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CROSS CAMPUS What would you do? It felt

like YSO season — following news that student section tickets to The Game had sold out, unlucky Yalies took to inboxes, Facebook groups and common rooms to offer up anything and everything for a shot at admission to Saturday’s showdown, trying every tactic in the book from begging to economics-based bargaining.

Unleash the wrath. The

Whaling Crew will host a signmaking party tonight at 8 p.m., looking to tap into the sharp wit that makes Yalies different from the typical GameDay crowd. We’re fans of the classics — “Harvard Sucks,” etc. — but let’s get creative.

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Purview of new FAS senate outlined

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Nine months after its creation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate Implementation Committee has outlined the potential authority of the new FAS Senate.

In March 2014, University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak formally tasked an 11-person ad-hoc committee with providing a detailed structure of this new governing body, which was first recommended in a faculty input report issued last November. In a draft proposal “fact sheet” acquired

by the News — which summarizes the upcoming report — the committee provided proposals on the size, electoral process and role of the senate. With the formal vote on the report scheduled for Dec. 2, political science professor and chair of the Senate Implementation Committee Steve Wilkinson said he hopes the senate framework will receive support among the FAS. According to the report, the senate will meet on a monthly basis and its executive council will be vested with the power to set the agendas of the meetings. The senate will operate under the assumption that major

initiatives and policies affecting FAS faculty — including discussions of the FAS budget, faculty resource pool slots and FAS diversity efforts — will be presented to the FAS Senate in a timely manner, the report said.

“We have tried to be responsive to whatever input to improve the draft along the way and we have made those improvements,” Wilkinson said. “I think what we got is pretty good, and while it certainly won’t be perfect, and there are provisions to changing the rules, we hope the FAS will vote it up.”

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After frigid wait, no tickets left

More than football. With all the hype entering Saturday’s game, it’s not surprising that Sports Illustrated featured the football team in a Tuesday article. But instead of X’s and O’s, the piece focused on sixyear-old Dante Chiappetta, an honorary team member of sorts who has helped inspire the Bulldogs all fall.

Meanwhile, NCAA.com provided its own preview of The Game with a recap of the top five moments in the (extensive) history of Harvard-Yale. Despite all the memorable football heroics of the ancient rivalry, the famous “We Suck” and MIT balloon pranks got just as much love, reinforcing the lighter side of this matchup.

League of American Bicyclists bestowed a bronze medal upon the Elm City for its bikefriendliness. Though it’s not quite gold, it’s nice to know that we can dash up Science Hill on a 10-speed safely.

Covert cinema. Today, Yale for

North Korean Human Rights is meeting to piece together a plan for how to send movies to the citizens of North Korea.

What they expected. As

part of its Fashion University series, Style.com published a photo gallery of people from around campus yesterday in an attempt to capture Yale’s, well, style. The piece’s intro summed it up well: “preppy essentials, ‘athleisure’ gear and … varsity sweaters.”

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Yale Title IX complaints in line with Ivy League

BY NICOLE NG AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS Between Jan. 1, 2002 and Sept. 22, 2014, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights reviewed and closed 11 Title IX complaints against Yale.

This places the University squarely in the middle of the Ivy League, according to OCR documents obtained by The Harvard Crimson through a Freedom of Information Act request. Over the last 12 years, 83 complaints have been filed against Ivy League schools.

Harvard and Columbia were the subject of the most complaints, with 16 each, while Dartmouth and Brown were the subject of the fewest, with four and two complaints, respectively. Of those 83 total complaints, 14 led to formal OCR investigations, and only two eventually yielded policy changes — one of which was at Yale.

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If they determine that [a complaint] is legitimate, they are obligated to investigate it .

Still more than football.

the Jackson Institute inviting sophomores to apply for the Global Studies major went out last night and, despite the department’s sterling reputation, was riddled with errors because the sender merely re-sent last year’s email, referring to the class of 2016 as sophomores and announcing a Nov. 22, 2013 deadline on Friday.

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demand,” Associate Athletic Director of Ticket Operations Jeremy Makins said. “None of us have seen a line like this before.”

Students expressed their anger and frustration that, due to increased ticket sales, they were unable to participate in the Yale tradition. Those unable to acquire a ticket through conventional means

The OCR information published by The Crimson documented a dramatic uptick in the number of Title IX complaints against the University. While only two complaints were noted between 2002 and 2010 — one in 2002 and another in 2004 — there have been nine filed since the beginning of 2011. Four cases were filed in 2013 and three have been filed thus far this year.

Two of the three filed this year were closed and referred to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, while the third was closed due to insufficient detail to infer discrimination.

“The [OCR] has nationwide enforcement authority for Title IX,” said Valerie Bonnette, a private Title IX specialist who previously worked at the OCR for 15 years. “When they get a complaint, they go about the process of trying to figure out the legitimacy of that complaint. They want to make sure it’s not frivolous. If they determine that it is legitimate, they are obligated to investigate it.”

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About 2,000 tickets to The Game were sold in five-and-a-half hours yesterday.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTERS Ethan Brill ’16 only received his ticket for the Harvard-Yale football game this coming Saturday after waiting two-and-a-half hours in line outside Payne Whitney Gymnasium. But not everyone was so lucky.

Less than two days after Ray

Tompkins House opened its ticket office for sales, Yale’s approximately 3,000 student tickets for The Game sold out at around 3:30 p.m. yesterday, with over 100 students still remaining in line. The quick sellout comes just two years after 250 Yale student tickets went unsold for the 2012 Harvard-Yale game in Cambridge.

“Based on previous years, we weren’t anticipating this level of

Travelers welcome U.S.– China visa extensions

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER For Yale students and faculty frequently traveling to and from China, a newly negotiated visa agreement will soon save time, money and headache.

The arrangement, which was announced last week by the United States government, extends visas for students, tourists and short-term business travelers from one year to five.

Those traveling between the two countries previously had to pay application fees, process detailed documents and then wait for visa approval on a yearly basis. The news comes as a welcome relief for several students and faculty at Yale, of both Chinese and American nationalities.

“This makes [Chinese students’] ability to travel much easier,” said Ann Kuhlman, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars. “[Visa renewal] is often costly and time consuming and occasionally a little unpredictable.”

For Chinese students interviewed, eased travel between their home coun-

try and New Haven could not have come sooner.

[Visa renewal] is often costly and time-consuming and occasionally a little unpredictable.

ANN KUHLMAN Director, Office of Int’l Students and Scholars Zhemin Xuan GRD ’19, vice president of the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, said the unpredictable manner in which visas are processed makes it difficult for students to travel back and forth without proper planning. Xuan said that during a family emergency 10 months ago, he was unable to return to China quickly because it took three weeks to receive approval to travel back to China.

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Students challenge law prof on sexual misconduct

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Claiming that they “trivializ[e] the experiences of countless students,” more than 80 students at Yale Law School have leveled criticisms against arguments made by Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld — published in The New York Times — critiquing universities’ sexual misconduct policies.

On Saturday, the Times published an op-ed by Rubenfeld titled “Mishandling Rape,” which argued that universities often have misguided strategies for crafting policies against sexual assault.

In the op-ed, Rubenfeld specifically argued against affirmative consent policies, claimed that universities are ill-equipped to adjudicate claims of sexual misconduct and suggested that universities shift their policies on alcohol in order to prevent sexual misconduct.

All three broad points drew sharp criticism in the letter, which began

circulating on Sunday.

“In advancing his argument, Rubenfeld ultimately patronizes the advocates who have led the hardfought battles for more responsive campus procedures, federal enforcement mechanisms, and affirmative consent standards,” the letter said.

“Rubenfeld’s assessment is divorced from the facts of students’ lived experiences and from the law itself. Proposed solutions, disconnected from those realities, are not just wrong; they’re dangerous.”

The letter argued that Rubenfeld’s arguments misrepresent the role of alcohol in sexual violence on college campuses and wrongly suggest that victims of sexual assault seek “survivor privilege.” Ultimately, the letter argued, policies proposed by Rubenfeld would lead to less accountability for perpetrators.

In response to the letter, Rubenfeld said he would meet with students Tuesday night to answer questions and address concerns.

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his year, a shocking 80 percent of all the antibiotics used in the U.S. will be fed to turkeys, chickens, cows, pigs and other food animals. Antibiotics are not used because animals are sick, but because feeding the animals low doses of antibiotics allows them to grow bigger and more quickly on smaller quantities of food in squalid conditions.

If the use of antibiotics is not reined in, the World Health Organization warns, the world is headed for a future where routine infections that were once easily cured will be deadly.

Antibiotics are such a successful cure for many infectious diseases that many of us have little understanding of how devastating infectious diseases were before the discovery of penicillin in 1928.

Few realize that during the first decade of the twentieth century, over 40 percent of the deaths of people between the ages of five and 44 were caused by infectious diseases. By the 1970s, thanks to the wide availability of antibiotics, only 3 percent of people in the same age group died from infectious diseases.

This staggering change is why the WHO calls antibiotics the “health care miracle of the last 500 years.”

When Alexander Fleming accepted the Nobel Prize he warned that “there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to nonlethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.”

Today, industrial meat producers in the U.S. are playing the role of the “ignorant man” on a massive scale. By feeding low levels of antibiotics to billions of food animals in the U.S. each year, they are fueling the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria at an unprecedented rate.

Despite growing awareness of the serious risks to humanity, the use of antibiotics in industrial animal agriculture is increasing. Sales of antibiotics for use in factory farms climbed 16 percent between 2009 and 2012, according to the FDA. More than 32 million pounds of antibiotics — often the same first-line antibiotics prescribed to humans — were fed to food animals in the U.S. in 2012.

Every time a bug is challenged by an antibiotic, it’s one more opportunity to become resistant to the antibiotic. This is especially true when antibiotics are administered at low levels. Giving enough antibiotic to weaken bugs, but not always kill them, gives them more chances to evolve into resistant strains.

Last month, a research team led by Yale microbiologist Jo Handelsman, who is now serving as associate director for science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which suggested

a complex link between antibiotic use in agriculture and resistance in human pathogens.

Way n e VIVECA Pacelle ’87, MORRIS president and CEO of Animal The Humane Society of the Spirits United States, recently wrote a blog post about ractopamine, an antibiotic that is fed to animals to spur rapid lean muscle growth. Ractopamine is banned in 160 nations — including the European Union, Russia and China — because of its adverse side effects. Yet it is widely used in factory farms across the U.S. So beware — chances are good that you may be ingesting it with your Thanksgiving turkey.

Two weeks ago, the HSUS filed a lawsuit challenging the FDA’s approval of ractopamine and ractopamine combination drugs.

Antibiotic effectiveness is a very precious national resource that should not be squandered.

It is part of the commons that we all rely on for our health and wellbeing.

If we continue to allow conglomerates to damage our commons with practices that lead to a rise of antibiotic resistant superbugs just so that they can boost their profits, we may all lose something that even money cannot buy — effective antibiotics.

With the shrinking number of effective antibiotics, Marc Sprenger, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention, told CBS News last week, “We are gradually returning to the ‘pre-antibiotic era’ when bacterial diseases could not be treated and most patients would die from their infection.”

At some point, most of us will have an infection or infectious disease that will require antibiotics to cure. If we want that lifesaving resource to be available, we need to take action to curb the food industry’s drug abuse.

Neither the USDA, which regulates agricultural practices, nor the FDA, which regulates drug use, has any restrictions regarding the use of antibiotics in the meat industry. Instead, they offer the industry an optional “framework for voluntarily adopting practices to ensure the appropriate, or judicious, use of medically important antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals.”

Let your representatives in Congress know that they need to pass laws that halt the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics in farm animals now. Tell them that your life, their lives and the lives of millions of others may depend on it.

VIVECA MORRIS is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Her columns run on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at viveca.morris@yale.edu .

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'ANUBIS' ON 'NEW COLLEGES, NEW OPPORTUNITIES'

GUEST COLUMNIST EMMA GOLDBERG

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he Christmas tree on Broadway and Mariah Carey playing at Gourmet Heaven can mean only one thing: It’s holiday shopping season. And University Properties has eagerly informed us that this winter, New Haven residents will have a whole host of new opportunities for retail.

Looking to drop $36 on a wood-grilled veal chop entrée?

Harvest, the new farm-to-fork restaurant on Chapel Street, has got you covered. The menu also offers other dinner options — like $31 rare seared yellowfin tuna, or a simple burger for $21. For the vegetarians among us, Tarry Lodge on Park Street has a goat cheese pizza for $19.

The neighborhood will also see an influx of clothing and cosmetics. Barbour, the upscale British clothing store, is moving onto Broadway with offerings like $400 jackets. Emporium DNA advertises leggings to the tune of $1,050, and Kiko Milano promises an array of Italian cosmetics (for those students who have exhausted all the options at L’Occitane). Then there’s every type of high-end olive oil imaginable on Chapel Street.

These new retail options seem

to bear a striking similarity: They all cater to a similar socioeconomic demographic. Lauren Zucker, University Properties’ assistant director for New Haven and state affairs, told the News that the new mix of businesses “appeals to people from all different backgrounds and pocketbooks.” But her statement is hard to reconcile with the retailers’ steep prices.

Yale has lots of invisible costs.

Like the expectation that students own laptops, and sushi dinners and posh parties at Union League. And we’ve started to get better at talking about this, wrapping our minds around the awkwardness of living in a community that brings together such privilege with such need. But improving our campus dynamics around class will require more sensitivity — from University Properties in particular.

Having more affordable retail choices in the neighborhood matters first for practical reasons. When Yalies and New Haven residents want to shop, we should have access to stores that cater to a range of budgets. Those looking for more high-end products already have a whole bunch of options, from

J. Crew to Ann Taylor. We don’t really need more argyle sweaters and monogrammed purses; we need affordable apparel. Shopping is also a social activity, and no students should be made to feel excluded because they can’t afford the stores that their friends are frequenting.

It’s also a matter of optics. The businesses brought into a neighborhood define its color and character. Walking down Broadway and Chapel, are we passing stores that attract our interests and accommodate our needs, or ones that feel out-of-touch, overpriced? The portrait these stores paint — of $400 jackets and $30 filet mignon — is of a very different Yale than the reality most students experience.

Our neighborhood’s incoming businesses don’t really capture the diversity of our community. This is problematic for New Haven residents, for prospective students considering whether they belong here, for Yalies working to make this place their home. University Properties can play a role in encouraging simpler living. Yale already does enough to make us accustomed to a lavish type of lifestyle, the sort that can only be financed

long-term through jobs on Wall Street.

To be sure, University Properties has a complex assortment of factors to consider in bringing new businesses to the neighborhood. They have to examine the range of proposals submitted for available spaces, as well as the offerings that will attract shoppers from other cities when Yale students leave in the summer.

But it’s hard to believe that there aren’t any more affordable businesses interested in competitive retails spots such as 1 Broadway.

Sure, there will be students interested in buying $36 wood grilled veal — but there will also be some excluded from these sorts of meals. There will be Yalies walking around campus in Barbour jackets, but others will need cheaper winter apparel. It’s hard to put a price on a comfortable, cohesive community, but it’s certainly valuable. University Properties has to be better attuned to diverse needs, helping all of us to mark down the invisible costs of life at Yale.

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

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GUEST COLUMNIST SCOT T GREENBERG

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any Yalies share the attitude that the University administration is not responsive to undergraduates’ concerns. Pointing to slow progress on financial aid reform and gender-neutral housing, continuing issues with sexual violence and mental health on campus and the University’s decision not to divest from fossil fuels, some have concluded that the administration simply doesn’t care very much what students think.

Columnists on this page have accused the administration of “very limited respect for the student voice,” and have called on students to “push administrators to change.” The implication of these claims is that, unless undergraduates express their opinions forcefully, or even hostilely, to administrators, they will not be taken seriously.

Frankly, I sometimes think that those who don’t believe the Yale administration is responsive to undergraduates’ concerns attend a different university than I do. Off the top of my head, I can think of eight occasions in recent memory in which students communicated concerns civilly and respectfully to administrators, who thereupon took substantial, and often prompt, action in response.

One example is the new alcohol policy, announced by the Yale College Dean’s Office last May, which guarantees students will not face discipline if they seek medical help for themselves or their friends in alcohol-related emergencies. Before-

hand, students had regularly criticized Yale’s alcohol policies as unclear and counterproductive; in response, the Dean’s Office convened a committee of 12 undergraduates, held several open meetings to discuss alcohol on campus and delivered a policy that was exactly what students had asked for.

The administration has also been extremely responsive to student concerns about the academic calendar. After several calls for a three-day fall break, the administration introduced one in 2012; when students expressed dissatisfaction with the resulting shortened reading period, the administration restored it to four weekdays; and this year, the administration reformed the term paper deadline in response to substantial student consensus that term papers ought to be due at the end of the examination period.

Beyond the mundane concerns of student life, the administration has taken its lead from undergraduates on several, more politically sensitive issues. Partially in response to student concerns, Yale Health announced in April 2013 that its insurance plan would begin covering sex reassignment surgery for students.

Similarly, only a month after Alejandro Gutierrez ’13 wrote a column about the difficulties faced by low-income, first-generation college students (“Easing the transition to Yale,” Feb. 19, 2013), the administration announced the creation of Freshman Scholars at Yale, a pre-college summer bridge program. (Whether or not

Gutierrez’s column had a material effect on the decision, many other students had previously vocalized similar concerns to the administration.)

Finally, the administration has often been willing to back down from proposed actions that have proven unpopular with the student body. After a petition opposing proposed changes to Yale’s grading policy garnered 1,300 signatures in the spring of 2013, the administration promptly shelved the proposal. Similarly, the administration backed down quickly from its decision to block Yale Bluebook Plus (now CourseTable) last spring after the Yale community expressed its dissatisfaction. In both cases, the administration responded promptly to student opinion.

These eight incidents represent moments when the administration paid attention to students who expressed their opinions publicly. I suspect there have been yet many more occasions in which student opinion, expressed privately to administrators, has helped drive University decisions. Several institutions connect students to administrators regularly, including the over 25 standing committees with student representatives, the weekly meetings between leaders of the Yale College Council and highranking administrators and Dean Jonathan Holloway’s semiweekly meals with students. Less formal ways to convey student opinion to administrators exist as well: Last year, the admin of the “Yale Ideas” student Facebook page was easily able to set up a meeting

with now-Dean Tamar Gendler, to discuss some of the proposals floated by students.

Obviously there are areas where the administration has taken a stance opposite to that of the majority of students. This is not fundamentally a problem — any college administration will, from time to time, do things we don’t agree with. The Yale administration does not derive its legitimacy from the general will of the student body, and it would be a poor administration that took direction from everything its undergraduates demanded. Rather, all we can ask of the administration is that it listen to what the student body has to say and use its best judgment.

I suspect that student distrust of and antipathy toward the administration is born out of a general suspicion of authority, or perhaps a romantic nostalgia for the student protests of decades past. Whether or not these attitudes are worthwhile, the claim that Yale’s administration does not take students’ opinions seriously warrants actual examination.

The bulk of the evidence shows that the administration has indeed been responsive to the undergraduate student body.

Claims that we must engage with the administration forcefully and hostilely, through demands and protests, are almost certainly counterproductive and should be ignored.

SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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Students criticize financial aid policies

A previous version of the article “Africa week brings challenges to the fore” misspelled Pambazuko, the theme of this year’s Africa Week, and the name of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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A photo that ran with the article “Chi Psi withraws bid for house” mistakenly had no credit. The photo was taken by contributing photographer George Saussy ’17.

Elm City Market board member sues for docs

BY SARAH BRULEY AND NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Following the Elm City Cooperative Market’s foreclosure in September, one board member of the former co-op, Bruce Becker, is filing suit against the former leadership.

After the Elm City Market was foreclosed, it was auctioned off in October to the Elm City Community Market, which made the purchase using an infusion of capital provided by philanthropist L. Linfield Simon. Under its new leadership, which replaces the authority of the co-op board, the market no longer runs as a cooperative.

Becker is investigating the Article 9 sale, which involved the transfer of assets from the original management to the new Elm City Community Market. In particular, he is filing a lawsuit against the market’s leadership in order to gain access to corporate emails and financial documents that he believes may indicate improper actions on the part of the market’s previous management.

Elm City Market CEO Doug Berson declined to comment on the suit due to the ongoing nature of the legal action. The attorney representing the Elm City Market, Jeffrey Sklarz, did not respond to request for comment Tuesday.

According to Becker, the market’s financial problems last year primarily resulted from an amendment to the market’s lease.

The amendment included a revision that removed a clause that protected the market from default if they made late payments to the landlord, Multi-Employer Pension Trust. The market was already behind on payments, so the new amendment further strained their finances.

Berson, the Elm City Market’s general manager before the sale, signed the measure into place without approval from the board, Becker said.

“I don’t think anyone would dispute the fact that [the] lease amendment triggered the default,” Becker said.

In addition to Becker, other shareholders have raised questions about the sale of Elm City Market.

On Sept. 19, co-op shareholder and Yale professor of architecture Kent Bloomer wrote to Elm City Market management, the Webster Bank vice president and others involved in making decisions regarding the Article 9 to raise issues about the market’s sale.

In the letter, Bloomer expressed concern with Berson and financial consultant James Fleet agreeing to the Article 9 sale without

the Board of Directors’ approval.

“Given this, it appears that you, either knowingly or unwittingly, have been aiding or abetting self-dealing and tortious conduct by certain of the Cooperative’s employees,” Bloomer wrote. “Your actions may also amount to a civil conspiracy.”

Becker said that if he found evidence of malfeasance in the market’s financial documents and emails, board members and officers would potentially recoup some of their financial losses through an insurance policy.

Becker stressed that the potential mismanagement was harmful to investors who lost money when the market went into foreclosure.

According to board member Diane Polen, all board members had to invest in the co-op in order to be a part of the board.

Since the board can only consist of members, each person on the board had to invest at least $200.

However, Polen said that Becker had invested significantly more money in the market than the minimum required for membership.

Still, she did not specify how much Becker had invested.

Polen added that Becker had encouraged other members of the New Haven community — including his former Yale architecture professor, Bloomer — to invest in the co-op.

Although the market has had around $10 million a year in sales, the board of directors has had a tumultuous relationship with management, hiring and firing three general managers over a two-year period.

In July, a proposal for an infusion of capital from Simon included a provision that stipulated that Berson was to remain in a management position, according to Becker.

A former board member who spoke under the condition of anonymity said they believe that the public and the co-op’s former owners have a right to know what is in the unreleased documents.

Though he does not believe Berson single-handedly brought about the market’s financial problems, he thinks that the situation was manipulated to serve the former management’s ends.

Board member Pedro Soto said that although the lawsuit was filed against the former management of the market, the new Elm City Community Market has stepped in to intervene in the case. He added that if the lawsuit proceeds, the market may be forced to release the documents.

The market first opened in November 2011.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu and NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

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Elm City Market, which is currently facing a lawsuit against its old leadership, was auctioned to a new owner in October.

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At a Yale College Council sponsored discussion Tuesday evening, students encouraged the University to improve its financial aid program.

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER In a Yale College Councilsponsored discussion Tuesday evening, students argued the University’s financial aid program could be markedly improved.

The roughly 30 students gathered in Watson Center voiced their concerns about Yale’s current financial aid policy, the student job requirement and the University’s increasing tuition to Financial Aid Director Caesar Storlazzi. While Storlazzi told attendees that Yale has made great efforts to offer an affordable education to all of its students, attendees said the University placed too many burdens on students who receive financial aid. In particular, students said the self-help requirement of their aid package forced them to spend time working for the University rather than on their schoolwork.

“It’s against Yale’s mission to give a student the choice of whether you can have a job, or whether you can spend time in the library,” Cristobal Trujillo ’16 said.

According to Storlazzi, student jobs are beneficial because they connect students to the University through various administrative offices and provide students with extra spending money.

There is an inherent value in having a student job, he said, because the student is not only partnering with the University, but contributing something towards their

education.

However, he added, the financial aid office is keenly aware that many students are unable to fulfill the student contribution portion of their aid requirements, forcing them to take out loans — something the University hopes to avoid.

“Yale wants to continue its noloan policy for financial aid students,” Storlazzi said. “We don’t want to be in a position of forcing students to have to borrow.”

Due to Yale’s generous wage rates, Storlazzi said, students only need to work eight to 12 hours a week in order to fulfill their income contribution.

“Eight to 12 hours, from where I sit, doesn’t sound like an onerous amount of work, but I need to hear from students how much this amount impacts them,” Storlazzi said. “From the administrative point of view, it seems to us that this is not a burden.”

However, students present asserted that the time requirement is a burden, since working 12 hours is equivalent to taking two extra classes each week.

Yale often underestimates how much the University asks of its students on financial aid, Avani Mehta ’15 said.

“Yale is an institution that deals with numbers that have a lot of zeroes. We have a $51 million surplus right now,” Mehta said. “To Yale, $3,000 might seem like pocket change, but for students who try to make that much money throughout the

semester, it takes a lot of hours to do so.”

Storlazzi was also asked whether Yale could implement a financial aid program similar to the University of Chicago’s No Barriers initiative. Starting in the fall of 2015, the University of Chicago’s initiative will replace loans in all undergraduate financial aid packages with grants and completely finance the education of students who demonstrate the highest amount of need. Additionally, these students will not be required to work student jobs during the academic year, and the program guarantees students a paid internship or research opportunity over the summer Storlazzi said he had never heard of the No Barriers initiative, although most students in the room were familiar with and supportive of the program.

“If you’re going to require a student to pay ‘x’ amount of money, there should be a system to ensure that they can find positions that will help them meet this goal,” Javaughn Flowers ’17 said. “Implementing this would not only be beneficial to us as students, but beneficial to the University and the Admissions Office.”

Tyler Blackmon ’16 said it was a “huge wake-up call” when he found out the financial aid office had not even considered the new No Barriers program.

“This was an overhaul that really excited a lot of students on campus, and if Yale is going

to maintain its competitive edge in college admissions, it should at the very least keep pace with institutions like the University of Chicago, especially now that we are on a more stable financial footing,” Blackmon said in a Tuesday night email. “We should absolutely consider completely eliminating the student income contribution here at Yale.”

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said that based on data collected from a recent YCC survey, 61 percent of respondents who were on financial aid indicated that they are using family wealth to meet the costs of the student income contribution, instead of working a student job.

Students present at the town hall meeting said this creates a disparity between different socioeconomic classes at Yale, since students not working jobs have more time to study, as well as more freedom in their schedules for extracurricular activities.

If the University’s position is truly that the student job requirement is inherently valuable in connecting students to their education, everyone should be expected to contribute, Flowers said. He added that this expectation should apply to all students, regardless of whether or not they receive financial aid.

In the 2013–14 year, 52 percent of undergraduates received needbased aid from Yale.

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

Harp announces health grant

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Efforts to improve public health in the Elm City received a boost yesterday when Mayor Toni Harp announced that the city has secured a $4 million, five-year federal grant for youth wellness.

Administered by the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Department of Children and Families, the grant money will be directed towards initiatives in the Dwight neighborhood to promote the wellbeing of children from birth to eight years old.

The state agencies applied for the grant from the federal government, and Gov. Dannel Malloy announced that the money would go to the Elm City Project Launch, the agency that will manage the money.

With the funding from the grant — which Harp announced at a press conference — the city will focus on all areas of health, including mental wellbeing.

Harp added that an emphasis on mental health can help to prevent tragedies like the December 2012 shooting at

Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly two years ago.

City Communications Director Laurence Grotheer said that the grant will help New Haven expand the types of health issues it can address. “[The grant] is to broaden the scope of health care, to go beyond physiology and to include emotional and mental health in response to the kinds of traumas that urban kids often face,” he said.

The DCF selected New Haven for the grant based upon the quality of the city’s health infrastructure, said Michael Williams, a regional coordinator for the DCF. He added that the existence of Yale-New Haven Hospital, one of the nation’s top medical centers, was a prime factor in giving the grant to New Haven.

Williams said that the grant will allow the city to streamline health services and make those services more accessible.

“The major objective is to strengthen the relationship between physical health and mental health organizations,” he said.

Superintendent of Schools

Garth Harries ’95, who attended the Tuesday press conference, praised the initiatives that the city plans to pursue with the grant money. He said students had told him that mental health is an important issue among children in New Haven.

[The grant] is to broaden the scope of health care, to go beyond physiology.

LAURENCE GROTHEER Communications director, New Haven Harries also emphasized the importance of social and emotional health, adding that part of the school system’s duty is to ensure that its students are emotionally stable.

“Social and emotional health is the path to a college career and life success,” he said. “It strikes me as so valuable that we are, as a community, investing in and focusing on those young students before they reach school age.”

The DCF chose to focus the grant on the Dwight neighborhood, where there is substantial community infrastructure to implement the programs, said Williams. He added that the Augusta Lewis Troup School and Head Start programs in the neighborhood will prove valuable to the initiative’s success.

Harp said the city hopes to spread the initiative from Dwight to other neighborhoods in the future. She said that her administration’s strong relationship with the Board of Alders is an asset going forward, and that success in the Dwight initiative could create a new model for public health in the city and throughout the country.

The Elm City Project Launch is one of a series of public health initiatives in the city. In October, Community Services Administrator Martha Okafor announced a new community outreach program aimed at improving public health in New Haven.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Waiting is a form of passive persistence.” OGWO DAVID EMENIKE NIGERIAN INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER

Title IX complaints increased starting in 2011 UWC CASES FROM PAGE 1 uty Provost Stephanie Spangler said she did not have enough time to comment yesterday evening.

Of the 11 complaints filed against Yale over the past 12 years, three in total were referred to the EEOC, according to the OCR information published by The Crimson. Two more were closed because the complaint was not timely. According to the OCR procedures, a complaint must be filed within 180 days of the alleged discriminatory action; however, the deadline may be waived by the OCR. Another complaint was closed because “previous decisions [precluded] processing,” one complaint was being investigated elsewhere and three were closed after the OCR determined there was insufficient information to prove

Title IX non-compliance or discrimination.

Only one of the complaints filed led to a policy change at the University.

On March 15, 2011, 16 students and alumni filed a Title IX complaint against Yale citing an “inadequate response” to public episodes of sexual misconduct on campus. According to an April 4, 2011 open letter published by the OCR, schools can be penalized if they do not react to issues of sexual misconduct in a timely matter.

“If a school knows or reasonably should know about studenton-student harassment that creates a hostile environment, Title IX requires the school to take immediate action to eliminate the harassment, prevent its recurrence, and address its effects,” the letter said.

The OCR announced it would

open a formal investigation into Yale’s policies two weeks after the complaint was filed in midMarch. The case was closed on June 15, 2012, after Yale and the OCR reached a Voluntary Resolution Agreement, in which an institution and the OCR agree to make institutional changes before the OCR imposes sanctions.

“OCR’s weapons in terms of enforcement are rather drastic, so schools tend to comply when given the opportunity to fix the problems,” Bonnette said.

If universities choose not to comply, Bonnette said, the OCR can terminate certain federal funds to the institution.

According to the Resolution Agreement, the OCR did not officially find Yale in non-compliance of Title IX because the University had taken steps to improve its response to sexual misconduct

complaints, ensure compliance with Title IX and resolve the issues of the complaint.

The agreement ultimately led to the formation of a Universitywide Title IX coordinator position, as well as the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct and the commitment to training administrators, faculty, staff and students on sexual misconduct and Title IX issues.

Andrea Seger, an associate at Alden and Associates — a consulting firm on intercollegiate athletics — who has conducted Title IX reviews, said complaints can be resolved without policy changes.

“Many times OCR is looking for a plan to commit to compliance,” said Seger. “If institutions were to take a plan and show that they were going to commit to compliance … that may be acceptable without a policy change.”

For example, if fewer recruitment dollars are spent on women’s athletics programs than men’s athletic programs, allocating a greater budget to the women’s program could constitute a resolution without a policy change, Seger said.

Roughly 17 percent of the Title IX complaints filed against Ivy League institutions resulted in a formal investigation. Seger said complaints filed with the OCR are sometimes closed without a formal investigation because they are not deemed a credible case for Title IX. She cited an example in which a complaint may actually fall under a different federal title. An individual could file a complaint that female coaches are not paid enough at a university, but since Title IX covers only coaches’ salaries as they impact the female stu-

dent-athlete experience, the case would be closed without formal investigation and referred instead to Title VII, she said. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

Bonnette added that resolutions can be reached between complainants and their universities even before a formal investigation begins, through an early complaint resolution process.

“That is usually a faster way to compliance, in my opinion, when parties can get together and figure out a solution,” she said.

There were 7,500 Title IX complaints received and closed by the federal office of the OCR between Jan. 1, 2002 and Sept. 22, 2014.

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

With no Game tickets left, students criticize distribution system TICKETS FROM PAGE 1 turned to social media sites and friends to find an alternative source for tickets. As of press time, the cheapest ticket on StubHub was about $200.

Natalia Salinas ’17, who managed to get her ticket through a friend at Harvard, said that The Game is something students look forward to, and they should not have to resort to paying high prices on secondary markets simply to attend.

“It just doesn’t seem right that some people won’t even have a chance to go,” Salinas said. “I don’t understand if it’s because of logistics or what have you, but it seems strange that so much of the student body was let down.”

With Yale still in contention for an Ivy League title and following the recent announcement that ESPN’s College GameDay will be broadcast from outside Harvard Stadium before the game, Yale students formed a line yesterday morning that extended on both sides of the Ray Tompkins House hallways as well as roughly 100 yards, the length of a football field, to the marked crosswalk in front of Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

At approximately 2 p.m., Makins cut off the line at the number of people he estimated would get tickets, adding remaining students to a waitlist. Makins reached out to Harvard in an effort to acquire additional tickets, but in an email sent last night to students on the waitlist, he said that these efforts were unsuccessful.

Many students noted that the long line may have had a snowball effect, as students got in line around noon yesterday specifically because they heard about the crowd.

On Monday, the first day of

ticket sales, Yale sold just over 1,000 tickets with no lines. Alex Petros ’16 said rumors of tickets selling out spread quickly, which drew more and more people to the ticket office.

“I think that people realized that tickets were on the verge of running out and texted all of their friends to come as soon as possible,” he said. “This created a vicious cycle and a longer and longer line.”

Online ticket sales would be far more efficient and negate the need to wait in the cold for two hours.

KELLEN SVETOV ’16 While this hectic process and the quick sellout disappointed many Yale students, Harvard students had no such problems, as students are guaranteed a free ticket for the game through Harvard’s houses, according to Harvard sophomore Nicholas Bonstow.

Bonstow added that tickets are distributed to each house in advance of The Game to ease access for students.

Additionally, Harvard students have never been shut out of a Harvard-Yale game at the Yale Bowl in recent years, both because the Yale Bowl’s capacity of 64,246 is much larger, and because Harvard does not use all 3,000 tickets that the Yale athletics office allots them.

Last year, for example, Harvard sold just 2,368 of its student tickets, Makins said.

The approximately 3,000 tickets allotted for Yale students and

guests comprise only about 10 percent of the 30,323 seats at Harvard Stadium, and are enough for only about 60 percent of Yale’s undergraduate population.

Several students interviewed said that they wished Harvard had offered more tickets to Yale students and their guests. Harvard’s general admission tickets, which were offered online for $40, had also sold out by noon on Tuesday.

While Harvard’s general admission tickets were offered online, student tickets were only available directly from the Ray Tompkins House ticket booth. Students interviewed expressed frustration that there was no alternative way to purchase tickets, suggesting online sales as the ideal alternative to waiting in line.

Kellen Svetov ’16 was unable to acquire a ticket because he was in class during the Tuesday push for tickets.

“Online ticket sales would be far more efficient and negate the need to wait in the cold for two hours,” Svetov said.

Makins agreed that the ticket sales system could be better, but he noted that the current system in place had never created long lines before this year. After the recent sellout, however, the system will be re-evaluated, Makins said.

Olivier Van Donselaar ’17 said he was less frustrated with the ticket sales system itself than with the fact that many students wrongly assumed there would be enough tickets for at least the total undergraduate student body.

He added that many students had already organized their travel plans around securing a ticket to the game. While he still intends to travel to Cambridge this weekend, other students sold their previously bought bus tickets on Face-

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Even after braving the cold, some Yale students have been sold out of the Harvard-Yale game. book.

Many students unable to wait in line asked friends to buy guest tickets for them. Guest tickets this year cost $50, up from $35 in 2012.

While the strategy benefited some students, it decreased the number of tickets available to those in line.

“People are taking advantage of guest tickets,” Makins said. “It’s been the way we’ve managed it as far back as I have records, and we didn’t feel comfortable changing that today.”

Brill, who acquired the last ticket sold, said the option to buy a guest ticket prevented people who had waited in line from acquiring their ticket. He added that it was easy for other students to cut the

line due to its disorganization.

Along with Makins, students interviewed cited Yale’s current football success and coverage from ESPN as primary reasons for the increased demand of tickets.

Petros, who purchased a ticket shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, said he believes this year’s game is going to be more exciting than in previous years.

“Yale football has been great this year, and people are optimistic that this is the year we finally beat Harvard,” he said. “GameDay coming to Cambridge is the icing on the cake.”

Svetov said that if Yale continues to find football success, it could see problems like this in the

future necessitated by Harvard’s small stadium size.

Yale football captain and wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 agreed that the long lines reflect added student enthusiasm for this year’s Harvard-Yale game.

“It means a lot that we have that kind of support from the student body,” Randall said. “We are excited for [the fans] to make a difference from the stands.”

Yale last won the Harvard-Yale game in 2006.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

Frequent travelers praise new China visa policy VISA FROM PAGE 1 Likewise, Jingwei Sun GRD ’18, also vice president of ACSSY, said that as someone studying immunobiology, she knows multiple people who have had to delay start dates for experiments and research because they could not get their visas approved.

“One of my friends applied for his visa … but it was so delayed that he missed all the programs prepared for the foreign students,” Sun said.

For Tian Xu, a professor of genetics at the Yale School of Medicine, traveling back to China multiple times per year always made visa renewals stressful. Xu added the new policy will open the door for more cultural exchange between Americans and the Chinese.

The SOM professor Steven Roach, a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and the former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, said the new policy is a “fantastic breakthrough in the life of a frequent China traveler.”

“I’ve got a passport that would scare you, and I would say maybe one quarter of the pages are just from [having to get] multiple China visas,” Roach said.

However, Roach — who in January published a book on the code-

pendency of America and China — added the visa extensions were not the grand statement towards improved relations that some suggest. Comparing the extensions to the climate change agreements negotiated by President Barack Obama this month, Roach said the news is a personal relief but does not make a great difference in the grand scheme of Sino-American relations.

Phil Wilkinson ’17, who spent a summer and semester in China on two Light Fellowship programs, said he ultimately had to apply for four separate visas because he traveled to Japan and Singapore over the course of his study abroad. Wilkinson said each visa cost over $100 and that the process of having to reapply so frequently was a significant stress on his trip.

Other students interviewed who partook in Light Fellowship programs in China over the past summer said they had no difficulty obtaining their visas, though they did not travel outside the country because of constraints imposed by the single-entry visa.

The Light Fellowship was awarded to 140 students in the 2013–14 academic year competitions.

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

MAP TOP 10 COUNTRIES OF RESIDENCE OF ENROLLED STUDENTS U.K.: 113

Canada: 245

Germany: 105

Italy: 52

Mexico: 60

South Korea: 142 China: 574

India: 166 Singapore: 166

Brazil: 53

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Locals push back on free breakfast

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A church near Wooster Square is looking to host a free breakfast program for the hungry once negotiations with the local community are complete.

The Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James, situated one block from Wooster Square, has signed a preliminary agreement that allows the service organization Liberty Community Services to serve free breakfasts every weekday morning to people with food insecurities. Reverend Alex Dyer, the priest-in-charge of St. Paul & St. James, said he currently expects about 75 people to come each morning.

While church members and local community service members support the new program, several locals have pushed back against the project, worrying that those attending the breakfasts will negatively impact the residential atmosphere of the Wooster Square community.

Dyer attributed the pushback to miscommunication and said many people thought incorrectly that the church was invested financially in the breakfast program.

“No money has been exchanged, no lease agreement has been signed,” Dyer said. “We are still in conversation about this, and yet people basically called me a liar.”

The current agreement lasts for six months and provides the church and the service organization the opportunity to back out within 30 days of the program’s start date, which is currently slated for sometime after Thanksgiving.

These breakfasts add to several food programs that St. Paul & St. James already hosts, including the Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry, which gives food to around 300 people every Saturday, making it the largest food pantry in New Haven. Will Oxford, program coordinator for Loaves and Fishes, said he found it interesting that people who live in Wooster Square pay less attention to this program and are more concerned with the new breakfasts.

Several community members voiced their concerns with the breakfast program at a meeting on Nov. 6, emphasizing in partic-

Art history changes draw mixed reactions

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER

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The new free breakfast program hosted at the Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James is expected to serve about 75 each weekday morning. ular their worry for the safety of children walking to schools in the neighborhood, including ConteWest Hills Magnet School.

At the meeting, held in the basement of St. Paul & St. James, Dyer and John Bradley, executive director of LCS, presented a preliminary proposal to the community. He said the weekly breakfasts offer an additional location to the many already in New Haven where people with food insecurity could come inside and eat. Bradley also underscored that the program would be privately funded. With the exception of two staff members — a director and a chef — it will be exclusively run by volunteers.

Anne Calabresi, a New Haven community volunteer and supporter of the breakfasts, said she hoped that someday the people who needed the food would run the program.

Wooster Square is a residential community classified by the city economic development office as a “transitional zone into the downtown,” Dyer said, adding that he suspects some people are fearful that the less desirable aspects of downtown New Haven will come to Wooster square as a result of the breakfast program. Bradley mentioned that other residents are worried about increased foot traffic in the area as a result of the program.

To alleviate these concerns, Dyer and Bradley said they are

both trying to keep lines of communication open with the community. Dyer will address many logistical concerns in an email to the community before Thanksgiving, including the maximum capacity of the church basement where the breakfasts will be served. Dyer and Bradley have already had conversations with the fire marshal and the director of the school.

Dyer said he also intends to work in conjunction with similar programs in the city to ensure breakfast attendees are directed away from the church to other food locations after the breakfast concludes.

Tensions among residents are currently high around Wooster Square, Dyer said, due in large part to current plans for the construction of 500 new luxury apartments, called 87 Union St. “It’s a small neighborhood and it has a very strong identity,” said Calabresi. “I don’t know whether [Dyer’s outreach will] change their minds personally but I think they’ll feel reassured that we have the situation in hand.”

Despite pushback, Dyer feels that offering the space for LCS to use is consistent with the religious mission of his church because St. Paul & St. James has long been a bastion of social outreach in New Haven.

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

Wooster residents strategize road safety

BY SARA SEYMOUR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a driver struck and killed New Haven resident Dolores Dogolo earlier this month, Wooster Square community members gathered last night to prevent future traffic accidents.

In looking to prevent future traffic deaths, residents specifically advocated for speed bumps, better police enforcement and functioning stoplights to improve traffic regulation in the area. Ward 8 Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, whose ward includes the site of the crime at the corner of Olive and Greene Streets, led the meeting with approximately 40 neighborhood residents at the Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James.

“As a neighbor, I feel like we’ve got to find a way to slow people down,” Greenberg said.

“That’s part of why we called this meeting to hear from our neighbors and from the experts how to accomplish that.”

Others in attendance included Mayor Toni Harp, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05, Director of the Department of Transportation Doug Hausladen ’04, two police officers and members of the Dogolo family.

The cars drive too fast [and] the pedestrians aren’t paying attention.

ROB CRISCUOLO Police officer, New Haven While many attendees inquired why the driver had not been charged, police officer Rob Criscuolo said that the police are still analyzing evidence to determine what happened before, during and after the accident.

There weren’t many details that they could share, in part because they are waiting for an autopsy to be completed.

Though the driver in this case has yet to be prosecuted, a few audience members pointed out that the drive could be charged with a $1,000 fine under the Vulnerable User Bill — a law that took effect this October that enacts stricter penalties on reckless drivers

who injure or kill vulnerable users, such as pedestrians or bikers.

Those in attendance spent the majority of the session strategizing ways to prevent these types of accidents.

When New Haven police give parking tickets, 100 percent of the money goes to the city, but when they give speeding tickets, they only receive $10. Several community members noted during the meeting that New Haven police officers give out parking tickets more frequently than speeding tickets, and that perhaps there should be more incentive for them to give speeding tickets to improve road safety.

Audience members lobbied for a greater police presence in the area to curb not only speeding, but also other forms of crime in the area.

“Should we start a Wooster Square militia to chase the speeders and the muggers?”

New Haven resident Brett Bird, who was mugged earlier in the week, asked, exasperated.

Hausladen underscored that traffic signs are regularly damaged or stolen throughout the city — another key impediment to improving traffic regulation.

Police officials sympathized with community members, but Criscuolo stressed that everyone is responsible for road safety.

“The cars drive too fast, the pedestrians aren’t paying attention and people don’t know the rules,” Criscuolo said.

At the end of the meeting, Hausladen and Zinn divided the room into two groups to brainstorm specific solutions. On maps of roads in the area, residents highlighted places where bike lanes might be useful, where stoplights malfunction and where additional crosswalks might be added.

Richard Bailey, a resident from the area, said he thought that strategically placed speed bumps might be extremely beneficial for the area.

“I live at the corner of Court and Olive, and I always have trouble crossing there … nine times out of 10 they don’t stop for you,” Katie Buick, another resident, said.

Buick also suggested that Olive could be a one-way street with better signage and that lines on the road should be repainted.

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

Since Yale’s art history major modified its requirements a year ago, several students and faculty members have expressed mixed feelings in response to the changes.

Changes implemented at the start of the 2013-14 academic year included updated course requirements that emphasize greater diversity of study in terms of geography and chronology, as well as the adoption of a new organizational “grid” to help students better map their trajectories within the major. History of Art Director of Undergraduate Studies Carol Armstrong said that while the number of required courses in the major has not changed, students will now be expected to take a wider variety of classes.

“Before, [the major] was ‘Western history of art’ with a sense that you would do at least one ‘non-Western’ course as part of the six distributional requirements,” Armstrong said. “It’s the same number of requirements, but now there are six requirements on the grid, and those six courses have to be spread out differently.”

The previous requirements stipulated that art history majors take courses in each of four areas, of which only one included art from non-Western cultures. That area encompassed African, African-American, Native American, pre-Columbian, Islamic and Asian art, while the other three were dedicated to individual periods in Western art history. Under the new requirements, students are expected to take courses in a minimum of four of the grid’s new geographical and chronological categories, which are more balanced than the previous system.

History of art major Adlon Adams ’15 said she thought the new changes were particularly effective in their ability to guide students in the major through different time periods and cultures. Fellow major Charlotte Belling ’16 added that she thinks the grid structure is extremely important to the major.

“The history of global visual culture includes a broad range of topics, and it is important to develop an awareness of the interconnected nature of this discipline by approaching art from a variety of contexts,” Belling said. “The grid allows students to look at art history from a global perspective and also explore the origins of styles over time.”

Some faculty members, including history of art and African American Studies DUS Erica James, said that they thought the decision to redesign the major was necessary. James added that she believes the shift was important with regards to the department’s current pedagogical goals and the state of the art history field as

a whole.

Armstrong highlighted that the change was heavily driven by student input. In addition to the fact that the department’s faculty is increasingly composed of scholars who specialize in “non-Western” areas of study, Armstrong added, feedback from the student body was also important in the decision to modify the requirements.

History of art major Austin Johnson ’16, who served on the committee of students that helped advise faculty and administrators in implementing the changes, said that while he believes the grid is a step in the right direction, the University still needs to hire more faculty who can teach classes on areas outside of Western art.

“The grid also pretty explicitly highlights areas where our course offerings are still lacking,” art history major Colleen McDermott ’15 said. “Requiring students to take classes in a variety of areas only goes so far if those classes do not actually exist.”

Armstrong said that there are already a number of faculty members who specialize in Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Caribbean arts, and that the department actually lacks faculty who study fields such as Renaissance, medieval and contemporary Western art. She added that she thinks the majority of art history students are willing to take a broad range of courses that focus on areas outside of Europe Art history major Alison Hutchison ’15 said she and several of her peers in the major chose not to follow the grid and instead adhere to the previous requirements, noting that current seniors have the option to do so because the changes were not necessarily in effect when they declared their major.

But McDermott said that in choosing to use the new system, she was able to expose herself to areas of art history that she would not have pursued under the earlier guidelines.

Pauline Chiquet ’15, another history of art major, said she thinks the new system has been effective in prioritizing a less Eurocentric view of art history, but noted that there is still progress to be made in terms of the number and “depth” of non-Western course offerings.

“I think the new grid definitely facilitates the study of a more ‘global art history,’” Belling said. “By breaking down the barriers associated with the terms ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western,’ students within the major are inclined to understand art history from a broad viewpoint rather than categorize artists or their works as one or the other.”

The Loria Center for the History of Art is located at 180 York St. Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .

Transgender author discusses identity

BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Tuesday evening, transgender activist and author Janet Mock visited campus to discuss her journey to self-discovery and recently published book, the New York Times bestseller “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More.”

Aside from being an author, Mock is also a contributing editor at Marie Claire and a former staff editor for People Magazine’s website. On Tuesday, Mock spoke at a panel discussion with Joseph Fischel, director of undergraduate studies for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies department, and Daniel Dangaran ’15, whose academic and extracurricular work focuses on LGBT issues and AIDS research. The event largely consisted of panel members asking questions to prompt Mock’s anecdotes and reflections.

Mock spoke about her life growing up in a male body in her native Hawaiian community, the struggles she faced after becoming a trans woman and publicly coming out in 2011, and the complexities of gender and sexuality in general. Mock said she thinks her personal journey gave her “different access points” into the transsexual experience, and that it is not possible to come up with a singular definition of it.

“There is no such thing as the [singular] ‘trans experience,’” Mock said. “But as a writer, I am committed to speaking truth, and that’s why I chose memoir as a space to not only share my own very personal experiences, but also to do the manifesto, activist-y work of contextualizing those personal experiences.”

Mock compared her life and her memoir to that of Janie Crawford, the protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Like Crawford, Mock tells her story in her book as if she was speaking to a dear friend.

Specifically, Mock addresses her partner Aaron, and tells him about the journey by which she discov-

ered herself.

Mock also talked about the concept of identity generally, comparing it to a kaleidoscope. She expanded on this fluid idea of identity during the question and answer portion of the event, when several audience members brought up the question of how to identify people of different genders.

“We should be more neutral in our usage of pronouns and how we brand people’s identities,” she said.

“Everyone here is a person and a “they”, in my default interaction.

Let’s check those assumptions and be more clear with what we mean.”

The stigmas carried by transgender persons are especially harsh on transgender women, Mock said, adding that they are often called “fake women.” When asked about the specifics of her own transformation, Mock said she had strict boundaries and would not share details about her operation because they would be taken out of the full context of her story.

She added that when she originally came out to the press, she left out details about her days as a sex worker. However, in her book,

she said, she shares those details openly. People tend to tell parts of their stories when they feel it is most appropriate, she added.

Audience members interviewed commended Mock’s personality and attitude.

New Haven resident Eric Rowe said he was impressed by how candid and open Mock was.

“It was great that she is a straight-talker, and a lot of people were able to come here and ask questions on a very personal level because she was open enough to share about herself,” Rowe said.

Aaron Berman ’16 said Mock was strikingly down-to-earth and accessible.

Nneoma Adaku ’15 said it was important that Mock called out audience members for making assumptions while using gender pronouns, because it reminded people to be conscious of these issues.

Tuesday marked the fifth day of Transgender Awareness Week in the United States.

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

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In Tuesday’s panel, transgender activist and author Janet Mock discussed her new book “Redefining Realness.”

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FROM THE FRONT

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU AMERICAN AUTHOR

Report outlines FAS Senate structure FAS FROM PAGE 1 The full report will be circulated to FAS faculty by the end of the week.

The drafted fact sheet — which was distributed at a FAS town hall meeting two weeks ago — provides a glimpse of what will ultimately be included in the final report.

The impending release moves Yale one step closer to changing the way faculty governance is conducted, bringing Yale in line with peer institutions like Stanford and University of California, Berkeley that have already implemented an elected body for faculty.

“The FAS Senate provides a clear voice for FAS faculty and serves as a form and deliberative body for the discussions of FAS issues,” the document read.

“It also creates a formal conduit between the administration and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.”

FAS Dean Tamar Gendler said that since the creation of the senate was already endorsed by FAS faculty in December 2013, the vote will reflect how faculty would like to structure and conduct their senate.

As a faculty member in the FAS, Gendler will be eligible to vote in elections. However, as a full-time administrator, she will not be able to stand for a position in the senate.

“People who are full-time administrators don’t have a lot of extra time, and it makes very good sense to reserve positions in the faculty senate for people who have the time to devote the care it deserves,” she said.

According to the latest draft, which Wilkinson confirmed would be consistent with the final report, the size of the faculty senate would be held at 22 members — subject to periodic review — and will be made up of ladder and full-time non-ladder FAS faculty.

FAS Senate Nominating Committee

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Members serve two year terms, staggered, with no more than three consecutive terms. All FAS ladder faculty and full-time non-ladder teaching faculty teaching are eligible to stand and vote for elections. The FAS Senate is composed of a six member executive council of senate members, with a Chair and Secretary.

The proposed membership of 22 senators contrasts with the initial recommendation by the Faculty Input Committee in November 2013 to have membership of 35–40 professors. Wilkinson said that because proposed term lengths were reduced from three years to two years, it was more appropriate to have a smaller number of FAS senators as well.

“We felt it was probably better to start smaller and if that proved inadequate in the future, we can change to revise that,” Wilkinson said. “It is better to have fewer people doing a better job for delib-

eration than just requiring more people to go to meetings.”

Political science and philosophy professor Seyla Benhabib said it was important that the committee revised its initial three-year terms to two-year terms since senate responsibilities may conflict with sabbatical schedules. The University permits tenured faculty to go on sabbatical within a three-year time frame, so some senior faculty would not be willing to forfeit their sabbatical to serve on the senate, she said.

However, Benhabib said she largely supported the creation of

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low makes it so people have to be proactive about access to their body when it should be the opposite,” he said. “The default should not be you assume somebody is willing based on any number of cues.”

Verboncoeur said he also opposed Rubenfeld’s claim that a heightened definition of consent might lead some people to consider themselves victims when they are in fact not.

Andrea Katz LAW ’16, another signatory, said in an email that she disagreed with Rubenfeld’s discussion of consent. Katz argued that asking for and giving positive consent in sexual encounters should be encouraged, and that sexual autonomy should not be trivialized.

Though Katz said she agreed with Rubenfeld’s assertion that students need to be taught about bystander intervention,

Nominating Committee Member

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At-Large Member

Biology & Physical Sciences & Engineering

A New York Times op-ed by Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld has faced critique from students.

Students i n te rv i ewe d expressed various reasons for signing the letter.

“The op-ed continues to reinforce dangerous stereotypes, ignores or mischaracterizes important facts and well-developed lines of argument on this issue and is ultimately wrong on both the problem of and purpose of proposed solutions for addressing campus sexual misconduct,” said Megan Wachspress LAW ’15, who signed the letter.

Mitch Verboncoeur LAW ’17 said he first heard about the letter via email. Though he said he thought Rubenfeld had good intentions while writing the op-ed, he said he chose to sign the letter because he disagreed with Rubenfeld’s view of consent.

“Keeping the standard too

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Rubenfeld faces criticism on op-ed

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With eight supporting signatures — 1 percent of electorate — individuals can self-nominate or receive peer-nominations

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she added that she did not agree with Rubenfeld’s suggestion that campus sexual misconduct proceedings be more closely tied to the judicial system.

“I disagree with his jump to criminalizing campus rape and his move to bring in the police,” Katz said.

Katz said Julie Veroff LAW ’15 and Alexandra Brodsky LAW ’16, who could not be reached for comment, sent a message to “the Wall,” an online student forum, circulating the letter.

James Mandilk LAW ’17, who saw the letter on the Wall, said it has sparked the longest thread on the online forum that he has seen.

“It’s generated a lot of buzz [around campus],” he said.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

the FAS Senate and believed lingering questions regarding the structure can be worked out once the initial body is formed.

“Conflicts over the recent years, ranging from Shared Services to Yale-NUS, have shown the need for a forum where broader policy discussion with the faculty can take place,” she said. “If the new Faculty Senate is to achieve its goals, most important will be its capacity to set its own agenda of discussion on issues that elected members consider of significance whether or not this has been given the green light by the administra-

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tion.”

History professor Daniel Kevles said that while difficulties will likely arise in establishing any new governing body, especially without local precedent, he believes these “kinks” will be worked out in time.

In addition to term length and membership size, the proposal recommended the creation of a six-member executive council of FAS Senate members, with a chair and secretary. The role of the executive council will be to serve as a liaison with members of the administration on a more regular basis and define the agendas

of the senate meetings, Wilkinson said. Further, the proposal stated that a nominating committee of five faculty will encourage faculty candidates to run. However, selfnomination and peer-nomination would also be allowed, Wilkinson said.

The committee recommended that Faculty Forum meetings be discontinued, but also suggested that Yale College faculty meetings continue to discuss college-specific issues.

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

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 2:00 PM Film: “In God’s Land” by Pankaj Rishi Kumar. After taming a former wasteland through hard work and sweat, the settlers created a community. Now the clergy owns the land, and the settlers must decide how to deal with the dispute. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud. 4:50 PM “Afghanistan: Stories from a Country at Crossroads.” Talk by Poynter Fellow Mujib Mashal, co-sponsored by the Yale Globalist. Mashal will talk about the realities of life in Afghanistan and the challenges of extremism in South Asia.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 5:30 PM “Shaping Humanity.” Artist John Gurche’s new book, “Shaping Humanity,” focuses on his work for the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Human Origins. The fossil record has shown that human evolution has not been a process where all of the features we consider human evolved slowly together in tandem. Making sculpture that reflected the adaptive milieu of each species of human ancestor was Gurche’s task, and he details the moments in the creation of each of 15 sculptures for the new hall. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 2:00 PM Yale Farm Workdays. The Friday workday ends with pizza for all — cooked in the farm’s hearth oven. 345 Edwards St.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 4:00 PM The Rules. A response to the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado, this play examines the aftermath of a traumatic event from the perspective of its secondary victims and exposes the necessary fiction of action and consequence that underlies the notion of justice. Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel St.).

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THE GAME

“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY AMERICAN AUTHOR AND COMMENTATOR

Conditioned freshman class prepares for The Game

BY DREW MEGERIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As The Game approaches, Eli freshmen are gearing up, ready to bring the heat that has powered Yale to eight victories this year.

Through the first nine games, the Bulldog squad has accumulated an impressive (8–1, 5–1 Ivy) record and are in position to claim a piece of the Ivy League

title should they defeat Harvard on Nov. 22. The 32-member freshman class has been key to Team 142’s success this year.

Of those 32, five rookie bulldogs stand out.

JASON ALESSI ’18 (DB/K):

Hailing from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Alessi is the definition of a multi-threat. Through seven games, Alessi has displayed not only the vision and poise nec-

essary to be an elite defensive back, but also the strength and speed to compete as a kicker and kick returner.

As DB, Alessi has assisted five tackles and recorded 32 of his own, the eighth highest total on the team. In his single kick return, Alessi ran for 31 yards — the second longest return recorded this season. He also pulled down two interceptions against Columbia for a total of

43 yards.

ROSS DRWAL ’18 (WR):

Though a multi-sport athlete in high school, and a two-time 4x400 Nebraska state champion in track, Drwal has focused all his efforts on football while wearing the blue and white.

This effort has more than paid off. “[Ross] is a great addition to the receiving squad, pulling in a

huge touchdown against Army,” quarterback Andrew Johnson ’18 said. “His athletic ability allows him to always make a play.”

Through four varsity seasons at Millard West, his Omaha, Neb., high school team, Drwal put up 4,447 all-purpose yards and 54 touchdowns. Only eight games and four receptions into his Yale career, Drwal has already found the end zone for a touchdown, recording a notable 22-yard reception along the way.

MATT OPLINGER ’18 (LB):

Two months into the season, Oplinger — the Summit, New Jersey, native — is one of the few freshmen who can say that they have made an appearance in all nine games. Though new to the linebacker position, Oplinger has adjusted well, becoming one of the cores of Yale’s defensive squad.

Through those nine games, Oplinger has assisted 14 tackles and taken down 39 of his own, managing to grab an interception against Ivy foe Cornell in his third game. Oplinger has proven himself as a true freshman power, and his teammates have taken notice.

“He’s a hustler. He’s a monster. He’s so strong and fast at the same time, [and] it’s impressive that he’s started from game one as an inside linebacker,” Alessi said.

MICHAEL SIRAGUSA JR. ’18 (WR):

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Wide out Mike Siragusa ’18 has five receptions for 43 yards in the six games he has seen action in his freshman season.

Much like his teammate Alessi, the 6-foot-3 receiver has displayed his impact as a dualthreat. Heading into the final game of the season, Michael “Goose” Siragusa has proven not only his finesse as a player and receiver, but also his strength of character as a teammate.

“Goose has a very laid back personality, but is very hard working and it creates a fun environment … [It] pushes the receivers to be the best they can be,” Drwal said.

Siragusa, the Cleveland, Ohio native hailing from perennial powerhouse St. Ignatius high school, has already appeared in six games. With five receptions and 43 yards to his name, “Goose” is sure to continue to impress — just as he did at the 2013 National Underclassman Combine, where he won MVP.

HAYDEN CARLSON ’18 (DB):

Hailing from Glen Ellyn, Ill., Carlson adds another dimension to the strong Bulldog defense already bolstered by Alessi and Oplinger. Carlson is not new to success in this regard. At Glenbark West high school, a team for which he captained senior year, he set the state record for most tackles in a state championship game with 14.

Through eight games for Yale, Carlson has recorded six assisted tackles and 21 solo tackles. Also like Alessi and Oplinger, Carlson has pulled down an interception, though his was for a 33-yard return. Alessi, Oplinger and Carlson have accounted for 40 percent of all Bulldog interceptions.

Alessi, Drwal, Oplinger, Siragusa and Carlson are not alone, however. The entire 32-member freshman class has shown themselves to be capable of leading the Elis to victories, and the future looks bright.

Defensive end John Herubin, cornerback Jamal Locke, defensive end Earl Chism, and the next generation of Yale quarterbacks, led by Andrew Johnson ’18, Rafe Chapple ’18 and Stephen Barmore ’18, among others, have shown great promise. And while they may not all get their time in the 2014 Game, they are sure to be staples in the Yale lineup for years to come.

When the Bulldogs take on the Crimson in Cambridge at 12:30 p.m., ESPN’s College GameDay will air at 9:00 a.m.

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

A promising leader in Oluokun

BY JULIA YAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale’s defense is one of the youngest squads in the Ancient Eight. Still, it has persevered game after game and kept the Bulldogs in the running for the Ivy League championship, delivering one of the Bulldogs’ best seasons in recent memory.

One of those young defensive backs is Foyesade Oluokun ’17.

At 6’2” and 219 lbs., Oluokun started all nine games this season and currently leads the defense with 71 total tackles, 18 more than second-best Darius Manora ’17. His season-high of 16 tackles in the game against Colgate also marked the highest number of tackles in a single game for the team.

Oluokun was a standout as soon as he joined the team his freshman season. Starting all 10 games last season, Oluokun ranked third on defense with 44 total tackles and was named to the second-team All-Ivy. In addition, he was named to the College Sports Journal AllFreshman Team and was the only recipient in the Ivy League.

Oluokun said that while he was not surprised to join the starting lineup his freshman year, he was humbled by the experience and only wanted to play his best.

“I never thought I was that good coming out of high school, but I always knew I was bigger and athletic … enough to play the game,” Oluokun said. “So for me, I was not that surprised to play that much freshman year. I accepted my role [and] what the coach wanted — I played.”

Right off the bat, Oluokun finished his first career game against Colgate with seven total tackles, second on the team.

He consistently progressed throughout the season, capturing his first interception in the Bulldogs’ fourth game against Dartmouth and achieved his season-high of 13 tackles in the game against Brown.

Those numbers, however, do not tell the whole story. Behind the impressive stats was a freshman who, like many of his teammates, struggled to elevate his game to the collegiate level.

“Coming into college, I realized I was big as a freshman but not as strong,” Oluokun said.

“People were stronger and faster than I was used to in high school, and I could no longer just rely on my natural abilities. I had to start learning techniques and taking the coaches’ advice.”

Playing among such a young defense, Oluokun said that he — along with Dale Harris ’17 and Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 — always sought leadership and support from fellow defensive back Cole Champion ’16. Even though Champion was only a sophomore in Oluokun’s freshman season, Champion always seemed to understand what the coaches taught and alleviated any confusion among the freshmen, according to Oluokun.

Oluokun respected Champion for not only for his experience but also passion for the game.

“I could see that [Champion] really cared about the game, and I look up to that,” said Oluokun.

When he returned to the field for his second season, Oluokun said, he became stronger, faster and more confident on the field.

In addition, he said that playing with the same group of defenders, namely Champion, Harris and Rymiszewski, has only made them more comfortable with one another. Watching more film after practice also helped the defenders minimize errors during the games, according to Oluokun.

When asked about his improvements throughout the past year, Oluokun said he has overcome major mental obstacles that deterred his performance freshman year.

“Last year, [the issues] were always mental,” said Oluokun.

“Once you are caught up with the physical parts of the game — when you are not thinking about the game but just playing the game — you know you are playing well.”

Oluokun attributes much of his success as a defensive back to his physique. Having a large frame, he said, has helped him in man-to-man coverage as well as assisting teammates Harris and Rymiszewski.

Teammate and defensive end Victor Egu ’17 agreed that Foye’s

physique has been key to his performance. “[Oluokun] has performed well all this season. He brings size, speed, strength and physicality to our secondary,” Egu said. “He really pushes our defense to the next level because of his effort. I trust [Oluokun] to do his job well and perform well on the field.”

Linebacker Darius Manora ’17 echoed Egu’s sentiments, adding that Oluokun’s size has allowed him to make big hits in the run game as well as the pass game.

Oluokun, however, believes there is still room for improvement.

This season, Oluokun said

he aspires to take more chances during the games, which require that he first feel more comfortable with his capabilities.

Improving his physique, he said, is a major way through which he could do so.

“I do not like getting pushed around. I do not like getting tackled or being the weaker one,” said Oluokun, “I want to get bigger and faster … Footwork, athleticism, strength and speed are what football is all about on the defensive side, along with aggression and confidence.”

While Oluokun focuses on improving himself on the field, he also recognizes his burgeoning role as a leader among a young defense. For players like

himself who have had experience on the field, Oluokun said they must lead by example and allow younger players to trust that they know what they are doing.

Especially for freshman players Jason Alessi ’18 and Hayden Carlson ’18, both of whom recently stepped up to fulfill Rymezewski’s place after his injury, Oluokun is a leader they look up to. “[Oluokun] is a selfless leader.

He always leads by example and picks people up when things are not going our way,” Carlson said.

Manora and Harris agreed that Oluokun’s success on the field as well as his determination to improve have forged him

into a leader for younger players. Whether the team is up by 21 or down by 21, Manora said that Oluokun is always focused and motivating the team to do better.

According to Harris, Oluokun has had a role since the beginning of freshman year and is evolving into a leader. “[Oluokun] is definitely taking a role to become a leader on the team,” Harris said. “The fact that he has been consistently improving day by day and is why he is evolving more as a leader.”

Oluokun graduated from Johns Burroughs High School in St. Louis in 2013.

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

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Defensive back Foyesade Oluokun ’17 has two interceptions for 32 yards this season.

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ARTS & CULTURE Undergrad jazz group releases album

BY JOEY YE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale’s jazz scene recently reached a new milestone, as an undergraduate group teamed up with a music industry legend to make their first album.

Composed of Alexander Dubovoy ’16, Hans Bilger ’16, Eli Brown ’17, Harvey Xia ’16 and Emma Akrawi ’14, Newspeak released a digital album titled “Machinery of Night” last Tuesday. Eleventime Grammy winner and recording engineer Jack Renner produced the album. Members of the ensemble noted that the songs in the album focused on an organic and intimate style that is different than what many people normally associate with jazz music.

“The underlying idea was that when a lot of people hear that we are a jazz group, they automatically pigeonhole that into us playing bebop or one of the older styles,” said Dubovoy, pianist and leader of Newspeak.

Dubovoy explained that the album was largely inspired by the Allen Ginsberg poem “Howl,” noting that the album’s title comes from a line in the poem. He said that one track, titled “Interlude: Howl,” sets the words in the poem to a piece that he composed in high school, adding that many of the poem’s themes are echoed throughout the album.

The design on the album’s cover features an amorphous collection of gears, wheels and tubes that are mostly colored black, blue or white. Annelisa Leinbach ’16, a former illustrations editor for the News who created the cover art, said she centered the imagery on ideas drawn from the album’s title and atmosphere.

Initially drawn in black and blue on white paper, the image was then scanned and inverted to create an inverse of the original drawing, she explained.

“I liked the sort of night effect that it created, and that was something that we talked about a lot,” Leinbach said. “It has a dark romantic feel to it.”

Bilger, who plays bass in the group, said that his favorite song in the album was “Oyfn Pripetchik,” an old Yiddish lullaby that Dubovoy’s grandfather used to sing. Bilger noted that much of the original melody is maintained, though group members have altered several parts of the song by adding musical lines that they devised.

The final recording session for the album took place in May. Dubovoy said that after most of the album had been recorded, he and Bilger decided to spend some time improvising music, which resulted in the duo recording a new interpretation of the traditional bluegrass tune, “Tennes-

see Waltz.” Dubovoy noted that he was unfamiliar with the song prior to recording it for the album.

“I didn’t know the chords to ‘Tennessee Waltz’ before we played it, which is why the track starts off with just Hans playing, because he’s kind of teaching it to me as he plays it in the intro,” Dubovoy said.

The group’s name, Newspeak, is a reference to the language used by the autocracy in British author George Orwell’s “1984.” Xia explained that the group chose the term as their name because the word, which sounds like “new speak,” represented the group’s progressive style.

“We’re introducing new sounds, a new language,” Xia said.

“We try to do more than just playing jazz standards by adding our own creativity and spontaneity.”

Julian Rosenblum ’18, a member of the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective who has performed with members of Newspeak, highlighted the group’s original approach to jazz. He explained that while most Jazz Collective events feature only traditional jazz pieces, Newspeak has always been known for their modern interpretations of such works.

Newspeak was founded in 2012.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Yale undergraduate jazz group Newspeak has collaborated with music industry legend Jack Renner to put forth its first album .

Films to promote human rights

BY EMILY XIAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A group of undergraduates is planning to use love tragedies and interstellar swashbuckling in the fight for human rights.

The student organization Yale for North Korean Human Rights is partnering with the North Korea Strategy Center, a Seoul-based non-governmental organization that promotes democracy and human rights in North Korea, to smuggle movie-filled USB drives to North Korean citizens. The group is planning to gather on Cross Campus after Thanksgiving

Break to encourage student participation in the project by having passersby photographed while holding signs that read, “If I could show a movie to a North Korean citizen, I would show ____.”

YNKHR president Steven Kang ’16 said that such events go beyond traditional forms of raising awareness, such as inviting guest speakers.

“There’s got to be some kind of activist focus, where the people in our group can feel like they’re actually making an impact,” Kang said.

One movie-filled USB will be sent to North Korea for every

ten student photos taken. Kang explained that USB drives are ideal for smuggling because they are small and easy to conceal.

NKSC, which is run by North Korean defectors, smuggled over 2,000 USB drives and over 10,000 movies into North Korea in 2013.

The group also plans to make a short video that will be delivered along with the USB drives. The group will hold a meeting tonight in which attendees will contribute suggestions and ideas for the video’s content.

In addition, Joseph Kim, an NKSC representative, will discuss topics ranging from the emer-

gence of the North Korean black market to defectors’ accounts of life in North Korea. Kang noted that the group devotes a large amount of attention to issues that are not frequently publicized. He said that while mainstream media has tended to focus more on topics such as North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, the lives of average North Korean citizens are also worth examining.

YNKHR Vice President Paul Lee ’17 added that the organization brings in a range of speakers and projects in order to address different aspects of North Korea, such as political and diplomatic

issues.

YNKHR treasurer Claire Kim ’18 explained that watching Western films can expose North Korean citizens to worlds vastly different from their own. She pointed to the experience of North Korean defector Yeonmi Park, who described watching “Titanic” as a turning point in her life at the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum.

Claire Kim said she believes that the influence of Western culture has introduced a generational gap in North Korea, with “one [generation] that still remains faithful to the regime, but [another] that knows of the exis-

tence of a world beyond theirs and is driven by a natural curiosity to experience it.”

Min Kwon ’18 praised the group’s efforts to inform students of the severity of the situation in North Korea.

“Any project or event, successful or not, is a contributing factor [to] increasing knowledge about North Korea and allowing students to be more cognizant,” Kwon said.

The North Korea Strategy Center was founded in 2007.

Contact EMILY XIAO at emily.xiao@yale.edu .

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“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

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Artist talks gender, research process

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER From studying birds in James Bond films to tracing the history of genocide victims in Bosnia, visual artist Taryn Simon has traveled far and wide to build her diverse portfolio.

In a talk at the Yale School of Art’s Green Hall yesterday afternoon, Simon spoke to roughly 30 students, faculty and local community members about a variety of topics, including her recent projects, the importance of research in art and the experience of being a woman in the

visual art world. Simon, who frequently works in photography, text and graphic design, complemented her talk with a slideshow that cycled through many of her creations.

“I can’t tell you how many articles start with the way I’m dressed and then move on to my work,” said Simon. “But I never let that interfere with my work.”

Simon noted that while her gender has raised certain challenges for her career, it has also helped her transcend boundaries in her profession. Simon said she thinks the only way she can oppose the negative stereotyping

of women in the arts is through her work.

In addition, Simon emphasized the importance she gives to the research process in her artwork. She explained that the physical creation of art itself does not take much time compared to the task of planning out the artwork.

“I find it very hard to proceed without research,” said Simon. “[A project] always starts with writing and this kind of invisible development.”

For example, Simon noted, a picture — whether it is a photograph or a work of graphic design

— should reflect the research that went into its creation.

She said that even with pieces of equipment that she uses to make her work, she spends large amounts of time in studying and understanding how the equipment functions.

Simon then discussed the concept of failure in one’s life, noting that she sometimes depicts symbols related to failure in her art.

“I’m always devastated by failure, but then it usually becomes the central component of my work … the empty portraits and the quotes of fail-

ure,” Simon said. “Whenever I encounter something that I can’t get past, I incorporate it into my work.”

Simon also briefly spoke about the censorship to which her work has been subjected. She noted that in China, all the text from one of her works was censored so she had to paint black fields where the text should have been.

Audience members interviewed appreciated the conversational style and informative nature of Simon’s talk.

Andrew Delucha , a freelance photographer, said he appreciated Simon’s talk but wished

he had seen more images of her work during the lecture.

Graham Harboe ’15 said he was particularly intrigued by Simon’s discussion and exploration of modern-day themes and inventions in her work.

“She put together how everyone is relating to ‘instant moments’ through things like Instagram and words like ‘LOL,’” Harboe said. “These things transcend geographical boundaries.”

Yale appointed Taryn Simon a lecturer in photography in 2009.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

Local exhibition redefines self-portraiture

BY TRESA JOSEPH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new art exhibition will display the work of local artists who are reinterpreting the concept of the self-portrait.

“More than a Face” opens today at the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery on Audubon Street and features 23 pieces from nine New Haven artists, including Jessica Cuni, Anne DorisEisner and Thuan Vu, among others. The exhibition focuses on atypical depictions of selfportraits — none of the works on display show the artists’ actual faces. Marissa Rozanski, the exhibition’s curator, said the artwork instead depicts landscapes, objects, scenes and various symbols that the artists think are reflective of their personalities.

“I want it to be a space where [viewers] look at what they wouldn’t immediately think of as a self-portrait and kind of reorient and reevaluate the subject matter,” Rozanski said.

Three featured artists interviewed emphasized that they believe the exhibit subtly explores the degree to which every piece an artist creates is a “self-portrait.” Cuni said she thinks that any work can be a self-portrait because it is inherently a representation of the artist’s unique experiences.

Rozanski said that because the featured artists are allowed to freely interpret the concept of self-portraits, the works in the exhibition range from sculptures and drawings to combinations of artistic media. The concept lends itself to very accessible and symbolic pieces as well as abstract interpretations of the self, she added, noting that the pieces include detailed drawings of brain MRIs to outdoor landscapes.

“Because the themes of the show really depend on one’s individual interpretation and reflection of the show, it is inherently going to be very diverse,” Cuni said.

Cuni and Doris-Eisner added

that the challenge of finding objects, symbols and scenes that represent artists as individuals often result in particularly personal pieces.

Vu’s “self-portraits” depict landscapes that represent his parents’ escape from Vietnam to America during the Vietnam War. He said he thinks that making a self-portrait in such a manner illuminates how it can represent a mental state rather than a physical appearance.

Doris-Eisner said that creating a piece of self-reflection that does not depict the physical self allowed her to discover new ways of understanding her past experiences. An example of such a work is her piece “Fertility,” which provided a vehicle for her to reflect on a painful part of her personal history.

Debbie Hesse, director of artists services and programs, highlighted that the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery caters well to emerging curators looking to organize exhibits because of the gallery’s atmosphere and level of recognition within the community. Artists interviewed added that the space doubles as a office area with cubicles and narrow hallways, which brings benefits as well as drawbacks when showcasing the type of work featured in the exhibition.

“It creates an intimacy that encourages one to be up closer to the piece,” Doris-Eisner said.

The exhibition may provide an opportunity for viewers to engage in some self-reflection of their own and think about what their own non-facial portrait would look like, Cuni added.

Vu said he hopes that visitors will take the time to piece together the artists’ identities based on their “self-portraits.”

“I hope they can sense the humanity behind the work and feel who the artist is behind the work,” Vu said.

The exhibition will close on Jan. 2, 2015.

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

MARISSA ROZANSKI/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

“More than a Face” opens at the Summer McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery on Audubon, and will feature works that aim to redefine the concept of self-portraiture,

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“[Matt Oplinger ’18] is a hustler. He’s a monster. He’s so strong and fast at the same time, [and] it’s impressive that he’s started from game one as an inside linebacker.”

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Bulldogs fall in season opener

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite a largely even match, the woman’s basketball program was unable to secure a win in its first game of the season against St. John’s.

The Bulldogs opened their season Saturday evening with a game against St. John’s. The team was expected to be one of Yale’s toughest opponents, having been ranked

second in the Big East Preseason’s Coaches’ Poll. Although confident in their ability to match up against St. John’s, the Elis struggled on rebounding and containing offensive plays, leading to a final score of 61–50.

St. John’s scored the first basket, but Yale quickly followed with a three pointer by Meghan McIntyre ’17, after which the two teams scored back and forth for most of the first half. But with

roughly six minutes left on the clock in the first half, the Red Storm began to pull away — at three minutes to halftime, the score had become 27–17. Although Yale attempted to catch up, the first half ended with a score of 31–21.

Despite the lead acquired early by the Red Storm, Bulldog captain Sarah Haleijan ’15 was content with the way the team dealt with the situation.

“We did a good job of bouncing back and not panicking after St. John’s went on their runs,” Haleijan said.

The second half proved to be much more successful for the Elis. By the 10-minute mark, the Elis trailed St. John’s by just three points, 41–38.

Haleijan noted that the team was more settled in the second half and was able to put in the effort to make the necessary adjustments

head coach Chris Gobrecht had asked of them at the half.

At the six-minute mark, Haleijan made two free throws, which brought the score to a close 45–44. However, the last five minutes of the game would turn out to be crucial. St. John’s would again extend its lead, reaching a maximum of 12 points, and then falling to 11 points at the game’s end.

“Unfortunately, despite stay-

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ing close in score the whole game, they raised their level of play in the last five minutes and we did not,” Haleijan said.

One of the biggest challenges in this game for the Bulldogs was getting rebounds. Yale was outrebounded 25–13 in the first half, and despite improving to 22–18 in the second half, the team still showed a significantly lower rebound rate than the Red Storm.

St. John’s forward Amber Thompson grabbed 14 rebounds alone — almost half of what the Bulldogs had throughout the entire game.

Mary Ann Santucci ’18 admitted that St John’s was able to get many offensive rebounds, but said that in the second half the team rebounded much better and did not allow them to get as many offensive boards.

Haleijan expressed a similar opinion, adding that the team needed to do a better job of rebounding and containing dribble penetration in future games.

Despite the loss, the Bulldogs are looking ahead to their next challenge, another home game, this time against Holy Cross.

“We completely put this loss behind us and put our focus on Holy Cross because we have a quick turnaround between these two games,” Haleijan said. “There were, however, teaching points from the St. John’s game that will carry over and have helped us prepare for Holy Cross.”

The game was also a good display of the skill of both reserves and freshmen additions. Yale had a total of 10 bench points throughout the game, 20 percent of all of the Elis’ points.

St. John’s is the only Big East team Yale will play this season.

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

JIAHUI HU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Captain Sarah Halejian ’15 put up 15 points in the Bulldogs’ 61–50 loss to St. John’s.

Bulldogs drop 13th game of season

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER In Brian Tompkins’s last match as Yale soccer’s head coach, the Elis took on the 2014 Ivy League Co-Champions, Princeton. As they have nearly every time this season, the Bulldogs fell short.

MEN’S SOCCER The Tigers defeated the Bulldogs (1–13–3, 0–6–1 Ivy) 1–0.

This season Princeton topped the Ancient Eight table with an impressive 11–3–3 record and a near perfect 5–1–1 in conference mark. Despite another valiant defensive effort on the Bulldogs’ part, a habitual lack of offensive production and a single defensive lapse accounted for their fourth straight loss.

In Yale’s last home matchup, neither side produced much in the way of offense over the course of the game’s 90 minutes. Princeton landed just four shots on target out of 13 total, while Yale managed just three shots on goal out of 11. Almost all of the match’s competitive metrics were equal — with Yale and Princeton having the same number of corner kicks, fouls and saves between them.

However, disaster for the Elis struck midway through the second half when Ivy League standout, Cameron Porter, buried a rebounded shot that Blake Brown ’15 had initially saved. When time expired, Porter’s goal handed Yale

its ninth 1-0 loss of the season.

“It was a pretty emotional experience for everyone involved,” forward Teddy Mauze ’18 said. “We all desperately wanted to send Coach Tompkins and our four seniors off with a win. We had our opportunities and failed to put them away, which made the post-game ceremonies even tougher to swallow.”

Defender Henry FlugstadClarke ’17 added that he thought Tompkins was an incredible coach who leaves behind a strong legacy.

The Elis were simply unable to produce anything offensively all season. Their best chance against Princeton came when forward Avery Schwarz ’16 launched a shot that deflected off Princeton’s pipe and away from danger, underscoring the Elis’ inability to create quality chances. In 17 games, the Bulldogs managed to produce just seven goals, one of the worst 17 game scoring marks in Yale soccer history.

Furthermore, the Elis produced just three goals in seven Ivy League contests, marking them as the worst scoring offense in the Ancient Eight. Additionally, despite strong defensive efforts, the Elis conceded an Ivy League worst 11 in-conference goals this season, making them the worst statistical defense in Ivy competition.

This season was the Elis’ worst record under Tompkins’s leadership and their first one-win season since 1922, when the Elis

played just six games. The Bulldogs have never before failed to win at least three games in a 17 game season. In fact, Yale has only posted seven seasons with one or fewer wins since 1908, including

2014.

“It has been my privilege to coach some great teams and many terrific players in my time at Yale, and therefore it has been disappointing to see the team strug-

gle to win this fall,” Tompkins said. “There is work to be done to strengthen and rebuild parts of the program, but my successor on the sidelines will have a good core of players to work with, and there

is no reason that the team cannot bounce back and become a force very quickly.”

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

HENRY EHRENBERG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The Bulldogs ended the 2014 season on a four-game losing streak.

STAT OF THE DAY 71

TOTAL NUMBER OF TACKLES FOYESADE OLUOKUN ’17 HAS ACCUMULATED IN THE 2014 SEASON. After nine games this season, Oluokun tops the charts for the Bulldogs, with 38 tackles and 33 assisted tackles for a total of 71.