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CROSS CAMPUS Yale-Princeton. It’s not quite

The Game, but the annual football matchup against Princeton is always worth circling on the calendar, particularly when it’s the Elis’ last home game of the season, as it is this year. Kickoff is at 12:30. We’ll see you there.

Departments doing work.

YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins released a Fall Public Safety Update to the Yale community yesterday, advising students on how to stay safe in New Haven. Meanwhile, the NHPD announced that it won the IACP Webber Seavey Award for innovation in crime reduction.

Not just The Game. Tickets

for The Game will be released for purchase on Monday at the Athletics Ticket Office.

Also available are tickets for January’s Rivalry on Ice hockey game against Harvard in Madison Square Garden.

Bated breath. Already looking ahead to Nov. 22, the On Harvard Time comedy group released a video teasing at a large-scale prank played on Yale during its visit to campus last week. Having seemingly snuffed out the ruse, we’re all just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Accelerate. The last chance to

visit the University’s particle accelerator — located in Wright Laboratory — will be this Saturday, during tours of the facility before its removal to create new classrooms and labs in the space.

“Nassoons”? Yale’s football

team won’t be the only squad lining up against a group of Tigers this weekend. The Whiffenpoofs will perform in concert with the Princeton Nassoons in Battell Chapel on Saturday night in an appearance that has become a staple for the two schools. Do all a cappella groups have to have funny names?

Quinnipiac: We meet again. Months after ending

the Bobcats’ season in the opening round of last year’s CollegeInsider.com Tournament, the men’s basketball team begins the 2014–15 campaign tonight in a rematch against its Hamden foes.

Until next fall. A post on the

Yale Alumni Magazine’s blog called the New Haven Green “Yale’s front door,” noting its brilliance in autumn.

Even more intense. Business

Insider published an article naming MIT the country’s most intense college, citing its dual nature as an “academic juggernaut [with a] surprisingly active social scene.” Sounds familiar.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2012 The Students and Alumni of Yale restructures, capping membership at 30, with a 15-person executive board.

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TOUGH JOB EXAMINING THE YALE PRESIDENCY

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Startup fair aims to snatch Yalies away from consulting and finance

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Crime high at Yale, report says

FOOTBALL

Elis aim to tame Tigers

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER

Two historic rivals. An Ivy League title potentially in the balance.

Yale football hosts Princeton on Saturday in what promises to be a dramatic showdown.

Recent U.S. Department of Education data has pinned Yale as one of the more dangerous college campuses in Connecticut — but some Yalies say this does not align with their experiences.

The DOE recently released a report comparing the rates of reported campus crime in all Connecticut colleges and universities from 2011 to 2013. The data focused on the numbers of reported sex offenses, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, motor vehicle thefts and arson. While crime levels on campus have prompted some universities to push for heightened security measures, Yale students interviewed were satisfied with the security presence on campus.

“Safety, in terms of public safety, is not something that the students have voiced as a primary concern,” said YCC President Michael Herbert ’16.

According to the most recent statistics released by the DOE, rates of reported campus crime have remained steady across Connecticut. However, the data also show that, among its Connecticut counterparts, Yale has experienced some of the highest rates of reported crime.

Still, Yale Police Department Assistant Lieutenant Von Narcisse said that Yale’s

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Healthcare exchange faces tough second year

BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER This weekend, thousands of Connecticut residents will have a second opportunity to sign up for affordable insurance through the state’s branch of the Affordable Care Act. But with a shorter enrollment period, decreased funding from the federal government and demographics that are more difficult to reach, the

insurance exchange anticipates a more challenging enrollment period.

“It’s a slightly different ballgame,” said Mark Schlesinger, professor of public health at Yale and co-author of a report on the performance of Marketplace Assister Programs under the ACA. “[Last year] they created good will in communities and covered a lot of people, but this year is definitely going to be harder in many different

ways.”

Access Health CT will open up enrollment for its second year of operation on Saturday.

The window of enrollment will be open from Nov. 15, 2014, to Feb. 15, 2015. Consumers who sign up by the 15th of a month will begin receiving coverage on the first day of the following month.

The 90-day enrollment period is a significant decrease in time from the six-month

In faculty hiring, spouses pose unique challenge

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE AND PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTERS “I’m sure when he was hired, Yale didn’t say, ‘What about your wife?’”

Rachel Wizner said.

When her husband, Stephen Wizner, was hired as a Yale Law School professor in 1970, Rachel Wizner was working in the mayor’s office in New York City.

At the time, spousal hiring “wasn’t on the table,” Rachel Wizner said.

According to a 2008 report from the Stanford University Clayman Institute for Gender Research, 70 percent of professors in American universities are in dual-career relationships. And as the amount of women receiving Ph.D.s continues to increase, a growing number of high quality female candidates for faculty positions are in dual-academic relationships.

Spousal hiring at a university poses a “dual-

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hen faculty arrive in New Haven, they are often not alone. This week, top administrators said that spousal hiring, often referred to as the issue of “trailing spouses,” is the biggest obstacle when the University hires new faculty. TASNIM ELBOUTE AND PHOEBE KIMMELMAN report. career problem” when two partners do not both receive positions at the same institution or city, forcing one of them to reject an otherwise desirable offer.

This week, both University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak referred to spousal hiring as the biggest challenge in recruiting faculty. “[Spousal hiring has] happened every year I’ve been here, so I would say with faculty searches you can expect probably with one out of two or one out of three you’re going to have

to work on this,” Divinity School Dean Gregory Sterling said.

Despite a lack of emphasis on spousal hiring in the 1970s, Wizner was eventually hired by the University based on her prior work, and she became dean of Pierson College from 1975 to 1980.

“Things have changed radically in my lifetime,” Wizner said.

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period that Connecticut and other states allowed last year.

What is more, it comes at an inconvenient time of year, said Jason Madrak, chief marketing officer of Access Health CT. While it might motivate “deadline-driven” individuals, it may also pose an inconvenience to consumers, Madrak added.

“Having a 90-day period is not optimal,” Madrak said.

“And holiday season is not

the ideal time to have people thinking about health insurance.”

Access Health CT hopes to counter the negative effects of this condensed timeline by emphasizing the important dates and deadlines in publicity materials.

Adding to the timing difficulties, Access Health CT will now receive less federal SEE HEALTH CARE PAGE 6

CSC changes rumored amidst discontent

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER Three months after its creation, the Culinary Support Center continues to draw ire from Yale Dining employees.

In mid-September, Local 35 — Yale’s blue-collar union — filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations board, alleging that the University breached its contract with the union by failing to negotiate before unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment for many of its union members.

According to the NLRB’s website, the case is still open. Local 35 President Bob Proto said the union is awaiting a decision, but that little has changed since the complaint was filed.

But workers at the CSC suggested that changes may be afoot.

Five head pantry workers interviewed reported rumors that they would soon be returned to their units in the residential colleges. But multiple Yale Dining administrators and project managers, including those specifically in charge of the CSC, did not return repeated

requests for comment, including questions about whether the rumors could be substantiated.

Any move back to the residential colleges for head pantry workers would follow harsh criticisms of the CSC from Yale Dining employees, although administrators have consistently defended the facility.

Though no jobs were lost in the creation of the CSC — descriptions were only altered — Yale Dining employees interviewed said that the move has resulted in repeated disappointment and a growing distrust in both Yale Dining and the University at large.

Administrators have consistently defended the facility, but head pantry workers, as well as the union that supports them, have leveled a host of critiques of the CSC, ranging from lower food quality to poor working conditions.

“They shoved us up on the outskirts of campus in a refrigerated room, and we’re forgotten about,” said one head pantry worker.

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ale always had a way of convincing me that it was the only place in the world. After high school daydreams and hours of acronymed tests, this place I knew only in pamphlets became less a college than a Promised Land. Maybe it was the courtyard trees and the worn stone.

I was convinced that my college years would be the brightest years of my life before they had even begun. Four years to reach some apex of preparedness, of accomplishment, of happiness. Something. The stakes felt so high.

Once we got here, there was so much to learn. Everyone sat around study rooms reading the classics, proud, but only vaguely aware of their importance. Halfway through Directed Studies readings, my classmates would stop to churn out Chinese characters by the hundreds, preparing for the next day’s quiz and a summer abroad. As we fell behind in economics, we began to wish we were learning about JavaScript or jazz instead. We came away from Intro Micro with nothing more than a short lesson on opportunity cost. Weekends presented their own different but no less edifying questions: How much is too much? How little is too little?

On Tuesday mornings, my professors would return the papers I had started the night before they were due. The bottom of the back page would read “Good. B.” The criticism wasn’t copious, but it was fair. Some nights I lay awake, the heady sensation of knowing more than I did before fizzling into guilt that I could have worked harder.

There was so much to do.

Yale pursuits have always been numerous to the point of cliché, and over-commitment is practically a rite of passage.

How many meetings did we sit through in those little rooms in WLH? They seemed important at the time and it was exciting when we got to start calling the shots. It didn’t matter that they were little shots. Everyone had their eye on the hierarchy.

The urgency and competition were fun until I lost a few elections. It was only after failure that I started to recognize the difference between doing important things and feeling important. It was only then that I bothered to parse ends from means.

By junior year I had pruned down my schedule to an oncampus job and my a cappella group — the arch-icon of Yale College life. That was “who I was” in the Yale sense: a major and a few lines on a resume. And I was less proud of my resume

than I had been in high school.

Back then, I had a goal in mind — and I had the “leadership qualities” that Yale so extols. Four years later, I felt smarter and more mature, but less accomplished. I didn’t feel like enough.

ONCE WE GOT HERE, THERE WAS SO MUCH TO LEARN I thought getting into the Whiffenpoofs could change that. I didn’t want to sing for another year so much as I wanted to feel wanted by Yale again (my friends felt the same way about society tap). When I didn’t get in, it didn’t feel like an a cappella group had rejected me. It felt like Yale had rejected me. It sounds melodramatic, because it is. But that’s really what I built it up to be in my head.

I decided to postpone my senior year. After three years, I was worn down, like the stones in the courtyard that I fell in love with in high school. I needed some time and space to breath. A thousand miles away, I created a filter for the deadline emails that no longer applied to me. I learned new things (how to cook spinach, how to clean up after myself), did new things (went to yoga, read entire books) and found friends who weren’t at my college. My co-workers thought it was cool that I went to Yale, but not cool enough to ask about the details. It was comforting to know I wasn’t always going to be defined by who I was at Yale.

I think a lot of other people have felt this way before. It’s so easy, particularly in junior year, to lose your perspective and sense of self. The indignities of our past accumulate and begin to press up against our anxieties about the future. We’re suddenly too old to be precocious.

But I promise you, Yale is not the only place where we can learn or do a lot. We’re just at a juncture.

I’m at Yale this weekend, and it doesn’t feel like the Promised Land anymore. Which is a good thing. It’s just a place. A special place, certainly, but not a perfect place, and not the only place. It’s a temporary home.

Some of the memories are good, and some of them still sting.

When we leave, and we all have to leave at some point, Yale will take us back.

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ne of my classes this semester, Grand Strategy, has, as its main assessment, a long-term group project.

It involves turning in two papers, delivered about a month apart, providing a policy analysis of a given topic; the group needs to also present the content of their briefs to their classmates and faculty twice. The presentations take the whole two-hour seminar, partially because there’s a lot of material to cover, but mainly because from the very first sentences that come out of the presenter’s mouths, the professors are at their throats.

I don’t mean that in a bad way, necessarily — often the questions they ask are cutting and precise.

The professors are skillful at sensing when a student is making an unsupported claim, and they’re swift to sniff it out and make it painfully clear. That is certainly a good learning experience: a trial by fire, of sorts, in thinking on your feet and making sure you have facts at your disposal to substantiate an argument. But a lot of the questions the professors ask often feel silly and trivial; they’re “gotcha” questions asked for the sake of seeing us squirm, and the professors bask in the power they have to catch us off guard.

As a presenter, and as a student, that obviously infuriates me. The prospect of my impend-

ing second presentation, coming up on Monday, fills me with dread and preemptive annoyance at the offVICTORIA topic questions I know HALLmy group and I will be pepPALERM pered with.

But the ineviNotorious tability of getVHP ting not only critiqued by our professors, but also publicly embarrassed in front of the other members of the class, has also had a fascinating effect on me and a number of my peers.

On a day-to-day basis, it seems safe to say that students here enjoy a general feeling of preparedness and intellectual confidence. Many of the best students I know at Yale are not only intelligent, but also adept at catering their comments, papers or test answers to the professor assessing them. High-achieving Yale students are not simply smart — they’re experts in learning how to please professors and do well in classes because of it.

Going into my first presentation, I had a deep-seated knowledge that there was a near-100 percent failure rate, if I was judg-

ing failure as anything short of my usual level of complacent preparedness. I knew they were going to ask me questions purposely to prove I didn’t know the answer. I knew that if I gave an argument skewed to appeal to the more liberal of the professors, the conservatives would lash out, and if I tried to pander to the conservatives, the liberals would eviscerate me. If my team tried a conceptual framework, we’d be critiqued for ignoring specifics, and if we delineated concrete issues, we’d be docked points for losing sight of the bigger picture.

With this project, there’s almost no winning. And I don’t love that. But if I force myself to take a step back from my academic insecurities, the most interesting part is experiencing the psychological effects that has had on me and others in the class. It almost feels like we’ve all been treated to an enormous social experiment: Take a number of students accustomed to being patted on the back and told that they’re clever and deny them the chance of guaranteed success.

The resulting effects on my thought process were not pretty: In the absence of that normal, smug feeling of assurance that I knew exactly what my professors wanted from me, I was left almost incapable of coming to any kind of conclusions on my

own. I would come up with an idea, toy with it, and then immediately begin fretting about the negative backlash it would get.

I’d flit to another possible topic in the hopes that it would appease my imaginary evaluators, only to come up short again. The knowledge that no matter what I did or said, my team would be berated, served as an enormous mental block.

This reaction both surprised and distressed me. It made me wonder: Am I am learning how to think for myself in bold and unconventional ways, or has my pursuit of academic success been predicated upon me learning how to successfully pander to the various professors who have come my way. I don’t really have an answer to that question, nor do I know whether one is strictly better than the other — for once, I’m not here preaching to you.

But I do think it’s a worthwhile exercise to step back, look at the work you’re doing in classes and ask yourself whether you’re writing and thinking the things you are because you believe them, or because you know they’ll get you the grade you want.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a senior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Fridays.

Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .

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What to learn from Snapchat’s CEO In his column about Snapchat CEO’s recent visit (“When stories snap back,” Nov. 11), Ike Lee accuses my extracurricular stack of having “horrific irony.” I am president of the Yale Women’s Leadership Initiative, which aims to empower undergraduate women by creating opportunities for personal and professional excellence. Last week, I led a public conversation with CEO and cofounder of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel, on behalf of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society.

Neither organization deserves the implied accusation that because I am a member of both groups, YES’s acknowledgement of Spiegel as a successful entrepreneur challenges WLI’s integrity. It is even more inappropriate to publicly question my personal decisions about what activities to participate in at Yale.

In my capacity as a member of YES, I would invite Spiegel again. As the person who extended the invitation to Spiegel and the person who continued to formally communicate with him in preparing for the event, I was well aware of the emails he wrote while at Stanford. I agree with Lee that they were unacceptable and demeaning to women. But I disagree with his unfair caricature of Spiegel’s visit.

Lee fails to understand why YES invited Spiegel. He mocks Spiegel as a “rich, suc-

cessful male” who has “hundreds of enamored fans” that want to “bask in the glory of wealth and prestige.” At no point does Lee acknowledge Spiegel’s achievements that led to his renown: an app that transformed the mobile communication space; an idea that pushed technology to help not hinder the human experience; a team of three people that eventually allowed millions to instantly share moments with friends for the first time; spending his junior year summer doing what he loved despite the risk-averse attitudes of students at prestigious institutions; his conviction to pursue a startup career, which is not premised on the “culture of financial excess” Lee condemns; and the difficult decision to reject multimillion dollar acquisitions because Spiegel valued ownership over cash. For these reasons, YES invited Spiegel to foster entrepreneurship at Yale. And while some of the 400 students who attended may have come in order to see a famous person, all certainly walked out having heard these lessons from Spiegel himself.

Indeed, we all chose Yale in part due to its prestige, as Lee

says. But I define prestige as the rare opportunity to learn from diverse sources of education. Even WLI, whose mission Lee implies has been compromised by Spiegel’s visit, aims to hear from people who have made mistakes — one of the speakers for the upcoming Leading Ladies Gala is a male, former sexist who will discuss his experiences in evolving from a sexist to a feminist. In the case of Spiegel’s visit, it is even more foolish to shun the speaker because of a specific, scoped-out scandal that lies entirely outside the educational merits of Snapchat’s success story.

Progress is impossible if we categorically reject an educational source because a subset of it is controversial. We bring role models into our lives because we admire their achievements.

We are all smart enough to discern which qualities of those role models may foster progress in ourselves and which qualities may not.

STEPHANY RHEE NOV. 13 The writer is a junior in Saybrook College and president of the Women’s Leadership Initiative.

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ARISTOTLE Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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ver the past few weeks, much of our student body has focused on the midterm elections.

Many students argued over local campaigns, lamented the impending takeover of Congress by the Republican Party, laughed at congressional candidate gaffes and watched Nate Silver’s election predictions change in real time. After hearing seemingly endless discussions about the outcomes of this election, I couldn’t help but feel that the fairness of the system itself was being taken for granted. I felt compelled to write an op-ed about the systematic, legal disenfranchisement of millions of black men in America. Until restrictions on voting are relaxed for nonviolent drug offenders, a specter of discrimination will continue to mar our democratic system.

5.85 million people are legally disenfranchised by the criminal justice system in the United States. This is 2.5 percent of the voting-age population. Four million of the disenfranchised are people who are out of prison on probation or parole, or have completed their sentence entirely.

I’m not talking about those convicted of murder, rape or domestic violence.

The murderer-behind-bars is atypical amongst this group. In fact, the majority of those without the right to vote are people out of prison still sad-

dled with criminal records for nonviolent, drug-related offenses.

While studies show that people of all races use and sell drugs at similar rates, in many states black men are sent to prison on drug charges at rates 20 to 50 times greater than whites despite making up only about 13 percent of the U.S. population.

The imbalance is the result of three decades of discriminatory legislation that developed out of Reagan’s “War on Drugs.” The never-before-seen draconian legislation included mandatory minimum sentences, severely punishing users of crack-cocaine (who are primarily black) while the primarily white users of the exact same drug in powdered form received reduced sentences. The weight threshold for a felony for powdered cocaine was 100 times larger than crack-cocaine for years. Three-strike laws sent drug-offenders to prison for life after three non-violent drug offenses. In California, for example, black men account for three percent of the population but 44 percent of three-strikes prisoners.

The policing of drug laws has focused primarily on inner-city black communities, sending a disproportionate number of black men to jail. From the 1980s through the 2000s, billions of dollars were cut from social service and rehabilita-

tion programs and redirected into surveillance and policing, creating a prison system that is seven times larger today than it was in the 1970s.

This is a system far more committed to punishing crime than to providing opportunities for success. In many cities in the U.S., up to 80 percent of black men now have drug offenses on their record, subjecting them to legal discrimination for the rest of their lives.

We’ve developed a criminal justice system whose ring is eerily similar to the Jim Crow laws of the 19th and 20th century and slavery before it. There are more black men legally barred from voting in the U.S. today than there were in 1870, the year the 15th amendment was passed to prohibit laws that deny the right to vote based on race. And there are more African Americans under correctional control than there were slaves in 1850. Although the overall population has grown significantly, the figures are striking nonetheless. In fact, the laws that deny felons the right to vote were originally passed alongside the array of Jim Crow voting laws like literacy tests and poll taxes. If the argument behind disenfranchising felons is that they’ve broken the contract of citizenship in America, then this contract is clearly flawed.

Fortunately, some progress has

been made. California just passed Proposition 47, which will downgrade many nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, and reduce felony convictions by nearly 40,000 per year. The 2010 Fair Sentencing Act and recent announcements by Eric Holder also indicate progress on reducing the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences and easing mandatory minimum sentencing. But this is a timid first step.

Not only should all people with nonviolent felony convictions be given the right to vote (especially those out of prison), but a significant dismantling of the U.S. prison system is also necessary before any defensible claims of true racial progress can be made about this country.

The legal disenfranchisement disproportionately forced on people of color in this country shouldn’t be a tertiary issue. As long as nearly one-tenth of the black population is legally denied the right to vote, the issue should occupy broad consideration every election season. Next election season, let’s spend less time obsessing over trends in polling data, and more time focused on those who can’t vote at all.

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geographic lens. According to OCS' numbers, nearly three-fourths of all Yale graduates in the class of 2014 wound up in one of five locations: New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, or Washington, D.C. None of these locations, save the District, rank in the bottom 10 states in public education. Plainly stated, the University’s freshest graduates are not engaging enough with communities at the nadir of American’s public education woes.

And, as these young Yalies plant roots in these affluent centers, they’re not raising their kids in the public school systems that need the most improvement.

In fact, after commencement, three in four Yale graduates reside where just over 20 percent of the United States’ youth population lives. The geographic distribution of graduates should reflect a migration out of major coastal cities toward the real front lines of the battle to reform education: Detroit, Albuquerque, Little Rock, Birmingham.

And with a more diversely spread alumni network, the University’s core values, resources and ethics will inexorably penetrate regions of the country historically untouched by the embrace of Mother Yale.

Such a diaspora will pay dividends both in the short-term and the long haul. Too many of our nation’s best

AMANDA MEI is a freshman in Berkeley College. Contact her at amanda.mei@yale.edu .

INDERPAL GREWAL is a professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Contact her at inderpal.grewal@yale.edu .

and brightest students live in communities that have little contact with or awareness of institutions such as Yale. If more Yale graduates move to these regions, it can help increase these students’ exposure to selective colleges. More exposure will translate to more applications from currently under-represented regions such as the Midwest or the South. When Yale’s capacity increases with the new colleges, it would be in the University’s interest to attract bright students from such backgrounds.

But let’s not forget the moral question. In the end, teaching can be the means toward the highest stage of a university’s mission: serving as an egalitarian beacon for the interests of the entire nation and world.

The act of teaching is pivotal to the progress of knowledge.

And in 2014, Yalies can be leaders of a generational movement towards teaching. Whether you are interested in fractals or cephalopods, the ivory tower or Teach for America, consider teaching the untaught, whether for an hour or for a career. There are few vocations that better represent the intersection between Yale’s intellectual spirit and dedication to service.

GRAHAM AMBROSE is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at graham.ambrose@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST AMANDA MEI

The freedom of Credit/D/Fail I

never missed deadlines. But when my roommate asked me if I converted my "Introduction to Psychology" class from Credit/D/Fail to a letter grade, I realized with a sinking feeling that I had missed the deadline the previous day. At the time, I thought this was just a minor slipup — I still was the person I thought I was, punctual and conscientious.

I sat in my chair for a few moments, incredulous. As my small fiasco dawned on me, I could not bring myself to imagine taking the class for the rest of the semester for only a credit, or having the work I had done in class so far come to naught. I had no idea how to deal with the situation into which I was thrown, and I tried to think of solutions to my problem — could I log onto the conversion website and still find it open or call the dean to rectify my issue? My mind raced in circles around a possibility I had already lost.

The feelings of disbelief and dismay that arose within me in those first few moments gave way to another one I cannot explain so easily — I was indignant. Even though I had declared the class Credit/D/Fail at

the beginning of the semester aware of my responsibility to change it back, and read emails and reminders about the deadline, I resented the regulations I had once accepted because they would not forgive my simple mistake. Incidentally, I committed a fallacy I had learned about in the class — attributing my personal failings to extrinsic rather than intrinsic factors.

Now I know that I am not the person who does not miss deadlines, but hopefully I will be the person who accepts full responsibility for her mistakes. I signed onto Credit/D/Fail consciously and am willing to stick with it.

The tougher question, however, is not why I was disappointed about making a mistake but why I felt so upset about not converting my psychology class to a letter grade. The obvious answer is that I wanted my efforts in the class to be rewarded with a favorable grade.

But that answer raises even more troubling questions. Did I put in all my effort just to earn a reward? Do I define academic rewards solely in terms of letter grades? Did I declare my psychology class Credit/D/Fail

just to safeguard my grade point average? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, as implied by my initial distress at not converting from Credit/D/Fail to a letter grade, then I seriously need to re-evaluate my academic values.

I admit that I do a lot of work — reading, papers, studying for exams — for the mere objective of receiving high scores from teaching fellows, but I would like to believe that my motivations for working are not purely numerical or end-driven. Over the years, I have heard parents and teachers say repeatedly that numbers alone do not define me and that learning itself is a reward. I wonder how much these truisms actually permeate my academic experience. I have enjoyed my psychology lectures so far, but perhaps the enjoyment stemmed from my perception that attending lectures was necessary to earning high grades.

Now, the irrevocable Credit/D/ Fail status of my class leaves me at an interesting juncture. I can figure out whether I have sufficient motivation to keep learning and attending lectures and working, or whether

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I want to allocate my time and energy elsewhere. Without the prospect of a concrete reward in the future, I have the occasion to learn about psychology in the present.

I wish I could take all of my classes with the same freedom. Education, after all, is never an obligation, although it sometimes seems like one because I tend to overvalue its numerical benefits. I am not saying that letter grades are unnecessary, and I am not calling for changes in the present grading system, but I do encourage students to think and remind themselves of their priorities as students.

The Credit/D/Fail system, in particular, can be used as an auxiliary way to maximize benefits from the letter grading system, but it can also provide an invaluable chance to take classes for the sheer sake of learning.

Missing the Credit/D/Fail deadline may have upset my plans for the future, but right now I have the opportunity to pursue education on my own time.

JACOB SANDRY is a junior in Branford College. Contact him at jacob.sandry@yale.edu .

Teaching the untaught unique privileges of a Yale education across the world. The question of whether we should be an institution fundamentally bent on teaching — even above other more glamorous, lucrative or prestigious careers — is more than just a pressing moral query. It is also one with deep practical, social and economic consequences.

After all, this column is not the first to decry the state of American public education, a bureaucratic entanglement in dire need of reform.

Aspects of the system are neither wise nor sustainable. We’re a country with a stunningly low high school graduation rate — hovering around 75 percent in 2013. And the costs mount both for diploma-less individuals, who on average will earn one million dollars less than their graduating peers over their lifetimes, and for the United States, which loses a staggering 100 billion dollars each year in social programs and tax revenue from those who skip secondary education.

The problems have extensive and pervasive socio-cultural causes that even the most sweeping policy initiatives cannot entirely curb. But individuals with the passion, skills and backing of a premier global academic institution can, in fact, impress a serious dent.

Let’s examine the issue through a

Yale’s diversity problem hile recent headlines about the Yale School of Medicine and the decision-making authority of the University Wide Committee have been embarrassing, they also encourage us to discover the real problems that need to be addressed. These embarrassments can provide the opportunity to change the status quo with regard to race, gender and the problem of diversity at Yale.

Decades of research into sexual violence and sexual harassment have told us that these are problems of power. Persons belonging to a powerful group think that they can get away with abusing that power, or that their power protects them from the consequences of their actions. Such power often tries to protect itself.

At Yale, this power is clearly about race and gender. The lack of diversity among leadership, faculty and the paucity of research and teaching about many aspects of race, gender and sexuality (quite dire in some national and many global contexts), may signal that the University does not consider these issues as vital or important.

Research into race, gender and power is often not seen as constituting excellence, and those who do this research may not be valued. Those who embody the vectors of diversity come to suffer the consequences. Diversity is often something to be “managed,” rather than valued for its contribution to scholarship, research and teaching. “Diversity” can be just tokenism, rather than a positive response to embracing the innovations and contributions it can bring.

How to change this dynamic in a world of changing sexual and gender politics? I believe the University would like to make it possible for everyone to thrive and succeed, learn and grow.

But it has to make the changes that encourage such flourishing. The power of one group — white males — is infused into every part of the University. This hierarchy is taken for granted, and yet keenly felt by everyone in the community. As chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, I was often one of few women or even the only woman of color in the room during meetings of Faculty of Arts and Sciences department chairs.

To be sure, it is probably not possible to prevent all incidences of sexual harassment and violence. But a lot can be done to reduce them, and this is necessary for the sake of so many in our community. We know that a first step is that harassment or violence against women, people of color, transgenders, queers who are students, junior faculty, postdocs or staff has to be quickly dealt with, and those responsible must not be protected. The decision-making process of the UWC needs to be protected so that its members believe that the long hours that they spend on these cases are worth it, and that their findings are respected. The work of changing sexual climate on campus by the Office of Gender and Campus Culture has been another positive step, so important because it is based on educating all Yale College students (not just women). One more positive step is the faculty vote to create a faculty senate, which can challenge and support leaders and provide accountability.

There needs to be accountability for leaders of departments whose diversity numbers remain a problem, or where sexual harassment remains unaddressed. As it stands, there are few consequences for those departments that do not include scholars, research topics or approaches that might bring in a diverse group of faculty.

Retention of faculty of color and women must be given as much attention as hiring; Yale cannot afford to lose a person of color or a woman from the faculty. Benchmarking, which Provost Benjamin Polak advocates, can help — but it must be done against the most diverse institutions rather than the most elite ones.

One more problem is that those programs and departments that have robust and diverse faculty and research (and help Yale’s diversity numbers!) might be penalized — what I call the “diversity penalty”— where the University refuses to give additional faculty positions to those programs because they are seen as already diverse. Those who have resisted diversifying their faculty and research may instead be rewarded by new positions, instead of having to use their existing slots to achieve diversity goals. Capping the faculty numbers has not helped, since faculty diversity becomes less important than keeping the numbers down.

Finally, as chair of WGSS, I saw the low value and respect given to research on gender and sexuality. That opinion was reflected in the very small size of our program and in my struggles to expand it.

Without valuing the contributions of a diverse faculty and what they can bring to it, the University loses out in numerous ways. It cannot retain great scholars or support junior faculty or postdocs or students who are more likely to take risks to create innovative research and vigorous debate. Diversity is not only about adding women or non-white people at every level of the University, but of valuing research, teaching and challenges by a heterogeneous group. While such real diversity might upset hierarchies and the status quo, I believe that Yale should embrace such challenges as positive contributions to its excellence.

GUEST COLUMNIST GRAHAM AMBROSE

n Saturday, WLH overflowed with boisterous discussions of Shakespeare’s poetry, Mandelbrot’s geometry and Africa’s dynamic economies. The students who skipped through the halls were many heads shorter than their college counterparts. But they exhibited an infectious curiosity not common to undergraduates — let alone to most of their peers in middle and high school.

The 500 students came to Yale from across the eastern seaboard for Splash, an annual program that allows undergraduates to design, build and teach their own courses to interested seventh through 12th graders. The single-day event offers children an enjoyable glimpse into a campus culture committed to the dissemination of knowledge.

It is impressive that over 100 students gathered for a sevenhour teaching program. Better yet, according to the Office of Career Strategies' most recent data on the class of 2014, nearly one in eight Yalies enters the field of education after graduation. But, however encouraging, these figures don’t go far enough toward fulfilling Yale students’ obligation to teach.

A latent, unspoken burden we’ve taken upon ourselves in agreeing to spend our bright college years in New Haven involves extending the

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FROM THE FRONT

“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”

JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI INDIAN AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER

DOE report shows high crime rate at Yale CRIME ACROSS CONNECTICUT UNIVERSITIES

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campus crime last year was one of the lowest on record and that the YPD expects this year’s crime rates to drop even further. He said that, like crime rates in the Elm City, Yale’s crime has been steadily decreasing for years. And, of the 24 schools compared, Yale has had among the lowest numbers of reported aggravated assault, with zero incidents last year.

Narcisse added that this year’s anticipated decline in campus crime is part of a 20-year trend.

Yale’s number of reported forcible sex offenses has decreased in the three-year span, from 18 in 2011 to 12 last year. In a comparison with 22 other colleges, Trinity College and the University of Connecticut, with 21 and 23 reported offenses, respectively, were the only two colleges with a higher number of incidences.

In 2013 Yale had 52 reported burglaries — the highest number among other Connecticut colleges. That year, University of Connecticut had the second highest number at 31 burglaries.

Yet seven Yale students interviewed all said that they feel generally safe on campus.

Leyla Levi ’16 said that, while she believes that the security presence on campus is strong, she feels less secure in areas just outside of central campus.

Other students agreed that their primary safety concerns were in areas off campus.

Evelyn Torres ’17 said that incidents like the attempted burglary at the Elmhurst apartment complex on Monday reflect the need for Yale to extend its security presence beyond campus.

“It’s kind of sad that these concerns keep people from exploring beyond campus,” Levi said.

Narcisse said in an email that a number of variables contribute to the differences in campus crime rates. He cited bicycle theft — a significant problem for students this year — as one of the main drivers behind Yale’s crime numbers.

While Yale students’ safety concerns lie off campus, students in other Connecticut colleges have turned their attention inward. For the past three years, a student advisory committee to the board that governs Connecticut State Colleges & Universities has been pushing for improved security measures.

According to the advisory committee, students within the system of four state universities and 12 community colleges felt that their campuses did not have adequate safety measures. Student Advisory Committee chair Sarah Greco added that, in response to the students’ concerns, the board hired a consulting group to evaluate the security systems.

Southern Connecticut State University senior Matthew Ormrod said that, while he generally feels safe on campus, the school’s location made buildings more susceptible to trespassers.

“New Haven is one of the more crime ridden cities, so obviously it’s not a great area where the campus is,” Ormrod said. “Anyone can come into any of the buildings or classrooms at any given day.”

SCSU is located less than two miles away from Yale’s campus.

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

At CSC, workers continue to voice frustrations CSC FROM PAGE 1 interviewed requested their identities be kept anonymous, fearing retribution if their names were published.

When head pantry workers arrived at the CSC in midAugust, they said the site hardly resembled a place that embodied the center’s purported slogan, “Fresher is Better.” Instead, head pantry workers interviewed said they found wires dangling from the ceiling, unfinished paint jobs and cramped workspaces.

There are no windows, no break room, no locker rooms — it’s very, very depressing.

MEG RICCIO Chief steward, Local 35 According to chief steward for Local 35 Meg Riccio, it did not take long for working conditions to take a personal toll.

“There are no windows, no break room, no locker rooms — it’s very, very depressing,” Riccio said.

According to one of the women relocated to the CSC, all of the head pantry workers were divided into groups that rotate every three weeks. Each group is designated to prepare one element of the total cold food production, such as composed salads or deli items.

Those interviewed cite one main issue with the new system — that the constant rotation under-

mines the CSC’s original purpose.

“The big thing was supposed to be consistency in every college because there were complaints that it wasn’t the same everywhere,” one of the pantry workers said. “I don’t see where the continuity is going to come in when we [rotate] and then somebody else is making the salads.”

Hanna Karimipour ’17 said she thought the pre-made salads had decreased in quality this year.

“It seems like the food is moving back,” Karimipour said. “I know Yale prides itself in having sustainable food productions, but I think the centralization of a lot of the food isn’t really helping that.”

Karimipour added that despite the seeming decline in quality, she thought Yale’s food is still above average compared to other schools.

Others interviewed said the salad bar is at its all-time low, and the decrease in quality has brought fewer healthy options.

Emily Baczyk ’17 said she has become particularly disappointed in the salad bar in Silliman, which previously had been highly regarded throughout campus.

Silliman chef Stuart Comen — who authored a public letter in September decrying changes in Yale Dining — said he thinks the University has been unresponsive in the hopes that eventually, tensions will subside.

“There’s no communication or nothing like ‘Let’s sit down and talk about CSC,’” Comen said.

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

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According to some members of Local 35, conditions at the Culinary Support Center have taken a personal toll on workers.

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CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, NOV. 13

A previous version of the column “Importing Harvard” incorrectly identified Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft. He is, in fact, Microsoft’s former CEO. A previous version of the article “Film reveals Yale Bowl’s early years” incorrectly identified the Yale Film Study Center as the “Yale Film Studies Center.”

Start-up fair attempts to recruit students

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A startup fair on Thursday brought alumni and business leaders from the field of entrepreneurship to tell students about the benefits of joining, or founding, a startup.

The Startup Networking Fair, in its second year, is an effort by the Office of Career Strategy to connect students with employers and alumni at startups from around the globe. Representatives from roughly 10 startup companies attended the fair and spoke to students about full-time and internship positions, while more than 40 alumni shared their own entrepreneurial experiences with attendees.

“It’s a great way for students to connect with startups,” OCS Director Jeanine Dames said.

“Some students want to actually work at a startup and be part of something that’s developing, and some students want to work at a startup to learn before they start their own business.”

While startups are excited to connect with students, Dames added, a lot of the companies are unsure of their hiring needs until later in the year.

Many of the startup founders interviewed who were also Yale alumni said they became entrepreneurs during their time as undergraduates at Yale.

Tyler Reynolds ’14, cofounder of Trinity Mobile Networks, a startup that creates software that allows phones to create direct connections between one another and extend the reach of Wi-Fi, said he and his colleagues got the idea for their startup as freshmen. They were at the Harvard-Yale game, he said, and could only get Wi-Fi by standing near the hotspot — so they thought of using other people’s phones to relay the system.

Jonathan Bittner ’07, CEO and co-founder of Splitwise, an application that allows people to split restaurant bills and other expenses with ease, said that although startups are currently “in vogue,” students are often lured into the stability of consulting or banking jobs.

It is difficult for startups to hire students, he added, because these larger companies have popular recruiting events early in the year.

“There’s no way we can really compete with that because students want certainty,” he said.

Another problem facing startups is that interested students must show more initiative to contact employers given the

nature of its business model.

The biggest difference between working for an established firm and a startup is that there is no set protocol in entering a startup, Bittner said. Students also tend to not have enough initiative to reach out to startups to get a job, he added.

Four representatives and students interviewed said the event was inconveniently timed, and could have been better publicized — which could explain the relatively low attendance. Fewer than 40 students attended the fair, which took place in the middle of the day. At any given moment, alumni generally outnumbered students.

Additionally, eight out of the 10 students interviewed before the fair said they were unaware that the event was taking place later that afternoon.

But Isaac Morrier ’17 said he noticed the event on the Yale College Council Campus Calendar among other places, and said that many people he talked to beforehand had heard about the event. Morrier added that when the 40 alumni speakers arrived at 3 p.m., many more students were present at the fair and additional startups had set up their booths.

It’s a great way for students to connect with startups.

JEANINE DAMES Director, OCS

“It was a very warm atmosphere and everyone was talking,” Morrier said. “By the time I left, it was pretty loud, and a very animated networking coach had come in and started introducing random people to each other.”

Nancy Xia ’15 said she only heard about the fair through newsletters and emails she received from OCS. She added that the fair was a good resource for seniors currently on the job hunt.

“I’m interested in startups, I’m looking for a job and I’ve never been to a startup career fair before — so I thought I’d check it out,” Xia said. “If you don’t see what opportunities are out there, then you close yourself off to them.”

According to the OCS class of 2014 list, 4 percent of students who graduated last spring are now self-employed or working at a startup.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Malloy pushed on education reform NOVEMBER

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BY SKYLER INMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Following Gov. Dannel Malloy’s reelection last week, Connecticut’s education experts are urging the governor to ramp up efforts on education reform — particularly in regard to the state’s most obsolete school finance laws.

The Education Cost Share grant, a formula used to determine the allocation of state education funds across Connecticut’s cities, is one initiative under scrutiny. Although the ECS, enacted in 1988, aims to calculate a city’s need based on the number of students in its districts and gives more weight to students below the poverty line, critics say that, in practice, the policy’s monetary allocations are not directed toward schools’ actual needs.

In a Nov. 5 release, New Haven-based education reform group Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now urged Malloy to address the state’s outdated policies, which are trapping nearly 40,000 students in failing schools across the state, they said. Although the release did not point to any outdated policy in particular, ConnCAN CEO Jennifer Alexander touched upon education finance in general as a topic of concern going forward.

“We would like to see a school finance system that gives money more equitably across schools,” Alexander said. “What we’re seeing in Connecticut is a deepening of poverty in the cities and an expansion of child poverty into the suburbs.”

Despite Connecticut’s changing demographics, the essential inner-workings of the ECS

grant have remained effectively the same over recent decades, according to education experts.

Specifically, about half of the money that Connecticut districts receive currently comes from the state’s budget allocation. The municipal government is responsible for covering most of the remaining 50 percent of its education funding, with federal funds and special grants making up the difference.

However, because municipal governments can only raise revenue for education by levying property taxes, urban centers like Bridgeport and New Haven — which have a large number of tax-exempt properties, like universities, hospitals and government buildings — do not have as much property to tax. James Finley, a pro-bono consultant and lobbyist with the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, said that, given this system, Connecticut’s poorer urban areas — where the state’s highest-need students tend to live — end up being shortchanged by the system.

For this reason, Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding — an umbrella group of parents, students, education reform activists and organizations — is currently embroiled in a decade-long lawsuit challenging the Connecticut state government on the fairness of the ECS. The latest session, which follows a 2010 Connecticut ruling in favor of CCJEF, was originally slated for a September 2014 court date. It was delayed until January to provide both attorneys with more time to prepare documents.

Although Malloy served as a founding member of CCJEF

when he was mayor of Stamford and was listed among the original plaintiffs of the case in 2005, Malloy’s attorney general, George Jepsen, is defending the state’s ECS funding practices.

According to Finley, the ECS grant is underfunded by close to $700 million and has never been adequately funded.

“It’s been politicized over the years,” Finley said. “Under the ECS, the lower-income communities, those with the highestneed students, are supposed to get more money than wealthier communities.”

Finley said that Bridgeport, for example, one of Connecticut’s poorest cities, is underfunded by at least $39 million under ECS. Kenny Feder, a policy analyst for independent research and advocacy group Connecticut Voices for Children, said that any suggested reform to education finance would require investment on the part of the state.

“We believe that the state needs to invest in public schools that serve students with the greatest need — especially when those towns don’t have the ability to pay,” said Feder.

The pressure of the CCJEF lawsuit comes at a difficult time for state government officials: Connecticut is currently dealing with a two-year $2.8 billion deficit.

Although this figure is down from the one-year, $3.67 billion deficit Malloy inherited when he first took office in 2011, Jeffrey Villar, Executive Director of Connecticut Council for Education Reform, says that the $1.4 billion deficit that the state will address this year will undoubtedly affect the way that Malloy’s government handles the issue of

education finance under his second term.

As a result of increased fiscal tension in the capital, not all education reform groups are putting an emphasis on fixing ECS. “We’re more concerned now about defending the current levels of funding,” Villar said. “I see the investment in early childhood education as a pressure point. You have to be focused and practical.”

The education reform packages introduced during Malloy’s first term have followed similar tactics of focused spending. Many of Malloy’s initiatives, including his allocation of $4.5 million for pre- and after-school programs late last month, have taken the form of task-specific grants given outside of ECS allocations.

Neither Malloy’s office nor the State Board of Education returned a request for comment.

Lizzy Carroll, director of Yale’s Education Studies program, said that Malloy’s emphasis has fallen on issues that are viewed as most crucial to fighting the achievement gap, like increased funding for early childhood education.

“When you look at education, it’s not just money steered everywhere across the board — it’s been targeted,” Carroll said.

“You would need at least two to five years minimum before you can measure the outcomes of those initiatives.”

In 2013, attorneys asked the Superior Court to dismiss the CCJEF case in order to give Malloy’s 2012 reform bill at least three years to be implemented.

Contact SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu .

City eyes Strong School rehab

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Office of Career Strategy hosted a startup networking fair on Thursday to connect students with employers and alumni.

TIMELINE CCJEF LAWSUIT

After rejecting plans to redevelop the Strong School building in Fair Haven on Monday, the city has changed course and may finally be moving forward with plans to turn the building into a community center.

Plans to repurpose the 33,000 square-foot building into a community arts center were submitted by Strong Performing Arts Center, a group led by Fair Haven neighborhood organizer Lee Cruz. The school building has stood vacant for three years, and the city has been searching for a developer to revive the old building at 69 Grand Ave. since 2010. SPACe was the only group to submit a proposal for redevelopment, which involves converting the building into apartments, office space and a theater.

Economic Development Administrator Matt Nemerson SOM ’81 said in a letter to Cruz last Monday that the city decided not to move forward

with SPACe’s plan at the recommendation of a panel including Alders Richard Furlow and Abby Roth, as well as two architects and a community organizer.

He cited concerns that the project lacked adequate financial backing as well as input from parties with development expertise.

“The panel reviewed the response to the [request for proposal], and their recommendation to the city was that the response wouldn’t succeed in developing the building,” Nemerson said.

SPACe then asked for time to respond to the panel’s concerns, said Deputy Economic Development Director Steven Fontana. At a meeting on Wednesday night, the city gave SPACe six months to correct deficiencies in their plans, Cruz said.

“They like what we want to do enough that they’re willing to give us more time,” Cruz said.

A final decision on the project is unlikely to be reached anytime soon, Fontana said. He added that financial and environmen-

tal concerns might take weeks, if not months, to address.

According to Fontana, the city’s main concerns with the proposals centered on three areas: the long-term financial viability of the project, shortterm construction expenses and ongoing operational concerns.

The project might have a final cost of $9 million, Nemerson said. Furlow added that it was unclear whether SPACe had the financial backing requisite to complete the project.

“What they were thinking of for rents in that particular area was just a little too high,” said Furlow.

Fontana added that the city had concerns about ventilation valves in the school’s floors, which he said might pose safety concerns.

Nemerson said the city is eagerly looking for ways to use the building, which weighs heavily on the city’s finances.

But, he said, the city does not necessarily want to convert it into an arts building. He noted that the United States, unlike

Europe, has little public support for the arts, and arts centers require large amounts of capital and generous patrons to stay afloat.

“The community is interested in turning it into an arts center,” he said. “The city is interested in finding someone who can redevelop it. The tragedy would be if no one ever came forward, and no one ever figured out how to keep it in the community, and it became a parking lot.”

Cruz emphasized that the SPACe project will be a community effort, unique in this respect among efforts to redevelop many of New Haven’s early 20th-century buildings, like the Goffe Street Armory.

Cruz also contrasted his group’s project with one led by a single developer.

“We’re not looking to maximize profit, because we’re not a for-profit developer,” he said.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.” KURT VONNEGUT AMERICAN WRITER

Trailing spouses pose challenge in faculty hiring GRAPH SPOUSAL HIRING

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FACULTY FROM PAGE 1 ulty members and experts interviewed said the success of spousal hiring is determined by three main factors: collaboration between academic units, cooperation with New Haven employers and easing departmental budget restrictions.

School of Management Deputy Dean Andrew Metrick said collaboration is so critical because when the trailing spouse is also an academic, he or she often requires a position in a different department than the recruited spouse.

But this interdepartmental communication makes spousal hiring within the University complicated, School of Management professor Fiona ScottMorton said in an email. She said, in particular, Yale lacks a “common currency” system that departments can use to compensate one another for hiring spouses.

Scott-Morton said that if one department was enthusiastic about a candidate whose spouse needed placement in another department, there would be no way to leverage the other department to hire the spouse as well.

Despite these complications, School of Management Associate Dean David Bach said Yale often approaches these problems relatively successfully.

He recalled that when he was in graduate school at Berkeley, which had very strict constraints

on faculty hiring, many candidates chose offers at Yale, which offered more flexible spousal opportunities.

Other faculty interviewed, however, noted that the Elm City itself provided challenges for spousal hiring at the University.

Yale does not offer many nonacademic professional opportunities compared to universities in bigger metropolises, Sterling said. Because New Haven does not have as many employment opportunities as Boston, New York or Chicago, spousal hiring puts pressure on Yale.

“Compared with universities located in New York or Boston, there isn’t a huge job market here,” Polak said.

History professor Paul Freedman said he and many of his colleagues do not live in New Haven because there are very few opportunities for their nonacademic spouses.

Still, Metrick said Yale has a history of working with firms around New Haven to find employment opportunities for these non-academic spouses.

Though he said these connections, which include relationships with law and architecture firms, are not formalized in any way, the University is still often successful in working with them to acquire jobs for non-academic spouses.

Most faculty noted that departmental budget restrictions also limit the ability to hire spouses.

“The challenge is always finding funding because everybody has a finite budget,” Sterling said.

Polak added that this difficulty in faculty hiring has been exacerbated over the last five years because of the recession.

Still, Metrick said he remains positive about Yale’s spousal hiring policies.

“From where I sit, we’re doing about as well as we could do in a small city that has been growing and doing well and at a University that has many far flung units under budget pressure,” Metrick said.

AN UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD

Although the dual-career problem is a family issue, all faculty and experts interviewed agreed that it disproportionately affects women.

“We know that the path to facultyhood has tended to lead to disproportionate losses of women from the pool,” professor of ecology and evolutionary biology David Skelly said.

“Dual-career situations have to be one of the most severe bottlenecks they face.”

Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said that men’s careers are often considered to be the most prominent in the family. When couples must make compromises, they favor men, he said.

“The women move and men

don’t,” he said.

Finding a job as a dual career couple is a personal matter, molecular biophysics and biochemistry professor Karla Neugebauer said. But, couples need to be trained to work as partners to make choices that are positive for each person in the partnership, she added.

According to Carnevale, the hiring process of trailing spouses is “culturally loaded.” Depending on the gender of the trailing spouse, he or she will be treated differently, Carnevale said. He noted that one solution universities sometimes offer to couples is an administrative position for the trailing spouse.

Ecology and evolutionary biology professor Linda Puth suggested that the issue of spousal hiring is also affected by outside factors, like the division of labor in the home.

Senior research associate at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and professor of economics Jessica Milli explained that women often take on the “care burden,” which includes caring for children.

“This problem does disproportionately affect women, largely because women in our society still bear more childcare responsibilities than men,” Puth said in an email. “One way that Yale could lessen the impact of the two-body problem is to expand high-quality, affordable childcare facilities close to campus.”

Skelly said during his time at Yale, the University has lost a number of very promising candidates because the school was not able to offer a position to a spouse. Meanwhile, other universities have been able to make offers to both spouses, making it very difficult for a candidate to choose to come here, he added.

“If we make spousal hiring a strategic priority, we will come into parity with other institutions for which we compete in a market for talented faculty,” Skelly said.

SOLUTIONS MEET MIXED REVIEW

Although faculty agreed that dealing with the issue of spousal hiring should be a priority for the University, they reached no consensus on potential policies to address the issue.

Metrick said one potential policy would be to reduce budget constraints on departments across the University.

“You could always throw more money at the problem,” Metrick said.

Law school professor James Whitman said easing tenure standards within the University would also help solve the dual career problem. If there is a clear possibility for junior faculty members to attain tenure, spouses are more likely to move to New Haven as a family for the long-term, he said.

“The solution [the University] has been groping towards

is to make it easier for people to get tenure while at Yale,” Whitman said in an email. “This way both partners can make a career in New Haven and settle down.”

Beyond specific recommendations, history professor Frank Snowden said he would most appreciate a University-wide approach to the problem.

“I think the University would do well to develop an approach that is strategic, proactive and well thought out,” he said in an email.

But, some faculty interviewed cautioned Yale to tread very lightly if it chooses to change spousal hiring conventions.

Sociology professor Philip Smith said often there is an academic couple where only one of the individuals is highly sought.

The other, he said, might be “middling and competent.” In order to hire the more desired spouse, a job might have to be found for the other as well, Smith said.

“It is a difficult balance between being a good or family friendly or efficient employer and avoiding nepotism,” SOM professor Shyam Sunder said in an email. “You are on slippery grounds no matter what you do.

I think universities try to do the best walking a thin line between two wrongs.”

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu and PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

Shorter enrollment period an obstacle for Access Health CT HEALTH CARE FROM PAGE 1 funding, meaning that its overall budget will decrease. However, Madrak believes that this decrease in funding will not have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the state’s outreach. Last year, Madrak said, Access Health CT needed the federal funds to extend their campaign over a six-month time period. With a significantly shorter window, the decrease in federal funds is less worrisome.

The organization will also rely more heavily on community partners — who best understand and are uniquely positioned to reach out to certain constituencies — rather than depending entirely on Access Health CT’s limited resources, Madrak said.

“They need to mobilize people faster to connect with people and get them into the system,” said Mark Schlesinger, professor of public health at Yale.

Connecticut has been touted as having one of the most successful opening years with the marketplace exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Under former CEO Kevin

Counihan, who has since moved to Washington D.C. to run the federal exchange program, Healthcare.gov, Access Health CT was able to insure 187,000 of Connecticut’s 334,000 uninsured residents, bringing the uninsured rate down to 4 percent from approximately 8 percent.

Madrak attributes much of the early success to the welldesigned IT system and active outreach and advertising. The Access Health CT online system was tested with thousands of permutations of family configuration and incomes to ensure the stability of the platform, he added. By the end of their outreach campaign, 80 percent of Connecticut residents were familiar with the exchange.

“An insurance exchange had not existed in the past,” Madrak said. “We were really launching a new category, or a new brand.”

But critics of Access Health CT’s performance remain.

Ellen Andrews GRD ’89, executive director of the Connecticut Health Policy Project, said that insurance premiums are still too high, as they are not negotiated

the way that employer-provided insurance rates are.

The people who signed up for Access Health CT are also probably those who needed health insurance and would have signed up regardless of outreach, Andrews added.

“If we’re grading on actually getting people into insurance, then no, they didn’t do very well,” Andrews said. “They got the low-hanging fruit.”

Madrak agrees that the second year will pose the challenge of requiring more outreach to key uninsured populations — generally located in urban, ethnic communities — and ensuring that advertising addresses those communities’ main concerns.

Madrak emphasized the importance of community partners, and Andrews agreed that trusted community members should play a major role in Access Health’s outreach.

Access Health CT will use new targeted media strategies this year, including buying cable television ads in five cable zones that cover the largest uninsured pockets, in addition to promoting online video campaigns,

Madrak said.

With new partnerships with the Department of Labor, the Connecticut Library Association and community-based health centers, Access Health CT will be opening new fulltime staffed enrollment centers where customers can get assistance in signing up. Last year, the two storefront enrollment centers in New Britain and New Haven contributed to 12 percent of enrollment, Madrak said.

Schlesinger said that Connecticut did a better job with outreach to disenfranchised communities than most states, but acknowledged that many people don’t understand how to navigate the complex health care system. State Healthcare Advocate Victoria Veltri agreed that consumers are not adequately educated on how to interpret and use their insurance policies and added that there are initiatives to increase health insurance literacy.

“With over 60 languages spoken in some counties in the state and racial, ethnic, economic, gender, geographic, educational and other diveristy of our state,

we have a lot of work to do,” Veltri said in an email.

Another new challenge this year will be re-enrolling customers from last year. When customers’ financial situations change year-to-year, their insurance options vary as well, Madrak said.

Consumers will also have additional insurance plans available to them this year, provided by United Healthcare, which did not previously participate in the exchange. The state has approved the company

to offer individual policies on the exchange, said Donna Tommelleo, director of communications for the State Insurance Department. The carrier previously only offered plans through employers.

“There’s more competition this year, which is always good for consumers,” Tommelleo said.

The Access Health CT enrollment center in New Haven is located at 55 Church St. Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

BY THE NUMBERS HEALTH CARE 7.9%

CT uninsurance rate in 2013 when first round of enrollment opened.

256,666

53% 4.0%

Current number of people enrolled in Access Health CT. Overall percentage of enrollees previously uninsured.

Current CT uninsured rate.

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“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.” HENRY GREEN ENGLISH AUTHOR

Charter school seeks relocation

BY EDDY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Board of Alders Legislation Committee voted unanimously yesterday evening to approve a zoning amendment that would potentially relocate Highville Charter School from Hamden to New Haven.

The school offers education for grades Pre-K through 10 and put forth a proposal to move to 300 Mansfield St., a property the school plans to purchase from current owner AT&T. Highville is seeking a larger location in New Haven to add grades 11 and 12 and to move closer to the 70 percent of its student body that lives in New Haven. The amendment voted on last night changes zoning such that primary and secondary schools can occupy a parcel of the Science Park Development District where the Mansfield property sits.

The legislation committee’s approval sends the proposed amendment to the Board of Alders for a vote.

“It’s humbling that everyone was in favor of [the amendment],” Executive Director of Highwood Charter School Craig Drezek said after the vote.

In addition to Drezek and Bernard Pellegrino, the lawyer representing the school, 15 parents, students, teachers and community members testified Thursday in support of Highville. Students delivered prepared statements, emphasizing the cramped classrooms at Highville and praising the positive impact the school has had on their lives.

Seven members of Highville’s Model UN team, led by coach Vaughn Scanterbury, approached the microphone to highlight the school’s mission to develop “globally-conscious citizens,” as written on the school’s website. The school offers a global studies curriculum, offering foreign language instruction to all students and holding global studies courses separate from social studies.

Students on the Model UN team travel to debate global issues with other Model

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Legislation approved by the Board of Alders may relocate Highville Charter School from Hamden to New Haven.

UN teams from across the nation. Scanterbury said he is open to expanding the Model UN curriculum to local community members interested in global issues.

Other community members, including the Connecticut Advocacy Manager of Northeast Charter Schools Network, reiterated their support of the school and its expansion efforts.

“Our children are our future, and we should let Highville do what they need to do,” former Ward 11 Alder Robert Lee said.

Five out of the seven alders on the legislation committee spoke in favor of the amendment during aldermanic discussion.

Four alders, three of whom are not on the legislation committee, wrote a letter to the legislation committee in support of the amendment. The alders noted Highville students’ strong performance on Connecticut’s standardized tests and added that the move would bring over 20

new jobs to New Haven.

There have recently been many amendments to the zoning of the Science Park Planned Development District, Pellegrino noted. He cited Amistad Academy, also a public charter school, which successfully petitioned for location in the district in 2006. He added that Highville would be a desirable school within walking distance from the residential units recently permitted in the district.

Pellegrino said he is hopeful the whole Board will approve the amendment. If it does, a site plan will still need to be submitted to the City Plan Commission, detailing land use specifics such as pedestrian access, parent and bus drop-off and facilities usage.

Highville Charter School was founded in 1999.

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

New Yorker editor talks long-form journalism

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER At a Master’s Tea on Thursday, New Yorker features director Daniel Zalewski gave students in attendance a kind of writing guidance that they do not regularly get from tutors and professors.

At the event, which drew roughly 40 students and faculty, Zalewski talked about his own editing process, the art of communication through long-form journalism and how to write engaging pieces on delicate subjects. Zalewski has written and edited for both large and small publications including The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, Slate and Lingua Franca. In addition to editing the work of many renowned staff writers, he has published many of his own pieces in the magazine.

“The joy of my life is that I get to inhabit and impersonate and work with so many kinds of writers and stylists,” Zalewski said.

An editor at The New Yorker since 2003, Zalewski said he rejected a career in academia for magazine writing. He thought this new path would allow him to communicate to a broader audience while still addressing intricate issues, he said. After a story he edited in Lingua Franca got picked up by The New York Times, he was offered a job as editor the NYT Magazine.

Working for the NYT Magazine was less romantic than most outsiders think, Zalewski said. The editor of the magazine was like a “puppetmaster” over the writers, he added, and pitching articles sometimes felt brittle and inorganic.

Zalewski said this atmosphere contrasted heavily with that at The New

Students, faculty scope out Google Glass

Yorker, where he said writers get more respect from their editors.

“I am gloriously subservient to my writers,” said Zalewski.

Still, Zalewski added that editors at The New Yorker also know when to be stern.

The writers need to listen to “tender but merciless” criticism of their work, he said.

Zalewski noted that as a features editor he has to work with writers on very sensitive topics. He cited as an example a recent story by Patrick Radden Keefe about the family history of the woman responsible for the 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting. The story took over a year to complete, but he said the result was a balanced and nuanced portrait that did not point fingers or shame any of the people involved.

The joy … is that I get to inhabit and impersonate and work with so many kinds of writers and stylists.

DANIEL ZALEWSKI Features director, The New Yorker However, Zalewski also said more lighthearted features also land on his desk — such as a profile of comedian Chris Rock.

Many people think, mistakenly, that indepth storytelling in journalism is dead and that the public prefers short, sensational stories, Zalewski said. But the future of journalism is not quite so bleak, he said, adding that the public still is hungry for complicated reading material.

Responding to a student question regarding his choice to turn down a job offer as the editor-in-chief for The New York Times Magazine, Zalewski said that the kind of writing he edits for The New Yorker will have a longer shelf life than those of other magazines, and that taking the job would only have meant satisfying his ego.

Regarding the dearth of female journalists, Zalewski said that it is valid to criticize magazines for not publishing more female writers. This is an issue he and the editorial board at The New Yorker discuss often, he added.

“It matters to me because the magazine would be boring if we didn’t publish women writers,” he said.

English lecturer Fred Strebeigh, who teaches a class titled “Nonfiction Writing: Voice and Structure” and who was responsible for bringing Zalewski to Yale, told the News he invited Zalewski because he had heard high praise about him from other New Yorker editors and writers.

Students interviewed said that although they were not interested in pursuing a career in journalism, they thought Zalewski shared valuable insight.

Mert Dilek ’18 said he found Zalewski’s discussion of how integral editing is in the writing process especially illuminating.

Alexandra Simon ’17 said she occasionally reads The New Yorker’s online articles, which her father sends to her via email.

The New Yorker began as a humor magazine in 1925 and is published in print 47 times a year.

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

Students interested in experiencing augmented reality will soon have more than just science fiction novels to turn to at the Yale University Library.

Faculty and students can now propose spring-term projects involving Google Glass, a pair of glasses that displays virtual information in a hands free format. The glasses allows the user to record what they see as videos and overlay information in their line of sight, such as maps and data. Three Google Glass devices are currently owned by a partnership consisting of the Yale University Library, the Student Technology Collaborative and the Instructional Technology Group. Based on the partnership’s experience with participants in spring and summer projects involving the device, they decided to focus on projects rather than general circulation.

“We want to let the Yale community figure out what Glass is good for,” Associate Director for Resource Sharing and Reserves Tom Bruno said. “We’re trying to foster a space where faculty and students can experiment with this kind of new technology.”

When it was announced in March that the group would accept project proposals for the spring and summer, only one Google Glass was available.

Shortly afterward, Bruno said Daniel Kent SOM ’15 and Technology Manager at the Yale Center for Language Study Adam Hummel passed their invitations to enroll in Google Glass’ betatesting program — which had yet to open to the public — to the partnership, so two additional devices could be purchased for $1,500 each.

Bruno said for the time being, general circulation may overextend the group’s ability to support the devices. He added, however, that it could be a possibility in the future, especially if Google Glass becomes more mainstream.

The devices are currently available for short-term, approximately two-week projects, or long-term projects that take a semester or longer.

Students and faculty members who explored the device this past spring and summer agreed that Google Glass offered exciting possibilities, but could be more user-friendly. Mainak Ghosh ’14, who used Google Glass to document Commencement 2014, said he enjoyed the novelty of firstperson navigation and videorecording applications.

The device was also used in projects pertaining to more specific fields. Staff members of the Yale Sustainable Food Project and undergraduate volunteers, for instance, used Google Glass to better document the experience of working on the Yale Farm.

“A lot of experiences and observations students might have at the Yale Farm can’t be adequately recorded by conventional means because the hands are engaged,” Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project Mark Bomford said.

Bomford said added that he is interested in further exploring Google Glass, especially looking into how it may be used in log-

book-style record-keeping to track long-term trends in pest activity and crop yield.

While student and faculty projects have been the focus, Bruno said library applications, such as those that translate foreign text in the user’s field of vision, may eventually be explored.

Danielle Brecher, an instructional design and technology librarian for the Claremont University Consortium, said her library system also focuses more on student projects involving Google Glass rather than library applications. At the Claremont Consortium, she said, faculty and students have proposed using the device to document the writing process in the humanities and laboratory work in the sciences.

Bruno also said the device still has room to improve.

“People put these on and expect to be in ‘The Matrix,’” Bruno said. “But there are certain limitations — the total amount of applications is rather small. It’s a prototype.”

The partnership has had to replace all three devices, often due to malfunctions during software updates. These replacements, however, have been free of charge given that the device is still in beta testing.

One of the main problems with the current model of Google Glass is its battery life. Critic and Director of Digital Technology at the School of Art Johannes DeYoung, who co-taught “Performance and the Moving Image,” said the course experimented with Google Glass. He added that due the device’s limitations, however, there was no time to incorporate the device in the class’s film productions.

Sarah Gross ’17, who worked on the Yale Farm project, said the limited number of applications made the device seem somewhat inflexible. She added that using the device sometimes made her feel self-conscious.

Likewise, Abi Olvera ’14, who used to the device to document her Commencement experience, said it sometimes made her friends uncomfortable because they would never know for certain when she was recording.

Though the ability to share first-person experiences is one of Google Glass most notable features, the viewing experience is not always a pleasant one.

Bomford said abrupt movements resulted in a footage that was at times “nauseating” to watch.

Despite these limitations, some still believed that Google Glass would impact future trends in technology.

Kent said he thinks Google Glass is “revolutionary.” The device, he said, is unique because it goes beyond the typical consumer experience, as its users are involved in assessing its limitations and furthering its progress.

Bomford, however, said he is hesitant to give the device so much praise. “[Google Glass] is exciting, but it is probably more evolutionary rather than revolutionary technology — it’s not quite there yet.”

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

Student groups present new shirt designs for The Game

BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This year students can expect shirts for the Harvard-Yale game that have longer sleeves, steeper prices and slogans ranging from “The classiest game shirt” to “Huck Farvard.”

The Freshman Class Council opted for a long-sleeved model, and changed the design to be more provocative and in alignment with the spirit of the Game, FCC president Peter Huang ’18 said. Its slogan changed from adapted Miley Cyrus reference “Yale came in like a Wrecking Bull” to “Huck Farvard: Inflating Grades & Egos Since 1636.” “[We wanted something] clever, but not offensive, to draw some good laughs,” he said.

Members of FCC unanimously

approved the design, according to Harrison Tracy ’17, who coordinated the FCC game shirt project.

Two out of six students interviewed said they particularly liked the FCC design, especially the “grades and egos” caption in the back.

However, Kai Takahashi ’16, now in his third year of designing and selling his own shirts for The Game, said he did not find FCC’s anti-Harvard approach in good taste. The FCC shirt focuses solely on making fun of Harvard instead of supporting Yale, Takahashi said.

“It’s much more fun to root for your own team than to degrade the opponent in my experience, so I’ve made pro-Yale shirts only,” Takahashi said.

Compared to the $10 price tag FCC had for its product last year,

these three vendors’ shirts are all higher in price. AISEC’s is $15, FCC’s is $18 and Takahashi’s is $20.

FCC game shirt coordinators said this change in price and type of the shirt is due to the new long-sleeved design, adding that they think people will appreciate the extra coverage for the cold weather at Harvard.

Three students interviewed said they didn’t mind the markup, calling it as an inevitable costincrease for the weather-appropriate change to long-sleeves.

But Emma Spence ’17 said she does not see the added value of the long sleeves, saying that students will likely need jackets to wear over them anyways. Further, Lily Hahn ’17 said she does not think she would pay $20 for a long-sleeve shirt, and she would

appreciate having more choices.

The Yale Record had a small sale of short-sleeve shirts earlier in the month, editor-in-chief Aaron Gertler ’15 said. The black shirt, which The Record also sold last year, is labeled “Whoever wins, our lives will end equally in death.”

The shirt is “bipartisan, with no anti-Harvard sentiment,” Gertler said. “We’re all in this together, playing football until we die.”

While Gertler noted that the “Huck Farvard” design was something done in the past, he also said some other old designs are worthy of note.

“I always liked the old shirt that said ‘Harvard killed the dinosaurs.

Never forget,’” he said.

Contact MATTHEW STONE at matthew.stone@yale.edu .

KAI TAKAHASHI

Shirts for the Harvard-Yale game will now be long-sleeved.

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SPORTS

“I believe in the Golden Rule — The Man with the Gold ... Rules.” MR. T ACTOR AND BODYGUARD

Yale faces Big Green, Crimson

Elis play Princeton at Yale Bowl

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In 2013, the Tigers took down the Crimson 51–48. This season, Princeton fell to Harvard 49–7.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 and Michelsen combined for just 190 passing yards in this year’s edition, while Harvard’s Conner Hempel returned from an injury to throw for 382 yards and three touchdowns.

The 2014 graduation of Epperly’s top target, wide receiver Roman Wilson, has had a negative impact on Princeton’s passing game. Receivers Connor Kelley and Matt Costello have since picked up the top duties, with 125.6 receiving yards per game and eight total touchdowns between the two this season.

In a year, the Tigers’ total offensive yards average has dropped from 511.6 to 429.2, their passing yards average has dropped from 289.9 to 268.2 and their points per game have fallen from 43.7 to 30.9.

Epperly, meanwhile, passed for over 200 yards in all eight Ivy games last season but has not been able to do so against a single Ivy opponent this year, despite Princeton wins over Columbia, Brown, Cornell and Penn.

But Epperly, a rushing threat, has still managed to tally nine touchdowns on the ground, and Princeton’s average point total remains third in the Ivy League. Yale, meanwhile, has sat at the top of the list all season, now averaging 42.9 points.

Defensively, the Tigers enter the game with a slight advantage over the Elis. They have allowed 25.2 points per game compared to Yale’s figure of 29.8, which increased following Yale’s 45–42 win at Brown last week.

Brown entered that game as the best defense, on paper, that Yale had faced all season. But the Elis were still able

to plow through the Bears, as running back Tyler Varga ’15 rushed for 204 yards and two scores, while quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 threw a pair of touchdowns himself.

Princeton, however, currently lays claim to the second best rushing defense in the Ancient Eight with just 87.9 rushing yards allowed per game.

Last week, the Tigers held Penn to just six rushing yards en route to their 22–17 victory.

Yale may either test Varga against a young but strong defensive line or transition to the pass in order to exploit a defense that has averaged 333.5 passing yards allowed, worst in the conference.

Both strategies appear to be good options, considering the number of offensive statistics in which the Elis are leading: Roberts is top in the league with 315.0 passing yards per game and 19 touchdowns, and Varga leads with a 144.9 yard rushing average and 18 scores, while wide receivers Grant Wallace ’15 and captain Deon Randall ’15 are the top two pass catchers in the league with 107.9 and 97.1 receiving yards per game, respectively.

Head coach Tony Reno said that Yale is using Harvard’s blowout victory, as well as every game the Tigers have played since they beat the Elis 59–23 last season, to develop its game plan for tomorrow’s contest.

“Harvard hit them on some big plays, and then it started the dominos rolling,” Reno said. “By the time anyone looked up, it was 35–0.”

Princeton’s other two losses were much closer. The Tigers began the season with a 39–29 loss to San Diego and fell 31–30 three weeks later to

Colgate, when Epperly threw for 217 yards and two interceptions. The only passing touchdown in that game came from Michelsen.

Though Yale’s 45–31 win over Colgate could then theoretically mark the Elis as the favorite heading into tomorrow’s contest, Roberts said while talking about Army’s recent victory against Connecticut that the transitive property is not a useful predictor of success.

“You could probably make up some crazy scenario that we beat Alabama by the transitive property,” Roberts said. “The transitive property in football is just not a true thing at all.”

The Yale-Princeton matchup will also have significance as the final game in the Yale Bowl during its 100th anniversary and 20 seniors’ Yale careers.

Of 67 alumni selected to the historical all-Yale football team this year, 44 will be coming back to be honored at the game. These players were selected through deliberations and a voting process.

Vaughan, who missed four games at the beginning of this season with an injury but has since returned, said his last home game as a Yale player will certainly be meaningful.

“It’s been a long run,” Vaughan said. “After four years playing football here, it’s like I’ve seen it all, done it all … It’s definitely going to be a very proud moment for me and my parents out there on the field, ending my Yale home career hopefully with a win.”

Yale will kick off against Princeton at 12:30 p.m. in the Yale Bowl.

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opening minutes of the game.

an uphill battle against Princeton.

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If Princeton’s 49–7 loss to Harvard three weeks ago is any indication, it is certainly possible to pick apart the Tiger secondary. Crimson quarterback Conner Hempel, who had just returned from a back injury, passed for 382 yards and three touchdowns in the Harvard victory. Princeton’s poor performance against the pass was not exactly out of the ordinary this season, as the Tigers have averaged 333.5 passing yards allowed in their eight games this season, last among the Ancient Eight.

What was notable, however, was the way in which Harvard attacked Princeton with the pass. Hempel struck early and often with the deep ball, giving his team a 14–0 lead early in the second quarter with touchdown passes of 39 and 49 yards. Those passes then opened up holes for Hempel to rush in a pair of touchdowns himself, and later on, he passed for another long touchdown, this time 42 yards to wide receiver Anthony Firkser.

Harvard’s big-play strategy against a struggling pass defense gave Princeton a multiple-touchdown deficit before it even had a chance to react.

There is no doubt that Roberts and his receivers have the same capabilities as Harvard’s offense, and Yale should try to replicate this mode of attack in the

Princeton quarterback Quinn Epperly has noticeably declined in offensive production after winning Ivy Offensive Player of the Year and leading the Tigers to a share of the Ancient Eight title in 2013. Whether because of a lack of receivers — star wideout Roman Wilson graduated last year — or a nagging turf toe injury, he has not passed for over 200 yards in an Ivy League game this year.

But he remains a strong threat as a running quarterback, having piled up nine touchdowns and 204 yards on the ground in the six games he has played this season. Many of those statistics came from the Tigers’ 56–17 win over Davidson, in which Epperly rushed for 118 yards and four scores. Still, he was also a major factor last week against Penn, tallying 35 yards and a touchdown on nine rushing attempts — more than the number of passes he attempted, which was five.

If Princeton’s offense puts up big points in this contest, like it did against Davidson, there is a good chance that Epperly’s running threat will be a major part of the Tigers’ success. By containing Epperly in the pocket and cutting out this aspect of Princeton’s attack, Yale can force the Tigers to attack through the air and potentially make mistakes on offense.

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

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

prove decisive in this Ivy clash.

“These are two huge games for us,” Mike Doherty ’17 said. “These are two Ivy League games that we need to win.

We recognize the importance of these early season games, and we need to bounce back from last weekend.”

In their rivalry matchup against Harvard, the Bulldogs are the clearcut underdog. The Crimson are undefeated this season and have not scored fewer than two goals in any of their contests. Furthermore, Harvard is coming off of a high-scoring 6–3 win versus No. 8 Boston College that should give them momentum entering their match against Yale. Unfortunately for the Elis, Harvard’s momentum — coupled with the challenge of playing a rivalry match in front of an away crowd — means that toppling the Crimson will be a difficult task. However, Yale does have history on its side. Last season, the Bulldogs posted a 4–0–1 score against the Crimson and notched a 5–1 win over them during the Rivalry on Ice in Madison Square Garden.

Though this year’s Yale squad is not

2013’s team, much of their core is in tact and should still prove a challenge for the Crimson. Furthermore, Yale’s one loss this year, which was to St. Lawrence, was one in which the Elis statistically dominated, posting a 32–19 advantage in total shots. Though the Saints got the better of the Elis on that particular night, the Bulldogs dominated play, but just failed to finish — meaning that the 4–0 score is somewhat misleading in regards to the actual tempo of the match. Still, if Yale wins on Harvard’s home ice, it will undoubtedly be considered an upset.

“Playing Harvard is always a special game with a lot of rich tradition,” defender Ryan Obuchowski ’16 said.

“It’s always amazing to beat Harvard, especially in their barn, but this will be a battle to the final whistle. In order to beat Harvard, it is going to take a full team effort and 60 minutes of Yale hockey.”

Yale’s next match comes against Cornell on Friday, Nov. 21, in Ithaca, New York.

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

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Yale just edged out Harvard in shots in the first round of the ECAC men’s championship tournament last season, 28 shots to 24 shots.

In-state rivals face off M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 after averaging 78.8 points per game on 42.4 percent shooting last season, compared to the Bulldogs’ 66.9 points per game on 41.8 percent shooting.

The Bobcats also hold a 5–1 record historically against the Elis.

That said, Yale’s neighbor does not return the same team from its 20-win season. Quinnipiac lost two of its top three scorers from a year ago, including forward Ike Azotam, who averaged a double-double last season with 16.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.

The last meeting between the two teams came in last year’s CIT. In a tightly contested first round matchup, the Bulldogs narrowly defeated Quinnipiac 69–68 on a buzzer beating three-pointer by forward Justin Sears ’16, ending the Bobcats’ season.

Sears not only scored the gamewinner, but also brought down eight rebounds and added five assists against Quinnipiac in last year’s contest — a performance that propelled the 6–8 forward to a strong showing in the CIT and cemented his status as an Ivy League Player of the Year candidate this season.

Joining Sears in the frontcourt will be forward Matt Townsend ’15, who found success against the Bobcats last season, scoring 12 points on 5–7 shooting. The projected starting lineup also features swingman Armani Cotton ’15, who added seven points and eight rebounds against the crosstown rival, and point guard Javier Duren ’15, who led all Yale scorers with 17 points against the Bobcats. Guard Jack Montague ’16, who scored nine points off the bench in that game, rounds out the starting backcourt.

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 scored early and often last year en route to an average of 16.9 points per game, the best on the team. game,” Duren said. “No matter how many times we have played them in the past, we can’t rely on our past successes or our past fails. We look to the future and what’s coming ahead of us … We need to stick to our game plan no matter who the opponent is.”

Familiarity with the Bobcats has also allowed the Elis to focus on certain aspects of the game during practice this week.

Quinnipiac was the top Division I rebounding team last season, averaging 16.8 offensive and 28.6 defensive boards per game. The Bulldogs will need to keep Quinnipiac off the glass to limit their second chance opportunities. “[The Bobcats] always pride themselves on their rebounding abilities,” Townsend said. “We’ve been working on rebounding, boxing out and dominating the paint. They also play a physical style of basketball, so being able to handle a crash and a little bit of pressure is another focus. But mostly,

we’re just trying to focus on our game, moving the ball and making sure we’re working with each other.”

Quinnipiac featured two players in the top 15 in rebounding in the nation last year. One of them, forward Ousmane Drame, returns after averaging 10.3 rebounds per game.

Duren concurred, noting that keeping the Bobcats off the glass will certainly be one of the keys to the game.

He added that the team will need a fast start to set the pace and tone to be successful.

“Both teams are going to come out with a lot of energy, and I think that if we play the way I know we can play, I like our chances,” Duren said.

The Bulldogs’ season tips off against Quinnipiac on Friday at 5:30 p.m. in nearby Hamden, Conn. within the confines of the TD Bank Sports Center.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

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BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER A week before what is shaping up to be the closest rendition of The Game in recent years, the Yale football team has one more stop to make —one that is just as important, in Ivy League terms.

The Bulldogs (7–1, 4–1 Ivy) will play their final home contest of the season tomorrow against Princeton (5–3, 4–1 Ivy), a team that shared the Ivy League title with Harvard last year but has seen a slight drop in dominance in 2014.

A win over the Tigers, who sit alongside Yale and Dartmouth as the second-ranked team in the Ancient Eight standings, would position the Elis well heading into The Game. A win this weekend, along with one next week in Cambridge, would give the Bulldogs a share of the Ivy championship. As of now, the undefeated Crimson leads in the standings.

But players and coaches on the team all agreed that their concerns do not extend past tomorrow’s game. “[Harvard-Yale] is the game that everyone wants to talk about,” linebacker Will Vaughan

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’15 said. “When you walk around campus, someone asks you about Harvard. It’s understandable, but at the same time, I’m not worried about Harvard right now. I’m worried about Princeton.”

Well before the Bulldogs’ first game of 2014, Princeton narrowly edged out Harvard as the topranked squad in the Ivy League preseason media poll. Considering the Tigers’ 8–2 overall and 6–1 Ivy record in 2013, as well as the return of Ivy League Player of the Year quarterback Quinn Epperly, that seemed to be a reasonable estimate.

But after Epperly suffered a turf toe injury early on in the season, Princeton’s passing production has dropped significantly — both when Epperly returned to the lineup and in the two games when Connor Michelsen started over the 2013 star.

And three weeks ago, Harvard definitively proved that Ivy League media members had their predictions wrong. The Crimson utterly dominated Princeton 49–7, a year after the Tigers squeaked out a 51–48 victory over their co-Ivy champion. Epperly SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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The Princeton defense has let up 333.5 passing yards per game on average, while allowing just 87.9 rushing yards per game.

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BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale football team goes headto-head with Princeton tomorrow, with hopes of keeping its Ivy League championship run alive at the Yale Bowl. The preseason Ivy League favorite remains a strong opponent, but many games this season have shown that the Tigers are not necessarily the powerhouse that they were last year. If the Bulldogs can block up front, score on big plays and rush the pocket on defense, they will have a good chance at coming away with a victory.

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Princeton may rank just fourth in the Ivy League in points allowed per game, but its defensive line very well could be better than any the Elis have faced this season. The Tigers’ young unit has punished running backs and quarterbacks alike all season and the team has the numbers to show for it — a league-leading 24 sacks and just 87.9 rushing yards allowed per game, second best in the conference. What’s more, the Princeton line rides plenty of momentum heading into tomorrow after allowing just six net rushing yards to Penn last week.

In recent games, Yale skill players

have raved about the abilities of this season’s offensive line. The Bulldogs are by far the league leader with seven sacks allowed this year, and running back Tyler Varga ’15 certainly has the Eli front five to thank for his historic statistical season.

But the matchup tomorrow, and the one following it in Cambridge, will likely be the two toughest tests for Yale’s offensive line because of the talent on the other side of the line of scrimmage. Should the offensive line fail to protect quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 and open holes for Yale’s running backs, the Bulldogs will face SEE KEYS PAGE 8

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The Bulldogs took down Harvard 5–1 in Madison Square Garden last season in the first Rivalry on Ice matchup.

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER Looking to bounce back from a disappointing two-game home opening stretch, the Yale men’s hockey squad will take on Dartmouth and Harvard in a two-game weekend road trip.

MEN’S HOCKEY With a record of 1–1–2, the Elis have not gotten off to the hot start they had hoped for, earning just one point in two matches when they took on Clarkson and St. Lawrence. With a strong defense and a capable keeper in sophomore standout Alex Lyon ’17, the Elis will seek redemption against their Ivy League opponent Dartmouth (1–1–1) and bitter rival Harvard (2–0–2).

“Our guys will bounce back,” head coach Keith Allain said. “We play in an extremely competitive league and understand there are ups and downs in every hockey season. Our ability to deal with a little adversity early will be

important if we hope to compete for championships later on.”

Yale’s first match against Dartmouth will likely prove a difficult contest. Yale went 0–1–1 against the Big Green last year, and many Dartmouth players from their 2013–14 squad are returning this season, including their two top offensive producers Eric Neiley and Brandon McNally, who combined for a total of 50 points last season. Furthermore, Grant Opperman, Dartmouth’s third-highest points contributor from 2013, is entering into his sophomore season, meaning that Dartmouth’s already-effective offensive trio is still in place to face Yale and has had even more time to build further rapport as a unit.

Because both Dartmouth and Yale are coming off of tough losses, the momentum for this match will be neutral, giving no team the advantage of a hot streak to build upon. Furthermore, both teams have struggled to score in recent losses, meaning defense could SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 8

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BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The quest for a conference title begins tonight for the men’s basketball team as it opens the season against Quinnipiac in a showdown between local rivals.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (0–0, 0–0 Ivy) looks to start its campaign on a high note against the Bobcats (0–0, 0–0 Metro Athletic) in the Connecticut 6 Classic, hosted this year on Quinnipiac’s home court.

The Elis enter the season with high expectations following their run to the championship game of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. The Bulldogs gained confidence from their deep postseason run and will look to carry the momentum from last season’s success into this season.

“The CollegeInsider[.com] Tournament was tremendous for us,” head coach James Jones said.

“We got healthy, and we played really, really well together. It gives us a great deal of confidence as a group to know that we can win close games because we have. And going forward, knowing that if we put our heads together and continue to play as a team, that we can accomplish a great many things.”

Statistically, Quinnipiac looks to have an edge SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 8

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Guard Armani Cotton ’15 averaged 8.5 points per game last season.

THE NUMBER OF KICK RETURNS FOR A TOUCHDOWN PRINCETON’S DRE NELSON HAS THIS SEASON. The Bulldogs will face Princeton tomorrow at the Yale Bowl and will have to defend against a prolific Princeton offense.