NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 28 · yaledailynews.com
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OKTOBERFEST GERMANY COMES TO YALE
STUDENT VOTERS
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Yale Dems, Republicans join forces to register new voters
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Police examine Harvard email threat
FOOTBALL SCORES ANOTHER WIN
#YSustain. The Office of
Sustainability kicks off its “Celebrate Sustainability” initiative today, launching an unprecedented number of events for the week. Monday’s lineup includes 10 items, such as a discussion on food justice and a tour of the Sterling Power Plant. Social media posts about the week’s events will be marked by the #YSustain hashtag.
Morning stretch. One sustainability event will take place from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. today, when Tess Hamilton ’17 is set to lead a hatha yoga session on Cross Campus. Students of all levels of experience and flexibility are encouraged to come and learn how to be one with Yale. Bulldog, bulldog. NCAA.com
featured a piece on Handsome Dan as part of its “Traditions” series. Videos about Iowa’s pink visitors’ locker room and Notre Dame’s “Play Like a Champion Today” sign preceded this weekend’s post, which retold the history of Yale’s mascot — college football’s first live one.
Not East Rock. A group
from Yale Outdoors scaled West Rock Ridge’s 700foot summit this weekend, beating the Friday morning sunrise. The ridge is located in a state park that stretches across the west side of New Haven, as well as Hamden and Woodbridge. It overlooks the Elm City metropolis from the northwest.
Everybody loves nature. On Sunday night, the YCC’s Facebook page shared a letter from Fossil Free Yale that is set to make rounds today as the group hopes to accumulate signatures advocating for divestment. “Bitcoin is [still] evil.” New
York Times columnist Paul Krugman ’74 reaffirmed his disdain for Bitcoin in a blog post entitled “The Long Cryptocon” on Saturday. Krugman, whose models are a central fixture in ECON 184, insists that not much has changed since he penned his “Bitcoin is evil” piece in December, saying he’s not sure that the hot, new currency ‘has any economic value.’
Skin-deep. At 6:30 p.m., Harvard professor Giuliana Bruno will discuss her newest book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality and Media,” which explores the substance of facades and skins in art, buildings and humans. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1964 Silliman College Dean John Palmer, serving the first of his 15 years in the position, opens the first round of interviews for Rhodes Scholarship candidates. The announcement specifies Yale’s unmarried, American students — then all male — between the ages of 18 and 24 as eligible to apply. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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hree games into its season, Yale Football is on a winning streak. After notching wins against Lehigh and Army in September, the Bulldogs routed Cornell in a 51-13 victory. Are more wins to come? See PAGE B1 for a full report.
Over 300 members of the Harvard University community received an email on Friday afternoon threatening them with a campus shooting. Harvard University police continue to investigate the threat, but another email, sent Saturday afternoon from the same address that delivered the first message, issued an apology for the previous day’s threats. The author of the original email signed their name as Boston resident Stephanie Nguyen, though the email name identifies the sender as Eduardo Nguyen. In the email — which was sent to 394 Harvard community members but was addressed to all students at Harvard — the sender said that she would arrive at Harvard University on Saturday at “11 clock” and shoot each student individually. SEE HARVARD PAGE 6
Pinkberry workers claim wage theft BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The apparent closing of the Chapel Street frozen yogurt shop Pinkberry is not as simple as it once seemed. Yesterday, the Pinkberry Corporate office issued a statement over email to the News saying that the store — which has appeared vacant as of late — is only temporarily closed. But employees interviewed believe differently, contending that the store is not only permanently closed, but also failed to pay
its workers. According to several employees, the frozen yogurt shop has withheld payment from many of the employees, even after being closed since late September. Some workers still have not received up to 800 dollars in payment, said Romello Pouncey, an employee who has been working at Pinkberry since it opened in April. In response to questions about worker wage fraud, Pinkberry Senior Vice President of Marketing and Design, Laura Jakobsen SEE PINKBERRY PAGE 4
“It’s on Us” focuses on sexual climate BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Over the past two weeks, student groups have come together to improve Yale’s sexual climate. As a part of Yale College Council’s new “It’s On Us, Yale” campaign, a number of student groups were asked to define how on-campus sexual and social climates can be improved. The YCC’s campaign is part of a nationwide movement announced on Sept. 19 by President Barack Obama,– with a stated goal of ending sexual assault on college campuses nationwide. After last month’s announcement, White House staffers approached several student body presidents at universities across the country, including YCC President Michael Herbert ’16, and asked them to implement the campaign at their respective schools.
While both the national and YCC campaigns ask students to sign pledges promising to fight sexual violence, YCC representatives have tried to make their initiative more Yale-specific. “The White House came out with a really good idea — especially for a lot of campuses who haven’t really begun these discussions yet — to have a pledge that people sign that hits the main points: sexual assault isn’t acceptable, lack of consent is sexual assault, bystander intervention and so on,” said Sarika Pandrangi ’17, who serves as a Calhoun representative for YCC, a Communication and Consent Educator and the Council’s “It’s On Us, Yale” project manager. “But our campaign is slightly different because we think that Yalies already know those things, so we want to push SEE IT’S ON US PAGE 6
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Since closing in September, Pinkberry has continued to withhold payment from employees.
VLOCK PROJECT ENDS WITH HOUSE OPENING
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ast Thursday night, the Yale School of Architecture’s Jim Vlock First Year Building Project culminated in the opening of a newly built house, located at 179 Scranton St. The house was designed and constructed by first-year students at the School of Architecture, who began working on their designs in January and then spent the summer building the house.
Bookstore arson suspect arrested BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Three days after an arsonist started a series of small fires in the Yale Bookstore last Monday, the police made an arrest. On Thursday, the New Haven Police Department released a description of the suspect based
on surveillance videos in the bookstore. Hours later, police arrested the suspect — a 14-yearold boy from New Haven — after his foster parent recognized him while watching WFSB news on Thursday evening and contacted the authorities. Police charged the suspect with arson in the third degree, reckless endan-
germent in the first degree and criminal mischief in the first degree. Police are not releasing further information about the suspect’s identity or where he was arrested because he is a juvenile, said NHPD spokesperson David Hartman. The search for the suspect began after the fire depart-
ment was called in to investigate an arson fire on Monday. After reviewing the bookstore’s surveillance footage, authorities found that the suspect used a lighter to start several small fires around the building. The security tapes also suggested that the suspect started a fire in the bathroom.
Following the Yale Police response to the fire alarm, the New Haven Fire Department arrived on site and requested the Arson Unit, University spokesperson Tom Conroy said in an email. The NHPD and fire department handled the subseSEE BOOKSTORE PAGE 4