing the Yale Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics on his show for not supporting Ayaan Hirsi Ali — “You’re atheists! You should be attacking religion, not siding with the people who hold women down and violate them.” — it’s doubtful the University will confer speaking privileges on the HBO star anytime soon.

SCHOOLS LIKE YALE SHOULD BE PUBLIC FORUMS FOR DEBATES ON THE CRITICAL ISSUES But maybe Yale should. Because in the same way Hirsi Ali in her much discussed visit to New Haven in September generated significant campus dialogue over issues of free speech, human dignity and Islam, Maher can also be an unexpected source for constructive conversation on campus. If Maher can’t express his views at an academic institution like Yale,

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then where can he? This University is and should be committed to the collision of opposing ideas, however onerous and grotesque they may be.

Maher’s status and credentials would have the legitimacy to muster a real, honest, intellectual response from those who find issue with his positions.

Schools such as Yale and Berkeley are the perfect environments for public intellectuals and personalities to debate theology, history and culture. If the academy turns away Maher and others who share his sentiments, then we can’t feign surprise when his hurtful aspersions continue on television. On television, he controls the debate. There may be no intellectual checks and balances on “Real Talk.” Maher can get away with lazy simplifications of Islam in front of Ben Affleck, but he won’t be able to do the same in front of one of a university's many qualified scholars.

Only words in head-to-head confrontations can ameliorate the plague of hate speech. The media today is polarized. It is too easy for the left and right to shout across from one another without ever actively engaging. Universities should play a greater role in fostering bilateral dialogue.

MELODY WANG is a junior in Morse College. Contact her at siqi.wang@yale.edu .

Embrace the slump Campus, I had new suitemates and I chose a different major and career path. It made me feel like I was starting all over again. Like a freshman, I signed up for more than 10 panlists at the extracurricular bazaar, trying to balance new activities with old ones. The soothing feeling of familiarity that typically bores sophomores instead opened my eyes to the vast opportunities I had as a Yalie.

But everything comes with a cost.

There are few nights when I get back to my suite before midnight, as I spend my evenings going from meetings to libraries, from info sessions to debates. I never complain because I like everything I’m doing. But at the end of the day, when I get back to my suite, I feel a hole in my life.

My days lack interactions that aren’t in the form of meetings. Dinners are the only times when I have fun conversations with my close friends, but obviously, those have to be scheduled in advance. And right before I go to sleep, I tell myself that next week I will take on less. Yet the next morning, I start my day by checking my email and Facebook, scrolling through campus events and

No review needed ale’s cultural centers are not the most prominent organizations on campus, but they are certainly some of the most helpful for minority students as they transition to Yale. In particular, the freshman Peer Liaison program, which pairs incoming freshmen with upper classmen affiliated with a house, is a fantastic resource; it offers freshmen an outlet for social activities, personal advice and most importantly, free froyo. The houses themselves have dedicated study spaces and areas just to relax.

They serve as homes away from home.

We talk about race a lot here at Yale, and we are usually quite civil about it. We do not dare yell at each other with the intensity and insensitivity of two strangers in the comments section of a YouTube video. Certainly, there is nobody on campus who would profess to intentionally racist views. But then you hear statements like these: “Isn’t it racist to have La Casa and the Af-Am House but not a Caucasian Cultural Center? At least this way we have all groups represented!”

To which I reply that Yale is the “Caucasian Cultural Center.” Residential colleges, the center of social and living spaces around campus, bear the names of prominent slave owners. Our humanities and literature courses study the literature of dead white men. If a class addresses black authors in any depth, it is labeled as such in the course description and cross-listed as an African American Studies class. Granted, much of this is not the fault of the professors; oftentimes, the course material to address the experience and work of minorities simply has not been recorded or studied. Other times, there may not be an accompanying textbook that sufficiently covers the lives of minority populations.

I think it is important to note here that isolating a particular group for additional attention is not racist but certainly discriminatory. However, “discrimination” as a word does not necessarily imply negative bias; it merely means recognition of differences. Is it discrimination to say that certain groups of people, say African-Americans, are more likely to drop out of college and could thus benefit from extra resources? Absolutely!

The cultural centers are clearly doing their jobs. Still, the ideologues among us may still think that any form of discrimination is bad.

This provokes the question: Do we need to look at the centers?

Apparently so. In an email sent to affiliates of Yale’s four cultural centers, Dean Jonathan Holloway announced a review of the centers to “reflect on the centers’ vision and role on campus.” According to Holloway, the members of this committee will come from Yale’s peer institutions and will “consider the work of the centers in light of students’ changing needs.”

While there are virtues to an external review, they are only necessary in cases where there is already an apparent problem.

And reviews cost money. When the review was launched, the University's finances still seemed in a bleak condition, at least to the public; it was before yesterday's news of a surplus. At the same time, Yale is dedicating an increasing amount of money toward undergraduate financial aid. With the second-largest endowment in the country, Yale should be leading in this category. But we are falling behind. The University of Chicago recently announced changes to its successful Odyssey Scholars program, which already eliminated loans for low-income students.

Now Odyssey is going even further, guaranteeing paid summer work after freshman year and eliminating the requirement for term-time work. By contrast, Yale requires freshmen to work for $2,850 during term and contribute $1,625 from summer job income.

These financial aid requirements disproportionately affect minority students on campus. Rather than spend money reviewing the cultural centers, which provide such support to minority students, Yale should invest in ending the work-study requirement.

What if you want to travel? Or take a volunteer job in an industry you are strongly considering in the future? Yale’s answer is as simple as it is unhelpful: Just take out a loan.

I am sure that Dean Holloway and the committee meant no harm when they decided to review the houses. Nor do I believe that there is any intent to close the houses or open an entirely unnecessary Caucasian Cultural Center. But any review of the centers must be triggered by an immediate and pressing need — some dysfunction that threatens the operations of the houses as we know them. In the absence of such dysfunction, we should focus our limited resources on matters of actual importance.

Yale, in order to be as just as possible, must reconsider the issues that minority students find important. I would not be surprised if a review of the cultural centers were pretty low on our list.

GUEST COLUMNIST NUR EKEN

started this year expecting the sophomore slump, the pseudodepression that comes after the fast pace of freshman year. The common theory is that as freshmen, we were fascinated by the countless opportunities Yale offered, and getting used to them as sophomores makes our college experience somewhat less exciting. As someone who did not have the most amazing freshman year, I was not sure this would be the case for me. But, respecting the authority of the upperclassmen who described the phenomenon, I was anxious that the slump would hit me as well.

It turned out that my intuition was right. Relieved from the challenges of adapting to college freshman year, I started with a blank page.

Last year, the newness of everything was overwhelming rather than stimulating. Even learning to sort out emails took me more than a semester. It was simply difficult to balance academics and extracurricular life while trying to make this place my home.

My life changed drastically sophomore year: I moved out of Old

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FROM THE FRONT

“I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health … The well should take care of the sick.” PAUL FARMER AMERICAN PHYSICIAN

Singaporean gay sex ban upheld TIMELINE ORIGINS OF SECTION 377A

16th century

17th century

Section 377A of the Penal Code

"Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years."

18th century

19th century

1833 The British Parliament formed the Indian Law Commission. An adopted draft of the code included a Section 377, but it wasn't until the new Indian Penal Code where criminalization of "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" was laid out.

1534 A British anti-buggery law was enacted and taken from ecclesiastical law.

ernment’s long-term position on gay sex.

The verdict is not a step back for Singapore, but rather, a reflection that Singapore is maintaining the status quo, Zong Xuan Tan ’18 said.

Goh added that the recent ruling had not generated much student attention on Yale-NUS’s campus.

She said she had not heard friends talking about it.

Still, some Yale-NUS professors have expressed disappointment in the ruling.

“I stand in solidarity and sadness with all my friends in Singapore who will be affected by yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling,” Yale-NUS professor Bernard Bate said in a Thursday email to the News.

“But that ruling has no bearing on what I teach at Yale-NUS College.

The entire student body of YaleNUS College has been substantively grappling with issues of gender and sexuality this week.”

While the court challenge to Section 377A was unsuccessful, YaleNUS spokesperson Fiona Soh, in a statement, said the college has been encouraged by the open debate and lively discussions both in the classrooms and on campus.

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis declined to comment.

University President Peter Salovey said Yale-NUS stands behind its LGBT population.

“I have been pleased to see the

support that Yale-NUS College provides its gay and lesbian students,” Salovey said. “Through student groups like [The G Spot], classes that address issues of sexuality, and extracurricular panels on gay and transgender rights, Yale-NUS College has demonstrated that it is a welcoming and supportive environment for students and faculty regardless of their sexual orientation. I understand that there has been much debate about Section 377A in Singapore and that there have been moves towards greater equality for gays and lesbians — I hope there will be further progress in the coming months and years.”

Some professors at the Singaporean college have tried to work the recent debate on Section 377A into the Yale-NUS curriculum. YaleNUS Professor Jessica Hanser, who teaches a course called “Comparative Social Inquiry,” said she plans to talk about same-sex marriage within her class’s ongoing discussion on the institution of family.

Yale-NUS professor Bernard Bate said in the course “Modern Social Thought,” students have been reading and discussing Michael Foucault’s “History of Sexuality, Volume I,” to add to a college-wide discussion about same-sex relationships.

Christopher Miller, professor of African American Studies and French, has been outspoken about his opposition of Yale-NUS since the college’s inception in 2009. In a 2011 opinion piece for the News,

1986 upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing gay oral and anal sex.

“I don’t expect this decision to impede the development of LGBT studies at Yale-NUS any more than the 1986 Supreme Court decision here, which upheld the constitutionality of sodomy laws, impeded LGBT studies or academic freedom at Yale,” Chauncey said.

Those who grew up in Singapore said the country is unfairly subjected to American judgement regarding its freedom of expression laws, and these laws should be considered in the context of Singapore’s geography and political and religious history.

Zheng Xiang Toh ’17 said the news surrounding Section 377A fits into a decades-old debate about gay rights in Singapore, adding that there has been a tremendous backlash against the law far exceeding advocacy campaigns for any other cause.

“With regards to gay sex, I think this is a private matter, and I think existing laws are too harsh — the government, by agreeing not to strictly enforce the law, seems to agree in principle,” Zheng said in a Thursday email to the News. “But I think on a practical level, legalizing gay sex is seen as overly controversial, and it is not a wise political move.”

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

20th century

1938 Section 377A was introduced into the Singaporean Penal Code in 1938 to criminalize sexual acts between men.

1860 The original Indian Penal Code drafted by the British did not outright define unnatural sex or sodomy.

Miller expressed concerns for gay faculty members who may choose to teach in Singapore despite the risk of being arrested.

“I am a gay faculty member,” Miller wrote. “The advent of YaleNUS thus places me in a uniquely compromised position ... The irrefutable fact is that any LGBT faculty who choose to participate in the program will be forced to fear arrest because of who they are. The likelihood of actual incarceration is not the issue: The problem is the law itself.”

Miller said “the bosses and apologists” of Yale-NUS would not express opposition to Section 377A considering that the college itself is run in collaboration with and funded by the Singaporean government.

Miller said only if members of the Yale-NUS community spoke up in protest would the status quo change.

But George Chauncey, professor of history and American Studies, said when he visited Singapore, the gay activists he met there were not worried about being discriminated against or arrested. Chauncey said the law is met with significant opposition within the country, and that supporters of expanded gay rights are working hard to challenge the country’s social climate.

Chauncey added that academic freedom at Yale-NUS would not be hindered by the law, just as academics at Yale were not affected as a result of Supreme Court rulings like Bowers v. Hardwick, which in

BOYKO FROM PAGE 1 Spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Public Health William Gerrish said the department is unable to comment on specific quarantine cases for privacy reasons.

Yale School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary said that Boyko’s quarantine was not lifted early. Cleary explained that the miscommunication between Boyko and the DPH, which ultimately decided his release date, is related to the question of exactly when he returned from Liberia.

In recent days, Boyko has taken to the airwaves — including CNN and MSNBC — to criticize mandatory quarantines.

“Politics is the only reason these quarantines have been implemented,” Boyko said.

While in Liberia, Boyko did not come into contact with anyone exhibiting symptoms of Ebola, but he did come in contact with NBC cameraman Ashoka Mupko, who developed symptoms of the virus a day later.

When asked about the scientific basis for the 21-day quarantine, Gerrish said that the state laws and quarantining orders were in line with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention procedures, which has stated that, because the disease has a maximum incubation period of 21 days, those who may have been exposed to the virus should be quarantined for that time. The World Health Organization sets a maximum 42-day incubation period for the virus to provide maximum security.

However, Gregg Gonsalves, codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership, insisted that the decision of Connecticut State Public Health Commissioner Jewel Mullen ’77 SPH ’96 to quarantine Boyko appeared more like the result of “political football” than of scientifically informed choices.

“Just look at the New England Journal of Medicine or maybe the Association for Profession and Infection Control — every single journal says there is no reason to quarantine asymptomatic patients,” Gonsalves added. “There’s pretty iron-clad scientific consensus on what the facts are.”

Although Cleary said he has been in communication with Mullen, they have not discussed Mullen’s justification for the quarantine in detail. Cleary added that he thinks the decision to quarantine Boyko was “not based on the best evidence.”

Nevertheless, Boyko expressed a desire to maintain a relationship with the DPH. He said that he wants to continue working with the department in hopes of bringing its procedures for managing the spread of Ebola closer to those set by the CDC and other national institutions.

While his quarantine has ended, Bokyo is continuing to self-monitor for symptoms and will still follow all recommended precautions for travelers from infected areas for the entire 21-day period. He said that the Connecticut DPH will no longer call him to check on his condition and has not done so since the end of the quarantine on Wednesday evening.

Yale-New Haven Hospital could not be reached for comment.

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Boyko lambasts quarantine

Days before election, $21.5 million for Coliseum COLISEUM FROM PAGE 1 pushing for adequate funding.

“When the state is working hard to do more with less, public-private partnerships like Downtown Crossing are especially important,” Malloy said to a crowd of over 50 city and state officials and New Haven residents.

“They make our cities more attractive to the residents and ultimately to employers, who are seeking to grow their businesses in New Haven.”

Malloy first met with LiveWorkLearnPlay two years ago to discuss the revamping of the Coliseum site, which has been an empty parking lot since 2007. The $21.5 million dollar grant will allow the city to move forward with the first phase of redevelopment, which is to remove a part of the Route 34 highway in order to connect Orange and South Orange streets.

Harp said that the connection will expand the Elm City’s downtown area by providing a seamless pathway between the center of the city and western New Haven.

“This project will reconnect a city that has been artificially and arbitrarily separated for decades,” Harp said.

Although Harp still has not officially endorsed Malloy, she called him a “champion of New Haven” and said she was hopeful for another four years of his leadership.

In addition to a hotel, the redeveloped area at Downtown Crossing will include restaurants, retailers and apartments.

Kiran Marok, director of programming, planning and development at LiveWorkLearnPlay, said the collaboration between the community, New Haven officials and the firm has been excellent. She also said the project has been well-embraced by the community since its infancy.

According to Marok, the project’s construction should start in the early part of summer 2015. She added that the firm is still seeking out potential businesses to occupy the redeveloped site.

In his announcement, Malloy emphasized the Coliseum Redevelopment’s potential to “support the state’s long-term plans to invest in public transportation, affordable housing and transit-oriented development.” He added that the project contributes to his goal of cultivating mixed-use walkable, sustainable communities in the state.

Reim said the project was a “shared vision” between developers in the private sector and public officials at every level in the city.

DeLauro echoed Reim, saying the redevelopment project was a collaborative effort among federal, state and local officials to “make a city sing.”

With 1.1 million square feet of building space, the Coliseum site is the largest vacant area in downtown New Haven.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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The first phase of redevelopment at the Coliseum site will be to connect Orange and South Orange Streets by removing part of Route 34.

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NEWS

“My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place — police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.” SIDNEY SHELDON AMERICAN WRITER

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, OCT. 30

A previous version of the article “STEINBERG: For fewer adjuncts” contained inaccurate data on the number of ladder and non-ladder faculty at Yale. It also incorrectly stated that Steven Salaita was an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In fact, he was offered a tenured position at Illinois, which was allegedly revoked after administrators read his Twitter page.

A previous version of the article “Education policy central to gov. race” implied that the New Haven Federation of Teachers had endorsed Gov. Dannel Malloy. In fact, the NHFT does not give endorsements.

Firefighters move toward new contract

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Years of administrative headaches and budgetary turmoil in the New Haven Fire Department may soon come to an end.

At a public hearing last night, the Board of Alders Finance Committee heard testimony from city officials, union representatives, firefighters and members of the public over the proposal to extend the New Haven Fire Fighters Local 825 Union’s contract until June 2018. The new contract won overwhelming approval from the union last month. City officials and union representatives alike said they hope that the new contract will mark the beginning of a new era at the fire department following 13 years of instability.

The negotiations over the new contract, months in the making, have proved contentious. Union president James Kottage was accused of working to include an extended pension for himself in the new contract, leading to an internal investigation into the veracity of the allegations.

The most important aspect of the new contract is the collaboration it engenders, according to both Labor Relations Director Marcus Paca and Kottage.

“For too long, the fire department’s been stagnant. There’s been a lot of contention over there,” Paca said. “This represents a collaborative effort between the city of New Haven, the administration and the fire department to work together to move the fire department forward in a positive way.”

Kottage took a more nuanced stance. He said that cultivating “labor peace” is the most important element, noting that factions within the union and the city had split during three years of disputes over the previous contract.

“Getting a contract extension will bring about a lot of good feelings,” Kottage said.

Three interlinked problems have vexed the fire department for a number of years — understaffing, disputes over exams and ballooning overtime payments.

Paca said that the new contract goes a long way towards solving all three issues.

The weighting of the oral and written portions of promotional exams has proved divisive, and a dispute over weighting reached the Supreme Court in 2009.

Observers have also noted that African-American candidates tend to do better on the oral portion of the exam than on the written. At present, the oral portion is weighted at 40 percent, but under the new contract, it will be weighted at 65 percent.

While city officials contend that this proposal will resolve the weighting issue, Kottage said this does not represent a permanent solution. Paca noted that Local 825 had originally disagreed with the new weighting, but eventually agreed in negotiations.

Understaffing, which, in turn, causes excessive overtime costs, has been a serious problem in the fire department for years, according to Kottage. The fire department currently has 120 vacancies, meaning that about a third of its 370 positions are empty.

“We’re supposed to have 25 captains,” Kottage said. “Right now we have zero.”

The position of fire marshal has been vacant for years. In the last 11 years, the number of firefighters has fallen from 366 to 234, while overtime costs have gone from $1.6 million to a projected $8.5 million this year.

Paca said the new contract will “unclog the hiring pipes.”

Kottage explained that the fire

department cannot hire new privates without first promoting current privates to lieutenants, a process that had been blocked by disputes over the tests. By resolving those disputes, he said, the fire department would be able to make new hires. Paca echoed that sentiment, noting that the contract will bring at least two new recruitment classes into the department’s ranks.

Understaffing has also led to inflated overtime costs — a pressing issue on the city’s finances for years.

Getting a contract extension will bring about a lot of good feelings.

JAMES KOTTAGE President, Local 825 Union The city budgeted $3.9 million for fire department overtime for the fiscal year 2014–’15, but spent $916,000 on overtime in the month of August alone. Current estimates suggest that the overtime bill could rise to $8.5 million for the year — $4.6 million over budget.

Kottage said that City Hall should bear some responsibility for the overtime costs “We wouldn’t have an overtime issue if the administration, human resources and City Hall did the right thing,” he said.

The new contract goes a long way toward solving the dual problems of understaffing and overtime costs, said Paca. He added that $900,000 in overtime payments per month is not a sustainable model for the city. But he said that adding two recruiting classes in the coming year would help drive down this figure.

The sense that the contract extension could bring a new era to the Fire department was apparent at the hearing. Local 825, city administrators, and firefighters all agreed that the contract might create a new paradigm of operation, both at the Fire department itself and in the Department’s relations with the city.

“Our last contract took three years and cost both sides dearly,” Kottage said. “With the new good relations with the administration, we will be able to move the fire department forward.”

Joseph Fields, an insurance attorney for Local 825, echoed that sentiment, stressing that the union will work closely with the city. He added that, as a result of the settlement, past disputes on the issues will not resurface.

Members of the public who spoke at the hearing had more mixed reactions.

Fire department inspector Stephen Ortiz said the new contract represented the best hope of moving forward in over a decade, but he warned of the consequences of letting the opportunity slip.

“If we don’t move forward, we’re again entering an uncharted territory,” he said. “We desperately need new hires. We need to bring stability back to the New Haven Fire Department.”

Others were more skeptical .

Ken Joyner, a New Haven resident, noted that the new contract will only save about $2 million — a paltry sum compared to the $8.5 million forecasted for overtime fees this year, he said. Moreover, he said that the net savings are little more than a dent in the size of the city’s total budget.

The Board of Alders will vote on the contract on Nov. 6.

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

Ebola deaths mayDeaths skyrocket, researchers say Possible Ebola Averted

by Dec. 15 INITATIVES TO AVERT POSSIBLE EBOLA DEATHS BY DEC. 15 Implemented By 1. International community deploys more beds for patients and protective kits for patients’ families in Montserrado County 2. Increase in contact tracing of Ebola patients to save lives in the densely populated region

137,000 Deaths Averted

Oct. 15 Oct. 31

97,000 Deaths Averted

Nov. 15

53,000 Deaths Averted STAPHANY HOU/PRODUCTION & DESIGN ASSISTANT

BY AMANDA MEI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER An apparent decrease in newly reported Ebola cases in Liberia — according to data released from the World Health Organization — seems more promising than it actually is, according to scientists at the Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine and the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

The researchers, who published a mathematical model of Ebola transmission in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Oct. 24, projected the number of Ebola cases in Liberia’s Montserrado County — the epicenter of the epidemic and home of capital city Monrovia — will skyrocket if the disease continues on its present course. There could be as many as 170,000 cases and 90,000 deaths by Dec. 15 unless further measures, such as beds for patients and protective kits for their families, are taken to control the disease, the model shows. These predictions appear to contradict data released Wednesday by the WHO, which reported that the rate of increase in cases has slowed, with fewer deaths reported in the last few days.

“The pace at which new cases were being reported has appeared to slow down,” said lead author Joseph Lewnard GRD ’19. “But since our research and as of Monday, there were new reports placing the number of cases in line with ... the exponential growth our model suggested.”

According to Lewnard, the

WHO numbers and the study’s predictions are not necessarily contradictory. Though the rate of growth is slowing down, it will likely pick back up again, he said.

Lewnard and his team created the model of Ebola transmission in Montserrado County using data of reported cases and deaths from the Ministry of Health in Liberia. The team accounted for the complex patterns of Ebola transmission between living and deceased patients, as well as the effect of current interventions.

They also controlled for irregularities and inaccuracies in reported numbers, which reflect the difficulty of identifying Ebola cases in a timely manner.

According to the model, up to 53,000 deaths could be averted

by Dec. 15 if the international community deploys more beds for Ebola patients and protective kits for patients’ families in Montserrado County by Nov. 15.

An increase in contact tracing of Ebola patients is also needed to save lives in the densely populated region.

Earlier interventions could have prevented even more deaths, the modeling shows.

137,000 deaths could have been averted by Dec. 15 if interventions had been initiated by Oct. 15 and 97,000 deaths had they been initiated by Oct. 31.

According to Lewnard, the study took into consideration transmission rate factors that previous studies had not taken into account.

“The innovation from our study was that we accounted not only for the fact that reporting occurred in sort of an incomplete

fraction ... but also that there’s delay in how cases get reported,” he said.

Incomplete information and delays could be one reason why the rate of recently reported Ebola cases and deaths appeared to decrease in recent days. However, spokesman for the WHO in Geneva Tarik Jasarevic said underreporting has been a problem for a long time and cannot account for the new decrease.

Jasarevic suggested that researchers should instead focus on the reasons behind underreporting — why Ebola patients are not going to treatment centers, for instance. Patients could be distrustful of health authorities, staying with their families or facing difficulties with transportation, he conjectured.

Fasil Tezera, head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Liberia, agreed that it is too soon to interpret the reduction of Ebola cases in Liberia, such as the drop of admissions to the organization’s 250-bed Monrovia Ebola center to 80 patients.

“The present epidemic is unpredictable: We have seen a lull in cases in one area only to see the numbers spike again later,” Tezera said in an email. “More aid is needed on the ground.”

And according to School of Medicine professor of epidemiology and study author Frederick Altice, each week of inaction will result in more unnecessary deaths.

The most important steps to take are improving contact tracing and building sufficient Ebola treatment centers, Altice said, especially with no vaccines or

cure available in the foreseeable future.

Lewnard agreed that health care workers should prioritize isolating Ebola cases and increasing the capacity to identify cases for isolation as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile in the U.S., states like New York and New Jersey have ordered mandatory 21-day quarantines of health care workers returning from West Africa in order to isolate potential cases of Ebola. Study author and postdoctoral associate in epidemiology Jorge Alfaro-Murillo said the U.S. should not quarantine people who do not have the disease but should instead be focusing its efforts on stopping Ebola transmission at its source in West Africa.

Alfaro-Murillo said his labmate, Ryan Boyko GRD ’18 — the public health graduate student who was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with Ebola-like symptoms earlier this month and who was released from quarantine Wednesday evening — should not have been quarantined after traveling to Liberia and testing negative for the virus. Altice agreed that some current state policies are not founded on public health principles.

“Let’s keep the attention where it belongs — fixing the problem in West Africa,” he said.

As of Oct. 29, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 13,676 cases of Ebola worldwide.

Contact AMANDA MEI at amanda.mei@yale.edu .

Tarry Lodge joins local pizza scene

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER With a wood-fired oven that heats to over 900 degrees, head chef Andres Marsilio is ready to cook his favorite pizza on Tarry Lodge’s menu: burrata cheese, pancetta and chili oil.

Tarry Lodge, set to open at 278 Park St., is the latest offering from restaurateurs Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich. The restaurant hosted an invite-only opening celebration Thursday evening and plans to open to the public this weekend, with menu offerings including wood-fired pizza, an assortment of pastas, items from the grill and an extensive wine selection. The property, which has stood vacant for seven years, is owned by the St. Thomas More Corporation but under a long-term lease with Yale University Properties.

“We are all inclusive — we will cater to the student, and we want to be friends with all of our neighbors outside of the Yale community too,” said Nancy Selzer, managing partner of the restaurant. “We want to be a little bit of everything to everybody, going along the parameters of well prepared, fresh ingredient food, a well selected wine list and a fun environment.”

The restaurant is significantly smaller than the two other Tarry Lodge locations, located in the Connecticut town of Westport and Port Chester, N.Y. In addition to the smaller size, the New Haven location will distinguish itself from its other two branches through expanding the menu variety to include items more suited to a college student’s budget. Sel-

zer cited a new meatball sub and turkey sausage sub as items catered toward a student’s wallet.

When Selzer and Andy Nusser, the other managing partner of the restaurant, decided that they were going to open their next restaurant in New Haven, the team knew immediately that they wanted it to be associated with Yale, Nusser said. After scoping out several locations last spring, Tarry Lodge signed a lease with University Properties.

“It was just this little box in a perfect city, waiting for us,” Nusser said of the Park Street location they ultimately decided on for the restaurant.

After the lease was signed, Nusser and Selzer spent six months completing construction of the restaurant.

Tess Koenig, an assistant to Batali, said she was surprised by how quickly the restaurant opened, given that the very first meetings about creating the restaurant were held less than a year ago.

Although Nusser said he and Selzer typically buy their restaurant spaces, they said they are happy to be leasing from University Properties.

“From my perspective, working with Yale has been really, really pleasant,” said Selzer.

“They have been really helpful in including us in the Shops at Yale community and made themselves extremely available to us,” she added.

Patrick O’Brien, marketing coordinator for University Properties, said that the establishment of Tarry Lodge over the past few months was an exciting process to witness.

Because of the expected

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The New Haven location of Tarry Lodge features an expanded menu designed to appeal to college students. younger clientele, the restaurant hopes to have an increased social media presence, said David Gruber, digital media director for Tarry Lodge.

The restaurant features an imported oven, crafted by Italian oven-maker Valoriani, which, according to Marsilio can cook a pizza in under two minutes. Marsilio, who was approached about the

position in June, has six other chefs working with him in the kitchen.

“Everything is running so smoothly — we’re off to a great start,” said Marsilio.

The first Tarry Lodge was opened in Port Chester, N.Y. in 2008.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Michelle Obama stumps for Malloy

BY MATTHEW NUSSBAUM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER First lady Michelle Obama stopped by New Haven Thursday in a final push to rally support for Gov. Dannel Malloy.

“You know who Dan stands for. You know who your governor fights for. He fights for you. He fights for your families,” Obama told the raucous crowd of nearly 2,000, citing increasing high school graduation rates, a higher minimum wage and tough new gun laws as some of Malloy’s successes as governor.

Malloy remains in a dead heat with Republican challenger Tom Foley, a Greenwich Republican and former Ambassador to Ireland who Malloy defeated in the 2010 governor’s race. Malloy’s campaign is relying on a big turnout in the urban centers of New Haven and Bridgeport to tip the scales in the governor’s favor on Tuesday’s election. For that reason, turnout was a major focus of the rally.

Before the crowd of supporters gathered in the gymnasium of Wilbur Cross high school in East Rock, Obama emphasized the importance of everyone’s vote, telling the supporters that the slim margin of victory in 2010 — just over 6,000 votes — translated to just four votes per precinct.

“If we stay home on election day, all we’re doing is letting other folks decide the outcomes of our lives for us, “ she said, warning of a Republican victory.

“We will see less support for our kids’ schools. We’ll see more folks interfering in women’s private decisions.”

Malloy is weighed down in part by the slow pace of economic recovery after the Great Recession, a similar headwind faced

by President Barack Obama in his 2012 re-election bid. Michelle Obama echoed themes of that successful campaign in her speech. She noted national economic growth, with more than 10 million new jobs created since 2010.

Malloy, who spoke briefly in introducing the first lady, ticked through the state’s accomplishments over the past four years. He particularly emphasized

“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” GROUCHO MARX AMERICAN COMEDIAN

Yale reports $51 million surplus SURPLUS FROM PAGE 1 cial shock from the sudden and dramatic $6.5 billion decline in the value of the endowment in 2008–09.”

The report also announced that for the year ending on June 30, 2014, Yale was able to pay off $250 million in debt.

Still, King said that the encouraging results from the surplus gained in the fiscal year 2014 only represented 1.6 percent of revenues. This is a relatively small amount for a University with “large ambitions” and new ideas, she added.

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Gov. Dannel Malloy is currently neck and neck with Republican challenger Tom Foley. that the state budget is balanced without cuts to services or layoffs among police officers or teachers. But he made voter turnout his main focus, underscoring the closeness of the race.

“If you want to know why I’m on this stage, it’s because of people like you,” he said. “It’s because of what you did on election day.”

Obama is part of an army of highpowered Democrats journeying to Connecticut to try to aid Malloy, one of the most vulnerable blue state Democrats in the country. Former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 spoke in Hartford on Oct. 13, and Barack Obama is coming to rally in Bridgeport on Sunday, Nov. 2.

Among those rallying the crowd before the governor and first lady took the stage were both of Connecticut’s U.S. Sena-

tors, New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman.

DeLauro, seeking her 13th term representing New Haven in the U.S. House of Representatives, received an especially warm welcome from the crowd. She compared the coming gubernatorial election to game seven of the World Series, a high stakes contest with no room for error. She also made a plug for her own candidacy, calling any opportunity to serve “a blessing.”

The first lady will continue to support Democrats in the days ahead with a trip to Illinois to speak on behalf of Gov. Pat Quinn.

Contact MATTHEW NUSSBAUM at matthew.nussbaum@yale.edu .

In the coming months and years, Yale will need to make many choices — both exhilarating and difficult.

SHAUNA KING VP, Finance and business operations “In the coming months and years, Yale will need to make many choices — both exhilarating and difficult — about how to invest its resources,” King wrote. “That is the work ahead of us.”

She added that Yale will continue to uses its resources in investing in teaching and research, while also relying upon key principles in guiding its management, including sustainable finances and transparent economics.

The positive results appear to have exceeded even the expec-

tations Provost Benjamin Polak expressed in September. In addition, the surplus comes two years before the balanced budget predicted by University President Peter Salovey for fiscal 2016, announced in an August email to the University community.

Polak told the News last month that he believed Yale would see a balanced budget for fiscal 2014, which he said was due to higher than anticipated revenue from Yale School of Medicine’s clinical practices and the 20.2 percent return on the endowment.

According to the report, medical services income witnessed an increase of 13.6 percent from 2013, leading to a total of income of $699.5 million. This is higher than the preliminarily data published earlier this month by the News, which reported a revenue of $664,981,000 for fiscal 2014.

“We are continuously strategizing to increase our revenue,” School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern told the News in October.

“We’re always trying to get more grants, and make the clinical practice more efficient and better.”

Due to $39 million deficit in fiscal 2013, the Provost’s Office created targets aimed to reduce costs in personnel and nonpersonnel costs on a one-, three- and fiveyear basis.

But despite the net increase in operating activities, Polak told the News in September that announced budget targets would still likely be pursued.

The University last reported a surplus in fiscal 2012.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

In evolving online landscape, Yale looks past MOOCs MOOCS FROM PAGE 1 soon. According to Craig Wright, a Yale music professor and chair of the University committee on online education, Yale will release more MOOCs in January 2015. But these online open courses are only a fraction of the online educational options Yale already offers, Wright said. “[MOOCs] get 95 percent of the publicity, and it’s really about 5 percent of what [the University committee on online education] thinks about,” he said. In fact, the University has many non-MOOC online initiatives that few know about, he added.

Earlier this year, director of undergraduate studies for Yale’s computer science department Joan Feigenbaum announced that the Harvard and Yale computer science departments are in talks about potentially bring CS50, Harvard’s most popular undergraduate course, to Yale’s campus. In addition to several distance language programs, many of Yale’s graduate and professional schools have incorporated some form of online education into their curricula in recent years.

Yale started offering non-MOOC online courses for credit as a part of its 2011 Summer Session. In 2011, two courses were offered. In 2014, that number was 19.

THE BIGGEST COURSES

According to Feigenbaum, the possible addition of CS50 to Yale’s curriculum could be a significant improvement for the department, which currently lacks enough faculty to offer a wide variety of courses as the faculty would like.

“Together with our Harvard partners, we would use a hybrid instructional model that aims to combine the best of newfangled online instruction and the best of traditional classroom instruction,” Feigenbaum said.

In addition to Harvard computer science professor David Malan’s online videos, Yale students would be brought together in the classroom with Yale faculty members and teaching assistants for sections.

As Yale explores the possibility of partnering with Harvard, professors who teach some of Yale’s flagship courses are split on their willingness to offer their courses to students at peer institutions online.

Psychology professor Paul Bloom, who teaches “Introduction to Psychology,” one of the most highly rated courses at Yale, said he would be willing to offer his course to other schools, but only under the right circumstances. He added that the combination of online lectures with in person seminars would make an excellent teaching model.

But professor of military and naval history John Gaddis, who teaches the popular Cold War lecture, said he would not be willing to provide online lectures because he needs students physically in the classroom to get a sense of what works in lectures.

He added that he has questions about online courses that no advocates of the pedagogical model have been able to adequately answer — specifically, how online courses could be graded fairly in subjective fields.

“History isn’t like math, where there are single right answers that need no further explanation or qualification,” Gaddis said.

According to other professors, there may also be intellectual property issues to worry about with online course sharing initiatives.

Art history professor J.D. Connor explained that in fields like film, music, contemporary art and poetry, lecturers may use clips in the classroom under fair use guidelines, but it is unclear whether this permission would extend to courses disseminated broadly online.

Connor added that some classroom activities would be very difficult to do through online models.

“Analytic reading, synthetic writing, iterative discussions — if there were a way to make that practical as distance learning, I would gladly participate,” he said in a Thursday email. “I don’t believe there is, and I don’t believe there will be during my lifetime. At the same time, for the vast majority of academics, I don’t believe we’ll have a choice.”

REACHING OTHER NATIONS

Sinhala — a Sri Lankan dialect — is not offered in a traditional classroom setting at Yale. So last year, Samantha Nanayakkara ’15 had to study the language independently and for no credit.

This semester, she is taking Sinhala 130 in a classroom, albeit an unconventional one. A student in the Shared Course Initiative — which allows students at Columbia, Cornell and Yale to take small language seminars together with a professor at only one institution through the use of high definition video conferencing — Nanayakkara sits in a room with just one other student, no professor physically present. She focuses on a high-definition screen on the wall, video conferencing a class in Ithaca, N.Y., where a Cornell professor teaches the language. This semester, 21 Yale students are enrolled in SCI language courses coming from Yale and Columbia.

Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, the director of Yale’s Center for Language Study, hesitates to call SCI an online education initiative. While the pro-

gram uses the internet to link students from three schools, Van Deusen-Scholl explained that it is quite different from what most people think of as an online educational model.

She said that most people think online education consists of just pretaped videos, and thus lacks the kind of interactivity that she and her colleagues believe is at the core of language education.

“Many online models are asynchronous,” she said. “We have not gone that route with SCI. It’s a way for us to provide language instruction using distance technology, but the choices we’ve made were to emulate a regular classroom.”

The SCI program started in 2012, after budget constraints made teaching languages with small enrollments difficult. The SCI model purposefully limits partners to three peer institutions and class enrollment to 12 students, enabling the program to meet its goal of a highly interactive language education.

But Huasha Zhang GRD ’18, who is taking the Classical Tibetan 130 SCI course, said that the course experience hinges on the quality of the technology in the room. First, her Tibetan class was held in the Center for Language Studies where, she said, screens were poor and the surround system did not function well. Now that the class has moved to a room in Luce Hall, she spends several hours per week surrounded by large flat screens and a glitch-free sound system.

“Everything functions so well that you almost think you and students on the other side [of the screen] are actually in the same classroom,” Zhang said.

Van Deusen-Scholl also noted that the Connecticut State University system has replicated the SCI model, expanding it beyond language courses to include small seminars.

SCI administrators from Yale and Columbia presented the online program at a September conference in Prague that drew university administrators from around the world.

Efforts extend beyond SCI. Next semester, Yale students will also have the opportunity to video conference with students in Rwanda in political science professor David Simon’s course “Rwanda Genocide in Comparative Perspectives.”

“This is a little bit of a way to break out of a campus bubble,” Simon said. “I think many students would agree that having a guest speaker … is enlightening for students and a welcome change of pace.”

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER

SOM may grow program for new college grads

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Discussions are currently underway to expand the Silver Scholars Program — which enrolls students fresh out of college in the Yale School of Management — administrators at the SOM say.

The program is an MBA program enrolling students who just graduated from college and requiring two years of business school classes separated by a year of work experience. The program is different from regular MBA admission in that normally applicants work for a few years before enrolling in the SOM MBA program, according to the SOM website. From its founding in 2004 up until last year, the program enrolled five to six students annually. That number climbed to seven for the class of 2016 and to 15 for the class of 2017. SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said administrators are considering the pursuit of a greater expansion starting next year.

“A decision is not yet final, but a lot of the discussions point in the direction of a larger class moving forward,” Jain said.

Jain said the thinking behind expanding the incoming Silver Scholars class stems from a larger and stronger applicant pool.

This year’s application numbers so far for the Silver Scholars Program are at a record high, SOM Deputy Director of Admissions Melissa Fogerty said, and over half of these applications come from students outside of the United States.

SOM professor Barry Nalebuff said one of the reasons students see the benefit of the Silver Scholars Program is because it fills the void created by an education that is not finance-based.

“I’m a huge fan of a liberal arts education,” Nalebuff said. “But

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Administrators at the Yale School of Management say the Silver Scholars Program, which enrolls students fresh out of college in the SOM, is set to expand. when you graduate Yale [College] and think about getting a job, you don’t have a lot of the skills a lot of jobs want. And, as a result, the jobs they give you reflect your lack of knowledge.”

The program is a way for the SOM to attract young talent, Jain said, adding that the SOM’s first year integrated core curriculum provides a broad business education that will be accessible for students who do not have prior business experience.

Nalebuff — one of the founders of the program who serves as an advisor to the Silver Scholars — said the purpose of Silver Scholars’ midway requirement

to spend a year in the workforce helps students in the job market once they graduate. An MBA without any work experience is difficult to employ, he added.

Though for its first two years the program was only open to Yale College seniors, it is now open to students enrolled in any undergraduate institution, thanks to interest from other colleges in the U.S. and around the world, Jain said. Fogerty said the popularity of this type of program is on the rise, because more students are looking for a foundation in business before entering the workforce.

Harvard Business School and

Peabody spooks visitors

Stanford Business School have similar programs which allow college students to apply for an MBA upon or immediately preceding graduation. Harvard has a “2+2 Program,” a deferred admission pathway for students enrolled in college, and Stanford provides their applicants with a deferred admission and a direct admission option. Silver Scholars is unique in that it only accepts students who finished their undergraduate careers within a year of beginning at the SOM, Jain said. Students who apply one or more years after leaving college have to enter the regular MBA program.

Dan Kent SOM ’16 said the introduction to more practical skills was what most attracted him to the Silver Scholars Program.

“Most MBA candidates stay out in the workforce for [a few] years and then return back to school to get their MBA degree,” Kent said. “But I felt like ... staying out and having to start in more entry-level positions would be an opportunity cost that I really would rather forego and jump straight into business schools and recruit into MBA level positions.”

Kent and Linda Du SOM ’16 both said the Silver Scholars are

Over 500 guests attended the Peabody Museum’s inaugural Haunted Crawl and Costume Ball.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Last night, zombies, princesses, pirates, cowboys and an 85-pound Burmese python all had a chance to mingle among the dinosaurs in the darkened halls of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Museum staff closed down the Peabody to the public during its regular hours of operation on Thursday in order to transform the first floor for the museum’s inaugural Haunted Crawl and Costume Ball. The event included a “tour of terror,” the chance to touch live snakes, a costume contest, a live DJ and food. Attended by over 500 guests, the occasion marks one of the first ever 18-and-over only events at the Peabody.

“I’m very excited for an event that gets adults in the museum having fun and getting more accustomed with the collections,” Peabody Head of Education and Public Outreach David Heiser said. He added that the event is the perfect opportunity for undergraduates to mingle with the greater New Haven community.

In past years, the Peabody hosted public Halloween events geared toward families. Event themes included “the natural history of witches and wizards” and “creepy crawlies.” But last year, the museum staff felt they were overloaded with public events and did not host a Halloween happen-

ing, Heiser said. However, this year, the staff, missing the Halloween preparations, decided to create a scary event specifically for adults.

For the costume contest, prizes were awarded in two categories — individual and group costumes.

Peabody Director David Skelly, Business Manager Susan Castaldi and Director of Public Programs Richard Kissel were the evening’s judges. Prior to the competition, Kissel said he looked forward to the creativity and diversity of costumes among attendees. Winners received gift certificates to Modern Apizza and BAR. The haunted crawl included museum staff dressed as mummies, disfigured corpses and mad scientists, all doing their best to spook attendees.

“I was actually scared during the haunted house,” Juliet Ryan ’16 said. “But I was in love with the ’70s music vibe.”

Ryan, dressed as Blues Clues, also had the chance to touch live reptiles and hold her first “legless lizard,” brought by a local reptile keeper to the Peabody. The keeper also brought anacondas, corn snakes and a Burmese python that weighed in at 85 pounds and measured over 13 feet long. Ryan said she “cried a little” when she touched it.

The walk also included a “mad scientist room” which featured parts of the Peabody collection not usually on display. Castaldi said the staff took this room as an educational opportunity to allow

visitors to view more specimens — but in a very lighthearted way.

“We have a wonderful assortment of creepy and crawly from the collections, including exotic looking worms, squids, octopi and some wonderfully grotesque creatures in jars,” Kissel said. “We want to set the mood of Halloween.”

Kissel also handed out special treats, including chocolate-covered ants and crickets, for those visitors who were brave enough to walk — or run — through the haunted crawl.

Susan Castaldi said that between Monday and Wednesday afternoon, over 300 tickets were sold. The event sold out at 520 tickets, 67 percent of which were purchased by Yale graduate and undergraduate students, 21 percent by faculty and staff and 12 percent by the general public.

Standing outside the packed museum, Andres Valdivieso ’16 waited as his friend experienced the haunted crawl without him.

Valdivieso said he had told all of his friends to buy tickets for the event, but he forgot to buy his own and was surprised that the event sold out.

Castaldi said the museum plans to continue this event in the future. Staff even hope to have two similar adult-only events in the spring, she added.

Tickets cost $5 for Yale students.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu.

Students unclear on note-taking changes

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

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very well integrated with other students at the SOM. Nalebuff said the larger classrooms in SOM’s new building have made it physically possible to expand the Silver Scholars class. However, he added, whether or not SOM accepts more Silver Scholars for next year will ultimately depend on how successful this year’s increase is, which is a determination that cannot yet be made.

The first Silver Scholars graduated from SOM in 2006.

Several months after the Yale Resource Office on Disabilities sought to revamp its note-taking system, students are yet to see real changes.

Every semester, the ROD hires students to take notes for disabled students who cannot take their own notes, for reasons ranging from blindness to concussions or broken arms. Last December, the Yale College Council, working in conjunction with the ROD, released a report with recommendations for improving the system. The suggestions aimed to increase accountability and consistency among notetakers. Though the ROD introduced a policy this semester for vetting new note-takers, overall, there has been little effect on the system’s execution, said Michelle Hackman ’15, a former city editor for the News, who has received notes since her freshman year “I know there has been a movement to make note-taking a more reliable service,” Hackman said. “[But] I never had any problem with my note-takers to begin with, and in accordance with that, I haven’t seen anything change.”

The note-taker system has always faced several minor but perennial issues, said ROD director Judith York. She cited the variability in students’ note-taking styles, lack of a quality control system, confidentiality concerns and difficulties with recruiting notetakers, since schedules may be in flux, especially during shopping period.

In addition, she added, demand for notetakers changes throughout the semester, as new cases of injuries and disabilities may arise.

“We have a huge volume of students [who need notes], and we don’t sit in on all those classes, so we can’t judge whether the quality of the notes is sufficient,” York said.

To address these issues, the YCC report offered seven recommendations, ranging from a video module to streamline notetaking styles to the creation of a private Classes*v2 workspace that would allow the ROD to distribute notes anonymously and monitor their quality. It also recommended the creation of a new student position, a note-taking services assistant who would aid ROD staff in recruitment and quality control.

At the time of the report’s publication, the student position had officially been created, the YCC was establishing a task force to oversee changes and the ROD had reached out to both the Yale College Dean’s Office and Information Technology Services to begin collaboration on the Classes*v2 workspace.

In addition, this semester, the ROD implemented a new system for screening potential note-takers, said Carolyn Barrett, senior administrative assistant for the ROD. The

office now sends via email a sample of a potential note-taker’s notes to the disabled student for approval before hiring them, she said.

However, other than the new vetting process, none of the other changes have materialized. Hackman said she does not know of a current student employee at the ROD or of any new method of distributing notes. Her note-takers simply send her notes via email after class, she said.

Though York said the ROD is always looking for new technology that will streamline the distribution process, Julia Calagiovanni ’15, a note-taker, said that a new system does not seem necessary.

“I don’t really get what [the search for new technology] means,” she said. “I just email the notes. It seems like a totally fine system to me.”

Another concern that the ROD sought to address was keeping notes confidential and secure, York said. Faculty trust her office to ensure that the disabled students are the only ones to receive the notes and that they are not loosely distributed, she said.

However, professors interviewed who had note-takers in their classes said they were not overly concerned about distribution.

History professor Joanne Meyerowitz said the thought of improper distribution never crossed her mind, and psychology professor Gregory McCarthy said that he thinks notes should be shared widely anyway, since the point is for students to learn.

According to military history professor John Gaddis, efforts to restrict distribution are futile.

“I have no knowledge of what happens to the notes after they’re distributed to the disability students. Or, for that matter, what happens to notes non-disability students have taken in previous classes,” he said in an email. “I’m not so naive as to believe that they automatically self-destruct after the final.”

Still, York said that the ROD will meet with YCC representatives again later this semester to reevaluate the note-taking system and assess any further changes that need to be made.

For Hackman, though, the YCC’s efforts would be better spent elsewhere.

“When this whole note-taking thing came out, it seemed really strange to me because I’ve just never had a problem,” she said. “My question was, why fix something that doesn’t seem broken? It just seemed like a weird thing to pay attention to when there are so many things that manifestly need so much more attention.”

There are currently 105 note-takers for 145 students in 206 classes.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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“You can’t play a symphony alone. It takes an orchestra to play it.”

NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU FORMER INDIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

Tech summit to connect ITS, campus

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Yale ITS is stepping out from behind the computer.

On Friday, Yale Information Technology Services will host its inaugural Yale Technology Summit at Evans Hall, the home of the School of Management.

The all-day event — which includes keynote addresses, panel discussions and a vendor fair — is an effort to create a campus-wide discussion about the application of technology both within the University and beyond. Although Yale ITS is often associated with providing support services, this event is part of a broader effort to engage more directly with the campus.

“When you think of something as amorphous as technology, someone needs to pull the community together to share information about what is going on,” University Chief Information Officer Len Peters said.

“I have often said — tongue in cheek — IT can be the ‘mud in the cracks,’ so if we can bring the community together, that alone would be a major accomplishment.”

The 37 events and over 75 speakers at the summit are divided into three concurrent tracks, which are centered around the categories of Teaching & Learning, Scholarship & Research and Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Justin Kan ’05 and Emmett Shear ’05 will also provide a keynote address on the experience of developing Twitch — a live streaming video game platform they co-founded in 2011.

SOM Chief Information Officer Alan Usas said many of his staff members feel like their efforts — while valued and important — are largely unseen.

But events like the upcoming summit bring their work to the forefront, he added. Strategic Communications Associate Director for ITS Susan West said they estimate around 400 students, faculty and members of the tech community will attend the event. She added that the entire event — including the talks and lunch — are free of charge.

ITS declined to comment on the exact cost incurred by the University in hosting the event, but Peters described the price to Yale as “minimal.” West added that the combination of receiving corporate sponsorship, speakers donating time and SOM providing space cover roughly 95 percent of costs.

Students and faculty participating in the event said they hope to exchange ideas with other members of the Yale tech community across various disciplines.

“I am looking forward to all the talks and cajoling with like-

minded people and developers at Yale,” said Director of Entrepreneurial Programs at SOM Kyle Jensen, who will be cohosting the keynote address. “[The summit] is a way for people to get together and celebrate technology.”

Ellen Su ’13, co-founder of 109 Design — a medical design start-up, said she accepted an invitation to be a panelist at the event because she thinks the summit will be a good forum to discuss the resources available to students pursuing technological ideas on campus.

IT User Experience Librarian Katie Bauer said her team will use the summit as an opportunity to test and receive feedback on a “beta version” of a new search engine for the library system. She said while it is important to use analytics and data to gauge the effectiveness of a service, it is equally important to engage face-to-face as well.

“It is very easy when you are in IT to sit at your desk and work away,” she said. “But it is more important to listen to people to find out what they are using, their frustrations and directions they would like to go.”

Several other ITS administrators and faculty members from around the University interviewed said the summit will serve as a launching pad towards a broader outreach effort.

Although headquartered out in Science Park, ITS is taking steps to make its presence known on the central campus as well.

“I think ITS is moving from being an infrastructure service provider to providing a format with which people can explore and test new ideas,” School of Architecture Director of Digital Media John Eberhart ARC ’98 said. “Their role is not just to provide a user net cable or connection, but to provides a way to better work with this things, put you in touch with this person or bring a group together to work collaboratively.”

Peters said the event also comes in the context of a series of initiatives to forge ties between ITS and the faculty.

Earlier this year, ITS received a grant from the National Science Foundation to collaborate with the computer science department in developing software for research on campus.

“At the end of the day, the reason why we are here is to support the mission of the institution of teaching, learning, and research and the preservation of that knowledge,” Peters said.

“The more we can understand the use cases from faculty, the better we can do our job.”

Although Friday’s Technology Summit is in its first year, Peters said he hopes this will become an annual tradition.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

YSO keeps tight wraps on show

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The 1,000 tickets available for this year’s Yale Symphony Orchestra Halloween Show sold out in less than two minutes.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTERS At the stroke of midnight this evening, those lucky enough to have secured a ticket to the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s most popular performance of the year will enjoy a night of music, humor and excitement, as prepared by their peers.

Performed in Woolsey Hall, the concert has traditionally consisted of a student-produced silent film with a score that consists of many well-known musical works, compiled by members of the orchestra, who then perform the score as a live accompaniment to the film during the show. This year’s show sold over 1,000 tickets in less than two minutes after ticket sales opened on Oct. 21. YSO president Field Rogers ’15 said the show’s collaborative project brings a sense of achievement and unity to the orchestra.

“There’s a certain energy that comes from working on the Halloween Show, and when we finally put everything together, everyone can feel it,” she said.

The YSO concert comes during a weekend filled with student performances and other social events. Billy Cavell ’17, business manager of improvisational comedy group Lux Improvitas said that his group scheduled its performance for an early evening time slot to allow students to attend a wide variety of events throughout the night. Halloween festivities will continue through the weekend, with Pierson hosting their annual “Inferno” dance on Saturday night. Yaphet Getachew ’16, Pierson Students Activities Committee co-

chair, described the event as the biggest Halloween dance at Yale.

However, the mystery surrounding the Halloween Show makes it the focus of the weekend for many students, despite the other options.

Dana Schneider ’15, a harpist in the YSO, said the group holds itself to a strict secrecy policy regarding the Halloween Show’s content. She added that every year, the show has featured a cameo appearance from a famous figure, but declined to reveal the identity of this year’s guest, noting that past guests have included John McCain, Sam Tsui and Woody Allen.

Brian Robinson, the orchestra’s manager, said he hoped that the hard work of the students and the administrative staff would speak for itself at the show.

Students interviewed attributed the appeal of the Halloween Show to its polished, professional-looking presentation. Eleanor Slota ’17, a student who was unsuccessful in purchasing tickets, said that the show initially appealed to her because of the music but noted that she also appreciates the opportunity to see a large number of her fellow undergraduates dressed in costume, all gathered in one place.

Cindy Xue ’17, one of the event’s producers, highlighted the event’s budget and tight rehearsal schedule. She explained that the show’s budget is only $500, and the group did not begin formal rehearsals for the performance until this week.

Rogers, who produced last year’s silent film, said that working on the show occupies a lot of time for students who take a larger role in coordinating the

event.

“I estimated that I put over 15 hours, on average, into the primary aspects of production alone every week until Halloween, and it’s the sort of thing that occupies at least half of your mind nearly all of the rest of the time,” she said.

In comparison to other YSO events throughout the season, the Halloween Show has the least amount of rehearsal time, but Xue said these rehearsals were significantly more intensive than others. She added that because the show sees significantly higher ticket sales than other YSO shows do, students who purchased season passes could secure a ticket for the Halloween show. Xue noted that the group encouraged students to purchase such passes in hopes that they would attend other YSO concerts throughout the season.

Paige Cunningham ’18 said she initially thought the stories about difficulties in acquiring tickets were overstated but then found that a large number of students took the ticket-buying process seriously.

“It became apparent that the insanity really wasn’t exaggerated when me and my friends were sat in my common room 20 minutes before sales opened with the website up, refreshing the page every minute just so they could get a shot,” she said. “I was stressed out and I’d already secured a ticket.”

The Yale Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1965.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

Yale grads unveil new party network app

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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The new “Huddlr” app, designed by Ivan Fan ’14, will be released Saturday night.

This week, purple flyers stood out among the orange and black decorations around campus.

The flyers began to be posted two weeks ago in anticipation of a new mobile application coming to Yale. Designed by Ivan Fan ’14, the “Huddlr” app allows Yale students to see the location of oncampus parties and which of their friends are attending. Huddlr will be officially released tomorrow night at Spook’d, Sigma Phi Epsilon’s Halloween party at the Elevate nightclub. According to Fan, the app is the first of its kind.

“I’m all about solving real world problems and part of that is bringing people together,” he said.

Both Fan and co-founder William Zhao ’13 said they hope to eventually expand the scope of the app beyond Yale’s campus.

Students spend too much time on their phones trying to locate their friends and not enough time at the actual party, Fan said. With Huddlr, Fan and Zhao said they are focusing their attention to solve this problem with the Yale community.

The Yale-led development of Huddlr follows a pattern of

increasing mobile app innovation at the University. The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute has more interest in mobile and web apps as of late, said Alena Gribskov, who is the communications & program manager at YEI and has worked with Zhao.

While Zhao conceded that the competition between social apps is stiff, he said Huddlr occupies a unique space in the market. The app combines real-time location information with the ability to connect with friends, a quality which distinguishes Huddlr from similar apps like Foursquare, Zhao said.

“I’ve seen versions of the app and they’re innovative especially in the design sense,” said computer science professor David Gelernter.

Despite heightened expectations, 15 of 24 Yale students interviewed said they would not download or use an app like Huddlr. Most expressed privacy concerns and said current forms of communication were preferable.

Liz Jones ’15 said she has no use for a Huddlr-type app because she does not go “party hopping.”

“If I want people to know where I am I just tell them,” said Joel Ong ’16.

To allay concerns about invasions of privacy, Fan made sure Huddlr users only have access to the location of students who accept friend requests. The app also includes the option to hide one’s location.

Prior to Saturday night, attendees of Spook’d can enter their emails in a raffle. The winners will be given access to the app on their phones. While Huddlr will only be initially available for this select group of people, along with a handful of SigEp brothers, Fan said the app would be released gradually to the rest of Yale shortly after Oct. 31.

“We’re using the event as a way to get people to become aware of our product,” Zhao said. “Spook’d is one of the bigger events and its something that people can use our app for.”

Huddlr’s release to the Yale community is in many ways a trial run for the app. Students can submit feedback directly in the app’s settings, and Fan added that he expects Huddlr to have many updates in the future as glitches are fixed and improvements are made.

Zhao emphasized the importance of “iterating” — updating based on feedback — in keeping

an app up to date.

The app’s current iteration, Huddlr 1.0, uses Apple devices called iBeacons that register when students arrive at any party location. Party-planners must contact the Huddlr team before their event appears on the campus map, but Zhao said he anticipates the need for this pre-approval to disappear.

“We’re ready to release; we’re excited to release,” Fan said.

“We’ve spent a lot of time making sure we’ve created an architecture that can handle the stresses of scaling.”

The app’s icon is a white penguin on a purple background.

When opened, the screen displays a map of Yale’s campus dotted with purple arrows, representing events. Fan and his team spent a long time working on the design of the app, Fan said. Huddlr’s original name was to be MorseMap, taken from the “Marauder’s Map” of Harry Potter. Fan noted that several student groups — including the basketball house, the hockey house and the radio house — are interested in partnering with Huddlr in the future.

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

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NEWS

“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” DOUGLAS COUPLAND CANADIAN NOVELIST

Halloween extravaganza thrills New Haven

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This year’s city Halloween Extravaganza took place Thursday night at the Armory building, featuring a haunted house, range of games, arts and crafts, dancing and costume contests.

BY LIONEL JIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Screams filled the stone-white hallways as children raced from one darkened chamber to the next, pursued by phantoms and confronted by reapers that emerged suddenly out of the heavy fog.

This was just one of many scenes that unfolded Thursday night at the imposing armory building at 290 Goffe St. — the site of this year’s city Halloween Extravaganza. Spanning two nights instead of the usual one, the Extravaganza featured a haunted house, a wide range of games, arts and crafts stations and dance and costume

contests, while DJs spun rap and other musical beats throughout the evening. Even though anticipated guest Mayor Toni Harp did not ultimately make an appearance, many in attendance said they enjoyed their experience.

“Everything’s been fantastic!” said 17 year-old Diana Skinner, as she ran out of the haunted house.

An equally enthusiastic 12 year-old Aaliyah Rodriguez said he would definitely return tonight, grinning broadly as he exited the extravaganza, boasting of being less scared than his aunt in the haunted house.

These enthusiastic responses from community members were exactly what organizers hoped to

see.

Harp challenged city departments to better engage the community this year, said Rebecca Bombero, director of New Haven Parks, Recreation and Trees — the department that organized the event. Bombero added that this encouragement spurred organizers to make this year’s festivities especially memorable — hence the larger venue, longer duration and more concerted publicity efforts. While Harp was planning on attending the extravaganza, she did not ultimately make an appearance, and this might have been linked to Michelle Obama’s presence in town, Bombero said.

The parks department sought

to create a safe environment for kids in the Elm City on Halloween, said Felicia Shashinka, one of two parks department recreation supervisors, who has been heavily involved in planning this Extravaganza.

In an effort to attract as many community members as possible, the organizers distributed 10,000 flyers, made visits to all 42 elementary schools, worked with government and community partners to spread the word and reached out to local media to promote the event.

Considering these significant outreach efforts, Shashinka said the team hopes to draw 400 kids on both Thursday and Fri-

day nights, up from the 150 to 200 who have turned up in previous years.

While the festivities have typically been held at the Coogan Pavilion in Edgewood Park, organizers moved the event to the larger armory because of ongoing renovations at the pavilion in the wake of a fire in 2012.

Though the organizers aimed at bringing in 400 children, the first night’s turnout quickly blew through that mark, hitting 546 by 7:20 p.m. Many of the kids made repeated trips back to the haunted house.

Children and families formed long lines in front of the bounce houses and games in the hall adja-

cent to the haunted house, while the costume parade featured everything from pilots to fairies to a little boy riding a shark.

The adults were also sold on the event, citing the event’s potential public safety benefits.

“It’s great that events like this take the kids off the streets so they’ll be safe,” said New Haven resident Pearlye Martin.

The event continues this evening at the Armory and will feature a special screening of the animated film “Frankenweenie.” All members of the public — Yalies included — are welcome.

Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .

Slifka exhibit chronicles love, family

BY SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new exhibit at the Slifka Center will use a variety of media to tell a story of love and remembrance.

Last night saw the opening of “No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration and the Making of an American Family,” an exhibition of postcards and photographs that traces the journey of Abram Spiwak and Sophie Schochetman, who fell in love during the Russian revolution and made their way to America to start a family. The exhibition’s curator, former Yale Assistant English and humanities professor Patricia Klindienst, said the emotional bond between members of the Spiwak family is the exhibition’s central theme.

“This is all about love. This whole project is about love,” Klindienst said. “The entire family loves and respects Abram and Sophie because they are the founders of the family.”

One part of the exhibit displays a sample of 24 postcards placed in chronological order, which detail Spiwak and Schochetman’s correspondence with each other and with their family members from 1907 to 1909 as they tried to find their footing in America as recent immigrants from czarist Russia. The foyer of the exhibition space contains two banners with black and white photographs hanging from the ceiling. One of the banners is a portrait of Schochetman in a black dress, her shoulders thrust back as she poses with a book.

Klindienst describes the exhibit as a “mosaic of memory,” adding that since the couple never discussed their personal histories with their family members, the compilation of postcards and photographs from their early lives fills in many of the historical gaps. Kliendiest added that the exhibit is her attempt at recreating the story they never told.

The second level of the exhibition concentrates on Abram’s family and features letters between members of his family, particularly his six sisters, whom he eventually helped bring over from Russia. Klindienst explained that Spiwak and Scho-

chetman helped more than two dozen members of their families escape persecution in Eastern Europe.

Klindienst said she spent six years working on compiling the works featured in the exhibition.

Margaret Kangley, a friend of Klindienst who helped design the exhibit, added that Klindienst originally planned to write a book on the exhibit’s subject matter but ultimately decided to present the themes visually.

The entire process began when Alice Linder, one of the couple’s granddaughters, told Klindienst the story of her grandparents and their escape from Russia. Klindienst recalled how Linder brought down a suitcase from the attic, which contained 250 photographs and postcards. During the following six years, Klindienst worked with 200 volunteers from 16 countries to translate the postcards. She also communicated with 36 members of Spiwak and Schochetman’s extended family to piece together their story.

Those who attended the exhibit’s opening described the exhibition as both enjoyable and thought-provoking.

“It tells you about a part about a part of American and world history that most people don’t know anything about,” said English and women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Margaret Homans. “It’s full of the most extraordinary emotions and feelings when you read the postcards sent by people who were perhaps never going to see one another again.”

Ruth Becker, the youngest child of the couple, said the exhibit provided her with a valuable opportunity to re-familiarize herself with her family’s history.

Richard Weingarten ’72, a former assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, said the exhibition provided him with insight on his own family’s history, adding that a number of his family members also fled Russia because of pogroms.

The exhibition will close on Feb. 1, 2015.

Contact SOFIA BRAUNSTEIN at sofia.braunstein@yale.edu .

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The new exhibit at the Slifka Center showcases postcards and photographs that tell a story of love and remembrance.

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SPORTS

“When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.”

NOMAR GARCIAPARRA SIX-TIME MLB ALL-STAR

Elis travel to Big Apple

How to beat the Lions KEYS FROM PAGE 14

hopes to shut down the Lions.

can happen, no matter how surprising. If Yale comes into the matchup tomorrow with the same mind-set as it has for its five wins, it almost surely can come away with a victory. Anything less, however, has the potential to blow Yale’s chances at an Ivy League championship in what appears to be the most likely win of the season.

FORCE TAKEAWAYS

AVOID BIG PLAYS

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Running back Tyler Varga ’15 has rumbled, bumbled and stumbled his way to 141.5 rushing yards per game, best in the Ivy League.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 14 this season.

But that was the only win of the season for Penn, a team that the Bulldogs defeated 43–21 last week. And Dartmouth was playing without starting quarterback Dalyn Williams, who led the Big Green to a victory over the Bulldogs earlier this month.

In fact, all six of Columbia’s opponents put in a backup quarterback at some point in the game, indicating that the Lions’ 31.2 point average margin of defeat could have been even more extreme.

Still, quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 said that Columbia will likely be tougher at its home stadium than at the Yale Bowl. His claim bears legitimacy, as the three most recent wins the Lions have had, all in 2012, were at home.

The contest in New York marks the beginning of a road-heavy part of the Elis’ schedule. After playing at home for five of its first six games, Yale will now play away for three of its last four.

“I always enjoy playing away,” Roberts

said. “It’s a little more business-oriented, staying in a hotel and that whole deal. Our guys are excited.”

Yale will head into the game looking to continue the offensive prowess that has remained steady in all of its first six games.

Roberts has had all of his weapons on display, with last week’s win being a notable example of that versatility: captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 broke a record for receptions in a Yale career, fellow receiver Grant Wallace ’15 posted a careerbest 173 yards and running back Tyler Varga ’15 rushed for 140 yards and two scores, all in the span of just three quarters of playing time for the starters.

Still, Reno said that there remains room to improve offensively, and tomorrow’s game against Columbia is an opportunity to do so.

“We’re still not as fast as I want us to be yet, play in and play out,” Reno said. “I also don’t think we’re threatening the perimeter as much I’d want us to be.”

The contest will also be a chance to improve defensively, as Yale has won

Lu ’17 excelling on the courts

through its offensive onslaughts, rather than through its defense, ranked fifth in the Ivy League.

The Elis’ 43–21 win over Penn was the second-best defensive performance Yale has had this year, but all three Quaker scores were on touchdown passes of over 30 yards, an issue that has pervaded the Yale defense for much of the season.

“As a secondary, we work on pre- and post-snap reads, making sure we have the right alignment and assignment before making our reads,” safety Foyesade Oluokun ’17 said. “We want to be more confident and execute in games the way we know we can.”

The Bulldogs will look to improve in the secondary even without cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17, who will miss the rest of this season with a spinal cord concussion.

Yale and Columbia will kick off in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

Of all the players on Columbia’s roster, quarterback Trevor McDonagh seems to be the biggest potential threat to Yale’s inconsistent defense. Just twoand-a-half games into being the Lions’ primary passer, McDonagh has seen significantly improved results over his predecessor, Brett Nottingham. He passed for four touchdowns in the second half of the Lions’ game against Monmouth, and then tallied just one in each of his next two games but still managed to combine for 548 passing yards in those two starts.

The major problem with Yale’s defense recently has been giving up big plays, and that certainly poses a potential problem against a quarterback who is heating up in his first weeks as a starter. In the Elis’ sole loss of 2014, Dartmouth connected on a pair of touchdown passes of 30 yards or more, and Penn had three such plays for scores in last Saturday’s game.

Facing the recent injury of cornerback Spencer Rymiszewski ’17, Yale will need to focus on defending the deep pass if it

McDonagh may be passing for more yards and touchdowns than Nottingham, but he has retained the former starter’s tendency to throw the ball into defenders’ hands. McDonagh threw an interception in his second drive before those four touchdowns against Monmouth, and he was picked off twice against Dartmouth last week to end a pair of key possessions.

WINNING WILL REQUIRE STAYING FOCUSED, PREVENTING BIG PLAYS AND TAKING THE BALL AWAY ON DEFENSE. On the other hand, Rymiszewski’s injury figures to throw a wrench in the secondary’s plans to harass McDonagh. The sophomore has two of Yale’s five interceptions on the season, and defensive back Jason Alessi ’18 will have to replace Rymiszewski in the defensive backfield despite only having appeared in four games this season.

If Columbia’s offense is able to build up any momentum during this contest, the Bulldogs should seek to cut it short with a turnover.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

Bulldogs aim to avenge loss

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Tyler Lu ’17 is currently ranked No. 84 in the country, best on the Yale team.

TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 ticed, as he was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Region Rookie of the Year and earned All-Ivy status for his performance in singles.

“Tyler’s motivation hasn’t let up in college, and he has been rewarded for his efforts,” Dorato said. “In fact, he is highly regarded by the other Ivy League coaches and players.”

Lu has continued his success in the 2014 fall season.

Based on his national ranking, he was the only Bulldog to compete at the ITA All-American Championships in September. After being knocked out in the Round of 16 at the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Tournament, he redeemed himself by defending his two titles at the Connecticut State Championships last weekend.

“My parents always emphasized the idea of work ethic to me. I feel like my work ethic has put me where I am,” Lu said.

“When you work hard, you have good coaches, and you have good teammates encouraging you, you have a good support system and good things will happen.”

Lu’s teammates and coaches alike cited Lu’s work ethic both on and off the court. Alex Hagermoser ’17 explained that while Lu is a talented player, it is his hard

work and determination that make him a role model on the team.

Dorato further noted that Lu holds himself to a high standard and has an innate drive to succeed, something that is visible every day at practice.

“Tyler is disciplined and passionate to improve as much as possible during his college tennis career,” captain Zachary Krumholz ’15 said. “If he continues with his strong work ethic and dedication, we know he will have great results this season.”

While Lu has compiled an impressive list of titles and championships, rankings and records, the statistics are not what he considers most important.

It is the team dynamic, he said, that is the most significant characteristic of Yale men’s tennis.

“The teammates I have on the Yale tennis team are absolutely amazing. I don’t know how to thank them,” Lu said. “My teammates are my best friends — they mean so much to me, they have done so much for me and that is the biggest reason why I am here at Yale.”

Lu will next compete with the team at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships beginning Nov. 6.

Contact KATIE SABIN at kaitlyn.sabin@yale.edu .

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The Elis have suffered just one conference loss this season — but they face the team that dealt it, Harvard, this weekend.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 League squads. Additionally, every team in the Ancient Eight has been handed at least one loss so far.

The Big Green can run a variety of options in their effort to defeat the Bulldogs, according to middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16. She added that they will be able to constantly sub throughout the game and have a lot of energy coming in, especially since Dartmouth has 21 players on its roster while the Bulldogs have just 15 on their squad.

Harvard, though, may prove to be Yale’s toughest opponent yet. Harvard is currently on a five-game winning streak and leads the conference in hitting percentage, assists and kills. The Crimson has hit 0.254 to Yale’s 0.233 and averaged 12.76 assists and 13.71 kills per set to Yale’s 12.23 and 13.09, respectively.

On the other hand, team statistics may not tell the whole story. Dartmouth beat Harvard in the teams’ first meeting, but Harvard beat Dartmouth this weekend, proving that every team is prone to losses this season, according to outside hitter and captain Mollie Rogers ’15.

“Every team in the Ivy League right now can beat every other team. Every team is very dangerous right now,” Ebner said.

Furthermore, Harvard will face Brown on Friday before playing Yale on Saturday.

The Bears beat the Crimson 3–0 in the first half of the season in one of their three conference victories, further proving the parity in the Ivy League.

“Of course there is a Harvard-Yale rivalry in every sport and every facet of Yale life, and when the time comes to play Harvard, we’ll definitely have that rivalry as extra motivation,” setter Kelly Johnson ’16 said. “But at the same time, both Dartmouth and Harvard have very strong hitters and servers. Both games will be extremely competitive battles.”

Rogers, Johnson and Ebner all agreed that the second half of league play is more challenging but also much more fun.

Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each team is a double-edged sword that elevates the level of competition, Rogers said. At the same time, Johnson believes that learning from previous mistakes has made the Bulldogs a stronger team.

When the Elis have back-to-back games over the weekend, they prepare for both

teams during the week but focus mainly on the Friday night game. Then, after the Friday match is over, they head straight to the media room and watch film for the Saturday game. On Saturday morning, they watch more film.

“You just have to shift your focus right away and can’t think about what happened on Friday, whether it was good or bad,” Ebner said.

This year, the team has started to put the name of the next team they are playing on the door to their locker room to make sure they are only focusing on that one team.

Last week, middle blocker Maya Midzik ’16 and setters Kelsey Crawford ’18 and Kelly Johnson ’16 carried the Bulldogs to a decisive 3–0 victory over Brown, earning them Ivy League honor roll mentions.

Crawford contributed 36 assists while Midzik and Johnson put up 10 kills each in the match.

Yale and Harvard are ranked in the top 100 teams nationwide, with the Bulldogs just making the list at No. 97 and the Crimson sitting at No. 83.

Contact ERIN WANG at erin.wang@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“I never could be a partisan leader — a man of one idea.” JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN AMERICAN PROFESSOR

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

THE DARTMOUTH

University Policies In Line With Cuomo’s

Study spurs controversy

BY ZOE FERGUSON Cornell officials say the University is already aligned with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) recent affirmative consent policy — in contrast to a “no means no” definition of consent for sexual activity.

On Oct. 2, Cuomo declared that New York State would require all 64 State University of New York schools to ensure their policies on sexual assault included a provision for affirmative consent, following the passing of a California bill requiring students to obtain consent that is “affirmative, conscious and voluntary” before engaging in sexual activity.

The California bill — SB-967 — mandates that in order for any college in California to receive state funding, the college must adopt a policy concerning sexual assault that requires affirmative and ongoing consent that “can be revoked at any time” from all parties involved in a sexual encounter.

“It is the responsibility of each person involved in the sexual activity to ensure that he or she has the affirmative consent of the other or others to engage in the sexual activity,” states the bill, which was signed into law on Sept.

28. “Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent.”

Cuomo will also work to adopt affirmative consent legislation for New York’s private colleges.

However, Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 says she believes Cornell already observes such a policy.

“If we think about it as a continuum with ‘no means no’ versus a ‘yes means yes’ type of consent, I would say we are much closer on the continuum to ‘yes means yes,’ even though we’ve never articulated it in exactly that way,” Grant said.

According to Cornell’s current sexual assault policy, Policy 6.4, consent is defined as “words or actions that show a voluntary agreement to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity.”

According to Grant, this aligns with the idea that silence cannot be accepted as “yes.”

“One of the things that I think is important to know is that when somebody is experiencing trauma, it can impact the language part of the brain,” Grant said. “While the stereotype might be that somebody who’s being assaulted will fight back and scream no, it’s actually not the most common response.”

“I think students feel like having an affirmative consent is somehow going to be awkward. It doesn’t have to be.” — Mary Beth Grant Grant added that silence is particularly common in campus sexual assaults because of the relative frequency of “acquaintance rapes” in comparison to “stranger rapes.”

“There are a lot of other reasons, but that is one of the things that we see frequently, where there is a freezing rather than a fighting back,” Grant said. “I think that it’s one of the philosophical reasons why this makes sense.”

Cornell’s official definition of consent also includes a note that says a person may not CORNELL “presume consent” because of situational context.

Grant emphasized the importance of ensuring continuing consent in all cases.

“We’ve had many situations where somebody might be naked in bed with someone, willing to do something, but not willing to do something different,” Grant said.

“We get many, many cases where there is consent for one act and not for another act. You really have to make sure that there’s communication.”

Speaking on communication throughout sex, Grant expressed sentiments similar to those outlined in SB-967. As the bill says that consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual encounter, Grant pointed out that “consent can be withdrawn at any time.”

“Someone can initially be fine with it and for whatever reason change his or her mind,” Grant said. “The other person has to listen to that.”

Grant addressed the pervasive fear that obtaining a “yes” may make a sexual situation unnecessarily uncomfortable, saying she thinks affirmative consent “just makes sense.”

“It just makes sense to make sure that everybody is clear and good with what’s going on,” she said. “I think students feel like having an affirmative consent is somehow going to be awkward. It doesn’t have to be.”

Laura Weiss, director of the Women’s Resource Center, said she thinks affirmative consent is not anything new, and should be viewed as the normal definition of consent.

“If it’s not affirmative and enthusiastic, then what is it — reluctant and coerced?” Weiss said. “I think affirmative consent is consent. I feel like it’s parsing things out really closely to think that there’s some kind of difference between those things. We don’t have retroactive consent.”

Grant also said it is “hugely important” to acknowledge that consent is not something only to be obtained by men from women, but a mutual agreement from all parties involved. She said the earlier assumption feeds into stereotypes about gender roles.

“It’s the stereotype that men always want sex and they are indiscriminate about who the partner is,” Grant said. “[In reality], of course they care about the partner. Of course they want to be able to choose.”

Both Grant and Weiss said they were inspired by the recent increase in national attention to issues of sexual violence.

“Institutional policy and social momentum, those two things are sometimes out of whack with one another,” Weiss said. “But I think that as a nation, the conversation is really moving on sexual violence and around consent.”

BY ERICA BUONANNO For the past week, Dartmouth and Stanford University have been embroiled in controversy over a research project that has potentially affected Montana’s upcoming Supreme Court elections by implying the nonpartisan candidates had party affiliations. Last week, Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch filed a complaint, as an individual, against the project’s three researchers — Dartmouth government professor Kyle Dropp and Stanford professors Adam Bonica and Jonathan Rodden — for interfering with the election and improperly using Montana’s state seal.

The professors sent the flier, titled “2014 Montana General Election Voter Information Guide,” to 100,000 Montana residents. In response to the complaint, Dartmouth and Stanford are sending apologies asking

recipients to disavow the election mailers, incurring a $52,000 cost.

DARTMOUTH m Do ua trht’ -s Institutional Review Board, which approves research projects, approved the study, while Stanford’s had not.

The letter acknowledges that the research proposal was not submitted to Stanford’s review board, violating the university’s policy.

Similar fliers were also distributed to around 210,000 voters in California and New Hampshire, though the project has not sparked controversy in those states.

The experiment aimed to ascertain whether voters given more information would be like-

lier to vote.

Montana commissioner Jonathan Motl, to whom McCulloch sent the complaint, said that academic institutions that want to do research during elections should check state election laws and request an advisory opinion from the political practices commission.

He said Montana residents are sensitive to campaign practice issues, especially after the advocacy group American Tradition Partnership defied state campaign finance laws, spurring a legal battle ultimately settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“We haven’t seen anything like this by an academic institution, in a political base, in the history of Montana that I’m aware of,” he said. “But if you’re asking how Stanford or Dartmouth is going to be treated, they’re going to be treated as a corporation and the activity will be viewed in the lens of corporate activity in a political

campaign in Montana.”

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) wrote in a statement that academic institutions could not use Montana’s elections as a “political laboratory experiment.”

“This so-called ‘research project’ comes at the cost of fair judicial elections in our state,” he wrote. “I appreciate the apologies from the institutions, but nothing can undo the impact that these mailers have already had on Montana voters.”

Tester sent a public letter to the presidents of Dartmouth and Stanford calling the experiment “voter manipulation,” and cited the state’s history of passing laws that reduce outside influence on campaigns. While the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United negated these measures, opening the state to corporate maneuvering, Tester said in the letter that it is “deeply troubling” to see academics engage in similar behavior.

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

Menino, longtime mayor, dies

BY MATTHEW CLARIDA Former Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who worked closely with four Harvard presidents on projects in Allston and the Longwood Medical Area during his five terms in office, died on Thursday morning. He was 71.

“At just after 9 a.m. this morning the Honorable Thomas M. Menino passed into eternal rest after a courageous battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his devoted wife Angela, loving family and friends,” longtime Menino spokeswoman Dot Joyce said in a statement, according to The Boston Globe, which first reported the news.

Menino, who left office earlier this year, had been fighting cancer. In 2013, after he announced that he would not seek re-election, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws at Harvard’s

C o m mencement Exercises.

Menino was Boston’s longest serving mayor. He HARVARD took office in 1993 and was consistently reelected by double-digit margins.

Even as he announced in 2013 that he would not seek another term, he confidently declared that he could win again if he wanted, a pronouncement few disagreed with, as his approval ratings often eclipsed 70 percent.

“No one I’ve known has personified Boston’s heart and soul, its drive and its resilience, more than Tom Menino. I have been privileged to call him a mentor and a friend,” University President Drew G. Faust said in a statement on Thursday. “All of us

can learn from his powerful and humane example, and his countless friends and admirers across Harvard will greatly miss and long remember him.”

Menino worked closely, but not always amicably, with four Harvard presidents: Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. Summers, Derek C. Bok and Faust.

Covert land purchases in Allston conducted under Bok and Rudenstine led Menino to declare that “Harvard will not take our property without being involved with the city.”

But gradually, relations improved. Summers and Menino worked closely to develop Harvard’s master plan for Allston, and even after many of those designs fell through during and after Summers’s resignation and the global financial crisis, Faust and Menino carried on the productive relationship.

Menino also worked closely with Harvard to develop the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, which is home to Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health.

Rudenstine said on Thursday that though the relationship had ups and downs, Menino could be counted on to as a leader who talked straight.

“He an absolutely extraordinary person, totally candid, totally unpretentious, always frank in his discussions with anyone, and in my experience at least never trying to use politics as any kind of lever in order to try and solve a problem,” he said in an interview.

Christine M. Heenan, Harvard’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs, worked closely with Menino on Harvard’s projects in Boston.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1:00 PM Special Exhibition Tour: Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901. This tour accompanies the screening of the film “The Pleasure Garden,” which will screen at 2 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. The tour will last 30 minutes. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1:00 PM Yale Farm Sunday Workdays. The Yale Farm will be holding open volunteer an open farm workday this Sunday. Yale Farm (345 Edwards St.).

MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 5:00 PM German Department’s Kaffee-Klatsch. Germans are well-known for their beer; however, Germans also like to meet up for a cup of coffee. Kaffeeklatsch literally means “coffee [and] gossip” — don’t like coffee? Gossip isn’t your thing? We’re very liberal when it comes to choices of beverages or conversation topics. WLH (100 Wall St.), Lounge.

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Yale to face winless Lions

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER A few months ago, when little was known about the upcoming Ivy League football season, the Yale football team’s matchup at Columbia was the only game on the Bulldogs’ schedule that, whatever happened during the season, seemed like a likely victory.

The Eli quarterback situation was unclear, the defense was an unknown and Columbia looked to be heading in a positive direction despite its 0–10 record last year.

Even then, however, a program that has not won a game since 2012 did not look to be a threat in the Ivy League.

Now, six weeks later, the Bulldogs (5–1, 2–1 Ivy) have emerged as one of the top offenses in the nation, and Columbia’s squad (0–6, 0–3) has continued to deteriorate with a 31 point average margin of defeat and the loss of its co-captain and quarterback.

All that has done is strengthen one fact heading into tomorrow’s contest in New York: on paper, this game appears to be a mismatch.

Nonetheless, Yale players and coaches said they are still preparing for a strong showing from a Columbia team that held Princeton to a four-point deficit through one half, and most recently played its closest game yet, a 27–7 loss to Dartmouth.

“Columbia is a team that I think is where we were two years ago,” head coach Tony Reno said.

“They have a good group of play-

ers that haven’t had as much success as they probably could have [had].”

The Lions currently lay claim to the worst offense and defense in the Ivy League, both in total yards and points. They were also last in all four of those statistics at the end of last season.

In Columbia’s winless 2014 campaign, perhaps the most significant player is one who is no longer on the team’s roster. Former co-captain and quarterback Brett Nottingham, who transferred from Stanford at the beginning of the 2013 season, was named a backup two weeks ago after throwing seven interceptions and one touchdown in the Lions’ first four games. Nottingham has since left the team.

Quarterback Trevor McDonagh has been effective in Nottingham’s absence, entering Columbia’s game against Monmouth in week four and instantly impressing with four second-half touchdowns to finish off the 61–28 loss.

Since then, McDonagh has passed for a combined 548 yards in his two starts behind center, but the team’s scoring production has gone down to just seven points in each of the games, with both touchdowns coming through the air.

The Columbia defense, meanwhile, has seen increasingly strong performances, as the recent losses of 31–7 to Penn and then 27–7 against Dartmouth were the least points allowed, and closest defeats, the Lions have had SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 leads the Ivy League with 334.2 passing yards per game.

Keys to the game

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale football team matches up with Columbia tomorrow in hopes of surpassing its 2013 win total with a sixth victory this season. The Bulldogs are heavily favored to defeat a winless Lions team with a 31 point average margin of defeat, but a focused effort will still be required to assure a victory over the Lions. If the Elis continue to seek improvement, avoid big plays and look to create

turnovers, they can emerge victorious in Manhattan.

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So far this season, much of Yale’s success can be credited to its refusal to be complacent offensively. The Bulldogs have scored over 40 points in five of their six games by continuing to spread the ball around and speeding up their hurry-up offense, while quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 is getting more and more accurate with each game.

Elis aim for revenge

Despite that success, head coach Tony Reno has preached all season about the importance of continued improvement. Against a Columbia squad that looks weak on paper, that attitude towards improvement will be the key to avoiding an upset.

As the Bulldogs remember from their 2012 upset victory over Penn — in which Yale’s only Ivy win was also the Quakers’ only conference loss — upsets SEE KEYS PAGE 10

Lu ’17 excelling early

BY KATIE SABIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER When Tyler Lu ’17 first picked up a tennis racket, he was merely trying to imitate his older brother, a tennis enthusiast. He never thought that only seven years later he would be ranked No. 84 in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

MEN’S TENNIS Lu, who recently won both the singles and doubles titles at the Connecticut State Championships for the second consecutive year, began playing tennis at age 12 and never looked back. By the conclusion of his high school career, he was ranked No. 24 in the nation.

“My assistant coach and I first

saw Tyler play at the U.S. Junior Hard Court Championships after his sophomore year of high school,” head coach Alex Dorato said. “We both thought ‘we need to get this guy’ because he was unbelievably fast on the court, fiercely competitive and hit with tremendous racket speed.”

Lu joined the Bulldogs in 2013 and had a remarkable inaugural season, posting an impressive 14–3 singles record in the fall, followed by a 16–4 singles record in the spring and a combined regular season doubles record of 13–5.

The sophomore attributed much of his success as a freshman to the help he received last season from his captain.

“The transition to college tennis was a lot smoother than I expected it to be,” Lu said. “I got

very involved with my captain last year, and I think that really helped. He really took me under his wing and made it his goal to make sure I transitioned well into college and felt very comfortable with the team.”

Lu claimed two singles titles in the 2013 fall season — one in the “B” draw of the Ivy Plus Invitational and the other at the Connecticut State Championships.

His success was not confined to singles, as he also won the Connecticut State Championships doubles crown alongside Photos Photiades ’17 and later won a doubles main draw match at the USTA/ITA Northeast Regionals with partner Martin Svenning ’16.

Lu’s success did not go unnoSEE TENNIS PAGE 10

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Captain Mollie Rogers ’15 became just the sixth Yale volleyball player with 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career.

BY ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale volleyball team will battle Dartmouth and Harvard for the second time this season on Friday and Saturday.

VOLLEYBALL Though the Elis (11–6, 7–1 Ivy) swept the Big Green (13–6, 4–4) in three sets earlier this season, they suffered a 3–2 loss at the hands of the Crimson (13–4, 6–2) on Oct. 3. Yale is currently on a six-game winning streak and remains at the top of the league, though Harvard is only one win away from tying for the

coveted number one spot.

“I think this is one of the hardest weekends simply because both teams are very good,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “Dartmouth will be tough because they’ve had all week to prepare for us, and Harvard will be tough because they’re very talented.”

Dartmouth enters this weekend’s matches having suffered fresh losses to Penn and Harvard during the last two weekends.

Despite the two-game losing streak, Appleman warned against reading too much into a team’s current record because there have been so many close five-set matches among Ivy SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

THE KILL PERCENTAGE FOR THE YALE VOLLEYBALL TEAM, GOOD FOR SECOND IN THE CONFERENCE. However, the only team ahead of the Bulldogs is the same team responsible for Yale’s only conference loss: Harvard, the Elis’ opponent on Saturday.