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Associate master’s email draws ire
No longer rivals. In a list of
1,275 colleges, The Economist ranked Yale 1,270th for alums’ performance in the job market. According to The Economist, Yale graduates ought to be earning $75,590 but are actually earning $66,000. The same ranking placed Harvard fourth. The top spot went to Washington and Lee University, and Cooper Union was ranked last.
Across the pond. At the
BAFTA Britannia Awards in London this weekend, Meryl Streep DRA ’75 was honored with the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film, becoming the first woman to receive the award. “I am honored to receive this award that has been given to a distinguished group of men and men,” Streep quipped.
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An email from Silliman Associate Master Erika Christakis on Halloween costumes has triggered controversy. BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER A Friday email sent by Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis decrying the censure of costumes deemed culturally appropriating incited campus controversy over Halloween weekend. Christakis’ message, sent just after midnight Friday, came in response to an email the Intercul-
tural Affairs Council — a group of administrators from the cultural centers, Chaplain’s Office and other campus organizations — sent to the undergraduate student body on Wednesday. The council’s email asked students to be thoughtful about the cultural implications of their Halloween costumes, citing blackface and turbans as examples of details that could offend or belittle others. In Christakis’ email, she
A Vonnegut feeling.
James Franco’s GRD ’16 newest project, an audio version of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” will be released tomorrow. Franco, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Yale, told The Washington Post that the novel is his favorite by Vonnegut. The novel, though a 1969 classic, is in many ways “contemporary and postmodern,” Franco said. Suburban scare. Princeton’s
campus, located in a quiet New Jersey town, was shaken on Saturday after a student reported waking up with an intruder’s arm around her. The university tweeted out an alert in the morning, explaining the event. According to the tweet, the intruder ran off after the student screamed.
Speaking out. La Casa
will host “[Ad]dressing Appropriation and the Power of Language” — a conversation about free speech in the context of the experiences of students of color on campus — at the Af-Am House. The event, scheduled for 5:15 p.m., invites students to share personal stories.
Take me to Chipotle. Improv
group The Viola Question will fundraise at Chipotle this evening. A portion of the popular restaurant’s sales to customers that mention VQ when ordering from 6 to 10 p.m. will go to the group.
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SAE denies charges of racism BY JON VICTOR AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS
A very Hillary Halloween.
Four-year-old Sullivan Wood of Charleston, South Carolina got a Halloween surprise at a rally for 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 Saturday. When campaign aides saw that Wood was dressed as Clinton, she was brought backstage and introduced to the candidate.
LET THE DOGS OUT
defended students’ rights to wear potentially offensive costumes as an expression of free speech, arguing that the ability to tolerate affront is one of the hallmarks of a free and open society. Her email compared adults selecting costumes to children playing dress up, and she asserted that imagination should be encouraged and not constrained. SEE EMAIL PAGE 4
Yale’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has denied allegations that brothers racially discriminated against students of color during a party held Friday at the fraternity’s off-campus house. On Oct. 31, the day after the party in question, Neema Githere ’18 posted a status on her personal Facebook profile recounting the experience of a group of women of color which she said were denied entrance to SAE on Friday on the basis of race. Though Githere was not part of that group herself and was not in attendance Friday, she noted in the post that a similar incident had happened to her last year and invited others who had been discriminated against by SAE to comment with their stories. Since it was published, her post has received over 600 likes and almost 100 shares. “I’d just like to take a moment to give a shoutout to the member of Yale’s SAE chapter who turned away a group of girls from their party last night, explaining that admittance was on
a ‘White Girls Only’ basis,” her post read. Members of SAE have categorically denied the accusations. Yale SAE President Grant Mueller ’17 said he has been in contact with Yale administrators and representatives from SAE’s national organization about the incident to repudiate charges that SAE members engaged in racist behavior when deciding whom to admit to the party. “Obviously I was shocked and flabbergasted [at the idea] that anyone in SAE would even have these words come from their mouths,” Mueller said. “It’s just kind of upsetting for me because we try to be so incredibly accepting and take pride in our diversity.” Mueller said he was notified of Githere’s post around 8 p.m. on Saturday and immediately contacted Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard, as well as his residential college dean, in order to address the complaints. Howard already knew about the post, Mueller said. Mueller and Howard met on Saturday night and spoke SEE SAE PAGE 4
Economy dominates final mayoral debate BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Disputes over New Haven’s finances and economy flared Saturday morning, as the three mayoral candidates clashed in their last debate of the campaign season. Taxes, unemployment and economic development took center stage in the debate between Mayor Toni Harp and her petitioning challengers, plumbing company owner Sun-
diata Keitazulu and former city clerk Ron Smith. Coming under attack from Smith for the city’s high taxes and from Keitazulu for persistent unemployment among racial minorities, Harp defended her two-year-long record. Harp, the heavy favorite in Tuesday’s election, said her administration has worked to run budget surpluses, seek municipal funding reform from the state and stabilize the mill rate — the tax rate per $1,000 of property value.
Higgins promoted to new role BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins will become Yale’s director of public safety on Nov. 16 while maintaining his role as chief, University officials announced Thursday. As director of public safety and chief of police at Yale, Higgins’ new responsibilities will include managing police officers, security operations and security systems, according to Janet Lindner, deputy vice president for human resources and administration. She explained that Higgins’ promotion to the newly created position is part of Yale’s ongoing efforts to integrate and upgrade security on campus. “I am truly humbled,” Higgins said, in reference to his upcoming appointment. “It is an extraordinary opportunity.” Dan Killen, the director of Yale Security Operations, and George Hines, the director of Yale Security Systems, will retain their positions, Lindner said. But Killen and Hines will now report to Higgins, who will continue to report to Lindner. Lindner cited Higgins’ leadership skills, SEE HIGGINS PAGE 6
Smith and Keitazulu, though unified in their criticism of Harp, disagreed with each other on how best to reduce unemployment in the Elm City. For his part, Smith said the city’s high taxes are stifling growth and preventing small businesses from thriving. “Taxes are so high that we can barely make it — pay our house taxes, buy our food, pay our rent,” Smith said. “In a poor city, we’re paying way too much, and the legislators we’re voting
in need to look at this because they represent us.” Meanwhile, Keitazulu said he would raise taxes by 2 percent and look into a 0.5 percent budget cut in all city departments. The savings from those strategies would then be used to increase funding for education, he said. Keitazulu identified the city’s low-performing schools as a prime contributor to the unemployment vexing the city. He said he would increase the
amount of vocational training in schools, adding that job training must be a component of education in the city. “We need funding to get this job done,” he said. “And I know people are talking about cutting taxes, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices. People made sacrifices to go to war. People made sacrifices for George Marshall’s recovery of Europe. We need a recovery in our own city.” SEE DEBATE PAGE 6
Calhoun Master weighs in on college name BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last week, Calhoun College Master Julia Adams broke her silence on the ongoing campuswide debate over the name of Calhoun, the same day that Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway announced for the first time a deadline for resolving the dispute. Adams, who had previously declined to take a public position in the dispute, called for the college to be rechristened Calhoun-Douglass College, after the 19th-century African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. She presented her proposal Thursday evening at a Silliman College forum led by MIT history professor Craig Wilder, the author of “Ebony and Ivy,” a recent book about racism in the Ivy League. The controversy over Calhoun — named for outspoken slavery advocate and white supremacist John C. Calhoun, class of 1804 — began in earnest this summer after the June massacre of nine AfricanAmerican churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, triggered a national conversation about racially charged symbols. In August, University President Peter Salovey used his freshman welcome address to encourage a campus debate over the
naming issue. “As the most important black American intellectual of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass is a formidable, indeed towering, complement to Calhoun,” Adams said to the audience of around 30 students. “It’s also a good thing from a pedagogical perspective … to have a
meaningful renaming that launches us toward the future without erasing a past that is still powerfully influential.” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who also spoke at the event, announced that Salovey would subSEE CALHOUN PAGE 6
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Master Julia Adams has spoken for appending “Douglass” to the college’s name.
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n Wednesday, Dean Burgwell Howard wrote in an email to Yalies asking them not to “threaten [Yale’s] sense of community” with their Halloween costume choices. “We would hope,” Howard writes, “that people would actively avoid those circumstances that … disrespect, alienate or ridicule … based on race, nationality or population.” And then, on Friday, Erika Christakis, associate master of Silliman College, wrote to the Silliman community about the dangers of making campuses “places of censure and prohibition.” Christakis laments that emails like Howard’s suggest that adults have “lost faith in young people’s capacity … to exercise selfcensure, through social norming.” This “shift from individual to institutional agency” disempowers students. If Yalies want their culture changed, Christakis argues, edicts from above are the wrong way to do it. To be sure, the University administration can and should counter egregious student behavior. Yale is not just a disburser of facts, but an institution to make moral men and women. At the same time, an email concerning students’ Halloween attire seems a bit petty, especially given the binge drinking and debauchery abounding the same evening. Ultimately, though, Christakis thinks the administration — and everyone else — lacks a way to distinguish among “appropriative” costumes and more benign ones. “What is the statute of limitations,” she wonders, “on … dressing up as Tiana the Frog Princess if you aren’t a black girl from New Orleans?” Though there’s certainly a difference between dressing as Tiana and wearing blackface, this reply misses the point: Howard and Christakis’s critics on social media are not treating students who dress up in supposedly “appropriative” costumes in good faith. Howard concedes in his email that “in many cases the student wearing the costume has not intended to offend.” However, “their actions or lack of forethought have sent a far greater message than any apology could after the fact.” Burgwell dissociates the costume from the person wearing it. What makes a given action different from person to person is the intention behind it — for instance, it’s okay for parents to yell at their children in public. If a stranger did the same, we’d consider it boorish. So why would we remonstrate someone who in daily life is racially tolerant, liberal, etc. because they wore a borderline insensitive costume? Burgwell simply assumes that minority students will take offense at such garb. But they might be less perturbed if they considered that the aim of students wearing costumes on Halloween is — almost certainly — to
have fun, not re i n s t i t u te Jim Crow or kick minority students out of Yale. They might, of course, find some COLE costumes to ARONSON be in poor taste, as I do. Necessary In that case, but proper they should do what Christakis urged and explain their feeling to their peers in a constructive way. Yet an open letter to Christakis recently circulated among the student body takes Burgwell’s uncharitability one step further. Already signed by hundreds of Yalies, it accuses Christakis of asking minority students to invite “ridicule and violence onto [them]selves” by allowing peers to wear potentially offensive costumes. Christakis, the letter says, wants folks to ignore the “violence” that grows out of the “degradation of … cultures and people.” The philosopher Slavoj Zizek could not have overstated it better. Christakis was simply arguing that a university should not trouble itself with the tasteless outfits of a few students, even if those students are criticized for being obnoxious. The letter makes the unbelievably serious claim that Christakis is promoting physical harm against minority students. Such a response hardly dignifies a response. Another point Christakis makes is that we do not care about all instances of offense. “No one around campus,” she writes, “seems overly concerned about the offense taken by religiously conservative folks to skin-revealing costumes.” Definitely, Yale ought to worry more about white students’ prejudice toward black students than the reverse. But do we want a campus where folks who belong to certain groups have their sensibilities ignored and those who belong to other groups are entitled to censor speech? Religious conservatives aren’t out policing the denizens of Toad’s, even though many surely think that they ought to dress modestly. And they certainly aren’t accusing scantily clad or axe-wielding trick-or-treaters of promoting “violence” against anyone. The Christakis donnybrook is a lesson in intellectual charity and treating all students as adults. Christakis is not hostile to any minorities. To the contrary, by advocating a campus where feather-dress costumes are met not with tar, but with dialogue, Christakis treats all students as equals. Her opponents ought to emulate her. COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .
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VIEW Sarah Eidelson '12 for Ward 1 Throughout this election period, Ward 1 residents have been divided on what they want from their next alder, and if they even want Ward 1 to exist at all. We saw this in the Democratic primary, and we are seeing it now. With these questions in mind, Yale students will head to the polls Tuesday to choose between two very different candidates for Ward 1 alder: Democrat Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Republican Ugonna Eze ’16. Eidelson, the incumbent of four years, has received much criticism over the course of this election and the past two terms for her disconnect with the Yale community. This is a problem some fear will only get worse as her time away from the Yale student body grows by two more years. But, while Eidelson’s disengagement is concerning, her successful tenure on the Board and her passion about local issues make her our choice for the position of Ward 1 alder. Over the past four years, Eidelson has been a champion for city youth. As chair of the Board of Alders’ Youth Services Committee, she brought federal funding to youth violence prevention organizations in New Haven. She also organized the election of the first student representatives to ever serve on the city’s
Board of Education. With her unanimous election as the Board of Alders’ minority leader, Eidelson demonstrated that she has earned the respect of her colleagues, a product of her ability to work productively with the existing board. These accomplishments attest to Eidelson’s strong record as a public servant of the city and should not be dismissed as inconsequential. But the degree of support that Eidelson has garnered on the board has not been reflected in the student body. For this reason, our decision was not an easy one. Both candidates have their strengths, but neither one is perfectly suited to solve the problems currently facing Ward 1. Eidelson’s challenger brings a fresh perspective to the table. Eze has detailed ideas to bridge the towngown divide, and his idealistic vision for New Haven is admirable. But change does not necessitate a new face in office, and Eze’s unfamiliarity with the workings of city government — essential for implementing change of any kind — are understandable, but concerning nonetheless. Therefore, instead of endorsing a new candidate, we challenge Eidelson to look at the strengths of her opponent
as a means to improve her service of the ward. We do not endorse her because we are wholly satisfied with what she has done so far. We endorse her because we believe she can do better. When Eidelson entered her first term, many believed that she would be able to sustain the student energy she had rallied during the election process. This has not been the case. On Tuesday, Eidelson will challenge an opponent who has demonstrated the ability to engage student groups, and has provided concrete examples of how he would promote student involvement in the city. Eidelson, though, is in the best position to ensure those connections are secured. She can continue implementing effective policy proposals because of her strong relationships with the rest of the board, but can better integrate students and organizations into that process. While Eze may have a stronger drive to do this, Eidelson has the capacity to make sure that it happens. It is concerning that Eze has not received any endorsements from the people with whom he would be working, or enjoyed much demonstrated support outside of the Yale community. So, while we have concerns about
Eidelson’s engagement with students, we believe that, with the right attitude, it is a problem that can be fixed. Criticisms of an absent alder clearly show a desire within the student body to be more engaged. Both Eze and Eidelson’s challenger in the primary, Fish Stark ’17, have demonstrated in their campaigns that student groups are interested in becoming more involved with the city, and in being better represented in local government. Even though Eidelson brought enough supporters to secure the primary, she will fail to succeed in the next two years if her engagement with students ends on Tuesday. If Eidelson could capitalize on the current drive to action within the student body, her third term as alder could be more successful than her past two combined. Eidelson calls New Haven her home, and her devotion is evidenced by her decision to run for a third term, even though most Ward 1 alders vacate the seat within four years. There is no doubt that Eidelson is a force for good in New Haven. We ask that, should she be successful on Tuesday, she spends the next two years working to engage with Yale students the same way she has engaged with this city.
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A valid excuse A
s networking events, office visits and interviews fill the calendar, upperclassmen are increasingly confronted the fact that the real world is fast approaching. Highly competitive, professional recruiting processes whirl through campus, and Yalies must be at once students and professionals. However, Yale expects its students to remain only students, providing no academic leeway as upperclassmen prepare for careers after Yale. Despite the vast majority of its student body entering the workforce after graduation, Yale does not consider any part of the interview process to be valid for missing class or postponing schoolwork. Yale students cannot get a Dean’s Excuse because of a job commitment, and therefore must depend upon the flexibility of the professor. Frequently, professors will sympathize, but will not accommodate requests for extensions or makeup assessments. Yale can better support and position its students to succeed both academically and professionally by changing its policy to reflect the reality that most students participate in job recruitment — a strenuous process even without additional pressure from classes. Students frequently seek to minimize the overwhelming stress of balancing work with school by obtaining Dean’s Excuses. According to Yale’s Academic Regulations, Dean’s Excuses permit students to postpone schoolwork under the circumstance of “incapacitating illness, the death of a family member or a comparable emergency … the observance of religious holy days and because of participation required in intercollegiate varsity athletic events.” Job interviews or events, of course, do not fall within this realm.
The omission of professional commitments from this list implies that Yale does not fully recognize the demanding nature, and priority, of the job process when coupled with existing academic commitments. In holding this view, the school does not adequately support students trying to find a job. To succeed in the job process, most students must devote tens, if not hundreds, of hours to attending networking sessions, visiting offices and studying and traveling for interviews. Many describe professional recruitment as a commitment comparable to an extra course. Therefore, it is unrealistic that students can integrate this added workload into their academic and extracurricular schedules without any additional support. Beyond addressing the rigor of job recruitment, Yale must acknowledge that its curriculum is largely aimed at preparing students for their careers. We chose liberal arts to learn to think. The skills of analysis and critical thought excite and challenge us in the classroom, but they also equip us with tools to succeed in a range of professional fields. While we can’t lose sight of the intrinsic value of the Yale experience, we must also acknowledge that Yale trains us for next step, which, for many of us, means entering the professional world. Admittedly, Yale does not have any pre-professional degree programs; however, the vast majority of Yale graduates join the workforce after graduation. According to Yale Office of Career Strategy Survey for the Class of 2014, 74.2 percent of the Yale College Class of 2014 worked in a full-time, part-time or short-term professional position upon graduating. 17 percent of the same graduating class went on to attend graduate or
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professional school, and of that group, 68.7 percent pursued a professional degree: Master’s, Medical or Law. Only 4.3 percent of the class continued on to conduct independent research. Yale does provide pre-professional resources through the Office of Career Strategy, which, according to its website, “is here to support students at every stage of the career process, from your early days as a freshman to your life after graduation.” However, there is a fundamental disconnect between the OCS’s goal to support professional endeavors and the Academic Regulations’ neglect for them. Simple changes within Yale’s Academic Regulations could create a more supportive culture by embracing the student body’s career aspirations, rather than fighting them. Many of our high schools allocated days for college visits, and Yale could implement similar exemptions by including job recruitment in the circum-
stances in which a Dean’s Excuse can be offered. Easing academic policy around career recruitment would not only lift tension in students’ schedules, but also convey a stance of support from the school. Just as high-school administrations recognized that many of their students would continue on to seek higher education upon graduation, Yale could recognize the prevalence of entrance into the workforce and actively position students to succeed. Yale’s current policy does not reflect the reality that students need to devote a great deal of time — frequently personal, homework or even class time— to finding a job. Students should feel encouraged to pursue their career aspirations. As we look to find a job, Yale needs to do its own. KRISTIN MENDEZ is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact her at kristin.mendez@yale.edu .
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YCC establishes endowment, board BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER This year, the Yale College Council will have an endowment and a board of trustees for the first time since the group was established in 1972. Thanks to a donation from an alumnus whose name the YCC has not released, the council will receive $150,000 every year over the course of the following five years. According to YCC President Joe English ’17, $125,000 of the annual donation will be distributed directly into the endowment, which will be overseen by Donna Consolini, an officer in Yale’s Office of Development. The remaining $25,000 each year will be allocated for the YCC’s discretionary use, with any leftover funds distributed back into the endowment. In accordance with the Development Office’s guidelines, the YCC will also establish a board of trustees in mid-November consisting of six to eight people. One of the board’s key responsibilities will be to oversee both the YCC’s general budget — which this year is $360,000 — as well as the endowment to ensure proper allocation each year. While the members of the board have not yet been determined, English said they will come from a diverse range of backgrounds to include former YCC presidents, Yale College professors, University administrators and college alumni. Members will serve a term of three academic years, after which they will have the option to either renew their membership or allow the YCC to vote on a successor. According to English, both the endowment and the board of trustees will help the YCC — whose members generally only serve one year on the executive board — develop greater institutional memory and autonomy. “The first and primary mission of the endowment is to financially empower the Yale student government in order to be able to enact policy,” English said. “At other institutions where the student government has an endowment of their own, if there is ever a point where the administration can’t support an initiative financially, the student government is able to take it into own hands and fund that initiative.” The YCC was first approached with the donation proposal in April. English said the donor wanted to contribute to the council because he frequently attended YCC meetings during his time at Yale, and is a firm supporter of the group’s role as an advocate for the student body. After the period of five years, the YCC will harvest the interest generated by the endowment to help fund its initiatives. YCC Vice President Maddie Bauer ’17 said the council will not actively seek donors to grow the endowment and will not add any money from the student activities fee into the funds. The donation also will not replace funding the organization currently receives for its annual budget from the student activities fee and the University President’s Office.
A primary function for the funds is organizational development within the YCC, English said. He cited a range of activities that the funds would support, including the YCC Correspondents’ Dinner — an annual gala hosted by the YCC for campus publications — and a welcome reception for residential college council presidents and class councils. The YCC is starting to build greater communication between its various subsidiary groups, English said. “The overarching theme of these changes is this sort of unification throughout the ages and also throughout the organization,” said YCC Chief of Staff and former Production and Design Editor for the News Sammy Bensinger ’17. “One of the challenges that an organization as large as the YCC faces is making sure someone on the council feels just as welcome as someone on the board, and that’s what we’re aiming for.” In line with these goals, the board of trustees will also serve as a point of guidance to each successive YCC board. After the YCC turnover each year, trustees will be able to advise and provide context to new leaders of the organization on how former members have dealt with similar issues in the past, English said. He noted that while the experience of former YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 provides a valuable perspective, it would also be useful to have a broader frame of reference. Bauer cited last year’s extension of gender-neutral housing to sophomores as an example of the need for a board cognizant of the YCC’s current and former projects. Gender-neutral housing originally began as an initiative under then-YCC President Brandon Levin ’13, who secured its implementation for upperclassmen. Both Levin and Herbert worked to implement similar goals, Bauer said, so a board of trustees could have helped connect both presidencies. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who was invited to be a member of the board, said he believes the trustees will give the YCC more “institutional memory,” given that they will serve longer than the typical term of individual YCC leaders. English echoed this sentiment, adding that the board will provide the YCC with increased legitimacy when handling matters with the University administration. “The more we’ve been talking with alumni, the more we’ve learned that they’re still very much in contact with the other YCC members they served with,” Bauer said. “There seems to be a missing link between the current and past YCC, so hopefully this will create a precedent not just for institutional memory, but also a strong institution that people will be happy to be a part of.” The Associated Students of Stanford University, which includes the Undergraduate Senate and Graduate Student Council, has a total endowment of $15 million. Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
Saturday Fling date finalized
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After considering the results of a second survey gauging student preferences, the YCC kept the date for Spring Fling as Saturday, April 30. BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Despite significant opposition from parts of the Yale student body, the Yale College Council announced in its fall newsletter on Friday that Spring Fling would remain on Saturday, April 30 — a date that conflicts with many spring athletic competitions as well as the last day of Passover. After an initial survey indicated that 84 percent of the 2,500 undergraduate respondents preferred this year’s Spring Fling be held on this date, the YCC sent out a second survey that included statements from members of both the Yale Student Athlete College Council and Yale Hillel, a Jewish organization at Yale. With the second survey, the percentage of respondents preferring the Saturday date dropped to 67 percent, with 11 percent indicating that they would not be able to attend if the event were held on Monday instead. Thirty-three percent of respondents said they preferred Monday, and 10 percent noted that they would not be able to attend Spring Fling on Saturday. A total of 2,851 students replied to either of the two surveys, Spring Fling Committee Chair Tobias Holden ’17 said, and the YCC linked responses by Yale NetID in order to use the most recent response from each student. Holden did not specify how many students responded
to the second survey. “While the Spring Fling Committee recognizes this prevents various student-athletes from attending and conflicts with Passover, an unambiguous majority of Yalies prefer for Spring Fling to take place on Saturday,” a YCC email sent out to the entire student body read. Holden and YCC Events Director Amour Alexandre ’17 said that although they did see an increase in the number of students who chose Monday as their preferred date because of Passover, athletic commitments or other reasons, they were unable to change the date because a majority still chose Saturday. Student-athletes interviewed expressed disappointment with the final decision, highlighting the difference between being unable to attend a specific day and having a general preference for one date. Additionally, all student-athletes interviewed who were unable to attend Spring Fling last year because it was held on a Saturday said they will again be unable to attend this year. “Everyone else has a choice about going whether it’s Saturday or Monday; we simply cannot go if it’s on a Saturday,” men’s track and field member Torren Peebles ’17 said. “Spring sport student-athletes and students observing Passover are two significant portions of the undergraduate population, who, unique to the rest of the
undergraduate population, had concrete commitments during reading week when everyone else could realistically attend either day because they don’t have those religious or varsity sport commitments.” Caroline Lynch ’17 and Jackson Stallings ’17, co-presidents of YSACC, were also frustrated with the final Saturday date. Last year, YSACC joined up with The Whaling Crew — a non-athlete organization that supports Yale athletics — to draft a letter to the YCC protesting the Saturday date. The letter had a total of 750 signatures, 60 percent of which were from athletes. Lynch and Stallings said that following last year’s open letter and with the timing of Passover this year, they thought the YCC would have understood that Saturday is not the best day to host a campuswide event. They added that although the YCC made distinct efforts to resolve the ongoing issue, they felt the questions on the survey about the date preference were confusing and thus results did not accurately represent studentbody opinion. “I’m disappointed because a lot of the same people who missed it last year will likely have to miss it again this year,” President of The Whaling Crew Matthew Sant-Miller ’17 said. “Obviously, being a studentathlete entails a lot of sacrifices, and I’m sorry that one more just got added to that list.”
Sant-Miller said it was unclear at this moment whether or not The Whaling Crew would take any further actions to attempt to change the Spring Fling date. Meanwhile, YSACC held a meeting on Sunday night to talk about the Spring Fling date and gather ideas and opinions for a plan going forward. Members of YSACC did not wish to comment on the details of the meeting. Holden and Alexandre, however, added that at this moment there are no better or viable solutions to solve the Spring Fling date conflict this year. Holden said that the Yale College Dean’s Office, in conjunction with the Chaplain’s Office, rejected the possibility of a Spring Fling on Sunday, May 1, though Lynch said she thought this option should be explored further. “Besides reading week, there isn’t another time of the year where students are on campus with so few academic obligations preventing them from participating in Spring Fling,” Holden said. “Moving the date earlier or later by even a week would conflict with preparation for other events on Old Campus, including Bulldog Days, Commencement and Reunions.” Last year’s Spring Fling was held on Saturday, April 25. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .
Imam discusses Islam in America BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER As Islamic extremism grabs national headlines and presidential candidates openly question the fitness of Muslims to hold high office in the United States, Imam Talib Shareef, the leader of the Washington D.C.’s oldest mosque, spoke on being Muslim in America at an open forum in New Haven Saturday. Shareef conversed with Shahid Abdul-Karim, the community engagement editor for the New Haven Register, before roughly 30 people in the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT) in Science Park. Shareef, who served for 30 years in the U.S. military before becoming the first elected president of The Nation’s Mosque — the headquarters of Malcolm X’s African-American religious group, the Nation of Islam — spoke on several topics, ranging from the history of Islam in the United States to Islamic attitudes towards women and homosexuality. Shareef began the talk with a discussion of Islamophobia in American society, urging Muslims to focus on address-
ing the root causes of antiIslamic sentiments instead of focusing on how the sentiments make them feel. “I think what’s driving Islamophobia is really the biggest struggle,” he said. “Really, the biggest struggle is against the false identity of what a Muslim is … This is the biggest struggle, but it’s also an opportunity.” One audience member disagreed with Shareef. She said the media should be held accountable for inciting Islamophobia. But Shareef said that while this may have once been the case, it no longer is. Instead, Shareef said, extremism is driving negative perceptions of Islam. In response to AbdulKarim’s question about how Muslims should view homosexuality, Shareef said that though the Quran explicitly prohibits homosexual activity, it also states that God and not individuals should judge others’ acts. Individuals should be able to live freely, even if they risk negative judgment from God, he said. “The story of Lot, which is in the Quran, shows that we are not to hurt anybody who chooses their lifestyle,” he said. “It shows that God is to
punish them — humans don’t do any of that … Some Muslims, they have extreme views, and they probably disagree with this, but God doesn’t make you do anything.” Given Shareef’s extensive service in the military and as a religious leader in the capital, Saturday’s discussion centered on the difficulties of being Muslim and American. Shareef said it was initially challenging to be Muslim in the military. Shareef said few religious accommodations — such as prayer space, Muslim chaplains and later dining hall hours during Ramadan — were available in 1979, when he began military service. Shareef said he was able to petition for change with the help of a Christian chaplain and had access to prayer spaces in the 1980s. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, he said anti-Islamic sentiment arose among some members of the military, and he was forced to use his seniority and nonArab features to bridge the gap between Muslim and nonMuslim soldiers. “After 9/11 hit, the younger ones — younger sailors, soldiers — came to cause problems for the Arabs who were among us,” Shareef, who
is black himself, said. “Of course, everyone knew I was a Muslim, but I didn’t look like an Arab.” A dominant theme in the talk was the divide between black Christian and Muslim communities in the United States. Shareef said most African-American Muslims are converts and that this frays relations with black Christian communities. Shareef said he typically receives more speaking invitations from white churches than from black ones. “Why does it seem that the black Christians are the hardest on the Muslims? The way to think about it is that, if you’re an African-American minister, you’re losing parishioners,” he said. “Some of them feel threatened.” Audience member William Mathis said the legacy of slavery has created “artificial” fault lines through the African diaspora that continue to be felt to this day in the form of factions between African-American mosques and churches. ConnCAT is located at 4 Science Park. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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“Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth.” LIU XIAOBO CHINESE LITERARY CRITIC
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Some members of the Yale community have accused SAE of racial discrimination. SAE FROM PAGE 1 on the phone the next afternoon. Githere’s statement has drawn attention from beyond Yale’s campus. Mueller said a representative from the national chapter reached out to him via email, asking for details about the event. He added that The Huffington Post has contacted him about the allegations, but said he did not know whether SAE’s national organization would provide a spokesman for the chapter. Mueller added that he and other SAE brothers plan on attending a forum at the Afro-American Cultural Center this afternoon, where attendees will discuss the weekend’s events in relation to larger discussions about an inclusive campus culture. The administration has also been in contact with the students involved in the alleged events outlined in the Facebook post. Emails provided to the News show that on Sunday morning at 10 a.m., Howard emailed a Yale student he had heard was present for the events outlined in Githere’s post requesting more details about the alleged incident. Howard said he had been contacted by the student’s residential college dean
about the events and wanted to gather as much information as possible. “You should be aware that I have been contacted by the chapter president, and he is anxious to understand exactly what you and your friend experienced,” Howard wrote to the student, who asked to remain anonymous in order to preserve privacy. “He has received some mixed reports from his membership who may have been staffing the door that evening, so he would like to hear to accounting from you and your friend to see what actions may need to taken with his members.” The student was with two friends in the crowd in front of the house on Friday evening, hoping to enter the party, but brothers were “standing directly in the door frame and picking people one at a time from the crowd clumped right near the door,” according to the student’s email to Howard. It was then, the student said, that one friend — who is a woman of color — heard a brother say “White girls only,” directed at another woman of color who was trying to enter. “After the comment, we left, and I never plan on returning to
SAE,” the student wrote to Howard. That same afternoon, Howard emailed the friend who had overheard the conversation, asking for the friend’s account of the events. Neither Howard nor the student’s friend could be reached for comment Sunday evening. As of late Sunday night, five people of color had commented on Githere’s status sharing similar encounters they have had at SAE, recounting experiences ranging from being questioned about whether they went to Yale to being told they could only enter if brothers could individually touch the partygoer’s hair. Ivonne Gonzalez ’16, who is Latina, told the News that in spring 2014, she and her friends were asked for passport identification when trying to enter SAE. In an interview with the News Sunday night, Githere said an SAE member has told her in the past that admittance to parties is more based on attractiveness than race. She declined to comment further on Friday night’s events. According to SAE members interviewed, the fraternity has a policy to let in any Yale student until the house becomes too crowded, at which point students
attempting to enter have to have a member let them in personally. Mueller said asking for Yale ID at the door is standard practice and that Yale Police has explicitly instructed the fraternity to only admit Yale students. Akinyi Ochieng ’15, who commented on the post sharing an instance of racial discrimination she experienced two years ago at SAE, said that regardless of what happened Friday night, the fraternity’s members should address the complaints rather than deny them. “Instead of denying the experiences of people of color such as myself or Neema [Githere], I would hope that the brothers of SAE could say instead, ‘From our knowledge, this did not happen, but to make sure that this never happens, we will make it clear that there is no room for hate or discrimination in our house,’” she told the News. The Yale chapter of SAE was founded in 1988. Daniela Brighenti and David Shimer contributed reporting. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
“Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious … a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Christakis, who assumed the position of associate master of Silliman this fall, wrote. “American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.” In response, more than 740 undergraduates, graduate students, alumni, faculty and even students from other universities have signed on to an open letter telling Christakis that her “offensive” email invalidates the voices of minority students on campus. The letter, posted Friday night, states that Christakis misrepresented the Intercultural Affairs Committee’s call for sensitivity as “censure.” It also states that in describing the call for sensitive costumes as coming “from above, not from yourselves,” Christakis implies that only administrators, and not students, have called for sensitivity. Silliman student Ryan Wilson ’17, who wrote the letter with input from other students, argued that Christakis failed to distinguish between dressing up as fictional characters and misrepresenting actual groups of people. Giving room for students to be obnoxious or offensive only invites ridicule and violence onto minorities at Yale, and it decreases the space in which marginalized students can feel safe, Wilson wrote. “Your email equates old traditions of using harmful stereotypes and tropes to further degrade marginalized people, to preschoolers playing make believe,” the open letter reads. “This both trivializes the harm done by these tropes and infantilizes the student body to which the request was made.” Christakis has stood by her letter in the face of the subsequent controversy, although she said her words are being “misquoted and misunderstood by some people.” In response to a series of criticisms on Twitter several hours after her letter was first circulated, Christakis posted a link on her own Twitter to an article in The Atlantic titled “The Coddling of the American Mind.” She wrote that “campus censorship culture contradicts best practices for mental health” — an extension of the argument in her original email that her work as a child development specialist had informed her viewpoint. When asked about the open letter, Christakis told the News that the resulting debate only further illustrated the need for free speech on college campuses. “It is easier to stand in judgment about offensive costumes than it is to listen to one another in good faith,” Christakis wrote in an email to the News. “Intent matters, I believe, and it seems to me that one problem we have at Yale is a culture of shaming and fear, of which Halloween may end up the least of our concerns.” Students interviewed were divided on the issue. Anthony Vigil-Martinez ’18 said that while the email sent by the Intercultural Affairs Council only suggested that students be sensitive in their costume choices, its purpose was still to rid campus of culturally offensive costumes and would limit the opportunities for the campus to discuss the problem at large. By pre-empting these conversations, the administration only eliminates the visibility of discrimination without ever addressing the causes, he said. Nickolas Brooks ’17, who is taking a class with Christakis, also defended her. He noted he does not think she condones blackface or cultural appropriation, and many students now have an incorrect
perception of her as a person. Her view that universities are overly censored is one that everyone can agree with, Brooks said, emphasizing that just because she addressed both censorship and racial insensitivity does not mean she endorses the latter. Christakis said she has heard from many students expressing similar sentiments to those in her email. “I received scores of notes from students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds decrying the collapse of civil debate at Yale. They describe restricting their conversation to sports and the weather because they are scared to say the wrong thing,” she said. “If healthy debate can’t flourish in a university whose motto is ‘light and truth,’ our problems are bigger than hurtful appropriation and cut to the heart of how a great university can contribute to a truly free and just society.” Still, many students remain convinced that Christakis’ email was counteractive to fostering a climate that supports students of color. Wilson said Christakis’ message dismissed minority voices on campus and pretended as if cultural sensitivity was not a long foughtfor student cause. Similarly, Javier Cienfuegos ’15 said Christakis undermined the goals of the Intercultural Affairs Committee’s email and wrongly designated it institutional overreach.
It is easier to stand in judgment about offensive costumes than it is to listen to one another. ERIKA CHRISTAKIS Associate Master, Silliman College According to Katherine Fang ’17, the suggestion that the costumes Christakis defended are actually donned to celebrate diverse cultures is offensive, as they actually mock and belittle. When communities of color unite in their offense against culturally appropriating costumes, Fang added, supporters of those outfits are blatantly ignoring those calls. Emily Van Alst ’16 said Christakis is “coddling” a group of people who already have a voice on campus and silencing minorities who are hurt by cultural appropriation. For all the controversy surrounding the topic, the incident has made strides in renewing discussion around racial tensions in schools across the nation. AfroAmerican Cultural Center Director Rise Nelson Burrow said building an institution respectful of all identities and communities requires the participation of everyone on campus. Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Pamela George, who formerly served as director of the Af-Am House, was one of the signatures on the open letter. “The incidents that took place over Halloween weekend … simply expose microaggressions as well as overtly unfair treatment and policies that many have experienced and have reported for years, not just at Yale, but on many college campuses,” Burrow wrote in an email to the News. “It is excellent that we are now here, having widespread discussions that must take place at every level of our institution, in which we all consider ways of maintaining a campus climate that supports all students.” Christakis and her husband, Silliman College Master Nicholas Christakis, have invited all Silliman signatories of the open letter, as well as any other Silliman students who might disagree with her email, to a lunch this Sunday. Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
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The College & Crown: A Centerplace development cost $50 million. BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp cut the ribbon in front of College & Crown: A Centerplace on Thursday, welcoming another high-end development to the Elm City. In the past month, city officials including Harp have publicly supported several new high-end developments in the city, speaking at their opening ceremonies. The rent of these apartments — which include the Ashmun Flats, the Novella and College & Crown: A Centerplace — can reach over $2,000, which is nearly double Elm City residents’ median housing budget of little over $1,000 per month. However, city hall officials support the developments because they will increase the availability of housing and lower the rent for middle-income families in the city, said Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, citing the recent slowdown in the growth of rental prices. “People make the confusion that the highest rent on the market drags up cost,” Nemerson said. “But, only a shortage of supply would drag up all markets.” As wealthier families move into the new developments, old apartments’ landlords will lower their rents to compete, Nemerson said. Housing prices for middle-income families would only increase as a result of new highend developments if not enough units were built to meet demand, Nemerson said. He cited Boston and San Francisco as two examples of cities where expensive new developments pushed up rent prices because the housing shortage was so severe. Though New Haven has one of the country’s lowest vacancy rates, the 2,000 new apartment units that have gone or will go on the market will likely provide enough supply to avoid rent inflation, Nemerson said. He added that the recent slowdown in the growth of rental prices is an early indicator of sufficient supply. By speaking with landlords, city officials know rental price growth has slowed, Nemerson said. He added that exact data about the housing market today will not be available for several years. “I get a lot more complaints from landlords who ask me to stop building because I can’t raise my rents anymore,” Nemerson said. “But I tell them that maybe that is [okay].” Kadir Catalbasoglu, the owner of Brick Oven Pizza and a landlord for several residential homes in the city including one on Dixwell Avenue behind Payne Whitney, said his observations confirm Nemerson’s statements about housing prices. The market prices of housing mushroomed starting five or six years ago, he said. But prices have
grown slower over the last six months to a year. He added that he did not know if the trend was directly attributable to the boom in new high-end developments. Though the growth rate of rent has undoubtedly slowed, City Hall officials overestimate the potential impact on the average middle-income family, said Edward Mattison LAW ’68, a member of the mayor’s City Plan Committee. The market rate for housing is still far above what most Elm City families can afford, Mattison said. “We’re a fairly low-income city,” Mattison said. “There is a relatively small group of people who have substantial incomes but most people living in the city work at moderate-income-paying jobs and their ability to spend on housing is largely capped out.” Supporting new developments is one of only two ways for city officials to alleviate housing challenges in the city, Nemerson said, with the other option being to vie for increasingly scarce federal and state funding for affordable housing projects. When relying on new developments, city officials must consider that the high cost of buying land and building pressures developers to seek wealthier tenants, Nemerson said.
Yale-NUS names dean of students BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Yale NUS’ five-month search for its new dean of students came to a close on Oct. 21 with the appointment of Christopher Bridges as the successor to Kyle Farley, who left earlier this year for New York University Abu Dhabi to become the school’s associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students. Bridges, who currently serves as vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, will assume his new position in Singapore in January 2016, though he declined to specify the length of his tenure. The college’s search committee for a new dean of students formed in late May after Farley announced his departure. After the three finalists visited the Yale-NUS campus in early September for the final round of assessment, a report was submitted to Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis, who selected Bridges. Administrators interviewed cited Bridges’ rich experience in student affairs and his willingness to listen to students’ concerns as highlights of his appointment, while students interviewed were pleased with the search committee’s consideration of student input. “Bridges is a wonderful student affairs professional with a background in all the areas that matter most in the Dean of Students’ Office: residential life, dining, student organizations, diversity, athletics, orientation, academic advising,” Lewis said. “He comes from a liberal arts background and has been admired by the people who have worked with him in his diverse prior experiences.” Bridges said his exposure to a variety of student-life issues have well equipped him to perform his new role at Yale-NUS. He said his current position at Mansfield University concerns four subdivisions: auxiliary services and athletics, admissions, student life and residence life. Before coming to Mansfield, Bridges served as residence hall director at the University of Cincinnati, where he focused on fostering
student community and supervised the student dining program. He also worked in the Office of Student Involvement at Xavier University in Cincinnati where he helped manage community service projects. Bridges said he was attracted to YaleNUS because of its small, close-knit environment and its mission to promote liberal arts education in Singapore. He added that he was excited to join the Yale-NUS community to help the college build new traditions. “I and my family couldn’t be more excited for this [new role],” Bridges said. “It is many of my passions all in one place. It’s a great opportunity to work with both Yale and the National University of Singapore and to work across my fields in student affairs and work with the student body … Each and every piece of it really spoke to me.” Bridges added that he is excited to work in a liberal arts environment and help develop student culture at a new school that is still forming its identity. Bridges said that although he has never worked outside the USA before, his experiences in working with international students and at various kinds of institutions — from urban to rural, public to private — will make him a good fit for the new role at Yale-NUS. Yale-NUS Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Tan Tai Yong, who chaired the search committee, said the committee paid special attention to candidates’ track records in student affairs management, understanding of Yale-NUS’ needs and circumstances and willingness to work in a new and evolving environment. Tan said he hoped Bridges could build on the foundations Farley built during his three-year tenure. Bridges said his first priority will be to fully acquaint himself with the college as it stands now, and he will use the coming summer to propose changes and implement new policies in the fall of 2016. Yale-NUS students interviewed praised the search committee’s efforts in engaging students during the search process and expressed hopes that Bridges could further strengthen the student community at
Yale-NUS, especially now that the college has settled into its new campus and permanent home. When the final three candidates visited Yale-NUS, each gave presentations in front of a group of faculty and students to introduce themselves. John Reid YNUS ’18, who attended the presentation given by one of the other two finalists, said the students in attendance had a chance to ask questions, engage in discussions and provide feedback on the candidates after the presentation. Reid added that because the school has now moved beyond its inaugural dean, he hoped Bridges could work to strengthen existing processes, rather than start things from scratch. “I don’t think anyone has very strong reactions [to the appointment] yet,” Reid said. “We have had a lot of senior administration — all our inaugural deans — leave or announce plans to leave, so we are adjusting to this change in leadership. I think there is a ‘wait and see’ approach. Nobody I know is vehemently against the appointment, but no one is wildly excited either.” Jolanda Nava YNUS’ 17 said that YaleNUS is changing rapidly each year, as the number of students, professors, courses and student groups keeps increasing with the move to the new campus. Nava said she looks forward to a dean who can help students adjust to all these changes as they move from a start-up college to a more settled school. Thu Truong YNUS ’18, who works at the Dean of Students’ Office, said the school is ready for the new leadership after YaleNUS finds its footing three years after its founding. “From what I read about him, he seems like a very capable and accessible person — someone our student body truly needs for transparent communication and integrity,” Truong said. Since Farley’s departure, Yale-NUS professor of environmental studies and geophysics Brian McAdoo has served as the college’s interim dean of students. Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .
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We’re a fairly low-income city … Most people living in the city work at moderateincome paying jobs. MATTHEW LEIFHEIT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
EDWARD MATTISON LAW ’68 Member, Mayor’s City Plan Committee He added city officials also support the new apartment complexes because they will attract new residents. History has shown economically successful cities are often “commute sheds” — cities where people live and play, but do not work, Nemerson said. Over 1 million jobs exist within an hour’s commuting radius of New Haven, Nemerson said. The new developments will attract workers from even more expensive cities to live and spend their incomes in the Elm City. Mattison said he has noticed many young professionals choosing to relocate to New Haven from more expensive areas such as Manhattan, Stamford or White Plains. But considering the vacancy rates in several of the new developments, city officials should still question whether the demand for the new high-end housing can fill over 2,000 new units, Mattison said. The median annual income for renting households in New Haven is $27,452. Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .
Volunteers for YHHAP’s Project Homeless Connect provided free haircuts and dental cleanings to the Elm City’s homeless on Friday. BY JAKE LEFFEW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A steady stream of members of New Haven’s homeless community filed into the interior of The Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James Friday, enjoying a brief respite from the morning chill. About 60 homeless people received a number of basic health services through Project Homeless Connect, an initiative run by YHHAP — a student-led organization that aims to alleviate homelessness in the Elm City. The initiative is a biannual event that provides the homeless and individuals at risk of homelessness services including free haircuts and dental cleanings. The event also featured a Planned Parenthood station and book handouts from New Haven Reads. Aaron Troncoso ’17, one of the two Project Homeless Connect event coordinators, said the team responsible for running PHC was comprised of seven service providers and 20 volunteers. According to event coordinators and beneficiaries, PHC is just one part of Yale’s
support for the New Haven homeless community. Friday’s event was a success, but there is much more to be done, event beneficiaries said. “A simple haircut may mean a lot for someone without access to a hairdresser,” YHHAP Co-Director Ruth Hanna ’17 said in an email. “Dental cleanings are also vitally important for both health and self-esteem, but may not be readily available to people experiencing homelessness.” Aryssa Damron ’18, a PHC event coordinator, said events like PHC help combat stigmas against homeless people — a problem that some homeless individuals interviewed said creates significant challenges in their daily lives. Troncoso explained that many people do not understand the immense challenges homeless individuals undergo. He said working with PHC gave him a greater understanding of these challenges. “I think that people have a tendency to dehumanize the individuals going through these immensely challeng-
ing situations,” Troncoso said. “Consciously realizing that I had been doing this, and correcting myself, has been the most perspective-altering thing for me personally.” Pat, a 58-year-old homeless man from New Haven who attended Friday’s event, expressed a similar sentiment. He said the persistence of stigmas against the homeless is one of his greatest struggles. He added that while he credits the Yale student body for being “helpful and positive” in creating events like PHC, he still sees room for improvement. Pat said he believes the University and Yale Police Department could “be more sympathetic” to the struggles he faces. He said he feels that the police are indifferent to his situation and constantly force him to move. “There’s a lot of people out here who are educated,” Pat said. “Homeless is not ignorant, poor or stupid.” A college graduate with a degree in architecture, Pat said he became unemployed after a series of health setbacks disabled him from working. He
was forced out of his apartment last November. Damron said in addition to fighting stigma, haircutting services can help homeless people improve their chances at employment by putting forth a better appearance. She added that Project Homeless Connect introduces New Haven’s homeless population to city services, such as medical care, that they might not have known are available. “At last year’s PHC, one of the clients came to the event without a doctor and left with an appointment with his new primary care physician,” Hanna said. “It’s really exciting how PHC connects people to so many resources in one place.” Damron and Troncoso said that expanding outreach is crucial to their project, which is why they decided to make a second outreach event in the spring. The second Project Homeless Connect Event will take place on the New Haven Green next semester. Contact JAKE LEFFEW at jake.leffew@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Adams calls for Calhoun-Douglass CALHOUN FROM PAGE 1 mit a formal recommendation on the naming dispute to the Yale Corporation sometime in the spring semester. Administrators had not previously publicly specified when they believed the dispute would be resolved. “Whatever the decision is will need to happen this academic year,” Holloway said. In an interview with the News, Adams said her views on the issue have only recently taken shape and that her proposed solution to the controversy was one of many suggestions she has received from students over the course of the semester. Adams said Douglass would be an ideal addition to the college name, even though he never attended Yale. “The impossibility of his being a Yale College graduate at the time would be a part of what we would be registering with that name,” she said. The Calhoun-Douglass proposal is one of several compromise solutions that have been put forward over the past few months by students and faculty reluctant to entirely change the name of a historic Yale institution. According to Holloway, many respondents to an online feedback form the University created in September suggested renaming the college Calhoun-Bouchet, after Edward Bouchet, class of 1874, Yale’s first African-American graduate. Holloway added that the University will consider the Calhoun-Douglass proposal alongside other suggestions, though he did not specify whether he personally supports Adams’ idea. In interviews with the News, two Yale professors expressed significant reservations about the Calhoun-Douglass name. Jay Gitlin ’71, who teaches a class on the history of Yale, said he doubts that Calhoun alumni would support naming the college after a non-Yalie. And African American Studies and Classics professor Emily Greenwood, who spoke in favor of changing the name at an October debate held by the Yale Political Union, said the University should completely retire the name “Calhoun.” “It would be an offense to Douglass’ memory to yoke his name, by means of a hyphen, to that of a notorious apologist for slavery,” Greenwood said.
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In addition, a July petition that helped galvanize support for renaming the college explicitly rejects any hyphenated alternative containing the name Calhoun. The petition has received nearly 1,500 signatures. Katherine Demby LAW ’16, a co-author of the petition, called Adams’ proposal a “poor compromise.” “They should change the name completely,” Demby said. “Anything in between is a validation of Calhoun, his legacy and his values.” Four students interviewed expressed conflicting opinions about the naming proposal.
broad public safety knowledge and his understanding of the unique safety issues urban Ivy League campuses face as reasons for his promotion. She said Yale’s police and security departments work together closely, making campus safer by deterring and responding quickly to crime. Though Yale students may not be aware, Lindner said, several groups collaborate to ensure campus safety. Alarm and access control systems, emergency blue phones and mobile safety applications are all part of the network of safety initiatives the University uses, she said, adding that the
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police officers, security patrols and the late-night shuttle service are also part of Yale’s collaborative safety efforts. “We are also fortunate to have a leader like Chief Higgins, who has the capability and skills to see the long-term needs of the campus at the same time that he organizes daily operations,” Lindner said. “To me, having Chief Higgins also take on security systems and security operations is the logical next step in what has always been strong cooperation.” Assistant Chief of Police Michael Patten, who has worked with Higgins for 19 years, echoed Lindner’s statements about the necessity of cooperation between Yale’s police and secu-
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Xander de Vries ’19, who attended the Silliman talk, said he would support any change that alleviates the discomfort of students who object to the current name. But Sergio Infante ’18 and Ben Healy ’16 both strongly objected to the proposed solution. Infante said he would prefer to see the college named after a more recent figure than Douglass or Calhoun, adding that framing the issue in purely historical terms underplays the modernday relevance of racial conflict. Healy said the hyphenated name would promote a simplified version of the past. “I’m wary of pitting one historical figure against another,” Healy said. “I don’t know that every person has an equal and opposite person, and I specifically don’t know that Douglass is that for Calhoun.” Holloway said that he and Salovey would make an announcement in January about the results of the University’s feedback form on the naming debate.
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Keitazulu and Smith agreed on one point: not enough New Haven residents are working on the construction projects that have come to the city under Harp’s leadership. Keitazulu reiterated the criticism throughout the debate and Smith cited the ongoing construction on Prospect Street — where he said many of the construction workers do not come from Elm City neighborhoods in need of job opportunities — as emblematic of the employment problem. Harp spent most of the debate on the defensive. Coming under attack from Smith and Keitazulu, she laid out the accomplishments of her two years in office and her vision for the future. In response to criticism over high mill rate, Harp said she has worked to bring the city finances under control — no small task in light of the $9 million budget deficit that greeted her when she came into office. Harp said the rate has stabilized at 41.55 — the 10th-highest in Connecticut’s 283 districts — for New Haven’s 2016 fiscal year. The stabi-
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rity departments. “I believe he has the skills necessary to create synergy between the police and security departments to lead Yale Public Safety forward in meeting the many challenges we face in protecting our community,” Patten said. Lindner said Higgins and his team have developed strategies to reduce crime at Yale that have resulted in the lowest on-campus crime levels since the department began documenting crime rates as part of Federal Uniform Crime Reporting statistics in 1985. Higgins became Yale’s chief of police in 2011. Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .
lized mill rate means a more consistent tax rate for Elm City residents, Harp said. She added that the city’s tax base is beginning to expand — the total value of the city’s property has grown over the past year and building projects like 360 State Street gradually become eligible for taxation. But Harp said there is typically a seven-year waiting period before developments are fully exempt from the city’s tax break for new projects. As a result, New Haven will have to wait the better part of a decade until it sees full tax revenues from recent projects such as the Alexion Pharmaceuticals building on College Street. Harp also fought against the criticism that residents have seen few of the benefits of economic growth during her time in office. She said programs like the Small Business Academy, which graduated its first class last month, “are making sure that growth means jobs are available for all residents.” Harp said the city will look to the state for aid to lower the tax burden in coming years, repeating a statement she made during the first mayoral debate earlier this month.
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“If everything remains constant — and that remains uncertain because the state is going through its own problems — New Haven will get another $14 million from the state that it didn’t get this year,” she said. “And if that maintains, then we really have an opportunity to reduce taxes and maybe do some of the things that we haven’t been able to do for years in this city.” Harp said she would use the state payment to pay for understaffed and underfunded services like libraries, public works and the parks department. In one of the debate’s tenser moments, Smith alleged that Harp and her administration are seeking to “run the unions out of New Haven.” Harp denied the claim, saying that she has no intentions of working against unions in New Haven. “We have about 14 unions in New Haven, and I don’t think there’s a single one that can honestly say I’m trying to run them out,” she said. The general election takes place on Tuesday. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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Cognition center celebrates halloween with canines BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Friday afternoon, 175 St. Ronan St. was busier than usual — over a dozen dogs, all dressed up in colorful costumes, gathered at the parking lot in front of Yale’s Canine Cognition Center to attend the center’s annual Halloween celebration. Founded in December 2013, the Canine Cognition Center at Yale, a research facility in the Psychology Department dedicated to the study of dogs’ minds, invited their past study participants — and their owners — to celebrate the festival for the second year in a row. Yale’s mascot Handsome Dan attended the event wearing a Halloween-themed necklace, and the popular Sasha Pup — a Samoyed belonging to Timothy Dwight residential fellows David and Lanch McCormick — joined the celebration as well, although Sasha did not come in costume. Staff at the Canine Cognition Center said the event was an opportunity to show appreciation to those who supported the center’s research study. Meanwhile, attendees praised the celebration for the chance to meet and greet other dogs and their owners. “By hosting this event, we hope to promote and generate support for the center,” said Laurie Santos, psychology professor and the director of the Canine Cognition Center. “It is also a nice way to give back to our [research] participants.” Center Manager Michael Bogese ’14 said the center designed the event for the dogs and their owners to meet other participants at the center. Usually the center only has one dog participating in a research study at a time, so the dogs hardly have a chance to meet one another, Bogese added. At the celebration, each dog
was treated to pumpkin-shaped dog snacks, photographed in a close-up shot and awarded a prize for its costume. Kate Linderman, resident of Oxford, Connecticut whose dog earned the “Cute Enough to Eat” award with its banana outfit, said she was excited to attend the event because it was a great chance to meet other participants and also because “dogs in costumes are just hilarious.”
By hosting this event, we hope to promote and generate support for the [Canine Cognition] Center. LAURIE SANTOS Director, Canine Cognition Center Kimber Tanaka, resident of East Haven, also spoke highly of the event. Besides participating in the center’s research study, her dog Danver, dressed up as a pumpkin, is also a therapy dog at the Yale Law School. Tanaka said that she loved to be around dog owners and that the event was great to let Danver mingle with other dogs. Yale Humanist Community Executive Director and Davenport Fellow Chris Stedman, whose dog Tuna wore a superhero robe, said he loved the event and the research studies conducted at the Canine Cognition Center. The research studies Tuna has participated in have helped Stedman learn how Tuna’s mind works. He added that the study environment was always comfortable for Tuna. Other costumes featured at the celebration included football player, referee, Batman and witch. Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .
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Costumed refugees met students from the Yale Refugee Project in the YRP’s first-ever Halloween party. BY ANDREA OUYANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale Refugee Project hosted its first Halloween party for refugees Saturday evening. The party, held in Dwight Hall from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., introduced New Haven refugees to each other, Yale students involved in YRP and American holidays and traditions, YRP Vice President Anna Lee ’17 said. The costumed party attendants, ranging from teens to senior citizens, danced to music provided by the organizers and the refugees who attended. In between enjoying the photo shoot and face-painting stand, the party attendees were able to better understand how Americans celebrate cultural holidays. “Some refugees are new here,” said Wurood Nahmood, a leader in New Haven’s refugee community who helped plan the event. “We wanted to show them how [Yale students] enjoy their weekends.” This year’s party was the first time the event was planned in coordination with the refugee community. While YRP members brought traditionally American snacks, such as cupcakes and chips, the refugees in attendance brought holiday foods from their home countries, such as hummus and baklava. This year also marked the first
time the city’s refugee Halloween celebration was hosted by Yale, as opposed to New Haven’s refugee resettlement agency the Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services. “This year we decided to have YRP play a bigger part in [planning the Halloween party],” Lee said, adding that the push for the event to be hosted on campus reflects the YRP’s growing role in planning the annual Halloween party. Currently, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations are the main events YRP hosts for refugees. Lee said the group hopes Halloween will become their third annual event. In addition to planning events and advocating for refugees’ interests in the city, YRP pairs Yale students with refugees to strengthen the relationship between the refugee community and Yale. These partnerships are coordinated by Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, a refugee resettlement program run by the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. “We’re hopefully setting a precedent for each Halloween event growing larger and larger, and including more and more refugees,” Lee said. Lee explained that often, refugees are curious about Halloween and what it entails. She said
the event enabled people to find out more about how Halloween is celebrated while having fun and meeting new people. Ali Abdul-Jabbar, a Syrian refugee who came to the United States after spending time in Iraq and attended Saturday’s event, said the Halloween event was enjoyable for him, his brother and his grandfather, who also attended. He said he has been involved with YRP for the past two years. Laurel McCormack, the volunteer coordinator and acculturation programs coordinator for IRIS, said the event aimed to introduce refugees to the New Haven community and its traditions in a safe, welcoming manner. For many, she said, Saturday’s party was their first Halloween celebration. “My goal whenever we plan an event for refugees is to open up the beautiful things of New Haven to them a little bit, and expose them to Yale’s beautiful facilities and resources that they might not have seen before,” she said. “We want to create a fun and relaxing environment where reciprocal hospitality and friendship can be shared.” IRIS resettles roughly 200 refugees in New Haven each year. Contact ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu .
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ALBERT EINSTEIN SWISS PHYSICIST
Annual tech summit shifts focus to alumni BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Alumni stole the show at Friday’s Yale Technology Summit held at the School of Management. The second annual summit, hosted by Yale Information Technology Services, drew around four times as many alumni from the New Haven area as the event did in 2014. Whereas last year’s summit aimed to generate discussion about the use of technology on Yale’s campus, this year it addressed technology among the broader community of Yale alumni in and around the Elm City. “This year’s summit exceeded expectations,� said Susan West, associate director of strategic communications at ITS. “Our goal is to celebrate the varied accomplishments in technology from the entire Yale community. So much is happening with alumni.� The all-day summit included a keynote address from computer science professor Brian Scassellati on robots that teach emotional skills, as well as discussions on topics ranging from hacking to health care and poster presentations about new uses for iPads and Classes*v2. In total, around 450 people registered over the course of the day. Around 400 people attended the summit last year. Unlike last year, this year’s summit centered on technology as opposed to research. The advisory committee that organizes the summit also had a more diverse membership this year, with fewer people from technology departments and more from other areas of campus, West said. The committee included Assistant Provost for Research Lisa D’Angelo, Yale College Council Events Director Megan Ruan ’17 and Graduate and Professional Student Senate President Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18.
In an effort to increase student attendance, West said next year’s summit will try to include more presentations from students. West said the goal of the summit is to bring educators, professionals and students together to talk about technology in all its manifestations. West said the summit occupies its own niche on Yale’s event calendar. Other STEM-focused annual events, like the Day of Data in September, revolve around hard sciences and technology and less on technology’s application in non-STEM fields, she said. The summit provides a place to show the intersections of technology with other fields, even including the arts and humanities, West added. Attendance was up in part because of ITS’ collaboration with undergraduate organizations like the YCC and a group of undergraduates who run workshops on coding and web development through the Student Developer Program, an organization under ITS that employs students to develop software for Yale. The summit was co-sponsored by YHack, a group that hosts an international hackathon. The tech summit had double the number of sponsors it had last year. The cost of the event — almost exclusively covered by sponsors — paid for refreshments and marketing costs. Attendance was free and all the speakers were unpaid volunteers. “We have worked very hard to make sure this has little to no cost monetarily to Yale,� West said. Although the event was only open to the Yale community, ITS expanded its advertising of the event to the thousands of alumni who live in the New Haven area through paid ads, posters and emails. ITS’ increased engagement with alumni was also evident at the summit’s presentation of the Miller Prize, a $25,000
prize through the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute funded by former hedge fund manager Brian Miller. This is the prize’s first year, and although the winner will not be announced until April 2016, several Yale alumni came to Evans Hall at the SOM to discuss how their work relates to this year’s prize topic: Big Data, Internet of Things and Materials Science. Josh Geballe ’97 SOM ’02, of Branford, Connecticut, came to campus to talk about his soft-
ware company, Core Informatics, which works with research laboratories to help them manage data. Geballe said having a software company in the New Haven area is like being a big fish in a small pond. “There’s a lot of big things happening around New Haven,� he added. “New Haven has always had really good critical mass in the life science industry.� Geballe attributed much of the technology activity in the area to
Yale’s Science Park, where ITS is headquartered, and to innovations like SeeClickFix — a website invented in New Haven that allows residents to report nonemergency neighborhood issues related to community policing and public safety. At the summit, Anirudh Narayanan SOM ’16 talked about his company iTrucks, a technology provider that helps truck drivers in developing countries like India communicate with suppliers and
customers. Intending to simulate an episode of the TV show “Shark Tank� in which contestants try to convince titans of business to invest money in their ideas, Miller questioned both Narayanan and Geballe about the logistics of their respective businesses to test their financial potential. Over 200 people attended the summit’s keynote address. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 8:30 AM “Out of the Desert”: Resilience and Memory in Japanese-American Internment. Drawing from Sterling Memorial Library’s Manuscripts and Archives and the Beinecke Collection of Western Americana, this exhibition highlights Yale’s extensive collection of materials related to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Rich in internee correspondence, artwork, and literature, this exhibit underscores the importance of everyday creative production and alternative narratives of internment. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.). 4:30 PM “Tango with Cows: Russian Futurism and Bourgeois Culture on the Eve of World War.” Eugene Ostashevsky and Daniel Mellis present their English-language typographic translation of Vasily Kamensky’s “Tango with Cows,” a 1914 book of Russian futurist visual poetry. Kamensky became the first European poet to train as an airplane pilot until crashing his Blériot XI during a show flight returned him to literature. Kamensky eagerly innovated in the fields of book art and visual poetry, printing his typographical experiments on brashly colored wallpaper. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Rm. 217A.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 11:45 AM A Conversation with Eric Breissinger ’80, VP at Procter & Gamble. Breissinger will reflect on his unorthodox career path at Procter & Gamble, and discuss a few of the challenges that he is facing in the marketplace. This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served. Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.), 4410 Classroom. 4:00 PM “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” Screening and Q&A with Director. Jackson Institute Senior Fellow Rosemary DiCarlo will host a screening of the documentary film, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” The acclaimed film tells the inspirational story of the women of Liberia and their efforts to bring peace to their broken nation after decades of destructive civil war. Yale community only. Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Ave.), GM Room.
ANNELISA LEINBACH is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact her at annelisa.leinbach@yale.edu.
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alloween might only be a single evening on calendars, but here at Yale it is the Halloweek. Halloween at Yale means a lot of things — the YSO show, the President’s party, tons of other parties, not one but multiple costumes, cupcake decorating, trick or treating, pumpkincarving contests and so much more. Whatever your definition may be, Halloween is one of the most unforgettable parts of a Yale experience. DENIZ SAIP reports.
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Quarterback Rafe Chapple ’18 entered the game for three drives in the loss, trying to jump-start an offense that finished with just 120 yards. BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER For the second straight week, Yale football head coach Tony Reno sat alone at Yale’s post-game press conference on Saturday. Though the coach is traditionally flanked by two or three of the day’s standout performers, Reno’s star players were either too injured or too disheartened after dropping three of their last four games to join him this weekend. Injuries and illness have ravaged the Bulldogs (4–3, 1–3 Ivy) this season, rendering a team that thrilled fans with two come-from-behind victories
in September nearly unrecognizable. On Saturday, the Elis fell to a season low, with a 17–7 loss at once marking Yale’s first home defeat in over a year and Columbia’s first conference victory since 2012. The Yale offense, which entered the game averaging 405 yards per contest, put up just 120 total yards — its fewest since a 10–0 loss to Harvard in 2008 — while achieving five first downs and scoring zero points. The lone score for the Elis came from a punt return touchdown by defensive back Jason Alessi ’18 in the first quarter, and 17 unanswered points from the Lions (2–5,
1–3) followed. “We weren’t effective in either the run or the pass game,” Reno said. “There were a lot of issues out there today. We didn’t execute really, in any area offensively. It was disappointing … [but] I’m confident our guys will bounce back.” Columbia, which has begun a turnaround of its program under new head coach Al Bagnoli, succeeded defensively while capitalizing on injuries to Yale players — 12 of whom are out for the season, and another 28 who have missed time at some point this year. The Lion defense forced two fumbles, sacked Yale’s quarterbacks six
times for 48 yards and held the Bulldogs to -14 net yards on the ground. While attempting to mount a late comeback, the Elis managed just 21 yards in the second half, and two in the entire third quarter. Although the Lions scored 10 more points than the Bulldogs, they also struggled offensively. Columbia’s tying score, a seven-yard touchdown reception by wide receiver Hank Trumbull, came late in the second quarter on the Lions’ first trip inside Yale’s 35-yard line. The Lions’ final 10 points were all scored by kicker SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3
Perfect start in Capital City Classic BY DAVID WELLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s hockey team had two first-team All-Americans and its top six scoring forwards coming back for another season. The Elis had perhaps the best goaltender in the country turning down professional hockey interest to return to campus. They had uncommonly high expectations, both from inside and outside the locker room. But they had no record, and they had waited long enough.
A win over No. 5 Quinnipiac highlighted the opening weekend of ECAC hockey play for the Yale women’s hockey team, as the Elis came back to beat the Bobcats 4–3 and make a firm statement about where their program now stands among Division I’s elite teams.
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And when the puck at last dropped on their season Friday night, the Bulldogs were ready. No. 15 Yale (2–0–0, 0–0–0 ECAC) swept the Capital City Classic in Trenton, New Jersey, GRANT BRONSDON/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER affirming its nationally ranked status by dealing two teams Forward Mike Doherty ’17, who scored 21 points and a team-high 12 goals last year, netted the first goal for their first losses of the season. Yale in both wins. After a season-opening 3–1 win over Princeton (1–1–0, 0–0– 0) on Friday night, the Elis took our work paid off, because we near the crease and put it past squeeze it by their goalie.” down UMass (4–1–1, 0–0–1 got two wins.” Princeton goaltender Colton The T i ge rs q u i c k ly Hockey East) 6–1 on Saturday Forward Mike Doherty ’17, Phinney, opening Yale’s scoring responded, however. Twentythe team’s leading goal scorer just 1:06 into the team’s 2015–16 two seconds later, Princeton’s for the event championship. Eric Robinson found the back “With Ivy League rules, we last season, lit the lamp early campaign. have to start a little bit later in Friday’s contest against the “On that play, I just sort of of the net, beating goaltender than most teams,” forward John Tigers, who were picked to fin- got lost while our [defenseman] Alex Lyon ’17 on a redirect. Hayden ’17 said. “We’ve been ish last in ECAC hockey by both had the puck up high,” Doherty Although the Bulldogs conbringing a lot of hard work the the coaches’ and media’s pre- said. “I tried to get to the net in trolled puck possession and last couple months, so it’s good season polls. case there was a rebound. I was to get out there. And obviously Doherty took a loose puck able to get to the rebound and SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3
under its belt, Team 143 is essentially eliminated from Ivy contention. Still, hope is alive in New Haven. Every season, though they might not tell you this, Yale football players enter with two goals in mind. One, obviously, is to win the Ivy League championship. And the other is to beat Harvard. The latter is the goal that is still possible. Yale has a chance to end eight years of futility and upset Harvard, even as the Crimson has won 21 consecutive games. Though many fans may be quick to write off the Bulldogs after Saturday’s loss to what has been a truly awful Columbia football program, it’s only fair to point out that the Lions are far from the perennial doormat that they used to be. New head coach Al Bagnoli, the winningest coach in Ancient Eight history, has transformed a historically downtrodden program that has just three winning seasons since John F. Kennedy was shot. Columbia had consecutive winless seasons in 2013 and SEE COLUMN PAGE B3
Elis take down No. 5 Quinnipiac BY KEVIN BENDESKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Former Yale running back Tyler Varga ’15 was in the house for Saturday’s football game against Columbia — and despite sitting in the stands, he finished with more rushing yards than the Bulldogs did in their 17–7 loss to the Lions. Yes, you read that right. Including sacks, Yale’s offense combined for 21 carries for -14 yards. Even in the depths of the Elis’ 2–8 campaign in 2012, Yale never dipped below 120 yards on the ground in a game. And while the running attack was nonexistent, passing the ball didn’t go much better for the Bulldogs. Starting quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 completed 12 of 24 attempts for a measly 104 yards and an interception, and in the limited action that backup Rafe Chapple ’18 saw, the Alpharetta, Georgia native had only 30 yards on five passing attempts. A year after the Bulldogs routinely posted standout games on offense en route to their greatest offensive performance in school history, on Saturday the Elis posted their worst offensive performance in recent memory. With three conference losses
Yale (1–2–0, 1–1–0 ECAC) fell by the same score to Princeton (4–0–0, 2–0–0) on Friday, giving itself an even 0.500 record in the conference thus far. Captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16, who netted three goals on the weekend — including both the game-tying and game-winning scores against Quinnipiac — was disappointed with losing one of the two games, but overall was proud of her team’s effort against stiff competition. “Both opponents we faced this weekend were very strong teams, and we battled hard in both games,” Ferrara said. “Obviously we would’ve loved to come out on top on Friday, but we played our systems well, and our effort carried over into Saturday’s game, where we refused
to see a similar outcome … It felt great to get our first conference win and it really was a collective effort.” Yale’s win over its nearby rival served as revenge for a 6–3 loss, also against Quinnipiac, that the Bulldogs suffered a week earlier in their season opener. That loss, however, did not count in the conference standings, giving the win more weight. On Saturday, the Elis managed just nine shots on goal compared to Quinnipiac’s 26, but Yale proved more efficient, especially in the third period. The Elis rattled off three goals in the final frame on just five shots, and Ferrara scored her two goals within the last six minutes of the game. “Quinnipiac is probably the best defensive team in our conference,” head coach Joakim Flygh said. “They are going to limit your opportunities.” The game’s first goal didn’t come until just over two minutes remained in the opening period, when forward Jordan Chancellor ’19 scored her first collegiate goal in just her third game as a Bulldog. Quinnipiac responded with a goal soon after, tying the game just over a minute into the secSEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3
NUMBER OF TIMES THAT YALE MEN’S SOCCER, WOMEN’S SOCCER, FOOTBALL AND FIELD HOCKEY HAD ALL LOST TO COLUMBIA IN THE SAME SEASON PRIOR TO 2015. Yale’s soccer teams dropped identical 2–1 contests, while the football team fell 17–7 and the field hockey squad lost 3–1.
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Late rally falls short against Columbia
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The loss marks Yale’s sixth one-goal loss of the 2015 season. M. SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 son in order to tie up the game. This was the second goal of the season for Riach. His previous goal, scored against Penn in similar fashion, was also assisted by Downs. “As a defender, you don’t really get to score that often, so when you do it feels great to get on the score sheet,” Riach said. “I
just hope that I can continue to score for the team.” Downs has either scored or assisted each of the team’s four goals in Ivy play. He and forward Kyle Kenagy ’19 also had two shots each in Saturday’s match. Despite the equalizer, the shift in momentum toward Yale did not last long. Columbia’s Arthur Bosua scored just three minutes after Riach’s goal to put the
Lions ahead once again. Bosua is the fourth-leading scorer in the Ancient Eight. Even though the Bulldogs had six shots in the last 15 minutes, they were unable to find the back of the net. This was the sixth time in which the Bulldogs fell one goal short of a tie this season. “In the second half, we woke up and had Columbia under sig-
nificant pressure for the whole half,” Kirby said. “We pushed on for the remainder of the half and felt like we dominated the play for the most part, but yet again, we were unable to execute when it mattered.” Simpson had two saves to keep the Bulldogs at a one-goal deficit. The netminder, playing in his second game since Sept. 13, recently returned from an injury,
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which kept him sidelined for seven games. With just three games remaining in the season, the Elis look to finish their campaign strong. The team still seeks its first conference win in the tenure of head coach Kylie Stannard, and the three remaining games serve as final opportunities for Yale to best its win total from last year — a single victory.
“There were many lessons to be learned from the game, and we plan to continue moving the program forward in the last few games of the season,” Kirby said. Yale will be at Central Connecticut State this Tuesday at 7 p.m. in a non-conference match. Contact MADELEINE WUELFING at madeleine.wuelfing@yale.edu .
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Yale fought to five sets in both matches but could only pull through with one win. VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B4
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The Bulldogs have one last chance to secure their second Ivy win next weekend at Brown. W. SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 overtime as the Elis took zero shots but the defense limited the Lions to a single attempt. “The team focused on putting Columbia under pressure when they won the ball,” Ames said. “Using every player in a high-pressure tactic allowed us to keep the ball in Columbia’s defensive half of the field most of the time, which resulted in us getting more scoring opportunities.” One such opportunity came from Griff early in the second overtime period, but the shot went high, giving Columbia’s Anderson the chance she needed to end the match with her sec-
ond goal of the game off a corner kick. After a victory against Dartmouth last weekend, the Lions are now third in the Ivy League. Yale will play its final match of the season against Brown this Saturday with much of the same strategy that the Bulldogs used when facing Columbia. “For the Brown game, we hope to come out with an attacking mindset and score early on like we did against Columbia,” Griff said. “We will focus on staying strong physically and mentally for the full 90 minutes so we don’t give up any more goals.” Brown is currently on a two-game winning streak after finishing up its
home slate against Penn on Saturday. The Elis’ home finale this weekend will mark the last game in a Yale uniform for the seven seniors on the roster. “For my class, this is our last week of soccer, and we look forward to working hard all week to go out on a high note,” Ames said. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. at Reese Stadium, as the Bulldogs attempt to end their longest losing streak of the season. André Monteiro contributed reporting. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
sided 25–9 margin. The Elis kept the second frame closer but were unable to pull it out, falling 25–23. From there, Yale mounted a furious comeback, with the play of outside hitter Kelley Wirth ’19 keying the Bulldogs’ inspired run. Yale took the next two sets 25–18 and 25–19, finishing off each set with kills from outside hitter Maya Midzik ’16 and Wirth. But in the deciding fifth set, Yale could not outlast the home team. The Bulldogs rallied from an early deficit to pull within 12–11, but a key service error from setter Kelly Johnson ’16 gave Columbia a boost, and attack errors from captain outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 and Gibbons finished off the Bulldogs’ hopes. Despite dropping a game this weekend, Yale remains in an optimal position to make a run for the Ivy title. The Bulldogs still sit a game behind conferenceleading Harvard, who also went 1–1 this
weekend, while Dartmouth dropped both of their games to fall into a threeway tie with Yale and Princeton for second place. With games at Penn and Princeton this weekend and home matches against Harvard and Dartmouth on the season’s final days, the Bulldogs still control their own destiny in their quest for another Ivy championship. Nonetheless, Yale players know they have their work cut out for them. “The season is getting more and more competitive and intense, which means that our practices have been more competitive and intense to prepare us for tough matches,” outside hitter Megan Rasmussen ’18 said. “Even with the rise in competition, our outlook has not changed. We still take it one game at a time.” Yale travels to Princeton on Friday night and faces Penn on Saturday. Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .
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SPORTS It ain’t over ’til it’s over COLUMN FROM PAGE B1 2014, allowing at least 21 points in every contest. Now, however, the Lions stand at 2–5, having allowed fewer than 14 points four times this season. Their defense ranks ninth in the nation at stopping the run, allowing only 99 yards per game. Credit is due to Bagnoli for his gutsy decisions, including a fake field goal that turned into a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Sure, this Bulldog team has suffered more costly injuries than I’ve ever seen before. Five of Roberts’ top targets have missed significant time this year, and given the injuries to Yale’s offensive line, it’s unsurprising that the quarterback’s numbers have taken a nosedive from a year before. And injuries, especially those that have knocked running back Candler Rich ’17, tight end Sebastian Little ’17 and safety Foye Oluokun ’17 out for the season, aren’t something that can be fixed overnight. But remember, in 2012, a 2–7 Yale squad with a mediocre offense walked into Harvard Stadium and took the lead in the fourth quarter not once, but twice against 7–2 Harvard. Anything can happen in college football, and that maxim is especially true in rivalry games. No, the Bulldogs are not in a good position, not after a miserable Halloween loss and not with tough Ivy contests remaining against Brown, Princeton and Harvard. It’s entirely feasible to envision Yale finishing the year with just the four wins it already has under its belt. On paper, Yale could easily be the underdog in all three games left. But games aren’t played on paper. As the immortal Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” And this season is most certainly not over. GRANT BRONSDON is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. He is a former Sports Editor for the News. Contact him at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
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Punt return TD not enough FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 Cameron Nizialek, as he tacked on a field goal in the third quarter and also scored a touchdown on a fake in the fourth. Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16, who earned first-team All-Ivy honors last year, finished 12–24 for a career-low 104 passing yards. He threw his 10th interception of the season and was replaced under center by Rafe Chapple ’18 during drives in both halves. “We felt like we needed something to jumpstart the offense and give Morgan a chance to collect himself,” Reno said. “At the end of the game, I felt the same thing. We just needed to do something differently on offense.” Under heavy pressure, Chapple fared only slightly better. The sophomore finished 3–5 for 30 yards but was sacked three times. Columbia took advantage of an offensive line that has struggled with illness and injuries throughout the season, frequently sending overload blitzes. Two of Chapple’s completions went to slot receiver Christopher Williams-Lopez ’18, a former highschool teammate. The signal caller estimated the two Greater Atlanta Christian alums have played more than 50 games together. “I know exactly where [WilliamsLopez is] going to be and he’s reliable,” Chapple said. “He was my go-to guy in high school and when Bo [Hines ’18, injured slot receiver] went down, he was Morgan’s go-to guy.” Williams-Lopez, playing in his fourth game after returning from a preseason neck injury, finished the day as Yale’s leading receiver, with five receptions for 33 yards. On the defensive side, safety Hayden Carlson ’18 led the team with 12 tackles. Linebacker Matt Oplinger
’18 picked up the team’s two sacks — his second two-sack game this season — and fellow linebacker Andrew Larkin ’16 intercepted Columbia quarterback Skyler Mornhinweg. “We always play hard but yesterday, we didn’t play smart,” Chapple said. “The defense played very well yesterday. [The offense] put them in terrible situations and they kept bailing us out. We just didn’t execute the way we’re capable of.” Columbia quarterbacks Mornhinweg and Anders Hill, who switched off under center, both finished with the same 50 percent completion rate as Roberts while combining for 90 passing yards. Mornhinweg had the lone Columbia passing touchdown. The quarterbacks’ running ability proved almost more productive, as the two also combined for 62 rushing yards on 18 attempts. Columbia running back Cameron Molina led the way with 76 rushing yards. “When we saw our offense having so much success, we knew it was our job to hold [Yale] right there,” Lions linebacker Christian Conway, who had a strip-sack of Chapple in the fourth quarter, said. “We pride ourselves on having a lot of energy, and once the offense got it going, we brought a little extra.” The lack of offensive production overshadowed what could have been Yale’s best special teams performance of the season. In addition to Alessi’s punt return, defensive end Hunter Simino ’19 had his second career fumble recovery after cornerback Dale Harris ’17 forced Columbia’s punt-return man to cough up the ball in the second quarter. But two special teams plays cost the Bulldogs in the second half, as both Yale and Columbia attempted trick plays that yielded opposite results. Down by three in the third quarter, Yale tried a fake punt run on fourth-and-three, but Oplinger
Quinnipiac win sets tone for season W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 ond period. Neither team could find the net for the remainder of the period, as Eli goaltender Hanna Mandl ’17, in her first season as a starter, saved 16 of the 17 shots she faced through the first two periods. Tied 1–1 going into the game’s final period, the stage was set for a thrilling ride. A total of five goals were scored, the first from forward Eden Murray ’18. Quinnipiac then retaliated with two of its own goals, first to tie the game and then to grasp its first lead. The first goal came from forward Meghan Turner, on a one-time slap shot. Defenseman Cydney Roesler scored the next goal to go ahead 3–2 midway through the third period. After that momentum shift, down one with only 10 minutes left to play, the Bulldogs ROBBIE SHORT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER appeared to be skating on thin ice. But the heroics of Ferrara Yale, which finished 12–10 in ECAC Hockey last year, is now 1–1 in-conference after the opening weekend. lifted the team to its first win of the season. Ferrara scored two goals to continue its unbeaten streak. scored her first collegiate goal hockey followed after further within a minute and seven sec- Though the Bulldogs would to give her team a one-goal review. onds, with the help of assists come up short in their pursuit lead, before Ferrara closed the “Although I knew I would from Chancellor and Mur- of a victory, Flygh was able to gap less than a minute later be getting a penalty during the ray on the first, and forward take positives away from the with a goal of her own. game, I was honestly pretty Phoebe Staenz ’17 and defen- close loss. The scoring in the second surprised the next morning seman Taylor Marchin ’17 on “I thought we played well period ceased after that, as the when I found out I would have the second, to win the game in for long stretches of the game,” second intermission saw the to sit a game,” Haddad said. “I Flygh said. “[We] created some score remain 2–2, and the shot don’t think that it was worexuberating fashion. Though the Eli offense pro- great chances, we need to finish total a close 21–20 in Prince- thy of a suspension because, duced the dramatic finish, some of the chances we create, ton’s favor. although it was a really big hit, Mandl commended the perfor- but I liked how we generated Yale created its first, final I fail to see how it was any difand short-lived lead on a ferent from most other big mance of the defense in front of chances.” her, which allowed three goals Princeton opened up the one-time shot from forward body-checking penalties that to the Bobcats after conceding scoring eight minutes into the Krista Yip-Chuck ’17. Prince- get called and don’t result in twice as many a week before. contest, as defender Stephanie ton defenseman Kelsey Koel- suspension. The official ruling “Saturday’s game was an Sucharda sent a slap shot past zer scored the tying goal before was intent to hit and since body exciting victory for everyone,” Mandl. fellow junior and forward Fiona checking is illegal in women’s Mandl said. “This past week Minutes later, Yale for- McKenna pushed the Tigers hockey, most of these penthe team worked hard in prac- ward Emily Monaghan ’18 was ahead, this time for good. alties that get called are also tice to improve our defensive- whistled for hooking, and a Yale’s resilient spirit would intended.” zone coverage and it definitely two-minute penalty ensued. not fade, as the team kept creDespite having a player in showed on Saturday afternoon. Down one on the scoreboard, ating chances in the final min- the box for a total of 10 minThroughout the game I could and down one on the ice, the utes but could not produce utes throughout the game, Yale managed to hold Princhear the girls communicat- Bulldogs appeared to be at another tying goal. ing with each other better than risk of falling behind by two. The game was replete with eton’s power-play unit at bay, they have yet this year, allow- But Staenz blitzed the unsus- penalty minutes, exemplify- not conceding a single goal, ing them to make a lot of smart pecting Princeton power-play ing the heated nature of the and managing to seize one of unit, skated down the ice, cut contest. The intensity of the its own. plays.” A day earlier, the Elis could across the face of Sucharda and rivalry even prompted a sus“You do those things [sucnot find success in their first wrapped a pass back around pension, as forward Jamie ceed on the power play] in a conference game of the season. to Hanna Åström ’16, who Haddad ’16 could not play game, you are gong to be sucThe 4–3 loss to Princeton was a smashed it home to finish the in Yale’s game against Quin- cessful and win most nights,” nipiac after body checking a Flygh said. nail-biting game that included short-handed goal. 18 combined minutes for both The first period ended 1–1. Princeton player shortly after The team’s next game comes The Bulldogs sent 12 shots, a faceoff in the second period. this Tuesday at Boston Univerteams in the penalty box. The Bulldogs came into the while the Tigers unleashed She was given just a two-min- sity at 7 p.m. game looking to secure their eight. ute minor for body checking first victory of the season. In the second frame, Tiger during the game, but addiContact KEVIN BENDESKY at Princeton, meanwhile, looked defenseman Kimiko Marinacci tional discipline from ECAC kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .
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Defensive back Jason Alessi ’18 scored Yale’s only touchdown on this punt return in the first quarter. was tackled one yard behind the line after taking the direct snap. Soon after, Columbia went up by 10 with a fake field goal attempt that led to Nizialek scoring a 13-yard rushing touchdown — his first career score at any level of organized football. “We put that play in just this week,” Nizialek said. “They don’t bring a lot of pressure off the edges. We saw an opening there and [holder] Trevor [McDonagh] did a great job pitching me the ball.” Nizialek also made a 40-yard field goal, a new career high. Bagnoli, in his first season at the helm in Morningside Heights after becoming the winningest coach in
Ivy League history at Penn, is one victory away from matching the win total of predecessor Pete Mangurian, who went a combined 3–27 in his three years coaching the Lions. “I think [the win] is important for the next step as we try to gain credibility,” Bagnoli said. “We’re still striving to be a competitive football program … We can show progress in a lot of different ways, but we have to do it with a win-loss record.” Yale plays at home next week, taking on Brown in the Bowl at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 7. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
Perfect start to season in Capital City Classic MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 would outshoot their Ivy foes 44–29 on the night — including 19–5 in the second period — both teams failed to score for the next 55 minutes. That stretch looked reminiscent of a Yale team that saw its share of struggles finishing on offense a year ago: though the 2014–15 Elis ranked 12th in Division I in shots per game, they finished 38th in goals per contest. But Yale broke through against Princeton with just 3:04 left in regulation. Forward Joe Snively ’19, racing into the offensive zone, won a battle for the puck behind the Princeton net. He then found forward Chris Izmirlian ’17 coming across the blue line, who took Snively’s pass and rifled a low blast past Phinney. Hayden sealed the victory for Yale, hammering home a powerplay empty-net goal with 26 seconds remaining. “We knew if we kept playing our game and stuck to our Yale hockey systems, it would eventually pay off,” Hayden, who was on the ice for Izmirlian’s gamewinner, said. “We didn’t know if that would be in the second or the third period, so we were determined and, honestly, I wasn’t surprised when [Izmirlian’s shot] went in.” Yale burst out the following night in the tournament championship game, backed by another strong performance from Lyon. Against a then-unbeaten UMass team that had scored four or more goals in each of its five prior games, Lyon turned away 25 of the 26 shots he faced, making him 53 for 55 — a 0.964 save percentage — to start the season. On the other side of the ice, a balanced Eli attack scored twice in each period by way of five different Bulldogs. Not until late February did the 2014–15 Bulldogs send six pucks through the pipes in a single game. “Getting that first game [against Princeton] really gave us some confidence going into Saturday night,” captain and defenseman Mitch Witek ’16 said. “UMass plays a very skilled game, so we had to make some adjustments, but on the whole we felt pretty good going into it.” Doherty again headed the team’s charge, drawing first blood for the Elis on the power play
when he buried home a rebound off a shot from defenseman Charlie Curti ’19 just 4:51 into the game. Hayden added another tally four minutes later, scoring his second goal of the season. When forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 put the rebound of his own shot behind Minuteman goaltender Henry Dill for Yale’s third goal midway through the second period, UMass head coach John Micheletto pulled his starter and replaced Dill with Nic Renyard. The change did little to stop the Bulldog offense. Snively capped off the Elis’ secondperiod scoring with his first collegiate goal, an unassisted effort. In the third period, Yale scored twice more on the power play, courtesy of defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16 and Snively, to build its lead to a 6–0 advantage. The Minutemen would ultimately spoil Lyon’s shutout bid with just over five minutes remaining. “I think we just were trying to keep things simple,” Doherty said of the team’s success on the power play. “We concentrated a lot on our breakouts and faceoffs so we could have as much possession as possible. But mostly [success on the power play is] just making plays and getting pucks to the net and seeing if you can cause some scoring opportunities.” On the defensive end, Yale’s penalty kill unit, which led Division I a season ago at over a 90 percent clip, picked up right where it left off last winter. The Bulldogs snuffed out all six power plays their opponents had this past weekend, with Witek crediting the unit’s efficiency to its teamwork and movement. Still, the team sees room for improvement as it prepares to open ECAC hockey play this upcoming weekend. “We just need to work on our details,” Hayden said. “Obviously it’s early in the season, so the more we practice the better we will be at our systems.” The Bulldogs, who open their season with six road games, move on to play at No. 11 Harvard on Friday and at Dartmouth on Saturday. Both games are scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Contact DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .
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Yale splits weekend, maintains control of Ivy destiny BY JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER Looking to make up its onegame deficit to league-leading Harvard, the Yale volleyball team split a pair of tense five-set matches in New York this weekend. Still, the Bulldogs remain a single game behind the Crimson — and in control of their own run at a sixth-consecutive Ivy League championship. The Bulldogs (11–8, 6–4) traveled to face two teams ranked at the bottom of the league last week: Columbia (7–12, 5–5 Ivy) and Cornell (6–14, 2–8). Yale was able to pull away from the Big Red in a decisive final frame on Friday night, but could not make a comeback after overcoming a two-set deficit in Manhattan on Saturday. “Five-set matches are always challenging because the fifth set can go either way,” outside hitter Brittani Steinberg ’17 said. “Since the fifth set is only to 15, it’s really all about who comes out swinging from the first point.” On Friday, the Bulldogs battled in a tight contest with Cornell for the second time this year. The Big Red nearly took down Yale in New Haven before a last-ditch effort propelled the Elis to a miraculous victory, and the Elis once again struggled out of the gate in Ithaca, New York. In the first set, the Big Red broke a 21-all deadlock with three straight kills, two by outside hitter Carla Sganderlla, before finishing off a 25–22 victory with another kill from Sganderlla. She led Cornell in the contest, recording a matchhigh 20 kills. Yale rebounded to take the next two frames, opening up a 14–7 lead and holding on for a 25–23 victory. In the third, the Bulldogs fell in a 22–19 hole but came back to take the final four points, including a kill and a service ace from Steinberg.
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Though Yale split this past weekend, losses elsewhere in the Ivy League kept the Elis in full contention for a title. The Bulldogs sacrificed a match point in the fourth set with an error from middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16, and Cornell was able to take the last three points and win 27–25. The final frame, however, was all Yale. The Elis won seven of the
first eight points, benefiting from four Cornell errors. From there, Yale coasted, finishing off the Big Red with the help of three late kills from outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 and a match-ending service error by Sganderlla. Yale’s trouble finishing off the
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last-place Cornell team marked a trend of tough competition for Yale throughout the Ivy season. “The difference between my freshman year and this year is incredible,” Ebner said. “The parity merely means that we can’t take any days off. We have to be in hyper-focus mode for
every single match, because any team can win on any given day.” After Friday’s tight win, the team stumbled once again out of the gate against Columbia on Saturday. The Lions picked up nine consecutive early points against the Bulldogs, pulling out to a shock-
ing 12–2 lead. Yale showed signs of sloppy play, with five attack errors contributing to the run. Columbia ripped off another streak to end the set, finishing with five consecutive points and beating the Bulldogs by a lopSEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE B2
Second-half goal not enough BY MADELEINE WUELFING CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite a surge in offense late in the second half, the Yale men’s soccer team endured a loss to Columbia on the road this weekend, falling by a score of 2–1.
MEN’S SOCCER Facing a 1–0 deficit for much of the game, Yale (1–12–1, 0–4–1 Ivy) tied the score in the 72nd minute, but a goal from the Lions (9–4–1, 3–2–0) just minutes later put the Bulldogs away for good. The loss, Yale’s sixth by one goal this season, extended the Elis’ winless streak to nine games as they head in the final
three games of the 2015 season. “After being on the back foot most of the first half, we rebounded very well in the second half, though we let the game get away from us again shortly after we equalized,” midfielder Nicky Downs ’19 said. The Lions were nationally ranked as high as No. 21 after four straight wins early in the season. They currently sit in third in the Ivy League following losses to Brown and Dartmouth. However, Columbia came out ready to play in the first half, making the Yale defense work hard. One of their leading scores, Andrew Tinari, got a goal past Bulldogs goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17 in the 42nd minute. Tinari
is currently ranked third in assists in the conference with four. At the half, the Bulldogs faced a 1–0 deficit, and they were outshot by their opponents 6–1. “We started a bit slow and were not mentally ready in the first half,” midfielder Lucas Kirby ’19 said. “The goal right before the half was unfortunate, but in all honesty, we did not deserve to go into halftime at an even score.” Yale, however, was able to rebound in the second period with a goal by defender Cameron Riach ’19. In the 72nd minute, Downs’ corner kick found Riach, who was able to get it past Columbia goalkeeper Kyle JackSEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE B2
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The Elis will look to finish off their season on a high note against Brown, whom Yale defeated 2–1 last season. BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Adding to a triumphant weekend for Columbia against Eli teams, the Yale women’s soccer team lost in a thriller on Saturday, dropping an early lead before falling 2–1 to the Lions in double overtime.
WOMEN’S SOCCER This weekend’s Halloween contest was a disappointing end to the Bulldogs’ (4–9– 2, 1–5–0 Ivy) road schedule, leaving them tied with Dartmouth at the bottom of the conference standings. The defeat against Columbia (7–7–1, 3–2–1) extended the squad’s losing streak to four games, three of which came against Ivy opponents. “[This was] another tough game, but the team played
really well,” midfielder Maggie Furlong ’18 said. “There were some unlucky calls, but in the end the team possessed [the ball] very well, which was something we were focusing on.” The game started off strong for Yale, with an early goal just 10 minutes into the game off the foot of midfielder Sofia Griff ’19. Assisted by fellow midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18, the shot from the top of the box was Griff’s fifth of the season, making her the second-leading scorer and pointearner on the roster. Although they quickly took the lead, the Elis had difficulty generating offense despite outshooting their opponents 4–2 in the second half. Griff’s goal was the lone shot on goal for the first half — a figure relatively low for a team that normally attempts 10.9 shots per game. Part of the dimin-
ished attack could be due to the loss of leading scorer forward Michelle Alozie ’19, who missed the game because of illness. “We came out really strong and got a goal early on, which was exactly what we wanted to do going into the game,” Griff said. “We played a lot better than we have in a while, but unfortunately things didn’t go our way.” Columbia scored a goal of its own at the 36-minute mark when forward Emma Anderson got one past goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 to tie up the contest. Following the equalizer, neither team could break the stalemate in the second half, sending the game into the first of two sudden-death overtime periods. There was little action in the first 10-minute SEE W. SOCCER PAGE B2
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The Bulldogs have three more opportunities this season to surpass last season’s win total.