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The Unit. Capping the festivities will be an afternoon screening of “The Millionaires’ Unit,” a documentary about the first pre-WWI air militia, chiefly made up of Yale students.
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Chiquet ’85 will participate in a Master’s Tea in Branford College this afternoon to discuss the business of bags (and more), returning to campus after giving similar talks at teas in previous years.
You better run. William Genova ’15 took a stand yesterday when he chased down a man who had attempted to rob Genova of his laptop after entering his apartment in the morning. Pursuing the suspect out to the parking lot of the Courtyard Marriott, Genova tired the would-be robber out enough for police to eventually arrest him, the NHPD reported. Troublesome trend. Police
reported another robbery yesterday, saying that a delivery worker from Alpha Delta Pizza was cornered by a group of men at 371 Elm St. Each of them wore masks and one of them threatened the driver — who eventually escaped safely, but lost cash and a cellphone — with a gun.
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Construction on the new residential colleges appears to be ahead of schedule. While Provost Benjamin Polak maintained Monday evening that the University would still formally break ground on the two colleges in February 2015, construction workers at the Prospect Street site Monday afternoon confirmed that work has already officially begun. Yesterday afternoon, construction crews were seen operating heavy machinery and excavating dirt. “If you walk by the site, you can eyeball yourself and make an assessment,” one Dimeo Construction Company employee — whose employer is the lead contractor for the project — said under the condition of anonymity. One construction worker, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity due to contractual constraints, said that for the past three weeks, workers have been on site, and construction has started for the new buildings. He added that workers, including excavators from Camputaro & Son — a North Branford construction company — have commenced preliminary work on the property. Representatives from Camputaro & Son could not be reached for comment Monday afternoon. “[We’re doing] mass excavation, erosion control measures, things like that,” a Camputaro & Son construction worker said. “We are also digging a patch for the tower cranes — a concrete footing to anchor these cranes.” While University spokesman Tom Con-
Construction work at the Prospect Street site for the new residential colleges has begun earlier than expected..
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ACA D E M I C S
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Salute. The University will host a Veterans Day ceremony today on Beinecke Plaza. In the program: remarks from students, faculty and veterans and a wreath placing set to a performance by School of Music students. Yale Police Department officers will be on hand as honor guards.
American Authors, known for the hit “Best Day of My Life,” will be performing live at Toad’s Place tonight. For $20 at the door, attendees can also see The Mowgli’s and Oh Hoeny in concert at the club.
With two more wins, the Bulldogs hold onto first place in the League
Work begins on new colleges, unofficially
Nice try. On Monday, a group of Harvard students from the “On Harvard Time” comedy troupe attempted to infiltrate campus to produce a joke video leading up to The Game. Yalies quickly turned the tables, however, identifying the Cantabs with ease. Meanwhile, Harvard still hasn’t figured out how Yale has already won the rivalry’s prank war this year.
“Strength to die.” An article published by the Huffington Post on Monday profiled the Woolsey Hall Memorial Rotunda and its role in inspiring Maya Lin ’81 ARC ’86 as she designed the renowned Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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either majors, nor minors, Yale’s Special Academic Programs give students the opportunity to study specific academic interests with an intimate community. As Yale now has five existing programs spanning human rights, energy studies, education studies, journalism and global health, the programs look to coordinate with each other. NICOLE NG reports.
Residents learn “Main Street Approach” BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Over the weekend, about 25 residents from communities around Grand, Whalley and Dixwell Avenues spent 14 hours together at the Hall of Records, learning the “Main Street Approach” to neighborhood economic revitalization. The training was the latest development in Mayor Toni Harp’s efforts to bring new growth to neighborhoods beyond downtown. On the campaign trail, she pledged to address what many city residents perceived as governmental neglect. Her administration has turned to the National Main Street Center, a nonprofit that focuses on revitalizing historic commercial districts, to provide a framework for New Haven’s neighborhoods. In the spring, the city hired consultants from the Connecticut Main Street Center, a member of the National Main Street Center, to conduct a study of the city; their
report recommended additional training for city administrators and neighborhood stakeholders. Three of the national center’s consultants received $10,000 from the city to offer the weekend training on the nonprofit’s methods, known as the Main Street Four Point Approach: organization, marketing, design and economic restructuring. “This is like Main Street 101, so that they can learn all the tools they need to use to take the ideas back to their neighborhoods,” said Kathy La Plante, senior program officer at the National Main Street Center. Harp and the City’s Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 both attended portions of the training. During the Sunday afternoon session, La Plante flipped through “before” and “after” photographs showing dramatic transformations of communities in Baltimore, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and Greenville, SEE MAIN STREET PAGE 4
BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER Six years ago, an undergraduate student’s efforts to create an interdisciplinary human rights major was rejected. So was her application to design her own major on the same topic. Yet this fall, 15 students will be accepted into the Special Academic Program on Human Rights, designed to provide stu-
dents with an academic framework and methodology with which to pursue studies and careers in human rights. The program launched one year after Talya Lockman-Fine ’15 and Paul Linden-Retek LAW ’12 GRD ’18 approached Yale Law School professor — and director of the YLS Schell Center for International Human Rights — James Silk with a proposal for a Special Academic Program.
Through student advocacy and faculty collaboration, the team maneuvered through the Provost’s Office, the Committee on Majors and the Yale College faculty to secure approval for the program. “[The Human Rights Program] is a wonderful way of being able to accomplish some of these goals of giving undergraduSEE ACAD PROGRAMS PAGE 6
Carney traces journey from Yale to White House
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Jay Carney ’87 spoke about his career and more at a Timothy Dwight Master’s Tea. BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Speaking to a packed room of Timothy Dwight students yesterday, Jay Carney ’87 traced his path from arriving as a freshman at Yale to becoming the White House press secretary under President Barack Obama for
three years. The Master’s Tea was only open to students in Timothy Dwight, partly because of the overwhelming interest in hearing Carney among Yale students, according to Timothy Dwight Master Jeffrey Brenzel. SEE JAY CARNEY PAGE 6
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hen I saw pictures this past weekend of the undergraduate president of the Women’s Leadership Initiative moderating a discussion with Evan Spiegel, CEO and co-founder of Snapchat, I almost choked at the horrific irony. The Yale Entrepreneurial Society brought Spiegel to campus to inspire students to think big about entrepreneurship and maybe even “build a startup [to be] the next Facebook or Snapchat,” according to Kyle Jensen, director of entrepreneurial programs at the School of Management. Though he may be an entrepreneur and inventor of a multibillion dollar app, Spiegel deserves no place or recognition on this campus. In May, the blog Valleywag obtained emails Spiegel sent during his fraternity days at Stanford in the 2009– 10 academic year. As a member of Kappa Sigma, Spiegel openly made misogynistic comments, calling sorority members “sororisluts” and encouraging other brothers to solicit oral sex from women. Illegal drug usage was also featured prominently. Lest you think this attitude was unrelated to Snapchat, there’s more. In other emails, Spiegel touted the utility of an early version of Snapchat as a way to ask friends, “Does my ass look fat?” During a difficult time for the University regarding its sexual climate, publicly recognizing someone like Spiegel while disregarding the blatant disrespect he once held for women compromises the progress made on this campus. If the YES wants to host a role model for students, there are plenty more to choose from. The organizers of the event and the student leader on stage may not have been aware of Spiegel’s transgressions. Herein lies part of the problem. Investors in Snapchat seemed not to take great issue with the released emails. One defended him, saying, “Everyone sent stupid emails and did stupid things when they were 19.” Stupid? Perhaps. Aggressively demeaning to the female gender? No. The news made its way across the Internet for a couple of days and promptly disappeared without any serious consequences for the CEO other than an embarrassing public apology. It’s fair to think that even if the organizers and students knew about the emails, Spiegel would still have been invited,
and turnout would have been similar. This is a much larger problem. A rich, successful male comes to Yale to share his ideas, and hundreds of enamored fans will flock to the unique opportunity to sit in the presence of a millionaire and share blurry selfies of their 50 minutes of fame. Basking in the glory of wealth and prestige, we forgive and forget the celebrity’s past faults so long as he regrets his actions and reassures us he is a changed man. Yet we reach for the pitchforks when a regular Joe voices similar slurs.
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IKE LEE is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at ike.lee@yale.edu .
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n January, ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl asked a question of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney that many Democrats (myself included) had been asking for years: “You already lost the House because of Obamacare,” he said. “Will it have been worth it if you lose the Senate?” At the time, the question was merely a hypothetical worstcase scenario. But on Nov. 6, that nightmare became a reality. Despite most polls predicting a nail-biter on Election Day, a Republican wave swept across the country, eviscerated the Democratic majority in the Senate and flipped four governorships from blue to red. Now, on the other side of the Republican wave, we progressives are forced to ask ourselves again: Was the President’s signature health care law worth two brutal election years for our party? The short answer, I think, is a resounding yes. But it’s worth picking apart the history of the law to remember why. The 2008 election was an indisputable success for Democrats. They took over the White House, made gains in the House of Representatives and moved toward a supermajority in the Senate. Those victories gave the Democratic Party an exceptionally rare and ultimately brief period of near-absolute power to pass remarkably bold policy. But even then, they had to
This worries me. Asking where our mindset originated is foolish, for the answer is obvious. In a culture where financial excess is euphemistically dubbed “growth,” where Forbes worships executive compensation packages and where top college graduates ship off to high-paying jobs on Wall Street, K Street and Silicon Valley, it’s not hard to be whirlpooled into the culture of exalting wealth. This can be especially true at Yale. We all chose this University in part due to its prestige. We admire wealthy alumni for their successes, aspire to become leaders and entrepreneurs and compete for the few hallowed spots in sexy industries and renowned graduate schools. I constantly ask myself why I want to be a physician, and I admit that distinguishing my genuine interest in medicine from the financial stability and social prestige of the occupation is not a straightforward task. This is not a call for organizations to vet their invited speakers, but for students to vet their own aspirations. Are we sacrificing certain values in our path to ascension? I have little reason to doubt the sincerity of Spiegel’s apologies, but his emails still speak to a dubious moral character that we may be too eager to accept. No one’s successes and contributions should be separated from their demonstrated worldview.
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decide how bold was too bold. Specifically, should they use their new power to ram through an overhaul of the American TYLER care BLACKMON health system while they still had Back to a chance? Or should they Blackmon play it safe, pass less flashy policies and slowly build upon their electoral success? Convinced that history would thank them later, President Obama and Congressional Democrats took a risk and moved forward with what became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 — the most groundbreaking restructuring of our health care system since Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Not a single Republican joined them. And over the next four years, Democrats repeatedly paid the price. Frustration with the swiftness and boldness of the Affordable Care Act first boiled over in 2010 when Republicans rose up to take back the House of Representatives and cut into Democrats’ majority in the Senate. It was, according to President Obama, “a shellacking.” Then, in 2013, the political juggernaut that is the ACA reared
its head once again when a rocky rollout quickly turned the tide against the Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterms. Approval of the ACA dropped to 40 percent and dragged Obama down with it; neither ever recovered. The timing for Republicans couldn’t have been better. Just as Congressional Democrats began to distance themselves from the law to survive re-election, Republicans dug in and used the ACA as a powerful political weapon to take over the Senate. Proof of the ACA’s toxicity became evident as soon as the first political ads began to air. I made a point to check: Every single Republican who won a competitive Senate race last week used the Affordable Care Act against their opponent, regardless of whether the Democrat had even voted for the original bill. In North Carolina, for example, Thom Tillis insisted “Obamacare” was “on the ballot this fall.” In Georgia, David Perdue slammed Michelle Nunn in debates for supporting an “unfixable” health care law. And in Iowa, even far-right Joni Ernst managed to win by vowing to “repeal Obamacare” and fight for “health care we can afford.” And it worked. Politico ran a story the day after the election with the headline, “Yup, It Was a Wave.” The ACA had officially given the Democratic Party its second shellacking. Yet, despite all the pain, reforming America’s health care
system was still the right call. By expanding Medicaid, the ACA addresses inequality concerns head-on. Women will no longer be charged more for health insurance than men and will even benefit from increased access to contraception. Those with preexisting conditions will no longer be denied the coverage they need to survive. We students are now able to stay on our parents' insurance until we are 26, giving us an expanded incubation period to invest more in our education and create opportunities for ourselves. And none of that would have been possible if Democrats had not used the golden moment between 2008 and 2010 to ram through a health care overhaul. Such opportunities are extremely rare, and Democrats won’t have such an opportunity again for another decade because of gerrymandering in state legislatures. So, yeah, both the 2010 and 2014 elections were tough to swallow. The shellackings we suffered were painful and will leave deep scars in the Democratic bench for years to come. But history will praise progressives for having the courage to pass the Affordable Care Act while they still had a chance. TYLER BLACKMON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .
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t’s as predictable as it is insulting: Cocooned Democratic pundits predict victory in an election, Republicans win, blogs light up and students take to Facebook to bemoan how sad it is that so many dim-witted Americans just voted against their economic interests. It happened in 2000 and 2004, even resulting in the publication of a book on the topic, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” This year, it’s déjà vu all over again. And it’s pretty ubiquitous, too. Pretentious columnists at The New York Times pull the argument off the shelf every so often (“Most voters don’t know much about policy details, nor do they understand the legislative process,” Paul Krugman opined last week), as do pretentious columnists at the Yale Daily News. The Internet is filled with various iterations of this same message, coming from people who apparently don’t mind that they might still have some friends who disagree with them. So, besides the obvious condescension, what’s wrong with the argument that voting Republican is almost always against your interests? On the simplest level, it betrays the cognitive dissonance engulfing the left’s “we’re all in this together” rhetoric. The left wants us to be together, as long as “together” means some kind of a push towards redistribution. It’s troubling that some of the blu-
est cities in the country are actually those with the m o s t social imbalJOHN and AROUTIOUNIAN ance economic inequalJohnny Come i t y . Despite Lately liberal p o l i cies, there are major differences between the daily lives of the rich and poor in liberal bastions such as San Francisco or New York. The rich and poor shop in different places, they pray in different places and they travel in different ways. “Togetherness,” then, doesn’t really mean unity at all. It’s appropriated as a weapon of class warfare. They’re Robert F. Kennedy’s words coming out of Saul Alinsky’s mouth. “Togetherness” used in this way shouldn’t be conflated with fostering fairness and community cohesion, great things that most Democratic policies haven’t come close to accomplishing. The “What’s the Matter with Kansas” argument is also fundamentally flawed because it reduces voters to purely selfinterested agents. For the sake of the argument, let’s say that maybe a Kan-
sas voter doesn’t agree with the Republican candidate’s position not to raise the minimum wage. But perhaps she’s appalled by the fact that America has some of the most draconian abortion laws in the world, far to the left of countries such as France, Germany and Italy — where federal laws often mandate waiting periods and where abortion is usually legal only through 12 to 16 weeks. In the United States, it’s often legal past 24 weeks, despite poll after poll showing that majorities find this horrific and favor a 20-week limit, which Congressional GOP leaders have proposed. Are these voters foolish for prioritizing protecting the defenseless over their economic gain, however just their economic demands may be? There’s also the economic side of the coin that, no matter how hard some try, can’t really be separated from people’s hopes and values. First, it shouldn’t even require mentioning that there are many circumstances that can determine the course of a person’s economic future and overall success. Many of these factors are outside one’s control: racial discrimination, lack of education, lack of family support, poverty. But Americans like to believe — and if it’s a myth, it’s been a pretty empowering one through the generations — that underneath it all, just about everyone can pull off a decent measure of success in
life, and maybe much more. It’s what my parents came to the U.S. believing. And even though there were institutions in the U.S. that made things harder for them, they kept believing this promise. Obviously, some people have had to deal with much worse, and progressives in America have worked in certain areas to make opportunity more accessible to more people. On the issue of economic inequality and the minimum wage, progressive arguments have a lot of salience. But it seems that their rhetoric and policy has gone from “giving everyone a fair shot” to “making sure the government is there every step of the way.” Here’s a disconcerting thought: What if even the voters who have a lot to gain through broader economic safety nets vote against those policies to preserve the importance of true freedom? Maybe the voters in Kansas don’t want to be treated differently. Maybe they want to preserve the joy and meaning that comes from the ups and downs of life instead of a lifelong government insurance policy. Or is that giving “average folks” far more credit than they could possibly deserve? JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .
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CORRECTION MONDAY, NOV. 10
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Whalley Avenue undergoes makeover BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Whalley Avenue is in for a makeover. Since it moved from its original location on Edgewood Avenue about 20 years ago, Edge of the Woods Market has been offering the New Haven community natural and organic groceries from its 379 Whalley Ave. location. But owner and founder Peter Dodge has undertaken a new mission to make his store and plaza more beautiful and more welcoming to customers. “It seems like it’s the right thing to do,” Dodge said. “It represents who we are and what we do. I’ve got my wife and two kids, and we’re all in this together. At this point it’s a nicer space to come into.” Dodge’s project includes adding more than 40 planters along Whalley Avenue, in addition to a new facade, new windows and new roofing for stores in the plaza. He also recently purchased the old pillow factory behind the grocery store and is in the midst of renovating it into a warehouse for products and an office space for employees of Edge of the Woods. He already converted the second floor of the building into apartments with green, energy efficient appliances. Matthew Nemerson, economic development administrator for the city of New Haven, said he is pleased with Dodge’s efforts to redevelop Whalley Avenue, which align with Mayor Toni Harp’s goals of revitalizing local businesses. “I think it’s great when any retailer is investing in their facade,” Nemerson said. “There has definitely been a lack of investment over the past few years. We are delighted to see people putting money into their storefronts and blocks, and we are definitely looking at ways to make sure that Whalley Avenue is an attractive area for the entire region.” Dodge bought the shopping plaza adjacent to Edge of the Woods about a year and a half ago, after the former owner put if up for sale. Since he has taken ownership, he has made an effort to better the appearance of the plaza. The city has matched Dodge’s investment in improving the facade of Edge of the Woods,
and Dodge said he hopes for additional city assistance to fix the sidewalks and parkways surrounding his business. Dodge said he had the opportunity to show Harp his progress with the changes to the plaza when she stopped by Edge of the Woods two weeks ago as part of her “shop local” initiative. Some of Harp’s most important goals for her administration include revitalizing local businesses and increasing retail investment, according to Nemerson. For members of the New Haven community, these changes have been a positive addition to the plaza and street. “It’s a really good thing,” said Cory Lombard, a New Haven resident. “Most people driving down streets like [Whalley Avenue] think ‘I’m never going down that road again.’ There are just certain roads you avoid. Beautification would really help a lot.” Other local residents, including Nathan Dowlin ’11, believed that the project was a good idea, nothing that the plaza is in a “really rough area.” It is precisely that concern that may be keeping Yale students away from the market. While students recognized the benefits of further development to the plaza, many also said they were still uneasy about the safety of the area. “I heard that the area is really sketchy,” Jihye Jo GRD ’19 said. “I want to go [to stores] after class, but now it’s so dark. Maybe if there was more light or security [it would interest me].” Other students, including Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16, said they were simply unaware of the stores that are more than a few blocks off campus, noting that most necessities are available in Yale’s vicinity. Elizabeth Spenst ’18 said she does not ever walk down Whalley because she has no reason to. However, she added that she would not be averse to exploring the area in order to look for cheaper alternatives to the produce at Elm Street Market. While Dodge has no definite plans for more renovations, he will continue his landscaping project and is open to more changes in the future. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
TIMELINE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
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Aug. 1, 2015 System goes live
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BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER After the Common Application suffered serious crashes last winter, Yale and other peer institutions are considering a new, alternative application system. The Common App, which is currently the only application platform used by the University, experienced many technical difficulties last year, causing over 50 schools, including Yale, to extend their deadlines. As a result, Yale, Harvard and a handful of other schools are actively exploring the option of implementing a new application system. While Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said Yale is “a happy member of the Common App,” the University has taken steps to reduce its reliance on the system. “We put up a request for a proposal and are currently in the process of evaluating vendors for the possibility of creating another application option for students to apply to college,” Quinlan said. “Discussions started about a year ago when the Common Application was having the bulk of its challenges, and we sent out the proposal this summer.” Colleges who exclusively depended upon the Common App realized their own vulnerability last fall, said Nancy Griesemer, independent educational consultant and DC College admissions writer for the Examiner. To address this challenge, a small group of colleges, includ-
ing Yale and Harvard, submitted a request to a group of application system vendors in May 2014. The request proposal outlined the specifications that a new, alternative application system would need to have. “This committee began to investigate the possibility of having an alternative in the industry that they could control,” Griesemer said. “It’s a relatively selective group of colleges, and they evidently have been meeting quietly to discuss this. They put together the [request proposal and sent it] to the major players in the application industry — ApplyWithUs, Hobsons, Universal College Application, etc.” After the proposal was submitted, only three vendors were invited to go forward in the process, although it is currently unknown who those vendors are, Griesemer said. Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Common App Paul Mott said in an email that his organization is not focused on the competition. He added that the Common App seeks to eliminate undue confusion and barriers to a college education. “If this alternative to the Common Application actually can help increase access — which would reverse a generational trend in the opposite direction — and actually reduce the pointless friction in the college admission process, we look forward to hearing more,” he wrote. Unlike Yale, Harvard allows students to submit their applications both through the Com-
mon App and Universal College Application to avoid vulnerability to the possible failure of one system. Harvard students interviewed said they used only the Common App to apply and were unaware that Harvard offered the Universal College Application. But Bev Taylor, founder of the Ivy Coach, a New-York based college consulting firm, said that many other schools, including Princeton, Duke and Cornell, followed Harvard’s example and joined the Universal College Application after the Common App crashed last fall. Taylor said these colleges were not originally members of Universal College Application because the Common App made it very expensive for a university to subscribe to two application systems. H o w e v e r, Griesemer said that at the end of this month, the Common App will announce a new pricing policy that makes it less expensive for a university to receive applications from more than one platform. Consequently, it is the perfect time for Yale and others to establish a new platform, she said. Still, college students interviewed said that they would not have submitted their applications through any platform besides the Common App. Jennifer Chiang, a sophomore at Harvard who used the Common App to apply, said that most students would probably not take the time to fill out a separate application
unless there was an added benefit. “I’m not sure how many students would use a new system, since applying to college is already such an arduous process, given supplements, etc.,” said Kristina Lorch, a sophomore at Harvard who used the Common App to apply to schools. “It’s much easier when you can submit applications through one system, even if it does occasionally have technical issues. I guess it depends on how much of an improvement is made in a new application system.” However, Quinlan said the group of colleges spearheading the new platform hopes to work with both students and guidance counselors in order to develop an excellent product that applicants actually use. He added that the coalition is still trying to find a technology partner and work on testing the new platform. As a result, the implementation of a new system will likely take more than a year, he said. “We would like something to reflect more of the way that our applicants — high school seniors — are interacting with the internet,” Quinlan said. “Something that’s dynamic, something that’s collaborative, something that has a cloud feel and reflects the way students like to work these days.” Still, Quinlan said that the University has not yet experienced any issues with the Common App this fall. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .
Library to launch new search engine BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER
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Yale library plans to launch a new search engine called Quicksearch.
Finding a library book at Yale may soon be easier than ever before. In the coming weeks, Yale Library Information Technology will beta test a new search system called Quicksearch, slated to replace the current Orbis catalog in September 2015. According to library administrators, the new platform, which will be unveiled this month, will streamline the different search engines available across schools into a unified Yale library site. Library administrators said they hope the new system will resolve inconveniences in searching for texts. “The library always had a multitude of systems that don’t necessarily talk to each other,” Chief Technology Officer for Yale Libraries Michael Dula said. “We are aiming to pull the resources available at Yale under one umbrella, starting with main library catalogue and law library catalogue.” Systems Librarian Kalee Sprague said students and faculty voiced frustration regarding the current system structure, which requires two separate searches in both Orbis and MORRIS, the law library catalog. As a result of these concerns, Yale Library IT met with library staff at Columbia University to see whether their search system could be adopted for Yale’s purposes, Sprague said. Since that meeting, developers and
librarians have been working on the project for roughly a year. “Faculty would be pretty angry about it especially if they were in a cross-disciplinary type of area and needed both types, Orbis and other library resources,” User Experience Librarian Katie Bauer said. “So basically we have been working on the database based on code from Columbia University library to present a unified search for those catalogs.” Sprague described that the search window will appear as a split-screen, in which one column will display the merged catalog results and the other column will show academic articles accessible and licensed through Yale. She added this will aid research on all levels of the University since both primary resources and secondary resources are available in one view. Programmer Analyst Lakeisha Robinson, the technical lead for the project, said that because the system uses the code of a peer university, there are additional steps that are necessary before launching it on campus. She said Yale’s system relies on Solr index and Blacklight interface — two systems specific to Yale’s platform. “We had the baseline of their code, but unlike what some people think, ‘you flip a switch,’ it is not like that,” she said. “So basically we had to go and get everything that was Columbia-specific and make it work
for Yale.” Robinson added they are currently doing user testing before moving forward with a formal launch in order to resolve any bugs or glitches. Sprague said one issue that the team is currently attempting to resolve is increasing the descriptions of the search results. She said that while Quicksearch may provide a more convenient format, library administrators are working to provide the level of detail that is currently available in Orbis. Students and library staff interviewed were generally excited about the new project, although some remained unsure whether it would change their research habits. Library Service Assistant Dan McHugh said that while he had not been directly informed about the new search engine, he was in favor of its planned launch. “It would be nice since it makes it easier instead of having to go to two systems,” he said. John Muniz GRD ’15 said that since he does not use the library search for law documents, he believed the change would not greatly impact him. He added that the current system is functional and serves both his academic and personal needs for research. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in neighborhood.” CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS GENOESE EXPLORER
Residents share ideas on neighborhood revitalization MAIN STREET FROM PAGE 1 South Carolina. She also discussed the importance of securing community buy-in, leveraging existing local resources and developing detailed plans to guide neighborhood efforts. But amid the pictures and stories of success, the question persisted: Will this work in New Haven? Many attendees, most of whom are members of Community Management Teams, said they were optimistic to a point. CMT is composed of residents who work to solve neigborhoodspecific problems. Lee Cruz, a member of the Chatham Square Neighborhood Association in Fair Haven, said some of the information was fairly basic and familiar to the Grand Avenue contingent, as numerous groups have been working to improve the vitality and image of the area for years. But he said he found the weekend worthwhile nonetheless. “There were good ideas that were shared, ideas that we hadn’t thought of,” Cruz said. “That’s often what training is good for, when you’ve got an organization that formed and has been doing things and wants to move in a new direction.” Jerome Perkins, a member of the Dixwell Community Management Team, said he had attended similar trainings and information sessions in the past and considered the content of the session familiar. But he was pleased to see Harp taking concrete steps towards implementing campaign promises. Harp has charged Stephen Fontana, deputy director for economic development, with spearheading the neighborhood revitalization efforts. In May, Fontana attended the National Main Street Center conference in Detroit, where he met one of the weekend’s presenters — Anwar Saleem, the executive director of a Main Street program in Washington, D.C. Conversations at the conference, Fontana said, helped him see that the Main Street Approach, often utilized by small towns, can work in urban areas. He said that La Plante, who has directed Main Street programs in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire acknowledged that New Haven faces unique challenges. “Our task as a city is somewhat larger than it is in smaller suburban or rural, more homogenous communities,” Fontana said.
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Members of Community Management Teams are cautiously optimistic that plans for developing New Haven will have positive impact on the community. Before the training weekend began, La Plante, who lives and works in New Hampshire, toured the three focus neighborhoods for about two hours. Earlier this week, she led training sessions in Rollins, Wyoming. In a typical year she leads 150 sessions all over the United States. La Plante said she did not have time to get a handle on the specific challenges of each New Haven neighborhood before the training. She did notice Yale’s influence throughout the city and thinks Yale has a stake in ensuring the success of this project. “Yale is not something any other community has,” she said. “Yale ought to care about the neighborhoods beyond its campus.” But thus far, Yale has not been involved in the neighborhood
revitalization project, Fontana said. On Sunday afternoon, after La Plante finished her presentation covering the design strategies neighborhoods can employ to ensure shops and sidewalks are inviting, participants broke into neighborhood groups. Their task was to put into practice the information they had learned over the weekend by coming up with a single project, such as a street cleaning or neighborhood party, that they could complete within six months to a year. The exercise revealed one of the challenges facing the implementation of the Main Street project: creating a new set of human infrastructure to spearhead efforts in each neighborhood. While all three neighborhoods have various preexisting civic and business groups, Fon-
tana said he envisions the Main Street program as requiring new groups with representation from all the stakeholders in each neighborhood. The neighborhood groups struggled to complete the assignment in just 45 minutes.
Initially this was supposed to be an exercise in how we can get together. BERNAR GOUTIER When the 15 Dixwell community members met to tackle the exercise, the conversation turned from a potential community holiday party to questions of leadership. After heated discussion, community management team
leader Cordelia Thorpe accused Fontana and the Main Street program of undermining the authority of the Dixwell CMT. Bernard Goutier, 27, said the bickering at the group meeting reminded him of discussion at the Dixwell CMT, whose meetings he stopped attending. “Initially this was supposed to be an exercise in how we can get together,” Goutier told the group. “Well, we suck. This is why the youth, my age and younger, don’t get involved with the community.” Interviewed after the meeting, Goutier said he still had hope that Dixwell would be able to use the Main Street approach to boost its businesses and increase community pride — but only if the neighborhood residents turn the arguments into productive conversations.
Fontana said La Plante told him that communities often struggle with the initial step of creating a team to oversee the Main Street program. “We’re at a typical early stage in the process,” Fontana said. “It’s also the case that by virtue of being a city we’ve got multiple neighborhoods, in this case with distinct issues, distinct constituencies.” The clock struck 5 p.m. and La Plante needed to get on the road. The Dixwell group disbanded. The details of their project idea — a holiday party held outside the Dixwell Plaza shopping center or the shuttered Q House — were still up in the air. But they had set the date for a meeting next week. Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .
College construction workers: shovels already in the ground CONSTRUCTION FROM PAGE 1 roy said there is preparation work underway for the Prospect Street site — which includes fencing work and other preparatory steps — he denied that this constituted the official “groundbreaking” of the new residential colleges. Polak said that the University has been working on the site for several years. He added that some work is better completed in the fall before the ground freezes with colder weather. Although administrators said the formal groundbreaking would occur in February, on-site personnel said that the shovels were already in the ground. Other employees at the offices of Dimeo Construction Company declined to comment and directed all question to the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications. In an October 2013 campus-wide email, Polak outlined the tentative schedule for the project. “We are working … with a goal to break ground on the new colleges in February 2015,” he said. With construction now underway, transportation along Prospect and Sachem streets has been impacted. The sidewalk closest to the site along Prospect Street between Trumbull Street and Sachem Street has been closed and blocked by striped orange hurdles and cones. Multiple yellow flyers posted on construction fences and dated to Nov. 4 announced that there would also be a temporary bus stop move. “Due to new construction at Sachem and Prospect, buses will not be able to service the following inbound bus stops,” the message read. “This project may take over two and a half years (subject to change).” According to the Camputaro & Son portfolio, the company has previously worked with Yale. It was responsible for 19,250 cubic yards of structure excavation on the Yale Social Sciences Building. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
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Workers have begun to undertake mass excavations and erosion control measures for the preliminary construction of the new colleges.
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“Get 15% off at our boutique, while sipping wine & listening to DJ tunes!! The despair is going on behind you unawares.” KIM KIERKEGAARDASHIAN CHIMERICAL INTERNET PHENOMENON
Art gallery to replace Pinkberry BY CAROLINE HART AND MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the wake of speculation surrounding Pinkberry’s reopening, an art gallery is now set to take its place at 1064 Chapel St. Last Wednesday, Fred Giampietro SOM ’79 signed a long-term lease with Chapel Investments for the space formerly occupied by Pinkberry. The Giampietro Gallery — which was founded in 1979 by Giampietro himself — will be moving into the space from its two current locations on Orange Street and Peck Street. In the weeks leading up to this announcement, Pinkberry employees were left wondering whether the frozen yogurt shop would reopen. “We weren’t told that it was officially closed,” said former Pinkberry employee Aaliyah Bohannon. “Many of us tried to reach out to the management, but we never got any response.” Giampietro stated that he did not know why Pinkberry closed, but he has been searching for a new location for his gallery for almost two years. He said he was close to giving up until the space on Chapel opened up. Former Pinkberry employees were unaware of the status of the shop when they saw the eviction notice on the storefront about a month and a half ago, but many speculated the store was permanently out of business. Several employees also said they had not been paid adequate wages. New Haven Pinkberry franchise owner and former CEO of Steve Madden Jamie Karson said in an email that all employees have now been paid, but he did not specify whether he plans to
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An art gallery is set to open at 1064 Chapel St., the former site of the recently closed Pinkberry, reopen a Pinkberry branch in New Haven. “We are currently evaluating all opportunities for the business in our market,” he said. “Regarding wages, we have paid all employees according to our records.” Former Pinkberry employees interviewed, who have not worked at the New Haven location since September, said that they had not received final word of the building’s change in tenant. And despite Karson’s email,
three former employees said on Monday that they still have not been paid. “We all already thought [Pinkberry] was closed for good, but the opening of the art gallery still brings some sense of closure. I will feel more closure if I take the case to court or the employees get paid,” Lane said after hearing about the gallery’s upcoming opening. The gallery is set to open midJanuary, according to Giampietro,
and will replace both of his current galleries. The Chapel Street location will house “contemporary fine art” and will feature shows every four to six weeks, potentially including work from Yale students, which Giampietro has featured in the past. The size of the space — which is approximately 2,300 square feet — is not the ideal size for the gallery, said Giampietro, but the value of the downtown location outweighed this concern.
“New Haven in general is a very difficult city because of the way it was segmented years ago — Ninth Square cut off by the green — so it is a struggle for a business to find a location,” he said, adding that his new location on Chapel should see more traffic from Yale students and tourists. Renovations of the walls, lights and floor will take place later this week and should be complete two to three weeks from now. The space does not need extensive
renovation, Giampietro said, but the branded Pinkberry decorations still need to be removed. 1064 Chapel St. is across from the Yale University Art Gallery and right across from the Yale Center for British Art. Another gallery, Wave, is also located on Chapel. Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu and MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .
University Store offers boutique BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER
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A new campus apparel store will move into 265 College St. this spring..
Since moving into 265 College St. this spring, a new campus apparel store called The University Store has been well-received by students who shop there, despite similar offerings around Yale. Located at the base of the Taft Apartments and next to the restaurant ROIA, the apparel shop occupies the space that was once home to Archetype Clothing, a boutique clothing store. Since The University Store’s opening, owner Craig Svede said that his business has been performing as well as he had anticipated, noting that the store has been “hitting [its] numbers.” Svede said that his store sets itself apart from other campus apparel stores by offering “boutique” apparel that is made predominantly in the United States. Two other stores on Broadway — Campus Customs and the Yale Bookstore — also offer University-themed apparel and merchandise. “We try to cater to the traditional — we outsource very little,” Svede said. “I would say that 98 percent of what we carry is produced in the United States. We produce it ourselves, so there is no middle man in most of our products.” Svede pointed to the store’s focus on boutique fashion as the primary factor that distinguishes it from stores offering similar products. The two other campus apparel stores have a storied history in the Elm City. Campus Customs first started carrying Yale gear and merchandise at its Broadway location in 1973, while the Yale Bookstore, in its current form, started selling University-inspired retail in 1997. Because of The University Store’s location on the opposite end of campus from Broadway, Svede said that the two other campus apparel
stores have tended to attract more undergraduate students. However, he added that his business has drawn numerous graduate students and city visitors due to its proximity to the Taft Apartments and Old Campus — a prominent tourist attraction. Of 30 undergraduate students interviewed, only six had heard of the store. Two had shopped there. While only a small number of students interviewed said they had shopped at the store, those who had done so said they enjoyed a positive shopping experience. The boutique offers a range of customized clothing, in addition to what Svede called “traditional” Yale apparel, including caps, crew necks and rugby shirts. Mao Shiyuan ’17 said that, after purchasing two shirts for $10 apiece, she enjoyed her shopping experience and would return to the store. “I think it’s great — it’s really empty because I don’t think many people know about it, but it has great apparel, and they’re not more expensive than the Yale Bookstore or Campus Customs,” Shiyuan said. Alex Herkert ’17 said he thought the hat selection was better than Campus Customs and the Yale Bookstore. He added that the prices were comparable to those two clothing stores and that the staff in the store was friendly. Svede stressed that he hires locally recruited employees who are familiar with New Haven and the Yale campus to improve the customer experience. The University store is not technically affiliated with Yale, and because of this, the word “Yale” is not included in the name. Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .
City residents urge immigration reform BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER After the excitement of the elections subsided, New Haven residents called on Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 to urge federal government leaders to pass immigration reform at a City Hall protest last Thursday. Local immigration activists, union leaders and students attended the event, hosted by Mayor Toni Harp. Blumenthal spoke and then opened the podium to DREAMers — students who have benefited from the federal and state laws associated with the DREAM act. The act, short for “Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors,” offers conditional permanent residency to
undocumented minors who graduate from U.S. high schools. The DREAMers shared stories of family members who were detained or deported and petitioned President Barack Obama to use his executive power to expand the protection of the DREAM Act to include more undocumented immigrants. “New Haven has been a leader in the country and the state in terms of being welcoming to the immigrant community,” said Nick Torres, director of advocacy at JUNTA for Progressive Action — a Fair Haven based social justice organization that works to empower the Latino community and offers legal aid to community members. “We’re happy to work with someone like Senator Blu-
menthal to push the president to act in the next several weeks.” Blumenthal said at the event that he and the protesters would “ask the president to take big, bold, broad steps” to address a “broken” immigration system. Blumenthal added that, though the president does not have the power to change the law, he can use his authority to establish a “fairer and more effective” system. Torres said, while the city depends on Blumenthal to lead the way to reform in Congress, JUNTA and New Haven residents will continue to demonstrate against deportations in the Elm City. However, dates have not yet been set for future rallies. While the City Hall protest
saw a “great turnout,” according to City Hall spokesperson Laurence Grotheer, the goals of the DREAMers are still unclear.
New Haven has been a leader in the country and the state in terms of being welcoming to the immigrant community NICK TORRES Torres said that the protesters agreed that the president should use his executive power
to Act against deportation, but many have contrasting views on the extent of reform needed. The most radical of the DREAMers demand that the two million who have been deported in the past two years should be allowed back into the U.S. When asked whether such a large scale reversal of deportations could be possible, Yale Law School professor Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 said, “The short answer is no.” She added that it is uncertain whether or not the deportations can be overturned through the president’s executive order. Harp supports a milder approach to reform. She calls for “more scrutiny” regarding decision of deportation and fewer
deportations in favor of keeping families together, Grotheer said. Torres said he has found it difficult to accurately discern the number of undocumented immigrant families living in New Haven and surrounding towns. However, he estimates that over 10 million will benefit from an expansion of the DREAM Act to protect not just students, but also their parents and relatives. “We hope to urge the president to take this opportunity to help as many immigrants as possible, instead of just a select few,” Torres said. The DREAM Act was first introduced in the Senate in 2001. Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?” THOMAS SOWELL AMERICAN ECONOMIST
Special academic program emerge from students’ efforts Global Health Fellows Program
Education Studies Scholars Program
Founded 2010 Class Size: 15
Founded 2013
Requirements: Statistics, three core courses, four electives, field work
Application Date: Sophomore/ Junior Spring
Requirements: ENGL467, summer internship, writing/ editing activity, classroom experience
Application Date: Sophomore year, with exceptions
Application Date: Sophomore Fall
Requirements: Three core courses, three electives, Senior Capstone
Class Size: 15-18
Yale Journalism Initiative
Requirements: Introductory course, two electives, field experience, Senior Capstone
Class Size: 70
Class Size: 15
Application Date: Sophomore Fall
Requirements: Gateway course, four electives, Senior Capstone
Application Date: Sophomore Fall Class Size: 20
Energy Studies Undergraduate Scholars Program
Special Academic Program on Human Rights
Founded 2013
Founded 2014
Founded 2006
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ACAD PROGRAMS FROM PAGE 1 ate students an opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary, but coherent, study of human rights,” Silk said. The Human Rights Program is the latest addition to four other special academic programs — the Global Health Fellows Program, the Education Studies Scholars Program, the Energy Studies Undergraduate Scholars Program and the Yale Journalism Initiative — many of which originated from students’ efforts.
GRASSROOTS ORIGINS
Occupying a niche in Yale’s academic curriculum, special academic programs give students an outlet to put concrete academic interests into action. In 2010 Yale announced it would terminate its Teacher Preparation Program. An Education Studies track survived as an independent program thanks to student interest and commitment from the administration, Education Studies Scholars Program Director Elizabeth Carroll said. After the departure of the two Education Studies Program directors in 2012 jeopardized the fate of the program, over 100 students signed a petition calling for then-University President-Elect Peter Salovey to guarantee the future of Yale’s Education Studies Program that December. In the summer of 2013, an advisory committee of faculty, students and staff — formed by then-Yale College Dean Mary Miller — appointed Carroll as director of a new iteration of the program for the fall. Capped at 20 students per graduating class, Carroll said there is significant interest in the program, with roughly four applicants for every spot.
Likewise, Energy Studies Undergraduate Scholars Program Director Michael Oristaglio GRD ’74 said that after the Yale Climate and Energy Institute was established in 2009, a group of undergraduate students pitched the idea of an energy studies program to faculty members involved in the YCEI. Over the next two years, students worked with faculty to develop a program proposal. The program officially launched in 2012, Oristaglio said, and accepted its first cohort of students in the fall of 2013 and currently has 70 students.
STRUCTURE AND COORDINATION
From 2012 to 2013, the Committee on Majors worked to outline policy guidelines for Special Academic Programs. As the programs have largely operated independently, leaders of each of the Special Academic Programs met with Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon this month to build coordination among the programs and share best practices. Though a clear policy and process is in place for vetting and establishing the special academic programs, Carroll said, they have been decentralized and largely operate independently. While each program has its own advisory committee, she added, the programs share many similarities. “If an Energy Studies scholar meets up with Education Studies Scholar, even if they have different content interests, they should have some sense of what the other’s experience is like,” Carroll said. The leaders of the five special academic programs met on Oct. 3 and Oct. 31, Oristaglio said. Gordon said he convened the meetings with the lead-
ers of the five special academic programs despite differences in focus, as the programs’ leaders could benefit from exchanging information. Topics discussed included procedures for admitting students, advising, curriculum development and building an intellectual community. Silk said program leaders decided not to allow multiple students to be admitted into more than one program as a general rule, though he added there could be exceptions. Giving one student the opportunity to participate in two programs could potentially deny another student a seat in even one program, which he said would not be fair.
If an Energy Studies scholar meets up with Education Studies Scholar, they should have some sense of what the other’s experience is like. ELIZABETH CARROLL Program leaders also discussed whether or not to standardize requirements, as the programs currently differ in the number of required core courses and electives, Silk said. Director of the Yale Global Health Initiative Elizabeth Bradley said she thinks that by sharing information, the programs will be helpful to one another. However, she said that it is effective for each program to have its own director and program advisor — because they are knowledgeable about both the program and the needs of students. Though faculty members
decided earlier that special programs would not appear on students’ transcripts, Oristaglio said program leaders revisited the question during their meeting and that it may come up for a vote in the future. But he added that because the Registrar’s Office now sends transcripts and a full record of a student’s history at Yale electronically through databases, the question of whether special academic programs will be listed on printed transcripts may become irrelevant in the future. Despite the lack of an official record, Tess Maggio ’16, who is involved in the Energy Studies Program, said the program labels still give recognition to the interests she cultivates outside her major. “It’s nice to be able to give a name to something you studied,” she said.
NOT A MINOR OR A MAJOR
Lockman-Fine and Silk said the existence of Special Academic Programs in part due to Yale’s lack of minors and resistance to creating new majors. But they added that the model of Special Academic Programs has its own benefits, notably interdisciplinary approaches, a tightknit community and a professional focus. “[Human Rights is] really interdisciplinary, and the model fits this very well,” LockmanFine said. “The idea is not to come to Yale and just do [Human Rights]. You have your main focus, and then this is a way to pursue your interests and shape the way you are thinking about other things.” The handbook for directors of undergraduate studies in Yale College defines Special Academic Programs as distinct from both majors and minors — they neither offer the same depth of
study as a major, nor are reduced versions of existing majors. Oristaglio said that during the process of formulating an undergraduate program on energy studies four years ago, the possibility of proposing a major was considered. Yet the organizing committee of students and faculty decided against a major and opted for a Special Academic Program, due to the field’s multi-disciplinary nature — spanning the sciences, anthropology, history, economics and public policy — and the subsequent difficulty of finding an appropriate department to house the major. Program directors and students interviewed said they consider the exposure to a variety of disciplines one of the primary strengths of the model. “Academics is one of the last bastions of specialization where people can focus on one particular field,” Oristaglio said. “Once you’re out in a non-academic setting, you’re working in a multidisciplinary setting and it helps to be trained in that.” Though Maggio said that she would still be able to study the same academic subjects without the program, she was drawn to energy studies for its interdisciplinary approach, particularly because she was unsure whether she wanted to pursue scientific or economic policy.
A CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY
Eleven students and faculty interviewed all said one of the defining features of special academic programs is their close, intimate communities of diverse students and faculty who share a common interest. Education Studies Scholar Skylar Shibayama ’16 said the immediate benefits of the program are its ability to connect students of widespread inter-
ests, with whom he otherwise would not have discussed education. Global Health fellow Adam Beckman ’16 said his program has many faculty members committed to its courses and students. Unlike many of the large majors with hundreds of students across the University, Beckman said he has found it easy to find strong mentorship, advising and support. Education Studies Scholar Grace Lindsey ’15 said she appreciates the program’s ability to connect scholars not only with other students, but also with the New Haven community in an academic context, particularly in the capstone project. “I will have the opportunity to engage with New Haven in a way that is practical and purposeful, which is unique to the Education Studies Scholars Program because of its connections with organizations in New Haven,” she said. Lockman-Fine said the Human Rights Program can act as a connector between students and Yale Law School, though she emphasized the program itself is not pre-law. As Silk is the director of the Schell Center, students in the program will have many opportunities to interact with the center and or those students interested in pursuing law, gain exposure to the field, she added. Still some students said they hope the programs would increase their connections and networking opportunities. Maggio said she hoped to see more structured connection to alumni and between students in the energy studies program. “I still think we don’t all necessarily know each other,” she said. Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .
Carney discusses work in White House JAY CARNEY FROM PAGE 1 Although efforts were made to keep the event intimate, Carney said he is not a shy public speaker. “I’m most comfortable at a podium,” he said. While at Yale, Carney was in TD and wrote for The New Journal. During this time, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, and what seemed to be a static political situation in Russia began to crumble, Carney said. He added that this inspired him to pursue a degree in Russian Studies. After graduating, Carney worked briefly at the Miami Herald, but was quickly hired by Time Magazine and sent to Moscow where he covered the decline and demise of the Soviet Union
from 1989 to 1993. After leaving Russia in 1993 Carney said he began covering American politics in Washington, D.C. Carney said his path to becoming the chief spokesperson for the 44th president was unique. Whereas most press secretaries before him had been either politicians or in the president’s inner circle, Carney came to his job as a journalist. When Obama finally invited him to the White House and offered him the job, Carney said he was wary of how quickly White House press secretaries turn over. Robert Gibbs, his predecessor, held the job for only two years. “My career trajectory didn’t have a great history to it when I
took over,” Carney said. Carney went on to describe the turbulent and stressful environment he worked in while at the White House. The Benghazi attacks, the faulty rollout of HealthCare.gov and the Newtown school shooting were all issues Carney spoke to the press about during his three and a half years in the position. His time in the White House, he said, was like “trying to stand up in a hurricane.” But he added that it was the best possible job. Carney discussed a humorous encounter with the Queen of England in which she told Carney that he had “the hardest job” while President Obama was standing next to him. After he finished speaking,
Carney took students’ questions, joking that he is “comfortable answering questions.”
My career trajectory didn’t have a great history to it when I took over.. JAY CARNEY ’87 Former White House Press Secretary When asked about the current state of journalism, Carney said that because of diminishing budgets and staff for mainstream news organizations, he is generally pessimistic. Questions from students
ranged in topic from changes in the way the White House uses social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to the increasing polarization of American politics. Students interviewed said Carney spoke candidly and eloquently. “I thought he was more candid than he had to be,” William McGrew ’18 said. McGrew added that he felt Carney did not cover anything up and that the talk shed light on many interesting dynamics in the Obama administration. Corey Malone-Smolla ’16 said she felt Carney was extremely collected in his thoughts, and that he expressed his political views in a very subtle way.
TD Operations Manager Bob Kennedy ’75 said Carney’s story was perfect for Yale students, especially those in TD, to hear. Near the end of the talk, Carney reminisced about moving into Entryway E of Timothy Dwight as a freshman at Yale, winning the Tyng Cup and getting involved in picket lines to protest for pink-collar workers. He said that Yale exposed him to politics and the way political policies impact peoples’ lives. Many of his political views were formed at Yale, he added. Carney won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2003. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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“One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it’s Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.” AZIZ ANSARI AMERICAN COMEDIAN
In Branford, “Five Guys” BY DAVID SHIMER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Branford Dining Hall is attempting to be like “Five Guys” — the well-known fast-food chain — by only serving burgers, fries, the salad bar and soup every other Monday for lunch. Because Saybrook recently began making burritos to order once every two weeks, Branford decided to also try something new, said Assistant Manager of Branford and Saybrook Dining Halls Kristin Gill. Gill said burger lunch has one purpose: to increase student happiness by doing something fun and different. Potential reduction in costs did not play a role in its inception, she said. “Price isn’t a factor,” Gill said. “We would never do anything that would compromise quality as far as students are concerned.” But burgers for lunch may come into conflict with the Sustainability Service Corps “Meatless Monday” campaign, which has been implemented in all 12 residential colleges to encourage sustainable eating habits. Jonathan Edwards College Coordinator for the SSC Jonah Bader ’16 said burgers for lunch would not prevent JE students from participating in Meatless Mondays because his group only campaigns for the cause at dinner. But he added that beef is the meat that has the largest impact on the environment, so any change that increases beef consumption is not sustainable. SSC Branford College Coordinator Tali Perelman ’17 said she
would not push Branford to move burger lunch, though the college advocates for Meatless Monday throughout the day unlike JE. Meatless Mondays is an international campaign, she said, so her group does not feel too attached to that particular day of the week. She said her main goal is not to force students to follow a strict set of rules, but instead to encourage them to eat more sustainably throughout the week. In addition, Gill said the specialty lunch will also include veggie burgers, and that the meat patties are not frozen and are similar in quality to Yale burgers. David Brooks, who is also assistant manager of Branford and Saybrook dining halls, was pleased with how lunch went yesterday, though he added that the volume of students was not greater than that of a typical lunch. “The students I talked to afterward seemed very pleased with it,” he said. “The burgers were very good — they’re fresh patties.” Gill said that in response to student enthusiasm, her staff would like to experiment further in the spring by potentially creating a milkshake bar. Master of Branford College Elizabeth Bradley said she is excited about burger lunch. “I think it’s a great idea,” Bradley said. “Branford has not previously had anything unique to its dining room, so we’ll see how this goes.” Ten students interviewed in Branford had mixed feelings about the new policy. Tyler Caldwell ’18, for instance, said he is against burger lunch because it
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Branford Dining Hall imitates Five Guys restaurant by only serving burgers, fries, salad and soup very other Monday for lunch. limits what students can eat. “I don’t like that they’re taking away food option diversity,” he said. “I don’t want to have to eat a burger every other Monday.” Haleigh Larson ’18 said she had trouble finding an alterna-
tive to burgers. Other students who did want the burgers, she added, had to stand in line for extended periods of time. “Normally you can get something on the grill like chicken, but they wouldn’t let me do that, and I don’t like hamburgers,” she
said. “Because they made the burgers as kids came, people had to wait in line for over 10 minutes.” Colleen McCormack ’17 said she enjoyed the lunch, though she added that the dining hall should try to get avocado and
bacon as additional toppings. According to Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, the hamburger was invented at New Haven’s Louis’ Lunch in 1900. Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .
Pitkin Plaza welcomes new café BY FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Their dough may rise slowly, but one new café is quickly spurring economic growth in New Haven’s Pitkin Plaza. G Café, a restaurant specializing in high-quality artisanal breads, opened its second branch last Friday on Orange Street. Located near New Haven’s government offices, the building previously housed a café called Bru, but stood vacant for two years before G Café moved in. City officials and nearby business owners said the opening is positive for Pitkin Plaza’s development because it will increase both employment and foot-traffic in the area.
Matthew Feiner, who founded and owns The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop — which sits in the same plaza as G Café — said he has seen the plaza improve over the years and that the new business signals the ongoing improvement of Pitkin Plaza. “[The opening is] nothing but a great thing,” he said. “They make a great product, a very sincere product.” Feiner added that his own business, which he has run and owned for the past 13 years, will benefit from G Café because the two establishments will “cross pollinate” each other with customers. G Café currently has one café in Branford, Conn. and a bakery on Hamilton Street in New
Haven. The baked goods are the café’s selling point, G Café Manager Maria Corina said, adding that she hopes to cultivate the habit of bringing bread home after work, common in European and South American cultures.
I think people in this area really missed this place being anything at all. MARIA CORINA Manager, G Café The café’s bread is all natural and the coffee is made from beans from the Italian seller Esse and
Willoughby’s Coffee and Tea. The recipes for the breads, written and compiled by the café company’s owner Andrea Corazzini, yield breads with a short shelflife, Corina said. Patrick Rosenbeck, an employee of G Café, said working for the café has been an interesting challenge because customers want to know the ingredients of each particular kind of bread, forcing him to memorize each recipe. “I think people in this area really missed this place being anything at all,” Corina said. She said she hopes to create a place where people are comfortable eating in rather than taking food back to their office. The construction of G Café required
extensive interior renovation, Corina said. The entire counter, bar and seating area were not present in the previous café. Because everything is made fresh and customers have to wait roughly fifteen minutes for their food to be prepared, Corina said G Café recommends people order their food in advance. City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that Mayor Toni Harp welcomes new small businesses to the New Haven economy, as they are cumulatively the major employer for New Haven and the entire region. Because small businesses tend to hire local workers, Grotheer said, the opening of places like G Café is consistent with Harp’s vision of decreasing unemployment in the
city. Corina said she hopes G Café attracts local businesspeople, families in the area and Yale students. One customer who had come across G Café while visiting New Haven on business said he was relieved to discover that this area had a café. While Corina said many families have visited the restaurant since it opened this weekend, none of the 20 Yale students interviewed said they had heard about the new café. G Café donates all leftover bread to Crossroads, a local New Haven safe house for over a hundred women. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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Matthew Feiner, the owner of the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop, said that his store and G Café, both located in Pitkin Plaza, will “cross pollinate.”
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Bulldogs tie Terriers WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 While this was the only goal scored in the first period, both BU and Yale’s performances during the next period more than made up for the deficit. Just 2:01 into the second period, forward Jamie Haddad ’16 evened the score, setting the tone for the team’s offensive drive for the remainder of the period. With 21 combined shots and four goals in the second, Yale took the lead not once, but twice. Forward Courtney Pensavalle ’18 had an impressive period as well, assisting on Haddad’s goal and scoring two of her own, both while in power plays. Pensavalle’s two goals were separated by a second Terrier shorthand goal, this time after a boarding penalty, the only major infraction of the game. “I think the second period started this tumultuous downfall,” Haddad said. “We were both playing very well, but we would each have these moments of mistakes. Consistency was lacking but the effort was there.” Boston echoed Yale’s scoring in the third, with two power-play goals, one less than two minutes into the period — which reversed the momentum of the game. This gave the Terriers at 4–3 lead over the Bulldogs with only four minutes remaining.
With around three minutes left to play, Yale pulled goalkeeper Jaimie Leonoff ’15, which proved to be a success move when after a series of passes forward Eden Murray ’18 scored to tie the game on a one-timer shot and send the game into overtime. But neither team was able to capitalize on their opportunities in the five-minute overtime period, leading to a draw. Of the eight goals scored in the game, six occurred during special teams performances, including the two shorthand goals by Boston. “We got a lot of penalties, and that kind of hurt us,” Murray said. “The momentum would shift to BU and when we received the penalty, it went back to us. Once we gained [momentum] back by scoring goals when we needed them, it was easier to maintain momentum throughout the game.” The Elis also could not maintain the same volume of shots as BU, as the Terriers took 37 shots to Yale’s 28. Murray said she believes that it is important for the Bulldogs to keep pushing the pace, even if they are in the lead. “The score really doesn’t matter,” Murray said. “I know it sounds cliché, but whenever we get up a goal, our team can become complacent and it’s important to never be satisfied. We have to keep pursuing the puck. At any given moment their team can score
and come back.” This is even more crucial when playing tough teams, like ranked Boston and, in the previous weekend, Clarkson. Despite a defeat against the Golden Knights, Yale kept the game close, proving their ability to compete with the top teams on the ice. “It is a confidence booster in that you can kind of play with anyone, coming out of this game and Clarkson last weekend,” Haddad said. “It was also a wake-up call. We’ve played some pretty tough opponents and have kept up with them and tied then, but we haven’t beat them.” In order to make that victory happen, the team is working particularly on its power plays and rushes, in addition to overall effort, said Haddad. The Bulldogs will face both Colgate and Cornell away from Ingalls Rink this weekend, aiming to surpass the 0.500 mark. “We need to learn that we need to play the whole game,” Kennedy said. “We can’t show up, get a couple goals, and hope we can just win. We need to learn to not take so many penalties and not respond when the other team is chippy.” The pucks drops at 3 p.m. on Friday against Colgate. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
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A late third period goal sent the Bulldogs and the Terriers to a five-minute overtime period that ended scoreless.
Errant clearance sinks Elis MEN’S SOCCER FROM PAGE 14 Bears forward Ben Maurey was able to intercept and control near the Bulldogs’ net. He then launched a shot straight back toward Yale’s net. Brown was able to tip the shot as it soared past him, but he was ultimately beaten from 25 yards out as Maurey capitalized on the Yale error that wound up deciding the game. “Overall, we defended very well and were not particularly troubled by the Brown offense, but they punished a mistake on a defensive clearance and turned the game their way,” Tompkins said. Perhaps Yale’s best chance of the game came just after halftime, when captain Conner Lachenbruch ’15 had a shot saved and another one blocked in quick succession, and forward Teddy Mauze ’18 followed with a shot that sailed high over the goal and out of play. Under Tompkins, who is retiring after 19 years as head coach after Saturday’s game against Princeton, the Elis have never won fewer than three games in a season, nor have they finished a campaign without a win in Ivy League play. The Bulldogs have lost eight games this season by a score of 1–0, with their match against Brown marking the lat-
est of these closely-contested but ultimately disappointing matches. “It was another well-fought game that could have gone either way,” Lachenbruch said. “We did well to combat their strengths and take advantage of their weaknesses that we knew of going into the game. Unfortunately they were able to capitalize on an opportunity and we weren’t.” When Yale takes on Princeton this Saturday in Tompkins’s final home game as head coach, the Elis will also have their last shot at redemption this season. If Yale can pull out a win against the Tigers, it would mean not just a tremendous upset — as Princeton is the top ranked team in the Ivy League — but would also mark a point of pride for a struggling Eli squad. “Being our last game and our senior night, the match against Princeton is going to be a really special one,” forward Keith Bond ’16 said. “This year is especially important as Coach Tompkins is retiring after 19 years of leading us, so we’re looking to end the season, and our coach’s career, on a high note.” The Elis take on Princeton on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. in Reese Stadium. Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .
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The men’s soccer team dropped its fifth Ivy contest to Brown on Saturday. They will take on Princeton next week.
Elis defeat Columbia, Cornell, 3–1, 3–0
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Setter Kelsey Crawford ’18 had 86 of the Bulldogs’ 96 assists against Columbia and Cornell. VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 14 and I don’t think their record really reflects that,” Rogers said. “I thought they played well in the third, but I also think we did a great job coming back in the fourth, so I feel like that really says a lot about us and how much we’ve learned.” The next day, the Bulldogs swept the Big Red (5–17, 2–10 Ivy) 3–0 for the second time this season. The scores of the match were 25–22, 27–25 and 25–20. The second set was a point-by-point nail-biter in which Yale never led by more than three points. With the game tied at 25, Crawford set Johnson up for a kill to regain the lead. A setting error by Cornell ended the second set with a win for the Bulldogs. Once again, Johnson and Rogers powered the Bulldogs to victory on Saturday night with both players recording double-doubles. Yale hit 0.269 while Cornell managed just 0.151. The Elis also notched five aces on the night. On defense, four bulldogs, including Rogers, Johnson, Crawford and Rudnick, all had no less than 11 digs. Johnson, who led the pack with 20 digs of her own, remarked that despite the final scores, both Cornell and Columbia put up fairly strong challenges.
“We fought back a couple times when [Cornell] was leading, and we were able to win in three games,” Johnson said. “Both matches were very similar to the first time we played them. Both teams came out really strong, and we were able to combat that.” Head coach Erin Appleman noted that the team had an advantage going into the matches having already faced both teams earlier in the season. In fact, both the Cornell and Columbia matches ended with the same set scores as when the teams first met. Appleman also emphasized that the team felt confident in its current standing as a result of the experience gained from four consecutive Ivy League championships. “We’ve been in this position before, and the team is comfortable in this position … We have two really good teams coming in this weekend, and hopefully we can get a big crowd support to get the victories that we need,” Appleman said. The Bulldogs will play Princeton and Penn at home this weekend in the final two conference games of the 2014 season. Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu and ERIN WANG at erin.wang@yale.edu .
Yale sweeps SCSU SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE 14 Stephens-Pickeral shone again in the 100-yard breaststroke, securing first place and adding nine points to the team total. She was followed by Emma Smith ’16 winning the 200yard butterfly. The younger Elis showed their skills when the sprint events began. Mackenzie Franklin ’17 took first place in the 50-yard freestyle, followed closely by freshmen Pauline Kaminski ’18, Maddy Zimmerman ’18 and Cheryl Xiang ’18. Wins in the 100-yard freestyle by Michele Chintanaphol ’17 and the 200-yard backstroke by VanderWel added 18 points to Yale’s total. With sweeps in most events, the women’s team rolled to a comfortable victory over SCSU. The men’s day was similar to the women’s, with victories in nearly every race. The 200-yard medley “A” team of Shawn Nee ’18, Andrew Heymann ’15, Alwin Firmansyah ’15 and Aaron Greenberg ’17 kicked off the day with a victory and 11 points for the Bulldogs. But perhaps the biggest surprise of the meet came in the 1000-yard freestyle, when Kei Hyogo ’18 just barely out-touched Brian Hogan ’16 by 0.02 seconds. Hogan, a first team All-Ivy swimmer from the year before, finished first in the event at last year’s Ivy League Championships, setting a meet record. “The freshmen have done a great job adjusting to the team and Yale in general,” Hogan said. “The freshmen have stepped up to [last year’s team’s] intensity.” SCSU started to push back against the dominant Yale performance as they headed into the 200-yard freestyle. The Owls took third, fourth and fifth in the event, knocking two of the Bulldogs into sixth and seventh in the eight-swimmer event. The Elis took control in the rest of the events, however, with all of the Yale swimmers finishing ahead of the Owls in every race. Kevin Stang ’16 took the win in the 100-yard backstroke and Heymann sealed the victory in the 100-yard breaststroke. Hyogo and Greenberg took first in the 200-yard butterfly and 50-yard freestyle, respectively, and
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Kelly Sherman ’16 finished second place against Dartmouth and Penn last year with a score of 260.15. Greenberg took another win in the following event, the 100-yard freestyle. Hogan’s speed came to the forefront when he out-touched teammate Alex Schultz ’17 by less than two seconds in the 200-yard backstroke. For the final individual event of the meet, the 200-yard breaststroke, freshmen Jonathan Rutter ’18 and Derek Kao ’18 took the lead and placed first and second for the Elis. Zhou and teammate Anna Wujciak ’17 both said they were excited to finish the first meet in such great standing and that it gave them a boost of confidence for the next meet. The Elis will compete against Ancient Eight rival Columbia this weekend, the first official home meet for Yale. “Regarding the pool, it is a bit of an advantage since we practice there
every day,” Wujciak said. “Most teams don’t like it, but the Exhibition Pool is such a special place. However, our largest advantage would be having a lot of students come cheer for us on Friday. We only have three home meets this year, and Columbia will be an exciting one.” The diving teams did not have official competition, as SCSU had no female divers to compete against the Yale team and the men’s diving events were only exhibitions. As such, the divers’ scores could not contribute to Yale’s point totals. The Elis take on the Lions on Saturday, Nov. 15. The men’s competitions will start at 2 p.m.. while the women divers will start their events at 4 p.m. The swimmers will follow at 5 p.m. Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY People cooperate to their disadvantage BY BRENDAN HELLWEG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Conceptions of fairness guide individuals to share, even when different strategies exist that could create greater equality, according to a new Yale study bridging psychology and economics. The study consisted of a twoplayer game in which participants could split money between themselves and another player who would receive a multiple of whatever the starting player gave. Participants logged onto Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a website for people all over the world to complete short tasks that require human intelligence. They were given 10 cents and told that they could give whatever portion they wanted to another anonymous participant, who would in turn give back a portion of his or her own money. The choice was complicated when participants were informed that whatever they gave away would be multiplied by a factor of two or more, meaning that if the participant gave five cents, then 10 or more would be delivered to the other player. The player’s own pot of money was not multiplied by any factor. Twenty percent of participants favored the 50-50 split over mathematically fairer options, suggesting that their decisions were not based solely on reason. “The people consistently giving half are making a mistake,” said David Rand, principal author of the study and Director of Yale’s Human Cooperation Laboratory. “They are applying a simple rule which often makes sense to a situation where it does not actually make sense.” This simple rule, known as a heuristic, is a common phenomenon in economics. When faced with a common or urgent problem, it is not always possible or convenient to deliberate on a solution. According to Jillian Jordan GRD ’19, a psychology student and one of the study’s authors, the inability to think long and hard often leads people to a heuristic, or “a quick way of making a decision that may not be particularly systematic.” “It may not have a strict algorithm that takes all these inputs having to do with the payoffs of the game that comes up with the rational, best outcome,” she said. “Rather, it’s the sort of rapid, gut response that says, ‘in general, I’m going to do this type of
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thing.’” If the players desire selfish outcomes, they should give nothing, and if they are altruistic, they should give everything, Jordan said. The study did find strong concentrations at either end of the spectrum, but also found a concentration consistently in the middle, suggesting a third way of thinking about the game. This trimodal, or triple-concentrated, distribution is a significant contribution of the study to the literature on game theory, said Gilbert Skillman, professor of economics at Wesleyan University. He argued that the third distribution lends credence to both
of the main arguments against the rational choice model — that people always make choices to get more rather than less of desirable things. Instead, he said, people have other preferences, an argument known as economic theory ignorance, and also do not have the time or wherewithal to consider all factors, but rather take shortcuts, an argument known as bounded rationality. “What’s cool about this [finding] is that it opens up a way to understand that both things could be the case,” Skillman said. “The third mode ... [is] the interesting contribution of this study compared to the standard results
before. Because it looks like both things are going on ... one, using a rule of thumb, but two, contributing to the public good, to some extent.” Even without any time constraint, these participants did not follow strategies that would result in equal final distributions of cash, such as giving 20 percent of the starting money if the gift would be increased by a factor of four. Instead, they favored a 50–50 split of the starting cash no matter how high the multiplier effect rose. These choices make some sense in a repeated game, but in
this experiment, there was no expectation of reciprocity, Jordan said. It was a one-time game, with decisions made without knowledge of the other player’s choice. According to Valerio Capraro, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Southampton University and a co-author of the study, the next step in the research could be finding a way to describe the participants’ behavior when making heuristic decisions. “It’s very difficult to model these people because every mathematical model you can
think of would depend on the benefit, so increasing the benefit would change the prediction of the model — but here, nothing changes,” he said. “That’s a difficult point to explain from a mathematical point of view.” The one-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma game, used frequently in game theory and psychology research, was formalized in 1992 by Albert W. Tucker, a Canadian mathematician and recipient of the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize. Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .
Working together, two brain regions arrest impulses BY LIONEL JIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two brain regions play complementary roles when people stop themselves from blurting out that inappropriate comment or walking into an oncoming car, researchers have found. The team — which included four researchers at Stanford and one at Yale — used novel computational technology to analyze existing data. They showed that a particular region on the right side of the brain was responsible for detecting the stimulus, for instance, a fast approaching car. A nearby region then effected the inhibitory response, stopping people in their tracks. “Inhibitory control serves a fundamental function in our daily lives,” said Weidong Cai, research associate at Stanford and lead author of the paper. However, how the two brain regions in question contribute to this inhibition was not well understood until the study was carried out, he said. This is because both regions are activated when people stop an action, said Yale psychiatry and neurobiology professor Chiang-Shan Li, one of the study’s authors. He added that the insufficient resolution of brain imaging techniques and the variation in the brain activities of subjects added to the challenge. Srikanth Ryali, one of the Stanford researchers, said the team decided to tackle this problem using a novel algorithm. They found that two regions — the right anterior insula and the right inferior frontal cortex — had distinct functions in inhibitory control, with the former acting as a sensor and the latter as an effector. “This is a nice piece of science that advances our understanding of inhibitory control,” said University of California at San Diego psychol-
ogy professor Adam Aron, who works in the field of cognitive neuroscience and did not contribute to the study. Such work has important implications because many psychiatric disorders stem from impaired inhibitory control, said Vinod Menon, Stanford psychiatry professor and director of the school’s Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, as well as the paper’s senior author. These problems, he explained, include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Understanding the mechanism of this inhibition could lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders, Menon said. Menon also highlighted how the team’s computational methods could be applied to understand impairments in brain function beyond inhibitory control. Citing neurodegenerative disease as an example, he explained that researchers would be able to apply the team’s methods to identify the brain regions with dysfunction and whether this dysfunction lies in sensing, integrating or executing. The hope, he said, is that such research will eventually lead to better outcomes for patients. Menon said that the team was able to replicate its findings in an independent data set thanks to the Yale researchers’ willingness to share their data, he said. “It definitely improves research quality,” Menon said. “Replication is very important in science, and this collaboration gives us confidence that our findings are robust,” he added. The study drew data from 70 published studies and a separate Stanford dataset in addition to the Yale data. Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .
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“The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it’s not interesting to blame genetics. MOBY AMERICAN MUSICIAN
Non-coding regions tied to autoimmune diseases
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BY STEVEN LEWIS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A team of researchers at Yale, University of California, San Francisco, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified the specific genetic variations that cause 21 autoimmune diseases. What is more, they have proposed a novel role for gene regulation in human disease. The researchers developed an algorithm that took massive amounts of data from previous genetics studies, known as genome wide association studies. These studies had identified the regions of DNA implicated in various diseases, but not which single nucleotide changes cause diseases, making it difficult for researchers to understand exactly how genetic variations endowed individuals with specific diseases. Using their algorithm, researchers were able to pinpoint causality to a number of single nucleotide changes — called single nucleotide poly-
morphisms — in DNA. Their findings could deepen the molecular understanding of multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, type 1 diabetes and Celiac’s, among other autoimmune diseases. “Our work is a step towards understanding key regulatory circuits in immune cells that fail in autoimmune diseases ... shedding new light on the underlying [causes] of [those] diseases,” lead author and Sandler Fellow at UCSF Alexander Marson said. Hafler said this study provides further support that autoimmune diseases result from a complex interaction between environment and genes. “It’s not bad genes. It’s not a bad environment. It’s a bad interaction between the genes and environment,” senior author of the study and Yale professor of neurology and immunobiology David Hafler said. . To further narrow down the SNPs that could potentially cause autoimmune diseases,
the researchers combined the data from the algorithm with epigenetic mapping of immune cells usually implicated in autoimmunity. Epigenetics is the study of how DNA expression is modified — in response to environmental stimuli — without a change in the nucleotides themselves. Chromatin mapping is a technique used to find epigenetic modifications. “We created chromatin maps of different immune cells and crossed it with the map of causative SNPs [from the algorithm],” Hafler said. “[T]he results were incredibly interesting and allowed us to identify the molecular pathways that seem to be causing autoimmune disease.” Enhancers are regions of DNA that impact transcription factors. Transcription factors are proteins that in turn bind to DNA to initiate production of RNA and eventually proteins. In short, enhancers impact transcription factors, which determine gene expression.
Almost 90 percent of the genetic changes identified in the study were found in regions of DNA that do not code for proteins. The function of noncoding regions of DNA, previously known as “junk DNA,” is still being elucidated and is not entirely understood. However, it has been established that these regions, some of which are enhancer regions, are involved in gene regulation — they do not change proteins themselves but change when and the frequency with which those proteins are produced. “The genetic alterations identified are variations in DNA that act as enhancers of gene expression,” Marson said. “The enhancers are ‘molecular switches’ that determine when neighboring genes will be ‘turned on’ and made into RNA and proteins. Each distinct cell type in the body has a unique set of active switches. Our work focuses on how these switches control complex programs of genes that need to be turned on
in a coordinated fashion to allow specific cells to function properly.” This finding shows that SNPs in noncoding enhancer regions can greatly impact immune cell functioning. Because transcription factors dictate the cellular response to environmental stimuli, and are regulated by enhancers, enhancers play a large role in how our cells respond to the environment. The study also found similarities in the causal SNPs across the diseases studied. According to Jonathan Schneiderman, associate director of science at McCann Worldgroup, who was not involved in the study, the clustering of certain cellular characteristics implicated in various autoimmune diseases “implies a shared molecular origin.” Hafler said that the next step in their research is to swap out the SNPs that the team identified as causative, and see what happens in various immune cells. Marson said that the bio-
medical community hopes to develop drugs that will target and reverse these aberrant regulatory mechanisms in malfunctioning immune cells. According to lead author Kyle Kai-How Farh, clinical geneticist and postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute, their research opens up many possibilities for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, but it is just the first step. “There are many challenges before we can target individual enhancers for treatment, and we do not yet have the tools, although we are developing them,” he said. “So far there is no way to deliver the treatment to the precise cell types that require intervention.” According to the National Institutes of Health, 3.5 percent of all Americans are affected by an autoimmune disease, costing the U.S. about $100 billion a year. Contact STEVEN LEWIS at steven.lewis@yale.edu .
Multi-pronged intervention most effective in stemming Ebola BY GEORGE SAUSSY STAFF REPORTER Using data gathered on the ground in Liberia, Yale researchers have been able to run simulations to answer the question: How best can the world stem the Ebola epidemic? Researchers who have been following the outbreak, which began in earnest earlier this year in Guinea, were able to model the spread of the disease in Liberia, where the virus later spread. They found that the only way to contain the disease was through a combined intervention that targets all contexts in which the disease could be transmitted. “We were trying to tackle, in a very general way, [Ebola] transmission in all of Liberia,” said Natasha Wenzel, research associate at the Yale School of Public Health in the Center for Disease Modeling and Analysis. Researchers obtained their
results by looking at data published by the Liberian government on the number of people infected and how each person would have come into contact with the disease. In building the mathematical model, researchers created a virtual population, and divided it into subpopulations of susceptible, infected, deceased and recovered individuals, as well as other categories. They then modeled the probability of a given individual transitioning between the subpopulations in a given time from the data collected. To model certain transitions, namely from susceptible to infected individuals, the researchers divided the means of infection into multiple types — the general community, patients in hospitals and those attending funerals. After inputting the data that the Liberian government has collected weekly to track disease transmission, the researchers
were able to make a rough prediction of how the disease would spread in the country. They then considered various intervention methods to keep the disease from spreading, specifically hygienic burials for hospital deaths and community deaths, quarantining infected individuals and quarantining those in contact with the infected. They then modified the model to reflect the efficacy of each intervention. Those simulations showed that a combined intervention implemented in 60 percent of instances would be more effective than any individual method alone implemented in 90 percent of instances. According to their predictions, a combined intervention could reduce the number of newly infected patients to zero within six months. “You can’t concentrate on one thing thinking that [it] is more important,” said Abhishek Pandey, postdoctoral associate in
epidemiology at the School of Public Health. “You really need to actually take a combined approach and take it aggressively.”
[We] see that if you just concentrate on funerals, you’re not going to curtail [the epidemic] very soon. ABHISHEK PANDEY Postdoctoral associate, School of Public Health The researchers also found that funerals for diseased patients were “super spreader” events. If hygienic burial practices alone were adopted, the number of new cases each day could be reduced by half within two months, much faster than any other single intervention,
though this prediction was based on the premise that hygienic burials would be implemented more then may be realistically possible. “In previous outbreaks, funerals have been shown to be the most important factor,” Pandey said. “Now we see that if you just concentrate on funerals, you’re not going to curtail [the epidemic] very soon, so combining [hygienic funeral practices] with contact tracing and isolation is absolutely necessary.” Researchers also noted that their estimation of the effectiveness of hospital interventions may be overly optimistic, as the resources available to each hospital vary greatly. In particular, many Liberian hospitals are understaffed and underbedded, so isolation may be infeasible. The researchers further noted that because of the lack of data on the geographic distribution of the disease, they were unable
to build a spatial model. Jan Medlock, professor in the Department of Biomedical Science at Oregon State University and co-author of the paper, said that one of the advantages of the study is that the researchers used well established modeling methods, and that the scientific community will not have to digest novel techniques that may distract from the study’s findings. Wenzel said that having daily updated data during an outbreak rather than only at the end is extremely valuable. “We had to update our model almost every week because more and more data was coming in, so ... we could actually capture the most recent [situation],” Pandey said. This year, 2,766 people have died of Ebola in Liberia. Contact GEORGE SAUSSY at george.saussy@yale.edu .
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TYLER VARGA ’15 DOMINATING ON OFFENSE No matter the opponent for the Yale football team, Varga runs around, over and through whatever foe he faces. The senior back was named Ivy Offensive Player of the Week for his 204 rushing yards against Brown, which pushed him over 1,000 yards for the year.
SARAH MCCAULEY ’18 OUTSTANDING ON THE PITCH McCauley was the key to the Yale women’s soccer team’s victory on Saturday, scoring twice in a 2:33 span to help the Bulldogs beat Brown 2–1 in their final game of the season. She was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the second time this season.
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“We did a great job sacrificing our bodies and did everything we could not to lose … We stayed composed.” AURORA KENNEDY ’15 WOMEN’S HOCKEY YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014 · yaledailynews.com
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BY HOPE ALLCHIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This past Saturday, the Yale women’s hockey team came close to an incredible upset, tying No. 6 Boston University 4–4.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (2–2–1, 0–2–0 ECAC) barely missed out on taking down the Terriers (6–2– 1, 3–1–0 WHEA) in a back-and-forth, highscoring game that featured goals from three freshman forwards. “We did a great job sacrificing our bodies and did everything we could not to lose,” captain Aurora Kennedy ’15 said. “We pushed right back and got a couple shots on their net. We did a good job. We stayed composed.” The match started off with a shorthanded goal by Boston after a fellow teammate was called for tripping. SEE WOMEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 10
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Outside hitter Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 racked up 16 points over the past two away contests. BY ALEX WALKER AND ERIN WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS The Yale volleyball team holds fast to first place after notching two more wins on the road this weekend against Columbia and Cornell. The Bulldogs (14–7, 10–2 Ivy) defeated the Lions (7–14, 3–9 Ivy) in four sets on Friday. After winning the first two sets 25–20 and 26–24, Yale
lost the third set 16–25 to Columbia but came back 25–18 in the fourth set to finish up the match. Just as they did earlier in the season, Yale fought back from a third set loss to defeat Columbia. With setter Kelly Johnson ’16 serving, Yale jumped out to a 10–6 lead early on in the fourth set. Though the Lions came back to tie the game at 16–16, the Bulldogs managed to side out
and rack up seven more points, putting them at 23–16. A kill by captain Mollie Rogers ’15 and an ace by libero Tori Shepherd ’17 clinched the win for Yale. Rogers and Johnson posted double-doubles in kills and digs. Rogers contributed a team-best 18 kills and 16 digs, while Johnson racked up 14 kills, 12 digs and eight assists, putting her just two assists away from a
Splashy debut for Elis against Owls BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the first weekend of official competition for the Yale swim teams, both the men and women took home resounding victories over Southern Connecti-
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The Yale men’s swimming team routed Southern Connecticut State 186–95 at the Kiphuth Exhibition Pool.
triple-double. Setter Kelsey Crawford ’18, middle blocker Jesse Ebner ’16 and libero Maddie Rudnick ’15 also put in at least 10 digs apiece. Rogers, who hit an impressive 0.333 in the first set, noted that the team truly had to earn their win over an underrated Columbia squad. “Columbia is a really good team, SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 10
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cut State University, with the men winning 156–95 and the women defeating the Owls 186–69.
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For the swim teams, the opening meet was met with an overall feeling of anticipation, as it had been several months since the swimmers had competed in an official capacity for the Bulldogs. “I’m so excited the meet season is finally here, and with the hard work that we have put in through the last couple of weeks, I’m excited to see how we perform throughout the season,” Kina Zhou ’17 said. The women started the meet with the 200-yard medley relay. Yale entered three teams in the event, and they took the three top spots, with the team of Amy Zhao ’18, Ali Stephens-Pickeral ’16, Heidi VanderWel ’18 and Olivia Jameson ’17 coming in first. The next event, the 1000-yard freestyle, highlighted the long-distance skills of Casey Lincoln ’16 and Elizabeth Larsen ’15, as they took the top two spots, respectively. In the 200-yard freestyle, the Bulldogs shut out the Owls again when all four Yale swimmers took the top four spots. Danielle Liu ’18 led the way with a time of 26.86 with teammate Eva Fabian ’16 less than a second behind her.
Yale (1–12–3, 0–5–1 Ivy) fell victim to a familiar scenario, playing respectable defense for 90 minutes only to concede a single goal in the second half
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Three out of the four goals put up by the Elis on Saturday came from freshmen.
Yale drops the ball yet again In their penultimate shot at finally securing an Ivy League win, the Yale Bulldogs came up short once again in a 1–0 loss to Brown, continuing a rough run of form for the Elis.
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that dashed their hope of taking points away from the match, a point which departing head coach Brian Tompkins echoed. With just one game left in the season, the Elis sit in last place among the Ancient Eight. Yale has managed just one point in the Ivy League and has a conference-worst 0.083 winning percentage. If that mark holds, Yale will finish with one of their worst seasons with Tompkins at the helm. “It may sound repetitious, but this game was another in a series of games this season that has seen us play well
but not come away with a result,” Tompkins said. Yale’s offense was yet again a point of frustration for the Elis, as they were able to produce just 10 shots with only four on target. The Bears (5–5–6, 2–2–2) fared no better, shooting just 11 times with three on target. However, unlike the Elis, the Bears were able to capitalize on what few offensive opportunities they were afforded. In the 73rd minute, goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 attempted a clear that SEE MEN’S SOCCER PAGE 10
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The Elis kept shots close in Providence, as Brown just barely outshot Yale 11–10.
NUMBER OF 1–0 LOSSES THIS SEASON FOR THE YALE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM. With just seven goals in 16 games, the Bulldogs have been starved offensively this year — but the strong play of goalkeeper Blake Brown ’15 has kept the Elis close in many contests.