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U.S. Senator John McCain sits down with the News. Check out the News’ website to see an exclusive Q&A interview that the Senator gave the News when he visited campus on Monday.

Not a millionaire, but $9,300. Joey Yagoda ’14 walked away with $9,300 in winnings after appearing on Tuesday’s episode of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” The Calhoun junior left after he was asked a question about what Disney theme park workers had been forbidden to do until 2000. The answer? Grow facial hair.

Elm City ranks the banks. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. unveiled the city’s inaugural Community Impact Report Card, which rated 11 city banks in 30 categories. The report covered topics including banking fees and the home loan application process, and aimed to give residents a better understanding of local banks.

What would you do for a Wenzel? The Yale College Council wants to know. The YCC has partnered with Alpha Delta Pizza to launch a photo contest encouraging competitors to submit creative photos involving the sandwich. Submissions are due Oct. 14 and voting will take place from Oct. 11-15.

Register to vote! The Elm City Communities and Housing Authority of New Haven has launched “Your Vote Matters,” a series of voter registration drives that will run until Oct. 30.

Mayor’s Ball helps the needy. East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. has given $250 to four nonprofit organizations, including the East Haven Food Pantry, Connecticut Hospice, East Haven Rotary and the ALS Foundation.

Stop, shop and get a free ride. Yale Transit will provide shuttle stops to and from Stop & Shop on weekends. The shuttles will leave from Phelps Gate every hour from 8:35 a.m. to 5:35 p.m. and will leave Stop & Shop every hour from 9:05 a.m. to 6:05 p.m.

If food is not for you, try athletics. Olympic gold medalist Taylor Ritzel ’10 will give a Master’s Tea at Trumbull College this afternoon. Ritzel won the gold in women’s eight rowing at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1940 Yale professor Arnold Wolfers gives a lecture to an overflowing crowd of students called “The European War Spreads.” Wolfers warned students about the “German paradox” and said he felt Adolf Hitler may be preparing his troops for the United States’ entrance into the war — later known as World War II.

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Fraternity and sorority lead-ers voiced concerns over the University’s changing approach to alcohol-related incidents and Greek-sponsored events at a Tuesday meeting with admin-istrators.

The meeting presented an opportunity for Greek leaders to provide feedback concern-ing three new policies impact-ing fraternities and sororities — one requiring all o!-campus parties with over 50 attendees to register with the Yale College Dean’s O"ce registration policy, another prohibiting Greek orga-nizations from holding fall rush for freshmen, and new tailgate regulations banning kegs and U-Hauls and preventing tail-gating activities from continu-ing past kick-off — said John Meeske, associate dean for stu-dent organizations and physical resources, in an email to Greek leaders.

Additionally, the meet-ing also gave administra-tors an opportunity to intro-duce a proposed “rush form,” in which groups will be required to describe their spring semes-ter rush plans. All three soror-ity presidents and six fraternity leaders were present, in addition to Meeske and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry. Ben Singleton ’13, former president

of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra-ternity, said students primarily objected to the unprecedented liability concerns that new o!-campus party regulations create for Greek leaders.

“While the policy requir-ing registration of o!-campus parties was instituted to pro-mote safety, several fraternity and sorority members feel that it has unfairly been used against them,” he said.

Singleton said Greek lead-ers fear the new policies pro-mote an alcohol culture focused on disciplinary action, instead of one concerned with safety and individual responsibility. He said he can recall at least one incident at SAE when fraternity leaders were held accountable for a student’s excess intoxica-tion and subsequent transport to Yale Health. He added that he was frustrated that the admin-istration did not consider the safety precautions the fraternity already has been in place, such as a policy requiring all party attendees to present identifica-tion before entering.

The meeting’s attendees also discussed a recent change in the Connecticut State underage drinking law, which as of Oct. 1 increases punishment for prop-erty owners who knowingly, recklessly or with criminal neg-ligence permit minors to con-sume alcohol on their property. Singleton said Greek leaders

Admins, students discuss Greek life

BY JANE DARBY MENTONSTAFF REPORTER

In an effort to fight dwindling enrollment, the history depart-ment is creating recruitment events aimed at underclassmen.

At this fall’s first meeting of the History Undergraduate Advi-sory Council Monday afternoon, recruitment efforts took center-

stage: students and Steven Pincus, Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, discussed creating tar-geted outreach events for fresh-men and sophomores in order to bolster enrollment in a major that has faced a decline in popularity in recent years.

In response to the 16-person council’s suggestions, Pincus said the department looks to host a

recruitment panel session in the coming weeks, and council mem-bers are planning smaller events where students can meet profes-sors and history majors. The coun-cil also discussed implementing several curricular reform initia-tives, including the creation of sur-vey courses and focused programs

History boosts recruitment

BY LAVINIA BORZI AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMASCONTRIBUTING REPORTERS

Students have expressed confusion and frustration in response to yesterday’s news-that Silliman College’s annual Safety Dance has come to an end.

The decision to cancel the event, which has taken place 13 consecutive years, came after this year’s Safety Dance on Saturday, when eight students were transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital for alcohol-related reasons. After students received a warning from Sil-liman College Master Judith Krauss in a Fri-day email that she was considering ending future Safety Dances, dance organizers Han-nah Fornero ’15 and Nicole de Santis ’15 told the News on Monday night that this year’s event was the college’s last. While the dance’s cancellation met significant resistance among students who claim it will not change alco-hol culture at Yale, Krauss said she decided to cancel itbecause the risks associated with excessive alcohol use outweighed the event’s benefits.

“Canceling the dance in and of itself is clearly not the solution to the problems with the alcohol culture at Yale, but it will provide one less campus-wide excuse for binge drink-ing”, Krauss said in a Tuesday email to the News.

Krauss said she and Silliman College Dean Hugh Flick made the final call to end the dance, but added that she first discussed its health and safety concerns with the Sil-liman Activities and Administrative Com-mittee, which was responsible for organiz-ing the event. Though she acknowledged that students associate the dance with “Silliman pride,” Krauss said that “with each succes-sive year there has been less to be proud of and

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BY PAYAL MARATHESTAFF REPORTER

With just over a month before Election Day, U.S. Senate candidates Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon have recently focused their attention on two hot-button issues — Social Security and Medicare.

The race for retiring Conn. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s seat has grown increasingly important within the past several months, as election victories in a handful of key states will ultimately determine which party controls the Senate. In light of the race’s sig-nificance, the candidates have shifted their energy from criticizing the opponent’s per-

sonal finances in favor of directing a greater focus toward arguing policies that primar-ily a!ect the elderly. According to the latest U.S. census data, Conn. has the ninth larg-est proportion of state residents over the age of 65, and Murphy and McMahon are hoping the new campaign focus will draw these key voters on Election Day.

The most recent round of political attacks began when Democrat Murphy called McMahon’s stance on Social Security “rad-ical” at a rally in Hartford last Thursday. He was referring to McMahon’s endorsement of a “sunset provision” for Social Security — a

Social Security central to Senate race

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Just in case midterms have got you living in Bass with-out any social interac-

tion, let me break it to you now: Safety Dance is no more. When I woke up and saw the headline ‘Safety dance canceled’ blazed across the News’ webpage dur-ing the wee hours of yester-day morning, I thought either my lack of sleep had me see-ing things or it was just a joke piece that found its way online. Even when I realized it was true, I couldn’t help but feel ambiva-lent. Who cares? There are other things to do on campus. How-ever, as comments on the article poured in throughout the day, I realized that ambivalence had no place here.

There was much talk about the University’s incoherent drinking policies, potential dis-ciplinary actions against bing-ing and even personal attacks on Master Krauss. But most of the comments were missing the point: the end of Safety Dance is just another episode to remind Yale that all is not well when it comes to drinking and bing-ing. Whether you’re a binger, responsible drinker or as dry as Tim Tebow, eight serious hos-pitalizations and a fully packed Yale Health in one night is a problem. Treating it as anything else is ignorant denial.

Most student conversations about alcohol at Yale seem to always end up blaming admin-istrators for not doing enough to cultivate a better drinking culture on campus. But Safety Dance wouldn’t be any safer were the administration to pur-sue a strictly non-disciplinary policy for alcohol-related inci-dents. Indeed, some Univer-sity programs aimed at a!ect-ing student behavior are laugh-able, as is the case with the CCE program, which does more to cripple Froyo World’s reputa-tion than anything else. Yale can only do so much to encour-age students to make the best decisions for themselves, which makes SAAC’s decision to can-cel Safety Dance that much more noble.

Master Krauss made clear yesterday that the decision was one made out of concerns for both liability and student safety. I doubt this is a political state-ment. Krauss is a nurse by train-ing, making it both her profes-

sional responsibility and duty to care for others. It’s apparent what e!ects she hopes ending Safety Dance will have. Skep-tics will respond by arguing that canceling a single dance isn’t going to stop binge drinking. However, there is also no deny-ing that large social events such as Safety, Spring Fling and even The Game encourage a culture of irresponsible behavior unlike that of a regular weekend night out. Whether or not anyone would like to admit it, the fact of the matter is that with the absence of Safety Dance, Yale will have one less night of wide-spread intoxication every year.

Of course, the solution is not to go ahead and remove every large social event on campus fueled by the naïve hope that binge drinking will suddenly disappear. What we need to do first is fully accept that us over-achieving, overcommitted, and over-intoxicated Yalies have a problem. Perhaps the di"culty of doing this lies in the fact that we’re just not used to being told something is wrong. We’re the “successful” ones who made it here. We’re reminded every day of our strengths and places we’ll be able to go, and we’re fed a false illusion daily that every-thing is fine and dandy because we’re at Yale. As a campus, we need to sober up.

Let’s lay o! on blaming the administration. After all, they’re doing it for a reason: Yalies don’t know how to drink, and it’s harming not only the students, but the University’s image as a leader as well. Let’s stop accept-ing that certain nights will lead to inevitable blackouts. Let’s stop thinking that alcohol is the essential social lubricant for a good time. These attitudes are what led to the end of Safety Dance, and it’s these attitudes that need to go.

IKE LEE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at

[email protected] .

I imagine my trip to Safety Dance this year was typical for a Yale student. I suited up

(hot pink shirt and a silver blazer, both collars popped) and tried once again to hit that high note in “Take On Me.” I’m not sure whether it’s the neon colors or just the fact that the dance typi-cally falls right when we all need a relief from the stress of mid-terms, but everyone has a special brand of excitement for the night of Safety.

But let’s go back to Satur-day afternoon. I skimmed a for-warded email about how the administration “give[s] seri-ous consideration to discontin-uing [the dance] in future years” because of student binge drink-ing. To me, it seemed like a dis-gruntled master attempting to place blame on the shoulders of students just looking to make the most of their Saturday nights while their livers were young enough to take it.

Yesterday, I was shocked to hear that Silliman’s master actu-ally took action.

Considering it was a campus-wide party, eight students tak-ing a trip to the hospital didn’t seem largely out of the ordinary, especially when only three of those students were actually at the dance. For some of us, these experiences are exactly what col-lege is about. We live for the first time, we experiment, we drop classes, change majors, discover who we are, and sometimes, we exceed our limits.

I appreciated the freedom that accompanied the alcohol policy that was taught last year. I’m sure everyone has heard it from his/her dean: “Drinking is a health issue before it’s a disciplin-ary issue.” And so the conversa-tion on campus followed. Stu-dents said it was okay if you went to Yale Health, just as long as you left early enough in the morning. Other than an awkward meet-ing with your dean, the problem ended with you realizing how ter-rible it is to wake up in a hospital. I saw it happen to some of my clos-est friends last year. I even carried one of them to the Yale shuttle. It seemed that they learned their lessons, and that seems to me like a process that works.

No one has told students that there has been a formal change in the alcohol policy. So by can-celling Safety Dance, Yale has

created a paradox where alco-hol consumption is supposedly a health issue, yet it has admin-istered a large-scale punishment in the event of these hospitaliza-tions.

This was a college-sponsored dance. Who knows what would have happened to those in charge of Safety if they had simply been a registered campus party like the rest of ours? I’m not sure exactly what caused this reversal in pol-icy, but the death of Safety seems to be right on par with tailgates that end at kick-o!, or registered parties entertaining visits from the Yale Police Department even when they haven’t been too loud. Yale administration is continuing to say to students: “Read between the lines — if you drink, we will shut you down.”

My prediction is that students will just binge drink for another dance. By shutting down regis-tered parties, or punishing fra-ternities when a student at their party exceeds their limit, Yale is unintentionally telling stu-dents that necessary hospitaliza-tions will become a statistic used against the student body. If Yale punishes us for seeking help, we will be afraid of going to the hos-pital when we need to.

Yesterday, administrative out-rage was due to students wak-ing up safely at the hospital. If administrators truly want to crack down on discipline, some-where along the line a student’s safety is going to su!er.

Yale administrators should be standing by their message that they are here to keep us safe when we make mistakes, rather than punishing us all when a few stu-dents learn their limits. Bring-ing back Safety Dance goes along with what Yale really needs to rea"rm: student safety is still our number one priority. With this in mind, cancelling Safety seems to be far too literal.

KYLE KRZESOWIK is a sophomore in Morse College. Contact him at

[email protected] .

Politics is a game. That’s understandable: Oppos-ing parties must try to con-

vince us that their candidate is best — and that other candidate is the worst menace to society since some bad event a long time ago that no one actually remembers.

It’s ridiculous what our polit-ical sphere has become. Candi-dates produce so many words in speeches, op-eds and emails, but say very little.

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Governor Mitt Romney wrote that we need to “restore the three sinews of American influ-ence: our economic strength, our military strength and the strength of our values.”

Cool story, bro. But how?In the New England Journal

of Medicine, President Barack Obama wrote that “we need a per-manent fix to Medicare’s flawed payment formula that threat-ens physicians’ reimbursement, rather than the temporary mea-sures that Congress continues to send to my desk.”

Okay, but how?I find myself asking “how?”

over and over again. I took the lib-erty of subscribing to the cam-paign email lists of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I wanted to assess for myself which campaign would eloquently share tangible solutions to the many issues facing the nation. I wasn’t asking for much, just a plan.

It was a decision I soon regret-ted. After all, each campaign has essentially two goals. The first is to sell themselves out to their con-stituents and independents; that’s people like me. But candidates are also trying to stir up some resent-ment: To attack the other guy. Amidst these two contradictory goals, constructive conversation and planning have given way to “Win a meal with Barack Obama” and “Fly with Mitt.”

This sort of advertising would have been blasphemous in pre-vious elections. Seriously, could you imagine “Flying with Richard Nixon” or “Having a meal with Harry Truman?”

When does this pandering end? Will the candidates resort to com-ing to people’s homes, present-ing them with Publisher’s House

Sweepstakes checks in order to get elected? I would rather take a candidate who has some quirks and flaws, but has feasible plans in order to get things done, than a mannequin of a candidate. I believe the United States would be better o! as well.

But the public eats this kind of advertising up. We feast on it day after day, like the free Swedish Fish or Sour Patch Kids from the Chaplain’s O"ce.

I understand that candidates must put their best faces forward to gain votes. But is this kind of political pandering really what the American public wants?

We shouldn’t only demand plans from our candidates, though: We should demand they improve those plans by working together.

I’m sure if you sat down an informed Democrat and an informed Republican in some undisclosed location and told them to develop a plan to get back home — and fix the country while they’re at it — they would work together, cooperating and collab-orating, to complete their task.

Why can’t this be the case for American politics today? How badly does the brown stu! have to hit the fan in order to force polit-ical deadlock to look more like Kumbaya around a campfire?

One could blame the party sys-tem for its rigidity, the media for its calls for a superhero candidate, the public for not constructively holding elected o"cials to higher standards and so on. However, we need to realize one thing: If we as people lose sight of the need for rational thought to solve our problems, things will get worse.

To fix things, we need everyone. Not just the 1 percent, 99 percent or 47 percent, but 100 percent. That’s right, everyone needs to play a role in whatever capacity possible. It is too important not to, and apathy and needless divi-sion won’t cut it.

Let’s hope the debates provide some of this constructive dia-logue. Actually, who am I kidding? That would never work.

MORKEH BLAY-TOFEY is a senior in Trumbull College. Contact him at

[email protected] .

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How about a plan?

Read this twice

This past week, after a long night of writing, read-ing and generally feeling

frustrated at and about my pile of work that seems never-end-ing, I got into bed with a book that I first read when I was ten. I’ve read the book maybe six or eight times over the past many years, and often it feels like I know the characters inside the story as well as my own family.

Almost as soon as I learned to read, I started to re-read. I indulged in what I’ve come to call “comfort reading.” I have a list of maybe thirty books on rotation that I turn to when I’m feeling particularly tired, stressed or o!-balance. Most of them are books from childhood: Anne of Green Gables, Lit-tle Women. It’s heavy on nine-teenth-century English nov-els, classic fantasy novels and science fiction. I have a book to suit each mood and each set of intimidating circumstances: friends, romance, school, work, travel.

And yet, I am self-conscious about this re-reading. I don’t like to talk about my need to re-read books from childhood or books that tend to be classi-fied under subgenre headings like “Romance” or “Fantasy.” As an English major, I’m supposed to be focusing my attention on “real” literature, the stu! that people in tweed write volumes with two-part titles about.

So I do my re-reading out of sight, a private self-indulgence that I don’t want my professors — or my highbrow friends — to find out about. Then it occurred to me that most people have something they do that they prefer to keep private, for fear they’ll be judged about what it symbolizes about their charac-ter or intellect. Yale has a cul-ture of encouraging students to avoid disclosing embarrass-ing or vulnerable sides of them-selves. Instead, we are taught and re-taught to focus on meaningful pursuits and tak-ing ourselves and our education seriously.

How do we reconcile this, then, with our very real need for some small self-indulgences that make us feel safe?

I decided to find out. This past week, I had to lead a get-ting-to-know-you game (you know the kind: Everyone has to think of something to share about themselves, usually something completely trivial). I decided to ask the question that has been bothering me: What’s your greatest self-indulgence? Everyone in the group laughed awkwardly, but when they saw that I meant it — and was pre-

pared to share mine — they ’fes-sed up.

T h e answers var-ied: Some watched bad TV shows, some read trashy mag-a z i n e s (something that I, too, have been guilty of,

much to the chagrin of my fem-inist mother), some read niche blogs religiously. Few of us were comfortable talking about these proclivities, but we all did them whenever we could.

I’ve been wondering ever since what seems so damag-ing about these personal rev-elations: Do we really believe someone will think less of us for admitting to a passion for the Kardashians or chick lit? How much is this judgment com-pletely self-imposed, as the product of our own embarrass-ment? Or how much is it the product of an external environ-ment, like Yale’s in which cer-tain activities are privileged over others?

I don’t have easy answers to these questions. But what I do know is that having a conver-sation with this group of people made me feel like I knew them intimately in a very short period of time. I don’t need to know your favorite color, ice cream flavor or birthday: I know the thing you do when you’re feel-ing stressed or anxious. And you know the same about me.

The actions that we do repeatedly define us, and we should feel comfortable being open with our indulgences if they’re legal and don’t cause harm to others. And while shar-ing rarely feels easy, it allows us to build community and dis-cover other people who love what we love. In the end Yale’s job isn’t to make you as preten-tious as possible, it’s to chal-lenge you to be more yourself.

ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a senior in Davenport College. Her

column runs on Wednesdays. Contact her at

[email protected] .

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Meditations

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Blame ourselves for dance’s end

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ALCOHOL POLICY.

TAKE THE GUILT OUT OF GUILTY

PLEASURE.

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CORREC T IONS

TUESDAY, SEPT. 18The article “Handelsman talks scientific education” incorrectly stated that University of Wisconsin professor Howard Temin won the Nobel Peace Prize. In fact, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS MICHAEL ANTHONY

Chef Michael Anthony of New York City’s Gramercy Tavern won Best Chef of New York City May 7, 2012 at the annual James Beard Foun-dation Awards. The Foundation was established by cookbook author and teacher James Beard to educate professional chefs.

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVIDCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Mike Anthony admitted he was a “finicky eater” growing up, but the executive chef of New York City’s Gramercy Tavern restaurant praised the diversity of food while speaking at Yale on Tuesday afternoon.

At a Calhoun Master’s Tea co-sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project that drew around 50 students, Anthony spoke briefly about his culinary training in several countries and his passion for sustainable cooking. Anthony — who earlier this year won the James Beard Foundation’s award for best chef in New York City — described his restaurant as “the standard-bearer of Amer-ican cooking.” Speaking primarily about his restaurant’s sustainable practices, Anthony said he focuses on using local food. When the ingredients come from the surrounding community, he said, the food better repre-sents the city’s culture and the diner feels more invested in the food.

“Every bite should tell a story,” he said. “In New York, we can tell that story any way we choose, but I think the story is more pow-erful when it’s the story of the region.”

Anthony said that after graduating from the University of Indiana-Bloomington, he traveled to Japan and worked on a dairy farm, a bakery and eventually a restaurant. Seeking Western training, he left Japan for France, adding that once there, he noticed the similarities between French and Japa-nese cooking.

“I was really floored with the way both of these societies dealt with seasonality and with regionality,” he said.

At Gramercy Tavern, Anthony employs a specific “farm-to-table” approach — where chefs draw on ingredients from certain local vendors. Gramercy Tavern buys produce at the Union Square Green Market, a farmers’ market three blocks from the restaurant to which regional farmers commute four times a week, he added.

Anthony said his interest in sustainable eating practices emerges from his responsi-bility to his wife and three daughters to pro-vide them with healthy and environmentally friendly food options.

“Ultimately, it is true that eating is a political act,” Anthony said. “I want to know where food comes from.”

Anthony noted that his regional approach was part of a general trend toward sustain-ability, though the larger population had for generations lost interest in agriculture.

Still, the chef said that while healthy food

was “real food — that is, unprocessed food,” many segments of the population do not have access to those options. Instead, he added, the best alternative can be farmers’ markets.

Anthony also introduced the audience to Micah Fredman ’10, a line cook at Gramercy Tavern who graduated from Yale with a humanities degree and discovered a love of cooking when working at Miya’s Sushi the last few months of his senior year.

Hallie Meyer ’15, whose father owns Gramercy Tavern, attended the tea and said she admires Anthony greatly.

“He’s probably one of the chefs that I respect the most of my father’s restaurants,” she said. “Gramercy Tavern’s ethos is the one with which I feel the most connected.”

Rachel Schoening ’15, who spent two summers working at fine dining restau-rants, said she was disappointed that despite Anthony’s “eloquence” he “didn’t really get down to the nitty-gritty of being a chef.”

The tea was followed by a private dinner hosted by Calhoun College Master Jonathan Holloway. The five students at the dinner — which the students cooked together with Anthony and Fredman — earned their seats through a haiku competition on the topic of food.

The restaurant’s owner is Danny Meyer, whose Union Square Hospitality Group includes Shake Shack.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at [email protected] .

BY MAREK RAMILOCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

As the American econ-omy continues to climb out of its 2008 financial crisis lows, the disappearing middle class remains a problem, said a top Indian official Tuesday after-noon.

In a lecture entitled “Are Cap-italism and Democracy Fail-ing Us?” India’s chief economic adviser Raghuram Rajan said the crisis was caused by policies with short-term visions intended to increase equality rather than elitist or corporatist policies. Because of their lack of long-term vision, the income equality policies did not provide a long-term solution to the income gap and ultimately contributed to the disappearance of the middle class — a trend Rajan said will be hard to reverse. The talk, which drew over 100 students and New Haven residents, garnered pos-itive responses from audience members interviewed.

“The elite across the world are doing very well, while the peo-ple who were falling behind and were ostensibly to be helped by these policies are even worse o!,” Rajan said of the short-term economic equality policies.

Rajan said the United States has not completely resur-faced since the financial down-turn because the middle class has disappeared following a decrease in skilled routine jobs, like low-level clerk positions, and unskilled routine work, like textile production jobs. These jobs disappeared with the rise of advanced technologies and

outsourcing, Rajan added. The American workforce is cur-rently dominated by non-rou-tine skilled laborers, like doc-tors or lawyers, and non-routine unskilled workers, like garden-ers and fast food cooks, further expanding the split between extreme upper and lower classes.

Rajan said the widening income gap causes the lower class to overspend in an attempt to keep pace with the wealthy, thereby accumulating more and more debt, as has been the case “in areas with greater income inequality” across the United States.

“We need to combat this, not just the perception, but the real-ity that, in fact, there is a bifur-cation of ways in many industrial economies,” Rajan said. “A way for those who go to elite schools, who come from elite families, who have access to wonder-ful jobs, and a di!erent way for those who have never been to all these places, a way, which typi-cally leads down rather than up.”

Rajan, who previously said industrialized economies still

stand a chance of restoring their middle classes by focusing on education, rather than through large-scale government inter-vention in the economy.

A strong middle class is nec-essary to balance capitalism with democracy and make a full recovery from the e!ects of the global recession, Rajan said. In an attempt to illustrate the effects of middle-class resur-gence on recovering industrial economies, Rajan referred to the United States’ and the United Kingdom’s respective growth after World War II. Following a number of measures that con-tributed to a healthier middle class — including increases in construction in Europe, restora-tion of trade activity and a heavy focus on education — the United States and the United Kingdom were able to emerge from the damage caused by both WWII and the Great Depression, Rajan said.

Four audience members inter-viewed said they enjoyed the talk. Maya Major ’15 said she appreciated that Rajan discussed modern politics rather than just abstract theory.

“[Rajan] was very enlighten-ing about the e!ects of elite cap-italism and how it is a!ecting the middle class,” said Paul Michael-son, another attendee.

Rajan’s most recent book, “Fault Lines: How Hidden Frac-tures Still Threaten the World Economy,” won the Financial Times’ Business Book of the Year award for 2010.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at [email protected] .

BY NITIKA KHAITANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Following the premature departure of its director, Chris-tine Eppstein Tang, the New Haven O"ce of Sustainability is evaluating its earlier initiatives to plan for the future of Elm City environmental e!orts.

The Office of Sustainability previously consisted of Tang and of Giovanni Zinn ’05, who served as a consultant from City Hall’s engineering department. While Tang’s replacement has not yet been named and the appoint-ment of a new director is con-tingent upon funding, Zinn has received a full-time city position and is serving as the acting head of the Sustainability O"ce.

Tang’s position was created by a three-year contract largely supported by a federal grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which ended in September. City Hall had found additional funding for what would have been the last six months of Tang’s contract from a variety of sources, the largest being energy conservation funds, and is still deliberating on the possible uses of the funds now that Tang has left.

As director, Tang worked to improve city sustainability in dif-ferent areas including food policy, community outreach and recy-cling, Chief Administrative O"-cer Robert Smuts ’01 said. She also worked on putting together an “overarching” sustainabil-ity plan for the city, Smuts said, which treated the city both as a corporate entity and as a com-munity.

The plan — which is nearly fin-ished but was put on hold as Tang contemplated leaving — touched on several sustainability issues such as transportation, land use, air and water quality. Smuts said the sustainability plan will need coordinated effort as it is launched, meaning it will require a person to dedicate significant

time and e!ort to it for successful implementation.

In the wake of Tang’s depar-ture, City Hall may decide to dis-continue a stand-alone O"ce of Sustainability depending on the availability of funds. In this case, initiatives covered by the O"ce of Sustainability would be housed in other departments.

Zinn, who Smuts said han-dled many of the day-to-day operations of the O"ce of Sus-tainability under Tang, will con-tinue his work on these initia-tives. His responsibilities include the relaunch of the recycling pro-gram, which according to Smuts involved community outreach and saved the city hundreds of thousands of dollars.

They also include energy con-servation projects in City Hall, such as switching o! the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems when not in use and installing energy-efficient ultra LED light bulbs in street lamps across New Haven. The city also undertook initiatives to improve air and water quality, including retrofitting charging stations at the New Haven port to make it one of the cleanest in the county.

All of these programs, City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said, are a “win-win” for the city, as they are environ-mentally friendly and help the city save money in the future. New Haven’s recycling initia-tives alone, Smuts added, have more than doubled the amount of material recycled in the Elm City and saved City Hall hundreds of thousands of dollars since they began.

Zinn could not be reached for comment.

Of the 10 largest cities in New England, New Haven is home to the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

Contact NITIKA KHAITAN at [email protected] .

SARAH STRONG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Mike Anthony, the executive chef of Gramercy Tavern, spoke at a Calhoun Master’s Tea Tuesday about sustainable food practices.

The people who were falling behind and ostensibly to be helped by these policies are even worse o!.

RAGHURAM RAJANChief Economic Advisor, India

Ultimately, it is true that eating is a politial act. I want to know where food comes from.

MIKE ANTHONYChef, Gramercy Tavern

MICHAEL WUERTENBERG/CREATIVE COMMONS

Raghuram Rajan discussed the the widening income gap Tuesday to over 100 students and New Haven residents.

NYC chef talks local food

City sustainability faces uncertainty

Speaker discusses dwindling middle class

YALE DAILY NEWS · WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 3, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

FROM THE FRONT “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree with-out roots.” MARCUS GARBY BLACK NATIONALIST

more to be concerned about.”She declined to comment further on

her reasons for canceling the event.While students interviewed said

Krauss’ decision to discontinue the dance because of excessive intoxication was misguided because binge drinking will still occur elsewhere on campus.

Ericka Saracho ’14 said students will find reasons to drink even without a college-wide dance such as the Safety Dance.

“It’s not going to change the way peo-ple drink,” she said.

Shuaib Raza ’14 said the minimal alco-hol safety education students receive upon arriving at Yale leaves them unpre-pared to deal with alcohol “in a respon-sible way.”

Two students said they are concerned that the dance’s cancellation will pre-vent other students from seeking needed medical attention in future alcohol-related incidents out of fear that admin-istrators will cancel other events.

Silliman College currently has no

plans to organize another campus-wide event, Krauss said, adding that SAAC will likely use allotted funds for a Silli-man-only event. In an earlier interview, she said in the past few years costs from the Safety Dance have typically exceeded Silliman’s budget by $1,000 to $2,000.

Roughly 2300 students attended this year’s Safety Dance, held in Commons.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at [email protected] .

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at [email protected] .

of study called “pathways.” “One thing we feel the history department doesn’t do well is cater to the interests and intel-lectual needs of first- and sec-ond-year students,” Pincus said. “Many students don’t know enough about the history department as they do about other options when it comes time to choosing a major.”

Though history was the most subscribed area of study for much of the past three decades, only 136 seniors majored in the department last year — 81 fewer than in 2002. The decrease placed history behind political science and economics in pop-ularity.

At Monday’s meeting, stu-dents emphasized the need for more social ways to make fresh-men and sophomores aware of the department’s resources before they choose a major.

Noting that little has been done in the past to market the major, council members sug-gested the department hold events designed to introduce underclassmen to students and professors, a method of recruit-ment they said was employed by many other majors including English and anthropology.

“I think other majors do a better job of publicizing their offerings and reaching out to freshmen by having classes spe-cifically geared toward them and/or information sessions that target them,” said Allison Lazarus ’14, a member of the Advisory Council.

In the absence of targeted outreach, Pincus said many students decide to be history majors because they take a class that sparks their interest. But most courses within the depart-ment are highly specific, which Pincus said leaves many stu-dents unaware of the range of

opportunities within the major. Since last year, he said the department has been working to develop “sophisticated survey courses” geared towards fresh-men and sophomo res, which will be o!ered in the 2013-’14 school year.

Pincus said he also hopes to make the major more acces-sible by expanding seminar opportunities for freshmen and sophomores. Last semester, the department renamed their junior seminars “undergrad-uate seminars” and required each professor to reserve at least two spots for sophomores. This semester, the department also doubled the number of fresh-men history seminars o!ered to six.

Pincus said he eventually hopes to expand the major’s online presence, sharing student and faculty research and creat-ing a network within the depart-ment, but he added he will have to wait until the department completes curricular reforms.

Students within the history department remain enthusias-tic about what the major has to offer: all seven history majors interviewed praised the quality of the department’s faculty and its emphasis on independent research.

Rachel Rothberg ’14, a mem-ber of the Student Advisory Council, said it is important for the major to attract high num-bers of excited underclassmen entering each year, as student enthusiasm and interest allow the department to maintain its “outstanding” faculty and resources.

Last year, 176 students majored in political science and 170 majored in economics.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at [email protected] .

are working to implement practices that would safeguard them from such punish-ments, such as using licensed bartenders at their events.

John Stillman ’14, vice president of communications for the Sigma Phi Epsi-lon fraternity, said Greek leaders and the University discussed finding a “mutually agreeable role for the fraternity to occupy on campus.” He added that administrators and Greek leaders “agreed to update each other on what they think will be the best

course of action” regarding the imple-mentation of the regulations. The group plans to hold another meeting before the semester’s end.

Alpha Epsilon Pi President Daniel Tay ’14 said he appreciated that the meeting provided a forum allowing Greek leaders to hear each other’s perspectives, add-ing that it was “a chance for [him] to learn the experiences of a lot of other fraternity leaders.”

Tay said he did not come away from the meeting having learned anything “momentous.”

“We still want to follow the rules, everybody is just looking to ensure the safety of all the students,” he said. “That was true even before new regulations.”

The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Zeta Psi fraternity were unable to send representatives because the majority of their members had football practice.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at [email protected] .

Contact JOSEPH TISCH at [email protected] .

legislative term for placing an expiration date on a law unless it is renewed.

Murphy told the Huffing-ton Post he was “shocked” by McMahon’s comments, adding it would be a “disaster for Conn. seniors” if Social Security were to be phased out over the next decade.

On Monday, seniors protested outside of McMahon’s North Haven headquarters, carrying signs that read “Celebrating 75 Years of Social Security.”

M c M a h o n ’s c a m p a i g n responded by claiming that Murphy took her remarks out of context. McMahon was simply pointing out that the program would need alterations in order to be realistically sustained, but she would never vote to dissolve it, campaign spokesman Todd Arbajano said.

In her comments at the April Tea Party meeting, McMa-hon did not specify a specific end date for Social Security but rather called for bipartisan revi-sion.

“We cannot continue doing things the way we are doing with Social Security,” McMahon said. “We’re simply going to be bank-rupt and have to take a look to make sure that 10, 15 years down the road it’s still going to fund itself.”

Murphy’s campaign fol-lowed up by criticizing McMa-hon for failing to elaborate on specific policies to modify Social

Security that she would sup-port. According to Eli Zupnick, spokesman for Murphy, McMa-hon “doesn’t want to talk about her right-wing plans on the campaign trail.”

“She is doing everything she can to hide her views from Conn. voters who have rejected these policies over and over, but our campaign is going to make sure voters learn the truth about McMahon’s record and her right-wing policies that are wrong for middle-class fami-lies,” Zupnick said.

Arbajano responded to the Murphy campaign’s criticsm by defending McMahon’s desire to establish checks on both Social Security and Medicare finances, adding that the Republican can-didate would never consider privatizing Social Security.

M u r p h y h a s re c e n t ly attempted to link McMahon’s platform to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s proposal to convert Medicare into a pre-mium support system. But the Republican candidate has dis-tanced herself from the Ryan plan, Arbajano said, adding that “Linda McMahon will never support a budget that cuts Medi-care or Social Security.”

The most recent Real Clear Politics poll puts Murphy ahead of McMahon by two percentage points, widening his lead since the Social Security conversation first began last week.

Social Security and Medicare reform is widely expected to be a major topic during this Sunday’s televised debate between the Senate candidates. It will be the first of four debates agreed upon by both campaigns.

The Oct. 1 Real Clear Politics poll predicted McMahon receiv-ing 41.7 percent of the popular vote and Murphy receiving 43.7 percent with a 2.2 percent mar-gin of error.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at [email protected] .

Thirteen-year tradition ends

Dept. looks to underclassmen

Greek leaders voice concerns

Murphy, McMahon ramp up attacks

SAFETY DANCE FROM PAGE 1

FRAT MEETING FROM PAGE 1

HISTORY COUNCIL FROM PAGE 1

SENATE RACE FROM PAGE 1

SAMANTHA GARDNER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Greek leaders met with administrators to discuss changes to student life policies..

JAMES LU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

After hospitalizations Saturday, Silliman administrators decided to cancel Safety Dance.

[McMahon] is doing everything she can to hide her views from Conn. voters.

ELI ZUPNICKSpokesman for Murphy

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ON CAMPUSWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 35:00 PM The Franke Lectures in the Humanities: “Ragging in the Classics: The Story of Music in James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.” Lecture and concert. James Tatum, Dartmouth College professor, will give this lecture as a part of a series funded by the Franke family intended to bring important topics in humanities to a wide audience. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

7:00 PM The Yale Political Union debates with Professor Seyla Benhabb: “Resolved, Yale Should Be Run As A Business Corporation.” William H. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Sudler Hall.

8:00 PM Satisfaction As A Senior. Yale Communication and Consent Educators will lead a student panel and discussion on ways to lead a happy, healthy and fulfilling senior year. Refreshments will be served as in the spirit of senior year acronyms. Viva Zapata Restaurant (161 Park St.).

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 48:00 PM Mindfulness Meditation Group: Sitting meditation followed by a discussion/informal lecture on the practice of mindfulness meditation. Attendees should bring their own meditation cushion or bench. Dwight Chapel (67 High St.).

8:00 PM Concert: “New Music New Haven.” Concert: “New Music New Haven.” Featuring the world premiere of the piece, “Allegory of the Cave,” for string quartet and piano by composer Christopher Theofanidis. Morse College (302-304 York St.), Recital Hall

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5:30-6:30 P.M. WED. OCT. 3 REDISCOVERING THE ENGLISH PRIZE: A CONVERSATION

Excited to check out the new YCBA exhibition on Thursday? Get a sneak peak with this talk by the experts.

.Yale Center for British Art

4:00-5:00 P.M. THURS. OCT. 4 WORD MAGIC: VICTORIAN CHARM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Academic colloquium focusing on Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and Christina Rossetti’s “Echo.”

LC Hall, Rm. 319

6:30-7:30 P.M. THURS. OCT. 4WAYS OF SEEING SOUND: THE INTEGRAL HOUSE.

First lecture of the School of Architecture’s “Sound of Architecture” symposium.

Hastings Hall, Paul Rudolph Hall

8:00-10:00 P.M. THURS. OCT. 4 NEW MUSIC NEW HAVEN Featuring the world premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’ “Allegory of the Cave.”

Morse Recital Hall

2:00-4:00 P.M. FRI. OCT. 5 STAGE COMBAT

Learn the art of fighting on stage from School of Drama professor Michael Rossmy.

Broadway Rehearsal Lofts, Dance Studio

7:00 P.M. FRI. OCT. 5MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

The world’s first travelling global film festival comes to Yale.

Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium

8:00-10:00 P.M. SAT. OCT. 6YALE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON OPENER

The YSO’s first concert of the year, featuring Thomas Murray, organ, and Matthew Gri!th, clarinet.

Woolsey Hall

6:30-8:30 P.M. TUES. OCT. 9A SEPARATION (IRAN, 2011)

Improve your movie knowledge with this Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.

Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium

7:00-8:00 P.M. TUES. OCT. 9SELLING THE SIXTIES: HOW MADISON AVENUE DREAMED THE DECADE

A film screening and discussion for those who haven’t already had enough Mad Men.

LC Hall, Rm. 101

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS RICHARD MONTOYA

Richard Montoya founded the politically charged performance group Culture Clash in 1984 with five other performers. A self-proclaimed “Chicano,” his work critically examines the com-plex interplay between issues of race and class.

BY ERIC XIAO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

As members of the Yale Dra-mat prepare for their newest show, they are grappling with the play’s emphasis on the dark side of love and memories.

The Dramat’s latest experi-mental production, Sam Shepa-rd’s 1985 play “A Lie of the Mind,” opens Thursday night. Directed by Kate Heaney ’14, the play will be performed at the Yale Reper-tory Theater and centers on two families in the American West that are connected by the abusive relationship between married

couple Beth and Jake. President of the Dramat Board Meredith Davis ’13 explained that the seri-ous themes of the production contrast with the more happy-go-lucky Fall Mainstage, “The Drowsy Chaperone,” adding diversity to the season as a whole.

While most of the cast mem-bers have participated in other shows during their time at Yale — including the similarly dark “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” and “Blood Brothers” — the three cast members interviewed all said that none of the themes in those works were as haunting or intense as those in “A Lie of the

Mind.” Several of the play’s eight

actors portray characters whose lives and backgrounds are vastly di!erent from their own. Steph-anie Brandon ’13, who plays the older woman Lorraine , said get-ting into the mindset of her char-acter was a “learning process.” In order to familiarize herself with the experiences of the elderly, Brandon recalled stories she had heard from family, friends and acquaintances who had gone through similar issues. Bonnie Antosh ’13, whose character Beth suffers brain trauma from the physical abuse in her marriage,

said that she did a great deal of reading on the medical and psychological effects of spou-sal abuse in addition to speak-ing with various rape crisis and domestic abuse centers in her home state of South Carolina.

When Heaney and Head Pro-ducer Natalia Forbath ’15 submit-ted their proposal to stage “A Lie of the Mind,” the Dramat Execu-tive Board was highly impressed with how Heaney explored the concept of memory in her plans for the production, Davis said. In Shepard’s story, the way the characters relate to their own memories impacts the relation-

ships they are able to form with each other, Marina Horiates ’15, who plays Sally, said, adding that her character’s interactions with her brothers are impacted by the way each relates to their father’s death.

“[Heaney] was very articulate about her vision,” Davis said.

The set will feature columns placed around the stage and a “memory wall” running along the back, both of which display photos from the chacters’ lives, Heaney said, explaining that the memories “create the very plane of where the characters are.”

Assistant Stage Manager

Kathryn Osborn ’15 said on Mon-day night that the production was running smoothly and ahead of schedule.

Horiates said that the actors are all incredibly dedicated and energetic and have developed strong relationships with each other, which has contributed to the play’s success.

“I’m just so inspired by every-one in this cast,” she said.

“A Lie of the Mind” will run from October 4 to October 6.

Contact ERIC XIAO at [email protected] .

“A Lie” showcases dark storyline

BY SHON ARIEH-LERERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

“Racist” is the wrong word for “American Night: The Ballad

of Juan José.” If English had a word for “not-racist,” t h a t wo u l d also be the wrong word. If English had a word for “not-n o t - r a c i s t ” t h a t m i g h t be the right wo r d . B u t English, lan-guage of brut-i s h A n g l o -Oppressors, is

not self-aware enough to have a word for “not-not-racist.” And so it takes a play like “American Night” to illustrate exactly what the term means. This is a play that is so self-congratulatory about being anti-racist that it accidentally manages a new and puzzling form of meta-racism.

The play attempts to be a satirical romp through the parts of American history that you didn’t learn about in school — the oppressive and hypocriti-cal parts — seen through the eyes of Juan José, a Mexican immi-grant studying for his citizenship exam. But this conceit is inef-fective because a contemporary Yale Rep audience — and this is a contemporary play — has in fact learned these parts of American history at great length.

The play clearly panders to an educated liberal audience that already identifies itself as not-racist: there are countless Mitt Romney jokes and Mormons are presented as intrinsically funny. So if the play is to be a successful satire of racism, it should subvert our educated liberal complacency and expose us as actually subtlety racist in some sort of revealing and funny way. Unfortunately, the form of racism “American Night” takes on is not-not-not subtle. The play is filled with obsolete racist archetypes. Most notable is a Japanese game-show host who brings on sumo wres-tlers and instructs losing con-testants to perform seppuku. The host and a couple other charac-ters are played in unabashed ste-reotypes — by white and Asian actors alike — complete with bows and the phonetic switch-ing of “L”s and “R”s. On a surface level, this is supposed to expose to the audience how ridiculous and untrue common portrayals of minorities can be. But in e!ect, the play o!ers us a chance to ear-nestly laugh at stereotypes, while assuring us that we’re not actu-ally racist because were watch-ing and presumably enjoying a hyper-liberal pro-immigration-rights play that has a Mexican protagonist, refers to America as “stolen Indian land” and fea-tures a female Muslim student proclaims “give me your young, give me your weak!” This play is a guilty pleasure without the guilt or the pleasure.

To a critical audience with a sense of humor (me), the play is entertaining because it works as an unintentional satire of satire. The caricatures are as over the top as the message is confusing and heavy-handed. And where the play doesn’t derive humor from not-not-racism, it derives humor from references that were already worn out in 2001. Appar-ently anachronistic references to the mere existence of Google and texting count as topical humor. The actors, however, did the best they could with what the script demanded, and the set-design was very well thought-out and dynamic. Ouch.

Shon Arieh-Lerer is a drama-turgy student and a junior in Ezra Stiles College.

Contact SHON ARIEH-LERER at [email protected] .

NoWay,JuanJosé

BY ELAINA PLOTTCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A new exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art opening Thursday tells the story of an 18th century shipwreck and the artwork aboard that continues to engage researchers today.

Organized by Scott Wilcox, Chief Curator of Art Collections at the Brit-ish Art Center, “The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour” will detail the voyages of a British merchant ship filled with 50 crates of artwork pur-chased by young British travelers. Professor José María Luzón Nogué of the University of Madrid, who con-tributed to the exhibit, said that the paintings include six late 18th cen-tury watercolors by John Robert Coz-ens, which have never been displayed before and uniquely showcase Cozens’ early style.

Amy Meyers, director of the Brit-ish Art Center, said the gallery will provide an excellent platform for the next stages of research on the West-morland.

“This exhibition will allow the new discoveries to move forward in such a significant way and will showcase them to Yale students and the pub-lic with extraordinary clarity and poi-gnancy,” Meyers said.

“The English Prize” is divided into three parts. The first room contains images and documents detailing the history of the Westmorland itself, from its capture by French warships in 1779 to the journey of the artwork on board, which eventually landed in the hands of King Carlos III of Spain. The exhibit then explains the back-ground story of the original owners of the artwork by outlining their Euro-pean travels on the Grand Tour, the capstone of classical education among wealthy British students. The paint-ings, sculptures and other materials aboard the Westmorland fill the fol-lowing two rooms.

But Wilcox said that many aspects of research into the Westmorland remain unfinished, an element of the tale that he tried to showcase in the “Grand Finish” room.

“These three parts document just one milestone of the story. A lot more about the Westmorland remains to be identified,” Wilcox said.

Meyers said this “unfinished” aspect of the Westmorland research is characteristic of several of the center’s exhibitions, though the Westmorland is “particularly special.”

“The depth of richness and schol-arship in this project among the inter-national community is an incredible teaching tool, and for Yale students especially. In studying cultural and political phenomena of the past, one needs to look back to these critical moments to truly understand artistic culture,” Meyers said.

Scholarly interest in the Westmor-land began in the late 1990s when Nogué and his team of research-ers uncovered original Roman urns aboard the ship. Surprised by how little information was known about the urns, he said he sent a letter to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes — where the bulk of the Westmorland artwork remains today — asking for more details. When scholars there, too, turned up empty, Nogué set out to uncover the origins behind the mate-

rials.But Nogué never predicted that his

“detective work” would ultimately uncover 700 other works of art from the Westmorland.

“We never imagined this would lead us to the rest of the cargo,” Nogué said.

Thus commenced a major research endeavor. Nogué enlisted the help of Maria Dolores Sanchez-Jauregui Alpanes, senior research fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Brit-ish Art, who Nogué said would prove invaluable in discovering the stories behind hundreds of the materials.

“The challenge of uncovering who these people were and using 18th century archives to find out has been really rewarding,” Alpanes said. “It’s great to look at a piece that we began with no knowledge about and now be able to say what it is, who owned it, and where it was going.”

Both Alpanes and Elisabeth Fair-man, Senior Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the British Art Center, assisted with the curation of the exhibit.

“The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour” will remain open from Oct. 4, 2012 to Jan. 13, 2013 in the Yale Center for British Art.

Contact ELAINA PLOTT at [email protected] .

YCBA unveils treasure

BY ROBERT PECK STAFF REPORTER

Two area artists came together in mid-September to present an inter-disciplinary collection of canvas and textile works at New Haven’s Gallery 195. The catch? They had never met each other until the day their art-work was hung.

The artists — Sarah Goncarova of New Haven and Thomas Edwards ART ’83 of Killingsworth, Conn. — came together to display their work after Debbie Hesse, programs direc-tor of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, invited them to be part of the council’s quarterly exhibit. Hesse said she saw potential for collaboration in the artists’ shared architectural backgrounds and nat-uralist styles. Despite these simi-larites, Goncarova said she felt the spacial constraints of Gallery 195 — located in a hallway in a New Haven bank building — forced her to adapt her artistic style, while Edwards said the work he displayed did not di!er from his norm.

Though each of her works on dis-play at the gallery takes up most of the wall from floor to ceiling, Goncarova, who creates a coun-toured e!ect by fitting textiles such as cloth and yarn over a frame, said she had to scale down her art for this particular space. Her textiles are generally much larger, she said, with the biggest over 18 feet tall .

Goncarova said she created all three of her display pieces specifi-cally for the Gallery 195 show, but one of them, intended to invoke a rushing waterfall, did not turn out the way she had initially wanted it to. Despite her intentions, she said she feels that the end result was more akin to a trickle. Undaunted, she said she intends to pursue the idea fur-ther after the show.

“Each piece of arts builds o! of those before it,” she said. “I’m going to go back to this idea [of water] again

after this show, and this time, I’m going to get the rushing just right.”

And though Goncarova had to go back to the drawing board to cre-ate art for the show, she said even her largest-scale works take no more than a month to complete.

Edwards also created new works for the show, many of which were inspired by the daily walks he takes in the woods near his Killingworth home and by the work of Impres-sionist painters including Rem-brandt and Van Gogh — portraits of whom Edwards painted for the exhibit. His displayed art consists mostly of small canvas landscape and portrait work.

“I wanted to create something new for this show,” Edwards said. “About half of [the paintings] were created in the last few months.”

Hesse said the two artists com-plement each other due to the simi-

lar themes in their work. “I strive to pair artists whose

works create a dialogue about con-ceptual and formal art ideas and find intersections between the artworks that might not be apparent other-wise,” she said.

Edwards taught at Yale from 1983 to 1985 and is now a professor at Central Connecticut State Univer-sity. He has previously displayed work at the Smithsonian Insti-tute and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Goncarova has shown her work in California and New York, in addition to several New Haven studios.

Edwards’ and Goncarova’s work will hang at Gallery 195 — located at 195 Church Street — until December 14.

Contact ROBERT PECK at [email protected] .

Gallery 195 hosts local artistsBy MAYA AVERBUCH

CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The annual week long New Eng-land Festival of Ibero American Cin-ema (NEFIAC) showcases films from Latin America, Spain and Portugal in New Haven and nearby college towns. Margherita Tortora, the festival’s artis-tic director and New Haven coordina-tor, helps select films and invites speak-ers to the festival. NEFIAC, which is now in its third year, also hosts panel discus-sions about topics such as the promo-tion of human rights through film and the relationship between graphic advertis-ing art and the film industry. The News interviewed Tortora, a senior lector in the Spanish and Portuguese department, after a screening of the Ecuadorian docu-mentary “Undocumented” to explore her thoughts on planning the festival, which will screen its final films in New Haven today.

Q: What is the reason for having a festi-val like this in New England?

A The New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema started

as an idea between me and my good friend Annia Bu, who is a Cuban actress; Leonel Limonte, who is the president of NEFIAC; and José Torrealba, from Provi-dence. José Torrealba had the Providence Latin American Film Festival, and Annia was invited there to show her film “Los dioses rotos (Fallen Gods),” and since she is my friend, she invited me to go. I [have been] a cinephile for many years; I go to many film festivals. We were just talking over lunch with José and Leonel, and they said, “Gee, we know so many filmmak-ers between us, and so many wonderful works that hardly anybody gets to see. We should unite and have a regional film fes-tival.”

Q How do you find the films?

A. Most of the actors, directors and producers are my friends. I just

say I want a Columbian movie, I contact

my friends who are Columbian actors, filmmakers and producers, and say, “Hey, what do you recommend from Colum-bia?” I’m very privileged in that way. I said, “I know all these wonderful people who do all these great creative works. It’s selfish to keep that to myself.” I want to share it with the community … We have several programs of short films, feature films — both comedy and drama — and we have documentaries like the one you are seeing today. We try to get a nice variety of films. None of the films are more than two years old, so they’re all new films, and we try to concentrate on emerging film-makers.

Q What are some of the works that you have seen at this film festival that you

think really stand out?

A The one on Saturday called “Aquí Entre Nos (Between Us)” by

Patricia Martínez de Velasco. That won the highest audience award in Mexico. It’s her first feature film, and it’s already won many, many prizes. The main actor won the Best Actor Ariel, which is like the Mexican Oscar … Jordi Mariscal’s film, “Canela,” is a beautiful film for the whole family, but especially for young people, and he presented the film in Columbus School in Fair Haven to all the children, who just loved it. In fact, one of the com-ments of a 10-year-old there was that he wants to grow up to be a filmmaker. We always try to do activities with the city in the schools.… In the audience, we have a wonderful mixture of people from the university and the greater New Haven community. I think that is very impor-tant, because there are so many people who have never set foot in Yale, because it’s sort of like this untouchable space, [and there are] a lot of Yale students who really don’t know much about our com-munity here; they live in a little bit of an isolated space. I love getting the greater New Haven community and the Yale community together.

Q How many countries are represented?

A Seventeen countries in over 60 films during the whole

week here at Yale.

Q How many films do you look at before narrowing them down?

A I’d say at least 300 films. I started in March.

Q On what basis do you decide what panel discussions will be about?

A [The filmmakers] were here, and I wanted people to hear them speak

and see the di!erences and similarities between making a film in Mexico, mak-ing a film in Cuba, making a film in the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Puerto Rico and Ecuador.

Q What did they have to say?

A Most countries now are finally passing a “law of cinema” to sup-

port making films in their country. Some of them, like Mexico, are starting to pass laws that movie theaters have to dedicate a certain percentage of their screening rooms to national cinema, which never was the case, because everything was always controlled by the distributors and the movie theaters. But in some places, this is starting. Jordi Mariscal was say-ing, “It’s so frustrating to make a movie in Mexico, and then hardly any of our mov-ies are shown in movie theaters.”

Q What role do film festivals like this have in supporting the filmmakers?

A Well, we give them a place to show their films!

Contact MAYA AVERBUCH at [email protected].

Behind the scenes of NEFIAC: An interview with Margherita Tortora

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPY EDITOR

Margherita Tortora co-founded a regional film festival devoted to Ibero American cinema.

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The Yale Dramat’s newest show, “A Lie of the Mind,” centers around an abusive marital relationship and features a darker and more intense tone than previous Dramat shows.

YCBA

This cinerarium, currently on display at the YCBA, was found on the Westmorland.

The challenge of uncovering who these people were and using 18th century archives to find out has been … rewarding.

MARIA DOLORES SANCHEZ-JAUREGUI ALPANES

Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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Sarah Goncarova explains her waterfall-like textile sculptures at Gallery 195.

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BY MARIA BASHKTOVASTAFF WRITER

Professor of Economics George Borts recently signed his name to a statement of support for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s proposed eco-nomic policy, joining more than 640 economists, including six Nobel Laure-ates, on the list titled “Economists for Romney.”

The statement of support outlines Romney’s proposed fiscal policies, which include cutting taxes, limiting federal spending to 20 percent of the economy to cut down on the federal debt, reducing the growth of Social Security and Medi-care, decreasing federal economic regu-lations, reforming national health care legislation and encouraging the use of domestic energy resources.

Disappointment with the current administration’s economic policy, the importance of this presidential election and his respect for other economists who signed the statement factored into his decision to add his name, Borts said.

Roberto Serrano, chair of the eco-nomics department, declined to com-ment on Borts’ endorsement.

Many other faculty members have taken public stances to support liberal political candidates and liberal policy, wrote Terrence George ’13, president of the Brown Republicans, in an email to The Herald. These have included pro-fessors who have protested the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Brown, supported the Occupy movement and signed leftist political petitions, he

said. George added that Borts should receive “the same level of quiet acceptance” from the Brown com-munity as mem-bers of the faculty who voice liberal

views.Though Borts’ support for a Repub-

lican presidential candidate may place him in the minority of the University community, di!ering views can foster intellectual diversity and discussion, said Sofia Fernandez Gold ’14, president of the Brown Democrats.

Fernandez Gold said that she would be happy taking classes from professors of all political inclinations, as long as the professor’s personal views do not get in the way of teaching or result in discrimi-nation.

“We can only truly understand why we believe what we do when our ideas are challenged, and we’re forced to defend them,” she said. “If I always stayed out of a classroom where a conservative pro-fessor was teaching, I don’t think I would learn a lot.”

“I try to stay on the economics, and also, if I do deal with issues that are controversial, I try to be sure that I will assign both positions. I don’t feel as if I’m there to proselytize,” Borts said. But he added that he will voice his opinion if asked and that the atmosphere at the University is one of free speech, which leads to healthy discussion among fac-ulty and students.

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BY STEPHANIE MCFEETERS STAFF REPORTER

With Yale University Presi-dent Richard Levin and Princ-eton University President Shir-ley Tilghman stepping down at the end of the academic year, three Ivy League schools are cur-rently seeking new college pres-idents. Dartmouth Presidential Search Committee Chair Bill Hel-man said that while the univer-sities’ searches may impact one another, the committee is focused on choosing a candidate that fits the college’s unique needs.

The Presidential Search Com-mittee was formed in May after former College President Jim Yong Kim was appointed to lead the World Bank and Carol Folt, formerly the college’s provost, was appointed interim president for the 2012-’13 school year. Levin announced his intention to step down in August, while Tilghman announced her decision in Sep-tember.

Brown University also recently completed a presidential search after former President Ruth Sim-mons announced her decision to step down in September 2011. Christina Paxson, former dean of

the Wood-row Wil-son School of Inter-n a t i o n a l and Pub-lic Affairs at Princ-eton, was

announced as Brown’s 19th pres-ident in March after a six-month search process. She assumed the university’s top position on July 1, the same day Folt became interim president.

Helman said he consulted administrators at Brown and other peer institutions that recently completed presidential searches to discuss best practices and has communicated with members of search committees at Yale and Princeton.

Approximately 300 American colleges and universities conduct presidential searches each year, according to higher education consulting firm AGB Search Prin-cipal Jamie Ferrare. Given the high turnover rate of high-level college administrators, candidates are occasionally considered by sev-eral institutions, but it is rare for the same candidate to be consid-ered in the final stages of two uni-

versities’ searches, he said.Yale, Princeton and Dart-

mouth’s simultaneous presiden-tial searches may increase compe-tition in attracting certain highly visible candidates, AGB Search consultant Jim Davis said. AGB Search is not involved in any of the current Ivy League presidential searches.

Even though they are highly demanding, Ivy League presiden-cies are among the most highly sought positions in academia, according to National Association of Independent Colleges and Uni-versities Communications Direc-tor Tony Pals.

Each institution’s unique attri-butes play a major role in its final selection of a president, and each school will attract its own indi-vidual pool of candidates, Ferrare said.

“It becomes a matter of fit,” Ferrare said.

AGB Search consultant Bruce Alton said that while there may be overlap among Dartmouth, Princ-eton and Yale’s candidate pools, it is unlikely that all three insti-tutions will end up pursuing the same individual. While there may be a number of candidates quali-fied to lead a particular institu-

tion, choosing the right president requires a match between the can-didate and the specific school. Just as Dartmouth students may have applied to multiple universities, in the end, they chose to attend the college due to its unique attri-butes, he said.

The three schools differ in many ways, and candidates inter-viewed by the Presidential Search Committee have expressed inter-est in Dartmouth as a distinct institution, Helman said.

“The candidates the committee has spoken with are really excited about what Dartmouth is and what it can be,” Helman said.

Since Princeton and Yale announced that they are seeking new university presidents, there

has been increased media atten-tion on the searches, according to Director of Media Relations for the College Justin Anderson.

“Being compared to these other schools further underscores the ways in which we are unique, and I think that will ultimately serve us well,” Anderson said.

In conducting university pres-idential searches, hiring com-mittees are considering a wider base of candidates than in previ-ous searches, Davis said. Potential candidates for university presi-dents include university provosts or other top university admin-istrators, education agency o"-cials, leaders of national orga-nizations in the field of higher education and other individuals with management and fundrais-ing experience, he said. Search committees sometimes seek non-traditional candidates such as corporate executives or military leaders whose main careers have been outside the realm of higher education.

Ivy League universities often consider provosts from other schools in the Ivy League to be strong candidates, Davis said. Prior a"liation to a school or any of its constituencies can also give

candidates an advantage in the process.

Individuals are attracted to uni-versity presidencies for the lead-ership opportunities that they provide, Alton said.

“People don’t come into edu-cation for the money,” he said.

Patricia Lee said that the new president must be aware of the college’s culture.

“He’s managing the people who are managing us, so having an understanding of the college and a sensitivity to student cul-ture is really important in setting the tone,” she said.

Kim’s departure after three years as college president is atyp-ical when compared to other university presidents, accord-ing to Davis. Although average university presidential tenures have shortened over the past few decades due to increased demands on presidents, the average tenure is five to seven years, and insti-tutions typically seek presidents who will serve seven to 10 years, he said. Upon stepping down at the end of this academic year, Levin will have served as Yale’s president for 20 years and Tilgh-man will have led Princeton for 12 years.

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Ivy presidential searches coincide

BY HUIZHONG WUSTAFF REPORTER

As students settle into their class schedules with the drop period com-ing to a close Oct. 12, the American Sign Language/Deaf Studies minor is also settling in as an o"cially recog-nized academic track.

The six-course minor was approved by a unanimous vote by the School of Arts and Sciences faculty last April, becoming the first program of its kind in the Ivy League.

According to ASL Program Coordi-nator Jami Fisher, who is also a lecturer within the department, the minor focuses heavily on advanced ASL and linguistics courses.

Among the program requirements, the minor features an Academically-Based Community Service component — a capstone course in which students collaborate with the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.

The program is also highly interdis-ciplinary, Fisher added. Students may apply one credit from a course outside of ASL — in topics ranging from the psychology of languages to biomedi-cal engineering — to complete the pro-gram.

“We have students taking ASL that come from all di!erent major back-grounds, and there are often courses pertinent to both their major and ASL,” she said. “We want to show how ASL is really useful in all facets of research and professional experiences.”

While Fisher said most stu-dents have not formally declared the minor yet, she added that many have expressed an interest in pursuing it.

“We have a very large incoming

cohort of ASL 1 students. All four sections are full,” she said of one of the first require-ments for pursu-ing the minor.

T h o u g h upperclassmen

may retroactively declare the ASL/Deaf Studies minor, Fisher said she does not know of any students grad-uating this school year who will do so. Most of the students who have indi-cated interest in the minor are cur-rently sophomores or juniors.

Many of these individuals are mem-bers of Penn in Hand — a student

group for those interested in ASL and deaf culture. Penn in Hand was heavily involved in petitioning for the minor’s approval last semester.

According to Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dennis DeTurck, the level of student engagement in devel-oping the minor has been part of what makes the program so unique.

“It’s really a tribute to the hard work of the students … who didn’t give up on the program,” he said.

Penn in Hand President and col-lege junior Connor Bartholomew said she is currently trying to plan out the rest of her courses so that she will have enough time to earn the ASL/Deaf Studies minor.

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Penn students Kelby Reed and Connor McLaren take an ASL/Deaf Studies course in Williams Hall, marking the first semester of the ASL/Deaf Studies minor.

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WASHINGTON — On the eve of the first presidential debate, the early autumn Republican reviews are in for Mitt Rom-ney’s presidential campaign, and they are not pretty.

In some states, candidates who share the Nov. 6 ballot with the former Massachusetts governor already have taken steps to establish indepen-dence from him. Party strate-gists predict more will follow, perhaps as soon as next week, unless Romney can dispel fears that he is headed for defeat despite the weak economy that works against President Barack Obama’s prospects.

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who headed the Republican Party when it won control of Congress in the 1990s, said disapprovingly over the weekend that Rom-ney’s campaign has been focus-ing on polling, political process and campaign management. “It’s about everything but the issues. It’s about everything but Obama’s policies and the fail-ures of those policies,” he said.

Matthew Dowd, who was a senior political adviser to Pres-ident George W. Bush, said the Romney campaign was almost guilty of political malpractice over the summer and during the two political conventions. It “left the playing field totally to Barack Obama and the Obama campaign” and “`basically set the tone for the final 60 days of this campaign, which put them behind after the conven-tions,” said Dowd, who worked for Democrats before signing on with Bush, a Republican.

He and Barbour both spoke on ABC.

Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Romney, defended the cam-

paign in a conference call with reporters on Monday. “Our message is very clear, which is we cannot a!ord four more years like the last four years. And we need a real recovery, we need policies that are going to help,” he said.

Republicans say there is time for Romney to steady his cam-paign but only if he acts quickly.

Recent public polls show Obama moving out to a modest lead in most if not all of the bat-tleground states where the race will be decided. But Republi-cans with access to Romney’s polling data said Tuesday that he has begun regaining some support among independent voters, enabling him to cut into

the president’s advantage.It is unclear how long con-

gressional candidates are will-ing to wait for a turnaround. Several Republican strate-gists point to this week, which includes the debate and Friday’s release of September unem-ployment figures.

Some Republicans who are in periodic contact with the cam-paign say Romney’s strategists have concluded that a recent uptick in public optimism, coming on top of Obama’s suc-cess to date, complicates the attempt to defeat the president solely on the basis of pocket-book issues.

In recent days, Romney has emphasized criticism of the

president’s foreign policy, par-ticularly in the Middle East, where a terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, left Ambassador Chris-topher Stevens and three other Americans dead.

Barbour, echoing what oth-ers say privately, was dismissive of the suggestion that Rom-ney should spread his campaign focus. The public is “concerned about how backwards the Mid-dle East has gone during the last year. But they’re much more concerned about their children having jobs, about them being able to pay for their health insurance, for $3.85 gasoline,” he said.

Romney sees poor reviewsBY TOM HAYS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Police investi-gating two gangs called the Very Cripsy Gangsters and the Rock-starz didn’t need to spend all their time pounding the pave-ment for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Face-book.

“Rockstarz up 3-0,” one sus-pect boasted — a reference to the body count from a bloody turf war between the Brooklyn gangs that ultimately resulted in 49 arrests last month.

Authorities in New York say a new generation of gang mem-bers is increasingly using social media to boast of their exploits and issue taunts and chal-lenges that result in violence. And police and prosecutors have responded over the past sev-eral years by closely monitor-ing Facebook and other sites for leads and evidence.

On Tuesday, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced plans to beef up the NYPD’s cyber crackdown by expanding the use of aggressive online investigative tactics and doubling the size of the depart-ment’s gang unit to 300 investi-gators.

The reinforcements will focus less on established gangs like the Bloods and Crips and more on loosely knit groups of teenagers who stake out a certain block or section of a housing project as their turf and exact vengeance on those who trespass or fail to show the proper respect.

“By capitalizing on the irre-sistible urge of these suspects to brag about their murderous exploits on Facebook, detectives

used social media to draw a vir-tual map of their criminal activ-ity over the last three years,” the commissioner said in remarks prepared for delivery at a law enforcement convention in San Diego.

Examples of the public dis-plays of digital bravado abound. In the Brooklyn case, suspects sought to intimidate informants by posting court documents containing their names, author-ities said. In another throw-down, the Rockstarz posted a photo of a Very Cripsy member and the comment, “He is scared. Look at him.”

Police say much of the poten-tially incriminating material they gather can be found on Facebook profiles that are pub-lic.

But as part of its new, stepped-up e!orts, the depart-ment will refine and expand use of a tactic instrumental in the three-year Brooklyn gang inves-tigation — having o"cers adopt Internet aliases, create phony profiles and seek to “friend” suspects to gain access to non-public information, officials said.

Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the NYPD “has the right, indeed the obli-gation, to pursue e!ective ave-nues for investigating criminal gang activity, and that includes using Facebook and other social media.” But she said such meth-ods must be closely monitored so they don’t become “a vehicle for entrapment or unauthorized surveillance.”

Police and prosecutors insist they are following strict legal protocols.

NYPD monitors Facebook

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks in Pueblo, Colo.

BY LYNN BERRYASSOCIATED PRESS

TBILISI, Georgia — Defying expectations, President Mikhail Saakashvili conceded Tuesday that his party had lost Geor-gia’s parliamentary election and his opponent had the right to become prime minister, setting the stage for political turmoil in the final year of his presidency.

The new Georgian govern-ment will be led by billionaire businessman and philanthropist Bidzina Ivanishvili, who made his fortune in Russia and until recently was little-known to the 4.5 million people in his home-land on the Black Sea.

In one notable accomplish-ment, it was the first time in Georgia’s post-Soviet history that the government changed by the ballot box rather than through revolution. Saakash-vili came to power through the peaceful Rose Revolution after a rigged parliamentary vote in 2003.

By conceding defeat even before the results of Monday’s election were released, the 44-year-old Saakashvili defied the opposition’s expectations that he would cling to power at all costs and preserved his leg-acy as a pro-Western leader who brought democracy to the former Soviet republic.

He also prevented poten-tial violence on the emotion-ally charged streets of the cap-ital, Tbilisi, where support for the opposition Georgian Dream coalition is strongest. Opposi-tion supporters began celebrat-ing as soon as the polls closed, and the mood could have turned ugly very quickly if they thought they were being deprived of a victory.

The 56-year-old Ivanish-vili, meanwhile, went immedi-ately on the attack. Speaking at a televised news conference, he declared that most of the pres-ident’s widely praised reforms were a joke and said Saakash-vili had deceived the Americans

into believing he was a democrat. He then called on Saakashvili to resign.

“I don’t think our political battle was caused by any per-sonal antagonism on my part toward Saakashvili,” he said. “But I have always blamed Saa-kashvili for what has gone wrong in Georgia, and I can repeat that today: This man’s ideology has established a climate of lies, vio-lence and torture.”

During his nearly nine years in power, Saakashvili has pushed through economic and political reforms and attracted interna-tional investment that has led to dramatic economic growth. Pov-erty and unemployment, how-ever, remain painfully high.

Still, many Georgians have turned against Saakashvili in recent years. Many accuse his United National Movement party — which has controlled not only the government and Parliament but also the courts and pros-ecutor’s office — of exercising authoritarian powers.

Georgian president concedes

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Sports IQ: In sailing, what is a “close haul”A close haul is a point of sail in which the boat is sailing as close to the wind as it can and its sails are trimmed very tightly.

BY J.R. REEDCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Despite light wind and over-cast and rainy conditions, Yale women’s sailors captain Emily Billing ’13 and Claire Dennis ’13 finished in the top five during the Intercollegiate Sailing Associa-tion’s (ICSA) New England Sin-glehanded Championship this past weekend. They will advance to ICSA Nationals for the fourth consecutive season.

Eighteen sailors from 12 northeastern schools competed in 13 individual races last Sat-urday and Sunday during the event, hosted by Connecti-cut College at the mouth of the Thames River. Dennis placed third, while Billing finished in fourth and fellow Bulldog Urska Kosir ’15 finished just shy of the qualifying mark. Kosir ended the regatta in sixth place, two points behind the fifth-place finisher.

Assistant Coach Bill Healy said the qualifying races went relatively well, although the Elis fell short on their goal of advanc-ing all three sailors to Nationals.

This marks the fourth consec-utive year that Dennis and Billing have qualified for Singlehanded Nationals. Both sailors have been selected to represent the Bull-dogs at the New England Cham-pionship for the past four years.

Dennis said the weekend’s weather conditions went against her sailing strengths and made her races a lot more stressful than she had anticipated.

“It was light, and, though it wasn’t absurdly shifty, there wasn’t a straight breeze at all,” Dennis said. “I would say the one thing that did play to my advan-tage was current, having grown up in San Francisco and under-standing how the current could help me. But light air is just not my strength.”

After day one of the two-day event, Dennis was in fifth place, Billing in seventh and Kosir in sixth.

Dennis said that both she and Billing did not look at the results

or think about the standings.“The first day was light, and

I did not do very well until the last five races on Sunday when the breeze came in,” Billing said. “On Sunday, I just tried to start from scratch and not let previous races get into my head.”

Despite a slow Saturday start during the first six races, Dennis and Billing regained their com-posure and, with sunny condi-tions surfacing on Sunday, sailed their way back into qualifying positions.

“It was really close,” Healy said. “Only Dennis was in on

Saturday. Billing definitely had to make the biggest comeback, after being 20 points out at the end of Saturday. Dennis said it was really nice for Emily and her to qualify together for their fourth and final time together. Emily had a massively impres-sive last five races to qualify.”

In the past three years at Nationals, Dennis has experi-enced success, finishing second her freshman year, winning the championship her sophomore year and finishing second last year. In addition, Billing finished sixth her freshman year, fourth

her sophomore year and third last year.

Hosted by the University of California, Nationals will take place near the Belmont Pier in Long Beach, Calif. during the first weekend of November.

“Long Beach could be any conditions at that time of year in Southern Calif.,” Dennis said. “But I think for both of us Nationals has always been a bet-ter regatta than our qualifier. It’s also a bit less stressful at Nation-als because there’s no pressure to qualify for the next step.”

Billing said she feels confi-

dent in the girls’ chances to fin-ish their last college Nationals experience with strong perfor-mances.

In the next month, the two Bulldogs will prepare to race against the 20 most elite col-legiate laser radial sailors from around the country. Healy hopes the girls will practice twice a week with one of the three coaches to do their own prac-tices separate from the rest of the team leading up to Nationals. The week before the Champion-ship, the girls will be practicing every day.

“If we get enough practice, I’m confident we’ll be good,” Healy said. “The windier it is, the better the girls do. If wind picks up during Nationals, they’ll be the ones to beat.”

Besides Dennis and Billing, the Yale men’s team captain Cam Cullman ’13 will represent Yale at Nationals on the men’s side.

The Elis will participate in Women’s Navy Fall Intersec-tional this weekend at Navy.

Contact J.R. REED at [email protected] .

Two Bulldogs qualify for Nationals

tain Kevin Lunn ’13, Kevin Dooney ’16 and Tim Hillas ’13 rounded out the top five for the Bulldogs. Lunn, Dooney and Hillas finished 61st, 67th and 76th overall, respec-tively.

According to Lunn, both Nuss-

baum and Goutos “ran extremely well,” posting times that served as significant personal records. Har-kins echoed the sentiment.

“We were led obviously by Matt Nussbaum, who just had definitely the race of his career to this point,” Harkins said. “Demetri Goutos had the race of his career at this

point … We had a lot of good runs.”The men’s team will continue

its season next Saturday at the New England Championships, while the women will compete at the same meet next Sunday.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at [email protected] .

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Two Bulldog sailors, captain Emily Billing ’13 and Claire Dennis ’13, advanced to ICSA Nationals for the fourth consecutive season.

ally nothing,” Kushner said. “I wasn’t too worried that we were three back.”

Kushner also noted that the course played the easiest that he had ever seen it play on Saturday due to its layout and the weather before the tournament. But he said he knew that the course would be extended for the tournament’s final day on Sunday.

This served as an advantage to the Elis, who practice on the course at its most dif-ficult.

While the change in course layout on Sunday seemed to bother most teams in the tournament, the Bulldogs posted the same score on Sunday as they had on the shorter course on Saturday. Kushner finished the round a stroke under par, while Sam Ber-nstein ’14, Joe Willis ’16 and Davenport scored rounds of even par, one over par and two over par, respectively.

As the men’s team competed at home, the women’s team traveled to Pennsylvania State University to compete at the Nittany Lion Invitational.

Despite posting several solid individual rounds over the three days, the Elis ulti-mately ended in ninth-place with a score of

907 among a strong field of 17 teams. After Friday’s first round, the Bulldogs found themselves in twelfth place on the leader-board with a score of 312.

“As a team I don’t think we did very well the first day,” Shreya Ghei ’15 said.

But the team showed huge improvement the next day, Ghei remarked, posting a score of 298 on Saturday, 14 strokes better than its Friday round. The team continued itsim-proved play on Sunday, following up Satur-day’s performance with a 297.

While the team worked on its short game in the interval between Friday and Satur-day’s rounds, women’s team head coach Chawwadee Rompothong said that the team still could have scored lower.

“We didn’t take advantage of the par fives,” Rompothong said.

The women’s team will continue its sea-son next weekend at the Lady Pirate Inter-collegiate in North Carolina, while the men’s team will next compete on Oct. 13 at the Big Five in Pennsylvania.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at [email protected] .

last weekend, Yale failed to find the back of the net against Cornell (2–6, 2–1 Ivy), losing in a 1–0 overtime battle. Despite the Bull-dogs’ 4–2 shot advantage in overtime play, the Big Red were able to keep the Bulldogs scoreless and find a winning goal of their own.

Yale goalkeeper Emily Cain ’14 tallied eight saves against Cornell, while boasting a .742 save percentage overall.

Yale has only lost four games to confer-ence competitors over the past three sea-sons, including Saturday’s loss and an 8-0 shutout at the hands of Princeton last week-end. Cornell is currently tied for second

place in the Ivy League standings.Sharp said the team is unfazed by the out-

comes of this weekend’s games and is look-ing forward to the rest of the season.

“Our goal for the rest of the season is to approach every game, league or non-league, with the same positive attitude,” Sharp said.

Yale will continue its regular season play this Saturday at No. 5 Virginia (11–2, 2–0 ACC) and this Sunday at Dartmouth (5-4, 2-1 Ivy).

Both games are scheduled to begin at 12 p.m.

Contact DINÉE DORAME at [email protected] .

Yale stumbles on roadStrong weekend for Elis

Bulldogs bring Macdonald Cup home


The men’s team placed seventh and the women’s team placed fourth at the Paul Short Invitational.

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“We were pretty con-fident that we’re at the level where we should be competing with nationally ranked teams.”

NIHAL KAYALI ’13WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY TEAMNATIONALLY RANKEDAfter finishing fourth at the Paul Short Invitational this weekend, the wom-en’s cross country team was ranked No. 30 in the country by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association. It was the team’s first national ranking in seven years.

DENISE DENIS AND CHERYL PETERSONNEW ADDITIONS TO SOFTBALL STAFFFirst-year head coach Jen Goodwin has rounded out her sta! by adding assis-tant coach Denise Denis and volunteer assistant Cheryl Peterson. Denis is an instructor at Bobby Valentine’s Sports Academy and Peterson was a volunteer assistant at York College last year.

THE CAREER-BEST THREE-UNDER-PAR ROUND SHOT BY GOLFER WILLIAM DAVENPORT ’15 ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MACDONALD CUP. DAVENPORT AND THE BULLDOGS WENT ON TO WIN THE TOURNAMENT FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW.

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After four straight bogeys on his previous four holes, William Dav-enport ’15 approached the tee box on the 240-yard par-three 13th hole of the Yale golf course on Sunday. Dav-enport’s first shot sailed directly onto the green, and he two-putted for par to break the string of bogeys. He carried this momentum through the rest of his round and played the final six holes one under par.

From that point on, the men’s golf team left no doubt about its ability to defend its home course and home championship. After finishing Sat-urday’s competition in third place, the Eli men stormed back on Sunday to win the two-day Macdonald Cup for the second straight year with a final team score of 564.

“It doesn’t get better than a come-from-behind victory on Sun-day in golf,” men’s team head coach Colin Sheehan said.

Sheehan said Davenport’s three-

under-par 67 round on Saturday represented his lowest score as a college golfer, while captain Bradley Kushner ’13 shot an even-par 70 in his first round. Saturday’s round of 282 left the Bulldogs three strokes o! the pace set by Central Connect-icut.

But the Bulldogs did not allow themselves to be discouraged by their position after the first round.

“Three back in golf is really actu-

Bulldogs win at homeElis fall to No. 1 SyracuseBY DINÉE DORAME


The field hockey team returned empty-handed from its trip to upstate New York this weekend. The Elis lost 1–0 in overtime to Cornell on Saturday and fell 5–0 to No. 1-ranked Syracuse the following day.

Despite the loss, the team had rea-son to be proud of its e!ort against the Orange. The Bulldogs (3–6, 1–2 Ivy) held the Orange scoreless in the sec-ond half, a feat that only one other team has accomplished this season.

“We definitely take Syracuse as a learning experience,” Schlesier said. “Playing the No. 1-ranked team in the nation doesn’t happen every sea-son, so we were excited to have pulled together to shut them out the second half.”

Captain Maddie Sharp ’13 added that she was proud of the team’s strong defense, which held the top team in the country scoreless for 35 minutes.

Syracuse forward Emma Russell scored the opening goal of the game o! a crossing pass from the right side of the circle from teammate Liz McIn-erney. McInerney led the Orange with

two assists and scored a goal of her own. Orange midfielder Gillian Pinder tallied two goals four minutes apart and tied McInerney for the team lead with three points.

For the Bulldogs, goalkeepers Heather Schlesier ’15 and Emily Cain ’14 split the playing time and fin-ished with four saves apiece. Syracuse goalie Leann Stiver finished the game untested, as the Orange amassed a 13–0 advantage in shots on goal.

Yale players said they hope to take away valuable lessons from the match against top-ranked Orange and estab-lish a more cohesive style of play.

“I definitely think that getting a few o!ensive opportunities on Syra-cuse was exciting and a great learn-ing experience for our team,” Schle-sier said.

The Bulldogs have already faced No. 3 Connecticut and No. 4 Princeton this season, and they will take on No. 5 Virginia in their next game. After this weekend, the Elis will have played four of the top five teams in the country in their past six games.

“We have had such a tough schedule this year and have played teams ranked in the top 20,” midfielder Erica Borgo ’14 said.

Coming o! a win over Sacred Heart

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The defending champion Bulldogs claimed the Macdonald Cup on Sunday, finishing with a team score of 564.

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The Elis had a tough weekend, falling to No.1 Syracuse and Ivy rival Cornell.

Cross country teams climb into national rankingsBY ALEX EPPLER


As the women’s cross country team toed the line at the start of the Paul Short Invitational Fri-day, Liana Epstein ’14 warmed up elsewhere, oblivious to the immi-nent start. After the starting gun fired, she sprinted to the starting line, running from the back of the 360-women field.

“The start was really hectic,” captain Nihal Kayali ’13 said, laughing. “The gun took us all by

surprise.”Epstein eventually moved

through the pack to finish fourth out of the Bulldogs, helping to cap a superb day for both the men’s and women’s cross coun-try squads at Lehigh Univer-sity. Slogging through muddy conditions, the men scored 255 points and placed seventh out of 37 teams. The women scored 147 points and finished fourth out of 40 teams, earning their first national ranking since Septem-ber 2005. On Tuesday the Bull-dogs were ranked No. 30 in a poll conducted by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country

Coaches’ Association.

Captain Nihal Kayali ’13 paced the Bulldogs, finishing 14th over-all with a time of 20:50 on the

five-kilometer course. Millie Chapman ’14, Emily Stark ’16 and Epstein followed her closely in 18th, 35th and 39th places, respectively. Elizabeth Mar-vin ’13, the team’s fifth runner, finished 41st overall and only 24 seconds behind Kayali. The small gap between the times of the team’s first and last-scoring members has been typical of the Elis this season.

“There are always people who will step up and perform,” Kayali said.

The Bulldogs finished in front of sixth-place Providence and seventh-place Villanova, who

are ranked seventh and ninth in the country, respectively. Kayali believed that victories over those teams could garner some national recognition for Yale’s team.

Kayali also noted that beating those teams provided a large con-fidence boost for the team.

“I think we were pretty confi-dent that we’re at the level where we should be competing with nationally ranked teams,” she said. “But of course it was still a pleasant surprise to beat teams that are ranked that highly.”

After a disappointing perfor-mance by the men’s team against Harvard two weeks ago, head

coach Paul Harkins said that he was very happy with his team’s performance at Lehigh.

“We had some talks after [the Harvard] meet and kind of needed to change things around a little bit,” he said.

The team performed well in its next appearance, overcoming the memory of its defeat against Harvard . Matthew Nussbaum ’15 led the way for Yale, finishing 21st overall with a time of 24:34 on the eight-kilometer course. He was followed closely by Deme-tri Goutos ’13 in 30th, while Cap-

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We had some talks after [the Harvard] meet and kind of needed to change things around a little bit.

PAUL HARKINSHead Coach, Men’s Cross Country

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