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ance at Yale and the Intercultural Affairs Committee, as well as SAE brothers and Christakis, all attended the forum. Due to the large turnout of students and faculty, the forum had to be split into two rooms. The open discussion, which lasted more than two hours, centered around the two specific debates, but
Tuesday night’s Ward 1 aldermanic race was the closest in recent history — close enough to trigger an automatic recount by the Connecticut Secretary of State’s Office. Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 beat Republican challenger Ugonna Eze ’16 by a 17-vote margin. While Eidelson originally held a 50-vote margin of victory at the New Haven Free Public Library — the main polling place for Ward 1 — the count of the sameday registration votes at City Hall dropped the margin below the 20-vote threshold necessary to force a recount in the race. Connecticut state law mandates that the recount must be completed by Nov. 10. Eidelson said Wednesday she knew an automatic recount was underway, but said she was unaware of its details. Tyler Blackmon ’16, president of the Yale College Democrats and a staff columnist for the News, said he doubts the recount will cause the result of the election to change. “I don’t know the full details, but my understanding is that it’s just close enough that it’s required by law,” Blackmon said. “I certainly don’t expect for things to change substantially either way.” Mollie Johnson ’18, Eze’s campaign manager, said the campaign looks forward to hearing the outcome of the recount. The turnout of 759 voters at the polls was
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Those “damn emails” again.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders rejected the statement he made at last month’s Democratic primary debate that voters are tired of hearing about fellow candidate Hillary Clinton’s LAW ’73 “damn emails.” Instead, Sanders went on the offensive, saying that if the emails compromised classified information then they ought to be discussed.
Top 10. Yale ranked third
in a recent GQ list of “The 10 Douchiest Colleges in America.” The only other Ivy League institution to make the list was Cornell, which took the top spot. “It’s college — a certain amount of douchebaggery is acceptable,” GQ wrote.
Looking for something dumb to do? Rapper Lil Dicky, who
performed to a full house at Toad’s Place last night, stayed after his concert and partied with Yale students at Woads. In fact, at 7:30 p.m. before his show, Lil Dicky tweeted: “Yale, after this show I will be at this dance party looking for my wife.” The first amendment. Silliman
College will host a Master’s Tea with Greg Lukianoff, founder of FIRE — an organization described as the “ACLU” of academia — at 7 p.m. this evening. At the event, titled “Is free speech on campus in peril?,” Lukianoff will discuss his Atlantic cover story, “The Coddling of the American Mind.”
Poker? I barely know her.
Berkeley College will host a Master’s Tea with two-time American Women’s Chess Champion Jennifer Shahade at 4 p.m. this evening. Shahade is also a world-ranked poker player who recently won first place at the 2014 Open Face Chinese Poker Tournament. Pillow talk. Students will
perform Martin McDonagh’s harrowing play about artistic expression and police brutality, “The Pillowman,” at the Saybrook Underbrook at 9 p.m. tonight. There will also be performances on Friday and Saturday night.
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1973 Bob Woodward ’65 appears on campus as the guest of the Yale Political Union’s Liberal Party to discuss the process of uncovering the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein for the Washington Post. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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biography of former President George H. W. Bush ’48 titled “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” author Jon Meacham quotes Bush Sr. taking a swing at his son’s second-in-command, Dick Cheney. “He just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with,” Bush says about the former vice president and Yale dropout.
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Hundreds lined up outside the Af-Am House on Wednesday for an open forum on the experiences of minorities at Yale. BY VICTOR WANG AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS Hundreds of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty crowded into the Afro-American Cultural Center Wednesday night to discuss allegations of institutional racism on campus. More than 350 members of the Yale community attended the open forum,
which centered around two controversies that have absorbed campus conversation since Friday: a Friday morning email sent by Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis criticizing oversensitivity to cultural appropriation, and charges that members of Yale’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity racially discriminated against partygoers that same night. Members of the Black Student Alli-
Eidelson canvassers draw criticism BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS After incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 won the closest race in Ward 1 history Tuesday, complaints have surfaced alleging that her canvassers used overly aggressive tactics to spur her on to that victory. Students interviewed claim
that canvassers entered residential college suites without permission, made multiple return visits and engaged in unwanted outreach. Many students said the methods used by Eidelson’s campaign turned them off from supporting her bid for a third term as Ward 1 alder. But Eidelson said she has not heard any complaints from students about unwanted canvass-
Graduate students decry GESO tactics
ing tactics. “We did a lot of work to try to reach as many people as we possibly could and engage them on the issues and make sure they knew what was going on,” Eidelson said. Yale College Democrats President Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff columnist for the News, declined to comment on the allegations against Eidelson’s
canvassers. The Yale College Democrats launched campaign activity for Eidelson following the Ward 1 Democratic primary, with many members canvassing for Eidelson. Timur Guler ’18 said the Eidelson canvassers’ actions amounted to “stalking” and “harassment.” “They ran [the campaign] like Nixon,” Guler said. “It was
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New signs mark gender-neutral bathrooms BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER
BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER At a rally on Beinecke Plaza last month pushing for unionization, leaders of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization boasted that they had support from two-thirds of Yale graduate students. At the rally’s end, GESO President Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 carried a large banner bearing hundreds of faces — the faces of the students GESO claims support the group’s efforts — into Woodbridge Hall. Yet questions persist about whether GESO actually has majority support from graduate students, and about how GESO gathers that support. Some graduate students interviewed said GESO members use aggressive tactics to find new members, and while many graduate students interviewed said they support graduate student unionization, some were less supportive of GESO’s campaign methods. “I have experienced aggressive approaches at times,” said Emine Altuntas GRD ’17. “At times GESO members were not open to criticism and taking ‘no’ as an answer.”
ridiculous.” He said canvassers visited his suite at least three times a day leading up to the election. He added that even though he told canvassers their actions had turned him away from supporting Eidelson, his suitemates still received texts and calls nearly three times a day.
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Tamar Gendler and Maria Trumpler attended a ribbon cutting ceremony for gender-neutral restrooms.
On the first floor of the East Asian Languages building at 432 Temple St., Director of LGBTQ Resources Maria Trumpler, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler and the University’s Chief Diversity Officer Debbie Stanley-McAulay gathered Wednesday to cut a rainbow-colored ribbon in celebration of a recent project to put up gender-neutral restroom signs in 23 Yale buildings. The new signs — which feature a female, male and gender-neutral figure, as well as the words “All Gender Restroom” — have been installed over the past month and can now be found at locations indicated on the new All Gender Restroom Map on the Office of LGBTQ Resources website. The signage initiative is part of a larger joint initiative by the Office of LGBTQ Resources, the FAS Dean’s Office, the Office of the Provost, University Planning and the Office of Facilities to establish more gender-neutral restroom spaces on campus to meet the needs of a growing LGBTQ community. The 23 buildings with newly marked restrooms are just a small fraction of the 119 buildings on Yale’s campus with gender-neutral restroom spaces, but the remaining buildings’ restrooms are still marked by the traditional “Male/Female” signage, despite functioning as gender neutral spaces. SEE SIGNS PAGE 4
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n organization on this campus has been accused of blatant racism. And, in the past, sexual harassment as well. In light of these allegations, we pose this question: Would you still attend a party or mixer at SAE? Two years ago, SAE’s initiation ritual was found to have violated the University’s sexual misconduct policies. The Yale administration banned the fraternity from campus, yet students continued to flock to SAE’s parties and Thursday late-nights. Now the organization has been accused of allowing only “white girls” inside their house. Similar accusations against SAE have surfaced in the past, and they aren’t just coincidence. They form a pattern of racism and misogyny that we, Yale students, have the power to stop. After this initial outrage subsides, will we continue to turn a blind eye? Some have made the argument that this past weekend’s events come down to hearsay. These arguments play into a long and problematic tradition of distrusting the accounts of women of color. Moreover, that’s not the point — the fact is that students were made to feel targeted and uncomfortable because of their race. Comments on the original Facebook post convey that this is not an isolated incident and that many students have felt discriminated against by SAE’s behaviors. SAE’s president has continued to make the point that the organization is diverse in terms of race and sexual orientation. That is irrelevant. SAE may have diverse membership but some of its members have acted in prejudiced ways regardless. They have created a social space that does not welcome students of all races and sexual orientations. This is not something that can be undone by simply accepting a few more members who aren’t white, straight and wealthy. SAE has been part of a trend of racist, misogynist and classist incidents and it is our responsibility as members of this community to condemn that. When an organization is involved in so many instances of misconduct, it’s clear that these are not just aberrations. SAE has created an environment of privilege, one in which students feel empowered to target others for their race, sexual orientation and gender. That’s not something our community should tolerate. Indeed, SAE nationally has been the subject of myriad instances of abuse and hate. The chapter at the University of Oklahoma was filmed singing a racist song. The chapter at Stanford was put on probation after its members harassed female students and pressured them not to file Title IX complaints.
All too often, we leave it to Yale’s administration to censure Greek organizations for their misdeeds. But as Dean of Student Engagement Burgell Howard told the News, the University has limited power to sanction organizations that operate off campus. That means that we can’t afford to keep punting responsibility. We have to take action. In addition to speaking out, we can do something powerful and simple: Stop going to SAE. Stop mixing with SAE. Come spring, don’t rush SAE. For those speaking out against SAE’s behavior, we have to make our actions align with our words. For the white girls in line at SAE who get pulled up to the front: Don’t go inside. Creating racist and sexist spaces at Yale hurts all of us, even the ones who ostensibly benefit from the behavior. As a Greek organization with a space for hosting parties, SAE has social capital — students go to their parties and formals, and sororities continue to mix with them. But we’ve granted them that capital. It’s a power we can easily take away. The problem is not just SAE; it’s the Yale students crowding around SAE’S door to be let in. If we continue to accept SAE’s role as a dominant social force on this campus, we are tacitly condoning their behavior. It’s easy enough to take a photograph with your sorority proclaiming “It’s On Us.” But that means nothing unless we actually act on that slogan. We’ve seen some signs of hope in the outrage that emerged after this weekend’s encounter. Individual members of SAE have announced that they will deactivate. This week, Theta canceled their upcoming mixer with SAE. Pi Phi planned a forum to discuss issues of race and Greek life. These are small gestures, but they matter. We understand that people enjoy SAE — but a fun time out should not come at the expense of someone else’s experience of racism and misogyny. SAE has benefited from its privilege and entitlement. But they’re not the only ones with power in this situation. Social norms change behavior, and we as Yale students dictate these norms. The norm should be that we reject organizations accused of sexual harassment, racism and discrimination. Let’s not wait for the next allegation against SAE. SAE cannot institute a racist door policy if no one is at its door.
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efore his book “On Writing Well” sold more than a million copies, William Zinsser was master of Branford College and taught a nonfiction workshop in the 1970s. He made a superlative impression on his students. When four of them came to Yale last month to speak at an event honoring Zinsser, who died in May, they called him the “warmest” and “best” professor they ever had. “The magic of the class sprang directly from Zinsser,” said Jane Mayer, a staff writer at The New Yorker. “I’m tempted to say, ‘They don’t make them like Bill Zinsser any more,’” said novelist Christopher Buckley. “Only I can see his red pen comment in the margin: ‘Avoid cliché.’” Zinsser was unpretentious and funny; word of his class spread fast. In his first year teaching, his seminar received 170 applications in a semester. The panelists, even after careers at America’s foremost publications, seemed grateful and a shade incredulous that they got a spot in Zinsser’s 15-seat seminar. “I am sometimes amazed that he let me into his residential college seminar on writing humor,” said Mayer. At the dinner before the event, John Tierney, of the New York Times, revealed that Zinsser had asked him to take the course as a freshman. “The resentment that showed when we learned that,”
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class as a model for a nonfiction seminar that any student could take. The result was English 120. “The class both stands on Bill’s shoulders and honors him,” Strebeigh told me, minutes after his own English 120 section had finished for the afternoon. “The other tributary is the Yale English department. I think of English 120 as ‘close reading for craft.’ Zinsser would tell you to read Tom Wolfe, but, ‘Don’t you dare try to write like Tom Wolfe.’ In English 120, we say, ‘Go for it!’” The 300-odd students who pre-register for English 120 every year get a modified version of the Zinsser experience. Many professors assign Zinsser's book, but the magic no longer springs from one source. Yale began offering more upper level nonfiction courses, too. This year there were four or five nonfiction seminars a semester, ranging from “Writing Humor” to “Writing about Oneself.” Students also take “Daily Themes,” a creative writing lecture where students meet with tutors and write 300 words a day. These classes accommodate more than a hundred students a year. “There’s still a terrible supply-demand ratio,” professor Anne Fadiman told me. Fadiman teaches two advanced nonfiction seminars every year. “We wring our hands at the number
of people we have to say no to. Every semester I get a few emails from students who ask what was wrong with their application. Nothing was wrong with their application. You have to remember that writing teachers are capricious and have changing tastes. If you’re a really great writer and you keep at it, you’ll get into some classes eventually.” “But,” she added, “none of these classes is a miraculous road to writing success.” Zinsser liked to begin every semester by telling his class, “Writing well can’t be taught, but it can be learned.” Even superlative professors impart only so much. Students are left to hammer and shape their own prose. Though Yale does not offer all the classes its aspiring writers want, it does teach many of us unsolicited lessons in disappointment and perseverance. These lessons are important. Writing is an ego-bruising business, with no miraculous path. Zinsser’s voice has carried far beyond his small, decadelong seminar. It hums from a generation’s worth of profiles and patient histories, memos and memoirs, from prose warmer and clearer than what might have been. NATHAN KOHRMAN is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .
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said Fred Strebeigh, shaking his head, his sentence trailing off. (Strebeigh, another Zinsser alum, teaches nonNATHAN at KOHRMAN fiction Yale.) T h i s At the seam endemic anxiety of Yale students — that the best experiences come with the slimmest odds of admission — has not faded over 40 years. Sitting in the middle of the Branford common room, I remembered my own flash of resentment when, earlier this fall, I learned I was one of somedozen would-be nonfiction writers without a seminar seat. But as is common when my confidence flags, I was missing the bigger point. I owe much of what I’ve learned about writing to what our university learned from William Zinsser. Zinsser’s class introduced Yale to serious nonfiction. “At the time there was nothing else like it,” said Strebeigh. “No one took the time to talk about E.B. White or Joan Didion or John McPhee. You could not get that in a classroom — modern nonfiction writers worth taking seriously.” In the mid-1970s, Yale used Zinsser’s
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hen I talked to my mom about the racially charged incidents of the past week, she was worried. After I described to her the reported incident at SAE, she asked, “Do you think they would’ve let you in?” Referring to my anger at SAE’s alleged refusal to admit anyone other than “white girls,” my mom didn’t mean to imply that I was unnecessarily upset. As my parent, she was most concerned with where I fit into this situation. If I showed up at a crowded frat house, would one of the brothers want me to enter? Would I be deemed attractive enough in the eyes of these men? Pinning down my heritage is hard with my light-to-medium olive skin tone. I’m tall from my Italian heritage, but I have South-American, indigenous cheekbones. So I guess I don’t always know how some people might categorize me. I don’t go to frats. I went to some frat parties in the blur of early freshman year, and a handful of other events over the years, but that’s not my scene. But these recent events have sparked thinking about my relationships to SAE and other groups of predominantly white, heterosexual men and women. Between freshman and junior year, people (all of whom were white, and most of whom were
w o m e n ) have commented on the fact that I’m lucky or fortunate to be “ethnic” but not overtly ADRIANA so. With the intention of MIELE complimenting me, many Check white men and women yourself express a fantasy to me about marrying a person of color, a POC. They discuss their desire for mixed-race children as though we are objects for Pinterest boards. I have been thinking a lot about the discussion to address Yale’s recent racialized issues in the Af-Am House on Monday evening. I showed up late to a room of cultural center deans and other members of the Intercultural Affairs Committee. There were a handful of white students. The vast majority of participants were black, Latina and/or indigenous women and a few men of color. We spoke freely. Around the room, there was validation for what I have always felt on this campus, what I have sensed my whole life: Being a woman of color can be exhausting. I can’t tell you how many
women in that room were not surprised by the events that transpired; to us, they are realities. And the events of the past weekend reinforced that Yale lacks safe, supportive spaces on campus. I urge you to understand that racial privilege and wealth still breeds a huge degree of ignorance. Many people doubt this weekend’s allegations because they haven’t personally experienced racism. Not experiencing racism doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Privilege doesn’t make you evil. But the world treats us differently based on what we look like and where we come from. To suggest otherwise is to ignore the wearied faces of the women in the Af-Am House on Monday evening, to ignore their tears, to ignore their signs and protests, to ignore how few POC we read or discuss in our classrooms, to ignore the hostile messages so many of us get whenever we dare to speak out about our legitimate experiences. My mother’s question continues to echo in my mind. Would they let me in? Maybe. Maybe not. I’m not comfortable with that ambiguity because I don’t know the answer and a lot of us are asking the same question — whether we are white, colored, mixed or whatever. How are we granted inclusion to certain
spaces or organizations on campus? Our campus is diverse, but there are still pockets of segregation. There are performance groups made for white people, and there are performance groups made for colored people. Many may chalk it up to POC’s lack of initiative. They should just try to join. But do we consider why it’s harder for some of us to feel comfortable knocking on those doors? My lens of the world has an ambiguous filter: occasionally white and occasionally brown and always both (a walking contradiction, and yet, I am one body). We need to think critically about where we fit in and where we want to fit in. Some doorways don’t deserve us waiting outside. I think of the sorority profile pictures, replete with white women. I think of my own guilt for not being a “better Latina” who’s involved with La Casa. I think of the roles we assign ourselves, and how they are racialized. I think of the boys who’ve told me, “I’m not racist, I just date white girls.” I want to ask those boys, so many boys: Really? ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .
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Junzi Kitchen starts community outreach BY CAITLYN WHERRY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER It pushes limits. Traditional and innovative all at once, devoted to building the community and set on changing the culture of food, Junzi Kitchen challenges established ideas of what a restaurant should be. Junzi Kitchen is a fast casual Northern Chinese restaurant founded by three former Yale graduate students, Yong Zhao FES ’15, Wanting Zhang FES ’11 and Ming Bai ART ’13. When customers walk into the restaurant, they can choose between a noodle bowl or a chun bing — a Chinese-style wrap. They are then ushered down a line where they choose which vegetables and sauces they would like to add to their food. The Broadway storefront has grown a large base of support and garnered a great deal of attention from the Yale population for its community engagement since its soft opening on Oct. 21. “We are trying to be a business people believe in,” Junzi Kitchen Marketing Director Reed Immer said. I m m e r ex p l a i n e d t h a t although quality food lies at the heart of Junzi Kitchen, owners envision opportunities to further involve their business with the New Haven community. He said they reached out to Elm City residents before opening their doors, approaching a local artist to design the store’s stools and asking people who passed by the restaurant to contribute to murals on the plywood that covered the storefront during their construction period, Immer said. The owners also plan to feature local artists in monthly installations in their restaurant and become a distribution center for independent food publications such as The Cleaver Quarterly, a food magazine, and potentially also student-run food publications. Yong Zhao — Junzi Kitchen co-founder and chief executive officer — said the owners plan to release a late-night menu, which they hope will provide
an upbeat and relaxing atmosphere for students. The menu will feature creations that their staff have developed during daily lunches in their kitchen, during which one staff member is given half an hour to create a dish from kitchen ingredients. Zhao said some of the inspiration for the restaurant came from the street food markets he visited in China. “We want to bring that late market feeling back to the restaurant,” Zhao said. Head chef Lucas Sin ’15 said he was excited for this new latenight endeavor. Reminiscing upon his time cooking in popup restaurants around the Yale campus, he said he hopes to be able to capture the same energy between the chef and the consumer at Junzi Kitchen’s latenight events.
This is food that I’m proud of. It really feels like my food. LUCAS SIN ’15 Head Chef, Junzi Kitchen Sin said the restaurant’s two biggest concerns are how to best adapt traditional Chinese food to fit in American food culture and catering to consumers’ demand for fast food. He added that the restaurant strives to balance respecting Asia’s food culture with sourcing local ingredients. “This is food that I’m proud of,” Sin said. “It really feels like my food.” Junzi Kitchen owners seek to expand their influence beyond the Yale community, Immer said. The restaurant’s proximity to larger cities like New York and Boston means that the establishment has lots of opportunity for short-term growth, Sin said. Junzi Kitchen is located at 21 Broadway. Contact CAITLYN WHERRY at caitlyn.wherry@yale.edu .
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Student BOE elections reviewed BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTERS A day after winning a third term as Ward 1 alder, Sarah Eidelson ’12 was back at work Wednesday night, co-chairing a meeting of the Board of Alders’ Joint Education/Youth Services Committee. The meeting was held to revise the procedure for electing high-school students to the Board of Education as nonvoting members. The committee — tasked with overseeing the elections for the two student seats — decided to move election day from June to early April and to prohibit charterschool students from standing, but not voting, in the election. The changes were made to increase the number of students able to take part in the election process. The initiative is a mere five months old. “What we found this past year is that [June elections] back up right against final exams, senior trips, all kinds of end-of-school events,” said New Haven Public Schools project manager Suzanne Lyons, who sits on the Committee on Student Elections. The first student elections to the board took place in June after a multiyear push by Eidelson and other alders. Two students — a junior and a senior — sit on the board per school year. Lyons said that though state law prohibits them from voting, the student members are
meant to perform as similar roles to full board members as is legally possible. Kimberly Sullivan, a senior at The Sound School, and Hillhouse High School junior Coral Ortiz won the race against four other candidates in June, taking office the next month. Neither could attend Wednesday night’s meeting. Lyons said Sullivan and Ortiz have spent their time on the Board speaking out on issues they find important. “They are using their voices in good faith,” Lyons said. “But there is a learning curve, as you may imagine.” Lyons said the committee supported the student members’ transition into the Board by hosting biweekly meetings with an NHPS civics teacher to learn more about their role in the city. She added that two full board members were also appointed to mentor the student members individually. But not every New Haven student will have the opportunity to hold office. Lyons said the Board’s lack of legal authority over charter schools means students at such schools cannot be board members. Still, they will be able to vote if their school chooses not to participate in the process, she said. Lyons added that charterschool students can also attend citywide student cabinet meetings and communicate with the student board members, whose role involves acting as a liaison between all NHPS students.
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The committee decided to allow students at charter schools to vote but not to stand in elections to non-voting seats on the Board. Fair Haven Alder Santiago Berrios-Bones asked, during the meeting, what the protocol would be when students are unable to finish their term. Fair Haven Heights Alder Rosa Santana said that since the ordinance does not explicitly address this question, the committee can decide on a caseby-case basis. Lyons said a replacement election would likely be held, just as is the protocol for voting members. Alders on the committee were enthusiastic about the elections and the proposed changes to the ordinance. Wooster Square Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 said the amendments will help the
Board reach its full potential, adding that the student elections earlier this year had high levels of community involvement. “I just think it was a great process and everybody learned from it, and it’s going to be a great experience for all kids to participate — starting early with civic engagement,” said West River Alder and Board President Tyisha Walker. Nearly 60 percent of eligible New Haven high-school students voted in the first election. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .
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n Oct. 11, the News sent Yale College graduates in the classes of 2013 and 2014 a survey with questions about the value of a Yale degree relative to its cost. This is the final piece in a five-part series on the results. DAVID SHIMER and JON VICTOR report. When it comes to student satisfaction with a Yale degree, the financial burden students face both while on campus and after graduation is a crucial factor. Last month, the News distributed a survey to the classes of 2013 and 2014 that focused on the degree to which graduates feel their Yale educations were worth the cost of tuition. The 367 alumni who responded bore different levels of financial responsibility, both in the levels of financial aid they received while at Yale and the student loans they still carry today. Survey results indicate not only that graduates who received financial aid feel more satisfied with the worth of their Yale degrees, but also that higher levels of aid equated to higher levels of satisfaction. Additionally, graduates who still possess loans view the worth of their Yale degrees more negatively than those who do not. Sixty-three percent of students who received financial aid during their time at Yale “strongly agreed” that their degrees were worth the cost of tuition, while 50 percent of those who did not receive aid felt the same. These differences grew more pronounced based on the amount of tuition for which graduates were responsible: 72 percent of respondents who paid less than $10,000 in tuition annually “strongly agreed” that their Yale degrees were worth the cost, but just 36 percent of those who paid between $30,001 and $40,000 annually said the same. While for the most part reported satisfaction decreased steadily as the amount paid increased, the survey data actually showed an uptick for those on the least financial aid, as 48 percent of alumni who were responsible for paying more than $40,001 annually strongly agreed that their tuition had been worthwhile — a 12 percent increase from the previous bracket. Administrators, experts and 18 respondents interviewed further by the News underscored the strong relationship between level of tuition paid and student satisfaction. Mark Kantrowitz, an expert
on student loans and former vice president of the financial aid and higher education consulting firm Edvisors Network, said this trend is likely due to student satisfaction being directly related to return on investment, as students on more financial aid are receiving the same outcome on paper for a lower price. Furthermore, he said, the increase in satisfaction for students who paid more than $40,001 per year is likely due to cost being less of a concern for those students. Amalia Horan Skilton ’13 said she decided to attend Yale at half-tuition despite receiving more generous offers from other institutions because she believed a Yale degree to be worth the extra cost. However, she said that would have changed had she been asked to cover full tuition. “If I had been paying the full sticker price, I definitely would not have thought it was as worth it,” she said. “I had the opportunity to go to another university and be paid $20,000 a year, so I would have been paying $200,000 for a marginal difference [in educational benefit].” Benjamin Boult ’14, who was also responsible for roughly half of his Yale tuition, said he would have been less satisfied with his education had he been expected to pay more. As a film studies major, he said, he felt that Yale’s department lacked an emphasis on technical skills, decreasing the overall value of his education. Still, Briana Rose Pigott ’13 said although she was responsible for less than $5,000 in tuition annually, she would have been willing to pay more — including full tuition. In that case, she said, she still would have “strongly agreed” that her Yale education was worth the cost, citing the value of the Yale network and the caliber of the University’s history department, in which she completed her major. “I actually think that the sticker price is worth it,” she said. “The only thing is if I had to pay more for Yale, I might not have gone to law school right away because being free
of college debt let me put on law school debt. But I don’t think it would have changed anything in terms of how I feel about Yale.” The survey also showed that whether or not students carried debt after graduation had a slight effect on student satisfaction, although not as much as whether they had received financial aid. Of students who still had loans to pay off, 53 percent strongly agreed that their education was worth the cost, while 60 percent of those not in debt said the same. The percentage of alumni who still have loans was much lower than the percentage that do not: Only 20 percent of survey respondents still carry student debt. Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi declined to comment on the survey results, but he said that alumni debt has been decreasing over the years; 16 percent of the class of 2014 graduated with debt, compared to 49 percent of the class of 2000, he said. The average debt for the class of 2014 was $14,853, and $18,228 for the class of 2000, according to Storlazzi. Yale has introduced a score of financial aid reforms over the past decade that may have contributed to this drop: In 2005, Yale eliminated the expected parental contribution for families making less than $45,000 a year. It raised that ceiling to $60,000 in 2008 and $65,000 in 2010. Andrew Freeburg ’14 said that though he was on financial aid, he did not take out student loans because his parents were able to pay their expected financial contribution. Still, he
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said, he would have been willing to take out loans in order to finance his Yale education. “If I were to carry those students loans and my parents hadn’t been able to pay for the education, I would be completely fine with that,” Freeburg said. “The opportunities, experiences and people you meet at Yale more than offset the cost of going to the school.” Other students disagreed, saying that return on investment is an important part of feeling satisfied with their Yale degrees. Simon Cozzens ’13, who majored in cognitive science and is currently working several restaurant jobs, said he left Yale with about $20,000 in student loans, despite the fact that Yale funded more than 90 percent of his tuition. Though he said his education was more than worth it, he added that he would have hesitated to take out significantly more loans and that the reality of paying them off has felt more burdensome since graduating. “Only having $20,000 in loans, I’m not crippled, but if it were $100,000 I might have had to think about it a little bit more,” he said. “There is an understanding that once you get into Yale, financial pressures are lifted to some degree, as it’s easier to pay off those loans with a Yale degree. But that isn’t true for people who aren’t going into something like finance.” Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Forum touches on SAE debate SAE FROM PAGE 1 expanded to address the dayto-day experiences of minority students, particularly women of color, on Yale’s campus. Students spoke out against the actions of both Christakis and SAE, which they said invalidated the experiences of Yale’s minority students. During the discussion, numerous black female students stood before the crowd to share their experiences. Many said they did not feel safe on campus and felt a lack of respect from the Yale community, and others highlighted the emotional toil that incidents such as the two recent controversies cause. Some students also questioned the failure of the University’s highest administrators’ to publicly respond to these concerns, pointing out that University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway have yet to release a statement regarding the incidents. Neither Salovey nor Holloway attended the forum. While many student speakers expressed dismay about Christakis’ email and the SAE event, they stressed that these were merely two of many instances of racial injustice black women and other minority students regularly face at Yale. Several
also made reference to ongoing campus debates about the use of the term “master” in residential colleges and the renaming of Calhoun College. Some student speakers recommended concrete actions the University could take in the wake of these controversies, such as immediate administrative response and acknowledgement, mandatory racial sensitivity training for the student body as a whole and mental health support for black women. Emily Van Alst ’16 told the News that many students would like to see a message from Holloway directly addressing the situation. Holloway sent a collegewide email less than a day after swastikas were chalked onto the sidewalk outside Old Campus last October, she said, and the University administration needs to respond to current debates in a similar manner. Holloway told the News that he cannot comment on the University’s ongoing investigation of SAE, but said he is deeply sympathetic to student concerns. “I want to do what I can to reassure them that the administration is taking every aspect of this very seriously,” he said. A moment of particularly heightened tension came when Christakis began to leave
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The forum at the Af-Am House was so full that the crowd had to be divided into two rooms.
the room partway through the forum, just as a student moderator read an anonymous question directed towards her about appropriation of Native American culture in Halloween costumes. Christakis — who had not yet spoken at the forum — said she had a class waiting for her, but students called for her to stay, calling for her to give an answer. In response, Christakis stood in front of the crowd to defend her email and assure those in attendance that she does not support racism. Before leaving, she announced her cell phone number, inviting students to reach out to her directly. “I am privileged to be part of a community where the exchange of ideas is possible. I know we share common ground in our abhorrence of racism and hopes for a just society, and there are many pathways toward that goal,” Christakis wrote in an email to the News after the forum. “For my part, I see my role not so much to speak for students but to support them in speaking for themselves.” She left shortly after her remarks in the first room to address the forum being held in the other room. However, many students in the room where she first spoke said they were not satisfied by her response and that it was disrespectful for her to leave. “She didn’t address any of her own actions, she didn’t apologize, she still didn’t take blame for anything she said or the problems that she may have created in my community,” Mitchell Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16, who publicly criticized Christakis during the forum, told the News. Rather than serving as a place for intellectual debate, Bear Don’t Walk said, the forum was a safe space for community members to share their personal emotions and experiences. Bear Don’t Walk also said she does not feel students’ personal experiences should be debated and added that approaching them from an intellectual standpoint invalidates the real emotions of minority and oppressed groups. Yale SAE President Grant Mueller ’17 also spoke in both rooms of the forum. He
acknowledged that just because SAE has minority brothers does not mean that racism cannot exist in the fraternity, and he apologized to any students who might ever have felt unwelcome in the SAE house. Some students, however, said Mueller’s apologies were not reflected in an opinion column he wrote for the News on Tuesday, in which he asserted that SAE is made up of diverse brothers and denied allegations of racism. Students at the forum asked him to commit to writing another column elaborating on the ideas he spoke on at the forum. “It was beautiful that students both spoke, but, more importantly, listened. And moving forward, we know that there is a lot of work to do,” La Casa Cultural Dean Eileen Galvez told the News. “We are excited to know that people are willing to move Yale to a more inclusive space that truly belongs to us and doesn’t make students feel like they are Yalies of color, instead of Yalies that happen to be of color.” Still, some students said they remain unsatisfied with the response from both SAE and Christakis during the forum. Bear Don’t Walk said that while she thought Mueller’s apology was genuine, neither his nor Christakis’ response acknowledged that they did anything wrong or that anything actually happened. Nat Aramayo ’17 said people like Christakis and groups like SAE still have a fundamental misunderstanding of, or refusal to acknowledge, the positions of power that they occupy. “It’s great that the community as a whole is now partaking in these discussions,” Aramayo said. “But there also needs to be an understanding that it is an immense … privilege to occupy spaces and an identity where you don’t have to constantly be thinking about issues of race, class, gender or sexuality because your identity is never brought into question or … invalidated.” This year marks the 46th anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale. Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” MARTIN LUTHER KING. JR. AMERICAN ACTIVIST AND HUMANITARIAN
New signs for genderneutral bathrooms SIGNS FROM PAGE 1 Trumpler told the News she has been working to increase the number of gender-neutral restrooms in Yale buildings for a decade, often one at a time as needed. This particular project was set in motion last year, and University Planning conducted a census over this past summer that identified restrooms in 23 Yale buildings that only required a sign change to become effectively “gender-neutral.” Currently, according to Trumpler, over 60 percent of Yale buildings have at least one such restroom. “This is a crucial project to undertake,” Trumpler said. “Students, staff, faculty and visitors are unfortunately often challenged when someone believes they are using the ‘wrong’ bathroom. Everyone deserves … to [use] a bathroom they can access in peace.” Isaac Amend ’17, who identifies as transgender, said the lack of gender-neutral restrooms has made his experience using Yale spaces uncomfortable due to his gender variance. Nat Aramayo ’17, who identifies as genderqueer and prefers “they” pronouns, expressed a similar sentiment, adding that they are sometimes forced to restructure their day or change their walking routes in order to access a restroom in a public building that they feel comfortable using. “Especially when I’m wearing clothing that is gender nonconforming, I feel uncomfortable using men’s bathrooms … and sometimes I wait to find a genderneutral or emptier bathroom to use instead of going to the closest male bathroom,” said a Yale College student who asked to remain anonymous because they are genderqueer. “I have felt completely uncomfortable using the men’s [bathroom] the few times I’ve worn a dress in public, one time using the women’s [bathroom] instead due to the lack of a genderneutral bathroom in the building.” The student added that genderbinary restrooms have made social transitions difficult for genderqueer and transgender members of the Yale community. Nevertheless, Gendler said the signage initiative is indicative of the administration’s efforts to ease
those difficulties. “The language of ‘all gender’ and the inclusion of the three icons in this picture — the fact that it is official Yale signage that went through every single part of the Yale process — means that this [project] is done with the approval at the very highest levels,” Gendler said. “These signs are deliberately public and bright because they are a way of indicating that we are a welcoming campus.” She added that creating genderneutral restroom spaces is a high priority for the University. Genderqueer and gender-nonconforming students interviewed expressed their hope for more progress in the number of genderneutral restrooms. Amend said he believes it is financially feasible for the University to have a gender-neutral restroom in every Yale building on campus. However, Gendler said targeting the 81 other Yale buildings that currently do not have gender-neutral restrooms would be more challenging, since many Yale buildings are under historic preservation regulations and constructing new gender-neutral spaces would be more costly than printing and changing signs. Still, students and administrators alike told the News that they view the project in a mostly positive light, especially in terms of its impact on both the LGBTQ and the larger Yale communities. The developments in identifying and creating physical spaces that can accommodate gender nonconforming individuals must be supplemented by efforts to raise awareness and promote inclusivity, added the anonymous genderqueer student. “[Gender-neutral bathrooms] promote a greater understanding of these non-cis identities among cis communities,” Adrien Gau ’17, who identifies as genderneutral, said. “It provides a great yet unobtrusive segue into a really important conversation to have about sexual and gender identities, especially for people who otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to these things.” According to Gendler, the project cost around $7,000 total for the design and production of the signs. Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .
Students, admin critique GESO recruiting tactics GESO FROM PAGE 1 Altuntas, who said she does not support GESO’s mission to unionize, added that while she appreciates the concerns GESO members have raised about graduate student life and working conditions, she disagrees with the tactics they use. From 2012 to 2013, Altuntas was an active participant in GESO, but she broke off ties after seeing how extreme the group’s approach was, she said. Altuntas also suggested that GESO may claim to have majority support because the organization accepts graduate student signatures even when those graduate students are only saying ‘yes’ to get rid of GESO organizers and end the conversation. “They are extremely aggressive,” said Jacob Blumoff GRD ’17, recounting two specific encounters he had with GESO members. When Blumoff came out of class one day, a GESO member that Blumoff did not know approached him, recognizing him by face and name. From this, Blumoff said he realized that the GESO member had memorized his photo, published online by the physics department. Blumoff described the encounter as “mildly creepy.” On another occasion, Blumoff said he had to tell a GESO representative five times to leave his lab space. “He was having none of it,” Blumoff said of the representative. An English graduate student, who asked to remain anonymous because most students in his department are GESO supporters, said that GESO’s “No Intimidation” slogan — a response to perceived intimidation tactics by the office of the dean of the graduate school — is ironic because GESO uses intimidating tactics of its own. GESO members follow people into bathrooms, go to students’ homes uninvited and con-
tact potential supporters repeatedly by email, text or phone, the student said. GESO has a hierarchical structure whereby more junior recruiters report to GESO leaders in a bottom-up fashion, the student continued, calling it an “aggressive recruitment machine” which puts pressure on people to conform and support their graduate student peers. “[GESO] is an exploitative ‘boys club’ that tries to justify its practices for a greater good,” the student said. The University administration has also expressed concerns about GESO’s aggressive tactics. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Tamar Gendler said she and her colleagues have heard numerous complaints about union organizers’ inappropriate recruitment tactics. Gendler said this behavior includes harassing and intimidating, cornering students in laboratories, unwanted visits to student homes and other forms of peer pressure. Other students, like Robby Blum GRD ’18, said that while some degree of annoyance is expected from an organization with GESO’s ambitious mobilization, the biggest problem with GESO is the way members treat former organizers after they choose to leave the organization. Blum said many of his acquaintances previously helped organize for GESO, but then chose to spend less time with GESO and more time working on their Ph.D. theses. In almost every case, Blum said, GESO’s response to the student was to “bother them constantly to get them to come back.” He added that his friend experienced emotional manipulation over text with a GESO organizer. “It is set up to chew up and spit out its organizers in a really unhealthy way,” Blum said.
Even beyond critiques of GESO’s tactics, some graduate students said they disagreed with GESO’s mission of obtaining a graduate student union through an election in the first place. Despite his two-thirds claim, Greenberg has not released the exact number of GESO supporters. In an email to the News, Greenberg said the Oct. 15 banner delivered to Woodbridge Hall bore over two thirds of the nearly 2,000 graduate student teachers and researchers on campus. But Greenberg’s tally of the total number of graduate researchers conflicts with the roughly 3,000 enrolled at the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and 4,000 at professional schools reported by the Office of Institutional Research. Greenberg did not answer questions about GESO’s methods for determining these figures. But Nikita Bernardi GRD ’16, who is British and said graduate student unions are commonplace in England, said she was “shocked that there wasn’t a union here.” “[GESO] has every right to do what is necessary to get a vote,” Bernardi said. Blumoff said Yale graduate students are well paid and cared for compared to students at other
schools. Yale also has channels of communicating with the administration through the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, whose leadership meets with top Yale administrators on a regular basis, he added. Blumoff said he has no desire to tie his needs to those of members of other unions like Locals 34 and 35, which work closely with GESO. “[GESO] seems to me that they want a union for the sake of having a union,” he said. Despite four rallies from GESO over the past 18 months, three graduate and professional stu-
dents out of eight interviewed had never heard of GESO. Paloma Caro FES ’16, who was one of these three, said professional school students like herself can be isolated from students at GSAS. GSA Chairwoman Elizabeth Salm GRD ’18 said the GSA has no official position on the unionization of the graduate student body, adding that some GSA representatives are also GESO members. GESO was founded in 1990. Victor Wang contributed reporting. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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Some graduate and professional students have accused GESO members of overly aggressive recruiting tactics.
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“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?” W. E. B. DU BOIS AMERICAN HISTORIAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Admissions Office updates interview portal BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER As part of a mounting effort to reach as many applicants as possible, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions is placing increased emphasis on the alumni interview component of the admissions process. Over the past two years, the Admissions Office has been working to streamline the alumni interview process by instituting new technology that will allow it to reach more students. Last year, the Admissions Office rolled out a new online portal for the Alumni Schools Committee, which oversees the alumni interview process. The portal, which was developed with the help of an outside firm, has again been modified for this admissions cycle to make the process more efficient by increasing ease of communication between interviewers and ASC directors, who coordinate the activities of ASC volunteers in a given area. The updated platform allows ASC directors to send customized emails to alumni volunteers and to indicate the interviewers’ preferences, such as when they will be available to meet with applicants. It also allows volunteers to confirm their assignments with directors, taking a lot of guesswork out of the process. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said since the portal’s debut, alumni interviewers have been provided with more qualitative guidance through the online platform, thereby improving the quality and decreasing the variability of the reports. “Now that we have 30,000 applicants, of which many are incredibly strong, having that spontaneous interaction is increasingly important,” Quinlan said. “So we really value the student voice that comes through in the interview and the sense of the student that we have.” Associate Director of Admissions Bowen Posner, who has been working closely with Quinlan to develop the new initiatives, said the interview provides a unique insight into applicants that may not come through in teacher recommendations or application essays, which are often highly edited. One other key goal of the initiative is to promote ambassadorship among alumni during the admissions process, Posner said, adding that the interviews are meant to be informational in addition to evaluative. For many applicants the interview provides a window into
a university that may seem remote, he said. Alison Brody ’95, the ASC director for Oregon and southwest Washington, said the interview can open doors for students by helping them learn more about the college application process. “When you’re the only Yale alum a student has ever met, and when that student goes back to her school with information about the remarkable financial aid at elite colleges and their openness to students of all stripes, that’s a powerful thing,” Brody said. One ASC leader said he does believe an alumni interview gives a candidate an advantage going into the admissions process. Scott Williamson ’80, chairman of the ASC in Chicago, said applicants who are interviewed by an alumni volunteers are more likely to be accepted to Yale and more likely to matriculate if accepted. Though the Admissions Office has increased its focus on the alumni interview, it has yet to significantly expand its reach. Quinlan said around 18,000 applicants were interviewed during last year’s admissions cycle, which is similar to previous years. “Our goal now is to move that needle forward,” Quinlan said. Over the past two years, the admissions office has also begun incorporating interviews via Skype and FaceTime to reach more students, especially those in rural areas. Posner said alumni who have ties to a specific region but may not live there will be called on to conduct interviews over video calls. With 12,000 members worldwide, the ASC is one of the largest alumni associations at Yale, Posner said, adding that around 6,500 of those alumni are active interviewers. Alumni interviewed spoke about the importance of the interview for more than just admissions. Steve Blum ’74, senior director of strategic initiatives for the AYA, said that for many alumni, interviewing is one of the first opportunities they have to act as a volunteer, making it a meaningful way for them to connect with the University after graduation. Williamson said though only roughly one in 20 applicants will end up being admitted, he relishes the opportunity to interact with students and hear about their goals and aspirations. Last year, Yale extended admissions offers to 1,962 students after receiving 30,237 applications for the class of 2019. Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .
OCS expands advising offerings
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OCS is introducing graduate school advising workshops and summer internship ambassadors. BY ELLEN KAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Office of Career Strategy is expanding this semester through two new initiatives: graduate-school advising workshops and Yale-coordinated summer internship ambassadors. OCS Senior Associate Director Meredith Mira said the new graduate advising workshops will target undergraduates interested in learning more about graduate school opportunities. Yale has offered advising programs for students interested in medical and law school in the past, but advising students on graduate school was more difficult due to the breadth of the humanities, social sciences and STEM fields, said Mira. OCS is also collaborating with the residential colleges and the Yale College Writing Center to offer a new series of workshops and writing boot camps for students interested in applying to graduate school. These workshops are hosted in the residential colleges and led by Amruta Nori-Sarma FES ’19 and Katie Oltman GRD ’19 who serve as OCS graduate student peer advisers. The peer advisor program was first introduced in the 20142015 academic year to provide potential graduate school applicants with advising more tailored to their specific needs
through one-on-one appointments. Nori-Sarma, who focuses on STEM programs specifically, and Oltman, who works with humanities and social sciences students, also host “officeless hours” in residential college dining halls to better accommodate students’ schedules. “I definitely think that [the workshops] are here for the long term,” Mira said. “It’s been an area where we start to hear from students more and more now that they’re seeking guidance in this area.” In April, OCS will also host a web seminar for Yale College alumni applying to graduate school. According to Mira, many students are more likely to apply to graduate school after taking a gap year or working for a year. Compared to the graduate school peer advisors, the internship ambassadors have a more informal role that requires less time commitment. Organized by Brian Frenette, OCS associate director of employment programs, and Julia Bourque, OCS assistant director and international internships program manager, the ambassador program involves a group of 55 undergraduates who took part in Yale-coordinated domestic and international internships this past summer. The ambassadors were selected by Frenette and Bourque after
consulting with internship coordinators from the cities that host summer internships. Frenette described the responsibilities of an ambassador as fairly straightforward but still impactful. Amey Mahajan ’17, an ambassador who worked at an investment bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this past summer, said the bulkof an ambassador’s role involves attending networking events like internship fairs in order to help connect prospective interns with fitting opportunities. “The main qualification or credential to be a good ambassador is to be willing to talk to people you don’t know and sort of gush about your experience,” Mahajan said. Ambassadors are also asked to be available outside of onetime networking events. Students interested in Yalecoordinated internships can ask ambassadors more specific questions via email and informal meetings. Bourque said the ambassadors will also attend a pre-departure workshop in the spring, which is required for students interning in summer 2016. Ambassadors interviewed said they decided to represent their internships after positive learning experiences. Emmanuel Cantor ’18, whose internship in Tel Aviv, Israel, involved advocating for refu-
gees and asylum seekers, said his job helped him gain insight into a career in pursuing Jewish social justice work. Yupei Guo ’17, another ambassador, described his summer working for a social enterprise in Beijing, China, as immensely rewarding. He said he wanted to make the internships more accessible to students by helping to demystify the application process. “Becoming an ambassador is such a low time commitment on my part, yet it can mean a lot for other students lost in the job hunt who just need to talk to a former intern to understand what it really feels like to work there,” Guo said. Frenette and Bourque anticipate that time required of ambassadors will increase after the Yale-coordinated internship applications open on Dec. 14. For now, Frenette said, OCS plans to continue advertising summer opportunities and highlighting ambassadors’ experiences through the OCS newsletter. The internship ambassadors will be present at the upcoming summer opportunities fair on Nov. 20. OCS’s next “Thinking about Graduate School?” workshop on writing personal statements will be held at 5 p.m. today. Contact ELLEN KAN at ellen.kan@yale.edu .
Holloway discusses Du Bois essays BY JAMES POST CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway argued that racial issues described in W.E.B. Du Bois’ essay collection, “The Souls of Black Folk,” still persist today in a Wednesday talk at the New Haven Free Public Library. Holloway read aloud essay extracts by Du Bois — a renowned African-American sociologist and civil rights activist — before an audience of roughly 40 New Haven residents and Yale students. Holloway wrote an introduction and chronology for a new edition of “The Souls of Black Folk” published by the Yale University Press in June. Holloway titled his introduction “How to Read The Souls of Black Folk in a Post-Racial Age,” but noted that the name is “ironic” because Americans do not live in a post-racial age. Throughout the talk, Holloway emphasized that many of the problems Du Bois identified in his 1903 essay collection are still present today, although they are less obvious. “You find yourself reading passages that make too much sense,” he said. “When you’re going from zero, one is a lot better.” H o l l oway ex p l a i n e d that though there has been improvement in the country’s race relations, there has not been enough. Just as Du Bois — who was the first Afri-
can American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard — was held back by racism, Holloway said successful African Americans today also face racism, albeit in subtler forms. Holloway referred to an instance when U.S. Vice President Joe Biden described President Barack Obama as “clean and articulate,” as though it were a compliment. Holloway said such descriptions are offensive because they imply that it is unusual for an African American to have these qualities. “The observation ‘Aren’t you great?’ means you think all black people aren’t,” Holloway said. “The phrase can be condemnation.” Much of Du Bois’ work involved sociological studies of the organizations of black communities, including black churches and businesses. During his talk, Holloway said the three most famous elements of Du Bois’ work have a modernday relevance. Du Bois wrote that African Americans are viewed in society as “problems,” and added that those who are successful are often made to explain themselves for excelling despite facing societal obstacles. Secondly, Holloway said that, according to Du Bois, African Americans are forced to live with a “double-consciousness” — an internal conflict between being American, which implies whiteness, and understanding
themselves as African Americans. Du Bois began each chapter in “The Souls of Black Folk” with a short quotation from an African-American poem or spiritual. But to demonstrate this internal conflict, he placed a line of classical sheet music above the quote as if they were part of the same musical score. Holloway said this was done to demonstrate how African Americans are expected to know both to be accepted into white society. Holloway said Du Bois also argued that racial division was the leading problem of the 20th Century, adding that it is still a problem today. Attendees of Holloway’s talk agreed that Du Bois’ ideas have not lost their resonance. “There’s been no other scholar that has been as influential as Dr. Du Bois, and we have yet to achieve his ideals,” New Haven resident Dawn Bliesener said. “Here we are in the year 2015 and [African Americans] are still a ‘problem.’” Graham Ambrose ’18 said Du Bois is a revolutionary scholar and an American hero too few students know about. Du Bois, alongside civil rights activists Moorfield Storey and Mary White Ovington, founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. Contact JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .
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“No one looks forward to a recount.” CHARLES B. RANGEL U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
Eidelson canvassers criticized
Ward 1 vote to be recounted
CANVASSERS FROM PAGE 1 Guler said that on one occasion, he called the Yale Police Department to remove canvassers from his suite, but they left by the time the YPD arrived. An Eidelson canvasser — who wished to remain anonymous due to her ties to the campaign — said Eidelson’s campaign cannot be blamed for the aggressive tactics of individual canvassers. She said that on election day, canvassers acted out of genuine passion for the issues that Eidelson addressed in her platform. “I don’t think this is on the campaign,” the canvasser said. “It’s on individual canvassers going back and bothering people who had asked us not to, putting blame on people for not voting … I think people got very emotionally tied up in the election. We knew it was close.” S t i l l , t h e c a nva s s e r acknowledged that the heat of the campaign may have clouded canvassers’ respect for the autonomy and voting decisions of the Ward 1 residents. A student in Trumbull College, who wished to remain anonymous due to personal connections with the campaign, said Eidelson canvassers had entered his suite without permission on multiple occasions. The student said canvassers engaged him in long conversations even though he told them he had limited time. The student said the tactics turned him away from voting in the election, but he told the canvassers that he had already voted in an effort to drive them away. “I felt like they didn’t really respect my decision at all,
RECOUNT FROM PAGE 1 high, nearly matching the figure achieved during Eidelson’s 2013 race against Republican challenger Paul Chandler ’14. The line stretched outside the door in the hours before polls closed and the last ballot was not cast until 8:30 p.m. — a half hour after the official closing time. Poll moderator Andria Gieryk turned away roughly 10 voters from the polls after 8:00 p.m. when the polls closed. Recounts are uncommon in Connecticut elections. In 2014, no race for state legislature proceeded to a recount, and no may-
oral race in New Haven has gone to a recount in at least four decades. However, irregularities in Bridgeport’s ballot count forced a two-week long recount of 6,000 ballots following Gov. Dannel Malloy’s 2010 race against Republican Tom Foley. No other aldermanic race in New Haven will go to a recount this year. Beaver Hills incumbent Claudette Robinson-Thorpe’s 274-vote margin of defeat to endorsed Democrat Jill Marks was the city’s second-tightest victory. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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Students have complained that Sarah Eidelson’s ’12 canvassers used overly aggressive tactics. which is what compelled me in the end to lie to get rid of them,” the student said. “I think that a lot of other students had that experience too.” The student added that he had also received six to seven messages from the Ugonna Eze ’16 campaign through texts and various social media leading up to the election. Students from Berkeley College said they had also felt uncomfortable due to Eidelson canvassers. Bianka Ukleja ’18 said canvassers entered her suite uninvited, harassing her and her suitemates on multiple occasions until they eventually locked their suite door. Cooper Sullivan ’18 said that on election day, an Eidelson canvasser told him he was “being f---ing apathetic” due to his decision not to vote in
the election. Lillie Lainoff ’18 said that an Eidelson canvasser outside her door cried out for help and feigned injury so that she would open the door. Once Lainoff opened the door, the canvasser tried to solicit a vote, she said. Eze’s bid for Ward 1 alder sought not to employ the aggressive tactics Eidelson’s canvassers allegedly used, Amalia Halikias ’15 — Eze’s former campaign manager — said Tuesday. Halikias added that the campaign ran no door-to-door canvassing operation on Election Day, instead opting to focus on “organic interactions” with voters, ensuring that all canvassing was done between volunteers who were already friends or acquaintances with potential voters.
Guler said he knew none of the canvassers who came to his suite. Eze stated throughout the election season that his campaign would seek to avoid “intimidation” and “overly aggressive” field strategy. Multiple students interviewed at the New Haven Free Public Library after they voted Tuesday said they voted for Eze largely because of his canvassing style. Eidelson serves as the chair of the city’s Youth Services Committee. Sara Seymour contributed reporting. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU and michelle.liu@yale.edu .
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Students race to complete all electric race car BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER One of Yale’s student clubs, Bulldogs Racing, may be on track to create one of the fastest electric race cars in the nation. Bulldogs Racing, an undergraduate club founded in 2008 as part of a mechanical engineering student’s senior project, is gearing up for late spring and summer races with a new electric car. The club, which has roughly 30 members, won the nation’s hybrid championship in 2013. Unlike the previous car, which ran on both electric and gasoline power, the 2016 car will be completely electric, and, according to club members, should be able to go from zero to 60 mph in just two and a half seconds. Team members interviewed said that though the team is more cohesive than ever and the car promises to be one of its fastest yet, the switch to fully electric brings a unique set of challenges which includes funding the automobile parts. “We’re really excited about this season,” said the team’s business manager, Tyler Caldwell ’18. “We expect the car to be done in about February. From there, we’ll be testing what we believe will be the fastest car [of its kind] in the United States, if not the world.” According to Caldwell, the budget for many of the club’s past cars has hovered around $30,000, and when the team ran the numbers for this year’s build, their initial projections were more than doubly expensive — more than $70,000. Caldwell said that they carefully reviewed the budget and were able to reduce it to just over $50,000. He noted that the current exchange rate — one euro equals 1.09 U.S. dollars — has helped the group purchase car parts overseas. Nevertheless, the group still needs to raise about $12,000 more in funds by January, Caldwell noted. Strategies include putting advertisements for top sponsors on the car. The team also pitched to major engineering companies that their hands-on experience will create better future engineers who are more equipped to work at those same companies later. According to Taha Ramazanoglu ’17, the club’s president, the largest funders, outside of Yale, are Turkcell and Alcoa who have cumulatively donated $15,000 to the team. He added that the Yale
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences gives the team about $14,000 per every funding cycle which runs 18 to 24 months. As of now, they are the only Yale department to fund the project, but the team will be applying for the Yale Dean’s Office discretionary fund very soon. The group is still working on putting together their new car. Dante Archangeli ’17, project manager, said he works with the group’s chief engineer and president to turn the abstract ideas into a physical car. “We assign [other team members] to groups, and those groups come back with a budget and say how long they think [each step] will take [to build the car],” he said. Ramazanoglu explained that the car will go through in-shop bench testing to run the motor, which allows the team to identify problems before taking it out of the garage. The second stage occurs on West Campus, in the parking lot of the nursing school, Ramazanoglu said. Team members drive the car, hoping that nothing breaks, testing the car’s ability to deal with multiple miles, he added. Finally, the car goes to a real track. There, the team will focus on tuning and tweaking the car to increase its speed, he said. Caldwell said that if the team can get the car on the track at the race, the group has a good shot. But only about 10 percent of cars that go to the competition will be able to compete, Caldwell said, due to the heavy regulations the cars must pass. Even minor issues, such as the height of the seat, can disqualify a car, he added. All of the team member’s responses regarding their Bulldogs Racing experiences were enthusiastic. “I think we’re really on the cutting edge. We design our own battery systems … We design all the circuitry. Everything about the car is designed by the engineering students [in the club],” Caldwell said. “Electric cars are still a relatively new field. As someone interested in economics and business, being able to run the finance side of a small team like this has really been an informative experience.” The Bulldogs Racing Team will compete in its first race on May 2, 2016. Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .
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“If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.” KEVIN O’LEARY CANADIAN BUSINESSMAN
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BY CATIE EDMONDSON In a win for Columbia, the New York regional director of the National Labor Relations Board dismissed a petition to unionize submitted by graduate teaching and research assistants at the university on Friday, citing current precedent that blocks graduate student unions at private universities. “While we are still reviewing this decision, we welcome the regional NLRB’s conclusion that Ph.D. candidates undertaking an intellectually challenging course of post-graduate scholarship are not employees of the university,” a Columbia spokesperson said in a statement to Spectator. Paul Katz, an organizer for Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers, the group of graduate students attempting to gain recognition as a union, said that the group will “immediately” request review from the NLRB’s highest level, a five-person governing body in Washington, D.C. — referred to as the Board — that has the power to overturn precedent. The precedent blocking graduate students at private universities from unionizing comes from a 2004 NLRB decision involving Brown University. Regional director Karen Fernbach had previously dismissed GWC’s petition in February, but the Board reinstated it and called upon Fernbach to hold hearings to examine the role of graduate students at Columbia. The current Board, appointed by President Barack Obama, is expected to be more liberal than the 2004 Board that set the Brown precedent, which was appointed by thenPresident George W. Bush. If the Board rules in its favor, an election will be held for graduate teaching
and research assistants to decide whether to unionize. Despite the dismissal, COLUMBIA Katz said he was “really heartened by the content of the decision,” noting that Fernbach equated the duties of student teaching assistants and research assistants to those of university employees. Though Fernbach wrote that she was constrained by Brown, her statement runs contrary to the sentiment of the precedent, which argues that teaching and research assistants are not employees. “In many respects the duties of student assistants are the same as those of admittedly ‘employee’ counterparts on the Columbia University faculty,” Fernbach wrote in the dismissal. In final briefs following the hearings, a main point of contention was whether Fernbach has the power to overturn precedent. GWC argued that Fernbach did have the power to overturn the Brown precedent and rule in favor of the graduate students attempting to unionize, while lawyers for Columbia argued she was constrained by the Brown precedent. When GWC requests review of Fernbach’s decision, the Board will consider transcripts and evidence exhibits from the hearings, which addressed whether graduate teaching and research assistants’ positions are professional or educational, whether the GWC constitutes a “labor organization” with the power to petition the NLRB and what the scope of the GWC’s bargaining unit would be should it gain recognition.
BY KARL ASPELUND AND MEG BERNHARD In four separate town hall meetings over the past month, faculty members and administrators have vetted proposals to drastically overhaul Harvard College’s General Education program, according to copies of meeting minutes obtained by The Crimson. The changes discussed would lower the number of required courses and make stricter requirements for departmental courses’ inclusion in the program. Since last semester’s release of a Gen Ed review that characterized the program as “failing on a variety of fronts,” Harvard’s foundational curriculum has come under fire from faculty who have blamed the report’s findings primarily on the program’s implementation. In the meantime, the Gen Ed review committee has held the four town halls to generate broader faculty discussion and gauge opinions about the current program. The outcome of those conversations, which were closed to the press, will be on display Tuesday, when the committee is expected to present a summary of recommendations to the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, according to the minutes of the final town hall meeting, held Oct. 27. At the faculty’s December meeting, the committee is slated to propose formal legislation, on which professors would vote in the spring, according to the minutes of the final town hall. According to the meeting minutes, which detail the backand-forth between attendees but do not name most indi-
vidual speakers, committee members have discussed proposing three HARVARD m a i n changes to the Gen Ed program: It generally should no longer include “back of the book,” or departmental, courses; the program should have fewer requirements; and “some version” of the Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning requirement should continue as an additional quantitative reasoning requirement. The current Gen Ed category of Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning received particular scrutiny at the meetings: It was described as a “failure” because of its lack of true Gen Ed courses and inclusion of primarily departmental courses. At the four town halls, some attendees suggested that the program is too restrictive for students with its eight required courses. Conversations at the meetings focused in part on lowering the number of required Gen Ed courses, which attendees said would give students more freedom to explore elective courses. Committee members and professors have previously suggested that there are too many courses in the program with department offerings counting for Gen Ed credit, leaving it unwieldy and lacking a defined identity. But several attendees of the fall’s town hall meetings suggested that reducing the number of requirements might
delegitimize the Gen Ed program. Other attendees worried that Gen Ed course enrollment sizes would increase if the program included fewer requirements. Attendees also discussed loosely structuring revised requirements around FAS’ three divisions — social sciences, sciences and arts and humanities — and including requirements that involved ethics or ethical reasoning. The committee’s loose belief is that “Gen Ed courses should get as much if not more support as HarvardX courses get,” according to the final meeting minutes. Specifically, committee representatives outlined three other proposals to faculty members at the town halls: They suggested that the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning should provide faculty with course development support; sections for Gen Ed
courses should have a target size of 12 and a cap of 14; and Harvard should train training teaching fellows specific to the program. More broadly, committee members also said that departments should think of the program as important to their teaching obligations. The Gen Ed review committee began its work in the spring of 2014 as part of the first review of the program since its launch in 2009. In the years of crafting and implementation leading up to the launch, the program became a victim first of administrative turnover and then financial uncertainty, when resources and administrative attention were siphoned away to deal with the impacts of the global financial crisis. As a result, the program failed to address many of the criticisms that plagued its predecessor, the Core.
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“I worried coming in for my freshman year what my teammates would think of me.” ELI MANNING TWO-TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION QUARTERBACK
Soccer’s youth movement MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 down on the opposition has been a welcome addition. At the defensive end, it has been Riach who has stepped up. After center back and two-year starter Henry Flugstad-Clarke ’17 tore his ACL one month before the start of this season, Riach has assumed that position in the starting 11. Riach’s impact in the backline has been bolstered, especially recently, by noteworthy finishes on set pieces. In the team’s last two Ivy matches, he has scored two headers, one off of a corner kick and another off of a free kick. As a result, he was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll two weeks in a row. Riach credits his time at Everton FC, a premier soccer team based in Liverpool, with preparing him for the demands of college soccer. The defender spent a month with the renowned English club’s U-16 program in 2012. “[My time at Everton FC] helped me prepare for the college game because I feel confident in my technical ability as well as my tactical ability,” Riach said. “I really think without that experience I wouldn’t have accumulated as much knowledge as I have for the game right now.” While the Yale program’s track record may not seem particularly impressive to potential recruits — Yale has not finished higher than fourth in the Ivy League since 2005 — the team’s recent play did not dissuade the young Elis from coming to New Haven. But for the five freshmen interviewed, Yale’s reputation as a top-notch academic institution outweighed any athletic considerations, although Riach was quick to note that this did not diminish their commitment to the soccer program. “Everyone’s here for an education. But at the same time, everyone is incredibly, incredibly committed to the athletics. We train virtually every day of the week and we’re physically exhausted every day of the week,” Riach said. “So it’s not as though, we’re not focused on the athletics, we are — it’s just that we also understand we need an education.” None of the players interviewed came in search of only soccer suc-
cess. Instead, it was the Yale community and personal ties that drew them to New Haven. Kenagy said the allure was not the team’s record, but the team itself. The forward felt immediately welcomed by the older members of the team, and could see that they respected and looked out for one another. Riach indicated that part of the draw was staying in New England. As a Weston, Connecticut resident, he said he felt most comfortable on the East Coast. For Kirby, it was a family legacy. As the child of two alums, Kirby said he grew to love the University before he even considered applying for college, making his decision when the time came a natural one. And Downs said familial connections also played a considerable role. With family in New Haven, Yale was an ideal place for him to continue his education and soccer career, he said. Some players said it was Yale’s lack of success that played a role in convincing them to attend the University and join the Elis on the field. Kirby echoed Stannard’s goals, which he shared in a Oct. 8 article in the News, including a desire to help “make the program great again.” “The mind-set I had was that it’s going to be an exciting process, maybe a hard one, maybe a long one, but nonetheless exciting, to try to advance this program and really bring it up to be one of the top teams in the Ivy League and then maybe even competitors for a national championship eventually,” Kirby said. In a similar vein, Downs said that in coming to Yale, he knew he had the opportunity to join a program that looked to rebuild and grow during his time here. The group’s collective energy, commitment and excitement have inspired the upperclassmen on the team. Goalkeeper Ryan Simpson ’17, whose role was filled by firstyear goalie Kees Schipper ’19 for seven games while Simpson recovered from a right quadriceps injury, described the freshmen as resilient, hard-working and “very coachable,” but also said that coaching has worked both ways. “We’ve also learned a lot from them because they’ve brought
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an 83.7 save percentage and was named Ivy League CoRookie of the Week on Monday for the second time this season. “Brown is a well coached team,” head coach Rudy Meredith said. “This is their coach’s [Phil Pincince] 39th year in the program. He gets his team well-prepared and tries to exploit the opposing team’s weaknesses.” The Bears are tied for fourth in the Ivy League with Cornell, three slots ahead of the Bulldogs’ last-place standing alongside Dartmouth. Nevertheless, even after this weekend of competition, movement within the rankings will not affect the ultimate Ivy League champion, as Princeton has already won the conference with 18 points. Despite Brown’s edge over Yale in overall league record,
the Elis did win against the Bears 2–1 in last year’s game. Both of Yale’s two goals were scored in the first 26 minutes of the matchup — one of which was assisted by Grossman. In total, the Bulldog seniors have won two out of the three trials that they have opposed the Bears. Meredith noted that he has been very happy with practice this past week because his players have maintained a high intensity and level of competitiveness for every session. He even got out on the field to contribute to the play, and the Bulldogs took him on with confidence, Meredith said. “We are focusing on just having fun, as it is our last game ever,” midfielder Shannon Conneely ’16 said. Regardless of the result Saturday, goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 noted that she reflects positively on the development of Yale’s squad
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sition, so it’s definitely easier as a freshman.” Still, the young core must continue to improve if the Elis hope to compete for an Ivy League crown in the coming years. Kirby predicted that once the young core of the team gained enough experience both playing in the Ivy League and alongside the new coaching staff, the team would see conference results much improved from this year’s 0–4–1 league record. “It takes a while for things to click, and we’re still waiting for that to happen,” Kirby said. With only two matches left in the season, the results Yale’s newest crop of freshmen is looking forward to may not come for at least another year, but the future looks bright. The Bulldogs will take the pitch Friday night at Reese Stadium against Brown in the team’s final home game of the year, with kickoff scheduled for 7 p.m.
against Columbia. The Elis have been more active at the friendly confines of Johnson Field this season, which bodes well for increased scoring this weekend. Yale averages 11.7 shots per game at home as compared to just 7.1 shots per game on the road. “Offensively this weekend, we will definitely be looking to continue our good passing from last weekend, but also working to get in our offensive circle more often and take more shots,” Comizio said. Against Brown, the Bulldog defensive unit will be anchored by goalkeeper Emilie Katz ’17, who ranks second in all of Division I field hockey with 10.5 saves per game and is tied for sixth in the nation with a 0.787 save percentage. Having faced a staggering number of shots on goal, Katz has made 170 saves this season, while the secondranked goalie in the Ivy League, Dartmouth’s Paige Duffy, has made 100 stops. Katz, who has had to fend off the nation’s top two schools, Syracuse and Connecticut, earlier in the season, will face a less potent offense this weekend. Brown is ranked seventh in the Ivy League, ahead only of the Bulldogs, with an average of 1.72 goals per game. This year’s meeting between the two schools bears striking similarities to last year’s matchup. Yale was also 2–14 overall and winless in Ivy League play entering action against Brown in 2014, but emerged victorious in a 3–2 overtime decision to extend its winning streak over the Bears to four. “Last year, I remember we scored off of our corner unit, so we definitely would love to duplicate that aspect of our game, especially because we spend a lot of time working on our corners every day in practice,” Middough said. Middough and Wells each beat the Brown goalie in the season-ending win a year ago. Wells, a four-year starter and two-time All-Ivy second teamer, enters Saturday’s contest tied for 20th all-time in assists for Yale while fellow senior Villa will make her 50th career start for the Elis. “For this last game against Brown, of course it would be great to end the season with a win,” Wells said. “If we can leave Johnson Field after having fought as hard as we could by playing good hockey then that would be a fine way to end the season for me.” The opening pass back is scheduled for 1 p.m on Saturday.
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the talent that they had from high school to hit the ground running when they came out here, so I give them a lot of credit for taking it as is,” Simpson said. “They’ve all been [put] in different positions, asked to do very different things and take on a lot of responsibility, but they’ve responded very well to it.” Part of their transitional success must be attributed to the arrival of Stannard at the end of last season, which forced all players, not just the new additions, to adapt to a new coaching style. In a way, the freshmen were at an advantage in that they had no preconceived notions of what it is like to play soccer at Yale. “[Our transition] was definitely easier because usually everyone’s already comfortable with each other, and there is no transition phase for the sophomores, juniors, seniors and the coach,” forward Tilman Bartelsmeyer ’19, who has seen playing time in three games this season, said. “[This season], everyone was coming into a tran-
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over the last three months. From preseason in late August to this last game, she believes she and her fellow Bulldogs have evolved exponentially during this season’s ups and downs. This season, the Elis have challenged two strong teams in the nation’s top-50 rankings, endured five consecutive games on the road and turned around after a twogame losing streak to win against fellow Ancient Eight foe Dartmouth. “The team has grown extremely close this season,” Ames said. “A lot of freshmen got valuable playing experience, and the team was able to try out different formations and strategies in various situations.” Yale kicks off against Brown at 4 p.m. at Reese Stadium on Saturday. Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .
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Crimson and Green in town WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 “Every weekend is extremely important in the ECAC because of the parity in our conference this year,” forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 said. “Any team can win on any given night. With that being said, a series against Ivy rivals Harvard and Dartmouth is always special and one we want to win.” The Crimson delivered two losses to Yale last year, including a 6–1 defeat that was the worst in the Elis’ 2014–15 season. But despite being picked as the ECAC Hockey favorite in the Coaches’ Poll, Harvard has already lost a league match — to Dartmouth, which Yale plays on Saturday, by a score of 2–1. That Dartmouth win certainly makes both upcoming contests interesting, as the Big Green looks much improved since a 2014–15 season that included 5–1 and 6–2 losses to Yale. Neither Ivy League rival appears to be an easy win for the Elis. “Despite the high scores last season, Dartmouth is always a tough team to play against because they are well-coached and have a few very skilled forwards,” YipChuck said. “As long as we bring a high compete level and capitalize on our opportunities, like we did last year, we have a very good chance of being successful.” The Crimson enters its fourth game after posting top-seven numbers in the nation both in team offense and team defense last year. Harvard was led by goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer along with forwards Miye D’Oench and Sydney Daniels, all of whom will be on the ice Friday night in New Haven. Maschmeyer ranked fourth nationally with a 0.943 save percentage, while D’Oench and Daniels were both top-20 in goals per game, having combined for more than a goal per game in 2014–15. “Harvard–Yale is just another game we want to win, yet it seems to mean more than a regular game,” forward Phoebe Stanz ’17 said. “Last season they were better than us and the result gave proof of that. However, this season we are
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Dartmouth and Harvard have both had top-10 national rankings for at least some interval of time this season. even more motivated to beat them because we are just as good and have worked hard over the summer to take them on.” Dartmouth, meanwhile, was in the middle of the pack on both sides of the ice last year but found itself ranked No. 10 in the country last week after its impressive win over Harvard. More recently, the Big Green came back from a 3–0 deficit to tie No. 4 Clarkson 3–3 last Friday. The game-tying goal was scored by forward Lindsey Allen, who looks to lead Dartmouth’s offense after ranking third in ECAC Hockey, and ninth in the nation, with 0.63 goals per game. Yale, looking to improve upon one of its greatest seasons in recent memory a year ago, will be seeking a return to the strong offensive performance that brought home a 4–3 win over Quinnipiac last weekend. Captain and forward Janelle Ferrara ’16 was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week after scoring three goals this past weekend — including both the game-tying and game-winning scores against the Bobcats — and was one of the topfive point-earners for Yale last season, all of whom have returned for
2014–15. The team also added forward Jordan Chancellor ’19, who is third in points this season. But forward Jamie Haddad ’16, who scored on Tuesday, said that the offense’s performance is still not at the level where she would like to see it. “Our offensive performance has been inconsistent,” Haddad said. “I do not think it is a matter of our systems not being strong enough. It is simply that we are not executing them well enough if at all at times.” The weekend’s contests, particularly against the strong offense of Harvard, will also serve as another major test to the Eli goaltending situation. Netminder Hannah Mandl ’17, who backed up starter Jaimie Leonoff ’15 for two seasons, has been thrust into the fire of the starting lineup this season. In the third period against BU Tuesday night, goalie Rachelle Graham ’16 replaced Mandl after BU had raced out to a 4–1 lead. The puck will drop at Ingalls Rink at 7 p.m. on both nights this weekend. Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .
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ON CAMPUS 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. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 102.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 12:00 PM (Re)Imagining an Empire: the Impact of Religion and the Quest for Power in the Portuguese Atlantic. This conference examines the role of eschatological speech — prophetical, millenarian and apocalyptic — in the early modern process of colonization of the Portuguese Atlantic. It explores the impact of the discovery of the New World, and the finding of new peoples in the broader context of European eschatological projects, namely within the Portuguese world. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Rm. 116. 1:30 PM Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names. A painting’s title is often one’s first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings did not always have titles, and the titles of many works in museums and elsewhere originated with persons other than the artists. Ruth Yeazell GRD ’71, English professor and director of the Lewis Walpole Library, marks the publication of her new book by previewing some of what she has discovered about the history of painting titles in Western art from the Renaissance to the present. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).
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YALE WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY BULLDOGS RANKED NO. 29 Team and individual honors keep coming in for the Elis after their secondplace finish at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships last weekend. In this week’s national coaches’ poll, Yale was ranked No. 29, securing its first national ranking since 2012.
IVY LEAGUE ATHLETICS IVY SCHOOLS LEAD ACADEMICALLY For the fifth straight year, the Ivy League was named the top NCAA conference with its 98 percent combined graduation success rate. Dartmouth led Division I with a rate of 99, while Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale all tallied a 98 percent score.
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Freshman standouts provide bright spot BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite only winning a single game so far this season, the Yale men’s soccer team has something to celebrate: the emergence of a talented and impactful class of freshmen. Fifteen games into the season, freshmen constitute three of the team’s top four scorers, and have starred in crucial moments for the Bulldogs. Four in particular out of the 11-person class — midfielders Lucas Kirby ’19 and Nicky Downs ’19, forward Kyle Kenagy ’19 and defender Cameron Riach ’19 — have been rewarded with starting positions for the majority of the season. Though the team has stumbled to a 1–13–1 record, the newcomers have made their presence felt in an immediate and decisive manner. “Freshmen always play with a little naïveté, which can be good and bad. You play a little bit more relaxed and carefree, and you don’t worry about things as much when you’re a freshman,” head coach Kylie Stannard said. “When you’re older, you add extra pressure on yourself [because] you know that mistakes are magnified and that can hurt confidence levels. Freshmen actually brush off mistakes
more easily.” The results of this naïveté have been staggering. Kenagy, for example, scored in his collegiate debut against Sacred Heart on Sept. 4, and with three goals to his name, he leads the team in both goals scored and shots. Kenagy ranks eighth in the Ancient Eight in goals, and third among all conference freshmen. The Orlando Park, Illinois native reached this first-year success despite missing three games due to a sprained MCL in his right knee. “[Kenagy] has been able to put his fingerprint on things right away and rose above the rest of the team fairly early on in preseason [by bringing] great energy, work rate [and] athleticism,” Stannard said. “One of the things I want from my forwards is to be able to pressure the ball and defend as well. He did that right off the bat.” Downs has likewise left a memorable impression on the team this season. He has been directly involved in all four of Yale’s Ivy League goals, having scored two and assisted on two more. His two goals also came at critical times — one against Harvard to give Yale a lead in his Ivy League debut, and a second against Cornell with less than 10 seconds remaining to force
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Midfielder Nicky Downs ’19 has started in 11 of Yale’s 15 games, and is tied for the team lead with six points. overtime. Stannard described Downs as a potential candidate for Ivy League Rookie of the Year and expressed satisfaction with his development into an all-around player. “I knew that [Downs] was
going to be very good on the ball [and] one of our more technical players on the team, but he still had to learn what it takes to defend and compete at this level,” Stannard said. “I’ve been tough on him with learning what it takes to compete and battle at
Curtain closes against Brown BY NICOLE WELLS STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s soccer team will walk onto the Reese Stadium turf one last time this year in its Saturday matchup against Brown.
one of the most athletic players on the team and said his oneon-one defending has perhaps been the best on the squad. On a team that has struggled defensively, Kirby’s ability to lock SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 10
Two Ivy, ECAC foes come to town BY KEVIN BENDESKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Coming off its worst loss in two years — a 7–1 defeat at Boston University — the Yale women’s hockey team looks to right the ship this weekend against ECAC Hockey foes No 9 Harvard and Dartmouth.
WOMEN’S SOCCER This Ivy contest concludes the season for the Bulldogs. And for the seven seniors on the team, this game will be the final time that they will get to don the Yale jersey. Recently, Brown (6–7– 2, 2–3–1 Ivy) is coming off a two-game winning streak, while the Elis (4–9–2, 1–5–0) sunk to four consecutive losses last weekend. With home-field advantage on their side for their Senior Day, in addition to the support from fellow students and families, the seven seniors are looking to lead their team to one last win for the 2015 season. “Brown is typically an underrated team in the Ivy League,” captain and defender Ally Grossman ’16 said. “They do not have a standout offensive threat like Princeton and Harvard do, but they manage to compete with
this level defensively — to win air battles, win tackles — and he’s getting better and better at that.” Although less of a force on the attack, Kirby has impressed with his defensive agility in the midfield. Stannard described him as
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Yale’s offensive powerhouse forward Michelle Alozie ’19 and midfielder Sofia Griff ’19 will seek to steal some goals past Brown goalkeeper Christine Etzel ’19. All three freshmen have started 14 of 15 games for their respective teams. Yale will need to capitalize on its opportunities against Etzel, who is second in the league with
Thus far, crests and crashes have marked the season. In the Elis’ first two games, they fell to Quinnipiac 6–3 and to Princeton 4–3. But Yale’s losing skid halted at two, as the Bulldogs retaliated with a 4–3 win over then-No. 5 Quinnipiac, only to fall by a six-goal margin to BU three days later. Attempting to move on from that loss, the Bulldogs (1–3–0, 1–1–0 ECAC) will host Harvard (1–1–1, 1–1–1) on Friday and Dartmouth (1–1–1, 1–1–1) on Saturday.
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Yale and Brown will both be looking to close their seasons with a win. high-level teams and do well in the league, as well.” To date, the Elis have scored 17 goals this season to Brown’s 16, placing the two teams at fifth and sixth in the league, respectively. Defense has been the Achilles’ heel for both squads, as the Bears are seventh in the league with 21 goals allowed, while the Bulldogs are behind in last place with 30 goals scored against them.
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Yale’s two contests this weekend will play a key role in both the ECAC Hockey and Ivy League standings.
Yale welcomes Brown on Senior Day BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER For three consecutive years, midfielder Nicole Wells ’16 and back Noelle Villa ’16 have ended the field hockey season with victories against Brown. On Saturday, Wells and Villa — the sole seniors on the roster — will attempt to close their careers with one last triumph over the Bears. DENIZ SAIP/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Midfielder Nicole Wells ’16, who is tied for the 20th most assists in Yale history with 26, leads the team this year with four.
FIELD HOCKEY Yale (2–14, 0–6 Ivy), behind former captain and staff reporter for
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the News Wells and current captain Villa, takes on Brown (7–9, 1–5) in a battle between two schools at the bottom of the Ivy League standings. “I think we have had a rough season thus far and to end on this high note would really mean a lot to everyone,” back Kiwi Comizio ’18 said. “Especially because we won this same game last year.” The Bulldogs look to bounce back from two losses this past weekend, which extended the team’s losing streak to 12 games. Last Saturday, the Elis dropped a 3–1 decision to Columbia, and then fell 1–0 to Lafay-
ette the next day in a defensive clash. Led by midfielder Carol Middough ’18, the young Yale offense that has struggled much of the season has a chance to turn things around against a subpar Brown defense. The Bears are allowing 2.52 goals per contest, the fifth-most in the Ancient Eight. Brown has only shut out one team all season, with that performance coming last Sunday in a 3–0 victory over Patriot League opponent Lehigh. Meanwhile, the Elis have failed to score in seven games this fall, and average less than one goal per game. Middough leads the team in goals
scored with seven, which is half of the team’s overall total. She has also taken 62 shots, three times as many attempts as any other Yale player, and tied for second-most in the Ivy League. The only other Yale player with multiple goals scored this year is Comizio, who has notched two goals this season on 15 shots. In last weekend’s pair of road contests, forward/ midfielder Evagelia Toffoloni ’19 scored the lone goal for the Bulldogs, having found the back of the net SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 10
THE NUMBER OF GAMES IN A ROW IN WHICH THE YALE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM HAS DEFEATED BROWN. The Bulldogs will attempt to extend that streak when they host the Bears on Saturday for Senior Day.