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The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity has updated their lists of the best and worst kids’ meal combinations from fast food chains. At the top of the best list was Arby’s Kraft mac & cheese with apple slices and bottled water which contains 205 calories. Kraft mac & cheese dominated the best list, appearing six times in the top 10 meals. Meanwhile, McDonald’s McDouble, french fries and soft drink came in as the very worst item on the worst list with 880 calories.
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be used to house law students yearround in furnished two-bedroom suites, complete with en suite bathrooms, kitchens and shared community areas. YLS has not offered residential housing to law students since 2007, when dorms inside of the Sterling Law Building at 127
New Haven teachers voted last night to ratify a new contract that continues the legacy of the nationally acclaimed teacher’s contract passed in 2009. The contract passed with 775 votes in favor to 79 votes against, a positive showing of support for the school reforms of the past four years. The theme of the new contract is increased professionalism, said New Haven Public Schools spokeswoman Abbe Smith. The contract’s pillars include increased compensation for teachers who are deemed “effective,” “strong” or “exemplary,” time set aside for teacher collaboration and the creation of a Talent Council, which will seek to cultivate excellence in teachers, particularly in low-performing schools. “We appreciate the collaborative spirit of good faith between the parties that allowed this agreement to be reached at the bargaining table,” Smith said. Four years ago a major focal point of the new contract was TEVAL, the new teacher’s evaluation system, which groups teachers into five categories: “exemplary,” “strong,” “effective,” “developing” and “needs improvement.” The new contract will not only keep TEVAL intact, but will also build upon it, with increased compensation and support for teachers, which was made possible by a federal Professional Educa-
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has failed us all once again. The elevator in Ezra Stiles tower stopped working on Wednesday, forcing miserable Moose to climb stairs to their dorm rooms. Perhaps none suffered more than Dean of Ezra Stiles Camille Lizarribar whose residence is located on the top floors of the tower. In two emails to the Stiles community, Lizarribar signed her messages: “Yours in ‘I did not need stairmaster training today...’,” and “Yours in notwalking-the-dog-late-tonight.” Tying the knot. Meanwhile
in other Ezra Stiles news, the first annual Rope Saturday will be held this weekend. The game, which was “invented by hungover Stilesians,” involves tying two Stilesians together and seeing which couple lasts the longest. The last pair still able to stand each other wins. A dip in performance. In the
8th Annual Sexual Health Report Card college rankings from Trojan Condoms were released Wednesday and Yale did not perform as expected. “The big news on your campus? Yale came in at #13, dropping 7 spots from 2012,” said Lindsey Edelman, a spokesperson for Trojan Condoms in an email to the News. Meanwhile, Princeton and Columbia took the top two places. What happened, Class of 2017?
Abysmal math skills. A recent
blog post from the Harvard Alumni Association compared Yale and Harvard in an entry titled “Beating Yale by the Numbers.” The list illogically compared the number of current students and number of living alumni, both of which Harvard — a larger school — has more of, in an attempt to prove Harvard’s superiority. The post was also dated November 23, 2013 in another example of the writer’s poor grasp of numbers.
The 1K Facebook Comment. In a Y-Hack competition, $1000 is being given away to one of the top three most “liked” ideas written as comments on a Facebook status from Y-Hack. Here’s hoping for “LOL,” “trolling” and “One Button Brenzel” to make it into the top three because that would be hilarious. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1894. A large number of students attend a Whist Club meeting in Vanderbilt on Old Campus. It is decided that a Whist tournament will be held. Huzzah! Submit tips to Cross Campus
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Renovations to Swing Space will allow Yale Law School to offer residential housing to its students as soon as 2019. BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER After years of planning, the Yale Law School’s long-awaited project to reinstall residential housing for law students will finally come to life. On Thursday morning, Yale Law School Dean Robert Post LAW ’77
announced that a $25 million donation to the law school — given by Robert C. Baker ’56 LAW ’59 and his wife, Christina — will enable YLS to renovate the building at 100 Tower Parkway, which is currently used as Swing Space for annexed undergraduates. In addition to housing small seminars and certain Yale offices, the four-story building will
NHPD Launches Communication Network BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Last week, the New Haven Police Department announced the establishment of a regional CompStat system, which connects Connecticut police departments through an open and efficient network. Every Thursday morning, NHPD officers and other New Haven officials gather at the NHPD office on Union Avenue to recap the week’s trends
in crime and discuss strategies for addressing them. Now, the Department will spearhead an additional, expanded CompStat meeting focusing on crime across south-central Connecticut. The new meetings, to be held via conference call, will be remotely attended by state officials, federal officials, city police from nearby towns and University police department officials. The new system is intended to strengthen relationships and
information-sharing between local police departments. “The purpose of the forum is to share information regarding ongoing investigations, as well as to learn best practices from one another,” NHPD spokesman David Hartman said in a press release. “It is an expansion of the existing CompStat meetings, which focus on New Haven.” Previously, inter-department work was handled on a case-by-case basis: if an offi-
Committe drops numerical grading BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER Since the faculty tabled the proposal for switching to numerical grades last spring, the AdHoc Committee on Grading has turned its attention to less provocative ideas for grade reform. In Thursday’s Yale College faculty meeting, grading committee chair and economics professor Ray Fair officially announced to a room of around 75 professors that the grading committee would not pursue a number system any further, according to Yale College Dean Mary Miller. While Miller said the purpose of Fair’s presentation was largely to present interim findings and collect faculty input on grading, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan said the committee gave the impression that it had rejected the idea of enforcing a “onesize-fits-all grade distribution.” Instead, Kagan said the committee seemed fixed on the
idea of proposing different recommendations for entry-level, mid-level and advanced-level courses as a recognition of the fact that courses with older and more self-selecting students may warrant a different grading spread than introductory lectures. The grading committee said it was still “batting ideas around,” according to Kagan. Though the committee presented several models, the proposal for stratified grading was the most developed, he said. “There are some uncooked ideas. This sounded far more cooked,” Kagan said. The meeting had a “reflective and calm” tenor, Miller said, with the discussion of grades taking up only 30 to 40 minutes of the 90-minute-long meeting. This was a departure from the “contentious” faculty meeting last April, Kagan said, when the vote on the grading commitSEE FACULTY MEETING PAGE 4
cer in one city was looking for relevant information from the department in another, he would have to call a specific contact for help. These regional CompStat conference calls now centralize this information on a consistent basis. Because crimes that spill over from one department’s jurisdiction to another only happen “a couple times a month,” these conversations are more geared towards sharing general information and public
safety techniques, according to NHPD Chief Dean Esserman. Esserman said the Department first implemented CompStat in New Haven in 2012, and he has wanted to expand the technique’s reach to the region beyond New Haven once it proved successful in the Elm City. Several months ago, he sent NHPD Assistant Chief Achilles Generoso and Sergeant Al Vazquez SEE COMPSTAT PAGE 4
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s Yale administrators look to grow the University’s presence abroad, a team of social media experts is working to expand Yale’s engagement on a series of social media platforms. LAVINIA BORZI AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS report on the cross-sections of technology and internationalization. In a glass-walled room inside the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications — located on the third floor of 2 Whitney Ave. — a four-foot television screen flashes a series of ever-changing numbers: Facebook likes, Twitter followers and visitors to Yale’s website. In one corner of the screen, graphs depict the growth of Yale’s engagement on select social media sites. In another corner, a world map dotted with red spots shows the geographic distribution of online visitors to Yale’s news site. During his inaugural address last month, University President Peter Salovey expressed a desire to build upon for-
mer University President Richard Levin’s engagement with the world beyond the United States. And as Yale looks to promote itself abroad — disseminating information about research, admissions, campus life and more — Yale administrators say that the use of social media is becoming more and more important. “Anything that happens digitally is essentially an international operation,” said University Chief Communications Officer and Special Assistant to the President Elizabeth Stauderman. “What the social media effort does is broaden the access to anyone, and it’s a great equalizer SEE SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE 6
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How to lean in n her bestselling book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead,” Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg faulted women for not “leaning in,” that is, not being aggressive enough in pursuing their career goals. “We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in,” Sandberg wrote. The fact that women get paid less and are offered fewer opportunities than men is hardly news. A 2003 Harvard Business Review article entitled “Nice Girls Don’t Ask” reported that male MBA graduates from Carnegie Mellon were paid 7.6 percent, or almost $4,000, more on average than their female counterparts in their first job out of school. While 57 percent of the men responded to the initial salary offer by asking for more, only 7 percent of the women tried to negotiate a better deal. So the solution should be simple — just get women to raise their hands faster, to ask for more, right? Not so fast. As the HBR article explained, there are good reasons why women are reluctant to ask for their due: “Women who assertively pursue their own ambitions and promote their own interests may be labeled as bitchy or pushy. They frequently see their work devalued and find themselves ostracized or excluded from access to important information.” Although one might expect females to be more supportive of other women, that is frequently not the case. Sixty percent of the senior women interviewed in a Newcastle Business School study reported that senior-level women in their firm do not advocate for other women. Indeed, women often treat their female co-workers more harshly than men do. Especially when there are few women at the top, these socalled queen bees can make it impossible for other qualified women to succeed. As Dr. Peggy Drexler of the Weill Cornell Medical College put it, “[S] ome women are finding their professional lives dominated by high school ‘mean girls’ all grown up: women with something to prove and a precarious sense of security.” Fortunately, Yale has a number of female and male superstars on the faculty who do actively recruit and support talented women. But more needs to be done. According to the Yale Women Faculty Forum report entitled “Women, Men,
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and Yale University: A View from 2012,” although the percentage of tenured women at the Yale School of Medicine has grown from 6 percent in 1982– 1983 to 22 percent in 2011– 2012, only 10 percent of the Yale School of Management tenured faculty are women. In fact, not one woman has been granted tenure at Yale SOM since 2002. Even when an employer enters the hiring process with the goal of being fair to all candidates, unconscious bias oftentimes gets in the way. That bias has been scientifically measured in recent research conducted at Yale. A 2012 study led by Jo Handelsman, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale, found that biology, chemistry and physics professors at six American universities offered $30,328 to hypothetical male applicants for a position as laboratory manager but only $26,508 to female applicants with identical resumes. So how do we ensure that employers are indeed hiring and promoting the best candidates? One technique is to emulate the “blind” auditions that are now the norm for hiring musicians for the top American symphony orchestras. Even after orchestras began actively recruiting more female musicians, almost all the orchestra members continued to be males. But once the conductors began auditioning candidates behind a screen, the number of female musicians selected rose dramatically. This suggests that employers can start by removing first names from papers and resumes, just as firms and universities stopped requiring applicants to attach photos. It is also critical to crack down on sexual stereotyping. As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, “An employer who objects to aggressiveness in women but whose positions require this trait places women in an intolerable and impermissible Catch-22: out of a job if they behave aggressively and out of a job if they don’t.” Until employers eliminate this Catch-22, women hoping to emulate Sandburg’s success may find themselves kicked out when they lean in — instead of welcomed into the executive suite or the classroom.
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ale should offer exercise courses for credit. Students have four years to gain the skills they think they’ll need in life, ranging from languages to critical thinking and persuasive writing. They should have the option to strengthen their physical skills, if they so choose. An exercise class would allow students to try more adventurous physical activity and learn to engage their bodies more effectively. I am not arguing that we expand the distributional requirements — we have enough of those already. But I’m sure more students would head to Payne Whitney and take the time to focus on their bodies if it was part of their academic schedules. That students should graduate with some physical education used to be a given. In the 1920s, 97% of college students were beholden to physical education requirements. Today, that number is closer to 39%, according to a recent study done by Brad Cardinal at Oregon State University. While Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth are just several among many schools
that still require students to pass a swimming test, such physical standards are dropping. After 60 years, the University of Chicago lifted their physical education requirement and swimming test for the class of 2016.
WHY CAN'T I LIFT OR DANCE FOR CREDIT? But that isn’t the trend that Yale should follow. Tons of liberal art colleges have courses in weight training, sports, bodybuilding and other forms of exercise. At Columbia, taking a physical education class is a requirement, in addition to passing a swim test. Harvard, like many schools with an established dance major, has a range of classes for credit offered within the dance department. But Yalies have only a handful of classes scattered throughout the Blue Book that involve any
type of physical training at all. Physical training is important. Knowing how to push your body safely and effectively is by no means a given, and it is a useful skill that will probably outlast a lot of the knowledge we pick up in seminars. Not to knock seminars, but our bodies stick with us for life, and Introduction to Medieval Birthing Songs doesn’t. A well-rounded education need not ignore the physical. Athletic activity too often gets a bad rap for being anti-intellectual. But this attitude advocates a false distinction between building our bodies and stretching our minds. In both scenarios, students are learning new skills and working hard to push themselves. Even if offered as a half credit, the inclusion of exercise training in the course curriculum would be a welcome celebration of the importance of physical health and wellbeing. There is no reason students shouldn’t be able to train their bodies as well as their minds. I know that most people aren’t against exercise — they just feel that while physical
activity is important, it doesn’t fall under the purpose of an undergraduate education. Many of my friends feel they should be taking courses that engage the mind, and running, playing tennis or power lifting should be strictly extracurricular. But those that think working out isn’t course-worthy material are buying into a distressingly narrow understanding of education. Courses don’t need academic papers or problem sets to be worthwhile. Every semester, students take classes in art, architecture, creative writing and music composition. These courses teach them how to craft, construct and create real and beautiful things. Why is building our bodies any different? Improving the human body is a worthy goal, and one that shouldn’t be disparaged. As Yale students, making our bodies more graceful or more powerful instruments should not be beneath our education. SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .
CONNIE BAGLEY is a professor at the Yale School of Management. Contact her at connie. bagley@yale.edu .
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A misdirected criticism The author of the column on Directed Studies (“Misdirected Studies,” Nov. 5) might have considered looking at the D.S. syllabus before rushing to judgment that the program ignores the “transnational” and “multiethnic” sources of the Western tradition. Even the most superficial perusal of the D.S. syllabus shows that this complaint is badly “misdirected.” In the autumn semester, the history and politics section reads Maimonides and Al-Farabi to bring out the great Muslim and Jewish interpreters of the classical canon. The philosophy section reads Averroes as a central figure of the medieval philosophical tradition. The Hebrew Bible read in the literature section is a product of a Near Eastern civilization on the periphery of the European world. I should also add that Saint Augustine, a leading interpreter of Christianity, was from North Africa in what is now Algeria. A certain multiculturalism is baked into the very foundation of the course. D.S. cannot be all things to all people, but one thing that it does attempt to teach is to read and think before criticizing. STEVEN SMITH Nov. 5 The author is the Alfred Cowles professor of government & philosophy and an instructor for Directed Studies.
Yale is engaged with New Haven Contrary to Justin Elicker’s view (“Candidates discuss Yale’s involvement in city,” Oct. 29) Yale students are encouraged to engage with the city, beginning with their arrival in New Haven. During orientation week, all freshmen are invited to attend Discover New Haven, an event during which they actively explore and get to know New Haven. Throughout the year, thousands of Yale students, faculty and staff are engaged in New Haven through a myriad of programs sponsored by Yale. Examples of these include the Yale President’s Public Service Fellowship, which places up to 35 Yale undergraduate, graduate and professional school students at nonprofits and civic organizations for up to 11 weeks each summer; the Dwight Hall Urban Fellowship where students work with New Haven community organizations to address challenges of urban living (i.e. economic development, community building, family empow-
erment and public health); the Public School Intern program where students serve as liaisons between Yale volunteers/organizations and an assigned New Haven public school to ensure that the needs of each school are being met and that volunteers are being used effectively; and the HAVEN Free Clinic, run out of the Fair Haven Community Health Center, a studentrun clinic that offers free primary care services. Nearly half of undergraduates volunteer in community service activities in New Haven. Because Yale encourages and supports this student engagement, it responsibly reminds students of the rules of personal safety they should follow in any city in the world, including Yale’s host city. TOM CONROY Oct. 31 The author is the University spokesman.
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A weekly ritual
esterday morning, I sat at my desk, took out pen and paper, an envelope and a roll of stamps and began to write. No, I wasn’t mailing a check or returning an online purchase — or recreating a scene from a Jane Austen novel. I was writing a letter. This activity has become a weekly ritual for me, as I keep regular correspondence with several faraway loved ones. It started last year, with a postcard that my mother sent me — I taped it up next to my desk as a reminder to write back. Over time, my address book has grown to include friends of many different ages and locations: a girl from my high school now attending college in Ohio, cousins and aunts in Montana, a woman who I know well who lives in my home neighborhood. My wall is now covered with a collage of bright postcard photos and pages full of curling dark script. I didn’t think much about my habit, until I began to notice the way that my friends react to it. Upon seeing my room for the first time, it’s not uncommon for people to ask in disbelief, “Woah, you write letters?” The vast majority of students probably haven’t written and
mailed a letter since the days of post-birthday-party thank you notes. It’s true that our culture has fully shifted away from this by now — and of course, this is partially for good reason. It’s impossible to deny that it’s actually much faster and more effective to keep in touch with people via text, email or Facebook. But there’s still something to be said for keeping actual physical correspondence, intentionally choosing to forego the ease of the computer in order to have a more meaningful exchange of ideas. Writing a letter isn’t something that you can just dash off in a few minutes, replete with misspellings and abbreviations — you have to actually grab a piece of paper, sit down at a desk and think a bit first. The simple act of choosing to write a letter already shows an investment in your interaction with the person to whom you’re sending it, that you have something worthwhile to say and have taken the time to do so in a full and complete manner. And there’s something to the materiality of a letter, the thrill of unfolding the piece of paper and knowing that another set of hands far away has held it too. Unlike emails, letters aren’t in danger of
disappearing into cyberspace with one false click. My mother still has a box full of the letters she sent to her parents in college, which she let me look through over the summer. Leafing through the pages, I could see the development of the handwriting, as well as of the woman who wrote with it. Somehow a folder of emails just doesn’t have that same effect. A part of me was saddened this year, watching the sharp decline in post office traffic after the first few weeks of the semester ended. Once students have received their textbooks for the semester, many see no need to return at all — they use the mail solely for online orders such as these. Even worse, though, is watching the U.S. Postal Service on its process towards what may become a slow and painful death. It’s not that I want the Yale Station lines to be snaking out the door every week — but I wish more of my peers were experiencing the same joy that I feel on my weekly post office trip, when I open my box to find a thick sheaf of letters. We’re so concerned about speed and efficiency and instant communication that we’ve lost sight of the value of deliberation and intentionality, of taking the time to give our commu-
nication with others the attention it deserves. It’s easy to view letter writing as an old-fashioned, onerous task, too serious and formal for modern life. But none of my correspondence is entirely serious — the letters are often full of silly doodles, pressed flowers and newspaper clippings. And letters sometimes do take an excruciatingly long time to arrive — but they can always be supplemented by emails in the interim, and the wait makes the excitement all the greater when my mail finally arrives. It’s also true that letterwriting obligations can take up a reasonable amount of time, which could be spent doing problem sets or readings. Yet there’s just something about opening my P.O. box each week to find a stack of thick, handwritten envelopes, which no high-pitched ping or Facebook notification tone will ever be able to match. And it would be irresponsible of our generation to sacrifice this simple pleasure entirely, for the sake of mere convenience. EMMA FALLONE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at emma.fallone@yale.edu .
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ast night, I sat down with friends to a dinner of homemade bowls of lentil soup and wilted rainbow chard. We kicked off our boots and listened to the fizzing of the radiator turning on and off. It felt like approaching winter in the best of ways, the steam rising from the bowls, the magnification of indoor warmth contrasting with the cold past the windows. For dessert, we broiled pears and the whole offcampus apartment smelled of that fruity spiciness that wafts from the season itself, not a jar of cloves or ginger or cinnamon. All the abundance of the season lay before me on the table. The next morning, back in the dining hall, I faced rows of pale cantaloupe and even paler pineapple, out of place and out of season, on a November morning. Energy intensively brought to our plates from distant warmer climates; their pale flesh seemed to shiver in the Connecticut chill. This past Monday, University President Peter Salovey released the Sustainability Strategic Plan for 2013 to 2016, evaluating the achievements and shortcomings of the past three-year program and launching new goals. The plan targets four main areas for advancement in sustainability: energy and greenhouse gas emissions, natural and built environment, materials management and food and well-being. The past three years saw some significant improvements; for example, a 16 percent reduction in campus greenhouse gas emissions. Accordingly, in light of past progress, Yale has raised the stakes in many areas for the next three years — the plan now aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent from 2013 levels and introduce a pilot program that provides common room furniture to dorms to reduce end of year waste. In spite of these advances, however, the new plan has mystifyingly lowered standards for dining sustainability.
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t’s been a good few months for crack cocaine. This past summer, Philadelphia-based neonatologist Hallam Hurt completed a decades-long study examining in utero cocaine exposure. Hurt began her research in 1989, when crack usage ran rampant in America’s major cities. Of particular concern were so-called “crack babies”: children supposedly doomed to lives of drug-induced disability. The panic endured, but decades later, Hurt’s research exposed those fears as unfounded. In a May lecture, she explained her unexpected findings — poverty, she said, is “a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city children than gestational exposure to cocaine.” In September, the New York Times covered the work of another researcher, Columbia University scientist Carl Hart. A former crack user himself, Hart studied the effects of cocaine use on the decision-making capabilities of habitual users. He, too, was surprised to discover his findings didn’t conform to popular narratives surrounding drug use and addiction. His subjects “didn’t fit the caricature of the drug addict who can’t stop once he gets a taste,” Hart told the Times. Neither of these examples disproves the reality that crack, like many substances legal and illegal alike, is not particularly healthy. What they do suggest, however, is that our public perception of drugs
is often inaccurate. Our wholesale condemnation of crack might have more to do with racial animus and socioeconomMARISSA ics than it does hard sciMEDANSKY with ence. Such societal misconLittle Fables ceptions are the lifeblood of misguided policy. This week, crack returned to the spotlight when Toronto mayor Rob Ford admitted he had perhaps “tried” the drug in a “drunken stupor.” His confession followed a scandal-filled summer, during which reporters from Gawker and the Toronto Star claimed to have seen a video of the mayor smoking from a crack pipe. On Oct. 31, when Toronto police announced they’d acquired the footage, Ford’s jig was up. “I’ve made mistakes,” he told reporters in a Tuesday press conference. “All I can do is apologize and move on.” And move on he will. Just hours after his initial statement, Ford announced he would continue to seek re-election in 2014. His resilience pleases few people. Much like the drug war he espouses, Ford is a near-unmitigated failure. In the past few years alone, Ford has violated Canadian election laws, urinated in public, used homophobic slurs, harassed journalists, ditched
official meetings and been accused of sexual assault. It’s no wonder legions of his constituents are calling on him to resign. And although some Ford supporters argue the mayor shouldn’t step down over private matters, it’s clear that in this case, the personal is political. While he’s now an admitted user of crack cocaine, Ford has spent his career crusading against drugs and the “thugs” who deal them. He’s supported strict mandatory sentencing for gun crimes, and combatted gang violence with harsh penalties, not preventative policy. In 2012, Ford dismissed youth outreach efforts as “hug-a-thug” programs, and voted to defund these crucial initiatives. Ford’s infamous lack of compassion for the poor — he once suggested the best way to combat homelessness would be a “public lynching” — is also problematic; poverty and addiction often exacerbate one another. The issue, then, isn’t Ford’s drug use — it’s the arrogance he has exhibited as a drug user in support of the war on drugs. Ford’s questionable extracurricular activities are far less morally offensive than the dishonesty he’s shown in words and deeds alike, and his unrelenting expectation that his conduct remain above the law as others continue to unjustly suffer for identical behavior. Ford’s perpetual flirtation with self-parody makes him easy to dismiss. Unfortunately, the drug war hypocrisy he embodies is far too
common in contemporary politics. Even President Obama isn’t immune from this dangerous double standard. Details of Obama’s THC-fueled adolescence as a member of the “Choom Gang” are widely known, but the president’s own administration has taken a less enthusiastic stance toward ending prohibition. Things are improving — in August, Attorney General Eric Holder issued new guidelines intended to shield nonviolent offenders from extended prison time. But these changes, while encouraging, do little to undo the damage of a first term defined by harsh federal crackdowns on otherwise-legal dispensaries and familiar anti-drug pseudoscience. Although a variety of factors fuel the war on drugs, misinformation is among the most powerful. Grassroots activism — by scientists, journalists, scholars and everyday citizens — has been crucial in the push for legalization, but strong leadership from top politicians is desperately needed and often frustratingly absent. As consenting, rational, responsible adults, we should have the right to make meaningful choices about our bodies. That’s what Rob Ford seems to want for himself — he owes his constituents the same. MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News. Contact her at marissa. medansky@yale.edu .
The 2010 Strategic Plan set a goal for “45 percent sustainable procurement” of food in the dining halls and aimed for 50 percent local produce “during seasonal availability.” By the 2013 deadline, they had fallen a bit short — reaching 37 percent sustainable procurement. But rather than push forward and reset the goal at 45 percent or even higher, the new Strategic Plan lowers the initial goal to the already attained 37 percent sustainably sourced food. Furthermore, it identifies four categories: local, eco-sensitive, humane, or fair, as qualifiers for “sustainability.” This loose definition leads to lax and ambiguous requirements. The plan bundles together a range of admirable efforts to present sustainability as a singular front. This allows gains in some areas to cover for faults in others. Every category is held to a different standard, which means that Yale Dining can make the easiest changes — such as buying fair trade coffee and tea, a relatively easy and cheap option — while leaving harder ones — such as a commitment to seasonal vegetables and fruits — unchanged. These are very different types of sustainability. By grouping all of these together, one sustainably performing category can pick up slack for another. This results in a lower overall standard, since not all four categories will be meeting the 37 percent goal. One positive exception to this trend is the goal to increase plant-based foods available by 15 percent. Plants are inherently more sustainable because they need less energy input to grow than meat, which requires grain and significantly more water. But the old plan set more of these types of targets for specific food groups. In doing so, the previous plan enforced a more uniform and ambitious standard, specifying goals of 45 percent sustainable procurement; 50 percent of animal protein sustainable; 50 percent vegetarian-fed, grass-raised beef; and a 50 percent increase in locally preserved products. The new plan eliminates these breakdowns and lumps together sustainability into one 37 percent figure. The new plan emphasizes important but sustainability unrelated health issues like sodium content, a red herring that distracts from the lowered standards for regulating the environmental impact of food purchased by Yale Dining. Ultimately, by emphasizing health and bundling together four categories of sustainability, the report distracts from efforts toward sustainable sourcing of meats and produce. As anyone who has attended the Wooster Square Saturday farmers’ market can attest, Connecticut has an abundance of locally grown produce to offer even well into the winter. Yale should not assume that local and sustainable resources have been maximally utilized and that our sustainability capacity has topped off at 37 percent. CAROLINE SYDNEY is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .
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“You know, I’m fairly intelligent, but I don’t think my grades reflected that.” BARRY SANDERS AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER
Law school to renovate Swing Space LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 Wall St. were converted entirely into academic and administrative spaces. Post said that construction work on 100 Tower Parkway will begin in 2018, with law students potentially moving into their new dorms the following year. He added that every other major law school in the country offers residential housing to law students. Though living in the building will be optional for law students, Post said, the dorms will likely prove popular amongst first-year students because they offer the opportunity to immediately integrate into the school community, and also amongst students who come from abroad because the dorms will be open year-round. “Dormitory living is very important for students to be able to associate [with] their peers,” he said. Post also said that because a dorm environment enables students to “bring their classes home” for exchange and discussion, the new residential building will serve as a space for students to socialize and collaborate after their academic work during the day. YLS Professor Peter Schuck said he believes dorms are a place where intellectual life flourishes. Other faculty members also listed benefits to restoring dormitory space for law students. YLS professor Joshua Galperin said he believes the new dorms will be important for the school’s image. “The law school brings in the world’s best students — but it has not been able to offer them equally impressive accommodations,” Galperin said. The project to return dormitory living to YLS has been in the works for several years, and YLS
was originally slated to acquire the 100 Tower Parkway building from the University in 2012 — but the plans were set back due to financial deficits. Post said that the new donation from the Bakers will allow YLS to renovate the building without borrowing or raising additional money. Baker said in a Thursday morning press release that he hopes his gift will inspire other alumni to support the project as well. Baker is the founder, chairman and CEO of National Realty and Development Corp, as well as the owner of a private equity group that purchased several department store chains. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Yale Law School to acquire from the University a facility which is only one block away from the Sterling Law Building,” Baker said in the release. Douglas Kysar, another YLS professor, said that the $25 million gift not only reflects the generosity of the Bakers, but also the commitment of Post and University President Peter Salovey to the project. In the release, Salovey said he believes the restoration of residential housing will allow future generations of students to experience the benefits of a community in which living and learning are closely connected. Of 10 students interviewed, all said they are in support of having optional dormitory space for students. Elie Friedman LAW ’15 — who called Thursday’s announcement “very exciting news” — said that he thinks the dorm construction could be a positive development for school. But seven of the 10 said that they would not have chosen to live in a dorm, had they been
Faculty continue grading discussion FACULTY MEETING FROM PAGE 1 tee’s proposal to convert grades to a number system was postponed after a protracted debate that saw a swirl of proposed modifications to the resolution and provoked student protests. In a Wednesday email to the News, history professor Fabian Drixler said that he saw the value in a number system because the letter grade system is burdened by high school connotations. Since the letter grade system is already charged with meaning in high school, many Yale students think of anything below an A as a disappointment, Drixler wrote. A numerical system would allow for a grade distribution without the negative implications of the current scale. According to Miller, the faculty’s discussion of grades touched on a wide range of issues, such as questions about why grades tend to be lower in the fall semester. Professors’ anecdotes suggested that incoming freshmen and the higher enrollment in math and chemistry courses in the fall account for that irregularity, Miller said. At Thursday’s meeting, faculty also approved the history department’s decision to ease its major’s distribution requirements. History majors from the Class of 2015 and below will now be required to enroll in two instead of three courses in the history of Latin America, Asia or Africa, Director of Undergraduate Studies Beverly Gage said. According to Gage, the
department also voted to drop the requirements that students divide their mandatory preindustrial courses and departmental seminars along different geographical regions. Gage said the changes came in response to students who said they were finding the distributional requirements hard to fulfill. Though she admitted the changes were “relatively minor,” Gage said she thinks they are “very important in allowing students to have flexibility and allow students to concentrate within their areas of interest.” History major Erica Tavera ’15 characterized the change as a “catch-22,” adding that though she appreciates having more room to focus on her interests, the decision might aggravate students who already think that the department does not focus sufficiently on non-Western history. Tavera noted that many students had been offended by the label “Rest of the World” to describe courses in Latin American, Asian and African history. In response to those protests, the department changed the label this year. “Now that [the Latin American, Asian and African history requirement is] equal with the requirement for European courses, I don’t know how people who were offended would feel about this change,” Tavera said. The next faculty meeting will take place on Dec. 5. Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .
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The renovated building at 100 Tower Parkway will hold small seminar rooms and offices in addition to furnished two-bedroom suites for students. given the option this year. For Whitney Leonard LAW ’15, dormitory space could potentially create separation within the larger law school community. “I think it could create sort of
a divide between those who live on-campus and those who live off,” Leonard said. Swapna Reddy LAW ’16 said that though she sees how the concept of residential hous-
ing could have a certain appeal for some students, she does not personally see many significant advantages. The former dormitory inside the Sterling Law Building held
219 beds when it opened in 1931 — and only 23 beds when it closed in 2007. Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .
Regional police collaborate COMP STAT FROM PAGE 1 to Boston to learn from that city’s police department about its use of a similar program. After months of meeting and planning with representatives from other departments, the first regional teleconference was held late last month. “We look at what they’re doing in other communities, and, if it’s working, look to copy it,” Generoso said. “We do that all the time, and we want to be on the cutting edge of policing.” Esserman said that, through the program’s first few phone calls, he learned about the advanced computer systems used by the Hamden Police Department. Information such as this is helpful because it demonstrates that departments across the state can pool together existing infrastructure to maximize the use of their collective resources, he said. Now, he said, the NHPD could use the technology available at Hamden, rather than having to develop its own systems to perform the same tasks. “All these departments have excellent resources that we can all share with another from time to time,” Esserman said. “But we need to know more about each other and need to build regular working relationships that are not born in the event of a case.”
Now that he has developed CompStat systems on the city and regional levels, Esserman said that the next goal is to connect Connecticut’s major cities — Hartford, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Stamford and New Haven — over their own statewide information-sharing network. This project fits into Esserman’s larger vision of interconnecting the state’s law enforcement officials and crime research centers. In the future, he said, he would like to create interdepartment exchange programs, a realtime regional crime center and a federally funded “joint-command college” with resources from the University of New Haven’s Criminal Justice Department and the Yale Law School and School of Management. “I’m very grateful to my fellow Connecticut chiefs in the region for their willingness to try [regional CompStat] and partner with us,” Esserman said. Hartman’s press release also announced the creation of a Forensic Investigation Program, through which officers are trained in fingerprint and evidence processing techniques. Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .
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Police Chief Esserman hopes the new system will aid in coordinating to stop crime.
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“The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.” MATT TAIBBI AMERICAN AUTHOR AND JORUNALIST
Swensen criticizes Wall Street BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER Wall Street has lost its moral foundation, according to Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen. Before approximately 80 students, faculty and administrators at a Thursday master’s tea, Swensen discussed the causes and consequences of the 2008’09 recession during which Yale lost nearly a quarter of its endowment. Swensen, who advised President Obama as a member of the President’s Economic Advisory Board and spent six years with Lehman Brothers, also discussed the transformation of the University’s endowment during his 28-year tenure as Chief Investment Officer. Though he touched on issues such as fossil fuel divestment, Swensen focused on the most recent financial crisis and the culture on Wall Street. “Wall Street has lost its moorings,” Swensen said. “Nobody involved in that process remembered their moral underpinnings. It was all about money.” In the period leading up to the recession, financial services firms were aware that their packages of subprime mortgages were “garbage” but sold them anyway, Swensen said. Rating agencies continued to rate the securities as AAA, the highest possible rating, and tax-supported firms like Goldman Sachs continued to reward their executives with tens of millions of dollars in bonuses in the wake of the crisis, he said. Swensen said integrity is central to investment management. But the current culture surrounding finance is defined by money, Swensen said, adding that reputation is no longer emphasized. When choosing managers to work with, Swensen said he looks for unorthodox professionals who are willing to do what is right for Yale. Swensen also spoke about his
role in pioneering a new style of investing that emphasizes diversification and nontraditional asset classes. Known as “the Yale model,” this investment strategy has since been widely emulated by institutions across the country. When he first came to Yale in the 1980s, Swensen said the conventional investing wisdom was to own U.S. stocks and bonds. The average university endowment had around 95 percent of its funds invested in those asset classes, he said. Only 5 percent of the average endowment was allocated elsewhere. “I took a look at that and it didn’t make a lot of sense to me,” Swensen said. “I knew enough about finance [to realize] that diversification was a good idea.” Today, domestic stocks make up only a small portion of the Yale endowment — 6 percent. The majority of the endowment is now invested in alternative assets such as private equity, real estate and absolute return. Swensen also defended his decision not to change Yale’s investment strategy despite Yale’s poor performance during the recent financial crisis, during which the endowment lost $6.5 billion. His disciplined policy has allowed the endowment to rebound to about $21 billion, he said. Though Yale’s target allocations for private equity have long been on the rise, Swensen said the Investments Office is now reducing the endowment’s dependence on private equity investments. Private equity investments are illiquid, meaning not easily sold for cash. Prior to the financial crisis when the University’s endowment peaked at $23 billion, the Investments Office made commitments to private equity based on the assumption that the level of the endowment would remain high, Swensen said. But when the financial crisis caused the endowment to drop to $16 bil-
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Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen spoke at a Branford College Master’s tea on Thursday. lion, the University was “overallocated” to those illiquid asset classes. If the next five to 10 years promised to be stable, the lack of liquidity would have been fine, Swensen said. Responding to a question about the ethical implications of Yale’s investments, Swensen recalled returning to his office one day in the 1980s to find students there protesting investments in companies involved in South African apartheid. Along
with many other institutions, Yale ultimately divested from these companies. Swensen said he respected the amount of thought students give to ethical investing. He also acknowledged current discourse surrounding whether universities should phase out investments in the fossil fuel industry. “It will be interesting to see how this whole thing plays out,” Swensen said.
Aldermen meet post-election
Audience members interviewed said they found his remarks fascinating. “I liked his analysis of the financial meltdown of 2008,” Fred Polner, associate master of Trumbull College, said. “He did not hold any punches.” Associate Master of Branford College John Bradley ’81 said he found Swensen’s personal experiences on Wall Street and descriptions of the roots of the financial crisis particularly
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BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Board of Aldermen held its first meeting following Tuesday’s election on Thursday night. Though six new members were elected to the Board on Tuesday, the Board elected in 2011 will continue to meet through Jan. 1. The Board discussed the sale of the Shubert Theater and the allocation of funds to offer part-time help for student interns and repair homes built with lead paint. Board President and Ward 5 Alderman Jorge Perez, who presided over the meeting, made no mention of Tuesday’s election on the makeup of his board. The most prominent issue discussed was the transfer of ownership of the Shubert Theater, which is currently owned by the city, to the Connecticut Association of the Performing Arts (CAPA), a nonprofit organization. The Board unanimously approved the transfer, with an amendment giving the
city the right to take over the theater if they disagree with CAPA’s management.
At the end of the day, all 30 are Democrats...I don’t foresee any major philosophical battles. JORGE PEREZ President, Board of Aldermen The transfer of ownership will save the city $5 million in financing the repair of the theater, though the city will still have to pay $2.4 million for the repair. John Fisher, the vice president and executive director of the Shubert said the transfer will allow the theater to raise funds from sources that they might not have been able to tap into otherwise. In addition to the Shubert’s ownership transfer, the Board voted on several other initiatives on Thursday, includ-
ing the approval of $28,000 in funds to pay interns parttime in the city and a $205,000 grant to repair homes that contain lead paint. Ward 14 Alderman Santiago Berrios-Bones said that many houses in New Haven have problems with lead paint, and that he expects this money will help address this issue. After the meeting, Perez told the News that, though six new members will join the board, he thinks the ideological makeup will largely stay the same. “There are some new people with different styles, which may make it a little lively,” Perez said. “But, at the end of the day, all 30 are Democrats, which means they all have some basic principles … I don’t foresee any major philosophical battles.” As the newly elected Board has not yet met, Perez could not speak with certainty about their agenda. Still, he said he imagines it will continue many of the initiatives his Board began, dealing with public safety, youth services and eco-
nomic development. Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12, who was reelected to her seat on Tuesday over Republican Paul Chandler ’14, said she is excited to continue her work as Alderwoman. She hopes to continue her involvement in the Youth Services Committee, which she currently chairs. “We have a range of projects under way and that will, I hope, take major strides forward in the coming weeks and months and years,” she said. She added that meetings coming up in the next month will focus on various aspects of the Comprehensive Youth Agenda, such as converting the Goffe Street Armory into a community space and reopening the Q House, among others. The next Board of Aldermen meeting will take place on Monday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in City Hall. Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .
Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .
Students anticipate MCAT overhaul BY ZUNAIRA ARSHAD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Though six new members were elected to the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, the Board elected in 2011 will continue to meet through Jan. 1.
interesting. Rose Wang ’14 said Swensen’s remarks were genuine and consistent with the ideas in his books. Swensen joined the Yale Investments Office in 1985 when the endowment was valued at $1.3 billion. As of June 30, the University’s endowment was worth $20.8 billion.
As major changes to the Medical College Admission Test loom, students at Yale may need to make decisions earlier about whether medical school is right for them. The new version of the MCAT, which will be three hours longer than the current exam, will include more questions on biochemistry and an additional section testing knowledge of social and behavioral sciences. The written portion of the exam, which the Association of American Medical Colleges has said is the least useful in predicting medical students’ success, will be eliminated. Though some of these changes have already been incorporated into the MCAT, the changes will not count toward students’ scores until 2015. Students interviewed said they were supportive of the changes but said they anticipate that the new MCAT will require more preparation. Though the MCAT has not changed since 1991, Kristin McJunkins, director of the Health Professions Advisory Program at Yale, said that because the field of medicine has been continuously changing it seems appropriate for the Association of American Medical Colleges to restructure the exam. The new portions of the exam will test additional skills that medical schools want to see in prospective students, she said. Four out of five pre-med students interviewed who will be taking the new exam in 2015 said they appreciate the fact that the MCAT is being restructured even though the new test may prove to be tougher. “I think it is clearly obvious that the current system right now is not selecting for the best types of doctors,” Saad Syed ’16 said. “For doctors in this century, test score[s] and a good GPA [are] not indicative of who exactly is going to be a good
doctor.” McJunkins said it is too soon to tell whether the changes will result in better or worse exam performance. It will take medical schools at least a year or two before they can use aggregated score information to understand how to use the new exam in their admissions process, she said.
It is clearly obvious that the current system right now is not selecting for the best types of doctors. SAAD SYED ’16 Though the new sections will test more areas of knowledge, Yale students will likely do well on the new sections because the University’s distribution requirements expose students to a “broad liberal education,” McJunkins said. “Obviously they are going to have to study and get used to taking the test and learn the types of questions being asked in the section,” McJunkins said. “[But they] probably already have a lot of this knowledge anyway so it is just going to be a matter of practicing.” Mitchell Bryski ’17 said he is disappointed that the exam is going to be three hours longer. At approximately four hours, the test is already too long, he said. Still, he said he approves of the fact that the new test will be more comprehensive. “With the future of medicine being what it is going to be, I think it is going to be nice to have a more well rounded doctor,” he said. Test preparation companies have already begun offering materials for the new MCAT on their websites. Contact ZUNAIRA ARSHAD at zunaira.arshad@yale.edu .
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“I’m not motivated enough to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.” LOUIS C.K. AMERICAN COMEDIAN
University strategizes social media presence SOCIAL MEDIA FROM PAGE 1 because — with the exception of China where you have to use Sina Weibo — this is how you bring Yale directly to people.”
TO ONLINE AND ABROAD
In January 2012, Yale’s Facebook account boasted roughly 60,000 likes. In the months after Stauderman came into her current role, Yale’s Facebook likes began to see unprecedented growth, and now — less than two years later — they stand at over 727,000. Stauderman’s appointment came several months after former University President Richard Levin convened the University Council Committee on Reputation, which included members like former Walmart Executive Vice President for Public Affairs Leslie Dach ’75, Huffington Post Founder Arianna Huffington and Shelly Lazarus, who ran the advertising giant Ogilvy and Mather. According to Stauderman, the committee told the University that it needed to begin defining its own institution — or run the risk of letting others define it. “The other thing they said was, ‘You suck at social media,’” Stauderman recalled. “[And they told us to] get better.” Nearly two years after the committee’s formation — after an aggressive social media campaign that included adding more easily shareable content and targeting specific audiences —
Stauderman and the four members of OPAC’s social media team say they now expect Yale’s Facebook likes to hit one million within another year. Yale’s Twitter followers have grown to more than 93,000, and followers on newer platforms such as Instagram and Tumblr have also rapidly come on board. Much of the University’s social media traffic comes from abroad, with 85 percent of Facebook likes coming from individuals living outside the United States, according to Deputy Chief Communications Officer Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93. But Twitter sees a much more domestic following. An online analytics survey of 10,000 of the University’s Twitter followers found that 29 percent of followers live in the Eastern or Central Standard time zones in the U.S., whereas nine percent of followers live in the Central European time zone, which includes major cities such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels. The zone also includes swaths of Africa such as Algeria, Nigeria and Angola. Nevertheless, the international dominance across Yale’s social media platforms suggests that — in vigorously growing its online engagement — the University has also borne out Levin and Salovey’s rhetoric on international expansion.
AN INTRICATE WEB OF STRATEGY
The growth of Yale’s social
media presence is no accident — it comes directly from the four-person social media team at OPAC, which, unlike the rest of the office, operates out of a single room and constantly works to add, promote and share online content. According to the four team members, posting easily shareable items on Facebook is one of the University’s important and effective strategies in expanding social media presence. Team member Taber Lightfoot, who plays the largest role in updating Yale’s Facebook page, pointed to photographs as the most successful content form. “Content is queen,” Morand said. “Content is always the most important thing. It’s more important than channel. Having awesome content that’s easily shareable is what we seek to do.” But content is not all that matters — OPAC also makes use of “geotargeting,” a tool on Facebook that allows the office to tailor its posts to particular languages or geographic areas of the world. Through another Facebook feature, the office is also able to release time-delayed posts, so that it can update its page at any time of day to keep up with international audiences. Before this feature existed, staffers said they had to come into the office around the clock to upload latenight posts. In addition to using “geotargeting” to reach a broader audience, the office also makes use
of Facebook’s paid advertising service. When Former Mexican President and Yale professor Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81 spoke in Ghana in March 2012, Stauderman said, OPAC bought a series of targeted Facebook advertisements in Ghana to promote Zedillo’s speech — and the University’s page also garnered 30,000 new likes during this time. Morand said he expects Yale’s social media strategy to continue working in conjunction with international developments in the future. The continued international expansion of internet access, coupled with future Facebook efforts to make the site less data-intensive and thus more easily accessible, will further connect Yale to the world, he said. A sweeping number of comments on Yale’s Facebook posts come from individuals abroad. Fahmid Sketched, a commenter from Bangladesh, told the News that he uses the page to gain insight into day-to-day activities on Yale’s campus. Jia Khan, a commenter on Yale’s page from Pakistan, said she uses the page to learn about the University’s admissions process and student culture. “It gives guidance to the students [who want to apply to Yale],” Khan said. “It also shows how people of different cultures interact and live together.”
DIVIDE AND CONQUER
Though OPAC strives to pres-
ent a cohesive University image on the Internet, individual entities within Yale do not always mirror this same larger strategy, instead taking charge in their own ways. The School of Forestry & Environmental Science — a leader in social media outreach, according to Morand — heavily uses Facebook advertising to promote its message aboard. During a recent admissions outreach trip to South America, the school bought advertisements in all the targeted countries. Matthew Garrett, FES director of communication and web operation, said Facebook advertising has been more effective than Twitter on an international scale, and the school hopes to continue using it on another upcoming admissions outreach trip to Africa. “It’s not something that is fully developed and it’s one of the pieces of our strategy,” Garrett said. Like OPAC, FES has made more use of Facebook than Twitter. But not all of Yale’s schools have followed in these same footsteps. The School of Medicine does not make any special efforts to appeal to international viewers in its Facebook posts, according to Manager of Institutional Planning and Communication Jennifer Stockwell. Yale Law School Communications Officer Debra Kroszner said in a Tuesday email that the school engages with
both Facebook and Twitter — as both platforms serve as a “great mechanism to amplify global reach and highlight these important events and issues that take place every day inside the walls of the [building].” For Yale’s School of Management, the use of social media is not about expanding its global outreach, but communicating information about the school’s already-global focus, said Spokeswoman Tabitha Wilde. Wilde added that under SOM Dean Edward Snyder, the school has striven to become the most “distinctly global” U.S. business school — and that it utilizes online platforms in order to even further immerse itself in the global network. On Yale’s campus, the effects of Yale’s multisided, vigorous social media campaign for the last two years are felt even by students, many of which use social media sites on a regular basis. But students interviewed said that Yale’s online media presence is largely irrelevant to their own lives. “I think they do a good job for other people — not for students,” said Andrea Barragan ’16. “The pictures are interesting for people who haven’t seen the campus. The posts are not relevant for us.” Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
New contract bolsters professionalism TEACHERS FROM PAGE 1 tors Program grant. Teachers designated “developing” or “needs improvement” will be provided with the opportunity to complete five sessions of individually designated professional development classes, which must be completed by June 30 in order to qualify for a chance to move in the TEVAL rankings, which is accompanied by increased compensation. The Talent Council will allow teachers that receive high TEVAL rankings to expand their influence in the district by reaching beyond their individual classrooms through increased teacher collaboration. The council also plans to provide incentive for excellent teachers to work in low-performing schools. According to David Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, in negotiations the NHFT aimed primarily to keep up the positive momentum from the New Haven School Change Initiative, whose aims were established to raise test scores to at least the state average, halve the high school dropout rate and adequately prepare every student for college. He said this took precedence over issues of salary. Both Cicarella and the New Haven Board of Education agreed that the School Change Initiative, a large part of which was the teacher evaluation system stipulated in the previous teacher’s
contract, has made many positive strides in changing the details of contracts from simply moneymaking issues to ways of enhancing the daily life of teachers, and consequently students.
We want to make sure we secure decent contracts and that we have a decent standard of living. DAVID CICARELLA President, New Haven Federation of Teachers “We want to make sure we secure decent contracts and that we have a decent standard of living that are in sync with our level of education and our commitment to kids,” Cicarella said. “But, at the end of the day, nobody’s getting rich in education. We get that, and that’s not why we do it.” In 2012, excluding special education teachers, the national averages for elementary, middle, and high school teachers were $56,130, $56,280, and $57,770, respectively, and in New Haven the average teacher salaries were $65,210, $69,620 and $68,590. Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .
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Teachers in New Haven’s public schools voted to reauthorize their current contract, which has kept their average salaries above the national average.
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER
Briq breaks even, beats the odds BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER Seven months after its grand opening, Briq has found its niche in the Elm City’s highly competitive restaurant scene that already features five tapas-inspired restaurants in the downtown area. The newest spot to take over the unique multi-floor space at 266 College St., Briq features a mix of global tapas and family-style dining. Menu offerings include a plethora of small plates, such as Szechuan tofu, Korean fired chicken, “drunken” cheesy bread and lobster mashed potatoes. Owner Leon Demaille, a first-time restaurateur, bought the building in 2009 from the owner of fine-dining restaurant Bespoke and sought to develop a restaurant geared toward community dining. Demaille frequented Barcelona many times as a customer, developed a relationship with the then-Executive Chef Mike Hazen and brought him on board when he founded Briq. “If you go back to the original concept of the pub or the tavern, it was always a center for the community to come together — local people,” Demaille said. “I thought New Haven was missing a place for the diversity and eclectic nature of the New Haven population to come and enjoy the sharing, community-style dining experience.” Although the team originally intended to name the restaurant “City Mix”, the owners decided on Briq because of the building’s popularity and recognition among Elm City residents. Yale Architecture School students
frequently walk to the building to draw sketches for classes. The 9,000-square-foot space includes five different rooms, including two dining rooms, a cellar, loft and rooftop deck. The building’s floorplan resembles that of a home, in order to make guests feel like they have multiple rooms in which to enjoy the restaurant experience. Hazen believes his restaurant is different from restaurants in the area, such as Barcelona, because his restaurant goes beyond just tapas to feature a complete table plates approach that also includes small plates and sides. “What makes us different is that everything we do is oriented toward the group and sharing and community,” Hazen said. “Everything we do is table-style dining, so, even if you order a filet mignon or a Briq chicken, it comes sliced for sharing.” Hazen also said that Briq’s menu differentiates itself, especially when compared with Spanish-focused Barcelona, through its international menu offerings. Barcelona declined to comment about Briq’s success and the departure of their former chef. Between April and the end of year, Demaille said Briq’s goal was to break even and establish its brand. However, the restaurant is ahead of schedule, breaking even in September. Although Demaille believes New Haven has a lot of creative energy, he thinks Briq has succeeded in the competitive restaurant scene because of his business-first mentality and through a full business plan that was created six months
Banaji reveals biases in talk BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Thursday evening, Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji delivered a talk entitled “Group Love” where she demonstrated that the audience held an implicit bias for Yale over Princeton. Banaji, who worked as a professor of psychology at Yale from 1986-2002 before taking a similar post at Harvard, focused in her talk on how group affiliations, or lack thereof, affect the ways in which we see the world and interact with others. In her research, Banaji has helped bring Freudian theories of the subconscious in the psychology laboratory to be empirically tested. University President Peter Salovey delivered introductory remarks, saying Banaji had been the “heart and soul” of the Yale psychology department during her 16 years there. “She is of those scientists who changes her field with her insights and her empirical data with a deep sense of social responsibility to her colleagues, her students and her field,” Salovey said. In the lecture to roughly 100 people, Banaji first discussed an experiment she did in 2006 at Harvard that involved monitoring participants’ brain activity while they answered random questions about two hypothetical people, presented with only their political preferences. Neuroimaging showed that the subjects used different areas of the brain to make predictions about people with whom they agree and those with whom they disagree. Banaji used this study to introduce the idea of love of the in-group, a preference people have for a group of people who think the way that they themselves do. Through presenting multiple studies, Banaji demonstrated the magnitude of positive bias towards the in-group in subjects ranging from sports fans to elementary school students. While we may not be able to eliminate our biases, Banaji said certain cognitive strategies can “outsmart” them. For instance, Banaji said she rotates among her computer screensavers images that defy racial and gender stereotypes.
“It’s not that we hate people of another group, but it’s love for the in-group that’s paramount,” she said. Salovey and Banaji, who started as faculty at Yale on the very same day, were close friends and next door neighbors, he said. Salovey recalled that he and Banaji were each other’s “support systems” while writing PSYC 110 lectures together. Banaji came to campus for this year’s Silliman Memorial Lecture, an annual speakership that began in 1888 and has brought such prominent scientific figures to campus as J.J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford. Though a committee of faculty from Yale science departments usually chooses a speaker whose research is in the hard natural sciences, committee chair and Sterling professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Joan Steitz said that her colleagues were eager to hear from Banaji this year. Though the lecture has no affiliation with Silliman College, the endowment is named for the mother of Benjamin Silliman, a scientist after whom the college is named. “If you think about the impact that psychology and neurobiology and brain science [are] having these days, the committee did not consider it at all inappropriate to be going in that direction with this particular lecture,” Steitz said. Since leaving Yale in 2002, Banaji has served as a professor of social ethics in Harvard’s psychology department, where she has continued her research on how unconscious thinking plays out in social situations. Nick Friedlander ’17 said he found the lecture “eye-opening” because it revealed biases he did not know he held before. For Zachary Williams ’17, the lecture demonstrated how little of the conscious mind controls mental processes. “It was truly a treat to be able to sit in close quarters with such a fantastic paragon of academia and hear her talk about such relevant topics,” he said. Banaji’s most recent book is entitled “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People.” Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .
before the restaurant opened. Despite the success of his first seven months, Demaille admits the restaurant is a “work in progress,”and opened even though the restaurant rooms were not all finished and the brand was not fully developed. “We wanted to see what the people wanted,” Demaille said. “We’ve realized the rooftop area is one of our key areas, and people want to be there through the winter, and it turns out we are more of a late-night place.” As the restaurant continues to evolve, Demaille and his team plan to capitalize on the rooftop, —one of the few in the downtown area — to give it a more New York City feel, by projecting movies on the wall and implementing a cement bar. During their first seven months, Demaille says the restaurant has attracted visitors from the Omni and other hotels, Yale students, faculty and staff and staff from the hospital. According to Demaille, a dozen Yale gatherings, including Yale recruiting for Law School and undergrad birthday parties, have been held at the Briq restaurant in their large rooms not found in many other places throughout the city. However, in a survey of 30 students, only 20 knew about Briq. Demaille said that the menu’s structure would be an incentive for Yale students to frequent the restaurant. Demaille said that Yalies would be attracted to the restaurant because its small plate focus is very amenable to a college student’s budget. Renita Heng ’16, who went to Briq earlier this fall, fits the mold
JENNIFER LU/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Seven months after its grand opening, Briq has found its niche in the Elm City’s expanding tapas scene. of students that Demaille is trying to target. She said she enjoyed the small plates theme the restaurant offers.
New Haven’s downtown has the most restaurants per capita of any other area in the United States.
Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .
Music in Schools expands outreach BY JESSICA HALLAM STATUS LINE The School of Music is using community outreach to strengthen its relationship with New Haven. At its 50th reunion in 2007, the School of Music’s class of 1957 created an endowment to support a new program called the Music in Schools Initiative, aimed at strengthening music programs in New Haven’s public schools. Over the past six years, the school’s efforts to promote music education in the city have expanded as a result of the initiative. This academic year, the program has placed 50 School of Music students — called “teaching artists” — in 18 schools throughout the city to collaborate with music teachers in local classrooms. In addition, Hendrie Hall hosts 160 local 4th- through 12th-grade students for the rehearsals of three all-city honors ensembles each Saturday. The growth of the School of Music’s involvement in the New Haven community exposes New Haven students to music education that may be inaccessible to them otherwise, administrators at the School of Music said, in addition to teaching them skills that will prepare them for the future. “Music has the potential to save kids, there’s no question about that,” said Yale School of Music Dean Michael Yaffe. Yaffe said that the impact of the Music in Schools Initiative is evident during
Saturday rehearsals at Hendrie, adding that he has observed how serious students are about their involvement with their respective groups. For the duration of the three-hour rehearsals he attended last weekend, no discipline issues arose, he added. Director of Yale Bands and director of the All-City Honors Band Thomas Duffy said he thinks that participating in the program teaches students responsibility, diligence, and self-motivation, as they have to practice regularly and contribute to the group each week. Many of the programs Duffy creates for the band include pieces that address history and social issues, he said, which merges music education with academic learning. “I think they take away from this real experience [that is] not something you read about, but first-degree contact with … all the ‘food groups’ in one activity,” Duffy said. Lead teacher of Music in Schools Ruben Rodriguez Ferreira MUS ’11 said he thinks the program introduces students to the satisfaction they can glean from fine-tuning their talents. He explained that playing music in a group hones the students’ concentration, patience, and teamwork skills, adding that he believes participating in the program will make the students wellrounded people. But sources said that the benefits of the Music in Schools program extend past the students involved. Ferreira
noted that some parents have expressed the importance of the initiative to their families. Yaffe recalled one parent who explained that his daughter’s newfound focus is serving as a positive influence for her younger siblings. Ferreira mentioned that the same parent explained it was important for his children to learn music as a way to stay “[off] the streets.” “We’re talking about children who potentially could be involved in crime or drug situations,” Ferreira said. “With music, they are doing something creative and positive with their lives.” Duffy said parental interest in the program became so strong that the band had to tell them they could no longer stay during Saturday rehearsals. Administrators explained that parents’ pride in their children transcends the fact that they are playing an instrument within a Yale-affiliated program. “It’s not ‘my kid gets to be in this group and that it’s at Yale,’ it’s ‘my kid’s going to play something really interesting, really well, and the presence of my child in this group really matters and what they’re doing is a viable product,’ ” Duffy said. An additonal branch of the Music in Schools Initiative is the Morse Summer Music Academy, which last summer hosted 80 New Haven students for intensive music training. Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .
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Thanks to generous alumni, the School of Music has been able to reach out to New Haven with helpful youth programs.
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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 2:00 p.m. InnovateHealth Yale: “Creating Sustainable Business Ventures.” InnovateHealth Yale is hosting Nancy Bocken, a sustainability researcher at the University of Cambridge. Bocken’s current research deals with sustainable business models. School of Public Health (60 College St.), Rm. 103. 3:30 p.m. Stage Combat. This workshop will outline what it takes to make a great fight on stage. Students will learn some of the basic techniques of hand-to-hand combat, partnering and the techniques needed to safely perform violence on stage. Students only. Advance registration required. Broadway Rehearsal Lofts (294 Elm St.), 3rd Floor Rehearsal Rm.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 10:30 a.m. Conversation with Jazz Drummer Roy Haynes. An open conversation between Willie Ruff, an adjunct professor of music at Yale, and Roy Haynes, the jazz drumming legend who is the recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Sudler Recital Hall. 5:30 p.m. G21 Fall Conference: “The Future of the Global Internet.” Reed Hunt will speak on “The future of the global Internet: Will the world have a common medium?” Hunt is CEO of the Coalition for Green Capital. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, (63 High St.), Rm. 317.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 5:00 p.m. Yale Camerata & Yale Band: “Poems for a Sunday Afternoon.” Come enjoy a performance of Witold Lutoslawski’s “Trois Poemes” and the world premiere of Tawnie Olson’s “Les Voyelles.” “Les Voyalles,” for cello, percussion and chamber chorus, takes Rimbaud’s celebrated poem as the starting point for an exploration of vocal and instrumental color. Trinity Lutheran Church (292 Orange St.).
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SPORTS Keys to the game against Brown BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Tomorrow, the Bulldogs will host the Brown Bears for their 118th matchup on the gridiron. Both teams are riding on the momentum of record-breaking individual performances as well as lopsided scores. Running, defense and composure will all be essential for Yale to escape Week Eight with a victory.
MEN’S FOOTBALL A TALE OF TAILBACKS
Last weekend at the Yale Bowl, tailback Kahlil Keys ’15 broke a 57-year-old modern-day school record when he ran 94 yards for a touchdown. On the same day, Brown tailback and Ivy League Cooffensive player of the week John Spooney ran for a 93-yard touchdown, the then third-longest run in school. Then he ran for a 94-yard touchdown from scrimmage — the second longest run in Brown history. It is no surprise the Bulldogs will run the ball. Of the 2492 total offensive yards the Elis have gained this season, they have run for 1583 of them. It also comes as no surprise that Spooney will run the ball for the Bears. In last week’s 27–0 shutout of the Penn Quakers, Spooney ran for 232 of Brown’s 291 total rushing yards. Saturday’s matchup in New Haven will be a game of speed, and the team with the quicker feet will outrun their opponent on the scoreboard.
SHUT THEM DOWN FAST
Brown has scored 70 percent of its points in the first half of their previous seven contests, according to head coach Tony Reno. In last week’s victory over Penn, Spooney’s first 90-plus yard run was on the opening play from scrimmage. The Bears start 11 seniors on offense, according to Reno, and have come to understand through experience the importance of a quick start. For the Bulldogs, every game they have won, they have scored first. The Bulldogs have lost every single game in which their opponent has scored first. Shutting down the Brown rushing attack early will help to carry the momentum in the opposite direction and will be crucial to the pace of the game tomorrow afternoon.
KILL THE PENALTIES
In seven games this season, the Bulldogs have taken a total of 41 penalties. By contrast, the Bears have accumulated 55 infractions. The extra five-yard penalty that forces a punt can make all the difference when both teams are inching their way up the field yard-by-yard. Both programs have similar red zone percentages; 86 percent for the Elis and 87 for the Bears. With similar success rates, taking a penalty in the red zone could be the difference between a field goal and a touchdown. In tomorrow’s matchup, every yard earned on the ground will count and the fewer penalties the Bulldogs take, the faster they can progress up the field. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
The Bears strike early.
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The Yale football team, coming off a win against Columbia, will have to focus on running, strong defense and avoiding penalties against Brown.
MEN’S BASKETBALL: TEAM-BY-TEAM ANALYSIS BROWN
IVY LEAGUE BREAKDOWN After a game against CCSU on Saturday to start the season, the men's basketball team will jump right into the thick of its schedule with a contest at No. 18 Connecticut on Monday. The Bulldogs enter the season with high aspirations that are bolstered by years of consistent success: the team has finished in the top half of the Ivy League every year since head coach James Jones took the reigns 15 years ago. This season, the Elis will aim for a conference championship despite playing in an Ivy League that is expected to be unusually strong. According to forward Javier Duren '15, “The goal for the team this year is to win the Ivy League championship." Here, you will find a breakdown of Yale's conference competition. Each team’s overall and Ivy records from last year are listed next to its name, along with its final place in the Ivy League. Underneath each team’s logo is its head coach, the coach's years of experience and record at the school, the team's marquee match-ups and its ranking in the preseason Ivy League media poll.
CORNELL BILL COURTNEY 4th Season (35-52)
KEY GAMES NOV. 08 NOV. 15 FEB. 1 MAR. 8
@SYRACUSE LOUISVILLE @ YALE PENN
After an up-and-down 2012-13 campaign, the Big Red will enter this season without four of their five starters from last year. The remaining starter, forward Shonn Miller, missed the entirety of the preseason with injury. The missed time could prove costly, as Miller was the team’s leading scorer and rebounder last season. In the absence of Miller, Cornell’s front court will likely consist of senior forward Dwight Tarwater and centers Deion Giddens and Dave LaMore. In the backcourt, the team will rely on guards Nolan Cressler and Devin Cherry to step up right away. With a new set of players to rely on, head coach Bill Courtney will be looking for contributions from the entire roster.
NOV. 9 JAN. 2 FEB. 14 FEB. 28
TEMPLE @GEORGE MASON @YALE BROWN
IVY MEDIA POLL
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@ NORTH WESTERN @ YALE PRINCETON DARTMOUTH
DEC. 22 JAN. 18 FEB. 14 MAR. 7
COLUMBIA KYLE SMITH 4th season
KEY GAMES NOV. 5 JAN. 31 FEB. 14 MAR. 8
@MICHIGAN @YALE HARVARD PRINCETON
IVY MEDIA POLL
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DARTMOUTH PAUL CORMIER 11th season
KEY GAMES DEC. 10 JAN. 11 FEB. 8 MAR. 8
@ILLINOIS @HARVARD BROWN @YALE
9–22 5th [6–8]
Last season, Penn finished one spot above Yale at third in the Ivy League standings and earned the second-most wins in program history. The Quakers earned the program’s first-ever postseason victory and went to the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational. The preseason media poll projected Penn to finish third overall again this season. All five starters from last season will be returning, including senior guard Alyssa Baron, an All-Ivy first-team selection last season who led Penn in points per game. Junior forward Kara Bonenberger, who led the Ivy League in blocks, will also return, as will sophomore guard Keiera Ray, an All-Ivy Honorable Mention selection. Baron is one of four captains for the Quakers, alongside fellow seniors Meghan McCullough, Kristen Kody and Courtney Wilson. Penn has added not only personnel, with five new freshmen, but also new locker rooms, coaches’ offices and a practice facility. Yale beat Penn in both their meetings last year and will play them on Feb. 14 and Mar. 1.
As head coach Mike Martin begins his second season at Brown, he will have to deal with huge turnover in his roster. Four of the 10 players on the 2012-13 team will not return for the upcoming season, including guard Matt Sullivan, the team’s leading scorer. But despite featuring six new players, the Bears will not suffer from a lack of talent. Brown’s frontcourt will feature the Ivy League’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year, forward Cedric Kuakumensah, and the conference’s leading rebounder from last year, center Rafael Maia. The team’s backcourt will be headed by First-Team All-Ivy guard Sean McGonagill, who was second on the team in scoring last season. Still, other Bears will need to step up to compensate for the loss of Sullivan and Brown’s fourth leading scorer last year, forward Tucker Halpern.
IVY MEDIA POLL
T-6th
UPENN KEY GAMES
KEY GAMES
IVY MEDIA POLL
T-6th
5th season
2nd season
13–18 T-6th [5–9]
IVY MEDIA POLL
JEROME ALLEN
MIKE MARTIN
9–19 T-4th [7-7]
After leading her team to a sixth place finish in the Ivy League last year, Dartmouth Head Coach Chris Wielgus resigned, ending her 28-year tenure as head coach of the women’s basketball team. Belle Koclanes, previously an assistant coach at American University, was hired to turn around a team that has had four straight losing seasons. In an interview on the Dartmouth women’s basketball website, Koclanes said that she has introduced some unorthodox teaching methods during practice, such as using an actual tape measure to explain the importance of spacing. Last season’s leading scorer Faziah Steen has graduated, but the rest of the team remains intact. The Big Green welcome four new freshmen and have named senior guards Nicola Zimmer and Eve Zelinger as captains. Koclanes said that the team is working on the natural flow of its transition offense into its half-court offense as well as individual players’ shooting mechanics. Yale and Dartmouth split their two meetings last year and will play each other on Feb. 7 and Mar. 8.
PRINCETON MITCH HENDERSON 3rd season
KEY GAMES NOV. 16 JAN. 31 FEB. 15 MAR. 11
@BUTLER @HARVARD @YALE PENN
IVY MEDIA POLL
4th
9–19 6 [5–9]
TOMMY AMAKER 7th season
KEY GAMES NOV. 24 JAN. 31 FEB. 28 MAR. 7
@COLORADO PRINCETON CORNELL @YALE
20–10 1st [11–3]
With three straight Ivy League titles and two consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances under its belt, unanimous preseason favorite Harvard appears poised to sit atop the Ivy standings once more. Preseason Ivy Player of the Year guard/forward Wesley Saunders averaged 16.2 points per game last season and is the star of a strong crop of returning players that boasts six All-Ivy League performers. When Harvard advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament after upsetting third-seeded New Mexico last year, the Crimson made headlines across the country. That national attention has carried into the beginning of this season, as the Cantabs were the only Ivy League team to receive votes in the USA TODAY Preseason Coaches Poll.
IVY MEDIA POLL
1st
YALE
17–11 2nd [6-8]
After a very successful 2012-13 season, the Tigers will take a hit this year due to the graduation of last year’s leading scorer and rebounder, forward Ian Hummer. Still, Princeton will return nine players from last season and add six freshmen. Guards Ben Hazel and Jimmy Sherburne, along with forward Daniel Edwards, come back to the team after taking last season off. Forwards Denton Koon and Will Barrett–who is also the team’s best shooter from distance–will be key figures in the Tigers’ frontcourt. Princeton’s starting backcourt will feature guard T.J. Bray, last year’s third leading scorer for the Tigers, and some combination of Hazel, Sherburne and guard Clay Wilson.
It may be easy to overlook Columbia, who suffered a disappointing eighth-place finish last year and has still yet to post a single winning record in Ivy League play since the 1992-1993 season. Still, the Lions return five consistent starters and several significant contributors from a team that was projected to finish second in the Ancient Eight last season. And while the team finished last in the conference, it did score impressive victories over NCAA Tournament teams Harvard and Villanova. Leading the squad will be sophomore guard Grant Mullins, the team’s leading returning scorer at 9.7 points per game last year. Mullins will be a prime candidate to fill in the gap at point guard caused by the graduation of star guard Brian Barbour, though others will share ball-handling duties. The frontcourt will be bolstered by 6’10” center Cody Osetkowski, a pitcher for the baseball team who committed himself to basketball this offseason, and forward Alex Rosenberg, who chipped in 9.5 points per game last year.
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JAMES JONES 15th season
KEY GAMES NOV. 11 @CONNECTICUT JAN. 1 @ST. LOUIS FEB. 15 PRINCETON MAR. 7 HARVARD
IVY MEDIA POLL
3rd
14–17 3rd [8–6]
Yale begins its 2013-14 season with the Ivy League’s most tenured coach, James Jones, at the helm for his 15th year. The Bulldogs return 11 of their 15 players from last year and will addition to four freshmen. Center Jeremiah Kreisberg ’14 will miss the entire season recovering from a back injury, but the frontcourt will still feature an abundance of talent in junior forwards Brandon Sherrod ’15, Matt Townsend ’15 and Greg Kelley ’15, along with second year big Justin Sears ’16. Yale’s backcourt is in good hands, as captain Jesse Pritchard ’14 will return from injury and be joined by guards Javier Duren ’15 and Armani Cotton ’15, who both played in all 31 games last season for the Bulldogs.
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“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.” BOBBY KNIGHT AMERICAN BASKETBALL COACH
Yale football to take on Brown at home FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12
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Tailback Tyler Varga ’15 (No. 30) has not played since leaving early during Yale’s 52–31 loss to Fordham on Oct. 19.
Bulldogs tackle Bears on the ice ICE HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 Clarkson while saving 25 of 28 shots. Allain commented that both netminders exhibit a lot of talent, but neither one has separated themself from the other and both have earned the right to play. The Bulldogs start the weekend by travelling to Princeton for the Tigers’ first regular season home game of the year. “[Princeton’s] lines are solid and their goaltending is real good,” Allain said. “They do a good job of getting their D involved in the offense. They are a hard-working, in-your-face kind of hockey team. A week and a half ago we played them in a one goal game and my expectations is that it is going to be tight at the end of the game Friday night as well.” While the game has been somewhat overshadowed by the titanic matchup the next day, both Root and Allain were quick to point out the team’s focus lies first and foremost on the matchup at hand with Princeton. The Tigers have lost three straight since their opening overtime win against Dartmouth, but have one of the largest and most experienced senior classes in college hockey and will be a big hurdle for the Elis to clear. Friday’s matchup is the 248th meeting between the two teams and will be the first Ancient Eight game for the Bulldogs. The Elis lead the all-time series 136– 102–9 and have won each of the last five meetings between the two. “We are most focused on Princeton right now,” Root said. “We take it one game at a time. Quinnipiac is a good team. They have been doing
well but we are most focused on ourselves. We are focused on what we bring to the game and competing and making sure we are bringing our best game to Quinnipiac Saturday night.” The rematch of the national championship game has been circled by most college hockey fans as one to watch for. The Elis’ local rivals will be looking to avenge the Bulldogs’ trouncing of the Bobcats in this early season matchup. Quinnipiac has already put together an impressive season. The Bobcats are on an eightgame winning streak that includes a pair of victories against another 2013 Frozen Four team, No. 12 Massachusetts-Lowell. The River Hawks are considered one of this year’s preseason favorites for the national championship. Despite losing most of their blueline from last season, Quinnipiac is ranked the highest in the nation in team defense and tenth in the nation in team offense. The Bobcats returns most of their key offensive players from last year’s tea,m including captains Connor and Kellen Jones, who both rank in the top 20 in the nation in scoring. “We are excited about Friday night’s game, no question,” Allain said. “When the time comes to think about Saturday, about 10:30 Friday night, we’ll worry about Saturday.” The Bulldogs face off against Princeton on Friday evening at 7:00 and against Quinnipiac on Saturday evening at 7:00.
ing a 50-yard strike to receiver Grant Wallace ’15. “Hank is a great team leader,” defensive end Dylan Drake ’14 said. “The defense gets confidence knowing the offense is going to do [its] job when he’s in there.” The Bears stunned Penn 27–0 last Saturday, dealing the Quakers their first Ivy loss of the season. Brown running back John Spooney flashed his breakaway speed with two touchdown runs of over 90 yards, and the Bears’ ground game put up 291 yards total on a Penn defense that had allowed just 157.8 rushing yards per game prior to the contest. Spooney is the defending Ivy League 100-meter dash champion, winning the conference title in a school-record 10.37 seconds. According to Reno, containing Spooney and forcing Brown into third-and-long situations will be essential to winning this week’s game. “[Spooney] is an explosive onecut back,” Drake said. “We have to tackle well … we can’t let him run through arm tackles.” Stopping the Brown passing game will be important as well. Brown quarterback Patrick Donnelly has completed 68.7 percent of his passes this year, and if he can keep the Bears moving through the air, Spooney and the rest of the running game will be ever harder to stop. Drake said that the Elis will need to watch out for the Bears’ tendency to move the quarterback around, as well as their “unconventional” passing tactics. “I think it starts at pass rush,” Drake said of stopping Donnelly.
“We need to be good in all three levels, from a good pass rush and linebackers good in coverage to the secondary communicating well.” The Bears have a penchant for quick starts, as nearly 70 percent of their points have been scored in the first half. Yet at the same time, the Bears have scored just 10 points combined in the second halves of their two losses. Another question facing the Bulldogs is the status of two of their injured playmakers, running back Tyler Varga ’15 and wideout Chris Smith ’14. Both have missed multiple weeks, and their returns would bolster the Yale offense. In Yale’s last victory over Brown, which came in 2010, Smith returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, a first in Ivy history. Both are officially listed as day-to-day. “Tyler and Chris will find out on Friday if they can go or not,” Reno said. While injuries have hurt the Elis this season, they have also provided Yale with an opportunity to showcase its depth. Rich has rushed for 357 yards in the last three games, and Wallace has been big in Smith’s absence. Even with this abundance of depth, Furman and the rest of the team understand that they cannot overlook this game. “Brown is a great team, and if we don’t focus all our energy toward this weekend we’ll slip,” Furman said in an email to the News. “The senior class has only a few games remaining, we wouldn’t want to regret anything.” Saturday’s game kicks off at noon from the Yale Bowl. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
Freshman hockey players impress FRESHMEN FROM PAGE 12 faith in the forward. “I thought his energy level and his finishing of checks and the pace that he played at was really important for us as a team on that second night that weekend,” Allain said. “I think he has continued along quite well.” Allain said that while Izmirlian did not play in Yale’s first game of the season, the freshman has provided a spark since breaking into the lineup. Izmirlian and his classmates have helped fill in for Yale’s forwards from the class of 2013 — Josh Balch ’13, Antoine Laganiere ’13 and Miller — who
proved so vital to the Bulldogs’ attack in last year’s championship season.
I thought his energy level and his finishing of checks … was really important for us as a team. KEITH ALLAIN Head coach, Men’s ice hockey
Allain said he was encouraged to see all of his young players
register points over the weekend. “I think they are growing and I think that from a talent perspective that by the end of the year they can be contributing a lot more than they are now,” Allain said. “But right now they are where they should be.” Watch for the class of 2017 to continue to impress on the ice and light up the scoreboard as the season continues. The freshmen will next play at home on Nov. 16 against Sacred Heart. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
JENNIFER CHEUNG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
The men’s hockey team’s freshman class has filled in for the strong senior class that helped Yale to an NCAA title.
SCHEDULE FRIDAY NOV. 8 W. Soccer
vs. Brown
7 p.m.
Volleyball
vs. Columbia
7 p.m.
W. Ice Hockey
vs. Princeton
7 p.m.
M. Squash
vs. Columbia
10 a.m.
Ivy Scrimmages
Football
vs. Brown
12 p.m.
Yale All-Access
M. Basketball
@ CCSU
5:30 p.m.
Connecticut Six
W. Tennis
@ Oklahoma
10 a.m.
W. Soccer
@ Brown
1 p.m.
Yale All-Access
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The Bulldogs are looking towards the season, which includes back-to-back home games against Princeton and Quinnipiac. The rematch against Quinnipiac has been slotted as one to watch.
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Bulldogs face Bears in crucial Ivy tilt FOOTBALL
BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Less than a week removed from a comfortable victory over Columbia, the Yale football team looks to climb back into Ivy contention on Saturday against the Brown Bears at the Yale Bowl. Though the Bulldogs (4–3, 2–2 Ivy) lost to Brown (5–2, 2–2 Ivy) in a 20–0 shutout last year, injuries suffered both before and during the game played a big role in the loss. Perhaps more importantly, head coach Tony Reno thinks the squad bears little resemblance to last season’s team. “Last year, we had to fit our personnel,” Reno said. “Now we’re a totally different team.” In Yale’s game against Columbia, the Elis walked all over the Lions, with both Kahlil Keys ’15 and Candler Rich ’17 topping 100 rushing yards. Keys also set a modern-day school record with a 94-yard scamper in the fourth quarter. The passing game, buoyed by the return of injured starter Hank Furman ’14, also played a role in taming the Lions. Furman posted a hyper-efficient outing, going 22-30 for 275 yards and three touchdown passes, includSEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11
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Tailback Kahlil Keys ’15 (No. 24) set Yale’s modern-day record with a 94-yard touchdown run last Saturday.
Hockey ready for rivals
Freshmen helping hockey go forward BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER
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The Bulldogs started off the season with a loss to Brown, a win against Princeton and a tie with St. Lawrence. BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The No. 9 men’s hockey team faces another all ECAC weekend headlined by Saturday’s National Championship rematch, with local rival No. 5 Quinnipiac.
MEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (2–1–1, 1–0–1 ECAC) will first face off against Ivy League rival Princeton (1–3– 0, 0–2–0) in a rematch of an Oct. 26 game, which Yale won 3–2. Yale will then travel to Hamden to face the Bobcats (8–1–0, 2–0– 0) for the first time since demolishing them 4–0 in the NCAA tournament on April 13. Forward Anthony Day ’15 said that the Bulldogs still have to improve to compete effectively at the highest level of college hockey. “I still think we need to work on our defensive game, transition hockey and turnovers,” Day said. “We are a young team we are still are not getting total chemistry with each other and as that comes it will make our game a lot smoother.”
Yale has slowly picked up steam this season, as shown by a resounding 6–3 win against No. 16 Clarkson last Saturday. The Elis’ season did not begin ideally, losing to Brown in their opening game, but responding with a win against Princeton and a come-from-behind tie in Yale’s tricky home opener against St. Lawrence. Against Clarkson, the Bulldogs were able to hold off the Golden Knights’ third period push and come out on top. Captain Jesse Root ’14 said that the Bulldogs still have further to go. “We want to improve every game and have every guy take a stride and get better,” Root said. “I think we have gotten a lot better in our team game but I think we still have a long way to go.” Root commented that he hoped to see the team improve on its general structure and forecheck. He added that the Bulldogs need to improve their transition game and defensive zone play. The Bulldogs rank 34th in team defense and no defenseman ranks higher than +1 four games into the season. Head coach Keith Allain ’80 noted he wanted to see improve-
ment on the Elis special teams play as well. The powerplay unit went 3/12 over the weekend while the penalty kill went 3/5. In the offensive zone, Day has scored three goals in two games after previously scoring a total of five in his career. The Buffalo native, who has been skating on a line with John Hayden ’17 and Frankie DiChiara ’17, said the increased output was a function of shooting the puck more. “I pride myself on my shot, and I feel like its transferring in game faster than it has in other seasons,” Day said. “Definitely to see one goes in lets a lot of pressure off and once you see a couple other go in too, you start to feel comfortable out there and its good to see this early.” On the other end of the ice, Yale’s goaltending situation has continued to be a two-way battle between freshmen Alex Lyon ’17 and Patrick Spano ’17, with the duo again splitting last weekend’s games. Lyon turned away 29 of 32 shots against St. Lawrence, while Spano picked up the win against
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Early into the season, Yale’s freshman class has already established itself as a key component of the offense for the men’s hockey team. Last weekend, John Hayden ’17, Michael Doherty ’17, Frankie DiChiara ’17 and Chris Izmirlian ’17 combined for six points over the two games. “The freshmen [have] done a great job in their own right,” Captain Jesse Root ’14 said. “They have acclimated pretty well. They compete hard, each and every one of them… I haven’t had to do a whole lot — they have been great.” Head coach Keith Allain ’80 added that he emphasizes having players work hard in practice and has been pleased with the effort he has seen. Hayden, a Greenwich, Conn. native, was the Bulldogs’ most touted recruit coming into the season. He captained the U.S. National Team Development Program, which plays in the USHL. In his final season, he registered 29 points in 45 games and was named MVP of the 2013 USHL/NHL top prospects game. In June, Hayden was drafted in the third round by the Chicago Blackhawks with the 74th overall pick in the NHL draft. So far this season, the winger has registered two assists playing on a line with Stu Wilson ’16 and DiChiara.
DiChiara has impressed so far, scoring his first collegiate against Clarkson to go along with his two assists. The Ronkonkoma, N.Y. native, who is also a former teammate of defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16, won the Clark Cup league trophy while playing for the Dubuque Fighting Saints in the USHL.
The freshmen [have] done a great job in their own right. JESSE ROOT ’14 Captain, Men’s ice hockey Doherty has stepped into a big role early in the season, replacing Andrew Miller ’13 on the Bulldogs top line with Kenny Agostino ’14 and Root. He has performed well, assisting on Root’s goal against Clarkson that proved to be the game winner. Doherty was second in the Eastern Junior Hockey League in scoring while skating for the Islanders Hockey Club, where he put up 76 points in 47 games last season. Izmirlian may have been an unknown quantity for many Yale fans coming into the season, but his performance so far has validated Allain’s SEE FRESHMEN PAGE 11
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The Yale men’s hockey team will play its first Ivy League contest of the season against Princeton on Friday.
NUMBER OF 90+ YARD RUSHING PLAYS IN THE IVY LEAGUE LAST WEEK. All three rushes were by members of the Yale and Brown squads, a fact that perhaps predicts an exciting contest when the two teams meet this weekend. Khalil Keys ’15 scored a 94-yard rushing touchdown last week for Yale.