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BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTERS

Confronting Congress. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen GRD ’71 will appear before Congress today to provide testimony in a hearing on the Fed’s role in overseeing the nation’s financial system.

This will be Yellen’s first such appearance before Congress.

This past May, she received an honorary degree at Yale’s 314th commencement ceremony.

Laugh it off. The Yale College Council will host 10 student competitors in this year’s Last Comic Standing competition at 7 p.m. tonight in SSS 114.

The winner of this competition will open the YCC’s fall comedy show. Take a study break. Laughter is the best medicine — or something like that.

Let’s talk about race. The

Veritas Forum will host a discussion at the Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. The event, moderated by sociology professor Elijah Anderson, will feature presentations by YLS professor James Forman and Emory political science professor Andra Gillespie GRD ’05.

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Victory by 17 votes

presidential candidates Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Ben Carson ’73 are tied in a hypothetical general election poll released Monday. Both candidates would take 47 percent of the national vote according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal survey. When compared to Donald Trump in a similar poll, Clinton took 50 to Trump’s 42 percent.

University will celebrate the opening of its first genderneutral bathrooms with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 432 Temple St. at 5 p.m. today.

An all-gender sign has been installed outside the firstfloor bathroom. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler will speak at the event.

Survey indicates major impacts grads’ satisfaction with Yale

Eidelson clinches third term

Neck-and-neck. 2016

Moving forward. The

MAJOR RESULTS

canvassing tactics, quality of ideas and the strength of their candidate.

“We did lose, but I still see it as a win,” said Mollie Johnson ’18, Eze’s campaign manager. “We raised the level of discussion so much, I think people really are going to hold [Eidelson] accountable now.”

Eze’s former campaign manager Amalia Halikias ’15 said the campaign’s Tuesday operation was conducted from a “war room” on cam-

Sarah Eidelson ’12 won a third term as Ward 1 alder Tuesday by 17 votes — the narrowest margin in Ward 1 history.

In a tense race, the Democrat defeated a spirited challenge from Republican Ugonna Eze ’16, a senior in Pierson College, who received 369 votes to Eidelson’s 386. The turnout of 755 voters nearly matched the total from Eidelson’s first bid for re-election in 2013, and was substantially higher than the turnout in the September primary, when just 483 Ward 1 residents cast their votes.

Of the general election voters, 705 cast their ballots at the New Haven Free Public Library, while 53 used same-day voter registration procedures to vote at City Hall.

After votes from the library revealed Eidelson led with 374 votes to Eze’s 326, the 53 same-day ballots at City Hall had to be counted, as Eidelson’s 48-vote margin of victory was too small to officially determine the final results of the election.

Despite the loss, Eze showed a stronger performance and backing in general than Eidelson’s previous challengers, including Fish Stark ’17. Stark only received 36 percent of the vote in the primary. In the 2013 general election, Eidelson won 65 percent of the vote against Republican Paul Chandler ’14. Two years prior, Eidelson swept a race against Republican Vinay Nayak ’14 with 59 percent of voters.

In a speech to his supporters outside of

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Sarah Eidelson ’12 won her third term as Ward 1 Alder, beating Ugonna Eze ’16 by the narrowest margin in Ward 1 history.

ANALYSIS: An anomalous election

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER When Republican Ugonna Eze ’16 began his campaign for Ward 1 alder in April, many dismissed him as a long shot. But Tuesday night, he came closer to defeating Sarah Eidelson ’12 than any candidate has done to date.

The final results of the Ward 1 aldermanic election were close: Eze won 369 votes to Eidelson’s 386, making the election the ward’s clos-

est in decades. Throughout her tenure on the Board of Alders, Eidelson has often seemed an electoral juggernaut, impervious to challenges from Democrats and Republicans alike. Her September victory over Fish Stark ’17 in the Democratic primary, by a 2-to-1 margin, was typical of her strong electoral history.

But Eze bucked the trend, and at a post-results gathering in Yorkside Pizza & Restaurant Tuesday night, his campaign volunteers credited the narrowness of his defeat to their

Yale commits $50 million to faculty diversity

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Yale has committed $50 million to diversify its faculty over the next five years.

In a joint email to the faculty on Tuesday, University President Peter Salovey and University Provost Benjamin Polak unveiled

what Polak called the largest faculty diversity initiative in recent memory, a project that will touch all 12 professional schools and every department in Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Provost’s Office will provide $25 million of the funding, which will support half the salary of any hired can-

didate who brings diversity to his or her department. The other $25 million comes from across the graduate and professional schools, which will match the amount given to salaries by the Provost’s Office, Polak said. The initiative is designed to incentivize Yale’s schools to seek out and hire faculty from historically

underrepresented groups.

“It’s very important to me that this be University-wide,” Polak said in an interview with the News. “From the Divinity School to the Medical School to Yale College … Diversity has to reach everywhere.”

While the goal of the initiative is to create a more diverse fac-

ulty across the University, Polak said diversity means different things in different departments.

Hiring a woman at the Nursing School, for example, has a relatively small impact on the diversity of that school since there are already a large number of women SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 8

Live like we’re young.

Jonathan Edwards College will host a moon bounce study break at 4 p.m. in their courtyard today. The study break, called “Bounce Your Stress Away!” invites students to use the moon bounce and chat with the JE chaplaincy fellow.

Will Buck be there? The 2018 Sophomore Class Council will host “Puppies & Pumpkins” — a fall-themed fall study break — on Cross Campus tomorrow at 2 p.m. The even will feature cider and doughnuts, but the News wonders whether Chi Psi’s golden retriever Buck will be one of the pups present.

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1987 Katie Kenney ’88 is elected Ward 1 alder. She takes 54.4 percent of the vote, beating Green Party challenger Andrew Michaelson ’90 and Republican opponent Lisa Valentovish ’89. Turnout in the ward is 766.

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Two incumbent alders unseated

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Two incumbents were unseated Tuesday in two of New Haven’s six contested aldermanic elections.

Unaffiliated incumbent Claudette Robinson-Thorpe lost her seat representing Beaver Hills to Democratic challenger Jill Marks, 482 to 303 votes. In Quinnipiac Meadows, incumbent Richard Spears was unseated by Gerard Antunes on a 226–58 vote.

But the majority of New Haven’s incumbents retained their seats. In the remaining four contested wards, Fair Haven Alder Santiago Berrios-Bones, Morris Cove Alder Salvatore DeCola, Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson and Fair Haven Heights Alder Barbara Constantinople were reelected. Though Republican Ron Codianni’s name featured on the ballot in Fair Haven Heights — which borders East Haven — he dropped out of the race in early October, leaving Constantinople

effectively unopposed, Republican Town Committee Chairman Richter Elser said.

Both Spears and RobinsonThorpe lost their aldermanic races Tuesday to the same candidates who beat them in September’s Democratic primary.

Though Spears and RobinsonThorpe told the News in October that they expected the higher turnout in the general election to work in their favor, they both lost by significant margins yesterday — Robinson-Thorpe by an even greater margin than what she lost by in the primary, and Spears by the largest margin in the city.

With Lisa Milone in the race on the Republican ticket, Morris Cove was the only Elm City district besides Ward 1 with a Republican challenger. Despite losing the election — which was held at Nathan Hale School in the Morris Cove neighborhood —Milone said she is glad she ran because her candidacy gave MorSEE INCUMBENTS PAGE 6

Harp sails to second term

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Toni Harp was elected New Haven’s first female mayor in 2013.

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp secured her second term in the Elm City in a landslide victory Tuesday night.

With 10,784 votes counted, Harp received majority support from all 30 of New Haven’s wards. The two runnersup, independent candidates Ron Smith and Sundiata Keit-

azulu, received 1,070 and 269 votes, respectively. Harp’s significant majority — she defeated Keitazulu and Smith by an eight-to-one margin — far outstrips the less than 6 percentage points by which she beat Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 in 2013.

At an after-party in the Long Wharf club Keys to the City on Tuesday night, Harp declared to supporters —

including newly elected Beaver Hills Alder Jill Marks and Board of Education member Edward Joyner — that New Haven is a city “on the rise,” as well as the cultural and educational center of Connecticut.

“New Haven took a risk on me — on my leadership, on my skills, on my vision,” Harp said in reference to her first maySEE MAYOR’S RACE PAGE 8

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ew Haven is having a bad case of test anxiety.

The results from the first round of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium testing — the new Common Corebased assessment — showcased a yawning achievement gap between students in New Haven Public Schools and their peers in other Connecticut cities and towns. Less than 30 percent meet or exceed the Common Core grade-level standards for English Language Arts; more than 85 percent miss the mark in math. The New Haven Board of Education (“Test Scores Discussed at BOE Meeting,” October 8) is urgently searching for solutions, discussing changes to the school funding formula and ways to better support teachers as they continue working to implement the relatively new Common Core standards.

Examining the SBAC scores of each of New Haven’s dozens of schools, rather than the districtwide average, sheds real light onto the roots of New Haven’s decadeslong struggle with weak test scores. It’s a problem that no funding formula or tweak in professional development can fix.

Worthington Hooker School, in East Rock, boasts the highest SBAC scores of any K-8 school in the district. Nearly 65 percent of their students received 3s or 4s — passing scores — on the math SBAC. Lincoln-Bassett School, in Newhallville, is among the lowest-scoring K-8 schools: 5.5 percent of students received 3s on the math SBAC. None received 4s.

Lincoln-Bassett and Hooker are just over a mile apart. Yet students at Hooker are 12 times more likely to be doing math at grade level. Is it because teachers at Hooker work 12 times harder, or are 12 times more qualified, than teachers at Lincoln-Bassett? This is highly unlikely. Is it that Hooker is 12 times better-funded than Lincoln-Bassett? More plausible, but not true. In fact, LincolnBassett receives the most funding-per-weighted-pupil of any K-8 neighborhood school in the city. Hooker’s funding per student is just below the city’s median.

These gaps have little, if anything, to do with funding equity, instructional quality or school culture. It’s about New Haven’s deep class divide, and the fact that we are asking teachers to do the impossible job of closing an inequality gap on their own when the inequalities themselves make it difficult for students to learn.

The four schools in New Haven with the highest SBAC scores (excluding interdistrict magnet schools) are Worthington Hooker, Nathan Hale,

Edgewood and Davis Street.

Those four schools serve students from New Haven’s predominately white, middle-class neighborhoods: East Rock, East Shore and Westville. Meanwhile, schools in New Haven’s neighborhoods of color, where many residents struggle to find living-wage work — Truman School in The Hill, Fair Haven School in Fair Haven, Augusta Lewis Troup School in the Dwight/Edgewood neighborhood — score similarly to Lincoln-Bassett.

It’s not that kids in Newhallville or Fair Haven are any less bright and diligent than their peers in East Rock or Westville — not at all. But no amount of effort on the part of the student or the teacher can make up for the fact that kids who are hungry, struggling with undiagnosed health issues or worrying about an unstable living situation will have a harder time focusing and retaining information. And no policy change from the Board of Education will erase the fact that the legions of minivan-driving “(Worthington) Hooker Moms” have access to high-quality early childhood programs, outof-school tutoring and other learning opportunities for their children that Lincoln-Bassett parents can’t afford. All kids have potential, but the structural disadvantages and toxic stresses of poverty mean that kids born into poor families will have to work a lot harder than their privileged peers to get to the same place.

If we want to close the achievement gap, it’s not enough to shuffle around resources within New Haven’s school system. Tweaks to teacher training and school funding are important, but they’re tinkering around the edges of a bigger problem. We need to expand Mayor Harp’s innovative YouthStat program that helps connect struggling students with the outof-school supports they need to succeed. We need to aggressively lobby the state to fix a broken municipal taxation system that leaves enclaves of wealthy homeowners like Greenwich and Westport flush with cash to fund top-scoring schools, while cities like New Haven and Bridgeport struggle with tough choices between balancing their budgets and providing basic services to children and families. We need to recognize that good schools aren’t enough.

We first need to make sure that children’s basic needs are met so that when they get to school, they’re ready to succeed.

FISH STARK is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at fortney.stark@yale.edu .

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n Nov. 4, 1995, 20 years ago today, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot twice in the back with hollow-point rounds from a Beretta 84F semi-automatic pistol. Within minutes, the man whose personal history paralleled the development of Israel itself had ended.

The similarities are striking.

Rabin, like the state he would later head, was born in Jerusalem but matured in Tel Aviv. A lifelong secularist, he embodied the Zionist Sabra spirit of selfdependence, socialism and the joyful exercise of powerful personal agency. He found his passion in agriculture, and longed to build, irrigate and develop the earth. As the contradiction between Jewish and Arab nationalism erupted into sustained violence, he, like the movement he loved, was forced to shed the aura of peaceful development and learn to handle a gun.

As an early Zionist military leader, Rabin’s career reflected the complex position of the Jewish community in British Palestine. He fought against the Nazialigned Vichy French in Lebanon, but regarded the British as an enemy. He helped suppress the violent Jewish terrorists in favor of the newly formed Israel Defense Forces, and directed defensive campaigns that saved the Jewish community of Jerusalem. At the same time, he also expelled the Palestinians in the cities of Lydda and Ramle when

he saw a strategic aim in doing so. Rabin had risen to IDF chief of staff by the Six Day War of 1967, when Israel pre-empted a combined Egyptian and Syrian attack and seized control of the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.

When Rabin finally became prime minister in 1974, he governed an Israel that was no longer intoxicated by the confidence of military prowess; the Yom Kippur War in 1973, which Rabin had missed while serving as ambassador to the U.S., had shattered Israel’s sense of security. As Rabin moved himself from a military to a political role, he moved Israel away from military solutions, and pursued peace with Egypt through diplomatic channels. The Sinai Interim Agreement of 1975 that he signed would lead to the Camp David Accords under later Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

But the conflict with the Palestinians remained, and Rabin retained his Israeli pragmatism and willingness to do what was dirty and necessary. When the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza rose up in the First Intifada, Rabin, as defense minister, was willing to use force to put down the uprising, earning himself the moniker “Bone Breaker.”

But when he was again prime minister in 1992, he came to see the necessity of recognizing Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization as the legitimate representative of the Pales-

tinian people. Just mere months before, taking such a step would have been inconceivable. He was able to sign the Oslo accords and obtain the PLO recognition of Israel and a renunciation of violence, clearing two of the largest stumbling blocks to peace.

RABIN’S DEATH WAS A CLEAR PRODUCT OF ISRAEL’S SHIFT RIGHTWARD It’s not known how Rabin would have handled the thorny issues that have emerged in peace talks that emerged since his death. He was famously muddled when it came to policies and speeches, but what we do know is that he was committed to always finding a way. He summed up his ideology best in a quote that would later be referred to by others as “Rabin’s Law”: “We will fight terror as if there were no negotiations, but we will negotiate as if there were no terror.”

If Rabin’s life follows Israel’s trajectory, it is the grim truth that his death was, in a way, the death of the old Israel. Rabin was killed by a man who represented everything in the later generations of Israelis that the origi-

nal European Zionists feared: a fanatically religious, right-wing Oriental Jew who saw violence as the most powerful tool at his disposal. Rabin’s death was a clear product of Israel’s shift rightward, as religious settlers of the West Bank increasingly drove the national conversation. Toxic extremism killed Rabin in an instant, but this radicalism may now be giving Israel’s founding principles a slow smothering instead.

When we remember Rabin today, we remember how he successfully navigated contradictions to achieve breathtaking results for five decades. We remember the founding spirit of Israel, a spirit that, though no longer whetted by the same hardship and necessity, lives on still. And we acknowledge the way forward that Rabin charted for us: peace through negotiations. Finally, we present the tragedy of his death as a warning to both the Israeli and Palestinian societies that the sprouts of extremism must never be allowed to take root.

Rabin was a man who lived, and eventually died, by his ability and courage to make hard choices. He was a good man.

May we inherit his brilliance, his strength and his compassion.

Zikrono l’vrakha, may his memory be a blessing.

BERNARD STANFORD is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at bernard.stanford@yale.edu .

GUE ST COLUMNIST LAUREL LEHMAN

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hough the recent Broadway hit musical “Hamilton” lasts only two and a half hours, as I watched the stage adaption of founding father Alexander Hamilton’s life, the narrative allowed me to reflect on my time as a Yale student thus far — an experience nearly two and a half years in the making.

The show uses hip-hop and rap to tell a modern American dramatized story of Alexander Hamilton, depicting the gentleman on our 10-dollar bill as a talented and ambitious orphan immigrant. The show’s creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, also an honorary member of the Yale Dramat, uses lyrics to convey the image of the young Hamilton as “young, scrappy and hungry.” The audience watches as his thirst to prove himself frames his actions and decisions throughout the show.

But perhaps we as Yalies can glean a greater lesson from the story of two female leads: The Schuyler sisters, two daughters from an elite New York family that meet Hamilton as the Revolution begins in NYC. Angelica, the eldest, is sharp, quick-witted and fiercely entrancing — it is clear to the audience that she immediately matches wits with Hamilton. Of her younger sister, Eliza, Angelica sings that “you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind” as she is. The sisters meet Hamilton while out in Manhattan, and each is immediately taken with him. However,

Angelica, aware of her obligation to marry rich, and of her shyer sister’s affections, introduces the two, prioritizing her sister’s feelings over her own.

As I watched the story unfold, I found myself disappointed in the pairing of Eliza and Alexander. When he married Eliza, a woman initially characterized as “helpless” to his charm, I was confused. Here was this clever, ambitious young man, fervently repeating, “I am not throwing away my shot,” and yet, he appeared to be settling in marriage. How could he end up with someone so simple? While Eliza may be inherently good-hearted, she appeared unadorned. Being “good” didn’t feel like enough, and in marrying Eliza, it seemed as though Hamilton was gaining the Schuyler family name, prestigious in its day, but throwing away his chance at something more meaningful.

As a Yalie in the audience, the refrain “not throwing away my shot” struck home — and not just because of the percussive rhythm. The idea of wasting our time here, of throwing away the opportunities presented to us, feels shameful. In order to avoid doing so, we often feel pressured to drive ourselves to the brink of exhaustion. In one memorable song, “Non-Stop,” the cast repeats the refrain to Hamilton: “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?” This is a question that could just as easily be posed to Yalies — because

we, too, struggle to see “good” as “good enough.”

And so, Eliza’s “good” seems a disappointing match for Alexander’s ambition. In response to Hamilton’s dismay at being sent away from Washington’s side during the Revolutionary War, Eliza assures him that, for her, being his wife is more than enough. Regardless of money or legacy — two things Hamilton clearly craves — she claims the simplicity of family could be enough. Yet it isn’t — at least not for him.

And the idea of a simple life doesn’t seem to be enough for most Yalies, either. To end up anywhere other than New York, D.C. or San Francisco in anything but a prestigious role is almost taboo. To have an end goal of just a house, a family and perhaps a dog seems a failure in itself. We crave markers of success, or a world-changing legacy.

Thus, as Yale students, we dismiss ideas of simplicity just as the audience dismisses Eliza.

How dare she ask him to be happy with just a family? Angelica, the older sister, seemed to better understand his ambitions, his importance in the scheme of the world’s greater good — how dare Eliza ask him to settle for nothing more than happiness?

This is precisely what we spend four years grappling with here on campus: the belief that anything less than a six-figure paycheck, Nobel Prize or a com-

petitive fellowship can be only a consolation prize. Certainly happiness, alone, is not a goal worth striving for; rather, it is something for which some of us will merely have to settle.

Back in the Richard Rodgers Theatre, I noted a remarkable shift as the show begins to close: Eliza’s simplicity has become her strength. The fortitude of Eliza’s character is revealed as she gracefully handles her husband’s role in the nation’s first political sex scandal, grieves her son’s premature death and finally remains strong following Hamilton’s famed final duel.

In the wake of her husband’s death, Eliza spends the following half century fundraising for the Washington Monument, protesting slavery and starting New York City’s first private orphanage.

Passionately, and simply, Eliza Schuyler changed the world after all.

And so, we realize: maybe Eliza had been enough. It doesn’t take the lights and the stage for Hamilton’s message to ring true for Yale. Maybe ambition, wit and a thirst to leave a legacy aren’t the sole indicators of one’s potential.

Maybe goodness, simplicity and happiness aren’t ideals we can only settle for.

And maybe it shouldn’t take us the entire show to figure that out.

LAUREL LEHMAN is a junior in Trumbull College. Contact her at laurel.lehman@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, OCT. 30

A previous version of this article “Picking up steam, Lions visit” misstated the last time the Columbia football team finished with a winning record. In fact, the Lions have had three winning seasons since 1970.

MONDAY, NOV. 2

A previous version of the story “Yale-NUS names dean of students” incorrectly stated that Christopher Bridges worked in the Office of Student Involvement while at Xavier Univerity. In fact, Bridges worked in Peace and Justice.

TUESDAY, NOV. 3

A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Mollie Johnson ’18 and Amalia Halikias ’15 were Ugonna Eze’s ’16 joint campaign managers. In fact, Halikias is Eze’s former campaign manager, and Johnson is his current one.

Donation triples size of AACC library

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER The Asian American Cultural Center has received a donation of over 2,000 books dedicated to Asian American Studies — the largest single collection of materials related to the field on campus.

This spring, Columbia professor of International and Public Affairs Gary Okihiro, who is also the founding director of the school’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, reached out to Timothy Dwight College Master Mary Lui to find a home for his collection before retiring. Lui, who is Yale’s only tenured professor of Asian American Studies, studied under Okihiro while she was at Cornell, and he advised her dissertation. The books were transported from New York City to New Haven over the summer, and a reception is being held today at the AACC, where Okihiro will speak about his donation.

The donation comes amidst growing calls for the expansion of Asian American Studies on campus. AACC Graduate Assistant Courtney Sato GRD ’19 said the gift roughly tripled the size of the AACC library.

“One of the reasons why professor Okihiro, I think, chose to donate his collection to Yale is because he saw evidence of a community here that is interested in growing the field of Asian American Studies because of things like the [Yale Asian American Studies Conference last spring] and the Asian American Studies Task Force,” Sato said. “There are students here interested in pushing the administration to add a wider range of courses within the field.”

Lui said the donation will add depth to the AACC’s current library in terms of the history covered. AACC Asian American Studies Co-Coordinator Hayun Cho ’17 noted that the donation is especially appropriate given the recent campuswide discussions regarding the lack of faculty diversity and ethnic studies programs. She added that many Asian-American students feel Yale is not giving them the support they need to learn about their history and future.

AACC Asian American Studies Co-Coordinator Catherine Tarleton ’16 noted that the donation is indicative of the impor-

tance of Asian American Studies and the need for Yale to develop its resources within the field.

The library is not only a valuable resource for students, she said, but also adds legitimacy to the field at Yale and proves to others why this area of study is needed.

“It’s incredible that professor Okihiro chose to donate his library to Yale, especially since we don’t have an Asian American Studies program, and Okihiro is so important in the field of ethnic studies,” Tarleton said. “It’s incredible he chose to donate to us, and it says a lot in how much he supports the field of Asian American Studies at Yale.”

Students at Yale have already begun taking advantage of the newly established library, which includes several volumes of rare book from the 1960s and ’70s, Lui said. Staff at the AACC have begun cataloging the vast materials, and graduate students now have resources pertinent to Asian American Studies at their fingertips, rather than having to hunt for them, Lui said.

Books in the library draw from a wide range of genres, from magazines and memorabilia to periodicals and anthologies. Sato highlighted the inclusion of the academic journal Amerasia as one of the key titles in the library, noting that it is one of the key journals in the Asian American Studies field. The library will also be supplemented by an online database containing all of the books.

Okihiro began his career in 1976 and has since become a prominent figure in the field of Asian American Studies. Prior to his time at Columbia, he served as the director for Asian American Studies at Cornell University and is a former president of the Association for Asian American Studies. He will attend today’s reception.

“The reception is not just about Okihiro coming, it’s about community and that all these graduates and undergraduates worked to make this possible,” Cho said.

“It’s very much a thing where his coming to Yale is connected to students’ passion for learning more about Asian American Studies and their desire for it to be on campus.”

The reception for the library will be held at 5 p.m. at 295 Crown St. Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Katz faces criticism for book review

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In February 2014, David Katz MPH ’93, the director of the Yale School of Medicine’s Prevention Research Center, wrote two glowing online reviews of a science-fiction novel called reVision.

In his biweekly column in The Huffington Post, Katz lauded the book’s “lyrically beautiful writing,” comparing it to the work of a veritable “who’s who” of great writers, including Plato, John Milton and Charles Dickens. “I finished with a sense of illumination from a great source,” he concluded. “The most opportune comparison may be to a fine wine.” Katz had used similar language two days earlier in a five-star product review he posted on the book’s page on Amazon.

But Katz omitted a crucial detail from both reviews: the subject of his praise was his own self-published passion project, released two months earlier under the pseudonym Samhu Iyyam. In April 2014, after Katz revealed on Twitter that reVision was his own work, The Huffington Post updated his February review to indicate the true authorship of the book. As of 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday night, the Amazon review remained unchanged.

In recent weeks, the Amazon and Huffington Post reviews have drawn significant criticism from doctors and pundits who disagree with Katz’s support for the United States Dietary Guidelines, a set of nutrition standards that help determine the contents of school lunches. Katz, an internationally renowned nutrition expert, told the News that the social-media backlash against the reviews is part of a smear campaign engineered by groups aiming to undermine the federal guidelines.

But Fred Brown, a spokesman for the Society of Professional Journalists, told the News the Huffington Post column was blatantly unethical,

and the blogger, Peter Heimlich, who wrote about the Amazon review in late September and contacted the News shortly after, said he is not involved in the debate over the guidelines.

Katz said the reviews conveyed his honest opinion and that he concealed the true authorship of reVision because he preferred to keep his professional life separate from his fiction writing. He eventually decided to reveal he wrote the book in order to help it reach a wider audience, he said. Katz declined to answer specific questions about the reviews, including whether he told editors at The Huffington Post that he had written the novel before writing his column about reVision.

“I wrote a … review of my anonymously self-published fiction novel, and said what I really think about it — then disclosed that I wrote it,” Katz said. “There’s really a story there?”

Monica Lee, a communications officer for The Huffington Post, did not return numerous requests for comment.

But Brown said the Huffington Post review violated basic journalistic standards.

“It ain’t ethical,” Brown said. “You should not review something without revealing you wrote it.”

Katz, a staunch supporter of the Dietary Guidelines, has written nearly a dozen nonfiction books about nutrition. In 2009, three medical organizations — the American College of Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Center for Science in the Public Interest — called for him to be named United States Surgeon General.

Over the past month and a half, the Amazon and Huffington Post reviews have come under intense scrutiny alongside an ongoing Internet debate over the preliminary report released earlier this year by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the government task force responsi-

ble for drafting the guidelines.

The preliminary report, which was released in February, is a rough sketch of revisions to the guidelines due to be announced later this year.

On Sept. 29, Jason Fung, a Toronto-based doctor who said he is skeptical of the guidelines, tweeted a link to the Huffington Post review: “Here’s @DrDavidKatz writing a glowing book review about a book he himself wrote under a pseudonym.

What an ass.”

Fung said his tweet was a direct response to an opinion column written by Katz four days before, in which Katz accused health journalist Nina Teicholz, an outspoken critic of the guidelines, of making exaggerated claims designed to promote her bestselling book “The Big Fat Surprise.”

“He was trying to imply that she was just doing it to sell more books,” Fung told the News. “He’s just the same sort of huckster that goes around trying to promote his own book.”

In September, the British Medical Journal published a lengthy article by Teicholz that questioned the integrity of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. The piece has generated fierce debate in the medical community, pitting experts who consider the guidelines tired and out-ofdate against a group of distinguished scientists with Katz at its head.

Parke Wilde, a Tufts professor who focuses on health policy, said the debate over the guidelines has begun to degenerate into name-calling. Wilde said there is a temptation on both sides to spend time attacking opponents rather than focusing on the substance of the argument.

Frank Hu, a member of the advisory committee, said opposition to the Dietary Guidelines has fueled the social-media furor around Katz’s reviews. “[Katz] has been the most vocal, consistent, visible defender,” Hu said. “They are

coming after David, presumably, because they feel his message may be harmful to their cause.”

Hu added that some opponents of the guidelines are affiliated with special-interest groups that have a financial stake in altering nutritional standards.

On Oct. 24, Katz addressed the controversy in another Huffington Post column, insisting that Internet bullies had dug up the reviews in an effort to discredit his nutritional advice.

But Heimlich, who contacted the News about the controversy, said he was unaware of the guidelines dispute.

“Instead of trying to change the subject, [Katz] should man up and explain what happened,” Heimlich said. Heimlich added that he has sent a formal complaint to Amazon asking that Katz’s product review be taken down.

Representatives from Amazon did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But the website’s official terms of service state the site has a “zerotolerance policy for any review designed to mislead or manipulate customers.”

Chris Morran, a journalist who reports on Amazon for the Consumerist — a consumeraffairs site — said the company has worked hard to root out fake or misleading product reviews in the past.

“I doubt they’d look too kindly on someone reviewing their own thing,” Morran said.

“You then start questioning other reviews, which makes the site look bad.”

Morran added that Amazon is trying to prove it is more reliable than its rivals in the increasingly competitive online marketplace.

Amazon sued more than 1,000 Internet vendors last month for offering to post bogus product reviews on the site.

Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .

YCDO and YCC collaborate on new colleges

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The Yale College Dean’s Office and Yale College Council are collaborating on how to foster community in the new colleges.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER What makes Yale’s residential colleges more than college dormitories?

This is the question Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway’s steering committee for the new colleges has been tasked with answering as the colleges’ fall 2017 opening date approaches.

Yale’s residential college system, inaugurated in 1933, has long been hailed as a defining characteristic of undergraduate life at Yale. Holloway said given the significance of the residential college experience to undergraduate life, his committee aims to identify the intangible elements of community within the existing colleges.

After identifying these characteristics, committee members will have to envision how they may recreate this sense of community in new spaces that do not possess the history and traditions of the other 12 colleges.

In order to do so, members of the steering committee — which includes four undergraduates, four staff members, four recent graduates and four faculty members — have reached

out to several groups involved in the residential college system, and the four undergraduates on the committee are now working with the Yale College Council as a first step to collect undergraduate opinions. Committee members said the collaboration will allow them to gain a broader understanding of undergraduate residential experiences.

“We want to think about what makes residential colleges more than the sum of its parts and what makes it more than a dorm,” said Adam Willems ’17, a steering committee member.

“Working with the YCC allows us to target more than just individual extracurricular groups and demographics, and will give us a holistic view.”

The undergraduate committee members have already met with the YCC’s new colleges task force twice, and will reach out to members of individual college councils. Leah Motzkin ’16, another member of the steering committee, said student representatives from the YCC and college councils are some of the most enthusiastic community members and would serve as good starting

points in reaching the undergraduate population.

Joseph Tomchak ’17, a member of the YCC task force, said the group is looking into issues surrounding the new colleges by seeking student opinions through channels like the YCC Fall Survey — a survey sent to undergraduates asking their opinions on various campus issues — and will publish an independent report of its findings at the end of the semester. The collaboration with the Dean’s Office, he said, will further allow for the exchange of ideas and information.

While the group is still early in its research, members of the steering committee said they are looking into how certain residential college frameworks can help build community spirit. For example, the committee is evaluating what college masters and deans can do to create a positive atmosphere and which college-sponsored events are most well-received.

Willems said from the steering committee’s initial research, the group has found that creating traditions and culture within the new colleges may be relatively straightforward,

despite the lack of college history.

“Undergraduates are here for four years, so the institutional memory in the Yale student body is relatively short,” he said. “These traditions and events don’t need to have been created in the 1930s. They can be created in 2017.”

Tomchak said the YCC task force has also heard students emphasize the influence of college masters and deans on each college’s unique culture.

Because leaders for the new colleges have yet to be announced, Tomchak said a lot is still “up in the air” regarding the communities’ identities.

Steering committee members said another source of uncertainty involves who will inhabit the new colleges. Members said the steering committee does not have the statistics for the number of transfer students and annexed students that the colleges will host, and this factor could potentially affect the new college cultures.

The steering committee was formed last fall.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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hese photos document the events immediately before and after polls closed for the Ward 1 aldermanic election at 8 p.m. last night. Incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 prevailed over Ugonna Eze ’16 by a margin of 17 votes. ROBBIE SHORT reports.

Both Eidelson and Eze continue their campaigning up until polls close, pitching their platforms to people on the sidewalks just outside the New Haven Free Public Library, where most polling took place. Above, Eidelson receives support from Tyisha Walker, president of the Board of Alders and Ward 23 alder, who endorsed her candidacy.

Both candidates speak with their teams while voters continue to fill out their ballots.

Eze pauses to check the results of an ongoing exit poll.

Supporters in both camps gather outside the library while the last few votes are cast, including Tyler Blackmon ’16, president of the Yale College Democrats and a staff columnist for the News.

One of the final votes is cast.

The initial results were too close for election organizers to award the race to Eidelson.

About 100 feet away, Eze thanks his supporters.

Eidelson leads her supporters to City Hall to wait out the results. Shortly after, Vincent Mauro Jr., chairman of the New Haven Democratic Party, announces Eidelson’s victory. Eidelson thanks her staff for their work and points to the work left to be done.

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“The arts are a major life nourishment.”

KIRAN AHLUWALIA CANADIAN SINGER

Student majors impact future earnings, satisfaction

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER Students’ areas of study — ranging from the humanities to the social sciences to STEM — are related to their future earnings and satisfaction with Yale.

In a survey distributed by the News, 367 members of the classes of 2013 and 2014 rated the degree to which they believe their Yale degrees were worth the cost.

The set of questions — issued in response to a national GallupPurdue Index on the same subject — asked respondents to include additional background information, such as current incomes and former areas of study. An analysis of the results reveals that the general subject area students choose to focus on significantly impacts future earnings and slightly impacts overall satisfaction with the worth of their Yale degrees.

The earnings of Yale graduates who majored in subjects within the humanities are significantly lower than those who focused on the social sciences and STEM, according to the survey data.

While 14 percent of social science and STEM graduates reported earnings of more than $100,000, only 3 percent of humanities students said the same. Additionally, 68 percent of humanitiesfocused respondents reported a current income at or below $50,000, as compared to 58 percent of STEM-focused respondents and 42 percent of social science-focused respondents.

Professors and 18 survey respondents further interviewed by the News indicated that these gaps in average earnings could be attributed to different professional pursuits.

James Berger, a senior lecturer in American Studies and English who is currently teaching a course called “Poetry and Debates on the Value of Arts and

Humanities,” said he hypothesizes that humanities-focused students are earning relatively less than those in the social sciences and STEM because they are not as attracted to certain highpaying jobs.

“To succeed in a profession that pays large salaries requires, I think, that you believe deeply that earning a large salary is your most important goal, or at least one of them,” Berger said.

“People who are committed to the humanities don’t have those beliefs in the absolute value of money. Humanities majors don’t want to starve; they don’t, for the most part, aspire to be saints; they want to make a decent living.”

David Bromwich, professor of English, said the skills fostered by the humanities do not coincide with those of business, which helps to explain why humanities graduates are earning less than alums in other disciplines.

He added that these students nonetheless valued their education because they were pushed to learn, think and imagine.

While those who studied the social sciences are earning the most on average, according to survey data, their responses also indicate that they are slightly less satisfied than those in the humanities and STEM: 85 percent of humanities and STEMfocused students either “strongly agreed” or “agreed” that their Yale education was worth the cost, while 77 percent of social science-focused students said the same. 14 percent either “strongly disagreed” or “disagreed” with the prompt, as compared to 8 percent of humanities students and 6 percent of STEM students.

Professors and graduates interviewed said humanities students feel relatively more satisfied because of the intangible skills they learned at Yale, while

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social science-focused students are more likely to prioritize professional goals over their passions, leading to decreased satisfaction but higher incomes. For STEM students, graduates said that the small size of Yale’s programs ultimately lead to additional professional opportunities.

Zack Graham ’13 — who switched from studying economics to English as an undergraduate — said humanities students have more satisfactory experiences because they are more passionate about their studies.

“The humanities majors I know believe their educations were more worthwhile and fulfilling because they learned what they wanted to learn about,” he said. “For those in Economics, it was more about going into professional sectors, so there was no real passion. They just wanted the degree for their resumes in order to get the job.”

While social science-focused students vary in focus and aspiration, Marlena Vasquez ‘13 said a higher degree of satisfaction amongst STEM graduates could

be attributed to their more linear career paths.

Aayush Upadhyay ’14, a computer science major, said the small size of Yale’s department led him to pursue more professional opportunities while in college.

“So many companies came to recruit,” he said. “I felt like we got more events because other companies are recruiting at schools with 1,000 computer science majors whereas we had just 200300, but we got equal attention.”

Steven Morales ’13, who

“strongly agreed” that his Yale degree was worth the cost, said he thought his major, Modern Middle East Studies, could have been improved. However, he said he does not believe majoring in another subject, whether it be in the humanities, STEM or social sciences, would have impacted his satisfaction with Yale, because he still would have been required to enroll in a variety of courses.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Historically narrow margin ELECTION ANALYSIS FROM PAGE 1 pus. She said she obtained a list of all registered voters in Ward 1 and had Eze volunteers mark the names they knew on the list. Those volunteers called and texted these friends to make sure they went to the polls.

The result, she said, was that canvassing only occurred among people who were already acquaintances.

Johnson said when the campaign launched in April, she had little idea of what end result to expect. She added that Tuesday night’s result had a silver lining: it showed that Yale students can approach politics with an open mind.

Halikias echoed Johnson’s point, stating that the narrow margin of defeat proved an important point of Ward 1: Yale students, who are typically left-leaning, will not dismiss a Republican based solely on his or her political affiliation.

“To win 49 percent of the vote with a Republican candidate is history,” she said. Eze’s margin of defeat was the slimmest borne by any Republican candidate this year. Ron Codianni garnered only 74 votes to Barbara Constantinople’s 572 in Ward 11, and the Ward 18 Republican candidate Lisa Milone received less than a quarter of the vote.

Eze’s narrow loss is anomalous among recent Ward 1 elections, which have seen Eidelson win a double-digit majority or plurality. Eidelson defeated Republican Paul Chandler ’14 with 65 percent of the vote in 2013 and Vinay Nayak ’14 with 59 percent in 2011.

Halikias added that Eze’s strength as a candidate played a major role in his electoral performance. Eze is an unusually well-connected figure on campus, with extracurriculars spanning from the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union to the HipHop Collective and the Black Men’s Union. That diversity, Halikias said, allowed Eze to attract outspoken left-wing students to his campaign,

despite his party affiliation.

“We couldn’t have had the race without [Eze],” she said. “Having someone who’s that involved at Yale is rare. Having someone who’s that involved at Yale and wants to stay in New Haven is like winning the lottery.”

Students who voted for Eze expressed similar sentiments. Alex Wang ’19 said his vote was influenced

by Eze’s familiarity with diverse groups on campus. Austin Strayhorn ’19 said he found Eze personable, and added that the State Elections Enforcement Commission’s investigation of Eidelson’s campaign for alleged election law violations concerned him.

Members of Eze’s campaign emphasized that they deliberately steered clear of any tactics that could have been viewed as aggressive or intrusive. Taylor Holshouser ’18, Eze’s director of opposition research, said volunteers worked to ensure they interacted respectfully with both voters and their opponent.

“I think it was a very fair process,” he said of the campaigning outside the library Tuesday. “I think everyone kept each other in line and everyone had a mutual respect for the process.”

But reports of aggressive tactics from the Eidelson campaign surfaced throughout the day over social media.

Ian Niederhoffer ’19, who voted for Eze, said Eze’s “less aggressive” canvassing practices were an important factor in determining his vote.

In an interview with the News, Eze said he hopes the race will encourage students to think more critically about their role at Yale and in New Haven. He said he sought to raise the level of political discourse on campus and to run an open campaign that made all students feel welcome.

Eidelson will begin her third term as alder on New Year’s Day. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

H. L. MENCKEN GERMAN-AMERICAN JOURNALIST

Eidelson bests Eze to win third term

ROBBIE SHORT/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Ugonna Eze ’16 and his supporters gathered at City Hall to await the results of the Ward 1 aldermanic election.

EIDELSON FROM PAGE 1 City Hall, Eze said that the campaign will have lasting effects on local politics by challenging students to reconsider their town-gown relations. He added that his priority following the election will be to continue supporting mentoring relationships between Yale students and New Haven youths, a goal he pushed forward during his aldermanic campaign.

“We’ve shaken up the establishment,” Eze said. “We’ve showed them that when people are willing and ready to make a change they will do it.”

In an interview with the News, Eze added that his campaign and his narrow defeat should set higher standards for how the Ward 1 alder treats students and responds to their complaints.

After preliminary results were

announced at the New Haven Free Public Library, Eidelson praised her campaign team in a speech to supporters.

“What we do know is that because of this group of people we did something amazing today,” she said. “Together we can build a stronger Ward 1 and a stronger Yale.”

During the election, candidates set up camp side-by-side outside of the polling place from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Turnout was slow but steady throughout the daytime hours, but after roughly 5 p.m., it markedly increased.

The line to vote eventually led out of the door and voters faced up to a 45-minute wait time. Because of long lines, the last ballots were not cast until 8:30 p.m.

Students who voted for Eidelson said they supported her because of her

experience in the Elm City, citing her relationships with city officials and initiatives targeted toward helping New Haven youths.

Matt Chisholm ’18 said he voted for Eidelson because he thought her public housing plans were stronger than Eze’s.

“Sarah has had an exceptional first few terms, started long-term projects, and has great relationships with the other alders and the mayor,” Layla Treuhaft-Ali ’17 said. “I think she shows a great commitment to New Haven, which I wasn’t sure about with the other candidate.”

New Haven alders are elected every two years.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

Only six aldermanic elections contested INCUMBENTS FROM PAGE 1 ris Cove residents more voting options.

She added that this does not always happen in cities dominated by registered Democrats.

“One-party rule doesn’t seem to work,” Milone said.

DeCola, who received 583 of the 888 votes, also beat out independent candidate Robert Proto, who won 120 votes, to secure his third term. Milone came in last place with 77 votes.

“It feels wonderful,” DeCola said.

“The people spoke. This was democracy at its best.”

DeCola, who was surrounded by a handful of supporters as polls closed, said his team of roughly 20 volunteers worked hard to phone bank, knock on doors and connect with community members each day leading up to the election. DeCola added that as grand knight of the Knights of Columbus — an international Catholic fraternity with a chapter in New Haven — and the organizer of the annual St. Bernadette’s Church carnival in Morris Cove, he was active in the Morris Cove com-

munity long before his 2011 election to the Board.

Many DeCola supporters, including Morris Cove resident John Rak, said DeCola was quick to answer questions and concerns community members posed to him during his first two terms as alder.

Proto, who lost to DeCola in the Democratic primary before running as an independent in Ward 18’s general election, said he does not think any candidate should run unopposed. Like Milone, he said voters should be provided with a choice.

Proto said he was pleased with the 121 votes he received in the primary and his 120 general election votes, because he moved to New Haven from West Haven in May and did not enter the aldermanic race until late August.

Proto said this was his first experience running for office and he is continuing to learn strategies for campaigning.

Nearly 40 percent of registered voters turned out to vote in Morris Cove.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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Six wards in New Haven had contested aldermanic elections Tuesday.

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SPORTS

“If you’re not scoring the frustrations build up.” WAYNE ROONEY ENGLISH FOOTBALL PLAYER

In-state foe shuts out Elis M. SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 to just three shots and keeping the Blue Devils’ leading scorer Ryan Taylor at bay.

Taylor, a sophomore forward, averages one point per game thanks to six goals and three assists on the season, but he was unable to record a shot against the Bulldogs in either half.

The second half proved to be more balanced, as momentum shifted back and forth between the two sides.

The Blue Devil attack came out much stronger following the halftime break, taking six shots to Yale’s seven.

While Yale did ultimately outshoot CCSU 14–9, each team managed just three shots on goal.

Yale’s best chance to get on the scoreboard came four

minutes into the second half. Forward Kyle Kenagy ’19 headed the ball off a cross but Blue Devil goalkeeper Ben LaVallee make a diving save to prevent the Bulldogs from pulling ahead. With five shots against the Blue Devils, Kenagy upped his season total to 27, tied with Ollie Iselin ’18 for the most on the roster.

Although Yale had more chances than its opponent, it was CCSU who broke the deadlock with less than 10 minutes left to go in the game. Freshman forward Louis Beddouri notched his fourth goal of the season when deft passing play between senior defender Ben Knight and junior forward EJ Okoro brought the ball into the box. Beddouri, who came to CCSU by way of the Avi-

ron Bayonnais Football Club in Bayonne, France, eluded his marker to manage a low shot that found the left corner of the net.

The team has not won its past 10 games, but the way players controlled possession made this loss an especially tough one to swallow for the Elis.

“We had a ton of chances and couldn’t put them away, and in the end, that’s what hurt us,” midfielder Nicky Downs ’19 said.

With two games remaining on the Yale schedule, the Bulldogs return to action on Saturday night for their final home game of the year. The match against Brown kicks off at 7 p.m.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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Forward Henry Albrecht ’17 contributed two of Yale’s 14 shots Tuesday night. The Elis outshot CCSU 14–9 but failed to score.

Terriers blow out Bulldogs

No. 2 teams advance SAILING FROM PAGE 12

W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 the Elis still had plenty of time remaining to put goals on the board. They outshot BU 15–9 in the second period and 13–12 in the final frame, but Haddad’s goal was the only result to show for those attempts.

“I didn’t really feel like they had any star players or systems that we weren’t prepared to handle,” Haddad said. “They just took advantage of the opportunities we gave them, which is something we didn’t do.”

Even besides goal tallies, other statistics in the game backed up Haddad’s assertion. The Terriers won 34 faceoffs in the game, just slightly more than Yale’s 27 wins, and the Elis held BU to zero goals on four power-play chances.

The main contributor for BU was junior forward Maddie Elia, who was named to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team in her debut season. Elia stifled the Yale defense with a hat trick, shooting past both Eli netminders Hanna Mandl ’17 and Rachelle Graham ’16 to lock up the second, fifth and seventh goals for the Terriers.

In the fourth game of her senior season, Graham saw her first minutes on the ice in her

event as it is the closest to Nationals-level competition that we can get in the fall season.”

While the ACCs will provide the last major venue for team competition in the fall, three coed sailors have their eyes set on a separate prize for now.

Baird, Mitchell Kiss ’17, and Malcolm Lamphere ’18 will

head down to Old Dominion a week earlier than the rest of the squad to compete in the Men’s Singlehanded National Championships, where the sailors race in individual boats called lasers. The trio of skippers represents three of the four qualifiers from the Northeastern conference.

“Singlehandeds are fun,” Baird said, “It’s a very different boat than what we normally use and it’s very physi-

cal. We’ll be sailing against a number of current Olympic hopefuls and world champions. Needless to say, it will be hard.”

The ACCs mark the end of the fall season for both sailing squads, who will then enter their offseason, which emphasizes indoor strength training and strategy.

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

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Yale rattled off 34 shots, including nine by forward Phoebe Staenz ’17, but notched only one goal. collegiate career, coming in for Mandl for the start of the third period. Graham faced 12 shots and saved nine, as three Terrier shots got past her in the game’s final 10 minutes to produce the ultimate 7–1 scoreline.

The seven BU goals came despite an increasing focus on defense throughout the game, according to forward Jordan Chancellor ’19.

“The main points that coach was emphasizing during the game was to focus on the details, especially in our defensive zone,” Chancellor said.

The Elis will look to improve defensively in their next contest, a home game against No. 9 Harvard this Friday at 7 p.m.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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In one of its three events, the coed team was victorious at the Freshman New England Championship.

MIDWEEK UPDATE BY THE NUMBERS FOOTBALL LOWEST OFFENSIVE YARD TOTALS FOR YALE IN PAST FIVE YEARS

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Showing the balance of the Ivy League this season, a ring of parity — in which each team has at least indirectly defeated every other conference team — was completed last weekend.

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FROM THE FRONT

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” JOHN F. KENNEDY FORMER PRESIDENT

Harp easily beats two challengers MAYOR’S RACE FROM PAGE 1 oral win in 2013. “Today we are seeing that gamble pay off.”

Harp, the city’s first female mayor, was a state senator for over two decades before tackling issues of youth violence and the city’s budget during her first term as mayor. In her victory speech, Harp cited safer streets, improving schools and a rise in jobs, along with the proliferation of new housing and small businesses cropping up through the city as major achievements of her first term.

Harp added that in her second term, she plans to focus on programs centered on education, the elderly as well as jobs for city residents.

In contrast to the 2013 election, Harp did not encounter a challenger in the primary this year.

Two years ago, Harp defeated three competitors in the primary — Elicker, Kermit Carolina and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 — before pulling in 11,353 votes to Elicker’s 9,416 in the general election.

Harp’s campaign manager Rick Melita declared the mayor’s win

yesterday “an easy victory” before the vote count had been completed.

Voter turnout Tuesday paled in comparison to 2013 — while approximately 30 percent of registered voters cast ballots two years ago, the average voter turnout for this year was under 19 percent.

Westville Alder Adam Marchand, whose seat was uncontested, anticipated that the Board of Education contest would draw otherwise disinterested voters to polls as well. Marchand cited Ward 25 — in which 30 percent of voters turned out this year — as a ward with historically high turnout rates.

Although a majority of the ward voted for Elicker in 2013, Harp dominated the votes by 84 percent this year.

Though turnout varied from ward to ward — with only six wards holding contested aldermanic elections — voters interviewed skewed in favor of Harp, citing her successful first term in office and her Democratic affiliation.

At 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, Harp arrived at Ward 25 polling place Edgewood Magnet School in Westville to cast her own vote.

Harp told reporters there that

public safety, jobs and education were the top issues on which she expected voters to cast ballots.

Harp’s defeated opponents — Keitazulu, a Newhallville plumber, and Smith, a former city clerk — concurred with her on these issues, but suggested that Harp had done little to resolve issues such as crime in the city or to engage with her constituency.

At Ward 20 polling place Lincoln-Bassett School in Newhallville Tuesday morning, Keitazulu acknowledged that he was an underdog in the race.

In an interview with the News after the election, Keitazulu said that the factors which contributed to his loss include limited campaign funds, minimal media coverage and inadequate voter outreach.

Harp faced Keitazulu and Smith in two debates this election season, focusing on issues of the economy and education in the city.

Harp is the 50th mayor of New Haven.

Cameron Hill and Sara Seymour contributed reporting.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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Harp danced to Katy Perry’s “Roar” after winning the mayoral election by an eight-to-one margin.

$50 million devoted to diversifying faculty DIVERSITY FROM PAGE 1 going into nursing, he said. Hiring a woman to teach engineering, however, does more to increase the diversity of that field at Yale.

The initiative, which is being funded not through a gift or donation but rather out of the University’s operating budget, applies not only to hiring diverse candidates to ladder faculty positions but also to bringing as many as 10 visiting professors at one time to teach one-year courses. For example, even though the Drama School has no tenured faculty, School of Drama Dean James Bundy will be able to apply to the Provost’s Office to temporarily bring on new faculty members of his choosing.

The deans of the other professional schools will also be able to hire faculty in a way that best suits their specific faculty-hiring processes, Polak said, noting that this will ensure the initiative can reach every area of campus.

Polak added that he will meet with the dean of each school once a year to talk specifically about the faculty diversity at that school.

“Although the resource of this $25 million is coming from the Provost’s Office, we want each dean to determine what works best for their school,” he said.

This initiative is the result of over a year of work done by the president, the provost, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler and the deans of every professional school. Polak said Salovey has made faculty diversity a major goal since he took office.

While Polak noted that some groups, like women, are underrepresented in the sciences not only at Yale but also across the country, he added that Yale must buck national trends and work harder

to bring more women to fields like engineering. A 2013 head count of faculty found that 2.8 percent of FAS professors were Hispanic, 3.5 percent were African-American and 9 percent were Asian. In October, a large poster mysteriously appeared on Cross Campus drawing attention to disparities between undergraduate and faculty racial diversity: the poster showed that while undergraduate minorities comprise 42 percent of Yale College, minorities in the faculty number only comprise 17 percent.

“If you don’t have a diverse faculty, you are leaving talent on the table,” Polak said. “Half of the most talented people in the sciences are women. The same is true of underrepresented minorities.”

In addition to freeing up budget money to hire faculty and creating a central website for faculty diversity, the initiative also builds on projects that Yale already has in place. For example, the initiative expands a training program in implicit bias for faculty and administrators who are in charge of hiring. It also seeks to expand support for pipelines that encourage minority students to pursue academia after graduation. Yale already has several such programs, such as the Edward A. Bouchet Fellowship, which is aimed at reducing racial disparities among Yale undergraduates who apply to graduate school. Although Yale has introduced several smallerscale faculty diversity initiatives over the years, Polak said the University is now uniquely positioned to allow an initiative of this size. As the University’s finances continue to improve, he said, Yale can begin to afford to introduce new initiatives for faculty and students.

“Things are picking up a little bit,” said Polak. “It’s not going to

be easy to afford, but we can afford it.”

Although a majority of the initiative’s funding will go to hiring a more diverse faculty, graduate and undergraduate students interviewed said retaining faculty of color may actually be the larger problem. Over the past few months, three of Yale’s black professors affiliated with the African American Studies Department have announced that they will leave Yale at the end of this academic year. Both English and African American Studies professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84 and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor Vanessa AgardJones ’00 will go to Columbia University, which has committed over $60 million to faculty diversification efforts since 2012. The university-wide initiative at Columbia, which is currently in its second three-year phase, also aims to help each of its schools recruit underrepresented minority and female scholars.

In September, Alexander told the News that Yale lags behind its peer institutions where it should be a leader and that Yale should make faculty diversity a priority as Columbia has. Agard-Jones said while Yale succeeds in attracting diverse professors in the first place, its high attrition rates for black faculty are a “structural pattern.”

Co-Community Development Chair for the Asian American Students Alliance Crystal Kong ’18 said that while she supports the sentiment and plan laid out by the provost and president, administrators should outline in greater detail to the Yale community how it will address the problem of faculty retention. “Yale is already less diverse and worse off because of these departures,” Kong said.

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“Working on retaining diverse faculty, in my opinion, is as important as working on hiring them.”

Part of the initiative does seek to provide more support for minority faculty once they have been hired: Polak and Salovey’s email announced the creation of a University-wide teaching academy that will address the unique challenges faced by women in STEM fields and international and underrepresented faculty. According to the administrators’ email, Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribiescas will provide further information about that initiative later this semester.

Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, said faculty diversity now ensures faculty diversity in the future. Professors act as mentors and sources of inspiration for graduate students,

Mo said. When a student identifies with a professor, that student might be more likely to follow that professor’s career path and enter academia, she added.

Kong agreed, noting that today’s undergraduates are tomorrow’s graduate students and professors.

For graduate students, the Provost’s Office recently increased its financial support for the Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity, an office that helps all graduate students follow their intellectual and professional aspirations. This increase was highlighted in Polak and Salovey’s email.

“It’s important to have role models and mentors that you can relate to and identify with,” said Haylee Kushi ’18, who is on staff at the Native American Cultural Center. She added that diversity is also important in departments

with a greater emphasis on studying diversity like African American Studies, Political Science or the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program. It makes sense for members of underrepresented groups to teach their own histories or speak on own issues directly related to them, she said.

Over the next five years, Polak said, Yale will monitor the effects of the initiative to judge whether it has been successful. Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said the president and the provost will continue to work together on the issue of faculty diversity.

The total number of faculty employed at Yale across Yale College and the graduate and professional schools in the 2014–15 academic year was 4,410.

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

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 11:30 AM The Wind in the Bamboo: Journeys In Search of Asia’s Indigenous “Negrito” Peoples. Indigenous Asian huntergatherers of ancient ancestry, once defined as a separate “Negrito race” due to their African appearance survive in the Philippines, Malaysia and India. Author and activist Edith Mirante reveals their contemporary lives and challenges with a slide show based on her new book, “The Wind in the Bamboo” about her journeys to meet them. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall.

3:30 PM George Tice: 60 Years of Photography. George Tice has been working in the field of photography for more than 60 years, focusing his camera on the American rural and urban landscape. He is drawn to vestiges of American culture on the verge of extinction — from people in rural or small-town communities to urban and suburban neighborhoods that are often in decline. Green Hall (1156 Chapel St.), Rm. B03.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 5:30 PM “Little Saigo”: The Life and Times of New Haven’s Own Last Samurai. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 and the rebels who died in it have been romanticized in the Japanese imagination almost from the moment of the first battle. But fighting alongside rebel leader Saigo Takamori was a real-life commander fresh from the United States. This talk will bring to life the forgotten story of New Haven’s own “last samurai,” a teenager whose bravery and determination in battle earned him the nickname “Little Saigo.”

Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

7:30 PM Capitalism and the Climate Change Crisis.

Presented by Margins magazine and Fossil Free Yale, Fred Magdoff, a professor of soil science at the University of Vermont, will be discussing capitalism’s relationship to the climate change crisis and how we can achieve a sustainable economy and society.

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ARTS & CULTURE Renowned artist William Kentridge comes to Yale

BY TÉA BEER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, the Yale Repertory Theater is putting on two performances of South African artist William Kentridge’s multimedia chamber opera “Refuse the Hour” alongside an exhibition of his work at the Yale University Art Gallery.

“Refuse the Hour,” which was conceived and directed by Kentridge, explores the themes of time and colonialism, a continuation of motifs from his earlier opera entitled “The Refusal of Time.” The production process involved collaboration between Kentridge and other artists, including composer Philip Miller and choreographer Dada Masilo, to present a piece that combines various forms of visual arts, music and drama.

Singers, dancers and musicians come together on stage alongside machines built by Kentridge. The artist himself will perform in the work. An accompanying exhibit of Kentridge’s work, which includes drawings, animations and other forms of installation art, will be on display at the YUAG through January.

“William Kentridge is one of the world’s great visual artists and directors, and his presence at Yale is a boon to anyone who is interested in art, music, opera and performance,” said James Bundy, dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theater. “[The production] is the result of a terrific collaboration focused on bringing this internationally renowned arts leader to Yale.”

The opera revisits themes common in Kentridge’s work as a visual artist — such as oppression, violence, racism, absurdity, uncertainty and “provisionality” — as well as his propensity to harness a variety of media within a single work.

Pamela Franks, deputy director for exhibitions, programming and education and curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the YUAG, explained that “Refuse the Hour” brings together a wide variety of visual imagery, music and narrative in its exploration of the

concept of time, creating a multisensory experience for viewers.

“What is most fascinating is that by bringing all these art forms together, he is using time to explore time, because music, dance and film are a way of taking his still images and letting them unfold over time,” Franks noted.

“This allows him to … extend that visible realm [he creates in his visual art] into the temporal and aural and performative.”

The Repertory Theater’s production of “Refuse the Hour” is itself a collaboration between a number of Yale organizations, including the YUAG, the Center for British Art, the School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music.

In addition, the YUAG’s Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Fund will sponsor a talk by Kentridge this Sunday in which the artist will discuss several of his current projects.

Franks said she thinks the prominence of Yale’s schools of music, theater and art make the University a fitting place to put on such a complicated performance, adding that Kentridge received an honorary doctorate from the School of Art in 2013. She highlighted as well the YUAG’s significant holdings of the artist’s work, including a pair of video works currently on display in the Gallery.

Wa Liu ’17, an art major and former photography editor for the News, said she is looking forward to Kentridge’s visit to Yale because of her interest in the artist’s involvement with a multiplicity of cultures. She mentioned his identity as a white South African man, as well as his recent interest in Chinese culture, particularly the Cultural Revolution, which Liu said she thought was on display in a solo exhibition she saw of his work in Beijing this past summer, which included “Notes Towards a Model Opera.”

Kentridge’s art has been shown around the world, including his production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s “The Nose” at the Metropolitan Opera in 2010 alongside an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Contact TÉA BEER at tea.beer@yale.edu .

TASNIM ELBOUTE/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Kentridge’s “Refuse the Hour” will be performed at Yale this weekend. It is complemented by an exhibition at the YUAG on display through January.

YUAG talk highlights new Velázquez scholarship

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER The Yale University Art Gallery hosted a lecture on Sunday highlighting new scholarship on the work of Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez.

At the talk, Salvador SalortPons, president, director and CEO of the Detroit Institute of Arts, discussed the historical and artistic context surrounding Velázquez’s development as a painter, including analysis of the social and urban back-

ground of the artist’s home city of Sevilla. Additionally, Salort-Pons explored new scholarly hypotheses regarding paintings that have been recently attributed to — or are thought to have been created by the hand of — Velázquez. In his lecture, he noted that it is important to think creatively about art historical scholarship in order to further one’s knowledge of the subject.

“By having imagination, creative thinking and new hypotheses, we will at least have a chance to advance knowledge,” Salort-

Pons said.

Salort-Pons drew links between the work of Velázquez and the 16th-century intellectual and painterly tradition epitomized by his teacher, Francisco Pacheco, who was a master of the period’s canonical styles. Despite his background working in the studio of a more traditional painter, Velázquez eventually became a pioneer of more modern techniques.

In his lecture, Salort-Pons suggested that such pioneering tendencies may have had their roots

in Velázquez’s inspiration by other painters in addition to Pacheco, one of the new theories that has recently emerged in scholarship relating to Velázquez’s work.

For example, Salort-Pons mentioned the work of Luis Tristán, Spanish painter, who worked for a period in the studio of El Greco.

Salort-Pons added that several of Tristán’s formal techniques may have inspired Velázquez.

“Tristán inspired young Velázquez,” he explained. “What [Velázquez] saw as inspirational was the dramatic use of light and

a modulated technique that gave a sense of three dimensions.”

Salort-Pons added that Velázquez started to gradually adopt a style similar to Tristán’s and to distance himself from the formal strategies he had learned under Pacheco.

In his lecture, Salort-Pons also highlighted the more modernistic elements of Velázquez’s technique, noting in particular the paintings’ ambitious interpretations of reality.

Adelaide Goodyear ’17, who attended the event, said she found

Salort-Pons’ technique of comparative analysis — in which he discussed the paintings of Velázquez in relation to those of other painters from the same era — particularly effective in aiding her comprehension of the works.

Goodyear added that she thought providing context of the city of Sevilla gave the talk an additional dimension that helped her understand the artist’s paintings in a new way.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

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Documentary celebrates Liberian women’s peace initiative

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday, the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs hosted a screening of the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” accompanied by a Q&A session with director Gini Reticker.

The film follows the story of the Liberian women’s peace movement, “Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace,” which brought together women from Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. The women came together under the leadership of Leymah Gwobee, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts, to engage in nonviolent protest against atrocities and violence occurring as a result of the country’s second civil war, which took place between 1999 and 2003.

The group’s initiatives included a demand for a resolution to the civil war, which was ultimately successful. Reticker said that after meeting Gwobee, she decided to share with the world the story of the group’s struggle for peace by producing the documentary, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and won the prize for Best Documentary Feature.

Women are not always victims, they also have agency. These women were ready to share their story.

GINI RETICKER Director, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” “Women are not always victims, they also have agency,” Reticker said. “These women were ready to share their story.”

“Pray the Devil Back to Hell” includes scenes of Liberian women engaged in nonviolent protest, donning white shirts and carrying signs with demands for immediate peace.

With time, Reticker said, increasing numbers of women joined, until ultimately the movement caught the attention of Liberia’s dictator, Charles Taylor, as well as the eyes of the international community.

Rosemary DiCarlo, a senior fellow of the Jackson Institute and former U.S. deputy permanent representative at the United Nations, explained that the institute decided to show the film as a way of celebrating

women who play positive roles in resolving conflicts. During her time at the United Nations, DiCarlo added, the movie was screened as a way of showing women that they can change the world. It was for the same reason, she noted, that she had hoped to screen the film at Yale.

Reticker said that she became involved with the project of documenting the story of “Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace” in December 2006, three years after the end of the country’s second civil war. In May 2007, a film crew was sent to Liberia, Reticker noted. She added, however, that in order for “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” to accurately portray the violence of the civil war — as well as the dedication of the Liberian women’s peace initiative — she needed actual footage from the war.

“I spent weeks looking at war footage to extract footage of the women protesters,” Reticker explained, adding that she also received clips from Charles Taylor’s videographer, taken while Taylor was still president of Liberia.

Míriam Juan-Torres GRD ’16, who attended the screening, said she thinks it is important for such powerful movies to be shown, in order to convey the message that women are not just victims or mothers, but can occupy positions of power as well.

Another event attendee, Esther Soma ’16, noted that the movie’s celebration of the Liberian women’s agency reminded her of her own strength as a woman. Soma added that she identified with the film’s characters, and that she appreciated how the movie conveys a message about the power of change that can be applied to her native country of South Sudan.

“Pride in my blackness and in my womanhood is what I felt as I watched ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell,’” Soma explained. “As tears rolled down my cheeks at different points in the film, I was reminded of the strength of my people who so often are portrayed as victims of war but this film portrayed them as agents of peace.”

Reticker’s newest documentary focuses on the story of another three women, this time during the violent conflicts of the Arab Spring.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

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“Pray the Devil Back to Hell” was screened on Tuesday afternoon at an event organized by the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs.

Artist’s talk explores abstraction, smoke and dogs

BY VEENA MCCOOLE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Artist Math Bass gave a talk at the School of Art on Tuesday, discussing current projects and past exhibitions.

A handful of School of Art students gathered Tuesday afternoon in the School’s 353 Crown St. space to hear artist Math Bass discuss her experience curating art shows and creating mixed-media art with a distinct interdisciplinary approach.

Bass’s body of work features pieces in a variety of media, ranging from sculpture to performance art. During the lecture, she discussed her conceptdriven approach to art-making and some of the major themes her work explores, such as abstract symbolism, the “physicalization” of body forms and the way that objects can become images and the “articulation of negative space.” The artist also described painting techniques employed in her pieces, such as the use of solid blocks of color, crowded compositions and recurring patterns, as well as several past exhibitions of her work, including an April 2015 show at MoMA PS1, a nonprofit exhibition space for experimental art in Queens, and an exhibit at Los Angeles’s Overduin & Co. gallery.

“Math Bass’ work may appear simple, with blocks of solid color in sharply delineated space. Her images are geometric, reminiscent of graphic design, but not static,” said history of art major Myles Garbarini ’17, who attended the talk.

“Repetition and patterning activate the forms, evoking a surprising amount of movement.

Bass uses geometric elements as symbols, as if they comprise a

code for the viewer to decipher.

Forms reduced to their essential lines and colors suggest realworld references that are much more complex.”

Bass explained that she has been working on her latest project, a collection of paintings entitled “Newz!”, for the past four years. Pieces within the series often juxtapose corporeal and architectural forms, combining compact compositions, repetition of particular shapes such as cigarettes with plumes of smoke and clearly defined boundaries. Installations of the works often include pieces executed in a variety of other media, such as sculpture and performance art.

I had an interest in using and repeating this really simple vocabulary of symbols that I generated.

MATH BASS Artist The artist added that each iteration of a series informs her next crop of pieces, making her body of work a progressive evolution of ideas.

“I had an interest in using and repeating this really simple vocabulary of symbols that I generated,” Bass explained.

“Some of them started out as discrete images, and others began to amass into illusions.”

Although frequently geometric, her works often incorporate recurring elements such as

smoke and fog, natural phenomena that Bass said have intrigued her throughout her career.

In painting, Bass noted that she often uses smoke, because she thinks that it adds depth to a two-dimensional representation. In her performance art, Bass added that she often explores the omnipresence of fog, and humans’ experience of being powerless to control it, mentioning a piece she created a few years ago — “Dogs and Fog” — which featured 20 dogs and seven performers in a room filled with fog.

“There was a presence of dog that was just really invigorating,” Bass said of the piece.

Bass’ talk also highlighted several of her past exhibitions, including “Off the Clock,” a solo show at MoMA PS1 that featured a mix of new and old pieces, and “Lies Inside,” her first individual show in Los Angeles, in which she focused on the use of “sight lines” to allow for varying visual experiences based on where an observer is standing.

“You can’t look at something in the show without looking through somewhere else,” she said. “When you enter the room, your view of these images is obstructed by the gate, so either way you have the experience of being contained within or held outside.”

Lauren Britton ART ’17 said she found it interesting to hear Bass discuss her growth as an artist, adding that the screening of Bass’ short performance art clips was a highlight of the event.

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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Yale lets one slip away MEN’S SOCCER

Elis outshoot, but fall 7–1

BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team skated off the ice a year ago after a 4–4 tie against Boston University, satisfied with its performance against a top national team, but looking for an opportunity to prove itself with a more definitive win.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Elis (1–3–0, 1–1–0 ECAC) got that chance against the same opponent Tuesday night in Boston, and in the process outshot BU (6–4–0, 4–1–0 Hockey East) 34–32 in a game that saw the same number of goals as the 2014 matchup. But in the statistic that ultimately mattered, Yale fell far short, dropping the non-conference contest 7–1 — the Bulldogs’ largest margin of defeat in two years.

“Every period was below average for our team,” forward Eden Murray

’18 said. “There were segments in each period where we showed greatness, but all together it was not good enough to finish with the outcome we wanted.”

Forward Jamie Haddad ’16, coming off a one-game suspension that kept her out of Saturday’s contest, scored the Elis’ only goal, assisted by forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 in the second period. The goal brought the score to 2–1, giving the Elis hope midway through the game. But five Terrier goals followed, including three within three minutes of each other in the game’s final period.

The contest could have started differently. Within the first 40 seconds of the first period, the Bulldogs looked as if they had managed to get a shot past BU starting goaltender Erin O’Neil.

But video review clarified that forward Phoebe Staenz ’17 kicked the puck through the pipes.

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Defender Tyler Detorie ’16 and the Yale backline held strong for most of the night but cracked with less than 10 minutes left.

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s soccer team traveled an hour north to play Central Connecticut State on Tuesday night only to see its loss count for the season swell to 13.

Despite outshooting the Blue Devils (5–9–2, 2–4–0 Northeast) and enjoying one of their most active offensive performances of the season, the Bulldogs (1–13–1, 0–4–1 Ivy) were unable to convert their chances in the tight 1–0 loss, allowing CCSU to send off its seniors in style on Senior Night.

“This is one of the more devastating losses I’ve been involved with, ever,”

head coach Kylie Stannard said. “We completely dominated from start to finish and could have been up threenothing in the first 15 minutes just by finishing some opportunities better.”

Though the team did not score, the first half was nonetheless one of Yale’s most attack-oriented 45 minutes of the season.

Shooting seven times, a season high for a half, the Yale offense established its presence early, something the team struggled to do throughout much of October. The team’s first-half shot count demonstrated a vast improvement over the past six games. In those six contests that date back to Oct. 6, the Bulldogs averaged just under two

shots in the first half.

Despite the statistical uptick, however, Yale was unable to find the back of the net before halftime.

“We came out with a very aggressive mentality, pressing them really hard and we had good success with that strategy and put them under a lot of pressure during the first 20 minutes of the game and created a bunch of chances for ourselves,” midfielder Lucas Kirby ’19 said. “Unfortunately, the ball, per usual, seemed to not bounce our way in the box.”

The defense was also effective in the first half, limiting the Blue Devils SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 7

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Forward Jamie Haddad ’16 scored Yale’s only goal in the 7–1 loss, a crushing blow after the Bulldogs’ win on Saturday over No. 5 Quinnipiac.

Both sailing squads qualify for ACCs

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER In a four-regatta weekend that included an impressive allfreshman victory, the Yale coed and women’s sailing teams both qualified to compete at the Atlantic Coast Championships, one of the most prestigious regattas of the Elis’ fall season.

SAILING The Bulldogs’ No. 2 coed squad boasted top-five finishes across the board for the A division in its three competitions, including the Erwin Schell Trophy, which determined a berth in the ACCs, while the No. 2 women’s team earned fifth place in the Victorian Coffee Urn which had identical implications for the ACCs. The performances of each team at the Championships, the final regatta of the season, will play a role in dictating the spring schedule, whose events are weighted more strongly than the fall’s when calculating national rankings.

“This was a really successful weekend,” crew Ayla Besemer ’19 said. “The freshmen displayed immense potential. Our team raced really well and did everything we needed to do.”

The coed team was split among three regattas over the course of the weekend. On the Charles River, the team participated in the 74th Erwin Schell Trophy, encountering frustrating Halloween weather conditions that canceled much of Saturday’s action.

The A division, skippered by Ian Barrows ’17 with a crew of Amelia Dobronyi ’17 and Natalya Doris ’17, won three out of 10 races in Boston, finishing fifth, just eight points behind second place in a field of 18 teams. Seven teams in total advanced from the regatta to the ACCs. “At the Schell, the coed team did exceptionally well on Sunday on the Charles River, which is notoriously a very hard venue,” skipper Nic Baird ’19, who competed at the freshman-only Nickerson Regatta, said. “They were able to get back into the top five and because the points were so close, they were in a position to win the regatta going into the last set.”

Meanwhile, at the Roger Williams-hosted Dave Perry Team Race, which is a team racing event rather than the more typical fleet racing form of competition. Although a lack of wind took its toll in Rhode Island as well,

cutting the sailing short on Saturday, improved conditions on Sunday enabled competition to continue, with Yale finishing last in the five-school event.

According to Besemer, who raced in the Dave Perry regatta, the six-sailor crew was rather unaccustomed to team races entering the weekend, but benefitted in terms of preparation for future events.

“It was a learning experience,” Besemer said. “It’s a new type of regatta for us. We learned everything we possibly could [about the different style of competition.]”

Just outside of Boston, Tufts hosted the Nickerson Regatta, where Yale’s coed boats of firstyear collegiate sailors took the top spot, defeating the Jumbos by 16 points to secure a victory in the 20-school field. In the B division, Baird and crew Claire Rossi de Leon ’19 contributed significantly to the team’s victory with an impressive series of straight bullets, winning the six races the duo competed in.

While neither the Dave Perry Team Race nor the Nickerson Regatta has any bearing on the spring schedule, the two events provided valuable opportunities to gain experience, especially

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for underclassmen, according to multiple sailors.

As for the women’s team, the Bulldogs finished the Victorian Regatta in fifth place, just 16 points behind regatta winner University of Rhode Island.

Consistent performances from the fleet contributed to the team’s success in the fall qualifier, at which eight schools in the 15-school field moved on to the ACCs. According to Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17, who was a member of the A crew, a standout thirdplace result from the B division team of skipper KB Knapp ’18 and her crews captain Charlotte Belling ’16 and Claire Huebner ’18 demonstrated the Elis’ potential moving forward.

“Both divisions sailed really well at the Urn,” Rossi de Leon said. “We were less than 10 points out of first for most of the regatta.

I know we can pull off a fantastic finish at ACCs. This is what we’ve been working for. My boat (with Casey Klingler ’18) felt great. We were consciously pulling together everything we’ve learned this season.”

Looking ahead toward the final races of the fall season, both squads will journey to Norfolk, Virginia to compete in the coed

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The coed and women’s sailing teams will each take part in the ACCs in two weekends. and women’s Atlantic Coast Championships on Nov. 14 and 15.

A year ago, the coed team took home a fourth-place result at the ACCs while the women claimed an eight-place finish.

“The ACC is simply the most

competitive regatta for us in the fall,” Baird said. “If you win, then you’re the Atlantic Coast Champion, but … what matters is that we gain as much experience and practice that we can from that SEE SAILING PAGE 7

THE NUMBER OF YALE CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERS THAT EARNED ALL-IVY RECOGNITION FOLLOWING THE IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS. Kevin Dooney ’16, James Randon ’17 and Frances Schmiede ’17 all received a spot on the first team while Dana Klein ’18 landed on the second team.