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Shellfish on the loose. A delivery truck carrying boxes of shrimp, lobsters and haddock fillets crashed into the front doors of the Loria Center on Monday morning, shattering the glass doors and denting the metal paneling. No one was injured in the accident. The driver said he was “embarrassed, that’s all.”

Do you want to be a millionaire? Joey Yagoda ’14 appeared on Monday’s episode of the television game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Yagoda collected $13,600 on the first day, answering six questions on topics ranging from “thick accents” to T.S. Eliot before the end of the show. WCTX will air the second part of the show Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. on WCTX (Channel 9).

Geniuses at Yale. Computer science professor Daniel Spielman ’92 has been named one of 23 MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious fellowship awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Spielman will receive a $500,00 “genius grant” for his work with algorithms and digital data.

Never going to leave Yale. Yale Class of 2012 graduates still had access to their University email accounts Monday night, even though the accounts were slated to expire at 6 a.m.

A new way to travel. Conn. Gov. Dan Malloy accepted $121 million in federal money toward the creation of high-speed trains between New Haven, Hartford and Springfield, Mass.

Women in the sciences. Physics Department Chair Meg Urry wrote a Monday op-ed for CNN that discussed gender biases in the sciences. She argued that women are seen as “less capable” as their male counterparts.

Building New Haven’s Latino community. Rafael Melendez, Sr. was honored Saturday with a city street corner sign for his work promoting Latino a!airs in the Elm City.

New house on the block. Second year graduate students from the Architecture School joined Dean Robert A.M. Stern late Monday afternoon in dedicating the newest member of the “Vlock Building Project.” The students had designed and built over the past year a low-cost home for qualified New Haven residents.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1936 The University’s “Freshman O"ce” revealed that only 185 of the Class of 1940 had been in the upper tenth percentile at their prep school, compared to 225 such men in the Class of 1939. The O"ce called the incoming freshman class an “average” one.

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BY AMY WANGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The first-ever meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences drew roughly 100 professors Wednesday afternoon to discuss the forum’s activities.

The new FAS meetings, to be held at least twice a semes-ter, were launched largely to address questions over what roles professors should have in the governance of the Univer-sity — an issue that professors began to raise at faculty meet-ings last spring in response to concerns over the University’s alleged increasingly top-down approach to decision-making. Faculty at Wednesday’s FAS meeting — chaired by Donald Engelman, director of the fac-ulty division of biological sci-ences — focused on setting rules for the forum and also discussed two agenda items planned in

advance: the ongoing academic review of the FAS and faculty input in the presidential search process. Engelman said he felt the meeting was a success because it allowed professors to speak freely on agenda items.

“The spirit was welcom-ing,” Engelman said. “The most noteworthy thing is that it was a very lively discussion with lots of people with lots to say, but all in a collegial spirit — it was a good move toward the objec-tive, which is to allow more free-flowing discussions.”

English professor Ruth Yea-zell led discussion on the Presi-dential Search Committee at the meeting, speaking about her role as a faculty counselor to the pre-sedential search committee. She said it is “still too tentative” to make any motions or settle any decisions, she said.

Faculty forum drives discussion

McCain talks Grand Strategy

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER

Students in the middle of present-ing policy briefs in “Studies in Grand Strategy” Monday did not expect to see U.S. Senator John McCain walk through the door.

While campaigning in Connecticut for U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMa-hon, Senator John McCain stopped by Yale Monday afternoon to see the cam-pus and participate in a policy briefing

simulation for the “Grand Strategy” class taught by professors John Lewis Gaddis, Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Students in “Grand Strategy,” a two-semester long, application-only course for 40 students about past, present and future global power dynamics, said McCain was willing to engage in debate with them about current events and challenge their arguments, both in class and during the dinner that fol-lowed at the Union League Cafe.

“We had some significant disagree-

ments — very lively [conversation] — but that’s what this environment’s supposed to be all about,” McCain told the News in a Monday interview.

Though he knew for about ten days that McCain might visit, Gaddis said he wanted the Senator’s visit to be a surprise because he aims to train his students never to be “rattled.”

“When you do [policy briefs] in the real world, you never know who might

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U.S. Senator John McCain visited campus and participated in a policy briefing simulation for the “Grand Strategy” class Monday.

At forums, discontent

growsBY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

As the Yale Corporation gathered input at forums and discussions this weekend on the criteria for a new Yale president, many stu-dents’ concerns about the search grew.

Six forums and 40 smaller meetings with students, faculty and sta! took place across campus on Friday and over the week-end, with the event for Yale College stu-dents drawing between 50 and 60 under-graduates to Battell Chapel. As search committee members took notes in the first pew of the chapel, 28 undergraduates crit-icized the search for its lack of transpar-ency and implored committee members to be accountable to student opinion. Search Committee Chair Charles Goodyear ’80 rose from his seat as the forum came to a close to defend the Corporation’s decision to use the meetings to gather information rather than to answer questions.

“A number of you have asked what we think are important attributes of the pres-ident and what the process is going to be like [but] we’re actually asking you that — we can’t answer those questions,” Good-year said. “We have numerous constituen-

Safety Dance to end BY LAVINIA BORZI

CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Silliman College has decided to cancel all future Safety Dances after eight hospitalizations fol-lowed Saturday’s event.

In a Monday night email to the News following this week’s Silli-man Activities and Administra-

tive Committee meeting, Safety Dance organizers Nicole De San-tis ’15 and Hannah Fornero ’15 announced that the “risk and liability of the Safety Dance are too great for us to continue having it.” Though new e!orts were made at this year’s Safety Dance to help improve student safety, binge drinking and hos-

pital transports still dominated the event. Silliman College Mas-ter Judith Kraus said three stu-dents were transported from the dance site to Yale-New Haven Hospital, and that another five were transported from several other locations on campus — marking a significant increase from last year’s five students

in total. Krauss said that aside from those students transported due to intoxication, many others were excessively intoxicated and engaged in inappropriate behav-ior.

“There were countless inci-dents inside the dance, most of them unrepeatable, that can be directly attributed to drunken-

ness,” Krauss said.In an email to the News early

Tuesday morning, De Santis declined to give specific reasons for canceling the dance but said it was a decision made by Krauss, Silliman College Dean Hugh Flick and SAAC. She said Silli-

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BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND DIANA LI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER

Following the arrival of Shake Shack last month and the announcement of Chipotle Mexican Grill last week, a Panera Bread bak-ery-cafe will join the two on Chapel Street when it takes the place of News Haven.

Panera is replacing News Haven, a spe-cialty boutique selling national and inter-

national newspapers and magazines, which will close Oct. 15. The rise of the Internet has hurt News Haven, and the store will not reopen in a new location, said John Wareck — owner of Wareck Real Estate, which man-ages the property

“For a long time, New Haven had a bad rap. It wasn’t accurate,” said Wareck, add-

Panera to open on Chapel

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Panera Bread is set to open an outlet on the site of Chapel St.’s News Haven.

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A number of you have asked … what the process is going to be like [but] we’re actually asking you that.

CHARLES GOODYEAR ’80Search Committee Chair

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In mid-September, the New York City Board of Health approved the Bloomberg

administration’s controversial ban on large sodas and sugary drinks. Four days later, Master Marvin Chun of Berkeley College announced a new policy con-fining smokers to one bench in each courtyard. This past Friday, amidst a renewed emphasis on safety by Yale’s higher-ups, the 2012 edition of what I like to call “Danger Dance” motivated stu-dent dialogue urging moderation towards alcohol.

In each of these situations, it is possible to discern motives for instituting each policy rooted in rational egoism. NYC does not want to foot medical bills after citizens drink buckets of lard and show up at the emergency room to order their deluxe tri-ple bypass with fries and a Coke. Berkeley College adopted the policy in response to numer-ous student complaints about secondhand smoke’s odors and e!ects on asthmatics — as well as a fire that almost blazed out of control last April. Adminis-trators’ fears of civil liability and damage to the university’s repu-tation doubtlessly fuel the dis-cussion about reducing alcohol abuse on campus. And students probably find public urination somewhat inelegant.

But if those arguments seem to constitute a cold, unattract-ive and incomplete explanation for the trend of increased pub-lic health-related paternalism, it’s because they do. When we argue for policies that restrict individual liberty — whether in the biggest cities in the world or the smallest college courtyards — we are rarely motivated solely by self-interest. We traverse the well-worn road to serfdom not for tyranny’s sake, but out of concern. We act out of genuine desire to better the lives of our friends and neighbors. We act with or without their coopera-tion, because we think we have made wiser choices than they have.

Granted, comprehensive cen-tral planning should always make us a little uncomfortable, even in its most useful iterations. But it’s an especially strange thing to try to paternalize Yale students, who are ostensibly some of the more mature, thoughtful, intelligent young people this country has to o!er.

Yalies are told to be indepen-dent decision-makers, to take the path less traveled. Is it ever truly legitimate, then, to pressure our peers to change their pat-terns of behavior and conform? When we find certain habits — whether sexual, dietary or oth-erwise — unacceptable, are we overstepping bounds? How can

we be sure we are not arbi-trarily tram-pling legiti-mate prefer-ences? What if our friends don’t want to live forever?

While I don’t think we ever can be certain we are right, that’s not a compelling

reason to excuse our fat, chain-smoking, alcoholic friends. We’re often told that the great-est learning experiences we will have will come from one another, and as a senior, I’ve found that to be absolute gospel. But we’re also told that in order to learn from one another, we need to accept diversity in even its most grotesque manifestations.

In reality, we only can learn when we approach each other’s choices with a profound skep-ticism. We have an obligation to listen, but also an obligation to challenge. They might be right, but we’ll never find out if we avoid these hard conversations.

If ideas about restricting smoking, soda or spirits are to gain traction, they need a first mover to challenge orthodoxies. At some point, one individual first conceived of the idea that we should stop smoking. Over time, that idea gained enough traction to persuade Berkeley College Council and Congress to enact policies.

But policies aren’t enough to change preferences. True cul-tural changes come only with sustained personal engagement. Unless we convince Berkeley smokers to kick the habit, they will just retreat beyond the col-lege walls. And so, I encourage you all to reach out to that friend, remind them that you care and make the case for a correction in behavior.

I’ll end by practicing what I preach. Guys — and you two know who you are — I promised I’d shame you in a public forum, so here it is: You know smok-ing is incredibly harmful to your health. I don’t think you’re mak-ing a rational choice. I love you both dearly, and will accept no excuses from either of you failing to attend my grad school gradu-ation, my wedding, my funeral or any other significant events in my life. Knock it o!, before the consequences set in and make us all a lot less happy than we’re meant to be in 25 years.

MICHAEL MAGDZIK is a senior in Berkeley College. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him

at [email protected] .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T J O A N N A Z H E N G

Unspoken rules on the trading floorA typical Thursday morn-

ing on the trading floor of an energy firm begins

in 6:30 a.m. darkness, illumi-nated only by a few corner lights. As I settle in to review the morning news, the sounds of early morning conversation provide a familiar backdrop to my work. One trader raves about last night’s NBA game with obscure sports terminology, two others debate about the pos-sibility of a breakfast taco run and another blasts a bluegrass version of “Sweet Home Alabama” from his desktop computer. Somewhere in the middle of all the chaos, peo-ple are speculating about market gas prices for the day.

The trading floor at an energy firm is full of, well, energy. It seeps from the very back of the room where the meteorologists are competing to predict the weather, to the other side of the floor, where a lively debate about the appropri-ate betting odds for some sport involving a ball is in progress. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, vibrant. Purely through osmosis, I accumulate more sports knowledge in my first two weeks than I do the entire spring semester with my sizeable group of male friends.

But there is still one glaring thing that is largely missing from the trading floor: women. A few from human resources occasion-

ally came through with papers or friendly hellos, and the various departments devoted to support work have their share of women, but the absence of female traders is a striking phenomenon.

There were admittedly perks to being a female intern. I never had to wait in line for the bathroom, and I always got to be the first one on or o! the elevators. But at the same time, I knew the unspoken rules were always di!erent for me. Prior to my summer internship, I had never worn makeup, prefer-ring those extra five minutes of sleep to an extensive beautifica-tion process. But on my very first day of work, as I dragged myself out of bed for my morning shower, the advice of a friend resonated in my mind: “Every woman on Wall Street wears makeup. Every one.” On a split second decision, I decided to forego my hasty break-fast to apply eyeliner, dab on a smear of eyeshadow and carefully

dot my lips with professional, non-glossy, J.Crew-magazine-cover lipstick. This became a rou-tine I kept up all summer.

In a way, the lack of women makes sense considered within the context of the trading envi-ronment. The “old boy’s club” culture is present and very clearly defined. Don’t get me wrong, there was never any outright harass-ment, but when I was included in a direct circle of people, I could feel the atmosphere change. A few weeks into my internship, I was in a meeting when someone made a mildly dirty joke. The whole room cracked up. Although I didn’t find the comment especially enter-taining, I laughed along until one of the guys paused to com-ment, “Hey now guys, we have a lady here.” Cue another round of laughs; the meeting then went on as usual. But that second of being singled out, while not uncomfort-able in the moment, was a clear testament to the unspoken rules of the trading world.

The funny thing is that the pre-dominantly male culture is nei-ther obviously good nor bad. It would be great if more women went into trading, but I see why the work naturally appeals to tra-ditionally male personalities: it involves a good deal of risk-tak-ing, an ability to be fast on your feet, and a quantitative bent.

These talents are still viewed as “masculine,” for better or for worse. Maybe women just haven’t had a chance to explore these interests, since academia natu-rally segues us into more human-ities-heavy majors. According to a June New York Times article, only 17-18 percent of computer science and engineering degrees are earned by women. Perhaps, however, part of the intimidation comes from trading floor culture itself. It will change — it is chang-ing, as my presence and that of other women in the field indicate — but it’s changing slowly, and with great di"culty. The com-plete evolutionary process won’t happen at all unless it happens unforced, cushioned by a gen-eral shift in attitude that has to be endemic to all of Wall Street and the financial industry. And that’s only possible with strong diver-sity outreach programs and the presence of visible female men-tors at the very top rungs of the finance world. Until that change is complete, female interns and new hires who find themselves amidst a sea of male coworkers will never feel completely comfortable with the unspoken rules of the trading world.

JOANNA ZHENG is a junior in Trumbull College. Contact her at

[email protected] .

The Yale Corporation recently announced the appointment of Marga-

ret Marshall, LAW ’76, as a suc-cessor fellow to replace Fareed Zakaria ’86. This choice raises troubling questions.

Let me first say, I am happy Mr. Zakaria resigned — granted, he did so without showing remorse for his plagiarism or even acknowl-edging the scandal that led to his resignation. But at least it’s a start.

And Marshall is certainly quali-fied for the position — she has had an illustrious career in public ser-vice and has experience in higher education, including a previous stint on the Yale Corporation as an alumni fellow.

However, Marshall’s appoint-ment sparks red flags regarding free speech and the Yale Corpora-tion’s transparency.

Last fall, Marshall chaired a committee tasked with reexamin-ing Yale’s sexual climate. Among other recommendations in the group’s final report, Marshall sug-gested that President Levin ban Sex Week from using Yale rooms or facilities. She also condoned dis-ciplinary action against the DKE members who publically chanted crude jokes as part of an initiation

in 2010.In doing

so, the Mar-shall Com-mittee contra-dicted Yale’s commitment to freedom of expression — a commit-ment as old the 1975 Wood-ward Report. M a r s h a l l

o!ered no philosophical justifica-tion for curbing Sex Week’s free-dom of speech or the rights of the DKE brothers. Indeed, the report brushed away the issue of free expression in a cursory footnote that pretty much speaks for itself:

“We need not explore here the line between protected hate-ful speech on the one hand and incitement or threatening speech that appropriately may be the subject of disciplinary action by the University.”

Au contraire, Justice Mar-shall. If you advocate suppressing speech, you have an obligation to specify where the boundaries lie. Who decides what speech is okay and why? These are questions crucial to an academic environ-

ment built on the free exchange of ideas.

The report’s next footnote audaciously cited the Woodward Report as supporting Marshall’s paean to censorship. How’s that for Orwellian irony?

When you add the Marshall Committee’s report to Justice Marshall’s pervious public com-ments — that censorship might be necessary in non-American soci-eties to shield people from dan-gerous speech — then the Cor-poration’s commitment to Yale’s ideals comes into further doubt. When you then include the fact that another Marshall Committee member, Kimberly M. Go!-Crews ’83, ’86 LAW, was hired as the Sec-retary of the Corporation and the Vice President for Student A!airs … well then we really need to won-der who in Woodbridge Hall cares about free expression.

But even ignoring Marshall’s philosophy on free speech, her appointment hinders the Cor-poration’s transparency at a time when that body already appears disconnected from campus. Jus-tice Marshall is an insider: She received an honorary degree last year, spoke at the Law School’s graduation in 2010, and, as pre-

viously mentioned, has already served as a member of the Corpo-ration. She is not new blood.

Admittedly, the Corporation has its hands full with the presi-dential search. Nevertheless, this is serious inside baseball. Mar-shall is the only current successor fellow to have already served as an alumni fellow of the Corporation. In the past few years, the Corpo-ration has come under fire for not adequately consulting with the University community, on issues ranging from Yale-NUS to the new residential colleges. Selecting Marshall is a selection for the sta-tus quo of little transparency.

So what should the Corporation do? Rea"rming Yale’s commit-ment to the ideals of the Wood-ward Report would be a good start. Dean Miller’s recent email outlin-ing the college’s policies on plagia-rism serves as a model. Marshall’s appointment demands a similar letter on free speech. Beyond that, we — alumni and students — must be vigilant and demand account-ability from Yale’s highest body.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at [email protected] .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T A N D R E W S O B O T K A

Put your game face onI am sick and tired of being

able to spread out in the bleachers at the Yale Bowl.

At a time when pockets of our university are seemingly ablaze with activism — ranging from student-run voter drives to cam-pus-wide emails demanding stu-dent representation in the presi-dential search — I want to propose enacting change that everyone can stand behind. It is fun, builds school spirit and unity, and won’t take up too much of your precious time.

It is time to change Yale athlet-ics for the better. The way to make this change is simple. Show up to sporting events and prove we care.

I’m not going to use this space to try and convince you why this university needs to redouble its e!orts to improve our athletic teams and support the dedica-tion and success of those athletes already on campus. Other colum-nists have made that case, con-vincingly, I would argue.

There are lots of ways that we can go about trying to e!ect change to athletics policy. We can push the presidential search route: fill out surveys, file complaints and

requests with intermediaries and email Ed Bass ’67 ARC ’72 with some sort of hope that our voices will be heard. We can lament to our friends that our administra-tors need to let in more athletes and put more of an emphasis on athletics. But I have doubts about the e"cacy of these methods. A single voice can fade away, but the roar of a crowd echoes and lingers.

If we want Yale Bulldogs in all sports to take trophies and glory away from our rivals in Cambridge and Princeton, there’s really only one thing we students can do: fill the stands with our bodies and the air with our voices.

As it stands, attendance at most sporting events — with con-tests against Harvard and many hockey games as notable excep-tions — is paltry, and that might be too nice of a description. The message that these empty seats send to the administration is one that they have clearly heard: we don’t care about sports, so they shouldn’t either. We don’t care if we win, go undefeated or winless, so they won’t care. We don’t need to change athletic policy here, so they shouldn’t.

If we want better teams, we need to show our administrators that we want to be able to wear a Yale “insert-sport-here” t-shirt with pride, light up scoreboards and support teams in champion-ship games and NCAA tourna-ments. We need to show up.

Even if you don’t care about athletic policy, show up. Your friends are the ones on the field. Your classmates, suitemates, study buddies, Big Sibs and romantic interests are there. Each time they put on a Yale jersey, they represent us — each time we take the time to be Yale fans, we rep-resent them. We can help validate their 8 a.m. lifts, missed meals and long bus rides.

Show some school spirit. Paint your face. Lose your voice. You’re not just a student; you’re a Yale student.

Make time for each team, whether they’re on a winning streak or whether they’re stuck in last place. Break the vicious cycle of fair-weather fandom. Cheer so loudly that you make some noise in Woodbridge Hall. And, as you’ll learn, it’s really fun to be in the middle of a rowdy, shouting mass.

Your heart fills with pride when we score a goal, it sinks when we miss that crucial first down by inches. There’s an unbeatable camarade-rie that exists, even if temporarily, within a group united in support of the blue and white.

That sense of community alone won’t convince the administra-tion to change their athletics-suppressing policies, but it will send the message that we students really do care, that we want to see change.

ANDREW SOBOTKA is a sopho-more in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at andrew.sobotka@

yale.edu .

Challenge friends, change

behavior

NATHANIEL ZELINSKYOn Point

MICHAEL MAGDZIKMaking Magic

A Marshall plan against free speech

WHERE ARE THE WOMEN ON

THE TRADING ROOM FLOOR?

WE WILL ONLY BE HEARD IN

WOODBRIDGE HALL IF WE SHOW UP

AS A CROWD.

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MONDAY, OCT. 1The News retracts this entire issue due to a preponderance of errors. Upon review, it became clear that all facts, quotations, paraphrases and opinions were fabricated by the Managing Board of 2013. As a result, the members of this board will be banned from 202 York St. unless they give us their key cards.

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Marshall appointed to Yale Corp.

BY JANE DARBY MENTONSTAFF REPORTER

Following Fareed Zakaria’s ’86 resignation from the Yale Corporation this Aug., Marga-ret Marshall LAW ’76 will take over as a successor trustee.

Marshall’s intelligence and prior experience working on Yale’s highest governing body as an alumni fellow made her the clear choice for trusteeship during the ongoing presiden-tial search, University Presi-dent Richard Levin said. Mar-shall, whose initial Corporation position concluded in 2010, chaired the Advisory Commit-tee on Campus Climate follow-ing the Title IX investigation — an experience Levin said made her candidacy an easy choice. Marshall said she looks for-ward to returning to the Cor-poration, especially in light of the group’s task of appointing a new University President.

“The trusteeship commit-tee met a little over a week ago and decided that Justice Mar-shall was such a good candidate to be involved in the process of the search,” Levin said. “She was basically ready for ser-vice since she’d been a trustee before. We figured there was no need for waiting so we brought her on right away.”

Levin said Marshall had been an “outstanding” alumni fellow and possessed valu-able experience in university administration.

Marshall, whose previ-ous Corporation fellowship spanned six years starting in 2004, also served as Harvard’s Vice President and general counsel from 1992 to 1996 and as the first female Chief Jus-tice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2010. She will serve on the Corporation for five years instead of the usual six due to rules requiring all trustees to retire by the age of 72.

Marshall said she feels privi-leged to have another opportu-nity to contribute to the Uni-versity’s administration.

“My service on the Yale Cor-poration was one of the most fulfilling professional obliga-tions, and I really do consider it a great great honor to be back on the Corporation again,” Marshall said.

Vernon Loucks Jr. ’57, a for-mer Corporation senior fellow whose tenure from 1979 to 1993 included the appointments of Levin and former University President Benno Schmidt, said the current presidential search will occupy the majority of the

Corporation’s time this year.Marshall said choosing a

new president is one of the most important decisions any university board of trustees can make. But she added that she is most excited to engage with students in her capacity on the Corporation.

When she last served on the Corporation, Marshall said she arranged a lunch with under-graduate and graduate students each time she was on cam-pus in order to hear students’ thoughts on campus life. She added that she will have more time to spend with students in this term since she will not be balancing her Corporation duties with those of Massachu-setts Chief Justice.

“If I could have one thing, what I would love to do is be an undergraduate at Yale right now — what a wonderful place to be,” Marshall said.

Apart from her experience working in university admin-istrations, Marshall also has a rich background in law.

In 2003, while serving as Chief Justice of Massachusetts, Marshall authored the land-mark decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that prohibited the state from denying same-sex couples access to civil marriages, mak-ing Massachusetts the first state in the nation to legalize gay marriage.

Marshall, originally from South Africa, earned a mas-ter’s degree in education from Harvard University, com-pleting four years of doctoral study before coming to Yale Law School. She is currently a senior counsel at the law firm Choate Hall & Stewart and a senior research fellow and lec-turer at Harvard Law School.

The Yale Corporation con-sists of 19 members: the Uni-versity president, 10 successor trustees, six alumni fellows and the governor and lieutenant governor of the state of Con-necticut.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.

edu .

Yalies protest Ryan fundaiser

BY DIANA LI AND NICOLE NAREASTAFF REPORTERS

Members of Yale’s Student Global Health and AIDS Coalition, or SGHAC, protested outside a private fundraising event for Rep. Paul Ryan in Darien, Conn. on Sunday — meeting both supportive honks and angry curses from passing driv-ers. As Ryan raised funds inside the Darien Country Club, seven members of SGHAC and four volunteers from New Haven Planned Parenthood protested for almost two hours on the road outside the club.

The group, which met Ryan as he arrived at the event, cited the congressman’s views on abortion, contraception and Medicaid as the motivation behind its protest.

“It would be great if Paul Ryan saw us, and I think he did, but that’s not the point,” David Carel ’13 said. “We do this for the probably 400 or so people who just drove by in cars during that time and for the thousands of people who will be reached if and when this is covered in the local press throughout Connecticut.”

They bore brightly colored signs read-ing, “The only protection a woman needs is from Paul Ryan,” “Women are watching,”

and “Paul Ryan would ban forms of contra-ception.”

Planning for the protest officially began last Wednesday, according to Carel. SGHAC members researched the event to find out exactly when Ryan was arriving, drafted press pieces for local newspapers — such as the Darien Times and the Green-wich Time — and solicited volunteers from groups including Planned Parenthood.

Gretchen Ra!a, a protester at the event and the director of Planned Parenthood’s local public policy and advocacy arm, said Ryan’s platform is “dangerous for women’s health” and will “take us back decades.”

Like Carel, Ryan Boyko GRD ’18 spoke about the larger impact he hoped the pro-test would achieve.

“There are a lot of kids in the back of these cars hearing our message,” Boyko said. Carel added that he hoped those who drove by the protest would go back to their friends and families and talk about what they saw.

Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, currently locked in a tight race with Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, was notably absent from Sunday’s fundrais-ing events, citing scheduling conflicts, the

Connecticut Post reported.Gary Rose, a professor of political sci-

ence at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., said he was not surprised McMahon would keep Ryan “at arm’s length,” dub-bing him a “lightning rod” who leans far-ther to the right than most Republicans in the state.

“McMahon has to run a centrist cam-paign or else lose the support of indepen-dent voters,” Rose said.

Carel added that SGHAC sought to use Ryan’s visit as an opportunity to draw attention to McMahon’s alleged anti-choice record on reproductive rights, which she now denies. The group plans to fol-low up the protest by submitting an op-ed about women’s health to various local newspapers, hoping to tip the Senate race in Murphy’s favor, Carel said.

Tickets to the fundraiser general recep-tion were $1,000 per person, photo recep-tion was $5,000 per person, and the round-table discussion was $10,000 per person, according to the Darien Times.

Contact DIANA LI at [email protected] and NICOLE NAREA at

[email protected] .

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Volunteers from Yale’s Student Global Health and AIDS Coalition and New Haven Planned Parenthood protest an event for Rep. Paul Ryan.

Campus crime sees uptick in robberies BY DHRUV AGGARWAL AND MONICA

DISARECONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF

REPORTER

Yale released its annual report on campus security and fire safety for 2011 in an email sent Monday afternoon by Associate Vice Pres-ident for Administration Janet Linder.

The report, compiled annually as required by federal law, showed that campus crime stayed rela-tively steady from 2010 to 2011, except for an increase in robber-ies and reported sexual o!ences on and around campus. Notably excluded from the report, how-ever, was the number of larcenies, which officials said is the most common sort of crime a!ecting the University.

“Overall, Yale continues to have low crime on campus,” Uni-versity spokesman Tom Conroy said. “The increase in robberies and thefts, especially of portable electronic devices, has been in areas around campus as opposed to on campus.”

If a theft involves illegal entry, it is termed a burglary — other-wise, it is a larceny. Although lar-cenies are most likely to occur on campus, larceny statistics were not displayed in the annual report because Yale is not obliged to report such crimes under federal law.

According to Conroy, there were 274 larcenies on campus in 2011 as opposed to just 41 bur-glaries. He said this underscored the need to “lock doors and keep smartphones and laptops safe.”

Conroy claimed that Yale’s campus is secure thanks to the e!orts of the Yale Police Depart-ment, a view supported by a poll conducted by the News in April. In the poll, only 12 percent of the 763 students surveyed had a negative view of the YPD and its operations, as opposed to the 52 percent who had favorable opin-ions and the 36 percent who said they were neutral.

Andrew McMahon ’15, who resides in the Berkeley entryway

where a student was robbed last month , said he felt safe on cam-pus.

“There are 8 police officers within 30 seconds of campus,” McMahon said. “I am not wor-ried.”

But the report documented a spurt in reported sexual o!ences both on and o! campus in 2011, which nearly doubled from 12 in 2010 to 20 in 2011. Conroy said that although more cases were reported in 2011, many of the crimes that were reported during 2011 took place at a time before that year, which he ascribed to steps taken by the University to raise awareness about sexual mis-conduct and encourage reporting of such crimes. He also linked it to the fact that the University-wide Committee on Sexual Mis-conduct began hearing incidents beginning in July 2011, increasing the number of reported cases.

“The University’s position is

that the goal is zero sexual mis-conduct or offenses,” Conroy said. “But for any that occur, the victims must come forward.”

Suzanna Fritzberg, the head public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said she is hopeful that the programs created in 2011 will improve the sexual climate at Yale. How-ever, she cautioned that although these programs are positive, the University is still in need of a sex-ual “culture change”. She said the statistics in the campus security report may be a dangerous sign.

“These numbers are a cause for concern,” Fritzberg said, “These aren’t something that we should look at and brush o!.”

There was also a marked increase in the number of robber-ies reported on and around cam-pus, and the figure nearly doubled from 2010. While 2009 saw 10 robberies and 2010 saw 14, there were a total of 25 robberies dur-

ing the 2011-’12 school year. The number of burglaries, meanwhile, increased slightly from 36 in 2010 to 41 in 2011, but was still signifi-cantly lower than the 74 reported in 2009.

These figures, however, run counter to the trend of crime in the whole of New Haven, which has generally decreased over the past few years. Besides the uptick in robberies and reported sexual o!ences, however, crime on cam-pus has remained at a steady level over the past year.

The report presents data on crime statistics from 2009, 2010 and 2011 in accordance with the Clery Act, which requires the university to submit the data to the U.S. Department of Educa-tion.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL AND MONICA DISARE at

[email protected] and [email protected] .

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Margaret Marshall’s LAW ’76 last tenure on the Corporation ended in 2010.

I really do consider it a great great honor to be back on the Corporation again.

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cies. We have the faculty. We have alumni. We have the sta!. We have the city. What we need to do is listen to those groups and build that into our own views. We’d make a mistake to answer your questions without having a consultation first.”

Rather than suggest qualifications for candidates, students primarily commented on the the process set forth by the Search Committee.

Alejandro Gutierrez ’13 said ques-tions relating to procedure are more pressing than specific sugges-tions. Gutierrez is a member of the activist group Students Unite Now, which has petitioned for greater stu-dent involvement in the search and released a five-page statement out-lining its grievances prior to the forum. Six SUN members read the document aloud in three-minute, non-consecutive intervals — speak-ing for almost a fifth of the 33 student speeches at the forum.

“What was important was not allowing the forum to go the way they wanted,” Gutierrez said. “Any sort of substantive suggestion we might have made wouldn’t have done anything because there’s just no accountability or clear avenue for student suggestions actually influ-encing anything the Corporation does.”

Brandon Levin ’14 currently serves as the student counselor to the search committee — a non-voting liaison between the University’s stu-dent body and the committee.

Amalia Skilton ’13 said during the forum that the student counselor’s position is insu"cient to field stu-dent input in the search.

“The Yale Corporation hasn’t said how it’s going to receive pub-lic comment that isn’t through the counselor,” Skilton said. “It seems as though they appointed a student counselor to save face.”

Levin said he wished more stu-dents had put forward priorities and criteria for the committee rather than criticizing its procedure. He added that undergraduates misused their time before the committee by fail-ing to focus on Yale’s strengths and weaknesses and the necessary quali-fications for a new president.

But John Gonzalez ’14, Levin’s successor as president of the Yale College Council, said procedural uncertainties have hindered student feedback.

“Despite what the YCC has been doing to talk to students, send out surveys and compile reports to amplify the student voice, the reason people aren’t responding is because they’re not sure whether you guys are going to listen,” Gonzalez said at the forum. “We need some guaran-

tee that you all will read through and really think about what we have said.”

In addition to the six forums, four-teen meetings with smaller groups of students — including the YCC, ath-letic team captains, SUN and other organizing groups , Greek life presi-dents, and the Women’s Center and LGBTQ Co-op — drew mixed reac-tions from participants.

LGBTQ Co-op coordinator Hilary O’Connell ’14 and Sigma Phi Epsi-lon President Will Kirkland ’14 said they were pleased with the Corpora-tion’s e!orts to reach out to student groups.

“Though the representatives didn’t know much about our com-munity before the meeting, they were certainly interested in learn-ing about the progress we’ve made on LGBTQ life here and about what remains to be done,” O’Connell

said. “They seemed to sympathize with the fact that there hasn’t been enough attention to students. I think we have a good chance of being lis-tened to.”

Gutierrez, who represented SUN at the meeting with campus orga-nizing groups, said he was more dis-heartened by the exchange. He said the meeting confirmed his concerns that the Corporation would not take student concerns seriously, add-ing that students will have to work on their own to assert power in the search process.

Asked to comment about the weekend’s meetings, Goodyear said “we love being here” but declined to comment further. The four other Search Committee members and Corporation trustees present at the forum — Neal Keny-Guyer SOM ‘82, Trustee Liaison to Students Peter Dervan GRD ’72, forum moderator Byron Auguste ‘89 and Morse Col-lege Master Amy Hungerford — also declined to comment.

With formal consultations now concluded, those wishing to pro-vide additional feedback may sub-mit written comments at [email protected], Goodyear said in an email on Oct. 1.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at

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man does not currently have plans to hold an event instead of Safety Dance next year.

Two other students on SAAC declined to comment.

Krauss warned students that she was considering canceling Safety Dance in an email sent to each residential college last Friday.

“The worry about untoward outcomes associated with [binge drinking] quite honestly keeps us up at night until the dance is over,” she said. “And, each year, in the immediate aftermath, we give serious consideration to discon-tinuing it in future years.”

Two of the eight hospitalized students were transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital directly from the dance — which was attended by roughly 2300 students — while another was hospitalized after falling on Beinecke Plaza. Krauss said ambulances picked up the other five students from di!erent locations around campus, attrib-uting these cases to excessive pre-gaming.

This year, organizers took addi-tional measures to enhance safety at the dance.

Krauss and Flick said in Fri-day’s email that they increased the security presence at the dance by hiring an outside firm, Contem-porary Services, to provide per-sonnel and manage the entrance of Commons. But Krauss said the heightened security ultimately had no e!ect on the overall level of safety.

“Unfortunately, none of the

measures we put in place helped to reduce the number of trans-ports or make a dent in the general level of intoxication of those who attended the dance,” she said.

Krauss added that organizers had problems with crowd control, and though the doors were sup-posed to close at midnight, she decided to close them at 11:50 p.m. because the crowd “was pushing and shoving up against the doors.” While many ticket holders were left outside the door temporarily, organizers re-opened the doors roughly 30 minutes later, she said.

Despite the several incidents, Yale Police Department Assis-tant Chief Michael Patten said he thought the dance went well over-all, and no serious accidents took place. De Santis said she found the dance to be “more tame” than in years past.Students interviewed who attended the dance expressed excitement about the festivi-ties and said they enjoyed getting dressed up ’80s themed clothing.

Henry Wolf ’16 said Safety Dance can be fun even with-out drinking “absurd amounts of alcohol.”

De Santis and Fornero ’15 said they have received mostly posi-tive feedback from students who attended.

“Up until the time the music stopped people were dancing,” Fornero said.

The next residential college dance is Calhoun College’s Trolley Night on Oct. 5.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at [email protected] .

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1.2Percent annualized growth in housing prices The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home-price index measured a 1.2 percent annualized increase in housing prices for the month of July. In comparison, at the peak of the housing bubble, the index grew at rates greater than 10 percent.

BY CORTHAY SCHOCKCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

To engage with the growing trend of incorporating history into art, the Yale School of Art hosted a screening of Belgian filmmaker Sven Augustijnen’s atypical documentary “Spec-tres.”

Set in Belgium and the Congo, Augustijnen’s work delves into the uncertainty sur-rounding the assassination of a newly independent Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, on Jan. 17, 1961. By retracing Lumumba’s steps dur-ing his final few days alongside interviews with parties ranging from the Belgium government to Lumumba’s family, Augustijnen said the style of the film — which focuses heavily on one individ-ual’s subjective view of history — adds an unusual dimension to the telling of history. School of Art Dean Robert Storr said that “Spectres” is indicative of a younger generation of art-ists’ attempt to understand his-tory’s depth through filmmak-ing by merging content with camerawork, setting and loca-tion. Mathew Muturi-Kioi ART ’13 explained that Augustijnen achieved the heightened emo-tional e!ect of combining these two approaches, adding that the documentary was unique in that it was almost entirely filmed by hand.

Augustijnen said he chose to follow Sir Jacques Brassine de la Buissière, a former resident of the Congo who has spent his life researching Lumumba’s assas-sination, for the bulk of the film, adding that de la Buissière is

“obsessed by the story, obsessed by pushing it to the ends.”

This focus on telling one man’s story evokes the common artistic motif of portraiture that helps frame the single event of the assassination as a narrative, contributing to Augustijnen’s ability to express its historical significance, Muturi-Kioi said.

But while the technique of portraiture could be interpreted as limiting, Storr said that it actually provides the audience with an in-depth look at the “murkiness and selectivity of history.”

“Spectres” explored this uncertainty not just in its indi-vidualizing technique but also in its use of setting and location

to establish the divide between the characters in the film and the topics it explores. The open-ing sequence of the film depicts de la Buissière and his wife vis-iting the Count and Countess Arnoud d’Aspremont Lynden at their Belgian estate, which is reminiscent of homes dur-ing the peak of European aris-tocracy. While sitting in splen-did luxury — the extent of which Augustijnen said surprised most Belgians when “Spectres” pre-miered in Belgium — de la Buis-sière and Count Lynden discuss the assassination of Lumumba. Storr added that the film exhib-ited the filmmaker’s skill by “showing you how people who are intimately connected with

that event deal with it and evade full responsibility for it.”

Moreover, the openness of Augustijnen’s filming style, which Storr described as “allowing the camera to tell lots of things,” tackles de la Buis-sière’s attempt to break down the controversy of which gov-ernment o"cials, both in Bel-gium and the Congo, took an active role in the assassination.

Augustijnen’s previous work over the last decade includes the films l’Ecole des Pickpockets, Le Guide du Parc, Francois and Une Femme Entreprenante.

Contact CORTHAY SCHOCK at [email protected] .

Augustijnen blurs history and art

BY MICHELLE HACKMANSTAFF REPORTER

In a sign of a housing market recovering from the 2008 finan-cial crisis, the state of Connecti-cut issued 359 new building per-mits in Aug., up 55 percent from the same period last year.

The data, compiled by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, indicates greater interest in building new homes than has been seen in the past few years. Betwenn Jan. and Aug. 2012, 2,451 permits were issued — up 41 percent over the same time period in 2011. In the first eight months of 2009, the state issued only 2,097 permits, while in 2004, the earliest year for which data are available, the state issued 6,570 permits.

Many of the permits issued are concentrated in areas where there is an excess of land to build new properties, such as Bridge-port and Milford, which issued 114 and 96 permits between Jan. and Aug. 2012, respectively. But in New Haven, a city that was built up in the post-war years, there is not much room for con-struction of new homes, said City Hall spokesperson Eliza-beth Benton ’04. Only 13 new building permits were issued in the Elm City from Jan. to Aug. of this year, according to the DECD data.

Other indicators paint a mixed picture of the housing market in New Haven. The city has one of the lowest residential vacancy

rates in the nation. According to Drew Morrison ’14 , president of New Haven Action, this low rate can partially be attributed to the high number of college stu-dents in the city and the rela-tively high foreclosure rate, as families whose homes are fore-closed typically relocate to live in apartment buildings.

But Morrison said the low vacancy rate also decreases the supply of homes available for those seeking a!ordable hous-ing. Though Governor Dannel Malloy made a commitment in his latest budget to spend $300 million over the next 10 years on a!ordable housing projects, 2,000 people are still on a wait-ing list to move into a!ordable housing units, Morrison said.

Additionally, according to 2011 city property valuations that assessed the fair market value of homes in New Haven, a majority of neighborhoods saw a slight decrease in their homes’ market value since 2006, the last time the study was con-ducted, while wealthier neigh-borhoods like East Rock and Westville saw the value of their homes go up as much as 56 per-cent. Overall, 54 percent of New Haven residents saw the value of their homes decrease.

According to real estate research firm Reis Inc., in Jan. 2009, New Haven had the nation’s lowest apartment vacancy rate at 2.1 percent.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at [email protected] .

Building permits up in Conn.

BY RISHABH BHANDARICONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Turnout was low at the sea-son’s first tailgate on Saturday, but students who did attend said they still had fun in light of regulations introduced last Jan. in response to the fatal U-Haul crash at the 2011 Harvard-Yale tailgate.

Saturday’s football game against Colgate marked the first tailgate with new regula-tions — which ban beer kegs and U-Hauls and require that all tail-gating activities remain within a zone called the “student tail-gate village,” all stands be set up before 8:30 a.m. and the tail-gate finish by kick-o!. The rules were initially met with resis-

tance from students who feared they would significantly change the tailgate experience, and last week, only the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity planned to hold a tail-gate. Though students inter-viewed at the tailgate said they still enjoyed the festivities, turn-out at the event was lower than in years past.

“We do feel students enjoyed the tailgate and the space so I’m confident and hopeful that attendance will grow as the sea-son progresses,” said Natalie Gonzalez, Associate Director for Varsity Sports Administration.

At the tailgate, the University hired two DJs, set up a beer gar-den which provided over-21 stu-dents with two free beers each, and supplied students with free

food from a catering company. Students nearly filled the entire marked-off student tailgat-ing village, and Gonzalez said administrators could expand the space for future tailgates, such as the Princeton or Harvard ones, as needed. Most tailgating fix-tures provided by administra-tors will be continued for the remainder of this season’s tail-gates.

Despite the tailgate’s ameni-ties, Billy Fowkes ’14, president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra-ternity, estimated Saturday’s turnout as roughly half that of the first tailgate last year, even with the day’s poor weather conditions taken into account. Though SAE did not hold a tail-gate, he said, several fraternity

brothers attended to determine whether to hold a tailgate in the future.

The only fraternity that held an o"cial tailgate was ADPhi . Still, the majority of ADPhi stu-dents interviewed said they had fun at the tailgate despite the new regulations.

“I really didn’t think this tail-gate would be any good, but I’ve been surprised at how fun this is,” said Jackson Logie ’14, an ADPhi brother.

Logie added that his fraternity plans to attend every tailgate this season.

Teresa Benet ’13, another tailgate attendee, said the new rules would be frustrating for under-21 students, but that they work well for over-21 students

because of the free beer.“The police won’t constantly

badger us to prove that we’re 21,” Benet said.

Philip Gross ’13, another ADPhi brother, said most of his friends in attendance were over 21, while the younger brothers

stayed on campus instead.Still, Brendan Gibson ’10 said

he found the tailgate to be dras-tically different than in years past, in part because of the new regulations. Because fraternities would bring couches and futons in U-Hauls in the past, he said, those features will likely be gone from future tailgates.

Calhoun student Whitney Schumacher ’13 said she had lit-tle di"culty setting up the Cal-houn tent, and in the past Cal-houn has set up its tent by 8:30 a.m.

Yale’s football team lost to Colgate 47-24.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at [email protected] .

FLORIAN KOENIGSBERGER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Attendance was low for the season’s first tailgate and subsequent football game against Colgate on Saturday.

I really didn’t think this tailgate would be any good, but I’ve been surprised at how fun this is.

JACKSON LOGIE ’14Brother of the Alta Delta Phi fraternity

TIMELINE TAILGATING POLICYSEPTEMBER 15, 2011A committee of administrators announces new regulations after a periodical tailgate policy review.

-tification to receive a wristband that signifies they are of the legal drinking age.

register their tailgates in advance with the athletics department.

grills are banned.

NOVEMBER 19, 2011A fatal U-Haul crash at the Harvard-Yale tailgate kills Nancy Barry, a 30-year-old woman.

JANUARY 20, 2012Administrators release a set of new restrictions in response to Novem-ber’s tailgating incident.

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Yale School of Art hosted a screening of Belgian documentary, “Spectres.”

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FROM THE FRONT “I might try a strategy called … the Double Maverick. That’s where I go totally berserk and just freak everybody out. Even the regular mavericks.” JOHN MCCAIN “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” APPEARANCE

Engelman said Economics pro-fessor Steven Berry led discussion of this year’s academic review of the FAS — the first to be held in two decades — which is intended to evaluate the allocation of fac-ulty positions across departments and review the overall structure of the FAS. Some professors at the meeting who are concerned about possible reductions in the size of the faculty suggested that the committee consider alterna-tives to the conventional depart-

ment structure, Engelman said. He declined to provide details on the specifics points of discus-sion, as the professors have not yet decided whether to publicly release minutes from the FAS meetings.

Engelman said faculty mem-bers were appreciative of the opportunity to voice their opin-ions in an environment that invited back-and-forth discus-sion and open exchanges, since most faculty meetings are sched-uled with structured agendas that leave little room for debate.

In addition, the meeting tried to “steer clear of the parliamentary hassle,” Engelman said.

Engelman called the forum “an informal discussion” and a “mechanism for a larger discus-sion” without strict agenda items. He added that he was “quite pleased” with the discussions.

Provost Peter Salovey announced the new forums in a memo to tenured and tenure-track FAS professors early last month. Professors Michael Della Rocca, Linda Peterson and Frank Snowden were appointed to a

committee to determine the pre-liminary rules for the forums, though Engelman said the rules may be changed in the future.

According to the currently pro-posed rules, only full-time ladder faculty members of the FAS may attend the meetings — mean-ing a total of 682 professors were eligible to attend the first forum. The rules recommend that all of the forums be chaired by rotation of FAS divisional directors in the biological sciences, physical sci-ences and engineering, social sci-ences and humanities.

Though the forums were orig-inally planned to be held twice a semester, Engelman said the fac-ulty members present at Wednes-day’s meeting have already set plans to hold an extra meeting in several weeks for the consid-eration of meeting rules, add-ing that there is a possibility that more forums will also be sched-uled.

Yesterday’s FAS meeting took place in Luce Hall.

Contact AMY WANG at [email protected] .

ing that the city has seen major improve-ments in the last 15 years. “I think [food chains moving into New Haven] is a trend: clearly, the national food companies real-ize that New Haven is a great place to do business.”

Navin Jani, who has owned News Haven since 2000, said he disagrees with Wareck’s statement that the Internet has hurt his business. Though he said he has noticed a slight downturn in business in the past four years, he added that he still has over 100 regular and loyal custom-ers every day. Full articles often cannot be found online, and his store o!ers a wide array of international papers that people from all over Conn. come to buy, he said.

But Wareck’s refusal to renew News Haven’s lease did not come as a surprise, especially after five to six months of legal

battles with Wareck’s company to extend the lease, Jani said.

“When the big guy comes, the small guy has to go,” Jani said.

Despite the influx of fast food chains like Panera, Shake Shack and Chipotle, Wareck said he does not foresee an end to New Haven’s local, specialty food stores.

“I will never stop eating Claire’s Lithu-anian co!ee cake,” he said.

Abigail Rider, associate vice president and director of University Properties, told the News in an email that the recent arriv-als of these businesses show that e!orts to revitalize downtown have “borne fruit.” She added that 87 percent of busi-nesses in New Haven still have local ties. “On the other hand, national and regional merchants have the marketing and brand to draw people from the suburbs (who otherwise might never come) into the city to enjoy the city’s cosmopolitan look

and feel, which is important because the 50,000 students who study here are only here eight months of the year,” she said.

Of 13 students interviewed, four said they would definitely go to Panera. Two of them said they think Panera will provide students with a much-needed breakfast option around campus.

But others were not so enthusias-tic. Ragini Luthra ’16 said she is worried that the mass arrival of fast food chains in the area will detract from the local New Haven feel.

Panera Bread was established in 1981 and currently operates 1,591 stores in 41 states and in Ontario, Canada.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND DIANA LI at

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drop in,” he said in an email, add-ing that the students who pre-sented in front of McCain “han-dled that very well.”

Tantum Collins ’13, who gave a policy brief on the Arab Spring during Monday’s class, said pre-senting in front of McCain was “a healthy mix of exhilarating and terrifying.”

Students said McCain remained engaged at the dinner as well, and would not eat until he answered all questions asked by the attendees. In addition, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 stopped by the dinner to “welcome him to New Haven and to Yale,” Harrison Monsky ’13 said.

Before coming to Yale on Monday, McCain was in Dan-bury, Conn. and Norwalk, Conn. encouraging voters to sup-port Republican McMahon in the hotly contested Connecti-cut Senate race against Democrat Chris Murphy.

“I’m very impressed by her,” McCain said, adding that he thinks McMahon “understands the free enterprise system” and has shown support for veterans and members of the armed ser-vices.

McCain told the News he thinks the Republican party has a “50/50” chance of gaining the upper hand in the Senate this year. He also said he believes the presidential race is “still close enough” for Republican presi-dential candidate Mitt Romney to win.

“Some people don’t make up their mind until they go into the ballot booth, so a lot of these elections, especially in the bat-tleground states, will depend on

voter turnout,” he said.McCain said he believes

Americans should priori-tize the nation’s debt, which has increased under President Obama, as well as the role the U.S. will play overseas when con-sidering issues at play in Novem-ber’s presidential election. He added that the 2012 presidential election has been the “most neg-ative campaign that I have ever seen, on both sides.”

“There’s a lot of wounds that may take some time to heal as a result of this,” he said, adding that Republicans and Democrats must work together better in the future to e!ectively pass new leg-islation.

Students in “Grand Strategy” said there have been a number of “high-profile” visitors — such as General Stanley McChrystal and New York Times Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus — since the course began last spring.

“Grand Strategy is a class on leadership, and it’s great for the students to get to meet leaders in various professional capacities,” Gaddis said.

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BY EMMA GOLDBERGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In March of 2011, Dr. Roy S. Herbst ‘84 GRD ‘84, began his tenure as Chief of Medical Oncol-ogy for Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven and Associate Direc-tor for Translational Research. Prior to his work at the Yale Can-cer Center, Dr. Herbst served as Chief of the Department of Tho-racic/Head and Neck Medi-cal Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson’s Cancer Center. He is nationally renowned for his expertise on lung cancer research, and received his under-graduate and master’s degrees from Yale. Dr. Herbst spoke to the News about his thoughts on the Cancer Center’s achievements and research developments in the past year.

Q: What research initiatives are currently occupying the most

time, energy and funding at the Smilow Center?

A: We’re really focusing our time on personalized therapy

to understand the characteristics of cancers. That means that we’re trying to analyze their DNA and mutations so we can match the right treatments to each tumor. That’s been a big personal initia-tive we’ve taken on in the last few years.

Q: What do you feel have been your greatest achievements

since stepping into your position as chief of medical oncology?

A: Our achievements have been several fold. We’ve hired over

seven new positions, all of whom are experts in their specific fields. We’ve hired experts in breast cancer, genital and urinary can-cer, and phase one cancer. By hir-ing these new specialists, we’ve brought great leadership to the Center. We’ve also issued four internal grants to groups of indi-viduals who are conducting criti-cal work. We’re bringing together clinical people and laboratory people to stimulate collaborative

research. And we’ve started new conferences and workshops so that we can integrate our research at Yale. We have a meeting once a month at the provost’s house where people from the chemistry department meet with the leaders at the Cancer Center to talk about our new approaches to developing drugs. We’ve done a lot to stimu-late collaboration, which has been great for the Center.

Q: What critical developments in cancer research have occurred

in the past year?

A: I would say that in the last year we’ve seen developments

in the early detection of cancer. It’s become easier to screen some-one who has smoked to detect lung cancer before the tumor develops.

Q: What is the Smilow Cen-ter doing to respond to those

developments in early detection?

A: The Smilow Center devel-oped a screening clinic for

people who have smoked in the past. We do CAT scans to find early signs of cancer and treat it appropriately. We have a very vig-orous program on smoking cessa-tion. And we’ve also instituted a tumor-profiling program at Yale where, for a whole host of di!erent cancers, we can profile the tumor,

look at markers and understand what causes it to grow. We’re mak-ing progress here on all of those fronts. It’s a very exciting time to be working at the Center.

Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at [email protected] .

Dr. Roy Herbst, Chief Medical Oncologist, talks cancer research

BY DAN WEINERSTAFF REPORTER

Yale researchers estimate approximately $2 billion of food stamps are spent every year on sugary drinks that provide no nutritional content and contrib-ute to obesity.

After analyzing supermar-ket purchasing data, research-ers found not only that indi-viduals using food stamps were more likely to buy sugary drinks, but also that food stamps paid for nearly three quarters of the sugar-sweetened beverages pur-chased in households on the nutrition assistance program. The finding is the latest in a series fueling the debate over whether government benefits should be spent on sugary drinks, said lead researcher Tatiana Andreyeva, Director of Economic Initia-tives at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The paper appears in the October issue of

the American Journal of Preven-tative Medicine.

The study analyzed data from a large supermarket chain and concluded that about 58 per-cent of the beverages purchased in households receiving food stamps — also known as Sup-plemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — were sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda. Sugary drinks only accounted for 48 percent of bev-erages purchased in a compari-son group of low-income house-holds.

Andreyeva said the findings show the need for the United States Department of Agricul-ture (USDA), which administers food stamps, to conduct a pilot study examining the e!ects of a ban on the use of SNAP benefits for the purchase of sugar-sweet-ened beverages.

“We don’t allow using SNAP to buy alcohol or cigarettes,

because we know there are health risks associated with con-sumption,” Andreyeva said. “We know the health risks — obesity, diabetes — related to excessive consumption [of sugar-sweet-ened beverages]. There is a good reason to basically treat sugar-sweetened beverages as we do alcohol.”

Mary Story, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Community Health at the Uni-versity of Minnesota, said she believes states and cities should look carefully at the SNAP pro-gram to consider whether it could be altered to improve com-munity diets and public health. Last August, the USDA rejected a New York City proposal ban-ning the use of food stamps for the purchase of sugar-sweetened beverages, citing, among other concerns, its wish to implement incentive-based solutions as

o p p o s e d to restrictions.

Edward Cooney, Executive Director of the Congressional Hunger Center, said most anti-

hunger advocates feel that banning SNAP pur-chases of sugar-sweetened bev-erages is the wrong approach to controlling sugary drink con-sumption.

“The underlying theory in the Rudd Center approach is that you can control behavior of the low-income population by creating a prohibition, and I don’t think that will work,” he said. “You are also not treating people as peo-ple. We think you are going to stigmatize low-income people in the store.”

Cooney said that 70 percent of households receiving SNAP ben-efits have access to other income that could be used to buy sugary drinks even if purchase with food stamps were banned. As opposed to a ban, he said that he supports a current USDA pilot that incen-tivizes purchasing fruits and veg-

etables. Michael Jacob-son, Co-founder and Executive Director of the consumer advo-cacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, said he sup-ports a hybrid program prohib-iting the use of food stamps for purchasing sugary drinks while subsidizing the purchase of fruits and vegetables.

“If you spend two bucks on broccoli, you’d only pay a buck forty,” Jacobson said. “That would cost several billion dol-lars a year, but that’s something that SNAP beneficiaries actually favor.”

The study did not formally examine why SNAP households were more likely to purchase sug-ary drinks, but Andreyeva said that she knows that neither price nor access were factors, as diet and regular drinks cost about the

same amount and SNAP house-holds had the same beverages available to them as the low-income baseline did. She said she speculates that food advertis-ing — which often targets young children — may play a role, as the only SNAP households consid-ered in the study were those that had recently received govern-

ment benefits for young children. In March 2012, approximately

46.4 million Americans received SNAP benefits at an annualized cost of more than $86 billion for fiscal year 2012.

Contact DAN WEINER at [email protected] .

BY SARAH YAZJICONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A grant recently awarded to a Yale anthropology professor will fund research intended to expand previous human rights work in Africa.

In late Aug., Kamari Max-ine Clarke received a compet-itive grant of $260,000 from the National Science Foun-dation to further her previous studies in human rights and international law. Her project, which is titled “The Interna-tional Criminal Court, Africa, and the Pursuit of Justice,” will investigate ethnographic studies and effective struc-tures of international rule of law, she said.

Her project will focus on countries — such as Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and Ethio-pia — where the International Criminal Court is seeking warrants of arrest for lead-ers such as Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir.

“Many of the African lead-ers who once supported the Court are no longer support-ing the Court, at least in terms of the public positions they are taking,” she added.

Clarke said she believes her work will advance scien-tific understandings of inter-national law and justice, especially in anthropology and interdisciplinary stud-ies of law. She added that she hopes to answer the question of what justice really is, and how politicians and victims in these countries view the notion of human rights.

Even with the grant, the project will face di"culties:

Clarke plans to conduct 300 interviews with victims and warlords, some of whom will be di"cult to contact.

“The most controversial figures will be di"cult,” she said. “I will pursue it and see what kind of access I will get.”

Despite the opportunities this grant opens for her work, Clarke said she has been frus-trated by the diminishing support Yale has provided for the University’s studies in Africa.

Clarke, who recently served as chair of Yale’s Council on African Studies, said she decided not to renew her term because she did not believe the University was doing enough to support studies in Africa. Yale’s African Studies program su!ers from limited class options and a dwindling number of faculty members, said professor Ann Biersteker, the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the African stud-ies major.

“It’s getting to be almost a crisis situation,” Biersteker said. “So many people have left that haven’t been replaced — we end up with just hardly anyone.”

With support of the Yale MacMillan Center for Inter-national and Area Studies, the African studies program at Yale recently underwent internal review, Clarke said, adding that the faculty and CAS are currently waiting to see if the University will com-mit to expanding the major. Despite the University’s strong language program, its unique o!ering of joint mas-ter’s and bachelor’s degrees in

African Studies and the large amount of student interest, Biersteker said she does not see any solid plans in place to replace faculty members who have left.

Both Yale and other uni-versity professors stressed the importance of supporting research focused on Africa.

“How incomplete would international law and ethics be if people do not understand the places in which laws are going to be implemented?” said Johns Hopkins political science professor Siba Gro-vogui. “There is a poverty of knowledge if you do not study

this area.”Benson Olugbuo, a visiting

research assistant for Yale’s CAS, said research in Africa is especially important in the fields of international law and human rights. Such research, he added, can be used to understand the potential of using law as an instrument of change in developing econo-mies.

Yale first introduced Afri-can language classes into its curriculum in the 18th cen-tury.

Contact SARAH YAZJI at [email protected] .

NSF funds anthropology

BY JENNA KAINICCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A study recently pub-lished in the journal Pro-ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sug-gests that urbanization will proceed rapidly within the next twenty years, which may threaten natural life.

The study, co-written by Karen Seto of the Yale School of Forestry & Envi-ronmental Studies, pre-dicts that urban land cover by 2030 will be triple that of 2000 levels, and that most of this urban expansion will occur in developing nations. Researchers used projec-tions of population and eco-nomic growth to come to their conclusions, which call attention to the need for environmentally con-scious urban planning. One important impact of the pro-jected urban land growth is a decrease in biodiversity due to loss of habitat, the study shows.

Brown University sociol-ogy professor Michael White said researchers in the field

are aware that urbanization is an ongoing process, so the results of Seto’s study are not surprising. White added, though, that this particular study is notable because it draws a link between antic-ipated urban expansion and its impact on natural habi-tats and biodiversity.

Texas A&M University professor Burak Güneralp, a co-author of this study, said urbanization leads to a loss in vegetation, adding that it disrupts areas like tropi-cal forests that store carbon. Without these carbon pools, the potential of the area to store carbon is diminished, he said. As a result, this carbon is released into the atmosphere instead — which could have a lasting impact on climate change — Güner-alp said.

To determine projec-tions on growth and distri-bution of urban land cover, researchers used forecasts of population and gross domestic product from the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, respec-

tively, Güneralp said. The study predicts that most of this anticipated urbaniza-tion will occur in developing nations. Africa is expected to see the highest rate of increase in urbanized land. The paper’s authors said they foresee urban growth in China and India contrib-uting to 55 percent of Asia’s urban development.

Güneralp said develop-ing nations may face greater challenges dealing with impacts of urbanization because they have access to fewer financial and insti-tutional resources. He said support for the develop-ing worlds could help curb the potentially detrimental impacts of urban develop-ment.

“Biodiversity itself may be most concentrated in devel-oping countries, but we don’t really know what the economic value of the biodi-versity is,” Güneralp said.

Despite its potential envi-ronmental effects, White said urbanization is not altogether bad or good. This study predicts how much

urban areas will grow in the next couple of decades, but Seto said the way in which these regions develop will ultimately determine urban-ization’s impact on the envi-ronment.

“I would caution you to think about what kinds of urbanization we want to look for,” White said. “There are di!erent kinds of cities and different ways of living in urban areas.”

Seto said that over time, policy makers will focus on determining what they can do to shape how cities will develop, and how dif-ferent forms of urbaniza-tion impact human experi-ence and well-being. One way this might be done is to plan for the e!ect of loss of carbon pools, and to design means of storing carbon in urban environments, Güner-alp said.

Lucy Hutyra of Boston University’s Department of Geography and Environment also co-authored the study.

Contact JENNA KAINIC at [email protected] .

Rapid city growth expected

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Urban growth in China and India is expected to contribute to 55 percent of Asia’s urban development, according to a recent study.

We dont allow using SNAP to buy alcohol or cigarettes because we know there are health risks associated with consumption.

TATIANA ANDREYEVADirector of Economic Initiatives at the

Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

BY THE NUMBERS FOOD STAMPS2 Billion dollars in food stamps spent each year

on sugary drinks.

58 Percent of beverages purchased by households receiving food stamps were sugary beverages.

46.4 Million Americans received food stamps last year.

KAMARI CLARKE

Clarke plans to conduct 300 interviews with victims and warlords.

SMILOW CANCER HOSPITAL

Dr. Roy Herbst ‘84 GRD ‘84 serves as the Chief Medical Oncologist for the Smilow Cancer Hospital.

YDN

The Smilow Cancer Hospital opened in the fall of 2009.

FOOD STAMPS

FOR SODA

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYYALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com PAGE 9PAGE 8 YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

BY EMMA GOLDBERGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In March of 2011, Dr. Roy S. Herbst ‘84 GRD ‘84, began his tenure as Chief of Medical Oncol-ogy for Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven and Associate Direc-tor for Translational Research. Prior to his work at the Yale Can-cer Center, Dr. Herbst served as Chief of the Department of Tho-racic/Head and Neck Medi-cal Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson’s Cancer Center. He is nationally renowned for his expertise on lung cancer research, and received his under-graduate and master’s degrees from Yale. Dr. Herbst spoke to the News about his thoughts on the Cancer Center’s achievements and research developments in the past year.

Q: What research initiatives are currently occupying the most

time, energy and funding at the Smilow Center?

A: We’re really focusing our time on personalized therapy

to understand the characteristics of cancers. That means that we’re trying to analyze their DNA and mutations so we can match the right treatments to each tumor. That’s been a big personal initia-tive we’ve taken on in the last few years.

Q: What do you feel have been your greatest achievements

since stepping into your position as chief of medical oncology?

A: Our achievements have been several fold. We’ve hired over

seven new positions, all of whom are experts in their specific fields. We’ve hired experts in breast cancer, genital and urinary can-cer, and phase one cancer. By hir-ing these new specialists, we’ve brought great leadership to the Center. We’ve also issued four internal grants to groups of indi-viduals who are conducting criti-cal work. We’re bringing together clinical people and laboratory people to stimulate collaborative

research. And we’ve started new conferences and workshops so that we can integrate our research at Yale. We have a meeting once a month at the provost’s house where people from the chemistry department meet with the leaders at the Cancer Center to talk about our new approaches to developing drugs. We’ve done a lot to stimu-late collaboration, which has been great for the Center.

Q: What critical developments in cancer research have occurred

in the past year?

A: I would say that in the last year we’ve seen developments

in the early detection of cancer. It’s become easier to screen some-one who has smoked to detect lung cancer before the tumor develops.

Q: What is the Smilow Cen-ter doing to respond to those

developments in early detection?

A: The Smilow Center devel-oped a screening clinic for

people who have smoked in the past. We do CAT scans to find early signs of cancer and treat it appropriately. We have a very vig-orous program on smoking cessa-tion. And we’ve also instituted a tumor-profiling program at Yale where, for a whole host of di!erent cancers, we can profile the tumor,

look at markers and understand what causes it to grow. We’re mak-ing progress here on all of those fronts. It’s a very exciting time to be working at the Center.

Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at [email protected] .

Dr. Roy Herbst, Chief Medical Oncologist, talks cancer research

BY DAN WEINERSTAFF REPORTER

Yale researchers estimate approximately $2 billion of food stamps are spent every year on sugary drinks that provide no nutritional content and contrib-ute to obesity.

After analyzing supermar-ket purchasing data, research-ers found not only that indi-viduals using food stamps were more likely to buy sugary drinks, but also that food stamps paid for nearly three quarters of the sugar-sweetened beverages pur-chased in households on the nutrition assistance program. The finding is the latest in a series fueling the debate over whether government benefits should be spent on sugary drinks, said lead researcher Tatiana Andreyeva, Director of Economic Initia-tives at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The paper appears in the October issue of

the American Journal of Preven-tative Medicine.

The study analyzed data from a large supermarket chain and concluded that about 58 per-cent of the beverages purchased in households receiving food stamps — also known as Sup-plemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — were sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda. Sugary drinks only accounted for 48 percent of bev-erages purchased in a compari-son group of low-income house-holds.

Andreyeva said the findings show the need for the United States Department of Agricul-ture (USDA), which administers food stamps, to conduct a pilot study examining the e!ects of a ban on the use of SNAP benefits for the purchase of sugar-sweet-ened beverages.

“We don’t allow using SNAP to buy alcohol or cigarettes,

because we know there are health risks associated with con-sumption,” Andreyeva said. “We know the health risks — obesity, diabetes — related to excessive consumption [of sugar-sweet-ened beverages]. There is a good reason to basically treat sugar-sweetened beverages as we do alcohol.”

Mary Story, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Community Health at the Uni-versity of Minnesota, said she believes states and cities should look carefully at the SNAP pro-gram to consider whether it could be altered to improve com-munity diets and public health. Last August, the USDA rejected a New York City proposal ban-ning the use of food stamps for the purchase of sugar-sweetened beverages, citing, among other concerns, its wish to implement incentive-based solutions as

o p p o s e d to restrictions.

Edward Cooney, Executive Director of the Congressional Hunger Center, said most anti-

hunger advocates feel that banning SNAP pur-chases of sugar-sweetened bev-erages is the wrong approach to controlling sugary drink con-sumption.

“The underlying theory in the Rudd Center approach is that you can control behavior of the low-income population by creating a prohibition, and I don’t think that will work,” he said. “You are also not treating people as peo-ple. We think you are going to stigmatize low-income people in the store.”

Cooney said that 70 percent of households receiving SNAP ben-efits have access to other income that could be used to buy sugary drinks even if purchase with food stamps were banned. As opposed to a ban, he said that he supports a current USDA pilot that incen-tivizes purchasing fruits and veg-

etables. Michael Jacob-son, Co-founder and Executive Director of the consumer advo-cacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, said he sup-ports a hybrid program prohib-iting the use of food stamps for purchasing sugary drinks while subsidizing the purchase of fruits and vegetables.

“If you spend two bucks on broccoli, you’d only pay a buck forty,” Jacobson said. “That would cost several billion dol-lars a year, but that’s something that SNAP beneficiaries actually favor.”

The study did not formally examine why SNAP households were more likely to purchase sug-ary drinks, but Andreyeva said that she knows that neither price nor access were factors, as diet and regular drinks cost about the

same amount and SNAP house-holds had the same beverages available to them as the low-income baseline did. She said she speculates that food advertis-ing — which often targets young children — may play a role, as the only SNAP households consid-ered in the study were those that had recently received govern-

ment benefits for young children. In March 2012, approximately

46.4 million Americans received SNAP benefits at an annualized cost of more than $86 billion for fiscal year 2012.

Contact DAN WEINER at [email protected] .

BY SARAH YAZJICONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A grant recently awarded to a Yale anthropology professor will fund research intended to expand previous human rights work in Africa.

In late Aug., Kamari Max-ine Clarke received a compet-itive grant of $260,000 from the National Science Foun-dation to further her previous studies in human rights and international law. Her project, which is titled “The Interna-tional Criminal Court, Africa, and the Pursuit of Justice,” will investigate ethnographic studies and effective struc-tures of international rule of law, she said.

Her project will focus on countries — such as Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and Ethio-pia — where the International Criminal Court is seeking warrants of arrest for lead-ers such as Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir.

“Many of the African lead-ers who once supported the Court are no longer support-ing the Court, at least in terms of the public positions they are taking,” she added.

Clarke said she believes her work will advance scien-tific understandings of inter-national law and justice, especially in anthropology and interdisciplinary stud-ies of law. She added that she hopes to answer the question of what justice really is, and how politicians and victims in these countries view the notion of human rights.

Even with the grant, the project will face di"culties:

Clarke plans to conduct 300 interviews with victims and warlords, some of whom will be di"cult to contact.

“The most controversial figures will be di"cult,” she said. “I will pursue it and see what kind of access I will get.”

Despite the opportunities this grant opens for her work, Clarke said she has been frus-trated by the diminishing support Yale has provided for the University’s studies in Africa.

Clarke, who recently served as chair of Yale’s Council on African Studies, said she decided not to renew her term because she did not believe the University was doing enough to support studies in Africa. Yale’s African Studies program su!ers from limited class options and a dwindling number of faculty members, said professor Ann Biersteker, the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the African stud-ies major.

“It’s getting to be almost a crisis situation,” Biersteker said. “So many people have left that haven’t been replaced — we end up with just hardly anyone.”

With support of the Yale MacMillan Center for Inter-national and Area Studies, the African studies program at Yale recently underwent internal review, Clarke said, adding that the faculty and CAS are currently waiting to see if the University will com-mit to expanding the major. Despite the University’s strong language program, its unique o!ering of joint mas-ter’s and bachelor’s degrees in

African Studies and the large amount of student interest, Biersteker said she does not see any solid plans in place to replace faculty members who have left.

Both Yale and other uni-versity professors stressed the importance of supporting research focused on Africa.

“How incomplete would international law and ethics be if people do not understand the places in which laws are going to be implemented?” said Johns Hopkins political science professor Siba Gro-vogui. “There is a poverty of knowledge if you do not study

this area.”Benson Olugbuo, a visiting

research assistant for Yale’s CAS, said research in Africa is especially important in the fields of international law and human rights. Such research, he added, can be used to understand the potential of using law as an instrument of change in developing econo-mies.

Yale first introduced Afri-can language classes into its curriculum in the 18th cen-tury.

Contact SARAH YAZJI at [email protected] .

NSF funds anthropology

BY JENNA KAINICCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A study recently pub-lished in the journal Pro-ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sug-gests that urbanization will proceed rapidly within the next twenty years, which may threaten natural life.

The study, co-written by Karen Seto of the Yale School of Forestry & Envi-ronmental Studies, pre-dicts that urban land cover by 2030 will be triple that of 2000 levels, and that most of this urban expansion will occur in developing nations. Researchers used projec-tions of population and eco-nomic growth to come to their conclusions, which call attention to the need for environmentally con-scious urban planning. One important impact of the pro-jected urban land growth is a decrease in biodiversity due to loss of habitat, the study shows.

Brown University sociol-ogy professor Michael White said researchers in the field

are aware that urbanization is an ongoing process, so the results of Seto’s study are not surprising. White added, though, that this particular study is notable because it draws a link between antic-ipated urban expansion and its impact on natural habi-tats and biodiversity.

Texas A&M University professor Burak Güneralp, a co-author of this study, said urbanization leads to a loss in vegetation, adding that it disrupts areas like tropi-cal forests that store carbon. Without these carbon pools, the potential of the area to store carbon is diminished, he said. As a result, this carbon is released into the atmosphere instead — which could have a lasting impact on climate change — Güner-alp said.

To determine projec-tions on growth and distri-bution of urban land cover, researchers used forecasts of population and gross domestic product from the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, respec-

tively, Güneralp said. The study predicts that most of this anticipated urbaniza-tion will occur in developing nations. Africa is expected to see the highest rate of increase in urbanized land. The paper’s authors said they foresee urban growth in China and India contrib-uting to 55 percent of Asia’s urban development.

Güneralp said develop-ing nations may face greater challenges dealing with impacts of urbanization because they have access to fewer financial and insti-tutional resources. He said support for the develop-ing worlds could help curb the potentially detrimental impacts of urban develop-ment.

“Biodiversity itself may be most concentrated in devel-oping countries, but we don’t really know what the economic value of the biodi-versity is,” Güneralp said.

Despite its potential envi-ronmental effects, White said urbanization is not altogether bad or good. This study predicts how much

urban areas will grow in the next couple of decades, but Seto said the way in which these regions develop will ultimately determine urban-ization’s impact on the envi-ronment.

“I would caution you to think about what kinds of urbanization we want to look for,” White said. “There are di!erent kinds of cities and different ways of living in urban areas.”

Seto said that over time, policy makers will focus on determining what they can do to shape how cities will develop, and how dif-ferent forms of urbaniza-tion impact human experi-ence and well-being. One way this might be done is to plan for the e!ect of loss of carbon pools, and to design means of storing carbon in urban environments, Güner-alp said.

Lucy Hutyra of Boston University’s Department of Geography and Environment also co-authored the study.

Contact JENNA KAINIC at [email protected] .

Rapid city growth expected

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Urban growth in China and India is expected to contribute to 55 percent of Asia’s urban development, according to a recent study.

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TATIANA ANDREYEVADirector of Economic Initiatives at the

Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

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on sugary drinks.

58 Percent of beverages purchased by households receiving food stamps were sugary beverages.

46.4 Million Americans received food stamps last year.

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Clarke plans to conduct 300 interviews with victims and warlords.

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NATION

BY JIM KUHNENNASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Eventu-ally, the economic recovery will pick up steam — whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney is in the White House.

That’s what many economic outlooks project. And the presi-dent — and the party occupying the Oval O!ce — will reap some of the benefits.

But first, Obama or Rom-ney, together with Congress, will have to pull back from the widely deplored “fiscal cli",” the politi-cally created budget abyss facing the nation at year’s end.

The betting on that ranges from mild optimism to nail-bit-ing anxiety. But most economic analysts agree that if Washing-ton resolves that looming crisis, Americans can expect faster eco-nomic growth and lower unem-ployment.

“Regardless of who is presi-dent, if the next president is able to nail down these fiscal issues, then I do think we’re o" and run-ning,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.

That would be welcome news for a nation that has been strug-gling through a slow come-back from the deepest reces-sion and fiscal crisis since the Great Depression — and needs to shore itself up quickly in the event Europe slips back into recession.

Six countries in the eurozone — Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Malta and Portugal — already are in recession. And the continent’s struggles were underscored Mon-day by a report that unemploy-ment remained at its record high rate of 11.4 percent in the 17 coun-tries that use the euro.

Politically in the U.S., a strong rebound would be great news for a Romney presidency or an Obama legacy. And it would do much to enhance or repair the brand of either of the political par-ties, whichever holds the White House, before the 2014 congres-sional elections and the 2016 White House race.

Jared Bernstein, former chief economist for Vice President Joe Biden, said presidents actually have the greatest impact on econ-omies when markets fail.

But, he added: “We will never live in a world where presidents don’t take credit for an improved economy on their watch.”

Both Obama and Romney have placed great stock in their economic recovery plans dur-ing this year’s campaign, Obama with his “balanced approach” of tax increases for the wealthy and spending reductions, Romney with his spending cuts and lower tax rates.

But many economists say the fate of the recovery rests not so much with those specific plans as it does with a bargain — either at year’s end or during the first sev-

eral months of 2013 — by the new or the re-elected president and Congress that avoids steep and immediate spending cuts and an immediate across-the-board tax increase.

Congress and Obama agreed that those drastic deficit-cut-ting measures would take e"ect in January unless lawmakers and the president worked out and approved other proposals in the meantime. That intense debate will resume in earnest almost immediately after the Nov. 6 elec-tion.

“If the cli" is resolved in a rela-tively benign fashion where there is modest fiscal austerity and seri-ous compromise between the two parties, then the economy can go back to its recovery,” said Ethan Harris, co-head of global eco-nomic research at Bank of Amer-ica Merrill Lynch. “If they really do a poor job of handling the fis-cal cli", they may actually kill this potential rebound.”

How will that question be resolved?

Republicans have been ada-mant that no solution should include a tax increase, even on higher income taxpayers. Romney has embraced that stance. But in a recent panel discussion, Romney economic adviser Kevin Hassett pointed out that the countries that have been most successful at reining in their deficits have been the ones that accomplished it with a mix of 85 percent cuts and 15 percent tax increases.

Obama has criticized Rom-ney for proposing a 20 percent cut in marginal tax rates, argu-ing it would either lead to higher federal deficits or to higher taxes for the middle class. But Has-sett indicated that if Romney and Congress were unable to find enough savings by eliminating tax loopholes and breaks to cover the lost revenue, the tax cut would be adjusted so it wouldn’t be so steep.

Obama officials say they are optimistic that they can reach a sweet spot of compromise that restrains deficits over time but is not so austere that it damages the recovery. Obama and his aides insist they will not simply buy time or agree to a short extension of all Bush-era tax cuts. Obama has said the election will help resolve the issue.

BY MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court plunged into its new term Monday with a high-stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for foreign atroci-ties. The next nine months hold the prospect for major rulings on affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.

The term that concluded in June set a high bar for drama and sig-nificance, and the new one holds considerable potential as well. Cases involving some of the most emotional issues in American life are likely to be decided after voters choose a president and new Con-gress next month.

Meeting on the first Monday in October, as required by law, the justices entered the crowded mar-ble courtroom for the first time since their momentous decision in late June that upheld President Barack Obama’s healthcare over-haul.

The decisive vote in favor of Obamacare, Chief Justice John Roberts was smiling as he led the justices into the courtroom just after 10 a.m. The conserva-tive chief justice will be watched

closely in the coming months for any new indications of a willing-ness to side with the court’s lib-erals, as he did in the health care case.

The lineup of justices was the same as in June, but the bench had a slightly di"erent look nonethe-less. Justice Antonin Scalia was without the glasses he no longer needs following cataract surgery over the summer.

The exterior of the building also looked di"erent. The familiar col-umns are sheathed in sca"olding, which itself is covered in fabric made to look like the iconic front of the court.

Roberts formally opened the term, and the court turned quickly to its first argument, which could have far-reaching implications.

The dispute involves a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Petroleum, or Shell Oil, over claims that the company was complicit in murder and other abuses committed by the Nigerian government against its citizens in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Human rights groups are warily watching the case because it would be a major setback if the court were to rule that foreign victims could not use American courts, under a 1789 law, to seek accountability and money damages for what they

have been through.The justices appeared ready

to impose some limits, but it was unclear how far the court would go to shield businesses and per-haps individuals as well, from human rights lawsuits under the

223-year-old Alien Tort Statute.Justice Samuel Alito said the

Nigerian case has no connection to this country because the busi-nesses, the victims and the loca-tion of the abuse all are foreign. “Why does this case belong in the

courts of the United States?” Alito asked.

Among other concerns raised by the justices was the prospect that U.S. firms could “be sued in any country in any court in the world,” in Justice Anthony Kenne-

dy’s words.The Obama administration is

partly on the oil company’s side in this case. “There just isn’t any meaningful connection to the United States,” Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. said.

EVAN VUCCI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

In the its new term, which began on Monday, the Supreme Court is set to tackle major rulings about a!rmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.

If they really do a poor job of handling the fiscal cli!, they may actually kill this potential rebound.

ETHAN HARRISCo-head of global economic research,

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Supreme court begins high-profile term

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Presidential victor to benefit from recovery

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AROUND THE IVIES “You are remembered for the rules you break.” DOUGLAS MACARTHUR FIVE-STAR GENERAL OF THE

UNITED STATES ARMY AND MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT

C O L U M B I A D A I L Y S P E C T A T O R

Barnard provost settles in

BY JESSICA STALLONESENIOR STAFF WRITER

Linda Bell, a University of Pennsyl-vania- and Harvard-educated econ-omist who previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will begin her tenure as provost of Barnard College on Monday.

Bell, who has spent the last five years as provost of Haverford College, a liberal arts college outside of Phila-delphia, is succeeding interim provost Paul Hertz, who took over when Eliz-abeth Boylan stepped down in June 2011.

“This is an exciting move for me,” Bell said in a statement to the Colum-bia Daily Spectator. “I’ve always admired Barnard as a place where both scholarship and teaching are truly val-ued, and where great opportunities exist for collaboration between faculty and students.”

Before she came to Haverford, Bell was a senior economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve

Bank of New York and held visiting appoint-ments at Princ-eton, Harvard, and Stanford. In addition to her position as pro-vost, Bell will

also join the economics department as a professor.

Barnard President Debora Spar said Bell’s educational and professional background made her a good match for Barnard. “From her years at Haver-ford, Provost Bell brings an apprecia-tion for a rigorous liberal arts environ-ment where students are challenged to realize their potential,” Spar said in the statement. “As an economist, she has concrete experience with assessing data and making informed decisions, which are extremely valuable skills in this role.”

Spar noted that Bell’s scholarly work “has examined some of the issues we are most interested in at Barnard —

for example, the best practices of orga-nizations where women succeed and thrive in their careers.”

As provost, Bell is Barnard’s chief academic o!cer, overseeing the library and academic departments, programs, and centers. She is also responsible for budgeting and tenure review.

In an email to students announc-ing Bell’s appointment as provost last spring, Spar said that Bell would pay particular attention to Barnard’s relationship with Columbia and its expanding global presence.

While Bell has not announced any specific goals for her tenure as provost, she said she was “thrilled to be here” and will be focused on getting to know the Barnard community.

“My hope is that I am able to build on strengths of the college by support-ing faculty research and by helping to nurture an environment where young women can immerse themselves in the disciplines that interest them, and leave here prepared to be leaders in their chosen careers,” she said.

T H E C O R N E L L D A I L Y S U N

Cornell police launch jaywalking campaign

BY MANU RATHORE AND DANIELLE SOCHAC-ZEVSKI

STAFF WRITERS

Provoking skepticism, frustration and even “jaydancing” among stu-dents, the Cornell University Police Department issued 94 tickets during its annual roadway safety campaign last week — down from 143 tickets last year.

Fifty-four of the tickets were given out to those who were “crossing on a steady red pedestrian signal,” accord-ing to David Honan, deputy chief of CUPD.

Nine “jaywalkers” — pedestrians who disobeyed tra!c lights — were given tickets; twenty-one people on bikes were given tickets for infractions ranging from having two headphones plugged in to disobeying red lights and stop signs. Also, one skateboarder was given a ticket for a crossing violation, according to CUPD.

Honan said that CUPD significantly increased its educational efforts — which included handing out more fly-ers and warnings to pedestrians — in

its campaign this year.

H o w e v e r , most students expressed skep-ticism about the efficacy of the campaign.

“ T h e l a s t -ing impression many students have is that those who were caught jaywalk-ing on those random days were simply unlucky — not that they were engag-ing in dangerous or reckless behavior,” Christine Yu said.

CUPD o!cers were also not “fair” in their ticketing, Claire Roberson said.

Ratnika Prasad said in light of a recent string of sexual assaults on campus, CUPD placed its priorities in the wrong place by focusing on the jaywalking campaign.

“If CUPD took all those o!cers that they are employing in broad daylight to give jaywalking tickets and employed them at nighttime to make Cornell safer, we would have less assaults and more tickets,” Prasad said.

MANU RATHORE/THE CORNELL DAILY SUN

Cornell University Police have seen an upswing in student jaywalking.

COLUMBIACORNELL

COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR

Linda Bell, Barnard’s new provost, will oversee Barnard’s library and academic departments, programs and centers.

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WORLD “Regina George is an evil dictator. Now, how do you overthrow a dictator? You cut o! her resources.” JANIS IAN “MEAN GIRLS”

Syria speaks out at UNBY EDITH LEDERER AND DIAA HADID

ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNITED NATIONS — Syria’s foreign minister brought his regime’s case before the world Monday, accusing the U.S. and its allies of promoting “terrorism” and blaming everyone from neighbors and extremists to the media for escalating the war — except the Syrian government.

Addressing ministers and diplomats from the United Nation’s 193 mem-ber states as fighting spread in the his-toric Old City of Aleppo, Foreign Minis-ter Walid al-Moallem lashed out at calls in Washington and in Arab and European capitals for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down as interference in Syria’s domestic a!airs.

Al-Moallem accused extremists of pro-longing the crisis and denounced coun-tries such as the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for supporting the opposi-tion’s “terrorism.”

“This terrorism which is externally supported is accompanied by unprece-dented media provocation based on ignit-ing religious extremism sponsored by well-known states in the region,” he told the U.N. General Assembly.

Members of the opposition said it was common knowledge that these neigh-boring Arab countries were support-ing and financing the rebels, but said the Assad government had brought it upon itself after cracking down on protests that began peacefully 18 months ago.

“It is the regime’s mindless, brutal and criminal, military crackdown that pushed the Syrian people to ask for help from the international community, from NATO and from the devil himself if necessary to protect them,” Haitham Manna, a Paris-based veteran Syrian dissident who heads the external branch of the National Coor-dination Body opposition group, told The Associated Press.

Al-Moallem’s speech followed his

meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in which the U.N. chief “raised in the strongest terms the continued kill-ings, massive destruction, human rights abuses, and aerial and artillery attacks committed by the government,” accord-ing to a statement by his press o"ce. “He stressed that it was the Syrian people who were being killed every day, and appealed to the Government of Syria to show com-passion to its own people.”

North Korea criticizes U.S.

BY EDITH M. LEDERER ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNITED NATIONS — A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, saying its “hostile” policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war.

Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon told the U.N. General Assem-bly that the Koreas have become “the world’s most dangerous hotspot” and blamed the “hos-tile” policy of the United States toward North Korea.

Pak said “the vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of tension is an ongoing phenom-enon on the Korean peninsula, which has become the world’s most dangerous hotspot where a spark of fire could set o! a ther-monuclear war.”

Pak also accused the United States of seeking to use force to occupy the entire Korean penin-sula — divided between the com-munist North and democratic South — and “use it as a stepping stone for realizing its strategy of dominating the whole of Asia.”

He said the United States has finalized scenarios for a new Korean War and “is waiting for a chance to implement them.”

In an apparent reference to North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and massive military, Pak said the nation’s “patience and self-defensive war deterrent,” have prevented U.S. military provoca-tions “from turning into an all-out war on the Korean peninsula.”

“However, the DPRK’s patience does not mean it is unlimited,” he warned, using the initials of the country’s official

name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

While the government aims to build “a prosperous and power-ful state,” Pak said, the North was right to build a strong military and “war deterrent” as a “mighty weapon” to respond immediately to provocations “and confront the war of aggression with a just war of reunifying the country.”

Pak warned that “not a single problem including the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula can be resolved without the elimina-tion of the hostile policy of the United States, which regards the DPRK as a target of hostility and tries to stifle it at any cost.”

He lamented that the atmo-sphere of reconciliation spawned by the historic North-South summit meeting at the dawn of the new century has deteriorated to the current “worst state” of inter-Korean relations.

Nonetheless, Pak said, North Korea “will join hands with any-one who truly wants the reunifi-cation of the country and recon-ciliation” without interference from outside forces.

The Korean peninsula … has become the world’s most dangerous hotspot where a spark of fire could set o! a thermonuclear war.

PAK KIL YONVice foreign minister, North Korea

JASON DECROW/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem meets with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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“Yup, a giant truck full of fish crashed into a building named after Je!rey Loria.” JACK DICKEY, DEADSPIN.COM WRITER

threw for two more.The Blue and White have had a tendency

to start slowly this season. The team has given up 70 points combined in the first half of its last two games, compared to 22 in the second half. Yale head coach Tony Reno said there were two sides to this statistic.

“We’re making a lot of halftime adjust-ments,” Reno said. “The flip side is … you’ve got to do it in the first half too.”

On Saturday, again, the Elis came out of the break swinging.

Yale forced the first Colgate punt of the day on the Raiders’ opening drive of the sec-ond half. Colgate’s punt was shanked out of bounds, giving Yale a short field with only 27 yards to go to the Raider goal line.

Williams converted with a touchdown pass to running back Tyler Varga ’16 to bring the score to 35–24. Yale got the ball back on the ensuing play when defensive back Kurt Stottlemyer ’14 recovered the Bulldogs’ kicko! at the Raider 8-yard line.

Four plays later Panico’s 26-yard field goal attemptwent wide right and Yale came away with no points despite the short field. Stymied by penalties, Yale would not score again in the game.

“We had three [penalties],” Reno said. “Three that killed drives. You can’t do that and win football games.”

Running back Mordecai Cargill ’13 did not play on Saturday after su!ering a right shoulder injury in last week’s loss at Cor-nell. Varga, who was the featured running back in Cargill’s stead, ran for 125 yards and impressed even the Raider defense.

“When [Varga] gets going north and south, he’s a big strong guy,” senior defensive lineman Chris Horner said. “It took more than one of us to bring him down.”Williams added another 114 yards on the ground for the Bulldogs and completed 21 of 40 passes for 171 yards.

On the Raiders’ end, McCarney rushed for a total of 85 yards and four scores and threw 275 yards and two touchdowns. In addition, Raider running back Jordan McCord rushed for 138 yards and a touchdown of his own.

Yale begins Ivy home play next weekend against Dartmouth. Kicko! is Saturday at noon.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at [email protected] .

Wessels ’13 led the group with nine.

On the defensive side of the ball, Yale was impressive as well. Only one Columbia player struck more than five kills and the Lions hit .154 as a group. One of the Lions’ top threats, freshman Atlanta Moye-McLaren, was shut down by the Yale defense and struggled with just two kills and a hitting percent-age of zero.

“I thought our transition was very good,” Appleman said. “Our serving was aggressive for the most part and we did a better job in a couple areas we had been work-ing on.”

Although Yale dictated the pace of the match for most of the night, it took a second-set comeback for the Bulldogs to pull o! the sweep. After trailing 18–15, Yale went on a 6–3 run to tie the score at 21. Mol-lie Rogers ’15 and Jesse Ebner ’16 then hit two kills apiece to give Yale a 25–22 victory. That set added to Yale’s strong play in closely con-tested sets early in the Ivy sched-ule. The Bulldogs have won five of the six sets they have played in this season where the margin of victory has been five points or fewer.

“It says a lot about our team when you hit that 20-point mark and someone is on your heels and you are able to finish them off,” outside hitter Erica Reetz ’14 said. “It takes a lot of confidence for a team to do that and I think our team has done that over the past two weekends.”

This weekend’s domination began Friday night against the Big

Red (4–9, 1–2 Ivy), who offered little opposition and held just three leads all night. Those leads all came in the first five points of the third set, which Yale would go on to win 25–14. Kendall Polan ’14, who finished the match with her third straight triple-double, logged three kills and six assists in the deciding set to pace the Bull-dogs’ attack. She finished the match with 14 kills, 21 assists, 17 digs and a .480 hitting percentage.

Following three Ivy matches, the Bulldogs are already near the top of several statistical categories in the Ivy League. On the o!ensive side, they are first in hitting per-centage, kills per set and assists per set. Defensively, Yale is second in digs and opponent hitting per-centage, trailing Penn in both cat-egories.

The Elis resume action on the road this Friday against the Dart-mouth Big Green at 7 p.m.

Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at [email protected] .

said.Both teams exhibited the same intense

play that characterized regulation during the two 10-minute overtime periods, but the game ended without either tallying a goal.

Thalman said that while the team wanted to secure a win against Harvard, the Bull-dogs were the only team in the Ivy League to go unbeaten on the road this past weekend.

Overall, the Crimson took 14 more corner kicks than the Bulldogs and outshot their opponenets 23-11. Tompkins, however, cautioned against reading too much into the statistics.

“It’s not necessarily the amount of shots you take, it’s what you do with them that’s important,” he said.

Thalman noted, however, that the team had room for improvement. He suggested that the Elis could jumpstart their o!ense in the future by settling down and moving down the field.

After getting its first Ivy League game under its belt, the team now looks forward to the rest of the Ivy League season.

“I think we’ll definitely make a couple of adjustments, but I think our main way of playing, our main style of playing won’t change,” Alers said. “I think we have the players and we have the style of play that we need to win the Ivy League this year.”

The Bulldogs will continue to seek their first Ivy League win this season this Satur-day at Dartmouth.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at [email protected] .

BY ASHTON WACKYMCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Eight seniors on the women’s soccer team walked o! Ohiri field last weekend for the last time, never defeating Harvard.

On Saturday, Sept. 29, the Bull-dogs (5–5, 0–2 Ivy) lost their fifth game of the season 1-0 to Harvard (4–3, 1–1 Ivy) just over four min-utes into overtime. Harvard mid-fielder Meg Casscells-Hamby barely outran a Yale defender and popped a trickling cross from Laruen Urke into the upper 90 to send the Elis back to New Haven without a con-ference win. From the opening kick-o!, the Crimson brought their ath-leticism and one-on-one prowess to the table.

“They put us under a lot of pres-sure from the beginning of the game,” head coach Rudy Meredith said. “Our defense kind of bent but

didn’t break.”Similar to the Princeton game

last Saturday, Harvard’s throw-ins posed a threat to the relentless Elis defense, especially in the second half. Every time the Bulldogs fought the Crimson to the outside, the ball would end up out of bounds due to a swift clear, resulting in either a cor-ner kick or throw-in.

Despite incessantly pressing the Crimson o!ense to the outside, the Bulldogs did not give up a single goal during regulation. While Harvard fired a flurry of 25 shots on goal, the majority of the shots were from long distance and were easy clears and saves for the Elis.

“They were left with taking these 30 to 40 yard shots, which was a great testament to how well our defense did,” forward Anne Song ’13 said.

The constant interruption limited the Bulldogs’ ability to make o!en-sive opportunities of their own, leaving them with only five shots on net by the end of the game.

“They were just a little bit more athletic than we were,” Meredith said. “We never got into a rhythm o!ensively and that was the key to the game.”

Skilled team play and qual-ity chances brought about several opportunities for the Bulldogs to put the ball away, but the o!ensive rushes always came to the Bulldogs “in spurts,” Meredith added.

Opportunity presented itself to the Bulldogs in overtime when for-ward Paula Hagopian ’16 took a shot that whizzed just above the net.

Minutes later, the Crimson went in for the kill. Quickly following her eighth save of the night, goalkeeper Rachel Ames ’16 reached for the game-ending shot, but it was tapped just above her fingers and into the upper corner.

Despite putting shots on net and dominating opponents earlier this season, the Elis have had di"culty creating similar scoring chances in Ivy League competition.

“We weren’t able to capitalize on

the limited scoring opportunities we had,” captain amd midfielder Jenny Butwin ’13 said. “There’s only so much you can do without scoring.”

To address the lack of scoring opportunities the Elis have recently experienced, the team will watch film, focusing on making the simple pass and improving quick movement o! the ball this week.

“The most important thing is that we win and lose as a team,” Butwin said.

The Bulldogs will take on the Dartmouth Big Green on Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

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The Bulldog defense weathered 24 shots before the Crimson finally broke through with a goal in the fifth minute of overtime.

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The Elis have recorded 11 shots on Saturday, although none of them were connected into goals.

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MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVINGFRESHMAN CLASS RANKED 25THThe Bulldogs’ incoming class of seven swimmers and one diver was ranked 25th in the nation by CollegeSwim-ming.com, stating that coach Tim Wise’s group “moves the program in the right direction.” The recruits were also ranked third in the Ivy League.

YALE OLYMPIANSPANEL DISCUSSION THURSDAYAll seven Yale alumni that competed in the Olympics this summer will come together Thursday at 7 p.m. for a dis-cussion at the Law School Auditorium. The group includes Taylor Ritzel ’10, gold medalist for the U.S. in women’s eight rowing.

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BY CHARLES CONDROSTAFF REPORTER

The Bulldogs’ homecoming was no party Saturday afternoon in the Yale Bowl.

Yale gave up 35 points in the first

half, and quarterback Eric Wil-liams ’16 was intercepted three times during the game as Colgate (2–3, 0–0 Patriot) drove to a 47–24 victory. According to Raider head coach Dick Biddle, Colgate’s rush-ing attack was key to its victory.

“It all goes back to that we were able to run the ball,” Biddle said.

The first quarter included a

flurry of scoring, and both teams traded touchdowns. Yale took an initial lead with a 4-yard pass from Williams to wide receiver Cameron Sandquist ’14, but Raider quar-terback Gavin McCarney ran for a touchdown of his own to tie the game at seven.

With the game tied at 14 all, Yale took a 17–14 lead with kicker

Philippe Panico’s ’13 36-yard field goal, but at this point, Colgate took control.

By the time the first half fin-ished, the Raiders had scored three more touchdowns to attain a 35–17 advantage. In the first half, McCa-rney rushed for three scores and

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKISTAFF REPORTER

The volleyball team extended its winning streak to four matches and did not drop a single set this weekend in its matches against Cornell and Columbia. The two wins kept the Bulldogs in a first-place tie with Princeton and put them over the halfway point of a five-match road trip.

Head coach Erin Appleman said that although the Elis are pleased with their start, they are still taking the Ivy schedule one match at a time.

“We’re 3–0 right now, so I’m happy with that,” Appleman said. “But I’m not looking past Dartmouth because they’re very good.”

The Bulldogs (7–5, 3–0 Ivy) steamrolled the opposition and outscored their Ancient Eight foes 150–108, with an average margin of vic-tory of seven points per set against Cornell and Columbia.

In Saturday’s match against Columbia (7–5, 2–1 Ivy), Yale played relentlessly in o!ense, and six of the team’s 12 players recorded at least seven kills. Captain and middle blocker Haley

BY ALEX EPPLERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Early in the first half of the men’s soccer game on Saturday, forward Jen-ner Fox ’14 rifled a shot from a corner kick that scooted just wide of the goal.

The Bulldogs created a number of other chances, but neither they nor Harvard could find the back of the net in a hard-fought 0–0 overtime draw that opened their Ivy schedules.

“I’ll take it,” head coach Brian Tompkins said about the tie. “You’re never happy to not win, but I think it was a credible performance by our guys.”

While Tompkins acknowledged that the game was one that the team felt that it could win, he also recognized the positives of grabbing a point on the road against a tough rival.

The game featured the especially scrappy play typical of a rivalry show-down. The referee issued five yellow cards over the course of the match, including three for the Bulldogs.

“Everyone was motivated to try to get the win,” said captain Bobby Thal-

man ’13, who plays goalkeeper for the Bulldogs. “I think that showed not only through the yellow cards … but also just through the energy that you could feel on the field.”

The Bulldogs were able to har-ness that energy more e!ectively in the opening moments of the game, accruing a number of scoring chances within the first 20 minutes. Even though the game remained scoreless at the break, Thalman emphasized that the Bulldogs outplayed the Crimson in the first half.

As the second half began, Harvard began to apply more pressure on Yale’s squad, leading to a stronger second half performance by the Crimson. The Bulldogs did not pass the ball as well as they had in the first half, according to Tompkins, and they allowed the Crim-son to step up and be more aggressive in the second halfattacking the goal. Defender Nick Alers ’14 said Thal-man made a number of superb saves to parry Harvard’s best scoring opportu-nities.

Still, the Bulldogs refused to con-cede a goal.

“We bent, but did not break,” Alers

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Tyler Varga ’16 ran for 125 yards on 21 carries on Saturday against Colgate, but the Bulldog defense surrendered 35 points in the first half of a 46–24 loss.

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Captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 recorded his fifth shutout, although the match ended scorless.

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Erica Reetz ’14 recorded eight kills and 15 digs in the Bulldogs 3–0 win over Columbia.

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Our serving was aggressive for the most part and we did a better job in a couple areas we had been working on.

ERIN APPLEMANHead Coach