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Malloy claims narrow win

Before he disappears.

Snapchat CEO and founder Evan Spiegel will be giving a talk today at 4 p.m. to tell his own “story” about how he and his Stanford buddies turned a simple picture app into a multi-billion dollar company. Be warned: There’s no screenshotting this one.

YaleNews did the math yesterday, finding that 17 Yale alumni won Election Day races in the Senate, House and gubernatorial races nationwide.

Beyond borders. To

complement this domination of American politics, Yale has a strong international foundation on campus, and the International Students Organization is celebrating it tonight. Held at Box 63, the event is titled “Bailando in Cancun” a party for students from near and far.

Outstanding. A Tuesday column in the New Haven Register by architect Duo Dickinson admired the spectacle of Yale’s renowned architecture, while suggesting that stark differences with the local landscape “quarantine” the University from its New Haven neighbors.

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER One of the tightest gubernatorial races in the country finally came to

a close yesterday afternoon.

In an email to supporters sent shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday, Republican Tom Foley conceded his second electoral defeat at the

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Princeton violated Title IX, DOE says

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Princeton University violated Title IX legislation, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights department announced Wednesday.

The OCR found that Princeton favored the rights of students accused of sexual misconduct over those of the alleged vic-

tims, according to a DOE statement. Princeton was found in violation of federal law for failing to respond to complaints of sexual violence adequately and for failing to end one student’s experience with a sexually hostile environment. As a result, the university will likely have to pay restitution to reported sexual assault victims.

“There is a culture at Princ-

eton that looks the other way at sexual assault,” said Princeton student Duncan Hories.

While some Princeton students interviewed characterized the student environment as healthy, others expressed concern for the university’s handling of cases of sexual misconduct.

Hories said the news left a lot of students concerned, especially because the discussion of sex-

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lated Title IX legislation came a day after The Daily Princetonian reported claims of a sexual assault case at one of Princeton’s eating clubs. The university’s federally mandated crime log recorded that a case of sexual assault from Oct. 10th was reported on Nov. 3. According to The Daily Princetonian, a university student was SEE PRINCETON PAGE 6

outstrip peers

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER

Beyond burgers. At roughly the same time, the South Asian Society will be hosting Chaat Night at the Asian American Cultural Center. Promising South Asian street food, Chaat Night is also one-sixth the price of the New Haven Museum’s offering.

1992 Then-Dean of the Graduate School Richard Levin releases a letter to evaluate a revised TA system.

ual assault on campus is not new.

The Title IX violations, he said, have brought the topic back onto the radar of many students.

Others agreed, emphasizing that Princeton’s problem is not isolated. One student, who asked to remain anonymous, said they believed there was a “rape culture” at Princeton enhanced by the culture of the eating clubs.

The news that Princeton vio-

Space scant for performance groups Endowment returns

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hands of incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy.

The concession came after a

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Gov. Dannel Malloy claimed victory shortly after midnight on Wednesday over Republican challenger Tom Foley.

A “Burger, Beer and Stogie Stroll” event will be taking place at the New Haven Museum this evening, featuring — as the name suggests — hors d’oeuvres, craft brews and classy cigars.

Including stops at Prime 16 and the Owl Shop, the affair oozes luxury and panache.

Cards for a cause. The latest student project to make online waves within Yale circles was Canary Cards, a card-making company aiming to encourage positive self-image.

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After more than a month-long vacancy, a “For Lease” notice now decorates the former Pinkberry storefront on Chapel Street.

The frozen yogurt store closed for business more than a month and a half ago without notifying its employees in advance, after an eviction notice was posted on the storefront. Although Pinkberry management said in October that the store was only temporarily closed, the building has remained vacant since September, and John Wareck of Chapel Investment — the real estate company that owns the property — posted a “For Lease” sign on the building this week.

After the store vacated in late September, several employees claimed that the Pinkberry franchise owner had failed to pay them their full wages. Although Pinkberry management said in an email to the News on Oct. 16 that checks were being sent that week, three weeks later, employees are still awaiting their wages.

As a result of the wage theft, several of the former employees attempted to file a lawsuit, said Bohannon, but they were unable to find a lawyer or successfully organize.

“A lot of [the employees] don’t know law or finance well, but we know something is wrong

High hoops. Late Wednesday

Painted (Yale) blue.

Bulldogs may benefit from withdrawal of Columbia basketball star

BY CAROLINE HART AND MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Back for more. Just a few months after taking the tween population on campus by storm, pop star Aaron Carter is back in New Haven for a curtain call at The Toad’s Place tonight.

night, Athlon Sports became the latest publication to select Yale as its preseason runner-up for the Ivy League men’s basketball title. Though the Elis have come behind Harvard in most of these polls, the causes for optimism have been well-documented.

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The Broadway Rehearsal Lofts studios will have its doors closed during daytime retail hours.

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER Looking forward to an exciting year of theater ahead, Yale Drama Coalition Vice President Skyler Ross ’16 found out one summer day that he and many of his peers in the performing arts community were being forced to move. The only place on campus exclusively reserved for undergraduate theater and dance rehearsals would no longer be fully accessible to groups that had traditionally relied on these spaces to practice their craft.

“It was definitely something that we

were blindsided by,” Ross said.

Starting this semester, the Broadway Rehearsal Lofts studios — located in the same building as the outdoor goods retail store Trailblazer — changed their operating hours so that theater and dance groups would only have access to the rehearsal spaces for a couple of hours a day. At the end of September, three new rehearsal spaces opened at 60 Sachem St., the site of the former School of Management building. Undergraduate performing arts groups, however, uniformly expressed SEE BRL PAGE 6

Yale’s endowment return for fiscal 2014 not only led the Ivy League — it also performed far better than the national average.

According to the preliminary data released earlier this week in the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments — a comprehensive survey on higher education endowments — the average return on endowments in the 2014 fiscal year rose to 15.8 percent from 11.7 percent in the prior year. Yale, meanwhile, saw a return of 20.2 percent, putting it in the top tier of the 426 U.S. college and universities surveyed.

Still, whether Yale’s endowment can maintain this higher-than-average performance in coming years is far from certain.

“15.8 percent was high across the board because it was a tremendous year in the asset side of the economy — the stock market went up a lot, and one thing we are seeing is a period of very low interest rates in the US … that tends to lead to asset values going up,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “Second, we finally began to see more illiquid private equity begin to recover from the recession.”

According to the study, larger endowments posted the highest returns for fiscal 2014, with institutions with assets over $1 billion reporting an average net-of-fees return of 16.8 percent.

Yale’s performance bested the

returns of peer institutions, including Princeton, Stanford and Harvard, whose 15.4 percent return was the lowest in the Ivy League.

The strong performance of institutions with over $1 billion in assets in fiscal 2014 agrees with findings reported in NACUBO studies for over a decade, Commonfund Institute Executive Director John Griswold said in a statement. He added that larger endowments tend to place investments in a range of both public and private asset classes, which often generate high long-term performance.

William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, said that in normal economic environments, more diversified portfolios tend to outperform perform less diversified portfolios.

Greater diversification produces more sources of return, he said.

The Yale Model — pioneered by the University’s Chief Investment Officer David Swensen — is a strategy of investing that places a heavy emphasis on diversifying assets. It is characterized by its reliance on alternative, illiquid assets as opposed to simply investing in fixed income and commodities.

“Yale has typically done better than the average and this was of course a particularly nice year for Yale,” School of Management professor Roger Ibbotson said. “The Yale Model of investing is in a lot of private SEE ENDOWMENTS PAGE 4

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efore anything else, I need to say this: You should always vote.

Always. The only way we can have true change is if everyone voices a desire for change.

The only way we can progress as a nation is if people come together and vote. Voting is the most powerful tool we have for equality, justice and all the other virtues we strive to promote as a nation. Tuesday, we saw just how much each vote matters, and everyone who voted should be commended.

That being said, I did not vote yesterday. I know I’m not fulfilling my duty as an American. I’m a bad citizen and a hypocrite. But it’s not only that I didn’t vote yesterday.

It’s that I shouldn’t have voted yesterday. I would go as far as to say that I couldn’t have voted yesterday, even if I had wanted to. The reason being that I frankly, and shamefully, wasn’t well-educated enough to do so by the time the booths opened.

What does it mean to vote?

Does it merely mean to cast a ballot? Does it merely mean to enter a voting booth and check someone’s name off? I don’t think so. Not if we want to promote the notion of a democracy.

I’d go as far as to say that voting requires a few things.

You need to know the facts, you need to know the positions of the candidates and the various problems confronting the public. Second, you need to reason which politician has the policy platform and the credentials to best address the issues.

Voting isn’t just an action, it’s a process — a process of deliberation, reasoning and learning. If you aren’t educated on whom you’re voting for or against, you’re not truly voting for that person at all.

Your vote should be your vote.

Not a vote cast because you saw that the News supported one candidate, not because your friend in the Yale College Democrats or Republicans told you to vote for someone, not because one person campaigned harder. Your vote should be a decision that you, as a rational person, come to base on the readily available and reported facts.

It’s a problem when people like me, who are uneducated about the relevant issues at hand, decide to go out and “vote.” I could have gone to the polling place yesterday and cast a vote. But I chose not to, and I think that people in my situation should do the same.

This column is in no way condoning political ignorance.

We all have a duty to educate ourselves on the politicians whose names and policies will be on the ballot. I’m embar-

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rassed to admit that I didn’t uphold this sacred duty.

My example is not one to follow, and ideally, no one else would have been in my position and this entire column would

fall on deaf ears.

But, unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

I talked to friends who voted despite admitting that they had no idea what specific policies each candidate proposed. Some said they voted just because someone had told them to do so, while others voted blindly down party lines.

It’s apparent that there are people out there who weren’t educated on the issues but decided to vote anyway. And sadly there always will be these people. My column is addressing these people right now, and only these people.

If you aren’t going to educate yourself before voting, don’t vote.

The way I see it, an uneducated vote is worse than no vote at all, especially in an election as close as the gubernatorial election in Connecticut — one of the most important and scrutinized races in the nation. In such tight races, our uninformed opinions can have a disproportionate effect.

When the stakes are this high, when each vote counts as much as it does, an uneducated vote shouldn’t be the one to swing the state’s political future.

If you’re educated, if you have an opinion on the issue, then go vote. Doing so is necessary for a democracy to flourish. However, if you’re already set on not educating yourself, minimize the damage you’ve already done to the system. It’s a lesser of two evils to be sure, and ideally, you shouldn’t do either — but if you must do one, then don’t submit an uneducated vote.

There are plenty of resources at hand to learn about the issues. Go and learn from those. That’s your, and my, first duty as a citizen. Voting means being an active citizen. It means doing your part staying informed on the things that affect you as a citizen of this country. So yes, vote. But before that, educate yourself and stay educated. I know that in the future, I’ll certainly try to do better.

LEO KIM is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His columns run on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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'GUEST' ON 'FFY REVEALS NEW REBUTAL AT INVESTOR MEETING

GUEST COLUMNIST EMMA GOLDBERG

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here aren’t that many things I remember about my grandmother’s house on Long Island. I remember the cigarette burns in the carpet and the pervasive smell of deli meats.

I remember the grains of sand that would get lodged in the sofa, and the fridge shelves littered with half-eaten Milky Way bars.

I remember the way her jewelry clinked. She passed away when I was in high school.

In the past month a bunch of my friends, from Yale and from home, have lost grandparents.

I’ve found out over awkward texts and phone calls, or emails forwarded by my mom. I never really know how to respond. “Sorry” or even “condolences” doesn’t feel quite right. It’s jolting, and then uncomfortable, how quickly it fades from my consciousness as I return to homework and meetings and complaining about the cold.

It’s hard, sometimes, to talk about family at Yale. It’s hard to talk about home. It falls out-

side the confines of our everyday vocabulary. How do you describe your anxieties and longings in the language of problem sets and interviews? It doesn’t really translate. I knew one of my friends for a year before I found out she grew up without a mother. We had weekly coffee dates and talked about majors and Woads and summer plans, but we never got around to where we spent the past eighteen years in any deep way.

I have a vague sense of what my friends’ parents do. I know which ones are bankers and which ones sell art. I know which ones have tidy houses in the suburbs and which ones have homes with lots of rules like “no candy” or “no shoes indoors.” I know which ones have multiple home phone numbers — the ones that divide up their calendars, Christmas at dad’s and Thanksgiving with mom. I’ve learned that some have winding life histories captured in neat little taglines like “I’ve moved around a

lot.” In classes, we’re taught how to summarize, so we go on and make ourselves into synopses: “My family’s insane, don’t even get me started.”

I don’t think it’s our fault, really. It’s only natural that we cut ourselves off from conversations about our past lives. We’re all tiptoeing into adulthood and defining ourselves in the absence of curfews and permission slips.

We show up at Yale as teenagers, still thinking about prom and senior cut day and suddenly we graduate ready for leases and relationships. It’s a leap, and it’s hard to figure out how to hold onto our nostalgia without letting it define us. I like having the space to grow up without anyone knowing I borrowed my mom’s giggle and my grandma’s stubborn streak.

It’s not always healthy, though, to let ourselves off the hook. When we stop telling stories from home we allow ourselves to ignore the family quirks and memories that shaped us. I

think we owe it to our parents to pass on their histories just as they formed ours. Sometimes I feel guilty going days thinking only of papers and p-sets, forgetting the dramas unfolding at home. I try to remember endnotes or units on a total cost curve, but it all adds up to missed calls. I picture my mom by the phone, counting gray hairs and words unsaid.

It’s all too easy to leave for school and pack away the stories: my dad’s jokes, my mom’s fears, my grandmother’s jewelry that clinks. But there’s no sense waiting for the moments that jolt us into talking, like a grandparent’s death. In our everyday conversations we can start to remember: our hometowns, our childhood nicknames, our imaginary friends. Our memories — messy, awkward, unabashedly unpolished — deserve to be unpacked.

EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College and a former Opinion editor for the News. Contact her at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

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For UWC reform

A version of this letter was sent Wednesday to University President Peter Salovey and the Yale Corporation.

It is, of course, with sadness for Yale that I read the front-page article in the recent New York Times describing the case of Professor Michael Simons. Although I do not know the details of the case, I am deeply troubled by the process involved in this case and wish to propose a modification in Yale’s processes to improve our fairness and independence in future cases.

As stated in the Times and elsewhere, it appears that while an independent University review committee acted with thoroughness, fairness and independence, its recommendation was over-ridden by provostial actions that, according to the Times account, appear to have prima facie elements of conflict of interest.

As a former chair of the Yale College Executive Committee, I had occasion to participate in several similar cases, the outcomes of which required both diplomatic and principled disposition. In the case of recommendations from the Yale College Executive Committee, it is possible, under certain circumstances, to appeal to a Committee of Review which has three options: sustain the Executive Committee’s findings, remand the case for reconsideration by that committee or issue a public statement of its views on the matter. As I understand the Undergraduate Regulations, and as I was assured by the dean with whom I worked, neither the dean of Yale College nor the provost or president would intervene to overrule this process (although I am sure they had the legal authority to do so).

I suggest that Yale University as a whole might be well-served by further insulating the administrative officers from potential and real conflicts and increasing confidence and transparency in the process by adding a second-level appeal committee (independent of the administration) to review recommendations by such University-Wide Committees as was convened in the Simons case.

This review committee, similar to the Yale College Committee of Review, would have the options of affirming the original outcome or remanding the case for reconsideration by the original or another faculty review committee. Further, and most importantly, the president (and consequently, the provost

and the relevant dean), although having the legal authority to overrule any decision, should make it clear that he or she has sufficient confidence in the Yale University faculty to foreswear this authority.

WILLIAM SUMMERS NOV 5 The writer is a professor of therapeutic radiology and history of medicine and science.

In support of Michael Simons I am a staff member and professor in the field of vascular biology and angiogenesis at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and I have personally known Dr. Michael Simons for 10 years.

Throughout this time, Simons has been an extremely supportive colleague, a valuable mentor and a true gentleman.

I started my own lab in 2000.

In the first several years, I was busy writing grants, building a research team and publishing papers. My lab had initial successes — we were able to publish a series of high-profile manuscripts and secure funding. But, despite authoring articles in prestigious journals, I was still largely unknown in the field.

As a foreigner and a woman, I found establishing connections more daunting than conducting research. I did not participate in many scientific meetings and did not have many chances to travel to promote my research, as I had a child in 2003. Frankly, I was not known in the field at all.

At the beginning of 2007, Simons invited me to present my work at the upcoming Gordon Conference on vascular cell biology. Intrigued by my published work in PubMed, Simons took a chance on me as a young scientist without tenure or strong connections.

My first talk at the Gordon Conference as an independent investigator opened doors for me as a researcher and helped propel my career. Dr. Simons introduced me to a number of outstanding researchers who later became my collaborators and friends. Moreover, he helped boost my confidence as a young investigator in the field.

Many of my peers have been similarly empowered by Simons’ support and mentorship. Despite the fact he is considered a “titan” in the field, he is very modest. His approachability shows that he truly cares about helping others succeed and advance our field.

As a female scientist, I can testify that I know of nobody who supports women in science as strongly as Michael Simons.

Women are well-represented in every meeting he organizes. Dr. Simons has recruited many outstanding female scientists to the Yale Cardiovascular Center.

In our many years of working in the same field, Simons and I have also become friends.

As a friend, I have always found Simons to be a real gentleman. He radiates positivity and empathy. I know I can always count on Michael for support and advice.

I believe that Michael Simons is not just a brilliant researcher who pushed the field of vascular biology to a new level. He is a true leader in the field, and I am sure that everybody in our scientific community who really knows Simons supports and respects him. I join many investigators in my field in expressing genuine hope that this story will not tarnish his career and outstanding research.

TATIANA BYZOVA NOV 3 The writer is a professor at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.

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CORRECTION WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5

A previous version of the article “Lorimer took home nearly $1.75 million in 2012” incorrectly stated that Richard Vedder was the Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity at Ohio State University. He is in fact an economics professor at Ohio University and the Director of the CCAPP, which is not affiliated with Ohio State.

Foley concedes, GOP weighs future

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER After conceding defeat to Gov. Dannel Malloy for the second time in four years, Tom Foley said that his 2014 run for elected office would likely be his last.

Instead, Foley looked to his running mate, Heather Somers, to lead the Nutmeg state’s Republicans.

Foley conceded in an email to supporters at 1 p.m. yesterday, and Malloy confirmed that he had received a phone call from Foley earlier in the day. In his speech at the Old Greenwich Hyatt Regency early Wednesday morning, Foley thanked his supporters and said he expected Somers to emerge as a leader in the Connecticut Republican Party.

“She is someone who has a great future in politics in Connecticut,” Foley said, amid supporters’ cheers. “Despite the stress of running for office and serving in office, I hope that those who qualify to lead will be drawn to run, as I have.”

People are going to get tired of what the Democratic administration is offering.

HELDER TOSTE ’16 Somers gave a nod to Foley’s acknowledgement and waved to three supporters in the back who shouted, “We love you, Heather.”

Before she ran for lieutenant governor, Somers served as mayor of Groton, Conn. She beat out state Rep. Penny Bacchiochi and former U.S. Comptroller David Walker in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor.

But Gary Rose, chairman of the Government and Politics department at Sacred Heart University, said Somers is not the only potential leader of Connecticut Republicans.

Rose said Somers’s opponent Walker is one of several young Republicans in the state who has the potential to win support amongst voters in the future.

“I don’t think Heather Somers has made much of a splash at all,” Rose said, despite Foley’s confidence in the Groton native in his speech.

Tim Herbst, who ran for state

treasurer against incumbent Democrat Denise Nappier, is another potential “rising star” in the Connecticut Republican party, Rose said.

Herbst lost to Nappier in a tight contest, despite the fact that Democrats have historically taken the treasurer seat in landslide victories. Indeed, this year, by the time 97 percent of the precincts had reported polling results yesterday evening, Nappier led Herbst by less than 2,000 votes.

Rose attributed Herbst’s success to his youth, energy and smart campaigner, specifically citing his effective television ad strategy. Rose added that Herbst could lead the state GOP in resolving some of the party’s key problems.

Republican student Helder Toste ’16 disagreed with Rose, arguing the state GOP did not necessarily need “new blood” for Democratic policies to push voters toward Republicans.

“People are going to get tired of what the Democratic administration is offering,” Toste said. “And when that happens, the right [Republican] can rally the vote.”

Toste added that the closeness of the gubernatorial race indicated that Connecticut residents had responded enthusiastically to Foley’s platform. Somers is poised to lead the party, Toste said, because people know who she is from the 2014 gubernatorial race.

Somers has not made any official statement in the wake of Malloy’s victory.

Foley said he feels privileged to have been a part of the democratic process, but is eager to escape the pressure of coordinating a statewide campaign and spend more time at home, said Christopher Cooper, a spokesman for the candidate. The long hours on the campaign trail have been “taxing on [Foley’s] family,” Cooper added.

Cooper said Foley was “still a businessman” and would return to the private sector. Foley will focus his attention on his investment firm NTC Group, which he founded, had continued to oversee while on the campaign trail.

Prior to running in the 2010 and 2014 Connecticut gubernatorial elections, Foley served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland from 2006 to 2009.

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

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Across departments, gender gaps persist

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER As a freshman, Ivy Wanta ’17, now a physics major and co-chair of mentoring for Undergraduate Women in Science at Yale, hoped to see more women sitting in her classes.

“It was all about visibility,” she said. “I just wanted to see other women doing science. I wanted to know they exist.”

This Saturday, students and faculty gathered in Evans Hall at the School of Management to discuss gender imbalances at the University. Throughout the day, conversations focused on the lack of women in the sciences.

According to students and faculty interviewed, a lack of female majors in STEM fields often discourages incoming women from pursuing studies in those fields.

“You can’t be what you can’t see,” Director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University Deborah Walsh said Saturday afternoon, repeating a phrase echoed throughout the conference.

Since 2008, twice as many male applied math majors have graduated than female applied math majors.

This disparity seems to be paralleled throughout STEM. According to the Office of Institutional Research, the biological and physical science majors had 217 men, but only 150 women in 2013-14. Of these 150 female students, almost half of

them majored in biology. Computer science had a particularly wide gender gap, with only four female majors out of 44 computer science majors last year.

STEM disciplines are not the only departments with few female students, President of Vassar College Catharine Hill GRD ’85, who is a member of the Yale Corporation, said during Saturday’s conference. Hill explained that there is also a large gender gap in economics.

Over the past six years, 678 male economics majors have graduated from Yale, compared to only 340 female majors.

And while Yale’s gender imbalance in undergraduate majors is lower than national averages, the University has been slow to improve.

Women made up 29 percent of engineering majors in 1978, when 37 percent of Yale students were women. Today, women are equally represented on campus, but only make up 37 percent of engineering majors.

Of 10 STEM students surveyed, seven said they often consider the gender make-up of their major. “[The gender gap] is evident in the sense that you see there are less women,” Wanta said. “I do think about it a lot.”

Major choices can have large socioeconomic consequences, Director and Research Professor of the Georgetown University Center on Education Anthony Carnevale said. Carnevale added

that women tend to concentrate in majors that correlate to less lucrative careers.

Even though STEM jobs only make up 8 percent of the total workforce, Carnevale said that those positions get the vast majority of the attention because many powerful industries rely on professionals educated in STEM. According to the White House Council on Women and Girls, women who work in STEM earn 33 percent more on average compared to their non-STEM peers.

But, according to experts and faculty interviewed, majors are not only determined by individual choice. Majors with wide gendergaps can deter women from pursuing studies in those fields, students said.

However, Carnevale said that gender gaps at the university level are rooted in cultural phenomena that students are exposed to well before matriculating to a university.

“By the time students get to college, their values are formed.”

Carnevale said. “[Colleges] are the capstone to the education system — they’re 18 years too late.”

Still, the University is attempting to increase women’s participation in STEM. Provost Benjamin Polak, also an economics profesor, said on Saturday that increasing the number of summer research projects would encourage more women to study economics. But, he added that this process has been “way too slow.”

Other efforts to recruit more women and minorities to the sciences at Yale include the Science, Technology and Research Scholars program, which involves students in STEM research early in their college careers.

Gender disparities might also be reduced by Yale’s general effort to recruit highly qualified STEM high school seniors. As Yale’s STEM community grows, there are hopes that more women will be recruited into these majors.

Alumni interviewed agreed, saying that a gender-balanced student body attracts more women.

Both Amy Armitage SOM ’86 and Nancy Alexander ’79 SOM ’84 said that they applied to Yale’s School of Management because its student body was evenly split between men and women.

In the meantime, however, women are still underrepresented in STEM majors in Yale College.

Because of the lack of women in STEM, Wanta said she feels like she is representing all female physics students at the University.

Wanta said as a result, there is sense of guilt associated with leaving a STEM major as a woman.

“If I were to stop doing physics, or switch to the non-intensive major, I would be another statistic,” she said. “There is truth to that.”

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

ACLU discusses police militarization

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER When the American Civil Liberties Union featured New Haven Chief of Police Dean Esserman in a forum on police militarization last night, attendees expected to bear witness to a heated debate, but instead watched a coolheaded discussion unfold.

Roughly 30 Yale students, New Haven community members and residents of neighboring towns gathered in Harkness Hall for the forum organized by the ACLU’s Connecticut chapter and the ACLU Yale undergraduate chapter. During the discussion, New Haven Independent Editor Paul Bass, the moderator, presented topics to Esserman and ACLU staff attorney David McGuire, who shared their respective opinions on the issues.

Esserman surprised audience members with his attitudes toward police militarization and supplying local law enforcement officers with surplus military equipment.

“I am a little worried that I’m going to disappoint people tonight because I’m going to agree so much with the ACLU,” Esserman said. “It’s not always about the [military] equipment, though sometimes it is.”

The discussion began with a focus on police use of military equipment. McGuire said that, although national crime rates are decreasing, the number of annual SWAT raids and the amount of military equipment given to the police continue to increase. He added that the militarization of police forces undermines community policing, a system in which one officer patrols in a particular area of a neighborhood for an extended period of time to build relationships with community members.

McGuire also steered the discussion to focus on the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. He said that although many people have only started to devote

attention to police militarization issues after Ferguson, the ACLU has spearheaded initiatives to address this issue for the past several years. McGuire specifically pointed to the Department of Defense’s 1033 program, which allows city and state law enforcement to receive surplus military equipment for free.

According to a report by the Hearst Connecticut Media Group in September, the Yale Police Department received $354,984.47 worth of military equipment through the program.

“Many of the items we acquired will be helpful for responding to mass casualty or other emergency management uses,” Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins told the News in September.

“My decision to order equipment is made to support or sustain existing programs or … to support emergency response.”

Mcguire said that local law enforcement should re-evaluate the presence of such equipment SARAH BRULEY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER in communities, which he said has the potential to do more harm Last night, the American Civil Liberties Union welcomed Chief of Police Dean Esserman to a discussion on police militarization in Harkness Hall. than good.

Esserman said that, while police militarization has the potential to hurt community in mass shootings in general, offi- tasers and guns. She added that members rather than help them, cers need to be prepared for more she was glad to see Esserman and problems with militarization prolonged conflict.

McGuire agree on the need to limit mostly lie with officers’ training Bass also directed the panel- police use of major weaponry. ists to address taser use by police and mentality.

Co-chair of the ACLU’s Yale chapter Bianca Rey ’15 said that “It’s about how, when and forces. where you use [the equipment],” McGuire said that, like the use the forum was part of the ACLU’s Esserman said. “Ferguson was an of military equipment, arming movement to raise awareness example of how, when and where officers with tasers also breaks about policing issues. She said down trust between officers and that, in the light of Ferguson, not to use it.”

After the two speakers deliv- community members and puts police militarization is an espeered opening statements, the dis- residents at risk of police mis- cially pertinent discussion. She cussion focus shifted to the use of conduct. He added that the prob- added that just as she did not military equipment in the NHPD. lems related to arming officers expect Esserman and McGuire to Possession of some military with tasers are not specific to New agree on so many issues, underequipment and training is neces- Haven — the ACLU is focusing graduates are generally not aware sary, Esserman said, adding that on establishing statewide regula- of how much the NHPD and police have had to adapt as crime tions.

ACLU have in common. in America has changed.

“Perception is everything, The Connecticut chapter of Esserman specifically refer- especially in the game of policing,” the ACLU is one 53 affiliates that operate nationwide on issues like enced the 1999 shootings at Col- McGuire said. umbine High School in Littleton Forum attendees echoed criminal justice, police accountColo. as an episode in which the McGuire’s statement. New Haven ability and voting rights. police officials needed heavier resident Julia Berger said that resiequipment and military training. dents in her town feel intimidated Contact SARAH BRULEY at He said that, in that situation and when they see officers carrying sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Malloy ekes out victory GOV. RESULTS FROM PAGE 1 long, tense night of watching results trickle in from one of America’s closest, most expensive and most personal gubernatorial contests. After midnight on Wednesday, Malloy claimed victory even though returns showed him still locked in a dead heat against Foley; Democrats said returns from the major cities such as Hartford and Bridgeport would inevitably deliver the win.

A few minutes after Malloy’s victory speech, Foley addressed supporters at his Election Night event, not quite conceding but saying it was unlikely he would prevail.

Admission of defeat finally came Wednesday afternoon, in an email Foley sent to his supporters.

“We did not win, but we were on the field and fought a good game,” Foley wrote. “Our ideas will be on citizens’ minds as our leaders steer us forward.”

An hour after Foley officially conceded, Malloy addressed reporters in Hartford to paint his win as evidence that voters support the policies he enacted during his first term.

The press conference was Malloy’s first public appearance since he declared victory around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. He defeated Foley by about 30,000 votes. Though his margin of victory was larger than in 2010, turnout was down significantly and he received fewer total votes. Some reporters questioned whether the low turnout and the closeness of the race signal a hollow victory — a notion Malloy rejected.

“I didn’t expect to get 100 percent of the vote,” Malloy said. “It would have been nice, but I didn’t expect it … look, we won an elec-

tion.”

Following remarks from Malloy, U.S. Representative Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85, who defended her seat in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional district from Republican Mark Greenberg, gave brief remarks emphasizing the importance of education for creating jobs. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 also spoke, thanking the governor for his work to eradicate “all heads of violence” in the state.

We did not win, but we were on the field and fought a good game. Our ideas will be on citizens’ minds …

TOM FOLEY Defeated gubernatorial candidate Foley’s email, like some of the reporters’ inquiries, emphasized that the governor’s win did not create a mandate. He noted that Malloy had won with fewer votes than in 2010. With 97 percent of precincts reporting as of 2 p.m., Malloy had about 517,000, compared to 567,000 four years ago. It was unclear, however, whether that ought to be counted as an achievement for Foley, who lost by a larger margin than in 2010 — about 30,000 votes instead of 6,500.

Throughout the contest, voters and political scientists noted the race’s extremely negative tenor.

The Wesleyan Media Project rated it the most negative gubernatorial campaign in the country based on television ads paid for by each campaign and supporting groups.

Foley partly blamed that negativity for his loss, though he was a major contributor of ads harshly criticizing Malloy.

“We lost ground from 2010 in the many towns across Connecticut where relentless negative advertising kept voters at home,” Foley said.

Malloy attributed his ultimate success to his policies, claiming voters came to understand “the context” in which he worked during his first term as governor. He offered few specifics for his next term, but made clear that at least one topic, gun laws — which became a central part of Malloy’s term after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — is closed for discussion.

“We will have a full legislative agenda ready to go by Jan. 7,” he said at a press conference yesterday. “I have things I want to get done and I know that this state needs to get done.”

He said he did not foresee a need to raise taxes and would focus on getting the state’s fiscal house in order.

Foley, he said, had offered an “appropriate” phone call earlier today.

“I didn’t have my graciousness meter with me,” Malloy joked after a reporter asked about Foley’s tone during the call. “He discussed that he had looked through the numbers and decided he should call me.”

In his email to reporters, Foley noted a silver lining in the election results: Republicans performed better in the cities than they did in 2010. In New Haven, Foley won 1,098 votes more than he did in his last election contest.

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

“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.” THORNTON WILDER AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT

Checks bounced, workers say PINKBERRY FROM PAGE 1 when people go unpaid for months,” Smith said. “This makes it hard to bring together a lawsuit.”

The lawsuit — which the workers have since abandoned — sought to sue the franchise owner for several different counts of labor injustice including wage theft, the extended employment of unregistered minors, improper working hours for minors and improper payment practices.

Workers were not registered under the Department of Labor, said four employees, which made it impossible to file complaints. In addition, Karson frequently paid employees with cash, sometimes from the cash register, said former employees Jorden Lane and Tiasha Smith.

“I want to get this sorted out not just for me but for all of us as a group,” Lane said. “This is our spending money, our wages, and it is not right.”

Lane said that franchise owner Jamie Karson has withheld from workers up to $20,000, including $1,000 that he is personally owed.

Karson did not respond to requests for comment about the workers’ wages.

Smith said many employees have attempted to contact Karson multiple times to no avail.

Pinkberry Senior Vice President of Marketing and Design Laura Jakobsen said in an Oct. 16 email to the News that employees were being paid, but Jacobson has not responded to request for comment this week.

“Pinkberry’s franchisee has told us that his employees are getting paid and checks were being sent out this week,” Jakobsen said. “As we pride ourselves on our franchisees’ service and their

employees’ well-being, we are tracking this issue until it is resolved.”

But most employees have not received checks from Pinkberry despite frequent attempts to contact the franchise, said former Pinkberry employee Aaliyah Bohannon, and those that did get checks have only been partially compensated.

Bohannon said she recently received a check in the mail, but it did not cover the entire sum she was owed. Former employee Romello Poncey reported being owed approximately $315 in unpaid wages. He said that he did receive a check for $300 about a month ago, but when he tried to cash it, the check bounced because the account had insufficient funds.

Minors under the age of 16 also worked past 11 p.m., added Smith, which is a violation of the Connecticut Department of Labor’s time and hour restrictions.

“Some of the workers were older and [Pinkberry] was their only job,” Smith said. “They are still recovering from the closing; there was no two-week notice to find another job.”

Some workers began searching for new jobs back in September, after not being paid for weeks.

Thienson Nguyen, manager of Froyo World on High Street, said that in September, three Pinkberry employees inquired about available jobs at Froyo World because they were “not being paid” at Pinkberry. Two other local business owners interviewed echoed his sentiment, saying Pinkberry workers have approached them looking for a job.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu and MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

Strong returns no guarantee of future success for endowment GRAPH IVY LEAGUE ENDOWMENT PERCENT RETURNS

25 20 15 10 5 0 ENDOWMENTS FROM PAGE 1 equity and hedge funds, and that works well if you can actually pick the best ones.”

Swensen declined to comment.

The NACUBO-Commonfund study’s preliminary data indicated that institutions are continuing to shift towards nontraditional investments — such as private equity, venture capital, hedge funds and natural resources — which Yale has done under Swensen’s leadership.

Colleges and universities allocated an average of 58 percent of their portfolio to alternative asset

classes, an increase of five percentage points from the previous year, the study reported.

But despite this trend towards alternative investment strategies, Yale has appeared to apply this strategy most effectively.

Over the past decade, Yale’s 11 percent average annual return has outperformed broad market results, which showed 8.4 percent annual growth in domestic stocks and 4.9 percent growth for domestic bonds.

“In order to manage the Yale Model well, you need the best manager of it, who is David Swensen,” Ibbotson said. “So people who try to copy the Yale

Model may not necessarily succeed unless they actually pick the best private equity investors, since it is not the easiest model to follow.”

Still, some cautioned against expecting double digit gains to continue indefinitely — even with the optimistic report from the NACUBO-Commonfund Study pointing towards positive trends.

Ibbotson said that since the Yale endowment, including its private equity and illiquid assets, is tied to the stock market, the endowment growth will necessarily reflect the broader state of the financial market. He added that although Yale may

have some of the best money managers, it is not realistic to expect Yale to always outperform the stock market by this wide of a margin. After the economic recession, the University’s endowment lost nearly a quarter of its value.

“We should never forget that there is risk in this and endowments sometimes can go down — even very well managed endowments,” Polak said.

While Polak said he does not anticipate a large economic downturn, he added that Yale should always be prepared.

Polak added that in terms of Yale’s relative performance to

other peer institutions, there is some reason to believe that its lead will be diminished over the years. He said the reason is that many of the chief investments officers at these schools are, in fact, “Yale educated” — at least in their investing strategy.

“If you go around to the other schools and ask who is the David Swensen of the other schools, a lot of them were literally trained at Yale and are working in their endowment offices,” Polak said.

“And if that is good too, because one thing that Yale does is disseminate knowledge, and it is wonderful that our investment office disseminates knowledge as

well.”

Still, Jarvis noted that while some strategies in endowment investing can be replicated, others are hard to reproduce. He said while Swensen’s method has been largely documented, access to specific money managers, the desire for companies to work with Yale and the support of the Yale Corporation set the University apart.

Final data from the 2014 NACUBO-Commonfund study will be released in late January 2015.

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

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Levin grows Coursera’s presence in China

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS During his two decades as University President, Richard Levin focused much of his attention on China. Now, only eight months after taking over as the CEO of the online education platform Coursera, Levin is looking to expand the company’s user base in the country, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

The effort continues Levin’s work at Yale, where he built a stronger relationship between the University and China, which he calls the world’s fastest growing educational market.

Despite Levin’s vision for China as an academic frontier, Chinese education experts differ in their predictions for the success of Coursera’s planned expansion.

“China is our fastest growing market, and our team is building initiatives and travels there all the time,” Levin told the China Daily in October.

The Bloomberg article from Oct. 27 of this year stated that Levin wants to expand Coursera’s footprint in China, citing his history of Yale-China relations while he was president.

According to Chinese education expert and University of Oregon professor Yong Zhao, the company’s courses may be popular among Chinese students hoping to study abroad in the U.S. Levin cited other reasons for

why the course may have been a success.

“Many of the Chinese users are over college age and take the online courses either for personal fulfillment or to improve their job skills,” Levin told the China Daily.

Levin could not be reached for further comment.

James Roy, associate principal for the China Market Research Group, which has done extensive work on education in China, agreed, explaining that in China there are two main markets for online courses.

For some constituent groups, Roy told the News, credentials for these online courses are key.

With the incredible competition among white-collar workers in the job market, he added, graduates go to great lengths to distinguish themselves from their peers — taking courses in professional English, computer programming and statistical analysis.

Roy also said there is another possible market for these online courses.

“There’s also a growing segment that is interested in taking courses purely for enjoyment,” he said. “Chinese professionals often tell us that they never had opportunities to really pursue their real interests in school because of the tracking that occurs in the Chinese system.”

However, some experts said that Chinese students’ narrow focus on accreditation may be

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Former University President Richard Levin, now the CEO of Coursera, has described China as the company’s fastest-growing market. an obstacle for Coursera. Zhao said because the existing Chinese education system is selfcontained and rigorous, and high school and college students have many course requirements already, it is unlikely that students would take any class that did not lead to a degree.

Grant aims for diversity in STEM

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This year, Yale will be welcoming its first five participants in a new, National Institutes of Health-funded diversity program.

Following the acquisition of a four-year grant worth $1.3 million, Yale has become one of 31 universities to implement PREP, the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program.

The PREP program welcomes a select group of outstanding minority college graduates who hail from colleges with limited access to resources for biomedical research. By providing access to research positions in labs and faculty mentorship, as well as two science courses at Yale, the program aims to better prepare students to apply for doctoral at high-ranking institutions. But the enrollment of the first five Yale PREP students has sparked a discussion about the larger state of minority representation at Yale’s graduate schools.

“In the past five years or so, the average intake of underrepresented students in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Yale has been around six students,” PREP Co-Director Carl Hashimoto GRD ’86 wrote in a Tuesday email, noting that this is an unacceptably low number.

Rodney Cohen, director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, explained that the major barriers preventing minorities from pursuing science were a lack of mentoring and not seeing minority role models in research positions.

Hashimoto specified that it has been difficult to build a legacy of strong minority BBS graduates to act as role models and mentors at Yale because of the difficulties those at poorly funded institutions have with acquiring research experience.

“For many years, the BBS faculty has wanted to increase the diversity of students in our Ph.D. programs, and therefore has been frustrated to turn down applicants who fell short of being competitive because they lack research experience,” Hashimoto said. “Our program addresses that problem.”

According to Hashimoto, good mentorship is the centerpiece of PREP. He added that participants are very fortunate because so many faculty members are excited to welcome them into their labs and increase diversity.

While both faculty members expressed concern about the number of minority students pursuing biomedical Ph.D.s at Yale, undergraduate students at

Yale College who participated in STARS, a similar science research program at Yale that is aimed at undergraduates, were less concerned. One Hispanic sophomore, who preferred to remain anonymous because she did not want her opinions to be held against her, noted, “there are only three Anglo-Americans in my lab.”

Another undergraduate student, of Native American descent, who wanted to remain anonymous for the same reason, said that in her specific lab, there were Asian, Black, female and gay researchers, noting that “there is a huge spectrum.”

But both students, who work in neuroscience labs, acknowledged that their case may not extend to all departments, and expressed support for the initiative.

“I wouldn’t have been as established in the kind of lab I am in now, had it not been for the STARS program,” the latter sophomore said. “I can only imagine how large the benefits would be for college graduates.”

Cohen said he could not envisage any drawbacks to PREP, but medical students from the Yale International Medical Student Group — a group of School of Medicine international students — voiced dissatisfaction about the program’s exclusion of international students.

The Yale PREP website defines diversity as being from “from traditionally underrepresented groups in the biomedical sciences,” but specified that non-U.S. citizens and permanent residents were ineligible for the program.

In an email to the News, Sarah Xu MED ’16 wrote that, as an international student, she was

“deeply saddened” to hear that PREP does not include international students.

“My vision of Yale had always [been] of its inclusiveness for international students, and hearing that they would be left out of this opportunity is disappointing,” she wrote.

Mojun Zhu ’15 added that PREP’s definition of diversity has prompted him to think about what the term actually means, and why it is not applied to international students.

Hashimoto said that the prerequisite of prior research experience was a limitation of the program, but explained that both the holistic application process and the timing of the program was intentionally crafted to solve this problem.

“To get around this problem [of a prerequisite] as much as possible, we start the program in June, so that by December, when many of the best programs have their application deadlines, PREP participants will have worked in a lab for up to six months … enough time for faculty mentors to be able to comment on their PREP participant’s research abilities and potential,” Hashimoto said.

Hashimoto said that the program is small — which is probably due to federal funding constraints of the NIH — but that if even a couple of PREP participants matriculate at Yale, that will substantially increase the percentage of underrepresented groups in the BBS program.

Over the next three years, the number of PREP students admitted will increase from five to seven.

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

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“Education in China is particularly utilitarian,” Zhao said.

“If it does not give them something of practical value, [such as] career advancement or employment, it will be difficult.

The pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge is a luxury.”

According to the Coursera

website, students who complete Coursera MOOCs are eligible for free statements of accomplishment, but can also opt to take the class on the signature track for between $30 and $90. This option provides a verified certificate, which does not confer Yale course credit but does provide a

shareable certificate endorsed by the University.

The Coursera database holds 861 online courses.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

Library faces tight budget

BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER Libraries do their best to adapt to changing times, but the times are not always kind to them.

The library system at Yale, along with other Ivy League universities, has focused increasingly on digital media and collaboration in recent years. Recent innovations include Borrow Direct Plus — a service that allows students to borrow books from other university libraries on-site — and a new search system for the library catalogue website.

But despite its best efforts to expand and innovate, the library has been affected by significant funding cuts.

Yale’s collection spending budget, for instance, was cut significantly between 2009 and 2010 in light of the economic downturn. While data from 2013 shows that spending has neared pre-recession levels, the library is still grappling with the inflation of collections media — the rate at which the price of materials is continuously increasing.

“Add in the cost of digital collections, the cost of library collection inflation,and the increasing number of new book and journal titles that come out every year,” University Librarian Susan Gibbons said. “Our overall purchasing power had dropped significantly since the [fiscal year 2009].”

Director of Collection Development Daniel Dollar said that last year, 65 percent of overall collections spending was allotted to digital media, and 35 percent was reserved for print media. This breakdown, however, does not account for the spending of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library or of the Law Library, he added.

Gibbons said the shift to a focus on digital material impacts disciplines differently. In the field of medicine, for instance, spending was 92 percent digital — whereas in the arts and music, spending was 12 percent digital.

The increasing predominance of digital media was inevitable after the emergence of the Internet, Gibbons said. This shift is the product of a necessary longterm “evolution,” she said, as students become more reliant on technology.

Georgetown University professor and former provost Jim O’Donnell GRD ’75,

who will be moving to a post as university librarian at Arizona State University, said that aside from buying digital material, it is also important to digitize existing print holdings.

“The challenge today is for us to know just how to bring the mass of what we have in print culture forward in a way that assures its survival,” he said. “Just saying ‘digitization’ isn’t enough, when you have to be sure that the digitized thing is in a standard format, will be looked after and preserved, and will be made knowable and accessible to a larger audience.”

Helder Toste ’16 said he detected an increasing focus on digitization at Yale — especially at the Beinecke, where librarians are on a “rampage” to digitize some of their holdings prior to its renovation.

The challenge today is … how to bring the mass of what we have in print culture forward in a way that assures its survival.

JIM O’DONNELL Professor and former provost, Georgetown University But an anonymous source affiliated with the library expressed concerns about the library’s growing focus on digital materials.

“The problem with electronics is that they don’t last very long, and many e-journals charge a fortune. It’s sacrificing 10 or 12 print titles just to buy one electronic journal,” they said.

While digital content is indeed more expensive than print, Gibbons said a vast amount of print materials are still coming into the Library.

Dollar said e-journals are typically priced by the number of potential users of those journals and require complicated licensing agreements.

He added that journal pricing is increasing at an inflation rate higher than that of books.

In 2012, Gibbons said the average inflation rate was 4.9 percent for books compared with 6 percent for journals.

Because of this inflation, she said, the library’s purchasing

power “erodes over time” for both print and digital material.

The organizational structure at the library is changing to account for the growing focus in digital media.

“What the digital world has meant is that we have to build a second set of staff [at the library],” Gibbons said.

She added these staff members are crucial for the acquisition and cataloguing of digital content.

While the number of staff working in print media have decreased, the number in digital has increased, Gibbons said. In striking a balance between print and digital media, some current librarians have had additional training in digital media, while other positions have been created.

Bibliographic Assistant for the International Collections Support Services William Larsh said he speculated that a greater reliance on Borrow Direct and interlibrary loans also makes the library more electronic-based.

Gibbons said since no library can purchase everything that is published, these partnerships allow for libraries to think of themselves as one collective library, or an “ecosystem.”

Dollar said all academic libraries are affected by an increasing inflation rate on books and journals, which continues to go up by 5 to 8 percent every year — while their funding does not increase by the same amount. Dollar added that these restrictions have driven librarians to more narrowly target their purchases to meet the exact needs of students and faculty for their research and learning.

Still, Gibbons said Yale is still in a privileged position with regards to purchasing power.

“In North America only Harvard purchased more collections than we do. We can’t really cry poor,” Gibbons said.

Gibbons added that in light of recent increases in the University’s budget, the library system should expect to see gradual increase in its endowments — which are currently the only means by which collections acquisitions are funded.

Borrow Direct was launched 1999.

Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .

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“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AMERICAN POLITICIAN

At Princeton, students describe a “rape culture” driven by eating clubs PRINCETON FROM PAGE 1 allegedly photographed publicly performing a sexual act at Tiger Inn, one of the eating clubs. Students told the newspaper that the photograph was then distributed via email to members of the eating club.

“At no point did our department receive a report of this incident from a witness or victim prior to me being notified by a member of the press,” Police Captain Nick Sutter told The Daily Princetonian on Tuesday afternoon. “We do not have any information relating to whether the alleged acts were consensual or nonconsensual with respect to the individuals involved.”

Hories said that this most recent sexual assault case could easily be related to the Title IX legislation violation, adding that Princeton has a social culture that is conducive to sexual misconduct and gender discrimination.

Princeton student Alissa Lopez said that the eating clubs, the center of Princeton’s social scene, demonstrate gender discrimination on campus. Princeton’s student body is 49 percent female; however, only a third of eating club officers are women. There is only one female president, and all but one of the eating clubs have more males than females in positions of the highest authority, she said.

“The eating clubs are generally perceived as the center of the social scene, and the disproportionate leadership of each club fails in general terms of gender equality,” she said.

This fall, Princeton instituted a new sexual misconduct policy that instituted major changes, including the introduction of a committee that will review each of the sexual misconduct cases within the university.

Ella Cheng, the student life chair within the Princeton student government, is one of the students who has consulted with administration on sexual misconduct policies. Cheng said that these new policies are part of the resolution agreement between the OCR and Princeton.

However, despite the news of the violation, Princeton student Lily Lesser said she felt very comfortable that Princeton has a sufficient support network for students who have been victims of sexual misconduct on campus. The university has a SHARE system — similar to Yale’s — with many resources, and freshmen are required to participate in sexual harassment training during their orientation, she said.

Yale was investigated by the Department of Education after a Title IX complaint in 2011.

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

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The Department of Education found that Princeton violated Title IX.

Dance, theater groups look for alternatives to BRL BRL FROM PAGE 1 dissatisfaction at the new studios’ ability to fully serve their groups’ needs.

Currently, many dance groups are using the Sachem Street building, while a number of theater rehearsals have been relegated to classrooms across campus. The cutback of rehearsal hours in the BRL is not an isolated occurrence, but a reflection of broader facilities-related issues for undergraduates involved in theater and dance.

Rehearsal and performance venues are frequently over-booked and are scattered about campus.

For the over 600 students who participate in theater and dance shows every year, the task of securing such spaces has become even more of a challenge.

AN UNFAVORABLE RELOCATION The BRL house one of the largest dance studios available to undergraduate performing arts groups, two acting studios and the Undergraduate Production office, taking up the two floors above Trailblazer.

In response to a series of noise complaints that Trailblazer issued regarding the BRL, the rehearsal studios were required to be closed during Trailblazer’s hours of operation. The University initially attempted to address the noise concerns by soundbuffering the walls, according to head of Undergraduate Productions Kate Krier. But Krier said the buffering efforts were ultimately deemed insufficient.

Associate Dean for the Arts Susan Cahan explained that the University took steps to address the concerns of Trailblazer, but when the noise issue could not be resolved, the University had

to come up with an alternative solution to provide rehearsal space for undergraduate theater and dance groups.

The University arranged for the conversion of three rooms in a building on 60 Sachem St. into rehearsal studios to compensate for the cutbacks in the BRL’s operating hours. While the mandated changes in studio hours were put into effect at the beginning of the semester, the new studios at 60 Sachem were not available until a month later.

Leaders of groups that normally scheduled rehearsal hours during Trailblazer’s open hours said they encountered scheduling difficulties during the month-long waiting period. Vasilije Dobrosavljevic ’16, captain of the Yale Ballroom Dance Team, said that his group faced such challenges because it had historically held practices twice a week in the BRL between the hours of 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.

For certain dance styles, such as jazz and ballet, the diagonal length [of the floor] is very important.

NICOLE FENG ’16

“If you’re a group that is depending on BRL, and Yale closes BRL on you and doesn’t give you an alternative, that’s a really big deal,” Dobrosavljevic said Some students interviewed said they felt frustrated that the groups that use the BRL studios most were not directly contacted by the administration to have the situation explained. Ross said

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that many students were initially upset and felt that the University was prioritizing a tenant over tuition-paying students.

Dobrosavljevic and Ross said they think that the complete closure of the BRL studios during Trailblazer’s hours seemed like a drastic move. Ross added that a small rehearsal with just a director and two actors, for example, would not generate the kind of noise that would be heard downstairs.

THE LARGER PROBLEM Sept. 27 marked the official opening of the Sachem Street studios. Similar to the BRL, two of the spaces are acting studios and the third is a dance studio.

While the new rehearsal spaces provide the same number of studios that the BRL had, students and administrators interviewed said that the replacement studios do not meet the needs of student groups as well as the BRL did. Leaders of dance groups in particular said their ensembles have been negatively impacted by the change.

Alliance for Dance at Yale President Nicole Feng ’16 highlighted the size differences between the BRL and Sachem studios as a problem for several types of dance groups. While the dance studio at the BRL measures 26’ x 56’, the Sachem Street studio measures 32’ x 32.’ In addition, the smaller diagonal that results from the square shape of the Sachem floor limits the flexibility of dancers, restricting the types of choreography and number of participants that dance groups are able to include in their performances, according to Feng.

“For certain dance styles, the diagonal length [of the floor] is very important,” Feng said. “In jazz and ballet technique, you

utilize that diagonal to practice across the floor.”

Feng added that for some folkloric dance groups, such as the traditional Asian dance group Phoenix, the use of props is essential to their dance style.

Feng said that practicing in smaller studios prevents groups such as Phoenix from accomplishing a full range of motion with their props, which include fans.

Cahan agreed with students’ worries about the size of the Sachem St. studio compared to that of the BRL. “I think that all of us are concerned that, of the existing dance spaces, the BRL is the largest, the best equipped and the most appropriate,” Cahan added.

Student group leaders interviewed said that problem of lacking facilities facing dance groups is not limited to rehearsal space, but also includes the shortage of on-campus theaters that allow dance groups to perform. Currently, the only performance spaces suitable to dance are the Morse/Stiles Crescent Theater and the Off Broadway Theater. Groups such as the ballroom team have resorted to using dining halls as a replacement performance space, according to Dobrosavljevic. Ensembles funded by the Creative and Performing Arts Awards, which support undergraduate performing arts performances, may also apply to have their productions staged at Co-Op Arts and Humanities High School, located on College Street.

Hannah Leo ’15 and Zoe ReichAviles ’16, president and artistic director of the dance group A Different Drum, respectively, said in an email that the process for getting access to on-campus performance spaces is competitive, and that dance groups

must compete among each other and with theater productions for such spaces. Leo and ReichAviles wrote that ADD applied for funding from the CPA, Arts Discretionary Fund and Undergraduate Organizations Committee funds for their show “iDance {therefore} iAm” that opens this week. They were not able to receive funding to perform the show in the Educational Center for the Arts on Audubon Street, they wrote, because the ECA theater is not Yale-owned or considered an on-campus space.

While ADD has used the ECA Theater in the past, they are using it this week for the first time in five years, due to how expensive the space is to rent.

Leo and Reich-Aviles added that although they think Sachem studio is visually appealing, it does not replace the need that the BRL studio had filled.

ADAPTING TO NEW CONDITIONS While dance groups have observed that their new studios are smaller than those at the BRL, the two theater studios in the Sachem location are larger than their BRL counterparts, according to Ross.

Still, Ross said that the new studios are farther away from the central campus than the BRL studios, making it rather inconvenient for actors to rehearse there.

He added that because the studios also function as classrooms during the day, the wheeled desks and chairs in the studios have to be returned to their locations at the end of rehearsals, which further detracts from rehearsal time.

Krier and Ross highlighted that members of the theater community have been flexible

in their rehearsal schedules as a result of the cutback in the BRL studios’ open hours.

Feng said that the location of her “Dance Theater” class this semester, which meets twice a week in the BRL, was supposed to be moved to the 60 Sachem studio, but the new studio was not big enough to house the class.

The class was then given special permission to keep meeting in the BRL studio. A similar exception was made for Yale Dance Theater rehearsals for the same reason, Feng noted.

Cahan added that the situation is being closely monitored to ensure that the rehearsals of the dance studies class and Yale Dance Theater do not continue to cause noise problems for Trailblazer.

Students and administrators interviewed said they hope that the larger issue of lacking theater and dance facilities will be resolved with a collaborative effort between the arts communities and the administration.

Feng expressed hope that ADAY will be able to work together with the University to resolve the issues that affect her organization. Director of the dance studies curriculum Emily Coates ’06 GRD ’11 said she hopes the closure of the BRL studios will lead to a larger, collaborative effort to resolve the issues of available facilities for dance and theater groups on campus.

Cahan also voiced a hope that a space comparable to the BRL will be secured for the dance community.

“I hope that in the future we will be able to provide a dance studio of equivalent size and quality for dancers on campus,” Cahan said.

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

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Boyko, Preston talk Ebola

African scholars program relocates

BY JIAHUI HU AND DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS This coming summer, a group of Yale students and faculty will travel to Kenya and Zimbabwe to educate about a hundred African students as a part of the Yale Young African Scholars program.

YYAS, in its second year and modeled on the Yale Young Global Scholars Program — an intensive two-week summer program for high school students from around the globe — recently released its application for the upcoming summer. Unlike the upcoming program, YYAS’s pilot run took place in Ghana and Ethiopia in August. YYGS deputy director and YYAS organizer Erin Schutte ’12 said the program exposed 100 African students to a sample of American higher education through seminars, lectures and college preparatory courses — all in less then a week. Admission will likely be competitive, Schutte said — last year, YYAS was only able to accept 8 percent of applicants. YYAS admits driven and promising students, she added.

“We look for academic achievement, leadership potential and an interest in going to college in the United States,” Schutte said.

“But we also look for students who demonstrate a commitment to giving back to their community.”

YYAS fits into Yale’s broader Africa Initiative — launched in September 2013 by University President Peter Salovey — which seeks to recruit more Africans to Yale. YYAS Instructors Eno Inyangete ’16 and Yaa Ampofo ’16 said the program is an outlet to inform African students about academic opportunities in the United States.

Metabel Markwei ’15, who grew up in Ghana and visited YYAS last summer, said she believes the program helps students prepare not only for American universities, but also for universities anywhere else in the world.

“The program motivates students to think about higher education in places like Ghana or America, and I think that’s powerful,” she said. “The transition to higher education here is not that easy, even if someone was exposed to an international curriculum.”

Because YYAS covers tuition and room and board for its students, Markwei said, the program is more accessible to low-income families. Most of these students cannot afford to pay tuition, she added, which makes a zero dollar tuition vital to the program’s success.

Program Manager Helinna Ayalew GRD ’14, who grew up in Ethiopia, said the program’s minimal cost enables it to reach a diverse set of students.

“Part of the rationale of making the program free is to make the program as accessible as possible to students of all back-

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Richard Preston, a writer for The New Yorker, gave a talk titled about the Ebola outbreak and the disease’s legacy.

BY AMANDA MEI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Richard Preston never foresaw the devastating impact Ebola would have on West Africa today.

In a Wednesday afternoon talk entitled “Ebola Breakout from the Hot Zone,” Preston — a contributor to The New Yorker who first started writing about the Ebola virus over two decades ago — spoke about the human story behind Ebola crises to an audience of roughly 50 attendees at the Whitney Humanities Center. Describing individual health care workers and patients in Ebola outbreaks past and present, Preston depicted the disease as a force of nature that has the power to crush even those who try their best to control it. While he acknowledged the frightening nature of the virus, he also emphasized the valiant efforts people have made to care for Ebola patients.

“I see this [outbreak] not so much as a failure, but as a natural disaster that simply overwhelmed us,” Preston said.

Health care workers are willing to sacrifice their lives for patients and science, he added, specifying Sheik Humarr Khan, chief physician at the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, as one such doctor. Preston spoke of how Khan worked closely with Ebola patients until he contracted the disease and isolated himself far from the hospital at which he had been working, so as not to demoralize other health care workers and patients. The doctor died suddenly before officials could decide whether or not to treat him with an experimental drug.

Preston said physicians had been fighting Ebola since 1976, when a Belgian doctor first discovered the virus in the small village of Yambuku in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, the Ebola

virus has appeared more than 20 times with the vast majority of cases in Africa.

“I think the real experts of Ebola … never underestimated Ebola,” Preston said. But the greater scientific and medical community did underestimate the disease and thus were not prepared to deal with the current outbreak. He theorized that in previous outbreaks, the “brilliant” work of organizations such as Doctors Without Borders — which sent physicians to train healthcare workers in developed countries — had created a “climate of complacency” in the rest of the community.

Preston noted that the virus’s 1,900-letter genetic code is constantly mutating. These mutations could significantly alter the function of proteins, for example, by changing glycoproteins, which rest on the virus’s surface and bind with receptors in the human host.

The alteration of these glycoproteins could hamper efforts to create effective tests or drugs for Ebola. But Preston noted that, contrary to what some people may fear, the virus is unlikely to become airborne.

The current outbreak is so severe because it has reached a dense urban population, Preston said. The Ebola virus has no cure or vaccine and is classified as a Biosafety Level 4 pathogen.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 13,042 cases and 4,818 deaths have been reported so far in the current epidemic.

Ryan Boyko GRD ’18, the graduate student who was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with Ebola-like symptoms and subsequently quarantined for 21 days, stood up to ask a question. Instead of answering, Preston asked Boyko about his experiences in West Africa and how severe the outbreak seems on the ground. Boyko noted that although the disease

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is currently spreading at a rapid pace, public health and medical officials are trying to stem the tide of the disease by building hand-washing stations outside of buildings and providing hotlines that people can call to have dead bodies safely removed. “[These changes] are a testament to the fact that [Ebola] is on everyone’s mind,” Boyko said.

He used an analogy to explain: A zebra can evolve to run faster, but no one would ever ask if it could evolve to fly, he said.

When disasters like the current Ebola epidemic strike, people may become fearful, but they may also feel a sense of awe, Preston said.

“The Ebola experts sometimes talk about the beauty of Ebola,” Preston said before the event. “Their appreciation for its beauty really extends to a sense of wonder at Ebola’s savagery.”

Irina Lomakina, whose husband works at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said it was emotionally difficult to listen to the stories of human suffering, even though she knows that the virus is powerful enough to wreak havoc on entire populations.

That commitment to others impressed Daniel Goldhill GRD ’15, a student in ecology and evolutionary biology, who said he was struck by how willing health care workers were to make sacrifices for their patients.

Preston is the author of nine books, including “The Hot Zone” — an expansion of his 1992 New Yorker article on Ebola and the inspiration for the movie “Outbreak.” He is the recipient of the American Institute of Physics and National Magazine Awards and the only non-medical doctor to receive the Centers for Disease Control Champion of Prevention Award.

grounds,” she said. “We try to reach students who wouldn’t normally have access to these sorts of opportunities.”

Ampofo said the two initial countries, Ghana and Ethiopia, were chosen with student recruitment in mind. In Ghana, a strong, Yale alumni network suggested local schools to visit, some of which had not previously sent students to American universities. YYAS entered Ethiopia for the opposite reason, Ampofo added. Because the Ethiopian alumni network was minimal, she said, program coordinators sought to strengthen it.

We look for academic achievement, leadership potential … But we also look for students who demonstrate a commitment to giving back.

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“We wanted to choose one place with a really solid grounding and then another where we could try something new,” Ampofo said.

But Inyangete said the primary goal of the program was not to increase awareness of American universities. The main purpose was instead to expose students to critical and imaginative thinking, since many African high schools require students to memorize and repeat material rather than pursuing innovative avenues for learning.

While Ayalew said YYAS — which is relocating to Kenya and Zimbabwe next year — is still in an exploratory phase and is simply looking to see what other countries are like, Schutte said she has bigger plans in mind.

Schutte added that she would like the program to become a meeting point for students from different areas.

“We’re exploring this idea of creating regional hubs in Africa. Its not our intention to provide a program for students only from the host country,” she said. “We want students to come from the entire region, so we’re exploring new countries to determine where the best place to host this program is.”

Andre Monteiro ’18, who spent part of his adolescence in Libya and traveled to several countries in Northern Africa while there, said he believes the education YYAS provides, however brief, could improve economic development in relatively impoverished regions.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”

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Chick-Lets aims for fast and healthy

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new organic grill opened its doors on Church Street last week, seeking to meet a growing demand of health-conscious eaters in the Elm City.

Chick-Lets held its grand opening last Monday on 135 Church St., a spot previously occupied by Roly Poly Sandwiches. The restaurant aims to bring healthier food to the Elm City, with menu options including customized salads, wraps and sandwiches, as well as grilled chicken plates. Owner Alberto Giordano emphasized that his goal is to provide fast and casual meals at an affordable price, while still holding the meals to a high health standard.

“We have a very unique thing going here. We don’t do any frying, but the whole concept is fast, casual organic meals,” Giordano said.

Giordano said he first came up with the idea for the restaurant after he realized the importance of a healthy diet. As a runner and personal trainer, Giordano soon learned that an athlete’s diet can directly influence their physical performance — a realization that spurred a change in his own diet. With this mind-set, Giordano decided to open a restaurant with the same ideals.

Giordano said he chose to target New Haven because he believes it is a health-conscious city compared to others nearby.

“I open up in places where people are more sophisticated and educated about their health,” he said, citing other health-focused eateries in New Haven as proof that residents care about their diet.

Manager Marjorie Cancel of Claire’s Corner Copia, an organic restaurant that is popular amongst Yalies, holds a similar view. She explained that New Haven is becoming increasingly health-conscious as residents have begun to see the benefits of healthy lifestyles.

“We’re seeing a real push towards this style of restaurant lately,” Can-

Harvest opens on Chapel

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Chick-Lets, a new organic grill on Church Street that sources its food from local farms, opened last week to rave reviews. cel said.

The increased demand for healthier cuisine options comes at an opportune moment for Giordano.

In a recent New Haven Independent article about Giordano’s new restaurant, Giordano is quoted criticizing his daytime job at PrimePay, a corporate finance company. Giordano said the article resulted in his firing, since the company did not like his tone in the article.

Now, what was supposed to be a side job at Chick-Lets has become Giordano’s main source of income.

Although his dependence on the restaurant came sooner than he planned, Giordano is optimistic. He added that the restaurant is currently doing better than he had previously expected.

Customers said they were enthusiastic about the new restaurant.

“I love the atmosphere and the music. The food is also amazing and organic — it’s really a package deal,”

said New Haven resident Lisa Allendorf, who has already eaten at the restaurant three times since its opening last Monday.

Melva Murrell, who was campaigning for the midterm elections this week, saw the restaurant’s sign and decided to give it a try. Murrell said the food is fabulous and that she had a positive experience, giving the restaurant a rating of five stars.

Giordano plans to open up four other Chick-Lets within seven to eight years. His next place in mind is in Guilford, where he believes there is a similar crowd of health-conscious consumers.

“I want to see if this is something that could be turned into a Chipotle, except healthier,” Giordano said.

Chick-Lets acquires its ingredients from a total of 10 different local farms and vendors.

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

Amid the rush of Restaurant Week, Harvest Wine Bar & Restaurant has stayed under the radar.

The restaurant, which opened Halloween night, is the newest venture of Vicente Siguenza and his family, who own three other restaurants in Connecticut, including a sister location of Harvest in Greenwich. Located at 1104 Chapel St., Harvest occupies a space that has sat empty for three years since Scoozzi Trattoria and Wine Bar Restaurant — a long-standing New Haven establishment open for over 20 years — closed abruptly in 2011, according to the New Haven Register. The space, which is a part of the Yale Center for British Art building, sits below street level.

Harvest operates based on a farmto-table concept, sourcing locally produced food and promoting local companies, Siguenza said. He added that the restaurant sells wine by the glass from “everywhere in the world.”

“Farms and very prestigious wineries — that’s what we’re trying to offer, day by day,” he said. “That’s about it.”

Executive Chef Gustave Christman said the menu is American contemporary, with Spanish, French and Italian twists. Currently, the menu is a simplified version of the one currently used

by Harvest in Greenwich. This limited menu is in part due to the restaurant’s soft opening, Christman said.

Although Harvest has opened only for dinner since Oct. 31, it will begin serving lunch starting this Saturday.

Its grand opening, organized in conjunction with University Properties, will take place on Nov. 25. That day, UP will celebrate the openings of Harvest, as well as several other new local businesses, according to bartender Amerra Ziyadeh.

However, Siguenza said Harvest is not actively working on publicity as of now. The original opening, he said, drew “very few people.”

“We’re trying to work the small details until people know about it,” Siguenza said. “We are getting responses already, so it’s picking up and performing better.”

Christman concurred, noting that the opening night had been unexpectedly slow but that the limited traffic allowed for troubleshooting.

Of 34 Yale students interviewed, 27 had never heard of Harvest, while two had walked past the location. Two other students had heard of the restaurant but were unaware of any further details.

The two students who had been to Harvest added that they heard about the restaurant through word-of-mouth — a tactic both Christman and Siguenza said is their preferred way of advertising.

UP reached out to Siguenza earlier this year, and Siguenza said that the University had actively wanted to bring Harvest to New Haven.

“It wasn’t in our head to do New Haven, although everyone’s always talking about how New Haven is coming to be this city of restaurants,” Siguenza said. “By being approached by Yale Properties, it worked out very well for us. It just came a little faster than we thought.”

Nine of the surrounding businesses interviewed acknowledged Harvest’s presence in spite of its low-key opening.

Nearby shop owners down the street expressed excitement at the restaurant and at the prospect of added foot traffic to the block.

“We’re really looking forward to it — the space has been empty for years,” said Gene Dostie, manager of Derek Simpson Jewelers. “It just creates such a feel — the smell of food, people coming in and out.”

Harvest’s online menu lists five local Connecticut farms as sources for their ingredients.

Martha Longley contributed reporting.

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“It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.”

GARY PAYTON HALL OF FAME POINT GUARD

Bulldogs plunge into 2014-15 season

Yale faces two worst Ivy teams VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 Rogers and setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 earned Ivy League Honor Roll mentions for their outstanding showings in last weekend’s matches against Dartmouth and Harvard. The triple threat put up 33 digs, 30 kills and 73 assists, respectively.

But despite those gaudy statistics, the Elis lost their second conference match of the year to Harvard in a 3–0 sweep. Now tied for first place with the Crimson, the Bulldogs hope to regain sole control of first place with two wins over the weekend, and given the current standing of the Lions and the Big Red, it is vital that Yale leave the New York trip with a pair of victories.

“We’re kind of excited to get back on the road after the bad loss to Harvard this weekend,” head coach Erin Appleman said. “Right now, we just want to get back at it and play again.”

According to Appleman, Columbia is a well-balanced team with strong

hitters, defenders and centers. Middle hitter Katarina Jovicic currently leads the conference with 1.12 blocks per set.

Outside hitter Bailey Springer and setter Jennifer Petrovich both rank third in the league with 3.31 kills per set and 9.78 assists per set, respectively.

While Cornell may pose less of a threat than Columbia or other Ivy opponents, Yale cannot afford to completely ignore the Big Red. Cornell defensive specialist Natasha Rowland leads the league in digs per set, averaging 5.50. Meanwhile, Maddy Sroufe has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice this season, and Macey Wilson and Emily Wemhoff both made the Ivy League Honor Roll last week.

Crawford, who notched 37 assists of her own against Dartmouth, noted that the team will continue to take each game individually.

“It’s our last road trip so we’re going to give it our all,” Crawford said. “We just need to focus … on one game at a

time and not look [to] the future right now.”

Three Elis to watch out for this weekend are Crawford, Rudnick and libero Tori Shepherd ’17, who have been setting and passing extremely well lately, according to Appleman.

Powerhouse hitters such as Rogers and Johnson are also expected to rack up more kills on Friday and Saturday.

Rudnick, who had 20 digs in the match against Harvard, said the tie for first has done more to motivate the team than demoralize them.

“If anything, it just focused us more and is going to make us work harder in practice,” Rudnick said. “I think it just sparked our drive rather than added more pressure.”

The Elis will wrap up conference play next weekend by playing Princeton and Penn at home.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu and ERIN WANG at erin.wang@yale.edu .

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The women’s swimming and diving team finished tied for third in the Ivy League last season with a 4–3 conference record.

SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE 12 500-yard freestyle in last year’s Ivy League Championships. In addition to Fabian, Sydney Hirschi ’17 and Emma Smith ’16 both hold the best Ivy League times in the 2013-14 season in the 200yard butterfly and the 400-yard individual medley, respectively.

Meanwhile, sophomore diver Lilybet MacRae ’17 qualified last season for the 2014 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in the one-meter and three-meter dives. She took third place in both of her NCAA Zone A Regional competitions and secured first place dives in multiple meets during her first season with the Bulldogs.

On the men’s side, Brian Hogan ’16 was the only swimmer to compete at the NCAA tournament. He was given first team All-Ivy honors and set multiple records for Yale and Kiphuth Pool.

Alongside Hogan, teammates Rob

Harder ’15 and Ben Lerude ’17 also hold top-five times in the 200-yard backstroke, 500-yard freestyle, 1650-yard freestyle and 1000-yard freestyle.

“I’m excited to start racing again,” Hogan said. “It’s been a while since most of us have seen competition.”

With the season starting up this weekend, the Bulldogs’ practices have changed to adjust to the incoming freshmen and prepare for the rigor of competition season. Hogan and Fabian agreed that because last year’s team was so intense, things have only been more energized this season, even without the graduated seniors and the new freshmen.

The swimmers will head to SCSU on Friday, while the divers will be competing at home in the Kiphuth Pool. Competition begins at 3 p.m.

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Setter Kelly Johnson ’16 is second on the team in kills with 178.

Terriers pose threat to Elis HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 “I think we learned a lot from this past weekend and have been improving since our opening weekend.”

Boston University, the Elis’ next opponent, is coming off a two-game winning streak with both victories against conference opponents. With 27 goals in eight games, the Terriers are proving to be an offensive force to reckon with.

With two young and successful goalkeepers, BU is also fielding a solid defense.

“BU has a lot of skilled players, and they also commit to their systems really well,” forward Jamie Haddad ’16 said.

“When everyone is on the same page and operating on the same wavelength so to speak, it makes them very tough to beat.”

The Bulldogs usually face two opponents in a single weekend, and therefore spend most practices trying to better

the team as a whole. With only one game this weekend, the team has the chance to match its preparation to BU’s playing style, with more attention to specific systems, like power plays and breakouts, said Haddad.

In fact, this is only one of two weekends where the team does not have games on consecutive days.

“I would much rather play only one game in a weekend, but considering we have 30 games in a season, that’s not possible,” Haddad said. “It’s a lot more convenient because you can tailor each week of practice for the team you are playing that weekend, which is a huge bonus, and it’s also a lot easier on your body.”

While the team will be working on communication and passing during practice this week, Murray believes that conditioning will be the defining characteristic for the team as it moves forward to face

even tougher competition.

The Terriers are just one of five teams currently ranked in the top 10 that are on Yale’s schedule for the season.

According to Haddad, playing against talented teams is advantageous for the Bulldogs, as they can more easily observe successful teams, keep their own discipline and practice playing at a faster pace.

“I think our conference this year is exceptional, and I’m so happy that the teams are fairly even,” Murray said. “It makes winning more fun and losing more of a motivational aspect for our team. On any day, any team can win in the ECAC, which is why we have to treat every game the same.”

The puck will drop in Ingalls Rink at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

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

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The Bulldogs out-shot the 2014 women’s ice hockey national champions, Clarkson, 18–12 in the first period of their matchup last Saturday.

Rosenberg out for season INJURY FROM PAGE 12 second meeting not only inched Columbia closer to the top of the standings but also dealt a critical blow to Yale’s championship hopes.

Nevertheless, the Bulldogs will not miss game-planning for the 6’7” weapon prior to their two scheduled meetings with the Lions this season.

“I’m not going to miss him because that’s going to make our year a little bit easier,” Sears said. “He was definitely a nightmare matchup. I got to play some pickup with him and [forward Armani Cotton ’15] this summer, and it’s a tough blow for him because he was playing very well.”

Rosenberg also presents matchup problems for opposing teams because of his unconventional style of play. As a stretch power forward who often plays on the perimeter — he finished third in the conference in three-point field goal percentage — Rosenberg’s shooting prowess opens the floor up for the Lions and forces opposing power forwards to leave their comfort zone in the paint.

Yale forward Matt Townsend ’15 will be one beneficiary of Rosenberg’s absence, as Townsend is most well-suited for defending traditional back-tothe-basket type big men.

“Rosenberg might not have been the most popular guy in the Ivy League, but he was very effective at doing what he did well: driving, stretching the floor and above all, drawing fouls,” Townsend said. “Columbia will definitely have a different look at the four this year and that matchup might be a little easier for our personnel.”

The contentious history between Rosenberg and the Bulldogs dates back three season to Feb. 24, 2012. In that game, Yale was fighting for an Ivy League championship behind the play of a pair of senior stalwarts, center Greg Mangano ’12 and guard Reggie Willhite ’12, while Columbia was sputtering and attempting to remain out of the Ivy League basement.

Late in the second half, an open lane appeared for forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 who drove hard to the basket. Rosenberg met Sherrod at the hoop and delivered a flagrant foul that swung the game and has yet to be forgotten

by Sherrod’s teammates.

With the Columbia star taking a year off, and with Sherrod also postponing his senior year to sing with the Whiffenpoofs, the final matchups between the two game-changing players will be delayed by a season.

Rosenberg’s departure complicates the plans of Columbia head coach Kyle Smith, who will now have the task of manipulating his roster to account for the sudden absence of returning production. The Lions were picked to finish third in the preseason Ivy media poll, but such a finish is in question after Rosenberg’s injury.

On the other hand, Rosenberg’s departure does not change Yale’s focus moving forward.

“We haven’t really talked much about [Rosenberg’s injury] as a team,” Duren said. “It’s something we all know but right now, we’re just focusing on who we are going to be this season and our identity.”

The Bulldogs will not play the Lions until Jan. 20.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

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KIRA GARRY ’15 ALL-IVY RECOGNITION The Montauk, New York native finished fourth at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, and in doing so earned first team All-Ivy honors. In addition, Samantha Glass ’18 finished 14th in the race and was named to the All-Ivy second team as a result.

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“There is still lots our team needs to improve on to reach a championship level of play.”

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Swimming and Diving returns to competition

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER It has been nearly seven months since the Yale men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams splashed into the water together, but they are back in action this weekend as they compete in their first official meet against Southern Connecticut State University.

At the end of the 2013–14 season, the women’s team tied for third in the Ivy League with Cornell and Princeton with a 4–3 record. The men’s team finished in identical fashion, except its third place tie was with Columbia and Penn. Harvard finished among the top two in the Ivy League in both men’s and women’s swimming and diving, with Princeton taking second on the men’s side behind the Crimson and Columbia finishing first for the women.

Heading into a new season, many new faces have joined the teams and have brought their own unique skills to the squads. The Yale men’s team welcomes nine freshmen — eight swimmers and a lone diver — from the class of 2018.

The newcomers bring with them a remarkable amount of recogni-

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tion, including an Olympic trial qualifying time and multiple state championships. The freshmen recruits also come from very different backgrounds, with athletes who have lived in South Africa, Singapore, Japan and South Korea, not to mention a variety of states.

The women’s team, meanwhile, added 10 swimmers and one diver from the class of 2018. Five of the freshmen were ranked in Collegeswimming.com’s top 250 swimmers this year. They come from across the U.S., including from state swimming powerhouses such as California, Florida and Illinois.

“We have an amazing freshman class,” Eva Fabian ’16 said.

“They’re extremely hardworking, positive, fun and motivating.”

In addition to the new swimmers and divers, familiar faces will continue to make a splash for Yale this year. For the women, all eyes will be on Fabian, who was recently named to the U.S. National Open Water Team. She was elected a first team All-Ivy swimmer and took first place in the 1650-yard freestyle and the SEE SWIM & DIVE PAGE 10

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The Elis finished in the three-spot just behind Princeton and Harvard for the third straight season in 2013–14.

Columbia star leaves school

Elis look to rebound

BY ALEX WALKER AND ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS The Yale volleyball team will face off against Columbia and Cornell this weekend in its last two away games of the season.

VOLLEYBALL Yale (12–7, 8–2 Ivy) seeks to deal the seventh place Lions (7–12, 3–7 Ivy) and eighth place Big Red (5–15, 2–8 Ivy) another loss each. Three weeks ago, Yale defeated Cornell in an impressive 3–0 sweep. The next night, the Elis defeated Columbia 3–1 at home in a match that featured powerful performances by captain Mollie Rogers ’15 and setter Kelly Johnson ’16, who had 26 and 22 kills respectively, the most by any Bulldog all season.

Additionally, libero Maddie Rudnick ’15, SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10

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Setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 is averaging 10.33 assists per set, the most by a Bulldog since Kendall Polan’s ’14 10.89 in the 2011 season.

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Alex Rosenberg averaged 16.0 points per game, good for fifth in the Ivy League.

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER The road to the Ivy championship for the Yale men’s basketball team took a drastic turn when Columbia announced yesterday that its first team all-Ivy selection from a year ago, Alex Rosenberg, will be withdrawing for the current school year.

Rosenberg suffered a Jones fracture in his right foot in practice on Oct. 24. The decision to sit out the year will mean that Rosenberg, pending conference approval, will be able to return for a full, hopefully healthy year in 2015– 16 rather than sacrifice half the season this year as was expected. The injury typically requires six to eight weeks of recovery time.

While many athletic conferences allow student-athletes to complete four years of eligibility within five years, the Ivy League only allots four years of school for a player’s four years of eligibility. Other notable players in recent history who have withdrawn from school rather than lose a year of eligibility include Harvard basketball stars Brandyn Curry and Kyle Casey, who each left after being implicated in an academic fraud scandal in the fall of 2012.

Statistically speaking, Rosenberg was a force for the Lions, averaging 16 points per game over the course of the entire season. More significant was his play during conference competition, during which the forward from New Jersey upped his average to 19.5 points per game, tied for the Ivy League lead with Yale forward Justin Sears ’16.

Elis interviewed were quick to point out that injuries are never celebrated, especially considering that they have seen the consequences. A wrist injury left Sears unable to play in Yale’s CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship game last season, which forced the forward — who is one of the preseason favorites to win Ivy League Player of the Year — into months of rehab.

“It’s definitely a blow [for them], and I hate for that to happen to them,” point guard Javier Duren ’15 said. “Columbia’s still good … they still have some really, really good pieces, so I hope nobody is counting them out.”

In the teams’ three matchups last year, Rosenberg made his presence felt, averaging 18.0 points per game to go along with 4.3 rebounds per game.

In fact, his game-high 18 points in the SEE INJURY PAGE 10

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Women’s hockey aims

BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After falling to two conferences teams last weekend, the Yale women’s hockey team is learning from its losses in order to prepare for more top-10 opponents.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (2–2–0, 0–2 ECAC) are taking their defeats at the hands of St. Lawrence and then No. 9 Clarkson in stride and working to improve before their game against No. 6 Bos-

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Last year, the women’s hockey team lost a tight 2–1 contest due to a late thirdperiod goal against the BU Terriers, who they will face on Saturday.

ton University this Saturday.

“We’re going to look at our mistakes from this past weekend and find small improvements that we can make to be the better team come Saturday,” captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 said. “We played well over the weekend but just had some unlucky bounces and couldn’t bury the puck at the end of the day.”

The team credits its shaky conference start to the difference in pace, as players noted that the speed of the game was much quicker than in their opening series against Providence.

According to forward Eden Murray ’18, there was a difference in the intensities with which the Bulldogs started in each game last weekend. Yale started the game against St. Lawrence with just six shots in the first period, but came out strong when the puck dropped against the Golden Knights the next day, outshooting the defending national champions 18 to 12 in the first frame.

“There is still lots our team needs to improve on to reach a championship level of play,” Murray said.

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THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POINTS COLUMBIA FORWARD ALEX ROSENBERG PUT UP AGAINST THE BULLDOGS IN THREE GAMES LAST SEASON. Rosenberg will not return to the Lions this year due to a Jones fracture sustained in practice. He is expected to return next season.