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ELECTION DAY

DIVESTMENT

Students, Elm City residents get out the vote for their candidates

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BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND MICHELLE LIU CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS More than six hours after polls closed on Tuesday evening, results pointed toward a victory for Gov. Dannel Malloy in Connecticut’s gubernatorial race.

While Malloy tentatively declared victory early Wednesday morning, Republican challenger Tom Foley refused to concede, but admitted that a defeat — his second to Malloy in four years — was probable. This is the protracted finale to the months-long gubernatorial race — one of the tightest and nastiest in the country.

As of press time, Malloy held the lead with 50.3 percent of the vote, while Foley had garnered 48.6 percent. Malloy led by 14,683 votes. Eighty-one percent of precincts have reported their results, according to The New York Times.

With results still coming in from precincts, Malloy claimed victory in a 12:30 a.m. speech to supporters at his Hartford headquarters.

“We’re in a position to declare victory tonight,” he said. “We know what the big numbers are, and we are going to win this thing.”

Shortly after Malloy’s speech, results from Hartford and Bridgeport, cities that he won by wide margins in 2010, began to come in. As of press time, Malloy holds a 69-point lead in Hartford and a 64-point

In our element. As polling

booths across the states sent in their numbers, Ivy Leaguers nationwide celebrated electoral success. Among Tuesday’s winners: Harvard/ Dartmouth grad Bruce Rauner, former Cantab Tom Cotton and Elizabeth Etsy LAW ’85.

Whaling season. As the Whaling Crew’s winter clothing campaign wraps up today, plans for its first hockey season event were unveiled last night. The superfan student group announced its Hockey Opener Whalegate for Friday afternoon before the men’s hockey team takes the ice against Clarkson in its home season opener.

Best of the (third) best.

Yesterday, Business Insider published a list of “16 Incredibly Impressive Students at Princeton.” The article included a senior who founded an app named “nofomo,” a piano-playing prodigy and the NCAA’s topranked hammer thrower.

Suburban living. The

Huffington Post’s online College Magazine published a piece yesterday championing suburban colleges over those in cities like New Haven. We’re not quite convinced.

Prescient Preston. Author Richard Preston will be hosting a talk at the Whitney Humanities Center today on the subject on everyone’s mind: Ebola. Having penned “The Hot Zone” about the roots of the virus over 20 years ago, Preston deserves credit for beating the ongoing mainstream media craze by a longshot.

Classy outside class. Today, the School of Music is hosting a Lunchtime Chamber Music event in Sprague Memorial Hall. Though it remains unclear whether or not guests can actually bring in lunch to enjoy with the performance, it’s bound to be an enjoyably enlightening one.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2013 Toni Harp ARC ’78 is elected Mayor of New Haven, succeeding 20-year incumbent John DeStefano and becoming the city’s first female mayor.

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FOLEY SAYS DEFEAT LIKELY, BUT WILL NOT CONCEDE YET

all the canvassing efforts that unfolded on campus to get out the vote, perhaps the most effective means of driving people to the polls would have been teasing the preseve of the Yale a capella groups that showed up at City Hall to serenade voters.

the Junior Class Council will continue its series of postgraduate career panels, picking a crowd favorite: consulting.

A video conference setup will allow interested students to interact with the New Yorkbased consultants, who are expected to provide candid peeks behind the curtain.

Despite a tough season, the Elis look for success in two more games

Malloy poised to clinch victory

Trading voices for votes. For

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With vote counts still coming in from across the state, Gov. Dannel Malloy declared victory against Republican challenger Tom Foley.

Ready to register, but first a long wait

BY SARAH BRULEY AND ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTERS New Haven voters seeking to participate in Connecticut’s same-day registration process faced a daunting challenge late Tuesday afternoon: A line consisting of more than 130 people by 5 p.m., some of whom would likely wait for at least three hours.

City registrars, who were busily processing forms and ballots, were not available for comment during the day. Nonetheless, by about 6:00 p.m., staffers at City Hall had registered about 500 New Haven residents — five times the usual number of voters, according to moderator Richard DiNardo.

Emefa Addo Agawu ’15 said she had heard speculation that

Results trickling in, both camps caught in suspense

the long lines occurred because there were not enough staff to keep up with the increase in the number of voters who registered at City Hall. The New Haven Independent reported that the city had anticipated 200 people participating in same-day registration; instead, over 700 people came to City Hall to register.

About 100 were turned away, according to the Independent.

City attorney Cherie Phoenix said she did not know what factors were contributing to the long line. She noted that some hiccups were natural, as sameday registration is still a new process, but the line was still unexpectedly long.

DiNardo said that the swell of people lined up for registra-

The hors d’ouevres were served, the mood lighting was set, the cash bar was open and the guests were trickling in. The question that lingered inside both the Society Room, an event space in Hartford, and the Old Greenwich Hyatt Regency Ballroom, was which party would become a celebration of the future, and which would turn into a wake for a stalled political career.

Supporters of incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy filled the Society Room as they had on Election Day in 2010. Meanwhile, Republican challenger Tom Foley chose to end the night in Greenwich, his hometown.

Both candidates spent the day riding from one polling place to another to rally voters and volunteers. While Malloy continued get-out-the-vote efforts into late evening, Foley returned home in the early afternoon

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BY ERICA PANDEY AND ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTERS

Despite surplus, cuts to continue

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER While the University reported a $51 million surplus for fiscal 2014, Yale’s true financial status is not as optimistic.

In its annual budget report released last week, the Yale Division of Finance announced that the University operated at a $51 million surplus for the 2014 fiscal year. But the actual net gain in funds was markedly less, and Yale will not now have an additional $51 million at its disposal. According to Provost Benjamin Polak, the exact surplus calculated often depends upon the specific accounting principle used. As a result, administrators and faculty members interviewed expected Yale’s current cost cutting measures — issued after Yale’s $39 million deficit in 2013 — to remain unchanged.

“The fundamental message that should be taken away from

[the 2014 Financial Report] is that these were great results — we’re delighted and the surplus is good,” Polak said. “It’s just not ‘$51 million’ good.”

The University last ran a surplus in fiscal 2012.

Polak added that the main discrepancy between the surplus reported in the balance sheet and the actual surplus felt by the University stems from the specific method of accounting used to calculate Yale’s budget. Polak said the University’s financial officers present both the GAAP — Generally Accepted Accounting Principles — and the “Management View” accounting processes in reports.

According to the report, Yale had a $51 million surplus under GAAP but only a $13 million surplus under the Management View. Polak said that the Management View numbers more accurately reflect the financial status of the University.

He added that under GAAP, the

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Republican challenger Tom Foley refused to concede, but admitted that he likely lost.

Lorimer took home $1.7 million in 2012

University’s reserves invested in the endowment appeared to earn an enormous amount of interest.

In fiscal 2014, $27 million of the $51 million surplus was due to these endowment returns on cash balances, Vice president for finance and business operations Shauna King wrote in an email. Accounting rules require the University to record all of this income in the year it was generated. However, it is more appropriately smoothed over multiple years as the University does with other endowment returns, she said.

“We agree that this year’s reported results are somewhat overstated, certainly versus what we can expect to recur,” King said.

“Most businesses and institutions have differences between the way they look at financial results internally to manage the institution’s finances, a Management View,

Three of Yale’s top administrators each earned over $1.5 million in 2012.

Linda Lorimer, the vice president for global and strategic initiatives, and Dorothy Robinson, the University’s general counsel, took home $1,748,767 and $1,666,175 in 2012, respectively. The administrators’ salaries were made public through Yale’s Form 990, which is filed with the Internal Revenue Service annually as part of the University’s tax exempt status. The salaries were included on page 249 of the 302-page document.

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.COMMENT “There is no rising tide for all boats the past several years.” yaledailynews.com/opinion

Let them play ball T

he bladderball appeared at 4 p.m. on a crisp October Friday in 1981. At first, students advanced deliberately, but their slow march forward soon gave way to frenzy.

“A thousand people descended on one not-so-small leather sphere in the middle of Old Campus,” wrote one News columnist of the scene. “These normally rational students pushed and shoved and scraped and clawed at each other for over an hour, all for the glory of their college.”

Beckoned by homework and dinner, the crowd eventually dwindled. Orange-clad student marshals responsible for maintaining order throughout the game rolled the ball through Phelps Gate and into a waiting garbage truck at around 4:50 p.m. The truck then sped away, officially ending the contest.

That Monday, the News reported that the departing vehicle later deposited its bounty at the paper’s own offices, where staffers claimed the prize “as a symbol of yet another Daily News bladderball victory” — their 26th consecutive win.

STUDENTS STILL WANT BLADDERBALL BACK That year, President Salovey’s first on campus as a graduate student, marked the second to last time Yalies played bladderball freely. Then-University President A. Bartlett Giamatti banned the 30-year tradition in 1982 after the game left several students hospitalized. "It is the nature of this event that no set of rules can guarantee that such injuries will not occur in the future,’’ Giamatti told The New York Times.

Yalies have tried to revive bladderball three times amidst this ongoing ban. The first revival, in 2009, lasted 40 minutes. Two years later, the second game ended after only 11 minutes of play.

Last Sunday’s bladderball was the quickest yet: A police officer seized and popped the ball within seconds. Outof-breath students, myself included, watched the brightly colored sphere deflate like a sad and sorry Mylar birthday balloon.

But the subsequent chorus of “boos” made clear that, even 30 years later, students still want bladderball back. Perhaps now is finally time to lift the ban.

Today’s bladderball would likely differ from the concerning free-for-all of games past. The pushing, shoving, scraping and clawing that were once intrinsic to the event are no longer inev-

itabilities.

Decades ago, bladderball customarily entailed exc e s s ive drinking MARISSA and outandish MEDANSKY lpranks, but the fleet Little Fables of eager, sober players assembled on Sunday shows us neither phenomenon need define the tradition. Columnist Christian Vazquez ’13 alluded to this safer, saner bladderball in his op-ed following the 2011 game, writing that “the [bladderball] of today is not the raucous mob of yesteryear. When a student fell or tripped, the group was conscientious enough to stop and help them back up.”

Moreover, the current bladderball ban disincentivizes students from establishing clear boundaries and safety measures; perversely, the ban all but ensures the dangers that administrators fear will come to pass.

Of course bladderball remains unsafe in a climate where upperclassmen might face disciplinary action for distributing rules, and as consequence some freshmen believe the end goal is transporting the ball through blocks of traffic to Timothy Dwight rather than one corner of Old Campus. Lifting the ban would dispel misconceptions and enable organizers to enforce actual standards of conduct, plus reintroduce precautions like the student marshal system.

This University faces issues bigger than bladderball — I get that. Still, even independent of the ban’s future, I can’t help feeling this year’s unprecedented aggressive response to bladderball symbolizes a troubling pattern of swift, almost shockingly cold, unilateral administrative action. The immediate, violent destruction of the bladderball — with no attempt to understand, negotiate with or even placate the student body — sits poorly in the wake of yesterday’s smugly scheduled meetings about cultural centers and divestment; the full-speed-ahead expansion of the colleges; and even earlier restrictions on social events like Greek recruitment, tailgating and Safety Dance.

In the end, even if administrators choose not to lift the Bladderball ban, what harm can allowing five or 10 minutes of volleying do? Next time, I predict even 15 minutes of bladderball would pass without incident. I have it on good authority that the News will keep its garbage truck at home.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a senior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News.

Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

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'CHARLIEWALLS' ON 'A CALL FOR LEADERSHIP'

A call for veterans Y

ale College offers dozens of courses on U.S. military power – on its history, foundations, evolutions, impacts and limits. Yet, there are not enough undergraduate veterans on campus to fill a single seminar.

While the admissions office declined to say how many veterans are enrolled at Yale College, several student-veterans told me that no more than a half-dozen of Yale’s 5,409 undergraduates are U.S. veterans.

This is true even though more than a million soldiers have left the military over the past four years to take on their next mission: college. As the military downsizes and soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of veterans taking advantage of the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill and enrolling in college is rapidly increasing.

Yale is not the only elite school with few veteran undergraduates. According to The New York Times, during the 2013-14 academic year, Princeton had only one undergraduate veteran, Harvard had four and Brown had 11.

“I remember when I was telling people that Yale was my number one school,” said Josh Ray, ’13, an enlisted veteran and director of the Yale Veterans Association in New York. “People would give me quizzical looks like, ‘Good luck. Yale doesn’t take community college transfers.’ And it’s not true.”

But the University has not done enough to dispel that perception, according to Ray. “I know some

really brilliant veterans that other schools are getting who aren’t even applying to Yale because Yale is not VIVECA doing enough MORRIS to transmit the message Animal that veterans are welcome Spirits and encouraged to apply,” he said. “The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been some of the biggest events in recent history. Don’t we want the perspectives of people on campus who have lived these wars firsthand?”

In a 2011 “Doonesbury” comic strip, Garry Trudeau ’70 MFA ’73 pointed out top universities’ failures to recruit veterans. In the cartoon, B. D. says to an elite university admissions officer: “Athletes? Sure. Legacies? In spades.

But veterans? Some of the country’s most talented, motivated kids? Not so much!”

Veteran recruitment has accelerated at Yale since 2011. Yale has begun to devote resources to make the University seem more accessible to veterans. In September, Yale admissions officers and veteran alumni hosted an information session in New York for veterans attending New York community colleges.

Yale admissions officers have also visited marine bases in recent years. These efforts to recruit

veteran applicants deserve praise, but much work remains to be done to get schools like Yale on veterans’ radars. Hosting more information sessions like the one in New York in September, reaching out to community colleges with high veteran populations and making it clear that Yale often offers financial aid to pay the difference between Yale’s tuition and federal funding would be a good start.

Having more veterans on campus will enrich the Yale community. Today the military is practically invisible in much of the country, including here at Yale.

Given that only one-half of one percent of the U.S. population serves in the military today, this civilian-soldier gap is not surprising. But it’s not good either.

Veterans are underrepresented on elite campuses today, according to James Wright, the president emeritus of Dartmouth, a Marine veteran and an outspoken advocate for veterans in higher education. Ivy League colleges need to ensure that U.S. veterans are encouraged to pursue their education, and that our campuses and society will continue to be enhanced by their presence, Wright said. “Their perspectives, experiences and thoughts about who they are and why what they did matters can inform discussions in classrooms, over dining tables and in residence halls,” he said to me.

Ben Shaver, ’15, a Global Affairs major who served in the Marines for five years before college, has

taken classes at Yale on topics including Iraq and intelligence collection. “I can’t speak from firsthand experience about forming policy, but I have seen the concrete consequences of those decisions,” he said. “I’ve found that people in Global Affairs classes are often really focused on policy issues, but think less about the consequences and costs in concrete terms. It’s easy to call for airstrikes for ISIS, for example, but what does an airstrike look like on the ground? What are the human costs? I try to bring an awareness to those sorts of questions in my classes here.”

Schools like Yale provide exceptional opportunities for their students. Part of Yale’s mission is to expand those opportunities to groups that are underrepresented in higher education.

Veterans – particularly enlisted men and women – certainly fit this bill.

Veterans have demonstrated their willingness to serve, to sacrifice and to put the well-being of their communities above of their own. They are a tremendous asset to our country.

Having more veterans in our undergraduate student body would be a great asset to Yale, too. Veterans are good for Yale, and Yale is good for veterans. We should do all we can to encourage more of them to apply to Yale.

VIVECA MORRIS is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Her columns run on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at viveca.morris@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST SCOT T GREENBERG

Against politics as usual A

nother midterm election season has come and gone, leaving the American electorate with very little to be excited about. Campaigns across the country were devoid of substance, as politicians avoided taking firm stances on just about anything, sticking to generalities and talking points (see: Mitch McConnell, when asked about climate change; Alison Lundergan Grimes, when asked if she voted for President Obama). Meanwhile, outside groups spent more money than ever before flooding the airwaves with negative advertisements.

Just as predictable as the 60-second sound bites and the wide shots of candidates chopping wood are the terms that our newly elected representatives will serve. We all know how the next two years will play out.

Both sides will fail to agree on a budget or a plan to make federal safety net programs sustainable. Politicians on both sides will continue to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations, lobbyists and special interests to influence their votes on defense contracts, intellectual property laws and agriculture subsidies. As the fall of 2016 nears, congressmen will stop voting on substantive legislation, to avoid doing anything their constituents would find too controversial. Ninety percent of them will be reelected.

Yet, before we fall into fatalism and convince ourselves that American politics will never change, we should take note of one silver lining on the dark cloud of the 2014 midterms: Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district.

Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district – stretching from the northeast corner of the state to the rural areas north of Harrisburg – is overwhelmingly Republican, gerrymandered so to protect the incumbent congressman, Tom Marino. Marino is the worst sort of legislator, voting with his party 94 percent of the time, taking the majority of his contributions from corporations and sponsoring legislation that a cynic might conclude directly benefitted his donors’ interests. He was one of two congressmen to call for the director of the CDC to resign in the midst of the Ebola crisis, and voted against reopening the government after last October’s shutdown.

Marino faced little competition from his Democratic opponent, Scott Brion, a local businessman who typically stuck to platitudes and spent most of his campaign’s money on consultants. Yet, a third candidate had also entered the race: a 25-yearold named Nick Troiano, a recent graduate from Georgetown, with a Master’s in Government, frustrated with the partisanship, polarization and

gridlock in Washington.

Early on in his candidacy, Troiano decided that he wasn’t going to follow any of the conventional rules of American politics. He ran as an independent, forming his platform with policies from both sides of the political aisle and some proposals of his own. He reasoned that the only way to fix a broken twoparty system is to work outside of it. He refused to accept any money from special interest political action committees, knowing that his campaign would have to be run on individual donations alone. Rather than skirting tough issues, his campaign issued five detailed policy white papers, outlining exactly what actions Troiano would take regarding the economy, health care, taxes, social security and local development.

Most independent candidates in American politics are ignored or dismissed, yet Troiano’s campaign appealed to voters’ frustrations and aspirations. He collected signatures from 7,000 people to get on the ballot, raised over $150,000 from individual donors, was endorsed by 22 mayors from both parties in his district and ultimately received 13 percent of the vote — far and away the most successful independent candidate for the House of Representatives during this election cycle.

I worked for Nick Troiano’s campaign this past summer, but

that’s not why I’m writing this column.

It’s easy for Yalies to be jaded about American politics, to think that nothing will change – and, more importantly, that people as young as us can’t change anything. Some of us resign ourselves to being cogs in Connecticut’s party machines, others spend time yelling loudly at protests in desperation and many of us disengage from politics altogether.

Troiano’s campaign is a lesson to all of us that American politics doesn’t always have to be like this year’s midterm elections, and that people as young as us can take an active role in changing it. Any candidate in the United States could run a campaign as substantive as Troiano’s; any congressional nominee could refuse to accept money from special interests; any politician could choose to disaffiliate from both parties; and any 25-year-old could begin a candidacy of his or her own.

For Yalies who are dissatisfied with American politics as usual, Troiano’s candidacy is a call to take matters into our own hands and to reengage ourselves in our civic responsibilities. The mission of Yale College is “the cultivation of citizens;” it’s time each of us lived up to that.

SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” MAHATMA GHANDI LEADER OF NONVIOLENT INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN INDIA

Students, administration gather to discuss cultural centers

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Two hundred students gathered in Commons Tuesday, anxious about the future of Yale’s four cultural centers.

While the event was designed to introduce students to members of an external committee charged with examining the University’s cultural centers, many attendees feared that the dinner would reveal alternate plans. In the days and hours before the dinner, members of the cultural groups feared that the Native American Cultural Center, the Afro-American Cultural Center, La Casa and the Asian American Cultural Center would be consolidated into one space. However, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said the rumor was “flat out wrong.”

“This review is not about trying to find ways to cut funding at the centers, if that’s what the anxiety is,” he said. “It’s not that at all. It’s all about trying to enhance the services we provide to Yale students.”

While Holloway dismissed the rumors, some students remained cautious of the intentions of the external committee — which includes four individuals with experience in multicultural student life, Holloway said.

Sterling Johnson ’15 said he remains skeptical because none of the administrators making the final decisions about the cultural houses were present on Tuesday evening.

“As we’ve seen with other committees at Yale, the administration can feel free to accept and ignore [the committee’s] suggestions as they see fit,” he said.

Still, other students said they felt more confident in the continued growth of the cultural centers after Tuesday’s event.

Stephanie Siow ’17, president of the Malaysian and Singaporian Association, said that the forum provided an opportunity for the four cultural centers to collaborate in a new way.

“The most important thing is to make sure we’re all on the same page,” she said. “This is not a zero-sum game. We aren’t trying to say the Asian American Cultural Center is better than the other houses — we are there to help all the houses improve.”

Holloway said the external committee will thoroughly examine of all the houses. The committee will suggest improvements to multicultural life at Yale that can be implemented in the short, medium and long term.

However, students were concerned that Holloway’s announcement did not include much specific information.

“It’s hard to say what to expect because we weren’t given much information,” Siow said. “That’s kind of worrying. We don’t know what [the external committee is] looking for.”

Adriana Embus ’17, a Peer Liasion for La Casa, agreed, saying that the announcement was vague.

Members of multicultural groups interviewed after the event said they would like the administration to provide more funding for the cultural houses.

“This is the first time that an external review like this has been done,” Siow said. “I would like more focus on the cultural houses from Yale administration, and I think providing [the cultural houses] with better funding and resources are one way to go about that.”

Embus said La Casa needed funds to renovate its space. The house’s basement had recently been declared a safety hazard, she

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Many students involved with Yale’s cultural houses are concerned about decisions an external committee may make. said.

While renovations to cultural houses will be expensive, they will benefit the community in the long-term, Embus said.

“Our cultural houses make us stand out,” she said. “We’re the only school in the Ivies that really has these communities.””

University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews added that it is important that the external review is happening now, when

the administration is preparing for the appointment of two new cultural center directors and the creation of two new residential colleges.

The Native American Cultural Center, along with La Casa, currently have interim deans.

Dinee Dorame ’15 said there should be transparency between students and the administration when the new deans are hired.

“As a senior, I want to know what is happening when they are

DeLauro dances to congressional victory

hiring a new dean, so that I can feel comfortable with how the cultural center is going to move forward,” she said. “The center’s growth has skyrocketed since I was a freshman. When I arrived there was one undergraduate organization affiliated with the center, and now there are five.”

Even though most students interviewed said they left Commons feeling more confident in the administration’s handling of the review, they expressed the

In line with New Haven’s traditional democratic leaning, Gov. Dannel Malloy won the Elm City by a landslide.

While the statewide results of the gubernatorial race were still undecided as of press time, Malloy triumphed over Republican Tom Foley in New Haven, winning 86.6 percent of the vote to the Republican’s 13 percent. Malloy took home a total of 21,763 votes in New Haven, according to the Associated Press.

“The numbers for Malloy really dwarfed the Foley numbers,” said Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17, communications director for the Dems. Although she did not have access to hard numbers on Foley’s voter base, she added that

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro celebrated her 13th victory at the Shubert Theater last night.

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro danced in front of an audience of hundreds at the Shubert Theater last night after capturing her 13th term as Connecticut’s third district congressional representative.

Unlike the gubernatorial race, which remained neck and neck through the night, the Associated Press called the results of the congressional race at 9:23 p.m. The results showed overwhelming support in the district for DeLauro, who won 51,440 more votes than her Republican challenger James Brown.

She garnered 65.41 percent of the total vote count.

“Many years ago, I danced on the stage of the Shubert Theater,” DeLauro said. “This is number 13 and it’s still an honor, like it was the first time.”

Members of DeLauro’s campaign attributed her victory to name recognition. While this election marks her 13th term as the District 3 congresswoman, Brown has never served as a congressional representative.

Mayor Toni Harp attributed the election results to DeLauro’s popularity across the area and access to

resources in the district.

“There’s no question that recognition played a part in the election,” said John Courtmanche, a volunteer for DeLauro’s campaign.

After she cast her vote in Ward 19, DeLauro said one of the few major challenges she and her team faced in the election was voter outreach. But, she nonetheless said she thought voter turnout was particularly strong throughout the district.

During her speech at the Shubert, DeLauro said she would continue to push for reforms regarding issues surrounding the federal minimum wage and absentee ballots — issues that voters identified as important to them.

“I voted for all the Democrats,” New Haven resident Kimberly Edwards said. “In terms of jobs and the economy, I just feel like they’re more hands-on in those issues.”

Throughout the course of Election Day, DeLauro said she remained confident about her chances, adding that she expected the Democrats to win across the board, including Gov. Dannel Malloy.

Voters in Ward 19 mirrored DeLauro’s confidence during Election Day, adding that they expected the results of the congressional election to be

decidedly in favor of the Democratic candidate.

“There’s no competition,” said Ward 19 Chair Ethel Berger. “[DeLauro] will go in almost unanimously.”

However, many voters were not as sure about the results of the gubernatorial race. New Haven resident Jose Padilla said that, while he does not usually vote in the elections, the close nature of the gubernatorial race drew him to the polls.

City leaders expressed support for DeLauro after the polls closed.

Superintendent of New Haven Public Schools Garth Harries ’95 said that the results of the gubernatorial and congressional races are critical to education in New Haven. He said that he looked forward to continuing a partnership with DeLauro on wellness issues, such as nutrition.

“Our school district has gotten a lot of attention in Washington, and I look forward to the continued representation,” Harries said.

DeLauro was the previously longest serving member on New Haven’s Board of Alders, serving for 33 years from 1965 to 1998.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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

Malloy sweeps New Haven, Yale

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS, NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS

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need for conversations to continue beyond the external review.

“It’s important to highlight that these houses are not just a minority haven,” Neema Githere ’18 said. “It’s important that we strengthen the houses, and not just for students of color. These are communities that all of Yale can relate to.”

“One of the big problems I’ve had with this election is that people don’t know where to vote.

SUKRITI MOHAN ’17 The Yale Dems and the Yale College Republicans had starkly opposing strategies to encourage students to vote. While the Dems had over 100 student-volunteers spread out across campus yesterday, the YCR took a less aggressive approach.

Andrea Barragan ’16, president of the YCR, said the group’s strategy largely consisted of sending out emails and text messages reminding registered Republicans to vote.

“Unlike some, we won’t knock on your door six times a day or stage impromptu sit-ins in your living room,” read a post on the YCR’s page yesterday morning.

On the other hand, the Dems sent out canvasses from 9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. yesterday. Their last push efforts also included hanging cards with polling place information on the doorknobs of students’ rooms, distributing pamphlets, writing chalk messages on prominent campus spots and driving voters to the polling stations.

“We really embrace our role of organizing students, getting them to the polls and making sure they have the resources to vote in Connecticut from freshman to senior year,” said Rebecca Ellison ’15, president of the Dems. “We don’t take

the sort of wait-and-see approach — we want to go after it, and I think we did a great job of that today.”

While the Dems only targeted students who were either registered as Democrats or unaffiliated, Dems elections coordinator Tyler Blackmon ’16, who is also a staff columnist for the News, said that if the Dems push all students to the polls — regardless of their political affiliation — statistically, these added votes are much more likely to benefit Malloy.

Malloy received a majority of the votes in Wards 1, 7 and 22 — the three wards in which Yale undergraduates reside on campus — with 91.2, 88.3 and 92.6 percent of the vote, respectively.

A number of student voters named social issues — such as gun control, education reforms and climate change — of special significance. Evi Steyer ’15, for instance, said she supported the Democrats across the board because of the party’s stances on climate change and other environmental issues.

But other students opposed Malloy because of his economic policies.

Mark DiPlacido ’15, president of the Yale Political Union, said he voted for Foley because Malloy’s recent tax hikes have had a crippling effect on businesses.

Other student voters said that they had found the race hard to understand and information difficult to find.

“One of the big problems I’ve had with this election is that people don’t know where to vote,” said Sukriti Mohan ’17.

Still, she added that the Dems did a good job of educating the campus about the candidates.

Malloy performed better in New Haven this year than he did in 2010 — a development that bodes well for his chances at re-election. He earned 86 percent of the New Haven vote in 2010.

In a race coming down to the wire, the difference from 2010 may prove decisive.

Foley’s support was based in the East Shore and Morris Cove areas of New Haven, areas that traditionally have higher levels of Republican support than the remainder of New Haven. He won 36 percent of the vote in Ward 18 — his highest percentage in the city.

Malloy, meanwhile, did well in traditionally Democratic sections of the city.

He won 97.5 percent of the vote in Ward 20 and 97.2 percent in Ward 21, mirroring the percentages in Mayor Toni Harp’s win over Justin Elicker last November.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu, NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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“I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.”

PATRICK SWAYZE AMERICAN ACTOR

Cancer researchers face harsh funding environment

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Research funding from the National Cancer Institute for the state of Connecticut has decreased by 19 percent since 2010, with the brunt of statewide cuts falling on research awards for Yale — the largest grantee of federal funding in the state, according to recent data from the National Institutes of Health.

The University saw its funding drop by $7 million by 2010, with overall state funding decreasing by approximately $23 million dollars that year. While the reductions come as part of a general downward trend in research funding since 2004, new concerns are being raised about the negative effects that a contracted budget will have on basic cancer research that experts say could vastly improve current knowledge of the disease. Basic research, unlike other types of research, is

not directed at the development of a specific drug or technique, but rather is aimed at enhancing understanding of fundamental science.

“What is … frustrating for researchers is being on the cusp of major discoveries, but lacking the funding to see these discoveries come to fruition,” Annees Chagpar SOM ’14, director of the Breast Center-Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital, wrote in a Monday email.

According to Tom Lynch ’82 MED ’86, director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician in chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital, the biggest problem with reduced federal research funding is that it limits the funding directed to innovative basic research and population studies on cancer prevalence.

Lynch said that, at the moment, the cuts will not hurt clinical research that much. But at some point, he said, the cancer research community “will run out of good

ideas,” and then the funding drop will hit them.

“Basic research is hypothesis generating instead of hypothesis testing — it is the backbone of biomedical innovation,” Lynch said. “A turn away from biomedical research is an economic crisis for our country.”

A turn away from biomedical research is an economic crisis for our country.

TOM LYNCH ’82 MED ’86 Director, Yale Cancer Center Dean of Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern agreed, noting that “it is a shame” that the direction of cancer research will edge away from basic discoveries

because “it’s normally the most basic research that transforms science.”

But he emphasized that historical statistical studies can misrepresent how drastic of an issue the drop in federal funding actually is.

He said he had informally asked around the medical school to see if people had noticed a sudden drop, but most were unaware.

Alpern said the recent decrease in funding may seem drastic because federal stimulus money — which increased money available for grants — has now come to a close.

In fact, federal funding for cancer research has been declining in real dollars since as far back as 2004. As a result, cancer experts like Lynch also argue that the decline is not drastic when placed in context.

But Chagpar noted that the cuts are particularly concerning now, at a time when technological capacity for pursuing research

projects is unprecedented.

“Sadly, these cuts come at a time when our ability to do scientific research is at a peak, from a technological and intellectual standpoint,” she said. “Never before have we had the ability to sequence the human genome as rapidly and as cheaply as we can today. Never before have we had the understanding of immunotherapies as we do now.”

According to Alpern, the financial squeeze is being felt by all areas of research, not just cancer.

While private funding could potentially mitigate the negative effects of federal budget cuts, both Alpern and Chagpar see downsides to relying on the former.

According to Alpern, there simply is not enough.

“To be honest, the magnitude of [private funding] dollars is relatively small compared to federal NIH funding,” he said, adding that it is difficult to have enough private funding to make up for fed-

eral cuts.

Heavier reliance on private funding could also affect the nature of research conducted, Alpern said. With less money and smaller grants, researchers are more inclined to be conservative with their projects, as riskier ideas are less likely to be approved.

To Chagpar, one of the greatest drawbacks of relying on private funding is the hurdle to collaborative research funding that it will create. While federal funds are able to foster and support multisite initiatives, some private foundations have geographic restrictions on where their money can flow, creating a problem for large team efforts.

“In my view, the way to move great science forward is to bring together the greatest minds, each with a different vantage point,” she said.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

FFY unveils new rebuttal at investor meeting

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Thirteen students, holding cardboard signs and wearing orange Fossil Free Yale felt pins, stood before Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility on Tuesday in yet another attempt to encourage University divestment from fossil fuels. But this time, their proposal was different than the committee had heard before.

Nearly 50 people filed into the Yale Law School for the annual open meeting hosted by the ACIR — an eight-person committee made up of Yale employees, professors and students that was established to advise the Yale Corporation on ethical investing.

Though the meeting was open to all students, FFY and the discussion of divestment became the focal point as the group unveiled a new proposal, which included the demand to no longer engage with fossil fuels companies before seeking divestment. While faculty and students interviewed said the meeting was productive, the future of FFY and whether these new steps will create administrative change remain uncertain.

“I think it was important for FFY to make a public statement to re-engage with the administration official channels,” FFY organizer Tristan Glowa ’18 said. “We previously hoped for shareholder communications before we divest, but we have progressed as an organization and it is more fitting to our core beliefs to ensure divestment without shareholder engagement.”

The new proposal cited five measures, including demands that Yale immediately freeze new investment in fossil fuel companies, divest direct holdings from these companies and institute a “improved administrative process” for students and faculty to engage with the administration.

ACIR Chair and professor Jonathan Macey began the meeting by outlining the limited power his committee holds on the topic of divestment, since final deci-

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Thirteen students from the Fossil Free Yale initiative presented the group’s revised divestment proposal to Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility on Tuesday afternoon. sions are issued by their “bosses” on the CCIR — Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility. He said that he hopes to work with FFY to the extent it is possible given the decision issued by the CCIR in August not to divest from fossil fuels.

Macey told the News after the meeting that the ACIR typically holds its open meetings around January or February, but in light of the August announcement of the vote against divestment, he said it was important to engage students earlier in the academic year.

“I was worried that the announcement of the decision would be polarizing and the ACIR would have no role to play,” he said.

“We are all involved in the issue and we are all trying to figure out some way to move forward.”

In addition to the FFY students holding posters displaying the

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organization’s guiding principles, five student representatives gave a speech outlining their concerns with the University’s decision and their interest in re-engaging the Corporation on the question of divestment.

Still, Macey likened the current situation facing FFY to an attorney whose client has already been sentenced to jail. If no new information is brought to light, the case will likely not be retried, he said.

But FFY leaders argued that their modified proposal will help make divestment a more achievable reality.

“This is our chance to rebrand ourselves and come up with a new proposal and new focus to include more social justice and student voices to reflect the urgency of the issue,” Chelsea Watson ’17 said. “It is more than the climate change aspect — it is also about the envi-

ronmental and climate justice aspect.”

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 also spoke in favor of divestment. Although University President Peter Salovey has used strong rhetoric in stating that climate change is the greatest threat of the time, Herbert said his language is not matched by commensurate actions.

Patrick Reed ’16 echoed this sentiment, stating that current steps by the administration are insufficient.

“While it is good that Yale will now officially support third party, pro-climate, shareholder resolutions, this policy is a limited, passive consolation,” he said.

“Because Yale will not originate resolutions, it lacks the ability to engage when it sees fit.”

Following the presentation, which lasted roughly 30 min-

utes, the ACIR invited the group for a question-and-answer session. The discussion touched upon issues including administrative transparency and the question of whether the ACIR should hold and disclose a formal vote on the topic.

Still, students and faculty remained divided on whether tangible changes would come from this type of dialogue.

“Although the Fossil Free Yale proposal tonight was different than last year — it is more nuanced and developed — the bottom line is the same of divestment,” Macey said. He added that he could not forecast whether the CCIR will reverse its decision.

Watson said she thought the meeting was very productive and that it addressed many of the key issues regarding the University structure in allowing for discussions of divestment.

She added that she is looking forward to meetings with the ACIR later this semester, which Macey agreed could be arranged in order to continue the conversation. This was one of the few tangible plans of action that emerged from the meeting.

“While we didn’t get the ACIR to get firm commitments, they really did understand where we were coming from and what we were saying,” Glowa said. “We need to think about how that will lead us to success now.”

Yale established the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility in the 1972-73 academic year following its adoption of guidelines from the book “The Ethical Investor: Universities and Corporate Responsibility.”

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

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FROM THE FRONT After tight race, Malloy claims victory

Breaths held at two parties SUSPENSE FROM PAGE 1 and relaxed with his family while preparing his speech for the evening’s gathering.

Throughout the night, most attendees at both camps declared themselves optimistic, even as results essentially showed a dead heat, with Malloy’s lead margin dwindling to seven votes close to midnight. Malloy’s guests included Connecticut Democratic Party officials, long-time party activists, employees on other Democratic campaigns and union members who campaigned heavily for the governor. Many had to leave well before Malloy arrived. Foley invited campaign volunteers, friends and prominent state Republicans including state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, whom he defeated in the Republican primary.

“I think that the extra momentum for Tom Foley in the last week is going to be the difference,” McKinney said at 9 p.m. “I think we’re going to be here for a very long night, but I also think we’re going to end up with a very close victory for Tom Foley.”

The crowd of Foley supporters, who observed state results on one projection screen and national results on the other, cheered and clapped at around 10 p.m. when the numbers indicated for the first time that evening that, with 50 percent of the vote, Foley had edged a 1 percent lead over Malloy’s 49 percent.

When Foley took the lead, Connecticut Republican Party Communications Director Zak Sanders said that although the race was still too close to call, he was hopeful that a Foley victory would be declared before the night was over.

“We saw a great response out there,” Foley campaign spokesman Mark McNulty said. “A lot of Democrats were voting for Tom, a lot of Republicans were voting for Tom and a lot of Independents were voting for Tom.” The closeness of the race practically guaranteed that party attendees would be waiting for hours to find out whether they

ELECTION FROM PAGE 1 lead in Bridgeport, solidifying his overall lead.

Foley, on the other hand, erred on the side of caution, refusing to concede in a speech to his supporters early Wednesday morning.

“We have probably lost this race,” he said in the speech at his Greenwich headquarters about 20 minutes after Malloy’s declaration.

“It was worth the effort.”

Despite the apparent defeat, his supporters expressed their continuing support, chanting “Foley, Foley,” as he walked off the stage, accompanied by his wife Leslie and lieutenant governor candidate Heather Somers.

But neither candidate’s statement is definitive. Foley said that he would not make the final decision on conceding to Malloy until all the results have come in.

Earlier in the night, both campaigns said they were ready for a lengthy affair.

“We’re prepared for a long night,” said Zak Sanders, a CT GOP spokesman earlier in the evening. He added that the Foley campaign had hoped for a definitive result Tuesday night.

This year’s midterms in Connecticut were marked by significant issues with voting logistics and same-day voter registration.

Voter registration forms arrived late to some polling places in Hartford, prompting them to stay open until 8:30 p.m., a half-hour past the original closing time.

The candidates were not immune to the problems. When Malloy attempted to vote at his polling place in Hartford in the morning, he encountered about a half-hour delay.

Gary Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, said that the extra half-hour of voting time in Hartford may have been decisive in the race.

“Those two polling places in Hartford that were kept open for an additional 30 minutes — it is not inconsequential,” he said. “In a very, very tight race, that does matter.”

In New Haven, lines for same-day registration numbered in the hundreds. About a hundred people who attempted to register had to be turned away. In the end, 620 people who registered on Election Day voted in the Elm City.

Citing the problems in New Haven and Hartford, Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 called for a review of statewide election protocols in a speech to Malloy’s supporters on Tuesday night.

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” JOSEPH STALIN LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION

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This year’s gubernatorial race was one of the closest, most expensive and most personal in the country.

Malloy’s projected win comes on a damaging night for Democrats across the country.

Republicans took control of the Senate for the first time since 2006, and the GOP maintained its majority both in the House of Representatives and in the number of state governorships.

In Connecticut, results have been mixed but generally favored the Democrats. The state’s five representatives, all incumbent Democrats, held their seats. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, defeated the Republican James Brown by a 2–1 margin.

“This election also has consequences for political reform,” Rose said. “If Malloy’s reelected, watch out for [the introduction of] early voting.”

Democrats have retained control of the Connecticut State House and Senate. However, the night also went well for the Republican delegation to the General Assembly, said Pat O’Neal, a Republican spokesman.

“We picked up eight seats,” he said. “We beat eight incumbents and we’ve increased the size of the caucus to the largest number in nearly two decades.”

Malloy’s election in 2010 made him Connecticut’s first Democratic governor in 20 years.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

were drinking to celebrate or to numb the pain of loss.

He and several of his co-workers were the first people to arrive at the governor’s party, lining up outside the door shortly before the 8 p.m. start time.

To Alonzo, the scene inside the Society Room was a familiar one.

He and other union members and Democrats had filled the space in 2010. That, too, had been a long night, ultimately ending without a clear victory for either side.

Foley did not concede until six days after Election Day. After that experience, Alonzo, his colleagues and the other party attendees were not discouraged by initially unfavorable returns. They bought beer and wine at the bar and munched on bacon-wrapped shrimp, cheese quesadillas and bruschetta.

We think we’re going to end up one or two percentage points ahead.

KATHERINE DEVINE Campaign manager for state Senator Beth Bye

Katherine Devine, the campaign manager for state Senator Beth Bye, came to Malloy’s party after her boss declared victory. At around 11:30 p.m., when about half of the precincts had reported and Foley was up by about a percentage point, she said she was not feeling nervous.

“We think we’re going to end up one or two percentage points ahead,” Devine said. “We just haven’t counted it all yet.”

Early in the evening, United States Senators Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy spoke, praising the governor. Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo thanked attendees, especially organized labor, for their work. After those speeches, however, a sense of ennui set in as results slowly trickled out to the crowd.

The crowd cheered when Eliz-

abeth Esty LAW ‘85 declared victory over Mark Greenberg in the 5th Congressional District, and when Kevin Lembo defeated Sharon McLaughlin to retain his position as comptroller. To stave off the boredom that set in after those interludes, the Malloy team blasted Michael Jackson songs including “Beat It” and “Thriller.”

Though the tense optimism regarding Malloy’s electoral fate never wavered, the Democrats were chastened by defeats across the country. Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate and expanded their majority in the House of Representatives.

The bad news for the Democrats seemed to come to an end shortly after 12:30 a.m., when Malloy took the stage and declared victory before a crowd of jubilant supporters. After the speech, Malloy and his wife worked the crowd, giving hugs and posing for photographs. But Foley still refused to concede, claiming the race was too close to call.

“Malloy’s saying he’s won, but I don’t buy it,” one Foley supporter who asked not to be named said. “This has just been a lot of hurry up and wait.”

Foley’s supporters got clarity at around 12:45 a.m. when Foley finally appeared to address them after a five-hour wait.

“Something a little unusual has just happened,” Foley quipped. “Dan Malloy has just announced that he thinks he’s won the race.”

Foley’s declaration that he would not concede the race to Malloy until he “had all of the numbers” was met with resounding cheer.

Still, he acknowledged that the race was likely lost.

“Don’t get too excited,” Foley said. “Because we probably have lost this race.”

In the 2010 race, Malloy edged out Foley by less than 7,000 votes.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu and ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

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tion could be attributed to voters responding to the close state of the gubernatorial race. Elm City resident Charlie Davidson, for instance, said that he was motivated to register and vote after realizing how close the gubernatorial election would be through news reports.

Several Yale students said they experienced long wait-times to vote at City Hall. Lakshman Somasundaram ’17 finally registered and voted around 4:40 p.m.

He had been waiting for two hours and 15 minutes. Chiara Klein DRA ’17 said that her one and a half hours spent in line — with potentially another hour to go — were well worth the wait.

“I knew that fewer people come for the midterm elections,” Klein said. “I wanted my vote to count.”

After spending nearly an hour to reach the middle of the line, New Haven resident Sean Watson said that he was willing to wait to cast his vote. He said that the results of the gubernatorial election would have a significant effect on public education.

April Wen ’17 said she had decided to vote today after Sarah Giovanniello ’16, who had canvassed Wen’s Morse dorm room earlier in the year, reminded her

that same-day registration was an option. Wen said she was not angry about the long line.

“Being in this line means I missed something I was supposed to do, but it’s not a big deal,” Wen said.

Elena Anderson ’18 arrived around 5 p.m. to vote for the very first time. She said she was frustrated because she had earlier registered on campus, but, when she went to her polling place, she was told she needed to go to City Hall and register there.

Like many others who spoke with the News, she said she planned to stay until she had cast her ballot.

“The news reinforces the idea that their party line is the best way to go,” Davidson said.

As dinner time edged closer and the line grew longer, Agawu said she was concerned that people would choose to leave rather than waiting late into the evening.

She negotiated with poll workers to bring Yale a cappella groups to City Hall to provide entertainment, and volunteers brought water and snacks. Nearly half of the members of a cappella group Proof of the Pudding soon arrived in the City Hall lobby to entertain voters with a short medley of songs, starting with “Too Darn Hot.”

As the line in City Hall continued to lengthen, canvassers stood at the back, urging voters to pay close attention to the ballot measures, particularly the measure focusing on the early voting amendment, according to canvasser Anthony Marincovich. He added that the heated gubernatorial campaigns have drawn voters’ attention away from the measures. “[The ballot measures] haven’t really been covered that well in the media,” Marincovich said.

“They’ve gotten lost in the shuffle.”

Volunteer at New Haven Voter Coalition Aaron Good said that, while he thinks many voters in the Elm City are in favor of the Early Voting Amendment, many residents do not know enough about the measure to make an informed decision. The ballot measure, aiming to expand access to absentee ballots and early voting, appears to have failed. As of press time, the “No” side had garnered 53.1 percent of the vote.

Same-day voter registration ended at 8:00 p.m, the same time that the polls closed last night.

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“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Baker chides exec. branch

BY JON VICTOR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday afternoon, roughly 100 faculty and students crowded into Horchow Hall to hear former government official James A. Baker III speak.

Baker was secretary of state under former President George H. W. Bush and Chief of Staff to both Bush and former President Ronald Reagan. He also served as secretary of the treasury during Reagan’s second term, making him the only person to have held these three titles at different points throughout his career.

After getting some laughs with anecdotes of his days as Bush’s tennis partner and his subsequent rise to prominence in politics, the tone in Horchow Hall on Tuesday became much more sober as Baker transitioned to pressing issues in U.S. foreign policy. Among these, he focused on the terrorist group ISIS, Ukraine and the rise of China.

“Now while I can’t predict the future,” he said. “I really feel comfortable in saying that the United States should remain the world’s preeminent power for the short and medium term at least.”

Regarding ISIS, Baker said he supports President Barack Obama’s goal of building an international coalition against the terrorist threat. It compares to the action that was undertaken by the U.S. against Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he said.

But Baker also said he is concerned that no concrete action will result from the coalition that has been built.

“No one has agreed to put their boots on the ground,” he said. “So, so far we have not put together a coalition that in my view is going to be successful in defeating a very determined and real enemy.”

Baker expressed the same kind of frustration with the administration’s actions against Putin’s invasion of Crimea. He said that in the future more sanctions might be necessary, and that what the government

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Former government official James A. Baker III spoke about various current affairs such as political inefficiency. has done so far has been insufficient to contain Putin.

During a lengthy question-andanswer session, Baker stressed the importance of bipartisan cooperation for effective action in Washington.

“We [achieved cooperation] in every administration I served in. …

It can be done! The president has to lead,” he said. “The president is the president, and he has to lead. So you can’t just say, ‘Oh well I have a Republican house I can’t get things done.’”

Audience members interviewed said that while they found some points Baker made compelling, they did not agree with the majority of his positions.

Jackee Schess ’18 said she appreciated Baker’s view on the importance of cooperation in government. However, she also said she thinks Baker presented a one-sided account of

most political issues.

“Obviously his politics don’t necessarily align with the student body here,” she added.

Eugene Larsen-Hallock GRD ’16 said he thinks Baker made a good point about the need to build effective international coalitions in the Middle East.

Sam Teicher ’12 FES ’15 said he thinks Baker errs in blaming Obama for inefficiency in Washington.

“I do think that it absolutely is on the President to lead and that requires making negotiations, but I disagree with the secretary that the Republican congress has not been obstructionist in any way,” Teicher said.

During his presidency, Bush launched military operations in Panama and the Persian Gulf.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

On Tuesday evening, the Yale Debate Association debated PETA on whether or not Yale should ban experiments on animals.

PETA director of Laboratory Investigations Justin Goodman argued in favor of banning experiments, while YDA president and former YDN staff reporter Diana Li ’15, and former YDA membership director Nick Cugini ’15 argued against it. Roughly 50 students and community members were in attendance at the event held in Linsly-Chittenden Hall.

The debate began with Goodman walking through the various types of animal experimentation, accompanied sometimes by graphic photos of those experiments. A number of the experiments he listed took place at Yale — from the use of electroshock therapy on rats to the exposure of pregnant monkeys to the industrial chemical BPA. To conclude his opening remarks, Goodman said there is a logical contradiction in the way people think about animal experimentation. Humans justify use of animals because they are similar to humans but also find it acceptable to use animals because they are dissimilar to humans, he said.

Li began the YDA’s arguments by focusing on more theoretical points. Animals cannot be granted the same rights as humans because they do not possess moral autonomy, she said.

But Li brought these arguments home as she argued that Goodman was not presenting a complete understanding of the issues.

“He’s not going to look at the whole picture of why we do this animal testing in the first place” she said of her opponent, as she brought up historical examples of untested drugs like sulfanilamide and thalidomide.

While cruelty may take place against animals, Li said, humans must ultimately weigh it against the benefit of saving thousands of human lives.

In response, Goldman said he ques-

tioned whether animal testing is even scientifically effective. There are a series of alternatives to animal testing that can be effective in various situations, he said, including microdosing humans.

Cugini accused PETA of manipulating data to make their point rather than using logical arguments.

“This is why it’s hard for moderates on animal rights like me to get on board with them because they use bad science to prove their point,” he said.

Goodman said that in general, PETA is inaccurately painted as a fringe group.

In 1948 — the year in which the first national poll on animal testing was conducted — only 8 percent of people opposed animal testing. Today, 41 percent of the total population and 53 percent of youth oppose medical testing, he said.

Li conceded that animal testing is sometimes unnecessary but said this did not determine the outcome of the debate — as the question at hand was whether to ban all testing, not just some.

After the debate, Li and Cugini told the News that they were satisfied with the turnout of the discussion and with the engagement of audience members — who had been banging their desks in parliamentary style on both sides as they heard arguments they agreed with.

Goodman also told the News after the debate that he was pleased with the debate and complimented his opponents.

“I think the debate team did a good job defending what I consider to be an indefensible position,” he said.

But Christine Koczur, the organizer for the Yale Lab Animals Facebook group, said she was disappointed that the financial aspect of animal testing was not brought up in the debate. There was no discussion of the government grant money that pays for these tests, she added.

This event is the first of a series in which Goodman will debate at Brown, Harvard, UPenn and Cornell.

Contact MICHAEL SULLIVAN at michael.p.sullivan@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality.”

MICHELLE PFEIFFER AMERICAN ACTRESS

Lorimer, Robinson received $1 million in benefits COLUMBIALEE BOLLINGER

$3,415,662

YALERICHARD LEVIN

$1,840,284 HARVARDDREW GILPIN FAUST

$1,040,637 CORNELLDAVID SKORTON

$888,263

DARTMOUTHJIM YONG KIM

$778,499 PRINCETONCHRISTOPHER EISGRUBER

COMPENSATION AMONG IVY LEAGUE PRESIDENTS

$630,215 PENNSTEPHEN GOLDING

$471,834 BROWNCHRISTINA PAXSON

$394,721

IRS FROM PAGE 1 Both administrators earned approximately $1 million in supplemental retirement benefits, which came on top of base compensation of $521,594 and $508,321 for Lorimer and Robinson, respectively. Neither received the supplemental benefits in the previous year.

Also included in the filing was the 2012 pay for then-University President Richard Levin, who earned $1,099,221 in base compensation. But with deferred compensation, nontaxable benefits, a bonus and other compensation, Levin brought home a total of $1.84 million.

Levin’s base salary in fiscal

2013, his last as University president, was just under $50,000 higher than he earned the previous year.

The form showed, however, that administrators are not Yale’s highest earners. Chief Investment Officer David Swensen and Yale Investments Office Senior Director Dean Takahashi earned totals of $3.1 and $2.2 million, respectively. Both of their compensations are based on the performance of the endowment.

While Lorimer declined to comment on the reasons for the benefits, University Spokesman Tom Conroy said both vice presidents received the one-time distributions because of their contributions to the University. The

compensation was authorized by the Yale Corporation, Conroy said.

“Linda and Dorothy have each given extraordinary service to Yale, and no vice presidents have served longer or with more distinction,” said Roland Betts, a former senior fellow of the Yale Corporation. “It was fitting recognition of their careers at Yale.”

Despite the fact that Robinson announced in April that she would be retiring at the end of this year, the retirement benefits are no indication that Lorimer is retiring anytime soon, Conroy said.

In fiscal year 2013, which was University President Peter Salovey’s last year as provost, Salovey earned a base compen-

$51m surplus no simple thing SURPLUS FROM PAGE 1 versus what is required from a GAAP or an externally reported viewpoint.”

She said that the remaining $24 million surplus is the “net of several moving parts,” citing a strong financial year from the School of Medicine and the growth of its clinical practice.

Still, both Polak and King noted that Central Campus, which excludes the School of Medicine and West Campus, actually operated at a slight deficit this year.

“I don’t want people to get worried since it is only a small deficit, but it is, in fact, a deficit,” Polak said. “We are not quite at balance yet — we are close to it and hope to balance next year, but we are not quite there.”

In her letter accompanying the report, King wrote that the University’s cost cutting measures announced in fall 2013 contributed to the strong financial report. She said the University’s budget benefitted from the five-year plan to reduce administrative costs by 9 percent.

Polak said that the cost saving measures were intended to affect the fiscal 2015 budget, but because Yale departments and units began implementing these plans earlier, it also influenced fiscal 2014.

Still, some individuals questioned the necessity of maintaining these budget cuts — announced by Polak in response to a University deficit — now that the Yale budget is back in the black.

“The administration has overlooked the impact of the cuts on people’s lives and on

the quality of services departments are able to provide,” Local 34 president Laurie Kennington said. “With the great news about the surplus, it’s time for the administration to rescind the cuts and reinvest in Yale’s core academic mission.”

Others defended the administration’s financial strategies.

Jessica Labbe, deputy director for finance and administration at the Yale University Art Gallery, said that she still believes the effort to reduce costs is necessary.

“The FY14 surplus is not a direct translation of Yale’s operating income and expense structure,” she said. “While we would of course appreciate additional University support, and the cost-cutting measures have not had a positive effect, thanks to the efforts of staff across the gallery, we are doing our part to bring Yale’s operating budget to a sustainable position.”

Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel said that since the $51 million surplus is roughly 1 percent of the Yale budget, departments could not even slightly increase their spending above the fiscal 2015 budget without returning the University to a deficit.

He added that he therefore does not expect the budget surplus to provide additional spending flexibility for human resources or other administrative departments.

“With a budget and revenues of the University’s size — $3.1 billion — this [surplus] is close to a rounding error,” Richard Hesel, a principal at Art and Science Group, LLC — a firm that

advises colleges and nonprofits, said. “In the current uncertain higher education economic climate, I applaud the University’s efforts to cut costs provided the savings have not compromised quality and valued programs.”

King responded to potential criticism of maintaining this five-year plan by noting that many units continue to operate at a deficit and the University will continue to find opportunities to improve efficiency in administrative areas.

She added that this shift will allow for more resources to be invested in new University priorities.

“A University as dynamic and creative as Yale always will have more ideas than it has resources,” she said. “It always has and likely always will — the stress created by the financial crisis has certainly made that even more challenging these past several years.”

Still, it remains uncertain whether the University can expect to maintain this surplus.

Peel noted that while the surplus was encouraging, it included a number of one time gains that will not reoccur this coming year.

Polak said although costsaving measures can be reasonably counted upon to help balance the budget, other factors — including endowment returns — are much more difficult to predict.

“Can we expect to get 20 percent endowment [return] every year?” Polak said. “No. Absolutely not.”

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sation of $583,976. In that same year, now-Provost Benjamin Polak earned a base compensation of $269,796 — suggesting that his salary may rise in upcoming fiscal years.

In the 2014 fiscal year, all salaries and benefits for faculty and staff totaled $1.917 billion, continuing an upwards trend from the previous five years. Conroy said that just because the University has faced budget cuts and a reduction in faculty does not mean that any individual’s compensation decreased as a result.

“While we have had budget challenges, we have ensured that we have remained competitive in the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff as well as key

administrators,” Salovey said.

Levin’s compensation was the second-highest in the Ivy League.

In 2013, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger earned a total of $3,415,662.

According to a 2013 report from the Chronicle of Higher Education, 42 private U.S. college presidents made more than $1 million in 2011. Debates about whether seven-figure compensations for these top administrators is justified considering the rising cost of tuition have gained momentum in recent years — some of them with Levin at their centers.

In an article published by WGBH, a non-commercial educational PBS member television station located in Boston, Director

of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity at Ohio State Richard Vedder said Levin’s rapid salary jump since he took office in 1993 was bothersome.

“When he was hired as president of Yale his salary was under $500,000 a year,” Vedder said.

“He’s now making $1.6 million.

Same school. Same individual.”

Salovey said that Yale’s compensation for the president, provost and vice presidents is set based on a detailed review of compensation of comparable positions at similar universities, as well as an evaluation of the individual’s performance.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 5:00 PM Richard Preston: Ebola Breakout from the Hot Zone. Come to a talk by Richard Preston, author of nine books including “The Hot Zone,” “The Demon in the Freezer” and “The Wild Trees.” His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and most of them have first appeared as articles in The New Yorker. Preston has won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award. An asteroid is named “Preston” after him. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 5:30 PM How Ancient Hieroglyphs Changed the World.

“How Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Changed the World” will explore this fascinating language, including how our own alphabet derives from the ancient Egyptian scripts and the long afterlife of hieroglyphs in western culture. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave).

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 2:00 PM Films at the Whitney. Law Abiding Citizen (USA, 2009) 108 min. 35mm. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 9:45 AM Wordsworth’s Poetry: 1964-2014. A symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Geoffrey Hartman’s “Wordsworth’s Poetry: 1787-1814.” Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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SPORTS

“Tell the truth, work hard and come to dinner on time.” GERALD FORD 38TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Ivy coaches weigh replay FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 14 referees are usually correct, and even replay is limited by the type of play that can be reviewed and the camera angle available.

“Fortunately, we have had no game-determining calls [this year] that, had we had replay, would have been changed,” Harris said.

She added, however, that the review process the Ivy League does after each game has shown that some calls would get overturned if reviewed.

Both Harris and Jim Maconaghy, coordinator of football officials for the Ivy League, Patriot League and Colonial Athletic Association, noted that the size and age of Ivy League football stadiums, particularly the Yale Bowl, significantly affect the cost of necessary infrastructure changes.

To implement an instant replay system, each Ivy League school would need additional equipment, which many conferences obtain through the software company DVSport.

The schools would also need to modify their stadium with fiber optics cables and a room in the press box for officials to watch replays.

In NCAA football instant replay, at least one referee watches the game from the press box room and can view a replay or stop the game for an official review at any time, Maconaghy said.

Harris said that this setup is different and more costly than that of a television network such as NBCSN or FOX College Sports, which are combining to televise 13 Ivy League football games this season.

“[Television networks] have what’s called replay for entertainment purposes, where they can replay a play on television,” Harris said. “That is different than replay for officiating, where it has to go up to a booth where there are actual officials.”

The presence of a television network does, however, make official instant replay more feasible because of the number of cameras used in a broadcast.

Other FCS conferences, such as the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Big South Conference, began their usage of instant replay primarily during televised games.

Though the costs of instant replay in the Ancient Eight may not be known exactly until further consideration by the league, Yale did have a unique chance to see those costs firsthand early this season.

Army brought instant replay capability to the Yale Bowl during the historic Yale-Army matchup on Sept. 27. West Point hired a company to bring in the proper equipment, Harris said.

Beckett said that he heard the total cost of using replay in that game was approximately $7,000, but neither he nor associate athletics director sports publicity Steve Conn knew how that figure would compare to a sustained replay setup at Yale.

The officials stopped the game twice to review a call, but neither one was changed.

Although the 2014 season was the first in which an FCS conference — the Southland Conference — began using instant replay for all games, the Ivy League is already behind most conferences by not using the technology at all.

Maconaghy said that newer

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According to current NCAA regulations, plays involving the sideline, goal line, end zone and end line are all reviewable. stadiums in the CAA, which shares referees with the Ivy League and the Patriot League, have facilitated the recent implementation of a pilot program for instant replay.

Each of the 12 teams in the CAA is playing one home game with full instant replay this season, in order to evaluate the feasibility of replay in all stadiums.

The Patriot League, whose teams comprise a significant portion of Ivy non-conference games, is using replay solely to review targeting penalties at

halftime, taking advantage of a new FCS rule.

If a player gets called for an illegal targeting hit in the first half of a televised Patriot League game, a replay review at halftime can now overturn what would be an ejection in the second half of the game.

No such policy exists in the Ivy League, leading Maconaghy to believe that if the Patriot and Ivy Leagues do not launch a full replay system together, the Patriot League may do it sooner than the Ivy League.

“Only because [the Patriot League has] talked about it a little more,” Maconaghy said. “They’ve investigated the cost and things like that.”

The Ivy League recently brought instant replay to men and women’s basketball last year as part of enhancements to the Ivy League Digital Network, an on-demand video broadcasting service for Ivy League games.

Unlike in the case of football, however, most of the equipment required for replay was already used for the ILDN, and schools

just needed to purchase one more piece of equipment, Harris said.

The referee views a replay on a courtside monitor rather than from a designated room, according to assistant director of sports publicity Tim Bennett. He estimated that replay was used once per game last season.

Instant replay first came to the NCAA when the Big Ten Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision used it in 2004.

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

The life of a coxswain CREW FROM PAGE 14 August.

“On move-in day a big group of the heavyweight crew guys surrounded me and handed me a flyer that said ‘Small? Join crew!’ So I said yeah, I can do this! ... I just kept showing up to their hangouts and the meeting for eligibility,” Barry said. “Before I knew it, I was going out to the boathouse every day. It was something that kind of just happened, and I’m glad it did.”

Louis divided the coxswain’s responsibilities into three parts: steering, running drills and coaching.

According to the rowers interviewed, a good coxswain should not be just someone who steers, but an engaged team member who dynamically leads the boat.

Dougall Hamilton ’18 and Clemens Barth ’15, both rowers on the heavyweight crew team, agreed with Louis. Hamilton said that a

good coxswain will take control of a boat and set the tone of the practice, and Barth added that part of the coxswain’s job is to execute the coach’s plan when the team is off the water.

“On race day we’re completely independent of the coaches, and essentially our coach is the coxswain,” said Hamilton.

Barth agreed, saying the coxswain is almost the team’s “second coach.”

Members of the crew team said that one characteristic that separates a novice coxswain from a veteran is the ‘feel’ — which, according to Louis, enables the coxswain to improve the team’s rowing from his seat.

“They talk about a thing called ‘boat feel’ whenever you’re more experienced,” Barry said. “It’s being able to feel how the wind is influencing the boat, the water beneath it, currents [and] how the guys are moving in it. If you’re able to sense that something is

slightly wrong, you’re able to pinpoint which rower it is, and what that problem is, and coach them through it in the midst of the race.”

Rower Paul Jacquot ’18 said that even if a crew has the best eight rowers in the world, it will not move forward without a good coxswain that can make the team work together.

“I think a coxswain is capable of making an average crew an excellent crew,” Hamilton said.

Barth noted that not only can a good coxswain make a boat go faster, but bad coxing can be detrimental to the boat’s success.

He shared a story of one previous coxswain that simply counted the team’s strokes rather than offering any advice or feedback for the rowers.

Though the rowers do most of the physical work, Louis expressed frustration with contradictory expectations that coaches and teammates have of their coxswains.

“I’ll get yelled at for something, and then the next day, I’ll get yelled at for not doing that thing,” Louis said.

Despite the occasional inconsistencies and the additional coaching pressures, both cox-

swains interviewed said that they relish their role on the team, and all three rowers interviewed agreed that the coxswain is a vital part of the team.

The Yale men’s heavyweight crew team recently finished sec-

and Tompkins both played key roles in energizing the team and keeping them focused on winning games and fighting through a trying season.

Striker Teddy Mauze ’18 offered high praise for Lachenbruch’s leadership. The freshman forward said that Lachenbruch helped keep the team together throughout their difficult season. Mauze added that the captain deserves enormous credit for the team’s resiliency.

“As a senior it’s much different because I can count how many games I have left on 2 fingers,” Lachenbruch said. “It’s easier for me to do everything I can because I know my time is limited. For us, we’re just trying to instill that on the younger guys who still have so far to go. These games and practices are still important.”

Lachenbruch sees the team as a family. To the departing senior, one of his final rolls on the team, both as a captain and as one of the most veteran players, is to ensure that the team forms lasting bonds and prevents anyone from becoming discouraged.

Tompkins, reflecting on the end of his lauded Yale career, also noted the importance of the players in the team’s perseverance. The 19-year head coach said that his players

have never wanted to quit or give up. He added that in every practice and game, his team still works and believes that they can get better and succeed.

“Faced with the emotional and psychological challenges that soccer brings you have two choices: Either you succumb or you dig down and find reasons and ways to stay strong and persevere,” Tompkins said.

“This group has shown tremendous mettle and conviction despite their disappointment with games. They have tried to improve and they try to get after the next game.”

Tompkins added that the team’s perseverance, as well as the support of his family, helped to keep his spirits up during his most trying season here at Yale. The longtime leader of Yale soccer said that his team’s constant belief throughout each and every game has made his personal feelings seem insignificant.

Though disappointed with the way that his final season has gone, Tompkins relayed his confidence in Yale soccer’s future.

“Once we get out there, the energy and belief has kept all of us going,” Tompkins said. “I’ve had some fantastic years here and also some tough years, given the choice I’d prefer to be at the top of the league but we don’t always get what we want. We take responsibility and put right

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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The coxswain weight limit for men’s heavyweight crew is just 125 pounds.

Men’s soccer perseveres MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 14

ond at the Princeton Chase on Oct. 26. The regatta was the final race of the fall season for the Bulldogs.

what we can and keep working hard.

It’s been a draining season for me — I just want these guys to experience success and to feel the joy of victory.”

Lachenbruch offered some parting reflections on the season, stating that though his team may be upset about how it has gone for them, they can still enjoy training and competing together. In the face of a season’s

worth of heartbreak, the Bulldogs have found a way to keep their spirits up.

The Elis will search for their next win on Saturday, Nov. 8 when they take on Brown in their penultimate match of the season.

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

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Despite winning just one game so far this season, the men’s soccer team has the second most saves in the Ivy League with 69.

Sports connect families COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 once I was out that I had lost sight of why the whole betting pool existed in the first place. My girlfriend’s family hails from a small farming town in southeast Pennsylvania by the Delaware border. Over the years, however, they have spread out; now some of them live in California, New Jersey, Connecticut and even London. The tradition of betting on NFL games, World Cups and NCAA tournaments was not born from a predilection for gambling (or even a desire to win money from hapless boyfriends), but to bring everyone together.

Every week, the 20 people in the pool have to call in their picks to the family patriarch — the warm grandfather who reminds me fondly of my own “Poppy” — and every game becomes a natural talking point, sparking discussion and keeping everyone in touch.

As my sisters and I spread out further from our home in Richmond, Va., and begin lives of our own, I am considering starting a Condro family betting pool. At the very least, maybe I could win some money in that pool.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former sports editor for the News.

Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE YSO reveals filmmaking process

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER At midnight on Halloween, a herd of costume-clad students packed into Woolsey Hall to witness a tale of romance, school spirit and lost puppies.

The annual Yale Symphony Orchestra Halloween Show drew an audience of more than 1,000 people this year. For many attendees, the highlight of the show was the silent film that accompanied the musical score.

The film’s storyline was inspired by the “The Wizard of Oz,” and the production process was spearheaded by director Joan Rhee ’16, who plays violin in the group. Rhee said she had never worked with film before directing the show.

“It was like being baptized with fire,” she said. “It really changed a lot about how I look at the world.”

The film centered on a Yale student, played by Jaclyn Freshman ’17, who awakens in the alternate world of “Yalippiac,” where she encounters Oz-like characters and must defeat the “Wicked Witch of Harvard” in order to return home to Yale.

University President Peter Salovey, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and television personality Jimmy Kimmel all made cameo appearances in the film.

Rhee said she wanted to produce a film with an easily recognizable plot and score, not-

ing that she hoped to base the film on a fairytale-like story rather than continue with the action genre of the YSO films in recent years. She worked closely with director of photography Jeff Ding ’17, a film studies major and member of student filmmaking group Bulldog Productions. Ding, who was the only ensemble member not part of the YSO and the only one who had a background in filmmaking, described the YSO show as his “first foray into big production.”

The filmmaking process began at the end of August and concluded at the end of Fall Break. Rhee estimated that members of the film’s cast and crew spent an average of 10 hours per week on production, adding that she and Ding dedicated an average of roughly 25 hours per week to the project.

Audience members said that they enjoyed the filmmaking techniques. Madeline Kaplan ’17 said she particularly enjoyed working on the film’s cinematographic elements.

The budget for the film was $500. Ensemble members said the crew did not have to pay for location costs, since all scenes were shot on Yale’s campus, or for equipment, because they utilized the tools provided by the Digital Media Center for the Arts.

Ding credited much of the film’s cinematographic complexity to the technologically advanced tools that the DMCA

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The Yale Symphony Orchestra’s Halloween Show drew large and festive crowds to watch a short film accompanied by a concert. provided. He cited the opening shot of the film, which featured a leaf falling from the top of Harkness, as an example. The high camera angle was achieved through a large, professional quality crane, which he’d checked out of the DMCA. Cindy Xue ’17, a YSO violinist who helped produce the film, highlighted several scenes that required the crew to impro-

vise when they lacked certain props. She explained that for a scene that necessitated a special effect of “melting clothes” atop Harkness Tower, the crew found themselves without a fog machine — the tool they had hoped to use. After scrambling and sending countless unsuccessful emails, Xue noted, the group opted to use dry ice in place of the fog machine.

Rogers, Xue and Rhee all emphasized the importance of the YSO film in bringing the Yale community together around orchestral music.

“There’s this issue of classical music [being perceived as] out of date, and people not feeling like they’re able to access classical music in the way they can a rock concert because ... you’re not supposed to stand up and

cheer in the middle of a song,” Rhee said. “It’s really cool to have a [classical music] performance where that’s encouraged and appreciated.”

Celebrity cameos in previous YSO Halloween Shows included James Franco, Woody Allen and John McCain.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

Philharmonia revives classical music legends

BY DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For its upcoming concert, the Yale Philharmonia will bring four music icons back to life as it explores the works of several American and European com-

posers.

The philharmonia will perform works by George Gershwin, Edward Elgar, Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith this Friday in Woolsey Hall. Guest conductor Peter Oundjian will lead the show, which is part of a season featuring

a total of seven concerts. Philharmonia Manager Andrew Parker MUS ’03 said that rather than having a season that revolves around a common theme, the philharmonia focuses on a distinct theme in each of its concerts. He added that this concert

will focus on work by composers with connections to America, Europe and Yale. He cited George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” as an example. Gershwin based the iconic piece on his travels to Paris.

“All of the music being played

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The Yale Philharmonia orchestra will perform the works of George Gershwin, Edward Elgar, Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith during its next concert.

in this concert was written by American composers influenced

by Europe or European composers influenced by America,” Parker said.

Yale School of Music professor Frank Tirro said that Gershwin broke new ground by incorporating popular music into his pieces.

Though Gershwin died at just 38 years of age, Tirro noted, he still had a lasting impact on the music world through his work, which is largely based in tonality. Tirro added that Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” set a standard for American opera that ultimately led to its divergence from European operatic tradition.

Deputy Dean of the School of Music Melvin Chen explained that Paul Hindemith and Edward Elgar have historic connections to Yale.

“Being an American school and having a rich musical tradition here at Yale, we always try to have composers who have a relationship to America or to Yale,” said Chen.

Hindemith, who grew up in Germany, taught at Yale in the 1940s. Oundjian said he included Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphosis” in the program because he has noticed that the piece is not frequently played, despite its popularity in past decades. Elgar, meanwhile, received an honorary doctorate from Yale in 1905. Tirro said that while he does not believe Elgar was a musical “revolutionary,” his graduation had a lasting impact on Yale. For instance, Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” was played at the 1905 Yale commencement and is now a staple at graduation ceremonies, Tirro

noted.

Samuel Barber’s “Symphony in One Movement” will also be played. Chen said he believes that Barber was one of America’s most important composers. Drawing on the fact that Barber’s symphony was played at the prestigious Salzburg Festival in 1936, Oundjian recalled this piece’s historic importance, noting that it was the first American piece ever to be played at the Salzburg Festival.

We always try to have composers who have a relationship to America or to Yale.

MELVIN CHEN Deputy Dean of the School of Music Celia Zhang MUS ’16, a violinist for the philharmonia, said she enjoys the way in which Oundjian approaches the music being played and brings the seemingly distinct pieces into a coherent repertoire.

Violist Daniel Stone MUS ’15 said he appreciates Oundjian’s understanding of student musicians and their experiences.

“A lot of conductors forget what its like from our perspective,” he said. “But [Oundjian] really knows what its like because he used to be a performer.”

The School of Music was founded in 1894.

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

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“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS RENAISSANCE HUMANIST

Exhibitions celebrate book art

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER A pair of new exhibitions seeks to explore a rich history of books as artistic treasures.

Opening this Friday, “Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection” at the Yale University Art Gallery and “CT (un)Bound” at Artspace on Orange Street will examine the role of the book today, incorporating a variety of works that question the boundaries of the book art medium.

Jessica Kempner ’14, one of the student curators of the “Odd Volumes” exhibit, said that the objects in these two shows ask viewers to reexamine the way in which they typically perceive “the book.”

“We usually see the book as something that delivers knowledge, and so to see what these artists have done — often something that destroys these books [as devices for delivering knowledge]

— is a new experience for people,” Kempner said.

Kempner was joined by Sinclaire Marber ’15, Elizabeth Mattison ’14, Colleen McDermott ’15, Andrew Hawkes ART ’15 and Ashley James GRD ’17 in curating the YUAG exhibition. “Odd Volumes” draws upon a group of experimental works — roughly 105 objects in total — that Chasanoff, who graduated from Yale in 1961, collected over a period of several decades.

Mattison said the pieces in the collection are connected by their common exploration of how book artists respond to the pressures print books face as a result of the growing pervasiveness of digital technology.

Dating from the 1960s to the present, many of the featured pieces approach the book as a sculptural medium, Marber noted.

James added that she thinks a number of the objects display an interest in the “actual architectural

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Two exhibitions examine the role of the book as a sculptural medium and not as an object that delivers knowledge.

YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

A pair of exhibitions that highlights books — “Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection” and “CT (un)Bound” — will open on Friday. structure” of the book.

“Distinguishing themselves from ‘artists’ books,’ which are fine artworks that don’t necessarily question the structure of the book form itself, ‘book art’ seeks to be a little more elemental in its interrogation of the book as object,” she explained.

James described one of the objects — artist Adele Outteridge’s plexiglass piece “Vessels” — as a “fan favorite” for its visual appeal, and highlighted four additional works by influential book artist Doug Beube, who collaborated with Chasanoff during the process of assembling his collection.

“CT (un)Bound,” the YUAG show’s companion exhibition at Artspace, includes around 30 Chasanoff objects. The exhibition will be the first time a part of the YUAG’s collection will be featured at the 50 Orange St. gallery, Marber said. The loaned Cha-

sanoff collection works are paired with eight new commissions specially conceived and produced for “CT (un)Bound.” The commissions were selected out of over 30 “Open Call” submissions by Martha Lewis ART ’93, the exhibition’s curator, along with Jae Rossman, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library assistant director for Special Collections, and Kerri Sancomb, Artspace Visual Arts Committee member.

Lewis noted that although the Artspace commissions embrace a similarly liberal definition of what can be identified as a “book,” she thinks the exhibition has a “distinctly different flavor” from “Odd Volumes.”

“They had local artists respond to the [Chasanoff] works, so it makes the show a more community-based and reciprocal process,” added James, one of the curators who worked on “Odd Vol-

umes.”

Lewis explained that the history of Connecticut’s manufacturing industry — and its aftermath — is a theme to which many of the works in “CT (un)Bound” respond. One such work is “River,” an accordion-fold book by artist Marion Belanger MFA ’90 that features photographic images of Connecticut’s Naugatuck River printed on rice paper. Belanger explained that the Naugatuck — the only major river that both begins and ends in Connecticut — was once one of the most polluted waterways in the United States. Her submission, she continued, traces the entire length of the river, which was formerly a site of manufacturing and chemical waste dumping for products from Keds to Agent Orange.

Curators from both “Odd Volumes” and “CT (un)Bound” said the exhibitions have interactive, community-based components.

At Artspace, a designated familyfriendly area will welcome visitors with educational programming that includes workshops for art teachers conducted by some of the commissioned artists. “Odd Volumes” will feature a table at which visitors can interact with the exhibition’s catalogue as well as with several pieces of book art.

“Because of the nature of the work, everything is on the smaller side, and it is very visually stimulating,” Kempner said. “It requires its viewers to spend a little more time than they’re perhaps used to with a work of art.”

A third book-focused arts show, “Beyond the Codex: Sculptural Book Objects from the Arts of the Book Collection,” opened at the Haas Family Arts Library in September and will close in January.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

Plays promote Asian-American theater on campus

BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, a group of Yale undergraduates will stage two plays to galvanize discussion of race and identity on campus.

“The Dance and the Railroad” and “Bondage” — both written by David Henry Hwang DRA ‘83 — will be performed together this Friday and Saturday evening in the Calhoun Cabaret. Director Crystal Liu ‘16 said the production aims to create an opportunity for Asian-American thespians on campus to explore issues of racial identity as well as highlight the role of art in activism.

“The production is an acknowledgement that we don’t need to ignore our race or be race-neutral,” said Liu. “We want to make it clear that we are talking about race.”

Since the beginning of semester, the cast and staff of the production have been rehearsing the plays, one of which takes place in a railroad labor camp in mid-19th-century America and the other in a modern-day BDSM parlor.

Liu explained that two plays’ storylines address the question of how to deal with being a marginalized individual, especially an Asian American. The two plays were selected to be performed as part of the same production because the political message would not be as clear otherwise, Liu said.

Pek Shibao ’15, who plays the character Lone in “The Dance and the Railroad,” said he thinks that the play’s overtly political themes make the production more unique when compared to shows that only hint at such themes.

The plays together cover a lot of ground by charting AsianAmerican history, the pursuit of the American Dream and stereotypes facing the community today, Shibao said. When the plays are performed together, Liu said, those themes are broadened and contextualized.

The production also conveys the message that modern society is not post-racial, said Alexandra Cadena ’17, who plays the unnamed submissive partner in “Bondage.”

The casting process for the production asked that only students of partial or full Asian descent audition for a role in “The Dance and the Railroad,” Liu said. Posters also specifically stipulated that students of color who auditioned for “Bondage” would be given priority over other applicants.

Liu added that there are rarely any Asian theatrical productions at Yale, noting that this production will be the first time any of Hwang’s works will be performed on campus. Liu added that the production aims to create a space for the Asian-American community in the theater community, which she believes

is currently “whitewashed.”

“At Yale and in the world, the visibility of Asian Americans especially in theater is something that I have to go looking for,” said Liu. “Putting on this production comes from wanting to give a people like me something to identify with.”

In addition to focusing on race issues, the show provokes discussion about sexual orientation and gender, Liu and Cadena said.

Liu hopes the production will create a precedent for future conversation about identity at Yale and in society at large.

“If you want to think about and have a serious discussion on about where society is headed, you should come see us,” Cadena said.

Though the production tackles very serious political and social issues, Liu still characterizes the plays as comedies that are provocative and wild, yet uplifting. Shibao added that the show’s unique props integrate martial arts, opera, whips, chains and bondage outfits into the performance.

According to the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, only 3 percent of actors cast in Broadway and in nonprofit productions are of Asian descent.

Contact MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

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The two plays address the question of being a marginalized individual — especially an Asian American.

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Replay option a mixed bag

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legislative item.

“What [replay] does is it dissolves any doubt,” Reno said. “It’s really hard for an official to see when did the ball come out, when was he down. With replay, it really makes their job easier, and for us, you know that the right call is always going to be made.”

Beckett agreed, saying that he would fully support an instant replay proposal if it were feasible and reasonably priced.

Harris also expressed a desire to implement a replay system, but she said that the costs currently outweigh the benefits of replay, especially when

“Down to three … you can’t bet on [Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony] Romo!!!”

I read the email from my girlfriend’s cousin and couldn’t help but laugh. The trouble was, I had just bet on Tony Romo, his bad back and his Dallas Cowboys.

The Cowboys were 10-point favorites hosting the lowly and hobbled Washington Redskins at Jerry’s World on Monday night, but the Cowboys blew the game and let the Redskins escape with a victory. Just like Romo must have felt when singer Jessica Simpson dumped him for former NFL tight end Eric Johnson ’01, the result left me sad, alone and on the losing side of my girlfriend’s family’s NFL betting pool.

The pool is a simple “suicide” pool, where everyone pays into a pot and then selects a team to win each week — you are not allowed to repeat picks.

This seemed simple enough in principle. Even with as many as six teams on a bye week any given Sunday, that still gives you 13 games, from which you have to choose just one team who must win.

If only it were that simple.

Egotistically thinking myself somewhat of an expert on NCAA basketball — two years of covering the Bulldogs and the Ivy League for this paper falsely inflated my sense of self-worth — last March I decided to fill out a bracket for the family’s March Madness pool (Author’s Note: My girlfriend requested that I do not make it look like her family has a gambling problem. For that reason, I have decided not to talk about my defeat in their annual poker tournament), only to get spanked by my girlfriend’s sister’s German boyfriend who watches basketball about as much as I watch the Home Shopping Network.

Humbled, I decided to consult the real experts for some much-needed advice this time. I scoured the weekly Vegas odds, drudged through convoluted analyses on sites like ESPN and FiveThirtyEight and checked injury reports to make sure my selections were at full strength (I also asked the advice of current sports editor Grant Bronsdon ’16, but quickly learned to look elsewhere).

Despite being a lifelong Giants fan, I refrained from picking them — no amount of fandom would make the Big Blue Wrecking Crew a safe bet this year. Despite my prejudices, I picked the hated Cowboys because they looked like the best chance I had to advance one week further. That didn’t work so well, and I was left ashamed that I had ever rooted for Dallas to win a football game.

With all my focus on victory, however, I realized

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In the 2013 Yale-Cal-Poly matchup, this play was ruled a touchdown, but the player was down before the ball crossed the plane. Instant replay would reverse this call.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER At one point in the second quarter of the Yale football team’s win over Columbia last Saturday, referees had Yale’s kickoff unit frustrated after Columbia’s kick returner, who lost control of the ball and allowed three Yale players to jump on it, was ruled down before the fumble.

The call did not impact Yale’s 25–7 victory, but it was reminiscent of one that was meaningful at the same stadium two years before. In the 2012 season, a controversial fumble by running back Tyler Varga ’15 in the fourth quarter allowed the Lions to

score on their final possession and ultimately win 26–22.

Ivy League football does not currently have any form of instant replay, which is used at the professional and college level to check the validity of calls such as fumbles, catches and sideline plays. But Yale and Ivy League administrators interviewed say that bringing replay to the conference is likely in the long term. Introducing instant replay is a move that at least eight of the 13 NCAA Football Championship Subdivision conferences have experimented with since 2013, but Ivy implementation is dependent on cost factors.

“Our coaches have talked about it,”

Ivy League executive director Robin Harris said. “All of us would love to have something that allows you to get as many calls as possible correct …

We have to see the costs come down or have a big need for it, which right now doesn’t exist.”

The addition of instant replay has strong support from coaches in the Ivy League, Yale football head coach Tony Reno said.

Yale Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said instant replay will likely be a topic of discussion during the annual spring meeting of Ivy League athletic directors in May. The discussion would depend on whether or not coaches in the conference push it as a

The art of coxing

BY JON VICTOR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Inside every crew boat that competes for Yale, amongst the brawny rowers, is a much smaller member of the team known as the coxswain.

CREW Most coxswains at Yale are not recruited athletes, but they are trusted with an essential part of winning a regatta: steering the boat. In addition, coxswains play the role of leader on the boat, in charge of the coaching and motivation that can make or break a race.

“They don’t recruit a lot of coxswains. Some coxswains walk on with experience, having done it in high school and just not getting recruited. But then we have coxswains who just walked on totally novice,” said Grant Louis

’18, who was recruited.

Louis noted that of the six coxswains on the men’s heavyweight crew team, only two were recruited.

Louis’ Yale recruitment process began the summer after his junior year, when he coxed in the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.

He said that unlike rowers, whose recruitment is largely based on ‘erg scores’ indicative of overall fitness, recruiting for coxswains is not so cut and dry.

“You can send in a recording, but that isn’t a really great indication of how well you run practice and exist with your teammates,” Louis said. “A lot is based on the success of [your] boat.”

In contrast with Louis, Jack Barry ’18 had no prior crew experience and no plans to take up the sport when he arrived at Yale in SEE CREW PAGE 10

Men’s soccer endures

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER In sports there are few greater disappointments than losing seasons. An athletic campaign demands hours of preparation, sweat and hard work, and little is able to overcome the letdown of seeing that time manifest itself in the form of a sub .500 year.

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The Bulldogs have scored just seven goals on 176 shots this season, yielding a 0.040 shot percentage.

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Yale men’s soccer knows exactly what that feels like.

In head coach Brian Tompkins’s final season at the helm of Yale soccer, the Elis are set to complete one of their worst seasons in recent memory. Sitting at 1-11-3 and 0-4-1 in the Ivy League, the Bulldogs will finish with at best three wins this year. Tompkins needed just seven wins to break the all-time Yale coaching record for most victories, held by Steve Griggs. But he

will fall short of that record by at least four wins, given that there are just two games left in the season. Nevertheless, Tompkins and his resilient men’s squad are staying strong throughout a year wrought with adversity.

“Many teams like us who have struggled to get results would have given up on the season a long time ago, yet with two games left I feel the atmosphere is just as competitive as it has ever been,” forward Keith Bond ’16 said.

“I would credit our strong leadership for the way we have handled the adversity this season. Even though we may not be playing for an Ivy League Championship anymore, we’re still playing for each other.”

Fortunately for the Elis, a number of leaders within the team stepped up to confront the difficult situation that stood before them. Captain Conner Lachenbruch ’15 SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 10

CAREER WINS FOR MEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH BRIAN TOMPKINS. Tompkins is five wins short of Yale all-time winningest coach Steve Griggs. Tompkins has served as the head coach for 19 seasons and will transition to a role in the Yale Athletics Department at the end of the campaign.