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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 51 · yaledailynews.com

INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

SUNNY CLOUDY

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CROSS CAMPUS

HEURISTICS SHARING TRUMPS EQUALITY

COLLEGE APPS

CLOSURE

Yale Admissions is considering using a new application platform

ART GALLERY TO REPLACE PINKBERRY

PAGES 12–13 SCI-TECH

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The Unit. Capping the festivities will be an afternoon screening of “The Millionaires’ Unit,” a documentary about the first pre-WWI air militia, chiefly made up of Yale students.

LARRY MILSTEIN/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Chiquet ’85 will participate in a Master’s Tea in Branford College this afternoon to discuss the business of bags (and more), returning to campus after giving similar talks at teas in previous years.

You better run. William Genova ’15 took a stand yesterday when he chased down a man who had attempted to rob Genova of his laptop after entering his apartment in the morning. Pursuing the suspect out to the parking lot of the Courtyard Marriott, Genova tired the would-be robber out enough for police to eventually arrest him, the NHPD reported. Troublesome trend. Police

reported another robbery yesterday, saying that a delivery worker from Alpha Delta Pizza was cornered by a group of men at 371 Elm St. Each of them wore masks and one of them threatened the driver — who eventually escaped safely, but lost cash and a cellphone — with a gun.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2013 A CT Transit bus crashes with an NHPD police car on the corner of Elm Street and Temple Street. Though no fatalities were reported, NHPD officer Victor Herrera is sent to the hospital with serious injuries. Submit tips to Cross Campus

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Construction on the new residential colleges appears to be ahead of schedule. While Provost Benjamin Polak maintained Monday evening that the University would still formally break ground on the two colleges in February 2015, construction workers at the Prospect Street site Monday afternoon confirmed that work has already officially begun. Yesterday afternoon, construction crews were seen operating heavy machinery and excavating dirt. “If you walk by the site, you can eyeball yourself and make an assessment,” one Dimeo Construction Company employee — whose employer is the lead contractor for the project — said under the condition of anonymity. One construction worker, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity due to contractual constraints, said that for the past three weeks, workers have been on site, and construction has started for the new buildings. He added that workers, including excavators from Camputaro & Son — a North Branford construction company — have commenced preliminary work on the property. Representatives from Camputaro & Son could not be reached for comment Monday afternoon. “[We’re doing] mass excavation, erosion control measures, things like that,” a Camputaro & Son construction worker said. “We are also digging a patch for the tower cranes — a concrete footing to anchor these cranes.” While University spokesman Tom Con-

Construction work at the Prospect Street site for the new residential colleges has begun earlier than expected..

SEE CONSTRUCTION PAGE 4

ACA D E M I C S

Best Day of [Your] Life.

Fancy. Chanel CEO Maureen

PAGE 14 SPORTS

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER

Salute. The University will host a Veterans Day ceremony today on Beinecke Plaza. In the program: remarks from students, faculty and veterans and a wreath placing set to a performance by School of Music students. Yale Police Department officers will be on hand as honor guards.

American Authors, known for the hit “Best Day of My Life,” will be performing live at Toad’s Place tonight. For $20 at the door, attendees can also see The Mowgli’s and Oh Hoeny in concert at the club.

With two more wins, the Bulldogs hold onto first place in the League

Work begins on new colleges, unofficially

Nice try. On Monday, a group of Harvard students from the “On Harvard Time” comedy troupe attempted to infiltrate campus to produce a joke video leading up to The Game. Yalies quickly turned the tables, however, identifying the Cantabs with ease. Meanwhile, Harvard still hasn’t figured out how Yale has already won the rivalry’s prank war this year.

“Strength to die.” An article published by the Huffington Post on Monday profiled the Woolsey Hall Memorial Rotunda and its role in inspiring Maya Lin ’81 ARC ’86 as she designed the renowned Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

VOLLEYBALL

Special academic programs occupy delicate niche

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either majors, nor minors, Yale’s Special Academic Programs give students the opportunity to study specific academic interests with an intimate community. As Yale now has five existing programs spanning human rights, energy studies, education studies, journalism and global health, the programs look to coordinate with each other. NICOLE NG reports.

Residents learn “Main Street Approach” BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Over the weekend, about 25 residents from communities around Grand, Whalley and Dixwell Avenues spent 14 hours together at the Hall of Records, learning the “Main Street Approach” to neighborhood economic revitalization. The training was the latest development in Mayor Toni Harp’s efforts to bring new growth to neighborhoods beyond downtown. On the campaign trail, she pledged to address what many city residents perceived as governmental neglect. Her administration has turned to the National Main Street Center, a nonprofit that focuses on revitalizing historic commercial districts, to provide a framework for New Haven’s neighborhoods. In the spring, the city hired consultants from the Connecticut Main Street Center, a member of the National Main Street Center, to conduct a study of the city; their

report recommended additional training for city administrators and neighborhood stakeholders. Three of the national center’s consultants received $10,000 from the city to offer the weekend training on the nonprofit’s methods, known as the Main Street Four Point Approach: organization, marketing, design and economic restructuring. “This is like Main Street 101, so that they can learn all the tools they need to use to take the ideas back to their neighborhoods,” said Kathy La Plante, senior program officer at the National Main Street Center. Harp and the City’s Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 both attended portions of the training. During the Sunday afternoon session, La Plante flipped through “before” and “after” photographs showing dramatic transformations of communities in Baltimore, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and Greenville, SEE MAIN STREET PAGE 4

BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER Six years ago, an undergraduate student’s efforts to create an interdisciplinary human rights major was rejected. So was her application to design her own major on the same topic. Yet this fall, 15 students will be accepted into the Special Academic Program on Human Rights, designed to provide stu-

dents with an academic framework and methodology with which to pursue studies and careers in human rights. The program launched one year after Talya Lockman-Fine ’15 and Paul Linden-Retek LAW ’12 GRD ’18 approached Yale Law School professor — and director of the YLS Schell Center for International Human Rights — James Silk with a proposal for a Special Academic Program.

Through student advocacy and faculty collaboration, the team maneuvered through the Provost’s Office, the Committee on Majors and the Yale College faculty to secure approval for the program. “[The Human Rights Program] is a wonderful way of being able to accomplish some of these goals of giving undergraduSEE ACAD PROGRAMS PAGE 6

Carney traces journey from Yale to White House

FINNEGAN SCHICK/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Jay Carney ’87 spoke about his career and more at a Timothy Dwight Master’s Tea. BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Speaking to a packed room of Timothy Dwight students yesterday, Jay Carney ’87 traced his path from arriving as a freshman at Yale to becoming the White House press secretary under President Barack Obama for

three years. The Master’s Tea was only open to students in Timothy Dwight, partly because of the overwhelming interest in hearing Carney among Yale students, according to Timothy Dwight Master Jeffrey Brenzel. SEE JAY CARNEY PAGE 6


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