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And so it begins. An information session for Studies in Grand Strategy will be held this evening at 6 p.m. in WLH 119. May the odds be ever in your favor.

The most excellent of sheep.

On Tuesday morning, Business Insider published a list of the “22 most successful Yale alumni of all time.” The usual suspects — including former presidents Bill Clinton LAW ’73, George W. Bush ’68 and journalists Fareed Zakaria ’86 and Bob Woodward ’65 — were joined by Elis of newer fame like Allison Williams ’10 and Lupita Nyong’o DRA ’12 in the article.

Can’t have everything.

However, all those presidents don’t do much for Yale’s reputation in the tech world, as illustrated by another Business Insider article from this week: “The 20 schools with the most grads at Apple — and Harvard and Yale didn’t make the list.”

In that world, San Jose State University is king, with its 1,063 alumni working for the company.

Tech’s time to shine. Away

from Apple, Yale techies descended upon the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s Demo Day Redux event last night, showcasing ventures like Rally Bus, Tuckerman & Co., Beleaf and wrkIN, which innovate in areas like transportation and herbal tea.

Vogue voyage. A Tuesday

night Boston Globe article described the efforts of Yale librarians Lindsay King and Peter Leonard to comb through 100 years of Vogue magazine to identify social trends over a century of the publication.

Employing big data-style techniques, King and Leonard analyzed publication style and cultural preferences as catalogued by Vogue’s pages.

Back at the scene of the crime. The Beinecke Library

is hosting journalist Michael Blanding, who will discuss his book ‘The Map Thief’ at 4:30 p.m. Blanding’s book tells the story of E. Forbes Smiley III, who made a career out of stealing maps, including those he tore out of books in the Beinecke in 2005.

Fast food. New York Times

columnist and Yale Sustainable Food Program director Mark Bomford will be speaking at SSS 114 this evening about his book, “How to Cook Everything Fast: A Bettter Way to Cook Great Food.” Don’t come hungry.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1965 “Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy,” an undergraduate committee of AmericanEast Asian policy releases a statement of purpose to call for political settlements with Vietnam and global recognition of communist China.

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Yale may import Harvard CS course

BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS

want to stop [illegal immigration], we should stop and enforce comprehensive immigration legislation rather than amend our Constitution.”

However, Gonzales was quick to note that immigrants with questionable legal and criminal status should be denied any pathway to citizenship. With the exception of children who were brought to the U.S. against their will, Gonzales said that amnesty should be avoided at all costs.

Despite these views, Gonzales suggested a pathway for current ille-

Harvard University’s Computer Science department may soon be hacking into Yale.

Computer Science 50, commonly referred to as CS50 — Harvard’s introductory computer science course and one of the largest classes in the college — could become available to Yale students beginning in fall 2015, according to a Wednesday article in the Harvard Crimson. Yale’s Computer Science department is currently considering a proposal from Harvard CS50 instructor David Malan to create a joint program in which video modules of the course would be live streamed into Yale classrooms.

Computer science majors at Yale expressed mixed feelings about the prospect of the curricular addition. While some were excited about the idea, most students interviewed expressed hesitation about the direction in which a partnership with Harvard may take the department.

Yale Computer Science Department Chair Joan Feigenbaum confirmed to the Crimson that she had received an email from Malan proposing the introduction of the course to Yale. But additional steps remain before CS50 can find its place in Yale’s course listing. In particular, the

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Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke to the YPU about his controversial views on pathways to citizenship.

BY OSCAR GARCIA-RUIZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Illegal immigrants should not be eligible for amnesty, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales argued Tuesday night.

In the debate — which asked whether illegal immigrants to the United States should be granted citizenship and was sponsored by the Yale Political Union — Gonzales argued that citizenship should be limited to native-born individuals, and those who apply through formal channels.

Gonzales, a son of Mexican immi-

grants, served as attorney general during the second Bush administration and has adopted a controversial stance on immigration policy that stresses strict obedience to the letter of the law.

Still, Gonzales supports immigration reform that would allow undocumented immigrants currently residing in the U.S. to become eligible for citizenship through a defined pathway that avoids full amnesty.

“As former Attorney General and a citizen who believes in the rule of law, I cannot condone anyone coming into this country in an unlawful status,” Gonzales said. “[But] if we

Crime drops in Conn.

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER Crime in Connecticut fell substantially last year, Gov. Dannel Malloy and law enforcement representatives announced Monday.

This year’s “Crime in Connecticut” report revealed a drop in the crime rate of 8.6 percent in 2013 — bringing the state’s number of reported violent and property crimes down to its lowest level since 1967. New Haven witnessed a similar trend, with violent and property crimes down 9 percent.

The announcement comes in the midst of a tight gubernatorial election. And the significant drop in crime bode well for Malloy, said University of Connecticut political science professor Ronald Schurin.

“It’s always a good thing

when governors can point to a reduction in crime,” Schurin said. “[Crime is] not as much of an issue nationally as it was in the 1960s, but it’s certainly an issue here in Connecticut.”

The release of the data should help Malloy build support and contrast himself to Republican candidate Tom Foley, who has recently mapped out an urban agenda focusing on Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, Schurin said.

He added that Malloy can also use the data to position himself as a strong advocate for gun control. In the nearly two years since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Malloy has become one of the most vociferous advocates of gun control in the country.

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Harp decries domestic violence

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER New Haven resident Cheryl D’Argento was not allowed to make phone calls or invite guests to her home for 11 years before she found the courage to leave her abusive relationship.

Connecticut was once a pioneer in [domestic violence] services, and today we are behind most other states.

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D’Argento and her ten-yearold son are two of over 50,000 survivors of short- to long-term domestic violence in the city.

“The answer to why I didn’t leave is easy,” D’Argento said.

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Resident Cheryl D’Argento spoke about exiting an abusive relationship.

Medical marijuana dispensary opens

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER A few years ago, Nick Tamborrino never would have imagined that he would one day be the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary.

Now, Tamborrino — who was previously employed as a pharmacist at both Bridgeport and Yale-New Haven health systems — owns Bluepoint Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary that serves over 350 patients in Branford, Conn. The dispen-

sary, which opened its doors on Sept. 22, is the sixth in the state to open since Prime Wellness began operating in South Windsor at the end of August.

“The more I researched about this, the more I was intrigued,” Tamborrino said. “I think we’re going to see tremendous breakthroughs in the next few years.”

Tamborrino added that he chose to open the dispensary in Branford because of the location — the clinic is on the outskirts of the city, and Branford is close to Yale-New Haven hospital and

Smilow Cancer Hospital, both places that Tamborrino hopes Bluepoint can build partnerships with in the future.

Although the sale and distribution of medical marijuana in Connecticut has been legal since 2012, dispensaries have only completed the full licensing process within the last few months.

According to Michelle Siegel, deputy commissioner for the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, the regulatory framework for medical marijuana and its dispensa-

ries is almost identical to that of any other over-the-counter drug. Each dispensary registered is required to go through a rigorous process of licensing, inspection and employee background checks.

In order to qualify to use the dispensary’s products, a patient must be a Connecticut resident over the age of 18 and have one of 11 approved conditions, including cancer, Crohn’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. After receiving a physician’s approval, the patient can register on the state’s website

to receive a medical marijuana registry card, Siegel said.

With this card, a patient is free to buy marijuana from a licensed dispensary in Connecticut, in the form of ground flour as well as in tinctures, edibles and oils, Tamborrino said. While all six dispensaries are currently in operation, Director of Operations at Prime Wellness Brett Sicklick said these dispensaries receive the marijuana from only one grower, Theraplant, located SEE MARIJUANA PAGE 6

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A drop in the ocean W

hen it comes to climate change, I often feel like a hypocrite.

I make a lot of noise about the problems climate change poses, but fail to turn that noise into action. I’ve known for years that we need to drastically reduce our collective fossil fuel consumption, yet I continue to take cross-country road trips, buy consumer plastics and fly home to Minnesota for breaks. I can’t really justify these luxuries to myself, because doing so would be difficult. Instead, I choose not to think about them. In the meantime, I raise my hand in class and decry “big oil” and its dirty grip on our nation’s politics, distancing myself from fossil fuels, party politics and the problem of climate change itself.

On the occasions when I do step back and consider my place in the larger climate change narrative, I am often frustrated by how small I feel.

Our climate, our world, our future … it all seems so massive that my own place in the solution isn’t clear. Sure, I can choose not to eat burgers in the dining hall because of the considerable carbon footprint of beef production; but the fact of the matter is that even if I never ate another burger at Yale, the beef would still be delivered to our dining halls every day until I graduate.

When I think about this as I’m standing in front of the burger grill, it’s not hard to justify picking up a burger. After all, the carbon has already been invested in the process; why waste it?

Clearly, the burger dilemma isn’t one that can be applied to all decisions concerning climate change. However, I mention it because it does a good job of illuminating one of the key mental roadblocks I face when considering climate change — the “drop in the ocean” philosophy. It’s the idea that the individual actions that we take to make a positive impact, like carpooling or recycling or refusing to eat industrial beef, matter very little in the grand scheme of things. It’s the idea that even if I don’t get on SunCountry Flight 243 to MSP International Airport, that plane will take off from JFK with a full fuel tank and land in Minneapolis with an empty one — the process is already set in motion, and I can’t do anything to stop it.

That’s a scary thought. It’s hard to hope for a better future when you feel like one drop in the ocean. It can be impossible, even.

But perhaps I feel so hypocritical because I’m framing the entire climate change narrative the wrong way. Climate change is difficult to grasp, both because of its geologic time frame and scary implications. Boiling the entire problem down to a situation in front of the beef grill in Pierson is too simple; it’s unproductive. Climate change is much more complicated than a single decision made here or there. It’s complex, webbed and overwhelming.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS BIGGER THAN OUR DECISIONS To create the kind of collective political will that will generate concrete action, it’s essential that we come to terms with that complexity. By doing so, it’s possible to eliminate some of the internal conflict I mentioned earlier. Leaving the guilt behind means we can approach the issue from a whole new angle — we can view ourselves as part of the solution, not as part of the problem.

Partially because of this optimism, I’ve decided not to fly home for October break.

Homesick as I am, it just doesn’t feel right. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think that skipping this one flight will make much of a quantitative difference in our carbon crisis. The flight will definitely take off without me. But by framing my decision as a personal symbol of my commitment to tackling climate change, I think I can accomplish something. I can advocate for political action if I’m willing to accept the lifestyle changes that serious policy reconstruction will bring about.

I’m not flying home for October break because I want to explore my own relationship with climate change more thoroughly. I want to discover how invested I really am in reducing carbon emissions. I want to spend the break productively, working with the Yale Decarbonization Challenge, hanging out on the Yale Farm, catching up on sleep.

Climate change is here to stay, so I’ll be on campus trying to figure out my place in the solution.

'FLOPSY' ON 'UNIVERSAL RIGHTS MATTER'

Annie Cook Woodside, Calif.

Aaron Lewis Glencoe, Ill.

Christopher Wan Wellington, Fla.

Let's show up T

he Saturday before last I had one of my best days at Yale. It was one of those special days that glimmers in the mind, the memory of which I will call up when I nostalgically remember those bright college years. The day was so special because I spent it at the Yale-Army game. My time at the game reminded me of the powerful obligations we have to our school, as well as the ways we seem to be falling short.

As members of Yale College, we ought to create a vibrant community, one that replaces the networks we leave behind. Our ability to create a united and invested College should be an important criterion for judging our success here. Yes, we have other communities here at Yale. Sports teams, clubs and cultural houses all serve as important spaces and modes of interaction for interested students. They enrich our collegiate experience. However, they cannot make up the totality of our experience. If you are not interested in long-distance running, then the tight-knit community I find in the cross-country team is not of much use to you. We bury ourselves in our activities, and as a result, we end

up self-segregating and missing out on the incredible diversity that first drew us to Yale. It is only when ISA QASIM we have this broader community that it The becomes posPasserby sible to share our individual passions in an enriching way. But I worry that we are losing touch with the College as a whole.

On that Saturday, I got to be a part of the larger community. Sitting on a bench watching the game with thousands of my classmates, feeling our emotions rise and fall as one, storming onto the field after the win, the pride we all felt in seeing how our team played — all that was incredible. Yale is a big place.

We always say we love Yale when outsiders ask. But it’s rare to feel a real connection to the other random student wearing a Yale shirt.

Events like the Yale-Army game, the inauguration celebrations last year and hockey’s national championship give us these rare moments; they are concrete

manifestations of the place. They give us a way to love our whole school, beyond our particular place within it. These moments can build on each other. If I feel connected to the violinist cheering next to me in the stands, I will be more inclined to go to see the YSO when they next play. And maybe he’ll come see me race or read my column. And in the years to come, we’ll both be more likely to attend reunions, reach out to old acquaintances and give back to the school.

And yet I worry that we do not take sufficient advantage of the opportunities to build this community. When I got back on campus, it seemed that most people had left by half-time and just assumed we lost the game. It was a deflating experience, and it shattered the sense of unity that I had leaving the Bowl. Bemoaning our athletic apathy is old hat, but there is a more general point here.

Our attitude to all these events seems to be one of entitlement.

We expect the football team to put on a good show for us or else we will leave. If the presidential inauguration didn’t include free cotton candy, would as many students have come out

to celebrate? Too often we forget our role in crafting a rewarding college experience. Rather we expect others to provide it for us. The contrast between our attitude toward Yale and that of West Point cadets across the field, standing the entire game to watch their perennially losing football team and proudly singing their school songs in defeat, could not have been more jarring.

John F. Kennedy supposedly got his famous line from an old headmaster, who would say “Ask not what Choate can do for you, ask what you can do for Choate.” We have lost that ethic at Yale and, bombast aside, we are poorer for it. A place like Yale can merely be a four-year detour or it can become a cherished home, the memory of which we hold onto for the rest of our lives. It is only by committing ourselves to the larger community, outside of our particular niche, that this larger meaning becomes possible. So this Saturday, when the Bulldogs take on Dartmouth, I hope you, too, will show up.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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s we usher in the season of over-priced pumpkin spice lattés and chilly noses, the collegiate “Y” sweater is as common a backdrop to our campus as the Gothic architecture.

These sweaters lend us a new lens through which we can understand our community ideals. While we might hesitate to express school pride, wearing a Y sweater gives us a sense of ownership of our University.

In order to build a campus community, particularly when we first arrive as freshmen, we have to discover how to love Yale and how to function within it.

Our communal wellbeing is contingent on our individual commitments to a shared endeavor of accepting our membership in the Yale community.

If we understand what it means to accept this community, then we can begin to understand how feelings of identity originate in the other communities we belong to — communities defined by geography, ethnicity or other criteria. Likewise, we garner a greater understanding of how identities develop more generally.

Standard conversations on school pride are usually framed by the idea of our simultaneous diversity and shared identity. Worth focusing on, and often overlooked,

is the component of school pride where we demand authentic ownership of who and what we are as individual Yalies.

Is it redundant to wear something that communicates an obvious truth? Yes. Is it unnecessary to remind the people in our classes that we are Yale undergraduates?

Probably.

The Yale sweater cannot be comprehensively demystified in this column, and it would be naïve to suggest that wearing a sweater is the only way to uphold community values. But, worn with authenticity, the meaning of the Y sweater becomes compelling by its own force. The sense of school pride generated by wearing the sweater is later manifested in other ways.

That force needs to be accepted whole-heartedly, but not blindly.

That force does not excuse us of our responsibility to check our school pride and the way we talk about the opportunities Yale affords us.

Likewise, using the prevalence of the Y sweater as a unique metric of community ownership does not mean that our identity as Yale students consumes us or demeans other aspects of ourselves.

Initially, these sweaters intrigued me because I was uncomfortable admitting that I went to Yale.

Over the summer I was asked where I was going to college while getting a haircut. “You must be one of those smart kids then,” the woman cutting my hair said in response, scrutinizing my split ends. I shifted uncomfortably in the chair, nervous not only about my haircut, but also about the association being made based on where I was headed to school.

What was probably meant as a compliment felt undeserved.

What had I done to demonstrate this smartness? How could I grapple with these situations where my merit was reduced to a brand — Yale?

It is a difficult and important task to reconcile the abstract Yales — those built by the media, rankings or our hairdressers — with our daily experiences of the real Yale.

The trouble with associations is that they often rely on the admissions view book edition of our University. In reality, the sublime elements of my time at Yale cannot be encapsulated in a marketing scheme.

Going to Yale does not mean, among other things, an automatic six-figure job after graduation, a flawless undergraduate experience or a designation as “one of those smart kids.”

It took me a while to view my identity as something too valuable

to be politicized without my consent — by buzzwords like William Deresiewicz’s “excellent sheep.”

My identity is no longer a necessary casualty to the embarrassment spurred by others’ responses to Yale. As members of the Yale community, we make concessions, including occasional discomfort, in exchange for all this place offers.

As much as we might want to, we cannot isolate ourselves from others’ opinions of Yale.

In our classes filled with mobs of Y sweaters, we are shown the potential for greater personal and communal wellbeing, regardless of whether or not the wearers articulate that aim. We do not need to accept the problematic aspects of Yale, but we do need to operate in spite of them. Without ownership, students will only further buttress the often hollow and misplaced judgments that critics make about our higher education choices.

Yale is neither its glossy images nor its simple definitions. When we choose to wear a Y sweater, we begin to create a community where we can collectively achieve more growth, clearer identity and warmer wardrobes.

KELSI CAYWOOD is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at kelsi.caywood@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“I don’t live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box. I would put curtains on it.”

CARMEN DELL’OREFICE AMERICAN MODEL AND ACTRESS

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, OCT. 7

A previous version of the article “Pro-choice group reemerges on campus” incorrectly stated that the Reproductive Rights Action League at Yale only has one member. In fact, RALY has recruited 25 members so far.

A previous version of the article “NRA to visit Yale” misstated the views of Becca Ellison ’15. Ellison did not say the event would be inappropriate, nor did she invoke the Newtown shooting in explaining her concerns about the National Rifle Association.

Yale swaps computers

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER In another cost-saving measure, the University is changing computer providers.

In June, Yale Information Technology Services announced a University-wide agreement in which all standard computers purchased through SciQuest — Yale’s online catalog and ordering system for electronics — will change from Dell to Lenovo. This change follows a recent review with the ITS Advisory Committee and a subsequent bidding process among PC companies to determine which computer provides the best value to the University, Associate Director in the Chief Information Office Susan West said. Although ITS administrators said this shift allows for more competitive pricing and greater convenience, some students and faculty raised questions regarding Yale’s switch from an American business to a Chinese vendor.

“Our PC committee weighed company location along with numerous other factors to select the winning vendor,” West responded. “All vendors considered have offshore manufacturing models; however, Lenovo ended up offering Yale the best value.”

In the initial announcement of the shift, Russell Sharp, Executive Director of the Chief Information Office, said that Lenovo PCs are priced 20 to 25 percent lower than their Dell equivalents. He added that transportation time will also be markedly quicker under the new agreement, with delivery for purchased computers occurring in days rather than weeks.

West said that over the course of a fiscal year, Yale orders around 3,000 new PCs. Zach Johnson ’17, a student technician for Yale ITS, said he was not informed about the change by ITS administrators. However, he said one of the main motivations behind the switch may be cost. He said since Lenovo computers may be cheaper, they provide better value for their price than competing PCs. He added that an alternate reason Yale may have changed from Dell to Lenovo was due to

the relative popularity of each company among students.

Johnson said that more students are bringing Lenovos to campus every year, and administrators have taken notice.

However, Yale faculty seemed largely unaware of the new computer policy. Of the 10 faculty members contacted, not a single individual was familiar with the change.

Computer science professor Bryan Ford said his department was not consulted about the change, adding that he had no knowledge of the new policy.

Computer Science director of undergraduate studies James Aspnes and chairman of computer science Joan Feigenbaum both said they were also unaware of the policy.

Despite the policy’s costsaving measures, students and faculty remain divided on whether the University should buy computers from Dell, an American company, or Lenovo, a Chinese firm.

“Even if the Chinese company were a subsidiary of an American Company, it is not the proper thing to do,” said Joel Rosenbaum, a Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology professor. “Just how much could we be saving by doing this, and is it worth the American jobs?”

Liza Rodler ’17, a student technician for Yale ITS, said she believed Yale should purchase from the company that provides a better product.

She added that as a student technician, her main concern is not the politics of computers, but rather the logistics and support of each device.

“Yale should be working with what’s most efficient and that’s all,” she said.

West said Yale routinely considers and weighs many factors when making product and service decisions. She added the main objective of these decisions, however, is to deliver the best overall value to members of the Yale community.

Lenovo computers approved

by Yale ITS include a ThinkCentre M93p, a Thinkstation S30, a Thinkpad T440p and a Thinkpad W540.

Envr. groups back Malloy

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER The Connecticut League of Conservation Voters has endorsed a gubernatorial candidate for the first time in its history.

That candidate was Governor Dannel Malloy, who was selected last week after a bipartisan board — composed of retired legislature members, environmental advocates, business and legal professionals — interviewed both him and challenger Tom Foley in the week leading up to the endorsement.

The CLCV’s status as one of two 501(c)(4) environmental organizations in Connecticut allows it to endorse a candidate in this election. The other environmentally-focused 501(c)(4) in Connecticut, the Sierra Club, also announced its support for Malloy’s gubernatorial bid on Sept. 28.

“It was very clear to our bipartisan board that Governor Malloy far and away deserved the endorsement,” said Lori Brown, executive director of the

CLCV. Brown added that, while the CLCV classified Foley as someone who might be amenable to working with environmental groups in the future, the Republican candidate would not immediately commit to specific environmental policy plans.

Martin Mador ’71 FES ’02, the legislative and political chair for the Sierra Club’s Connecticut chapter, said his group chose to interview only Malloy because of its experience with the candidates in the 2010 race. Four years ago, the Sierra Club interviewed both Malloy and Foley, and Foley said then that he thought Connecticut would not be able to effectively counter the effects of climate change. According to Mador, this answer convinced the organization to invite only Malloy for a return interview.

Mador added that Malloy’s ability to establish a strong environmental legacy in his past term as governor — citing his decision to incorporate the Department of Environmental

Protection inside the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection — made him the preferable candidate. Mador said this move helped streamline energy policy within the state government. However, the endorsements of environmental groups may not be enough to sway voters, he added.

[Malloy] has said we’re not going to ignore the environment to fix the economy.

MARTIN MADOR ’71 FES ’02 Chairperson, the Sierra Club “Are people going to vote for Malloy just because he’s strong on the environment? I don’t think so,” Mador said.

He also said that voters for whom the environment is a priority would probably have voted for Malloy anyway.

Benjamin Martin, a repre-

sentative of 350 Connecticut, a 501(c)(3) environmental organization, said that while it cannot formally endorse a candidate, the group would be more eager to work with Malloy than Foley.

“Given the choice that we have, Malloy is not as bad as Foley, but I would say it’s a shame that we don’t have candidates that take climate change as a higher priority,” Martin said.

Martin added that the organization was particularly disappointed with Malloy’s support for expanding natural gas — which he said can be a key driver of climate change because of its extraction process — as an energy source in Connecticut. “[Malloy] has said we’re not going to ignore the environment [to fix the economy]. He does have good environmental values, and we appreciate that,” Mador said.

The gubernatorial election will take place on Nov. 4.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

Gubernatorial ads intensify

BY MRINAL KUMAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A recent surge in ad expenditures by an Independent Expenditure Group supporting Governor Dannel Malloy has shed light on the role of campaign advertising in the gubernatorial race.

Connecticut-based IEGs — organizations that financially endorse a candidate but remain unaffiliated with the campaign — have spent over $8 million on ad campaigns for the two gubernatorial candidates. Connecticut Forward recently spent $401,181 in new ad expenditures in support of Malloy, according to an Oct. 2 article in the New Haven Register. Meanwhile, a rival Public Action Committee (PAC), Grow Connecticut, incurred $5.8 million in ads last month in support of Republican Tom Foley.

“The fact that money is pouring into the state from all different directions shows how important [the election] is from the national perspective,” said Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17, communications director of the Yale College Democrats.

Despite the importance of the ad expenditures, spokesmen from both parties stressed that advertisements made by independent groups were not influenced by or endorsed by the campaigns.

Chris Cooper, a spokesman for Foley’s campaign, said that IEGs are not allowed to coordinate with campaigns, a sentiment echoed by Mark Bergman, a spokesman for Malloy’s campaign.

I think you’ve seen that the majority of the Malloy ads have kind of been attack ads, negative ads.

CHRIS COOPER Spokesman for Foley’s campaign “We can only control our message and what the governor is saying,” said Bergman. “You can’t really control what outside groups are saying.”

However, campaigns are not solely dependent on outside

groups to fill the television and radio airwaves. Several ads have been released by each campaign — some of which promote a candidate and some of which attack the opponent.

Cooper said that whereas Malloy’s campaign has primarily issued ads that attack Foley, advertisements from Foley’s campaign have focused on his own agenda.

“I think you’ve seen that the majority of the Malloy ads have kind of been attack ads, negative ads, attacking Foley’s past business experiences,” said Cooper. “Tom has tried to take a little different approach with his advertising. He’s been talking about his plan for Connecticut and the need for new direction and new leadership.”

Bergman did not comment on ads released by Malloy’s campaign, instead emphasizing his campaign’s inability to influence the ads put out by IEGs. Large sums of money spent on negative campaigning are nothing new, according to Sawyer-Kaplan.

“The usual trajectory of campaign ads is that they start out positive and they turn negative

about two months before the election,” she said.

But the question remains as to where the line is drawn for negative advertising.

According to Cooper, Malloy’s advertisements have made claims about Foley’s background that are untrue and have misrepresented Foley’s record.

Cooper explained that the Malloy campaign has falsely called into question Foley’s stewardship of some of his companies.

When it comes to Election Day, however, the importance of campaign advertising lies in how effective they are in influencing voters, Sawyer-Kaplan said, noting that the attack ads will not determine who ultimately wins the election. “[Campaign ads] swing back to the positive side immediately before the election … people are more likely to vote for a candidate if the last idea they have in their mind is positive,” she said.

As of Oct. 6, Public Policy Polling reports that Malloy has an eight point lead over Foley in the polls.

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FROM THE FRONT Malloy announces crime drop CRIME FROM PAGE 1 According to the report, Connecticut’s violent crime decreased by 10.8 percent, which is double the national decline in violent crime. The state’s violent crime rate is also below the national average, which stands at 368 per 100,000 people. Meanwhile, Connecticut’s average is 253 per 100,000.

A series of programs in Connecticut also accounts for the decreasing crime rate, said Bridgeport Police Department Chief Joseph Gaudett in a press release from the governor’s office. Gaudett pointed to Project Longevity as one of the initiatives that changes criminal behavior across the state. Project Longevity aims to reduce crime in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford by targeting gangs and other violent groups.

According to Bridgeport program director Charles Grady, Project Lon-

gevity has been very successful in reducing group and gang related violence in its three target cities.

“Governor Malloy and David Fein are responsible for bringing Project Longevity to all three cities,” Grady said. “To that end, it is their baby, and it is working.”

Grady also attributed the decreasing crime rates to increased communication between the police departments and state probation, adding that using research to target individuals decreases gang and group violence, leading to a “ripple effect” that decreases crime across the city.

Still, New Haven remains Connecticut’s most dangerous city, according to a report by NeighborhoodScout — a data analysis company that compared 2012 FBI data on reported violent crimes in cities across the country.

Schurin said that while the results of the crime report will probably not have a significant effect on the New

Haven vote in this November’s election, it provides a useful talking point for the governor.

New Haven has seen a steady downward trend in crime rate for years, said Laurence Grotheer, director of communications for the New Haven mayor’s office. The dropping crime rate also coincides with the introduction of communitybased policing and New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman’s tenure, he added. “[The police] are assigned to a district, and then they stay in that district,” Grotheer said of the community-based policing program.

“Familiarity grows and with familiarity comes reliance and trust.”

Malloy served as Stamford’s mayor for 14 years before being elected governor in November 2010.

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Harp dubs violence an “epidemic” ANTI-VIOLENCE FROM PAGE 1 because you hope it will get better.”

D’Argento was one of two survivors who shared their stories at City Hall’s kickoff of New Haven’s seventh annual domestic violence awareness month yesterday.

At the event, several city and community leaders proposed strategies to address the issue. Local artist Elaine Peters also presented an interpretive performance of one woman’s struggle with domestic abuse.

Paola Serrecchia, chair of the CT Domestic Violence Collaborative and a member of the Greater New Haven Domestic Violence Task Force, said the city’s goals for this year are to revamp the restraining order application process so survivors of abuse can obtain orders from both marshals and police officers. She said the city also hopes to work with Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 to advocate for a federal law restricting abusers with restraining orders from purchasing guns.

Mayor Toni Harp dubbed domestic violence a “community epidemic” at the kickoff, saying that one-third of all new arrests in New Haven are related to the issue.

“We have really got to do something about this as a town,” Harp

said. “Domestic violence spurs crime in the community.”

Evan Stark, a professor of public administration at Rutgers University who was at the event, agreed with Harp that domestic violence is an urgent issue in the city and the state. In 1977, Stark founded the New Haven Project for Battered Women to provide support for domestically abused women and children.

Stark added that the city’s Board of Aldermen should, as a first step, work to create safe spaces for abuse survivors in New Haven’s schools and churches.

“What I was struck by was that there is no shelter for battered women in New Haven,” Stark said.

“Connecticut was once a pioneer in [domestic violence] services, and today we are behind most other states and most of the world.”

While New Haven’s Umbrella Center offers housing to survivors of domestic violence, there are no organizations in the city that provide emergency shelter to battered women and children.

Uneisha Ecton, who shared her story of abuse at the event, agreed that though there is support in New Haven for survivors, the resources are not enough.

“I was told that the courts

would stop caring if I didn’t get myself out,” she said. “But this man was climbing through my windows.”

Stark said that Ecton’s story is all too common because Connecticut laws treat domestic violence as only one step above a traffic offense. In fact, perpetrators of domestic violence rarely face jail time.

Ecton and D’Argento agreed that the trauma of abuse lingered after they left their relationships.

D’Argento’s son, for instance, is currently undergoing counseling at New Haven’s Clifford Beers Clinic for children.

“The kicker of the whole thing is you cannot get over thinking, ‘I did this to my child because I didn’t leave,’” said D’Argento.

Ecton was arrested for crashing her car into a residence when trying to escape her abuser. Now, she cannot pay back $70,000 of student debt because her criminal record prevents her from getting a job, she said.

Prior to its arrival to New Haven seven years ago, the October kickoff of domestic violence awareness month took place in Hartford for two years.

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Yale may offer Harvard’s CS50 COMP-SCI FROM PAGE 1 course would need approval from the Computer Science department, the Yale College faculty and Yale’s Course of Study Committee — the standing committee in charge of approving and rejecting additions to the curriculum.

Of seven Yale computer science students interviewed, five were previously familiar with CS50, and most had mixed views on the extension prospect.

“Our department has a long standing aversion to that kind of curriculum,” Tim Follo ’16 said. “[It’s] surprising that Yale would be piggybacking so close off of [CS50] rather than developing its own curriculum.”

Follo said he believes that Yale’s current introductory computer science course — “Introduction to Programming” (CPSC 112) — provided students with a strong foundation for future study in the department.

Zachary Blickensderfer ’16, a computer science major, disagreed with the characterization that Yale’s department does not sufficiently emphasize real world skills, adding that he feels prepared in the fundamentals of computer science as he begins to look for computer science-oriented internships this summer.

Alex Reinking ’16, also a computer science major, said he objected to CS50’s characterization as a computer science course.

“A class like that is really just programming,” Reinking said. “I don’t want to have that thing be misconstrued as computer science proper.

[It’s] not something that should count towards computer science major.”

Still, he added that the course could provide beneficial information to students, including how to write Android and iPhone applications.

But the strongest objection among Yale students was not about curricu-

lum, but about the remote nature of the course — Malan’s lectures would be streamed from Cambridge, and Yale teaching fellows would conduct in-person sections “It will not be our own faculty teaching it, and it’s an easy way to appease students who just want to take CS50,” Reinking said. He added that if the course were based on video modules, it would be an unnecessary addition to the computer science curriculum.

But Harvard students interviewed disagreed that an in-person lecture format is a necessary part of the CS50 experience.

According to Harvard senior Jacob Drucker, who previously took the course, most students do not even attend lecture, but instead watch the lecture at home at twice the speed.

“So the fact that you guys aren’t physically sitting in on the class doesn’t really change the experience that much,” he said.

While most Harvard students commended the course, others said Yale should not buy into the hype.

Harvard junior Ellen Robo, who took CS50 her freshman fall, said the course has two major failings — the information taught in lectures has little to do with the content of problem sets, and there is a significant divide in computer science experience among students.

Ultimately, if the class comes to Yale, its success will be dependent on how well the Yale administration can integrate the course into its pre-existing curriculum, Robo said.

CS50 has an online store where students can buy blankets, performance wear, backpacks and umbrellas — all emblazoned with the class logo.

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Anti-Apartheid leader honored in film

BY OLIVIA BURTON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While lying in a hospital bed in London recovering from a car bombing that cost him his right arm and sight in one eye in 1988, Albie Sachs received a letter.

“Don’t worry, comrade Albie, we will avenge you,” it read.

“And I thought, ‘Avenge me?’” said Sachs, a visiting professor at Yale Law School and a former Justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. “‘Are you going to cut off their arm, make them blind in one eye? Is that what we’re fighting for?’”

Sachs had been targeted by the South African security services for his association with the anti-apartheid movement while he was living in exile in Mozambique. He said he felt that the kind of vengeance suggested by

the letter would only serve to put the freedom fighters on the same level as their opposition.

“But if we get freedom, if we get democracy, if we get the rule of law, I’m saying to myself that will be my soft vengeance,” he said. “Roses and lilies will grow out of my arm.”

“Soft Vengeance” is the title of filmmaker Abby Ginzberg’s documentary on Sachs and on the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

T h e d o c u m e n ta ry wa s screened at YLS on Tuesday afternoon. At the conclusion of the film, approximately 80 audience members gave Sachs and Ginzberg a standing ovation before a question and answer session.

Ginzberg first met Sachs as a student at University of California Hastings College of the Law in the 1970s, she said.

“Albie was literally in exile at the time,” she said. “And so Albie became a very close personal link for me and several of us to the anti-apartheid movement.”

Ginzberg said she did not think about making a film about Sachs until she met him for coffee in South Africa in 2009. As she was getting in a cab to leave, she said, she asked him what he thought about her making a documentary on his life.

Sachs said he was intrigued by the idea but was also hesitant to agree before he saw some of Ginzberg’s other films.

Ultimately, the two worked together on many aspects of the film, even though they oftentimes disagreed on how to tell the story, both said.

“At one stage she actually stepped back and said, ‘Albie, it’s your life, but it’s my film,’” Sachs said.

Student developer program expands

BY STAPHANY HOU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This semester, more student developers will be coming together to improve Yale Mobile, All Around Yale and other apps that Yalies routinely use.

Part of the University’s Information Technology Services’ Campus Community Technologies and run by both ITS staff and Yale students, the Student Developer Mentorship Program pays students to develop online and mobile applications. While the group only had 10 members when it started in 2012, it now boasts 25 student developers working in teams across different projects.

“We have three main purposes: Give students work experience, make projects that improve the Yale community and connect the local developer community as a whole,” SDMP Manager Casey Watts said. “Yale could just buy any app that they need, but we create ones that are tailored to our community and can impact the greatest number of people in unique ways.”

At present, the program has student developers working on five different projects: Android apps, iOS apps, Reservations, Shifts — a web application for ITS employees to log in their work hours — and User Experience.

Reservations, Watts said, is a computer system that allows students to check out media equipment through Bass Library. The service is very widely used and gets updated for bug fixes once every two weeks, he said.

Watts added that the popularity of Reservations has caught the attention of a number of other universities, including Stanford, that have expressed interest in the system.

Team Leader for Android Mobile Applications Jason Liu ’16 said working for SDMP provides him with a work experience that is both instructional and self-directed.

“My experience here has been really rewarding because it offers a lot of things that you can’t get in a typical classroom setting,” Liu said. “It gives me the opportunity to lead my own team outside of a big company.”

The Android team is working on a new application called All Around Yale, which will serve as a counterpart to Yale Mobile — an app that gives information on dining, laundry rooms, shuttle schedules and courses — for iPhones, Liu said. Around 3,000 users have downloaded either one of the applications, he added.

The program also seeks to build a strong community of student ITS developers and professional developers in the New Haven community,

Watts said. This fall, SDMP has already hosted three technology professionals to give talks on software development topics.

“There are professional experiences that developers can bring to the table, while students bring in the entrepreneurial spirit,” ITS Director of User Experience and Web Services Lec Maj said. “This is a very helpful and productive combination.”

SDMP also hosts Hack Hours — office hours for students working on tech projects — every Friday afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., SDMP Relationship Coordinator Sara Hamilton ‘16 said.

“Software development isn’t always as seamless as you expect, and it’s a cool process to experience what it would be like to work in this kind of a collaborative setting,” Hamilton said.

Held in “Hack Space” — the program’s whiteboard-covered office at 143 Elm Street — Hack Hours are open to all developers, budding and advanced alike, she added.

The program itself also accepts applications from students with all levels of experience. SDMP student developer Jenny Allen ’16 said she started working with only limited previous development experience.

“I got to join this community of developers that I wasn’t connected with before,” Allen said. “We even have the option of learning completely new coding languages and development tools.”

Watts said that if the group succeeds in obtaining a larger budget from the University, they may be able to expand to as many as 50 student developers.

But Maj said that as the number of developers increases, the management team will have to expand as well. Right now, Watts, Hamilton and Assistant Manager Jemin Lee are the primary managers of the program.

Looking ahead, the program hopes to collaborate with Yale’s computer science department, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and the School of Management, Maj said.

“Our hope is that students walk away with educational and practical experience, as well as the ability to work as a part of development teams,” he said. “We’re hoping that for a couple of days a week, professional developers can come here and work and interact with student developers as a part of our mission to provide mentorship.”

SDMP student developers work eight to 10 hours a week on average.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

Ginzberg ’s documentary recounts how Sachs’ involvement in the South African antiapartheid movement began in his late teenage years. Sachs began his law career defending people charged with breaking South Africa’s racial statutes and security laws under apartheid.

As a result of his association with the freedom movement, Sachs was arrested and placed in solitary confinement in Cape Town for 168 days, an experience that would later influence his strong position against torture.

After his release, Sachs went into exile in England and then Mozambique, where the bombing occurred. Following the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990, Sachs helped write South Africa’s new constitution. Mandela appointed him to be one of the first 11 judges to

the new Constitutional Court of South Africa, where he served as a justice from 1994 until 2009.

Audience members gave broadly positive reviews of the film.

Michelle Chan ’15 said that she did not know what to expect before seeing “Soft Vengeance.”

Chan said that in light of the recent protests in her home city of Hong Kong, seeing the footage of the South African people lining up to vote after apartheid was very moving for her.

Assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry Roz Meyer said that one of the most powerful moments of the film was the interaction between Sachs and Henri van der Westhuizen, the former South African military intelligence officer who arranged the car bombing in Mozambique.

Ginzberg said she hopes audi-

ences of “Soft Vengeance” will see Sachs as an example of how to live their lives. Having lived through imprisonment and violence, Sachs remains a model of acceptance and pacifism, she said.

“Soft Vengeance” will be screened in cities with small art house venues, Ginzberg said, though she is not yet sure of the precise locations. Individual DVDs of the film will soon be on sale.

This semester at YLS, Sachs is teaching “Reason and Passion in the Law” — a course that advocates for the combination of humanity and rational thought in making a good judgment.

In total, Sachs has 14 honorary degrees across four continents.

Contact OLIVIA BURTON at olivia.burton@yale.edu .

YPD’s police academy returns

BY DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As part of an ongoing effort to reach out to the surrounding community, the Yale Police Department kicked off the current cycle of its Citizen’s Police Academy yesterday.

The course, directed by Lt. Von Narcisse, will allow 30 members of the Yale community and neighbors to gain new perspectives on their police department — a story that differs from those told by their regular crime report emails. In its curriculum, the YPD will review and discuss various police measures, including patrolling, investigative services, emergencies and use of force. The program, now in its eighth year, has been offered every spring and fall semester. Kitty Parente and other members of the YPD staff designed the course from scratch, recognizing that similar programs have been implemented in some cities of the United States.

To provide additional value to the students, Narcisse and Lt. Jay Jones, who assists Narcisse in teaching the course, plan to introduce the partic-

ipants to a series of guest speakers, including veteran FBI agents.

“This program allows us to showcase [to members of the Community] the work we do,” YPD Assistant Chief Steven Woznyk said. “Our job is to keep the campus safe and that is our mission.”

Woznyk added that he believes the YPD’s work expands far beyond the Yale Community, noting that much of the department’s work includes neighborhood patrols outside of the Yale community and initiatives to reduce crime.

Students enrolled in the program have different backgrounds — more than half of them are Yale staff, and some of them are graduate students or former students of the University.

None of the participants are current Yale undergraduates.

Some students introduced during the course said they were drawn to the Academy to become better citizens. Others said they were members of Yale Security or were attempting to strengthen their resumes to start careers in law enforcement. However, others, including Meghan Connolly, from

the Yale Fellowships Programs Staff, chose to become involved in the program to honor long family traditions of getting involved in police or the military.

“I wanted to get to know better the resources that Yale Police offers, and I also might be interested in working in this field in the future, so this could be a good start,” Connolly said before the session began.

Michael Patten, a YPD assistant chief in charge of patrol and support services, said that engaging the community also builds trust between residents and police officers.

He added that this understanding could make it easier for citizens to contact the officers confidently.

“If you don’t know the officers, you’re just calling an institution,” Patten said. “You’re not calling Jay Jones.”

The Citizen’s Police Academy will continue in the YPD’s offices at 101 Ashmun St. for the next five Tuesdays, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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FROM THE FRONT Medical marijuana expands

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” BOB MARLEY JAMAICAN LYRICIST

Gonzales argues against amnesty GONZALEZ FROM PAGE1 gal immigrants to gain citizenship. He said that if the undocument immigrants paid a fine, had no criminal record, were employed and had formed established roots in their communities, they could apply for legal status. While Gonzales conceded that some critics have found his suggested policy reform to be similar to outright amnesty, he argued that the four conditions include no official pardon for breaking federal law.

I cannot condone anyone coming into this country in an unlawful status.

ALBERTO GONZALES Former U.S. Attorney General

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MARIJUANA FROM PAGE 1 in Watertown.

However, medical marijuana is not covered by insurance providers, making the use of marijuana somewhat cost prohibitive for lower-income patients, especially those who were previously taking medications that were covered by insurance, Sicklick said.

Sicklick added that, in the future, he hopes that the price

will drop so that more patients can have access.

Right now, Tamborrino describes his patients as being at “two extremes”: those who have never used marijuana, and those who have been self-medicating with the drug for years and are just now seeking a legal channel through which to consume it. Tamborrino noted that the split between these two types of patients is around half and half.

Although there was an ini-

tial rush when the Branford dispensary first opened, Tamborrino said he projects a steady rise in demand as doctors feel more comfortable recommending the drug to their patients.

However, some argue that medical marijuana still has hurdles to overcome before the drug can expand its popularity.

“Marijuana is still a very much stigmatized substance,” said Kris Hermes, media specialist for Americans for Safe Access,

THE MAP THIEF Wednesday, October 8, 4:30 pm For the inaugural Adrian Van Sinderen Lecture, Michael Blanding, author of The Map Thief, will speak about his research into the story of E. Forbes Smiley, a rare map dealer who, after his arrest at the Beinecke Library, admitted to stealing nearly 100 maps from six institutions.

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Image: Smiley’s New England. Original illustration by Jelmer Noordeman and Koen Harmsma, Bier en Brood.

a grassroots medical marijuana advocacy organization.

But Tamborrino said he is not worried — after 13 years of experience in the pharmacy profession, he thinks the model for setting up dispensaries actually mimics the model of the pharmaceutical industry.

Medical marijuana is currently legal in 23 states.

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“Some proclaim that finding a pathway to citizenship as I describe is a form of amnesty,” Gonzales said. “I couldn’t disagree more. Amnesty defines that a government authority pardons a large group of individuals.”

Gonzales added that to discourage new immigrants from entering the U.S. illegally, the southern border should be further secured.

Following Gonzales’ remarks on immigration, several speakers of the YPU volunteered to share their

opinions on citizenship and its role in communities.

Ella Wood ’15, a member of the union’s Independent Party, argued that an individual’s citizenship should be evaluated by his or her relationship with the community and not by obedience to federal law.

Ugonna Eze ’16 of the Conservative Party agreed with Wood, adding that individuals become citizens when they form meaningful relationships with their societies.

Audience members interviewed said that they found Gonzales’ remarks controversial. “[The talk] offered a very family-valued argument on citizenship, which was kind of displeasing,” said Isaac Pena ’18. “He was arguing for a sub-citizenship class, which is hugely problematic to open the path to standard citizenship.”

While Victorio Cabrera ’18 said Gonzales expressed reasonable opinions on limiting illegal immigration, he noted that the social justice issues that immigrants — both undocumented and documented — face in the United States should have played a more prominent role in the debate.

Gonzales served as Attorney General from 2005 to 2007, and was White House Counsel to President George W. Bush ’68 from 2001 through 2005.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 4:00 PM DeVane Lecture: Sexual Conflict and Human Evolution. Why is bird song so variable? Why do some animals perform elaborate courtship rituals? Why do skunks smell so bad? These are among the questions that will be explored during this semester’s DeVane Lectures, which will be presented by Yale evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum. Osborn Memorial Library (Rm. 202).

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 1:00 PM Celebrate Sustainability on the Trail. An instructorled walk along the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, a greenway for non-carbon transportation and recreation. Learn about the historic trail and the local neighborhoods it inhabits, connecting “town with gown.” Meet on the Canal Trail between Sachem St. and the Yale Health Center.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 5:00 PM The Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus presents the Family Weekend Concert. The Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus presents their first full-length performance, featuring the group’s newest members. Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (80 Wall St.).

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SPORTS

“All the world loves a clown.”

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Roberts ’16 finds rhythm

Elis take slim loss GOLF FROM PAGE 12

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Quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 transferred from Clemson in time for the 2013 season. He started one game and saw time in seven others.

ROBERTS FROM PAGE 12 Roberts said when he hears one play called, it may have meant one play to him at Clemson but means something entirely different under Reno. He added that he faced an adjustment period to adapt to the new language.

It didn’t help that Roberts had a relatively limited role in his first season. He started only one game in 2013 but saw playing time in eight others.

In those nine games, Roberts accumulated 339 yards, four touchdowns and four interceptions as he split snaps with Henry Furman ’14. He completed just over 50 percent of his passes.

“Last year, I felt like I dis-

appointed my team, to be honest. That’s a tough feeling, to look in the locker room and say you let down 104 of your best friends. In the offseason, my number one [goal] was to get things right,” Roberts said.

According to Roberts, “getting things right” entailed much more than memorizing plays. It took physical development as well.

Roberts said he went back to basics, working on fundamentals such as footwork and arm motion before returning to the football field.

“I worked with Coach [Kevin] Cahill to understand my role,” Roberts said. “We asked the question, ‘why?’ like, ‘why do you go here?’ or, ‘why do you throw here?’

and understanding the deeper meaning of each play and why the plays are called.”

This more comprehensive understanding lends itself to better play. Roberts is averaging a 72.7 percent completion rate.

William Chism ’15, the starting left guard, commented on Roberts’ ability to make reads and manage the game. Chism added that Roberts’ coachability, humility, dedication to film and other aspects of the game, as well as on-the-field intelligence are several of the assets he adds to the football program.

Roberts summarizes the differences between the two years in a simple fashion.

“Last year, I was out there

Yale readies for home opener

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The Bulldogs finished a combined 24–12 at last year’s Invitational.

WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 During the break in the schedule, three Yale players traveled to California to participate in the All-American championships last week. Captain Hanna Yu ’15 competed in the singles division while Madeleine Hamilton ’16 and Ree Ree Li ’16 paired in the doubles.

But despite their best efforts, the Elis left the Golden State without a victory.

Head coach Taka Bertrand said it will be important for the team to continue practice patience and positioning, two important aspects of the game which have been emphasized in practice. Additionally, the tournament will provide the opportunity for the Bulldogs to face some of the teams they will encounter this coming spring, such as Dartmouth and Brown.

“This weekend, I think the matches will be great practice and will help us build up for the spring season,” Elizabeth Zordani ’18 said.

The tournament will be played in a hidden dual format, which resembles the dual format used in spring competition. Rather than the traditional 64 singles draw and 32 doubles draw often used in the fall season, the Bulldog Invitational will feature three dual matches over the course of the weekend, each

comprised of three doubles matches and six singles matches.

Bertrand said she expects this new format to change the way the tournament feels for the players, since the last tournament the team participated in had large singles and doubles draws.

According to Bertrand, this created more of an individual environment than a team environment.

“I am looking forward to seeing how we will play as a team because right now I’ve only seen players compete individually,” Bertrand said. “It will be very interesting to see how our new players react in more of a team setting.”

The Elis are excited for the team atmosphere the dual format will create.

Zordani said she believes this weekend will help strengthen the team dynamic and build a support system among players.

Li agreed with her teammate.

“The dual format is by far my favorite format, since we play next to each other and can cheer each other on,” Li said.

After the Bulldog Invitational, the team will next compete at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regionals, which begins on Oct. 16.

Contact KATIE SABIN at kaitlyn.sabin@yale.edu .

thinking, and this year I’m out there playing,” Roberts said.

Playing the game evidentially suits Roberts. He leads an offense that averages a nation-leading 631 yards per game and has scored at least seven touchdowns every game this season.

Although such productivity is difficult to maintain, Roberts has high hopes.

“I have one semester that I could use, because I was redshirted at Clemson. I’ll be here one more season. Hopefully, this season ends on a high note and we can carry that into the next one,” Roberts said.

No matter the result of the season — though Roberts said the team hopes to have an Ivy

Championship ring by the end of it — Roberts said he wants the team as a whole to prove itself, if not for individual pride than for each other.

“Every day we walk in and it’s 104 of my brothers and me just messing around,” Roberts said. “We all happen to be talented football players who put in all our effort because it’s our passion, but it’s really just one big family. I think that makes us play a little harder on Saturday because you’re playing for the guy next to you. I couldn’t be more excited with the way things have gone. I’ve never once looked back and regretted it.”

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

line Rouse ’17 said. “I was really proud of the team for persevering through the changing weather, and I was especially proud that we were the only team at the tournament to have three individuals finish in the top 10.”

After the first round, the team took Wongwaiwate to their physical therapist because she was battling some back issues. Against those odds, she came back and had an impressive showing on the second day, draining a long downhill putt from the back fringe for eagle to shoot one-under-par. That earned her the lowest score among all players competing in the second round.

Despite having lost to Columbia, the Bulldogs have come off their most recent tournament more motivated than ever.

According to many of the team members, losing by only one shot is a result that has kept them hungry and shown that they are on the hunt to win.

With a strong start to the season, the Yale Women’s Golf Team has come off with a strong mindset for their next tournament, which is the Princeton Invitational, the last before the offseason. Though they have just one team victory, the Elis have finished among the top five teams in all three of their tournaments this season.

“I think there’s always room for improvement,” head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 said. “I’m proud of how the team performed. They really stayed in the shot, and they fought for everything.”

The team next competes at the Princeton Invitational from Oct. 17-19.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Spread offense wins games FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 12 Thus far, Reno’s no-huddle, spread offense has worked brilliantly against opponents, leading to an average of 53.1 points per game.

As quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 noted, the strategy, which has grown in popularity among both collegiate and professional teams, relies simply on outpacing the opposing team’s defense. “[Our] goal is to snap the ball as quickly as possible and not allow the defense to line up and adjust to how we’re lining up … We run simple schemes, but we run them effectively,” said Roberts.

Roberts has been one of the largest contributors to the offense, which has produced an average of 631 yards per game — currently the highest offensive yards-per-game average in the country. He also set a school record for his pass completion rate of 86.7 percent against Cornell last weekend and was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week for the second time in three weeks.

“I have a better understanding of the offense [this year] and I’m really lucky to have a group of guys around me … [who] make my job look really easy,” said Roberts.

The offensive line remains healthy in its entirety and has allowed Roberts to be sacked just three times all season — a national tie for 15th in sacksper-game average. Furthermore, the Bulldogs are second in the nation in yards-per-rush.

Despite record-setting numbers, players and coaches alike see room for improvement. According to Roberts and Reno, both believe execution on offense could be cleaner.

“We’re not even close to scratching the surface of what this offense could be,” Roberts said.

On the other hand, the Bulldog defense — which was shaky through its first two games — found its footing in Ithaca.

After having let up an average of 559 yards against Lehigh and Army, Yale managed to hold Cornell to just 189 yards on Saturday.

“We’re seeing growth every week,” said Reno.

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Of the 1893 total offensive yards the Bulldogs have accumulated, 989 are through the air and 904 are on the ground.

In regards to the strategy for the rest of the season, Reno has consistently reiterated the team’s focus on process.

Rather than constructing longterm goals, wide receiver Deon Randall ’15 noted that the team prefers to take each game in stride. Through a consistent improvement game over game, the Bulldogs expect to attain long-term goals by incremental improvement.

“We focus on process and not necessarily the outcome. We like to take it day by day and week by week,” said Randall.

Whether or not the Bulldogs have a chance to capture the Ivy League

title ultimately depends on if the team can maintain its current offensive production and can continue to see improvements on defense. Next week’s matchup against Dartmouth could prove challenging, as Reno noted that many Ivy League analysts consider them to be a dark horse competitor this year.

“I think everyone understands what our goals are and we’re very self aware of where we are and what we are capable of achieving,” said Randall.

The Bulldogs and the Big Green will kick off on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE Exhibit explores slavery, British culture

BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER A new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art aims to shed light on the complex relationship between 18th-century British metropolitan culture and the transatlantic slave trade.

“Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in EighteenthCentury Atlantic Britain,” which opened last Thursday, brings together more than 60 paintings, sculptures, prints, draw-

ings and decorative objects, the majority of which are drawn from the Center’s own collection. Curated by Cyra Levenson, the Center’s associate curator of Education, along with Esther Chadwick and Meredith Gamer, Ph.D. candidates in Yale’s History of Art department, the exhibition hopes to use portraiture as a lens through which to understand how slavery was represented in 18th-century British art. “[‘Figures of Empire’] is a way

to demonstrate and explain the ways in which British metropolitan culture and the transatlantic slave trade must be understood together,” Chadwick said. “In this exhibition, we’re presenting works in which this ‘coming together’ is actually visualized — where slavery is aestheticized and woven into the fabric of British culture.”

Occupying the center of the exhibit’s first room is a sculpture titled “Garden Statue with Sundial,” which has been attributed to Flemish artist John Nost.

The Sundial once stood on Elihu Yale’s estate in Wales and then in the courtyard of Jonathan Edwards College from the 1920s to 1970s. Chadwick explained that the figure holding up the dial is intended as a kind of

amalgamation of the allegorical figures of Africa and America that frequently appeared on British maps. She added that this sort of imagery — popular in garden statues throughout 18-century Britain — could be viewed as emblematic of the nation’s intensified engagement in the transatlantic slave trade during the period. Gamer noted that the sundial is important in that it provides visitors with an idea of the kinds of images that were in circulation during the early 1700s, adding that she hopes it will spark conversations about slavery in the context of Yale’s history.

“A lot of times, I think our collection can seem quite distant and, at worst, irrelevant to people, to visitors who think, ‘Why

should 18th-century portraits from England be something [I] could connect to?’” Levenson said. “We tried very hard to make [the exhibition] not just a history show or a historical analysis, but an active experience … something they can leave [the YCBA] and still talk and think about.”

On the walls of the exhibit’s central bay hang several examples of “conversation pieces” — a genre of group portraiture popular in 18th-century Britain that aims to display the politeness, refinement and wealth of a family. Among the paintings is William Hogarth’s “Portrait of a Family,” a work that dates to 1735. The painting was cropped down at some point during its history, Gamer noted, adding that it is unclear whether the cropping was done to fit the work into a smaller frame or to erase the figure of an enslaved servant at the image’s left.

Gamer described the cropping

down of the picture as “a metaphor for the way the history of slavery, until quite recently, was written out of the history of British metropolitan culture and visual art.” She added, “One of the things the exhibition is trying to do is to put that history back in, in pictures where it is either indirectly or explicitly present.”

Other key works include Sir Joshua Reynolds’ oil-on-canvas “Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington, and a Servant” from 1782, which alludes to the complex nature of relationships underlying portraiture during the period. Another highlighted work is Thomas Gainsborough’s 1768 portrait, “Ignatius Sancho,” the exhibition’s only major loan from outside of Yale, which shows the sitter in an independent, single-figure oil portrait.

Contact SARA JONES at sara.jones@yale.edu .

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The curators of “Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain,” the newest exhibition at the YCBA, hope the exhibition will create discussion about slavery in the context of Yale’s history .

Artspace celebrates New Haven art

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On Friday, Artspace hosted the City-Wide Open Studios festival, with 363 diverse works of local art on display.

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Hundreds of New Haven students, artists and art-lovers gathered Friday evening to mingle over free kombucha and discuss the 363 works that were put on display to celebrate the city’s vibrant arts scene.

Last Thursday saw the opening of Artspace’s 17th annual City-Wide Open Studios festival, a nearly monthlong event that allows New Haven artists of all experience levels to showcase their work in local spaces. This year’s theme is “Transported/ Illuminated,” which refers to Artspace’s collaboration with another arts celebration named “Light Artists Making Places,” as well as the festival’s effort to transport viewers around the city to various art exhibitions.

“What’s great about CWOS

is that it’s not a curated show,” said Katie Jurkiewicz, Artspace’s public relations coordinator.

“It’s an opportunity for any artist who wants to get out there to put whatever work they’d like to show the community.”

Helen Kauder, Artspace’s executive director, said that New Haven has one of the highest ratios of artists per capita of any region of the country, adding that one of CWOS’s goals is to make the local community aware of this distinction through the large quantity of artwork featured in the festival. CWOS serves not only as an opportunity for the larger community to come to know local artists’ work but also for the artists to meet each other and plan collaborations, Kauder said, noting that this increased networking provides additional support to the local arts community.

This weekend, the festival’s “Alternative Space Weekend” offers artists the opportunity to showcase their work in the Goffe Street Armory, a vacant property that has been prominent in New Haven history. For next weekend, which is named the “Transported Weekend,” the festival will offer to transport visitors to various artists’ studios that are located across the Greater New Haven area. The festival will then end with its “Erector Square Weekend,” during which visitors will be able to visit many artist studios that are housed in a former factory on Peck Street.

CWOS’s engagement with New Haven is one of its most important features, Jurkiewicz said. Of the nearly 400 artists participating in this year’s festival, some are established professionals, some are just begin-

ning their careers and others are still students, she said. Artspace handles publicity for these artists and holds events to help promote their work, she noted.

Jurkiewicz also said that nearly all of the festival’s events are free and open to the public, which allows participation from a large portion of the New Haven community.

CWOS’s only ticketed event this year will be a keynote address given by Tom Eccles, the executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and the former director of the Public Art Fund in New York City. The event, which will be held this Friday at the Goffe Street Armory, will also feature guided tours of selected installations at the Armory. According to Jurkiewicz, this is the first year CWOS has included a keynote address.

This year, CWOS will continue to run bike and bus tours, offering an increased number of curated gallery tours, including one led by the University’s first lady, Marta Moret SPH ’84. Fritchey explained that the expansion in curated tours aims to help viewers who are not well acquainted with art learn more about the works they see and ask the artists the right questions.

Fritchey explained that because this year is Artspace’s second time using the Goffe Street Armory as an alternative space, the featured works will involve a greater degree of engagement with the space. She added that many of the 18 commissioned works — including a 23’ x 23’ kinetic balloon titled “Floatastic” and a series of 10 audio recordings coming out of lockers in the Armory’s former locker room — are site-spe-

cific and aim to use the space to its maximum capacity. The Armory’s layout requires some artists to share rooms, and learning how to negotiate space and potential collaborations is a valuable exercise, Fritchey said.

Local artist Leah Caroline, who is participating in CWOS for the second time this year, noted that the festival provides an opportunity to meet fellow artists and possible collaborators in the Elm City. Caroline will exhibit several nature-themed cyanotypes she made this summer in addition to her work on the collaborative project of a 12’ x 12’ pentagonal sukkah, a temporary hut traditionally created for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

Last year’s CWOS theme was “reveille.”

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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Dramat turns Wilde into dream world

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER For its latest fall experimental production, the Yale Dramatic Association will stage a classic British comedy in a timeless, dream-like world.

“The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde opens Thursday night at the Yale Repertory Theater. The show is one of two experimental productions the Dramat is staging this semester, the other of which was Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”

Miranda Rizzolo ’15, the director of “Earnest,” says she hopes that the production will surprise

audience members with its lack of adherence to historical accuracy in its design.

“I want to create a whimsical storybook that is free from the restrictions of Victorian England,” Rizzolo said.

The play’s storyline centers on the characters Jack Worthing, his ward Cecily and his love interest Gwendolen Fairfax. While Jack attempts to court Gwendolen, their relationship is complicated

by Worthing’s fictional, seemingly perfect alter ego, Ernest, who becomes the target of Cecily and Gwendolen’s desires. Adam Lohman ’18, who plays Jack, said he sees his character as a seri-

ous, grounded man. He noted that playing this role is a departure from his acting background, which has mostly consisted of musical theater productions.

Kate Pincus ’15, the show’s producer, said that the top priority for her and Rizzolo was to make the production process a collaborative venture between

all members of the ensemble.

“We tried to create a synthesis between production staff and cast that you don’t always see,” Pincus said. “We had production staff in the rehearsal room talking about their visions, and the cast was able to discover their characters in conjunction with the designers.”

Lohman and Lauren Modiano ’17, who plays Gwendolen, agreed with Pincus, adding that the opportunity for collaboration allowed them to experiment with the play’s script as well as with props and costumes.

Rizzolo said she envisioned the production resembling a timeless childhood story rather than a period piece. For intsnace, the actors will not speak in British accents. She and Pincus highlighted the way in which the show’s set and technical design allowed them to create the world they imagined.

One choice that Modiano said may surprise audiences is Eric Sirakian ’15 playing the part of Lady Bracknell. Both males and

females have played the part in the past, Pincus said, adding that she and Rizzolo also adopted gender-blind casting during the Yale Drama Coalition’s August casting cycle.

Pincus said that Sirakian has embodied what it is like to be a woman both now and in Wilde’s world.

“It’s so appropriate because Wilde’s work is about playing with gender roles and societal conceptions of identity,” Rizzolo said.

“The Importance of Being Earnest” will close on Oct. 11.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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The Dramat’s production of “Earnest” involved unique collaboration between production staff and cast.

‘Our Town’ unites community

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER To open its 50th season, New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre will stage a production that aims to draw participation from the entire New Haven community.

“Our Town,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder, a member of Yale’s Class of 1920, opens tonight at Long Wharf. Written in 1938, the threeact play follows the daily lives of average citizens over the course of 12 years in the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Gordon Edelstein, the show’s director, said that the theater chose to stage the play largely for its emphasis on the themes of family and community.

“The play is an extremely deep meditation on the ephemerality of life,” Edelstein said. “[Wilder]’s tactic in the play is to juxtapose the quotidian, everyday stuff of our lives with the backdrop of eternity.”

To celebrate the theater’s 50th anniversary, the production team chose to cast only members of the local community and actors who had already performed at Long Wharf in the past. Edelstein explained that he also chose to include several dozen New Haven residents in the production who will stand on stage throughout the performance.

He added that he believes the casting decision is unusual in that he does not know of any previous productions of ‘Our Town’ that has employed a cast of this size. Myra Lucretia Taylor ’81, who plays the stage manager character in

the play, added that she thinks the production’s multi-ethnic cast reflects the diverse population of New Haven.

Rey Lucas DRA ’04, who plays George Gibbs — one of the young lovers in “Our Town” — said that the ethnic diversity in the cast is important to him as an American actor of mixed background, noting that he thinks mixed race-actors rarely have the opportunity to work on classic “American” plays.

“A lot of theaters talk about their commitment to diversity, but Long Wharf puts their money where their mouth is,” Lucas said.

Taylor said she believes that “Our Town” teaches audience members to cherish the simple pleasures in life, such as dresses and shoes, adding that she hopes when people see the play they will leave with a greater appreciation for their lives and for the lives of their ancestors.

Lucas said he believes that “Our Town” is multi-layered, noting that everyone has a unique interpretation of the play based on their experiences in life.

“I read the play for the first time in high school, and didn’t really get much out of it at that time,” Lucas said. “Reading it now, years later, there’s so much in it. It’s kind of like a mirror and what you see in it is based on where you are in your life.”

The next Long Wharf production will be Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” which will open in November.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

Physicist talks sound

BY ROHAN NAIK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Physicist Carl Haber blended art and physics yesterday afternoon, as he discussed revolutionary techniques that can pull sound from fragile and damaged recordings without touching them.

Haber, the senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, spoke in front of over 100 audience members in an overcrowded Sterling Library Lecture Hall. Haber was invited to speak by directors of the Richard Warren Jr. Fund for the Preservation and Promotion of Music. MaryJo Worthy Warren, who established the fund in memory of her late husband, said she became intrigued by Haber’s work after reading about his research in a New Yorker piece, noting that music has played a significant role in the life of her husband, who authored numerous articles on sound recording.

“Since my husband had been involved in [sound preservation] and we met through music, I was very interested,” Warren said.

Haber’s lecture focused on different aspects of sound recording, including the development of his own interest, the actual mechanics of the trade and the history of sound. After hearing a radio program about old sound recordings that were damaged and would soon become unplayable without the help of digitization, Haber was inspired to pursue the subject in greater depth. He became interested in the idea of noninvasive restoration — the possibility of digitizing a recording without touching the material, creating an image of the recording and then writing a computer program to process the image and

recover the original sound. In 2003, he sent his idea to the Library of Congress, which led to collaborations with other researchers and enabled him to further develop his work.

“That is when it turned into a real project,” Haber said.

Today’s digital technology provides a window on the entire early period of sound recording and its rich … legacies.

CARL HABER Senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory After further study, Haber was ultimately able to use digital image processing to extract precise information from images and play sounds. The first sound he was able to play was The Weavers’ “Goodnight Irene”, which led him to name his technology IRENE, an acronym for Image Reconstruct Erase Noise Etcetera. Haber noted that his method is not perfect, but that optical methods “can sometimes lead to better noise reduction and restoration.”

Haber also spoke at length about the history of sound recording. He traced the beginning of sound to Leon Scott’s phonoautograph and Thomas Edison’s phonograph in the nineteenth century.

He also mentioned the first recording made for commercial promotions and, to the laughter of the audience, the first recorded use of profanity. In the last segment of his talk, Haber spoke of the

necessity of sound preservation and the benefits it poses to society. He mentioned certain examples in which preservation has aided history and saved valuable information, including recordings of American forces in war and oral literature in the former Yugoslavia.

“Today’s digital technology provides a window on the entire early period of sound recording and its rich research, artistic, historical and commercial legacies,” Haber concluded.

Several audience members interviewed found Haber to be humorous and noted his ability to make the subject matter easy to understand.

New Haven resident Harry Avakian said he thought the lecture was interesting and engaging from start to finish.

Luke Lindemann GRD ’19, a graduate student in the linguistics department, echoed Avakian’s sentiments. He added that as a linguist, he finds early sound recordings to be especially relevant to his work. Patrick McCreless, a Professor of Music History at the Yale School of Music, said he thinks that Haber’s research is “groundbreaking” in its scientifcally-oriented approach, adding that there exists much interest in the sound studies field, particularly among music scholars.

Ben Yousey-Hindes, associate director for Yale Library’s Development Office, said the endowment had been looking at Haber since the spring of this year as a high profile speaker.

Haber is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

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Completing 80 of 110 passing attempts on the season, Morgan Roberts ’16 has led the Bulldogs to a 3–0 start to the 2014 season.

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The Yale offense averages 631 yards-per-game — the highest average nationally.

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Bulldogs were named the “National Team of the Week” by the Football Writers Association of America following their historic win over Army on Sept. 27. They currently remain undefeated, having routed Cornell in their Ivy League season

opener this past weekend.

But this year’s start is reminiscent of the beginning of the 2013 season, in which the Bulldogs also won their first three games before falling to 5-5 on the year. The question still remains whether or not the team can sustain its early success through its final game at Harvard on Nov. 22. Head coach Tony Reno believes that “Team-142”

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— Yale’s 142nd football team — has a different path ahead of it.

“We’re a very different team than last year … These guys really understand how to play one play at a time and play through anything that comes their way,” said Reno at a press conference at Mory’s yesterday.

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BY KATIE SABIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a successful debut at the Cissie Leary Invitational in Philadelphia nearly a month ago, the Yale women’s tennis team will continue its season this weekend at the Bulldog Invitational in just its second tournament of the year.

WOMEN’S TENNIS Hosted by Yale, the tournament is the first home event for the Elis and will feature schools includ-

ing Dartmouth, Brown, Rutgers, Pittsburgh and William & Mary.

Yale has consistently performed well at the Bulldog Invitational in past years, posting an impressive combined record of 24–12 at the tournament in 2013.

“We have been working really hard on and off the court,” team member Caroline Lynch ’17 said.

“Now we are prepared and excited for our invitational, especially for the freshmen who will be playing at home for the first time.”

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Bulldogs lose by single stroke

BY JOEY YE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While the Yale men’s golf team finished just one stroke ahead of Harvard in the MacDonald Cup this weekend, the Yale women’s golf team was on the other end of the stick, losing first place to Columbia by a margin of a single stroke at the Nittany Lion Invitational at Penn State University.

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Yale opens its home season this weekend at the Bulldog Invitational.

Yale football has finally found its quarterback.

Two years after Morgan Roberts ’16 transferred from Clemson University to Yale, the University’s football program is reaping the dividends. This season, the Bulldogs are 3-0 behind Roberts’ league-leading 10 touchdowns, 80 completions and 978 yards through the air.

“I ended up transferring because of the cutthroat community of these big schools in the [Football Bowl Subdivision],” Roberts said. “It’s still a business — there’s no doubt that Yale is a business — but Coach Reno and the coaching staff have done a great job

making this environment so familyorientated.”

Despite the welcoming environment, Roberts said he initially struggled to adjust to the new offense.

Though Clemson and Yale run similar offenses — Roberts called them both up-tempo spread offenses that focus on taking advantage of matchups — there was still an adjustment period.

“The transition was tough,” Roberts said. “Coming and learning a new system, no matter what, no matter where you’re coming from, is difficult. It took me a while to understand my role in the offense. The biggest difference I’d say is the terminology.”

After finishing the first round of the tournament in first, the Bulldogs held a narrow one-hole lead ahead of Columbia’s total score of 297 strokes.

The Elis were on top in no small part due to the efforts of Elisabeth Bernabe ’17, who shot five birdies en route to a twounder-par 70, secondbest among all players on day one.

In the second round, Columbia was able to edge out Yale for the lead, earning a score of 301, just two points ahead of Yale’s score of 303. The Elis were unable to regain their lead on the final day of competition, tying with Colum-

STAT OF THE DAY 989

bia in the third round with a score of 296 and finishing one shot behind the Lions overall.

“We were just trailing by one after the second day, and so we knew we had to commit ourselves on the third day and commit to it shot by shot,” captain Marika Liu ’15 said. “The third day was actually one of the worst weather conditions. It was just 30 degrees, and it was freezing. No one could feel their hands.”

The rain in New Haven over the weekend missed Pennsylvania, but weather conditions were still far from favorable. Amid high winds and low temperatures, the players were forced to adjust their games to accommodate for the adverse conditions.

Notwithstanding the climate, the Elis were the only team at the tournament to have three individuals finish in the top 10. Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17 placed fifth, Liu eighth and Bernabe ninth.

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Despite a sharp first day, the Bulldogs lost to Columbia by just one stroke.

TOTAL PASSING YARDS YALE FOOTBALL The total number of passing yards the bulldogs have accumulated over their first three games. Morgan Roberts ’16 has contributed 978 of those yards.