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New Haven Promise develops

Is that it? After much

commotion and hoopla, On Harvard Time finally released its prank video for this year’s game. Let’s just say it was a little underwhelming — after all, it is a little hard to pull a fast one on a campus that already knows what’s happening. But on the bright side, the Cantabs got to pretend that they were Yale students for a day, which they seem to really like doing.

guides are hosting an arts and crafts event today in the Center. At “The Game” Tea, attendees will prepare for Saturday’s matchup in a classy and civil way. Which is refreshing (like the tea they’ll be drinking, we suppose).

W, X, Y and Z. Former President George W. Bush ’68 was adorned with yet another honor yesterday, when it was announced that a Texas elementary school would be named after him.

Doing it all. USCHO.com, one of college hockey’s preeminent media sources, profiled Yale’s squad after its weekend sweep of Dartmouth and Harvard.

Lauding the Eli skaters’ ability to fill multiple positions to make up for injured players, the article hinted at optimism for the rest of the Bulldogs’ season.

Deliver me. Little-known fact: New Haven is home to some of the best mail carriers in the country. The U.S. Postal Service announced yesterday that 44 Elm City deliverymen and women will be inducted into the National Safety Council’s “Million Mile Club” for consistently getting packages from A to B safely.

Salute.

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long after putting on its fall semester show, A Different Drum is back at it. The troupe is offering “Dance Grams,” which students can send to their friends after break ends.

The delivery? “An interpretive dance or the Mean Girls infamous talent show number.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1880 The Yale College Council votes, 16 to 11, against a proposal to place a Council member on each important University committee, citing concerns about efficiency.

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event, the sixth of its kind, is hosted

by New Haven Promise. The event kicked off on Wednesday evening with speeches from NHP Executive Director Patricia Melton and Mayor Toni Harp.

Harp emphasized that having the conference in New Haven would help further NHP’s efforts to expand college access.

“I think the fact we’ve been able

To computer science professor Michael Fischer, there is something in the University’s decision to continue budget cuts that does not add up.

“Somehow crying poor in the face of an administration that has recently spent $17 million on the president’s mansion and given million-dollar bonuses to top administrators does not ring true,” Fischer said.

Fischer is not alone — the formal announcement that the administration would continue budget cuts brought renewed criticism from faculty across the University. On Tuesday, faculty and staff received an email from University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak confirming what had long been suspected: Yale would maintain the three-year budget targets set last fall.

The statement clarified that despite positive news — including a slight surplus in the fiscal 2014 year, strong revenue from the medical school clinical practice and the endowment at an all-time nominal high — the pressures from rising costs and new initiatives necessitate the University “stay the course.”

While faculty interviewed were largely unsurprised, many remain unconvinced by the justifications provided in the email.

Assyriology professor Benjamin Foster GRD ’75 said while great institutions can and

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President Michael Herbert ’16 challenged him to settle things in the ring, mano a mano, Harvard senior Gus Mayopoulos *politely* declined. At least On Harvard Time had the guts to show up and put themselves out there.

Pinky out. The YCBA student

The Bulldogs notch a win in their first home game of the season

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Duck, duck, Gus. After YCC

Help Harvard instead. This afternoon, comedy writer Joe Toplyn will be stopping by Branford to give a Master’s Tea on “How to Be Funny.” In light of recent events, it might be more useful for him to pay a visit to those kids up north.

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Mayor Toni Harp spoke at a conference on Wednesday about New Haven Promise’s efforts to expand college access.

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS AND SKYLER INMAN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER About 200 education and economic development experts from across the country gathered in the Yale University Art Gallery on Wednesday evening to celebrate the first night of PromiseNet 2014 — a three-day national education conference.

PromiseNet brings together

members of the national “promise network,” which consists of organizations that provide in-state college scholarships to local public school students, as well as representatives from other similar education and community organizations around the country. The conference includes workshops and discussion sessions designed to give the organizations a platform to discuss challenges and successes in their respective cities. This year’s

Diversity in faculty still lacking, many say

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE AND LARRYMILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Nine months after an external review found Yale to be lacking in faculty and administrative diversity, the University appears to be seriously considering the review’s recommendations.

On Nov. 6, Provost Benja-

min Polak released to the faculty the findings and recommendations from the February 2014 Yale Diversity Summit, which provided 16 recommendations to the administration on how to improve diversity among faculty and administrators. The suggestions ranged from demanding greater transparency in diversity metrics to creating a pool of

resources to target diverse faculty appointments.

The summit included an external visiting committee — made up of nine professors, researchers and physicians from across the country — that spent two days interviewing faculty and staff in an effort provide University administrators with strategies to improve diversity

Suits raise questions of race and admissions

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Last winter, an Asian-American student was denied admission to Harvard College, despite his stellar test scores and distinction as an AP Scholar and National Merit semifinalist.

On Monday, the student, now a member of Students for Fair Admissions Inc., filed a lawsuit against Harvard for employing “racially and ethnically discriminatory policies and procedures” during the undergraduate admissions process. Students for Fair Admissions — a group that represents students who believe they were rejected by schools because of their race — fights against what SFA Director Edward Blum termed as limitations imposed by colleges across the nation on the admission of Asian-American and Caucasian students under affirmative action policies. The group supports the claim that affirmative action harms populations that are allegedly over-represented on college campuses, Blum added.

Blum said the organization’s mission is to facilitate legal challenges that will end the use of racial classification preferences by American universities in their admissions processes. Although

the group has only filed complaints against Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill thus far, Blum said the goal is to file a handful of lawsuits around the country, and that Yale is absolutely one of their targeted schools.

“We believe that we will be able to show various courts that whether it’s Yale in Connecticut or Harvard in Massachusetts, these schools are classifying people by race, treating them differently by race and have strict quotas for Asian-American students,” Blum said.

He added that Harvard has a long, “ugly” history of using holistic admissions criteria to prevent certain types of students from being admitted. In the 1920s, Harvard used its holistic process to diminish the number of Jewish students admitted, he said. Harvard is currently using this same approach to diminish the number of Asian-American students admitted, he added, and the rest of the Ivy League — including Yale — is doing the same.

The complaints filed against Harvard and UNC cite substantial quantitative data. Both cite the perfect ACT and SAT subject test scores of the rejected students, their GPAs and the amount of

at Yale. According to the report, the committee found that faculty are largely frustrated with Yale’s lack of commitment to diversify the professoriate.

“Yale seems to be lagging peer institutions in its demonstrated commitment to faculty diversity and inclusion,” Dean and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the Duke Uni-

versity School of Medicine and visiting committee member Nancy Andrews ’80 GRD ’80 said in an email. “As an alumna, I sincerely hope that Yale will aspire to leadership in this area, as it has in many others.”

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Final exams capped at 50 percent

BY DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Starting this winter, students will not have to worry about heavily weighted final exams damaging their overall grades.

The Yale College Council recommended a cap at the end of fall 2013

in an effort to reduce student stress, and The Course of Study Committee approved the request the following spring. This new Yale College policy limits a final exam from being worth more than 50 percent of a student’s grade. Students interviewed SEE FINALS PAGE 6

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A new policy caps final exams’ weight at no more than 50 percent of a student’s grade.

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n Monday, lawsuits were announced against Harvard and the University of North Carolina for their racebased affirmative action policies. The lawsuits argue these policies hurt Asian students by holding them to a higher standard for admission. Despite an increasing number of highly qualified Asian applicants, the universities' admissions policies seek to limit the number of admits in this minority group, the suits allege.

If you couldn’t already tell from my last name, I’m AsianAmerican. During the admissions process, I didn’t exactly feel that my race helped me gain my acceptance letters. But do I think that abandoning affirmative action — that “forgetting” about race in the application process — is the route colleges ought to take? In short, no.

Clearly, I was fortunate enough to be accepted to Yale.

I am not currently affected by affirmative action policies, but rather dealt with them in the past. In addition, I want to clarify that I’m not attempting to push the “model minority” stereotype, which dictates that all Asian applicants are uppermiddle-class, high-achieving students. Asian Americans come from backgrounds as diverse as any other group, and that certainly shouldn’t be forgotten.

COLLEGES SHOULD MAINTAIN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES That being said, I do think certain groups of students often have it rough in the admissions process — one study found that a white applicant was three times more likely to be admitted to a selective school than an Asian applicant with comparable academic records. However, abandoning affirmative action policies is not the best way to ameliorate this problem.

Other minorities, such as blacks and Latinos, are still subject to systemic discrimination in this country. The system is skewed against these minority groups. Affirmative action may not be ideal, but we don’t live in an ideal world. We need some way of correcting for these disadvantages and biases.

These minorities aren’t presented the same opportunities and environments as other groups. Even recent events, such as Ferguson and the death of Trayvon Martin, give us a particularly vivid reminder that although we’ve come a long way on racial equality, we still have a long way to go, and we don’t, by any means, live in a post-racial

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Many people still face a world that is stacked a g a i n s t them.

T h e r e ’s been a lot of talk recently LEO KIM about STEM not being On Us a femalefriendly environment. Likewise, many extracurriculars, both academic and non-academic, present entry barriers for particular minority groups. Making admissions race-blind would ignore this critical fact.

I do believe there’s some truth to the claim that my acceptance to my high school mock trial team was easier than my African-American teammate’s acceptance.

I faced fewer inherent obstacles. It seems unfair to equally weigh the same extracurricular activity listed on our applications. Diversity is critical for the health of this University and, for the most part, affirmative action does a good job at promoting it.

Of course, there is also some truth to the claim that the admissions process can often be unfair to particular groups of students, but I don’t think we should target affirmative action in order to solve this problem.

Many have cited getting rid of legacy and donor preferences as a way to open up universities to more diversity. Others have said we ought to de-emphasize the “holistic” characteristic of applications, arguing that it works to the detriment of students who do not have extensive extracurricular opportunities.

Admittedly, I’m not quite sure where I stand on these issues. While in theory, getting rid of legacy and donor preferences is egalitarian, I’m not familiar enough with the mechanics and operations of universities to know the effects such changes would have on alumni relations and finances.

And I certainly do think that universities should have “holistic” application processes: They make for a more diverse student body with a wide and variable range of interests, passions and quirks.

I’m not here to offer a solution. I’m aware that I don’t know enough to do that. However, I know what’s not the solution: getting rid of affirmative action. It may alleviate one problem, but then you’re just left with another one that’s just as bad, if not worse. It’s like sinking a boat to stop a fire.

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t’s November — nearly the end of the fall semester — and by now, freshmen across campus have done what we do best: get involved. Everyone seems to have found his or her niche in Yale’s community, which makes it easy to forget how ridiculous the process of joining clubs and organizations actually was.

It’s amazing how much changed in just three months; the same freshmen that were once frantically applying, interviewing, trying out and/or selling their first-born children to join organizations are now satisfied members of insert-yourfavorite-club-here.

They’ve undoubtedly come a long way.

Some braved club applications that rivaled Yale’s own admission application in length; others shone in the midst of literally hundreds of their peers in tryouts; still more students stared down panels of interviewers and an unlikely few survived all these at once.

Let’s step back for a moment.

These are college clubs — not fancy fellowships, not jobs and in most cases, not even organizations that realistically require specialized knowledge. Save for traveling teams whose budgets are too small to take on very many students, there really isn’t a good reason for clubs to put

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students through eight-page long essays or multiple rounds of interviews. Yet this appears to be the norm. Exclusivity for exclusivity’s sake is not only silly, but damaging to the quality of the Yale experience.

Don’t get me wrong: I understand the necessity of an application. I even buy why clubs need to conduct interviews or host callbacks. No student is entitled to membership within an organization. The problem lies in the sheer volume of work that’s expected of anyone joining a campus organization.

It’s a system that penalizes students who don’t immediately know what they want to get involved with. For indecisive freshmen, writing applications or interviewing for clubs becomes a full-time job because, as the old saying goes, “It’s better to have options open.”

Moreover, such recruitment processes make it harder to start new activities. One of the first pieces of advice I heard from upperclassmen at Yale was to “try new things — but nothing too new.” After all, with such limited time available and such high barriers to entry for many activities or publications, it was probably a good idea to focus on organizations that I could actually get into. This is preposter-

ous. If there’s any time to try something new, it should be in college.

The most troubling fact of all, however, is that once a student joins a club, all this work makes it hard to leave. What happens when a club isn’t the best fit for a student? Sometimes, the student leaves or does little in the organization, having taken a spot that another student would have gladly filled. Other times, the student stays on to justify the work that he or she did to join in the first place. These problems can’t really be fixed easily, but they’re made all too common by freshmen haphazardly applying to every club in sight.

What makes this all the more absurd is that such recruitment cycles aren’t even necessary in many cases. Publications, for example, can very easily have guest writers. For performance groups and traveling teams, a recruitment cycle is necessary, but it would be easy to capitalize on all of the applicants. Why not host workshops or competitions with a small entry fee (and a prize)? Doing so not only gives non-team members a chance to participate in the activity, but can serve as a pretty effective fundraiser to boot. A good number of political activism organizations and community service

groups don’t employ cumbersome recruitment applications, and they appear to be working just fine too.

This exclusivity stands in stark contrast to the rest of Yale's culture. From day one, the University is incredibly accepting of freshmen. Freshmen aren't excluded from campus events in any way. Unlike Princeton and Harvard, where the eating and final clubs exclude freshmen, there are no similar social restrictions at Yale. The same upperclassmen who help us move our stuff into our dorms at the start of the year or take us to lunch shouldn't be the ones artificially creating barriers to entry for clubs.

A good share of blame belongs to the freshmen themselves. I, along with many others, should certainly have been pickier about the clubs I ended up applying for, and even more selective about the clubs I ended up joining. That said, Yale’s clubs need to fundamentally rethink the way they recruit members. We’re not in high school anymore; let’s not recreate the college admissions process during the extracurricular bazaar.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

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very student who enters Yale must take three semesters of language.

Well, unless you place into L4, in which case you only need to take two. As long as it’s still in that language of course. If you place into L5 you only need take one term in that language. Or you can meet the requirement by reaching L2 in another language.

Or if you take an intensive L1/ L2 course, you can finish in two semesters, or … never mind, you get the point. Yale has a language requirement. It’s confusing.

But with the number of different ways this requirement shows up for different students, I think it is worth asking why we have it. What could all of these different paths achieve in common? According to the Center for Language Studies website, “as knowledge of more than one language and familiarity with more than one culture is becoming increasingly important, the distributional requirements include foreign language study.”

This is certainly a commendable set of goals. Teaching students a foreign language and showing them different cultures are both worthwhile objectives for a university to pursue. The problem

is that I don’t think the current requirements achieve either.

First, let’s look at learning about foreign cultures. It’s probably the more practical and achievable of the two goals. Taking a second language exposes us to other cultures, but it does so in an oblique and unfocused way.

Language courses, first and foremost, teach language. That’s fine and it’s probably how it should be. But this means we only learn bits and pieces of culture and differences in ideals and values in passing and only insofar as the cultural tidbit can help us learn a certain tense.

After a semester in an L1 course, you might learn a week or two's worth of concrete material about a foreign people. We could learn much more about these other cultures through classes in English and we would, consequently, be able to tackle more complex cultural issues. Cultural differences are nuanced, and it’s challenging enough to discuss them sensitively without being hamstrung by a language barrier.

This leaves the second reason Yale gives for the requirement: to learn a foreign language. My biggest issue here is that it is something that simply cannot

be forced. Three semesters is not enough to force students to be fluent in a foreign language, especially those who are starting from scratch. In Psych 110, language and linguistics have come up on numerous occasions. Both professor Marvin Chun and professor Paul Bloom have emphasized to the class how extraordinarily difficult it is to learn a language if you have not started by the time you are 17, and you’re not bilingual in another language already (I believe the term Bloom used was “a herculean task”). By forcing students into these courses, the University is making them learn something almost impossibly difficult for many and that fades away incredibly quickly once they stop learning it.

What is arguably the worst part is that this also hurts the students who are most motivated to learn a new language.

Language classes are uniquely dependent on an enormous amount of student participation so you can actually listen to and use the vocabulary and structure that you are learning in a realistic environment. The difference between a class in which half the students are there because they

are being forced, and a class in which every student is speaking as much as they can is huge.

Finally, the idea that “knowledge of more than one language … is becoming increasingly important” is frankly wrong. As technology is advancing and communication around the world is exploding, it is in fact becoming less necessary to know another language. Particularly when we already speak English, the most common language of business, politics and culture around the world.

Now please don’t mistake this for me arguing that learning other languages is no longer needed. It absolutely is incredibly useful; I truly wish I had more of a talent for it. But I also think that Yale could much more efficiently achieve the goal of broadening students’ cultural horizons as well as providing those interested with better language classes, by simply expanding the requirement to allow courses about other peoples and their cultures to substitute for language classes.

MICHAEL SULLIVAN is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at michael.p.sullivan@yale.edu .

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19

A previous version of the article “Elm City Market board member sues for docs” misspelled the name of board member Diane Polan.

A previous version of the article “Locals push back on free breakfast” incorrectly stated that St. Paul & St. James Church had signed a preliminary agreement with Liberty Community Services to implement a breakfast program. In fact, the Church is currently only in conversation with LCS about the program.

Spanish dept. faces funding challenges

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Yale’s Spanish and Portuguese Department enjoys a sterling national reputation, but many close to the department describe an atmosphere plagued by fear and financial problems.

Professors and graduate students in the department, which had its doctoral program named first in the nation by the National Research Council in 2010, said they are concerned about budget-related problems, such as the lack of funding for travel to conferences and bringing in guest speakers. Some added that these problems make it difficult for Yale’s department to compete with those of peer institutions.

Several professors also said the department’s budget decisions are kept private, with some even describing the department as a stressful place to work.

[Budget] information is treated as highly secret.

There’s certainly no transparency [...] in this regard.

ANIBAL GONZALES Professor, Spanish The department announced in a September faculty meeting that a new anonymous donor will sponsor four guest lectures — events professors say have not happened in several years. However, despite enthusiasm for the lectures themselves, students and faculty say that they are not enough to solve the department’s many problems.

A graduate student — who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from the department, adding that the department chair “can ruin your career with a recommendation letter” — said that these lectures ultimately do not solve the department’s problems. “[Lectures] are completely forgettable,” the student said. “The problem is that there is no promotion for research, outside our fellowships. No traveling, no conference support. Nothing.”

But Portuguese DUS David Jackson said the lectures are both welcome and necessary. Likewise, assistant professor of Spanish Kevin Poole said that any new lecture has a positive impact, bringing members of the depart-

ment together and providing new voices that have not yet been heard.

Two graduate students interviewed said that the donations have definitely been helpful, but that they would prefer funding for travel to conferences instead of lectures.

Spanish professor Anibal Gonzalez said that the scarcity of funds for many of the department’s operations — including lecture series, office supplies and student travel to job interviews — detracts from the quality of the department. He added that these four lectures are a great improvement from the complete lack of events of this kind that existed previously.

“It continues to amaze me that a department that boasts of its national and international prestige was unable, until this recent donation, to convince the University to keep its funding at a level commensurate with its high reputation,” Gonzalez said. The department has not had a visiting writer or professor since 1996, Jackson added.

Maria de la Paz Garcia, a senior lector in Spanish, said she is unaware of whether there are financial troubles because the budget is controlled by the department chair, currently Spanish professor and Director of Graduate Studies Rolena Adorno.

Seven other faculty members in the department also said that they are not involved in the financial decisions.

Gonzalez added that faculty members are generally excluded from financial discussions. “[Budget] information is treated as highly secret. There’s certainly no transparency from the department’s administration in this regard,” he said. “We are a small department with currently only five senior faculty. I can’t think of any reason for such a level of secrecy about our finances in this context, but there it is.”

Gonzalez suggested that the University’s administration has ensured that the same two senior faculty members are always named chair of the department.

The feeling in the department is that these two faculty members are “chairs-for-life,” and this contributes to the department’s atmosphere of arrogance and intimidation, he said.

Roberto Gonzalez-Echevarria served as the department chair in spring 2014. Neither he nor Adorno could be reached for comment.

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BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Vincent Wilczynski, deputy dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, pulls out nine cards and lays them on the table. Each card is complete with a picture, name, stats and a small profile.

But the cards do not feature baseball players. Instead, they feature the nine newest junior faculty hires in SEAS. “If we recruited well, and I’m sure we did, I would advise you to hang onto these cards: A future National Medal of Technology or Nobel Prize Winner is likely in these stacks,” SEAS Dean T. Kyle Vanderlick wrote in an October 2013 letter announcing the nine new hires.

In the past five years, the school has nearly doubled its tenure-track teaching faculty from 30 to 59 full, associate and assistant professors. This recent slew of hires, who have all started at Yale within the past year and a half, comprise a nearly 20 percent increase in faculty at the school. Looking back on their initial months at Yale, they said they value the strong mentoring from senior faculty members, the tight-knit community, one-onone professor-student interactions and the liberal arts environment.

But they have also encountered challenges specific to engineering and to Yale — the departments’ female-to-male ratios are extremely low and, unlike schools that some faculty interviewed have departed, Yale’s engineering departments are still far from the size of those departments at peer schools.

Professor of chemical and environmental engineering Jaehong Kim came to Yale after teaching for 11 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Georgia Tech’s environmental engineering undergraduate program is rated third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, and its graduate environmental engineering program is rated fourth.

In comparison, the SEAS and underlying environmental engineering department are ranked 34th by U.S. News & World Report.

But after teaching a seminar course at Yale in 2010 as a visiting professor, Kim said both he and Yale expressed interest in him taking a full-time faculty position.

He said he came to Yale, leav-

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The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has doubled its faculty in the past five years. ing a highly regarded engineering school in the process, because the “family-like” size of the department makes classes more intimate and interactions between students and faculty members more frequent.

According to professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jakub Szefer, who came to Yale after finishing his Ph.D. at Princeton, small classes and a small department mean he and other faculty members have the opportunity to build and develop the program instead of just getting lost in a sea of unknown faces.

“Here, everyone knows me,” he said.

One benefit of the small faculty size is a strong mentorship program for junior faculty members, said professor of mechanical engineering and materials science Judy Cha and professor of chemical and environmental engineering and forestry and environmental studies Drew Gentner.

Each junior faculty member gets advice from older faculty members on how they can improve in their research and teaching, Cha explained.

But Szefer also said that the small size has its disadvantages.

The department could definitely benefit from more hires, he noted.

Professor of electrical engineering Fengnian Xia said he has heard from many of his students that they would appreciate more faculty, so that the department can offer a greater vari-

ety of courses. Xia, who decided to return to academia after researching at IBM, said that with more faculty, the University would have more opportunities for researchers to collaborate on projects.

At Georgia Tech, Kim said, the number of faculty in his department alone was roughly the same as the entirety of SEAS at Yale. Georgia Tech’s engineering school has more than 500 faculty members, nearly 10 times that of Yale’s.

Professor of electrical engineering and computer science Wenjun Hu, who came to Yale after working for Microsoft in China, said she is surprised that Yale’s department is smaller than those at comparably sized institutions like Harvard.

Despite the size and ranking difference, Yale is emerging as a player in the environmental engineering game, Kim said.

He pointed to the fact that, this coming June, the school will host a biannual conference held by the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, a prestigious environmental engineering conference. He added that his goal is to help make the chemical and environmental engineering department at Yale the best in the nation for its size.

Right now, one of the things the University has working for it is its status as a well-respected liberal arts school, Kim said. With Yale’s curriculum, he has found a mix between science, art, music, the

humanities and engineering. At Georgia Tech, on the other hand, he had few opportunities to go to art galleries or even meet faculty members in other non-Engineering departments, he said.

“It has been really intellectually stimulating and really makes my life a lot richer,” Kim said.

“It has been a very eye-opening experience after coming from a big engineering school.”

Gentner added that Yale’s liberal arts focus provides unique opportunities for him to collaborate with engineers in other departments, as well as faculty outside of SEAS. At the moment, he is collaborating with researchers from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on an air pollution project.

But as Yale works to compete with its peer institutions, it also finds itself facing the same issues that plague almost all engineering departments across the nation.

Cha said one issue which the entire faculty is hoping to improve in SEAS is the ratio of male to female undergraduate and graduate students. In the past academic year, the mechanical engineering department accepted at least two female graduate students, but none chose to attend, Cha said. Currently, of the 59 tenuretrack faculty in SEAS, only eight are women.

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

Alders weigh greenway

BY ERIC LIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Following a Board of Alders meeting at City Hall last night, city officials will likely agree to put support behind the West River Watershed Coalition’s effort to designate the West River site a greenway.

Three members of the coalition — a group of organizations and individuals working to improve the West River area — called on the four alders in attendance to sign off on their push to nominate the site as a greenway. Under this designation, the West River site, located in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, two miles west of Yale’s campus, could more easily apply for grants from various federal and private funding sources to further develop the area.

“It’s basically just a little mark to show we all work together to improve the watershed,” said Martha Smith, a member of the WRWC Steering Committee.

According to the Department of Energy and Environment of Connecticut’s website, the greenways program defines a greenway as a “corridor of open space.”

Smith said that the West River Watershed qualified as a greenway because it was located along a natural feature, the river, fulfilling one of the four possible criteria for designation.

Once a site is designated as a greenway, that area will receive special signs to post at trailheads and road crossings and be included in future plans for greenway development.

In asking the Board of Alders to sign off on their nomination, the WRWC made it clear that it would require no financial com-

mitments from the city.

Stacy Spell, a member of the coalition and a resident of the West River neighborhood, said he was highly enthusiastic about the continuing work on the watershed. He said he believes this designation is one further step in the coalition’s work to improve the site and encourage more residents to use the river.

“It’s given us all a chance to speak with one voice,” he said.

“Historically, there have been children who have lived there, but never had the chance to be on it.”

In the 1920s, tide gates were installed to control flooding and mosquitoes, eventually caus-

ing stagnant conditions in the park area and poor water quality in addition to blocking the passage of migratory fish upstream.

The work on the river is part of a continuing effort to restore the area following a project, finished in 2012, to replace three of the West River tide gates with selfregulating tide gates. These tide gates have allowed for more tidal flow to improve water quality, fish passage, recreational use and habitat for wildlife.

He specifically cited how transformative it would be for a resident to get on a canoe in the river for the first time.

Ward 18 Alder Salvatore E.

DeCola also responded positively to the development.

“I just like what you [Spell] said about opening the eyes of the kids,” he said. “It’s a beautiful thing.”

Joel Tolman, a member of the WRWC, noted that the river also could be used as a service activity for students in nearby schools such as Barnard Environmental Studies School.

Close to 100,000 people live within the West River watershed, which extends to parts of East Haven.

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

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City officials seem likely to support the West River Watershed Coalition’s designation as a greenway.

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FROM THE FRONT

“There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.”

LIVY ROMAN HISTORIAN

Harvard suit puts scrutiny on race’s role in admissions ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 AP classes taken in high school.

However, Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said that it is impossible to properly compare applicants using test scores and other numbers.

“It is convenient for conversations to revolve around SAT scores because a test score is a number, and a number gives the illusion of precision, but admissions applications are never that simple,” Quinlan said.

Quinlan added that while various background characteristics can be a positive factor in an application, this factor still depends heavily on everything else the Admissions Office finds in the application.

However, Ron Unz, a political activist who has written extensively against affirmative action, said evidence of “Asian quotas” can be found not just in test score discrepancies among accepted and rejected applicants, but in the static rate of Asian-American students accepted each year.

“When you look at the fact that the percentage of collegeage Asian-American students has doubled in the last 20 years, while there has been no increase in admissions of these students to Harvard and other Ivy League schools, it seems extremely suspicious,” Unz said. “It seems that the percentage of AsianAmericans applying has massively increased in the last couple decades with no corresponding increase in admittees, meaning the admissions rate for AsianAmerican applicants has absolutely plummeted.”

Unz added that while Harvard and other Ivies release the ethnic and racial composition of their students to the public, these schools are unwilling to release this information for their applicant pool.

He added that schools in the University of California system release this information each year, showing that their acceptance rate for Asian-Americans is roughly the same as the other ethnic groups applying to these universities. But Harvard and

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other Ivies maintain a “brick wall,” blocking the public from this data, he said.

Blum said Harvard will most likely be compelled to release information about its applicants for the recent lawsuit, indicating whether there is a racial balancing program or quota policy in effect.

Patric Cao, a freshman at Har-

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vard, said that while he thinks Asian-American and white students do face larger barriers in college admissions, the lawsuit itself has holes, and is not the best way to go about solving the problem of discriminatory admissions practices.

“The group rests its argument on the point that Harvard’s holistic admissions process is veiled

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as an explicitly race-discriminatory, race-balancing and quotamotivated admissions system, which the group claims is proven

by Harvard’s stable admissions and enrollment figures,” Cao said. “But that alone isn’t evidence to indicate that Harvard is race discriminatory, only that it’s racially — and legally so — aware.”

Promise looks to grow NH PROMISE FROM PAGE 1 to hold a national conference will actually give us a lift,” Harp said. She added that New Haven’s position as this year’s host city “really solidifies the work we’ve been doing.”

NHP, like other “promise” groups around the country, seeks to address two problems at once: college readiness amongst local students and the economic future of the city they live in. This year marks the fourth and final pilot year for NHP, which was founded in 2010 with the help of former Mayor John DeStefano Jr., former superintendent of schools Reginald Mayo and then-University president Richard Levin.

“We’re a young program. And [PromiseNet is] an opportunity for the city to get to know us on a deeper level,” Melton said. “A lot of people think of us just as scholarship money, but we do a lot of work. It’s success, retention, supporting our scholars all the way through [college], and then helping them achieve their dream career.”

New Haven Promise gives every New Haven public school student a full-tuition scholarship to any instate public college or a stipend of $2,000 to any Connecticut private college as long as they meet certain criteria: the student must be a resident of New Haven and earn a minimum grade point average of 3.0 throughout high school and 2.5 in college. In addition, the student must have a 90 percent or higher attendance rate, complete 40 hours of community service before high school graduation, and not be expelled. According to Melton, approximately 200 students used the scholarship last year.

“New Haven Promise is really productive about going into New Haven Public Schools and distributing material about the requirements,” said Lily Engbith ’17, one of the 17 New Haven Promise Scholars currently attending Yale.

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Yale-New Haven Hospital and Wells Fargo are all sizeable financial contributors to the program alongside Yale University, according to Melton.

The national Promise organization started in 2008 in Kalamazoo, Mich-

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Yingjie Wang ’17 said she agrees that it is increasingly harder for Asian-American and white students to get into Ivy League institutions, but added that she understands the value of pursuing a diverse student body.

The students who filed the lawsuit got high test scores and earned great grades, Wang said, so it is understandable that they

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igan, as the product of a long-time dialogue between local donors and the Kalamazoo school system. Janice Brown, one of the original founders of the Promise network of cities, said the transformation of PromiseNet from the school district she was superintendent of in Kalamazoo to a national organization has been “an unanticipated and unbelievable phenomenon.”

“It just changed the whole national conversation about post-secondary education,” said Bob Jorth, executive administrator of the Kalamazoo Promise.

According to Brown, New Haven is one of the only cities in the country that has such a strong donor presence from a local university. At the inception of the program in 2010, Levin said that the University planned only to commit to four years of funding, after which the program’s renewal

would be contingent upon whether it accomplished its mission. He also said in 2010 that given the program’s continuation, the University would expect to contribute $4 million annually after seven years.

University President Peter Salovey has expressed his commitment to supporting the program.

“It creates in the New Haven community, and in many families living throughout New Haven, a conversation about college as an option and an aspiration, as something that could be affordable,” he said in an interview with the News before the conference.

Salovey is scheduled to deliver a keynote address Thursday at the Omni Hotel Ballroom.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu and SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu .

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are upset. But every college is looking for something different, and while test scores are considered, they are not a determining factor in the end, Wang said.

According to the Yale Factsheet, 17 percent of the University’s student body is Asian.

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

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should cut their costs, the compensations to University leadership and costs in renovating the President’s House demonstrate that sacrifices have not been evenly distributed.

Polak replied to the criticism by stating that the renovations to 43 Hillhouse were 100 percent funded by private donations, which were given to the University for the project. He added that the administrative compensations that have faced scrutiny did not reflect annual salaries, but rather were issued after careers of dedicated service to the University.

According to the message, Yale slightly surpassed the goal of 3 percent cost savings in central administrative areas. It also projected the University’s budget — including the slight deficit witnessed in the central campus, which excludes West Campus and the School of Medicine — will be balanced by the end of the fiscal year.

Still, Salovey and Polak said the challenges, including the rise of health care costs in excess of inflation, shortfalls in funds reserved for future pensions and retiree benefits and decreased federal funding for research serve as “longterm worries.”

“We will have finally emerged from the valley caused by the recession,” Salovey and Polak wrote in the email.

“Although it has been painful, we have come through relatively unscarred.”

But faculty said those scars may run deeper than the administration is willing to admit.

While the email said Yale’s current total number of faculty is 32 percent higher than in 2004 and the University’s staff rose by 17 percent over the same period, some professors interviewed said they had not seen evidence of the increases.

“My department has suffered unduly from a long-term paralysis in appointments even to key vacant positions, so the alleged [32] percent increase is not visible to me or to anyone in my scholarly community here,” Foster wrote in an email. “Nor is the alleged growth in staffing particularly visible to me

in those units with which I interact most frequently, such as the University Library.”

Molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Joel Rosenbaum said it is difficult to judge how the faculty has increased if the provost does not provide the actual numbers on a department-specific basis. He said that the MCDB department has seven fewer ladder faculty members than it formerly maintained over the past 20 years.

Polak told the News that although he did not have the faculty head count by department readily available, he said the data are largely available in the Office of Institutional Research. He added that though growth was larger in some schools than others, specifically in the School of Medicine and School of Management, he said all faculty increases reported reflected actual hires.

My department has suffered unduly from a long-term paralysis in appointments...

BENJAMIN FOSTER GRD ’75 Professor, Assyriology However, Fischer said despite the OIR data, growth in the faculty as reported in the email remains ambiguous because it is not clear where this growth is felt on campus.

He added that he was particularly struck by the penultimate paragraph of the report, which stated that Yale will need to achieve small increases in “productivity” each year to fund initiatives.

“It is unclear what future initiatives the administration has in mind — perhaps more overseas ventures such as Yale-NUS, or real estate such as West Campus, or other entrepreneurial attempts to turn Yale’s reputation into revenue,” Fischer said.

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

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NEWS

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” COLIN POWELL FORMER US SECRETARY OF STATE

YDC campaign promotes self-care

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER The Yale Drama Coalition has decided to take a stance against theater community members sacrificing health, sleep and schoolwork for their productions.

The YDC board launched a photo campaign on Tuesday that targets unhealthy behavior during the week before a production’s opening night — often referred to as “tech week” — which typically sees extended rehearsal schedules. YDC special events coordinator Eliza Robertson ’17, who conceived the idea for the campaign, said she thinks that “martyrdom” was an appropriate label for the theater community culture that encourages making excessive sacrifices for the sake of producing the best possible show.

While the theater community is welcoming, its members do not take enough care of themselves because a number of them “tend to sacrifice their own health and well-being for the sake of [working on their productions],” Robertson said.

Yale Drama Coalition president Nikki Teran ’15 recalls working 16-hour days during the tech week of last year’s Yale Dramatic Association fall mainstage show, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in which she served as assistant lighting director. She said she felt the need to arrive at rehearsal early in the morning before call time and stay late at night to review lighting cues, noting that she did not feel comfortable asking for a break or cutting back her hours. She said she thought the show needed her to devote all the time she could.

According to Teran, the campaign will release a daily photo of theater community members holding up signs with pledges to promote safe and healthy habits during tech weeks for undergraduate productions. Teran said she hopes the campaign will reinforce the positive tech week practices that students in the photos share in their pledges, as well as inspire those that have not taken the best care of themselves to remember to do so in the future.

“If you do your work intelligently, there’s no reason you can’t take a break,” Teran said.

For example, Teran noted, students working on theater

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The Yale Drama Coalition launched a photo campaign that targets unhealthy behavior during the week before production openings. productions in the past have skipped meals and classes, slept fewer hours and missed academic assignments to focus exclusively on a production during tech week.

Lucy Fleming ’16, a managing editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine who was a cast member in a recent curricular production of “The Tempest,” echoed Teran’s statement. She explained that she thinks it is just as important for actors to maintain their well-being as it is to rehearse because actors must be able to communicate with others in the production as well as maintain a healthy voice dur-

ing performances.

“At a certain point, your neglect of your body is going to have an impact on the way you’re able to think, create and interact with others,” Fleming said.

Fleming added that she thought such harmful habits were not unique to the Yale theater community, but rather indicative of an overarching culture in which students believe that they will be more successful in their commitments simply by investing more time in them.

Teran also added that while the Office of Undergraduate Production has instituted policies that include requiring rehearsals

to not continue past 1 a.m., there are still members of the theater community who overextend themselves. She said she thinks the use of Facebook to display the campaign photos, which were largely inspired by the “It’s On Us” campaign, will result in a cultural shift in the Yale theater community. Teran noted that she plans to contact dance groups to take similarly themed photos during their tech weeks as well.

As of last night, the YDC had two campaign photos on its Facebook page.

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

NIH funding for Yale up in the air

BY RACHEL SIEGEL AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With Republicans’ takeover of the Senate earlier this month, Yale researchers have been forced to ask a half-billion dollar question: What will happen to research funding from the federal government?

From 2012 to 2013, the University experienced a 4 percent drop in federal grant and contract income funding — from $562 million to $535 million — University Spokesman Tom Conroy told the News last fall.

But while federal funding for the NIH has been declining in real dollars since 2003, many at the Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health argue there is no need for heightened pessimism with the advent of a fiscally conservative majority in the Senate. Few faculty were willing to make specific predictions, but election results have prompted discussions about the future funding climate at Yale, they said.

“I am hopeful that research spending might increase, but our prudent approach is not to count on it,” Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern said.

According to Carrie Wolinetz, deputy vice president for federal relations for the Association of American Universities — an association of 62 leading American research universities — research universities across the nation are currently waiting to see whether the new Congress will result in an increase, decrease or stagnation in the federal budget.

Any cuts to the budget at large, she said, would be a strong indicator that NIH funding will

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suffer as a result. She added that though support for the NIH has generally come both from Democrats and Republicans, Republicans tend to favor greater reductions in federal funding overall.

At the same time, Wolinetz said Republicans generally care less about federally funded programs with which the NIH competes for funding than they do about the NIH itself, providing the department with a somewhat backwards advantage.

While physicians, researchers and faculty members interviewed acknowledged that it is difficult to predict what position a Republican Congress will take on medical research funding, many argued that increasing investment in the field would be concurrent with the Republican party line.

“I think moderate republicans see the value of innovation,” said Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86, director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician in chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital. He added that he hopes that the Republicans will be able to work well with the Democrats to restore the country’s commitment to funding science and innovation. Alpern agreed, noting that both political parties have been committed to medical research, and the real differences lie in how they plan to fund that research.

But some researchers interviewed expressed concern about a fiscally conservative congress.

Though Lynch said that a Republican Senate might see medical funding as an investment in innovation, he also noted that the Republicans’ limited view of government

spending in general could end up including science funding.

“Researchers at YSPH have been extremely concerned about the NIH budget for several years and are very apprehensive about possible implications of the new Congress,” Dean of the School of Public Health Paul Cleary said.

But he said he does not foresee Congress attacking the NIH specifically. Though bipartisan support for NIH funding is not as strong as it used to be, “it is there,” he said.

While Alpern and Ronald Vender MED ’77, chief medical officer of the Yale Medical Group, agreed that they had not heard anything to suggest that Yale researchers are worried about how a Republican Senate might affect research funding, Lynch said researchers have a larger worry.

“I think that people are very concerned about the overall government commitment to research and innovation,” he said.

Currently, about 80 percent of research at Yale is funded by the NIH — a lower percentage than both the inflation-adjusted 2004 level and the non-adjusted 2010 level, said Associate Vice President for Federal and State Relations Richard Jacob. He added that after a five-year campaign to double the NIH budget that stretched from 1998— 2003 concluded, the institutes’ ability to fund applications dropped markedly.

Each shrinking of the federal budget leads to subsequent reductions in domestic programs, like education and research, Jacob said. Though Yale hopes investment in university research funding will

continue to be a national priority, sheer dollars are not the only thing at risk of being lost, he added.

“Spending on university research has been so constrained that the country is at risk of creating another deficit — one in innovation,” Jacob said.

In light of reductions in public funding for science, universities such as Yale have been laying more emphasis on private research sponsors, which typically fund drug- or disease-specific research. But the kinds of research that provide innovative solutions to wide ranging and difficult problems normally stem from basic scientific research, which are not focused on drug development, Lynch said.

While commending Yale for keeping abreast of basic science despite declining funding, Lynch noted that the popularity of basic science among young researchers entering the field is already declining.

And because medical researchers are aware that less funding is available for basic science research, many of them are preemptively deciding not to pursue those grants since they are unlikely to receive them, Lynch said. While institutions like Yale and its peers may not be as hard hit as some have predicted, smaller schools likely will be, he added.

“At places where the talent pool is thinner [and thus receive less money in general], people absolutely worry about the funding climate,” he said.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEBGU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

Although a recent report has pegged Connecticut as the state with the sixth most student debt for U.S. college graduates, Yale’s student debt levels stand significantly below the national average.

The report, released last Thursday by the Project on Student Debt at the Institute for College Access & Success, found that 64 percent of students who graduated in 2013 from a school in Connecticut had taken out loans. The average debt for those borrowers was $30,191 — roughly $2,000 above the national average. Both Quinnipiac University and the University of Hartford placed within the top 20 U.S. schools with the most student debt, but Yale found itself on the lower end of student debt levels.

“Yale has intentionally kept self-help levels low, so that students could work on campus and not have to borrow,” Yale Financial Aid Director Caesar Storlazzi said.

The report was based on voluntary surveys sent out to colleges across the nation and included data from 1,051 colleges that answered questions about overall debt and that graduated at least 100 bachelor’s degrees.

The average student debt for the 15 percent of Yale 2013 graduates who borrowed was $13,009, significantly lower than both the state and the national average. Storlazzi explained that the University prioritizes keeping student debt at Yale College low by structuring financial aid packages with low self-help levels. Self-help aid can take the form of loans, work-study or lifetime employment.

Yale’s endowment — currently at its highest-ever level in nominal terms — helps fund financial aid packages. The availability of scholarship funds has been crucial to keeping selfhelp levels low, according to Storlazzi.

Other high-endowment institutions showed similar numbers this year.

Of all the Ivy League schools, only Columbia chose not to report data. The other seven

universities all reported average student debts lower than the national average.

Universities with smaller endowments have not been as successful in curbing student debt. Both Quinnipiac University and the University of Hartford placed within the top twenty universities nationally with the most student debt, driving Connecticut up to sixth place in national levels.

“Unfortunately, smaller colleges with smaller endowments don’t have the ability to award aid as liberally as colleges with larger endowments,” Associate Vice President and Director of Financial Aid at Quinnipiac University Dominic Yoia said.

The smaller endowment institutions also have more students on financial aid. While 64 percent of Yale students who graduated in 2014 were on financial aid, according to the Yale website, over 80 percent of Quinnipiac students are on some sort of financial aid, according to its website.

A recently published report by the College Board has also shown that college costs are on the rise, which can force students to take out more loans.

Matthew Reed, program director at the Institute for College Access & Success, explained that the rise in costs is not only seen in tuition and fees, but also in living expenses, books, supplies, transportation and other expenses.

“Grant aid, both federal and state, and family resources don’t always keep up with the rise in costs so many students turn to borrowing,” Reed said.

Yoia noted that rising costs could specifically impact Connecticut, since states in the northeast have higher costs of living.

Rising student debt could have a significant impact on graduates as they attempt to start their careers, Storlazzi said, noting that graduates will have to consider their debt when deciding on a career.

When cumulative debt is kept low, graduates have greater freedom when considering future employment, he said.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“If we cannot now end out differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” JOHN F. KENNEDY 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.

Univ. looks to expand faculty diversity FACULTY DIVERSITY BREAKDOWN

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University President Richard Levin said financial resources would not be a barrier in hiring a more diverse faculty.

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tive in creating an environment for diverse faculty to be successful.

“What stands out in the material the Committee read and in the sessions held on campus is the level of frustration expressed among some that the University is simply not sufficiently aware of the need for greater diversity,” the report stated.

Astronomy and physics professor Priyamvada Natarajan, a former chair of the Women’s Faculty Forum, said the data included in the report is “sobering,” particularly in diversity of top leadership. Despite Yale’s success in increasing the diversity of its student body, it has not had comparable success in improving the diversity of its upper level administration.

According to the report, of the 23 senior administrators in the University cabinet — the senior-most deans and vice presidents — in February 2014, there were 10 women and only

one non-white member.

But the release of the report two weeks ago accompanied the announcement of a new deputy provost for faculty development and diversity, Anthropology Department chair Richard Bribiescas , a development that some faculty suggested marks a broader effort on the part of the administration to improve diversity on campus.

This new deputy provost will be responsible for helping recruit and promote faculty, providing advice for tenure and appointment processes and leading the development of a University-wide faculty diversity initiative.

“I really hope the recommendations will be a call to arms for the administration to provide more resources to increase diversity at Yale,” psychology professor Laurie Santos said. “I also take the release of the report, combined with the recent announcement that [professor] Bribiescas will assume the position of deputy provost for faculty develop-

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ment and diversity, as very good news for increasing diversity on campus.”

The committee concluded that the University will only be successful in its goals to improve faculty diversity if it allocates more human and financial resources towards recruiting and retaining diverse faculty appointments. Andrews stressed that diversity efforts require a sincere and sustained message that diversity and inclusion are important from institutional leaders.

Additional recommendations in the report included suggestions to organize a Partner-Placement Service to assist the spouses of prospective faculty in finding employment in or near New Haven, establish a leadership institute for faculty who want to take on administrative responsibilities and train department chairs on mentorship and advancement of junior faculty.

Santos said she particularly supported the suggestion to increase undergradu-

ate resources that promote more research opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds. She added that many of the current diversity issues would be easier to solve if Yale invested in nurturing a pipeline of talented undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds.

Bribiescas said he was committed to not only enacting the recommendations outlined in the report, but also dealing with other issues that may arise in speaking with faculty.

“I want to make sure that faculty know that we are not in the business of churning out reports, reading them, then burying them and then generating a new report a few years down the line,” he added.

Polak said that having a more diverse faculty is a key priority for the University, and added that Bribiescas will serve as a “point person” in enacting the recommendations.

Most faculty interviewed reacted positively to the report’s recommendations and

were optimistic that they could create tangible change.

Current chair of WFF and immunobiology professor at the School of Medicine Paula Kavathas said the committee’s recommendations are very reasonable and achievable.

“The whole idea of being welcoming to diversity of campus is intricately tied to numbers,” Natarajan said. “There are many brilliant scholars across the world, so there is no reason we cannot find a whole bunch of amazing candidates and we must have the flexibility to hire them when find them, so having that pool of resources in place is very, very important.”

The report’s last recommendation was to “disseminate the results of the Yale Diversity Summit.” The report is not publicly available on the Provost’s website, nor was it provided to students.

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

indicated the policy is a welcome change to the end of the semester.

“I think it’s a good policy because it takes a lot of stress off,” Kelly Hsu ’15 said.

There are some exceptions to the policy, though, which will be considered on a case-by-case basis, YCC Academics Director David Lawrence ’15 said. A professor can petition the Course of Study Committee to ease the limit on his or her class, he said. He added that if a student did badly at the start of a course and wanted the final to count for more than 50 percent, the policy does not stop that student from making such an argument to a professor.

Lawrence said that while the YCC could not monitor the final grade weights for all classes, students are encouraged to send any concerns to the YCC. Economics professor Katerina Simons said in an email that the policy would prevent unnecessary anxiety. Students should have a reasonable idea of their performance in a class before the final, she added.

The policy had broad student support, YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said. In a survey of 1,602 students, 79 percent of the respondents believed an exam worth more than 50 percent of their final grade would increase their stress levels, he said.

YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 said she personally saw the impact of the cap when she noticed one of her own final examinations would be worth more than half of her grade.

“I asked my professor if he had Course of Study approval,” she said.

“He said he didn’t know about the new rule and agreed to change it to 50 percent.”

Of 12 students interviewed, 11 agreed with the policy change.

Kyle Deakins ’18 said weighing a final exam too heavily could cause anxious students to underperform.

But Zoot Garbasz ’18 said there are some advantages of a heavily weighted final exam, especially in math classes.

“I like it when a professor cares if you learn the material by the end of the year,” she said. “I have had professors who say if you get an ‘A’ on the final, [then] you have an ‘A’ in the class.”

Marco Ortega ’15 disagreed, saying the policy should have no exceptions and should extend to papers as well as projects. It is wrong to heavily weigh a student’s achievements on a single evaluation, he said, no matter the circumstance.

Alex Kaufman, a freshman at Harvard, said he would like the Harvard Undergraduate Council to consider bringing the new final exam policy to Cambridge. Doing so, he said, would lead to more engagement in classes, less stress and higher student performance.

Harvard Undergraduate Council President Gus Mayopoulos said he would consider arguing for a similar policy.

“It seems like a very reasonable policy to support,” he said. “I think student mental health is important, and it makes sense to try to reduce stress while also making sure that student understanding is reflected in a final exam.”

Final examinations begin on Dec. 12.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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International presence grows

Group targets gun manufacturers

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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International students at Yale, who hail from 117 different countries, have been steadily growing in number.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER The number of international students on campus has increased by a third since 2004, a new report shows.

The percentage of international students stands at 20 percent for the University as a whole, with 117 countries represented. In Yale College, 10 percent of students are international, while 37 percent of students at the graduate and professional schools come from abroad. The report, released earlier this week by the Office of International Students and Scholars, was published in accordance with International Education Week, a federally sponsored event coordinated

by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Education.

The statistics at Yale mirror a national trend. According to a report by the Brookings Institute — a Washington, D.C.-based think tank — the number of foreign students on F-1 visas in American colleges and universities grew dramatically from 110,000 in 2001 to 524,000 in 2012.

With more students entering the U.S. for college, Stephanie Siow ’17 said the increase of foreign students has created a strong international

community on Yale’s campus.

“It’s not that the other resources are unimportant, but having more international students is a source of support in itself,” Siow said.

While the overall growth has been dramatic, OISS Director Ann Kuhlman said that it has not been overwhelming in any particular year. As a result, she noted, OISS has been able to adjust their business process to accommodate growth, while still retaining their commitment to individualized support.

But Jan Kolmas ’14 said that he did not notice any particular growth of the undergraduate population when he was a student at Yale. He added that he has also not been aware of new resources instituted since 2010, mainly because OISS relies on the consistent success of the pre-orientation program for international students.

Olga Karnas ’16, president of the International Students Organization, said that given the increase in international students, she hopes that the University will provide more support for these students in job searches.

In an effort to increase their support for international students, ISO and OISS organized a career advising panel

Yale, Harvard push for Ebola relief

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the coming days, football is not the only arena in which Yale and Harvard will go head to head.

The Harvard-Yale Ebola Challenge, a joint initiative between the schools to raise funds for and awareness of Ebola, officially kicked off yesterday with the support of Mayor Toni Harp and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health Paul Cleary. Both spoke at a press conference in City Hall to tout the fundraising effort. At least five undergraduate organizations across both universities are spearheading fundraising for the challenge, which, to date, has raised over $8,000. Both schools have until the day of The Game, which is this Saturday, to raise as much money as they can. Yale is currently leading by $8,000.

“We share great concern about the current global health crisis and a commitment to fight that crisis,” Harp said in City Hall Wednesday morning.

The announcement comes two weeks after Harp initiated her “Citizens to Drive Out Ebola” campaign, the goal of which is to send four vans and medical supplies to address the epidemic in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone and New Haven’s sister city. The campaign is being organized by city officials in conjunction with a coalition of New Haven community organizations.

Fifty percent of the money raised through the Harvard-Yale Challenge will be donated to the Harp’s campaign, Yale UNICEF board member Sarah Merchant ’17 said.

The other 50 percent of funds will be given to Partners in Health and UNICEF, two organizations that have been working to address the epidemic in West Africa.

Cleary said that the partnership between the city and University — in which the mayor promotes a Yale initiative, half of whose funds

will go back to a city initiative — is an example of how both entities can work together to address public health issues.

Currently, there are four different undergraduate organizations at Yale that are organizing the fundraising: Yale Partners in Health Engage, Yale UNICEF, Yale Rotaract Club and the Yale Public Health Coalition. Banding together gave the initiative more cohesion and made it easier to coordinate events, said Patrick Ng ’16, co-president of both Partners in Health Engage and Public Health Coalition.

Current fundraising events include campus-wide penny wars as a competition between the 12 residential colleges and ticket sales to Toad’s Place. Wall Street Pizza will also be donating part of its revenue to the Challenge.

“Students on campus frequently call Yale a bubble, and I think it’s up to our own initiative to pop that bubble and understand and react to the problems affecting the world outside of our campus,” said Yale Rotaract Club board member Krishnan Srinivasan ’17.

Coalition members made clear that fundraising efforts will continue even after The Game.

Although it will not necessarily be in a context of intercollegiate rivalry, fundraising for Ebola should not stop, said Neha Anand ’17, co-president of Partners in Health and board member of UNICEF. Harp agreed, adding that she hopes this initiative will challenge other cities to do the same.

“The Harvard-Yale Ebola Campaign is not only a challenge between our schools, but a challenge to other institutions around the nation,” Merchant said. “It is important for other institutions and cities to get involved.”

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

in early November with four international members of the class of 2014.

At the event, roughly 60 students who attended were given the opportunity to ask questions about the panelists’ career trajectories and their experiences being non-American citizens on the U.S. job market.

“It is a shared experience for the internationals on campus. After four years of liberal arts education and access to the same on-campus resources as our American peers, the job market — whether in America, our home countries or elsewhere — becomes more difficult to navigate for us,” she said.

OISS did not offer any particular events for International Education Week, Kuhlman said. The regular offerings of activities targeted at international students obviate the need for specific events, Kuhlman said.

“If you look at any one week during the semester, you would find a multitude of internationally related activities,” she said. “So one could say every week at Yale is International Education Week.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

Just under two years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, one group is putting pressure on firearm manufacturers to curb gun violence.

A new national initiative, known as “Don’t Stand Idly By,” seeks to circumvent a gridlocked Congress in its efforts to reduce gun-related deaths across the country. Instead of promoting new legislation, a coalition of public leaders, including police, government officials and clergy members, hope to directly target gun manufacturers to reduce the misuse and spread of illegal firearms. The nationwide effort is headed by Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a faith-based community organization that seeks to promote broad social reforms. Ten states, in addition to Washington, D.C., currently feature networks of citizens committed to this initiative.

By leveraging the buying power of the public sector, which accounts for approximately 40 percent of all firearm purchases, these gun control activists hope to pressure gun manufacturers into not only reviewing their distribution methods, but also into introducing new technologies that keep children safe. Such technologies include “smart” guns that require fingerprint identification and thus ensure that only the registered owner is able to fire the weapon.

“Anytime you deal with guns and gun legislation, it’s like a minefield for politicians,” said Pastor Timothy Jones — a leader of the Community Baptist Church in New Haven who has helped spearhead the initiative in the Elm City. “Dealing directly with the manufacturers cuts out the middle man ... it’s when you really start affecting money and capital that things really begin to change.”

Jones is a member of Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut, an affiliate of Metro-IAF that was responsible for an initial “request for information” from gun manufacturers across the nation. By requesting information from major producers such as Glock and Colt’s Manufacturing Company, CONECT hopes to spark public discussion

about the ways in which these companies could contribute to increased gun safety.

According to the “Don’t Stand Idly By” website, one way the campaign hopes to stem the spread of illegal guns is by ensuring that manufacturers distribute their firearms only through responsible dealers. This involves strictly monitoring sales and training employees to detect “straw dealers” — individuals who buy guns and then distribute them to those involved in criminal activities. Additionally, “Don’t Stand Idly By” hopes to encourage investment in new gun safety technologies.

Ron Pinciaro, Executive Director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence, noted that, although he had not been directly involved in the initiative, it appears to be making headway in Connecticut.

Specifically in New Haven, Jones said that Mayor Toni Harp recently signed on as one of the supporters backing the request for information proposed by CONECT. In particular, he noted that the initiative has been well-received by congregations in the city, many of which have had members that have been personally affected by gun violence. In 2013 alone, there were 67 shootings in New Haven.

Yet not everyone agrees this initiative is the best way to stem the flow of illicit firearms. Scott Wilson, president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, argued that, by forcing manufacturers to incorporate new safety measures, the initiative might limit the access to firearms for average citizens.

“If they start banning traditional firearms it’s a very dangerous thing. It just puts more control into the hands of the people that shouldn’t have them and it takes them away from the people that should have them,” Wilson said.

Instead, Wilson suggested, Connecticut should enact stricter penalties against those who possess illegal firearms.

In 2013, 18 people were killed in shootings in New Haven.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

Lou Lou boutique makes foray into Elm City

BY EDDY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Slated to open on Dec. 1, jewelry and accessories store Lou Lou Boutiques is hoping to carve its place among several other boutique shops on Chapel Street and the Broadway Shopping District.

Soon to set up shop at 23 Broadway between Barbour and the recently closed A-1 Pizza, Lou Lou will bring its wideranging accessories line to the Elm City.

The Broadway store will be the company’s 21st store in the United States and its first in Connecticut. Lou Lou is also one of seven stores University Properties has selected to join The Shops at Yale this fall.

“Our niche is accessories, and so what we are able to provide really fits a wide range of ages, from teens to women in their 50s and 60s,” said Lou Lou communications manager Paige Healey.

Lou Lou, which has many existing shops close to universities such as the University of Virginia and Georgetown University, offers products including necklaces, earrings, bracelets, wallets and crossbody bags.

According to Healey, the stores near college towns tend to attract customers ages 20 to 35, who are more excited about shopping for themselves and buying themselves something extra.

“We’ve got our fashionista girls, and then we’ve got our business and professional women, and we want to make sure we can bridge that gap for accessories for our business women, who might be into the pearls and the black bags, [while] our fashionista customer might like some fur or spikes or color,” Healey said.

While the majority of Lou Lou’s customer base is women, Healey highlighted that there are gender-neutral accessories available and encouraged men to frequent the store.

Healey added that she thinks the fun atmosphere of college towns, such as New Haven, complements the shop’s vibe and helps drive customers to the store.

“Lou Lou, a family-owned business, is a terrific addition to the Broadway retail mix, offering quality fashion accessories at attractive price points,” Lauren Zucker, associate vice president for New Haven and state affairs, said in an email.

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A jewelry and accessory store, Lou Lou Boutique, will fill the space located 23 Broadway St. males, had heard of Lou Lou, many expressed interest in Lou Lou’s products and thought the price point was reasonable.

Thirteen students said they would visit the new store, three said they would only shop at Lou Lou on special occasions such as birthdays or holidays, and all three males were not interested in shopping at Lou Lou. “It’s cute but I would be happier to hear of a cute second-hand store opening up than another expensive boutique.

We have enough of those around here,” said Jacqueline Salzinger ’18.

Salzinger noted that for her, $60 for a scarf and $30 for a sale was a bit too expensive.

Healey is not worried about the potential competition, underscoring that the surrounding stores have different product lines. She said Alex and Ani, an accessories-only store on York Street, has a special niche selling bracelets with a specific meaning while Lou Lou sells a wider array of accessories.

Also, Healey said that Alex and Ani’s price point is higher than Lou Lou’s. For bracelets, Alex and Ani’s starting price range is $28–30 while Lou Lou’s is $15– 18.

Healey added that she believes Lou Lou and Alex and Ani will serve more as complements to one another, and that Lou Lou is in close proximity to Alex and Ani in many of its other locations.

The corporate office of Alex and Ani could not be reached for comment.

In addition to Alex and Ani, Chapel Street features four boutique stores offering jewelry and accessories in the two-block strip between College and York Streets.

Healey nonetheless believes that the store’s greatest challenge before opening is hiring staff and managers.

Lou Lou Boutiques opened its first location in 2004 in Middleburg, Virginia.

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

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Bulldogs nab first victory

BY RAYMOND ROBINSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A 13–0 second half run for the Yale women’s basketball team, along with a massive rebounding advantage, helped the Bulldogs take down the Holy Cross Crusaders 83–70 in their home opener on Tuesday.

Save for a three-minute span midway through the second half, the Elis held a lead throughout the entire game. While Yale shot 40 percent from the field, the Elis shot 80 percent from the free throw line. Forwards Jen Berkowitz ’18 and Katie Werner ’17 led the Bulldog scoring effort with 16 points each.

“As a team, we were very active rebounding,” Werner said. “That gave us more scoring chances that helped us win the game.”

Berkowitz led the Bulldogs on the boards, adding 11 rebounds to complete her first collegiate doubledouble in her second career game.

She led a strong group of Yale players off the bench, as the Elis’ bench unit combined for 38 points and an impressive 21 rebounds.

Berkowitz’s rebounding efforts, along with the rest of the team’s, played a large role in Yale’s victory.

The Bulldogs had more offensive rebounds, with 27, than Holy Cross did total, with 26. They also outrebounded the Crusaders 51–26, leading to 50 points in the paint.

That total was larger than any number that the Elis put up in the 2013– 14 season.

The Bulldogs converted these opportunities into buckets, registering 24 second-chance points in the game compared to the Crusaders’ four. After shooting a combined 4–15 from the field in Yale’s season opener, the freshman class turned it around, as Berkowitz and guards JIAHUI HU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Tamara Simpson ’18 and Mary Ann Santucci ’18 combined for 31 points Captain Sarah Halejian ’15 averages 13.5 points per game through the Bulldogs’ first few contests. and 18 rebounds on 12–22 shooting.

“The freshmen showed us [on Tuesday] just how valuable they are line. On the other end, meanwhile, game in Seattle at the University of Tuesday’s games. to this team,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 the Bulldogs were able to stay out of Washington on Sunday.

Guard Claire Mokri ’18 said that said. “They are fearless, hard work- foul trouble for the most part, with The contest will serve as a home- she is looking forward to playing ing and they are just flat-out tal- no player receiving more than three. coming for two players from Seattle good team basketball and winning ented. Yesterday, they remained Holy Cross made just five of its nine — Santucci and Sarju. Additionally, games while enjoying the beauty of poised and were one of, if not the attempts from the line. head coach Chris Gobrecht coached the West Coast. biggest reason why we pulled so far Captain Sarah Halejian ’15 went at Washington for 11 years, leading Halejian said she hopes for suca perfect six-for-six from the stripe the Huskies to the NCAA Tourna- cess in Alaska. ahead of Holy Cross.”

The team had four players score in and totaled six assists and four ment in nine of them.

“I have been focusing on keeping double figures against Holy Cross, an steals as well. When asked about “It’s such a special and excit- the team confident and poised on the improvement from its previous game the younger players around her, she ing trip, and we get to play some court when things are not going our against St. John’s, where just one praised their performances and was close friends of both [Santucci] and way or our opponent is making a run myself,” Sarju said. “I know it is against us,” Halejian said. player scored more than 10 points. optimistic for the future.

The Bulldogs’ defense also forced “My teammates have made my job many [of my teammates’] first time The Bulldogs will look to improve the Crusaders to commit 18 turn- easy,” Halejian said. “We have had to Seattle, so I am excited for my best their accuracy from the field, as they are shooting just 36.6 percent overs, while allowing the Yale lead to solid contributions from multiple friends to see where I’m from.” stretch as high as 17 points in the late different members throughout our After that game, Yale travels to the through their first two games. first two games, which will be key to northernmost state where it will face second half.

Sunday’s game tips off at 10:30 Yale also forced mistakes by draw- our success as the year goes on.”

Alaska Anchorage on Tuesday, Nov. p.m. Eastern time. ing fouls and taking trips to the charThe Bulldogs will be spending 25. The following day, the Elis will ity stripe. The team drew 22 fouls and their Thanksgiving break traveling play either Boise State or Long Beach Contact RAYMOND ROBINSON at scored 20 points from the free throw across the country, starting with a State, depending on the results of raymond.robinson@yale.edu .

Fowler talks The Game FOWLER FROM PAGE 12 roll, the head-to-head is one-sided and that seems to inspire Yale more ... If Yale had lost [against Princeton], I don’t think we’d be here. But it’s been on our radar for a long time. It’s no secret that our main mission, especially in the era of the playoff, is to focus on a monster FBS game that the whole nation is looking at. This is the kind of week that allows us to do something different. We’re not ignoring a massive FBS game this week, it’s just the way the schedule sort of broke ...

I hope that’s not insulting you, it’s just a fact.

If Auburn-Alabama were this week, we’d probably have to be there ... We’re eager to get up there and focus on the yesteryear, on the tradition, the history, the unique stuff — Handsome Dan and the Little Red Flag and all the things both sides bring to it — but also the 2014 game and the kind of football played by both these teams. is famous for the end of the QGameDay show, where Lee Corso puts on the headgear of the team he picks to win. Given that Harvard’s mascot is a color, what is Lee going to put on his head if he picks Harvard?

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[Audible laughter] I don’t know. They have a guy, don’t they? I don’t really know. They don’t have a live mascot. But I don’t know who he’s going to pick. We sort of leave that to him. He’ll play with the crowd wherever we go. He’ll think of something.

did Benjamin Franklin at the HarvardQHe Penn game.

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That was one of my favorite ones. It was off the wall. He had this very cheesy looking Ben Franklin-looking costume, which he threw on in 15 seconds. It was comedy, pure comedy.

you hear about the boxing match that QDid [the YCC] president challenged Harvard’s student president to?

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I did not hear about that. Is it going to happen?

not sure. The Harvard president QWe’re seems to be a little less willing.

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Does your student council president have a background in boxing?

QHe’s doing ROTC for the Navy.

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Oh, okay. Well then the guy has a right to be concerned. I don’t know if he wants to go rumble with a ROTC guy.

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

Elis battle at NCAA Northeast Championship

BY NADER RASTEGAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

ANNA SOPHIA HARLING/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Cross country standouts Kira Garry ’15 and Kevin Dooney ’16 qualified for the individual NCAAs in Indiana.

The Yale men and women’s cross country teams were at it again, capturing seventh and 10th place respectively at NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Championships.

The race, hosted at the 1,146-acre Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx borough of New York City, boasted an extremely competitive field of runners from both within and outside of the Ivy League.

The Eli women finished with 270 points thanks to strong performances from the top women, which helped power the team through as they bested Harvard, who finished in 11th place with 283 points. All-Ivy first team runner, Kira Garry ’15, led the women with her 11th place individual finish with a time of 20:03.03 in the 6k. Garry’s result was also the best individual performance from a Yale woman since 2011.

The women also had key performances from its young base. Elizabeth McDonald ’16 captured 53rd with a time of 21:31.31. Closely following behind her was Dana Klein ’18 in 55th place with a time of 21:33.41.

Emily Waligurski ’17, Emily Stark ’16 and Kelli Reagan ’18 rounded out the Eli women, finishing in 75th, 76th and 77th place, respectively, with times of 21:48.80, 21:48.84 and 21:48.99. That all three runners finished within one second of one another demonstrated the depth of the women’s squad.

“All season we have been working on training and racing with a strong pack mentality, and I think we all finally raced with that mentality, staying in contact, pulling each other along at the hard parts, and finishing within milliseconds of each

other,” said Emily Waligurski ’17.

Like the women, the Bulldog men also had a successful stint at the championships. The Eli men finished with 200 points, matching their seventh place result from last year’s regional championships. The competition was stiff, and Columbia, Cornell and Harvard all bested the Bulldogs.

The men showed their depth with a lot of young members running extremely well in the 10k. James Randon ’17 placed 27th with a time of 31:06.2, Duncan Tomlin ’16 followed close behind with a 35th place finish in 31:17.3, and Cameron Stanish ’18 finished fourth for the men with a 57th place finish and 31:36.7 time.

Many times across the board were slower due to a variety of factors.

“The conditions were slight damp but cold,” said Randon ’17. “It felt like it was just above freezing with a fair amount of wind.”

Like the women, the men’s own All-Ivy First Team runner, Kevin Dooney ’16, led the team. Dooney was the brightest spot for Yale as he finished the race with a historic third place finish, which was the highest result from a Yale runner at the Division I tournament since Lucas Meyer ’05.

For the majority of the Bulldog runners, the Division I NCAA Northeast Championships marks the culmination of a season’s success, hard work and effort. However, Garry and Dooney’s exceptional running will lead them to Terre Haute, Indiana.

There, the Eli standouts will compete at the selective NCAA Cross Country Championships, reserved for the most elite college runners.

Contact NADER RASTEGAR at nader.rastegar@yale.edu .

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Monday, December 1, 2014 · 4:30 PM Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street Levinson Auditorium Doors open for seating at 4:10 PM

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ON CAMPUS 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. Yale Farm (345 Edwards St.).

3:00 PM Fracking and Water: Requirements and Impacts.

The Extractive Industries Working Group at Yale presents a panel and discussion on fracking and its relationship to water use and quality. The panel will feature Franck O’Sullivan, Paul Reig and Jim Saiers, and will be moderated by Brad Gentry. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect 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.)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 7:30 PM Great Organ Music at Yale: Jean-Baptiste Robin.

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YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 · yaledailynews.com

GameDay host talks Harvard-Yale

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Chris Fowler is the main host for ESPN’s College GameDay, which is the nation’s mostviewed pregame college football show. With GameDay coming to Cambridge for the 131st edition of The Game, the News talked with Fowler about Saturday and the related festivities.

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What makes you excited about this game?

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Well, we’re at the time of the year where at GameDay we get to come from Harvard-Yale to the Iron Bowl — AlabamaAuburn — and then Army-Navy on Dec. 13. So three great rivalries in the last four weeks, which is unbelievable for our show. We’ve never really had a run like this year featuring these kinds of different-textured rivalries. We’re excited to be able to kick it off …

We were very watchful of Yale’s game last week to make sure they got over the hump to get into this game where everything was on the line. That’s sort of how we want to present the rivalry, not just every year and the great history, but also when there’s plenty at stake for both teams. We’ll do a good job explaining what’s unique about it. This is the last game for both teams — there are no bowl bids, no playoffs.

There’s a big difference between having a nice year and being Ivy League champions and being a part of history, and being known as part of the great teams in that program’s history. In Harvard’s case, a perfect season. In Yale’s case, a symbolic rebuilding from the ashes of a few years ago. So I think in either case there’s a great story whoever wins.

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I’m going to talk to him later on. He has an interesting story. He’s 230 pounds, hammers away and is extremely strong, comes from an athletic background. He’s an extremely hungry and motivated player who runs like someone who’s trying to make a living playing football

... Who doesn’t love a 230-pound punishing back? He’s got a great attitude, works hard and happens to be a great student. And that’s why he’s on the list for the Campbell Trophy. He’s a great representative of the school, academically as well.

have been a lot of peoQThere ple saying that you should

have chosen USC-UCLA over an FCS game like this. How do you respond to them?

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I don’t. You can’t convince people who have fan biases.

But we’ll highlight the fact that

it’s one of the classic rivalries, it goes back to the birth of college football, and this is a really important chapter on Saturday.

It’s a different equation when you’re talking the Ivy title. Yale is back, Harvard has been on a SEE FOWLER PAGE 8

do you think about QWhat Yale’s team so far and how much had you been following Yale and Harvard before this weekend?

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Well, I followed the Army game. It’s difficult when you’re doing GameDay and doing games on Saturday nights. I’ll be very honest with you — it’s not like we’re paying attention to the Ivy League week in and week out. It’s just not possible to do. But the numbers are eyecatching ... I think if you look at the match up of Yale’s offense against Harvard’s defense, which is very good, that’s sort of a really attractive battle and something to grab a hold of. Harvard wants to limit Yale’s offense, Yale wins shootouts, so it’s a game of contrasting styles.

have you seen of Tyler QWhat Varga and can you talk about his style and whether you think he has professional prospects?

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Chris Fowler has hosted ESPN’s GameDay since 1990 and is a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Tight ends healthy, ready for Harvard

BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As they march into the biggest weekend of their season, the Elis have more than just their eight wins, five-game winning streak and undefeated record on the road to give them momentum. They also have their two veteran tight ends back.

Overcoming injuries that lasted more than half the season, tight ends Stephen Buric ’16 and Sebastian Little ’16 returned to the Yale Bowl to face Princeton last Saturday. The two are the oldest tight ends on the team, as they are the only two junior tight ends on a Bulldog squad that has no seniors in the position.

Little had been sidelined since the Bulldogs’ third game, while Buric — who scored the only tight end touchdown of the season against Lehigh — had been out since Dartmouth, Yale’s fourth game and only loss.

“I think they all bring something different whether it’s physically, catching the ball or running good routes,” captain Deon Randall ’15 said of the two tight ends and their replacement, Leo Haenni ’17. “It’s nice having them all back because they can rotate in and stay fresh. They obviously have value to our offense, and we’re just happy to have them back this week.”

Haenni began the season as the third-string tight end, but after not playing in Yale’s first two games and playing sparingly in the team’s third contest, he suddenly found himself alone in a starting position for the next six games.

Fellow tight end Peter Gerson ’17 attested to Haenni’s persistence and ability to rise to the challenge after suddenly finding himself in a starting position. “[Haenni] absolutely outperformed anything that was asked of him, which is constant for him,” Gerson said. “He works hard in everything he does and is able to balance his responsibilities with football and school better than anyone I know.”

In seven games alone, Haenni has earned more yards than Little did in 2013, when he earned 252 after starting in each of the Elis’ 10 games.

This is largely attributable to this year’s offense being much more prolific than the 2013 edition.

The Bulldogs have thrown for 2,931 yards in just seven games, compared to the 2,108 figure from

a year ago.

Little, meanwhile, spent much of the spring transitioning from wide receiver to tight end.

Gerson said that Little excelled in learning the new position.

“His athletic ability makes him a strong threat in the pass game at all times that other teams need to be prepared for,” Gerson said. “[Additionally, he is] a good run blocker.”

For the third straight season, Buric suffered an injury that caused him to miss several games — but despite his medical woes, Buric led all tight ends in receptions during his freshman campaign. He also has averaged an impressive 19.5 yards per catch this season, the best figure on the team.

Gerson spoke to Buric and Little’s determination and resilience. He especially noted that when Buric returned to the field, he was still in pain, choosing to get back to work as soon as he could. He described Buric as a fantastic teammate and a great player. “[Buric] always manages to find a way to get his job done,” Gerson said. “Having him out there gives the team a sense of calmness and strength.”

With the help of Haenni, Buric, Little and fellow tight end Jackson Stallings ’17, the Yale running game has soared to new heights. Running back Tyler Varga ’15 has averaged 144 yards per game this season, best in the Ivy League, and the Bulldogs rank seventh in the Football Championship Subdivision in rushing yards per game.

But Gerson added that tight end is a unique position. Not only does it require the strength and stoutness to block on the line of scrimmage, it also demands athleticism to be a factor in the passing game.

With all tight ends healthy and ready to go against Harvard, Ross Drwal ’18 hopes that the Yale offense will be even better.

“Usually maybe two tight ends play but having three that can make a big impact is big for our team,” Drwal said. “We have had a great offensive practice this week and I am excited to see what we can accomplish.”

The Game kicks off from Harvard Stadium at 12:30 p.m. ESPN’s College GameDay starts airing at 9:00 a.m.

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

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The return and rise of Ciotti

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Larry Ciotti was the first football coach Daniel Hand High School ever hired. In 1970, the Madison, Connecticut school hired Ciotti — then only four years removed from a college football career at Southern Connecticut State — to build its football program.

Over the next 18 seasons, Ciotti turned the school into a football powerhouse. Hand High School appeared in seven state championships, earning four titles and winning over 76 percent of its games.

When Ciotti left after the 1988 season, he left in place a framework that has allowed the Tigers to win nine state titles since.

Today, Ciotti coaches the running backs on a Yale team that has broken offensive records left and right. He has worked with some of the greatest rushers in school history and left his mark on both individual players and the program as a whole.

Ciotti did not starting coaching the Bulldogs until 1991, when he joined Carm Cozza’s staff at Yale. He brought with him a philosophy that focuses on respecting the players. Ciotti said that when he coaches, he tries to always keep in mind the amount of energy and time players willingly give up.

According to Ciotti, his experience at the high school level was conducive to the recruiting process at Yale.

“We have recruits that are entering freshmen,” Ciotti said.

“They’re just months away from being in high school. I think that I had the knowledge and the experience to acclimate them and orient them to a college football program.”

After working under Cozza and his successor, Jack Siedlecki, as the freshman coach, linebackers coach and running backs coach, Ciotti retired in 2008.

His departure coincided with Siedlecki’s resignation, just two

years removed from an Ivy title in 2006 — also the last time the Bulldogs beat Harvard in The Game.

“I didn’t really want to break in a new staff and learn a new system,” Ciotti said. “It’s like learning a foreign language when you’re trying to learn a new offensive system.”

By the time Ciotti left, his running backs had rewritten the record books. One name in particular stands out: Mike McLeod ’09.

McLeod currently owns the Yale records for most rushing yards and most rushing touchdowns in one season.

McLeod spent four years with Ciotti and credited Ciotti’s handsoff approach as a factor in his success.

“He gave me freedom to do a lot of what I wanted to do on the field,” McLeod said. “That’s important for every runner. It’s not about coaching. You can’t teach somebody how to run. You give them ideas on how to be successful.”

McLeod recalled Ciotti created drills that improved fullbacks’ downfield blocking abilities. These holes, he said, allowed him to earn the yardage he did.

In 2007, as a junior, McLeod scored 23 total touchdowns, breaking the school record. He ascribed both his prolific career and his offthe-field persona to Ciotti.

But retirement did not last long for Ciotti. When head coach Tony Reno took over the program in 2011, he pitched an idea to Ciotti: come back to Yale and coach running back Tyler Varga ’15.

“When I came out of retirement, it just seemed as though I was sitting at my desk and Heaven dropped Tyler Varga into my lap,” Ciotti said. “It’s a great experience, to coach him. On top of all his athletic prowess, he’s a phenomenal person and a phenomenal student.

I’m very blessed.”

Under Ciotti, current running back Tyler Varga ’15 has tied McLeod’s record through nine games this season, with 20 touch-

downs on the ground and three through the air.

But although their arrivals coincided, Varga was not the reason Reno sought out Ciotti. Reno said he wanted to work alongside an experienced coach.

Reno also wanted someone who had the same values and who embraced the Yale and greater New Haven communities. According to Reno, Ciotti fit the bill.

“Larry has been a great mentor for me,” Reno said. “I don’t know anyone in the Yale football community, outside of Coach Cozza, who has the same respect that Coach Ciotti does with players that have played here. That’s why I wanted him.”

Reno and Ciotti actually met in 2000, when Siedlecki hired Reno as an assistant.

Ciotti recalled interviewing Reno for his first stint at Yale. Reno and Ciotti overlapped for seven years, during which the two grew close.

“When [Reno] got the job, I was really excited because I knew he would be the guy to bring the program back,” Ciotti said. “I wanted to see Yale and Harvard playing for the Ivy League championship every single year. That’s the way it should be, and that’s what’s happening right now, only in our third year. I came back because I wanted to see the program come back under the leadership of Tony Reno, because I believe in him.”

Thus far, it appears that Ciotti’s vision has come to fruition.

Though Reno’s first season ended with a 2–8 record, the team has continued improving. The Bulldogs finished 5–5 last year, and with one game left to go this season, the Elis currently sit at 8–1.

If they win against Harvard on Saturday, the Bulldogs will rise to 9–1 and clinch their first share of the Ivy League title since 2006.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RECEPTIONS THE TOP FOUR TIGHT ENDS HAVE FOR THE BULLDOGS THIS SEASON. Through nine games, Leo Haenni ’17, Stephen Buric ’16, Sebi Little ’16 and Jackson Stallings ’17 have combined for 472 receiving yards and one touchdown.