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CROSS CAMPUS Bring it on. With temperatures

expected to be near freezing

by Thursday night, forecasts call for a chance that the first snowfall of the year hits today.

We knew it was inevitable — could be high time to finally break out those heavy jackets and boots, folks.

WOMEN’S TENNIS THE ELIS WRAP UP FALL SEASON

DIVERSITY

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University announces new deputy provost to oversee diversity

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After Holloway sides with UWC, complainant elects against appeal

W. Bush ’68 published a book about his father George H.W. Bush ’48, a third Yalie and former president, Bill Clinton LAW ’73, took to Twitter with his response: a picture of him reading the “touching tribute” and a friendly jab at W. for not having his own Twitter page.

Harvard hockey game will end with the inaugural Tim Taylor Cup presentation to the game’s most outstanding player, the teams announced yesterday.

Taylor, who coached at both schools, passed away days after Yale captured the 2013 national championship.

Flesh & Bones. A Wednesday

piece by the Daily Nutmeg profiled the mascots of Yale, Quinnipiac and other local colleges, saving special recognition for Handsome Dan, the nation’s first live college mascot.

Can’t buy me Yale. “How

much would you pay to get your kid into [the] Ivy League?” Today.com asked yesterday, detailing the lengths to which parents nationwide have gone to help give their children favorable odds.

Vanishing vodka. Temple Grill

has suffered a mysterious rash of break-ins at the hands of one individual, who sneaks into the restaurant on Sundays to steal its stash of Absolut vodka, The New Haven Independent reported on Wednesday.

This is our house. An information session for the Paul Block Journalism Internships will be held today in the News’ Boardroom.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1984 Negotiators in the midst of discussions between the University and members of Local 34 emerge with new proposals after convening Center Church Parish House for roughly 90 minutes.

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To combat crowding, Univ. weighs new spaces

respondent — had not violated Yale’s sexual misconduct policy. Holloway did not provide a reason for his decision in the letter sent to the complainant, a copy of which was obtained by the News.

Although there are no plans set in stone to build new common spaces on campus, administrators say they may consider it.

With the opening of two new residential colleges two-and-a-half years away, administrators remain non-committal on whether there will be more common spaces to accommodate the influx of approximately 800 additional students to Yale College. In recent months, students and faculty from across the University have expressed concern regarding the potential strain on these common facilities, specifically overcrowding in theaters, libraries, lecture halls and gyms. Although it appears unlikely that all recommendations issued in a 2008 report on the new residential colleges — which advised the Yale Corporation on the implications of the college expansion project — will be enacted, Provost Benjamin Polak said the most likely common space to be built would be additional study space.

“It would be nice to create more common spaces,” Polak said. “Among the things we are looking at is to be able to create a safe 24-hour study space, and that one we are a bit further on.”

Polak added that, with or without the new colleges, there is a widespread view that having more on-campus places for studying and hosting events at night would make Yale’s campus safer. Administrators are considering locations that are close to central campus,

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Start me up. A Start Up Networking Fair will take place today at 2 p.m., connecting entrepreneurial students to 40 Yale alumni who have managed to make careers as innovators.

The event will take place in the General Motors Room.

Legend. This weekend’s Yale-

The last time the Elis had just one win in a season was 1922

BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM AND LARRY MILSTEIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER

The Trinity. A day after George

Speaking of innovation. The Innovative Interactions Lab at Yale is conducting a study in which subjects will get to play with a robot baby seal named Paro. Though the exact aim of the study remains unclear, the group has effectively marketed Paro’s cuteness as incentive enough to participate.

MEN’S SOCCER

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After Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway handed down his decision, the complainant elected against appealing.

BY NICOLE NG AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS The deadline to appeal Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway’s decision that a sexual encounter between two undergraduates — first reported in the News last Friday — did not vio-

late University sexual misconduct policy passed yesterday evening.

On Friday afternoon, Holloway, in his capacity as final decision maker in cases involving undergraduates, accepted the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct’s finding that the male student — the

Yale student chases down robber

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER William Genova ’15 jumpstarted his week by chasing down a burglar.

When Genova woke up on Monday morning at 9 a.m., he saw a stranger in his room — located in the Elmhurst apartment complex — with his laptop in one hand and its charger in the

other. Genova said that he confronted the burglar — identified by police as New Haven resident Eleam Djamal — and snatched back his computer. Although Djamal handed over the laptop, Genova continued to question the burglar, who threatened violence if he was not permitted to leave the room. When Djamal fled from the student’s room on the first floor of the apartment

More students aim for paid internships

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER According to a new report published by the Office of Career Strategy, more students flocked to paid internships last summer than in years past — but only a handful of these positions were in finance and consulting.

On Wednesday afternoon, OCS published a comprehensive report that detailed the research, internships and classes returning students pursued over the summer. The report, which was based on a survey disseminated to 4,254 returning students, concluded that the number of students working in paid internships last summer increased by 2.5 percent from the previous year’s figure. The report also noted that more students were involved in academic research than in any other employment area.

OCS director Jeanine Dames said that while the data are a good representation of the broad range of activities that

Yalies pursue over the summer, the survey’s response rate was lower than that of the class of 2014 survey, making the data less conclusive.

“The one tricky thing about the summer list is that it’s definitely not an indication of all students,” Dames said. “Another difference between this and the class of 2014 data is that many students did more than one activity. So although we’re talking about 2,626 respondents, the number of summer activities was 3,155. Certain people may be counted in several categories.”

Still, the report noted that nearly a third of respondents pursued a paid internship over the summer. Meanwhile, 14.6 percent of respondents said they had research positions.

Although the number of students working in summer finance and consulting jobs grew slightly, they were only the fifth and seventh most popular SEE SUMMER REPORT PAGE 4

complex, Genova chased after him.

“It was a situation where it was basically fight or flight, and I was not going to let him take away something that my parents worked so hard to give me as a graduation gift,” Genova said.

According to a Monday email from New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman, Genova was barefoot when

he left his Elm Street apartment to chase down Djamal. The two ran through backyards and over a number of fences until the burglar cut through the parking lot of the Courtyard Marriott Hotel at 30 Whalley Ave., stopping on Dwight Street. Hartman said that as Genova ran, he yelled for passersby to call the police.

Genova said that he decided to chase Djamal because locat-

ing the burglar would have been more difficult for police if he had been given the chance to escape.

“I didn’t want him to get away,” Genova said. “It was so overtly disrespectful that he came into my apartment to steal an item that has such high monetary value and holds so many memories.”

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Film reveals Yale Bowl’s early years

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“Hold ’Em Yale,” a recently rediscovered film, includes scenes of Yale football in the early 1920s.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Students may be familiar with silent films from Yale Symphony Orchestra Halloween shows, but one silent film about Yale has not been seen in New Haven for over 80 years.

“Hold ’Em Yale,” the first-ever feature film with footage of the Yale Bowl, will be screened with live musical accompaniment tomorrow night in the Whitney Humani-

ties Center. Directed by Edward Griffith and starring the legendary actor Rod La Rocque, the film was thought to be lost until Brian Meacham, the archive and special collections manager of the Yale Film Studies Center, discovered the film at the New Zealand Film Archive while on vacation in 2009.

Meacham noted that most silent films created in the early 20th century no longer SEE HOLD ‘EM YALE PAGE 6

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uesday’s daily cartoon in The New Yorker depicted a traveler perched on top of a mountain speaking to a wise man. The only words the wise man muttered were: “The meaning of life is ‘Repeal Obamacare.’” More than four years later, Republicans and many Americans still fight the measure and use it to inform their voting behavior. This should not surprise anyone; rarely do the American people escape the tendency to vote based on opposition.

It doesn’t take the monumentality of a national election to realize we make the majority of our decisions based not on what we want but rather on what we don’t want. On any given night, for example, it is much easier to say that Chinese food doesn’t sound appetizing than it is to plan the ideal meal.

Part of this is due to laziness.

Regarding elections, it takes a lot of mental work to conjure up an ideal candidate or party platform. However, laziness does not fully explain our behavior.

Opposition has long been at the heart of American democracy.

This country was born in the fires of opposition, and we will continue to utilize the tool of resistance as long as self-governance proves too much work for the average citizen. Absent a tyrant, we will always be bewildered.

My comments by no means represent a new critique of American society.

Walter Lippmann came to the same conclusion one hundred years ago in “Drift and Mastery,” extending this behavior back to Puritan New England and the Civil War. Why, exactly, was the Civil War fought? It’s tempting to say to save the Union and the great American democratic experiment, but that wouldn’t be true in Lippmann’s framework. It was fought because Southerners perceived a threat to their economic and social system built on the subjugation of African Americans. They fought a war of opposition. Similar analyses can be applied to reforms of the Progressive Era, the Civil Rights movement and the gay rights movement until, eventually, we end up at Occupy Wall Street and today. We search for threats as a voting heuristic, and upon recognizing them, try to halt or correct them.

Democracy is hard, and the easiest way to rationalize a decision is to find something you oppose and then vote against it. This is true regardless of party affiliation. Therefore, the results of last week’s elections should come as no surprise, and not just because of the structural forces disfavoring Democratic candidates in a midterm year. Democrats failed because most did not provide a positive prescription for this country’s problems. Absent answers, they allowed opposition to act as a guiding force when voters sub-

mitted their ballots at the polls, resulting in the worst voter turnout in 74 years. It just so happened that KYLE cycle, TRAMONTE this the threat of Obama Green on (even though he wasn’t the Vine on the ballot) proved greater than the threat of climate change or of closing women’s health clinics.

Voting based on opposition is not inherently problematic.

However, it often can be, as we will get exactly what we vote for: opposition, and not much else. Next year in Congress, we will likely see repeated votes to repeal Obamacare, repeated lawsuits against the president based on claims of executive overreach and repeated blocking of presidential appointments.

It’s always fun to play the blame game in politics. And with Congressional approval ratings hitting all-time lows and productivity the worst since the 1940s, it’s easy to fault our national legislature. We can blame Republicans for making opposition to Obama their central talking point, and we can blame Democrats for failing to offer real solutions during the election. However, over the next two years, America must also blame itself for stalled government. We cannot expect our elected officials to lead when we don’t give them a map to follow.

We get what we demand.

I am fairly pessimistic that

WE VOTE BASED ON WHAT WE DON'T WANT the nature of political dialogue will change on its own. Luckily, there is a national election every two years in this country. We have two years to think not about what we are opposed to but rather what we want our communities and country to look like. We must take the time to imagine an ideal society, and then demand that the next crop of citizens seeking office implement our visions. This task is difficult to accomplish, but a functional society and government require it. The decisions we fail to make for ourselves today will be made for us in the future. I can’t achieve my ideal future simply through opposition. Can you?

KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His columns run on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST ALEX REINKING

A course worth having

Importing Harvard

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t first glance, CS50 seems entirely antithetical to the Yale computer science department’s goals. Our department is decidedly theoretical — a sharp contrast to the push for practicality over in Silicon Valley. CS50 is certainly not a pure computer science course; it’s a programming class — more or less a hodgepodge of topics from Yale’s Intro Programming and Data Structures courses. But it’s exactly what we need if we want the Yale CS department to be capable of teaching the massive influx of students flocking to computer science.

Yale’s CS department is notoriously understaffed and overworked. With more and more students flooding the introductory CS courses each year, it’s a given that upper division classes are going to suffer if we don’t change something. Of course, the best solution would simply be to hire more professors, but that’s clearly not happening any time soon. CS50 offers us the next best option: outsourcing.

A Massive Open Online Course with in-person sections should satisfy a great deal of the hunger for technical classes. Few deny that CS50 is a pretty engaging class. It also frees up a lot of resources. Though we’ll still offer CPSC 112, the class will inevitably be smaller if CS50 gains the same popularity here as it has at Harvard. This means students in 112 will be able to receive more individual instruction. Professors can spend less time creating work and exams for intro classes, and more time teaching upper division classes. Moreover, integrating CS50 will likely force Yale to hire more teaching fellows — something the whole department will benefit from.

As for the students in CS50 itself, there really isn’t an appreciable difference between sitting in a large lecture hall and streaming a video online. Either way, there likely isn’t much of an opportunity for a student to ask questions, which is the big draw for taking classes in person to begin with. A good number of my friends in Cambridge agree; most of them who are enrolled in CS50 stream the lectures anyway.

For Yalies who choose to major in computer science, taking CS50 will prove useful as they progress through upper division courses. The class is taught in C — a language necessary for both CPSC 223 (Data Structures) and the notorious CPSC 323 (Systems Programming). Neither CPSC 201 nor CPSC 112, Yale's two introductory courses, even touch C, meaning students are effectively thrown right into the somewhat tricky language in the upper division classes.

At the very least, CS50 will give prospective majors a bit of experience with C before they’re forced to use C to learn advanced topics in computer science.

CS50 WILL IMPROVE YALE'S CS DEPARTMENT It’s true that we have organizations like HackYale to teach programming skills, but without a commitment device of some sort — the promise of a grade or class credit — a lot of people never end up following through on learning how to program. I think we’ve all told ourselves at some point or another that we’d learn something outside of class and then never followed up on doing so.

CS50 forces us to learn.

It’s also true that programming isn’t the same as computer science, but that shouldn’t preclude us from offering the course at all. We need not make CS50 a requirement for the computer science major, but we should absolutely import the class.

I love Yale; I’ve had a wonderful time here so far, and I’ve enjoyed my experience with the computer science department thus far. That said, the department needs help. CS50 is a huge brand in and of itself.

If importing the course brings more attention to CS at Yale — if it brings in valuable funds that we can use to hire professors and recruit graduate students — then it’s certainly a course worth having.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a freshman in Trumbull College.

Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

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here has been much discussion and debate lately about the prospect (now certainty) of bringing Harvard’s introductory programming course, CS50, to Yale. This course is of little value to prospective computer scientists and it will add undue strain to our Computer Science department. Still, I hope that this will prove to be the catalyst for the expansion that the department so desperately needs.

Lest anyone say that I don’t know what I’m taking about, I write this with 13 years of programming experience, spanning all levels of abstraction. I’ve built websites for companies, written device drivers for robots, designed my own programming languages and now I’m doing original research.

I teach for HackYale, a student organization whose mission is to equip students (computer science majors and non-majors alike) with the practical programming skills necessary to get involved in the programming world. Our goal is to give our students the tools necessary to implement their visions.

I enjoy this work and believe it is important.

That said, I am opposed to bringing CS50 to Yale. Why? Because programming is not computer science.

Programming is a specific practice within computer science, but it does not begin to encompass the full theoretical breadth of the field. Programmers are to computer scientists what mechanics are to mechanical engineers. Thus, programming doesn’t fall strictly under the umbrella of academic pursuits.

CS50 manages to water down the material covered in Yale’s Intro Programming and Data Structures courses, while introducing students to the worst aspects of web programming. You can walk into any community college, load your schedule with courses titled “Introduction to Web Publishing,” “Java II” or “Linux Admin I” and become every bit as good a programmer as you’d need to be for a startup. I know this because I took those classes at a local technical college as a student in secondary school. While reading up on CS50, I looked at exams from past years.

I can say confidently that the community college exams I took were more challenging.

But since it appears to be a done deal, we can, I suppose, take solace in the fact that CS50 is a popular course with high enrollment, which will hopefully attract more students to the major. This may have the added benefit of involving

more women, who currently represent only around 20 percent of CS majors nationwide and even less at Yale. CS is fairly unique in this gender disparity; even in mathematics, a traditionally male-dominated field, some 46 percent of degrees are now awarded to women.

Additionally, the software industry seems to take CS50 seriously. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, is giving a talk to the class. If this means more money for our CS department, then the opportunities for growth may justify bringing the course to Yale.

And perversely, it may put such strain on the CS department that Yale will at last be forced to make offers to potential new faculty and graduate students.

Nevertheless, this means the CS department will have to swap out an important, rigorous course (whichever professor Brian Scassellati would have taught) to satisfy the demands of a student body that doesn’t know what it wants.

The Yale CS department desperately needs to expand. While I greatly admire everyone in the department — they are excellent researchers and professors — they aren’t superhuman. There are only so many hours in the day, so many students one can dedicate his or her time to, and frankly, there just aren’t currently enough professors to meet the growing demand for computer science at Yale.

Hopefully, this compromise will be rewarded with additional faculty and graduate students. It is frustrating that despite having the second largest endowment of any university, anywhere in the world, Yale seems only to respond to negative press and to Harvard.

CS50 may be good for Yale CS insofar as it promotes opportunities for expansion. The CS majors here are world-class and deserve the best education available to them. It seems contradictory to Yale’s mission of expanding STEM to so completely ignore a gem like our CS department. Our CS graduates end up at best of the best in industry: Google, Intel and Microsoft. Our CS PhD.s teach at the best universities, as well: MIT, Harvey Mudd and Rensselaer.

Our CS graduates become Turing Award winners, Gödel Prize winners and MacArthur Fellows. It is ridiculous that Yale isn’t doing more to grow our department. Importing CS50 seems like a cheap and short-sighted way to get around actually doing that.

ALEX REINKING is a junior in Trumbull College. Contact him at alexander.reinking@yale.edu .

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App aims to improve infant health

A previous version of the article “New state legislators optimistic” misquoted Majority Leader Bob Duff as saying “people have a chance to put their stance on things.” In fact, he said “people have a chance to put their stamp on things.”

A previous version of the article “Theater Studies class stages Shakespeare” misspelled the name of the character Trincula, played by Alexi Sargeant ’15.

Two profs receive NSF grants

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Two Yale researchers won grants from the National Science Foundation that may help reveal the secrets of the particles and life forms in the Universe.

In August and September, the NSF announced that both astronomy professor Debra Fischer, who studies exoplanets, and physics professor Bonnie Fleming, who researches neutrinos, won the Major Research Instrument (MRI) Program grant. The first grant, received on Aug. 1, will provide Fischer with almost $2 million to build a novel Extreme Precision Spectrograph for Exoplanet Studies.

With the spectrograph, Fischer’s lab hopes to discover 100 earth-like planets where the existence of life is most probable. Meanwhile, on Sept. 1, Fleming won the grant, worth over $500,000, to build a Time Projection Chamber to measure neutrino interactions in the LAr1 Near Detector.

Fischer suggested that the fact that both winners of the grants are women denotes progress for women in the physical sciences.

“Ten or 20 years ago, most NSF review panels would have been composed exclusively of men, and unintentional subtle biases may very well have prevented the major research in instrumentation awards from going to two female professors at Yale,” Fischer said.

When we expand our outlook, we can more effectively solve problems and advance science.

IVY KUPEC Spokeswoman, National Science Foundation Still, Fischer noted that there remain long-standing challenges for women in the physical sciences, ranging from being shunned the lab to facing sexual harassment. Although this discrimination was more overt for her predecessors, gender issues still appear in subtle ways, she said.

According to a report released by the NSF on grant recipients in fiscal year 2013, women submit only 25.3 percent of grant proposals. But, Fischer noted, the NSF has shown that it is serious about increasing diversity.

“NSF has a long history of encouraging a broadening of participation in mathematics, science and engineering because NSF believes diversity is key to good science,” Ivy Kupec, a spokesperson for the NSF said in an email. “In fact, scientific research relies on having an assortment of perspectives and experiences, which goes beyond gender differences.

When we expand our outlook, we can more effectively solve problems and advance science.”

Deputy Provost of Science and Technology Steven Girvin said he was pleased that Yale won two proposals this year, which is fairly uncommon for any university. He added that Yale submits three MRI grants a year from a pool of internal applicants, and receives, on average, one every two years. Girvin added that because Fischer’s grant is for a higher amount than the average grant, it had to pass an even higher bar of quality.

This was the second year Fischer applied for the NSF grant, which she described as a “critical game-changer”.

“We definitely needed this grant,” Fischer said. “I was sitting here in July thinking if the grant doesn’t come through, this might be the end of the whole project, and we’d have to let everybody go and say we fought the good fight, but we didn’t make it.”

Head of the Fischer’s instrument lab Colby Jurgenson said the spectrometer, which measures the light and absorption spectra from stars, is critical for finding the earth-like planets that orbit these stars, but the next step in the process would be to analyze and characterize them. He added that the earthlike planets could potentially show different snapshots in the stages of evolution, and could answer the age-old question of whether life forms exist outside of earth.

On the other hand, Fleming’s experiment will investigate the possibility of a fourth neutrino, one without an electric charge.

Neutrinos are subatomic particles that were previously thought to have a mass of zero.

But in recent years, scientists have discovered that neutrinos have a small amount of mass and are capable of changing from one type of neutrino particle to another in a process known as neutrino oscillation. With the NSF-funded detector, Fleming will be able to better measure these neutrino oscillations with the hope of confirming the existence of a fourth neutrino. As of now, scientists only know of the existence of three neutrinos.

Fleming said the discovery would be revolutionary to both particle physics and the way scientists understand the composition of matter and the universe. The MRI grant is the second Fleming has received to build a detector.

Fleming promised that postdocs, graduates and undergraduates will all be working together to build the detector. In building the first detector, several undergraduates were crucial in stringing 6,000 wires at the perfect tensions in the Yale Wright Lab, Fleming said.

The NSF’s MRI proposal deadline for 2015 is Jan. 22.

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

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Yale College students Ruchit Nagar ’15 and Leen van Besien ’14, are in the process of launching a medical-related Android app titled “Khushi Baby.”

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two Yale College students hope to launch an Android application this evening that aims to increase vaccination rates in the developing world.

Ruchit Nagar ’15 and Leen van Besien ’14 began working on the app — called Khushi Baby — last semester with two other students for the class “Appropriate Technology for the Developing World.” Khushi Baby uploads the medical informaton of infants onto wearable necklaces that sync with the mobile phones of health workers. The two students, their fellow collaborators and professors interviewed all said the app had the potential to improve health systems in the developing world.

“Khushi Baby is a perfect example of how the classroom can be leveraged to generate solutions to real-world problem,” said mechanical engineering professor Joseph Zinter, who teaches the course with global affairs professor Bo Hopkins SOM ’86. Zinter added that the course intends for students to

work together and utilize interdisciplinary skills to tackle global challenges such as infant mortality.

Originally, Khushi Baby’s team consisted of four students from diverse academic backgrounds. In addition to Nagar and van Besien, the group included Fedolapo Omiwole ’14 and Teja Padma SOM ’14.

Although none of the four had any backgrounds in engineering or programming, van Besien said it was possible that this inexperience was an advantage because it forced the team to pursue a project that would be easier to implement. She said that while other teams were more engineering-heavy and looked to create different platforms, the Khushi Baby team only focused on creating an Android app.

Nagar echoed van Besien’s comments but added that the team’s lack of an engineering or tech experience made the development process “very scary.” Still, because they made the prototype themselves, Nagar said it made it easier for the team when they had to outsource programming to external

developers.

Susan Hyde, director of undergraduate studies for global affairs, said she did not know the specifics about either Khushi Baby or the class itself.

Still, she said the global affairs major encourages students to look beyond theory and make practical contributions to solving global problems.

Both van Besien and Nagar said the class’s emphasis on brainstorming possible ideas and solutions to existing challenges helped them conceive of the idea behind Khushi Baby.

Jiaao Hou ’17, a programmer and employee of the Student Technology Collaborative, said she is always on the lookout for new projects and more coding experience. She added that it is difficult for programmers to learn about projects and ideas without taking classes such as “Appropriate Technologies” where students are encouraged to design and build on interdisciplinary ideas. Without such classes, Hou said most people would only work on projects with their friends or independently.

Hopkins said the class’s focus on interdisciplinary ideas is reflected in the contrasting interests and talents of the two professors. While Zinter has a deep passion for design and solving technical problems, Hopkins said he is more interested in helping students commercialize their ideas.

Zinter said he is incredibly proud of the Khushi Baby team for developing an idea and building a technology that could save the lives of infants in just 15 weeks.

Both Nagar and van Besien noted that they envisage their technology expanding beyond improving vaccinaton rates and into other aspects of public health.

“I’d like there to be a system where you can easily keep records and customize it to any situation, outside of health records,” van Besien said.

There are currently 12 members of the Khushi Baby team including the two professors who taught the class.

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

New deputy provost to address faculty diversity

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Anthropology Department chair Richard Bribiescas will serve as the first deputy provost for faculty development and diversity at the University.

In an announcement published this week, Provost Benjamin Polak said Bribiescas would fill this newly formed position, which will be responsible for helping recruit and promote faculty, providing advice for tenure and appointment processes and leading the development of a University-wide faculty diversity initiative. Although Bribiescas will not formally step into the role until January 2015, the announcement stated he would immediately begin advising the provost on matters regarding faculty development and diversity. Although faculty and students interviewed applauded Bribiescas’ appointment, some cautioned that the responsibilities of the role will be challenging.

“The Yale leadership and I share a vision that a University cannot truly fulfill their potential for excellence without diversity and equity,” Bribiescas said in an email. “My primary challenge will be to continue and

expand on these efforts, build on our successes, learn from our mistakes and move forward to insure that we draw from a diverse pool of scholars to continue our history of excellence.”

Bribiescas added that while there were many faculty qualified to serve in this position, he was honored to be selected and is prepared to take on the responsibilities of the role. He said his primary goals will be to promote and support faculty excellence, diversity and gender equity.

The position of deputy provost for faculty development and diversity was created following the February 2014 recommendation issued by the Yale Diversity Summit Visiting Committee, a group of educators, physicians and researchers tasked with advising the Yale administration.

The report urged the administration to create a deputy provost post whose principal responsibility is to oversee faculty diversity. The report further stated that this deputy provost should be experienced in “the area of diversity” and have resources to facilitate recruitment across the University.

Faculty and students interviewed said they supported the creation of this new role and

that Bribiescas was qualified to serve as its inaugural leader.

“I think the appointment of a deputy provost for faculty development and diversity signals the high importance Yale places on these issues,” professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Karla Neugebauer said. “The whole community is looking forward to the leadership and creativity of Dr. Bribiescas.”

Bribiescas has a strong track record of promoting all aspects of excellence, including diversity, in recruiting and mentoring faculty in his department, Polak said in an email.

Political science professor Frances Rosenbluth, who served as deputy provost for social sciences and for faculty development and diversity, said Bribiescas has proved himself as a leader as chair of the Anthropology Department. She said his familiarity with the sciences is particularly valuable because the attrition rate of women in lab intensive fields is a major concern.

Polak noted that while the responsibilities now under Bribiescas had been part of a larger portfolio of deputy provosts, he wanted to devote a position fully to these important issues.

Rosenbluth added that his

largest responsibility is not to “stack the decks” for women and minorities, but to make sure the decks have not already been stacked against them. More specifically, she said, he will ensure that diversity recommendations are thoroughly practical and advisably implemented.

The ability to make strategic faculty hires that would help diversify our faculty and add intellectual diversity is essential, said astronomy and physics professor and former Women Faculty Forum chair Priyamvada Natarajan.

“I think this new position needs to be vested with power to effect change and implement innovative initiatives,” she said.

Assistant Provost for Science and Technology Robert Burger said that as chair of the department, Bribiescas made strides in promoting diversity internally.

Dorsa Amir GRD ’19, who co-wrote a paper with Bribiescas, said he earned the respect of the faculty after steering the department through postrecession budget cuts.

Bribiescas has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1998.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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“In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.”

MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER

Academic research tops summer employment choices SUMMER REPORT FROM PAGE 1 employment choices, respectively.

Students interviewed said they were surprised by the relatively low number of students working in finance and consulting over the summer. After research, finance and consulting are the second and third most popular career paths for graduating students, according to the OCS Class of 2014 list.

Hannah Sachs ’17, who spent her summer in Spain for a language study, said this discrepancy is probably because many students who end up in finance and consulting after graduation did not originally intend to enter these fields.

“I think during college summers we are encouraged by our studies and peers to do a wide variety of exciting things related to our passions and interests,” Sachs said. “But unfortunately with the dismal job market, many end up gravitating towards potentially safer options in finance and consulting, even if they aren’t passionate about it.”

Of the summer activities reported in the United States, about 70 percent were located in Connecticut, New York, California, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts.

Because summer positions are often located in larger cities, many students interviewed who sought paid internships said they searched for compensated positions in order to support themselves while away from home.

Laura Perdomo ’17, a student from Georgia who worked in a Denver biomedical research laboratory over the summer, said that although her internship was paid, she would have accepted a similar position so long as housing had been arranged.

“I looked for paid internships so I could spend my time comfortably in the location of the internship,” Perdomo said.

“Honestly, I spent most of the money that I got paid by the end of the summer. Food, housing, travel and such gets pretty expensive.”

Perdomo added that she believes tuition and loans may play a role for other students who are seeking paid intern-

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Performance 1.3% Other 5.5% Non-language academic study

Paid internship 27.4%

10.7% Language study 10.2% Research in a library 0.9%

Research in a laboratory 11.0%

Unpaid internship 15.0%

Paid job 12.4% Volunteer work 2.9% ships, although these costs did not factor into her own reasoning.

Siddhi Surana ’17, who took classes at Yale while working at a marketing company, said she originally wanted a paid position for the summer, though the position she secured was unpaid.

“I believe people leaned towards paid internships this summer due to financial reasons,” Surana said. “After spending a year in college, [freshmen] grew aware of the steep expenses related to purchasing books and school related items, as well as sustaining personal expenses.”

According to Dean of International and Professional Experience Jane Edwards, resources like the Summer 2014 Activities Report and Class of 2014 List have revolutionized the way in which students approach the employment process.

“We’ve only had the staff and

Field research 2.7% technical capability and bandwidth to run these reports for the last couple of years,” Edwards said. “It’s changing everything.

Having the data about what students are doing is so phenomenally helpful, not just to us in the work that we do, but it’s also great for students, who now

know what other students are doing.”

2,626 students responded to the summer 2014 activities survey, registering a 61.7 percent response rate.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

Complainant elects not to appeal in UWC case UWC UPDDATE FROM PAGE 1 According to UWC procedure, the complainant had until 5 p.m. yesterday — five days after the initial decision — to file an appeal to Provost Benjamin Polak. However, she told the News that she chose not to appeal because she did not feel she had the grounds to do so under UWC policy.

UWC policy states that either party can file an appeal under only two conditions: if there had been a “procedural error” that prevented the panel or decision maker from fairly judging the matter, or if additional evidence not reasonably available prior to the hearing could be presented.

Neither University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler nor UWC Chair David Post could be reached for comment Wednesday. “[The UWC] made it very clear in its email to me that I could only appeal if I thought there was some kind of procedural error or if I had new evidence,” the complainant said.

“I don’t have any new evidence, and [during the process] they meticulously asked me about everything, so I don’t think that in its eyes the conclusion counts as procedural error.”

She added that she never felt that the panel members were biased against her during the process and that the only deviation she noticed from UWC pro-

cedure was the lack of adherence to stated deadlines.

In the complainant’s case, the fact-finder was appointed after the deadline had passed. The fact-finder, required by the UWC guidelines to be independent of the University, was a supervisor at the Yale Child Study Center.

In addition, the final decision-maker’s ruling is supposed to be rendered within 14 days of the final hearing, but Holloway did not release his decision until 17 days later.

I ran out of time, energy and emotional depth to continue dealing with what happened.

A UWC COMPLAINTANT

“I don’t know if they made an error in procedure other than completely screwing up their own timeline,” the complainant said.

She added, however, that she did not think appealing on the basis of timeline errors would yield a different outcome.

The process, the complainant said, has been “exhausting and emotionally draining.” She said she did not want to prolong a process that she felt would not

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help her anyway.

“Finding the procedural error seems like something you shouldn’t foist upon students’ shoulders to notice,” she said. “If there’s a procedural error, [the UWC] should be aware of it.”

Still, School of Management professor and former UWC member Constance Bagley, who was not involved in the complainant’s case, said that, in her experience, the committee always tried its best to adjudicate cases in a timely manner.

If there were delays, she said, they likely occurred because of conflicts in panelists’ schedules.

“Having been on the UWC, I can frankly say that there was no evidence that there were anything other than very good faith efforts to get everyone together as fast as possible,” Bagley said.

Bagley — who was co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum’s ad hoc working group on sexual misconduct and an author of the report that led to the UWC’s creation — is no stranger to gender issues at the University.

In December 2013, Bagley filed a lawsuit against the University and three high-profile faculty at the School of Management, alleging that she was not appointed to her position due to her gender and age.Bagley’s case, however, was not adjudicated through the UWC — three separate committees were convened to review the process through which she was appointed.

The complainant, whose case was detailed in Friday’s story, is not the only student to decide against appealing a decision due to not meeting the grounds to file an appeal and running out of energy to prolong the process.

Last year, another undergraduate complainant chose not to appeal then-Yale College Dean Mary Miller’s decision after the UWC ultimately found no violation of sexual misconduct policy. She said she also did not meet Yale’s grounds to file an appeal.

Though the UWC adhered to its timeline in her case, she added that she wanted to end her involvement with the process.

“I ran out of time, energy and emotional depth to continue dealing with what had happened, with what had happened with my respondent and dealing with the administration,” she said.

Though she would not comment specifically on Yale’s policy for appealing a final decision on alleged sexual misconduct, Harvard Law Professor Janet Halley said the grounds to appeal decisions on sexual misconduct at Harvard are too narrow. Harvard’s sexual misconduct appellate policy is similar to that of Yale’s — the complainant and respondent can appeal on the grounds of a procedural error that may change the outcome of the decision or on the availability of new substantive and relevant information that could also

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change the outcome of the decision not available at the time of investigation.

“The [Department of Education Office for Civil Rights] does not require that the appeal be that narrow,” Halley said. “It could be a normal appeal process that would allow some level of challenge to the fact-finding and to the legal standards applied.”

Still, Bagley said that narrow grounds for appeals are not inherently bad. In fact, she said that initially, the Women Faculty Forum wanted narrow grounds for appeal in order to preserve the UWC’s authority to adjudicate cases.

History of science and medicine professor and former Chair of the Executive Committee William Summers said that the current grounds for appealing a final decision are legitimate. Summers authored a letter addressed to University President Peter Salovey and printed in the News on Nov. 6 in which he suggested the University implement a second-level appeal committee to prevent administrators’ potential conflicts of interest from interfering with independent recommendations.

Still, Summers said he would trust the UWC’s decision in this case, as did Holloway.

Summers recommended that an independent review committee be tasked with reviewing UWC decisions and recommendations. A similar structure

exists for the Executive Committee.

Bagley said the original report that led to the creation of the UWC in 2011 envisioned the UWC as the sole adjudicative body in sexual misconduct cases. It did not suggest that a final decision-maker should exist. It did, however, allow the provost to stay the imposition of sanctions if he or she found them inappropriate.

She added that since the University has created the position of final decision maker, it should also implement a higherlevel committee to hear potential appeals. Such a committee would add a layer of accountability, since the decision maker has the power to ignore UWC recommendations, she said.

“The biggest concern I have is that even though a decisionmaker explains his or her reasoning to the [UWC], the committee at that point can’t do anything else and is stuck with the decision,” Bagley said. “If we’re going to have a decision maker, maybe we need a further level of review that looks at the reason given by the decision-maker and decides whether those are valid grounds for rejecting the recommended sanctions by the UWC. Who is watching the watchers?”

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” JAMES BALDWIN AMERICAN WRITER

City in running for chief resilience officer

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s crisis management could soon get a boost from the outside.

New Haven is one of several candidate cities in the running to receive a $500,000 award from the Rockefeller Foundation to hire a chief resilience officer — an official who will assess the city’s needs and provide “crisis management assistance.” On Dec. 3, the Foundation will select the 30 winning cities from an international applicant pool and provide them with the award to appoint and pay the salary and program expenses of chief resilience officers.

According to Mendi Blue, New Haven’s director of policy and development, these officers will work with mayors and other high-ranking city officials for at least two years to develop a plan to address each city’s major problems. The effort is part of a larger Rockefeller Foundation project titled “100 Resilient Cities,” which sends in resilience officers to better prepare city officials in tackling urban, social and environmental issues.

“We are thinking of resiliency in a very holistic way,” Blue said.

“It doesn’t just mean being resilient to emergencies. It also means being resilient to chronic problems that might occur in a city.”

Blue said potential issues the

officer would work to address in New Haven include economic shocks, coastal erosion, homelessness and urban poverty.

She added that New Haven had applied for the award in partnership with Bridgeport and Stamford, so the officer would likely focus on issues that affect all three cities.

Yesterday, Blue, who finalized the Elm City’s application for the award, addressed the Board of Alders’s Finance Committee. She requested that they authorize New Haven’s application and approve its implementation if the city is chosen for the award in early December. Blue underscored that the city would not incur any costs by adding this position, and stressed that the foundation’s interest in New Haven could invite other organizations to invest in the Elm City.

The alders agreed that the award could help the city — Ward 9 Alder Jessica Holmes called it a “win-win situation” — but raised concerns about the ambiguity of its implementation.

“As long as nothing is coming out of my pocket or the taxpayers’ pockets, I’m okay with approving this,” Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa said.

Ward 15 Alder Ernie Santiago echoed Festa, saying the resilience officer seemed like a “free lunch” for the city.

But others were less optimistic.

“This is almost like they’re

asking to use [New Haven] as a guinea pig for research,” Board of Alders President and Ward 5 Alder Jorge Perez said. “I’ve been here long enough to know that these things don’t always work out.”

The alders on the finance committee unanimously approved the city’s application for the award but asked that the issue be brought back to the alders for further debate if New Haven is chosen as one of the finalists — a compromise championed by Perez and Ward 17 Alder Alphonse Padillo.

Following the vote, the alders raised several lingering questions about the award.

“I do agree that the Rockefeller’s interest in New Haven is a good thing. At the very least, it’ll be some healthy competition for ‘Mother Yale’ over there,” Perez said. “But I’m not 100 percent sure what we’re approving.”

Holmes echoed Perez’s sentiment, adding that the goal of the project did not seem focused. She said the alders should not signoff without knowing what tangible effects the officer would have on the city.

The alders asked Blue to return with specific details regarding the chief resilience officer’s duties.

But Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison said that Blue and Rockefeller Foundation would most likely not know what the officer’s work would focus on, considering

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New Haven is in the running to receive a $500,000 award to hire a chief resilience officer to combat city issues. the officer will need to first survey the city to see what specific tasks they will take to address urban issues.

Despite some skepticism amongs the alders, the deans of the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies said, when asked by Blue and the city’s Office of Policy and Development,

Kagan, Wright debate religion

BY JED FINLEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Although philosophy professor Shelly Kagan and University of St. Andrews professor NT Wright were on stage to discuss how to lead a happy life despite the prospect of death, they never got around to fully answering the question.

Yale’s Veritas Forum hosted Kagan and Wright for a talk on life before and after death in Battell Chapel on Wednesday evening. The topic of the discussion was ‘Living Well in the Light of Death,” but the conversation quickly strayed from its original purpose. Instead, the speakers debated Christian ideas of resurrection and eternal life.

Roughly 500 students, faculty and other members of the Yale community attended.

The speakers opened the talk by stating their views on religion.

While Wright presented his Christian beliefs, Kagan said he believes there is a detachment between humans and the universe. However, there are ways to connect to the universe, he added.

“When I look at the universe, it seems to be a place of breathtaking beauty and awe-inspiring complexity. It also seems to me, sadly enough, that the universe is utterly, utterly indifferent to us. It just doesn’t care,” Kagan said. “But it’s not all dark. If we gain love then that creates a speck of light. If we gain insight, that creates a speck of light.”

Kagan said the notion of immortality defines an existence beyond life that would inevitably become boring. In response, Wright said this is a wrong assumption because the state of immortality would be con-

stantly enlivened by the presence of God. Still, Wright said he admits that most people would not want eternal life in the way that it is commonly understood.

“There’s a lot of people who — when they come to the natural end of their life — know that it is appropriate to go to sleep,” he said.

However, Wright went on to say that the real Christian idea of afterlife is much more nuanced than the one most people are familiar with.

When Kagan challenged Wright about the premise of resurrection in Christian theology, asking him if a literal bodily resurrection was believed to take place, Wright said the idea transcends earthly limits.

God, he said, is all-powerful and not constrained by obstacles that concern humans.

“It’s not a problem for God to bring atoms back,” he said. “There’s a continuity of form, but a discontinuity of matter.”

But Kagan said he did not accept the notion of an all-powerful or omniescent God as an answer to his challenges. The most problematic notion of Wright’s depiction of resurrection is the idea that one’s identity lives on, he said.

Still, the speakers made concessions to one another. Kagan said he is not opposed to the idea of an afterlife in a philosophical sense — he simply has trouble with the idea of the afterlife as a physical reality because he can find no evidence for it.

By the end of the forum, both speakers said realized they had never approached the topic of the forum.

In their closing statements, Kagan and Wright delivered their answers for how to live well in the light of

death.

Kagan reaffirmed his view that there is, in effect, no afterlife. However, this should not preclude people from doing their best to improve the world they live in.

“I believe death is the end.

I believe we need to push back against the darkness. We need to try to reduce suffering. We can try to accomplish something with out lives. We can try to make the world better for others,” he said.

Wright, instead, concluded by saying that Christianity is an essential force of good in the world, and said that despite its belief in eternal life, it is not a faith that neglects the here and now.

Six audience members interviewed said they think the forum was productive even though it did not focus on the advertised topic.

Laura Garcia ’16 said Kagan’s questions represented common sense criticisms of religious views that are shared by many in the Yale community.

Associate Chaplain Jon Hinkson said he had some reservations about how the opening of the talk was structured. The three-minute summation of beliefs, he said, seemed “comedic.”

Diksha Brahmbaht ’18 said her main takeaway from the talk was the fundamental lack of understanding that all humans have on the subject of afterlife.

“I have come to realize that no one really knows about death or anything afterwards,” she said. “All we can do is believe and accept something that will allows us to live.”

Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu .

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Philosophy professor Shelly Kagan and University of St. Andrews professor NT Wright debated on the ideals of resurrection.

that they would work with a resilience officer if New Haven were chosen as one of the finalists.

Blue also assured the alders that they would have a say in the process. If New Haven is selected, the board will have the opportunity to work with the Rockefeller Foundation in selecting the chief resilience officer and cooperate with the officer during the both

the city assessment and crisis management plan development stages.

The 100 Resilient Cities project has already selected 33 cities, including eight U.S. cities, from its first round of applications last December.

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

Alders set Wooster Square development into motion

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The new residential complex at 87 Union St. will feature upscale apartments and is part of a larger trend of development projects in New Haven.

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER Following unanimous agreement over a change in zoning designations, the New Haven Board of Alders officially set into motion a project to redevelop 87 Union St. — a parcel of land just southeast of the train tracks — into a central residential and retail complex.

Developer Noel Petra first presented the project — which aims to bring 300 apartments, garage parking spaces and retail to the edge of Wooster Square — to the City Plan Commission in mid-September. Late last month, the Board of Alders then agreed to change the zoning designation of the site from a warehouse district to a central residential and retail area. This decision, which allows for mixed-use development in the area, marks the final city approval Petra needed to get started on the project.

“I think the public was very positive in having that building go in,” said Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa. “I don’t think it took a lot for everyone to agree that it was right.”

Petra intends to replace the current warehouses with a variety of residential spaces, including apartments and townhouses, as well as retail and studio space. The new business spaces are set to extend along Olive Street and Union Avenue.

The alders voted to classify the site of the new development to be “BD-1,” signifying the area’s capacity to accommodate a larger population and bigger buildings.

This decision comes in addition to another project, launched earlier in the year, revamping the old Comcast building at Chapel Street between Olive and Union on the western edge of Wooster Square.

Matt Nemerson SOM ’81, the city’s economic development administra-

tor, said the board’s approval of these projects would ultimately help connect Wooster Square to the downtown area.

He added that the project would bring in market-rate, unsubidized apartments.

“We are trying to be consistent — we have been working with the developers for the last five to six months to create this transitional zone,” said Nemerson.

Both Festa and Nemerson underscored the project’s importance in making Wooster Square a more walkable, safe community.

We have been working with the developers … to create this transitional zone.

MATT NEMERSON Economic development administrator, New Haven In anticipation of the vote to change the zoning designation, the alders soliticed public opinion by holding community team management meetings to gauge neighborhood concerns.

Cathy Hill Conlin, a realtor at Seabury Hill Realtors in Wooster Square, said she thinks that there is currently a lack of upscale apartments in New Haven — a hole that the new development will help fill.

Although Festa and Nemerson emphasized the surrounding neighborhood’s support for the project, Conlin said community members might be less enthusiastic. Developers, she said, should be sensitive to the disruption of surrounding communities.

“New Haven is hot right now, but [the developers] have to be careful,” Conlin said.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Admins consider new study space CONSTRUCTION FROM PAGE 1 and Polak added that this type of space would aim to serve both undergraduate and graduate students.

However, he cautioned that discussions remain in the early stages.

University President Peter Salovey said that though he has not yet heard about suggested locations to create the study space, administrators are exploring how quickly this type of project could be implemented.

Further, financial constraints may be the largest obstacle preventing the University from moving forward on such a project, Polak said.

[W]e can accommodate the great majority of teaching [and] classroom needs with the spaces [we have].

JONATHAN HOLLOWAY Dean, Yale College “Every year, we look at the demands on our capital budget and they exceed what we currently have,” he said. “There are many, many things we would like to do not in the capital budget, but some things are already in the capital budget already: Yale Biology building, Hendrie Hall, the renovation of the Beinecke and the new colleges.”

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said the administration is also considering the establishment of additional performance spaces. The 2008 report recommended that the University add a theater space for 250 people, resembling the Off Broadway Theater.

The report, Holloway added, should be considered as a set of guidelines that has spurred a careful study of spatial needs and campus usage — not a blueprint.

Holloway said he believes the capacity of current educational spaces on campus

will be sufficient for the influx of students.

“What we know is that we can accommodate the great majority of teaching [and] classroom needs with the spaces that we currently have,” Holloway said.

“They simply need to be better deployed — this means using more of the five-dayweek calendar.”

However, students remained largely unconvinced that University’s current facilities would be able to accommodate hundreds of new bodies on campus.

Of the 14 students interviewed, 10 expressed concerns that the increase of student body may cause overcrowding in common spaces on campus. Further, eight students said that although they support the growth of student body, common student spaces are already limited on campus at its current size.

“The student body needs a space for all students to study and meet, because the current facilities aren’t convenient,” Steven Roets ’17 said. “The administration should consider the consequences [when adding students] and how to keep the quality of academics and social life the same on campus for all students.”

Titania Nguyen ’18 said she felt one area of particular scarcity was in the libraries. Study spaces like Bass Library in particular, she said, need to be made bigger and more accessible.

Samantha Fry ’15 said she felt the potential cost of overcrowding is far outweighed by the benefits of a larger student body.

“I think spaces may be more crowded, but it is definitely worth it to give access to more students,” she said.

Cayla Broton ’16 said she is not too concerned about the need to increase common facilities, adding that she thinks there are actually many unused study and recreational spaces.

The groundbreaking on the two new residential colleges is slated for February 2015.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu and MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

Genova chases Elmhurst robber

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William Genova ’15 chased down a burglar after waking up to see a stranger in his room at the Elmhurst apartment complex.

ELMHURST FROM PAGE 1 When Genova caught up to Djamal, the burglar claimed to have stolen nothing from his apartment. Djamal handed over a duffle bag to prove that he told the truth. Genova found upon inspection that Djamal had not taken anything from his apartment, but had stolen a laptop from his friend who lives on the fifth floor of the Elmhurst. Police later determined that the thief had also taken $40 from Genova that morning.

Genova said that had he not woken up, Djamal could have easily ransacked his apartment.

As Genova examined the bag’s contents on the side of the street, he flagged down an off-duty NHPD officer who was on his way home after working a midnight shift. However, when the officer approached the two, Djamal started running again. This time the police officer began the chase.

Hartman said that the officer eventually apprehended the thief, who

fought until he was subdued by pepper spray. Djamal later confessed to detectives that he had stolen a laptop from the fifth floor on Saturday. He added that when he returned to the building on Monday, a woman let him into the building and he checked if any of the units’ doors were unlocked. Hartman said Djamal told detectives that he had cased the Elmhurst because he knew it housed a large number of students.

Hartman added that Djamal is a convicted felon in Pennsylvania with a record of burglaries around the country.

Students living in the apartment building said that the burglaries left them shaken, but they did not call for changes to Elmhurst’s current security practices.

Lara Sokoloff ’16, who lives in the apartment that was robbed on Saturday, said that although the burglary frightened her, she thought that changes to the building’s security system were unnecessary.

“It was mostly a freak accident,”

Sokoloff said. “We have to remember that we don’t live in a bubble, and there are people that are thieves in the area.”

Catherine Wang ’16 — whose laptop was stolen on Saturday — echoed Sokoloff’s sentiment.

Wang said that she and her roommates felt relief knowing that police arrested the burglar. She added that outside of residents being more careful to lock their doors, she did not anticipate any significant changes to the building’s security system.

“It’s definitely something that’s troubling,” Wang said. “But it doesn’t drastically change any of my feelings [about safety].”

Police have charged Djamal with burglary in the second degree, criminal attempt to commit larceny in the fourth degree, larceny in the sixth degree and threatening and assault on a police officer.

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

“Hold ‘Em Yale” to be screened HOLD ‘EM YALE FROM PAGE 1 exist, which makes the discovery of this film especially significant.

“Such a huge percentage of silent films made are now lost that any time you find one, even if it isn’t a classic, its return is something to be celebrated,” Meacham said.

“Hold ’Em Yale” follows the story of a young Argentine man who comes to New Haven and falls in love with a Yale professor’s daughter. He joins the Yale football team and plays a game in the Yale Bowl in order to win her love.

Judith Schiff, chief research archivist at Yale, said the film depicts the rise of football in American culture during the 1920s. Football — the rules of which were written by Walter Camp 1882 — had a strong connection to the Ivy League and to the Yale Bowl, Schiff said, noting that the film’s showing coincides with the Yale Bowl’s 100th anniversary.

Meacham said that “Hold ’Em Yale” came on the heels of Harold Lloyd’s 1925 film “The Freshman,” which follows a young college student who joins his university’s football team in order to become more popular among his peers. Meacham added that the 1920s were a period that saw increased interest among the American public in college life. Most of the films rely on tropes such as a young man going to college and running into obstacles like joining the football team or avoiding upperclass bullies, he explained.

Friday’s screening will feature the live performance of an original piece by film composer and pianist Donald Sosin as an accompaniment to the film. Sosin, who writes and performs accompaniment music for roughly 100 to 150 silent films every year, said the score for “Hold ’Em Yale” includes musical themes based on several traditional Yale football cheers as well as on jazz music from the early 1920s. He added that he thinks the screening will present

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a unique opportunity for viewers to see the University as it stood in a wholly different era.

The film was discovered during Meacham’s trip to New Zealand, where he asked for and was given access to the collection of American films at the New Zealand Film Archive, now called Nga Taonga Sound and Vision.

Meacham said that in addition to “Hold ’Em Yale,” he also found

other early 20th-century films such as John Ford’s “Upstream” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “The White Shadow.”

Steven Russell, governance advisor at Nga Taonga, said the film was sent to New Zealand after its release as a result of international film distribution practices, which circulated films around the world in order to screen them in various coun-

tries. New Zealand was the last stop on the international film distribution network, Russell added, noting that many of the films in the collection had been neglected by their producers and were then sold to private collectors or stored away.

Over the past few years, Meacham worked on a team of film archivists to “repatriate” — the action of preserving a film

and returning it to its country of origin — the American films.

Russell said that because the film was made of nitrate — a flammable solid — it was difficult to have it transported across the Pacific because the team was required to complete extensive paperwork in obtaining authorization to bring the film to the U.S. Meacham said that although most of “Hold ’Em Yale” was

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shot on a Hollywood set, it also features shots of Old Campus and the Yale Bowl. A number of Yale paraphernalia, including a “For God, For Country and For Yale” banner and a toy bulldog, also make an appearance.

The New Zealand Film Archive was founded in 1981.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. TOLKIEN ENGLISH WRITER

Food trucks worry restauranteurs

Film alliance builds new site oper is currently working with the alliance to code the different pages and regions within the site. Three board members — Eliacin, web designer Iason Togias ’16 and Katrina Ungewitter ’16 — have been particularly involved with the development of the website. They are working with the developer as well as with Webster, who spent a decade working in the Hollywood film industry before coming back to Yale in 2010. Webster noted that the team is hiring professionals to help build the website because the site could potentially be used by hundreds of Yalies — perhaps even the entire student body.

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New Haven Pizza Truck and Big Green Pizza Truck, present competition for nearby sit-down pizzerias.

BY JON VICTOR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Every week, residents and Yale students purchase hundreds of slices of pizza from the two trucks stationed regularly on campus, but local pizzeria owners are calling the situation unfair.

Since mid-October, New Haven Pizza Truck has set up outside Sprague Memorial Hall on College Street, while Big Green Truck Pizza has parked outside the Apple store on Broadway every Monday since the beginning of the school year. Both trucks are stationed less than one block away from sit-down pizzerias, whose managers claim that the food trucks present them with too much competition.

“Sometimes I don’t think it’s fair for them to be around where there is another pizza place,” said Marilda Marrichi, co-manager of Wall Street Pizza.

Before New Haven Pizza Truck arrived just around the corner from Wall Street Pizza, another pizza truck had been set up in the same spot.

George Koutroumanis, owner and manager of Yorkside Pizza, said that the situation is unfair because his business has to comply with laws from which the street vendors are exempt, such as sanitary regulations and higher fixed costs. In total, he said he pays

around $110,000 per year in overhead.

In contrast, street vendors are only required to pay around $500 in itinerant food service fees to the city, according to the city of New Haven website.

To protect small independent restaurants, Koutroumanis suggested that the city increase the licensing fees for street vendors or limit the areas in which they are allowed to operate.

But Frank Bernardo Sr., owner of New Haven Pizza Truck, said that his familyrun pizza business has played a role in New Haven for decades.

Bernardo’s father opened a pizzeria when he moved from Naples, Italy, to New Haven in the 1950s. Bernardo said he grew up watching his father make pizza.

Now, Bernardo’s mother helps prepare the toppings at their prep kitchen, while his brother and his two children work the truck — a 1946 international firetruck he converted into a food truck. He also mentioned that two of his other siblings work for the Big Green Truck.

Big Green Truck Pizza is a larger operation, with a fleet of five trucks around Connecticut.

Though it only comes to Broadway once a week, the Big Green Truck stays on the street longer than the New

Haven Pizza Truck, which starts serving at 11:00 a.m. and leaves around 3:00 p.m.

“I’ll get here at 9 o’clock in the morning to set up, and I won’t leave until I run out of dough. So usually about 7 o’clock, 8 o’clock at night,” said Vincent Perricone, who works for the Big Green Truck.

Students interviewed said that the city should not take any additional measures to help restaurants being threatened by the competition brought on by the pizza trucks.

“Food trucks have found a way to reduce their fixed costs,” Leah Surratt ’18 said.

“They shouldn’t be punished for that.”

Carol Finke ’18 agreed, saying that she does not think the situation is unfair, since restaurants could also create their own stands around campus.

Still, only eight out of 30 Yale students surveyed said that they had ever bought a piece of pizza from one of the trucks.

KB Knapp ’18 and Phil Huffard ’18 both said that they had never bought slices because they are always on their way to class and do not have time to stop.

“The pizza truck looks good, but I’ve just never gotten the chance to buy a piece of pizza from it,” Knapp said.

Student filmmakers on campus have united to create a website for members of the Yale community to stay on top of the undergraduate film scene.

Since the beginning of the semester, the Yale Film Alliance, a group with the mission of supporting and providing opportunities to students interested in cinematography and the film industry, has been building a website that will allow students to be aware of ongoing developments and long-term film projects. Members of the group said they plan to launch the website in February and that the developers are currently on schedule. Yale Film Alliance President Dara Eliacin ’15 said the group decided to create the website because there is currently no centralized location that students can use to keep track of happenings within the film community.

“Right now, filmmaking at Yale is a very word of mouth endeavor,” Eliacin said. “There’s no one place where you can find out who’s filming what when, how to audition for a film or even when student films are screening.”

Associate Dean of the Arts Susan Cahan said she thinks that the website will be a “gamechanger” for how film is viewed and experienced on campus, adding that formation of the alliance last spring was “one of the most exciting developments in the arts in the last few years.”

Derek Webster ’99, an administrative coordinator for the arts dean’s office, said the web devel-

Right now, filmmaking at Yale is a very word-ofmouth endeavor.

DARA ELIACIN ’15 President, Yale Film Alliance

The site will also include pages containing a list of ongoing productions, a list of available positions on campus or for filmrelated jobs and internships, a calendar similar to the Yale College Arts Calendar and guides to filmmaking techniques, existing film organizations and the film studies program.

In addition to the informational pages, the website will contain information about the Yale College Film Festival, another project that the Alliance is undertaking. The annual fes-

tival, which will show a series of films produced by members of the Yale community, is scheduled for spring 2015 and will be held every year.

Major film organizations on campus include the Yale Film Society, Bulldog Productions and Project Lens, a new student filmmaking group. All seven of the YFA’s board members are involved with independent filmmaking, and most of them hold leadership positions in these three groups.

Eliacin compared the Alliance and its website to the Yale Drama Coalition, adding that it will provide a connecting thread for each of the film-based groups as well as for individual students interested in film.

“Many students do theater productions as individuals, not as a club, and film has a similar dimension,” Cahan said.

Webster emphasized the Alliance’s ability to unite film appreciation with film production, a crossover that he said does not currently exist in any other student organization at Yale.

Board members said they hoped that the Alliance would draw more attention to filmmaking at Yale.

“As the film community at Yale becomes more organized and visible, I’m excited to see us grow,” Eliacin said. “This is something the Yale filmmaking community has truly needed for a long time.”

Yale currently offers two types of film-related majors — a film studies major and a film concentration in the art major.

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

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

Glee club to perform with Princeton

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER Though Yale and Princeton may be rivals on the football field, their glee clubs are ready to team up on stage this weekend.

The Yale-Princeton Joint Glee Club Concert will be held this Friday night at Woolsey Hall. For over a century, the concert has been an annual tradition for the two schools and has historically taken place the night before the Yale-Princeton football game.

Lillian Xu, the president of the Princeton Glee Club, said the group has been prepared several songs specifically for this concert, including a footballinspired medley in addition to the classical works that the group performs in its regular repertoire.

“Our concerts at Yale are one of our favorite Glee traditions,” Xu said. “We’re so excited to share the stage with Yale’s Glee Club this weekend for a wonderful night of music and friendly rivalry before the game.”

Eleanor Killiam ’15, the manager of the Yale Glee Club, said the group will also perform a variety of classical and

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contemporary music. The Yale Glee Club’s program includes movements from Johannes Brahms’ “Requiem,” Frank Martin’s “Mass for Double Choir,” as well as several folk songs and Yale-related songs.

We’re so excited to share the stage … for a wonderful night of music and friendly rivalry.

LILLIAN XU President, Princeton Glee Club

Rachel Protacio ’15, the president of the Yale Glee Club, said that since the YaleHarvard football game has traditionally received more attention and publicity than the Yale-Princeton Game, the Glee Club is looking to inspire enthusiasm for this weekend’s matchup with the joint concert, which will include a number of fight songs. Potracio added that she thinks the music performed in shows like the joint glee club concert is a valuable opportunity for

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audiences to learn about the universities’ past as well as about the origins of the YalePrinceton rivalry.

In addition to their formal concert program, the two glee clubs have traditionally performed musical “pranks” on each other during the show.

Paul Styslinger ’17, an archivist for the Yale Glee Club, said that the Yale Glee Club’s football medley song is actually a parody of other university’s football medleys.

Protacio said that the group has two “prank chairs” who are responsible for devising the pranks for the concert.

However, he declined to reveal the pranks for this year’s show. He noted that past pranks have included the use of banners displaying humorous messages as well as costumes that poked fun at rival universities.

“We value good-natured rivalry in music,” Protacio said.

The Yale-Harvard Glee Club Concert will be held next Friday at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre.

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SPORTS

“I love to eat, and if I could, I’d eat every second of my life.”

MARIA SHARAPOVA FIVE-TIME GRAND SLAM WINNER

Elis open against St. John’s

Bulldogs aim to play spoilers

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The women’s basketball team will face 14 non-Ivy opponents before starting Ivy League competition.

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 HENRY EHRENBERG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Despite falling to last place in the Ivy League, the men’s soccer program leads the Ancient Eight in corner kicks, with 95.

MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 Yale, meanwhile, has scored a mere seven times.

Porter is on a tear as of late, having earned Ivy Player of the Week Honors twice in the past three weeks.

“We’re having a really competitive week of practice and are just trying to get mentally prepared as well,” forward Keith Bond ’16 said. “Princeton has a chance to win the Ivy League title on our home field, and we want to make sure that doesn’t happen.

As a squad inspired by the retirement of their longtime head coach, who is certainly playing for pride in his last game, the Elis have nothing to lose against Princeton, a dangerous prospect for any team needing a win to secure a championship. While the Yale attack has had

trouble finding the net this season, the Bulldogs have a formidable defense that the Tigers must respect. Goalkeeper Blake Brown ’16 has the third highest save percentage in the Ivy League, meaning that the Elis cannot be written off against the Tigers.

As usual, however, the Elis will need to bring something special in order to compete against this heavily favored and offensively dynamic squad.

“It’s the last game of the season and our Senior Night, so we’re looking to end on the right note with a good win over a good Princeton team,” defender Henry Flugstad-Clarke ’17 said.

Yale will take on Princeton on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 3 p.m. in Reese Stadium.

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

East), second in the conference. But only two of the Red Storm’s starters will return this year after three graduated. One of the two returners, however, is standout junior guard Aliyyah Handford.

Averaging 16.7 points per game last season, Handford was named to the 2013–14 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-American Honorable Mention as well as the 2013-14 AllBig East First Team.

“We are all extremely excited for our first game of the year, just like we are every year,” Lena Munzer ’17 said.

“However, I think playing a team that had as much success as St. John’s did is definitely adding to this excitement.

We know we are going up against a tough team, and it’s going to take a ton of energy and focus to come away with the win.”

However, the Bulldogs will prove to be tough contenders. Lone senior and captain Sarah Halejian ’15 said that the team is prepared and extremely excited for its home opener.

Tigers and Quakers play at Yale

A two-time First-team All-Ivy player, Halejian averaged 15.5 points per game and started all 28 games last season. Joining her are two other returning starters, Meredith Boardman ’16 and Munzer. With the most playing experience of all forwards on the team, Boardman started 21 of 28 games last season with a 5.1 pointsper-game average, enough for 12th in the Ivy League. Munzer, a guard, also made a significant impact in her inaugural season with a 5.5 points-pergame average, fourth on the team and the most among the freshman class.

The Elis will have a strong offense going into the game against St. John’s.

Halejian and Munzer will be joined by Nyasha Sarju ’16 — who made 39.8 percent of her field goals and 95.5 percent of free throws during her sophomore campaign — as well as Whitney Wyckoff ’16, winner of the Most Improved Player award last season.

Though Yale lost four players to the graduating class, including three guards and one forward, Halejian is confident that the incoming freshman will help carry the team to success.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

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“The freshman have played well from the very beginning,” Halejian said.

Newcomer Tamara Simpson ’18 will likely be a threat on the court, having accumulated over 2,000 career points prior to Yale. Six-foot-two forward Jen Berkowitz ’18, who averaged 16 points and 10 rebounds per game in her final high school season, will also be an instrumental player on defense.

Halejian said that the team has been training to prepare for a very strong opponent.

“Since we will be facing a very athletic St. John’s team, we have been focusing on remaining fundamentally sound on offense and defending penetration on defense,” Halejian said.

Halejian added that while the team is confident in its ability to compete against St. John’s, the players understand that Saturday is going to be a battle for them.

The Bulldogs will host St. John’s this Saturday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m.

team that’s ranked higher than you, they’ve got the target on their backs,” Swett said. “This allows you to really loosen up and swing out on your shots, because the pressure of having to win isn’t there. I think that knowing we were the underdogs not only pushed us to work harder, but made us look at the matches as challenging opportunities as opposed to expected wins.”

In singles play, the Bulldogs followed an experimental format. Instead of the traditional two-set match, play consisted of a 12-game pro-set. Despite this change, captain Hanna Yu ’15, Ree Ree Li ’16 and Amos were able to defeat their Northwestern opponents.

Li said that it was a mental challenge to go from playing a pro-set to a more customary format on consecutive days.

The doubles tandem of Sherry Li and Finke enjoyed success as well. After defeating one Northwestern pair 8–6, the duo had a decisive 8–2 victory over the Wildcat pair of Erin Larner and Brooke Rischbieth the next day.

“It was a thrill to beat Northwestern twice in doubles with Sherry,” Finke said. “I grew up following Northwestern sports, so winning those matches was extra sweet for me.”

The Bulldogs will take a brief hiatus before returning for their spring season on Jan. 16.

Contact KATIE SABIN at kaitlyn.sabin@yale.edu .

With two wins this weekend, the Bulldogs would clinch at least a share of their fifth straight Ivy title.

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 on the road while hitting 0.327 to Princeton’s 0.124.

Fresh off of wins at both Cornell and Columbia, the Bulldogs look to carry the momentum from their strong showings on the road into these final games. After two more double-doubles this past weekend, Rogers received Ivy League Player of the Week honors for the third time this season. Additionally, setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 is now second in the league in assists per set with 10.55 and was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

Crawford explained that the team is more energized than ever heading into the final stretch of the season tied with Harvard.

“We’re sticking to our gameplan, but we’re more motivated to work harder and to achieve our spot as number one,” Crawford said.

Princeton sits at third place in the league, trailing Yale with respect to hitting percentage and digs but beating the Bulldogs — as well as all other Ivy foes — in assists and total kills. Although the Tigers do not have a high prob-

ability of claiming the championship, they have yet to be entirely eliminated from contention.

A few key players in Princeton’s lineup, including former first team All-Ivy selection Kendall Peterkin, will certainly be gunning for one last shot at the title. Peterkin has over 100 more kills this season than Rogers, who ranks second in the Ivy League in total kills.

Meanwhile, Penn sits in fifth place. Despite their sub-0.500 record, Penn came relatively close to knocking off Harvard in their two matchups this season, losing both matches in five sets.

With three Honor Roll mentions, including outside hitter Alexis Genske, middle blocker Kendall Turner and libero Emmy Friedler, the Quakers still have a chance to pull off an upset.

Middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16, who had four kills and 10 digs last week against Columbia, noted that the Bulldogs were not going to take either team lightly.

“They both have very strong weapons, and both teams are going to come out and fight hard, and that’s just what we’re expecting and trying to prepare for,”

Ebner said.

Harvard will play Columbia and Cornell at home this weekend. If both Harvard and Yale win both their matches and remain tied after this weekend, they will face each other in a one-game playoff hosted at Harvard. The last Ivy League playoff for the NCAA bid occurred in 2010, when Yale lost to Penn in New Haven.

All three players interviewed emphasized the fact that the team is confident in its current standing.

“It’s a dichotomy between confidence and trying to play with an underdog mentality,” libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 said of the Bulldogs’ attitude towards the upcoming games in light of their status as reigning conference champions. “[It’s] having the confidence that we can win as well as not being cocky.”

The Elis take on Princeton and Penn at 7:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

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

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The Bulldogs won 15 of 26 matches in Evanston, Illinois, including seven against Big Ten power Northwestern.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 1:30 PM Featured Talk, Close Looking at Pictures from the Netherlands. In early October, the gallery displayed 30 spectacular examples of Dutch and Flemish painting on loan from the celebrated collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. In these close-looking sessions, participants are invited to study the paintings in small groups with curators and other experts. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 12:10 PM Human Rights Workshop: The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth. Mathias Risse, professor of philosophy and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, works mostly in social and political philosophy and ethics. His primary research areas are contemporary political philosophy and decision theory. Sterling Law Buildings, Faculty Lounge (127 Wall St.).

5:30 PM Ryerson Lecture, “How on Earth Did They Do It?: Collecting Dutch Masterpieces in the 21st Century. In early October, the Yale University Art Gallery displays 30 Dutch paintings owned by collectors Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo.

Laurence Kanter, the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, and Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, as the van Otterloos how they have built their collection. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 12:30 PM Yale Football vs. Princeton. Come and root for the Yale as it hosts Princeton. The “Legends of the Bowl” ceremony at halftime is the culmination of the Yale Bowl 100 celebration. Yale Bowl (81 Central Ave.).

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TIM TAYLOR CUP HARVARD-YALE ON THE ICE Taylor, a former Yale head coach for 28 years who passed away in 2013, has been honored with a trophy that will be presented to the winner of this weekend’s Harvard-Yale men’s hockey game.

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Tompkins tries for final win

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER The last time the Bulldogs won just a single game in a season was in 1922.

With just one shot left at an Ivy League win, the Bulldogs are set to take on Princeton this weekend in head coach Brian Tompkins’s last match at the helm of Yale soccer.

The Tigers (10–3–3, 4–1–1 Ivy) sit at first place in the Ivy League with 13 points in six games, while the Elis (1–12–3, 0–5–1) are currently at the bottom of the table with just a single point in the same number of contests. Yale versus Princeton will be a David versus Goliath contest, as the Tigers look to wrap up their Ivy League championship with ease at Reese Stadium.

The Bulldogs will seek to send Tompkins out on a high note by securing their first Ivy League win in his final game as head coach.

“We want to win for our coach and our seniors,” midfielder Pablo Espinola ’16 said.

However, Princeton will also have strong motivation to go for the win. The Tigers — who are

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tied in points with Dartmouth and lead the Ivy League in goal differential — must defeat Yale in order to ensure that they take home the Ancient Eight crown.

Unfortunately for Yale, the Tigers are favored by a multiple-goal margin, given their position at the Ivy table. Though this matchup of first versus worst looks like “trap game” on paper, it is far from meaningless to Princeton, which will look to put on its best showing in New Haven.

Princeton is riding a hot streak as a team. The Tigers have won four straight matches and are unbeaten in their last eight. Yale, conversely, has lost three straight games and will likely require the best performance of its season if it hopes to knock Princeton off of its perch.

To do that, Yale will have to shut down the prolific Princeton striker Cameron Porter, who has individually put up twice as many goals as the Bulldogs have as a team this season. Porter has netted 14 goals, while teammate Thomas Sanner has knocked home eight goals.

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The last time the Bulldogs did not win a single Ivy League game was in 1974.

Ivy title on the line for Yale

Bulldogs hold court against NU

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With a fifth consecutive Ivy League championship on the line, the Yale volleyball team heads into its final two conference matches this weekend aiming to clinch at least a share of the conference crown.

The Yale women’s tennis team finished its fall season this past weekend at the Wildcat Invitational, posting a combined record of 15–11 over the course of the tournament.

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The Bulldogs (14–7, 10–2 Ivy) hope to best both Princeton (13– 9, 8–4) and Penn (8–15, 5–7) on Friday and Saturday at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Last month, the Bulldogs recorded a 3–0 victory against Penn in a match with double-doubles from both captain Mollie Rogers ’15 and outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18. The next night, Yale notched another clean sweep against the Tigers

After having played its last two events at home, the squad traveled to Evanston, Illinois, to face teams including DePaul, Furman and Northwestern over the course of the three-day invitational.

“It was a lot of fun getting in some very competitive matches in our last competition of the fall season,” Sherry Li ’17 said. “The invitational was a good mile marker for us.

We all showed that we made progress since the beginning

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Captain Mollie Rogers ’15 is second in the Ivy League with 4.10 kills per set.

of the fall.”

The Elis opened the tournament against Furman, sweeping their opponent in singles play. Courtney Amos ’16 began the weekend with a comfortable 6–1, 6–0 win over her Paladin opponent.

Yale’s freshman class kept the momentum going, emerging undefeated after the first day of competition.

Each of Yale’s four freshmen — Carol Finke ’18, Valerie Shklover ’18, Sunday Swett ’18 and Elizabeth Zordani ’18 — contributed a win for the Bulldogs.

“Our performance throughout the tournament showed that we are a topnotch program,” Finke said.

“Our results this weekend will give us confidence going into the spring season.”

The Bulldogs were less successful against DePaul, however, capturing only

two wins out of the five matches played against the Blue Demons. Li fended off a comeback by Rebeca Mitrea, posting a 6–3, 1–6, 6–4 victory. Finke also defeated her opponent in three sets with a 7–5, 4–6, 1–0(8) win.

In one of the most competitive matches of the tournament, Caroline Lynch ’17 played three sets against DePaul’s Jarrett Fisher. However, she could not clinch the win and suffered a narrow 7–5, 3–6, 5–7 loss.

But against their most notable opponent, the Bulldogs managed to hold their own against Northwestern in all 14 matches. The Elis went a combined 7–7 against the Big 10 team, which is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 teams in the nation.

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Bulldogs to face second best in Big East

BY JULIA YAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Nov. 15, the Yale women’s basketball team will play St. John’s at home — the first of 28 games in its 2014–15 season.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Having finished its 2013-14 campaign with a 13–15 record (7–7 Ivy), the Bulldogs enter this season ranked fourth in the preseason poll, trailing behind Princeton and Penn, who tied for first, and Harvard.

St. John’s will be one of the strongest opponents the Bulldogs face this season.

Currently ranked second in the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll, St. John’s finished last season with a record of 23–11 (13–5 Big SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

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The women’s basketball team faces off against St. John’s for the first time in recent memory on Nov. 15.

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Yale ended its fall season with matches against DePaul, Furman and Northwestern at the Wildcat Invitational.

THE NUMBER OF YEARS SINCE THE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM HAS LAST HAD A SEASON WITH JUST A SINGLE WIN. The Bulldogs will have the chance to redeem themselves and finish off the year with two wins when they face Princeton on Saturday.