NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 11 · yaledailynews.com
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CROSS CAMPUS
ODD JOBS THE POPE’S MANY ROLES, EXHIBITED
MAKING BANK?
POSITIVE POLICING
Yale graduates make less money than alums from most Ivies, DoE finds.
WARD 1 CANDIDATES DISCUSS HOW TO IMPROVE POLICING.
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Ward 1 outreach met with backlash
Cheers. Real recognizes real, as they say — thanks for the shout-out yesterday, Bain. In service of our mutual respect, we’ll conveniently ignore the fact that every single one of your main competitors is also coming to campus over the next few days. ’Til next year.
Democratic Primary should serve as a nice opening act to the second Presidential Republican Primary Debate, which airs tonight on CNN at 8 p.m. For once, Woad’s might not be the most chaotic part of your Wednesday night.
latest numbers have Ben Carson ’73 polling as the GOP’s fastest riser and best threat to topple Donald Trump. The most recent CBS News/New York Times numbers among Republican Primary voters peg the former neurosurgeon as having “strong leadership qualities” and compelling views on major issues. Carson now has 23 percent of the vote, compared to Trump’s 27 — no other candidate is even close.
Musing on McKinsey. Pierson
College will host a discussion on the “buzz” surrounding entrepreneurship, drawing on the experiences of Alex Cavoulacos ’08, founder of career services site The Muse, and Camille Gregory, a McKinsey Social Initiative fellow. No comment, however, as to whether or not McKinsey is holding its own information session tonight.
In case you didn’t hear. Last
night, Yale’s a capella groups ran across Old Campus banging on doors and singing nonsense to alert their newest members to their musical fate: Another tap night has come and gone, so you should be able to sleep more easily tonight. That’s a new one. But the night
didn’t end without incident. At around midnight, Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins alerted the University community to a rather bizarre incident that involved “a group of teenaged females” attacking an undergraduate by spraying him “with an unknown substance.” Still more troubling is the fact that this took place at the heart of campus near the Wall StreetHigh Street intersection. Sterling-goers beware.
Bake and Saltfish. Much as
it sounds like the name of a society you’ve never heard of, “bake and saltfish,” along with curry goat, is on the menu for tonight’s Caribbean Cooking Night, to be held in Silliman.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
2008 Grade point averages required to receive Latin honors at graduation increase slightly, continuing an upward trend over the previous two years. Among the requirements are 3.85 and 3.93 cutoffs for the magna cum laude and summa cum laude distinctions, respectively. Follow the News across campus.
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Freshmen Alozie and Griff start off strong on women’s soccer team. PAGE 14 SPORTS
Davis “master” decision came as surprise BY EMMA PLATOFF AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS
Similarly, Eidelson said dozens of students have knocked on doors for her campaign over the last two weeks, working alongside many of her fellow alders. Earlier this week, Eidelson announced endorsements from Mayor Toni Harp and state Sen. Martin Looney, as well as 19 current alders. Eidelson said she and Harp have been “effective partners” over the last four years, particularly in tackling youth issues in the city. But the candidates’ outreach efforts have left some students feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. Of the 12 freshmen interviewed, eight described the canvassing efforts of the Stark and Eidelson campaigns in negative terms.
When Stephen Davis, professor of religious studies and head of Pierson College, asked his residential college community in mid-August to stop calling him “master,” his announcement surprised many Piersonites and members of other colleges. It may also have come as a shock to his colleagues on the Council of Masters, who had been planning all summer to have an internal discussion about the title once classes resumed in the fall. The result was a widespread campus discussion that has turned Davis’s personal announcement into a debate that has been rapidly gaining national attention — an outcome that Davis may not have anticipated when he sent his email. Ten days after Davis’s announcement, the Council of Masters announced it would hold a meeting in September to discuss the form of address. Individual masters have since begun soliciting student feedback through in-person meetings as well as on an online submissions form, which will close on Friday. “There was miscommunication amongst the masters and Professor Davis, certainly, but the conversation was going to be happening anyway,” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said. Davis may be uniquely situated to guide a conversation about the title among his fellow college leaders, as he was named chair of the Council of Masters just this spring. The leader of the council is chosen through a series of interviews between the Yale Col-
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Separation at the head. The
ON TARGET
LEFT: STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER, RIGHT: FINNEGAN SCHICK/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Canvassers for Sarah Eidelson’s (left) and Fish Stark’s (right) campaigns have ramped up their efforts before today’s priBY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the two candidates make their final push for the Democratic nomination for Ward 1 alder ahead of today’s primary, their voter outreach efforts have generated backlash from students who say the campaigns’ on-campus canvassing has grown excessive. Today, polls are open for voters to elect the Democratic nominee for Ward 1 alder. The campaigns of the two Democratic candidates, Fish Stark ’17 and Sarah Eidelson ’12, quickly intensified as freshmen moved into their dorms in late August. Last week, they reached a fever pitch leading up to today’s primary. Canvassers for the cam-
paigns have knocked on every door on Old Campus and in the eight residential colleges in Ward 1 in order to convey their message to students across the University. But many freshmen, the primary targets of the outreach, have criticized the two campaigns, calling them “pushy” and “obnoxious.” Stark said his campaign has ramped up its canvassing efforts over the past week. In an interview with the News Tuesday afternoon, he said his representatives planned to canvass every suite on campus on Tuesday night. “We sent out as many canvassers as possible and we’ve knocked on the door of every registered Democrat multiple times,” he said. “Our strategy since March has been to have as many conversations with people as possible.”
Film finds its footing at Yale
W
hile widely regarded as a haven for the arts, Yale has historically been slow to embrace the study and making of film on campus — until last year, when the development of several new outlets indicated greater institutional support. Still, many question the administration’s commitment, and the viability of a Yale degree in the ever-challenging industry. CAROLINE WRAY reports.
BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER After his junior year, film and media studies professor Charles Musser ’73, then an aspiring filmmaker, left Yale College. Although he had engineered his own major in film studies as a special divisional major, he said that there was no one on campus to teach students even the most basic technical film skills.
UPCLOSE Musser returned to complete his Yale degree after two years, during which time he worked on an Oscar-winning documentary. He started teaching in the Film and Media Studies program in 1992, where he has since stayed. As the program has developed, Musser said he has tried to continually advocate for greater film offerings on campus. Several developments have taken place over the last year in an effort to fortify film resources: The art major added a filmmaking concentration, the Digital Media Center for the
Arts opened its access to all of Yale College, and a new student coalition, the Yale Film Alliance, hosted Yale’s first-ever Student Film Festival. Still, Musser said the Yale administration remains far from treating film as seriously as it does other art forms, such as music or theater. “Is Yale trying to start a filmmaking renaissance? I don’t know,” he said. “I’m eternally frustrated and optimistic at the same time.”
Schwarzman tours highlight building’s little-known spaces BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER In conversations about the new Schwarzman Center, Yale administrators and students are coming to a consensus on how to best utilize the space: Small, currently unused rooms on the first, second and third floors of Commons should be for students, not storage. During the first of two open house sessions, Senior Counselor to the President and Provost Linda Lorimer presented a vision of the Schwarzman Center on Tuesday that would turn many of the small rooms on either side of the Commons dining area into spaces for studying or small group meetings. The open house is the first stop in a series of “listening tours” organized by the Schwar-
zman Advisory Committee — a 27-member group of students, faculty and staff convened at the request of University President Peter Salovey — to solicit student feedback. Over the next 10 days, presentations similar to those made during the open house will take place in all the residential college dining halls. Both Yale students and members of the advisory committee said there is a lot of wasted space in the Schwarzman Center that most Yale students never get to see. “There is so much that could be done with the space that isn’t being done right now,” said Amy Nichols ’19, who went on the tour because she wanted to see the spaces before any renovations are made. One such space, the “Dome Room” on SEE SCHWARZMAN PAGE 6
BALANCING THEORY AND CRAFT
Alumni, faculty and students interviewed have noted that the academic community has been slow to recognize film’s scholastic value. Harvard University, for instance, did not add a “film studies” stream to their Visual and Environmental Studies concentration until 2004. Students wishing to study film at Brown University often concentrate in Modern Culture and Media, whose inception only predates that of Yale’s film studies program by a few years. SEE UP CLOSE PAGE 8
FINNEGAN SCHICK/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Open house sessions organized by the Schwarzman Advisory Committee showcase the building’s little-known spaces, such as the rotunda’s basement area, shown here.