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Utter anarchy. The federal government has shut down, but what will happen to your summer internship? The Yale Jackson Institute announced Tuesday that the Central Intelligence Agency canceled their annual recruitment visit to Yale, originally scheduled for early next week. Eager applicants who can no longer attend the CIA simulation and information session will likely have to settle for watching the latest season of “Homeland,” which premiered this past Sunday.
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lege campuses. Though Yale’s number of on-campus burglaries increased in 2012, the number of burglaries remains much lower than it was several years ago. Between 2004 — the earliest year for which Yale’s data is publicly available — and 2009, the average number of on-campus burglaries each year was 78, while on-campus burglaries
Larry Andrews, 61, sat at a picnic table on the New Haven Green Tuesday morning smoking a cigarette. He said he relies on Social Security disability, and he said he cannot help but see the Republicans as responsible for the shutdown. “It’s pretty obvious what they’re trying to do,” he said. “All these resources that have been put in place for people that really need them — they want to take these resources away.” After a prolonged standoff in Congress, the federal government shut down early Tuesday, leaving 9,000 employees in Conn. temporarily without work and threatening the livelihood of those who rely on government benefits. The government shut down at midnight on Tuesday after Republicans in the House of Representatives repeatedly attached defunding of the Affordable Care Act to legislation that would keep the government running. The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, went into effect on Tuesday — exactly the outcome that Congressional Republicans were seeking to defer by threatening a shutdown for weeks. While essential services, such as law enforcement, post offices and military installations, will continue to function, most other federal functions came to a halt.
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This is as good as it gets.
Brown bares all. Under the
auspices of fostering open discussion about the naked body, Brown University students are engaging in a weeklong celebration of nudity. “All bodies welcome!” the event description read. The affair was launched Monday evening with an evening of nude body painting, which gave unclothed participants an opportunity to examine “physical mediums in the nude through body painting.” Attendees will also have a chance to participate in nude cabaret, nude open mic night, nude yoga and, of course, a panel on how issues like race and class intersect with nudity and body image.
A capella always wins. Zipcar
will be paying for $5,000 worth of transportation for Whim ’n Rhythm because the all-female a capella group won the Students with Drive contest for September after racking up over 1,200 votes in the Facebook voting competition. The winnings will allow the group to augment their world travels — perhaps even going to Jamaica. Drink pink. October is Pink Margarita Month at Oaxaca Kitchen. As part of a fundraiser for the Smilow Cancer Center, Oaxaca Kitchen has created a $10 Hot Pink Margarita and $1 of each purchase will go to Smilow. The specially concocted cocktail consists of tequila, lime, triple sec, orange juice, sugar and bright pink grenadine syrup. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1968 The Honors Committee to the Yale College Faculty considers recommending an abolishment of the Yale Dean’s List. The Dean’s List was previously comprised of students with GPA’s in the top 25 percent of their class.
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Liquor Law Violations on Campus Resulting in Disciplinary Action BY JOSEPH TISCH STAFF REPORTER Police arrested several times as many individuals for on-campus drug abuse violations during 2012 than they did in previous years, according to a new report on campus safety. The report, which Associate Vice President for Administration Janet Linder emailed to the Yale commu-
nity Monday afternoon, showed that criminal offenses on campus stayed relatively steady from 2011 to 2012, while the number of arrests for drug abuse violations, as well as the number of disciplinary actions for liquor law violations, spiked. Compiled annually in accordance with federal law, the report uses federally mandated definitions concerning the locations and types of crimes in order to allow for comparisons across col-
Budget hole sinks $1 million
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“Yale’s dining program couldn’t be more impressive if it tried,” according to a Fox News article on the 60 best colleges for food in America. The piece goes on to state that it would be difficult to find any student leaving a dining hall unsatisfied, particularly after a supper of “beerbattered fish and chips, and vegan ravioli.” Although Fox may have overestimated the popularity of vegan pasta, the article pointed out fortes of the Yale Dining Program including its popular courses on wine pairings. Yale was the only Ivy League to make the top ten.
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Laundry rooms around the University have been plagued by the student-dubbed “poopetrator,” who has been soiling clothes with human feces.
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BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s balance sheet is $1 million further into debt thanks to a decrease in funding from the state. The city’s general fund deficit for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, which ended this past July, now stands at $4.5 million. Earlier this year, New Haven administrators expected to receive significantly more from the state’s Municipal Revenue Sharing Program and
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adjusted the budget accordingly. Due to a technicality in Connecticut’s 2014-2015 budget, however, the statewide funds in the program dropped nearly 30 percent from last year’s total of $42.8 million. The last-minute change, which city officials discovered in August, added to the $3.5 million gap in the budget caused by a shortfall in the Board of Education. “The cut was at the end of last SEE CITY BUDGET PAGE 6
In the late evening of Sept. 7, Lucy Fleming ’16 opened the dryer in the Saybrook College laundry room to an unpleasant surprise. Her clothes were soiled with human feces, and it took the physical delivery of the excrement to the Saybrook Master’s Office to catch administrators’ attention. In the past several weeks, an unknown individual or group, who students have dubbed the ‘poopetrator,’ has repeatedly defecated
in students’ laundry, leaving many fearful about the safety of their clothes. After an additional episode was reported on Sept. 26, Saybrook Master Paul Hudak announced that Yale Police has officially joined the investigation and is seeking further information. “We have asked our students not to leave their laundry unattended, the affected machines have been thoroughly disinfected, and we are actively seeking information about who the perpetrator might be,” Hudak told the News. “That’s about all we can do.”
The incident has sparked concern throughout campus. Although Yale Police could not be reached for comment, the Yale College Council said in an email to the News that they would speak with the Council of Masters to see whether any changes to laundry access need to be made. On Sept. 6, Fleming said, two other Saybrook students — Fleming’s suitemate and her suitemate’s boyfriend — were first targeted, as their clothes were soiled with urine and food SEE POOP PAGE 4