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Pinkberry stands vacant
Like a scene from a movie
English PhD candidate James Franco posted a picture of himself boarding a helicopter to his Instagram on Tuesday night, indicating he was on his way from campus to New York City “like every Yale student.”
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46th anniversary of Garry Trudeau’s ’70 ART ’73 creation of “Bull Tales,” the comic that became the prize-winning strip, “Doonesbury.” Its first iterations were printed in the News, depicting quarterback Brian “B.D.” Dowling ’69 huddled with his blue-clad teammates.
Rest in Peace? This afternoon, School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern will give a talk on the “Life and Death and Life” of Paul Rudolph Hall, also known as the Arts & Architecture Building. Nonhumanities majors everywhere were left wondering about the meaning of life for large, concrete buildings. Nostalgic in New Haven In
an article published Monday in the New Haven Register, local lawyer William Dow listed dozens of noteworthy, now-defunct New Haven establishments, including the Crown Theater, the West Haven Speedway and Hood’s Ice Cream. Meanwhile, Yalies continue to mourn the demises of Commons breakfast, Safety Dance and Bladderball.
University to celebrate sustainability
as he left work at 6 p.m. “It has been closed in the middle of the day. It also never looked busy,” Walker said. “If they’re closed, it’s because they’re out of business” Why Pinkberry’s doors have stayed closed in recent weeks is unclear. Several business managers and students speculated that the store closed due to a lack of business. With four other frozen yogurt shops already established in the
HBD Tuesday marked the
Posterized A mysterious banner adorned the Yale Repertory Theatre’s main tower on Tuesday, featuring the likeness of School of Drama operations associate Ian Dunn. As of Tuesday night, no one had taken credit for the display.
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The University will kick off a promotion for its Sustainability Strategic Plan on Monday with the annual Celebrate Sustainability Week. The five-day environmentally-conscious celebration will feature over 40 events across different schools, disciplines and on-campus organizations. The week is designed to further the goals of the University’s Sustainability Strategic Plan — a three-year initiative announced by University President Peter Salovey last fall — by encouraging organizations on campus and in the community to engage the Yale population in sustainabilityrelated education and programs. Students and organizers interviewed said they hope the week’s events will bring greater awareness to sustainable practices on campus. “We’re hoping that this week ... will serve to empower members of the Yale community to become more active in Yale sustainability efforts and to promote better partnerships across the University,” said Ryan Laemel ’14, a Woodbridge Fellow at the Office of Sustainability. According to Laemel, the week will feature a greater number of events and participating organizations than in past years. Over the five days, students can participate in events ranging from a tree-planting ceremony to honor Yale employees, tours of both Yale power plants and a Monday conference on alternative fuels coordinated by Greater New Haven Clean Cities. In addition to the scheduled events, the Office of Sustainability is hosting a social media campaign called “sustainability selfies” that asks students and alumni to photograph themselves attending a Sustain-
subsequent Instagram post, Franco is captured on video inside his helicopter, wearing a black knit hat and watching over his kingdom, also known as Long Island.
On Tuesday, the Huffington Post published a blog entitled “Dear Jim Sleeper, Not Everything is About Yale,” in which writer Kirsten Han took on the political science lecturer, saying that she felt Sleeper over-generalized about Singapore’s political climate in an attempt to discourage the University from launching Yale-NUS.
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Local business owners on Chapel Street suspect that Pinkberry will be closing its doors after a mere five-month run. BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After serving customers for only six months, Pinkberry on Chapel St. stands vacant. Although Pinkberry management has not confirmed that the frozen yogurt shop has closed, several local store owners and New Haven residents speculated that the frozen yogurt shop has gone out of business. Thienson Nguyen, who manages Froyo World just down the street from Pinkberry, said the store has been empty since Sunday
at least. Pinkberry manager Jamie Karson could not be reached for comment on Tuesday. The Pinkberry corporate office also did not respond to a request for comment about the status of the New Haven location. The store first came to the Elm City this April, becoming the fifth frozen yogurt shop within a one mile radius of Yale’s campus. Starbucks shift manager Chris Walker said that the store has been closing at odd hours of the day starting about two weeks ago, when he noticed that the store was closed
SOM joint degrees proliferate BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Students at the Yale School of Management are pursuing joint degrees in record numbers this year. About 15 percent of the entering MBA class has enrolled in a joint degree program, a rate about twice that of the SOM’s peer institutions. The SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said that historically the largest joint degree program has been with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, but the numbers are increasing for JD/MBA and MPH/ MBA as well. Jain also said that beyond
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the students who pursue joint degrees, about three-fourths of the entire student body takes at least one elective course outside of SOM. “The pursuit by a student of a joint degree with another graduate or professional school at Yale reflects the commitment to acquire substantive depth in another discipline besides management,” Jain said. Jain said that SOM, in recruiting prospective students, strives to show its deep engagement with the rest of the University. This engagement is a distinctive and essential aspect of the SEE SOM DEGREES PAGE 6
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1982 Calhoun’s Thursday night Happy Hour gets relocated to the Colony Inn Hotel at 1157 Chapel St. Students involved in the move expressed disdain for the college’s SAC and excitement for the opportunity to move the event off-campus. It will feature hor d’oeuvres, drinks and a dance floor.
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1958 The Yale Dramatic Association selects Georg Buchner’s “Danton’s Death” for its primary fall production.
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WALLACE PROVIDES LEADERSHIP AMONGST RECEIVERS Grant Wallace ’15 has been second on the team in catches through his past three seasons starting at X for the Bulldogs. Wallace and captain Deon Randall ’15 remain reliable targets for quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16. Wallace’s father, Bob Wallace ’78, also suited up for the Elis.
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onnecticut is home to more chickens than people. In fact, we have more chickens than all of the rest of New England combined. Last year, our state’s roughly four million birds laid nearly 700 million eggs. Almost all of Connecticut’s chickens are owned by one large-scale industrial egg operation — Kofkoff Egg Farms. The company, located in the eastern part of our state, delivers eggs to most major supermarkets in our region. A Hartford Courant article this week linked Kofkoff Egg Farms to “battery cage” operation practices. Battery cages for hens are among the most inhumane of all factory farm practices. In a 2008 ballot initiative, California voters outlawed battery cages because of their excessive cruelty. In 2008 and 2011, attempts were made to similarly outlaw battery cages in Connecticut, but both efforts failed following intense opposition from agribusiness. Battery cage egg producers pour a lot of effort and money into preventing the public from learning the details of how their eggs are produced. As a result of intense lobbying by battery cage operations and other industrial agribusinesses, eight states (not including Connecticut) have passed “Agricultural Gag” laws that make it a criminal act to use undercover investigations to expose food safety, environmental or animal welfare violations on factory farms. Yale Law School’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Connecticut Bar Association’s Animal Law Section held a conference at Yale this past Saturday that examined the impact of Ag Gag legislation. These laws stifle food watchdogs by prohibiting filming at agricultural operations and slaughterhouses, compelling whistleblowers to reveal their identities and requiring undercover investigators to turn over videos of animal abuse to authorities within one to two days of filming. In Idaho, the latest state to pass an Ag Gag law, such whistleblowers face a year in prison and fines up to $5000 — the same sentence assigned to animal abusers. It is in large part due to undercover investigations — like those now outlawed in eight states — that we know how battery cage facilities typically operate. And that is something that Connecticut egg eaters and voters need to know. A typical battery cage egglaying house is a windowless shed that holds up to 100,000 birds. Inside, thousands of wire cages, each about the size of a file drawer, hold up to ten birds each. The cages are stacked five or six tiers high so that the excrement from the hens on upper tiers falls on the hens below, causing ammonia burns. From
birth to death, the hens never see the light of day, touch the ground or breathe fresh air. Each hen is allotted 67 VIVECA square inches MORRIS of cage space — less than Animal the surface of an iPad. That Spirits is five square inches less than a hen needs to stand up straight, and 236 square inches less than she needs to spread her wings — so for her entire life, she can do neither. Battery hens are forced to produce to up to 300 eggs per year, fifteen times their natural production rate. Lack of exercise combined with unnaturally high egg production causes severe osteoporosis in the hens. The hens’ legs become so brittle that they snap like twigs when handled. As brutal as the physical suffering is for hens in industrial egg operations, their inability to engage in their prime instinctual behaviors like perching, scratching, nesting and dust-bathing may cause even greater suffering. Battery hens are so tormented by their living conditions that these naturally affectionate and highly social animals start pecking each other to death and pulling each other’s feathers out. Egg producers’ solution to this problem is to cut their beaks off. The commonplace practice of “debeaking” causes so much pain that many hens die from shock, and those that survive suffer acute and chronic pain for the rest of their lives. Life is so hard for industrial egg-laying hens that one quarter of them die during the average 18-month laying cycle. Ninety percent of those that survive have broken bones or are hemorrhaging by the time they make it to slaughter, usually for pet food. The natural lifespan of a hen is seven to ten years. We are better than this. We need to stop sanctioning this cruelty-for-profit as citizens and as consumers. We can thank California voters for leading the way to more humane egg production. We must push our politicians in Connecticut to follow suit. Legislation to ban battery cages will likely be reintroduced in our General Assembly next year. This time we must make sure it passes. Until then, let us vote against unnecessary cruelty with our dollars and buy only naturally produced eggs from real farmers, not from battery hen factories. Supporting cruel practices is not an act we can stomach.
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— the bloody scalps of murdered Indians. To many Native groups and activists today, the irony is striking. The very same American society that claimed ownership of, and therein definitional authority over, what had become a hateful aspersion, was the same society that over 100 years later flaunted the slur as an ostensibly inoffensive team name. Worse yet, at its inception in the 1930s, the Redskins represented a virtually all-white league with a similarly homogeneous fan base. Yet the injury of commandeering a historically maligned people as an icon adds insult beyond mere semantics. Of the 32 teams in the league, 22 use animals as mascots; a fact that, to many Native Americans, equates their ancestors to animals. Few examples of comparably hurtful terms being plastered on billboards, clothing and television screens exist in modern society. But Native Americans in particular — due to genocide and stigmatization from the European world — remain a small, relatively powerless group in the circles of politics and business. Defenders of the Washington Redskins cite custom. “With
over 81 years of tradition created by thousands of alumni and millions of fans, the Redskins team name continues to carry a deep and purposeful meaning,” team President and General Manager Bruce Allen wrote in a letter to congressional lawmakers. What is this “tradition” of the organization? Let’s examine the unspoken precedents in Washington Redskins history: eight logo changes; one relocation from Boston to Washington, D.C.; five different stadiums; and, yes, even a name change in 1933 from the “Braves” to today’s “Redskins.” The unassailable, sacred foundation of tradition appears shakier when viewed “in context,” the very argument used by proponents of the football team’s name. But context is a tricky thing. Viewed in the context of the greater American story, Native Americans emerge as an obvious historical exception to the tradition of self-determination for groups, parties, societies and nations that willfully converge under the aegis of a common self-identity. Today, tribes and advocacy groups have repeatedly rebuked the idea that they will ever choose to identify with
the disparaging and archaic term forced upon them by their past antagonists. And for compelling reason. A prisoner is not free until every shackle is cut loose, and language — the term “redskins” in particular — invariably ties the Native American peoples to the history of oppression used for centuries to denigrate every aspect of their existence. Why wouldn’t Native Americans want to break free from this term and the history of subordination it evokes? Why shouldn’t they be able to? The continued use of the Redskins’ name both represents and emboldens society’s claim to own the prejudicial term. It is a possession that denies the tenet of self-identity to a people whose history is rife with such denial. Forcing an unapologetic “get over it” attitude on the various and diverse Native American nations reignites, every Sunday, a vitriolic spirit of minority suppression that runs antithetical to our values and doctrines, but sadly not our history. GRAHAM AMBROSE is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at graham.ambrose@yale.edu .
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oday, while most students at Yale attend class, our counterparts in Hong Kong are sitting in the streets, protesting against autocratic encroachment from mainland China. About a month ago, Beijing ruled that, although every Hong Kong resident could vote in the chief executive election, candidates had to be chosen by a selection committee, guaranteeing that only pro-Beijing candidates would be nominated. Last Friday, university and high school students went on strike. The protests escalated on Sunday as a large, pro-democracy group called Occupy Central joined. They occupied the front of Hong Kong’s city government headquarters along with other downtown areas in hopes of disrupting the business and political elite of this typically orderly city. What happened next was shocking. In response to an entirely peaceful demonstration, Hong Kong’s police cracked down with surprising force and faced protesters in the streets with militaristic guns and tear gas. The Chinese government and Hong Kong’s chief executive issued statements endorsing such police actions. This only caused the protest to grow and over 50,000 protesters donned goggles, cling film and rain coats. They used umbrellas to deflect
the worst of the gas and the spray. It is devastating to see the images of tear gas and armored police on the streets that I know so well. I could hardly believe that photos similar to the protests that engulfed Ferguson, MO, were emerging from my hometown. The rapid escalation of the protests in Hong Kong points to the deep fears and anxieties that are embedded in Hong Kong society. Neither the protesters nor Beijing seems likely to concede. Over the last decade, China has adopted an increasingly hardline position against open elections. At the same time, democratic leaders in Hong Kong have come to expect more and more. Today’s dissenters are making all-or-nothing demands for free and open elections. As Beijing fears that the democratic movement will spread and gain traction in the mainland, it is unimaginable that Beijing will walk back on its ruling, in spite of the thousands of protesters who are understandably angry. Today’s protests are a reflection of the radical polarization of Hong Kong society. While many Hong Kongers have rushed to assist the protesters, others call them radicals and violent dissidents. Popular opinion remains sorely divided over the protests and the fight for democ-
racy. While only a few months ago, roughly one in seven citizens voted to support Occupy Central’s agenda, nearly the same number of residents signed a petition against the Occupy Central movement. I am heartbroken to see Hong Kong torn apart by such polarization. On Oct. 1, I will stand with the protestors on the streets of Hong Kong in support of their call for democracy. I, too, yearn for democracy, as the needs of many disenfranchised and marginalized Hong Kong citizens have been neglected. Only through proper representation will the interests and concerns of our citizens be fully addressed. I believe that democracy is a crucial step in helping to fix our broken political system. But democracy will not flourish in a society that is divided and distrustful. In order for democracy to take hold, it is important for both sides — the Hong Kong government and political establishment as well as all those who struggle for democracy — to come to the negotiating table and build a new future for Hong Kong. Our “Wear Yellow for Hong Kong” movement is an overseas coalition of students who have pledged to work towards full democracy in Hong Kong. We support all efforts to rebuild
trust in our community through dialogue, persuasion, peaceful activism and popular demonstrations. We urge all parties to move towards reconciliation and compromise, as only with broad support can we find a path to successful democratic political reform. Although Hong Kong may not have truly free and open elections in 2017, we will work to build up the pro-democratic movement so that one day Hong Kong people will live to see true democracy realized. As I show solidarity with the pro-democracy protesters on Oct. 1 by wearing yellow, I also pray that the protests will end peacefully and bring about an era where a broad coalition will work toward the successful implementation of democracy in Hong Kong. Even if you may not know much about Hong Kong politics, it will be a powerful sign if college students across the country show their belief in the importance of democracy by wearing yellow. The global movement to “Wear Yellow for Hong Kong” supports not only pursuing democracy in Hong Kong, but also gaining support for our cause through peaceful activism. CHRISTINA WONG is a junior in Davenport College. Contact her at christina.wong@yale.edu .
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Malloy defends record in debate BY MATT NUSSBAUM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Seeking a second term in the governor’s mansion but facing a tight race to keep his job, incumbent Gov. Dannel Malloy forcefully defended his record Tuesday night in the second major televised debate with Republican challenger Tom Foley. The two gubernatorial candidates engaged in an hour-long debate at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, with Foley issuing indictments of the governor’s policies on topics ranging from taxes to crime. While some of his constituents criticize Malloy for lacking charisma, the incumbent delivered impassioned arguments defending his decisions of the past four years. Despite attacks from Foley for pursuing a decidedly liberal policy agenda, Malloy stood by three of his signature legislative achievements — post-Newtown gun control legislation, a minimum wage hike and the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act in the state. “We are investing in the future,” Malloy said. “Yes we have made sacrifices and yes it’s been hard, but we are making progress.” Malloy added that reductions in the state deficit were not made at the expense of state employees. Foley, a Greenwich businessman and former Ambassador to Ireland who lost to Malloy in a 2010 bid for the governor’s spot, derided the picture of progress that the governor presented. “The governor, sometimes I wonder if he’s living in the same state as the people I’m talking to,” said Foley. “This governor has no idea how upset people are in these communities.” Foley primarily attacked Malloy for raising state taxes by $1.5 billion, calling it “the largest tax increase in state history.” He also hit the governor on crime in cities like New Haven and Bridgeport, as well as tax credits for corporations which Foley said would not deliver good jobs for state residents. Malloy did not yield an inch, continually asserting that he is
proud of his record. The race is one of this year’s most closely watched gubernatorial races, with most political analysts calling it a toss-up. A reliable poll has not been conducted since early September, when Quinnipiac gave Foley a six point lead. Malloy beat Foley by fewer than 7,000 votes of over a million cast in 2010. Gary Rose, Chairman of Sacred Heart University’s Department of Government and Politics, characterized polls as mostly anti-Malloy as opposed to pro-Foley. However, Rose said Foley would have to do more than ride anti-Malloy sentiment to the finish line, adding that Foley needs a vision of this own.
The governor, sometimes I wonder if he’s living in the same state as the people I’m talking to. TOM FOLEY Republican gubernatorial candidate “That’s what’s been missing on his side — a vision,” Rose said. Foley also laid out a few of his own policy proposals at the debate, including a freeze in state spending for two years and a reduction of the state sales tax by one half of a percent. Malloy did not stay on the defensive on taxes for long, pointing out that Foley recently went two years without paying any federal or state income tax. Foley responded that he had not earned any income in those two years. “There is something wrong with America when someone with tens and tens of millions of dollars pays no income taxes,” Malloy said. Malloy was the first democrat elected governor in Connecticut since 1986. Contact MATT NUSSBAUM at matthew.nussbaum@yale.edu .
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Two years ago, attorney Sung-Ho Hwang was arrested at Criterion Cinemas for possession of a firearm. He has now filed a lawsuit in retaliation. BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER An immigration attorney who was arrested two years ago for bringing a firearm into the Criterion Cinemas movie theater has filed a lawsuit against the City of New Haven and Police Chief Dean Esserman, alleging false arrest and police misconduct. Sung-Ho Hwang, who practices law in the Elm City, was charged with breach of peace and interfering with officers in August 2012 after he brought a gun to a showing of the “Dark Knight Rises.” The gun was licensed, and all charges were eventually dropped in December 2012. Hwang, claiming that his reputation suffered in the wake of the incident, is charging the city with false arrest, arguing that the city held him in custody without probable cause, and instituted malicious prosecution. “This case is not about Second Amendment rights,” said Steven Errante, Hwang’s attorney. “This case is about vindicating Mr. Hwang’s reputation because he was arrested with no justification whatsoever.” In August 2012, around 20 officers responded to reports
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lines across the city. The lawyer’s reputation suffered a severe blow as a result, according to John Williams, a New Haven lawyer who specializes in police misconduct cases. Hwang’s strong public presence across the city, Williams said, only made the damage to his reputation worse. “He was a highly respected attorney in the community and had just been elected to be president of the New Haven County Bar Association,” Williams said. “According to conversation among a lot of lawyers in town, he was a likely candidate for a judicial position in the near future. Now he may still be, but there can’t be any doubt that an arrest like that would’ve had a terrible impact on his professional career.” Williams said that one of the major challenges in the case will be providing evidence for a damaged reputation, considering that damage to reputation is often intangible and difficult to quantify in monetary terms. Such cases are especially challenging when they are brought against the police, he added. “The average citizen or juror believes the police can do no
wrong,” Williams said. “But, as a former New Haven police chief once said, police departments recruit from the human race.” Nevertheless, neither Errante nor Williams said they did not think that New Haven had more police misconduct cases than any other city. Hwang’s arrest was more likely a one-time incident rather than part of a larger trend of false arrests, Errante said, adding that the arrest was likely made as a product of the fear that followed the Colorado shooting. When asked for comment, the City of New Haven communications office said that it is “extremely limited” in what it can say about pending litigation. “The City is aware of this matter and will respond accordingly at the appropriate time,” said New Haven Deputy Corporation Counsel Christopher Neary in an email to the News. “Suffice it to say for now The City believes that the New Haven Police Department acted appropriately under the circumstances.” The City has until Oct. 2 to respond to the lawsuit, according to the New Haven Register. Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .
Students raise funds for Kashmir BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER
Governor Dannel Malloy engaged in the second televised debate against Tom Foley — his competitor for the Republican nomination.
that a man had brought an unconcealed weapon into the theater. This incident came less than a month after the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, when a gunman opened fire at a midnight screening of the same film, killing 12 people. Errante said that Hwang understands the fear that must have accompanied the sight of an armed man in the theater, and also does not blame the subsequent police investigation. However, he said that Hwang’s suit takes issue with the way the case was handled after the police established Hwang’s weapon was licensed. According to Errante, rather than apologize for the mistake, Esserman ordered Hwang arrested to “save face,” rather than apologize for the mistake. “They arrested him for publicity reasons,” Errante said. “All sorts of police cars were there — a SWAT team and TV news crews had shown up. It became a big deal, and my supposition is the police chief didn’t want to walk out and say ‘False alarm; everybody go home.’” Esserman declined to comment on the lawsuit. Hwang’s arrest made head-
When the rains began falling on the Indian-Pakistani region of Kashmir on Sept. 2, relatives of Aaminah B’hat ’18 living in the area were warned about the danger of rising floodwaters. Her grandparents, as well as some of her aunts, uncles and cousins remained in their houses to ride out the storm. After days of limited communication with her grandparents, one of B’hat’s uncles managed to get a phone call through to their home. “We are fine. We are at —.” Then the line went dead. B’hat’s grandparents survived and were evacuated from their home via rescue boat days later. She is now one of the several students on campus striving to raise awareness about the disaster. In response to the massive devastation and a lack of international attention, the Yale Kashmir Relief Initiative, a recently formed student organization, is working to raise awareness about the disaster and collect funds for regional relief efforts. Regardless of the political controversy surrounding the border state — both India and Pakistan historically claim ownership of Kashmir — YKRI organizers are urging campus groups to come together at a time of crisis. “This might be a moment of hope,” said Marios Falaris ’14 of YKRI. “If we can work together on this [fundraiser], we can work together to find a broader political solution. This
is not a time to think about what the region stands for. Making a political statement would be the wrong approach.” Falaris and his co-coordinator Shalmoli Halder ’15 started YKRI shortly after reports of extreme flooding in Kashmir surfaced in early September. Both said they wanted to raise awareness about the disaster, as there has been very little media coverage of the crisis. Through multiple fundraising events this week, Halder and Falaris are working to raise at least $10,000 for the cause. They said they plan to send the money to the Edhi Foundation and Pragya, NGOs working on the ground in Pakistan and India, respectively. YKRI organizers also set up an online campaign through YouCaring — a free online fundraising site. On Saturday, YKRI co-hosted a cultural fair on Old Campus with the student group Yalies for Pakistan. Azzah Hyder ’16, co-president of YPAK, said the fair was aimed at both fundraising for Kashmir and promoting cultural awareness about the region. YPAK members — dressed in shalwar kamiz, the traditional dress of south and central Asia — handed out ethnic foods and played Pakistani music, encouraging hundreds of visitors to donate to the cause. “Even though Kashmir is a disputed territory between India and Pakistan, we had the opportunity to come together as two different communities and fundraise for the same cause,” Hyder said. “Kashmir is also an area that not many people on campus are familiar with, so we
were able to improve awareness of the region as a whole.” Upcoming YKRI events include “Party with a Purpose” tonight at Toad’s Place, as well as a panel discussing humanitarian crises on Thursday afternoon. YKPI’s fundraising week will conclude with a benefit concert in Battell Chapel Sunday evening where multiple singing and dance groups will be performing along with Yale musicians and spokenword performers. A moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony are also scheduled.
If we can work together on this [fundraiser], we can work together to find a broader political solution . MARIOS FALARIS’14 “We have a range of events [this week], but we are hoping to keep the conversation going about Kashmir,” Halder said. “We are interested in taking this dialogue forward.” Halder and Falaris agreed that while fundraising is the primary goal, there is also there the larger task of uniting campus organizations to look past political differences and collaborate. They said YKRI is already working with a number of groups including the South Asian Society, YPAK and the South Asian Graduate and Professional Association at Yale. YKRI said that getting concrete information regard-
ing Kashmiri casualties and displaced persons is difficult because flooding has cut off all communication in the region. Halder said some news outlets estimate that six million people have been affected on both sides of the border, leaving almost 20,000 dead and 200,000 stranded. Falaris said he has been studying the Kashmir region since middle school and wrote his senior thesis on Kashmiri identities. In coming weeks he will be traveling to the region for 10 months to conduct further research on the intersection between development and conflict. YKRI is just one example of the growing interest in international service efforts, Public Relations Coordinator for Dwight Hall Shea Jennings ’16 said. She added that similar groups campaigning for human rights — such as Amnesty International and the Myanmar Project — illustrate a large campus trend towards global service. “Groups like Reach Out and Global Brigades have expanded significantly,” Jennings said. “We also have established groups like Amnesty, who focus more on advocacy and awareness [...] As [Dwight Hall’s] institutional capacity has grown, we’ve been able to support more groups doing more ambitious work in this area, particularly direct service on the international scale.” The Kashmir region is home to 15 million Indians and Pakistanis. Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.” CHARLES V HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR
Language tables return to dining halls BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER This fall, students will once again have the opportunity to improve their fluency in a foreign language over dinner. The conversation sessions, called “language tables,” allow students to practice the languages they are learning in class through informal discussion in dining halls during meals. So far, many departments, including French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew have offered language tables to their students. Faculty interviewed said the dining hall conversations improve their students’ fluency and foster discussion with peers of different skill levels.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for using the language in a hands on way,” said Hebrew professor Ayala Dvoretzky. The tables aim to bring together students with varying levels of proficiency. One of the most rewarding elements of having a language table with mixed levels, Dvoretsky said, is watching the students from higher levels help those from a lower level. Russian professor Julia Titus said that because the Russian department has many heritage speakers come to the language table meetings, the conversations are an important opportunity for students to hear Russian spoken with a native inflection. Students i n te rv i ewe d
expressed similar views to Dvoretsky, adding that speaking with their more advanced peers provided motivation to continue improving their development in the language. “It’s really nice getting to speak with people who are level two or level three and knowing they started where I am and they are able to communicate pretty regularly and fluently,” said Hannah LaBovick ’18, who is taking level one Hebrew. The Hebrew department places such a high value on the tables that attending a certain number of language table meetings is required through the level four course. During her time at Yale, Dvoretzky said she has also seen
small groups of students create their own language tables for additional practice.
It adds a special element to language classes because you get to know your classmates. ABIGAIL ELDER ’17
Other departments with more students host language tables specifically for different levels of proficiency. The Spanish department, for
example, hosts two language tables: one for beginning- and low-intermediate level students, and another for high-intermediate and advanced students. Even though some language departments require language table participation, professors interviewed stressed the importance of keeping the content of the conversations informal. “A lot of time students will say to their teachers, ‘Why can’t we talk about current events in class?’” said French professor Ruth Kozim. “But, we have a syllabus and things we need to cover, so this is a setting outside of class in a non-graded situation to communicate in French.” Kozim added that she has seen measurable results in students’
speaking abilities when they participate in language tables. Abigail Elder ’17 said the conversations have helped her further develop her language skills. “It adds a special element to language classes because you get to know your classmates on a personal level as well as an academic level,” she added. Dustin Vessy ’17, who has participated at the Chinese language table, said he enjoyed his experience because it allowed him to meet Chinese professors he had not met before. Yale offers 53 different languages for study. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .
Development projects spur road work BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Construction at Chapel Street has frustrated local business owners and residents with dust, noise pollution and sidewalk closures.
Economic development projects in the Elm City have forced residents to navigate many closed sidewalks and construction-ridden streets in the past month. In an effort to spur economic growth, the city has undertaken several development projects in the past months, including the Route 34 Downtown Crossing Project as well as two different housing projects downtown. Deputy Economic Development Administrator Matt Nemerson explained that these largescale development projects not only require construction of physical buildings but also necessitate massive street repairs because underground gas, electrical and sewage lines must be expanded to accommodate the larger buildings. One such construction site is at 1104 Chapel Street — a University-owned property formerly occupied by Scoozzi Restaurant — where University Properties is bringing in new eatery Harvest Wine Bar and Restaurant. The construction at this site is related to drainage repairs according to Lauren Zucker, associate vice president for New Haven Affairs and University Properties. Although Yale students said they have not been significantly disrupted by the roadwork, some local businesses expressed frustration about the roadwork. Gene Dostie — manager of Derek Simpson Goldsmith, a jewelry shop located next door to the construction site at 1104 Chapel Street — said the noise and dust resulting from the road work have caused him and his customers frustration. “There has been a lot of noise. We’ve had to deal with jackhammers, cranes, drills,” Dostie said.
He added that on top of that, the street construction has caused a large number of parking meters to be withdrawn from the street in order to allow traffic flow. According to Dostie, many customers have complained of a lack of parking spots, often having to come back to the store at a later time just to find a parking spot. The construction does not seem to trouble Yale students, though. All four students interviewed said they were unaffected by the construction. Two students even reported not noticing the ongoing construction. The recent increase in construction projects, Nemerson said, results from construction companies’ belief that the economy is recovering from the economic crash of 2008. “Interest rates have been low for a long enough period of time to soothe those who were skeptical about whether it would stay low long enough for them to build and move people in,” Nemerson said. As a result of this renewed confidence, construction has begun on a variety of new apartment buildings. Nemerson also explained that there has been an increase in demand for apartment buildings for several reasons, including a growing desire to move to urban neighborhoods. “All these things are combining to make rental housing attractive,” Nemerson said. “You’re seeing demand that is in the thousands but the supply is in the hundreds. This causes developers to move in,” Nemerson said. A new housing development project on Crown and College will add 160 market-rate apartments to downtown New Haven. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .
Actress, activist discusses life values BY TRESA JOSEPH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite having acted in over 40 films, Nandita Das still claims that she never wanted to be an actress. On Tuesday afternoon, Das — actress, director and activist — sat down with some 35 students and faculty in the Davenport College common room. After showing a three minute montage of her work, she discussed her personal values and career trajectory. Rather than focus on her work in film, Das spoke mostly about her activism, stressing the importance of living a life driven by good intentions and wise choices. As an activist, Das has represented campaigns for the education of underprivileged children and violence against women. Das repeatedly mentioned the importance of stepping back and examining one’s own actions with perspective, putting honesty first. “We have insular lives: We judge the world through that lens and we don’t know what else exists,” she said. “If your intent in doing what you’re doing is completely honest, [then you can feel comfortable with your choices.]” When she chooses to take on a project, Das said, she ascribes much more importance to the story line than to the role she is cast in. In one of her films about the reproductive rights of women entitled “Hari Bhari,” Das played
a conservative, stern woman. Das said that she wanted was willing to play the role because she felt that the film had an important story to tell. “I want to be part of good stories even if I have to be the villain of that story,” she said. Das said that although she values her work in activism more, even as an actress, her films has almost always had important message pertaining to social constructs, whether that be homosexual relationships as in “Fire,” or rape as in “Bawander.” Das said she thinks the two worlds — that of film and that of activism — are closely related. There is little difference between a work of art and a work of politics, she said. But Das also said that she usually finds that films that are too heavy-handed often don’t persuasively convey social messages. “I think very [message-oriented] films, the ones that hit right on your head, don’t do the job. You want to be part of stories that are also interestingly told,” she said. Towards the end of the talk, Das touched on her views on Indian politics. When asked about the responsibility of second generation Indian-Americans to participate in Indian politics, Das said it should be left up to the individual. Identity is not as black-andwhite as nationality, and each second-generation Indian might feel differently about their responsibility towards the home
country, she said. “What does it even mean for me to be Indian?” she asked, going on to explain that she can’t determine what involvement others should have because everyone’s identity is different. Several students interviewed said they appreciated Das’s ability to talk about complex issues in an accessible way. Sonali Chauhan ’17 said she was surprised at the lack of diversity among the audience members — many of whom were from South Asia — and that she thinks Das touched on topics that are relevant to all college students. “It was very true to the heart — organic stuff that even we as mere undergrads can relate to,” she said. Gayatri Sabharwal ’17, who is also a staff reporter for the News, said Das discussed problems that are very relatable. Audience members also said they were impressed by Das’s involvement in activism. Visiting Professor Jim Bendell said it is significant that Das puts activism before acting. “We see a lot of movie starts and directors talking about social issues today, but [Nandita really cares] about social issues and then does acting as part of that,” he said. Das is the face of the “Dark is Beautiful” campaign, which aims to raise awareness about skin color bias. Contact TRESA JOSEPH at tresa.joseph@yale.edu .
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“Froyo is just happiness condensed.” DEMI LOVATO AMERICAN SINGER
Pinkberry still closed, vacant PINKBERRY FROM PAGE 1 area, it does not make sense from an economic standpoint to open another shop in New Haven, said Jenna Li ’15. Froyo World became the first frozen yogurt shop in New Haven when it opened on High Street in August 2010. Flavors opened on York Street soon after in the fall of 2011, and two years later, both Go Greenly and Polar Delight opened. Li proposed that both the location and the large size of Pinkberry were unfavorable to generating revenue. “What doesn’t make sense to me is that it’s right next to Froyo World,” Li said. “And they rent such a huge space, I don’t see how they could be getting enough revenue from frozen yogurt to afford that.” Nguyen conjectured that the store’s relatively high prices likely limited their profits. Unlike its local competitors such as Flavors, Froyo World and Polar Delight, which are selfserve, Pinkberry charges based on the size of the cup. Whereas the yogurt costs 49 cents per ounce at Froyo World, Pinkberry charged roughly five to seven dollars per cup, customers said. Kendall Borden, a Claire’s Corner Copia employee, said
she stopped eating at Pinkberry because she thought it was too overpriced. “It’s six bucks for a small if I want toppings on it,” she said, adding that the fact that she could not choose her own toppings at Pinkberry made the shop less attractive than its nearby competitors. Walker, who worked at the Starbucks next door to Pinkberry, said that several encounters with Pinkberry employees gave him the impression that the store was under poor management. He noted that the Pinkberry manager often sent employees to Starbucks in order to borrow supplies such as receipt paper and pastry gloves. “I can understand if you’re a local … but this is an established corporation,” he said. “Also, one time their manager came over and asked if we would give their employees free coffee in exchange for free frozen yogurt. My suspicion is that their manager just wasn’t qualified.” Pinkberry currently has six other locations in Connecticut. Isabelle Taft contributed reporting. Contact MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .
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Students at the School of Management, taking advantage of their new facility, are branching into additional disciplines at a record high. SOM DEGREES FROM PAGE 1 school’s teaching method, he said. Getting admitted to two programs, Jain added, is a unique educational opportunity that cannot be replicated elsewhere. SOM tends to attract students who are interested in the intersections between business and society, which is one of the reasons why it has a higher percentage of joint degrees than many other business schools. SOM professor Howard Forman said a factor that contributes to the high proportion of joint degrees at SOM is the proximity of the University’s different schools to each other. “I think at Yale we have the uniqueness of a single campus where there’s a medical school, a school of public health, a school of management, a law school and a forestry school really within walking distance of each other, and I think that facilitates this kind of collaboration between the schools,” he said. Forman also said the high incidence of joint degree students at the SOM is due to
encouragement from central administrative figures such as University President Peter Salovey and University Provost Benjamin Polak. SOM Professor Andrew Metrick said the joint degree program is practical because it allows students to pursue areas of interest outside SOM while still taking SOM’s core curriculum. “The idea is you take the knowledge of the core and then you apply it somewhere,” he said. SOM Lecturer Sarah Biggerstaff said joint degree programs give variety to the academic environment at the school. Joint degree students, she said, bring new perspectives to classroom conversations based on the experiences they have in the other Yale schools where they are also taking classes. Eight students at SOM who were interviewed, including four who were not pursuing a joint degree, said they see the value in the endeavor. Three of these students, though, offered criticism of joint degree programs. Alisha Rahemtulla SOM SPH ’16,
who is pursuing a joint degree with the School of Public Health, said the integration between the two schools could be improved. Likewise, Liz Bullock SOM ’15 said professional schools should be better integrated. Because each school has a different academic calendar, she said, professors struggle to decide when to have exams and students may have to work around conflicting vacation schedules. But Erik Norell SOM FES ’16 said it was very easy for him to pursue a joint degree with the School of Forestry and that he thought the relationship between the two schools was very strong. “My feeling is that understanding environmental issues will be a core piece of business operations from here on out,” he said. The enrollment in the SOM class of 2015 was 540 students, 36 percent of whom majored in business at the undergraduate level. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” TERENCE MCKENNA AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER
University pushes sustainability initiative
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A group of students employed by the Office of Sustainability, known as the Sustainability Service Corps, is launching a new campaign to promote heightened awareness of sustainability measures that can be done around campus. SUSTAINABILITY FROM PAGE 1 ability Week event or engaging in an environmentally-conscious action. The Sustainability Service Corps, the group of students employed by the Office of Sustainability, will also hold events throughout the week in prominent areas of campus. Members of Sus-
tainability Service Corps said they will be holding a “waste audit” on Cross Campus where a trash bin will be overturned and then analyzed for pieces of waste that could have been recycled or composted. There will also be another campaign outside Durfees that urges students to reduce their plastic bag use at the store. “I think [this week] is awe-
some because it reflects the message that we’re trying to get across, which is that sustainability shouldn’t be limited to the Office of Sustainability or to environmentally-focused groups,” said Natalia Perelman ’17, sustainability coordinator for Branford College and a member of the Sustainability Service Corps. “It should be something that’s prevalent
and that we think about no matter where we are and what we’re involved with.” Perelman added that last year, she had not known that Celebrate Sustainability Week existed. She said she hopes this year will bring heightened awareness. President of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition Daniel Leibovic ’17, said that while YSEC
was not able to formally coordinate any events for the week, the organization and its partners — including Project Bright, Bee Space and Fossil Free Yale — will continue to hold weekly meetings open to the Yale population. “While the calendar of Celebrate Sustainability Week definitely provides a great concrete step for anyone interested in
learning more about Yale’s environmental scene, it really is only a snapshot of what goes on every week here at Yale,” Leibovic said. The week will kick off on Cross Campus at 8 a.m. on Monday morning for a free yoga class hosted by Yogis at Yale. Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .
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AROUND THE IVIES
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AMERICAN NOVELIST
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BY PRIYA RAMAIAH “How have you been feeling lately?” reads a question in green italicized font. “Feeling empty, hopeless,” reads one answer choice, indicating depression. “Troubled by traumatic events,” reads another, indicating post-traumatic stress. The question is the entry point into an anonymous online mental health screening, part of a new suicide prevention website launched by Dartmouth’s counseling center last week that provides crisis intervention resources and wellness tips. The website also describes the recently implemented Campus Connect program, which trains students and campus personnel to recognize suicide warning signs in others. Arlene Velez-Galan, a staff counselor who spearheaded Campus Connect at the College, said plans began ten months ago. Since then, more than 300 students, faculty and staff have been trained.
We’re streamlining the resources… The idea behind [the screening] is to ensure that there isn’t a student falling through the cracks. AMANDA CHILDRESS Assistant Director, Student Health Promotion and Wellness First developed at Syracuse University and since implemented on about 75 campuses, Campus Connect targets “gatekeepers,” or community members who have direct contact with students. In Dartmouth’s case, Velez-Galan said, undergraduate advisors are often first to notice students in crisis, adding that at-risk students tend to reach out to peers before professionals or adults. The new suicide prevention program was incorporated into UGA training in the winter
and this fall. So far, about 200 UGAs have been trained, along with members of student mental health group Active Minds and the athletic training staff. Five UGAs interviewed DARTMOUTH said they found the suicide prevention training beneficial. Liane Makatura ’17, Stylianos Tegas ’17 and Younji Lee ’17 emphasized that they had not previously realized that it was effective, not harmful, to ask a person directly if they are experiencing suicidal thoughts. As a result of the training, Lee said she looks more actively for warning signs in her freshman residents. These signs can include changes in personality, poor class attendance, increased isolation and impulsivity, according to the counseling and human development website. More than 20 staff members have learned how to conduct Campus Connect trainings, Velez-Galan said, adding that interested student groups and community members may undergo training upon request. Active Minds co-president Jake Donehey ’17, who participated in the training with his group last year, wrote in an email that he found the program, particularly the group exercises, effective and helpful in looking for distress in peers. Training sessions for faculty members and other groups on campus are scheduled throughout the fall. Both the new website and the Campus Connect training fall under the banner of Dartmouth Cares, an initiative launched by former Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson in spring 2013 to promote mental health awareness, crisis intervention and suicide prevention on campus. Assistant Director of Student Health Promotion and Wellness Amanda Childress said Dartmouth Cares allows students to access the help they need. “We’re streamlining the resources,” Childress said. “The idea behind this is to ensure that there isn’t a student falling through the cracks.”
BY MELISSA RODMAN “It’s not about religion, it’s about humanity,” read a poster held up by a student at the Science Center Plaza Monday. The student was one of fifteen or so participants in Monday’s “dead-in,” an event hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Committee to raise awareness of the roughly 2,100 people who were killed in Gaza this summer. Members of the PSC encircled Halah Y. Ahmad ’17 as she read the names and ages of the men, women and children who died in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire. As Ahmad continued to read the names, a few participants assumed “dead” positions on the ground. “Two thousand one hundred people were killed in Gaza this summer. Today, we remember their names and their broken families,” Ahmad said, as onlookers took pictures of the students and their posters. Ahmad repeated these sentences several times throughout the event. At several points during the reading, names of individu-
als from the same family were read. As their names were spoken, more PSC members dropped to HARVARD the ground. Some Gaza victims were toddlers, Committee members said, while others were close to eighty years old.
Throughout the summer there was a solidarity throughout the world. FATIMA M. BISHTAWI Co-chair, Palestine Solidarity Committee Aside from small shifts of their feet and hands, the students lay still on the plaza. When bottles of water were placed by their feet, no one took a sip. “I was very moved by the fact that it was peaceful, civil and
informative,” said Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter, who looked on. PSC leaders said they planned the event to promote open conversation about the people who were killed throughout the summer. Members of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and Student Labor Action Movement also participated in the “dead-in.” “Throughout the summer, there was solidarity throughout the world,” PSC Co-Chair Fatima M. Bishtawi ’17 said. “We didn’t want to lose that momentum.” After more than an hour of reading, a student with an “I stand with Gaza” poster was the only one left standing while Ahmad continued to read names through her megaphone. On the sign’s white background was an image of a dove clutching an olive branch. “It was very moving to hear the names read thoughtfully one by one,” professor of Comparative Religion and Lowell House CoMaster Diana L. Eck said. “It was a very important event, and I was happy to be here for each and every name.”
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“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” GEORGE W. BUSH ’68 FORMER YALE CHEERLEADER
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Reno, as captain Deon Randall ’15 missed all of 2012 with an injury. That experience has proven invaluable to Wallace’s leadership and guidance of underclassmen. Wideout Robert Clemons ’17 has five catches for 39 yards, and freshmen Ross Drwal ’18 and Mike Siragusa ’18 each have three receptions, with Drwal scoring a touchdown last week against Army. Wallace said that this time has allowed him to better understand his role in the offense and to become a leader among the Yale receivers. “Deon is the captain, he’s the vocal leader of the receiving corps, and I’m more of a leader by example,” Wallace said. “That translates to the whole offense ... Whether it’s through vocal leadership or leading by example, the whole offense has taken it upon themselves to lead the younger guys in an effective way.” Part of what makes Wallace a strong example for younger players may be that he rose to the top of Yale’s depth chart without ever seeing time on the field in his freshman year. Unlike other offensive playmakers Roberts, Randall and running back Tyler Varga ’15, Wallace began his Yale career on the junior varsity squad. It was not until after a full year of practice, in which he won a team award for most improved wide receiver, that he began starting in his sophomore year. He quickly made an impact, catching 35 passes for 371 yards and leading the team with three touchdown receptions. “When I came in as a freshman, the game was definitely fast for me,” Wallace said. “That year of JV football, [of] playing on scout teams, really helped me learn what it was [like] to be a college receiver ... I got faster, I understood the receiver position better.” Before setting foot on Yale campus as a freshman, Wallace already had ties to Yale football. His father, Bob Wallace ’78, played under long-time head coach and college football hall-of-famer Carm Cozza as a running back. Though the elder Wallace did not get any significant playing time, he went on to work as a vice president and general counsel for the St. Louis Rams, who won a Super Bowl in 2000. Grant Wallace said that he is honored to follow in the footsteps of his father at Saybrook College and on the football team, and that his father feels the same way. “He said that seeing me on the field and being able to help this program, make catches and score touchdowns has been the proudest he’s ever been,” Wallace said. “He’s worked in the NFL for 30 years and has won a Super Bowl, and to hear him say that’s the proudest he’s been is really, really cool.”
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adopted thus far — Murphy said that even over 500 children later, the emotions and sheer power of the moment a team meets its adoptee have not diminished. “It’s hard because we’ve lost 103 children. I’m around death. People see me and they run,” Murphy said. “You don’t know how long a child’s journey going to be, whether it’s a day or a week or a year — that’s how insidi-
ous this disease is. But one day at a time, that’s why we live in the moment and play in the moment.” Yale opens its 2014–15 campaign on the road against rival Quinnipiac on November 14. The Bulldogs will hope to have Riley is in attendance. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
still able to compete in the less physically demanding fleet race, winning one and placing second in two of the races over the weekend. The Bulldogs demonstrated their depth by sending more sailors to the Salt Pont Invitational held at URI. In the A division, Eric Anderson ’16 and Sarah Smith ’15 placed eighth. The pairings of skipper Henry Lewis ’16 and crew Amelia Dobronyi ’17 along with skipper Claire Huebner ’18 and Caroline Colwell ’18, split the duties on deck in the B division piling up enough points for a sixth placed finish. Team Captain Graham Landy ’15 along with fellow All-American Charlotte Belling ’16 took the weekend off from sailing for Yale, participating instead in the US Sailing Team Racing Championships alongside a number of Yale alumni. In addition to Landy, and his non-alum crew, former Yale skippers Chris Segerblom ’14 and Thomas Barrows ’10 along side crews Belling and Marlena Fauer ’14, respectively, made up the Eli
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They called a pass play, and I just happened to be open. Morgan [Roberts ’15, quarterback] threw it to me. Then I made a juke move, and found the end zone. It was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had.
went through your mind when you QWhat scored? [I was] just excited. It was great. There were so many fans there and it was such a big game. All my family was there and all my teammates were freaking out. My teammates were making fun of me watching film because they said I was running faster after I scored a touchdown than before. I don’t know about that.
of family, your brother used to QSpeaking play wide receiver for Lehigh, the team Yale beat in week one. Was he at the Lehigh game as well?
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Yes, he was. He came to the Lehigh game too. It was nice to get the win. I said, ‘who are you cheering for?’ and he said ‘I’m cheering for you, I’m cheering for Yale.’
first, but once I made my first catch I gained a little confidence, and that’s good to have. is your relationship like with quarQWhat terback Morgan Roberts, and did the Army game change that at all?
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He’s a very nice guy. He’s a great leader and he runs the offense very well. He’s really easy going, and he’s the type of guy you want at quarterback. I stretch right by him in the line, and so I get to talk to him everyday. We have a pretty good relationship.
your performance, your stats were QAfter broadcast on ESPN. Can you talk about what that was like?
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Oh man, my friend took a picture of that, sent it to me, and put it on Twitter. I was like, ‘no way.’ All my friends from home, from Omaha, saw that. I didn’t think that was ever going to happen. The fact that I was on ESPN and that I got a touchdown just put me on cloud nine. It was so cool to see.
are your goals for the rest of the seaQWhat son?
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you talk about the significance of the QCan Army game?
Just improvement. I need to get better every day. I’m still a huge work in progress. I switched positions this year so I’m trying to be a better player and a better teammate each day. Just improve overall.
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It was so special, and such a traditional game. It was the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl, all the students on campus were excited about the game, the faculty was excited — I know some professors went. The team was so pumped up for the game. It was a cool experience.
to your touchdown, you had QIntwoaddition other catches against Army. Why do you think you were getting so many touches this game?
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Drwal reacts to first touchdown
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The Bulldogs hope that Riley can offer hope both during the season and beyond.
dominated fleet. Landy and Belling helped the former Yalies and their fleet, named Hoodrat S.W.O.F [Stuff with Our Friends], finished fourth out of 12 competing teams. “This was my first time sailing the US Team racing championship,” Landy said. “It offered a nice break in the season and definitely helped improve our skills. There were a ton of great sailors there, both undergrads and recent graduates, and it was nice to sail in a team of mostly alums. Even though I was not with the team this weekend, I was really impressed with the performance of our younger team members. We’ve been practicing really hard and it’s exiting to see their hard work paying off.” Looking ahead to next weekend, the Bulldogs will further divide the kennel, traveling to four different regattas across the Northeast. The slate includes a trip the Coast Guard Academy, where the Elis will attempt to claim the Danmark Trophy for the second straight year.
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I don’t know, really. I guess that’s the way the game goes. You don’t know if you’re going to get a lot of catches. The quarterback makes his reads, and it turns out I got a couple of catches in that game. I was a little nervous at
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It was really hard. I played quarterback last year, and wide receiver is completely different. During camp, I was really struggling. I was learning a whole new offense. I was learning all these hand signals, and just basically a whole new position. It was really stressful and I struggled at the beginning. Luckily, there are great leaders on my team. Deon Randall ’15 and Grant Wallace ’15 and all the other guys helped me out. Just watching them putting in a lot of work [is] helping me improve a lot — but there’s so much work to do. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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ARTS & CULTURE Dramat’s American classic
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The Dramat’s first fall experimental production, “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller, will attempt to create a juxtaposition between the traditional nature of the show with a more abstract and modern set. It will run through Oct. 4. BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER To open its 2014–15 season, the Yale Dramatic Association will bring elements of Greek classics into the work of a legendary American playwright. The Dramat’s first fall experimental production, “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller, goes up Thursday night at the Yale Repertory Theatre, incorporating themes found in ancient Greek drama and post-World War II suburban life. Director Isaac Hudis ’16 and producer Hannah Worscheh ’17 said the play’s audiences could look forward to the cast and crew’s mixing of classical tropes with a modern storyline, which he said makes the play an exciting choice for
the first big Yale production of the year. “What was exciting was looking at the show as a modern classic in the same tradition as Ancient Greek theater. There’s so many references — structural and content-wise — to ancient Athenian theater,” Hudis explained. Such references, Hudis and Worscheh explained, are accounted for by the play’s storyline. Centering on the life and family of Joe Keller, a factory owner who sells cracked cylinder-heads to the Air Force during WWII and becomes responsible for the deaths of 21 pilots, the play takes place over the course of a few hours and deals with Joe’s sons, one of whom is missing in action after the
war, while the other attempts to marry the sweetheart of his missing brother. Drama ensues as Joe attempts to reconcile the gravity of his crime with his devotion to his family.
We didn’t want to be a traditional play [so] we decided to juxtapose the traditional with modern. HANNAH WORSCHEH ’17 Student producer Hudis and Worscheh said that the play reminds them of themes found in tragedies by
Sophocles and Euripides, many of which also revolve around the story of a family after a war, a son’s return and the moral consequences of a grave crime. They said that they read a number of such plays in classes they took at Yale, noting that the “modern classic” aspect of “All My Sons” inspired their interest in the play. Part of the production design focuses on the tension between the modern and the ancient by invoking classical images such as a Greek chorus and an Athenian amphitheater. In addition to preserving the Classical nature of the play, Hudis said, the minimalist set and photorealistic props in the production aim to depict a realistic story while leaving some
of the aesthetic aspects open to interpretation by the audience. For example, the Keller house in the production consists of just the structural frame of a house, creating what Worscheh sees as a shift away from more conventional approaches to the play. “Particularly because we didn’t want this to be another traditional play, we decided to juxtapose the traditional nature of the show with a more abstract, modern set,” Worscheh added. Iason Togias ’16, who plays the lead role of Joe Keller, said he believes that the minimalist set design will still keep audience members immersed in the play despite its lack of extravagance. Referencing the complexity of the play’s plotline, Togias added
that the most rewarding aspect of the play for him has been the task of portraying a character that is simultaneously responsible for the evil of killing 21 people and making sacrifices that the average individual would make for the good of his family. “Trying to marry those two sides of Joe, the charismatic businessman and the horrifically self-interested family man while at the same time portraying him as fundamentally human has been the biggest challenge and also what’s made it a really satisfying experience,” Togias said. Performances of “All My Sons” will run through Oct. 4. Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .
Scholars talk Indian arts, global trade BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER A symposium held on Tuesday in the Loria Center aimed to highlight new research in the field of 18th and 19th century Indian art in a variety of media. “Hybridity, Art and Material Culture in India, 1700-1850” brought together a diverse group of scholars for presentations of original findings on Indian textiles, paintings and sculpture. Three of the four presenters — Sylvia Houghteling GRD ’15, Holly Shaffer GRD ’15, and Heeryoon Shin GRD ’15 — are candidates in the History of Art department’s Ph.D program at Yale. The fourth speaker, John Guy — who is the curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City — gave the event’s keynote address, titled “Waging Europe’s Wars in Asia: Problems of Reading an 18th-century Chintz.” Guy’s discussion, which emphasized that Indian textiles played a central role in the nation’s trade relations with the rest of the world, centered on a ‘chintz’ — a type of fabric frequently exported from India to Europe — that the Met recently acquired. “Painted cloths are to India what porcelains are to China,” said Guy. “Nobody did it better.” Depicting a military conflict between European parties, the chintz was likely commissioned by the directors of the East India Company at Fort St. George to
hang in their boardroom, Guy explained. He mentioned difficulties that scholars had experienced in trying to date the cloth, but noted that it likely hails from the period following the French loss of the Pondicherry region to their British foes. Both Houghteling and Guy highlighted textiles in their presentations. Guy explained that Indian textiles were used as the principle medium of exchange in the international spice trade, and that the history of textiles in India is largely driven by the global demand for spices that emerged in the period. He added that these textiles primarily consisted of painted cottons, manufactured through a labor intensive process that often involved various combinations of two major techniques: “mordenting” and resist-dying.
Painted cloths are to India what porcelains are to China. Nobody did it better. JOHN GUY Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art Houghteling expanded the discussion to the broader subject of textiles as an art medium. Her hope, she said, was to reassert the importance of the dyer in the history of chintz and look beyond the painted cloths’ surface decorations to the dyes that give color to
the designs. In doing so, Houghteling continued, one has the ability to understand the fabric “outside of the narrative of Western intervention.” While painters were obligated to base their designs on patterns sent by patrons — often Europeans — dyers retained control over their processes. She added that she was equally interested in the histories of the cloths themselves, not just in the designs that adorned these fabrics. “There was a lot of movement between regions: Circulations of artisans due to famine, or due to patronage opportunities,” she noted. “What I’ve tried to do is think about the kind of stories that are built into the cloths themselves, [such as] the migratory stories of artisans.” Shaffer, for her part, examined the paintings in the collection of Nana Fadnavis, an influential statesman involved in the Maratha Empire’s Peshwa administration. Considering works on paper as well as the wall murals that adorn three of the rooms in Fadnavis’s ancestral home in Menavali, Shaffer discussed the development of a distinct artistic style in the Peshwan period, particularly during Fadnavis’s reign. Shin’s research shifted the symposium’s focus into a detailed analysis of sculptural decorations on the Amethi Temple in the Indian city of Banaras, while emphasizing the series of winged figures that adorn the temple’s exterior. Though “celestial women” such as these figures have
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Experts on 18th and 19th century Indian art presented on textiles, paintings and sculptures at a symposium. traditionally been featured as temple decorations throughout India’s history, Shin said, these figures differ in their long robes and elaborate headdresses — a nod to contemporary Islamic courtly contexts. History of art Professor Tim Barringer explained the symposium’s purpose as both an opportunity for Houghteling, Shaffer
and Shin to share “nuggets of their dissertations as they come to fruition,” and a platform for Guy to present his own research, stemming from an exhibition at the Met titled Interwoven Globe. “Before, I hadn’t ever really considered these particular aspects of either architectural decoration — wall paintings and sculptures — or textiles in this way,
so it was really illuminating to hear these presentations by such distinguished scholars,” said Mollie Ritterband ’17, who attended the event. The “Interwoven Globe” exhibition was on display from Sept. 2013 to Jan. 2014. Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .
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“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.” PETER JACKSON NEW ZEALAND FILM DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER
Filmmaker explores Neo-Nazism BY PIERRE ORTLIEB STAFF REPORTER Having received numerous racially-charged death threats in the past, film director and journalist Mo Asumang came to Yale last night to discuss the history of violence in Neo-Nazi groups across the world. Yesterday evening, the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures screened Asumang’s “Die Arier” to an audience of over 100 people in William L. Harkness Hall. The film, whose title translates to “The Aryans”, is a documentary in which Asumang journeys across several countries in search of the meaning of the term “Aryan,” uncovering the roots of Neo-Nazi racism and ethnic hostility in the process. In a discussion that followed the screening, Asumang — who is the daughter of a Ghanaian father and a German mother — said she hopes that her film will raise awareness about the extent to which racism prevails in the modern world. “It is very important for me. The fight against racism is very heavy, but what I went through is positive,” Asumang said. Seeking to open up the remaining enclaves of racism in an ever-growing, globalized world, the film depicts Asumang confronting and attempting to interview protestors at NeoNazi rallies in Eastern Germany. Then, questions over the meaning of the word “Aryan” take her to a small village in Iran, where she expects to find individuals who fit the historically accurate definition of the term. In their conversations, these people tell her that “Aryan” has been distorted for purposes of hate and war — a tragic misinterpretation of a word that originally refers to a people who abide by principles of love and peace. Asumang then travels to Montgomery, Alabama, where she interviewed Ku Klux Klan members and a former undercover FBI agent, whose work led him to infiltrate an American Neo-Nazi organization. In her talk, Asumang explained that she was largely inspired to make the film by an incident in which she received death threats from a group known as the “White Aryan
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Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Mo Asumang visited the Yale campus for a screening and discussion of her film “Die Arier,” which focuses on Neo-Nazism and racism around the world. Rebels,” adding that the film is her attempt at both engaging in an act of profound self-reflection, and making forward strides in a struggle against racism. The screen, she noted, was her opportunity to “change the little things,” while at the same time questioning the beliefs of those whom she called “hate-sellers” — racists who actively promote hate as a means for them to gen-
erate revenue. When people do not question the facts they are presented, she explained, they are blind and can become intoxicated with racism. “This racism thing only works if you fuel it with hate,” she noted. It is important to attempt to soothe this, she added. Many members of the audience were not only surprised by the emotional depth of the film,
but also by the terrifying prevalence of racism in the modern world. Asumang added that she would persist with her personal exploration of racism, seeking not only to “find out more about [herself and her] humanity,” but also to discover more ways in which countries struggle to selfidentify their roots. The question of her own nationality — and
its relation to the term Aryan — remains at the center of her personal fight against racism. Audience members interviewed said they were emotionally moved by the level of racism in Germany and the United States, as depicted in the film. “Asumang did an amazing job at highlighting the absurdity of believing in any sort of racial supremacy,” said Tim Rudner
’16. Dhruv Chand Aggarwal ’16 added that he enjoyed the way Asumang contrasted the persistence of racism across countries. “Die Arier” was nominated for the “Prize of the Ecumenic Jury” at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival. Contact PIERRE ORTLIEB at pierre.ortlieb@yale.edu .
Artist-scholar discusses cloud paintings BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER A Tuesday talk at the Yale Center for British Art used an unorthodox approach to bridge a historical gap between 19th century paintings and modern day sculpture. Damian Taylor — a visual artist and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Oxford who is a vis-
iting scholar at Yale this fall — addressed an audience of roughly 30 people on the subject of English romantic painter John Constable’s “Cloud Studies,” a name given to a series of cloud-filled skyscapes that Constable painted nearly two centuries ago. Taylor drew a connection between the paintings and several works by a strikingly different artist, Roger Ackling, a modern artist who was
known for using recycled materials in his art. Taylor emphasized the way in which each painting in the series encapsulates a single moment, noting that Constable’s later pieces highlight the passage of time. “[One painting] depicts a very precise moment, which can never be repeated,” Taylor said. “It highlights the absolute moment of something happening but
without any particular reason as to why it’s that moment.” Taylor said he believes Ackling’s work is different from Constable’s in that many of Ackling’s creations were made by manipulating light to change the appearance of objects such as wooden blocks, which would not be possible in the presence of clouds. One example, Taylor explained, would be Ackling’s “Voewood,” a
6 x 6 x 2.5 cm cylinder of oak with stripes created by directing sunlight through a magnifying glass. He explained that he thought the relationship between Constable and Ackling was clear in that both highlighted the importance of light in their works, even though one relied on the power of sunlight to create his work while the other required painted objects that block sunlight.
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Damian Taylor, a visiting scholar and Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Oxford, gave a talk about the English romantic painter John Constable’s “Cloud Studies” series.
The paintings — about a dozen of which are on display at the Center — were not intended to be exhibited as works of art, Taylor explained, but rather as a glimpse into Constable’s method of painting realistic cloudy skies. These clouds mean something different from other elements of a landscape, he noted. Taylor discussed the debate that exists among art scholars about the orientation of one painting in the series, noting that the museum recently had the painting flipped upside down. This debate persists amid input from art historians and meteorologists alike, he added. The confusion about the painting’s orientation follows from the absence of the horizon, Taylor explained, adding that his interests lie with what happens once this horizon disappears. Taylor also discussed Constable’s influence on his own artwork, showing viewers some of his long-exposed photographs that resemble the painter’s work. Taylor’s lecture is part of the YCBA’s “Art in Context” lectures, a series of gallery talks held at the center on selected Tuesdays throughout the year. YCBA Education Curator Linda Friedlander said that Taylor was selected to be a visiting scholar at Yale through a highly competitive process, noting that she thought the autobiography that Taylor presented to her was one of the most original she has ever read. Most attendees interviewed said they enjoyed the lecture, though one audience member said she had trouble hearing Taylor. “It was really interesting,” said Amanda Kallenbach, a New Haven resident. “It was also interesting to hear about his work.” The next “Art in Context” talk will be held on Oct. 7. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .
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Drwal ’18 talks transition BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Wide receiver Ross Drwal ’18 made three catches, including one for a touchdown, against Army last weekend. Thanks to his performance, Drwal’s stats were displayed on ESPN, something the Omaha native “didn’t think was
ever going to happen.” The News talked to the former high school quarterback to discuss his recent performance, along with the rest of his freshman season. first touchdown was QYour against Army. Can you walk SEE Q&A PAGE 10
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Captain Deon Randall ’15 has been, alongside Grant Wallace ’15, a reliable receiver for quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16. BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale football team has gone on the offensive in the first two weeks of its season. The strategy has been successful, with the Elis piling on a total of 103 points, 1,308 offensive yards and 14 touchdowns in its 2–0 start. In order for head coach Tony Reno’s no-huddle offense to work as well it has, all pieces of the puzzle need to operate in unison. One of those pieces,
wide receiver Grant Wallace ’15, has been a major part of the attack since Reno introduced it in 2012. And in his senior season, he remains a key to the team’s offense. As a starting X receiver in Yale’s spread offense since his sophomore year, Wallace’s role is to block for running backs and receivers along the perimeter and also to provide a sideline option for quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 in single coverage, he said. Though his blocking abil-
ity cannot be directly measured beyond the 642 rushing yards Yale has tallied this year, it is clear that he has proven a reliable target for his quarterback over the years. The St. Louis, Mo native has recorded the second-most catches on the Bulldogs in each of his three seasons as a starter, including this year, when he has caught 13 passes for 168 yards in Yale’s first two games. Nine of those completions were quick passes to the outside for first downs.
Bulldogs continue to dominate BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The coed sailing team divided and conquered this weekend.
SAILING Over the weekend the No. 1 coed sailing team split up over three events, displaying their talents across the Northeast. Two Elis qualified for the ISCA Men’s single-handed National Championships while the other Bulldog squads placed third and fifth at the 32nd Hood Trophy and Salt Pond Invitational, respectively. Skipper Mitchell Kiss ’17, who placed fourth at the national event last year, qualified for the 2014 finals with a second placed finish at the New England Championship Event. Newcomer Malcom Lamphere ’18 also qualified with a third place finish. “It felt great on the water,” Kiss said. “I had a lot of confidence but I knew that it was going to be a tough regatta. My experiences last year gave me a lot more confidence in myself and made me more relaxed because I knew what to expect.” The event, held at Boston College, was hampered by poor wind conditions throughout the weekend and saw a remarkable comeback from Lamphere. While only the top four advance, the rookie skipper sat in sixth place at the
end of the first race day. By the final race the Lake Forest, Il. native had climbed the ladder, sitting in fourth place, but only five points separated him from three other challengers vying for the final qualifying position. In the ensuing race, Lamphere vanquished the other captains on the high seas, claiming first position and moving up to third place overall in the Championship qualifier. “I was very impressed with Malcolm’s performance especially because when it came down to the last race, he won and showed us that he can perform under pressure,” Kiss said. “I am very confident that if we continue to train hard together for nationals we will be able to do very well.” Elsewhere in the Boston area, the Elis placed third overall at Tufts in the 32nd Hood Trophy. Despite terrible wind conditions, which only allowed four faces over the two day event, Ian Barrows ’17 and crew Meredith Megarry ’17 came in third in the A division. In the B Division, skipper Marly Isler ’16 and crew Natalya Doris ’17 ended up in eighth place. Barrows, who won the New England Singlehanded Championship in 2013 and placed 11th in the National Championships, suffered a knee injury, which kept him out of the competition this year. However, the All-American skipper was SEE SAILING PAGE 10
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“[Wallace] is a rare species of receiver that is physically gifted and also intellectually football savvy,” Roberts said in a message to the News. “This is not Grant’s first year making an impact on our offense ... but I do believe he has made great strides this off season to become a standout player in this league.” Wallace is the only starting Eli wide receiver with two full seasons of experience under SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10
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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 has hit receiver Grant Wallace ’15 13 times for 168 yards this season.
For Riley, hoops provide hope BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER Whenever scandals rock the sports world many observers at home become a bit disillusioned with athletic competition and why they care so much about it.
MEN’S BASKETBALL Yale men’s basketball point guard Javier Duren ’15 may have been able to sum it up best with just a few words.
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Point guard Javier Duren ’15 cited Riley as an inspiration.
“Sports can change lives, man,” the senior leader of the Bulldogs said. This week provided the fans of Yale’s men’s basketball team perhaps its best reason to root for the Elis when Yale officially welcomed Riley Mack to its roster on Tuesday. Mack is not a four- or five- star recruit poised to star at Yale’s John J. Lee Amphitheater or garner All-Ivy recognition when this season comes to a close, but his arrival may be the most touching in recent school history. Riley, a 14-year-old Connecticut resident originally from Florida, was adopted by the Bulldogs through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation. The organization, founded by Denis Murphy and inspired by his courageous daughter Jaclyn, matches children suffering from brain tumors to college programs across the country. Riley has been combating his vicious ailment with awe-inspiring strength since the age of three, persevering despite setbacks and both physical and mental anguish. In the Yale home locker room and in the company of his mother, Donna, Riley met his newest set of teammates, primed to support him in his battle. “It gives me the chills to see how the team embraced Riley and his mom,” Murphy said. “And they know it’s a long-term commitment. This isn’t a one game or a one season deal. This is as long as Riley is alive.” The pairing demonstrates more than just a touching story of a
14-year-old boy’s life journey, Murphy said. It shows that sports provide hope in the face of adversity, support and unity in times of loneliness and a reason to smile when the harsh realities of life are far too overwhelming. In the words of Duren, it can change lives. Head coach James Jones echoed his starting point guard, stating that the impact of sports is impossible to quantify. “What sports have done to galvanize people, you can’t put a price tag on,” Jones said. “It’s invaluable.” For Riley, this pairing has already paid dividends. Murphy relayed how Riley has often been unable to muster the energy necessary to complete his physical and occupational therapy sessions. Riley, however, was invigorated by the excitement of meeting more than a dozen male players. He also received a brand-new Yale jersey — he will wear number one — hanging up in a locker with his name on it. That excitement quickly transferred into energy. Riley went on to play with the Bulldogs for over an hour at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, the most physical therapy he has completed in some time, according to Murphy. “[Riley] sits down in his house a lot and rarely gets up ... and he stood out on that basketball court in front of his mother and she was shocked,” SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 10
THE NUMBER OF RECEIVING YARDS PER GAME FOR FOOTBALL WIDE RECEIVER GRANT WALLACE ’15 IN 2014. Wallace has 168 total yards on the year, including six catches for 101 yards last week to finish as the Elis’ leading receiver.