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Friday, November 9, 2012

From the staff My slogan wasn’t catchy per se. “I am not Arnold Schwarzenegger, I am not Hillary Clinton, but I am your next fifth grade representative” had exactly no ring to it. But you better believe my reforms were sweeping.

Chocolate milk everyday. Monthly taco day was a change we all believed in. With the re-implementation of the hard shell tacos, of course. “It’s taco not burrito day for a reason!” I sassily cried out.

Eight years after my first and final foray into politics (full disclosure: the corruption got to be too much), two new officials, following in my small footsteps, entered office, and changes, almost as wide-reaching as mine were, swept our country. We sat huddled in front of our televisions on Tuesday as our old president secured re-election. Two days later, we learned of the new president who will take office on our very own campus.

Every angsty teenager you know took it upon themselves to loudly proclaim their intended moves to Washington, Massachusetts, or Colorado on Facebook. For the first time, gay marriage was approved at the ballot box, as Washington, Maine, and Maryland legalized same-sex marriage. So how ‘bout that mid-semester slump?

As if taco shells, drugs, and presidents (oh my!) weren’t a reminder enough that policies can change, in this week’s cover story, Andrew Wagner, TD ’15, explores a change in Yale’s ivory tower of academia, checking in on the Ethnicity, Race, & Migration major in its first year as a stand-

The Yale Herald Volume LIV, Number 9 New Haven, Conn.

Friday, Nov. 9, 2012

EDITORIAL STAFF: Editor-in-chief: Emily Rappaport Managing Editors: Emma Schindler, John Stillman Executive Editor: Lucas Iberico Lozada Senior Editors: Sam Bendinelli, Nicolás Medina Mora, Clare Sestanovich Culture Editors: Elliah Heifetz, Andrew Wagner Features Editors: Sophie Grais, Olivia Rosenthal, Maude Tisch Opinion Editor: Micah Rodman Reviews Editor: Colin Groundwater Voices Editor: Eli Mandel Design Editors: Serena Gelb, Lian FumertonLiu, Christine Mi, Zachary Schiller Photo Editor: Julie Reiter BUSINESS STAFF: Publishers: William Coggins, Evan Walker-Wells Director of Advertising: Shreya Ghei Director of Finance: Stephanie Kan Director of Development: Joe Giammittorio ONLINE STAFF: Online Editors: Ariel Doctoroff, Carlos Gomez, Lucas Iberico Lozada, Marcus Moretti Webmaster: Navy Encinias Bullblog Editor-in-chief: John Stillman Bullblog Managing Editor: David Gore Bullblog Associate Editors: Alisha Jarwala, Grace Lindsey, Cindy Ok, Eamon Ronan, Jesse Schreck, Maude Tisch

alone program.

Also inside, we’ve got Alessandra Roubini, JE ’16, investigating Yale Law

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School’s new PH.D program. Just don’t get those lawyers fired up about the gun culture Andrew Koenig, JE ’16, talks about. Aaron Gertler, TD ’15, sits down with Paul Bass, JE’ 82, the editor of the New Haven Independent, and Gareth Imparato reviews the Gertrude Stein exhibit at the Beinicke.

From one elected official to another (hey, I hear Yale has a good track record), read the Herald and always choose chocolate milk.

Not Arnold, not Hillary, just Olivia Rosenthal Features Editor

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IN THIS ISSUE

COVER 12 Andrew Wagner, TD ‘15, explains the birth of the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major, and addresses the necessary steps that lie ahead for the still-young program of study.

FEATURES

VOICES 6

Aaron Gertler, TD ‘15, sits down with Paul Bass, editor of the New Haven Independent.

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Amelia Urry, TD ‘13, meditates on life above the stage, working as a lighting designer.

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Wesley Yiin, PC ’16, reflects on Parent University, a parenting education program hosted at Gateway Community College .

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Alessandra Roubini, JE ‘16, explores Yale Law School’s decision to add a Ph.D. program.

OPINION: Jack Schlossberg, TC ‘15, on what makes our generation so politically involved.

Jake Dawe, TC ‘15, describes the significance of the graffiti in the stacks.

CULTURE 18

Andrew Koenig, JE ‘16, looks into the unlikely gun culture at Yale. Also: a patriotic performance class, and New Haven’s new brew shop.

REVIEWS 20

Gareth Imparato, SM ‘15, on the Gertrude Stein exhibit at the Beinecke. Also: Flight, Assassin’s Creed III, Holy Motors, and Angel Haze.

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THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY The Herald’s week in review: what rocked, what sucked, and who took the lead in IM bowling.

CREDIT/D/FAIL Cr:

The American people The popular vote pulled through in a really big way—and I’m not just talking about returning the same warm pair of buns to the Oval Office swivel chair. I’m talking about the real stars of Sexy-lection Day: ballot measures. Same-sex marriage bills survived referenda in Maryland and Washington, dodged a peen+vag amendment in Minnesota, and passed by popular vote in Maine. And the Cheeto on top: recreational marijuana got puffed and passed in Colorado and Washington. Weed, wine, and women, amirite??

And I don’t have to hop around the country to do all my favorite things, either. Now in Washington State—the new default Washington and official best place to be a gay pothead with moisture-friendly hair—you can legally smoke a jay while marrying a woman. A wedding catered by Trolli Gummies where no one complains?

The American dream.

—Rachel Lipstein

D:

The Credit/D/Bail deadline This is a D to memorialize the indecision indigestion you’ve had all day. Fri., Nov. 9, also known as Credit/D/Bail Day, is the last day to—say it with me—convert from the CR/D/Fail option in a fallterm course to a letter grade. So grab your hat and start running—Master’s office or bust—5:01 is late!

You’re doing way better in Death than you thought you might be! Just kidding, not you, you’re still definitely getting a C, but this is a turning point for all the undecided voters in swing-seminars or autoskip lectures or people who just like to hedge their pets, run them up the flagpole, and see who salutes.

You know, insecure freaks. So, today’s the day you thought would never come, when you have to crunch some letters and decide how much longer your TA is going to believe your recycled Model UN Crisis Simulation prompts. It’s 4:45 p.m. and you’re still on the toilet—you’ve been decision pooping for an hour (to be fair, you took several phone calls). How checked out are you? How is it all going to turn out?

And why won’t Nate Silver return your emails??

—Rachel Lipstein

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F: Sandy and [your fave snowstorm baby name here] I know this section of the Herald has been awfully hard on the weather lately. Sure, it’s probably morally questionable to incessantly rag on poor storms locked into inertial, New Haven-bound sweeps. For all we know, Sandy was digging her high heels into the Atlantic saying, “Not like this.”

[She slowly, poignantly shakes her head.] “Not like this.” Or maybe I’m thinking of the bleached blonde lesbian in The Matrix right before Cypher unplugs her. But names make it hard for me to avoid personifying these massive meteorological phenomena (I have attachment issues). Half of the administrators at my Girl Scout camp and 100 percent of women I’ve ever met who wear short-sleeved blazers were named Sandy. I love ’em. So it didn’t help when the Weather Channel, working directly against me as always, named the snowstorm that followed Sandy…Athena. Who gave them the authority to name the cruelest November nor’LeightonMeester after the Greek goddess that every putz wants to be and every schmo wants to get with? So that’s why, to prevent emotional confusion, I’m naming this godforsaken snowstorm Bopkiss. It’s not elegant, but it’s the direct antonym of Athena, and I can’t afford to be the only chick in a toga making snow sacrifices this week.

—Rachel Lipstein

BY THE

BOOM/BUST INCOMING: Sports As the “getting to” and “housing at” Harvard emails begin to trickle in, we’re reminded that next week is Yale’s chance to express just how ridiculously passionate we are about football. Then, having expressed our passion, we will resume talking shit about the athletes in our sections.

OUTGOING: Exercise As New Haven enters its annual deep-freeze, the cost of exercising increases.

Do you really want to run in that gray slush we once called snow? No: you’d much rather watch The Good Wife in your bathrobe while snacking on marshmallow fluff.

—Jesse Schreck YH Staff

NUMBERS

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TYNG CUP STANDINGS 1. Pierson 2. Trumbull 3. Saybrook 4. Jonathan Edwards 5. Davenport 6. Timothy Dwight 7. Silliman 8. Branford 9. Ezra Stiles 10. Morse 11. Berkeley 12. Calhoun

384.5 380 352.5 333 315.5 314 282.5 267.5 263.5 244.5 217.5 69.5

INDEX 21 million The spending cap, in dollars, for Canadian political campaigns.

TOP FIVE 5 4 3 2 1

Ways to let everyone know that you’re really politically conscious

1 The size, in justices, of the majority in the Citizens United decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled it legal for corporations to spend unlimited money on political elections.

142 million Long Facebook status you spent three minutes crafting Pithy Facebook status you spent two hours crafting

The amount, in dollars, spent by the Republican super PAC Restore Our Future on the 2012 presidential election.

4.2 billion The total sum, in dollars, spent on campaigns for the White House and Congress.

Election night drinking games Refusing to hook up with a Republican

4.03 billion The GDP of Burundi, the African nation, in dollars.

Telling people how “awesome” it felt to vote —Jesse Schreck YH Staff Sources: 1) CBC News 2) common knowledge 3) The New York Times 4) CNN Money 5) IMF Statistics —Jesse Schreck YH Staff The Yale Herald (Nov. 9, 2012)

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SITTING DOWN WITH PAUL BASS

by Aaron Gertler YH Staff From the moment he stepped onto Yale’s campus, Paul Bass, JE ’82, has covered nearly every story New Haven has served up. He held a position at the New Haven Register while still a full-time student, and though he calls his dorm’s proximity to Toad’s his earliest favorite thing about the Elm City, he’s since fallen in love with its social, cultural, and intellectual diversity. In 2005, after two decades with the New Haven Advocate, Bass relaunched the Independent (a weekly he’d run from 198689) as a not-for-profit online publication covering New Haven in unheard-of, news-by-the-hour depth. Seven years in, the site is still going strong and has been hailed as one of the most important early experiments in online journalism. The Herald spoke to Bass about media new and old, as well as how the site handles political issues.

YH: How was the old Independent different from the modern incarnation?

PB: Not-for-profit is an important part. And being a daily— well, much more than a daily; [the Independent is] continuous throughout the day. The overall mission is still intensive coverage of the city, to make coverage grassroots and real-time.

YH: What online papers were inspirations to you?

PB: There were two inspirations. The first was a blog called Baristanet, which had this great connection to its readers— they really contributed to the stories. Then I found out there was another nonprofit, the San Diego Voice. We were the first two in the country, as far as professional news coverage from a nonprofit daily.

(Courtesy of the New York Times) news is changing. Even New Haven is going to have other outlets. I think we’re in a golden age, where every city has different experiments pop up. You have to be interesting now to get readers. Take that interest, and the rigorous fact-gathering mission of the daily press, and you have a powerful combination.

One without the other, and the information loses power; the corporate approach, with its pseudo-objectivity and mechanistic way of writing news, lost touch with readers. The New York Times is still the gold standard—fantastic on the web, fantastic in print—but the name doesn’t matter. And not all the experiments on the web are great, either. What I tell reporters now is to find a good newsroom.

YH: What changes do you think the Independent has helped effect in New Haven or Connecticut policy over the years?

PB: School reform. We were covering everything when people said the schools were fine—and they weren’t. When the Board of Ed wasn’t showing up for meetings, we took attendance; they had higher truancy rates than the kids being expelled for truancy. So we finally saw this new school experiment happening, and we’re watching it, keeping it honest and transparent. Another big campaign was open government—opening up public meetings, making information public. But it’s the dayto-day reporting that makes a big difference. The city cares because they know someone’s watching.

YH: Is that in part because of the decline of the Times-Picayune? Is that a common pattern—big papers struggle, grassroots news sources spring up in their wake?

PB: Yes, because the corporate model of news is struggling.

The chains, the for-profits, the big, corporate-owned, legacy dailies dictate to the community what the news ought to be, shrinking news, expecting 18 percent returns on their investments every year—and alienating their readers. I think they’ve really ruined American journalism in the second half of the 20th century.

YH: What’s it like to have so many connections in a city of this size? Do you feel like you can always find the information you need?

PB: Even after 30-odd years, I’m still trying to figure out the city, which is what makes it such a fun place. We had the biggest experiment in the country going for a while, trying to wipe out poverty, and then we got poorer. What was that all about? I find I’m still learning every day, taking the best course I could’ve taken at Yale—and getting paid for it! I feel like reporters are never knowledgeable or smart enough to run the city, but we can be definitive observers, giving people information and analysis, the raw materials of democracy. I don’t feel like the most knowledgeable person in town—I’m just a reporter—but I’ve gotten a little better at seeing patterns. Still, reporters can fool themselves, especially when sources try to flatter them. That was the downfall of corporate media. They saw themselves as part of the state; they wanted to be important, players, telling people what to think and what to do—and failing. But I can post an article on urban design, and some of my readers will be architects and urban planners, so they’ll find the flaw in the story and take the discussion to a higher level.

YH: Will we soon be at the point where every major American city has an Independent-style site?

PB: Well, it’s not just the Independent; the entire model of

YH: Have you ever tried covering news outside Connecticut?

PB: Well, I’ve been here since I was 18. In the mid-80s, I did some reporting on a Klansmen trial in South Carolina. Oth-

YH: Have similar papers cropped up since?

PB: A bunch of others, right after I started. Chicago’s went out of business, but then there was one in Minneapolis, MinnPost, and one in Seattle called Crosscut. For a bunch of years we’d be invited to conferences. We still meet once or twice a year.

One in New Orleans just started up.

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erwise, this has been my career. I love the idea of staying in one place and trying to understand it over time, developing an institutional memory and getting a sense for context. And it’s interesting enough that you’re learning something every day.

YH: Do you think it’s true what they say—that young people today don’t care about the news, never read a paper, etc., etc.?

PB: I think it’s exactly like the election. “Obama’s in trouble because young people aren’t voting, because they don’t care,” [people said]—and then more young people vote in this election than in 2008. Don’t listen to that stuff. The people who write obituaries for news live in the funeral parlor that is legacy media. But right outside their door, new journalism experiments spring up every day, and young people are all over that. When I work with Yale or New Haven high school interns, I learn new things about journalism. What we should care about is democracy, experimentation, and engagement. The people leading are young, and they’re the most interesting part of the conversation.

YH: What’s it like reporting on an election in such a one-sided political zone?

PB: This year wasn’t big for us, since New Haven is so Democratic. The big years are odd-numbered, like in 2011, when a labor-dominated group took over the Board of Aldermen and the town committees. We were the only ones to cover that in depth, and to understand it, because we could combine grassroots neighborhood coverage with our own political analysis.

But for this election night, we just post the results and explain what it means for New Haven’s political atmosphere. Sometimes we do break state-level stories. We had an interesting one up Tuesday about Linda McMahon, who was paying all these African Americans to pretend they were supporting her.

That was something.

YH: Given your mission and the high level of public contribution to the discussion on the Independent’s website, is it a struggle to remain unbiased?

PB: I think everyone’s biased, but your job is to be fair. If you don’t have an opinion, then you don’t have a thought in your head, and you shouldn’t be covering anything. What people call “objective” journalism began within corporate media in the 20th century, and pretends to be neutral while it has biases that are entirely pro-corporate, without questioning the fundamentals of our economy or our political system, because a corporation owns their paper. It’s easy to avoid unfairness here because we don’t do editorials or endorsements; now that people can add their own voices to stories, there’s no market value on us being blowhards—which is liberating!

—This interview was condensed by the author

THE LIGHTS COME UP

by Amelia Urry

lays almost always begin in darkness. Then the lights come up.

It took me five years of working on shows, and more than that spent watching them, before I realized what is happening in that moment of darkness, as your eyes adjust and you feel yourself about to disappear. When you can no longer be seen, or see anyone else around you, your mind becomes still. The play in your head, your life as staged for some unobservable spectator, pauses. Reality starts over as the lights come up somewhere else.

I have a special interest in light. It was mostly an accident, something to do with knowing the right people at the right time.

What a weird hobby, to be a lighting designer. There are a handful of us here at Yale, more than you might expect actually, considering that no one knows where we come from. Who decides to be a lighting designer? What little kid, twirling in a tutu or contemplating the nature of art with fingerpainted concentration, decides to learn the difference between a Source Four and an Altman? Probably fewer than contemplate becoming divorce lawyers or tax attorneys.

As a kid, I was, as many kids are, an insufferable show-off. My cousins and I staged labored skits for our patient parents on vacations, or performed dance cycles to the entire Riverdance CD. The last time I stood on stage, under lights so bright I could not pick out the faces in the crowd of the dark auditorium, I was about seven and wearing the pink frilled uniform of a dancing munchkin. I don’t remember being nervous as I pranced around my parasol with all the other munchkins. Afterwards, all the parents gave their children bouquets bought in the lobby during intermission. I held mine in two arms, the way starlets are supposed to clutch their plaudits, like something careful and precious and, yet, expected.

I still am a closet show-off, but now I limit myself to the things I know I am good at. The first moment I doubted my ability to perform on stage was at day camp during one of those long summers between grades in elementary school. Everyone auditioned

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for the musical, because that was our activity for the next two weeks and there was nothing else to do. In the room, the man behind the table asked me to sing something.

Anything. I felt something plummet abruptly from the back of my throat to somewhere in my lower abdomen. How stupid not to have expected that question. Never mind!

I hurried to say. I’ll be stage crew this year.

I smiled, as if that’s what I wanted in the first place. And I was the best goddamn stage crew the camp had ever seen.

I don’t think I ever intended to stay behind the scenes, but that is the last time I stood on the receiving side of an audition table. I figured I would get a feel for the process, get comfortable, and try again next year. Or maybe the one after that. By the time I was neck deep in the social morass of high school, I was less likely than ever to risk an audience. But by then theater was mostly about people who came together over shared work. It didn’t much matter what that work was. I stage-managed when I could, directed one show and wrote another, built sets and climbed ladders, everything but stand on the stage itself. My role models at the time were all writers; theater was a diversion, I told myself, something to keep me busy on the weekends. If I kept doing theater, I knew, I would have to find some more crucial role to play. I thought I might end up as a playwright. Or a director. In some unspoken part of me, there was still a dwindling hope that I might discover a deeply, deeply hidden talent for acting, one that had simply been quashed all this time by an unrelenting fear of being on stage.

Instead, I became a lighting designer. I became a lighting designer, basically, by not knowing what I was doing, but doing it often enough that I began to learn some tricks.

Sometimes I stand on chairs, or move randomly from different seats in different parts of the audience as I watch a rehearsal.

Sometimes I call out strings of numbers to someone standing on the other side of the theater. As I wait, something changes on stage, and I call out more numbers.

And then there is that feeling of expertise, when I am clinging to a ladder, reaching

up with a crescent wrench to adjust something no one else can see from the ground.

The mechanics of something so ephemeral as light are surprisingly gritty. The sheets of colored gel cut and jammed before the lights. The long loops of cable that do not want to coil neatly, which must be wrestled with and tied down. The trick of a sticky shutter, and how to weave the beams of a plot together so that there is no irregularity in the light, no darkness between the separate shafts and no spots that glare more brightly than the rest. Through all of this, the only time I stand on the stage is when it’s empty, and I can stare into the hot center of one light at a time, assessing its angle, its glow, how it fits into the puzzle of the stage.

To a layman, the role of the lighting designer must be one of the most obscure titles on the playbill, somewhere up there with “dramaturge.” The rest of it is much easier to get a handle on: the actors act, the director directs them, and the set designer builds something for them to stand in. The lighting designer—well, the lighting designer moves the play along.

When the lights come up, the world under the lights is revealed as being qualitatively different from the world outside it. Outside, the audience sits in the semidarkness, their legs crossed, still and staring ahead at the people who begin to move under the lights. Inside the world of the play, held in a seamless net of light, a story starts to unfold that must end in the next hours. So time operates differently inside the stage world from outside.

It speeds up or slows down, it jumps, or stops, or turns around. Identity is malleable, change is accelerated. Things that happen on the inside of characters’ lives are revealed on the outside. That’s what light can do, at its best. It turns people inside out.

That voice deep down never stopped wanting to be an actor, but it is so easy to want to be an actor. Look at them! They stand there and look beautiful and live out whole lives in front of everyone like it’s the most natural thing. Who doesn’t want to be that admired? But there is a certain

appeal to lighting design. You are wanted, at least by desperate producers who know how to flatter. You know your work is important, even if no one ever says as much to you. “Don’t do it for the glory,” an older designer told me a few years ago. “It will never be glorious.”

Recently, I turned to some friends while we were sitting in the theater. “Do you know that I’m a poet?” I asked. I don’t think I’d ever said that out loud, I’m a poet, except as a kind of challenge. I am much more used to saying, “I’m a lighting designer,” for those occasions when I have to explain how I spend so much time in theaters where I am neither acting nor directing.

They both paused to figure out how to answer. “I knew you were an English major,” one friend said tentatively. In fact, I am writing my senior thesis as a collection of poetry. There is nothing glorious about poetry either, except that it is widely acknowledged as being difficult. I rarely think of the two forms of myself as separate; they are both informed by the same sensibility in the end. They can both be controlled, to a point, though both must contend with the messiness that comes from anything as spontaneous as life.

Light is the medium of theater the way text is the medium of poetry. It interacts with every single moment and object of a play, which means it is invisible in the way ubiquitous things always are. It is the consciousness behind the play; it moves with and without the sound; it shapes the set and its shadows; it calls actors to the stage and sends them away again with inscrutable authority.

As a commonly-held belief among techies has it, the best lighting design is the kind the audience doesn’t notice. No one in the audience notices it. But that’s not right. The best lighting doesn’t hide, but moves with a logic so natural to the play that its effect cannot be disentangled from the whole. That’s the job of the storyteller, too, not to be the actor, within the moment, but to be the watcher without, among, around it all.ß —Graphic by Madeline Butler YH Staff The Yale Herald (Nov. 9, 2012)

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OPINION YOUNG FOLKS

WRITING ON THE WALL

by Jack Schlossberg YH Staff On Tues., Nov. 6, young voters revealed that old people have no idea what we’re thinking.

Much to the surprise of pollsters, pundits and politicians alike—many of whom claimed young people had soured on President Obama and were the least likely to vote in this election—half of America’s youth voted in the presidential election, at about the same rates as they did in 2008.

In fact, young voters made up a larger percentage of the electorate than they did even then (19 percent compared to 18 percent) and again, they overwhelmingly supported President Obama—specifically, 60 percent did. To be sure, this demographic delivered the decisive votes in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida.

With 1,350 students voter in Ward 1 alone, Yale was no different. According to Yale College Democrats President Zak Newman, JE ’14, the 2012 election drew a larger turnout than did the 2008 election.

Only in the 1972 election—the first election to enfranchise 18 year olds— has participation among voters ages 1829 been higher. (That year, 55 percent of young people headed to the polls.)

In 1996, forever an example of American youth apathy, only 39 percent of young people voted.

Our differences from past generations aren’t limited to our civic engagement.

We’re the first generation to grow up with the Internet, an entirely global economy, and all of our friends in our pockets. We’re always multitasking—busy documenting our every move. Amid all of this, we gave up our routine and went to the polls; for some reason, we voted.

Voting isn’t something to be proud of—that misses the point—and it’s not charitable or selfless really. It’s our responsibility and our privilege. I see our impressive turnout not as an achievement, but as evidence of our generation’s new standard for civic engagement. This election and our participation in it indicate that, above all else, we represent a departure from past generations.

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To make the claim that we are fundamentally different from our predecessors would have been premature in 2008. We had only showed up once—our sample size wasn’t big enough. Four years ago, you could have called it a fluke. Now, our sustained engagement has shown that we’re different.

The unique experience of our generation has shaped our prioities, showing us the importance of civic engagement. In school, we were the first generation to be taught about global warming. The Internet hasn’t just made us impatient and self-obsessed—its wealth of information has also given us an eye for bullshit and an abhorrence for inaction. While our parents grew up in the shadow of the Cold War, we grew up without the twin shadows of the World Trade Center. We’ve been told over and over that America is in decline.

Above all, we’re different because we don’t have the luxury of time. The problems we face—an environment heading toward disaster, a national debt larger than it has ever been, and a broken education system, to name a few—are not the problems of the ‘60s or the ‘90s. We can’t leave a mess for our kids to clean up because it’ll be too late. So last Tuesday, we seized an opportunity to make our mark: we voted for the legalization of gay marriage in Maine and Maryland, and the legalization of marijuana in Colorado; we chose a president who supports equal pay for women, marriage equality, reproductive rights, immigration reform, and a fair tax code.

To us, these things are a matter of common sense. On Tuesday, we showed that we welcome our responsibility to meet these challenges and recognize that government must play a central role in our efforts if they are to succeed.

While we need not seek approval from older people, maybe if we stop tweeting about our bowel movements they’ll finally catch on and stop underestimating us.

That, however, is a long shot.

by Jake Dawe Your academic life is spread out in front of you: books, computer, pens and pencils, tear/snot-splattered tissues. Perhaps the light is flickering above, giving an authentic drug cartel vibe. You are alone. You are in the stacks of Sterling Memorial Library.

You’re on edge. A harrowing amount of work has driven you up here, as opposed to the run-of-the-mill desperation that would drive you to Bass. At the bottom of your bag there might be a flask, just in case— drinking alone is an accomplishment, ladies and gentlemen.

You’re about to admit defeat. Clumps of hair, flecked with blood, litter your level-two German textbook. (You’ve ripped your hair out, just to see if you still had the capacity to feel.) As you bow your head to begin weeping onto a transcribed dialogue of Hans and Gisela discussing the virtues of bratwurst and Angela Merkel’s pantsuits, something in front of you catches your eye: writing on the wall—stacks graffiti. You lean closer to read it. “I’m so horny even the crack of dawn better watch out for me.” Mmmm. Poetic. Your eyes scan on the wall. “For MANLY love, be here March 25, 2000. 2:15 pm Sharp.” You facepalm; you’re too late!

Past Yalies have left so many messages up in the stacks for future Yalies to read, to the point that some have aged into illegibility.

Some come across as advice: “Do the duty that lies nearest to you.” Some seem more like affirmations: “Know that you are loved.”

Several messages are patently factual: “Mary Millz wuzzz hurrrrr.” Other messages are pleas: “I don’t want to grow up.”

Writing on walls is a unique mode of communication. Future tenants of whatever desk you happen to occupy might write you back, provided you write something worth answering. This back-andforth turns a wall into a conversation, a conversation between Yalies separated by months and years. Near the line “I don’t want to grow up…” someone has answered, “You are in no danger of that (mentally).” After the bold statement “Love doesn’t exist!” is written, “only lust,” and, from different schools

of thought, “I’m just sorry you’ve never been in love,” and “BULLSHIT”.

One particular desk, though, has moved from a graffiti back-and-forth into a charged dialogue, attracting the attention of plenty of past occupants. “I don’t know if I’m doing this right. And I’m scared”; nearby, at another desk, the wall calls out, “I’m afraid I’m not making the most of this place.” Below these crises of confidence, other Yalies have answered: “Ditto,” “ME TOO,” “Backatcha,” “Same,” “We’re all scared…life is frightening.”

Yalies have taken to the walls of the stacks to list their anxieties in silent protest.

These anxieties are native to Yale. They are the ghosts of what has already been felt. But we should not content ourselves to scribble away our worries, however poetically, on the cold desks of dark, cavernous libraries.

I love the writing in the stacks. It can be funny and heartfelt. But we have to do more than this anonymous manifestation of anxiety. We have to do better than writing our worries on walls and walking away from them when we leave a desk. These angstridden scribbles don’t solve our problems, however honest they may be. We must pair the poetry of these scrawled protests with action and recognition—recognition of the problems that cause such protest.

One student, however long ago, wrote, “I love Sarah P., but she doesn’t know I exist.”

Then talk to her. Another Yalie etched in, “This semester is going to shit. I hate it.”

Then do something about it. Hell, drop a class. Someone else complained, “This paper is due in an hour, but I really need to poop.” Then move your ass and poop.

The walls of the stacks are proof that our anxieties are shared. When you stare at the graffiti up there, you are staring at literally decades of love, regret, worry, determination, unhappiness, and digestive issues. Let’s read them as more than confessions—they can be our calls to action.

Maybe the writers of the messages couldn’t muster the courage to change their situation, but we can.

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Getting schooled Elm city’s parent education initiative

by Wesley Yiin

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ou don’t know what tired is until you’ve been a parent!” Mayor DeStefano shouted to a crowd of over 200 New Haven parents and caretakers seated in Gateway Community College’s packed cafeteria on the morning of Sat., Nov. 3. His remarks elicited cheers and nods of agreement from the audience, some of whom chattered away in English, Spanish, and countless other languages, while others sat alone, nervously glancing at the hectic schedule they’d been given for the day.

The occasion was Parent University. First conceptualized and run in cities like Boston and Philadelphia, the event provided an opportunity for parents, friends, and family of New Haven public school students to participate in free workshops, covering topics that ranged from eating healthily on a budget to disciplining children in a safe and effective way to securing financial aid for college tuition. “The goal of Parent University is to engage parents as learners, teachers, leaders, and advocates,” Patricia Melton, executive director of the New Haven Promise scholarship program, said. The event was a collaboration between the city’s public schools, New Haven Promise, and the United Way of Greater New Haven, an organization that brings together citizens and civic leaders to push for reforms in areas of education, health, and income inequality. The event differed from those it was modeled on in one key way: New Haven’s Parent University offered workshops that would improve not only parenting skills, but also the lives of the parents themselves.

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mination of New Haven’s School Change Initiative (SCI), which Abbe Smith, director of communications for New Haven public schools, described as a “nationally recognized school reform process.” The jampacked Gateway lobby was a testament to the larger campaign of the New Haven Board of Education to reach out to and connect with the parents of New Haven students. Indeed, though the SCI involves efforts to change many components of the existing education

interviews. By the end of the one and a half hours, the approximately 10 attendees, who had initially been quiet and shy, were confidently volunteering to discuss their resumes with the class. One mother proudly talked about her computer skills, telling the group how many words per minute she could type.

Another parent revealed to us that she was a certified and experienced paralegal.

The primary emphasis of the day, however, was to encourage parents to engage with their

disappointing—all he had us do was measure reaction time by catching a ruler.

Still, parent Marisol Albarran felt that the workshop was important to attend. As the mother of a 10-year-old son, she emphasized to me her desire to get more involved in her child’s education. Having already spent some time volunteering in schools, Albarran felt that the workshop was the perfect way to get an idea of what her son was learning. She had only one complaint: “The workshops are

“The goal of Parent University is to engage parents as learners,teachers, and advocates.”

—Patricia Melton, executive director of New Haven Promise system, from reforms in teaching methods to administrative changes, the initiative also focuses on the often over-looked area of “wraparound services.” These are services that can have significant effects on students’ ability to learn but are often unacknowledged and difficult to monitor. Parent University, in its aims to make improvements in family and home life, is part of this broader initiative to focus on wraparound services.

The 35-plus workshops were an opportunity for parents to share and receive tips on how to parent, while also offering advice for success in their own lives. One workshop, titled “Help, I need a job! Successful job search strategies,” focused on skills for job

children’s schooling, and help families become active partners in their children’s education. “Probably the most important thing in a kid’s school success is how involved parents are in what they’re doing,” Laoise King, vice president of Education Initiatives for United Way, told The New Haven Independent. One workshop that embodied this message was “Success in Science: A Hands-on Workshop,” led by Richard Therrien, the science program supervisor for New Haven public schools. Despite having a small group of only five participants, Mr. Therrien did his best to clarify and help the attendees learn how to navigate the New Haven science curriculum. The “handson” portion of the experiment was admittedly

too long!” If the timeslots were shorter, she explained, more could fit into the day, allowing for participants to attend more of these workshops. “I’d go to them all!” she said.

Albarran was one of the many parents I encountered who was willing and eager to complete the ultimate role reversal, transforming from authority figure to pupil.

At lunch, Karen Mapp, lecturer on education and director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education gave the keynote address. The New Haven native discussed the importance of family engagement in a child’s education. Drawing upon her research and administrative experience in Boston, Mapp

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highlighted an important issue: while parents sometimes don’t know why they should become engaged in their children’s lives, more often the confusion lies in how to do so. “We want our parents to say: ‘You can!’” she said her own students had told her.

Mapp gave examples of simple methods of engagement in education, such as reading to

That same sense of collaboration was seen among the parents themselves. Parent University was an opportunity to give and receive help from other parents. At one workshop I attended, for instance, when two non-English speakers walked in late, another Spanish-speaking mom invited them to sit next to her and became an impromptu transla-

As 200 parents, caretakers, nonprofit organizers, and schoolteachers gathered together, they worked too build a proparent, family-oriented community. children at a young age. She concluded that Parent University was about “partnership” between students, parents, schools, and the community.

Melton explained that Parent University was a partnership allowing like-minded individuals and organizations to meet, creating, yet again, a community of positive parental and familial influences. “[Parent University] gave [New Haven Promise] the opportunity to work with other nonprofits who have similar goals in serving the New Haven community,” she said, listing groups like School Haven and the New Haven Moms Partnership, both of which were present at Parent University, as nonprofits that Promise hoped to work with again in the future.

tor. Later, during the financial aid session, one parent shared a treasured scholarship website that she used for her own child with the others. By doing so, she felt she was helping to establish a “college-going culture.”

As two hundred parents, caretakers, nonprofit organizers, and schoolteachers gathered together, they worked to build a pro-parent, family-oriented community. In particular, they worked to promote a vision of community with an emphasis on college. The seven-hour day at Gateway was about more than passing down useful tips on writing a strong resume, or demonstrating the science curriculum at the Elm City’s public schools. It was about shifting the expectations for the future of New Haven’s students. My final workshop of the day was by

far the most crowded, with over 20 parents huddled together, eager to learn about college admissions and financial aid. Financial aid representatives from Quinnipiac University and Gateway Community College led the discussion on financing expensive college educations. Everyone in the room paid close attention, scribbling furiously and frequently raising their hands to ask questions. “If you talk to [students] early and often about college, they’ve already got that goal in mind,” Betsy Yagia, New Haven Promise’s communications and research coordinator, told her audience at a different college planning workshop. “We want students to say, ‘Where will I go to college?’ not ‘Will I go to college?’”

For New Haven students, this shift in thinking is crucial. A New Haven Independent article reported earlier this year that the high school dropout rate for the city’s class of 2011 was 25.1 percent, which was actually an improvement from previous years. Another Independent piece reported that only 59% of New Haven’s class of 2012 graduates enrolled in college last year.

Elisha Brown was excited by the pro-college message of the day. Brown, who has three children, two in high school and one already in college, attended two college-focused workshops. Despite already working at the Family Resource Center at the Wexler-Grant School, she said she had learned of a lot of new information and resources that she didn’t know of before. She was eager to share them at Wexler-Grant in an effort to continue communal exchanges of information, and to help her own kids at home as they prepare for their futures.

As parents and advocates packed up their belongings and headed home, Melton hoped that people’s interest would remain even after they left Gateway that day, so that participants would stay in touch and further strengthen their sense of community. When asked about possible improvements that could be made to the event, Smith had difficulty coming up with a clear answer. Instead, she looked up and pointed to the hundreds of parents that had eagerly turned out for the school day, and said the event had gone “better than we could’ve imagined!” She sounded pleasantly surprised.

But the job isn’t finished just yet—at least, that’s what King from United Way assured me.

Parent University was just one program to help parents navigate the “bureaucracy of the really big school system.” Many additional initiatives, including more sessions of Parent University and smaller local workshops, are on the way.

“New Haven is leaps and bounds ahead of other urban school districts, and Mayor Destefano and the superintendent deserve a lot of credit,” King said. And, with their continued support, the road ahead has never looked so good in King’s eyes. Parent University underscored more than just the importance of supplying the financial resources to send New Haven’s future generations to college.

The event was part of a larger effort to change people’s attitudes towards college and to make parents informed participants in their children’s educations. Though the effects of Parent University remain to be seen, the event was a valuable step in helping to transform New Haven into a more supportive and family-oriented city.

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Major promotion Andrew Wagner, TD ‘15, checks in on the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program in its first full semester as a stand-alone major

ould we make Yale declare a major in comic books if we spent enough time marching in front of President Levin’s house?” So wonders Alex Zubatov, PC ‘97, in a Feb. 14, 1997, column for the Herald.

Entitled “Creation of an all-about-me-major,” the piece was a response to Yale’s creation of the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M) major. Later in the article, Zubatov refers to an “ethnic studies gestapo,” and calls those protesting for an ethnic studies program “spoiled kids.”

Such an article now seems offensive— indeed, the language is so over-the-top, one might even assume that it’s a parody.

(It’s not.) But what about ER&M’s creation spurred such a reaction? And do these hostile feelings persist today?

ER&M was created as a “secondary” major, meaning that students could only major in the program if they paired it with another—in other words, if they double-majored.

But on Feb. 2, 2012, Yale College’s Committee on Majors unanimously voted to make ER&M a permanent, stand-alone major.

Although many of Yale’s more established departments, such as history or political science, may consider race in their courses, ER&M, the University’s closest analog to the ethnic studies departments found at other schools, puts race at the core of its studies.

The major is by definition interdisciplinary, working through a variety of departments to gain a better understanding of race and eth-

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nicity, and serving as a hub for these studies at Yale, both inside and outside the classroom.

Both students and faculty feel that ER&M s promotion to standalone status is a recognition of its

students and faculty who are passionate about ethnic studies are picking up where the founders of the major left off, and it seems fair to say the quest to broaden the diversity of voices in the classroom, though long-term, is

struggles and stories of people of color. In response to their calls, UC Berkeley founded the nation’s first ethnic studies department.

The success at Berkeley sparked a trend of student groups across the country protesting for similar programs.

But Yale’s own formation of an ethnic stud-

“It’s not that often that Yale undergraduates take an initiative in reshaping their collective education.”

—professor Michael Denning, GRD ‘84 legitimacy, and that this will secure an institutional place for the study of traditionally underrepresented populations. ”For me, [ER&M] is part of that larger history of people struggling to get representation in the academy,” Eb Saldaña, ES ‘14, an ER&M major, explained. That fight, according to students and professors around for the program’s founding, was remarkably un-dramatic. But the question of whether its status as a primary major is the be-all-end-all in the quest for representation remains. I checked in on ER&M in the first semester after its conversion to see what tangible developments have been made, and what steps still lie ahead for this course of study at Yale. Today’s

as crucial at this moment as ever.

ESTABLISHED IN 1998, ER&M CAME long after the establishment of ethnic studies departments in peer institutions across the country. The field of ethnic studies traces its history to California’s Bay Area in the year 1969. In that place, at that time, a group of students was increasingly frustrated by the lack of institutional representation of people of color at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley. Their growing anger and outrage led to the formation of the Third World Liberation Front, a protest movement that demanded classes focusing on the previously unheard

ies program, as well as those of many other East Coast schools, wouldn’t take shape for nearly 30 years. Yale students in the ’90s were given few opportunities to pursue this field. Although the University offered some courses that covered topics like MexicanAmerican or Native American studies, these were all staffed by part-time, untenured faculty, who taught the courses on an ad hoc basis. There was no institutional framework in place for students interested in pursuing research in ethnic studies, professor Alicia Schmidt-Camacho, current DUS of ER&M, said. “If you were a student wanting to look at the electoral politics of Latinos in political science, where would you find the expertise The Yale Herald (Nov. 9, 2012)

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to supervise such a research project?” Such a student would have been faced with a lack of resources and relevant courses and faculty—and would most likely have been unable to complete the project.

Yale was not alone in its lack of an ethnic studies program; indeed, this field had never taken hold among Ivy League schools in the way it had at West Coast universities.

However, the ’90s saw East Coast students grow increasingly dismayed over the lack of ethnic studies at their universities. In turn, students began to call upon their schools to add courses and professors in fields such as Asian-American and Native American studies. Often times, these protests could be dramatic. In 1995, a group of 17 Princeton students organized a 35-hour sit-in at the university president’s office; at Columbia, students organized a hunger strike.

Around this same time, Yale students also began to organize and advocate for expanded offerings in the field of ethnic studies, though their protests never reached quite the same intensity as protests elsewhere.

According to professor Michael Denning, GRD ’84, the first chair of the ER&M program, calls for ethnic studies-type offerings came in two waves. The first, at the beginning of the ’90s, were demands for more specific majors, like Asian-American or Latino studies departments. It wasn’t until the latter part of the decade that the disparate groups came together under a group they called Coalition for Diversity, and called for a singular ethnic studies program—what Denning refers to as the “second wave” of student interest. These students campaigned heavily, distributing journals and political magazines, and organized a conference of solidarity for their protesting peers at other universities.

Denning recalls this student organizing as a unique moment in Yale’s history. “In my experience, it’s not that often that Yale undergraduates take an initiative in reshaping their collective education,” Denning said. “As individuals, people shape their own majors.

But for the most part, people come here and accept the education that has been shaped for them….And I would say this was the one moment where there was a group of students who really wanted to think seriously about what the shape of their undergraduate education would be, how that might get changed, and how a different kind of curriculum would get set up. That was very exciting.”

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of the ER&M program. In response to student advocates, then-Dean of Yale College Richard Broadhead, BR ’68, GRD ’72, put together a faculty advisory committee to look into creating an ER&M major, on which Denning sat. In turn, the faculty advisory committee began a collaborative effort with the students to make an ethnic studies program a reality. But this effort took time—a lack of full-time staff meant the major couldn’t yet be created, and so the first goal was to turn previous part-time positions into full-time faculty positions.

Denning chalks up the time it took to create the ER&M program less to administrative opposition than to the “general inertia of an institution.” “Yale is one of those giant ocean liners—it doesn’t turn very quickly,” Denning said.

Then there was the matter of what the curriculum of the program should look like.

Araceli Campos, MC ‘99, who was one of the first four ER&M majors and played a key part in the formation of the program, explained that both students and faculty wanted ER&M to be more than just an ethnic studies program, which is what led to the “migration” component. “Studies of migration, as a substantive study, were considered new,” Campos said. “That’s why the major became ER&M—because at the time, this was an almost revolutionary, innovative way of looking at the field of study.”

After years of discussion, once it was clear there were sufficient faculty and resources to support a course of study, ER&M became a major program—albeit a secondary one.

It was unclear whether the program would be sustainable. But ER&M’s status was not unique: Yale’s former international studies major, which would later become the standalone Global Affairs major, could similarly only be taken as a second major.

Part of the formation of the major was the creation of a new course, “Introduction to Ethnicity, Race, and Migration,” which is still taught today. Denning co-taught the class with Patricia Pessar during ER&M’s first year, and he can still recall the energy surrounding the class, which, he adds, was probably the only time one of his classes made the Yale Daily News.

“It still feels like a different course than any other course that I’ve taught here,” Denning said. “So often you feel like you’re offering a certain syllabus and a certain course and people come essentially as customers or spectators. That was a group of students who came in saying, ‘This is the course that we’ve fought for.’ They may not have liked every bit of it, but they came in as

participants, in a way that was really quite remarkable.”

TODAY’S ER&M PROGRAM IS QUITE A bit different from its early days in the late ’90s.

Its growth took time. Though students had been requesting to make ER&M a standalone major since the beginning, Stephen Pitti, ES ‘91, current director of the ER&M program, was wary of changing the program too hastily. “We were concerned about our own ability to service the major with so few people who were tenured and stable, without a lot of staff support, without space,” Pitti said. “We were concerned not to promise something that we couldn’t actually offer.”

But by the time ER&M became a stand-alone program, what was once a fledgling program had become a full-grown major, replete with resources and course offerings. A variety of changes over the past decade had led to the program’s growth and development. The granting of tenure to several key faculty members, like SchmidtCamacho, as well as the arrival of new faculty, like professors Ned Blackhawk and Birgit Rassmussen, meant that a standalone ER&M program was finally conceivable. In addition, the major was now housed in its own offices at 35 Broadway, and had also acquired a full-time administrative assistant.

Because of these gains in resources, ER&M faculty like Pitti felt the major was prepared for the challenges of being a stand-alone program. A proposal was submitted to the Committee on Majors for ER&M to change its status from that of a secondary to a stand-alone major, and the committee granted the request. ER&M’s conversion means that ethnic studies had now become a stable, permanent part of Yale. Indeed, this year marks ER&M’s first two professor hires, Albert Laguna and Dixa Ramirez, both of whom will be jointly-seated in the American Studies and ER&M departments.

Over the years, ER&M has served as a home for ethnic studies at Yale. Crucial to the development of this community has been ER&M’s postdoctoral program. The program, supported by the provost’s office, brings recent Ph.D.’s to campus to allow them to develop their scholarship. “The goal here is that we will also be contributing to development of faculty, both for hires at Yale, but also for larger fields in the larger insti-

tutions of higher education,” Camacho said.

Indeed, ER&M’s postdoctoral program has already directly affected Yale’s community of professors: current assistant professor Zareena Grewal was hired after her time as an ER&M postdoc.

Although students may focus their studies on a particular region or ethnic group, a key aspect of the major is that students are constantly encouraged to think globally and comparatively. “Serious engagement with any of these fields or any of these populations takes you into a global frame of analysis very quickly,” Schmidt-Camacho said.

Indeed, students’ studies may include immigrant migrations, diasporas, or the effects of global capitalism.

Most all of the majors interviewed explained that they especially enjoy ER&M because of its focus on peoples whose stories, they found, had otherwise been missing from the classroom.

Heidi Guzman, SY ’14, explained that ER&M offered a sort of alternate timeline to the one she had been taught in her high school classes. “Learning about minorities in high school was not a thing that happened,” Guzman said. “Being able to take [Intro ER&M] and learn that perspective was really important for me.”

Courses in Yale’s more traditional departments might not fully address the experiences of minorities. “ER&M classes are designed to make [race and ethnicity] the center of the discussion, rather than a single lecture in a series of lectures,” Saldaña said. Often, too, ER&M provides students with a framework and vocabulary for making sense of racism in ways that they may not have previously been able to. As Saldaña put it, “ER&M turned on a switch for me that I have trouble turning off.”

In keeping with its origins, ER&M remains a very student-oriented major—something that majors cite as an advantage to the program. This is due in part to the way it’s structured. Unlike other major in which students may choose a concentration out of a fixed set of four or five tracks, students in ER&M have to design their own unique programs of study. These customized concentrations are extremely diverse in nature; in the past, they have ranged from “Comparative Refugee Studies” to “Commercial Globalization and Linguistic Adaptation.” Schmidt-Camacho notes that the ER&M major often

changes and develops in response to these student projects and concentrations, with their diversity and range leading to new areas of study previously untouched by the ER&M curriculum.

Perhaps most importantly, what students really love about ER&M is its tight-knit community. Katie Aragon, TD ’14, felt that when she looked at other majors, she was brushed aside by the professors. But in ER&M, she found professors who she felt were supportive and would take care of her and her peers.

Amaris Ogulin, DC ’15, agreed, noting that her relationship with her professors extends beyond the classroom: “I see my professors being activists and going into the community. I see them seeking the students that want to major in ER&M and creating strong relationships [with them].”

For many students, the study of ER&M also happens extracurricularly. Both Pitti and Schmidt-Camacho cite students’ involvement in the community, whether at Yale or in New Haven, as a strength of the program.

There are official paths for facilitating this kind of engagement in the major: “Intro to ER&M” is one of several Yale courses which includes a Community-Based Learning (CBL) option, in which students, in lieu of doing a paper, complete a project with a local New Haven organization. Guzman, for instance, worked with New Haven group Junta for Progressive Action, helping them to develop, and ultimately implement, an English as a Second Language curriculum in New Haven schools.

ER&M courses often lead students to pursue other forms of activism beyond the CBL option, too. Alfonso Toro, TC ’15, found himself inspired to enact change in the community after taking an ER&M course titled “Latino/a Sexualities.”

According to Toro, the class opened his mind to how the intersections of being Latino, identifying as LGBT, and coming from different socioeconomic backgrounds shape peoples’ perspectives. He had previously noticed a bit of a gap between Yale’s Latino and LGBT communities, and so he formed a student discussion group, De Colores, where students can discuss the intersection of these identities. Toro said he sees the recent LGBT Co-Op dance, which was co-

to criticism. In a column titled “ER&M’s Got Problems,” published on Feb. 6, 2012 in the Yale Daily News, Nathaniel Zelinsky, DC ’13, who did not respond to an interview request for this article, offered a critique of the new major on a variety of fronts: that it attracts a certain student with a preconceived worldview; that it is simply the latest in an overabundance of majors; that it is part of a troubling trend of hyper-specializiation; and that students in the major would find a lack of ideological diversity among their classmates. Zelinsky’s chief criticism, however, was that he believes ER&M, like certain other departments—namely Judaic studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies—conflates politics and academics: “Taught by liberal faculty who do not always separate their views from their teaching, these majors cheapen our community’s commitment to academic neutrality.”

Many ER&M students in the major recall columns like Zelinsky’s with frustration.

“That was such a bad day for me,” Saldaña recalled. “Because I was just like, ‘Yay, I get to finally do what I want to do, academically.’

I was really excited to have that freedom, and people were bashing the major.”

Pitti strongly rejects that idea that ER&M encourages a singular political view, saying that his students represent the entirety of the political spectrum. “[ER&M] is a program that fosters disagreement and argument, and does what all programs and departments do, which is to provide a space for discussion and debate,” Pitti said.

But some students say that they feel conceptions of ER&M as having a political slant extend throughout Yale’s student body. “Even my close friends who know what I study and do in the major are like, ‘Oh, but it’s super leftist,’” said Diana Enriquez, SY ’13, a former double major in ER&M who recently dropped it.

Many of the students interviewed felt that, if it’s true that ER&M is political, then that’s only because all academia is necessarily political. “I think people are very quick to assume that anything that’s related to identity-based groups is political,” Enriquez said.

“And in some ways it will always be political.

But I think ignoring the fact that majors like Classics or economics are also pretty politically-loaded is just not correct.”

of ideas you want to espouse when dealing with real people.”

Often times, too, students may perceive ethnic studies courses as being exclusively of interest to people of color. Katie Aragon, TD ’14, feels strongly that this is not the case, and that ER&M courses should be taken by all types of students. “It’s not one of those things where it’s, ‘Oh, all the ethnic minorities go to ER&M.’ It’s not meant to be exclusive,” Aragon said. Professor Ned Blackhawk, who specializes in Native American Studies, said that while the major does help serve a variety of traditionally under-represented social communities, it also attracts and fulfills the interests of all kinds of students, not simply Native American ones, or other students of color. And this, he said, is a “healthy sign of a vibrant academic program.”

More broadly, some take issue with the interdisciplinary mix of traditional departments—like literature, history, and anthropology—that constitutes the ER&M program. Howard Stern, a senior lector in the German and literature majors, feels that it’s better for students to focus on a singular discipline, and gain depth, than it is to learn a large variety of disciplines. “It’s far from clear that serious work can be done between disciplines,” Stern wrote in a statement to the Herald. “It’s impossible to gain serious knowledge of poetry by focusing at an early stage on political history, sociology, philosophy, or evolutionary biology. That’s General Education—not a bad thing, but no substitute for mastery.” Indeed, a 2007 report by the Committee on Majors seemed to echo this concern, noting that while a benefit of interdisciplinary majors is that they can offer intellectual breadth, “the basic training afforded by the specialized departmental disciplines can be skimped on.”

Both professors and students in the ER&M major, however, feel that its interdisciplinary nature is a boon. Professor Albert Laguna, for instance, believes that the study of Latino peoples specifically is best done through an multidisciplinary lens. One can’t understand things like migration or the global flow of people simply through a historical perspective, he feels, but must take into account social and cultural factors as well.

As such, ER&M courses, in order to answer questions like why Latinos are coming to the United States—which is a focus of Lagu-

“For me, [ER&M] is part of that larger history of people struggling to get representation in the academy.”

—Eb Saldaña, ES ‘14 sponsored by De Colores, as symbolic of two different Yale communities coming closer together. For Toro, the academic approach to a personal intersectionality was the motivator that pushed him to address the problems he saw in his actual social world.

ER&M’s CONVERSION TO BEING A STAND-alone major did not mean an end

Guzman, meanwhile, feels that when dealing with the lives of historically oppressed peoples, certain viewpoints can be harmful. “I think you can’t be conservative when you’re talking about the lives of oppressed people,” Guzman said. “A conservative perspective is important to add to the discussion, but let’s not kid ourselves here, that’s not necessarily the kind

na’s class—might have to draw upon fields like anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, and literature. A single discipline, Laguna argues, will not suffice.

Guzman, too, sees the interdisciplinary quality of the major as critical.

The junior’s research for the Mellon Mays fellowship looks at how migration influenc-

es Dominican immigrants’ articulations of feminism. As such, her research draws on a variety of disparate fields. ER&M brings together professors from a variety of fields that Guzman can then consult. For Guzman, the program is a convenient synthesis of the otherwise disparate and hard-to-find academic resources necessary to enfranchise the people of her chosen interest. But for others in the major, the low volume of faculty and courses taught at Yale remains an issue—and one they believe ER&M is capable of solving.

EVEN ITS MOST VEHEMENT SUPPORT -ers admit that ER&M is still not perfect, and much growth in the program is still necessary. Professor Schmidt-Camacho explained that she is “constantly conscious that students are trying to find ways to meet intellectual interests that they can’t meet here yet.” Students and professors focus especially on the Asian-American and Native American offerings in their goals for improvement. As it stands, the growth of the ER&M major is a numbers game—sources expressed the need for more faculty, more courses, and more students to allow for a larger, more extensive program.

Especially with regards to Asian-American studies, class offerings are notably slim.

Cathy Huang, MC ’15, a prospective doublemajor in the ER&M program, became interested last year in doing a research project on Asian-American history. Huang was disappointed by the lack of classes dealing with the Asian-American experience. “For me and some other students, the concern was that nobody who wanted to study AsianAmerican studies specifically would be able to formulate a list of classes which would give them something as comprehensive as African-American studies or Latino-American studies,” Huang said.

As far as course offerings go, Huang points to a single, regularly occurring class exclusively focused on Asian-American studies: Professor Mary Lui’s lecture, “Asian American History, 1800-Present.” Though the Bluebook has occasionally offered a seminar on Asian-American studies, students are otherwise left with survey courses that merely make mention of Asian-American culture and history. A search on Yale Bluebook returns zero undergraduate courses offered this semester that list AsianAmerican studies as their focus. By comparison, Latino studies boasts at least three fall 2012 courses, and African-American studies has an entire department’s worth of offerings (19).

Indeed, the uneven availability of courses on differing ethnicities reveals that ER&M still has much work to be done. Regardless of this room to grow, however, both students and professors still feel a great deal of pride and passion for the program. Ultimately, in the push for greater resources, it remains to be seen where ER&M stands on Yale’s list of priorities.

—Graphics by Zachary Schiller YH Staff

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Lay down the law Examining the new Ph.D. program at Yale Law School

by Alessandra Roubini

tudying the law in the United States has long been characterized as a vocational pursuit. The most common law degree in the U.S. is the Juris Doctor, usually referred to as a J.D.; it’s a degree designed specifically for the purpose of preparing students for careers as practicing lawyers.

On July 11, however, the landscape of legal education changed dramatically when Yale Law School (YLS) announced its plans to implement a Ph.D. program in law, the first of its kind in the United States. Unlike a J.D., a Ph.D. in law is strictly academic and is intended to prepare students not for practicing law, but for teaching it.

In the past, to compensate for the absence of a law Ph.D., law school graduates who hoped to pursue careers in academia received Ph.D.’s in different but related disciplines, such as political science or history. In many ways, these disciplines go hand in hand with law, but the lack of law Ph.D. programs has led to an absence of proper legal scholarship, and this absence has, in turn, led to a lack of coherence in various aspects of legal thought. Robert Post, LAW ’77, who is the dean of Yale Law School,

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hopes that that the creation of this program will lead to the “consolidation of the legal disciplines.”

The program began accepting applications in August, and the first class

Ph.D. programs, which often take up to seven years to complete, the doctorate in law will only take three years, in part because students will come into the program having already studied much of the

more competitive than it used to be.” He continued, “Applicants need to have a much more developed writing portfolio.

This degree will put them in a much better position in the job market.” John Paredes,

“The faculty is well positioned to develop this kind of program, where at other schools it would have been less plausible.”

—Gordon Silverstein, asst. dean for graduate programs at YLS will begin in the 2013-2014 school year.

The program will accept only five applicants for its inaugural class. Post said that while he cannot predict the number of applications that the program will receive, he expects that the process will be highly competitive. The program is extremely well-funded, due in part to a grant from the Mellon Foundation, as well as various private donations. Applicants must have a degree from an American law school in order to be eligible for consideration. Unlike most other

basic material in law school. The culminating dissertation will likely consist of a series of scholarly articles, the likes of which are necessary for those seeking positions as law professors.

The ability to publish these articles should make Ph.D. candidates more qualified candidates for teaching positions.

Gordon Silverstein, assistant dean for graduate programs at the law school, said, “There was something missing. In terms of preparing students to become law professors, that market has become much

LAW ’13, agreed: “When you’re working as a lawyer, you don’t have time to write papers, and you don’t have the intellectual community to help you develop the big ideas.”

According to Post, YLS had been discussing the possibility of creating this degree for over two years, and Silverstein expressed a similar sentiment. “It was a long process and a long set of conversations within the Law School about the academic argument and the professional argument for this degree,” Silverstein

said. Although the program will be run by the YLS administration and taught by professors from YLS, this degree, like all other Ph.D.’s, will be administered by the graduate school.

According to Silverstein, the program, which is unlike any other in the United States, has the potential to change the face of legal scholarship and teaching.

“It might have an important effect on how we think about law because that’s what’s been somewhat lacking,” he said.

“People tend to pursue a fairly narrow agenda, and part of what a Ph.D. is about is breadth and depth, so this will afford people the opportunity to engage in a broader conversation. Having a few people on your faculty with that kind of background will be exciting.”

With the creation of this program, Yale Law School is making a concerted effort to fill what it sees as a significant gap in the current field of legal scholarship. According to Silverstein, Yale was in a unique position to make this effort.

“Yale [Law School] is very small,” he said. “It has a faculty that is second to none. It has always been a remarkably academic and thoughtful law school, and it has a large number of people

who have published not just traditional scholarship.” He added, “The faculty is well-positioned to develop this kind of program, where at other schools it would have been less plausible.”

The legal community will watch the program carefully over the first few years

Some students, however, are concerned that this new program remains too much of an unknown entity. “No one knows what it’s going to look like,” said one Yale Law student who asked to remain anonymous. “It’s unclear how the graduates will be received.” That same

Despite any concerns potential applicants might have, the Law School remains optimistic about the success and importance of the program. Many of those interviewed for this article maintained that the shift from thinking about law as simply a vocational pursuit to an

“When you’re working as a lawyer, you don’t have time to write papers, and you don’t have the intellectual community to help you develop the big ideas.”

—John Paredes, LAW ’13 of the program to monitor its success.

According to Silverstein, if the program is successful, it is likely that other top law schools will add Ph.D. programs in law as well. “We know that other schools have talked about it,” he said. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they created a similar program.” Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law School, declined to be interviewed for this article.

student added, however, that the program remains appealing because Yale’s faculty will likely make a serious effort to ensure the success of their first several rounds of students. “The Yale faculty is investing a lot of its reputation in this program,” the student said. “Because they want the program to succeed, they will put considerate effort into placing the graduates well.”

academic one was a long time coming.

“I’ve long thought this was important and that it was odd that it didn’t exist,” Silverstein said. “It was long overdue.”

Post noted very simply that the goal of the program is to improve legal education in the future. “In the long run,” he said, “it will simply produce better trained legal professors.”

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CULTURE Sticking to their guns

by Andrew Koenig

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ome years ago, my father came to the conclusion that he should own a gun. NRA magazines soon littered the coffee table; trips to “the range” became a regular feature of Sunday afternoons; spats between mom and dad over guns made dinner table conversations livelier than usual. To this day, he has a genuine penchant for gun culture.

Fast-forward two years and I am here at Yale, where guns are all but absent from the conversation on campus. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find something on campus considered as gauche as gun enthusiasm.

The liberal atmosphere of Yale, one suspects, puts something of a damper on dissenting views about divisive topics like gun control. But that does not mean there is a universal consensus about gun control on campus. Gun culture is still very much alive among certain pockets of students, and its adherents are not afraid of making their gun love heard.

Exhibit A is the Yale Skeet and Trap Club, which, in its on-and-off existence stretching back more than a century, has devoted itself to the sport of skeet shooting. The club, which actually competes as a team, is one of the finest of its sort in the nation and has a storied history to boot. Co-captains Molly Emerson, DC ’13, and Tim Wescott, DC ’14, both said there is a great sense of tradition embedded in the team. “[Skeet and Trap] is a very historic part of Yale,” Emerson said.

“Our team is one of the oldest clubs here.” Although the team’s primary focus is competition, she said its members also seek to “carry on the tradition.”

Above all, Wescott said, it’s about having fun—as in any sport. “The fun part, for me at least,” he said, “is releasing all of your pent-up stress and frustration on a Friday afternoon with your buddies by just annihilating things with a really, really powerful weapon.

That’s just the ultimate catharsis.”

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club offers opportunities in which “the Yale community can learn to shoot in a safe, supervised environment.” The Pistol and Rifle Club is, however, wary of getting involving in the messier and more controversial aspects of gun culture; the emphasis for them is purely recreational and competitive. When questioned about the national debate on gun control, the Pistol and Rifle Club declined to comment.

Skeet and Trap similarly holds no official political affiliation as a club. However, Wescott conceded, “[Skeet and Trap] doesn’t entirely consist of those of the conservative persuasion, but it’s certainly heavily oriented towards conservatism. That just naturally happens when you bring people together through guns.” This bringing of people together through guns might seem likely to alienate other students. Yet Emerson commented that the attitude towards Skeet and Trap she most encounters is not hostility but surprise: “People usually respond, ‘Hey, that’s something cool. That’s something different.’”

Along with recreational familiarity with guns, geographical origin seems to play a determining role in predicting a student’s stance on gun control. Texas native Truett Davis, PC ’16, reinforces the notion that the two are closely linked: “I’m very liberal,” he explained, “but [a need for] gun control is something I don’t understand, just because I’ve always been exposed to guns, so it’s never been a question of safety.” Jacob Stai, a member of the Independent Party, the YPU’s largest party, offered another example. “Yale is certainly a lot more antigun than where I’m from,” said Stai, a member of the Independent Party, the Yale Political Union’s largest party. Stai comes from northern Wisconsin, a region he characterized as largely pro-gun and relatively rural. Stai attributed the differences in opinion to the hunting culture that predominates back home. When I asked whether origin influenc-

es if people are for and against guns, he readily answered yes.

When I asked what he thinks the general attitude towards guns is on campus, Stai swiftly responded that it was almost entirely negative. He then conceded that this was an “over-characterization” and that there are other important factors besides origin: “It also makes a difference,” he added, “if you’re a vegetarian, or [what] your opinion on animal rights [is] in general.” But origin doubtless plays some role in determining people’s views towards guns, so it’s notable that a large proportion of Yalies comes from metropolitan areas, where people are likely to have different attitudes towards gun control issues than, say, Stai’s neighbors in rural Wisconsin.

As both shooting groups on campus are relatively removed from politics, the gun control debate seems arise mainly in YPU debates. Various parties have taken up the mantle of continuing this debate. Still, gun control seems to get short shrift in comparison to other, more hot-button issues. Within the Independent Party, Stai said, the attitude is generally one that can be characterized as “out of sight, out of mind.” He added that gun control is an issue secondary in importance to the economy and other social liberties in the election, and so doesn’t receive as much attention.

When discussed, though, he said there is little in the way of agreement. Members’ views range from what he called, “the Republican line of minimizing all control,” to a more traditionally liberal, “ban ’em all” attitude.

Though many Yale students might not realize it, there is a small but established community of recreational gun users among the student body. So while debate on gun policy remains confined, for the most part, to fairly insular YPU debates, perhaps it will soon find a place at our own dinner tables.

—Contributed reporting by Elliah Heifetz and Andrew Wagner YH Staff

The new brew Bill Bezuk is the owner of the Eugene Backyard Farmer, a small urban homesteading shop in Eugene, Ore., that sells newly-hatched chicks and all the supplies for doit-yourself backyard chicken farming. According to Scott Vignola, founder and owner of Luck & Levity, Bezuk is also the “patron saint” of the new brew shop, located at 118 Court St. Luck & Levity held its official opening on the evening of Fri., Nov. 2. When I sat down with Vignola amid the debris from the opening event—a barrage of peanut shells, popcorn kernels, and emptied cups of amber-tinted ale from Branford’s Thimble Island Brewing Company—he explained his quasi-religious view of Bezuk, whom he met while working as a small business consultant in Eugene.

“Bill once said to me, ‘Chickens may be really popular right now…but I’m always on the lookout for what the next chicken is.’” With only six craft breweries, all of which are fairly new, Connecticut has traditionally been more of a wine state. Homebrewing seems to Vignola to be the next logical “chicken.”

The shop boasts everything one could need to start and grow a home brewery: 36 different varieties of hops, malts that range from “warm caramel” to “toasted bread” flavors, chocolate-maple porter beer-making kits, wort chillers, sterilizers, and countless books with titles like The Book of Beer Pong and The Book of Beer Awesomeness.

Jeff Shaw, a Yale postdoc in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry who attended Friday’s opening along with two of his classmates, summed up the shop’s appeal: “It’s like if you enjoy cooking,” he said, “but it’s beer, so it’s better.”

For now, Luck & Levity’s large, split-level, glass-fronted space feels a bit like a pop-up warehouse assembled out

of IKEA boxes, largely empty with the exception of industrial, wooden wall-shelving, a wooden ramp, and two oversized couches. But Vignola has big plans. “My long term goal is that there are twice as many couches as there are now, the wifi is twice as fast, and there’s a space here where people can have parties or classes or workshops,” he said. And the clincher? Vignola gestures to the empty wall just opposite us: “A brew space. An industrial kitchen with burners and all.”

Ultimately, perhaps the beauty of a space as large and empty as that of Luck & Levity is that there is plenty of space for even more chickens. “If everybody in the store came in and only wanted cheese, this would be a cheesemaking store,” he told me, referring to the mass of disenfranchised fermenters that have entered his shop since the soft opening, asking about alternative fermenting options to pickling, canning, and preserving. “Somebody asked me for miso. I was like, ‘Miso? Alright, yeah, I’ll see what I can find out.’ If you’re going to serve the community needs, that means it might be things you don’t expect.”

What really drives Vignola, though, is a penchant for social coordination. “Throughout history, the fermenting of things has always brought people together,” Vignola said.

“You read a lot about how communities are breaking down and people aren’t social the way they used to be. Rather than be alarmist, I thought, why not focus on the positive and try to create new communities.”

I thanked Vignola and moved towards the door. As I left his shop, he yelled after me, “Come back any time to hang out. We have wifi !”

—Katy Osborn —Graphic by Christine Mi YH Staff

An American tune On Mon., Nov. 5, a crisp fall afternoon, a smattering of students, faculty and other community members gathered in the warm auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center for a musical tour of the American past. Students in Professor Richard Lalli’s class, “The Performance of Vocal Music,” took to the stage to perform three categories of American music: parlor songs from the mid-19th century, and art and parlor songs from the turn of the 20th century.

While some students in the performance class are studying music or plan to go into the music industry, others merely enjoy the act of engaging with texts and performing songs. “I was really happy because…it’s a real range of background experience,” said Lalli, who clearly revels in the success of his students. He holds auditions for the class, which some students simply refer to as “Lalli,” at the beginning of the semester. Once he commits to a group of stu-

dents, that commitment extends beyond the confines of the semester. Lalli, a 2005 Grammy award nominee, said he maintains contact with students and helps them to find further opportunities.

“I feel like music is a liberal art,” Bryce Wiatrak, PC ’14, who performed three songs, said. The semester’s focus on American music motivated Wiatrak to plan on taking a second semester of the class.

“The best way to learn texts is to perform them,” he said. Although Wiatrak is not majoring in music, he plans to attend music school after graduation and wants as much performance experience as possible.

Lalli said he selected the theme of American music to coincide with Election Day, after remembering the poignancy of a coincidental Election Day concert he held for this class in 2000. “The text connection is always the jumping off point. The songs are musicians’ attempts to interpret literary ideas through

music and sound,” Lalli said. “We have events in American history that gave rise to these songs.”

The concert evoked a range of emotions, with some songs bringing a somber mood into the hall and others an upbeat sense of excitement and opportunity.

“The Housatonic at Stockbridge,” by Charles Ives, YC 1898, reminded everyone of Yale’s long history: Yale crew has rowed on the Housatonic River since 1843.

As the words of Egbert Van Alstyne’s Cheyenne filled the Whitney Humanities Center’s auditorium, the confines of the stained glass windows and woodpaneled walls melted away. “That’s one of the main goals of music: to transcend life,” Lalli said. And what better way to ponder the time and events to come than by sitting back and letting parlor songs wash over you at 5:00p.m. on the Monday before Election Day. —Jake Wolf-Sorokin —Graphic by Zachary Schiller YH Staff

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REVIEWS What is a rose?

by Gareth Imparato YH Staff

he myth of Gertrude Stein has perhaps eclipsed the reality of the woman. She is so closely associated with her rarified cultural scene that when we refer to Stein, we are also referencing, in shorthand, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The extensive literary name-dropping of Woody Allen’s 2011 film Midnight in Paris and its subsequent commercial success are emblematic of the relationship that most cultured people have with Stein: blind admiration. Her mystique is compounded by the fact that while Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby continue to be mainstays of high school curricula and American literature syllabi, Stein’s own work is comparatively little-read. Stein’s reputation is thoroughly established but both her personal character and the character of her writing are oddly hard to pin down.

Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is uniquely capable of providing insight into Stein, thanks to its possession of her collected works. Unfortunately, the exhibit “Descriptions of Literature: Texts and Contexts in the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers,” which opened Oct. 8 and runs through Dec. 14, is largely unhelpful in revealing much of anything at all. The exhibition aims to provide a variety of resources for the Stein devotee, but its displays have evidently limited thematic interests.

Some of the more interesting displays give us a selection of Stein’s books for children. Stein’s obsession with the possibilities of language, and her association with the art scene, both seem to suggest a realm of exciting possibilities for her children’s literature. Unfortunately, for the most part the books are kept closed, so I can’t tell you if they are as exciting as they potentially could be. When I read about the never-realized children’s book Stein planned to write with Picasso illustrations in her letters, I was exhilarated by the possibility—but of course here again, neither the exhibit curator nor I can help but identify Stein in the context of her friends and collaborators. The myth of Stein remains oddly impenetrable.

The second, larger focus of the exhibit attempts to delve deeper into the psyches of both Stein and her companion and lover, Alice B. Toklas. Early this year, the Yale University Press released definitive editions of Stein’s novel, Ida and her collection of poems, Stanzas in Meditation. The new edition of Stanzas, boldly subtitled “The Corrected Edition,” was edited on the basis of new research that suggests that the word “may” was systematically removed from the text of the work and replaced with “can.” The exhibit goes to great lengths to show the extent of these edits, presenting its audience with sheets of manuscript paper, the typewritten “may” crossed out and replaced with “can.” The explanation offered for this revision borders on the absurd: May was the nickname of Mary Bookstaver, Stein’s first love. Toklas, after learning of May’s existence decades after Stein last saw her, insisted that every mention of her nickname be stricken from the text.

While this story lends a certain pulpy flavor to my own image of Stein and her sexuality, as the effective centerpiece of an exhibit it seems remarkably flimsy. What does this anecdote have to say about the force of the prose that surrounded those mays, or the genius that wrote them? Very little, save that she had a jealous lover.

The self-congratulatory display card that informed me that the new edition of Stanzas in Meditation has had all its mays restored seems indicative of the kind of smallminded scholarship that this portion of the exhibit fetishizes. Stein was, I can only assume, very aware of the many times the word “can” appeared in her published text. If she had wanted it another way, I imagine she would have made it so.

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Ultimately, the most interesting parts of the exhibit are the smallest ones, tucked away between more prominent and largely insignificant artifacts. For instance, Stein’s letter to an early publisher, urging him not to change her punctuation even once despite its irregularities, seems far more meaningful to who she was and what she wrote than any number of ink-stained manuscripts. She is clear, direct, and forceful in that letter. Reading it, one can imagine how this woman created Paris’s foremost salon.

The exhibit is poorly planned out and oddly executed, with some letters and objects placed apparently at random. That’s a pity; there’s a lot more to know about Stein than a rose is a rose is a rose. Maybe she created a myth too compelling, too pithy and witty and ensconced in fame, for us to be able to get past it. Certainly, this exhibition could not.

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Movie: Flight

Movie: Holy Motors

Our personal demons do not necessarily destroy us if we choose never to confront them. We can learn to live with them perpetually hanging over our heads. Flight, Robert Zemeckis’s first live-action film since 2000’s Cast Away, illustrates the life-shattering consequences of remaining apathetic about these demons.

Denzel Washington plays pilot Whip Whitaker. When the jet he is flying suddenly takes a nosedive, Whip crash-lands in a field and saves nearly everyone on board. But Whip is an alcoholic, and the ensuing investigation leads to him being blamed for the disaster.

With films like Back to the Future and Forrest Gump among his past work, Zemeckis has shown a talent for crafting quality films centered on actors and the human experience, and Flight is no exception. The film serves mostly as a character study of Whip and a commentary on substance abuse. Washington succeeds in making his character sympathetic, despite his persistently self-destructive behavior. I’m glad to see him step away from action movies for a while and show his real acting skills in a script-driven project. On screen, he is best at delivering monologues, not shooting guns. John Goodman also appears as Whip’s drug dealer and confidant, and steals every scene he’s in with a stream of wry one-liners.

Flight’s mood can be subtle and nerve-wracking—the initial plane crash sequence had me nearly hyperventilating in my seat and assuming the brace position. Those five minutes alone, with the passengers’ pure terror and Denzel’s calm demeanor, completely validate the rest of the film.

There were times when I thought the movie was being overly didactic in its message; the threads of religion are thick, with examples of unsubtle symbolism, and phrases like “miracle” and “act of God” uttered by several characters. The occasional awkward presentation of moral sound bites does not stop Flight from being a solid character drama, and a welcome return for Zemeckis to making original movies with an adult-level of emotional depth.

—Jackson Blum YH Staff

I would discourage you from watching Holy Motors. The fact that it is Not Rated should give you some notion that you have no idea what you’re getting yourself into. But if your curiosity overtakes you—an easy trap to fall into, given the gorgeous trippiness of the trailer—and you find yourself in Theater 8 at the Criterion, like I did, I advise you to commit to the movie once the lights go dim. You will want to leave, and you will be uncomfortable and offended, but, at the end of the long, seemingly pointless journey, Holy Motors will surprise you with its power.

Holy Motors is directed by the critically-acclaimed French filmmaker Leos Carax, who lends his middle name to protagonist Oscar (Denis Lavant). Whenever a film is so blatantly autobiographical, you know the filmmaker is being serious. Indeed, Carax is extravagant and excessive: the film involves heavy, Oscar-worthy costuming, and the plot drips with twists and turns as we watch Oscar, a professional actor of the future, don mask after mask (transforming into an old hag, goblin, or dying grandfather, for example) in what seems to be a typical work day. In Carax’s vision of the future, cameras are invisibly small, so that reality and film sets are indistinguishable, and limousines—“holy motors”—transport actors from job to job as they costume themselves for each new role.

Thanks to Lavant’s wide range as an actor, the film manages to shock in every way possible: pornographic sex involving crooked genitalia, cannibalism, the scent of potential incest and/or pedophilic violence — and manages to roll them all into one coherent satire. Though the film strikes me most immediately as a satire of cinema, it also leaves me wondering if it’s subject isn’t something broader, like religion or society at large.

—April Koh YH Staff

Music: Angel Haze

Game: Assassin’s Creed III

On the last song of her latest EP, Classick, Angel Haze tells the audience, “This might get a little personal, or a lot actually. Parental discretion is advised.” The line could be the tagline of the whole mix tape.

This latest work from the YouTube rap sensation is an extremely personal record, filled with the same raw emotion of her past work. But unlike Haze’s two breakout songs that drew the attention of the music world, “New York” and “Werkin’ Girls,” the songs on this EP disclose the painful details of the overnight star’s history. She discusses her life growing up, as a victim of both domestic and sexual abuse. When we first heard Angel Haze, we had no idea where this furious energy came from; in Classick, she makes it pretty clear.

Classick is comprised of beats from instantly recognizable rap songs that reveal many of Haze’s influences. Songs by stars like Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, and Lauryn Hill are ambitiously reworked by the 20 year old.

Though all the songs on the album are quite powerful, Haze’s version of Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet” is the most notable —it’s a harrowingly graphic tale of Haze’s stepfather sexually abusing her. She spares no detail and makes you suffer right along with her.

Are any of these songs better than “New York” or “Werkin’ Girls?”

Probably not; they’re not as metrically tight. Is this album worth listening to? Yes. Does Angel Haze give us a hope for a future of rap in which rappers carry the beat and not the other way around, when clever rhymes and emotional power are not mutually exclusive? We will have to wait for her first major album to drop in the spring, but I think yes.

—Otis Blum

As avid fans, our relationship with the Assassin’s Creed franchise has always been a love story. The games’ thoroughly developed historical settings, charismatic characters, stunning visuals, and brutal combat animations were in every way seductive and easy to fall in to.

Now, with Assassin’s Creed III, the latest major installment, we’ve moved from Rome to the American northeast, but the elements we initially fell in love with remain.

Assassin’s Creed III is set during the American Revolution, and the backdrop is refreshing. While the architecture is not quite the Colosseum, the centerpiece of Assassin’s Creed II, the American northeast is vast and bursting with possibility—particularly the wilderness. Between missions, Connor Kenway, our protagonist, can hunt for deer, fend off predators, and manage the Homestead’s goods- and craftsbased economy. The forest may seem confusing to navigate, but the revamped free running mechanism is more fluid than ever before, making hurtling through the forest—no matter the season—effortless and exhilarating.

The low points of the game are mostly in the main storyline. While the opening hours of the game give the sense that this installment is indeed a new Assassin’s Creed, fans can’t help but wonder: when does the fun stuff begin? We’re dying to get to our new protagonist, Connor, the tomahawk-wielding freedom-fighter, and have him execute endless bone-crunching combos. When we finally get there, the game is, as expected, irresistible.

—Lucas Sin YH Staff

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BULLBLOG BLACKLIST In your living space when you can’t leave because of weather.

As soon as the election shitstorm ends, the winter shitstorm begins.

Not a sustainable accident.

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Trash accumulation

The nor’easter

When they’re all either OBAMA or SNOW. Also, facebook statuses about how tiresome these statuses are.

Info session season Now we can’t tell if these kids are Bain recruits or SAE pledges.

When the snow whips their skin raw.

Facebook statuses

That ugly nose-down cheeks-up face people make

Toad’s closing because of the storm

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Accidentally skipping all afternoon classes

I was so excited to wait in the snow in my one-sleeved little black dress!

Now how am I supposed to get hypothermia?

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Winter fashion YDN banquet photos There’s an inverse correlation between the warmth of a coat and its cuteness.

Also, the YDN banquet.

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revolutionary war David Wooster Naphtali Daggett Noah Welles John Hotchkiss Giles Russell James Babcock Israel Dickenson Mark Hopkins Fisher Gay Daniel Hitchcock William Southmayd Amos Northrup Whitman Welch Ebenezer Baldwin Roger Conant John Paddleford Jabez Hamlin John Brown Jonathan Bellamy Nathan Hale Amos Benedict Eleazar Williams Howe Heathcote Muirson Ebenezer Daggett William Fowler spanish-american war Guy Howard Arthur Melancthon Diggles Herman Daniel Pryibil Rodmond Vernon Beach Franklin Adams Meacham Loten Abijah Dinsmoor Walter Eugene Stewart Frederick Chunn Allyn Bancroft Wilmot Ward Cheney Gerard Merrick Ives Lazarus Denison Stearns Josph William Alport Theodore Westwood Miller Augustus Canfield Ledyard Frederick Walters Hulseberg mexican-american war Foot Lyman Frederick Davis Mills John Bates Murdock civil war Milton Pardee Orton Joseph Holbert Nichholis Isaac Gurdon Seymour Mason Fitch Cogswell Edmond Smith Rhett Gordon N. Winslow Edward W. Beatty Robert Carver Hiram Doane Horace Benjamin Colton Josph Knox Walder David Smith Cowels Charles F. Fisher Francis Miller McLellan Levi Ward Smith Stuart Wilkins Fisk Clintin William Sears James Horton Dill John Meyers Hentington Abraham Bowen Batterson John Henry Felder William Gustine Conner James Redfield William Walter Horton Othneil Deforest Henry Hamilton Hadley Henry Christian Kutz Hezekiah Davis Martin Daniel Temple Noyes Elisha Franklin Paxton John Reynolds Sturges Samuel Armstid Ewing Frederick Cone Fuller John Randolph Harper Theodore Winthrop Sheldon Clark Beecher Hamilton Couper Andrew Upson Samuel Fields Edgerton Chauncey Meigs Hand Newton Spaulding Manross Philemon Tracy Douglass Gray David Brainerd Greene Henry Lord Page King Hugh Watson McNeil William Scott Denniston James Hamilton Sidney Edwards Richardson William Rankin Webb William Eugene Webster John Samuel Donelson Augustus Wade Dwight Charles A. Grevenberg William Henry King John McConthe Stephen Williams Maples James Edward Rains James Clay Rice John Sims Lewis Ledyard Weld Frederick Augustus Bemis William S. Heath Andrew Jackson Spring George Stuart William Wheeler Nelson Bartholomew Charles Edwin Bulkeley Blaise Carmick Cenas Robert Chotard Dunbar Andrew Furgesen Haynes Henry Martyn McIntire Daniel Meritt Mead Frank Henery Peck Horton Reynolds Platt Samuel Maverick Van Wyck Samuel Fay Woods William Harrison Bishop Francis Eugene Butler Albert Waldo Drake

Henry Melzar Dutton Henry Luse Foules John Griswold Edward Leighton Porter George Washington Roberts James Judson Smith Walter Scott Stlalings John Wilkes Wilkeson Edward Foster Blake George Ribb Burnley Claude Gibson Herrick Hayner Robert Booth Maclin Dewees Ogden Thomas Gordon Pollock Theodore Woolsey Twining Charles Boardman Whittlesley John Bethel Bowles Edward Carrington Peter Vivian Daniel Deodate Cushman Hannahs Charles Mortimer Wheeler George Waterman Arnold Henery Ward Camp Samuel Clark Glenney Daniel Hebard ohnston William Curtis Johnston b Martin William McCaleb der Ogeden Frederick Callender hneider James Henery Schneider nan John Newell Bannan William Bardwelll Clark n Davis Frederick Stanton Edwin Lane Joness tt Pepper James Pratt Edward Fletcher Spalding cking Gilbert Miles Stocking emple William James Temple George Worman er Ira Rush Alexander Daniel Egerton Hemenway House William Watson g William McClurg Albert Gregory Marble William Henery Miller Andrew Freeman Schiverick Richard Skinner Grovsenor Starr terling Francis Norton Sterling oom Harvey Harris Bloom George Stanley Dewey win Henry Clayton Ewin ler Francis Kern Heller Master Zelman John McMaster m Matteson Frederick William malee Uriah Nelson Parmalee rtridge Charles Avery Partridge Arthur Tallcot loss Joseph Payne Tulloss Charles Webster Richard Lafayettee Williams Richard Kirtland Woodruff oit Daniel Lathrop Coit Garwood Riley Merwin Charles Mills ylvester George Perkins Sylvester rth Alling Franklin Ellesworth arnard Edward Lovell Barnard ompson John Hanson Thompson att Edwin Clarke Pratt villard John Antione Duvillard tton Arthur Henry Dutton Henry van Dyke Stone h Brown Nathan L. Church James Averill John Smally Whittlesey Jacob Eaton Melines Conklin Leavenworth Dewitt Clintoon Lathropp Ransom Lyon Lewis Alling John Benjamin Welch Nathaniel Wells French James Samuel Wadsworth Richard Macall Francis Stebbins Bartow Franklin King Beck William Wlaker Franklin Hulse Clack Willaim Thomas Marsh Henry William Coit Willaim Silliman Willaim McCrackin Smith Edwin Bathurst Cross

Hubert Coffing Williams Frank Ronald Simmons Talcott Hunt Clarke Robert Douglas Meacham Paul Wamelink Wilson Lawrence Kirby Fulton James Augustin McKenna, Jr. Richard Lord Jones Connor Edward Spottiwoode Faust Arly Luther Hedrick Charles McLean Smith Charles Haseltine Carstairs Charles Loomis Dana, Jr. Frank Walter Hulett John Upshur Moorhead William Wallace Newcomb John Morton Walker, Jr. George James Schuele Burrell Richardson Huff Leonard Bacon Parks Maxwell Oswald Parry John Leavens Lilley Donald Gardner Russell James Francis Gorman Robert Coyne Clifford Garnett Morgan Noyes Earl Trumbull Williams Lloyd Seward Allen Sheppard Bliss Gordy Gilbert Nelson Jerome Harold Wily Reeder Dudley Blanchard Valentine McLester Jared Snow John Douglas Crawford Scoville Thomas Devan James Webster Waters Ammi Wright Lancashire Leslie Carter Bemis Fritz Leopold Dressler Ralph Haden George William Meuller Julian Cornell Biddle James Kirby Burrell Salter Storrs Clarke John Clarence Egan William Bernard McGuire Gordon Loring Rand Robert Lincoln Campbell William Harmon Chapman John MacArthur Lucian Platt Allan Oakley Smith Davis Winans Lusk John Paul Jones Edward Lewis Rochfort Clarence Emir Allen James Fennimore Cooper John Joseph Fitzgerald George Chester Hubbard Wilcox King John Winthrop Loveland, Jr. Eugene Frederic Rowe Gordon Lockwood Schenck Joseph Andrew Glover William Francis Kennedy John Farrell McGourty Francis Bergen Franklin Prime Cheeseman Donald Paige Frary Harold Ludington Hemingway Kenneth Rand Henry Treat Rogers Howard Willis Arnold James Robertson Carey Edwin Harris Dunning Albert Emanuel Johnson Chester Harding Plimpton Sydney Francis McCreery Ebenezer Bull William Hopkins Chandler James Seferen Ennis George Washington Ewing Robert Howard Gamble William Huntting Jessup Henry Blair Keep James Alexander Moseley Alexis Painter Nason Joseph Frederick Stillman, Jr. Henry Gilbert Woodruff Howard Swart Bremond Philip Dietz Willliam Henry Grossius Sheldon Elliot Hoadley Charles Edward Jones Frank Gibbes Montgomery Walter H. Schulze Thomas Vincent Stilwell Charles Kremer Tuohy Lucius Comstock Boltwood Daniel Waters Cassard Robert Henry Coleman George Waite Goodwin George Knight Houpt Casper Marvin Kielland Russell Jay Meyer Gilroy Mulqueen Langdon Laws Ricketts Philip Livingston Rose Alexander Dickson Wilson Reginald Stanley Young Joseph Emmet Beauton Wilfred Corrigan Bourke Leland James Hagadorn Albert Dillon Sturtvant Julian Chambers Warner John Prout West Charles Wolcott Willey Robert Fairgrieve Sidney Alvord Beardslee Louis Bennett, Jr. Mortimer Park Crane Oliver Baty Cunningham Henry Thomas Donahoe Franklin Crumbie Fairchild Cleveland Cady Frost Roswell Hayes Fuller Kenneth Brown Hay John McHenry, Jr. Jarvis Jenness Offutt John Williams Overton John Francisco Richards, II

Russell Slocum Dumaresq Spencer William Noble Wallace Marston Edson Banks Frederick Gardiner Bart Berger James Horace Higginbotham John Morrison Edmund Anthony Parrott VanHorn Peale Walter William Smyth Arthur Fuller Souther Franke Browne Turner Joseph Brown Bowen Benjamin Strickler Adams Joy Curtis Bournique Coleman Tileston Clark George Lane Edwards, Jr. Henry Norman Grieb Kenneth MacLiesh Leslie Malcolm MacNaughton Holmes Mallory Danforth Montague Leonard Sowersby Morange Frank Stuart Patterson Curtis Seaman Read Alvin Hill Treadwell Glenn Dickenson Wicks Truman Dunham Dyer Alfred Austin Farwell Edward Hines, Jr. Harry Helmer Jackson, Jr. Irving Tyler Moore Joseph Sarsfield Sweeny Wallace Charles Winter, Jr. Clarence Alexander Brodie Parker Dickson Buck Alden Davison Allan Wilkins Douglass Alexander Agnew McCormick, Jr. George Webster Otis Hezekiah Scoville Porter Stephen Potter Henry Howard Houston Woodward Lyman Holden Cunningham Cyril Barlow Mosher Caldwell Colt Robinson Joseph Graham Trees Graeyer Clover Archibald Coats Alexander Charles Garland Wilson Marshall, Jr. Ralph Talbot Levi Sanderson Tenney, Jr. Lester Hubbard Church Edward Louis Stepenson, Jr. Donald Walker Donald Corprew Dines Clarence Eames Bushnell John Duer Irving

Louis Joseph Petrillo Richard Gordon Robinson Alvin Converse Sawtelle, Jr. Russell Alger Wilson Theodore Warren Lamb Gerard Guyot Cameron George Harrington McMann Harrison Pratt Morgan Gilbert Hoffman Sidenberg Joseph George Sandler John Bayard Snowden, II Morton Corcoran Eustis Roy Gerald Fitzgerald, Jr. Grant Barney Schley Lawrence Flinn Joseph Marshall Shinnen Kay Todd, Jr. Frederick Bagby Hall, Jr. DeWitt Dilworth Irwin, Jr. Frederic Charles Lowinger William Gillespie Pearson Jack Judah Siegel Townsend Cutter Gordon Ezra Woodruff William Hildreth Gillespie Francis Mason Hayes Lawrence Joseph Leaser Thomas Bardon Quayle Harold James Mold John Cameron Weimer Charles Richard Spencer Albert Svihra Richard Traill Chapin Lloyd Dewell Frederick George Dyas Bradley Goodyear, Jr. Pardee Marshall Stratford Lee Morton, Jr. Albert Sidney Burleson Negley George Eyre Robson, Jr. Harlow Phelps Spencer James Robert Griswold Leonard Ward Parker Robert Frederick MacDougal Arthur Robert Crathorne, Jr. William Earle Jenney Harold Rabinovitz Arthur Russell Andrews Burrall Barnum Webster Merrifield Bull Theodore Leroy Chamberlain John Ward Gott Herbert Seymour Haycock Glenn Stafford Knapp Douglas Clinton Northrop John Eugene O’Keefe, Jr. Alan Gustave Overton John Harold Richardson William Gray Ricker Curtis Charles Rgdgers Philip Igoe Taylor Murray Mark Waxman Stanard Tilton Wheaton Richard Sawyer Blanchard Frank John Cochran Robert Jenkins Shallenberger Richard Harold Sperry George Jacques Stricker Henry Stevenson Washburn, Jr. Clark Vandersall Poling Walter Timothy Enright Alfred Etcheverry Albert MacClellan Barnes, III McIntosh Brown Ronald Muirhead Byrnes, Jr. William Henry Chickering Ernest Dwight Clark, Jr. James Quincy Doyle William Stamps Farish, Jr. Eugene Thomas Hines Frederick Mears, III Logan Munroe John Silas Sheffield Peirson John Felch Bertram Runnalls Gerald Robert Steinberg Norman Stanley Woods Alonzo Pelton Adams, III Ernest Pritchard Christner Marvin Cooke Alfred Brokaw Dixon Charles David Horn David Bates Thayer Douglass John Yerxa Laurence Frederic Camp Myron Lawrence Carlson John Snyder David Gerry Connally, Jr. James Ross Gillie Lindgren Bancroft John Bowlby Bauer John Friedman Cleveland Howard Barry Comen George Eustis Cookman David Fletcher Currier Lawrence Michel DiFilippo Charles Edward Doty, Jr. Trumbull Frazer Francis Patrick Gallagher Edward McGuire Gordon Peter Stetson Greene Roderick Stephen Goodspeed Hall Henry Taylor Irwin, Jr. Pearson Sands Jones Forrest Lee Kenner Roger Cleveland Newberry Kevin Gelshenen Rafferty Robert Phelps Saunders Robert William Small Howard Voorheis Stephens, Jr. William Mason Stevens Alfred Jay Sweet, Jr. Frederick Wilder White William Melvin Kober Lawrence DeForest Anderson Walter Easton Bell Frederic Austin Borsodi Lindley Bronson Wirt Randall Cates Albert Peter Dewey John Alden Farley

Murray Charles Freedman Gordon Phillips Hoover Sadron Clyde Lampert, Jr. Jonathan Leete William John Loveday Baird Hockett Markham, Jr. John Garrison Mersereau Richard Lewis Morris, Jr. William Edward Mulvey, Jr. Sanford Benham Perkins, Jr. Charles Alfred Pillsbury James Joseph Regan William Walter Reiter Richard Harold Seligman Lawrence Nelson Succop Samuel Jackson Underhill William Duval Weber WIlliam John Woods Peter Charles Blundell Edward John Nagel Athanasios Demetrios Skouras Paul Bradford Badger, Jr. Laurence Gorham Bagg Henry Francis Chaney, Jr. Harvey John Cibel Robert Stuart Clark Thomas Russell Clark, Jr. Frederick Cushing Cross, Jr. Alfred Curtin, Jr. Jesse Andrew Davis, Jr. Herbert William Elin James Dudley Emerson Edward Webb Gosselin John Winston Grahm Laurence Rector Harper James Lester Israel Randolph Mulford Jordan Robert Francis Keeler David Ellis Lardner Charles Edward Leary Walter Edward Levy Robert Forsyth McMullen David McGregor Mersereau Stewart Lea Mims, Jr. Frederick James Murphy, Jr. Richard Louis Ott Leonard Frederick Paine Robert Groves Quinn Jonathan Stone Raymond, Jr. Robert Lyman Rose Carl Underwood Sautter John Hill Spalding Henrey Bartlett Stimson, Jr. Cyrus Robinson Taylor Robert Torrey Thompson Wendell Ross Wheelock Francis Richard Wholley James Gordon Woodruff John Holme Ballantine, Jr. Floyd Gilbert Wood Charles David Pack Waring Roberts Allen Townsend Winmill Charles James Andrews, Jr. Spencer Otis Burnham John Gayle Aiken, III Charles Parker Armstrong Edward Howard Beavers, Jr. John Clifford Cobb Ohn Norvin Compton James Francis Coorron John Joseph Dore, Jr. Cruger Gallaudet Edgerton Foster Miller Fargo William Flinn, II Francis Mercer Hackley William Hugh Harris, Jr. James Watson Hatch, Jr. Michael Stein Jacobs William Jared Knapp, Jr. Howard Helms Knight Nixon Lee, Jr. James Gore King McClure, Jr. George Noyes McLennan Malcolm Gardner Main George Houk Mead, Jr. Edmund Ocumpaugh, IV William Howard Schubart, Jr. George Raymond Waldmann, II Morgan Wesson Philip William, Jr. Henry Randall Wilson, III Reid Talmage Woodward Warren Williams, Jr John Hall Bates Arthur Pue Gorman 2d Walter Bigelow Rosen John Hollister Stewart Robert Carter Bryan Thomas James Wills, Jr. Theron Griggs Platt William Anderson Aycrigg, II Peter Bennit John Myer Bowers Beverly Ward Bristol Kenneth Coe Bristol Robert Lind Brush Rene Auguste Chouteau Henry Victor Crawford, III Charles Clarence Davis, Jr. Edward Cyprian Digan James Maxwell Dowling John McKinlay Green Robert Kelman Haas, Jr. George Eddison Haines Warren Arthur Hindenlang John Burton Houston William Brinckerhoff Jackson Endicott Remington Lovell, Jr. Robert Wentworth Lucey James Stewart McDernott Harold Shepardson Marsh Walter Edwin Newcomb, Jr. Carter Palmer Sam Phillips, Jr. Hovey Seymour William Barton Simmons, Jr Robert Emmett Stevenson James Neale Thorne Benjamin Rush Toland William Gardner White

to honor &

remember

world war i Granger Farwell Joseph Bidleman Bissel Theodore Caldwell Janeway James Brown Griswold Percy Weir Arnold Samuel Denison Babcock William Henry Rowe Henry Edward Hungerford Samuel Pearson Brooke Charles James Freeborn William Park McCord John Leslie Crosthwaite Edward Everett Tredway Arthur Yancey Wear John Franklin Trumbull Bronson Hawley James Knight Nichols James Osborne Putnam Perry Dean Gribben Theodore Hugh Nevin Frank Atwater Ward Frederick Campbell Colston Douglas Bannan Green James Ely Miller Alexander Pope Humphrey Kenelm Winslow George Leslie Howard Edmund Hubertus Lennon Lester Clement Barton John Case Phelps Arthur Bertram Randolph Philip Johnston Scudder Roy Edgar Hallock Ernest Wilson Levering Andrew Carl Ortmayer

veterans day ceremony

m o nd ay, no v em b er 12, 12: 3 0 pm b ei nec ke p l aza world war ii Fletcher Hegeman Wood Ralph Edward Costanzo Montgomery Harley Talbot Carroll Gowen Riggs James Franklin Gilkinson Sterling Patterson Henry Hill Anderson Carl Humphrey Strong Kenyon Stockwell Congdon William Baker Lucius Bass Manning William Harold Chain Alan Sydney Rush William Carr Carr Edwin Dow Rattray Andrew Wylie Elisha Gaddis Plum James Paulding Farnham Philip Joseph Savage Cyril Crofton Cullen Willard David Litt Raymond Barnes Miles Jose Lopez Celeste John Ross Mendenhall Francis Hannaford Mitchell Edward Jesup Taylor Victor Hugo Weil William Neely Mallory Arthur George Stanford Edmund Melhado John Henry Gardner Earl Mack Criger Harry Poole Camden, Jr. Louis Stanley Gimbel, Jr. Frederick Bingham Howden, Jr. John Coffinbury Morley William Edmund Scholtz Warren VanWie Bliven George Louis Washington Hess John Henry Brewer Robert Sanderson John Vandal Frankenthal Gordon Seafield Grant James Lindsay Luke John High Noyes Donald Elisha Laidlaw Snyder Thomas Sergeant LaFarge Clarence Levin Talcott Wainwright Franklin Charles Gilbert Richard Edward Shea Robert Maxwell Stockder Arthur Buell Armstrong, Jr. Franklin Alden Batcheller, Jr. John Beegan Byrne Henry Talmage Elrod Isaac Newton La Victorie Richard Minor Holter Donald Macleay Kerr John Rawlings Toop William Caldwell Hamilton Perry Hammond Jacob Stephens Chamberlin Cheney Cowles John Milton Guiterman Warner Marshall, Jr. Stephen Britten Runyon William Wade Hiram Edwin Wooster

All are welcome

John Glemming Landis Anthony George Palermo Reino Arvin Ranta Maurice Norman Manning John Williams Pitney Morgan O’Brien Preston Edward Gerard Joseph Bartick Harold Adelman Kent Arnold John Doane Atwood Bailey Badgley Edward Salisbury Bentley, Jr. Henry Warder Carey Edward Perkins Clark, II John McDevitt Cronan William Timothy Dargan Douglas Richard Divine Richard David Dugan Harry Llewellyn Evans, Jr. Gordon Taylor Gates John Hislop Hamilton Jonathan Hyde Hately Alfred Williams Haywood, Jr. Warren Edwin Heim Thomas Grenville Hudson Benjamin Peter Johnson Cedric Freeman Joslin John LeBoutilli LeBoutillier L Frank Walder Lilley, Jr. Mac John Helm Maclean McClel Vincent McClelland Edward Orrick McDonnell, Jr. George Plumm Plummer NcNear, III Wallac Marshall William Wallace Ma Albert Cobb Martin Ward Miller Morris Ranolph Mitchell, Jr. M Cyrus LaRue Munson Arthur Thomas Nelson, Jr. Charles Morgan Perry Worthington W Webster Phillips Jeffers Rainey Thomas Jefferson S William Scott Snead, Jr. David Greenou Greenough Souther William Cutler Thompson, Jr. Ti David Edsall Tileston DeForest VanSl VanSlyck, Jr. George André W Whelan Robert Thomas Wilson, Jr. Frazier Curtis Ralph Hamill Stephen Fergus Ferguson Hopper Ija John Horton Ijams, Jr. Alfred Townshe Townshend Johnson John Richard Ju Julianelle Frank Godfrey A Aschmann William Thayer Brown, Jr. Joseph Niebert Carpenter, III Charles Briggs Congdon C Eugene Pierre Cyprien II Constantin, III George Herbert Day, Jr. D James Donald Deane, Jr. Sandwith Drink Drinker Charle Michael Fauci, Jr. Fo Alfred Brush Ford Hayw Snowden Haywood Charles Alfred H Higgens, Jr. Jo Charles Alvin Jones, Jr. Richard Brewer Knight Willis Clyde Lo Locker, Jr. Richard Carlisle Long, II L Arthur Robert Lowe Luc John Philip Lucas John Frederick Lynch John Derek MacGuire Walter Roy Manny, Jr. Thomas Lees Marshall Charles Young Mead Lucien Memminger, Jr. Quentin Meyer Charles Prosch Murray Francis Joseph O’Toole Robert Stone Stoddart, Jr. Robert Frank Trask George Barnett Trible, Jr. William Donald Twining Augustus Van Cortlandt, III Robert Megget Steel Walker Willard Foster Walker, III Barnum Weaver Frank Russell Whittlsey Adrian Beck Dickinson Ernest Griffith, Jr. Wilfrid Lee Simmons Philip Emerson Wood, Jr. Theodore Clement Samuel Randall Detwiler, Jr. Milton Karlin Abelson Clement Gould Amory Hiland Garfield Batcheller, Jr. Gilman Dorr Blake, Jr. Jacques Edmund Bloch Hugh Torbert Brooks Harry James Coombe Boyd Taylor Cummings Edwin Thaddeus Danowski James Rodgers Dicken William Caveny Eberle, Jr. John Andrew Eckert, III Rolland Mooney Edmonds Richard Stuart Fleming Boutwell Hyde Foster, Jr. Edward McCrady Gaillard, Jr. Cornelius Reid Kerns Brian McCree William Rinn MacDonald John Alexander MacMullen Donald Macfarlane MacSporran Alfred Ronald Neumunz Alden Lothrop Painter, Jr. James Russell Parsons, IV Lloyd Winston Pullen Frederick Wilkes Ribie Donald Ferdinand Ritter Richard Rollins, Jr. Morton Butler Ryerson William Huston Sanders Joseph Francis Sawicki, Jr. Herbert Henry Shaver, Jr. Robert Shipman Thurston, Jr.

James Arthur Whitehead George Bruen Whitehouse Thomas Chapman Aldrich Frederick Anson Brown Benjamin Glanton Calder William John Cameron, Jr. Townsend Doyle Charles St. Clair Elder, Jr. Edward Burrell Feldmeier Jonathan Grant Fitch Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, Jr. Duncan Forbes, Jr. Wendell Horace Griffith, Jr. Albert Crawford Herring, Jr. Emmett Walter Hess Rovert Leslie Hott William Wilson Imlach Charles Jared Ingersoll, Jr. Bruce Kyle Kemp Dwight Roland MacAfee, Jr. John Boyd Mason Mark Charles Meltzer, III John Milton Miller, Jr. John Campbell Moore Thomas McClure Owen, Jr. John Sears Parsons David Francis Reilly Harvey Arthur Rosenberg William Carlton Rundbaked Ralph Davis Sneath Sample Edgar Clement Scanlon, Jr. Frank Eppele Shumann, Jr. Peter William Sommer James Baume Stryker William North Sturtevant, Jr. John Hobart Thompson Samuel Johnson Walker, Jr. David Landon Weirick William King White, Jr. Richard Satterlee Willis David Edward Bronson, Jr. Jesse Redman Clark, III James Congdell Fargo, III Whiton Jackson Edward Potter Sanderson Wilfley Scobey, Jr. Clarence Claude Ziegler, Jr. Robert Lachlan McNeill Edgar Allen Orrin Fluhr Crankshaw Max Harrison Demorest Dean Hudnutt Harold Richardson Street korean war Earl Harold Marsden Benjamin Griffin Lee, Jr. James Brewer Crane Couch William Ellis Pulliam Paul Walker Latham, Jr. Harold Roosevelt Podorson Alan Maurice Harris George Simon Sulliman Dana Wilson Shelley Kendall Courtney Gedney Arthur Martens Apmann, Jr. Robert Kirkus Bancker John Bernard Murphy, Jr. Edwin Nash Broyles, Jr. Malcolm Edward Aldrich James Van Hamm Dale James Francis Statia John Jackson Bissell, Jr. Terrence James McLarnon James Leslie Pressey Harold Ackerman Storms, Jr. Sully Irwin Berman, Jr. vietnam war John Abbott Lewis Herbert Abrams Stuart Merrill Andrews William Marcus Barschow Francis Allard Boyer Charles Edward Brown, Jr. Robert Edward Bush George Whitney Carpenter Roger Gene Emrich Donald Porter Ferguson Richard McAllister Foster Harold Edwin Gray, Jr. Channing Webster Hayes, Jr. Kendrick King Kelley, III Frederic Woodrow Knapp Marvin Lederman Peter Bernard Livingston Hugh Calkins Lobit Edward Kettering Marsh Robert McKellip, Jr. Marlin McClelland Miller Richard Martin O’Connell Richard Warren Pershing Howard Jon Schnabolk Richard DeWitt Barlow Shepherd Arthur Daniel Stillman John McArthur Swazey William Meadon Van Antwerp, Jr. Bruce Byerly Warner Stephen Henry Warner Lloyd Parker Wells, III John Clyde White Jonathan Phinney Works

The names above, engraved on the walls of Woolsey Hall, are Yale students and faculty who died in service to their country.