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CROSS CAMPUS And now, we wait. The Single-

Choice Early Action deadline for applications to Yale was on Saturday. Decisions for this initial round will be released in December, at which time the class of 2018 will gain the seniority that it so sorely lacks at the moment.

FOOTBALL YALE WINS WITH LOW SCORE

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reported the story on Saturday.

Following a report from an independent fact finder, the UWC recommended Simons be removed from his position and be ineligible for any other high administrative roles for five years, the Times reported. But Provost Benjamin Polak — who is the final decision maker on UWC cases involving faculty members —

On the walls of the Yale School of Medicine hang the portraits of previous deans and acclaimed scholars. They have one thing in common — all are male. Professor of immunobiology at the School of Medicine and chair of the Women’s Faculty Forum Paula Kavathas said she thinks the portraits are telling: They reflect a school where men wield power.

The allegations that have emerged about the mishandling of a sexual misconduct case involving Michael Simons, the former chief of the school’s cardiology department, and researcher Annarita Di Lorenzo have spurred discussions about the working environment for women at the school. But members of the community disagree about whether the School of Medicine is a hostile work environment for women.

Of 18 medical school faculty members interviewed, 11 expressed concerns about the environment, while seven said they felt the school was a completely safe place for women. Of nine faculty members in the cardiology department interviewed, five — all physicians — said their department was a hostile work environment in general, but especially for women. Researchers, however, defended the work environment under Simons.

Five female physicians working in cardiovascular medicine — some of whom said they experienced various forms of harassment at the hands of Simons — described the environment within the cardiology department under the former chair’s leadership as one in which bullying was rampant. All five asked to remain anonymous out of concern for their

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Cart campaign. Governor Dannel Malloy spent part of his Halloween walking in the vicinity of Cedar Street around Yale-New Haven Hospital. Though his goal of securing votes from the local populace was plainly visible, the incumbent’s food cart preference remains unclear.

On stage, on us. Days after

putting on a performance that reminded us all that “there’s no place like Yale,” the Yale Symphony Orchestra joined the online “It’s On Us” campaign against sexual misconduct with a picture posted on the movement’s Facebook page last night.

Eau so artsy. A six-week “Watercolor Basics” class held at the Peabody Museum’s West Campus facility kicks off today.

For just $360, anyone can stop by to learn the fundamentals of “mixing colors, controlling washes and glazing.”

Showcase season. Yale’s

Facebook page shared an album of photos of campus draped in the autumnal majesty that we’ll all miss dearly in the coming throes of winter.

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1989 Shops in the Chapel Street-Shubert Square area hire a full-time security guard to prevent shoplifting, in response to a recent rash of robberies in the neighborhood.

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mood of “fear” in department

Exhibit A. A Sunday email from Morse Master Amy Hungerford alluded to an incident in which too much fun might have bred too little safety. On Saturday night, she said, an intoxicated individual (not from Yale) stumbled into the moat outside the residential college’s main wall, later climbing into a suite of Morsels who’d been trying to help the man collect himself.

Times continued its recent coverage of Yale football with a piece on the Yale Bowl’s 100-year history and lack of in-stadium locker rooms.

Different aspects of the Bulldogs’ game day culture that have developed since were explained for those who’ve yet to have the pleasure of participating in person.

La Casa features White House keynote at its largest annual event

Polak weakened punishment for cardiology chief Times report brings scrutiny to UWC process Faculty cite

Good guys. On Sunday night, YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins posted a reassuring message from his Twitter account, @ YPD1. “Keeping the campus safe for everyone and being a good neighbor to our host city,” the tweet read, likely in a subtle attempt to remind the masses that safety comes before ball-chasing fun.

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Yale’s treatment of sexual misconduct case brings the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct under scrutiny.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN, RACHEL SIEGEL AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS Yale’s treatment of sexual misconduct cases has again come under fire, this time for its handling of a medical school researcher’s accusations against the School of Medicine’s former cardiology chief Michael Simons.

In 2013, medical school researcher

Annarita Di Lorenzo and her husband, medical school cardiology professor Frank Giordano, filed a formal complaint with Yale’s University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct. The complaint alleged sexual misconduct and professional retaliation perpetrated by Simons, who was the school’s cardiology chief at the time, according to faculty members interviewed and The New York Times. The Times first

Despite server crash, Hackathon flourishes

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER On Friday and Saturday, the rooms of West Campus 410 were so crowded that Yale Hackathon organizer and founder Kevin Tan ’16 could not find a place to hold a meeting.

Attended by over 1,000 participants from across the country and globe, YHack, in its second year, was a 37-hour coding marathon with over $15,000 worth of prizes. Although there were some minor glitches with air conditioning and Wi-Fi systems — the Yale network

crashed in the middle of the hackathon — organizers, hackers and sponsors all said the event was a success. Tan said he wants to provide a community and identity for hackers on campus and build support for the event from the administration.

“YHack deserves more recognition and support from Yale because there is a lot of student and faculty interest,” Tan said. “These innovative tech companies are smart and recognize the value in [these conferences], but Yale is a little slow and that’s why they need a

wake-up call.”

YHack deserves more recognition and support from Yale.

KEVIN TAN ’16 Yale Hackathon organizer and founder The vast majority of the funds for the hackathons are provided by sponsors — including Viacom, Staples and Microsoft — who appreciate the cre-

Visconti drops out, endorses Foley

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Just two days before Election Day, Independent candidate Joe Visconti dropped out of the gubernatorial race and endorsed Republican Tom Foley.

Visconti — a social conservative, Tea Partier and “pro-Second Amendment” candidate — made his announcement Sunday afternoon during an appearance with Foley at the Republican headquarters in Brookfield. He said he had decided to drop out of the race Saturday afternoon

when he saw a poll that showed him capturing 6 percent of the vote, with incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy ahead of Foley by three percentage points.

“If I can’t be governor, I want to help Tom be governor,” Visconti said at the event.

As recently as last week, Visconti criticized Foley as a weak candidate and pledged to see his race through to the end.

Visconti could not be reached for comment on Sunday evening.

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ative energy and networking hackathons provide, Tan said.

He added that the organizers were thankful to Yale’s West Campus for providing the venue to house the event. But Tan said Yale should be more supportive of the hacker community.

On the first night, the air conditioning malfunctioned, and participants like Andre Yiu, a student from the University of Waterloo in Canada, said it was too cold. Saturday night, the Yale servers crashed, making it impossible to code and program. However, Tan said

this malfunction happened “at the perfect moment” — right before the rap battle. The organizers used the crash to their advantage and told everyone to go to the rap battle, which featured famous rapper judge Mega Ran. Tan cited the rap battle as an example of how he is trying to build community and tradition within the hacker community at Yale. At last year’s hackathon, the rap battle began at 2 a.m. when, according to Tan, he wanted to incite energy in SEE HACKATHON PAGE 6

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fter a three-year hiatus, Bladderball returned to Old Campus Sunday afternoon — but only briefly. Just seconds after the ball rolled out of Farnam Hall, a Yale Police officer popped it. MICHELLE LIU AND FINNEGAN SCHICK report.

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he News endorses Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro for the U.S. House of Representatives in Connecticut’s 3rd District.

Although this year’s congressional elections have been overshadowed by Connecticut’s hotly contested gubernatorial race, 3rd District voters will have a choice between two candidates with radically different views on the role of government.

The incumbent, Rosa DeLauro, has been a pillar of Washington politics since she became our representative in 1991. Empowered by the safety of her seat — she has received at least 63 percent of the vote in her last 12 races — DeLauro has earned a reputation as one of America’s most progressive politicians. From her role in founding Congress’ Progressive Caucus to her staunch defense of labor unions, DeLauro has solidified her position as a stalwart of the left. Her longstanding work on women’s rights — including expanding access to birth control and fighting for equal pay — should be celebrated.

Her opponent, James Brown, is a career educator, having taught high school mathematics from 1992 to 2013. Brown lacks political experience, but it is his agenda that worries us most.

Whereas DeLauro has sought to increase funding for Head Start and invest in early childhood development, Brown has said he would abolish the Department of Education. Whereas DeLauro knows we should not balance the budget on the backs of society’s most vulnerable, Brown reveals only a hazy understanding of government in suggesting federal legislation banning any “new spending bills.”

Moreover, DeLauro has more than 20 years of legislative experience and considerable political clout in Washington. This experience is a testament to her political savviness and ability to represent the people of New Haven skillfully. In the absence of a similarly extensive record, Brown should

be focused on articulating specific policy suggestions to convince voters that he can represent their interests in Washington.

But Brown’s platform is inadequate and at odds with the needs and concerns of average Connecticut citizens. In a state where the Affordable Care Act was implemented effectively, Brown calls for its repeal without offering a credible alternative health care plan. His policies are informed by little more than Tea Party sound bites.

All signs point to DeLauro’s resounding victory. She has raised over $1 million, while Brown’s campaign fund sits at approximately $6,600.

But when DeLauro does return to Washington, as she seems likely to do, we hope she does so with the recognition that Congress is in failing health.

Trust in the legislature is at an all-time low. American political apathy is linked to our government's dysfunction. Politicians on both sides are unwilling to move across the aisle and make concessions on even the most salient issues out of fear of antagonizing their bases.

The Tea Party with which Brown is aligned bears the brunt of responsibility for this impasse. DeLauro, meanwhile, has the opportunity to help break this vicious cycle of partisanship and represent a voice for compromise.

Often we conflate willingness to compromise with a lack of principles. But the status quo cannot continue.

Too many important bills — from sensible gun control laws to reform of our outdated tax code or immigration policy — are stalled in congressional committees, victims of partisan bickering.

We look forward to DeLauro’s continued representation of New Haven. But we hope she uses her broadbased backing in her district to seize the national podium and issue a call for legislative action that could yield immediate and significant benefits to the American people.

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e are under no illusions about the level of interest Yale students have in tomorrow’s gubernatorial election — between incumbent Democrat Dannel Malloy and Republican private equity manager and former ambassador Tom Foley. The candidates, locked in a rematch after Malloy bested Foley by a slim margin in 2010, are in a dead heat.

The election is one of the closest in the country.

Still, we’ll spare readers a lengthy plea for civic engagement. If you know the basics of the race, please vote.

If you do vote, we urge you to vote for Malloy, the candidate we believe is better positioned to lead this state and help people who need it most.

Neither candidate has us dashing to the polls. Malloy, despite a fair number of accomplishments, frequently fails to articulate a convincing vision for the state, much less to tie his achievements to the values of everyday citizens.

He does not make us feel especially hopeful about Connecticut’s future. Foley is even less charismatic.

Because we don’t have a candidate whose persona or rhetoric makes us excited about the political process,

we instead rely solely on the candidates’ records and vision for the state.

Here, the incumbent is miles ahead of his opponent, who has relied on half-truths about Malloy’s record and insisted that his success in the private sector qualifies him to lead a state.

Malloy is still cleaning up the mess he inherited from Jodi Rell and her predecessors in the governor's office — a $3.7-billion budget deficit.

Foley has taken aim at Malloy’s decision in 2011 to sign into law the steepest tax hike in Connecticut’s history. At the same time, a more progressive income tax structure ensured Connecticut’s richest taxpayers shouldered a greater share of this burden.

Because of the tax hike — balanced by efforts to cut spending and win concessions from public sector unions — the state’s budget is now on more firm footing. Foley has not explained how the state would absorb his proposed tax cuts without cutting services.

Malloy, on the other hand, has pursued legislation that improves the lives of people in Connecticut. As the first governor to answer President Obama’s call for a national $10.10 minimum wage, Malloy was correct to insist that

no one who works full-time should live in poverty. By fighting for mandatory sick pay, he ensured that workers in this state are treated with dignity.

Job growth has also improved during Malloy’s time in office. Though unemployment still stands at 6.4 percent, that figure is down considerably from 7.7 percent in September of last year.

Malloy demonstrated the same good judgment in responding to one of the most horrific incidents in this state’s history: the massacre of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

In the wake of unthinkable violence, Malloy worked with state legislators to pass legislation banning the sale of large-capacity magazines and criminalizing the possession of additional weapons under the state’s assault weapons ban. If anything, the law didn’t go far enough; a dangerous grandfather clause enabled people who already had these weapons in their possession to keep them.

But instead of vowing to strengthen the bare-bones legislation, Foley has said he would sign a repeal if given the chance. Predictably, he has clung to mental health

as the root of gun violance, invoking a familiar mantra of gun enthusiasts: that guns don’t kill people, people do.

But it isn’t just on gun control that Foley is out of touch. In a debate last month, he expressed doubt about humans’ contribution to climate change. This wasn’t an error of word choice in the heat of a debate, but rather a blunt refusal of scientific consensus.

On schools, Malloy’s focus on early childhood education has been productive, especially in light of mounting evidence about the importance of this stage of children’s lives.

Under his leadership, 1,000 additional pre-K seats were opened in low-income districts, and plans have been put in place to implement universal access to pre-K by 2019.

Jobs and the economy remain Malloy’s most pressing concerns. In a second term, which we hope he secures tomorrow, the governor should move beyond superficial reforms and address some of the structural reasons Connecticut lags behind the country in economic recovery: inequality, stagnation and the relationship between the urban core and the suburbs.

It’s a job for which Malloy has been preparing for two decades.

Selling your soul: part I

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his column is directed at those students who are thinking about going into finance or consulting. And, according to a 2013 UCS report, that’s a lot of you — 13.8 percent of the class of 2013 went into consulting, while 9.2 percent took jobs in finance. When I began writing this piece, it became clear to me that the finance/consulting juggernaut was simply too big to address in one column. So I’ve decided to split it into two: This one will consider management consulting, while next week’s will dwell on Wall Street. Enjoy.

My plea is a predictable one: Don’t go into consulting straight out of college. I call this predictable not just because I’ve repeated some version of this argument to innumerable annoyed acquaintances, but also because it’s hardly an original one. It was made most eloquently in these very pages by the late Marina Keegan, who wrote in 2011, “Of course this is my own opinion, but to me there’s something sad about so many of us entering a line of work in which we’re not (for the most part) producing something, or helping someone, or engaging in something that we’re explicitly passionate about. Even if it’s just for two or three years.” Keegan critiqued the lazy excuses offered by kids willing to trade creativity or passion for good pay and the feeling of validation.

Yet to me, the problems with

consulting are bigger than the opportunity cost.

The problems extend to the work itself.

In theory, and often SCOTT in practice, STERN there is nothing wrong A Stern with managePerspective ment consulting — helping organizations improve their efficiency and performance. But the immediate question that springs to my mind is: How are graduating college seniors qualified, in any way, to tell businesses how to change their structure or practices? Frankly, they aren’t. Rather, as many have chronicled, large consulting firms just recruit the brightest kids with the shiniest degrees, train them for a few weeks, teach them the buzzwords and set them loose.

“We could take somebody straight off the street, teach them a few simple tricks in a couple hours and easily charge them out to our clients for more than £7,000 per week,” former British consultant Neil Glass (pseudonym David Craig) wrote in his memoir, “RipOff!” There are devastating consequences to such a system. More than three quarters of the world’s largest companies use the ser-

vices offered by consulting firms.

Yet in a study — discussed in Glass’ book — conducted by Britain’s Cranfield School of Management, 170 companies were interviewed about their use of consultants.

Just 36 percent of these companies expressed happiness with the consultants; in contrast, two-thirds found the consultants to be useless or actually harmful.

Keeping those numbers in mind, consider that, according to journalist Duff McDonald, there may be no company in history responsible for more layoffs than McKinsey & Co., the most prominent of the consultants.

Because the efficacy of big-time management consulting is notoriously difficult to study — so much of the advice doled out is proprietary business information — it’s important to consider some history. “Enron has built a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative companies,” read a McKinsey report mere months before the company’s implosion. But this is old news. More recently, McKinsey told a British railroad company, Railtrack, to “reduce spending on infrastructure”; this plum advice led to a number of fatalities and the company’s own death. Many individuals, as well as the state of Louisiana, have filed lawsuits against McKinsey because it told insurance companies that they could save money by paying injury victims considerably less than they were due. Remember, please, that

McKinsey is “the most prestigious consulting firm of all,” as journalist David Leonhardt wrote in a 2011 news analysis entitled, "Consultant Nation."

Still, I’m not here to argue against the entire existence of the management consulting empire.

In theory, consultants can be very helpful. But we don’t live in theory, and I don’t think it’s going out on a limb to assume that most Yalies entering consulting aspire to work for McKinsey, Bain, BCG or their mammoth ilk. The idea that, every year, more than 100 of my classmates, possessing no business experience, decide to enter this industry and learn buzzwords and then use Excel and PowerPoint for two years, or blindly tell companies to fire their employees, is terrifying. I revise what I wrote above: There is an opportunity cost. These Yalies are kids who have been given tremendous advantages, kids who could be trying to save the planet or combat discrimination or eliminate hunger — literal hunger.

Instead, they’re choosing the easy, albeit well-paid, way out.

The whole situation, wrote Keegan, is “super depressing. I don’t understand why no one is talking about it.”

Next week, we’ll talk about Wall Street. See you soon.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His columns run on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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Hours extended for absentee voters

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER In an effort to elevate voter participation late in the game, the City Clerk’s Office opened its doors to New Haven residents this past Saturday to allow voters to cast absentee ballots.

With the office open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Town Chair of the Democratic Party Vincent Mauro said that a “steady stream” of voters cast their absentee ballots. The option was only available to New Haven residents who would be out of the city from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day. On Question 1 on this year’s ballot, Connecticut voters will decide whether or not such an early voting option should be available to all state residents eligible to vote.

“We’re in a day and age when some people are working six or seven days a week,” Mauro said, “and the ability to vote on a weekend just allows more people to participate in the process.”

Mauro cited Georgia as an example of a state that recognized this problem and, after enabling early voting, has since experienced success in motivating a greater percentage of its citizens to vote.

Extending hours is an important function the city government plays in encouraging citizens to exercise their right to vote, Mauro said.

“The mayor and [City Clerk Michael Smart] were eager to give every New Haven resident the opportunity to participate in the process,” said Laurence Grotheer, director of communications for Mayor Toni Harp. “The additional hours accommodated those who had still not been able to make plans to vote.”

The City Clerk’s Office has also created an election page on their website with specific information about absentee voting and absentee ballot applications, and answers to general questions about the election.

City officials said they wanted to ensure voters could also use

Saturday to obtain more information about the election ballot. But Mauro said that because the questions on the ballot this year are more straightforward than in years past, most residents who took advantage of the extended hours came primarily to vote instead of to pose questions.

Tyler Blackmon '16, elections coordinator for the Yale College Democrats and a staff columnist for the News, said the extended hours highlighted the importance of Question 1 on the ballot.

The City Clerk’s Office would not have to open on Saturday to give residents who will be out of town on Tuesday the chance to note if the state amended its constitution to allow early voting, Blackmon said. “[The extended hours] are, of course, important,” he said. “But early voting in Connecticut could be a more permanent solution.”

Blackmon added that he did not think any Yale student voters had been affected by the extended office hours, as very few Yale students who planned on voting would be out of the city during voting hours on Tuesday.

Voters who chose to cast absentee ballots this election season featured out-of-state college students, including Maggie Peard, a New Haven resident and sophomore at Williams College.

“I’m choosing to vote absentee in Connecticut because, even though I spend more of my time in Massachusetts, I want my vote to go towards electing the best representative for me in Connecticut because I still feel more like a resident of Connecticut,” Peard said.

Peard added that she believes voting made it easy for her to participate in the election process in Connecticut and was especially important for out-of-state college students like her who prefer to vote in their home states.

The voter registration deadline for this year’s election was Oct. 28.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER When Elis select their course schedules for the spring semester, they are almost twice as likely to find classes with a male professor than with a female one.

On Saturday afternoon, 350 female alumni, faculty and students gathered at the Gender Rules conference to discuss the implications of male-dominated academic leadership.

Hosted by YaleWomen and the Yale Women Faculty Forum, the annual conference included a series of panels and dialogues held throughout at the School of Management. While attendees were impressed by the conference, many highlighted persistent challenges women face in academia.

“Getting a room full of women that care about gender issues is great, but that by itself is never going to move the needle,” said chair of YaleWomen Laura Grondin ’85.

Abigail Emerson ’14, the

postgraduate associate at WFF who coordinated the event, said there were many public conversations about inequity and gender diversity during her time at Yale. However, these debates almost always reflected the views of just the student body, she said.

But the conference, she said, allowed for the incorporation of faculty perspectives. “[The conference] allows for this group of informed and passionate people to come together and talk in a really productive and honest way about this difficult topic,” Emerson said.

Even though only 35 percent of the University’s faculty is female, Yale has a more gender-balanced faculty than its peer institutions. At Princeton, only 33 percent of the faculty are women, and at Harvard, that figure falls to 28 percent.

Still, Catherine Harmer ’15, a physics major, said that the difference between the number of male and female faculty is quite visible at the Yale. She added that the disparity directly

impacted her undergraduate experience in STEM fields.

“Although I’ve had an overall positive experience as a female student in physics, the underrepresentation of female professors in class and research settings made it harder for me to feel confident,” Harmer said. “[The under-representation] has made me wary of pursuing a PhD in the physical sciences because I want to work in an environment where the voices of women and men are equally represented.”

In the 2014-15 academic year, Yale only employed 18 female tenured faculty within the physical sciences compared to 123 tenured male faculty members.

Alumni, graduate students and faculty who attended the event said they were drawn to the Gender Rules conference because the energy of the panelists and attendees inspired and empowered them.

“We share a certain level of curiosity and intellectual intensity about gender issues,”

Nancy Alexander ’79 SOM ’84 said. “We are not just having superficial conversation.”

Carol Chiodo GRD ’14, who received her degree in Italian language and literature, said gender diversity is not as big a problem in the humanities as it is in the sciences. However, she added that leadership positions in humanities-related fields are still disproportionately occupied by men.

Panels on Saturday included “Educating Women Who Can Change the World” and “A System of Law: Gender and Equal Rights,” and featured speakers such as Kimberly GoffCrews, University secretary and vice president for student life; Teresa Younger, CEO and president of Ms. Foundation for Women; and Mary Miller, former dean of Yale College.

Tasnim Elboute contributed reporting.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

After second crash, ITS faces questions

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Yale started the new month with another server crash.

Beginning at roughly 8 a.m.

Saturday morning, Yale technology platforms — including EliApps, Yale.edu websites, Classes*v2 and Oracle E-Business applications — went down before being fully restored six hours later.

This technical difficulty comes after a similar incident occurred last month when students, faculty and staff could not access Yale websites and applications for over 24 hours. Although Yale Information Technology Services said the two power outages were independent incidents, students affected by the consecutive server failures remained skeptical.

“The two Data Center power outages that we have experienced recently are not related and happened at two different data centers that are 10 miles apart,” Yale Chief Information Officer Len Peters said. “They were both caused due to unexpected issues with mechanical [and] electrical infrastructure.”

Peters said the most recent crash was caused by a component of the electrical infrastructure. He added that following an investigation, it was discovered that one of the Uninterruptible Power Supply backups failed and caused 75 percent of the systems at a West Campus data center to lose power.

Peters said power at the center was restored by 1:15 p.m. by bypassing the failed UPS. By 1:35 p.m. on Saturday, Yale.edu was back up. At 2:07 p.m., Classes*v2 was also restored.

“We needed to make sure that all of the underlying storage was up and available in order to bring

up our services quickly,” Peters said. “We regret the inconvenience that this may have caused and are investigating the root cause for this failure.”

The two most-recent incidents do not necessarily indicate a larger issue with Yale Technology, said Robert Juchnicki ’15, an ITS student technician.

He said any technological feature could go down for an hour or two, which may be due to something like a new code or feature being implemented.

“If it is very recurring and starts to get in people’s way, it is a problem,” Juchnicki said. “A third or fourth time would be a serious issue, but these have been pretty isolated incidents.”

But Marcus Russi ’17 felt the recent server crashes already indicate a larger issue for Yale ITS. He cited the lack of communication from ITS as a major problem for students. During the failure, ITS posted updates via an “obscure” Twitter account instead of a “status page” hosted on a separate server to update students, he said.

There are entire fields of computer science called reliability engineering, which are created to keep data centers operational in the face of unpredictable equipment failures, Russi said. He added that since a modern data center should have multiple sources of backup power and detailed contingency plans, this semester’s outages have been unacceptable.

“A second failure of this sort … is not a stroke of bad luck, it’s just what happens if you never bother to test your backup plans,” Russi said. “The question then becomes one of blame: Do we hold ITS staff accountable for not following standard industry practices

TIMELINE ITS SERVER CRASH

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in reliability engineering, or do we blame whoever is tasked with supervising ITS for not recognizing that they are failing in their duties?”

Peters said his team has taken steps to improve the overall resiliency of its data centers, specifically a multi-year program started in 2012 to improve the revival time of servers, applications and data in the event of the loss of a data center. He cited other steps that ITS has taken to improve its servers, including contracting with an out-of-state facility to store and backup data, creating an “aggressive recovery timeline” for all core services, scheduling a full system“failover” test and reviewing the current resiliency setup.

He added that ITS will be specifically reviewing the recovery time objectives for Classes*v2.

“During the recent outages, due to the work accomplished in the last couple of years, we were able to achieve our recovery time for most of our core infrastructure services and applications ahead of our program schedule, but not all,” Peters said. “In its full operational state, we will be focusing on conducting regular disaster recovery planning exercises that will continue to test the resiliency of our infrastructure and keep us prepared in the event of real disaster such as the events experienced on Oct. 9 and Nov. 1,” he added.

Although the outage occurred on a Saturday morning, students interviewed said it still had a large impact on their studies.

“I actually can’t do the majority of my homework at the moment,” Eve Romm ’18 said Saturday afternoon. “My readings are on

Classes*v2 and I can’t get a book because the library catalogues are down.”

Still, she said ITS does a fairly good job providing reliable internet access throughout the year.

Katherine Garvey ’16, who is a chemistry tutor, said she tried to send emails to her class to let her know she would be available to meet with students. However, she had no way to reach them since EliApps was not functional.

“It is sort of frustrating,” she said. “I am confused why it happened twice so recently — I feel we didn’t get a full explanation the first time.”

She added that since nearly everything for students is on Classes*v2, there was little work that she could do until access was restored.

Russi said he could not access

the readings for his English class or watch any of the online materials for his French class, both of which had assignments due the following morning.

He added that the Zoo — the computer science department’s server — was down for the duration of the outage and has been broken since because the sudden loss of power corrupted data on its hard drives. He said it is the second time the computer science department has been inconvenienced by an ITS failure.

Another unplanned network outage lasted from 10:40 p.m. on Nov. 1 until 5:07 a.m.

“It is weird that it keeps happening,” Hanna Karimipour ’17 said. “I hope they fix it.”

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“I’ll insist that my competitor is the greatest, so that when I beat him, I won’t be calling myself the greatest— I’ll be proving it through my actions.” JAROD KINTZ AMERICAN AUTHOR

Bladderball returns to Old Campus, briefly TIMELINE & MAP THE RETURN OF BLADDERBALL

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BINGHAM

BY MICHELLE LIU AND FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS It popped in less than a minute.

Making its first appearance since 2011, the traditional Yale game of bladderball ended as quickly as it began. On Sunday, the ball emerged from entryway A of Farnam Hall at 4:08 p.m., pushed out of the doorway by two unidentified students. It rolled approximately 200 feet past Battell Chapel and Durfee Hall, bouncing into the air once before a Yale Police officer popped it.

Yale Police, who were positioned on Old Campus before the ball appeared, ended the game due to safety concerns, they said.

The game has been banned at Yale since 1982, when the thenPresident A. Bartlett Giamatti decided to discontinue the tradition after multiple students were injured that year. In the game, students compete for possession of a six-foot inflatable ball, and bringing it into the courtyard of their residential college or to the

headquarters of their campus organization. The name “bladderball” originates from a combination of soccer and rugby that Yale students played on the New Haven Green in the first half of the 19th century. The game was originally played with an inflated animal bladder.

HEARSAY

Hints that the game was returning to campus began on Friday night with the appearance of flyers around Branford and Jonathan Edwards Colleges.

An email sent to an unknown number of students on Nov. 1 insinuated that the event would take place outside Phelps Gate at 4 p.m. that day. Due to rain, the event was postponed for the same time and location the following day in another email.

Both emails were sent from the address jesux.1975@gmail.com, a reference to the attempt in 1975

by Jonathan Edwards College to capture the ball with a meat hook, prematurely popping the ball

and ending the game. The name attached to the email address was “Vescica Sphaera,” which means “bladder ball” in Latin.

Of the 45 students interviewed on Sunday between 3 and 4 p.m., 20 said they had heard the event would be happening at 4 p.m. from sources like the Facebook group “Overheard at Yale” and the social media app Yik Yak. A senior who asked to remain anonymous added that she had heard about the game in person from a member of YSECS, as well as in emails from the Pundits and Branford College Council.

PRE-GAME

Two Yale police officers began to circle Old Campus on bicycles at 3 p.m. One of the officers, when asked if anything was happening on Old Campus to warrant a police presence, responded that they were wondering the same thing.

A third Yale police officer stationed at the Elm Street gate at 3:45 p.m. said she had no knowl-

Visconti out of gov’s race VISCONTI FROM PAGE 1 appear on the ballot on Tuesday. Vincent Mauro, town chair of the Democratic Party, said he expects that Visconti will still receive 2 or 3 percent of the “protest vote” from disaffected Connecticut voters who are unhappy with both party-nominated candidates.

Visconti’s announcement came as a surprise to Gary Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University.

“Holy cow,” Rose said when a reporter from the News told him that Visconti had endorsed Foley. “Wow. Now that is very interesting.”

Rose said that Visconti’s announcement is likely to benefit Foley. But he noted that it is far from clear that all of Visconti’s supporters will now support the Republican candidate. A poll released by Quinnipiac University on Oct. 29 showed 7 percent of likely voters supported Visconti, with their second choice preference split about equally between Malloy and Foley. With Visconti in the race, Malloy and Foley were deadlocked 43–43. With Visconti out, Foley claimed support from 46 percent of voters to Malloy’s 45, according to the Quinnipiac poll.

Amalia Halikias ’15, communications director for the Yale College Republicans and Yalies for Foley, said Visconti’s endorsement will prove significant and beneficial for Foley if Visconti actively encourages his supporters to turn out and vote for the Republican. She noted that the Democratic Party tends to have a stronger get-out-the-vote strategy in Connecticut, enabling them to get more voters to the polls on Election Day. “A big fear is that even with this poll bump that we see now that Visconti has dropped out, the Democrats’ ground game will still be able to defeat Foley,” Halikias said.

Democrats pointed to Visconti’s endorsement of Foley as evidence that the Greenwich Republican, who spent most of his career in venture capital and served as the ambassador to Ireland, is further right than he claims to be.

Foley previously received endorsements from the pro-gun group Citizens Defense League and the Family Institute of Connecticut, a pro-life organization that also opposed gay marriage.

“Make no mistake, Tom Foley is in the pocket of the right wing extreme gun lobby

and today’s announcement is further proof,” Malloy campaign spokesman Mark Bergman said in an email.

Chris Cooper, a spokesman for the Foley campaign, said he was pleased that Visconti’s announcement will unite the Connecticut Republican Party behind one candidate.

Foley and Visconti met Saturday night at the home of Visconti’s 78 year-old mother to discuss the endorsement, Visconti said at the press conference Sunday afternoon.

Rose speculated that the two had struck a deal that would give Visconti a position in the Foley administration, should he defeat Malloy on Tuesday. At the press conference, however, Visconti claimed he had made the decision to drop out without concessions from the Foley campaign. Reached Sunday evening, Foley Communications Director Mark McNulty reiterated that point.

Ron Schurin, associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, said Visconti was likely considering his future political fortunes as he decided to drop out.

“If he’s looking to have a future in the Republican Party, this was the thing that he had to do at this point,” Schurin said. “He might look for an appointment in the Foley administration or he might look to run for office on a statewide ticket at some point in the future.”

Halikias and YCR President Andrea Barragan ’16 noted that Visconti’s announcement came too late for those who had already cast absentee ballots in favor of Visconti — they will not be able to change their votes.

Barragan also expressed concern that Visconti’s name will still be printed on ballots distributed Tuesday. Those who do not hear that he dropped out might vote for him.

Overall, however, Barragan said she was glad Visconti had dropped out.

“I think it’s better late than never,” she said.

Visconti did not receive enough support at the party convention in May to qualify for the Republican primary in August. But he petitioned to have his name on the ballot by submitting 10,000 signatures of support to the secretary of the state.

Erica Pandey contributed reporting to this story.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

edge of such an event and was just covering her normal police beat.

But by 4 p.m., a crowd of approximately 200 students had gathered on Old Campus.

Several students in the crowd looked up toward the roof of Phelps Hall, trying to anticipate the location of the ball’s arrival.

Rebecca Spaulding ’16 said she did not she know where the ball would come from this year but mentioned that in 2009 and 2011 the ball came to Phelps Gate in a U-Haul truck.

Prior to the game, emails circulated around various campus organizations saying the University administration was aware of the plans and warned participants that they risked being sent before the Executive Committee for participating. A number of freshmen interviewed said that they had been advised by their freshman counselors not to participate in the game for this reason. Several students on Old Campus expressed a lack of con-

cern about repercussions from the police or the administration.

An anonymous junior said she felt the police presence offered a “shallow threat.”

“If I’m going to be arrested, it would be for a good cause,” Gary Sharp ’16 said.

DEFLATION

Students rushed to the ball en masse as soon as it appeared, but the police quickly outpaced them. One police officer quickly managed to pop the ball.

To the sound of students’ “boos,” two Yale Police officers carried the popped ball from entryway C of Durfee Hall through the Elm Street gate and around the corner of LanmanWright Hall where they placed it in the trunk of a police vehicle parked on High Street. The police officer who popped the ball did not comment on what would be done with the ball or where they were taking it.

Yale Police Department Chief, who appeared in plain clothes

on Old Campus after the ball was popped, said he was not a bladderball expert, but that any game with such a significantly sized ball and so many participants created a very serious public safety issue. The game could become dangerous for students if the ball entered the street, Higgins added.

“There’s a balance between the safety of the community and all of you, and having fun,” Higgins said.

Despite safety concerns, students voiced frustration that the game had been so short-lived.

Joe Bedford ’18 said he was disappointed that the police did not allow students to play with the ball for at least a few minutes.

After the game was halted by the police, no students were taken away or individually reprimanded.

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

Med school scrutinized MED CULTURE FROM PAGE 1 jobs.

“The mood of the entire [cardiology] section was fear, which kept many people silent,” one physician said.

Simons made labs inaccessible to certain people, dealt with promotions unfairly by favoring some and disfavoring others and gave critical assignments to those he favored regardless of merit, the five female physicians claimed.

Though the bullying was not directed solely at women, those interviewed said that women felt the brunt of it.

While Simons admitted to erring in judgment, he denied being abusive in the workplace.

“Several years ago I briefly pursued a colleague who was in a junior but not subordinate position. For this error in judgment I have apologized, and I genuinely regret my action. However, in no way did I use abuse my position at Yale to punish, or retaliate against any faculty member — a fact the Yale’s University-Wide Committee confirmed,” Simons wrote in an email to the News.

“My professional decisions have always been based only on talent, merit and that which is in the best interest of Yale, its staff and students.”

Simons’ department is not the only one at the medical school to receive criticism in recent years for being a hostile work environment for women.

One cardiologist interviewed cited a 2006 case, in which Joseph Schlessinger, chair of pharmacology, was charged with sexual harassment. Schlessinger remains in his post.

Section chiefs within the medical school are lifetime positions, appointed by the department chair, and there is no process for review, she said.

Although Simons has stepped

down from his position as chief of cardiology, he will remain director of the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center. One cardiologist interviewed noted that researchers are completely dependent upon their principal investigators to gain funding and advance in their careers, making them vulnerable to hostile leadership. The researchers may not have a support network through which they can relay their concerns, the cardiologist said.

Medical school professor Joan Steitz said that the hierarchy within the medical school leads to a lack of transparency among faculty members — junior faculty are completely left out of decisions made at the top. Faculty members have complained about the situation and asked that the administration be more open with them, but nothing has changed, she said.

“It’s clearly an extreme case, but it is reflective of the climate [at the medical school],” Steitz said of the Simons case. She added that there was a report on equity in faculty salaries, but that the report was never released.

All five cardiologists interviewed said they were most disheartened by the administration’s response, a sentiment they said was shared by two other female cardiologists. Over a year ago, they said, all seven women met to discuss next steps after Provost Benjamin Polak did not accept the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct’s ruling to permanently remove Simons from his position as chief of cardiology. The cardiologists said that, even after meetings with high-level administrators in which the group urged that the recommendations of the UWC be acted upon, Simons did not step down. It was not until three days after The New York Times inquired about the case on Friday,

Oct. 24, that the faculty received word of Simons stepping down.

Not all faculty members interviewed said the work environment within the department was hostile. All four cardiology researchers, working under Simons in the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, said they felt the department was a safe work environment.

Cardiovascular researcher Kathleen Martin said the allegations that the School of Medicine is a hostile work environment for women is “the farthest thing from the truth.” She said she has never witnessed or experienced harassment and described Simons as a continually supportive mentor to women. Of the 11 people he hired over his five years at the helm of the department, five of them were women — an impressive statistic relative to other universities and departments, she added.

“Dr. Simons has created an outstanding working environment at the [Yale Cardiovascular Research Center] and has been very supportive of women scientists there,” professor of cardiology and cellular and molecular physiology Anne Eichmann said in an email. “I sincerely hope … that we will be able to turn this page as soon as possible.”

Daniella Tirziu, a research scientist in the cardiology department, said the details of the case should not have been made public because it has led to misinterpretations of a personal matter that has already been settled.

Medical school faculty were informed via email last Monday, Oct. 29, that Simons had stepped down from his post as chief of cardiology.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

SOM hosts first Africa based practicum

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Participants in the School of Management’s Africa Business Practicum spent this Saturday working in interschool teams on case studies.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, the School of Management hosted its first ever Africa-focused symposium, the Africa Business Practicum.

The ABP is a one-day workshop that asked participants to explore the challenges of engaging in business in Africa. It employed a case-based approach, meaning that each participant was assigned to a small group to explore one of four challenges that African businesses face: financial analysis, new markets and growth, training and development or consumer retention.

Event organizers turned to Zoona, an entrepreneurial support firm based in South Africa and Zambia, for consultation on presenting the most timely challenges in Africa’s business

world. Each group was given financial documents to prepare a short presentation on how they would approach and resolve their assigned cases. Participating students came from the SOM as well as other business schools, including Wharton, NYU Stern, MIT Sloan and Columbia Business School. Two African business schools in the Global Network — an international business school partnership founded in 2012 by SOM Dean Edward Snyder — also held similar events this weekend.

Barkot Tekle SOM ’15, one of the organizers of the event, said the practicum was unique in its approach to studying business challenges in Africa.

“It’s the only type of [conference where] case content meets competition in terms of the Africa business base,” Tekle said.

Tekle also said the inspira-

tion for ABP stemmed from the Wharton Africa Business Forum, an event that members of SOM attended last fall. The event hosted hundreds of students, and some of the SOM attendees wanted to adapt the informational content to a smaller workshop setting to be hosted at Yale, Tekle said. Tekle added that, though the final format of the practicum was generally the result of student ideas, the ABP did receive broad institutional support from Yale.

Another organizer, Alisha Rahemtulla SOM ’16 SPH ’16, said the practicum accumulated almost $10,000 in funds from the MacMillan Center, Yale Law School, GNAM and ABP’s two financial sponsors, IBM and Atlas Mara.

Dayo Olopade LAW ’15 SOM ’15 said the “raw format” of the

cases — meaning they provided students with an abundance of information and mimicked real life situations — made the experience of participating in the practicum more valuable.

“This gives [participants] the credibility to say, ‘I’ve gotten my hands dirty and executed on a complicated problem in Africa,’” she said.

Olopade also said one of the unique aspects of the practicum was that it facilitated collaboration between students from different schools. This will help create longstanding connections between participants, which was one of the goals of the event in the first place, she said.

Bita Diomande, a participant from MIT Sloan, said one of the parts of the conference she most appreciated was the networking and social aspect made possible

Businesses thrive at Black Expo

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This past weekend, hundreds of New Haven store owners crowded the Immanuel Baptist Church to rally support for their local ventures.

The Connecticut Black Expo, the largest African-American trade show in the country, offered an opportunity for local African Americans to showcase their businesses to the Elm City community — businesses that do not often receive significant publicity and struggle to compete with the major chains in the area, according to the event’s CEO Maurice Smith.

The annual expo, which began in New York City in the mid-1970s, has now expanded to cities in over 20 different states, including Connecticut.

While the expo has stopped in several different cities throughout the Constitution State, it has rooted itself in the Elm City for the past few years.

This year’s expo featured roughly 30 different vendors and offered free admission to the public — an attempt by the organization to attract more attendees than in previous years.

With over 1,000 people in attendance and an increase in prospective sponsors for future years, organizers viewed the expo as a strong success.

“I would say on a scale of one to 10, this was an 11,” Smith said. “We had full capacity — lines everywhere.”

Each vendor, Smith explained, was provided a table, but the responsibility fell on the individual businesses to personalize them.

Several store owners in attendance said they thought the expo would positively impact their business in the future.

“Most people haven’t heard of my business,” Sophia Simmons, owner of Stella and Dot said. “Hopefully, now

with the expo, I’ll get some more traffic on my website and some money my way.”

Simmons had several examples of her business’s jewelry, handbags and scarves on display.

In addition to vendors, various community groups put on performances, including fashion shows and dance pieces, throughout the day.

In its second stint at the event, Connecticut Fashion Week put on a fashion show, one of the event’s main performances.

Most people haven’t heard of my business. Hopefully, now with the expo, I’ll get some more traffic on my website and some more money my way.

SOPHIA SIMMONS Owner, Stella and Dot “We had such a great experience last year, that I asked if we could do it again,” Corrine Thomas, founder of Connecticut Fashion Week, said.

“The audience was great, and the organizers were very nice.”

The expo, Thomas said, gives her new models a chance to practice in front of a crowd before the actual Connecticut Fashion Week fashion show. Thomas added that she thought it would be the perfect opportunity to showcase to the community what Connecticut Fashion Week really is — an important step to take because they pride themselves in being a community-based company.

Even though the expo offers numerous benefits to the AfricanAmerican community in New Haven, the expo organizers faced several obstacles in their quest to host the event on an annual basis.

Funding for the program, for example, has always been a significant issue, according to Smith.

“We need to get some sponsors to help pay the bills,” Smith said. “The majority of the funding comes from myself, and primarily it comes out of my own pocket.”

Smith added that the purpose of the event is not to gain profit, but to offset expenses. With no money coming in besides his own, it’s hard to secure a venue for the event, he said. This year, a local church offered their space at a good rental price, which significantly lowered costs and allowed organizers to retract an admission fee featured in years’ past.

Last year, the organization charged $10, which Smith said was not affordable for many in the community. By offering free admission this year, the event attracted a much larger crowd.

An increased number of attendees brought the event to the attention of George Clarke, president of the Greater New Haven Business and Professional Association. Clarke was impressed by the large turnout and expressed interest in becoming a sponsor for next year’s event, according to Smith.

Although previously unsure if he would be organizing the event again next year, Smith said that the support for this year’s event has encouraged him to do so.

Last year’s expo was held at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

by the hybrid composition of the teams. But Joelle Owona, another MIT student, said she would have liked to have more time allotted for networking throughout the day.

Looking forward, Olopade said the format of the practicum can be replicated, and she and her colleagues plan to host the workshop again next year.

Neil Samen SOM ’15, one of the event’s organizers, said the leadership team is also thinking about expanding the practicum to be a day and a half long and shifting the event’s focus from depth to breadth. Instead of focusing on one company with one set of problems, future participants may be asked to analyze problems picked from more than one company so that they can see the various concerns of different industries in Africa.

Sudhir said he thinks it would be beneficial to give students access to the case materials and contact information for their team members a week in advance, instead of providing only one day to start presentations from scratch. He said he thinks this added time would improve the quality of analysis.

SOM’s newly formed Africa Business and Society club will take charge of all future planning for iterations of ABP. But beyond Saturday’s workshop, ABP organizers have the larger objective of initiating dialogue with Africa, Rahemtulla said.

“The idea is to bring in more Africa-related initiatives to SOM,” she said.

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

Yale Opera kicks off season

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER To open its season, the Yale Opera put on an exhibition of humor, misfortune and romance as it performed several of history’s most iconic pieces.

This show is why I come back to see the graduate students perform every year.

HANNAH ROEMHILD Soprano vocalist The Yale Opera program at the School of Music presented its annual Fall Opera Scenes this weekend at Sprague Memorial Hall. The Saturday performance featured scenes from works such as “Le Nozze di Figaro,” “Hamlet” and “Antony and Cleopatra.” Sunday’s show featured excerpts from “Aleko,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The performances were delivered in their original languages, with accompanying projections of English translations. Yale Opera Manager Erika Niemi said that the Fall Scenes are unique in that the vast majority of Yale Opera’s members perform in the show, which stands in contrast to other shows by the group that only feature a few performers.

“It’s great to feature all the Yale Opera seniors — that’s what’s wonderful about Scenes,” Niemi said. “It’s a good opportunity to have everyone in the Yale Opera community come together.”

Niemi explained that most of the performances in Fall Scenes feature two

soprano roles and two tenor roles, which is more than what most opera companies choose to cast in their productions. She added that she thinks Scenes caters perfectly to the large number of vocalists in the group as a result of its expanding the amount of available roles.

Evanna Chiew MUS ’15, a vocalist in the performance, highlighted that Fall Scenes gives first-year students in the opera an opportunity to play a substantial role in a formal production. Chiew, who played Cherubino in “Le Nozze di Figaro” and Nicklaus in “Les Contes d’Hoffmann,” noted that every member of the production plays more than one part in the show.

“We all helped out with the scene changes and load-ins,” Chiew said. “This gave us a chance to also see the backstage process.”

Audience members interviewed said they enjoyed the Scenes’ productions of classic opera pieces. Sylvia Zhang DRA ’17 said she particularly liked the performances of “Le Nozze di Figaro” and “Romeo and Juliet.”

Nelly Kong GRD ’18, said she found the Yale Opera’s version of “Le Nozze di Figaro” hilarious, noting that several of her peers performed in this year’s Scenes.

Hannah Roemhild, a freelance soprano vocalist who has attended Yale Opera performances every year for the past couple of years, complimented the singers for their robust voices and clarity of tone.

“This show is why I come back to see the graduate students perform every year,” Roemhild said.

The next Yale Opera performance is named “Liederabend” and will be held on Dec. 6.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.”

KEVIN MITNICK AMERICAN HACKER

Second YHack conference succeeds

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Participants in the Yale Hackathon on Friday and Saturday ranged from expert to novice coders, and they worked on projects such as building new apps.

HACKATHON FROM PAGE 1 attendees. He said he tweeted out to the hackers that there would be an impromptu rap battle. Instead of the 10 hackers Tan expected, hundreds of hackers filled the hall and stairwells of the main lobby.

The organizers said they wanted to include other community building events like a costume contest and scary movies. Tan said another goal of his

was to rebrand the hacker identity by including “swag” with free T-shirts, pillowcases and stickers.

“My mission was to raise the taste level of the hacker community,” Tan said. “The idea of that was to [foster] an amazing spirit in terms of all the sensory experiences.”

Participants ranged from expert to novice coders. For the latter, the event included workshops and mentoring oppor-

tunities so even those with no coding experience had a chance to learn. According to Tan, the event had to turn almost 3,000 people away because there was not enough space, but the organizers still tried to maintain the diversity of skill levels and geographical regions.

By the end of the weekend, all attendees had worked on projects that incorporated coding — which included building new apps.

Yiu created a “Yalloween” app which connects to a user’s location and provides ratings on nearby houses in order to help the user choose the best Halloween trick or treat route.

Dang Yeshiwas, a junior computer science major from Virginia Tech, created an app to help students find lost room keys. He said that, since last year, YHack has become more organized and better planned, and he would like to return in future years

because the event provides an opportunity to develop skills for his desired career in mobile app planning. Yeshiwas added that he enjoy getting to meet the CEOs of important companies, and being allowed to use their technologies was a crucial part of the overall experience.

YHack organizer Aleksandra Zakrzewska ’16 said the hackathon is a nice addition for computer science students at Yale because the classes in the major

are mainly theoretical. Application-based events like the hackathon are important for developing skills that Yale students cannot acquire in the classroom, she added.

The first place prize was awarded on Sunday to a Carnegie Mellon team, which created an app that translates music into sheet music.

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

Med school revelations bring UWC process into question MED SCHOOL CASE FROM PAGE 1 decided to issue a reduced penalty that included an 18-month suspension and mandated sexual harassment training.

Polak’s decision, as well as the medical school’s handling of the case, has drawn the ire of several faculty members at the medical school.

Still, Polak maintained that he could not comment on the specific case. In emailed statements to the News, he insisted that his decisions are based on facts presented in the UWC’s report and the recommendations in each case.

“I provide a careful and unbiased review of all cases that come before me, and I am confident in the integrity of our policies and procedures,” Polak wrote in a Saturday evening email.

Eleven faculty members interviewed expressed concerns that the provost had acted inappropriately in modifying the punishment. They also said Polak’s decision lacked transparency.

The justification for Polak’s deviation from the recommendation of the UWC was not made public, said a medical school faculty member who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation.

“What’s the point of going through the whole [UWC process] if it then gets overturned or modified substantially?” the faculty member said.

Three medical school faculty members interviewed said external interference with the UWC’s recommendations reflects poorly on the UWC process and Yale’s sexual misconduct policy as a whole.

Medical school professor Shirley McCarthy said she was deeply concerned that the authority of the UWC had been undermined

by Polak’s actions.

“I think after the [UWC] made a decision — for any administrator to manipulate that decision looks bad for Yale,” medical school professor Joan Steitz said. “This isn’t the type of leadership I would hope for.”

According to the Times, several sources within the medical school raised concerns about Polak’s neutrality in the matter. They wondered if his judgment might have been skewed by the fact that Katerina Simons, Simons’s wife, is a lecturer in the economics department, of which Polak was

formerly the chair.

UWC regulations state that a decision maker must withdraw from proceedings if any circumstances lead them to believe that they cannot judge the case fairly.

Parties to the case may also object to the decision maker — objections that the chair of the UWC is empowered to adjudicate. However, a member of the UWC who spoke anonymously because committee members are not supposed to discuss internal proceedings said there are no written rules describing what constitutes a conflict of interest.

Polak denied any bias on his part or that his decision was influenced by external factors to the case.

“I would never allow outside influences to affect my decisions,” he said.

According to UWC procedures, after a hearing, the committee submits its recommendations for punishment to the “relevant decision maker” — the provost in cases where the respondent is a faculty member. That decision maker has the final authority to decide whether and how a punishment will be implemented.

In their case brought before the UWC, Di Lorenzo and Giordano claimed Simons had sexually harassed her from early 2010 to 2011, beginning with a love let-

ter, according to the Times. The Times added that Di Lorenzo attempted to distance herself from Simons. She eventually moved to Cornell. Simons allegedly retaliated by postponing career advancement opportunities for Giordano, a fellow YSM cardiologist and Di Lorenzo’s boyfriend at the time, the Times wrote.

After The Times contacted Yale last week, the University announced that Simons “had decided” not to return to his post as chief of cardiology. In the same article, Simons admitted that he had pursued a junior colleague.

Simons, however, denied that he abused his position as chair of cardiology to retaliate against Di Lorenzo or Giordano.

“My professional decisions have always been based only on talent, merit and that which is in the best interest of Yale, its staff and students,” Simons wrote in a Sunday email to the News. “Any other inference is simply not true.”

Following the hearings, the UWC recommended that Simons be removed from his position because he had created a hostile work environment for Di Lorenzo, the Times article said. The article added that Simons publicly derided Giordano and that the UWC found Simons had exercised “improper leadership and

compromised decision-making regarding Giordano.”

Even though Polak’s ultimate decision was not what the UWC recommended, he said he did not “overrule” the UWC findings.

Rather, he said his actions fell within his jurisdiction.

“I have the discretion to accept the UWC’s penalty recommendations or to modify them based on the facts of the case as presented to me,” Polak said. “This means that I can accept recommended penalties or increase them or decrease them.”

Polak declined to comment on the specific number of times his final decision has differed from the UWC’s recommendations.

Still, he said that he has taken all three possible options following UWC findings — increased penalties, accepted them unchanged and lessened them.

“My decisions have never been influenced by anything but the facts presented to me,” Polak said.

“To suggest otherwise, or to suggest that I would behave in any way ‘simply because I could’ is denigrating to the UWC process.

I am deeply troubled that anyone would make this incorrect assertion.”

In her time as dean of Yale College, Mary Miller said, she modified UWC recommendations on more than one occasion. Unlike

the provost, who decides UWC cases where a faculty member is a respondent, the dean of Yale College decides cases where the respondent is a Yale College student.

Both Miller and Thomas Pollard, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, declined to comment on how many UWC recommendations they modified while in office.

“Let me assure you that it is never easy to accept nor to modify the panel’s recommendation,” Miller said.

University President Peter Salovey said Yale is committed to creating a workplace free of harassment and intimidation.

“Yale must — and will — provide a positive environment that supports growth, advancement and opportunity for everyone: students, faculty and staff,” Salovey wrote in an email to the News Saturday. “I have confidence in the UWC procedures and their fairness.”

Salovey added that he would rely on Robert Alpern, dean of the School of Medicine, to pursue concerns regarding the school’s work environment in collaboration with the newly appointed Task Force on Gender Equity.

In an email sent to the medical school community Saturday evening, Alpern shared the New York

Times story and said the task force — established in September — will work to focus the medical school’s efforts to address concerns about gender and the work environment at the school.

“I am entirely committed to ensuring that the school must not countenance behavior that is harmful, harassing or demeaning,” he said. “Without question, these are serious issues that I, as dean, and we, as a school, must address as one of our highest priorities.”

However, McCarthy said that rather than convening a new task force, the University should start by evaluating the findings of previous reports on gender equity.

For example, she added there was an outside report commissioned to investigate “gender and minority equity” last December, but she said the results have yet to be released.

“What we don’t need is another faculty committee that’s just going to waste a lot of people’s time doing yet another report that’s going to get buried,” Steitz said.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu, RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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Revelations by the Yale School of Medicine on the Simons case have brought into question UWC procedures.

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“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON AMERICAN ASTROPHYSICIST

Noche Dorada hosts White House official

BY JED FINLEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over 200 students gathered on Saturday night to celebrate the Latino community and hear about ways they could aid Hispanic students in the American public education system.

The occasion was the annual Noche Dorada, or “Golden Night” — the largest Latino cultural event on campus all year, organizer William Genova ’15 said. The event, hosted by Kappa Chapter of the La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity, had the theme “Communidad: Investing in our Communities through Education.”

The event included performances by the spoken word group “Oye,” Latino dance groups and Bronx-native poet “La Bruja.”

These demonstrations were followed by a keynote address by Marco Davis ’92, deputy director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Davis spoke about the challenges faced by Latinos in the education system and the improvements that have ameliorated their condition in recent years.

“Latino education policy is U.S. education policy,” Davis said.

“There has been progress. We are not where we need to be yet, but we seem to be going in the right direction.”

Davis cited data highlighting the struggles and barriers that face young Hispanics in the American educational system. Among these, Davis said, are high school and secondary school completion rates, the disproportionate enrollment of Hispanic students in lowperforming schools and the lack of Hispanic students in early education and STEM courses.

The issues facing Latinos in education do not affect the Hispanic community alone, he said, and have wider implications for the success of the American workforce in a global economy.

“Better educated and better

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The annual Noche Dorada, the largest Latino cultural event on campus, took place Saturday night and featured performances by Latino dance groups. trained students lead to a better America,” he said.

When the Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics was created, the population of Latinos in the U.S. numbered 22 million, and one out of every eight students was Latino, Davis said.

Now, there are over 54 million Latinos in the U.S., and one out every four students is of Latino heritage.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the Hispanic dropout rate has been cut in half, from 28 percent in 2000 to 14 per-

Science interns present research

BY NOAH KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER High school students and undergraduates gathered at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on Saturday to present projects ranging from an interactive computer game designed to teach 12- to 14-year-olds about HIV prevention to an analysis of the circadian rhythms of plants.

The 25 students, interns at Yale science labs over the summer, presented research projects as part of EVOLUTIONS, or “EVOking Learning & Understanding Through Investigations Of the Natural Sciences,” a highly selective after-school program sponsored by the Peabody, focusing on science research and college prep. The program recruits students from West Haven and New Haven high schools and colleges, providing them with the opportunity to attend weekly science workshops. A select group of EVOLUTIONS students are offered paid summer internships in Yale science laboratories, where they work alongside with Yale faculty and graduate students in both field and lab work.

“We really are trying to find ways to keep them engaged through all four years of high school,” said program director Andrea Motto. “We want to make sure that those kids who are interested in going into science have more of an understanding what an authentic scientific environment is like.”

The interns’ projects tackled diverse subjects in fields ranging from sociology to biochemistry to anthropology.

Junior Julio Badillo of Southern Connecticut State University and senior Cora Walker of Career High School worked alongside the non-profit organization Cityseed, which hosts most of New Haven’s farmers’ markets. They ran a demographic study aimed at determining why people of color tend to visit farmers’ markets less than Caucasians. Their research

found that factors such as operating hours and location, but not price, contribute to the discrepancy in visits.

Meanwhile, high school student Daniel Wivegg studied ferroelectric transistors, which are more energy efficient than traditional transistors.

“I’ve never worked on the nano scale until now, and it’s really opened up a literal world of possibilities for future studies,” he said.

At the symposium, attendees circulated the room to look at the interns’ posters and hear firsthand about their work.

For her project, senior at Engineering and Science University Magnet School Vanessa Hansen-Quartey aided associate professor of medicine Lynn Fiellin test an interactive computer game designed to inform 12- to 14-year-olds about HIV and its prevention.

The application process for EVOLUTIONS is rigorous, with over 200 students applying for 50 spots. The program also offers participants paid work as tour guides at the Peabody and the opportunity to attend an annual three-day college visit.

Some students receive school credit for their participation.

The program has recently begun to branch out to other organizations, including nonprofits such as Cityseed. However, Yale remains its primary partner. Of 10 high school interns interviewed, eight stated that they plan to apply to Yale College.

The program also makes a point of maintaining contact with past alumni. SCSU senior Matt Ormrod, for instance, serves as the program’s internship coordinator and is one of its former members.

“When I was here, I had a great time and made some really nice connections,” he said. “I felt like I had to come back, so I did.”

EVOLUTIONS was founded in 2006.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

cent in 2011. While there is still a gap between Latino and other groups, the high school graduation rate for Hispanics is at an all time high. The percentage of Hispanics enrolled in STEM courses nationally increased by 33 percent from 1996 to 2004. The number of Hispanic students enrolled in college increased by more than 50 percent from 2008 to 2012, Davis said.

Davis said the improvements are due to efforts by not only the federal government, but also local school districts, higher education

institutions, nonprofit organizations, community leaders, Latino families and the students themselves.

He called out to the Latino community in attendance to use their talents and the opportunities for leadership and activism they have at Yale to champion the cause of reforming education for Hispanic youth.

“We all need to be aware of these facts and these challenges in order to take action and make change,” Davis said. “We need leaders like you who understand

where our population is, who can make decisions and take action to bring about more equity.”

Natalie Muñoz ’18 said she was inspired by Davis’ call to action and leadership, and added that she is eager to utilize the resources available to her.

David Rico ’16 said he was struck by the abundance of different perspectives that came together at the event.

“I appreciate the diversity of voices. There were White House officials, poets, professors and students,” Rico said.

American Studies professor and Ezra Stiles College Master Stephen Pitti ’91 said this period of change in the United States provides for an important opportunity for Yale students. This is the time to explore avenues for change, he added.

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics was created through executive order by President George H.W. Bush ’48 25 years ago.

Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu .

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— NHPS SUPERINTEDENT GARTH HARRIES

Parent University is a part of

School Change Initiative,

2011

MARISA LOWE/PRODUCTION & DESIGN EDITOR

BY SKYLER INMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp offered words of praise to the attendees of Parent University for showing up despite the rain on Saturday.

About 200 parents, grandparents and guardians of New Haven Public School students arrived at Gateway Community College earlier that morning for a free series of workshops and discussion groups.

This year — the fifth biennial citywide meeting of Parent University New Haven since its inception in 2012 — course offerings covered topics ranging from how to support children with learning disabilities to ways to talk to kids about sexuality.

“As we all know, kids don’t come with instruction books,” Harp said. “Often times, the school system also doesn’t come with instruction books, and that’s why we’re here — to help you better access

resources with the Board of Education.”

Susan Weisselberg, chief of wraparound services for NHPS, said that organizers of Parent University choose the workshops based on feedback from parents and tried to touch on a holistic range of topics. Alicia Crichton and Robert Durand, both NHPS employees, focused some of their workshop — “Supporting Your Children’s Success in Math” — on everyday methods of engaging children with math, like using analog clocks in the house or having kids count coins.

In addition, Crichton and Durand touched on the Common Core learning principles of “Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract.”

“Especially with the new Common Core standards, there are a lot of different ways of teaching, particularly with math,” said Crichton, an Algebra II and geometry teacher at Wilbur Cross High School.

“Having workshops where faculty can teach ways that parents and grandparents can help their children at home is very crucial.”

Weisselberg said that in addition to concerns about their children’s performance in academic subjects and their own understanding of the Common Core State Standards, many parents wanted to discuss how to finance their children’s college education and how to find the right university or college for them.

“It’s not just about the Common App,” said Weisselberg.

Parent University New Haven is a part of the district’s School Change Initiative, launched in 2011, which seeks to close the achievement gap, cut the dropout rate and boost the graduation rate among NHPS students.

In a speech to attendees, NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 emphasized the importance of community involvement on every level,

extending from Harp’s offices to the families of New Haven students.

“In the last five years, we’ve raised graduation rates in New Haven Public Schools more than 12 percentage points,” Harries said. “But, as the mayor knows, too many of our kids are still not graduating in four years. Our academic and our reading levels are still not high enough.”

Weisselberg estimated that about half of the parents attending this year were returning participants and said that Parent University is integral to engaging NHPS families with the school system. NHPS encourages parents to attend meetings for the Citywide Parent Leadership Team, a parental advisory board to the district, Weisselberg said.

Parent University New Haven is modeled off a similar program in Boston, Mass.

Contact SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu .

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Michelle Obama rallies support for Raimondo

BY LINDSAY GANTZ H u n d re d s o f eyes in the Juani ta S a n chez Educational Complex BROWN gymnasium in Providence turned toward the podium, where First Lady Michelle Obama spoke in support of gubernatorial Democratic nominee Gina Raimondo Thursday afternoon.

With the race for governor entering the final sprint, the entire Rhode Island congressional delegation introduced Raimondo and Obama.

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and U.S. Rep. James Langevin, D-R.I., each delivered brief remarks before Raimondo and Obama spoke.

“This election is not about the folks that are up here on this stage,” Obama began, referring to the state’s Democratic officials behind the podium.

“We are fighting for the kind of work we want to leave for our kids and grandkids,” Obama said. Her speech, entitled “Rebuilding the Middle Class,” focused on the importance of providing better opportunities to middle-class families, with education reform and employment rates touted as critical initiatives.

“We need to get Gina Raimondo in,” Obama said. Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to determine if Raimondo is elected the first female governor of Rhode Island. A Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions poll released Tuesday showed Raimondo and the Republican candidate, Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, tied among voters, The Herald reported Wednesday.

Raimondo “knows what it means to work for what you want in life,” Obama said.

Raimondo, who introduced the first lady, said, “It is time to rebuild because our families deserve to work and our families deserve better.”

“My vision for this state of Rhode Island is a rebuilt economy that includes everybody,” Raimondo said, citing her middle-class background as a large influence on her political goals.

Raimondo said she will

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In a rally in Providence, first lady Michelle Obama urged Rhode Island voters to elect Democratic nominee and General Treasurer Gina Raimondo in Tuesday’s race for governor. expand statewide college scholarship funds and start a college loan forgiveness program in order to combat high student loan debt. “I took that RIPTA bus to school, and that put me on a path of opportunity,” she added.

“For all the young people here, there is nothing more important than getting your education,” Obama said, echoing Raimondo’s comments. She said children from disadvantaged backgrounds “have every reason to give up,” but “those kids never give up, and neither can we.”

Obama spoke about Rashema Melson, a girl whom the first lady mentors. After facing homelessness and her father’s early death from murder, she

persevered and “still showed up every morning to class,” becoming her school’s valedictorian.

Melson is now on a full scholarship to Georgetown University, Obama said.

Though Obama said “things are starting to get better across this country” and cited a decrease in the national unemployment rate, she added that the Ocean State still needs to improve its job landscape, given that it has the third-highest unemployment rate in the country.

With the Democratic and Republican nominees neckand-neck in recent polls, the two campaigns’ turnout operations will likely be key.

“The work on the ground really matters,” Obama said.

She encouraged the audience to commit to “at least three volunteer shifts this weekend” in support of the Raimondo campaign.

Elections like this one can be decided by mere thousands of votes and have very significant outcomes, Obama said, adding that if voters stay home on Election Day, “we’ll see less support for kids’ schools” and “we’ll see more special breaks for those at the top.”

Jonathan Boucher, executive director of the Rhode Island Democratic Party, told The Herald that getting people out to vote is the Democratic Party’s main priority. “The main purpose right now is turning out voters we’ve identified as likely supporters and making sure that they get out to vote,” he said.

“We want to encourage every student to get out there that is registered to vote,” Boucher said.

“You got to get it done, Rhode Island,” Obama said, adding that ensuring a Raimondo victory in the tight race “won’t be easy.”

Juanita Sanchez students who write for the school paper were invited by the Raimondo campaign into the event’s press area, said Robert Nerney, an ELA teacher at Juanita Sanchez.

Cristal Marte, a senior at Juanita Sanchez, covered the event for the school paper. “It’s rewarding, actually getting to be here in the back and getting to talk to important people,” Marte said.

“It was a good experience,” said Yordy Garcia, another

writer for the Juanita Sanchez school paper.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also visited Rhode Island last week to advocate for the Raimondo’s campaign. Clinton’s talk focused on the importance of improving minimum wage laws, building infrastructure and decreasing unemployment, The Herald reported.

“I thought that the issues and actual policies were the same things that Hillary and Gina talked about. But the way [Obama] approached the discussion, I thought was really organic and amicable,” said Joseph Van Wye, a Brown student who attended both campaign rallies. “She brought her own personality to it,” he said.

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Campaign tackles sexual violence

Sexual assault task force to host focus groups

BY TALIA JUBAS A campaign was held on campus this week with students voicing the need for sexual violence at Cornell to end, distributing printed material and drafting an open letter to President-elect Elizabeth Garrett that has received hundreds of student signatures.

The campaign — created in a partnership between Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood, a student advocacy group affiliated with Planned Parenthood, and the Cornell Women’s Resource Center — aims to motivate the Cornell community to openly discuss sexual violence, according to Katharine Poor, president of Vox. “It’s such a taboo topic and people are often afraid just to discuss it with their friends and everything for fear of being judged or misunderstood,” said Cassidy Clark, a member of Vox’s executive board. “I think the focus of this campaign is really to get people talking about the issue.”

The campaign began Monday with a canvassing of the campus with posters that included a list of eight “little interventions you can do to help topple systems here that perpetuate sexual violence,” challenging readers to take action, according to Poor.

A central part of the campaign is an online petition addressed to Garrett. The letter, which urges her to prioritize issues of sexual assault, campus safety and women’s equality when she assumes the presidency in July, had 455 online signatures as of Thursday night.

“A lot of people think it’s really important that we’re also trying to

engage Cornell’s administration because there are so many questions lately about how universities handle sexual assault,” CORNELL Clark said. “We believe that the new president has the same goals as us in terms of eradicating sexual assault and we hope to be able to partner as students with her and the administration with the goal of ending rape culture.”

Poor added that Vox appreciates President David Skorton’s efforts in confronting sexual violence, lauding the fact that Cornell is not among the several universities currently under scrutiny for violating Title IX, but maintains that the continued prevalence of sexual crime demands attention.

“We have to wonder how effective these new systems are and what we can really do to make really effective change because people are still not safe and people are still being hurt every day on this campus,” she said.

According to Poor, the student community is the most fundamental part of actualizing a shift in sexual culture.

“In the brainstorming process before this project, we talked about how some of the most efficacious social change can take place on the peer-to-peer level,” Poor said. “Your peers’ opinions are some of the most important in changing your mindset.”

Students have already responded to the initiative — especially after two submissions about the campaign

were posted on the Facebook page “Overheard at Cornell” — according to Vox Treasurer Lauren Cooley. “[It is encouraging to see] other people, whose names I had never seen before … commenting and having this really organic discussion,” Cooley said.

According to Poor, a particularly meaningful response came from a student who sent an email saying they felt “supported as a survivor on Cornell’s campus.”

We have to wonder how effective these new systems are … because people are still being hurt every day on this campus.

KATHARINE POOR President, Vox Clark said she is optimistic that the campaign has helped the cause gain traction.

“I think it’s really encouraging that people are trying to seek the knowledge about sexual assault,” Clark said.

“We understand that … toppling systems of oppression and violence is going to be a long process.”

According to Clark, although immediate policy changes might be necessary to restructure campus culture, “there also needs to be a change within the attitudes and the dialogues that go on amongst students and faculty here.”

BY NOAH DELWICHE The President’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault will begin hosting student focus group sessions early next month, according to an email sent Thursday from Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde. Four discussion sessions, open to the undergraduate community, will run nightly from Nov. 10–13.

Lassonde wrote in the email that he hopes undergraduate input will allow the task force members to “develop a better understanding of how sexual assault and sexual harassment happens at the College, as well as to spark creative ideas about how to stop it.”

Earlier this month, Steven E. Hyman, the chair of the task force, referenced the student sessions in an announcement detailing a campus “climate survey” scheduled to be distributed the spring.

The announcement Thursday comes only weeks after investigators arrived on campus as part of a Title IX investigation prompted by a complaint filed by at least one undergraduate last year. The Undergraduate Council has also recently criticized the University for a perceived lack of student inclusion in policy discussion.

UC leaders, however, recently applauded the University for pledging to involve undergraduates in an upcoming review committee on the University’s new sexual harassment policy.

While UC President and Vice President Gus A. Mayopoulos ’15 and Sietse K. Goffard ’15 said they were “thrilled”

at the formalization of the focus group sessions, they added that they hoped students are similarly included on policy feedback.

HARVARD “[Harvard administrators] seem to trust students a lot and give them a lot of voice when it comes to asking them about how we can change our own culture, and we hope that they will see students as equally important when it comes to changing policy. These are two important parts of the same equation.” Goffard said.

[W]e hope that [Harvard administrators] will see students as equally important when it comes to changing policy.

SIETSE GOFFARD Vice president, Harvard Undergraduate Council Jessica R. Fournier, an organizer for Our Harvard Can Do Better, expressed hope that the University might commit to providing avenues for “actual, concrete change.” She added that the task force must ensure it will solicit feedback from a “wide variety” of students.

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he Canine Cognition Center celebrated Halloween by inviting dogs in costume to stop by and “trick or treat.” The Canine Cognition center is part of the Department of Psychology and studies the behavior of dogs. ELENA MALLOY reports.

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MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM LIBERTY INVITATIONAL CHAMPS In its season-opening tournament, the Yale hockey team tied Princeton and defeated the University of Connecticut to win the second Liberty Hockey Invitational. The game against Princeton represented the 250th meeting between the Tigers and the Bulldogs.

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CANDLER RICH ’17 SETTING RECORDS The Newman, Georgia native ran for a career-high 202 rushing yards, the second-most by any Ivy League player this season. In his sophomore season, Rich has averaged 7.7 yards per carry, leading all Yale players with at least seven carries.

“Wins don’t come easy in college hockey.

Sometimes you just need to grind it out to the end.”

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Defense drives victory in Big Apple

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Throughout most of its first six games of the season, the Yale football team became accustomed to high-scoring, fastpaced games with a powerful offense but inconsistent defense.

The Bulldogs (6–1, 3–1 Ivy) used a different strategy against winless Columbia (0–7, 0–4) on Saturday, putting up both the fewest points they have scored this season and the fewest points the Lions have allowed this year.

But Yale managed to win 25–7, and retain control of its own destiny in the Ivy League, thanks to its best defensive performance of the year, including four interceptions thrown by Columbia quarterback Trevor McDonagh.

“I thought we left some points on the field,” head coach Tony Reno said. “Defensively, though, we came up with some stops and some huge turnovers, which allowed us to get some short fields and then convert on some field goal opportunities.”

Running back Tyler Varga ’15 scored the Elis’ only two touchdowns in the first half, and kicker Kyle Cazzetta ’15 took over the rest of Yale’s scoring with four field goals on six attempts — tied for the most field goals Yale has scored in a game since 1884.

Yale used its kicker largely because of its inability to convert in the red zone. The Bulldogs put up 586 total yards of offense and got inside Columbia’s 20-yard line nine times, though all but

two of those attempts were either held to a field goal opportunity, turned over on downs or ended due to time.

“We weren’t focusing on playing against ourselves and finishing those drives,” running back Candler Rich ’17 said. “While we may have had the yards, we expect more out of ourselves as far as getting into the end zone.”

Rich would best know about the number of yards the Elis had — he rushed for a career-high 202 of them on 17 carries — the first time this season that he has rushed for more yards than Varga.

His total was also the second most rushing yards an Ivy League player has had this season.

Yale did everything it could do with the win, but a few hours after the game, the Bulldogs received another piece of good news when Harvard forced Dartmouth’s first loss in Hanover, New Hampshire, leaving the Crimson as the only undefeated team remaining in the Ancient Eight.

Though not an easy feat, wins over Brown (4–3, 2–2), Princeton (4–3, 3–1) and the currently undefeated Harvard (7–0, 4–0) would now guarantee the Elis at least a share of the Ivy title.

But Reno said that the offense’s performance in New York has left him unsatisfied with the Bulldogs’ six wins, already the most they have had in a season since 2010.

“The one piece, moving on, that we’ve got to grow from … is finishing drives off. That’s what we didn’t do today that we did

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Candler Rich ’17 put up the most rushing yards in a single Ivy League game by a single player this season against Columbia with 202. do the first six weeks,” Reno said.

“I’m not happy at all with where we can be.”

Reno added that many of the red zone attempts were cut short due to mental errors such as penalties, errors on routes or fum-

bles.

Part of the issue was also the relative ineffectiveness of the Eli running game, a central part of Yale’s red zone attack. The Lions did a better job stopping the rush than most of Yale’s opponents

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have, perhaps because a weakened passing attack made running plays more predictable.

Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 completed just 21 of 42 attempts for 267 yards and no touchdowns, all season-low fig-

ures. Temperatures in the mid40s and rainy weather seemed to cause inaccurate throws and drops for both teams.

McDonagh also suffered SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3

Elis swept in ECAC opening

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team’s previously flawless record took a turn for the worse this weekend as the Bulldogs suffered two conference losses at home against St. Lawrence and Clarkson.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY On Friday, Yale (2–2–0, 0–2–0 ECAC) was shut out 3–0 by the Saints before losing 2–1 in a close game against No. 9 Clarkson on

Saturday. In last season’s opening conference weekend against the same opponents, however, the Elis lost by a combined score of 11–1.

“Both teams we played this weekend were very skilled and disciplined and forced us to play the same way,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said. “We didn’t have to deal with this hurdle against the weaker teams we played earlier in the season [when] we were still able to generate scoring opportunities even though we were making mistakes.”

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Mike Doherty ’17 scored a third period goal against the Tigers to take the game into a shoot-out.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER In its first NCAA action of the season, Yale impressed in a tight win over a skilled Princeton squad and defeated UConn to capture the Liberty Invitational Championship.

MEN’S HOCKEY Having fallen to the University of Alberta in pre-conference competition, the Elis looked to bounce back in

the weekend’s tournament, hosted at Newark’s Prudential Center. In their first match against the Tigers, the Elis played in a dramatic overtime clash that saw Ryan Hitchcock ’18 score the game-winning shootout goal after the two Ivy League squads skated to a hard-fought 2–2 draw.

Yale opened up the scoring midway in the first period when John Hayden ’17 took the lead for the Bulldogs, taking advantage of one of six Yale power play opportuni-

ties. Hayden deftly flipped in a backhanded shot while pressured by a Tiger defender, giving the Bulldogs the sort of comfortable start that many expected against the Tigers, who finished last in the ECAC just a season ago. However, Princeton quickly equalized through a goal by David Hallisey goal in the 11th minute.

Shocking a touted Yale squad, the game went into the first intermission knotted at one with Princeton and holding a 14–11 shot advantage.

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“On Friday we faced a little adversity. Any time you’re down, it’s a critical moment, and we did well,” goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 said.

Late in the second period, Princeton took the lead, with Eric Robinson scoring off of a rebounding shot. Despite some stellar Yale shooting in the period, Princeton’s Colton Phinney, through the virtue of brilliant goalkeeping, kept Yale out until the third period.

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The Bulldogs scored just one goal over the weekend, a first-period tally against Clarkson.

A TIE FOR THE MOST FIELD GOALS YALE HAS KICKED IN A GAME SINCE 1884.

Kyle Cazzetta ’15 took six attempts at field goals on Saturday against Columbia and knocked down four of them to tie the record.

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“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” VINCE LOMBARDI AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER

Elis split Ivy games

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VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE B4 just didn’t take care of the small things we needed to take care of.”

It looks as though it may come down to the wire for Yale in the Elis’ run for a fifth consecutive Ivy League championship. Players and coaches expressed the hope that this loss would serve as a learning experience and that the team remains excited for the final few games.

Yale will play at Columbia and Cornell this upcoming weekend.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

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Scoreless draw on senior day W. SOCCER FROM PAGE B4 in the chaos of the last few minutes before intermission, but their attempts were unsuccessful. The score remained tied at zero.

After having a few minutes to try to get warm, the Elis headed back out to the field looking to get on the board. Gavin took an early corner kick that just sailed over the top of the net, which was soon followed by a shot from Decker — who, despite her forward designation, started and played on defense all game — that was blocked by the Columbia goalkeeper. This was Yale’s only shot on goal in the entire second half.

Yale goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15, who did not have to make a single save in the first half, felt the pressure from the Lions early on in the second period of action. She made three saves in a 17-minute span, one of which required her to dive to the side. She just managed to stretch for the ball and push it away from the corner of the goal.

Though the Lions dominated the second half of the game, the Elis took control in the first overtime with three corner kicks and a shot

by Gavin compared to no shots or corner kicks by Columbia. The Elis continued to apply pressure into the second overtime, with an early shot by Speck being saved by the Columbia goalkeeper. The Lions had one more chance to take the lead when Holly Neshat took a shot with only a minute and a half left in the game, but Wilcox stopped the ball and prevented a disheartening Eli loss.

While the Bulldogs failed to get the victory, players agreed that the game and surrounding festivities

were an appropriate way to send out the team’s senior class. “[Saturday] was a great celebration of our senior class and everything they have done for the team,” goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 said.

“I know I speak for everyone when I say we will dearly miss our seniors next year, on and off the field.”

Both Decker and defender Katie Fletcher ’17 agreed, saying that the seniors will be missed and that the team is excited to see where the seniors go in the future.

Prior to the game, the team spent its time with children from a Hartford outreach program as part of its Community Outreach Day. The children ate lunch with the team and had the opportunity to ask the team questions in an open panel.

One of the girls in the program, Naomi Cipriano, even sang the National Anthem at the start of the game.

“It was great to be able to spend time with the kids,” Ames said. “It seemed like they had a great time, and the team was glad we were able to put on the event.”

The Bulldogs — currently tied for fifth in the Ivy League with Penn — have one more chance to improve their end of season standing when they take on Brown this Friday. The game will begin at 7 p.m.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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Though Yale has lost just one Ivy League game, it has been shut out in four of its six conference matches.

Bulldogs compete in Heptagonal tourney CROSS COUNTRY FROM PAGE B4 “I think my summer training helped me a lot for this fall’s season because I had a great summer of mileage and tempo workouts, and I was determined to work hard over the summer because I knew what goals I had coming into the season,” Garry said. “During the season, I think it means you have to make sacrifices sometimes and prioritize recovery — I feel that over four years I’ve been able to realize what works for me and know that sleep, recovery and coming out to practice every day confident to work hard is what helps me and our whole team run well when it counts.”

Garry’s hard work proved fruitful — she became the first Yale women’s runner to receive All-Ivy first-team recognition since 2007.

While the women were disappointed by finishing outside the top four, strong freshmen performances point toward future success for the Elis. Three freshmen finished in the top seven for the team, including Samantha Glass ’18, who finished 14th and earned All-Ivy second team honors, Dana Klein ’18 and Kelli Regan ’18.

Next up were the men, who faced an equally competitive field as the women had. The Columbia and Dartmouth teams especially presented tough rival-

ries for the Bulldogs. Yale finished with a final score of 123 points and total time of 2:05:03, edging Columbia, who also had an overall score of 123, but a total time of 2:05:09 — a six-second difference that earned Yale fifth place. They were led by Kevin Dooney’s ’16 all-Ivy first-team time of 24:33.6, which gave him fifth place individually.

According to Dooney, the course was wet and slippery from the rain, which had a noticeable impact on the field. “[The course was] windy and in poor condition,” Dooney said. “The weather was definitely a factor across the board, causing everyone to slow down.”

At the Heps, Ryan Brady ’18, Casey Celestin ’18 and Hale Ross ’18 ran times of 26:11.0, 26:26.4 and 27:06.6, respectively.

Although the teams’ result at the Heps signified the culmination of a season’s hard work and effort, there is little time for the men and women to savor their performances.

The Bulldogs continue their season at the NCAA Regional Championship in the Bronx in two weeks time. They will also travel to Terre Haute, Indiana, to compete at the NCAA National Championships on Nov. 22.

Contact NADER RASTEGAR at nader.rastegar@yale.edu .

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The men’s cross country team matched its Heptagonal Championships performance of the 2013 season with a fifth-place finish.

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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”

WAYNE GRETZKY CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY PLAYER

Bulldogs’ offense not up to task W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 In the game against St. Lawrence, the Saints started off the match by scoring two goals in the first period, a deficit that the Elis never recovered from. Yale took just 28 shots during the game, the lowest output from the Elis all season.

Yale only committed two minor penalties throughout the game and managed to stop St. Lawrence from scoring during both power plays, thanks in part to goalkeeper Jaimie Leonoff ’15, who had 32 saves.

“As a whole, our biggest struggle that game was that we got out-worked,” Haddad said. “They played a lot harder than we did in the first period, and that’s why they scored.”

With three minutes remaining in the third period, Yale pulled Leonoff from the goal, leaving the net open for St. Lawrence forward Kailee Heidersbach to score.

“Unfortunately, we felt we didn’t put forth the effort that we wanted in the first game against St. Lawrence,” forward Krista YipChuck ’17 said. “Although we didn’t get very many fortunate bounces either, that was ultimately the reason why we were unsuccessful.”

In the Bulldogs’ match against Clarkson, Yale started strong, taking 18 of its 33 shots in the first period. The team’s persistence eventually paid off, as the Elis earned an early lead with a goal by forward Stephanie Mock ’15 during a five-on-three power play.

During the advantage, Mock managed to get her stick on the puck and finish in a crowd of Golden Knights and Bulldogs to make the score 1–0 with just 54 seconds remaining in the period.

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For the second straight season, the Elis have started out 0–2 in conference play.

“Taking the lead against Clarkson was very exciting for us,” Haddad said. “It gave us a lot of confidence to keep playing hard against them, and I think it deflated their energy a bit too.”

Haddad added that getting on the scoreboard first was especially important after a 7–0 loss to Clarkson in a game last season.

In the second period, the Golden Knights returned to the ice with a more active offense, taking 14 shots to the Elis’ five.

Ultimately, however, Yale could not hold on to its lead, giving up one goal each in the second

Football garners sixth win FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 through the weather in his third start of the season, going just 19–47 and adding four interceptions to his season total of seven.

His lone touchdown pass was also the lone red zone chance that Columbia had, a fourth quarter pass to wide receiver Ryan Flannery in the back of the end zone.

Three of those interceptions were by freshmen, including cornerback Jason Alessi ’18, who started in place of the injured Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 and picked off two passes in the second half. Safeties Foye Oluokun ’17 and Hayden Carlson ’18 had the others.

“You never want to see something like [Rymiszewski’s injury]

and third periods. All of the goals in the game were scored during power plays. Despite five penalties on Clarkson players, the Bulldogs failed to capitalize on their opportunities in later periods.

“We need to drive the net more, screen the goalie and be a little stronger in the front of the net if we want to score more in this league,” captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 said. “This is something we will continue to work and improve on over the coming weeks.”

According to members of the

team, playing conference opponents represented a big step up compared to Yale’s inaugural opponent, Providence. YipChuck attributed the higher level of play and the speed of the game as reasons for the team’s losses.

Although the team will get a break from ECAC play this upcoming weekend, Saturday’s opponent — No. 6 Boston University — will not be an easy opponent. The Terriers have won six games this year, including two against familiar foe Clarkson.

Even with the losses, players said that the Elis will continue to

learn from their mistakes as they take on more tough competition this season.

“I think one of the biggest things we learned from this weekend is how critical it is to play a full 60 minutes, that we can’t take any shifts off in this league,” Yip-Chuck said. “Consistency will be a huge focus for us in practice this week.”

Yale plays Boston University at home on Saturday. The puck drops at 3 p.m.

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happen,” Alessi said. “It was tough for the first two or three days, just to overcome that. But then it’s the next man up. That’s a philosophy we have here. You just have to be ready when your number gets called.”

Yale will next play in Providence aagainst Brown next Saturday.

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Kyle Cazzetta ’15 nailed four of his six field goal attempts, tying the record for most Yale field goals kicked in a game since 1884.

In the seventh minute of the match’s final 20, forward Mike Doherty ’17 equalized for Yale, forcing the game into overtime and allowing Yale to capture its shootout win.

“Our defensemen were outstanding this weekend. We came into the weekend expecting to win, and we did, but there’s always room for improvement,” Lyon said.

In the championship match of the Liberty Invitational, Yale faced off against the UConn Huskies, who had also advanced to the final stage of the tournament through a close shoot-out win.

Yale pulled out their second tight victory of the weekend, defeating the Huskies 2–1 to capture the tournament crown.

“Wins don’t come easy in college hockey,” Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said. “Sometimes you just need to grind it out to the end.”

Yale certainly ground out a tight win.

However, the match had a smooth start.

Just four minutes into the first period, Yale took the lead through a Frankie DiChiara ’17

goal. The Elis doubled their lead soon after DiChiara’s opener, taking a 2–0 lead early in the first period when forward Cody Learned ’16 beat Rob Nichols for his first goal of the season.

Though Yale’s offense started off red hot, its production faltered later in the game, and it was up to the defense to see the win through. Yale’s two goals in the first period were its only scores all game, and the Huskies out-shot the Bulldogs 33–24. Nevertheless, strong Yale defending conceded only one goal midway through the second period, allowing the Elis to hold on to their narrow lead and complete a perfect weekend in Newark, starting their season on a high note.

“It’s not easy having a late start to the season due to Ivy League rules,” Hayden said. “But we prepared well, and it showed in both games. We could have produced more goals against Princeton, and that’s something to work on going forward. But against UConn, we maintained discipline, stuck to our systems, and it paid off.”

Doherty added that the team’s goal for the season was to win several championships, the Liberty Invitational being just the first.

Yale’s next match comes against Clarkson University on Friday, Nov. 7, at Ingalls Rink.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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“True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.”

MIA HAMM AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYER

Elis tough out senior day tie WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

KEN YANAGISAWA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

After a season of intense play both at home and away, the Yale women’s soccer team completed its final game at Reese Stadium for the 2014 campaign, tying Columbia at zero and earning one point in the Ivy League standings.

The contest also marked Yale’s senior day, marking the final home game for seven seniors, including a pair of two-time All-Ivy players, forward Melissa Gavin ’15 and midfielder Meredith Speck ’15.

“We didn’t get a win, but everyone on the field worked especially hard for our seven seniors in the knowledge that this was their last ever home game,” forward Geneva Decker ’17 said.

The Bulldogs (7–4–4, 1–1–4 Ivy) had a rough day of weather for the game last Saturday. Temperatures below 50 degrees, wind and rain all combined to make play very difficult for both teams. The Elis, however, battled through the adversity and kept up their stellar defensive performance to shut out Columbia (7–3–6, 2–2–2).

For Yale, the game started strong defensively, allowing no shots on goal in the entire first half. Offensively, the Elis showed their strength as well, forcing the Columbia goalkeeper to make five saves in the first 45 minutes. The Yale seniors led the way with Gavin, Speck and midfielder Frannie Coxe ’15 combining for four of the team’s five shots on goal in the first half.

Twenty-two minutes into the game, Yale’s chances to score looked bright when Gavin took a shot that deflected off a Columbia defender. Speck managed to recover the ball and break away from the nearest Lion players. She attempted to shoot, but the ball got away from her and the Columbia goalie managed to stop it before Yale could take any other chances.

After a yellow card on Columbia, the Bulldogs had the opportunity to take two corner kicks with only 30 seconds left in the half.

The Elis rushed to make something happen

Midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 has three goals this season, tied for second on the team.

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Yale loses sole control of first

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale volleyball team no longer stands alone atop the Ivy League after the conclusion of two games this weekend.

VOLLEYBALL After beating Dartmouth on Friday in a clean sweep, the Elis fell to Harvard despite a valiant effort on Saturday night.

The defeat marked Yale’s first home conference loss since Nov. 21, 2010, against Penn.

The Bulldogs (12–7, 8–2 Ivy), who are now tied for first with the Crimson (15–4, 8–2), hosted both games at the John J. Lee Amphitheater this weekend. On Friday night, the squad faced the Big Green (13– 8, 4–6) and managed to finish all three sets with no less than a six-point margin of victory. Yale hit 0.352 on the night compared to just 0.178 for Dartmouth. Setter Kelly Johnson ’16, who had three blocks on the night, noted that the team established control from the very beginning.

“We played a really solid game. I thought we were able to keep a really consistent level of play throughout the entire match, and there weren’t a lot of ups and downs,” Johnson said. “We knew what we had to do, and I thought we took care of it really well.”

The Bulldogs put away the first two sets fairly easily — with two straight 25–17 victories — and managed to regain the lead and take the third set 25–19 after falling slightly behind.

The match also highlighted the talents of captain Mollie Rogers ’15, who had 19 kills and hit 0.571. Rogers, who is currently one of only six Yale players in history with 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs to her name, attributed the team’s success to the attitude the Elis maintained throughout.

“I think in the Dartmouth match we just played a lot looser, a lot more comfortable,” Rogers said.

Saturday night, unfortunately for the Yale squad, was a different story. The Elis hit just 0.104 on the night compared to Harvard’s 0.238. While the Bulldogs hung tight throughout most of the match, they

eventually lost in all three sets, 26-24, 25-22 and 25-15.

With their win, the Cantabs now move into first place alongside Yale with just four matches left in conference play. Head coach Erin Appleman blamed the loss on a lack of aggression in the match on Saturday.

“I think we’re still having to work on some of the basics. Blocking … and playing aggressive are some of the things we’re going to have to work on this week in the gym,” Appleman said.

In a bright spot for the team during its second loss to its rival this season, both Johnson and Rogers had 11 kills on the night.

Johnson thought the team faced a tough opponent in the Crimson and said that the Bulldogs would build off of the defeat.

“It just didn’t click, and we didn’t play at the level that we needed to,” Johnson said. “Harvard is a great team, and [it] played an unbelievable game, and we

Bulldogs take 5th, 6th at Heps

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Kira Garry ’15 earned All-Ivy honors following her Heptagonal Championship performance, finishing fourth out of 92.

BY NADER RASTEGAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Eli men and women’s cross-country squads battled the elements and stiff competition at the annual Ivy League Heptagonal Championships this past weekend at Princeton and came up short.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16, named to the All-Ivy first-team for the last two years, had 20 total kills this weekend.

Both teams went into the tournament with high aspirations.

The women hoped to place in the top four for the first time since 2011, according to Kira Garry ’15.

Given the presence of a strong freshman class and veteran leadership in captain Hannah Alpert ’15, Anna Demaree ’15, Alyssa LaGuardia ’15 and all-Ivy runner Garry, the Bulldogs had high expectations. The men’s team had equally lofty goals, though they ended up in the fifth spot, matching their 2013 performance.

First to race at the 11 a.m. start time were the women. The competition at the Heptagonal Championships – commonly referred to as “Heps” – was fierce. Dartmouth was a frontrunner with its nationally ranked team, while the rest of the field was very closely contested. Not surprisingly, Dartmouth cruised to a first place finish with an overall score of 47 points, followed

by Princeton with 67 points, Columbia at a score of 95, Cornell at 108, Harvard at 119 and Yale at 130. Brown and Penn rounded out the field with scores of 153 and 178, respectively.

The Yale women ran valiantly in a close middle pack. The average time between the Bulldogs’ third and sixth place was just 13 seconds.

Leading the Bulldogs was Garry, who finished fourth with a time of 20:37.0 — an average speed of 5:31.7 per mile.

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