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University celebrates Veterans Day

’68 published “41: A Portrait of My Father,” providing an intimate peek into the life of fellow former president and Yalie George H.W. Bush ’48. In an event promoting the biography, the younger Bush opened up about his relationship with 41, hoping to shed light on the legacy his father will leave behind.

Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews said during her remarks.

University President Peter Salovey’s speech echoed this sentiment, saying Yale has a proud tradition of serving those who have served.

“We are grateful for those who now serve, all who have served and

After state authorities ordered that he remain quarantined for 20 days, Ryan Boyko GRD ’18 was planning to challenge the order in court.

In an interview with the News on Monday, Nov. 3rd, Boyko said he and a second Ebola researcher, whose name has not been released, decided to not bring the case to court due to a number of political and legal issues. Furthermore, Boyko said that plans for their sequestering — which began while Boyko was still in Liberia — originated from a miscommunication with School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary.

The two researchers returned from Liberia on Saturday, Oct. 11, and Boyko was briefly hospitalized on Wednesday, Oct. 15 after exhibiting signs of Ebola. He later tested negative for the virus.

In between two separate tests for the virus, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health Jewel Mullen sent a written order mandating 20 days of isolation in the hospital, despite the fact that Boyko had tested negative. After YaleNew Haven Hospital received a second negative test on Friday afternoon, Boyko was given new orders from Mullen, ordering a 20-day home quarantine, he said.

The quarantine for Boyko and the other

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New digs. A Monday article

by Recode profiled former University President Richard Levin, indicating that the academic-turnedadministrator-turned-CEO is fitting in quite well over in Silicon Valley. The Stanford graduate has committed his time to steering online education startup Coursera over the past few months, apparently becoming more hip along the way.

Under control. The Yale Public

Health Coalition will host a discussion on epidemics with professor Frank Snowden this evening in Silliman.

Reach out (quickly). The deadline to apply for a spot on a 2015 Reach Out trip is tonight at 11:59 p.m. Destinations for this batch include Taiwan, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala.

Math majesty. A post on

“Overheard at Yale” reported a sighting of award-winning mathematician Terence Tao in Dunham Laboratory on Tuesday. The 2006 Fields Medal winner is known for his work in harmonic analysis and was featured alongside Yale instructors Bob Woodward ’65 and Anne Fadiman in an October piece by The Atlantic about celebrity teachers.

Let’s get existential. Today,

The Veritas Forum will host “Live Well in Light of Death,” a discussion with professors N. T. Wright and Shelly Kagan on life, given the inevitability of death and the possibility of the afterlife. Come get answers.

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1976 Provost Hanna Gray and Deputy Provost George Langdon announce the formation of an eight-member student panel to help advise the administration on matters of student opinion.

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Paying for POTUS. Visits from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during election season didn’t come for free.

Elm City residents will help shoulder the bill for all security provided during the couple’s run through Connecticut, The New Haven Register reported yesterday.

Blue’s fall semester show, titled “Prohibition,” begins today with two stagings. The hip-hop dance group will put on repeat performances on Friday and Sunday, as well.

Despite not quite approaching YSO Halloween Show demand levels, the ticket remains one of the year’s hottest.

Elis dethrone in their first test of the season

Boyko planned to go to court on quarantine

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Over 150 students, faculty and alumni gathered in Beinecke Plaza yesterday for Veterans Day ceremonies.

BY MATTHEW STONE STAFF REPORTER Yesterday, hundreds of Yale students, faculty, staff, ROTC members and veterans joined in a ceremony at Beinecke Plaza to commemorate those who have fallen and celebrate those who have served.

The event, which began at 12 p.m. on Veterans Day, featured generations of Yale veterans and included

formal military ceremonies. Gathered before the World War I Cenotaph, the afternoon crowd swelled to over 150 students, faculty and alumni. While speakers emphasized the importance of remembrance, they also emphasized Yale’s commitment to military service.

“Yale students, faculty and staff have answered the call in times to conflict, and often are the first ones to do so,” University Secretary and

Yale-NUS campus to cost $240 million

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER While Yale College expands its residential college system along Prospect Street, YaleNUS is constructing a new campus itself, to the tune of roughly $240 million dollars.

Yale-NUS new campus, which has been under construction since July 2012, will include three residential colleges, new dining halls, faculty apartments and 1,000 student rooms covering 60,000 square meters of real estate.

Even though Yale is overseeing the design and construction process, NUS — funded by the Singaporean government — is paying for 100 percent of the project, Yale-NUS Governing Board member Roland Betts ’68 said. According to YaleNUS administrators, the entire construction project is set to be completed by October 2015.

The construction of a new Yale-NUS campus is in spite

of a construction slowdown in Singapore. Last month, Bloomberg reported that the construction sector’s share of the Singaporean economy dipped by 2.7 percent, the biggest drop since 2010.

“This is such an ambitious project and it’s going so well,” Betts said. “When the buildings are finished, they are going to be unbelievably dazzling.”

Pelli Clarke Pelli, the same firm that designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur — formerly the tallest buildings in the world — is spearheading the construction. The firm could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon.

Though one residential college has been completed, the two others, in addition to administrative and educational facilities, are still in the throes of the construction process, Yale-NUS President SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 4

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Construction of new residential colleges, offices and student rooms at Yale-NUS began in July of 2012.

Student assaulted in Morse

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER On the Saturday of Halloween weekend, a Yale student was assaulted in Morse College, sparking questions about campus security on the edge of campus.

That night, sophomore girls in a suite in the Morse basement noticed a young man in the moat directly outside of their window who appeared as though he needed assistance. When Jonathan Simonds ’17 — another Morse student visiting the suite — opened the window to check on the person outside, the stranger tried to forcibly push his way

into the suite.

Simonds said that, when he tried to prevent the man entering the suite, the stranger fought back, punching his head. After the assault, the man fled the scene before police arrived, leaving Simonds with a cut that required five stitches.

Police have not yet found the suspect.

“That person could have been out there for any number of reasons,” Simonds said. “The number of good reasons for a person to be in a ditch outside their suite was not high.”

Simonds said that, although he and the residents in the suite thought

that the man had fallen into the moat accidentally, he appeared unscathed.

Because the area surrounding the moat is surrounded by bushes, the assailant would not have been there unless he were either very determined or incapacitated, Simonds added.

Later that night, police asked Simonds and members of the suite to identify a man who matched the suspect’s description. Simonds said that the man police were holding was not his assailant. He has not been contacted since to identify another suspect.

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No clarity yet on carbon tax

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER The creation and implementation of a Yale carbon charge remains up in the air.

In an August campus-wide email, University President Peter Salovey announced that the University would form a Carbon Charge Task Force led

by Economics Professor William Nordhaus ’63 to consider the feasibility of implementing an internal carbon tax for the 2015–16 academic year.

After nearly three months, three meetings and one town-

hall discussion, there appears to be no greater clarity on what the specific mechanism will resemble in practice. Although members of the committee stated that they aim to issue a formal recommendation by early January, several experts, administrators and students remain uncertain whether a tax will ever reach the University balance sheets or create large scale change.

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hen students first heard of the now-ongoing review of the cultural centers, rumors began circulating that the University was considering consolidating Yale’s four existing cultural centers. Let’s put the rumors to rest. A number of key administrators — including the president, the provost and the reviewers themselves — have repeatedly guaranteed student leaders of the cultural centers that any termination or consolidation of the cultural centers is not on the table. But even if such a misguided proposal were on the table, the students of Yale would simply never let this happen.

These centers are not Woodbridge Hall’s to take away; they are a standing testament to decades of student activism and perseverance. When this review was announced, cultural groups from all four houses joined together with the determination of preserving and strengthening this proud legacy.

We understood why a review was needed. The cultural centers are at a crucial crossroads. With the sudden departures of two deans, crippling budget cuts to the centers and a general lack of administrative transparency, we wished not only to rectify these problems but also to work with administrators to renew Yale’s commitment to supporting all students on campus.

But from the outset, the review process was poorly rolled out. Students from the AfroAmerican Cultural Center were not notified of the Nov. 4 meeting that kicked off the review process until only a week before.

The late notice and miscommunication triggered anxiety that administrators did not sincerely value student voices. Confusion grew as the format of the initial meeting changed several times.

On Nov. 1, three days before the meeting, the review board finally informed students that all four cultural centers would be lumped together in one large discussion for the first hour and then would break into four separate dinner tables for the second hour.

The free-for-all format of the first hour could have proved disastrous. But several groups, including the Asian American Students Alliance, the Black Student Alliance at Yale, MEChA and the Association of Native Americans at Yale, met in advance to ensure all students attending this meeting would be informed, productive and on the same page. By speaking with one voice and spending hours coordinating our messages, we are providing a partner for the University to work with during this crucial process. When administrators try to improve our centers in a top-down approach, it only engenders distrust and often leads to stagnation. But if the

University accepts us with good faith, together we can work both to further institutional priorities and, more importantly, to create the centers that we all deserve.

Review board members, who were very receptive to the overwhelming demand for more resources, said it was their directive not to recommend more funding, but it is impossible to revamp the cultural centers without at least restoring their budgets to where they were two years ago. At the Native American Cultural Center, catered dinners have given way to potlucks, we are paying our own way to festivals, ceremonies and conferences. Student groups have low operating budgets and have had to turn to other, more limited sources of funding to maintain our programming. La Casa events I have attended have run out of food at least twice this semester and Latino student groups have seen a drop in funds available to support them.

The work our interim deans have been able to pull off on the gutted budgets has been inspiring, but the belt has been tightened too far. Even if the University works with our coalition during the review process, we cannot accomplish our joint objectives without restoring or expanding prior levels of funding.

These issues do not just affect students of each cultural group but Yale at large. Students of all backgrounds attend and benefit from cultural events and activities on campus. In order to succeed in the 21st century, students need to be exposed to diverse cultures. Many Yale students did not enjoy such a privilege before entering college.

Furthermore, the centers themselves are incredibly diverse; the NACC, for example, is responsible for supporting students from dozens of distinct nations, each with its own traditions, language and history. The misconception that the centers only serve one particular group is a barrier to this process and allows administrators to underestimate the need for more resources. All students who have experiences with the centers should have the opportunity to share their thoughts on the cultural centers.

We demand to be included in this process as partners, rather than as subjects of administrative experimentation. When the external review board submits the report to the provost's office on Dec. 1, it is essential that students play a considerable role in its compilation. If we're going to get anywhere, increased funding has to be on the table.

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The virtue of sacrifice

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ast weekend, I ran in my final cross country Heptagonal Championship, the Ivy League conference meet. After eight years of running cross country every fall, my final season is coming to a close. I am leaving behind something I have loved deeply, something that has been central to my identity. Now I am struggling to understand what it will mean to live as something other than a collegiate athlete.

Being an athlete at Yale is difficult. Yale has been for me, in many ways, a circumscribed experience. The track, the shuttle out to the field house and the training room are the places I know best here. I spent over four hours training almost every day. A constant worry has been getting to bed as early as possible, eating enough food, making sure my studies do not overwhelm me so that I can practice at the highest level.

Some of the sacrifices I had to make have significantly hampered my time here. Unlike at some other schools in the Ivy League, many high-level seminars happen during the afternoons, our practice time.

The inability to enroll in the

courses I am most interested in at Yale because I am an athlete representing Yale still angers me.

Then ISA QASIM there were the speakers, The discussions Passerby and events I wanted to go to throughout the years that I have had to miss because practice was always there. Losing touch with friends because their lifestyle was not compatible with my training has been a difficult experience.

The life of a Yale athlete is a cramped one. But it is only within restrictions that the beautiful can develop. The mutual self-denial that the life of a student-athlete imposes has allowed my teammates and me to bond in a way that would not be possible otherwise. The shared toil of practice and the monotony of physical therapy have given us a common language. And the athletic bliss of a race well-run has given us a common purpose. The sac-

rifices are real, and can feel unjust, but in some way, they are necessary to reap the benefits.

In this sense, athletics at Yale are extreme examples of the intensity Yale students devote to their extracurricular activities. Our extracurricular activities make incredible demands upon us, to a degree not found on many other college campuses. My peers have devoted semesters or years of their life to a single organization, making it far and away their top priority — above school, friends or sanity.

For my friends at other schools, their clubs exist for their benefit; at Yale, it seems as if we exist for the benefit of our clubs.

The downsides of this approach are many, but the benefits are very real. In life, we are given few chances to care passionately about a group, and practicing doing so is important; it serves as a bulwark against the cynicism that seems waiting to engulf us.

Now, in our senior year, my friends and I are stepping away from the things we cared so much about. I am lucky enough to be able to continue running, but many organizations on

campus seem to have no room for seniors. We are left with ample time to reflect upon our collegiate experience.

The day before my sophomore Heps, I was running with a senior on the team. He seemed down so I asked him what was wrong. He said that he was not sure that running in college was worth all the sacrifices he had to make for it. I had never considered the question before, but I am grateful he asked it. I have carried it with me ever since.

There is no one answer to that question, but it’s worth keeping in mind. For the underclassmen, it can help prevent tunnel vision and keep you aware of the multitude of opportunities to be found here. For the seniors, it is a reminder of the consequences of our choices and a lesson for the future. In order to achieve anything important you have to give up a lot, but losing sight of what has been lost is a mistake. I could not be prouder of my time running for Yale, and that pride is strengthened by knowing what I lost in the process.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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Forgetting our roots

SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC is a junior in Davenport College and a staff reporter on the city desk.

Contact him at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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n the fall of 1701, a group of 10 Protestant ministers came together to form the “Collegiate School,” a theological seminary aimed at providing a sound religious education for students. Over the first 150 years of its existence, the College expanded its curriculum, requiring students to be wellversed in logic and the natural sciences as well as Biblical texts.

A Yale education was an education of spirit, first, and a preparation for worldly pursuits, second. Yale could not create good leaders without first creating good men. The College’s ability to balance these two modes of education, the spiritual and the worldly, made it a unique place to produce national leaders.

Yale has come a long way since its humble beginnings over three hundred years ago. Yet, for a school that has spent the greater part of its history producing ministers of the church, it seems strange that today most Yalies would not consider religious practice a necessary part of their moral and spiritual education.

We have instead relegated religion to the “cultural space,” denying ourselves the very characteristics that make religion special. Where there were

once classes debating the merits of faith and our personal obligations to one another, we now have classes where we read the Bible as literature and interpret Islamic theology through the lens of politics. Religion has become an ornament to be studied at convenience, rather than an important way of ordering our lives.

YALE SHOULD INSTITUTE A THEOLOGY REQUIREMENT We must recognize that religion is one of the few institutions on campus that balances our individualistic tendencies. At its heart, religious practice is about centering our life around our relationship with God; it requires reflecting on life choices, serving the community and subduing selfish attitudes. While there are organizations on campus that fulfill any one of these functions — and their members should be lauded — only in religion can one find

the harmonious synthesis of all three.

Yale should be responsible for the moral education of its students. One of the first steps it can take towards that end is instituting a theology requirement.

At universities like Georgetown, students are required to take classes on theology in addition to core requirements in the humanities and the sciences. The theological classes are taught by Georgetown’s Jesuit professors who challenge students’ beliefs, atheists and theists alike, in classes such as “Problems of God.” One could argue that this suggestion leaves very little room for atheists and agnostics. “Yale may have started out as a theological seminary, but today it is a secular institution,” they would argue. “Who are we to force religion on what should otherwise be a neutral, a-religious space?”

This view is not wholly without merit; because Yale is a global institution, it would be inappropriate for the University to be engaged in the business of assimilating its students into a single religious tradition. Such a view, however, obscures the difference between the University encouraging its students to actively engage religious ques-

tions and the University endorsing any one religious view. Yale’s obligation to respect the various cultural backgrounds of its students does not absolve it of its responsibility to provide for our moral education. A secular Yale need not be an atheist one.

If you were to take a straw poll of students’ favorite classes on Yale’s campus, you would find that the most praised classes are the ones that force us to think about how we ought to live our lives: "Death" with Shelly Kagan, "Humility" with David Brooks and "Fractal Geometry" with Michael Frame. The clear demand for classes that educate us on how to be good people is further evidence of our expectations of Yale. Yet, external incentive structures such as job security, major requirements and GPA orient us away from the classes and clubs that would make us good people. If Yale is to fulfill its mission of producing global leaders, it needs to emphasize both our spiritual and professional development.

A theology requirement would be a simple means of fulfilling that obligation.

UGONNA EZE is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at ugonna.eze@yale.edu .

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“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

C.S. LEWIS NOVELIST AND POET

Businessweek ranks SOM sixth

Provisional ’15–16 calendar criticized

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

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The School of Management’s 15-spot jump in Bloomberg Businessweek MBA rankings put it ahead of Harvard Business School.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER The School of Management is continuing its rise in business school rankings.

The school catapulted from 21st to sixth place in the biannual Bloomberg Businessweek MBA ranking released yesterday, indicating a 15-spot jump from the last ranking in 2012.

This ranking comes just nine months after The Financial Times business school ranking rated SOM as one of the top 10 business schools in the world. Though SOM still trails Ivy rivals Wharton and Columbia Business School in the Businessweek ranking, it came in ahead of Harvard Business School, which clinched the number one spot in the FT ranking earlier this year.

“To me the signal here is directional — that Yale’s SOM’s mission-oriented educational excellence is being increasingly recognized and respected widely,” SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said.

According to the Businessweek website, the ranking included data from 112 fulltime MBA programs from around the world and ranked them based on performance on a three measure scale: A student satisfaction survey constituted 45 percent of the

overall score, an employer survey 45 percent and faculty expertise 10 percent. This year’s student surveys, the website said, were improved by including more concise and direct questions and also asking students how their school included demographic and socioeconomic minorities.

SOM Associate Dean David Bach said it is notable that students who were surveyed for the Businessweek ranking, all members of the class of 2014, had many opportunities for global engagement at Yale.

“I’m not saying this is the one factor, but this group of students did benefit from a global education,” Bach said. “Because our strategy is distinct, our student experiences are distinct, and if students and recruiters say this distinctiveness is valuable, you see it reflected in a ranking like this.”

Bach also said it is relevant that the “two big winners” in this ranking, Yale and Duke, are both relatively young and innovative when it comes to global strategy.

Duke was ranked first in this year’s rankings.

Although Daniel Kent SOM ’16 said he thought the SOM’s rise in the rankings reflected a strong campus community, he added that MBA rankings are not the most accurate way to assess a business school.

“It’s exciting and reassuring that SOM continues on its really rapid trajectory towards the top, but I would say that [the way] to really experience SOM is campus visits and student testimonials and alumni testimonials,” he said.

However, Kent also said these rankings reflect specific strengths of the MBA program at SOM, such as the integrated curriculum, which teaches students a variety of business fundamentals.

Tugce Erten SOM ’15 said rankings can be useful as guidance for applicants who want to gauge the quality of a business education at a particular school. She added that she thinks this leap in the rankings will be useful for the SOM because it associates it with the top-tier business schools.

Bach also said this association will be helpful for the SOM, especially when it comes to attracting future MBA applicants.

“We hope that people will look at Yale SOM as they are looking at Columbia, Stanford, Wharton, Harvard and Duke.

That’s a good peer group,” Bach said.

The 2014 Businessweek business school rankings surveyed 21,833 students.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

Although the fall 2014 semester has yet to finish, Yale’s provisional calendar for the 2015–16 school year has drawn heavy criticism from students.

According to the tentative schedule, final examinations during the fall 2015 semester will not end until Dec. 23, with residences closing on Dec. 24.

Classes will not start until Sept.

2 — six days later than they did this year. Over the past few days, many students have spoken out in anger and disbelief at the proposed calendar.

“People are livid,” Yale College Council president Michael Herbert ’16 said. “I don’t blame them. We don’t want students going home on Christmas Eve, especially not international students. It’s just not a workable outcome.”

The calendar, which was created by the University Calendar Committee, has been available online for several weeks, Herbert said, but caught students’ eyes Sunday afternoon, when a student posted it to the popular Facebook group “Overheard at Yale.” Since then, the post has accumulated nearly 50 comments, all expressing frustration.

According to Herbert, the YCC has been in contact with administrators and will publish a report on Dec. 1 detailing its suggestions for a revised calendar. He added that the YCC voted on Sunday to move the entire schedule forward one week, so that classes would begin on Aug. 26.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said that he recognizes that nobody wants the semester to end so late and is optimistic that the fall term in 2015 will finish earlier than is currently scheduled.

“It’s just a matter of the extent of the change,” he said. “It may be a day, it may be six days.”

Classes have traditionally started the Wednesday before Labor Day, Herbert said. Because Labor Day falls unusually late in 2015, on Sept. 7, the entire calendar was shifted back a week.

Other factors have also limited the Calendar Committee’s ability to end classes earlier, said Kimberly Goff-Crews, University secretary and vice president for student life, who chairs

the committee. Fall break, introduced two years ago, puts constraints on the calendar, she said, as does the addition of one day each to reading period and the final examination period. Both of these changes were implemented in response to student feedback, she added.

“These constraints mean that any decisions to move dates involve tradeoffs, but we are still exploring what we can do,” GoffCrews wrote in an email.

People are livid. I don’t blame them. We don’t want students going home on Christmas Eve. MICHAEL HERBERT ’16 President, Yale College Council Students i n te rv i ewe d expressed outrage that finals might extend so far into December, voicing concerns ranging from the price of air travel to the disruption of the holiday spirit.

Amen Jalal ’17, an international student from Pakistan, said that ending finals on the Dec. 23, coupled with an 18-hour flight and a 6-hour layover to return home, would be a serious inconvenience. She said that while she does not celebrate Christmas and is not concerned about being home in time for the holiday, the timing will make airfare much more expensive.

“International tickets are already really expensive in the winter because of the Christmas season,” Jalal said. “The cost to fly home on Christmas Eve would be ridiculous.”

Still, others were sympathetic to the University’s reasons for pushing the calendar back.

Mahir Rahman ’17 said that the calendar follows the academic structure of previous calendars.

He added that he understands that changing that structure would pose significant difficulties for administrators in trying to preserve Yale traditions like shopping period.

This semester, final exams will end on Dec. 17.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

Hotel developer withdraws plans for new Marriott

BY NOAH KIM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Facing widespread community opposition, Newport Hotel Group has withdrawn its plans to build a Residence Inn hotel at the corner of Elm and Howe Streets, although it plans to apply again.

Though the project had been the subject of several city zoning meetings since July, neighborhood leaders have stressed that the hotel developers displayed a pattern of poor communication with residents of the Dwight neighborhood. The planners, residents said, failed to consider their input throughout the planning process. During a meeting last week between Newport Hotel Group CEO Douglas Cohen and the Dwight Central Management Team, a group of neighborhood representatives, Cohen withdrew the hotel group’s application to the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals for development, saying he hopes to incorporate more community input when he reapplies.

“We’re starting all over again and want to involve as many people as possible in the dialogue process,” he said at the meeting, The New Haven Register reported. “But the first thing I want to do is apologize. We made some mistakes and there’s been some bad communication.”

Cohen could not be reached for comment this week.

Cohen and his attorney James Perito first proposed plans for a new Residence Inn at a New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals meeting this

past July. The Newport Hotel Group is a real estate management firm that served as the developer for the Courtyard Marriott in New Haven.

Cohen and Perito presented a model for a six-story, 115room Residence Inn behind the Courtyard Marriott located at 30 Whalley Ave. The hotel would have targeted visitors planning on extended stays, according to Cohen.

Community opposition first arose at a meeting last September, when members of the Dwight Central Management Team, made up of residents and business owners who organized to advocate for neighborhood issues, criticized Cohen for not being in open communication with Dwight residents. They cited the fact that Cohen failed to meet with the team before the matter went to the zoning board. In order to assuage residents’ worries, Cohen agreed to show up at the management team’s October gathering at Amistad School on Edgewood Avenue to discuss the plan.

However, tensions rose further when prior to that meeting, the team received an email from Perito stating that Cohen would not, in fact, be in attendance. In the email, Perito claimed that the developers were not ready to meet with residents because plans for the hotel were not yet complete.

Dwight Central Management Team members interpreted these actions as snubs to Dwight residents’ input in the project. The October meeting, attended by around 40 people, quickly escalated

into a mass denunciation of the developer and the Residence Inn. Some even suggesting that the hotel find a different neighborhood in which to expand.

“I don’t think that they were intentionally ignoring our requests, and I’d personally love to see some development in this neighborhood, but this is our home; we wanted to know that we’d be included in the planning process,” Ward 2 Alder Frank Douglass told the News.

Other residents are concerned that the construction of the new hotel would clog up the area, resulting in increased traffic and fewer parking spaces. Alexander Lew ’15, a Dwight resident, testified last September at the second of three New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals meetings, expressing worries that congestion would increase dramatically with the hotel’s construction.

“If there are not enough parking spaces provided by the hotel, the visitors will spill over into the surrounding area, making it much harder for people who live near the hotel to park near their homes,” he said.

During the Dwight Central Management Team meeting last Wednesday, Cohen said he is unsure when a revised version of the project will come before city zoning officials.

Construction on the new hotel is projected to take 12 to 15 months.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Confusion ended in Boyko’s sequestering BOYKO FROM PAGE 1 student researcher was lifted on Thursday, Oct. 30, at midnight.

CHALLENGING THE QUARANTINE

Upon returning from YNHH, Boyko and his colleague consulted with public health workers and lawyers to see what actions they could take to fight the quarantine in court.

Boyko said they ultimately decided against fighting the quarantines in court because their case would end up heavily intertwined with the gubernatorial and judicial elections. In Connecticut, challenges against quarantines are reviewed by elected probate judges. Boyko added that he and his colleague did not want to run the risk of losing the case, and subsequently setting a bad precedent for other states.

According to Shelley Geballe LAW ’76 SPH ’95, a professor at the Yale Law School and School of Public Health, as well as the president and cofounder of Connecticut Voices for Children, any possible case could have been influenced by the hysteria over the spread of the disease in the United States. Geballe added that a lack of legitimate scientific information being communicated to the public could also have influenced the case had it been brought forward. As of late, Geballe has been working with other faculty at YLS and YSPH to change Connecticut’s quarantine statute.

And by the time the case would have reached court, Boyko said, the quarantine would likely have been over, rendering the case moot and leaving he and his colleague without standing.

Geballe said that the current Connecticut quarantine statute — created in 2003 after September 11 and the anthrax attacks that followed shortly after — raises concerns about due process. First, the statute only requires a “fair preponderance of evidence,” or only 51 percent certainty that the person or persons in question need to be quarantined for public health reasons. In most involuntary commitment cases — including quarantines, states adopt a “clear and convincing evidence” standard, which places a greater burden of evidence on the state when it issues a quarantine.

Second, Geballe said, quarantine orders in Connecticut do not require the confirmation of a judge to go into effect.

And finally, Connecticut has probate

judges, who are elected, review challenges to quarantine orders. In most other states, plaintiffs requesting that a quarantine order be overturned go to appointed judges, who Geballe argued are more insulated from political pressure than probate judges.

Along with other faculty members at YLS and YSPH, Geballe hopes to address those due process concerns and create precedents for future instances of infectious disease quarantines. She added that the current differences between state quarantine laws make it difficult to enact change at a national level, especially in response to rapidly emerging epidemics.

“States should not adopt a patchwork of different standards for handling disease,” Geballe said. “It makes sense to rely on the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], as disease can cross national and state lines. It would be better to adopt uniform standards based on CDC guidelines.”

MISCOMMUNICATION ABOUT SEQUESTERING

Before the state-ordered quarantine, Cleary announced via email to the entire public health school that Boyko and the other student researcher had agreed to voluntarily self-sequester.

But according to both Boyko and Cleary, those plans for sequestering originated from a miscommunication. While Cleary thought that the two researchers had volunteered to stay away from all public health school facilities, Boyko said they had only communicated to their principal investigator that they would stay away from the specific office in which they worked because they had heard that some of their coworkers were concerned about them returning to the building.

This offer came a day or two before the first school-wide email was sent, Boyko said.

“The voluntary sequester announcement was based on a misunderstanding of some communications,” Cleary said in a Monday email to the News. “Based on an e-mail exchange, I thought the students had offered to stay away from work for that period.”

On Oct. 13, 11 days after the sequester had been announced, Cleary announced in a second email to the public health school community that a group of medical experts had determined that the sequester was unnecessary, and that it would be lifted.

According to Cleary, even before the second announcement, the school had not required the students to sequester themselves. But from a series of miscommunications, administrators had assumed the students planned to do so.

Boyko said that he and his fellow researcher were not aware that they were supposedly sequestering themselves until the first school-wide email announcing their sequestering was sent. He added that they had no direct communication with Cleary until after it was sent.

“After the [first email], we sent an email to Dean Cleary asking for a clarification of what he meant and expressing our desire that he would have asked us before sending it,” Boyko said. “Other people in the School of Public Health responded directly to us two that they thought it sent the wrong public health message.”

Cleary said he would not discuss specifics of the email exchanges and other communications on the topic of sequestering.

But Cleary did say that the word sequester was never used by the students in their email exchanges with the administration, and he personally chose to use the word in the first email to the public health school community.

“My understanding based on our communication, which it turns out was incorrect, was that they volunteered to stay away from work for the period,” Cleary said in a Tuesday email to the News.

“They never used the word sequester.

I used that word in an attempt to convey that it was not quarantine.” Though a sequester and a quarantine have the same practical implications, the latter is a legally enforceable order.

After the researchers expressed their frustration with the original email, they were allowed to see subsequent emails before they were sent, Boyko said.

Even without a court case, Boyko said he feels that his personal story could be crucial in effecting policy change in the state.

“I think especially with my situation, I had a chance to get a message out there that a lot of people couldn’t,” Boyko said.

“Cleary and other people who are far more qualified scientifically can say [their message] as many times as they want, but it still won’t resonate with people until they have a personal face to it.”

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT

Yale-NUS campus to cost Singapore $240m YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 Pericles Lewis said.

Currently, Yale-NUS students live in a NUS-owned residential tower used for purely temporary purposes. Betts said that Yale-NUS administrators wanted to wait to move to a permanent location until more classes had matriculated into the college.

The new campus, though still under construction, received the 2013 Green Mark Platinum Award from the Building and Construction Authority in Singapore and the 2014 Landscape Excellent Assessment Framework certification from the National Parks Board, which recognized the college’s efforts to include eco-friendly infrastructure. This infrastructure includes eco-ponds, sky gardens, energy-efficient sensors and a stormwater filtration system. In addition, the campus will feature occupancy sensors to reduce air-conditioning and maximize natural lighting.

With an increasing number of students ... and classes ... all of us have started to feel a space cruch.

CHRISTOPHER TEE NUS ’17 Despite these accolades, Betts said that because the scope of the construction has been so large, there have been “a lot of challenges” that have caused the project to be slightly behind schedule. He noted that the weather in particular has complicated the project’s timeline.

“You have two monsoon seasons per year [in Singapore],

and the monsoon seasons make it particularly difficult to do any outdoor work,” he said. “So, you slow down.”

Construction came to a complete halt for three weeks in August to control the spread of Dengue fever, which a few construction workers contracted.

Overall, students interviewed had positive expectations for the new campus.

Christopher Tee NUS ’17 said he was excited about the new expansion because it will enable students to pursue more opportunities at Yale-NUS. “With an increasing number of students, student organizations, activities and classes offered in Yale-NUS, all of us have started to feel a space crunch because there are only so many classes that can go around at any one point in time,” Tee said.

He added that he is particularly excited for the new student meeting spaces as well as art and sports facilities.

Adrian Stymne NUS ’17 said he is looking forward to having more courtyards and outside space on campus and student organization spaces. He noted, however, that the expansion will cause the communal spirit of Yale-NUS to change.

“Right now all students are living in the same building, the dean’s offices are all just a few floors below and getting to class takes but an elevator ride,” Stymne said. “Being spread out means it will become more difficult to keep the feeling of togetherness, a feeling which has been crucial in building our community, especially for international students.”

Classes began at Yale-NUS in August 2013.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

Incidents in Morse raise questions on safety MORSE THEFT FROM PAGE 1 That weekend did not mark the first time members of that particular Morse suite had experienced issues with strangers intruding, according to suite resident Libby Dimenstein ’17. Dimenstein said that in addition to people urinating onto their windows every weekend, an intoxicated, non-Yale student had wandered into their suite during one weekend earlier in the semester and refused to leave until he used the bathroom.

“I’m fine with having to be on my guard on campus, but when you’re in your suite you want to be at ease,” said suite member Natalie Warren ’17. “The problem is that it’s in the residential college.”

I’m fine with having to be on guard on campus, but when you’re in your suite you want to be at ease.

NATALIE WARREN ’17 Dimenstein said that on the Monday following the assault, she and her suitemates met with their master Amy Hungerford and dean Joel Silverman to address their concerns. At the meeting, the Morse students requested a larger security presence outside of Morse on weekends and inquired about the possibility of only allowing men to live in the suite in the future. The students said they thought there would be fewer instances of guys attempting to enter the suite if they looked in the window and saw other guys.

Security officers patrol the colleges regularly, but additional patrols are assigned in response to particular trends or events, Yale Police Department Administrative Lieutenant Von Narcisse said in an email.

Hungerford said that upon her request, YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins increased patrols in the area.

She added that she has also contacted architects to find a solu-

tion that makes the perimeter of Morse less susceptible to public urination, a longstanding problem for the college.

Although the suite’s first request was addressed quickly, Hungerford said that restricting girls from living in the basement is a change unlikely to happen in the near future.

“Everyone has different cultural and social norms about privacy and they’re real,” Hungerford said. “While you don’t want to be sexist, you need to think about gender culturally.”

Katherine Bollag ’16 — who lived in the basement suite as a sophomore — said that limiting the basement to only men could reduce future instances of male intruders attempting to gain access through the windows.

However, Philile Shongwe ’16, another previous resident of the basement suite, said that turning the basement into a “boys only” suite is not necessarily the solution to improving safety in the college.

“It’s somewhat discriminatory,” Shongwe said. “The basement can be safe if people take the initiative to take care of themselves.”

While Morse residents living in the basement last year did not experience issues with intruders, residents above them did experience robberies, Shongwe said.

Morse students interviewed said security in the college has room for improvement, but Hungerford underscored the need for residents to take responsible steps to protect themselves.

While she admitted that public drunkenness around the college is inevitable due to its proximity to Toad’s Place, she stressed students could make a more concerted effort to keep doors locked throughout the college.

In the summer of 2007, Yale College was struck with a series of thefts from Morse College rooms, thefts of computers from the Yale College Dean’s Office and approximately 10 street robberies targeting Yale students and affiliates.

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

TIMELINE MORSE COLLEGE THEFT Residents of the suite noticed that a man was in the moat directly outside of their window.

Suite residents called the cops.

The man punched Simonds in the head. The blow knocked his head against the open window, leading to a cut that required five stitches.

NHPD called Simonds to identify a suspect, but the suspect wasn't his assailant.

Simonds, who was also in the suite at the time, opened the window to see if the man was okay.

When the man stood up, Simonds said he was going to close the window, at which point the man tried to force his way into the suite.

The assailant fled the scene.

The NHPD arrived minutes after they were called.

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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” LEO TOLSTOY RUSSIAN AUTHOR

New state legislators optimistic

BY SARA SEYMOUR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Nov. 4 midterm elections brought changes to the state legislative body, with new and old leaders alike expressing enthusiasm for the upcoming term.

Four out of six leadership positions saw changes as a result of the day’s elections.

In the State House of Representatives, Representative Themis Klarides was elected house minority leader, while Representative Brendan Sharkey and Representative Joseph Aresimowicz each retained their positions as speaker of the house and house majority leader, respectively. Furthermore, newly elected President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, Majority Leader Bob Duff and Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81 all gained new titles after previously holding leadership positions in the Senate prior to Tuesday’s elections.

“Well, any time there’s new leadership, it’s like a new chapter in a book, and people have a chance to put their stance on things,” Duff said.

Each of the representatives interviewed expressed both long- and short-term goals for the years ahead, from developing support teams to creating a two-year state budget. Duff added that strong communication would be critical to the legislature’s ability to launch new initiatives.

Legislators from both sides of the aisle were optimistic about bipartisan cooperation among the politically divided leadership, which contains four Democrats and two Republicans.

“We’re still in the majority, they’re still in the minority,” Aresimowicz said. “As long as there’s mutual respect … as long as we don’t let egos or political parties get in the way, we’re going to have the same success we’ve had over the past couple of years.”

Fasano mirrored Aresimowicz’s sentiment, saying that he and Looney have a long history of friendship. The two have served in the State Senate together for 10 years.

He went on to say that this level of famil-

iarity will create a cooperative dynamic between the two, potentially helping develop policy that both parties can support.

[A]ny time there’s new leadership … people have a chance to put their stance on things.

BOB DUFF Majority leader, Connecticut House of Representatives “Those relationships are based upon friendship and trust … and I think that’s going to be kind of cool and unique. We don’t have to posture; we can be up-front and frank,” Fasano said.

Already in the works is a piece of bipartisan healthcare legislation that Fasano and Looney have been working on together to address healthcare reform, management and costs.

Fasano also said he wants to “destroy” the stereotype that Connecticut Republicans simply adhere to the same ideology as Republicans across the country. He plans to dispel this notion by reaching out to urban communities and younger demographics, such as students at Yale and the University of Connecticut, he said.

All of the representatives interviewed said that they were receptive to working with Gov. Dannel Malloy, who was elected to a second term as Connecticut governor last Tuesday. New Haven Republican Town Committee Chairman Richter Elser, however, said he was less optimistic.

“Unfortunately, under Gov. Malloy, I don’t think the policies will shift,” he said.

Looney, Fasano and Aresimowicz all ran unopposed in their districts.

Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

City honors veterans

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over 70 veterans, New Haven residents and municipal employees gathered in City Hall on Veterans Day to pay tribute to the city’s war veterans, adding to the city’s recent efforts to better serve its veteran community.

The event, titled “Welcome Home with Gratitude,” was aimed toward honoring Vietnam War veterans, whom Ward 14 Alder and event organizer Santiago Berrios-Bones said were not welcomed home with the support and recognition that other war veterans received.

“The Vietnam War was a very unpopular war,” said BerriosBones, who served in the U.S. Army from 1969–71. “Veterans were not looked at with a lot of pride, and they used to call us baby killers … it is about time we recognized our participation in this war. Not for killing anyone.

But for participating.”

After a pipe and drum processional, University Chaplain Sharon Kugler delivered an address to the veterans, which was followed by an original song that East Haven resident Adam Christoferson sung and played on an acoustic guitar. Other speakers included Mayor Toni Harp, Commander Michael Romeo of the U.S. Naval Reserves and Rev. Luk De Volder of the Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green.

Singers from the Welcome Home Gospel Choir sang songs from the Revolutionary War along with “God Bless America.” A local music school student performed “Taps” on the trumpet to close the ceremony.

Hamden resident Barry Braman, who served two tours from 1966–69 with the Army, said the event was important because it connected people who did not

serve in the Army with the experiences of veterans.

“Unless you’ve served, unless you’ve met a veteran, you really don’t know what it’s about. We might have a rough night in Vietnam, and to wake up in the morning and to see that flag, the red, white and blue, with no damage — even though our base was damaged — that was so incredible,” he said. “And the average American citizen doesn’t look at the flag that way unless he’s been through that.”

The Veterans Day event was part of a broader effort by the city to better serve its veterans, said Andrew Wolf, New Haven’s director of arts, culture and tourism and one of the organizers of the event. From national pledges to local nonprofits, New Haven is increasing its commitment to men and women who served, he said.

Just this summer, Harp signed a pledge issued by President Barack Obama to end urban homelessness among veterans by 2015. Harp said after the event that she hopes to serve the roughly 500 homeless veterans in the city through subsidized housing and by offering them first access to some of the city’s social services. She said she is optimistic that the job can be completed.

Several members of the committee in charge of the Veterans Day event are also working to improve the city’s Vietnam memorial — a black granite “V” that points toward Hu, New Haven’s sister city in Vietnam.

Event organizers Conley Monk Jr. and Garry Monk, leaders of the National Veteran’s Council for Legal Redress, an organization seeking to assist dishonorably discharged soldiers in their appeals, are working to raise money from New Haven

and its surrounding towns for the memorial. They said they hope to add a walkway from the granite “V” to the water behind it, as well as an inscription of the names of all the Vietnam War veterans, both victims and survivors, from New Haven and its surrounding towns.

Another program seeks to give a human face to the war memorials of New Haven. Artspace, a New Haven-based non-profit, is seeking a million-dollar Bloomberg Philanthropy Grant to bring the Veteran’s Projection Project to New Haven. The project, started by Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, features interviews with veterans and digital projections of their faces onto the memorials, said Sarah Fritchey, the organization’s visual arts coordinator, who attended the Veterans Day event. If this grant is awarded, they hope to use memorials such as the East Rock Park memorial and several memorials on Yale’s campus for the projection stories, Fritchey added.

The recent increase in programs assisting veterans as well as events like yesterday’s celebration shows veterans that they are not forgotten and that they are appreciated, said Garry Monk, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1968–1970.

“This really was symbolic of a closure ceremony for the Vietnam veterans,” he said. “And so here, ceremonially, we got the chance to say ‘Thank you for your service. Welcome home.”

At the event, veterans were encouraged to take application forms for the Connecticut Wartime Service Medal, a distinction offered by the governor to the state’s veterans.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

Poet laureates employ humor in readings

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. poet laureates past and present arrived on campus to present selected works from their prolific careers.

Mark Strand ’59, the poet laureate from 1990–91, gave a reading at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, while Charles Wright, the current poet laureate, gave a reading of his own work at the Yale University Art Gallery. Both men spoke to crowds of more than 150 attendees. Richard Deming, a senior lecturer in the English department and director

of the creative writing program, highlighted the rarity of the occasion and the prestige of the U.S. poet laureate position.

“To have two poet laureates — three, if [Yale English professor] Louise Glück is there — on one campus at the same time is really a special thing,” Deming said.

Wright’s reading was part of the lecture series called “Literature & Spirituality” that the Institute of Sacred Music has been hosting for the last decade. The spiritually themed poems that Wright read included pieces like “Relics,” “The Gospel According to St. Someone,” “Jesuit Graves” and “American Twilight,” along

with more than a dozen other pieces.

In his introduction for Strand, English department chair Langdon Hammer ’80 GRD ’89 pointed out the “suave, meta-poetry” that he said characterizes the poet’s work. Strand prefaced his readings by telling the audience that they should not assume that the tone of the first-person voice in his poetry reflects his personality, noting that he thinks he has a more vibrant sense of humor than what his poems may suggest.

Several students interviewed commented on Strand’s pieces’ “dry humor.” Jon Victor ’18, a contributing reporter for the

News, listed “Clear in September Light,” “Provisional Eternity” and “The Students of the Ineffable” as three poems that particularly explored broad, important themes such as romantic relationships and spirituality in a way that was not clichéd.

Ivy Sanders Schneider ’17 said that hearing the poems read aloud deepened her understanding of them. She explained that when she first read the poems, she did not realize the author’s humorousness.

Caroline Kanner ’17, who attended both readings, said she also enjoyed the poets’ senses of humor in their presentations,

noting that both speakers peppered their readings with jokes.

But she noted that the poets nonetheless differ in their employment of realistic versus metaphysical concepts to explore themes such as God and the afterlife. “[Wright’s poems] use concrete, natural imagery as a platform to wonder about so much, like language or God, that is not concrete,” Kanner said. “On the other hand, many of Strand’s poems felt like they were situated right at the boundary between waking and dreaming … giving insight or answering questions about real life through the exploration of not-necessarily-real

spaces.”

In addition to being U.S. poet laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, both speakers are also winners of the Beinecke’s Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a biannual award granted to an American poet in recognition of his or her career’s work or of a recent outstanding work that the poet published.

Strand was awarded the Bollingen in 1993. Wright, the award’s most recent beneficiary, received it in 2013.

The Bollingen Prize was established in 1948.

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

Chanel CEO talks career choices, female empowerment

BY JIAHUI HU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Chanel CEO and Yale Corporation member Maureen Chiquet ’85 credits goat cheese for the start of her career in the beauty industry.

On Tuesday afternoon, at a Branford College Master’s Tea that drew roughly 100 students, Chiquet discussed her career path — from marketing intern at L’Oreal to executive vice president of Old Navy Brand to becoming the current head of Chanel. Chiquet also talked about choosing a career path, being a woman in the fashion industry and her time at Yale.

Chiquet said that the moment when she discovered goat cheese, while on a middle school international exchange program to France, was the first time she discovered her love for beauty through the senses. That love, she added, has driven her career choices.

“It’s not about a career, it’s about what makes you happy,” Chiquet said. “For me, I loved beauty and creating things that would make people feel more beautiful.”

Chiquet said that when she finished college, she initially wanted to be a lawyer because her father had been one, and she knew it would be a reliable profession.

However, she said, she soon realized that becoming a lawyer didn’t fulfill her desire to create beauty.

When a student asked Chiquet how she summoned the courage to walk out of the LSAT, Chiquet said that although she knew she had to make money, she also knew she had time to figure out her career.

“I wanted to stay true to what I believed in,” Chiquet said.

When Chiquet started in the beauty industry as a marketing intern for L’Oreal, she said, there were not a lot of women at the top who could mentor her. Even over a decade later, when Chiquet first joined Chanel, she said she worked on the board with 10 other males and no other females.

Chiquet said that in her position as CEO of Chanel she has made an effort to bring more women to positions of leadership in the company. She added that in order for women to succeed, the right environment has to be fostered for them. Many characteristics that are considered “feminine,” she said — such as empathy and the willingness to listen — are actually important leadership skills.

At Yale, Chiquet said she studied film and literature because she was interested in how text, sounds and image could influence the senses. Throughout her career, Chiquet said that she has continued to use the aesthetic lessons she learned at Yale. For instance, at Chiquet’s first job out of college — a marketing internship at L’Oreal — she connected film

JULIA HENRY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet ’86 emphasized the importance of female leadership. techniques to L’Oreal ads.

“I didn’t even know what marketing was. But it was kind of like what I studied in college in that it dealt with how the viewers deconstruct an image,” said Chiquet.

Audience members interviewed said they found the talk helpful and inspiring.

Hillary Lutkus ’18 said she will remember Chiquet’s message to think less about planning and practicality and more about where interests and happiness can be found.

Andrew Thavychith ’18 said that as a freshman, he is very unsure about his future, and it is

reassuring to hear someone whom he considered to be successful say they once felt the same way.

Erika Lynn-Green ’18 said she found Chiquet’s focus on her personal struggles as a woman in the fashion industry surprising.

“I wasn’t expecting her to speak so clearly about the challenges as

a woman and not just as a CEO,” Lynn-Green said.

Chanel was founded in 1909 by designer Gabrielle Chanel, perhaps better known as Coco Chanel.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER 34TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Ceremony on Beinecke Plaza features generations of veterans VETERANS DAY FROM PAGE 1 for those who, in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, ‘gave the last full measure of devotion in service of their country,’” Jack Beecher ’84, a Vietnam veteran and Yale’s senior director of business operations, professional schools and professional support, said in his opening invocation.

“We honor our military and ask that whatever is required of them be informed by their infinite wisdom — the light and the truth — as they honorably and loyally seek to create a peaceful and secure future for us all.”

Salovey added that there are — and have been — many University programs to support military personnel, from Yale’s participation in the World War II V-12 Navy college training program to the current-day Warrior-Scholar Project and ROTC. Reinstated in 2012, the ROTC program became a focal point of the ceremony for the ways in which it has united the missions of students and military servicepeople alike.

“We as a community are fortunate not only to have our treasured veterans, but we also have established within the fabric of our university the cadets and midshipmen of our ROTC programs,” Goff-Crews said.

For Captain Nerea Cal GRD ’16, Yale’s spirit of service and passion for its veterans traces its roots back to colonial times. She referenced Nathan Hale 1773, who was caught by the British army during the Revolutionary War and hanged.

Cal added that remembering those who gave their life for the nation is one way to honor those who still serve.

“In the tradition of Nathan Hale and all those remembered in Woolsey Hall, Yale is demonstrating that it understands that

the defense of our nation and the responsibilities for which it stands are not the responsibilities of a few, but of all,” she said.

However, Cal noted that civilians also have an obligation to support the nation. There is more that the country can do “beyond the platitudes of ‘thank-you for your service’” in helping veterans readjust to stable and healthy lives at home, Cal said.

Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, who made an unscheduled appearance, also said there is a need for national reform of the treatment of veterans.

“The thank-yous that we give on Veterans Day should be more than just words,” Blumenthal said.

“In skill training, jobs, counseling and health care, we still have a lot of work to do to make sure we leave no veteran behind.”

ROTC students interviewed after the ceremony said that the day’s celebrations testified to the tradition of military service at Yale.

Gabrielle Fong ’16, an ROTC member, said that the ceremony was “beautiful and dignified,” adding that the turnout had grown significantly since the ceremony was held her freshman year.

“I am very encouraged by the turn-out, and it was a very moving and well-done ceremony,” Yale College Council president and ROTC member Michael Herbert ’16 said.

Still, people often forget that the plaza is a war memorial, Salovey said after the event.

“This is a memorial to those Yale students who lost their lives in the First World War. These are World War I battles along the Commons facade,” he said. “And we walk by it every day.”

This year marks the 100th anniversary of World War I. Contact MATTHEW STONE at matthew.stone@yale.edu .

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Members of Yale’s ROTC program, which was recently reinstated in 2012, participated in yesterday’s Veterans Day celebrations.

Carbon tax still up in the air CARBON TAX FROM PAGE 1 sity into an incentive of behavior change for each and every member of the Yale community,” said professor Dan Esty LAW ’83, a member of the task force. “The truth of the matter is that this is challenging since the everyday student in one of the Yale [residential] colleges does not pay an energy bill, and professors don’t pay energy bills either.”

As a result, Esty said the committee is exploring a wide range of options to apply this measure.

He added while the members of the task force set a clear goal to create an internal price signal, the specifics of this charge have yet to be finalized.

He added that the initial meetings have focused on discussing the methodology of calculating Yale’s carbon footprint, specifically which units and departments would be included as part of the calculation. After delineating these boundaries, Esty said the task force will then work towards issuing a formal plan at the start of the calendar year.

One proposal that is currently being discussed is the implementation of a “revenue neutral charge,” according to Jennifer Milikowsky FES ’15, one of three student members on the force.

Milikowsky said this proposed charge will appear as a line-item on a unit or department’s annual budget. The more carbon the division emits, the higher the charge will be.

Since the University would not look to profit from these expenses, she said, the divisions would likely be refunded immediately for these costs.

But Milikowsky also said that, even without a direct financial impact on the divisions, students and faculty will still be incentivized to adopt more sustainable habits.

“Yale has a lot of influence over students and is present in our lives and in our days,” Milikowsky said. “So I think it is a little naive [to think that] if students are not being charged that they are not being influenced.”

Program Manager at the Yale Office of Sustainability Keri Enright-Kato said a variation on this plan would be to begin with this revenue-neutral charge — so that departments get a sense of the potential cost — and to then “ramp up” the actual price in order to spur a greater change in behavior.

Enright-Kato said that though she believes that applying this type of charge is feasible in practice, there remain logistical difficulties that may serve as a challenge to the task force.

Some units, she said, do not receive an individual energy bill, since more than one unit can be housed in the same building.

Provost Benjamin Polak said that if Yale were to adopt a carbon tax, the cost would be neutral for the University as a whole. Individual departments, however, could still bear a direct financial impact.

Yale has a lot of influence over students and is present in our lives and in our days.

JENNIFER MILIKOWSKY FES ’15 Although Polak is not a member of the task force, and will only be reviewing the proposal once it is completed, he discussed a possible strategy to implement the carbon charge.

By using fixed weights of carbon consumption for a certain year, he said, departments across the University could then be charged or rewarded based on their emissions consumed on the margin.

He added that the success of the task force should not be measured in whether or not their proposal becomes formal policy University-wide. It is important to learn from the process of deliberation, he said.

“If it turns out that [implementing a carbon charge] is incredibly difficult for logistical or political reasons or so on,

that in itself is a benefit of this [process].”

Still, some students and experts remain unconvinced that the creation of the task force is the best way to improve the University’s overall sustainability.

Co-founder and Director of the Carbon Tax Center Charles Komanoff said while he believed missions pricing is the biggest step that Yale could take to reduce its carbon pollution, other methods may be more effective than a charge.

“Yale is so relatively small an entity that it’s hard for me to see how a Yale carbon tax could be more than a minor symbolic gesture,” Komanoff said.

“Indeed, I’m inclined to think that some other readily available measures would likely have greater carbon-reducing impacts.”

Eliminating bundled electricity provided to students and free or discounted parking for students, faculty and staff, he said, are better solutions.

Mitch Barrows ’16, project manager for Fossil Free Yale, said that while any step the University could do to lower carbon emissions is positive, improving on-campus sustainability should not be the sole emphasis.

Yale could shut down their power plant tomorrow, he said, and it would still not be enough to fully combat the issue of climate change.

Still, Milikowsky said that the task force’s success at putting a price on carbon equivalents would demonstrate Yale’s leadership in the field and bring innovation to the University.

“My belief is that it is not one or the other … there is no one way to solve everything,” she said. “For students that don’t think this is enough, they may be right — but that is not an argument for why this isn’t a worthwhile thing to do.”

Yale has committed to a 43 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2020.

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

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“Ain’t nothing but 10 grand. What’s 10 grand to me?” RANDY MOSS SEVEN-TIME PRO BOWL WIDE RECEIVER

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Forward John Hayden ’17 put up 58 points over 106 career games with the U.S. National Team Development Program.

M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 to occur. This past weekend, a series of home matchups, in which the Eli’s went 0-1-1 against Clarkson and St. Lawrence, is evidence of just that.

“The tie and loss over the weekend were disappointing, but having a short memory is important in hockey as

we need to focus on the coming weekend,” Hayden said. “To be successful moving forward we need to stick to our systems and bear down offensively. Sometimes in hockey gritty is better than pretty.”

Hayden is not at all deterred by this past weekend’s results, citing the team’s cohesion and the leadership of captain

Tommy Fallen ’15 as redeeming factors.

With 26 games remaining in the season, Hayden has high hopes for a team just one full season removed from a Division I National Championship. And with the experience of three returning classes and a strong freshman group Hayden himself hopes to set an

Keys to winning Ivy crown M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 previous season’s roster, while also having the power to maintain its dominance year after year.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE: WESLEY SAUNDERS, FORWARD

Last year, Saunders claimed the individual title with a time-proven formula: starring as the best player on the best team. The 6–5 swingman certainly had the numbers, posting a team-high 14.2 points per game along with 3.8 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game.

With another off-season of improvement under the NBA prospect’s belt, the main hurdle standing in the way of a second straight POY award is another team dethroning Harvard for the conference title.

“Saunders is definitely a big part of what they do,” Yale forward Matt Townsend ’15 said. “He’s a tough matchup for a lot of people because he’s strong and physical, but he also has the skills of a guard.”

X-FACTOR: CORBIN MILLER, GUARD

The challenge this year for Harvard lies behind the arc due to the departures of Laurent Rivard and Brandyn Curry.

The duo combined for 111 of Harvard’s 184 made three-pointers a season ago.

That leaves point guard Siyani Chambers as the only returning member with more than 10 made three-pointers last year. But Miller is no ordinary sophomore. Miller’s freshman campaign came in 2011–12 before he embarked on a two-year mission trip for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The sharpshooter proved why head coach Tommy Amaker was willing to bring in the guard, despite the possibility of his temporary departure from the team, as he knocked down 45.6 percent of his three-point attempts in 2011 in 57 attempts. If Miller can pick up where he left off, Crimson supporters may soon find themselves forgetting all about Rivard and Curry.

YALE

Yale has finished in the top half of the Ivy League for 14 straight seasons with head coach James Jones at the helm. In order to claim Jones’s first outright Ivy title and the Bulldogs’ first NCAA tournament appearance since 1962, Yale will need to fire on all cylinders.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE: JUSTIN SEARS ’16, FORWARD

Sears nearly snatched the title for best player in the Ancient Eight from Saunders last year, despite being on a Bulldogs team that finished four games out of first place. The Plainfield, New Jersey native stuffed the stat sheet all season, especially during conference play, when he tied for the league lead in scoring, led the league in rebounding and recorded the second-most

blocks. Sears dealt with a lengthy rehab assignment over the summer following a late-season wrist injury and suffered a thumb injury in a preseason scrimmage, but if he is able to consistently take the court, there is no reason to expect anything less than another stellar year.

“In my mind, it’s hard to make an argument that he is not the best player in the league,” Jones said.

X-FACTOR: ARMANI COTTON ’15, FORWARD

Perhaps no player’s contributions were more indicative of the outcome of Yale’s games last season than Cotton’s.

During the regular season, Cotton averaged 11.5 points per game in Yale’s 15 wins while mustering only 5.5 points per game in Yale’s 13 losses. When Cotton excels in his role as a scorer behind Sears and point guard Javier Duren ’15, Yale has a formidable trio on the court.

Cotton was hampered in 2013–14 by recurring knee injuries, largely due to his constant hustle on the offensive and defensive boards. Health will play a large role in Cotton’s — and Yale’s — ability to build upon last season.

Whereas Yale will hope to avoid the injury bug, Columbia has already felt its effects. The team’s leading returning scorer, forward Alex Rosenberg, has withdrawn from school following a Jones fracture in his right foot.

Along with the loss of two players who elected to no longer play for the team, the Lions will need to rely heavily upon their remaining depth.

COLUMBIA PLAYER OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE: MAODO LO, GUARD

Rosenberg’s absence does not preclude the Lions from rostering a legitimate POY candidate. Lo was a stabilizing presence in the Lions’ backcourt a season ago, playing the most minutes per game while providing a strong second scoring option behind Rosenberg.

Lo’s 14.7 points per game during conference play was seventh best in the Ivy League. Selected to the preseason All-Ivy first team across numerous media outlets, Lo will have the ball in his hands even more this season.

example for, success is only to be expected. “[We plan] on winning a lot of championships this year,” Hayden said.

The Bulldogs’ next challenge will be Dartmouth on Friday, Nov. 14.

Contact DREW MEGERIAN at andrew.megerian@yale.edu .

ing short of some moral obligation they have to give back and share some of their wealth. Whether these arguments are true or false, they have both been made enough times.

Instead, I would like to focus on all of the ridiculous ways that athletes spend their money. Certainly there are athletes who spend their money in modest and socially responsible ways. For every respectable expenditure a professional athlete makes, there is an equally absurd splurge that another makes. The former are perhaps what deserve the attention; the latter, however, are more fun.

Running backs Arian Foster of the Houston Texans and Reggie Bush of the Detroit Lions have both bought Segway scooters for their offensive lineman. Atlanta Hawks’ Deshawn Stevenson decided to have an ATM installed in his kitchen. Boxer Mike Tyson had his infamous white Bengal tigers. International tennis star Novak Djokovic reportedly bought the entire world’s supply of the most expensive cheese on the planet.

Milwaukee Bucks’ guard Marquis Daniels commissioned a 2.9 pound, 14-carat gold necklace of his head. Former NFL star Chad Johnson bought himself a semitruck and an aquarium headboard.

SARAH ONORATO is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

Season opens for squash SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 The men’s team, ranked No. 4 in the preseason coaches’ poll, began the scrimmage by routing Dartmouth 8–1. The match demonstrated the team’s youth, as the Bulldogs fielded five freshmen and three sophomores in the top nine.

In the second match, the Elis faced Columbia, the team ranked No. 6 in the nation during the preseason.

The team’s depth proved vital, as the Bulldogs won all of the bottom five matches en route to a narrow 5–4 victory.

In the final round, Yale faced perennial rival Harvard, ranked No. 1 in the nation during the preseason. Last spring, the Harvard team swept Trinity 9–0 to win the national title.

Again, the Elis’ depth showed throughout the lineup, winning matches at the first, second, fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth positions in a 6–3 triumph. The victory marked Yale’s first win over Harvard since the

2011–12 season.

“Beating Harvard was a great confidence boost for the men,” Saunders said. “[The victory] showed them that hard work does pay off.”

This was Harvard’s first loss since the 2012–13 season, in which the Crimson lost only three matches.

After sitting out the match against Dartmouth, captain Joey Roberts ’15 handily won his contests against Columbia and Harvard with matching 3–0 victories.

“This is the deepest Yale team in many years,” Talbott said. “The key is overcoming our inexperience against the top-level teams. This group has concentrated on fitness and strength in the preseason, and the key is now bring[ing] our racquet skills and match[ing] play up to a level that can win against some more experienced teams.”

The victory over Harvard clinched a first place finish for the Bulldogs, who last won the Ivy Scrimmage in 2010.

For the freshmen that played this

weekend, the matches were the first of their college squash careers.

“I was nervous to get on court for the first time while wearing a Yale uniform,” Max Martin ’18 said. “My coaches and teammates helped me gain confidence in my own game rather than being intimidated by the more experienced players.”

Playing at number seven, Martin went undefeated this weekend with 3–0 wins over Dartmouth and Columbia, and a 3–1 win over his Harvard competitor.

Martin said that the wins over Columbia and Harvard proved how deep the team was, especially at the bottom of the roster. He added that the weekend also provided additional confidence that the team hopes to use in the future.

The men and women will host Franklin & Marshall on Dec. 6 to officially kick off the season.

Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

Seniors leave soccer with a win WOMEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 felt like we were finally doing some justice in that sense.”

The Bulldogs started off the match strong, with Gavin taking a shot on goal less than two minutes into the game. The Bears retaliated with a shot of their own just two minutes later, but goalkeeper Elise Wilcox ’15 made the save. Both teams continued to push each other offensively, keeping both goalkeepers on their toes. In 20 minutes, they each saved four different shots, before Yale finally had a breakthrough with the goals from McCauley.

The second half began in Brown’s favor, when Mikela Waldman scored off of an assist from two of her teammates. However, Wilcox did not let the goal affect her game, and she made three more saves in the half to keep Brown from tying the game.

Yale’s offense wanted another goal to give them some breathing room.

Gavin, Decker, Hannah Coy ’18 and Frannie Coxe ’15 all took shots on goal that were stopped by Brown goalkeeper Mallory Yant. After a final header attempt by Brown missed, time ran out and the Elis took home their second conference win of the season.

After a season of struggling to

COLUMBIA X-FACTOR: LUKE PETRASEK, FORWARD

Someone on head coach Kyle Smith’s squad will have to make up the brunt of the lost production from Rosenberg, who averaged nearly 20 points per game during conference play. All eyes point to Petrasek, a 6’10” sophomore who clearly earned Smith’s trust a season ago despite not having flashy numbers. Although he only registered 5.3 points per game to go along with 3.2 rebounds per game, Petrasek started 18 games as a freshman.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu and ASHLEY WU and ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

Retired — and now broke — NBA point guard Allen Iverson allegedly never liked to travel with luggage, and would instead buy new clothes everywhere he went. Alex Rodriquez, allegedly, bought a statue of himself as a centaur for his bedroom.

The list goes on, and they all make Peavy’s purchases seem tame and sensible in comparison.

There are very few people who would argue that athletes need as much money as they are getting — realistically, no one person needs that much money. But perhaps we, at times, value sports more than we should, and professional athlete salaries are at least in part a reflection of that value.

We derive that value from many aspects of sports — the teamwork, the grit, the physicality, the skill — but above all we value sports as entertainment. Part of that entertainment comes from the characters that sports give us. Sports have given us Mike Tyson, Allen Iverson, Chad Johnson, then Chad Ochocinco, then Chad Johnson again. Sports also give us less colorful but equally influential characters — the Derek Jeters and Peyton Mannings. They provide different things but, both on and off the field, they keep us entertained.

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The women’s soccer team had the most corner kicks in the Ivy League during the 2014 season with 107.

score, the Bulldogs were in fifth place in the league heading into the game in Providence. Four ties and one win had given them seven points, and the win against Brown gave them the extra three they needed to take third.

Though they are equal in points with Penn and Princeton, the Bulldogs have two fewer losses than both competitors.

With a win for their last game in the blue and white, the seniors were pleased with the results and the leapfrog finish to their season.

“It was nice to get a win in our last game, but more importantly, I think we were happy not to have to play in overtime again,” Gavin said.

Gavin and Decker also said that this year’s team is the closest-knit group either of them has played with for Yale and that its intensity and friendship fueled them to be a great team.

With their best conference record in three years, the Bulldogs have a bright future ahead of them, though the departure of the seniors will be a difficult goodbye for all of the players.

“This year was one for the books,” Coxe said. “We had so much talent and passion for the game we love.

Everyone contributed this season, in practice and in games. Even though we didn’t ultimately get the result we wanted, we know in our hearts that we were good enough.”

The Brown game was the last career contest in blue and white for seven Elis.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE Dramat experiments with fall mainstage

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER The latest production from the Yale Dramatic Association will tackle the challenges of experimental theater by interacting with its audience.

The Dramat’s Fall Mainstage production, “The Rocky Horror Show” by Richard O’Brien, opens tonight at the University Theatre. The musical follows a couple that stumbles upon the home of a transvestite doctor, who challenges their sense of normalcy through a series of bizarre displays, including the killing of a brain-damaged biker. The production is directed by New York City-based director Travis Greisler and produced by Henry Tisch ’16. Greisler said the ensemble aimed to portray the chaotic nature of the show by staging an experimental performance that invites a large amount of audience participation.

Our take on the show was to, instead of fighting against it, embrace it.

TRAVIS GREISLER Director , “The Rocky Horror Show” “Our take on the show was to, instead of fighting against it, embrace it,” Greisler said.

The interactive aspect of the show begins before the first word of the script is spoken. Greisler encourages audience members to arrive early, as even before the play begins, spectators will be participants in tasks such as tying up the characters’ shoes or conducting a Ouija board ceremony.

During the first few years after the play’s premiere in 1973, audiences began to participate in performances by shouting remarks during moments of silence in the play. Tim Creavin ’15, who plays Dr. Frank N. Furter, said that throughout the show, members of the cast that play “phantoms” act as a type of audience by repeating such callbacks. The phantoms also take part in selecting members of the audience to participate in the show, he added.

Greisler added that 14 members of the audience will be able to sit in seats that are located on stage. At the same time, he noted, the phantom characters will engage with audiences and invite them to tell parts of the story or to act as a prop or character on stage. Tisch added that the production uses the traditional setting of the University Theatre as a playground for a more experimental type of theater.

Five cast and creative team members interviewed highlighted

the challenge of putting on a show whose cult following includes many potential audience members. Greisler explained that the production includes elements present in past productions of the play and film as well as a number of modern references and aesthetics. The modern interpretation of the show is based in part on the late 20th-century “Club Kids”–a group of young individuals in New York City who were known for their outlandish fashion as well as their heavy drug use, Greisler said.

Creavin explained that the character he plays is heavily inspired by Michael Alig, who was a leader of the Club Kids and imprisoned for the manslaughter of a drug dealer.

Creavin explained that the production plays an homage to this club culture.

Christian Probst ’16 and Sarah Chapin ’17, who play Brad and Janet in the show, said that they think the production is especially relevant for Yale culture because of the way it features themes of being pushed out of one’s comfort zone into new environments, noting that many students came to Yale from places that are drastically different from New England. They add that the play also addresses the concept of diversity in gender and sexuality.

Probst noted that the interactive aspect of the show would easily make it “a Yale Rocky Horror Show.”

Tisch explained that Rocky Horror does not resemble most Dramat shows because it is not considered a traditional part of musical theater canon. He added that the Dramat felt it was time to do something different, adding that the show’s themes are immediately relevant to Yale students.

Greisler said that the costumes used in the production reflect its modern interpretation, noting that many of the costumes resemble outfits worn by pop music artists such as Lady Gaga, Madonna and Pink. Creavin said his character changes clothes roughly seven times in the show, noting that form-fitting outfits, including ones that prominently feature sequins and glitter, highlight the ambiguity of his character’s gender.

Tisch added that the production is consistent with the contemporary movement of immersive theater, exemplified in shows such “Sleep No More” and “Here Lies Love,” which emphasize audience participation. Greisler explained that such productions focus more on creating an engaging performance rather than a highly detailed plot.

Performances of “The Rocky Horror Show” will run through Saturday night.

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

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“The Rocky Horror Show,” the Yale Dramat’s Fall Mainstage production that opens this week, follows the story of a couple’s adventures in the home of a transvestite doctor.

Dance groups cap off semester with fall shows

BY STAPHANY HOU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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The fall dance shows of the YaleDancers, Groove Dance Company and Rhythmic Blue include new member choreography.

Yale’s dance groups are looking forward to a weekend of upbeat performances as they prepare to stage their biggest shows of the semester.

YaleDancers, Groove Dance Company and Rhythmic Blue will put on their annual fall shows this Thursday through Sunday.

All three groups are entirely student-run companies that perform self-choreographed dances in styles ranging from jazz and lyrical to contemporary and even West African. Groove will put on a show that is more focused on jazz and lyrical pieces than in previous years, according to Groove president Laura Burston ’16.

“There are highs and lows in the show, and we’ve arranged it in such a way that both the energy and styles are varied,” said Burston.

Several of Groove’s dances will be set to music by a variety of bands, including the recently-disbanded “Life Size Ghosts.”

Joana Andoh ’17, who choreographed the piece, said that the dance contains a series of simple moves that require a lot of tension in movement, followed by a relaxed, flowing sequence. Leah Chernoff ’15, who choreographed another piece to the song “How You Love Me” by 3LAU and Heather Bright, said that her dance has five performers moving in complete synchronization on stage as a major component of the piece, noting that she was inspired by the interplay between the song’s vocal and instrumental elements.

Traditionally, Groove’s shows have featured “interludes,” which are short pieces ranging from a minute to a minute and a half in duration that showcase a specific style of movement. There will be six interludes in the upcoming performance. Andoh said her interlude is set to

a song titled “Inspiration” from the 2012 film “Ruby Sparks,” explaining that the piece starts with a crescendo that gradually fades.

The YaleDancers show is composed of roughly seven big group pieces, three duets and eight solos. YD president Gracie White ’16 said their group finale is a “sassy” jazz piece based on Adele’s “Rumour Has It” in which performers will wear sparkling accessories in a “housewives vs. mistresses” battle.

“We flow between sections that are more tense with rigid movements and other sections where we release and let the music flow through us more,” said Jillian Kravatz ’17 about one of the pieces she choreographed, which is inspired by James Blake’s “Retrograde.”

Luyi Chen ’18, a member of YD, said that the group provides an opportunity for freshman dancers to contribute their input on the dances as well. Everyone is encouraged to try their hand at choreographing by pitching a piece to the whole company at the beginning of each semester, she explained. Sarah Xiao ’17, a member of Groove, said she thinks that it is important for company members, especially new dancers, to gain choreographic experience with each successive show.

Nicole Fish ’16, another YD member, highlighted the changes the group has seen in the past several years, particularly in the weekly dance classes that the company attends. She noted that a few years ago, all of the classes were taught by company members, but the group has since been able to hire dance professionals to teach the classes.

Groove Dance Company was founded in 2002.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

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Theater Studies class stages Shakespeare

BY TRESA JOSEPH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER An upcoming theater show will weave pirates and tribal music into a Shakespearean classic.

This weekend, a group of undergraduates will put on a production of “The Tempest”

by William Shakespeare at the Whitney Theater. The show, presented in collaboration with Yale’s Heritage Theater Ensemble, is the final project for students in THST 383A, a production seminar called “Actor and the Text” taught by theater studies professor Toni Dorfman, who is directing the production. The play tells the story of Prospero,

a magic-wielding nobleman whose powers grant him control over the inhabitants of the island to which he has been cast away by his brother. Dorfman highlighted the themes of romance and forgiveness as central motifs, noting that the protagonist ultimately chooses to forgive his brother rather than punish him.

“The point of ‘The Tempest’ is the healing process, to choose virtue rather than vengeance,” said Dorfman.

The play’s storyline follows Prospero as he plots to have his daughter Miranda instated as the ruler of Milan — a position that his brother Antonio had wrongfully taken from him. As the play progresses, Miranda falls in love

with and eventually marries Ferdinand, the son of the king of Naples, Alonso.

In deciding on a interpretation for this production, Dorfman said she was inspired by a mantra of School of Drama professor Ming Cho Lee. “When you have a play that seems to have two different worlds in it — the realistic world and the enchanted world — the enchanted world needs to be a place that terrifies you,” Dorfman said. “If it isn’t, you’re patronizing the text.”

Dorfman said she decided to set the play on a magical island off the coast of Somalia, adding that while the text of the play has remained exactly the same as

Shakespeare’s version, many of the production’s costumes, choreography and props have been influenced by Somali culture.

Olivia Klevorn ’17, the show’s dramaturge, said that the many mariners in the play are analogous to the numerous tribal leaders currently vying for power in Somalia.

Stage manager Aviva Abusch ’18 added that the traditionally mystical, fairy-like spirits that Prospero controls are portrayed as villainous Somali pirates in the production. Dorfman noted that she decided to feature the theme of piracy in the production even though it is not present in the original text. Abusch said she thinks the production’s set-

ting will allow the ensemble to interpret the play’s characters in a novel way.

Dorfman said that while the course and the production are connected, a majority of the rehearsals were conducted outside of class time. Alexi Sargeant ’15, who plays a jester named Tricula, added that students read parts of the novel “The Pirates of Somalia” by Jay Bahadur to prepare for this particular interpretation.

Students in the class highlighted the benefits of staging productions within the context of an academic course. One of the advantages of being part of a production seminar is the opportunity to work with faculty direc-

tors, said Eric Sirakian ’15, who plays Prospero in the show. He added that in-class discussions help to give each student a more holistic view of the play. Dorfman said that she avoids giving her actors rigid directions, adding that she prefers to have actors grow into their roles organically after rehearsing with a script for an extended period of time.

“I don’t believe in the puppet-master’s school of directing where you have everything planned out,” she said.

The last performance of “The Tempest” will take place on Saturday.

Contact TRESA JOSEPH at tresa.joseph@yale.edu .

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Students in the theater studies seminar THST 383A will be presenting a version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” that set on a magical island off the coast of Somalia and features costumes and props inspired by Somali culture.

YSO to perform ‘unfinished’ works

BY ERIC LIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two weeks after selling out Woolsey Hall with its annual Halloween Show, the Yale Symphony Orchestra will return to its classical roots this weekend.

On Saturday, the YSO will present a concert with an “unfinished” theme, featuring works by Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler and Thomas Duffy, the director of bands at Yale.

The theme refers to the pieces composed by Schubert and Mahler, which were not completed at the time of the composers’ deaths. YSO conductor Toshiyuki Shimada, who compiled the concert program, said he believes that the concert’s “unfinished” theme is meant to evoke a sense of longevity and preservation.

“It gives us positive energy to be in an unfinished situation,” Shimada said. “It’s like life. It gives us will.”

Opening the concert is “Heart-Throb” by Duffy, who will conduct the piece himself. Commissioned by the Yale School of Medicine for its 150th anniversary, the piece depicts the life of a patient suffering from a heart condition, according to Ben Healy ’16. He explained that the drums play a rhythm based on the human heartbeat that occasionally shifts to an irregular pattern — a sign that the patient’s heart is unhealthy. The rest of the orchestra similarly alternates between consonance and dissonance depending on the heart’s health, Healy added.

Shimada highlighted the connection between Duffy’s piece and the concert’s central theme.

He said that during one of the group’s rehearsals, a YSO musician asked if the patient in the piece dies, adding that the group ultimately decided that the patient survives, or is “unfinished.”

Following “Heart-Throb,” the

group will perform Schubert’s Symphony No. 7 — known as his “Unfinished” symphony — with YSO assistant conductor Jacob Joyce ’14. The work is referred to as “unfinished” because only two of its movements were completed at the time of Schubert’s death. School of Music professor Paul Hawkshaw noted that the reasons behind the piece’s incomplete nature are unclear because Schubert mysteriously stopped writing the piece six years before he died.

Joyce encouraged audience members to listen for Schubert’s distinctive compositional style as the piece is performed, referring to the sound of the piece as “ethereal.”

“The melodies are so long, they often feel like it’s totally removed from even the musical world,” Joyce said.

To finish the concert, Shimada will conduct the “Adagio” movement from Mahler’s 10th Symphony, which is also commonly known as his “unfinished” symphony. He explained that unlike Schubert’s work, Mahler’s symphony was intended to be finished, but Mahler passed away from heart disease before he could complete the composition.

Members of the orchestra were especially excited to showcase Mahler’s symphony. Shimada said he is an avid enthusiast of Mahler’s work, noting that the YSO played Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 last year. He added that during the process of selecting the upcoming concert’s repertoire, the “Adagio” was the first piece that came to his mind.

“The one thing that always impresses me is that [Mahler’s] personal character comes alive.

It’s like resurrecting Mahler,” Shimada said.

The Yale Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1965.

Contact ERIC LIN at eric.v.lin@yale.edu .

Botstein encourages rethinking humanities

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER This afternoon, Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, will deliver the Norma Lytton Lecture at the Yale Center for British Art titled “Beyond Fashion and Fear: The Future of the Humanities and the Arts in the University.” Botstein spoke with the News about points of intersection between humanities and STEM fields as well as common criticisms leveled against the humanities in the American education system. is the nature of the talk you will be QWhat giving at the YCBA? What sorts of topics are you looking to address?

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Basically what I’m trying to do is to avoid what I think are all the clichés of the defense of the humanities — which are now so commonplace — and try to focus on questions such as: If we really believed that the humanities were vital, how would we organize them? How would we make them a part of the undergraduate experience? What are the purpose and the future of research in the humanities, and what does that have to do with the relationship of the visual arts [and] the performing arts to the humanities? And, finally, what’s the relationship of science to the humanities? Most of the discussion now is about “impracticality,” about “uselessness,” and what I’m trying to do is to address that argument by trying to rethink what we’re doing. “Only 7 percent of American undergrads major in the humanities” — you’ll see statistics like these quoted in articles and so forth — my question would be, is that an important statistic? What would be the consequence of the answer being much larger? Most of what you read, what people say, is a form of preaching – “this is so important, this is so essential, it makes you a critical thinker” – some kind of high-minded language about this, and I’m not sure that’s the way to address the question. We need to think about what we’re doing. If you had to start from scratch, how would you structure and organize the place of the humanities in the university in the world we’re living in today? It turns out, there are a lot better answers than the ones we’ve come up with.

description of the talk says you’ll QThe be discussing, among other concepts, the “digital humanities.” What exactly are the “digital humanities” and, perhaps more broadly, what do you see as the role of

technology in the so-called “future of the humanities”?

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The phrase refers to the use of digital means — computation — to do various kinds of things using technology, ranging from mapping to visualization … so you can take visual material and other inputs and, as you do with Google Maps take a three-dimensional tour of an art historical monument; a virtual tour of the Chartres cathedral, for example. Or, in music, you can now write a piece of music using a computer and have it realized virtually, make a virtual acoustic-sounding version of it; things previous generations were unable to do. There’s also the possibility of generating your own programs; creating your own virtual reconstruction of an archaeological site, for example. My question is: What’s the utility of that? Does the technology change what we do fundamentally? In other words, there is a tendency of many people to be utopian in a technological way, and there are people who are resistant to it. I’m relatively neutral about it — I don’t think there’s a technological determinism, I find it by and large pretty helpful, but not central to the debate.

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Given the new applications of certain kinds of digital or computational technologies in humanities research and scholarship, how do you view the relationship between STEM fields and the humanities?

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My position is that the STEM fields cannot exist without the humanities, and that the humanities cannot exist without the STEM fields. The separation is purely bureaucratic; it’s purely a structural separation having to do with the way it’s “easier” to organize things within a university. My view is that anybody who is interested in the humanities is at his or her peril to not think about the fundamental role of science, technology, engineering and the character of science, and vice versa; there’s no serious scientist in the world that isn’t confronted with — that doesn’t deal with — the non-“purely scientific” or nontechnical motivations or consequences of their work. The separation of the two is nonsensical.

are the current criticisms leveled QWhat against the humanities, both from those

working within the fields and from those outside of them?

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The first criticism is that they appear, from some public point of view, to have no purpose. They don’t lead to employment; they’re not practical in that

respect. The second criticism is that in the way the humanities are now construed in the academic community, they seem to be somehow disconnected with the real conduct of life and the character of the culture of the world that surrounds us. There’s a critique of the way they’ve been professionalized — of what it means to be a professional historian, art historian, professor of English, philosopher. So there’s some necessity to try to preserve and continue the tradition of scholarship and of inquiry against these attacks, which may be not on what we do but on the way we do it, and on the way it’s organized. So it’s not against the study of literature, it’s against the way in which the study of literature seems to go on. It’s ironic that this criticism exists if you consider how poor our secondary school system is and how poor educational preparation and pre-college preparation is; when in fact we really haven’t done the job in this nation, by any stretch of the imagination, to provide young people growing up with a serious fundamental education prior to university. do your roles as president of Bard QHow College and as music director of the

American Symphony Orchestra inform your views on the subject?

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By running an institution that has a largely undergraduate body — we have graduate programs, but they’re very, very small — the bulk of what we do is undergraduate. I come from the background of trying to figure out how to connect these topics with a broader public. As a performer, as a musician, with an interest in the history of music, there’s the question of how do you connect [that interest] and the wealth of historical material in music to a general public or to undergraduates.

The relationship of history and performance and the public is one issue, and then what ought to be part of the education for people coming for an undergraduate liberal arts education is another. So how do you organize a curriculum? Do you use the “Brown model,” where students choose from a large array or possibilities, or do you go the route of Columbia or [the University of] Chicago that tries to institute shared curricular experiences for all students? My vantage point is from developing strong views about how to solve [this issue], about how to make this work: is there a middle ground? What is the right way, if there were to be a right way? I’m not sure there’s one answer to these questions.

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

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KELSEY NOLAN ’17 HONOR ROLL Nolan took a career-high 12 shots in Saturday’s field hockey game against Brown, but none was more important than the final one — a game-winning penalty stroke to beat the Bears 3–2 in overtime. She was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for her strong game.

FRANNIE COXE ’15 OUTSTANDING SEASON Coxe was one of five Yale women’s soccer players to be named to All-Ivy teams by CollegeSportsMadness.com.

Coxe and goalie Elise Wilcox ’15 were named to the first team, while Melissa Gavin ’15, Meredith Speck ’15 and Ally Grossman ’16 made the second team.

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“[We plan] on winning a lot of championships this year.”

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NHL prospect Hayden adds depth to Elis MEN’S HOCKEY

BY DREW MEGERIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Early in the season, the Yale men’s ice hockey team found a leader in forward John Hayden ’17.

Although the season just started, Hayden is already off to a strong start. The Greenwich, Conn., native, is firing at a point-per-game pace with one goal and three assists in the Elis’ last four contests.

Success from the start is not new for Hayden. In his freshman season, the then 18-year-old forward put up six goals and 10 assists for a total of 16 points through 33 games — earning him the second most points of any Yale freshman. Additionally, Hayden earned the January 17-18 ECAC Player and Rookie of the Week awards along the way.

Now in his second season with the Elis, Hayden only expects his contributions to the team on the ice and in the locker room to increase.

“With a year of experience under my belt, I expect a lot more from myself this season. I want to be more of a leader both on and off the ice — specifically through setting an example for the freshmen,” Hayden said.

Property of the Chicago Blackhawks as a result of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, Hayden is doing just that. His freshman Yale performance and experience with the U.S. National U-18 and U-17 teams elicit the respect necessary to take on a larger leadership role. During Hayden’s time with the U.S. National Team Development Program, he

in the sport can rival,” Doherty said.

“Beyond that his work ethic is second to none. His training and preparation [are] a 24 hour deal.”

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Hayden’s balance both on and off the ice is a perfect mirror for the duality of his skill set — quick hands and the strength to support his attack.

According to Mike Doherty ’17, an unmatched work ethic and drive to be a multidimensional player adds another layer to Hayden’s game.

“He has the skill of a small guy combined with the strength that few

The value of a cable car There are few things more iconically San Franciscan than a cable car. Perhaps that is why San Francisco Giants pitcher and recent World Series champion Jake Peavy has decided to buy one for himself.

This is not the first time that Peavy has made an extravagant purchase on the heels of a World Series win. In 2013, Peavy won a ring with the Boston Red Sox and, in celebration, bought the Duck Boat on which he rode in the championship parade. The Duck Boat resides in Alabama, Peavy’s home state, and is reportedly “collecting mildew.”

The cable car will join Peavy’s mildewcoated souvenir in Alabama as a “mobile bar.”

I have to admit that there is something kind of cool about these purchases. It might just be the fact that they commemorate big moments in sports and are so culturally linked to the cities where each of those moments took place.

But all romanticization aside, these purchases are pretty ridiculous.

This is not some tirade against athletes and how overpaid and overvalued they are. Nor is it a critique of the ways that athletes are fall-

The Chicago Blackhawks drafted forward John Hayden ’17 in the 3rd round — 74th overall — in the 2013 NHL entry draft. accumulated 19 goals, 16 assists and a total of 35 points over 60 USHL contests.

Fellow sophomore goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 commended Hayden’s past and present performance.

“John was a huge presence in the room last year and is one of the leaders on the team this year. He holds a great deal of respect from everyone, on and off the ice,” Lyon said.

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Elis dethrone Harvard in Ivy Scrimmages

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This past weekend, the Yale men’s and women’s squash teams hosted all of the Ancient Eight squads for the Ivy Scrimmage, marking the unofficial beginning of the season.

SQUASH The scrimmage was the teams’ first opportunity to compete outside of practice, and head coach David Talbott was pleased with the progress that both teams have made since the year started.

The women began the scrimmage by sweeping Columbia 9–0. The Bulldogs then faced Penn in a rematch of last year’s

national third-place contest, which Yale won 5–4. Unfortunately, the Elis were not so lucky this time, falling 6–3 to the Quakers, and then to Harvard 7–2 in their final match.

“The key is for our women to keep working hard and improving at the same rate they have since early September,” Talbott said in an email. “If we do that and stay healthy, we will be a team that can upset some teams nationally and in the Ivy League.”

Despite the two losses, Annie Ballaine ’16 performed valiantly, winning all three of her matches over the weekend.

Georgia Blatchford ’16 and Jocelyn Lehman ’18 both lost in tight five-game matches to their respective Harvard oppo-

nents, showing that the 7–2 loss did not accurately represent the Bulldogs’ level of talent.

“We [are] just dealing with being a young team. We are closing an experience gap right now,” associate head coach Pam Saunders said in an email.

Despite graduating two key contributors last spring, Saunders believes that the team is stronger than it appears on paper and that there is not much of a gap between Yale and the top three Ivy League squads.

The women placed fourth in the tournament, but their strong performance against two of the top teams in the nation — Penn and Harvard — showed their potential, according to Talbott.

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The Yale men’s squash team won the Ivy Scrimmages by defeating Harvard 6–3 in the championship match.

Stars to watch in Ivy title race

BY JAMES BADAS AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS The Ivy League looks to be a three-team race this year between Harvard, Yale and Columbia. To have a chance to capture the title, all the teams will need their stars to contribute. Here are some key players, as well as x-factors, to look out for this season.

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 made the All-Ivy first team last year after averaging 16.9 points per game.

No. 25 Harvard is the preseason favorite on the heels of its fourth consecutive Ivy League title. This continued run of dominance points to Harvard’s ability to absorb losses from the

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Bulldogs end season with win

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s soccer team exploded out of the gate for its final game of the season, taking down Ivy League opponent Brown in a 2–1 victory and raising its standing in the conference from fifth to third.

WOMEN’S SOCCER After tying four times in seven conference games, the Elis (8–4–4, 2–1–4 Ivy) were hoping for a win as they faced off against the Bears. Their offense came

alive 20 minutes into the match. Midfielder Sarah McCauley ’18 scored both goals for Yale within three minutes of each other on assists from Ally Grossman ’16, Melissa Gavin ’15 and Meredith Speck ’15. The two goals made McCauley the team leader for the season, with five total.

“Throughout the season we were wrought with ties that could’ve very easily gone in our favor — I can remember two occasions where we should have been one up,” midfielder Geneva Decker ’17 said. “Ending the season with a win SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER PAGE 8

CONSECUTIVE CONTESTS WON BY THE HARVARD MEN’S SQUASH TEAM UNTIL ITS LOSS TO YALE AT THE IVY SCRIMMAGES. A young Eli squad — featuring six underclassmen among its top nine players — beat the defending national champion 6–3 to unofficially open the 2014–15 season.