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CROSS CAMPUS

TREEHOUSE REFUGE IN THE PINES COMPLETE

HAULING LUGGAGE

‘JOURNALISM’

IRELAND

Elicker, Fernandez, Harp seek support of Yale students in mayoral race

BOB WOODWARD TO TEACH SEMINAR IN THE SPRING

Women’s basketball team wins all three in a trip to the Emerald Isle

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Budget broil at final debate

PSA. Today is chicken tenders

day. You’re welcome.

Can’t be tamed. Professor

Lloyd Grieger channeled pop star Miley Cyrus in his GLBL 121 “Applied Quantitative Analysis” lecture on Wednesday when he admitted that the only way to capture Yalies’ attention is to pop out of a giant bear — a timely reference to Cyrus’ performance at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this week.

FACULTY ROLE IN DECISIONMAKING UP FOR DEBATE

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER

When we’ve let them do that in debates, they’ve gotten more to the point.”

The issues of underfunded pensions and the city’s budget came up early on in the debate.

Elicker argued that current city expectations on investment returns, with some estimates at 8.5 percent, are unrealistic. Carolina, meanwhile, blamed the city for allowing unions to “inflate their pensions” at the expense of taxpayers, while Fernandez referenced the recent lowering of New Haven’s bond ratings by multiple agencies, calling the bud-

For the first time in more than two decades, the University has appointed a committee to study professors’ role in University decisionmaking.

In a May 2013 memo to faculty, University President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak announced the formation of an ad hoc committee charged with examining faculty input at Yale and other universities. The committee, convened over a year after Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore sparked controversy among some faculty over an alleged lack of input in University governance, has met five times this summer and will report back to Salovey and Polak later this fall on possible approaches Yale could take to improve communication between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the administration.

“We’ve met with a variety of people this summer and hope to meet with many more this semester — maybe holding an open forum with faculty to get ideas,” said Steven Wilkinson, a political science professor who serves as chair of the six-person committee.

“There are a variety of ways that faculty input exists and can exist, and we’re considering all of them.”

Wilkinson said it is too early to tell whether the committee will be recommending the creation of new governance structures or the revision of existing ones.

Mechanisms used by other universities to solicit faculty input range from full-scale elected senates at schools like Stanford and Berkeley to smaller elected bodies at schools

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The hard truth. In his packed

CPSC 183 “Law, Technology & Culture” lecture on Wednesday, professor Brad Rosen gave students an idea of what his ideal classroom would look like. “I would love a room full of 110 section a--holes,” he admitted. And, in a similar truth-telling vein, professor Adam Tooze in his HIST 277 “Great Recession as History” course described the financial crisis in layman’s terms, writing, “OMG what the f--- just happened?! ” on the board. Well said.

It’s hard to be popular. And,

as happens every year, certain courses were overflowing with students. “Organic Chemistry,” “Intelligent Robotics” and “The Next China” were reportedly packed, with several determined Yalies making themselves comfortable on the staircases. Administrators are setting up a simulcast for “Organic Chemistry” students on Friday to meet demand.

The saga continues. On

Wednesday, demolition crews and state workers ripped apart the final part of the East Haven home that a charter plane crashed into Aug. 9. Four people died in the accident.

Staying hydrated. For those of you who identify as water connoisseurs, there may be a panlist for you. Yalies have started a new “Seltzerlovers” mailing list that aims to spread the love of Seltzer water.

The new panlist will send subscribers updates about Seltzer water availability in residential college dining halls, and is currently accepting Seltzer-related stories from the summer.

Trouble in Colorado. Two students have filed a Clery Act complaint against the University of Colorado, Boulder, saying the university did not properly report sexual misconduct crimes. Yale was fined $155,000 over the summer after the Department of Education concluded a seven-year investigation into the University’s Clery Act compliance.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1942 Five hundred Yalies volunteer to help local farmers pick pears at the Henry Farm in Wallingford, Conn. The effort is part of a plan to help nearby farmers during harvest season, and has been praised by the Farm Employment Bureau.

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New Haven’s four mayoral candidates sparred over budgetary issues and underfunded pensions in Wednesday’s debate.

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER The four candidates competing in the race to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr. squared off in a live, televised debate Wednesday night at the Long Wharf Theatre.

Broadcast by NBC Connecticut in conjunction with the New Haven Democracy Fund and The New Haven Independent, the event saw lively debate between Connecticut State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78, former city economic development director Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Hillhouse

High School Principal Kermit Carolina. Candidates answered questions on economic policy, education and public safety from citizens and three reporters: Paul Bass ’82 of the Independent, Mary O’Leary of the New Haven Register and Cynthia Calderon of La Voz Hispana.

Wednesday’s event was the final of over 10 debates among the four candidates, who will square off at the polls in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary.

“All the debates have been lively, and I think the candidates have spoken well and on point,” Bass said.

“I think it would have been good to let them ask each other questions:

Blue Book sees second life at B&N

BY MATTHEW NUSSBAUM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Although administrators heralded the death of the Blue Book several years ago, the publication continues to be a fixture of shopping period.

The Yale College Programs of Study, more commonly known among students as the Blue Book, is available to Yale students again this year, despite the administration’s announcement in September 2011 that the publication would be permanently discontinued after that academic year. Since then, Yale continued to print the book, mailing it to all freshmen and interested upperclassmen, until the University stopped all mailings this year and chose to offer the books to students on campus instead. Although the Registrar’s Office launched a new online version of the Blue Book in July, University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski said his office does not have any plans to discontinue the print version.

“I will continue to print it because I know there is a need,” Olszewski said.

Freshmen received a copy of the Blue Book during orientation, and upperclassmen could pick up a free copy at the Yale Bookstore, where a clerk said that demand became so high that employees stopped swiping IDs and giving receipts, and asked simply to see a Yale ID before sending Blue Bookwielding students on their way.

Olszewski said the new online version of the Blue Book will seek to improve upon several current systems: ybb.yale.edu, Online Course Information and Online Course Selection.

“It will truly be a Yale College Programs of Study online,” he said. “It will

show all the regulations, all the department front matter, the name of the [Director of Undergraduate Studies], names of the faculty, the requirements for the major and a list of all the courses being offered this year.”

For some professors and students, no matter how polished and efficient the online version becomes, a computer program will be no replacement for the annual 700-page paper tome.

Metro-North adds stop at West Campus

BY DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTER A new stop at the recently opened West Haven train station will help make Yale’s West Campus more accessible to visiting and faculty researchers this year.

After more than a decade of planning and $130 million in state funding, the station officially opened to Metro-

North and Shore Line East traffic Aug. 19. West Campus researchers said the station may improve the daily commute for many of the more than 1,000 faculty, students and staff at the school, as well as facilitate greater collaboration between West Campus and Yale’s peer institutions.

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The tension is between a greener Yale and the romantic image of curling up with the Blue Book.

PETER SALOVEY President, Yale University Rushing to a Blue Booking session with freshmen on Tuesday night, Emily Van Alst ’16, a peer liaison with the Native American Cultural Center, stopped at the bookstore to pick up her hard copy. Even though she uses an online version to find classes, Van Alst said she felt the physical copy was much easier to use when perusing courses in a group.

Blue Booking sessions are a Yale tradition, and for many this tradition loses its touch when hard copies are absent.

Other students also cited a nostalgic value that comes with the physical book. Richard Lee ’14 and Emery Schoenly ’14, both devotees of online SEE BLUE BOOK PAGE 6

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The newly opened West Haven train station will help facilitate collaboration between scientists at Yale’s West Campus and visiting researchers.

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GUEST COLUMNIST SHELBY BAIRD

Celebrate what matters F

ew things in life are certain, but we can still all prepare ourselves for the inevitable question buzzing around Camp Yale: “How was your summer?” The quick, prepared responses rarely change — you’re a Yalie, after all, and you did something amazing. But every once in a while, a summer transcends the meticulously crafted line of a resume.

So before you ask me the obligatory question and expect a simple answer, I’d like to share my story.

My summer probably started out a lot like yours. I was completely stressed out, worrying about everything possible. I wanted to rock my internship while also taking every opportunity to prepare for life beyond Yale — networking in DC, studying for the LSAT and so on. Basically, I unknowingly sunk into misery trying to be the most perfect version of myself.

Then one day at work I received a call that immediately made all of that irrelevant.

At the bottom of my priority list I had squeezed in appointments to check out a lump on my neck. My mind fixated on my growing to-do list, but I reluctantly made time in my hectic schedule to placate my concerned parents, But a few days later, my doctor interrupted my so-called busy day to inform me that I had thyroid cancer.

I hadn’t planned for that.

Within one moment, one sentence, my “priorities” dissolved. I didn’t care if I had time that night to pour over LSAT books or if I could keep up with DC fashion standards. I didn’t ruminate on how much money I had accumulated in my bank account or if I had made enough contacts on the Hill. I had zero concern for what size dress I wore or what other people would think when they saw me leaving the building in tears.

Instead, my mind instantly refocused on what really mattered. I thought of my family; within minutes, my dad was in his truck and on the way to bring me to the safety of home.

I thought of my brother, who would downplay the pain of his own illness to look after me. And my mother, who would refuse to leave my side.

I thought of my boyfriend, who would hold my hand through all of the heartache and struggle. I thought of God, who I knew had a plan and would take care of me ceaselessly. I thought of the organization I was passionate about — one that valued my contributions as an intern and prayed for my progress.

I thought of an overwhelming number of close and caring friends to contact. Within

a few hours of my diagnosis, I made dozens of calls and emails.

I thought about the awesome support I felt from the entire Yale community — I received many messages from people I had never met offering encouragement.

If you got the call, who would you think of? Where would your mind go?

As we all rush back to campus, I challenge you to answer this question — make it a staple of your to-do list, topping your macroeconomics problem set and plans of world domination. And if you’re concerned at this point, whether about me or your own priorities, don’t worry. First, I’ve been systematically kicking thyroid cancer’s butt, and expect to be cancer free within the coming weeks.

Second, of all that I’ve learned throughout this process, the most important thing is that it’s never too late to readjust your perspective. Believe me, life is too fragile not to.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU GOT THE CALL? So what will senior year look like for me? For starters, I’m not going to waste time worrying about things that I don’t have much control over. I can’t change my type A personality, but I know that my personal strength will take me a lot further than any plans I try to make. I’m going to work hard to achieve my goals, but also live life for the experiences instead of focusing solely on success.

Although it may sound taboo as a senior searching for a job, I’m not going to spend my time “networking” for the sake of contacts, but rather making and maintaining sincere relationships. I’m also going to make time to hold my family and friends close. In many moments this summer, they were all I had and all I could ever really want.

I’m going to rely on my amazing support system and know that whatever the challenge, I will be okay.

In these next few weeks, as we return to campus and each other, I hope you’ll join me in making these changes, taking the time to sort out and celebrate what really matters. After all, very few things in life are certain.

So how was my summer?

Life-changing and beautiful.

SHELBY BAIRD is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at shelby.baird@yale.edu .

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Addressing American Dreams T

his past Saturday, amidst a hectic first week of college, the class of 2017 paused together in Woolsey Hall. No Ikea shelves were built; no awkward team-building exercises with Frocos were had; no onetoo-many-beers first impressions were being made (probably). Instead, a new generation of Yalies listened to Peter Salovey introduce them to Yale with a talk about the American Dream.

In a little less than 3,000 words, the first year president spoke in notes of promise and resolve, optimism and engagement. For a class new to Yale as well as upperclassmen new to the president, the address embodied an academic character all too often absent.

Salovey spoke of the American Dream as an ideal, both relevant and noble, that can transcend borders as well as materialize in our immediate experiences. For the president, that tangible understanding came to him through his father, a man he described as “poor in means but rich in culture and spirit.” Mr. Salovey (the elder) represented someone of integrity, responsibility and ethic, fluidly interweaving individual virtue with communal obligation.

He was, in short, a great American. Because of such men, our country is one of the “very few places in the world where, in two generations, a family can rise

from modest means” to the podium where his remarks were given.

But most days, this school looks far different HARRY than WoolGRAVER sey Hall did this SaturGravely day, exhibiting dark corners Mistaken of cynicism.

In many of our ivory towers, the United States or Western civilization are topics replete with this indisposition.

There is a clear intellectual movement that stalks some of mankind’s most beautiful works and accomplishments, readily willing to pounce, ready to repaint everything in the crude, all-consuming lines of class and cultural narrative.

When President Salovey spoke of his father’s experience, he did not participate in this academic pessimism; he didn’t deconstruct his example through the filter of capitalist fictions or qualify his remarks with repeated apologies for cultural imperialism. Nor did he slap his knee and read Horatio Alger fan fiction. He spoke with thoughtful moderation, appreciating the material circumstances that influence our society, with admiration for its defining ideals.

In this spirit, he invited the class of 2017 to four years of “uncomfortable and challenging conversations” through which to grow. And they could do so while standing with the thinkers, not the bomb-throwers.

But while President Salovey touched on some of Yale’s current debates, both practical and philosophical, one has to wonder how “uncomfortable and challenging” the University is prepared to be.

IT'S TIME FOR UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS While he endorsed a discussion of the growing problem of tuition payments, one wonders if Yale is prepared to protect its financial aid program against President Obama’s new plan to tie federal grants to student-loan forgiveness. On the topic of the least fortunate reaching these halls, Yale administrators have long been silent on finally promoting school-choice reforms that could break down those buildings of conscripted mediocrity a few blocks down the street.

The address spoke to Yale’s difficulty of access for those whose American Dream exists out-

side major cities: but the divide runs deeper than resources and publicity. It is one of attitude and acceptance. “I encourage you to be sensitive and open to one another. You will meet students here from all walks of life,” urged Salovey. How often though is pause given for those who are treading water in the deep end of a culture far from the one shaped at home by faith and family? How often is sensitivity a reciprocal courtesy for those committed to the sanctity of life? In freshman orientations teeming with condom demonstrations and sex tips, are we up for these honest discussions or is it just easier to relegate peers of a different belief set to an earlier era?

These are the discussions that President Salovey opened the door for: hard, pressing, uneasy conversations that constitute the requisites for a character shaped by a true education. Along with compassion and sensitivity, these real dialogues involve a bit of courage, conviction and grit — something perhaps missing a bit from a campus not short on a confident majority.

This reflective, thoughtful spirit begins with our leaders. It seems we are off to a good start.

HARRY GRAVER is a senior in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu.

G U E ST C O LU M N I ST JAC KS O N M C H E N RY

Notes on Notes from Woodbridge Hall M

idway through the summer, our college underwent a revolution. It was a bloodless one, thankfully.

No one died on a barricade, or broke into a fistfight in the legislature. But now, somehow, we find ourselves with a new leader in Woodbridge Hall. More importantly, we have a new set of emails to read.

I haven’t seen Salovey since he came into power, and I don’t know how he carries himself in person, or whether he’s a joker or a recluse. I do know that he plays the double bass, but I’ve never heard a performance. Still, even without face-to-face interaction, I think we can learn something from the way he writes his emails, especially the “Notes from Woodbridge Hall” series that, over the summer, we started to receive. Let’s attempt a literary analysis.

Salovey’s emails are long.

Compare the brief, business like style of e-mails from Richard Levin (see “Second Reminder: Halloween at the President’s House,” Oct. 31, 2012) with the languid linguistic wandering found in an email from Peter Salovey (see “Notes from Woodbridge Hall,” July 29, 2013). In the

first email, Levin writes about a fun social event without a hint of fun in his tone. In the latter, Salovey discusses the latest edition of the “Yale Review,” one of the most academic publications on campus, and turns it into a domestic parable involving the mealtime rituals of him and his wife.

Our new President’s emails exhibit a refreshing breeziness. In the July email, notice Salovey’s laissez-faire employment of a semicolon in the second paragraph: “I brought the issue of The Yale Review home; Marta swiped it from my briefcase … ” Or, consider his email on Aug. 22, in which he transitions from a discussion of the world of West Campus to a brief meditation on “the ravages of time.”

Surely our new President wants us to sit down with him, and to share in the thrill and spontaneity of storytelling itself.

And even in his brief correspondence with us students, Salovey has shown an unerring responsiveness. On Aug. 5, he abandoned the lighthearted template of “Notes from Woodbridge Hall” to speak directly about sexual assault on campus.

Our president seems to have read

those letters you wrote about the holes in on-campus reporting. Maybe he saw that Jezebel post shaming us, or the petitions you signed. Either way, he responded.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM SALOVEY'S EMAILS? Even then, some people I have talked to doubted whether Salovey was sincere in his response. And in the Aug. 5 email, he does occasionally dodge the question, mentioning that we should be angered by sexual assault “at Yale and elsewhere,” as if that tempers the situation. This kind of position isn’t that different from the administration’s actions on the same subject. Two steps forward, one step back — make of it what you will.

But let’s move on to what I consider the most thrilling part of the emails we receive from Salovey — the breadth of his references. In the course of fewer

than 10 emails, our president has quoted poetry from Rabindranath Tagore, name-checked Will Eaves and pulled out a handy little reference to the 1980s computer game “Carmen Sandiego.”

(I assume he’s holding on the “Oregon Trail” quotes until we have a dysentery outbreak).

I’m not going to deny that these kinds of references are probably attempts to get into our good graces. They’re sly winks and smiles to make us see that, even though he’s the president, he’s not taking this whole business too seriously.

And that’s dangerous. By focusing on style, we can let our guard down and ignore the facts.

I don’t know how much has changed, or will change, with the appointment of a new president.

Maybe the difference feels more tangible than it is.

But it is nice to get a little style, to find my inbox letters peppered with verve and panache. If this appealing-to-youth trend continues, let me say that I cannot wait for the presidential livetweet of the Harvard-Yale game.

JACKSON MCHENRY is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at jackson.mchenry@yale.edu.

GUEST COLUMNIST AMANDA BUCKINGHAM

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efore heading off into the great unknown that is college, some fill their last days at home basking languidly in the rays of summer sunshine. Hailing from Southern California, such a notion is particularly tempting.

But instead I chose to revel in the company of Shakespeare — shedding light on life rather than skin.

FRESHMAN VOICES After reading Hamlet, my friends and I decided to spend a last hurrah together seeing Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which shines a spotlight on the Danish prince’s boyhood friends. We packed our belongings for a day trip and set off in an RV to San Diego’s Old Globe Theater — perhaps mirroring a future trip with Yale friends to New York for a Broadway production. The parallel, however, only extends so far. I brought a blanket to stave off the night chill sure to permeate the outdoor theater — sufficient in California, but surely no match for the blustery

New Haven winter.

Seeing a play performed that one has previously only read, however, unmistakably mirrors the “prefrosh” experience. We, the class of 2017, have up to this point scoured the internet for the best restaurants in New Haven, tried our hand at Bluebooking and chatted on our very own Facebook page. Besides Bulldog Days, our interactions with Yale thus far have been, in the vein of Hamlet, “words, words, words.” We may speculate, but we have yet to experience the play come to life. The central characters — our future friends — are largely shadowed in mystery. There are stage directions — a prospective major, or an extracurricular activity one desperately desires to pursue — but we as of yet do not know how they will be executed, achieved.

There may be an unexpected ad-lib, a deviation from the script.

Artistic freedom is, after all, especially common in performances of Shakespeare plays and their offshoots. The Old Globe’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for

instance, featured camera crew trailing behind the actors, reminiscent of reality TV. Indeed, the freedom to experiment and explore is welcomed, cherished even, in the liberating environment that is Yale.

Part of what makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern so applicable to the college experience is its emphasis on questioning, on debating topics not often breached. Questions of origins, both physical and cerebral, are raised throughout the play. College is a time to embrace our origins, and to be the origin of new ideas, concepts and angles to research.

As of yet, we are akin to Hamlet’s boyhood friends, not Stoppard’s characters. Like Shakespeare’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, we exist now only as fringe characters in the story of Yale. But that is about to change.

One of the aspects I love most about Yale is that for 312 years it has been the setting of discoveries, interactions between future leaders around the globe and pur-

suits — both insatiable and joyous — of knowledge. We have now entered that realm, not as spectators, but as participants. And it is for us to aid in deciding the course of such a monumental play. What is its overall meaning?

In the spirit of the existentialism in which Stoppard’s play is steeped, there is no inherent message. Time at Yale will be different for each of us.

And as such, we steer our own ship through the whirling seas of life, pioneering our own meaning.

As we travel, the community is our blanket, a nurturing and stimulating force far mightier than the tangible ones we might pack in our RV. Like the threads that weave us all together, we desire to forge an impactful course, creating ripples with lasting benefits in the water. And even after the final curtain call, our story thus does not have to end.

AMANDA BUCKINGHAM is a freshman in Berkeley College.

Contact her at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu.

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NEWS CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28

Due to an editing error, the article “Egyptology in hot water” mistakenly stated that Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard declined to comment on the state of the Egyptology program before speaking with every faculty member in NELC. In fact, Provost Benjamin Polak declined to comment before speaking with all NELC faculty members.

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN POLYMATH AND ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES

At Yale, a room with a view

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28

The article “Yale grad to lead NHPS” stated that two current mayoral candidates, Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, attended Yale graduate and professional schools, but failed to mention that a third mayoral candidate, Toni Harp ARC ’78, also graduated from a Yale professional school.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28

The article “West Campus growth continues with new hire” mistakenly stated that Scott Strobel, the vice president for West Campus planning and program development, hopes all six of the West Campus institutes gain permanent directorships within five years, when in fact he said he hopes all six are filled with faculty within five years.

New intro writing course offered

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The English Department will now offer “Introduction to Creative Writing” starting this semester as part of an effort to make creative writing classes more accessible to students.

Comprised of three 15-student sections offered exclusively in the fall, “Introduction to Creative Writing” is currently the only creative writing course open to all undergraduates and requires no application, giving students a platform to develop their writing skills for more intensive classes later in their Yale careers. In fall 2011, internal and external reviews of the undergraduate writing programs recommended that the department establish links between the planned introductory course and upper-level creative writing courses.

It’s hard for people who haven’t had exposure [to writing seminars] to break into it.

TAO TAO HOLMES ’14 Professor John Williams, associate director of undergraduate studies in the English department, said the amount of student interest in the course exhibited a “pent-up need” for a traditional creative writing class among pre-existing non-fiction and literaturebased seminars. Exactly 109 students applied for the 45 available course slots.

“We’d been talking for a little while [about] introducing students to different genres, so students feel a strong sense of mastery before they go on to take more advanced courses,” said Richard Deming, a professor teaching “Introduction to Creative Writing” this semester.

“Introduction to Creative Writing,” which is also taught

by English professors John Crowley and Langdon Hammer, includes a sampling of fiction, poetry and drama. Students from all sections of the

course are required to attend sessions with guest lecturers such as writers Tom McCarthy, James Salter and Sarah Ruhl as well as other members of the Yale faculty. Deming said he thinks lectures by other professors will help students meet upper-level faculty and Hammer added that the class is “partly a showcase for writing at Yale.”

Most advanced creative writing seminars require students to submit writing samples to be considered for admission, and the introductory course will give students the opportunity to compile a strong portfolio of work, Deming said.

Williams said since the program is in its first semester, the department plans to evaluate in December whether it will add more sections next year to accommodate the high demand.

Elizabeth Miles ’17, who has a spot in Crowley’s section, said she preregistered for the course because it covers areas of creative writing that she had not learned in high school.

Tao Tao Holmes ’14, a staff columnist for the News, said she took the introductory English course “Reading and Writing the Modern Essay” as a freshman and has taken several writing courses since, but she still has not been able to enroll in any fiction seminars without relevant writing samples.

“It ends up being a group of people taking the same classes, since you have an automatic advantage if you got into a writing seminar and have good writing samples already,” she said. “It’s hard for people who haven’t had exposure to break into it.”

English major Katie Stewart ’14 said the new introductory creative writing course will give students an advantage when later appying to upperlevel seminars, adding that she wishes “this class had been around when [she] was a freshman.”

English majors not enrolled in the writing concentration can count two creative writing credits toward their major.

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Griffin Collier ’13, an architecture major, finally completed his Lau Treehouse project in the Yale-Myers Forest Saturday.

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Among the lofty pines of the YaleMyers Forest this summer, a treehouse was built.

Last Saturday marked the completion of a two-year-long project spearheaded

by Griffin Collier ’13, an architecture major who said he dreamed of constructing a treehouse for the entire Yale community to enjoy. Resting atop an old sugar maple tree five minutes away from the Yale-Myers Forest base camp, the Lau Treehouse’s geometric, aluminum frame looms nearly 12 feet off the ground. At a dedication ceremony over the weekend, Collier and his treehouse-building team were joined by a group of roughly 45 people who arrived to see and interact with the finished product.

Collier said he came upon the idea for the project during a casual conversation with friends in the Timothy Dwight College courtyard.

“It was an impossible project to begin with … [I was] one of the last people to believe that it could actually be accomplished,” Collier said. “In terms of the number of hoops we had to jump through to get it approved, and how long it took to work out the structural issues, it was a staggering number of man-hours.”

The team raised funding for the project through online fundraising platform Kickstarter. Despite setting an original goal of only $5,000, the project raised $10,536 by the campaign’s February end.

The structure — named after the largest donors to the Kickstarter campaign, Claire Woo SOM ’01 and Gordon Lau — was largely constructed over the summer, when volunteers worked on site over the weekends. Since the Yale-Myers Forest is located about an hour-and-a-half’s drive from campus, team members said trans-

portation proved to be one of their biggest obstacles. Ellen Su ’13, who has been with the project since the moment the idea was raised, recalled the challenge of transporting 15 feet-long pieces of aluminum over a 70-mile distance.

Collier noted that the treehouse’s design and choice of materials are unconventional.

“A lot of people [at the dedication] were surprised by how much metal is involved,” he said. “‘Treehouse’ is actually not the most apt description — I would describe it firstly as a sculpture in a tree that one is able to inhabit spatially.”

It was an impossible project to begin with. … [I was] one of the last people to believe that it could actually be accomplished.

GRIFFIN COLLIER ’13 Leader, Lau Treehouse project Over the course of the summer, Su said seven to 10 students worked on site regularly. Many were Collier’s close friends, while others were students who had responded to his email calling for volunteers. The four team members interviewed — Collier, Genevieve Fowler ’16, Daniel Rathbone ’14 and Su — said they bonded easily through the long and physically tiring work days, which were often capped off with freshly roasted s’mores.

While Collier said he was initially disappointed that the treehouse could not have been constructed on campus — the TD ginkgo he had first considered was found to be sickly — he now appreciates

the forest’s distant location, which situates the treehouse safely away from the hectic pace of life at Yale.

Rathbone, who directed the construction rigging, recently took two friends to see the site.

“One of them remarked that even though we’ve only been on campus for three days, it’s nice to get away,” Rathbone said, adding that he grew up in the New England forest and appreciated the necessary escape that nature is often able to provide.

“When you’re in the outdoors, things that you would usually think about don’t matter as much,” Fowler said. “Nobody’s checking their phones as much — it’s just a different type of place to be.”

Fowler said she found it refreshing to experience physical exhaustion, as opposed to mental tiredness, at the end of each day. While most architectural coursework is theoretical, Collier said, the treehouse gave him the opportunity to see a design transformed into physical reality.

Now that the treehouse is complete, Collier said he hopes the team will continue to work in the spirit of the project, whether through design projects related to the current structure, or in furthering the idea that students can pursue a project “built in real space and designed in the real world.”

Yale Forest Manager Alex Barrett FES ’12 said he has yet to determine the accessibility of the treehouse. Since the Yale-Myers Forest is typically not open to the public, Collier said he hopes to set up a reservation system for students to schedule visits.

The Yale-Myers Forest is located in the towns of Union, Ashford, Eastford and Woodstock.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

Mayoral candidates seek Yale support

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER As 1,300 Yale freshmen moved into dorms on Old Campus, mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 attempted to draw students to his candidacy by speaking to students and registering voters as well as helping one freshman move belongings into her suite.

With less than two weeks left until the Sept. 10 democratic primary, Elicker and the three other remaining candidates — State Sen. Toni Harp ARC ’78, Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina and entrepreneur Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 — are pushing to engage Yale students in New Haven politics. An off-year election and a primary early in Yale’s term have presented the candidates with an uphill battle in convincing students to vote, a challenge to which Elicker alluded as he posed for a photograph with the Trumbull bull and Stiles moose.

“People talk about eating locally; they should vote locally,” Elicker said while emphasizing his campaign’s roots in New Haven. “I’m in public financing, and Toni’s not. My contributions are 80 percent from New Haven residents, while Toni has 70 percent outside of the city.”

In tow behind Elicker was Drew Morrison ’15, who leads Yale for Elicker, registering students to vote as the mayoral hopeful spoke with students and parents.

The group has made significant use of the Yale College Democrats’ extensive email list — on Monday, subscribers received an

email from Morrison inviting them to join members of Yale for Elicker to bluebook and discuss the campaign. The group also plans to host a barbecue over Labor Day Weekend.

Elicker, however, is not the only candidate making an effort to gain the support of Yale students. Harp, who is currently considered the frontrunner in the race, enlisted 30 students to canvass over the summer, according to campaign manager Jason Bartlett.

People talk about eating locally; they should vote locally.

JUSTIN ELICKER FES ’10 SOM ’10 Mayoral candidate, New Haven Harp also enjoys significant institutional support from local political figures.

On Wednesday, Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 publicly endorsed Harp and her legislative record in an email sent to constituents. According to Harp spokesman Michael Harris, Eidelson and Harp plan to canvass together three times per week until the election.

“Personally, I will be voting for our State Senator Toni Harp,” Eidelson said in the email. “She’s been a staunch advocate for New Haven in Hartford for many years, particularly on youth issues, and I believe her to be the most qualified candidate for the job.”

Fernandez said that “about a dozen” Yale students helped with his campaign over the summer. He also claims to enjoy significant support among students at Yale Law School, his alma mater. Kadeem Yearwood ’15, who leads Fernandez’s organizing efforts on campus, said that he plans to hold several events with the candidate before the upcoming primary, but did not provide any additional information.

“We’re talking to people and seeing the people we’d like to get involved, just telling them about Henry,” Yearwood said. “As far as I’m concerned it’s more getting people out to vote on Sept. 10. That means talking to people and having events.”

Like Elicker, Yearwood emphasized the importance of Yale students’ engagement in the Elm City. He said that Yale students frequently fail to consider events in New Haven beyond the University, and suggested that improvements to the city would benefit both current and future students.

Unlike his three rivals, Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina has maintained a lower profile on campus.

The candidate said last week that he only has one Yale student staffer, although that staffer could not be reached for comment.

Outgoing Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is New Haven’s longest serving mayor, having held the job for 20 years.

Isaac Stanley-Becker contributed reporting.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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Meanwhile, Harp — who has the support of the city’s Democratic establishment, having received the endorsement of the Democratic Town Committee and Yale’s unions — argued that many city workers, such as police officers, face health issues like high blood pressure and should be compensated through stabilized pensions.

Taxes emerged as a controversial issue during the debate, and Fernandez accused Elicker and Harp of mishandling budgetary issues.

It’s interesting the way they all paid homage to Kermit Carolina. I think it’s because they feel least threatened by him.

they all paid homage to Kermit Carolina,” Bass told the News after the debate. “I think it’s because they feel least threatened by him.”

Carolina, who trailed behind the other candidates in the last public campaign filings, stressed his independence from unions, special interests and big donors in the debate by emphasizing his intention to stay with the Democracy Fund, New Haven’s public campaign finance system.

Elicker, the only other candidate to participate in the Fund, did the same.

By choosing to participate in the Fund, Elicker and Carolina have limited the maximum individual contribution they can receive to $370 in exchange for receiving matching funding from the city. Harp and Fer-

nandez, who have opted out of the Democracy Fund, can receive contributions of up to $1,000.

“The Democracy Fund board appropriated $4,500 to help put [the debate] on, and their reasoning was that the debate could go directly into the houses of all New Haven residents,” Fund administrator Ken Krayeske said. “One of the goals of the Democracy Fund is to increase public participation in the election, and they thought this would be fulfilling.”

Republican Ward 1 candidate Paul Chandler ’14 also attended the debate.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

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Committee considers faculty voice FAS FROM PAGE 1 like Harvard and Princeton, Wilkinson said. Other schools, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, do not have formal representative bodies, Wilkinson said.

At Yale, existing structures the committee has discussed include monthly Yale College faculty meetings, various committees appointed by administrators and the Joint Board of Permanent Officers — a body responsible for approving faculty appointments and promotions that consists of tenured professors in Yale College and the Graduate School.

In addition, the committee has reviewed the new FAS forums that then-Provost Salovey instituted last fall, which are held at least twice a semester and designed to give faculty members regular opportunities to voice concerns to the administration about University-wide issues.

Faculty can propose and vote on agenda items for the forums beforehand.

We have experimented with some things already … the most notable being the faculty forum.

PAUL BASS ’82 Editor, New Haven Independent “Unfortunately, I do have to point out that Alderman Elicker has voted repeatedly for tax increases,” Fernandez said. “Harp … has not actually even read the budget. She’s admitted to that, so I’m not sure how she can fix the problem if she doesn’t know what the problem is.”

Elicker retorted that he faced a choice between two budgets that both raised taxes and voted for the budget that did so to a lesser degree. Harp pointed out that Fernandez has never lobbied Hartford for more money for the city and that she has worked at the state level to guarantee funding for New Haven.

When asked to cite one idea they liked from their opponents, both Fernandez and Elicker cited different Carolina policy suggestions.

“I think it’s interesting the way

“When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.”

BENJAMIN POLAK Provost, Yale University

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Wednesday’s event was the final debate before New Haven’s four mayoral candidates square off in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary.

“We have experimented with some things already in the last year — the most notable being the faculty forum,” Polak said. “The faculty forum has worked to some extent. It’s been a place where people could come and voice opinions, but it hasn’t always been that well attended.”

Though the first few forum meetings drew between 50 and 100 professors, attendance dwindled to under 30 faculty members by the end of the academic year.

The May 2 memo said the committee has been asked “to produce a short report on the pros and cons of possible approaches that could be taken at Yale,

to offer recommendations for potentially effective models to consider, and to outline the next steps necessary to move forward on each possible approach.”

Although the committee was supposed to submit its report at the beginning of the fall term, Polak said the timeline had to be pushed back because many professors were away from campus this summer, and the committee wanted to consider as many perspectives as possible.

“Some people have very strong views on this,” Polak said. “Some people think that faculty senates are a very good idea, and some think they’re a horrible idea.”

He added that neither he nor Salovey have strong preconceptions about particular governance structures.

Wilkinson said discussions about faculty governance are currently taking place at many universities because schools are facing divided opinions on issues like internationalization, technology, online education and financial challenges.

If the committee recommends the creation of a new structure, Polak said he feels strongly that the new body should replace an existing one. Many Yale professors are already swamped with meetings to attend, he said.

“At this rate, if we construct new structures, that’s a good thing, but we have to make sure we’re not just adding more rungs to the bureaucracy,” Polak said. “People just can’t be in meetings all day. We’ve heard that from many faculty.”

Two committee members declined to comment for this article and three committee members did not respond to requests for comment.

In addition to Wilkinson, philosophy professor Michael Della Rocca, history professor Beverly Gage, anthropology professor Catherine Panter-Brick, biology professor Anna Pyle and chemistry professor Mark Saltzman serve on the committee.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

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Intersection near campus to undergo makeover

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the road caused by the Farmington Canal blocks drivers’ view of pedestrians. He said the solution is to raise the entire intersection, a proposal that comes with a considerable price tag. As the designs became increasingly complex, he said, they were also tweaked to reflect the character of the surrounding neighborhood.

“The idea of safer crossing morphed into helping Whitney become a real destination in the city,” he said. “We’ve made the designs reflect the unique identity of that area, with the older buildings to the West and newer architecture to the East, and of course

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A busy intersection on the outskirts of Yale’s campus is getting a makeover in the interests of pedestrian safety and commercial retail, and the University is pitching in to help foot the bill.

What began as a plan to ease vehicular traffic at the corner of Whitney Avenue and Audubon Street has grown into a fullfledged architectural overhaul of the intersection. Elevated and textured paving, curb extensions and new trees and lights will ease pedestrian crossing and reduce the speed of traffic, while a new sidewalk seating space will transform the intersection into a destination for outdoor dining and other commercial activity, said Jim Travers, the director of the city’s Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking.

At a price of $320,000 — of which Yale is paying $150,000 — the construction is scheduled to begin as early as October and could be finished by Thanksgiving, Travers said. The Hartfordbased architecture firm CDM Smith designed the plans for the intersection, which are currently

up for bidding by contractors.

Announcing the designs Monday on the corner of Audubon and Whitney, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said the project would lend the area a unique sense of place, marked by the seal of the Audubon Arts District in the center of the intersection.

“New Haven is a place that really loves its sidewalks,” DeStefano said at the news conference, adding in a press release that the work is “part of a larger effort by the City to make downtown easily navigable, more attractive, appealing and safe for everyone — pedestrians, motorists and bicyclists.”

The designs employ “complete streets” principals — which emphasize pedestrian, bike and public transit access to roadways — to address longstanding public safety concerns stemming from a makeshift pedestrian crosswalk amid swift northbound traffic on Whitney flowing toward the I-91 freeway. New Haven is the only city in Connecticut to have its own complete streets ordinance, Travers said.

Jane McMillan, the owner of Moe’s Southwest Grill on the corner of Whitney and Audubon, said she is grateful for the planned redevelopment. By forcing drivers to slow down, she said, the city is enhancing the area’s retail potential, making window shopping and outdoor dining more enjoyable. She said the result is “pleasant city living.”

Brandon Gallego, an employee at Koffee on Audubon, said a major problem with the intersection is visibility when trying to cross the street on foot. He said parking on the side of the road, especially for large trucks making deliveries to local businesses, often blocks his view of oncoming traffic.

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the feel of the Audubon Arts District.”

Travers said the plan would not have gone forward without financial assistance from Yale.

“The University saw the benefits they would reap from this and the benefits merchants in the area would reap from this, and they quickly jumped on board,” Travers said.

Yale Spokesman Mike Morand ’87 DIV ’93 said Yale has been a strong force in the renaissance of New Haven’s downtown.

He said Yale chose to invest in the project “on behalf of the merchants located in the neighbor-

hood …”

“These improvements should increase pedestrian traffic in the area, and so will add to Yale’s economic development initiatives by lending support to local merchants,” Morand added.

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 traced the project back to 2008, before he represented the district that includes the Whitney and Audubon intersection. At the time, he worked near the intersection and witnessed people “risking life and limb just to cross the street.”

In May of 2008, Hausladen joined 15 other Yale affiliates —

including alumni, undergraduates and graduate students — in writing a letter to the former Yale President Richard Levin asking the University to pay more attention to pedestrian and bicycle safety.

“It took four and a half years to get here, but we’re here,” Hausladen said. “The big difference and change of why this is actually happening is because Yale is footing the bill for $150,000 of it. I can’t thank Yale University enough.”

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Woodward to teach ‘Journalism’

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER In the spring, aspiring Yale journalists will have the opportunity to learn from one of the most famous names in the field, Bob Woodward ’65.

Woodward will teach the spring section of “Journalism,” an intensive seminar that the English Department offers each spring and fall. Woodward, who is wellknown for uncovering the Watergate Scandal with his colleague Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post in the 1970s, said he hopes to teach his students about the intensive and immersive reporting method he developed throughout his prolific journalistic career.

“I think that even in the era of impatience and speed, which defines the news media now, that there is a place for [total immersive journalism],” Woodward said.

“I’m going to try to share 40 years of experience.”

In addition to drawing national acclaim for conducting much of the original reporting that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, Woodward served as the Washington Post’s principal reporter covering the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He is now associate editor at the newspaper.

Steven Brill ’72 LAW ’75, who teaches “Journalism” in the fall term and was involved in bringing Woodward to Yale, said admission to Woodward’s seminar will follow a similar structure to that of his own. To choose the 15 students for his fall class, Brill said he solicits writing samples and a statement of interest from approximately 80 applicants each

year. Brill added that he anticipates Woodward will receive even more applications in the spring.

Though the tentative English Department course listing stated that students who have taken the journalism seminar in prior semesters can still receive credit for taking Woodward’s section, Brill said the list is incorrect, and that only students who have not taken “Journalism” will be eligible to receive credit for the course.

With journalism, by definition, you are dealing with the non-routine.

BOB WOODWARD ’65 American journalist Mark Schoofs ’85, senior editor of ProPublica, taught the spring section of the “Journalism” seminar for the past two years, but would not respond to request for comment about whether he will be returning to teach another class.

Brill added that Woodward’s presence on campus expands the offerings of the Yale Journalism Initiative, which was launched in 2006 with a grant from Brill and his wife. Since the University does not offer a journalism major, the initiative aims to encourage Yale students interested in pursuing journalism as a career by bringing notable journalists on campus to deliver talks and teach classes, offering career advice and guiding students toward summer journalism internships.

Jill Abramson, executive editor

of the New York Times, has also come to Yale as professors for the spring section of the journalism seminar.

Mark Oppenheimer ’96 GRD ’03, director of the Yale Journalism Initiative, said he thinks students will benefit from working closely with a prominent figure in the journalistic field.

“We don’t hire anyone for their fame who we don’t think will be able to communicate well with undergraduates,” Oppenheimer said. “The hope is that he will stand in the long tradition of excellent Yale College teaching.”

Brill said Woodward has taught one day’s class of the fall seminar via conference call for the past few years and that these interactions with undergraduates helped convince Woodward to teach a full course.

Woodward called journalism “the best job in the world,” adding that he hopes to equip his students with the tools necessary for tackling challenging questions persistently and thoroughly.

“Most jobs deal with the routine, but with journalism, by definition, you are dealing with the non-routine,” Woodward said.

“When you go into the newsroom of the Washington Post, in the morning, the questions are, ‘What’s going on?’ ‘What don’t we know?’ ‘How can we advance this story?’”

Woodward has co-authored or authored 12 number one nonfiction national bestsellers, including a book about the Watergate Scandal entitled “All the President’s Men.” Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

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“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” VINCENT VAN GOGH DUTCH PAINTER

Students still hunger for physical Blue Books BLUE BOOK FROM PAGE 1 versions and their extensive search functions, still took the time to venture by the bookstore and pick up their free copies.

“I think it’s good they still have the Blue Book,” Lee said, adding that in 25 years he will not be able to find the same nostalgic value in OCS as in the worn and weathered pages of the Blue Book.

Still, several professors and students criticized the print Blue Book’s wasteful nature.

Professor Amity Doolittle, director of undergraduate studies in environmental studies, prefers the Blue Book and continues to find it the easiest way to search classes. But she noted that annual printings of the catalog raise sustainability issues and represent “a huge expense and a huge use of resources.”

Melissa Goodall, assistant director of the Office of Sustainability, expressed confidence that the transition to an onlineonly course catalog would take place as soon as possible. While commending the Registrar’s Office for greatly reducing paper use in recent years, she acknowledged in an email that with something like course selection, “it is more important that the University do things like this correctly rather than quickly.”

Asked which version of the Blue Book he prefers to use, University President Peter Salovey said he turns to the online version.

“I would say there is a tension,” he said. “The tension is between a greener Yale and the romantic image of curling up with the Blue Book, or sitting around and Blue Booking with friends without the presence of a computer screen. We’ll just have to see which gathers more support among students.”

Contact MATTHEW NUSSBAUM at matthew.nussbaum@yale.edu .

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Although a new online version of the Blue Book was released in July, the administration has continued to release hard copies of the course catalog.

New train ups campus accessibility WEST CAMPUS FROM PAGE 1 pus to West Campus used to run every hour, these shuttles now travel between the two campuses three times an hour, stopping at the West Haven train station until 11:05 a.m. each morning. This development signals the campus’s increasing connectedness and importance to the University, said Scott Strobel, the vice president for West Campus planning and program development.

“I think [the station] will be fantastic because it provides an opportunity for public transportation to the campus,” he said. “The train station is about a mile from the east entrance to the campus, and it is a really easy straight shot.”

State officials settled on the West Haven location because the stretch between New Haven and Milford had been the longest segment on the Metro-North line without a station, Connecticut Rail Administrator Eugene Colo-

nese said. He added that while the state discussed the station with West Campus administrators once the campus was acquired by Yale in 2007, the University was not involved in the early stages of the planning.

Director of the West Campus Systems Biology Institute Andre Levchenko said the train is a “very attractive option” for commuting to campus from his home in Madison, Conn., 27 miles east of West Campus.

While it remains to be seen

whether the researchers’ work and train schedules mesh, Levchenko said the train provides a reliable travel option without the unpredictability of road travel.

“I think it’s just a wonderful alternative to have that didn’t exist before,” he said. “I-95 can be notoriously busy, so having something that doesn’t leave you at the mercy of the traffic pattern is very good.”

The new station is also making West Campus more accessible to outside collaborators, like Columbia professor of chemical engineering Ben O’Shaughnessy.

In the past, O’Shaughnessy took Metro-North to Union Station in New Haven and then traveled the remaining six miles to West Campus by cab or coach. Now, O’Shaughnessy said the “almost door-todoor” train service will spur Columbia researchers to visit the West Campus more often.

[The station] will be fantastic because it provides an opportunity for public transportation to the campus.

SCOTT STROBEL Vice president for planning and program development, West Campus “We are making frequent visits to the West Campus to do experiments and discuss science,” he said. “A more direct connection is fantastic for us.”

The city of West Haven is planning improvements to the mile stretch from the station to West Campus, including a bike path and sidewalk, Strobel said.

The station features two 1,100-feet tracks, state-ofthe-art ticketing services and a 658-car parking lot.

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Prior to the construction of the West Haven train station, the section between New Haven and Milford was the longest segment on the Metro-North without a stop.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 7:00 PM CS Blue Booking Party There will be a Blue Booking session with members of Yale Bootup (Yale’s tech and innovation group, formerly known as Yale Hackers), WACSY (Women Active in Computer Science at Yale) and DSAC (the Computer Science Departmental Student Advisory Committee). Learn about the major, meet fellow students interested in computer science, and ask questions about different classes and professors. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Room 120.

7:30 PM Liberal Party Discussion The Liberal Party of the Yale Political Union, a liberal and leftist discussion group, will discuss “Does charity reinforce oppression?” on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pierson common room. This first discussion will consider whether charity creates dependence or provides a necessary “Band-Aid.” Does charity reinforce the domination of the rich? Is government redistribution preferred to private charities? Can charity be truly altruistic, or are they more often self-serving? Pierson College (261 Park St.), Common Room.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 3:45 PM Yale Precision Marching Band First Rehearsal The YPMB is so much more than a marching band. (In)famous for its spectacle, satire and unrelenting Yale spirit, it is the star attraction at Yale football games, playing student-arranged music from Nirvana to Rihanna and entertaining students and fans with wild halftime shows. Entire shows dedicated to funk music, to Beyoncé, or to the entirety of “Bohemian Rhapsody” (complete with electric guitars and cellos)? Check. How about odes to Harry Potter, “Lord of the Rings” or the glorious musical phenomenon that is the rickroll? Of course! And who can forget the year two YPMB alumni were married on the field in the most heartwarming halftime show in history? Hendrie Hall (165 Elm St.), Room 301.

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NATION MLK’s dream inspires new march

BY SUZANNE GAMBOA AND NANCY BENAC ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Standing on hallowed ground of the civil rights movement, President Barack Obama challenged new generations Wednesday to seize the cause of racial equality and honor the “glorious patriots” who marched a half century ago to the very steps from which Rev. Martin Luther King spoke during the March on Washington.

In a moment rich with history and symbolism, tens of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds and colors thronged to the National Mall to join the nation’s first black president and civil rights pioneers in marking the 50th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Obama urged each of them to become a modern-day marcher for economic justice and racial harmony.

“The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice but it doesn’t bend on its own,” Obama said, in an allusion to King’s own message.

His speech was the culmination of daylong celebration of King’s legacy that began with marchers walking the streets of Washington behind a replica of the transit bus that Rosa Parks once rode when she refused to give up her seat to a white man.

At precisely 3 p.m., members of the King family tolled a bell to echo King’s call 50 years earlier to “let freedom ring.” It was the same bell that once hung in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where four black girls were killed when a bomb planted by a white supremacist exploded in 1963.

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The number of states waiting for congressional approval to use fire-fighting drones

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Of these, it is likely that six may be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration by Dec. 31, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Hasan sentenced to death

mer freedom rider and the sole survivor of the main organizers of the 1963 march, recounted the civil rights struggles of his youth and exhorted American to “keep the faith and keep our eyes on the prize.”

The throngs assembled in soggy weather at the Lincoln Memorial, where King, with soaring, rhythmic oratory and a steely countenance, had pleaded with Americans to come together to stomp out racism and create a land of opportunity for all.

White and black, they came this time to recall history — and live it.

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice but it doesn’t bend on its own.

BARACK OBAMA President, United States “My parents did their fair share and I feel like we have to keep the fight alive,” said Frantz Walker, a honey salesman from Baltimore who is black. “This is hands-on history.”

Kevin Keefe, a Navy lawyer who is white, said he still tears up when he hears King’s speech.

“What happened 50 years ago was huge,” he said, adding that there’s still progress to be made on economic inequality and other problems.

Two former presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, spoke of King’s legacy - and of problems still to overcome.

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President Barack Obama talks with Yolanda Renee King, 5, granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr. the ceremony Wednesday.

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Sisters Kerry Cahill and Keely Vanacker talk about their father, Michael Cahill, who was killed during the Fort Hood shootings.

BY MICHAEL GRACZYK AND NOMAAN MERCHANT ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT HOOD, Texas — A military jury on Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, handing the Army psychiatrist the ultimate punishment after a trial in which he seemed to be courting martyrdom by making almost no effort to defend himself.

The rare military death sentence came nearly four years after the attack that stunned even an Army hardened by more than a decade of constant war. Hasan walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted “Allahu akbar” — Arabic for “God is great!” — and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed.

Hasan, who said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American aggression, had no visible reaction when the sentence was announced, staring first at the jury forewoman and then at the judge. Some victims’ relatives were in the courtroom but none showed any reaction, which the judge had warned against.

The American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent acted as his own attorney and never denied his actions at the huge Texas Army post. In opening statements, he told jurors that evidence would show he was the shooter and described himself as a soldier who had “switched sides.”

The same jurors who convicted Hasan last week deliberated the sentence for about two hours. They needed to agree unanimously on the death penalty. The only alternative was life in prison without parole.

Kathy Platoni, an Army reservist who still struggles with images of Capt. John Gaffaney bleeding to death at her feet, said she was not opposed to the punishment.

Hasan wanted “to be a martyr and so many of the (victims’) families had spoken to the issue of not giving him what he wants because this is his own personal holy war,” said Platoni, who watched most of the trial from inside the courtroom.

“But on the other hand — this is from the bottom of my heart — he doesn’t deserve to live,” she said. “I don’t know how long it takes for a death sentence to be carried out, but the world will be a better place without him.”

Hasan could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century. But because the military justice system requires a lengthy appeals process, years or even decades could pass before he is put to death.

This is his debt to society. This is the cost of his murderous rampage.

COL. MIKE MULLIGAN Lead prosecutor He was expected to be taken on the next available flight to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

In his final plea for a death sentence, the lead prosecutor assured jurors that Hasan would “never be a martyr” despite his attempt to tie the attack to religion.

“He is a criminal. He is a cold-blooded murderer,” Col. Mike Mulligan said. “This is not his gift to God. This is his debt to society. This is the cost of his murderous rampage.”

Since the attack, the federal government has sought to execute Hasan, believing that any sentence short of a lethal injection would deny justice to the families of the dead and the survivors who

had believed they were safe behind the gates of Fort Hood, about 70 miles north of Austin.

And for just as long, Hasan seemed content to go to the death chamber for his beliefs. He fired his own attorneys to represent himself, barely mounted a defense during the three-week trial and made almost no effort to have his life spared.

Mulligan reminded the jury that Hasan was a trained doctor yet opened fire on defenseless comrades. Hasan “only dealt death,” the prosecutor said, so the only appropriate sentence was death.

Hasan was never allowed to argue in front of the jury that the shooting was necessary to protect Islamic and Taliban leaders. But during the trial, he leaked documents to journalists that revealed he told military mental health workers in 2010 that he could “still be a martyr” if executed by the government.

When Hasan began shooting, soldiers were standing in long lines to receive immunizations and doctors’ clearance. Many of the soldiers were preparing to deploy, while others had recently returned home.

All but one of the dead were soldiers, including a pregnant private who curled on the floor and pleaded for her unborn child’s life. It was the deadliest shooting ever at a U.S. military installation. More than 30 other people were wounded.

The attack ended when authorities shot Hasan in the back. He is now paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair.

The military called nearly 90 witnesses at the trial and more during the sentencing phase. But Hasan rested his case without calling a single person to testify and made no closing argument. Even with his life at stake during the sentencing phase, he made no attempt to question witnesses and gave no final statement to jurors.

Calif. launches drone to aid wildfire battle

BY BRIAN SKOLOFF AND TRACIE CONE ASSOCIATED PRESS GROVELAND, Calif. — Firefighters battling the giant wildfire burning in the Sierra Nevada added a California National Guard Predator drone to their arsenal Wednesday to give them almost immediate views of any portion of the flames chewing through rugged forests in and around Yosemite National Park.

The MQ-1 unmanned aircraft being remotely piloted hundreds of miles away quickly alerted fire bosses to a new flare-up they otherwise wouldn’t have immediately seen.

“They’re piping what they’re seeing directly to the incident commander, and he’s seeing it in real time over a computer network,” said National Guard Lt. Col. Tom Keegan.

Previously ground commanders relied on helicopters that needed to refuel every two hours.

The 12-day-old Rim Fire continued to grow, expanding to 292 square miles, and containment remained at 23 percent. But increasingly confident fire officials said they expect to fully surround it in three weeks, although it will burn for much longer than that.

“It’s looking better every day,”

said incident spokesman Glen Stratton.

While unmanned aircraft have mapped past fires, use of the Predator will be the longest sustained mission by a drone in California to broadcast information to firefighters in real time.

My prediction is it will burn until we see rain.

HUGH SAFFORD Regional ecologist, U.S. Forest Service The plane, the size of a small Cessna, will remain over the burn zone for up to 22 hours at a time, allowing fire commanders to monitor fire activity, determine the fire’s direction of movement, the extent of containment and confirm new fires ignited by lightning or flying embers.

The drone is being flown by the 163rd Wing of the California National Guard at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside and is operating from Victorville Airport, both in Southern California. It generally flew over unpopulated areas on its 300-mile flight to the Rim Fire. Outside the fire area it will be escorted by a manned aircraft.

Officials were careful to point out the images are being used only to aid in the effort to contain the fire.

In 2009 a NASA Predator equipped with an infrared imaging sensor helped the U.S. Forest Service assess damage from a fire in Angeles National Forest. In 2008, a drone capable of detecting hot spots helped firefighters assess movement of a series of wildfires stretching from Southern California’s Lake Arrowhead to San Diego.

The Rim Fire started Aug. 17 and quickly exploded in size, becoming one of the 10 largest California wildfires on record. Its progression slowed earlier this week when it moved from parts of the forest with thick underbrush that had not burned in nearly a century to areas that had seen fire in the past two decades.

But it will burn for months, possibly until California’s dry season ends this fall.

“My prediction is it will burn until we see rain,” said Hugh Safford, a regional ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service.

That means the smoke could continue to foul air north of Yosemite in the Lake Tahoe basin and neighboring Nevada, although residents received something of a reprieve Wednes-

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Firefighter Troy Drouin takes a break before mopping up hot spots near Yosemite National Park, Calif. day when for the first time in three days blue sky was sometimes visible through the haze.

The air quality index in the Reno area still had improved only to the “unhealthy” level and in Douglas County, Nev., school

children were kept indoors again when the index registered in the “hazardous” category Wednesday morning.

The air was clear, however, in the tourist mecca of Yosemite Valley, home to the towering Half

Dome and El Capitan rock formations and the 2,425-foot plunge of Yosemite Falls.

The Rim Fire has destroyed 111 structures, including 11 homes, and posed a threat to ancient giant sequoias.

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Syrian Arab Republic Syria, officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic, was established after the First World War as a French Mandate. It managed to gain independence in April 1946 and become a parliamentary republic. The Syrian capital of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.

Egypt police arrest Brotherhood relatives

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Egyptian citizens who live in Lebanon chant slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood during a rally to show their solidarity with the Egyptian army and police.

BY AYA BATRAWY ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Egyptian authorities detained more than 60 people associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in less than 24 hours, including relatives of the group’s leaders, officials said Wednesday.

The crackdown on the group, from which ousted President Mohammed Morsi hails, started shortly after the July 3 coup.

It intensified this month after security forces cleared out two of the group’s sit-ins, killing hundreds and sparking unrest that killed more than 1,000

people in a few days. The Interior Ministry says more than 100 policemen and soldiers have also been killed since mid-August.

The local media, in close step with the new leadership after Morsi, repeatedly describe the actions of the Brotherhood and its supporters as acts of terrorism. Many have been charged with inciting violence. Security forces have arrested much the Brotherhood’s senior and midlevel leadership, while others remain in hiding.

Some in Egypt fear the Brotherhood’s once powerful political party and its allies could be barred from politics and be

forced underground again.

In an interview late Tuesday with the Arabic satellite channel MBC Misr, interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said dissolving the group is not a solution and warned against taking dramatic decisions during turbulent times. He suggested it is better that the government monitor political parties rather than force any to operate secretly, as the group had done for decades.

But in a widening campaign, police have started going after members’ relatives, including the son of Khairat el-Shater, a Brotherhood deputy and finan-

Mideast fears Western strike on Syria

BY ALBERT AJI AND RYAN LUCAS ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS, Syria — Fears of a possible U.S. strike against Syria’s regime over an alleged chemical weapons attack rippled across the region Wednesday as about 6,000 Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon in a 24-hour period and Israelis scrambled for gas masks in case Damascus retaliates against them.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon pleaded for more time for diplomacy and to allow U.N. investigators to complete their work. The experts, wearing flak jackets and helmets, collected blood and urine samples from victims during a visit to at least one of the areas hit in last week’s attack.

Seven days after chemical weapons were purportedly unleashed on rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian capital, momentum grew toward Western military action against President Bashar Assad’s regime. At the same time, Syria’s chief allies, Russia and Iran, warned of dire consequences for the region if any armed intervention is undertaken.

U.S. leaders, including Vice President Joe Biden, have charged that Assad’s government was behind the Aug. 21 attack that Doctors Without Borders says killed at least 355 people. The White House says it’s planning a possible military response while seeking support from international partners.

The U.S. has not presented concrete proof of Syrian regime involvement in the attack, and U.N. inspectors have not endorsed the allegations, although the U.N. envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said evidence suggests some kind of “substance” was used that killed hundreds.

Two senior Obama administration officials said U.S. intelligence agencies are drawing up a report laying out the evidence against Assad’s government. The classified version would be sent to key members of Congress and a declassified version would be made public.

One of the officials said the administration is considering more than a single set of military strikes and “the options are not limited just to one day” of assault.

“If there is action taken, it must be clearly defined what the objective is and why” and based on “clear facts,” the senior administration official said on condition of anonym-

ity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss internal deliberations publicly.

President Barack Obama is weighing a limited response that focuses on punishing the Syrian government for violating international agreements that bar the use of chemical weapons. Any U.S. military action, officials say, would not be aimed at toppling the Assad regime or vastly altering the course of Syria’s civil war, which has already claimed 100,000 dead.

As the U.S., France and Britain push for military action, the U.N. secretary-general urged restraint to give U.N. inspectors time to finish their investigation, which began Monday.

“Let them conclude … their work for four days and then we will have to analyze scientifically” their findings and send a report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban said. The U.N. said the analysis would be done “as quickly as possible.”

Syria’s Ambassador to the U.N., Bashar Ja’afari, said he sent Ban a letter demanding that the inspectors extend their investigation to what he described as three chemical weapons attacks against Syrian soldiers in the Damascus suburbs. He said the attacks occurred on Aug. 22, 24 and 25, and that dozens of Syrian soldiers are current being treated for inhaling nerve gases.

Ja’afari also blamed the rebels for any chemical weapons attack, saying “the Syrian government is innocent of these allegations.”

Ban pleaded for more time to give diplomacy another chance to end Syria’s conflict.

Marking the centenary of a venue for peaceful conflict resolution in The Hague, Netherlands, he said: “Here in the Peace Palace, let us say: Give peace a chance. Give diplomacy a chance. Stop fighting and start talking.”

But with many seeing Western intervention no longer a question of if but when, there were signs of growing fears across the wider region.

At least 6,000 Syrians crossed into Lebanon in a 24-hour period through the main Masnaa crossing, including an estimated 4,000 on Wednesday, according to Lebanese security officials in the country’s Bekaa Valley near the border. The normal daily influx is 500 to 1,000 refugees, depending on the level of fighting. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

cier charged in relation to the killings of protesters outside the group’s headquarters in June. A U.S. citizen, the son of a fugitive Brotherhood figure, was also detained this week.

It was not immediately clear why police detained el-Shater’s 23-year-old son. Officials only said Wednesday that police had arrested Saad el-Shater and that he had threatened to release documents allegedly showing ties between his father and U.S. President Barack Obama. Officials did not elaborate.

The brother-in-law of fugitive Brotherhood figurehead Mohammed el-Beltagy also was

arrested in the latest sweep on charges he incited violent protests aimed at toppling the military-backed government that took over after Morsi. Police officials said Saeed Zaki Eissa and two others known to be affiliated with the Brotherhood were detained in Egypt’s second largest city of Alexandria after prosecutors ordered their arrest.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Morsi was Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president after the uprising against his predecessor, longtime autocrat and air

force pilot Hosni Mubarak.

In a symbolic move, the country’s military-backed interim president Adly Mansour issued a decree published Wednesday that changed the military oath, removing a line that has soldiers pledge allegiance to the presidency. Soldiers now will only be required to pledge loyalty to their “leadership” — which includes top generals — and the country, instead of directly to the presidency.

In Egypt, the president is the supreme commander of the country’s armed forces. Egypt’s former leaders, except Morsi, all came from the military.

UN peacekeeper killed in Congo

BY SALEH MWANAMILONGO AND KRISTA LARSON ASSOCIATED PRESS KINSHASA, Congo — United Nations forces and the Congolese army attacked rebel positions with helicopter gunships, armored personnel carriers and a phalanx of ground troops Wednesday, ramping up the U.N.’s engagement in the latest rebellion to roil this country’s tormented east.

The fighting was some of the fiercest in the week since the newly created U.N. intervention brigade went on the offensive, and one Tanzanian peacekeeper was killed after the rebels aimed artillery fire at their position, the U.N. said in a statement. Seven other troops were also wounded, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said.

“I am outraged by today’s killing of a United Nations peacekeeper from Tanzania by the M23,” said Martin Kobler, the special representative of the secretary-general in Congo, who

heads the peacekeeping mission.

“He sacrificed his life to protect civilians in Goma.”

The fighting is taking place nine miles (15 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Goma, a city home to nearly one million people that was briefly captured by the M23 rebels late last year.

The U.N. involvement in the latest flare-up of violence is in sharp contrast to November, when the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, stood by as the rebels overtook Goma because their mandate was only to protect civilians.

The stepped-up U.N. intervention brigade, created by the Security Council in March, is authorized to take the offensive against the rebels.

“It’s already changing the equation. For now, I would shy away from calling it a game changer. It’s certainly unprecedented not only for Congo, but for peacekeeping itself and the U.N. at large,” said Timo Mueller, a Goma-based researcher with

the Enough Project, an advocacy group active in eastern Congo.

Even as forces pounded the rebels, U.N. officials continued to send mixed messages about the extent of their involvement, repeatedly saying they were merely “backing” or “supporting” the Congolese military, rather than leading the offensive themselves.

“The main engagement is by the (Congolese) forces,” said Siphiwe Dlamini, a spokesman for the South African military, which contributed troops to the brigade. “We are retaliating and going on the offensive.”

Lt. Col. Felix Basse, the military spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission, also emphasized that U.N. forces were fighting alongside the Congolese army.

However, the president of the M23 rebel movement, Bertrand Bisimwa, who spoke by telephone, said the U.N.’s intervention brigade was on the frontline of Wednesday’s fighting.

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Angry residents of Goma, Congo, take to the streets to protest recent violence in the eastern provincial capital.

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The Great Dinky Robbery On May 3, 1963, four Princeton boys rode on horseback to ambush the Dinky train before it could pull into the station. Since Princeton was still an all-male school, this was the only form of transportation for women to enter campus. A convertible car was parked across the tracks, forcing the train to pull to a halt. The boys dismounted from their horses, boarded the train, and seized four girls on the spot.

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Orientation features consent ed programming

BY RACHEL WEBER STAFF WRITER In between attending icebreaker activities, information sessions and evening fairs, freshmen at Orientation Week this year did something recent classes did not their first week at Cornell: attend a mandatory event about consent and healthy relationships.

“Speak About It,” a troupe of actors who travel raising awareness of sexual violence, performed skits for first-year and transfer students.

“Probably most of the students there might not have been taking it as seriously as they should because they haven’t been in [a consent-related] situation like that before,” said Grant Mulitz, one student who attended Speak About It’s presentation. “But there were definitely some people who had been in that situation,

and it probably meant a lot to actually know that Cornell is looking out for and educating CORNELL people with respect to those issues.”

“Speak About It” was announced in May, and according to E.E. Hou, creative director of the Every1 Campaign — a student organization that addresses issues of sexual assault and consensual sex — the workshop conveyed the imporatance of consent in relationships, The Sun previously reported.

Aside from Speak About It, the Orientation Steering Committee welcomed the Class of 2017 and transfer students to Cornell with five days of academic and social events. These events will continue through the start of classes

into Welcome Weekend, which consists of events such as picnics, movies and ClubFest, which will be held Sept. 7.

This year’s orientation centered on international and travel themes, titled “Where will Cornell take you?”, according to Sarah Jones, assistant dean for new student programs.

According to David Rosenwasser, the orientation groups provided a good environment for meeting other new students.

Like previous years, “the way the orientation groups were set up with everyone in my group being from my college was a great opportunity to meet more students in a smaller setting,” Rosenwasser said.

The orientation groups also provided students with an orientation leader, who students say were helpful easing the transition to Cornell.

“My Orientation Leader led

icebreaker activities that were a lot of fun and also made us a food map of places to eat around campus, which is really useful,” Samir Sherali said.

It was nicely done, not obnoxious, and less cliche than it could have been.

No one seemed to mind spending an hour there.

DAVID ROSENWASSER Student, Cornell University In addition to orientation group activities, both required and non-mandatory events had high rates of attendance, Jones said.

According to Cornell Univer-

sity Police estimates, Convocation had approximately 9,500 people in attendance, while 3,400 attended Cornell Essentials — where students could hear from upper-class students and alumni about transitioning to Cornell. Two thousand eight hundred of the 3,282 students in the Class of 2017 attended First Night activities on the CourtKay-Bauer quad.

OSC members also focused on improving the experience for transfer students, according to Jones. These programs included paintball, trivia night, ice skating and a casino night, among other events.

In addition to activities with his orientation group, Sherali said he enjoyed magician Tim Gabrielson’s Saturday performance after the Great Migration — an annual tradition where new students walk from North Campus to Barton Hall for a perfor-

mance.

“He got the crowd involved, and the entire performance was fun. He called people up and would do tricks with them while making jokes,” Sherali said.

The performance had a large turnout and provided freshman with an option other than going to parties, according to Sherali.

“Barton Hall was pretty full. It seemed like everyone who didn’t go to Collegetown was there,” Sherali said.

According to Jones, both the performance by Black Violins and the Silent Disco on the Arts Quad were well-attended and well-received.

Another goal of Orientation Week programming is to introduce students to Cornell’s academic community and community in general.

Rosenwasser said the programming was “much better executed” than expected.

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Freshmen see safer orientation

Dinky service moves to new temporary station

BY JILL CASTELLANO STAFF WRITER This year’s freshmen had a safer New Student Orientation than last year’s.

Five male freshmen were transported to the hospital this year, versus 11 last year. Seven females were transported as opposed to last year’s 13. Overall, there was a 43 percent decrease in hospital transports from last year’s 30 total students.

There were four off-campus burglaries — three from university-affiliated residences — from Aug. 22 to Aug. 26. Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush noted that the burglaries could be a result of students failing to secure their residencies properly.

“In any off-campus housing when there are multiple roommates, the one thing that is a concern for us is everyone has to be on the same team to make sure their doors are locked,” Rush said. “If the landlord isn’t properly securing the door, we’re happy to help.”

There were also four bike thefts during NSO 2013.

There are many organizations involved in keeping Penn safe, especially during high-risk occasions such as NSO. The Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives works to help students reduce negative

consequences of alcohol use through their confidential program First Step. Our office is involved in providing trainPENN ings to student leaders and staff on how to proactively address [these] issues,” Associate Director Noelle Melartin said in an email. “First Step is available for students who may have experienced negative consequences during NSO, just as it is available throughout the year.”

We really focus on the whole issue of consent to have sexual relations in a time when people are inebriated.

MAUREEN RUSH Vice president for public safety, University of Pennsylvania The Division of Public Safety also emphasized the harms of excessive alcohol consumption. This year, their presentation to new students included more information on the relationship between alcohol and sexual violence.

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BY PATIENCE HAGGIN STAFF WRITER Rail service to the building known as the Dinky station ended on Friday.

New Jersey Transit service will resume from the station’s temporary location on Monday.

The temporary station, located on Alexander Street approximately 1,200 feet south of the old station, will be the site of NJ Transit service until the transit plaza currently under construction opens in fall 2014, according to a university press release. The new station parking lot, located west of the station, also opens Monday.

The transfer of service is part of the university’s plan to redevelop the Alexander corridor near Forbes College. The station’s relocation serves to accommodate construction of its Arts and Transit Neighborhood, a $300 million development that includes new rehearsal and performance facilities. When completed, the development will include a new permanent station located 464 feet south of the old station.

In an attempt to block the demolition of the old station, local citizens’ group Save the Dinky filed an emergency application with the State of New Jersey Department of Envi-

ronmental Protection on Aug. 16 requesting that the DEP place a stay on the approval it granted NJ Transit PRINCETON to allow the project. The appeal of this application will be heard sometime in the fall, according to Save the Dinky.

The station’s relocation attracted controversy, providing an ongoing bone of contention among the former Borough Council as the university sought zoning permits needed for the construction of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood throughout 2011.

The Council finally granted the zoning needed for the project in Dec. 2011.

After service to the old station ended on Friday, NJ Transit provided substitute shuttle bus service to the bus stop on University Place near the existing Princeton Station over the weekend.

In addition, the university’s bus service, TigerTransit, will begin operating a new line on Monday. The line, TigerPaWW, will provide service to Princeton Junction, the new Princeton Station and the site of the old station at University Place, according to service maps released by TigerTransit.

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“We really focus on the whole issue of consent to have sexual relations in a time when people are inebriated,” Rush said. “Alcohol is not a mitigating fact if you perpetrate sexual assault.”

Some student leaders responsible for helping their classmates with alcohol use are the members of the Medical Emergency Response Team, which holds special training sessions before NSO and Spring Fling. MERT also partners with DPS to present to freshmen on safety in Irvine Auditorium during NSO. On Aug. 21, Training Officer and College junior Omar Sobh led MERT in seven different preparatory scenarios to refresh the necessary skills before NSO. These scenarios included cases of drug overdose, sexual assault, traumatic injury and alcohol intoxication.

While Penn Police patrolled the campus during NSO, MERT waited patiently in the Quad until they were called to action. “Because we are on an urban campus, we are able to respond much more quickly than a vehicle would be,” MERT Chief and College senior Maxwell Presser said.

Overall, Rush said that the Division of Public Safety is very thankful that the transport numbers went down this year and hopes the trend continues in the future. “We are cautiously optimistic that we can continue to work on a civilized and safe way of life for everyone.”

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Bulldogs successful in Ireland

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A week and a half before students arrived on campus, the women’s basketball team was on its way to Ireland.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Over the course of their nine-day tour, the Elis traveled the Emerald Isle, led clinics with local youth basketball players and scored victories over each of the three Irish teams they faced. The trip was funded by an endowment from John Lee ’58 that sponsors a trip abroad every four years.

Team captain Janna Graf ’14 said the team’s playing quality was especially encouraging in August.

“I was really satisfied because everyone came back in shape and looking like they’d really improved over the previous summer,” she said. “It looks like we have a great season ahead.”

The team handily won both its first game, against Galway Select, and its third game, against the Meteors Basketball Club, but the second game posed more of a challenge. In the end, the Bulldogs pulled off a 54–51 win against Glanmire Squad.

“I didn’t ever think we would lose necessarily,” Graf said. “I just didn’t think we were hitting the shots early. We play a fast-paced, transition-

based basketball game, so we knew the other team was going to get tired in the last quarter.”

The Bulldogs’ final game featured the presence of a representative from the American ambassador’s office, an Irish senator and nearly 100 fans on hand. But nothing came close to the halftime show: a 45-minute Irish step dancing performance.

“Their footwork was amazing,” guard Sarah Halejian ’15 said. “All of us basketball players were really impressed.”

At the two clinics the Bulldogs taught while in Ireland, Halejian said many of the participants showed up sporting different NBA jerseys. She added that, when tested, they “knew their stuff pretty well.”

However, the trip was not all work and no play. Point guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said the team aimed to “experience the country, meet the people and see the sights” when not on the court.

Halejian said she does not think anything could top the trip the team went on.

“The team, the coaches … I couldn’t have thought of better people to go with. It’s just a really great opportunity, and we’re really thankful.”

The Elis’ regular season starts on Nov. 9.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

Butwin ’13 returns as teacher and coach

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER After leading the Bulldogs through their last campaign as the captain of the women’s soccer team, Jenny Butwin ’13 has returned to the team this year as a volunteer assistant. But her main responsibilities in New Haven will come as a new kindergarten teacher at the Barnard Environmental Studies magnet school, where she will be working as part of the Teach for America program. In an interview with the News, Butwin said she is happy to be following her lifelong passion of being a teacher while simultaneously being able to coach her other lifelong passion of soccer. is it like coming back QWhat to Yale for the first time and not being a student?

A

It feels really good to be back. It’s a bittersweet feeling. I miss being a team member.

I miss being a Yale undergrad.

It is very refreshing, though.

When I came back I felt at home and I’m just glad to be back again. Change is good.

nity. Teachers are role models.

I’ve always been that underdog student and athlete and have had to work really hard to see success. It’s important to me to instill in these students the values of work ethic and patience even though they might not see instant gratification. Teach for America’s core values are teamwork and leadership and I pride myself in putting the team before myself and being able to lead the team even though I may not be playing myself.

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What has your experience with TFA been like so far?

What do you enjoy most?

A

The training for TFA is very intensive. They are taking recent college undergrads and preparing them to be strong teachers. It’s called “institute” and some days involve waking up at 4 am. Some of the most rewarding experiences I had were while teaching at summer school in the Bronx. The kids have been the most rewarding part of the experience. One of my students from summer school in the Bronx, Lewis, calls me every other day.

did you decide to get How did the Yale coaching QHow involved in Teach For Amer- Qstaff influence your decision ica?

A

I’ve always wanted to be a teacher first and foremost. A lot of members of Teach for America are leaders in their field, but I’ve always wanted to be a teacher. It spawned from my experience of working with students and members of the New Haven commu-

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to come coach? Did you reach out or did they?

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I’ve kept in very close contact with [head coach Rudy Meredith and assistant Todd Plourde]. I consider them family and I owe almost everything to them … When I found out I was going to be teaching so close by, I called Rudy up and said “Rudy,

you know I’m doing TFA right?”

He said, “Yeah.” I then called him later and said, “You won’t believe this, but they placed me in Connecticut.” I then called and told him I was placed in New Haven. Finally, when I was placed at Barnard, I called him up and said, “Rudy, you won’t believe this. I’m teaching 30 seconds from the soccer field.”

He just laughed. I could have been placed anywhere in the U.S., but I ended up 30 seconds from my field. You just can’t make this stuff up. I just wanted to stay involved so Rudy asked if I wanted to be a volunteer assistant coach. Teaching is my primary job but everyone needs a hobby. It requires my attendance at games that I would be at anyway; it requires my support, which I would give to my friends anyway. It was just too perfect to say no to. is it like coaching QWhat many of your former teammates?

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Well I haven’t been too involved yet. We’re still working with the coaches to figure out exactly what my job will entail. Not much has changed since my position as captain.

When I was on the team, the staff asked me for advice. I know the game well. I’m also a conduit to the coaching staff. Having that extra person there who knows the girls on a personal level helps out a lot.

players on the team like QDo having a coach who is basically their age?

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They look at me as a coach and as friend and hopefully as a leader. I’ve always been able to strike a balance as a leader of the team and as a friend.

They’re happy to have a familiar face nearby. While some might not feel comfortable talking to the coaches, they do feel comfortable talking to me and that makes the communication on the team that much better.

you see any similarities QDo or take anything away from your experience with TFA that you can apply to coaching and vice-versa?

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I think a big part of why I was accepted into the TFA program was because of my leadership. I consider myself a leader, someone that leads by example. I’m not talking about MVP here. To me, being a leader was always rooting for my teammates and always pushing my teammates to be better. Those are the kind of people TFA accepts into their core. Being able to talk to a kindergartner isn’t all that different from talking to adults. Basic life skills to be a person and a friend are things some 23 year olds haven’t mastered yet. Learning how to treat a teammate and friend is something that I learned being a leader for the team and has really helped me treat my kindergarteners the same way. My kids at Barnard and the girls on the team are really two different families for me.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

THE NUMBER OF FRESHMEN JOINING THE WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD AND CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS. Seven of the freshmen will compete in cross country events in the fall.