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THE OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY · FOUNDED 1878 CROSS CAMPUS MORE ONLINE cc.yaledailynews.com y Special guest. Burmese human rights activist, opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will be on campus Sept. 27 to deliver a speech at Sprague Hall, University President Richard Levin announced in a Wednesday email. The speech will run from 11:30 a.m. to 12:50, and tickets will be available on the second floor of Woolsey Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 19 and 20. DNC continues. In addition to Gov. Dannel Malloy, former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 fired up the crowd at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte Wednesday night with a ringing endorsement of President Barack Obama. Natural talent, or a gift from within the hallowed halls of Yale Law School? Murphy looks for help. This week is an important one for U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, who’s in Charlotte seeking assistance from big Democratic donors to help him defeat Republican WWE executive Linda McMahon this fall. Polls show the race as too close to call; as of July 25, Murphy had raised $5.5 million to McMahon’s $14 million. Getting noticed. The University of Connecticut student newspaper, The Daily Campus, ran an editorial Wednesday evening praising Levin’s tenure and examining the lessons UConn can draw from Levin’s example. “Yale has been lucky to have somebody like Richard Levin as president,” the editorial reads. “We wish him luck, from one dog (a Husky) to another (a Bulldog).” Meeting crashers. Early Wednesday afternoon, students across campus received an email from one “Sue N. Tit, Ph.D.” — an anagram for “The Pundits.” The email told students to gather in the Prospect Street entrance to Becton Lab before walking over to a meeting in the Computer Science Department at Arthur K. Watson Hall, to discuss what type of espresso machine the department should install in its second-floor kitchen. The crashers asked questions like, “What about a tea maker? Can we just make tea?” and “I’m just confused … is it espresso or expresso?” before the students and faculty in attendance figured out the prank and continued the meeting on their own. Goodbye to you? The New Haven Register’s parent company, the Journal Register Co., announced this week that it had filed for bankruptcy protection — the second time in four years for a parent company of the Register. No sta reductions are planned. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY 1978 The University announces a $1.25 million, five-year anonymous grant to fund undergrad writing classes so students aren’t turned away. Submit tips to Cross Campus [email protected] INSIDE THE NEWS YALE DINING MENU CHANGES ROLLED OUT PAGE 3 NEWS DEATH PENALTY After repeal, death row inmates fight sentences with data on racial bias PAGE 3 CITY SCAN AND DELIVER WANT A COPY OF YOUR READING? JUST ASK FOR IT PAGE 5 NEWS FIELD HOCKEY Years after myotonic dystrophy diagnosis, goalie still plays for Yale PAGE 12 SPORTS MORNING SUNNY 73 EVENING SUNNY 79 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 7 · yaledailynews.com BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER A Wednesday meeting with Yale Police Department offi- cials has led Greek leaders to feel more comfortable with plans for enforcement of the new off-campus party regis- tration requirement. Since administrators announced last month that students must register all o- campus parties with over 50 attendees, student leaders have had mixed responses to the new rule, with several express- ing concerns that it dispropor- tionately aects Greek organi- zations. Last week, Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins invited Greek lead- ers and two members of the Yale College Council executive board to a dinner meeting with three other Yale Police offi- cials to discuss the rule. During the meeting, which was closed to the press, attendees talked about ways in which Greek organizations can work with the Yale Police Department to increase student safety and establish open communica- tion, said Cooper Godfrey ’14, president of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. “They assuaged our con- cerns that the purpose of their job isn’t to arrest us,” said Ben Singleton ’13, an attendee and former president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. “We at least are now developing a working relationship, and it relieves everyone’s fears.” Higgins said the plan for enforcement will incorporate the YPD’s community polic- ing model — which emphasizes the relationship between citi- zens and ocers — and “soror- ity and fraternity houses make up a significant amount of Yale College’s off-campus com- munity.” As the department enforces the new rule, he said, it will focus on ensuring the safety of students. At the meeting, fraternity and sorority leaders explained that typical Yale parties are a “more controlled environment than the administration thinks they are,” Singleton said, add- ing that Greek leaders agreed to more actively require identi- fication at the door and restrict alcohol distribution to pre- BY NICOLE NAREA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In front of a crowd of thousands at the Democratic National Convention in Char- lotte, N.C., Connecticut Gov. Dannel Mal- loy unleashed a verbal assault Wednes- day on the fiscal policies embraced by the Republican presidential ticket. Malloy took the stage just after 7 p.m., followed by party luminaries such as U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73, who delivered the night’s keynote address. In addition to lauding Democrats’ eorts to enfranchise minorities, Malloy reiter- ated his critique of the budget proposal spearheaded by GOP vice-presidential nominee U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, calling the plan “harsh,” “radical” and “wrong.” “It would shred the safety net that pro- tects the middle class and those striving to get there,” Malloy said in a speech that reflected his rising stature among national Democrats. “It would undermine FDR’s New Deal, unravel Harry Truman’s Fair Deal and leave us with Mitt Romney’s Raw Deal.” Scott McClean, an associate professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac Univer- sity and attendee at this year’s conven- tion, characterized Malloy’s critique of Ryan as a demand that the country “beef up fiscally,” yet “still pursue a progressive agenda.” The governor also denounced “sys- temic” Republican eorts to “disenfran- chise millions” of minority voters and “undermine the fairness” of November’s presidential election through voter ID Malloy blasts Ryan at DNC BY GAVAN GIDEON AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS Just days after it began, the search process for University President Rich- ard Levin’s successor is already drawing criticism from some faculty, alumni and students. Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Edward Bass ’67 sent a campus-wide email Friday afternoon in which he detailed the presidential search process — to be led by a committee of eight Cor- poration trustees and four yet-to-be- named faculty members — and asked for input from the Yale community. Since then, Bass has received over 800 let- ters from faculty, students, staff and alumni, and nominations of more than 200 professors to serve on the commit- tee. But some members of the University say the process is undemocratic and the nomination period — which has already closed — did not allow enough time for input. Members of the Yale community were able to email their nominations to Bass between his announcement at roughly 4 p.m. Friday and noon on Tuesday. Given the Labor Day weekend, this gave com- munity members less than one business day to submit suggestions. “This kind of severe limitation is itself a way of stifling input, while appear- ing to encourage it,” French and African studies professor Christopher Miller ’83 said in a Wednesday email to the News. BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER The class of 2016 is the most racially diverse in the University’s history after the number of freshmen identifying as stu- dents of color increased marginally in the latest admissions cycle. A record 40.6 percent of this year’s freshman class identified as both a citizen or permanent resident of the United States and also a student of color on admissions forms, Dean of Undergraduate Admis- sions Jerey Brenzel said Wednesday — up exactly one percentage point from the pre- vious year’s figure. Though those statistics rely on students’ own decisions to iden- tify themselves with a particular race or ethnicity, three admissions experts inter- viewed said the diversity of Yale’s class of 2016 is in line with that of other top-tier institutions. “Our yield with students of color con- tinues to be very strong against intense competition from peer schools,” Brenzel said. “That has contributed to an incred- ibly diverse and accomplished freshman class each year.” The ocial racial breakdown of the class of 2016 — as reported by Yale to the federal government — is 16.8 percent Asian, 7.1 percent black, 10.4 percent Hispanic, 0.9 percent Native American and 5.4 percent multiracial. While students in past years could only select one racial or ethnic cate- gory on application forms, the Department of Education established new reporting guidelines in 2011 that ask students first whether they identify as Hispanic/Latino, and then ask students to check boxes for all other racial categories with which they identify. Brenzel said his oce is also reporting diversity statistics without the multiracial BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER More students in the class of 2016 are likely to pursue a sci- ence or engineering major than in any previous class. According to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 42.5 percent of freshmen are potentially interested in pur- suing science, technology, engineering or mathemat- ics (STEM) majors — a marked increase over the one-third of freshmen who were inter- ested six years ago. The num- ber of seniors who graduated with science and engineering majors also reached a record 260 students last year, and administrators said they hope to maintain those trends. “I think it’s a terrific trend, and it’s not by accident,” Associate Provost for Sci- ence and Technology Timothy O’Connor said. “It’s the result of an initiative that’s been going on for some time within the Admissions Office.” The Admissions Office has undertaken several measures SEE MALLOY PAGE 4 SEE YPD PAGE 4 SEE SEARCH PAGE 4 SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 6 SEE STEM PAGE 4 LYNNE SLADKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Dannel Malloy delivered a harsh rebuke of the GOP presidential ticket’s fiscal proposals at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday night. A Mitt Romney administration would “shred the safety net that protects the middle class,” he said. Days-old search already criticized I think it’s a terrific trend, and it’s not by accident. TIMOTHY O’CONNOR Associate provost for science and technology YPD addresses o-campus party concerns They assuaged our concerns that the purpose of their job isn’t to arrest us. BEN SINGLETON ’13 Former president, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity Yale sees slight increase in freshman class diversity Interest in STEM majors climbs

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T H E O L D E S T C O L L E G E D A I L Y · F O U N D E D 1 8 7 8

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Special guest. Burmese human rights activist, opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will be on campus Sept. 27 to deliver a speech at Sprague Hall, University President Richard Levin announced in a Wednesday email. The speech will run from 11:30 a.m. to 12:50, and tickets will be available on the second floor of Woolsey Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 19 and 20.

DNC continues. In addition to Gov. Dannel Malloy, former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 fired up the crowd at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte Wednesday night with a ringing endorsement of President Barack Obama. Natural talent, or a gift from within the hallowed halls of Yale Law School?

Murphy looks for help. This week is an important one for U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, who’s in Charlotte seeking assistance from big Democratic donors to help him defeat Republican WWE executive Linda McMahon this fall. Polls show the race as too close to call; as of July 25, Murphy had raised $5.5 million to McMahon’s $14 million.

Getting noticed. The University of Connecticut student newspaper, The Daily Campus, ran an editorial Wednesday evening praising Levin’s tenure and examining the lessons UConn can draw from Levin’s example. “Yale has been lucky to have somebody like Richard Levin as president,” the editorial reads. “We wish him luck, from one dog (a Husky) to another (a Bulldog).”

Meeting crashers. Early Wednesday afternoon, students across campus received an email from one “Sue N. Tit, Ph.D.” — an anagram for “The Pundits.” The email told students to gather in the Prospect Street entrance to Becton Lab before walking over to a meeting in the Computer Science Department at Arthur K. Watson Hall, to discuss what type of espresso machine the department should install in its second-floor kitchen. The crashers asked questions like, “What about a tea maker? Can we just make tea?” and “I’m just confused … is it espresso or expresso?” before the students and faculty in attendance figured out the prank and continued the meeting on their own.

Goodbye to you? The New Haven Register’s parent company, the Journal Register Co., announced this week that it had filed for bankruptcy protection — the second time in four years for a parent company of the Register. No sta! reductions are planned.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1978 The University announces a $1.25 million, five-year anonymous grant to fund undergrad writing classes so students aren’t turned away.

Submit tips to Cross Campus [email protected]

INSIDE THE NEWS

YALE DININGMENU CHANGES ROLLED OUTPAGE 3 NEWS

DEATH PENALTYAfter repeal, death row inmates fight sentences with data on racial biasPAGE 3 CITY

SCAN AND DELIVERWANT A COPY OF YOUR READING? JUST ASK FOR ITPAGE 5 NEWS

FIELD HOCKEYYears after myotonic dystrophy diagnosis, goalie still plays for YalePAGE 12 SPORTSMORNING SUNNY 73

EVENING SUNNY 79

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 7 · yaledailynews.com

BY MADELINE MCMAHONSTAFF REPORTER

A Wednesday meeting with Yale Police Department offi-cials has led Greek leaders to feel more comfortable with plans for enforcement of the new off-campus party regis-tration requirement.

S i n c e a d m i n i s t ra to r s announced last month that students must register all o!-campus parties with over 50 attendees, student leaders have had mixed responses to the new rule, with several express-

ing concerns that it dispropor-tionately a!ects Greek organi-zations. Last week, Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins invited Greek lead-ers and two members of the Yale College Council executive board to a dinner meeting with three other Yale Police offi-cials to discuss the rule. During the meeting, which was closed to the press, attendees talked about ways in which Greek organizations can work with the Yale Police Department to increase student safety and establish open communica-

tion, said Cooper Godfrey ’14, president of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

“They assuaged our con-cerns that the purpose of their job isn’t to arrest us,” said Ben Singleton ’13, an attendee and former president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. “We at least are now developing a working relationship, and it relieves everyone’s fears.”

Higgins said the plan for enforcement will incorporate the YPD’s community polic-ing model — which emphasizes the relationship between citi-zens and o"cers — and “soror-ity and fraternity houses make up a significant amount of Yale

College’s off-campus com-munity.” As the department enforces the new rule, he said, it will focus on ensuring the safety of students.

At the meeting, fraternity and sorority leaders explained that typical Yale parties are a “more controlled environment than the administration thinks they are,” Singleton said, add-ing that Greek leaders agreed to more actively require identi-fication at the door and restrict alcohol distribution to pre-

BY NICOLE NAREACONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In front of a crowd of thousands at the Democratic National Convention in Char-lotte, N.C., Connecticut Gov. Dannel Mal-loy unleashed a verbal assault Wednes-day on the fiscal policies embraced by the Republican presidential ticket.

Malloy took the stage just after 7 p.m., followed by party luminaries such as U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73, who delivered the night’s keynote address.

In addition to lauding Democrats’ e!orts to enfranchise minorities, Malloy reiter-ated his critique of the budget proposal spearheaded by GOP vice-presidential nominee U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, calling the plan “harsh,” “radical” and “wrong.”

“It would shred the safety net that pro-tects the middle class and those striving to get there,” Malloy said in a speech that reflected his rising stature among national Democrats. “It would undermine FDR’s New Deal, unravel Harry Truman’s Fair Deal and leave us with Mitt Romney’s Raw Deal.”

Scott McClean, an associate professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac Univer-sity and attendee at this year’s conven-tion, characterized Malloy’s critique of Ryan as a demand that the country “beef up fiscally,” yet “still pursue a progressive agenda.”

The governor also denounced “sys-temic” Republican e!orts to “disenfran-chise millions” of minority voters and “undermine the fairness” of November’s presidential election through voter ID

Malloy blasts Ryan at DNC

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND TAPLEY STEPHENSONSTAFF REPORTERS

Just days after it began, the search process for University President Rich-ard Levin’s successor is already drawing criticism from some faculty, alumni and students.

Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Edward Bass ’67 sent a campus-wide email Friday afternoon in which he detailed the presidential search process — to be led by a committee of eight Cor-poration trustees and four yet-to-be-named faculty members — and asked for input from the Yale community. Since then, Bass has received over 800 let-ters from faculty, students, staff and alumni, and nominations of more than 200 professors to serve on the commit-tee. But some members of the University say the process is undemocratic and the nomination period — which has already closed — did not allow enough time for input.

Members of the Yale community were able to email their nominations to Bass between his announcement at roughly 4 p.m. Friday and noon on Tuesday. Given the Labor Day weekend, this gave com-munity members less than one business day to submit suggestions.

“This kind of severe limitation is itself a way of stifling input, while appear-ing to encourage it,” French and African studies professor Christopher Miller ’83 said in a Wednesday email to the News.

BY ANDREW GIAMBRONESTAFF REPORTER

The class of 2016 is the most racially diverse in the University’s history after the number of freshmen identifying as stu-dents of color increased marginally in the latest admissions cycle.

A record 40.6 percent of this year’s freshman class identified as both a citizen or permanent resident of the United States and also a student of color on admissions forms, Dean of Undergraduate Admis-sions Je!rey Brenzel said Wednesday — up exactly one percentage point from the pre-vious year’s figure. Though those statistics rely on students’ own decisions to iden-tify themselves with a particular race or ethnicity, three admissions experts inter-viewed said the diversity of Yale’s class of 2016 is in line with that of other top-tier institutions.

“Our yield with students of color con-

tinues to be very strong against intense competition from peer schools,” Brenzel said. “That has contributed to an incred-ibly diverse and accomplished freshman class each year.”

The o"cial racial breakdown of the class of 2016 — as reported by Yale to the federal government — is 16.8 percent Asian, 7.1 percent black, 10.4 percent Hispanic, 0.9 percent Native American and 5.4 percent multiracial. While students in past years could only select one racial or ethnic cate-gory on application forms, the Department of Education established new reporting guidelines in 2011 that ask students first whether they identify as Hispanic/Latino, and then ask students to check boxes for all other racial categories with which they identify.

Brenzel said his o"ce is also reporting diversity statistics without the multiracial

BY CLINTON WANGSTAFF REPORTER

More students in the class of 2016 are likely to pursue a sci-ence or engineering major than in any previous class.

According to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 42.5 percent of freshmen are potentially interested in pur-suing science, technology, engineering or mathemat-ics (STEM) majors — a marked increase over the one-third of freshmen who were inter-ested six years ago. The num-ber of seniors who graduated with science and engineering majors also reached a record 260 students last year, and administrators said they hope to maintain those trends.

“I think it’s a terrific trend, and it’s not by accident,” Associate Provost for Sci-ence and Technology Timothy O’Connor said. “It’s the result of an initiative that’s been going on for some time within the Admissions Office.”

The Admissions Office has undertaken several measures

SEE MALLOY PAGE 4

SEE YPD PAGE 4

SEE SEARCH PAGE 4

SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 6 SEE STEM PAGE 4

LYNNE SLADKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gov. Dannel Malloy delivered a harsh rebuke of the GOP presidential ticket’s fiscal proposals at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday night. A Mitt Romney administration would “shred the safety net that protects the middle class,” he said.

Days-old search already

criticized

I think it’s a terrific trend, and it’s not by accident.

TIMOTHY O’CONNORAssociate provost for science and

technology

YPD addresses o!-campus party concerns

They assuaged our concerns that the purpose of their job isn’t to arrest us.

BEN SINGLETON ’13Former president, Sigma Alpha Epsilon

fraternity

Yale sees slight increase in freshman class diversity

Interest in STEM majors climbs

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In the last few days, students’ Facebook threads have been littered with links to a web-

site, progresslab.org, run by a group of students and alumni concerned about the Yale pres-idential search process. This group claims to be concerned by the overly corporate makeup of the Yale presidential search committee and has endorsed specific candidates for the com-mittee’s faculty slots. Students and faculty should resist get-ting caught up in the group’s alarmist fervor and feel-good language and should resist the attempt to supplant scholarship with politics.

The Progresslab group has presented its campaign as an attempt to protect the Univer-sity’s fundamental values: its commitments to the liberal arts and sciences, teaching, “unfet-tered freedom of speech” and “academic leadership.” The professors the group selected were chosen, we are told, because they were “thoughtful and accomplished” and shared the above-mentioned values of the University community. All of this sounds quite good. Who isn’t in favor of “leadership,” “freedom of speech” and pro-fessional scholarship?

But the bland, motherhood-and-apple-pie-ness of this list of values is precisely the prob-lem. Of course, if this totally uncontroversial list of val-ues were what the Progresslab group was actually about, the group would have no reason to

exist. Does anyone — even the most anti-corpo-rate fanati-cal conspir-acy theorist — actually believe that the members of the Yale Corporation don’t care about educa-tion, scholar-ship and the

First Amendment? If the Progresslab group is

waging a full-fledged campaign, they are doing so because they actually think there is some-thing at stake. That something, it is clear, is whether the Univer-sity is going to be a place dedi-cated to the production and dis-semination of knowledge, or a platform for the advance of spe-cific political agendas.

First, let’s examine the group’s statement of values a little more closely. In the con-text of current campus debates, emphasizing the importance of “unfettered freedom of speech” is not an innocent assertion of obvious values. It is a thinly veiled indictment of a specific project: Yale-NUS.

The group’s purported con-cern for free speech is actually about a specific, and controver-sial, policy question, and they are taking a stand: the privileg-ing of a rigid attachment to an abstract political ideal over the

concrete advancement — aca-demic, political and social — of a society that currently lacks a serious engagement with lib-eral arts.

This emphasis on politics becomes even more obvious in the group’s addition of a final element in its list of values and its choice of professors. The list of values concludes with “a determination to manifest and defend these values in the pub-lic sphere.” Aside from the rel-evance to Yale-NUS, the group is clearly looking for professors — and subsequently, a presi-dent — who will take an active role in public policy debates. We should not begrudge anyone the right to have a political position, but conceptualizing the Uni-versity presidency as a partisan bully pulpit is a misguided proj-ect that can only detract from the University’s commitment to scholarship. Engagement in political debates should be a professional qualification for politicians, not university pres-idents.

Finally, the choice of profes-sors only confirms the group’s barely concealed commit-ment to politicizing the Univer-sity. The professors chosen are indeed “thoughtful and accom-plished,” beloved teachers and respected scholars. But there are many such individuals in this University, and it is no accident that three of the four endorsed professors have appointments in interdisciplinary area studies that are largely defined by their

politicization.Let me be clear, I have no

objection to the study of race, migration or sexuality, and chances are good that I share most of the political views held by the professors who teach in these departments. But we are fooling ourselves if we deny that the omission of professors of philosophy, classics and tra-ditional history was deliberate. When combined with a call for increased activism in the pub-lic sphere, the selection of these particular professors can only be seen as a symbolic endorse-ment of the increased politi-cization of the academy, and that politicization is something that those of us who care about the University’s mission must resist.

Chances are that all of the debate and discussion over the presidential search is simply hot air. Months from now, we will all wake up happily to an email announcing Provost Peter Salovey’s selection as Yale’s 23rd president. Nevertheless, we should be wary of those who militantly and frantically advo-cate for the obvious. More often than not, they are pushing an agenda. And when that agenda calls for watering down schol-arship in the service of politics, we should cry foul.

YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him

at [email protected] .

As our next University president makes plans to advance Yale’s mission of

educating global leaders, he or she should consider the Olympics and the role of athletics in both char-acter building and international exchange. The list of President Levin’s achievements in expand-ing Yale’s engagement with the world is long and impressive, and he has improved academics and the arts in ways that will generate leaders in these fields. However, he did not take full advantage of the opportunity for global learn-ing and leadership through sports.

Sports interest, inspire and draw participation from people across di!erent cultures in a way that is unmatched by any other public arena — more than poli-tics, more than finance. The best and most recent example was the London Games, which enraptured the entire world for three weeks last month. At the Games, reli-gion was irrelevant, wealth had little influence and language bar-riers between participants were of no concern.

Over 200 di!erent countries sent representatives to com-pete peacefully. Worldwide, bil-lions tuned in to see athletics at their finest, and not just their own country’s athletes. Usain Bolt’s record-setting 100-meter sprint attracted an estimated 2 billion viewers.

This media attention turns Olympians into public icons and, sometimes, like in the case of Usain Bolt, elevates them to the status of diplomats. They repre-sent their countries through their words and actions. They are role models for countless young fans. They are leaders.

Yale sent six athletes to the Olympics this summer, adding to the list of 169 athletes and 108 Olympic medals in Yale’s history. Athletics have provided opportu-nity for Yale to cultivate interna-tional leaders similar to the lead-ers cultivated in the sciences, pol-itics, journalism and more.

You don’t even have to be a pro-fessional to practice leadership through sports. Even recreational athletes or non-athletes, within and outside of Yale, celebrate the ways sports build character — dedication, responsibility, coop-eration.

In addition to leadership, sports contribute to global citi-zenship at any level. Consider Grassroots Soccer, which teaches AIDS awareness through a soc-cer program in South Africa, or GirlSportWorks, a group that empowers girls through after-school sports in Peru, or even just a pickup game of cricket to shed outsider status while traveling in India.

A Yale education is increas-ingly a global education, aiming to teach students how to navigate foreign a!airs and foreign cul-tures. The founding of the Jack-son Institute and the launch of the Global A!airs major in 2010 and

the first class of Yale-NUS stu-dents expected in 2013 are testa-ments to this.

As the Olympics demonstrate, sports o!er a host of opportuni-ties for international engagement. Imagine student-athletes from New Haven and student-ath-letes from Singapore competing in soccer. The game would foster mutual respect regardless of dif-fering political philosophy — a matter that has been scrutinized in the universities’ partnership. Sports are a common denomina-tor for all countries.

Recognizing the potential for global citizenship and leadership through sports can also be a way to better integrate student ath-letes into the ambitions of the University.

Currently there is a sense among most student-athletes that Yale has little appreciation for varsity sports. This institu-tionalized attitude marginal-izes athletes and lowers expecta-tions for them to be leaders in the classroom and elsewhere beyond their sport. Yale’s administra-tion perpetuates this sentiment through such gestures as suggest-ing two new residential colleges with no increase in the number of student-athletes. Implying that admitting athletes is a sacrifice insults current Yale teams.

On the contrary, not admit-ting athletes comes at a greater cost. Without dedicated sports-men and women, there would be less character building and nar-rower global relationships, and the lack of respect for athletics could compel athletes to insulate themselves from the rest of the University.

Between a new president and two new residential colleges, next year will be a milestone in Yale’s history. At the same time, the Olympic games are fresh in every-one’s minds. Today, sports and their ability to generate influen-tial figures and cultural exchange are in the global spotlight in a way they will not be for another four years.

When the new president takes o"ce in Woodbridge Hall next year, let him or her not forget the opportunity Yale has to advance three of its goals simultane-ously: global education, leader-ship development and excellence in athletics. It merely requires the community — including student-athletes themselves — to recog-nize that these three goals are not in conflict with one another. They are complementary.

Sports can be a catalyst for progress of the whole University if Yale takes advantage of their potential. We need a shift in per-spective, and it can start with a little team spirit from Yale’s most important Bulldog.

JEN DOWNING is a senior in Silli-man College and a member of the var-sity women’s track team. Contact her

at [email protected] .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T J E N D O W N I N G

For gold, for country and for Yale

When I was 15, my parents got divorced. One night during that particularly

turbulent time, I told my father that I still loved him. Despite the divorce, despite all the bad things in the world, I believed there was still this thing called love that could and would hold our crum-bling family together. (I can only imagine just how naive I sounded giving lectures on love to a twice-divorced man.) My father gave me a look that was both bitter and patronizing, and spat back: “There is no such thing as love. There is sex, and loyalty, but there is no love.”

I recalled this exchange in a moment of psychoanalytic insight while sitting at the YPU debate on Tuesday night, strain-ing to understand former sena-tor Rick Santorum over the echo of Woolsey Hall and the hisses of my fellow Yalies.

In his speech to the Yale com-munity, the senator talked a lot about family. That was to be expected. As several friends of mine pointed out afterwards, the motion he was defending — “Resolved: Government is destroying the family” — more

than invited his commentary on what he termed the ”founda-tional building block of society.” According to Santorum, the fam-ily is comprised of a mother, a father and children. And they all apparently go to church.

I would define family di!er-ently, and not just because my parents are divorced, leading me, according to Santorum, to have “mental and physical problems” that children from two-par-ent families don’t have. I would define family di!erently, because to me, family is not something that people have or don’t have.

Family is a flexible term you use for the people who hold a particular kind of relationship to you, the people who fulfill a cer-tain function in your life. You may not have parents, but you have people who inspire you, people who mentor you, peo-ple who love you at your worst as well as at your best. You may not have siblings, but you have friends whom you can call at any hour of the day or night with a problem, a concern, a question, a happy moment. Your blood rela-tives might be gone, toxic or sim-ply uninterested, but wherever

you are, you are part of a web of relationships that holds a com-munity together. Those rela-tionships — that community — I believe, can and should be called a family.

Santorum’s speech made me angry, and not just because his definition of family was both nar-row and narrow-minded. San-torum made me angry because he defined family as something that either exists by his defini-tion or doesn’t exist at all. He did not allow for all of the important relationships that help everyone navigate their lives. These are the fundamental building block of society. And they come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, colors, genders, ages, places and times.

In his speech, the senator talked a lot about “the facts.” I would ask him, rather, to con-sider realities — the realities of people falling in and out of love, the realities of pregnancies, abortions and births, the realities of diseases nobody plans for, the realities of immigration which rarely goes as planned, the real-ities of people living messy and complicated lives that, for the most part, they do not anticipate.

My parents did not get mar-ried thinking they would divorce, just as I later did not go to music school thinking I would end up in African studies. In many ways, we do not choose who we become, what happens to us or the resources available to us to take the courses of action we’d like to take.

To me, family means the peo-ple with whom, and for whom, I will go a very long way. The hard truth of life is that I can’t always be sure they will be there for me. But in this way, maybe, I am dif-ferent from my father. I believe in a love beyond sex, loyalty and blood — a love that I can act out toward the people around me.

Is this a kind of love the gov-ernment can support? I don’t know. But I know this is a kind of family the government can do little to destroy. This kind of love and these kinds of families are ultimately what pulls people up and gives them the strength to go on when life does not go accord-ing to plan.

KLARA WOJTKOWSKA is second-year master’s student in

African studies .

I L L U S T R A T I O N S E D I T O R D AV I D Y U

Entering the lion’s den

Politicizing Yale’s next president

YISHAI SCHWARTZDissentery

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T K L A R A W O J T K O W S K A

A more universal family

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NEWSCORREC T IONS

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5A photo caption that ran with an article on the women’s soccer team mistakenly identified Meredith Speck ’15 as Muriel Battaglia ’15.

The article “‘An icon in spite of itself’“ and its accompanying photo caption misstated the title of professor Elihu Rubin ’99. He is the assistant professor of architecture and urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture.

The article “Seminar sends students on historical ‘Grand Tour’“ stated incorrectly that the Franke Seminar is funded by the Franke Center. In fact, it is funded by the Whitney Humanities Center. The article also misstated the name of the curator of “The English Prize” at the Yale Center for British Art. He is Scott Wilcox.

FRIDAY, AUG. 31The WEEKEND cover “Behind the grill“ stated incorrectly that the Yale Farm provides produce to campus dining halls.

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“Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” J.R.R. TOLKIEN AUTHOR

BY MASON KROLL AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS

STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The trial of seven Connecti-cut death row inmates seeking to overturn their death penal-ties on the basis of judicial bias began Wednesday at the North-ern Correctional Institute in Somers, Conn.

The seven inmates, all con-victed of murder before the repeal of Connecticut’s death penalty last spring, claim that racial and geographic bias unjustly a!ected their sentenc-ing. The inmates’ case is largely drawn from the research of for-mer Yale Law School and cur-rent Stanford Law School pro-fessor John Donohue III GRD ’86, who analyzed discrimina-tory bias in capital cases within the Connecticut justice system from 1973 to 2007.

When Connecticut became the 17th state to abolish the death penalty on April 25, leg-islators worded the repeal legis-lation so that it did not apply to those who had been sentenced to death before the repeal date.

The trial, presided over by Judge Samuel Sferrazza, began with testimony from Chief State Attorney Kevin Kane, according to the Hartford Courant. Amid security concerns, it is taking place in a makeshift courthouse in the prison, with a live video stream for the media screened 15 miles away in a courthouse in Rockville, Conn. Donohue, a noted statistician, will serve as an expert witness for the inmates and will likely give tes-timony next week, he said.

Donohue began work on the study six years ago, while he was still a Yale Law School pro-fessor specializing on the use of the death penalty as a deterrent,

and completed it in 2011. The study, which has not yet been published, examined the 4,686 murders committed in Connect-icut over three decades and the resulting nine sustained death sentences. Since 2007, two more men have been sentenced to death, bringing the state’s total number of death row inmates up to 11. Donohue said he and a group of Yale Law School stu-dents created an “egregiousness rating system” that considered victim su!ering, victim charac-teristics, defendant’s culpability and the number of victims.

The study, according to Donohue, revealed that minor-ities who kill whites are three times as likely to receive the death penalty as whites who kill whites and six times as likely to be put to death as minorities who kill minorities. Addition-ally, the study found that the application of the death pen-

alty is not correlated to the egre-giousness of the crime, as rated by the study’s index. In fact, cases with both white perpetra-tors and victims were, on aver-age, more egregious. Together, these findings suggest racial and geographic bias in the state’s use of the death penalty, according to Donohue.

“The facts seem to suggest that the state would not comply with the constitutional stan-dards for running a death pen-alty regime,” Donohue said.

The o"ces of Kane and Gov. Dannel Malloy declined to com-ment, citing the ongoing nature of the case.

The seven inmates petition-ing their sentences were all con-victed of murder and sentenced to the death penalty before 2008, with some cases, such as that of Daniel Webb, stretch-ing back to 1989. Four of the 11 inmates on death row are not

participating in the trial, includ-ing Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, who were con-victed in the brutal murders of the wife and two daughters of William Petit after breaking into their home in Cheshire, Conn, in 2007. The “Cheshire case,” as it came to be known, is “possi-bly the most widely publicized crime in the state’s history,” according to the Hartford Cou-rant.

Kristi Lockhart, an associ-ate research scientist at Yale and instructor for the psychol-ogy course “Clinical Psychol-ogy in the Community,” said she thought Hayes and Komis-arjevsky were not included in the trial because of the way they could have a!ected the group’s demographics — both Hayes and Komisarjevsky are white.

Yale law professor Steven Duke, who teaches and writes on criminal law, said that though he

has not personally read Dono-hue’s study, he has “virtually no doubt that discrimination occurred.” But, Duke said, the validity of the study does not guarantee any particular out-come in the trial.

Donohue said that while his background is academic, his research is highly applicable to Connecticut’s stance on the death penalty.

“From the perspective of wise public policy, I think it would be best to inter the death penalty in Connecticut once and for all,” Donohue said. “This case may be the vehicle for that decision.”

The most recent execution in Connecticut, that of Michael Ross in 2005, was the state’s first since 1960.

Contact MASON KROLL at [email protected] and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.

[email protected] .

With new data on racial bias, death row inmates fight sentences

Yale Dining revamps menu

BY LAVINIA BORZI AND SOPHIE GOULDCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

AND STAFF REPORTER

Students may find Southern fried chicken next to Korean BBQ tofu tacos in dining halls this year as a part of a new Yale Din-ing menu that packages comple-mentary flavors from different cultures.

In designing the new menu, Director of Culinary Excellence Ron DeSantis, who joined the Yale Dining team last year, said in an email that he is striving to provide healthy and delicious food that provides the com-fort of a home-cooked meal for students of all backgrounds. As part of the menu’s new empha-sis on preparing vegetables that will appeal to students, two in-season vegetable dishes will be available at lunch and dinner.

“By o!ering interesting veg-etables, prepared in appetiz-ing ways, we can create interest in this food category,” he said,

praising vegetables and grains for making food “exciting” by providing “the most diverse fla-vor, texture, color and nutrition.”

One of the two vegetable dishes will be steamed, and the other will be grilled, roasted or sautéed, DeSantis said, and the vegetable selection will depend on what is in season. This strat-egy is similar to one used by res-taurants, he said, rather than most large dining halls.

Another addition in some of the dining halls is fruit-infused water, called “spa water” by DeSantis, which he said is intended to encourage students to find healthier alternatives to “sugary carbonated sodas.”

Though it is still early in the year, DeSantis said initial feed-back has been “positive.” While 11 students interviewed were not aware of the specific changes, five said they felt the quality of food has improved this year, while the others said the food seems to have remained the same. Rushika

Pattni ’15 said that she has seen an increase in the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables avail-able in Saybrook this year.

“I’m a vegetarian, and I’m a lot more satisfied with the options this year. There used to be much less variety,” she said.

Along with the menu changes, some of residential dining halls have rearranged the layouts of their serveries. The reconfigu-ration in Branford, for example, was meant to improve the flow of students through the servery and make fresh fruit and salad toppings more visible and acces-sible, DeSantis said.

The redesigns have not been met with universal enthusiasm, however. Angie Hanawa ’15 said the new layout in Stiles is “con-fusing,” while Shefali Jain ’12 said the new configuration in Pierson has been “frustrating” to figure out.

“Nothing is where it is sup-posed to be!” Jain said.

But the redesigns are not set in

stone. Branford Master Elizabeth Bradley MPH ’95 GRD ’96 said the improvement process began last spring when she invited any interested Branford students to a focus group last spring with DeSantis and Yale Dining Exec-utive Director Rafi Taherian. The 10 to 12 students who came to the meeting brainstormed various ways to improve the Branford dining hall, such as removing trays, having hamburgers avail-able at every lunch and dinner and reducing tra"c around the soda machine.

“My experience so far is that it’s improved so much,” Bradley said. “I don’t think we’re done at all. I think it’s going to get better and better.”

DeSantis is one of 67 certi-fied master chefs in the United States.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at [email protected] and

SOPHIE GOULD at [email protected] .

JACOB GEIGER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

In addition to changes to Yale Dining’s menu, some college dining halls, including Branford’s, above, have made changes to the layouts of their serveries.

BY MICHELLE HACKMANSTAFF REPORTER

The Journal Register Com-pany, the parent company of the New Haven Register, announced Wednesday that it is filing for bankruptcy.

The company announced in a morning email to its employees that it had filed voluntary peti-tions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a New York federal court. The newspaper chain said it intends to initiate a bankruptcy sale in which investors will bid to take owner-ship of the company’s holdings. According to New Haven Regis-ter Publisher Tom Wiley, the filing enables Journal Register Company to shed debts and to continue nor-mal operation throughout the sale process.

“After much consideration, the Board of Directors concluded a Chapter 11 filing was the best course of action for Journal Reg-ister Company,” John Paton, CEO of Journal Register Company, said in a Wednesday press release. “As di"cult as they are, the steps we announced today are steps that will ensure the company’s future.”

Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund that acquired the Jour-nal Register Company last year, may be the most likely buyer in its upcoming sale, said Joshua Ben-ton ’97, director of the Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab — essen-tially meaning that the hedge fund will sell the company back to itself. This way, he added, the newspaper is using bankruptcy to rid itself of many of its pension and lease debts without a management turnover.

“They may be in a position where they can go through this bankruptcy and come out pretty much the same company — only a

bit leaner,” Benton said.Currently, the Journal Register

Company employs 110 journal-ists across Connecticut who write jointly for the New Haven Reg-ister, The Shoreline Times, The Middletown Press, The Torrington Register Citizen and Connecticut Magazine. Wiley said that at the moment, no layoffs are planned across the state-wide newsroom as a part of the bankruptcy sale, though he added that he could not make any promises about the future.

Paton said in the release that the company’s digital revenues increased by 235 percent from 2009-’11. On average, Journal Register websites receive 3.8 mil-lion unique visitors a day, accord-ing to Jon Cooper, the vice presi-dent of Digital First Media, which operates the Journal Register. Paton said in the press release that his company plans to streamline its publications and make them more reliant on online visitors despite the fact that print remains far more profitable.

Paul Bass ’82, editor of the local news website New Haven Inde-pendent, said that Journal Regis-ter Company is “making a valiant attempt” to preserve the for-profit model of journalism, but he does not expect it to succeed. Bass, whose website is funded entirely by grants and charitable dona-tions, added that the Internet has decimated the for-profit journal-ism industry because news web-sites no longer maintain a monop-oly on local advertising.

“Even though we compete for stories, I’m rooting for them to succeed because the more mod-els out there, the better,” Bass said. “But I think today’s bankruptcy is the latest reminder of how hard it is to preserve some vestige of the old model.”

Benton told the News that though the Journal Register Com-pany was the first to initiate a new round of bankruptcy filings in the newspaper industry, he expects several more newspaper chains to follow suit in the upcoming year.

The Journal Register Company plans to emerge from bankruptcy in about 90 days, according to the press release.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at [email protected] .

Register’s parent goes bankrupt

BY DINEE DORAMECONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Chaired by Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12, the Board of Aldermen’s youth services com-mittee met Wednesday night to formalize its goals for citywide youth programs, following the launch of citywide youth initia-tives last spring.

The committee gathered along-side representatives from the non-profit United Way of Greater New Haven, local public schools, the Citywide Youth Coalition and the mayor’s o"ce to discuss ways in which they can improve the ser-vices o!ered to Elm City youth. Eidelson said that although the process has moved more slowly than she had hoped, these initia-tives are her top political priority.

“We are amidst a crisis. We are not doing enough for youth and we should have made these e!orts years ago,” Eidelson said.

The Board of Aldermen called

for the development of a compre-hensive youth agenda for the city last spring and has been actively pushing for an increase in job availability, after-school pro-grams and more nonprofit services designed to assist children and teens. Before any major decisions are made, the committee must take an inventory of all services and programs currently available in the greater New Haven area so the group can focus on developing needed initiatives, Eidelson said.

“I believe we should focus on making specialized services extremely accessible to the youth in our community,” Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate said dur-ing Wednesday’s workshop. The committee stressed the need for programs that would specifically address mental health counseling, fitness and academic tutoring.

The committee finalized their plan to continue taking and ana-lyzing an inventory of New Haven youth services and also set an

“aggressive” — in the words of several organization representa-tives — completion deadline of February 2013. By then, they hope to have set some permanent strat-egies and have a full list of services that will be o!ered on a regular basis.

Several aldermen expressed their concern with that deadline, arguing that quicker action was needed.

Ward 30 Alderman Carl-ton Staggers and Ward 23 Alder-woman Tyisha Walker said they hope to see results in the next few months.

“These efforts take time and we are planning on taking a thor-ough look at the programs already o!ered to the youth in our city,” Eidelson said, responding to those concerns.

Boost!, a program sponsored by United Way, is one new exam-ple of the current efforts in the city to promote youth services. The program connects New Haven

schools to nonprofit organizations to foster enhanced community involvement among young people.

“We are aiming to only pro-mote programs that are show-ing real growth and progression,” said Laoise King, vice president of education initiatives for United Way of Greater New Haven. She added that five New Haven schools have already made partic-ipation in Boost! possible for their students.

Eidelson said no additional meetings have been scheduled yet for the her committee, but she expects to meet about this topic more frequently in the coming year.

There are currently 236 non-profit organizations serving youth in the Greater New Haven area, according to a United Way report distributed at the Wednesday meeting.

Contact DINEE DORAME at [email protected] .

Eidelson ’12 leads committee’s push for youth servicesEven though we compete for stories, I’m rooting for them to succeed because the more models, the better.

PAUL BASS ’82Editor, New Haven Independent

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“There was no possibility of faculty conferring amongst themselves in any mean-ingful way, and certainly no time for any democratic selection process.”

Several of the professors speaking out against the for-mat of the search, like Miller, are part of the larger faculty group that has protested the way the University is cur-rently governed. Another member of that group, his-tory of art professor Mimi Yiengpruksawan, wrote an email to Bass on Sun-day comparing the faculty’s lack of a voice on the presi-dential selection committee to their alleged lack of input in the decision to launch Yale-NUS College. She pro-posed establishing an advi-sory board with 12 profes-sors, half appointed by the committee and half elected by the Yale College Faculty, to aid the committee in its e!orts.

In a Wednesday night email, Bass said he con-sidered the “context of the precedents and traditions for the Presidential Search at Yale” and decided to select faculty for the committee by nomination and appoint-ment, rather than election.

“I believe the structure we arrived at, which is compa-rable to the highly successful approach the Yale Corpora-tion used when it selected President Levin, will accom-plish the desired participa-tion and input for all con-stituencies,” Bass said.

The deans and directors of Yale’s schools will review

the recommendations and o!er their own before Bass makes the final decision, which he said on will come by the end of the week. The search committee will be responsible for nominat-ing candidates for the presi-dency to the Corporation.

Four professors who emailed Bass about the search committee — three of whom asked that faculty be allowed to elect their rep-resentatives — said he has yet to respond. Bass told the News he plans to respond to every message.

To facilitate the process for nominating search com-mittee members, four recent alumni and current student Donna Horning ’13 created a website Monday night that o!ered community members a template to write letters to Bass. The site noted that most of the trustees already appointed to the commit-tee are from the corporate world, and emphasized the need to appoint members

who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the liberal arts.

The creators of the web-site suggested nominat-ing four faculty members who they claim are will-ing to serve on the commit-tee — Meg Urry, chair of the Physics Department; George Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89, head of the American stud-ies major; Stephen Pitti ’91, master of Ezra Stiles College and a professor of history; and Joseph Roach, direc-tor of the Program in The-ater Studies and a Sterling professor. Organizers of the site have encouraged visitors to continue emailing Bass, even though the deadline has passed.

“We’re thrilled that Yalies all over the world — over 3,600 people — visited our site on Tuesday, and that so many faculty, administra-tors, students, and alumni want to be a part of the deci-sions that a!ect the Univer-sity,” the organizers wrote in a statement to the News on Wednesday. “We’re work-ing now on our next steps for advancing this conversa-tion and contributing to the presidential search process.”

The website’s creators said they will update it by Monday with information on the input they received from visitors.

Levin will officially step down on June 30, 2013.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at [email protected] and

TAPLEY STEPHENSON at [email protected] .

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“If [the law] were to be changed younger people would learn to drink responsibly and not binge drink at the first sight of alcohol.” ANONYMOUS RESPONSE TO AN UNDERAGE DRINKING SURVEY

YPD seeks to assuage Greek leaders’ concerns

In DNC speech, Malloy lays into Ryan budget

over the past few years to bolster Yale’s reputation in the sciences and engineering. In 2011, the office started requiring appli-cants interested in engineer-ing to write an additional essay, and in the spring of that year the University introduced the Yale Engineering and Science Week-end, which invites strong appli-cants with interests in STEM majors to campus in order to explore Yale’s science facilities and learn about its programs and opportunities. Yale also hosts science and engineering forums for prospective students on the East and West coasts and began including a science and engineering viewbook in its admissions materials in 2009.

O’Connor said he does not yet know whether demand for STEM courses has increased notably this fall. Should demand for science lecture classes exceed normal lev-els, lecture classes will relocate to larger lecture halls and the schedule for lab courses may be reconfigured. In the long term, O’Connor said Yale plans to construct larger auditoriums on Science Hill.

Still, two professors of intro-ductory science courses inter-viewed said they have not seen substantial increases in course enrollment, and two others said they are not sure if increased interest among freshmen was responsible for greater enroll-ment.

Molecular biophysics and biochemistry professor Michael Koelle said BIOL 101 — a new introductory-level biology

course — had a large number of shoppers, but he attributed that increase to new requirements in the major.

“There are probably several sources, the most important of which is that [all of the biology majors] now require the BIOL 101-104 courses,” he said. “I’m not sure if an increased number of freshmen interested in sci-ence is also a factor in the large enrollment in BIOL 101.”

Koelle added that he hopes freshmen planning to major in a STEM field will not sacrifice the opportunities to explore courses in other majors and non-STEM fields at Yale.

Along with upping its recruiting efforts, the Univer-sity has prioritized increas-ing the percentage of students who follow through on their plans to major in STEM fields. The current retention rate in the sciences at U.S. colleges is less than 40 percent, said Jo Handelsman, a molecular, cel-lular and developmental biology professor who co-authored a White House report on improv-ing undergraduate STEM edu-cation. Handelsman estimated in February that the rate at Yale is approximately the same.

The University also estab-lished the STEM Teaching Transformation Committee last year to improve STEM teaching. During the same time period, Yale has pursued major renova-tions to science and engineer-ing facilities, and administra-tors anticipate that interest in the sciences and engineering will continue to grow alongside these projects. Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and

Applied Science Vincent Wil-czynski said the opening of the Center for Engineering Inno-vation and Design this fall will greatly increase the school’s visibility to prospective stu-dents.

“It’s not just one challenge, but many, and we have to meet them all if we’re going to the best that we can to help stu-dents achieve their aspirations,” Associate Dean of Science Edu-cation William Segraves said. “We’re trying to address the full range of them, including how we support faculty members in their role as teachers, how we promote the evolution of the curriculum and pedagogy to incorporate new discoveries … and how we foster an environ-ment beyond the classroom that supports and enhances stu-dents’ learning.”

Yale College currently offers 26 different STEM majors.

Contact CLINTON WANG at [email protected] .

JENNIFER CHEUNG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

In the wake of new regulations for o!-campus parties, Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins held a closed meeting with Greek leaders and members of the YCC Executive Board on Wednesday.

laws — such as those in Texas and New Hamp-shire. Connecticut has made progress in pro-moting voter enfranchisement, he said, refer-ring to a law passed in May that allows for voters to register on Election Day.

“There is a high immigrant and minority population in New Haven and it is such a strug-gle to get them to vote, especially with addi-tional barriers placed in front of people,” said Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10. “It is great to have [Malloy] highlight Con-necticut’s e!orts on a national stage.”

As one of the earlier speakers in the night’s 56-person lineup, Malloy was charged with the task of “providing a clear and concise summary of the Democratic platform” rather than speak-ing to his own experience as governor, McClean said.

Malloy did not snag a prime-time tele-vised speaking slot and his speech was instead streamed live online. Nevertheless, such public-ity on the national stage will be “hugely impor-tant” for Connecticut Democrats looking to garner support for Chris Murphy, the Demo-cratic nominee in the state’s November Senate

election, according to Yale political science pro-fessor David Cameron.

“He’s good, effective and tough, and he’s going to remobilize the Democrats sitting on their hands now,” Cameron said. “He can get a crowd energized.”

Nicole Hobbs ’14, elections coordina-tor for the Yale College Democrats and a Bran-ford, Conn., native, was among those watching Wednesday. She applauded Malloy for discuss-ing the national Democratic agenda rather than presenting himself and his own policies for future prominence in the party.

“Gov. Malloy understands the importance of the choice that this country is going to make,” Hobbs said. “It’s crucial that he highlight Pres-ident [Barack] Obama’s record at a time when voters need that information.”

Thomas Dec ’13, a member of the Connecti-cut delegation in Charlotte and a Wilton, Conn., resident, expressed his pride in seeing his gov-ernor address the crowd from the audience on the convention floor. A Connecticut governor at the DNC is indeed a rare sight: Malloy is the first Democratic leader of the state since 1991.

“The native Nutmeggers in our delegation were amazed that he not only spoke on behalf of

Connecticut, but also on behalf of the broader American public,” Dec said.

Predictably, though, Malloy’s message did not please all Yalies.

Alex Crutchfield ’15, the Yale Political Union’s floor leader of the right, said he was dissatisfied with Malloy’s “partisan tone.” Crutchfield con-trasted Malloy’s address with that of New Jer-sey Gov. Chris Christie, who called out politi-cians on both sides of the aisle for “not acting as leaders” and took on a “post-partisan” tone at the Republican National Convention last week.

“Malloy is the anti-Christie,” Cameron said.Malloy and Christie have become rivals of

sorts since they came to o"ce in fall 2010, espe-cially in light of their simultaneous and tacti-cally different efforts to extract concessions from powerful public employee unions in their states.

The Democratic National Convention, which was drawn more than 4,000 delegates to Char-lotte, runs through tonight, when Obama will deliver a speech accepting his party’s nomina-tion.

Contact NICOLE NAREA at [email protected] .

arranged areas within a house. Meanwhile, o"cers presented a plan to send patrolling o"cers to meet with party hosts ahead of time to discuss what the party will entail and provide a point of contact to keep dialogue open throughout the night of the party, he said.

The group plans to meet again in the coming weeks, said Will Kirkland ’14, president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, adding that he thought the din-ner was a “helpful first step.”

During the meeting, Hig-gins also asked Greek lead-ers for input on how to uphold the new tailgate regulations while encouraging participa-

tion in tailgates, Singleton said. He added that he felt as though Greek leaders were included in a “constructive” discussion, and that their ideas were heard and would be seriously discussed by police. In contrast, he said, he felt that fraternity leaders have recently been “taken out of the discussion” by administrators when they issued the new regis-tration rule.

YCC President John Gonza-lez ’14, who attended the meet-ing along with YCC Vice Presi-dent Debby Abramov ’14, said he thought the meeting was productive in starting a conver-sation, but he is hoping to facil-itate a new discussion between Greek leaders and administra-tors to address further con-cerns, such as the Yale College Executive Committee’s proto-col for dealing with violators of the rule.

During this year’s Camp Yale, the Yale College Dean’s O"ce received between 10 and 15 party registrations, accord-ing to Associate Dean for Stu-dent Organizations and Physical Resources John Meeske.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at

[email protected] .

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This kind of severe limitation is itself a way of stifling input, while appearing to encourage it.

CHRISTOPHER MILLER ’83Professor, French and African Studies

It’s not just one challenge, but many, and we have to meet them all if we’re going to the best that we can help students achieve their aspirations.

WILLIAM SEGRAVESAssociate dean of science education, Yale

College

We at least are now developing a working relationship, and it relieves everyone’s fears.

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Gov. Dannel Malloy harshly criticized the fiscal strategy embraced by the GOP presidential ticket in his speech at the DNC Wednesday evening.

Faculty oversight floated Retention targeted as next step

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ROBERT ADAMS

This New Jersey native is widely hailed as the pre-eminent pho-tographer of the American West. He was a John Simon Guggen-heim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography, and received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1994.

360 State owners denied relief at City Hall

BY BEN PRAWDZIKSTAFF REPORTER

New Haven’s Board of Aldermen struck down a pro-posal Tuesday that would have provided financial relief to the owners of 360 State Street after the complex received a tax bill far exceeding initial city projections.

The vote comes as the lat-est blow to the union-backed pension fund Multi-Employer Property Trust, which owns 360 State, the city’s tallest apartment building, and has been fighting the tax assess-ment for nearly a year. City officials had originally pro-jected annual taxes of $1.4 mil-lion for the 500-unit, 32-story luxury apartment tower based on square footage and taxes at comparable buildings. But after the final bill came in at $4.3 million, Ward 7 Alderman Douglas Hausladen ’04 sub-mitted a proposal to the board that would lock MEPT into a $1.4 million annual tax plan for 20 years.

Proponents of Hauslad-en’s proposal said it would be a step toward restoring the damage the 360 State ordeal has done to the city’s reputa-tion as friendly to developers.

“360 State was the first major new construction downtown in two decades, and nobody wants to wait another

20 years for the next,” Haus-laden wrote in a letter to the board. “But quite honestly, any potential developer who learns that a tax projection can be arbitrarily quadrupled once the building is built will fold up his plans and run as fast as possible in the opposite direc-tion.”

Hausladen’s proposal was initially assigned to be reviewed by the joint legisla-tion and tax abatement com-mittee, co-chaired by Ward 9 Alderwoman Jessica Holmes of East Rock and Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart of Wooster Square. But Holmes and Smart decided not to hold a public hearing on the legislation, arguing that a well-defined appeals process through which property own-ers can dispute tax assess-ments exists in the courts, and MEPT should not be given special treatment. The Board unanimously discharged the issue after Hausladen had announced on Aug. 31 that he would not fight the com-mittee’s e!orts to toss out the proposal.

“Our discharging this [proposal] in no way should be interpreted as an indica-tion that the city is not inter-ested in negotiating a solu-tion. However, the committee process is not the appropriate venue to address this issue,”

Holmes said during the Tues-day evening board meeting.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has vocally opposed any tax relief proposal for MEPT since last September and criticized what he called MEPT’s e!orts to “circumvent” the courts.

But Hausladen, MEPT and Bruce Becker SOM ’85 ARC ’85 — 360 State’s architect and developer — argued that the tax break proposal is about holding the city to its word, not about stepping around established legal proceed-ings. The $1.4 million annual tax projection was approved by the board at a public meet-ing in 2007. The next day, the city sent a letter to the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development, saying the estimated taxes had been “closely analyzed” by the city’s tax o"ce, the city asses-sor and the Board of Aldermen and were “agreed [to be] fair.”

New Haven’s O"ce of Eco-nomic Development con-firmed the original $1.4 mil-lion projection as late as August 2010. The assessment was then quadrupled last year by the city’s former assessor shortly before DeStefano fired him.

“This isn’t just a run-of-the mill property tax com-plaint. 360 State is the result of a carefully planned part-nership between the City and

MEPT, and MEPT wants to solve this problem as partners with the City,” Tilly Hatcher, a consultant to MEPT, said in a letter to the board. “If the City ultimately decides to repu-diate its prior commitments, the union pension funds that invest in MEPT stand to lose tens of millions of dollars.”

The contested tax assess-ment even stirred controversy during last year’s mayoral race, with DeStefano’s sole gen-eral election opponent, Je!rey Kerekes, accusing the mayor of “cooking the books” of city tax revenue for political gain.

MEPT launched a website — www.360StateTaxProblem.com — with a video, timeline and Q&A detailing the proper-ty’s impact on the local com-munity and the ensuing tax debate. The video highlights locally owned businesses that have set up shop in the retail space in and around 360 State and features testimony from residential tenants, one of whom said she “decided to move to New Haven because of this building.”

The $180 million tower broke ground in September 2008, and the first tenants moved into the building in August 2010.

Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at [email protected] .

BY APSARA IYER AND JULIA ZORTHIANCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

AND STAFF REPORTER

A new service expected by library administrators to soon become “indispensable” to the research process allows researchers to request materi-als and receive scanned copies by email.

Through the new Scan and Deliver service announced Tues-day, library sta! will scan mate-rials requested on Orbis and email them within two days. Sixty-three people used the ser-vice on Tuesday, with requests ranging from Time Maga-zine and Newsweek articles to excerpts from the books “Cul-ture and Politics in Early Stuart England” and “Dictionary of the Middle Ages.” Library adminis-trators said they expect the ser-vice to dramatically change the way research is conducted at the University by giving researchers remote access to scanned mate-rial.

“Our goal is to really take away a lot of the burden of the tedious process of locating materials, retrieving them and scanning them yourself,” said Tom Bruno, associate director for resource sharing and reserves at Sterling Memorial Library.

Requests are usually limited to one chapter of a book or one journal article, due to copyright restrictions. The system cur-rently includes the catalogs from Sterling, Bass Library, the Medi-cal Library and the Law Library, and it will expand on Oct. 1 to include items held in the Library Shelving Facility. Library admin-istrators also plan to incorpo-rate materials held in the Music, Math and Forestry libraries.

The program is an exten-sion of similar services that have been available at the Med-ical Library and the Law Library for several years. Brad Warren, director of access services for the Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library, said he expects to see around 30,000 requests over the first year, based on data from University-wide Scan and Deliver programs at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.

Staff library staff already involved with scanning will absorb the workload, Warren said, but the Library may hire additional staff depending on the volume of requests.

Bruno, who was previously involved with the Harvard Scan and Deliver program, noted that Harvard’s program transi-tioned from being “a novelty to

almost an indispensable part of the research process in an aston-ishingly quick amount of time,” adding that he expects Yale’s Scan and Deliver system to have similar popularity.

Unlike the services at Harvard and the University of Chicago, Yale’s Scan and Deliver program will also allow alumni, who have purchased borrowing privileges, to use the service.

Brian Valencia, a graduate fellow who taught the course “Music in the Theater” last spring, said the service pro-vides a convenient alternative to “incredibly bulky and wieldy and expensive” course pack-ets. He added that the Scan and Deliver service o!ers the oppor-tunity to use more contemporary resources in the classroom.

“I can’t tell you the number of hours I’ve spent over a Xerox machine finding the book, copy-ing the book, collating the pages, and then distributing in hard-copy or going through the oner-ous processing of uploading to Classesv2,” he said.

Of eight students interviewed, all said they believe the program will be helpful and that they foresee using Scan and Deliver in the future. Abigail Johnson ’15 said the service will help lighten students’ loads, since “peo-ple don’t always want to carry around 5,000 books.” She added that she wants to use Scan and Deliver during shopping periods, so she can keep up with course reading without purchasing the required texts.

Kia Quinlin ’16 said she appre-ciates the new service because it allows her to access the library’s resources from anywhere.

“When winter comes along and there’s snow on the ground, I don’t plan on walking any-where ever, so I think I’ll be using [Scan and Deliver] a lot,” said Kia Quinlin ’16.

Eric Li ’13 also said the pro-gram will make it less likely that students will damage or lose materials.

But Li and Johnson added that the program does not replace the need for visiting the library, since it is only helpful when stu-dents already know exactly what materials they need.

“I like flipping through the books to look for information, when I don’t necessarily know what two pages I want to have,” Johnson said.

Contact APSARA IYER at [email protected] and JULIA

ZORTHIAN at [email protected] .

Library launches ‘Scan and Deliver’ service

BY CARLEE JENSENCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The captions claimed the pho-tographs had been taken in Den-ver, Ludlow and Colorado Springs — but Jock Reynolds, director of Yale University Art Gallery, didn’t seem to notice. His mind was in California.

At a talk in the gallery’s first-floor exhibition area on Wednes-day afternoon, Reynolds led a group of University students, gallery employees and mem-bers of the New Haven commu-nity on a tour of “The Place We Live,” a retrospective collection of the photography of Robert Adams. Adams, whom Reynolds described as “the most respected living chronicler of the American West,” has spent more than four

decades documenting the changes and developments imposed upon the space that was once this coun-try’s untamed frontier.

The subject is of particular personal importance to Reyn-olds, who co-curated “The Place We Live” along with the gallery’s assistant curator of photographs, Joshua Chuang. Reynolds was raised in Davis, Calif., during an era of rapid development follow-ing World War II. As he led his audience through the exhibit, he described a childhood shaped by the kind of suburban sprawl that takes center stage in Adams’ pho-tographs.

“His work was so close in con-tent to what I’d grown up with,” Reynolds said. “It took time for me to look at [the photographs], not just with irony and scorn, but

with the knowledge that people had lived here and that we loved it.”

Love was at the center of Reyn-olds’ talk: his own love for his childhood home and a love for the landscapes and open space that drew so many to the Amer-ican West during the mid-20th century. Ironically, Reynolds said, that latter love may have been destructive to the beauty that was its object. Overpopula-tion in the West necessitated the construction of sprawling sub-urbs, and with them malls and supermarkets capable of serving unprecedented numbers of peo-ple, Reynolds said. In this way, the landscape was covered over and the free space was filled; Adams documents this in photographs of trailer parks and construction

sites bare of greenery. “We loved it too much,” Reyn-

olds said.

The over 200 black-and-white photographs on display

are printed small — no larger, in most cases, than the snapshots one might find in a family’s living room. They are designed, Reyn-olds said, to fit into the pages of a book. Adams, who Reynolds described as being particularly concerned with the way his work appears in printed collections, has produced more than 40 books of photography during his career. Reynolds credited the small size of the prints with creating a sense of intimacy between the image and the viewer.

“It’s incredibly tender, and really quite devastating,” Jan Cun-ningham ART ’85, a New Haven resident, said of Adams’ pho-tography. Walking through the gallery after Reynolds’ talk, she paused at several prints: a baby in its bouncer on an otherwise

empty front porch, a mass-pro-duced landscape painting on a department store shelf and the shadow of a tree on a closed garage door.

Juliana Biondo ’13, a history of art major, commended Reynolds and Chuang’s selection and pre-sentation of the images.

“It’s beautifully curated,” she said. “The photographs them-selves … really honor the medium of photography.”

“The Place We Live” will remain at Yale University Art Gal-lery until Oct. 28. Following the end of the exhibit, the images will travel to venues in Spain, Ger-many, France, the United King-dom and Switzerland.

Contact CARLEE JENSEN at [email protected] .

YUAG director talks personal connection to Adams retrospective

YDN

The owners of the tallest residential tower in New Haven, 360 State Street, walked away empty-handed from City Hall Tuesday after alder-men rejected a proposal that would have given them a tax break. The city assessed their property taxes at four times its original estimate.

ROBERT ADAMS

Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery, led a tour group through the gallery’s first-floor exhibition Wednesday afternoon to examine the photography of Robert Adams.

It took time for me to look at [the photographs] not just with irony and scorn, but with the knowledge that people had lived here and that we loved it.

JOCK REYNOLDSDirector, Yale University Art Gallery

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category in order to “understand the real diversity represented in the class” — counting students toward each group they marked on their forms. According to that methodology, the class of 2016 is 20.2 percent Asian, 9.4 percent black, 10.4 percent His-panic and 2.7 percent Native American, he said. By compari-son, Harvard’s freshman class is 22.6 percent Asian, 9.4 percent black, 9.3 percent Hispanic and 1.7 percent Native or Hawaiian-American, the Harvard Crimson

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“It is a sad reflection on American society that we deliver educational opportunity in rela-tion to economic prosperity, and economic prosperity is linked to educational background; that circle of exclusion means Afri-can American and Hispanic stu-

dents, who have been histori-cally and disproportionately underprivileged, are also dis-proportionately under-prepared for the rigors of a place like Yale,” McNeill said in a Wednesday email. “I see [Yale’s] numbers as very encouraging. While [Afri-can-American and Hispanic cit-izens] represent far more than 19.8 percent of America, those numbers are impressive given

the structure of American pre-collegiate education.”

Yale admitted 2,043 students to its freshman class, of which 1,356 chose to matriculate this fall.

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BY DAVID ESPOASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama inherited a wreck of an economy, “put a floor under the crash” and laid the foundation for millions of good new jobs, former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday night in a Demo-cratic National Convention appeal aimed directly at reassuring millions of voters struggling to get by in tough times.

Casting the election as a clear choice between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney, Clinton said in excerpts released in advance that the Republican campaign argument is “pretty simple: ‘We left him a total mess, he hasn’t cleaned it up yet, so fire him and put us back in.’”

“I like the argument for President Barack Obama’s re-election a lot better,” Clinton said.

“He inherited a deeply damaged econ-omy, put a floor under the crash, began a long hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will pro-duce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses and lots of new wealth for innovators,” the former president said.

Obama’s high command released the remarks as they struggled to bury the news of an embarrassing retreat on the party platform.

Under criticism from Republicans, they abruptly rewrote the day-old doc-ument to insert a reference to God and to declare that Jerusalem “is and will remain the capital of Israel.” Some del-egates objected loudly, but Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ruled them outvoted.

Air Force One touched down as con-vention delegates filed early into the Time Warner Cable Arena, eager to nominate Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for new terms in time-honored roll calls of the states.

Obama’s acceptance speech will mark the convention finale on Thursday night. Aides unexpectedly scrapped plans for him to speak to a huge crowd in a 74,000-seat football stadium, citing the threat of bad weather in a city that has been pelted by heavy downpours in recent days.

“We can’t do anything about the rain.

The important thing is the speech,” said Washington Rey, a delegate from Sum-ter, S.C.

That and the eight-week general elec-tion campaign about to begin between Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

In a tight race for the White House and with control of the Senate at stake, Democrats signaled unmistakable con-cern about the growing financial disad-vantage they confront. O!cials said Chi-cago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was Obama’s first White House chief of sta", was resigning as national co-chair of the president’s campaign to help raise money for a super PAC that supports the presi-dent’s re-election.

Unlike candidates, outside groups can solicit donations of unlimited size from donors. At the same time, federal law bars coordination with the campaigns.

Clinton’s speech marked the seventh convention in a row he has spoken to party delegates, and the latest twist in a relationship with Obama that has veered from frosty to friendly. Whatever the past, the incumbent and his high com-mand looked to the former president to vouch for him when it comes to the econ-omy, his largest impediment to re-elec-tion.

Twelve years after leaving o!ce, Clin-ton retains high popularity in the elector-ate in general as well as among white men who are dubious about giving Obama a second term in power in an era of slow economic growth and 8.3 percent job-lessness.

As a group, white men favor Rom-ney over Obama, according to numer-ous polls, but a Gallup survey taken in July showed 63 percent of them view the former president favorably, to 32 percent

who see him in unfavorable terms.White voters without college degrees

preferred Clinton’s wife, Hillary, over Obama in during their epic battle for the presidential nomination in 2008.

They now prefer Romney over the president by more than 20 percentage points, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll published last month, yet other surveys show they give high favorability to Clinton.

Clinton’s turn on stage marked the sec-ond night in a row Obama ceded the con-vention spotlight. First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the featured speech on Tuesday night in a convention hall jammed with cheering delegates.

Republicans have suddenly discovered a lot to like about Clinton — a man they impeached in late 1998 when they ran the House and he sat in the Oval O!ce.

Ryan made no mention of those unpleasantries when he told a campaign audience in Iowa, “Under President Clin-ton we got welfare reform. President Obama is rolling back welfare reform.”

“President Clinton worked with Republicans in Congress to have a bud-get agreement to cut spending. President Obama, a gusher of new spending.”

Independent fact checkers have repeatedly debunked Ryan’s claim about Obama’s welfare proposals, repeated often in Republican television ads. Nor did the Wisconsin lawmaker men-tion that under a balanced budget com-promise with Clinton to rein in federal spending, Republicans agreed to create a new benefit program that provides bil-lions in health care coverage for lower-income children and others not eligible for Medicaid.

Democrats said their decision to move Obama’s acceptance speech was due solely to weather concerns, adding they had too many people eager to attend, not too few as Republicans suggested.

Aides said Obama would hold a huge conference call with ticket-holders who would no longer be able to see the speech in person.

Party leaders did their best to draw as little attention as possible to the change in the platform, making the alternation even before the prayer that opened the second night of the convention.

BY JULIE PACEASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cit-ing the potential for severe weather, President Barack Obama scrapped plans to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination Thursday in an outdoor stadium and moved his convention’s final night indoors.

The switch was as much about trying to mitigate political risk in a key Southern battleground as it was about public safety.

Democrats worried Obama would look incompetent or anger voters in the closely contested state if he switched speech sites on the day of the speech or held a rain-soaked event. But the move led Republicans to play up his standing in the state, arguing that he didn’t have enough sup-port to fill the 74,000-seat Bank of America Stadium.

Obama squeaked out a win in North Carolina in 2008, but polls show him trailing Republican rival Mitt Romney two months from Election Day.

The weather call means the president will now address a far smaller crowd indoors in the same hall where Democrats have gathered for the first two days of their convention. The Time War-ner Cable Arena will be set up for about 15,000 people — mostly o!cial convention participants - when Obama speaks.

That’s just slightly larger than the president’s biggest crowd this election cycle, though an audi-ence of millions will be watching

on television. Vice President Joe Biden will also speak Thursday at the indoor arena.

Republicans, who canceled the first day of their convention due to weather in Tampa, Fla., accused Democrats of downgrad-ing their events because of low enthusiasm.

“You can’t believe a thing this administration says,” said for-mer New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a Romney backer. “Their campaign promised you rain or shine the president would be speaking there. Then when they couldn’t get a crowd, they brought it inside. I think those facts speak for themselves.”

Democratic o!cials had said earlier this week that Obama would speak outside if it were raining, but not in the event of severe weather. The National Weather Service said there is a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms on Thursday afternoon, drop-ping to 20 percent by the time the president was scheduled to speak in the 10 p.m. hour.

It has rained every day since Saturday in Charlotte. Strong storms brought downpours of nearly an inch Monday and Tues-day.

I like the argument for President Barack Obama’s re-election a lot better.

BILL CLINTONFormer president, United States

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Former President Bill Clinton speaks to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012.

You can’t believe a thing this administration says.

JOHN SUNUNUGovernor, New Hampshire

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Then-presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama addressed supporters at a rally in Chester, Pa., in 2008.

Clinton: Obama showing the way Rain, political risks force Obama’s speech indoors

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Academic DishonestyAccording to the Harvard University student handbook, plagiarism and collaboration are strictly prohibited unless expressly permitted by the instructor. The policy states that all examinations submitted to a course are expected to be the student’s own work.

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BY REBECCA ROBBINSSTAFF WRITER

Just days before Harvard announced its most sweep-ing plagiarism investigation in recent memory, the Col-lege tapped Brett Flehinger, resident dean of Lowell House and a lecturer in the history department, to fill a recently-created position in the College administration addressing academic integ-rity.

Flehinger was hired in mid-August as assistant dean of the College and associate secretary of the Administrative Board, Har-vard’s disciplinary body, which is investigating the roughly 125 students accused of academic dishonesty in Government 1310: “Intro-duction to Congress.”

Flehinger, who started his new position on Tuesday, will leave his job in Lowell but will continue in his role in the history department. Flehinger was not available to comment on his new posi-tion, but expressed mixed emotions about leaving Lowell in an Aug. 16 email to the House announcing his departure.

“Taking this job is bit-tersweet, primarily because it means I’ll be stepping down as resident dean, and I want to thank everyone in the House for the past three years,” Flehinger wrote. “Living with all of you has been an enriching, exciting, and heart-warming experi-ence.”

Je! Neal, a spokesperson

for the Faculty of Arts a n d S c i -e n c e s , said the n e w p o s i -t i o n

was created before Harvard began its cheating inves-tigation. Neal wrote in an emailed statement that the position was first requested in February and then autho-rized in late April or early May. Neal did not return a request for comment on whether the cheating scan-dal fast-tracked the admin-istration’s timeline for filling the job.

In mid- to late-May, assistant professor Mat-thew B. Platt alerted the Ad Board to suspiciously similar strings of words in between 10 and 20 final take-home exams in his spring course, a tip that led the Ad Board to later expand its investigation to about 125 students in the class.

In an Aug. 15 email to College administrators announcing the appoint-ment, Dean of the Col-lege Evelynn M. Hammonds wrote that Flehinger would “provide a guiding role” in implementing campus pro-grams addressing academic integrity. She also wrote that Flehinger would work with Secretary of the Ad Board John “Jay” Ellison to manage Ad Board cases, particularly ones involving academic misconduct.

BY CAROLINE FLAXSTAFF WRITER

As Jamie Yang ’15 prepared to transfer to Cornell this fall, she looked forward to moving into a single room on West Campus. But when she received her housing assignment over the summer, she was “mortified and panicked.”

“Dear Jamie Yang,” the letter said. “We are pleased to provide you with your housing assignment for the 2012-2013 academic year.”

Yang read on to discover that she would be living in what she described as a “forced” quintuplet in Jameson Hall on North Campus, an area of campus that generally houses first-year students.

“I knew living on West [Cam-pus] would be the best place to

acclimate to the transfer situation, so I was beyond upset that I was stuck with this liv-ing situa-tion,” Yang said.

According to the email Cornell sent Yang, her new home was a study lounge that had been converted into a quintu-plet to accommodate an “unusually large incoming class.” The email also indicated that, at some point, Yang could be asked to move else-where.

“We want to alert you to the pos-sibility that you may be asked to move to a traditional room before

or during the academic year,” the email said. “Our hope is to be able to return your room to a study lounge for use by all residents of your building.”

Yang has since moved into a seven-person suite in Alice Cook House on West Campus. Although, according to Cornell’s housing website, “most transfer students are housed together in groups,” none of Yang’s new suitemates is also a transfer.

“It would have been a lot more pleasant if I had roommates who were transfers as well. It’s easier to acclimate when people I’m living with are also in the same boat with me,” Yang said.

Yang may be just one of many transfers who did not receive her first choice in housing. Sometimes,

more incoming first-year and transfer students are admitted to Cornell than can be accommodated in on-campus housing, accord-ing to Carlos Gonzalez, assistant director of the O"ce of Residen-tial and Event Services. However, since these students are guaranteed housing by Cornell, as many as five students at a time may be placed in a converted lounge and o!ered new rooms as alternative housing becomes available.

“We have a handful of residence hall study lounges that we convert to quintuplet rooms [if there are too many students],” Gonzalez said. “As other space becomes available due to students leaving the Univer-sity for health or academic reasons, we usually o!er students placed in these lounges with the option of moving to another room.”

Students who are unhappy with their housing situation have the

option of contacting the hous-ing o"ce prior to their move-in date, Gonzalez said. This year, the housing office already has arranged room changes for 112 new students and 172 students

who are not freshmen.“All rooms are generally filled

once housing assignments are made, but we keep track of stu-dent requests and o!er room swaps whenever possible,” Gonzalez said. “Room changes sometimes are not possible for several weeks into the semester because we must first complete a room census to deter-mine vacancies.”

According to Lee Melvin, asso-ciate vice provost for enrollment, the current ideal freshman class at Cornell ranges in size from 3,180 to 3,250 students. This number, he said, can change based on the num-ber of students each undergradu-ate college wants to enroll and how many students the University can handle without being overbur-dened.

New students cramped

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This dorm room, which houses five students, was originally a study lounge in Jameson Hall on North Campus.

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SPORTS PEOPLE IN THE NEWS MARIA SHARAPOVA

Maria Sharapova advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Open yesterday afternoon when she beat Marion Bartoli, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sharapova will take on No.1 Victoria Azarenka on Friday in the semi-finals. Serena Williams will face Sara Errani in the other semifinal.

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what he’s feeling. And That is what we love, espe-

cially when those dour scowls transform into brilliant, genu-ine displays of emotion and joy, like they did just a couple weeks after Wimbledon when Mur-ray outplayed Federer to earn an Olympic gold medal. The des-perately-needed rematch on the All-England Club’s Centre Court put Andy back in good spirits. But Olympic gold won’t be enough for Murray — like soccer or basketball in the Olympics, Olympic tennis isn’t yet considered the pinnacle of competition, and elite players do not win with consistency, nor is it all Murray is shooting for in his career.

That is what I want to see more of in today’s businesslike sports world — more emotion, more evidence that the game mat-ters to athletes, and more ambi-tion. We just got a big dose of small-name, hardworking suc-cess stories during the Olympics, but that is not something I want to see just every four years. The rest of the time, Americans focus on the major team sports, and we are not rewarded with the passion we expect. Too often we see NBA or MLB players look as if they do not care or as if they are just going

through the motions. Aspiring professional athletes

talk so much about “making it to the bigs” or “getting drafted out of college,” but when they finally make it, we are frequently greeted with complacency and even lazi-ness. Perhaps they’re jaded by today’s sports culture, which focuses in on athletes starting in high school — maybe the atten-tion and the platform is old news after a few years.

Yes, competing professionally is technically a job. Yes, there is a contract and requirements and bonuses. But sports are also sup-posed to be something more — there is a reason you’re playing and we are watching. To me, dis-interest in your position of privi-lege is shortsighted and immature. You’re not just an employee on the NBA or MLB payroll.

Andy Murray is more than a tennis player. He is one of us — both haunted and motivated by his failures, but grateful for his suc-cesses. And if we saw more of that energy and humility elsewhere in professional sports, we’d see a much-needed return to an era where athletes were role models and competitors instead of too-cool celebrities.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at [email protected] .

school.Morice’s transition marks the achieve-

ment of a goal for which he has been work-ing since he began playing as a toddler.

Tod Hershovitz, assistant coach of the men’s soccer team at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an old family friend, added that Morice’s commitment to soccer and sportsmanship were present from the beginning.

“Max was always full of energy, pas-sionate, striving to improve his game and get better and better,” Herskovitz said. “His positivity and hard-working attitude have remained consistent over the years I’ve known him, and his love for the game only continues to grow.”

Morice’s move to France marks not only a major change in his athletic career and development, but also in his personal life. Though he visits the country several times a year to see family, Morice is living per-manently in France for the first time. No longer does he work to balance academ-ics and athletics, college social life and the demands of his team. Instead, he faces the pressures that come from playing soccer as a full-time job. Currently, Morice is on the second team, also known as the reserves team, but he said he hopes to earn a spot on the first team next year.

Professional soccer in Europe is distinct from American collegiate soccer in several ways, Morice said.

“The level of play is clearly a lot higher in the professional world,” he said. “The play is much more tactical and technical. The pure strength and grit aspects are not as emphasized as they are in the US.”

Nick Alers ’14, defender for men’s soc-cer team, said Morice’s playing style at Yale already stood out for emphasizing the same tactical approach more typical of European professional play.

With Morice’s departure, the Bulldogs lost a skilled, technical player who was a tremendous asset to the team’s e!orts ever since scoring the game-winning goal in his first game, against Central Connecticut

State University in the fall of 2011. But even in his departure from the team,

Morice’s ability to remind his teammates why they play and love soccer so much is perhaps his greatest legacy at Yale, team member Peter Jacobson ’14 said.

Morice said he remains uncertain about

whether or not he will return to Yale. “I [get] to play soccer everyday, all day.

What could be better?”

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at [email protected] .

Eli to play in French league

ease. Their conversation resulted in the Get a Grip campaign, which began McConnell’s sophomore year. The annual campaign kicked off last weekend with the Get a Grip game against Quinnipiac on Saturday.

Maddy Sharp ’13, a forward and the captain of the field hockey team, said the game is very mean-ingful for the team. She added that each year, the team sells T-shirts and wristbands on campus during the week leading up to the game, and the game draws the largest crowds of the season. Saturday’s come-from-behind 3–2 victory was no exception.

In addition to the game, which raises awareness about myotonic dystrophy, Sharp said the team runs a season-long Goal-a-Thon, in which people pledge to donate a certain amount of money for each goal the team scores. McConnell said that over the past two years, the campaign has raised $90,000, all of which supports research to find a cure for myotonic dystro-

phy.In the o!season, Sharp said, the

team still cares strongly about the campaign, but it does not neces-sarily remain at the forefront of team members’ minds because McConnell never complains about having the disease. Sharp said her work ethic is just as strong as any of the other players, and McCon-nell is a source of inspiration for the team.

Stuper added, “Despite what other student-athletes have that day — a tough class, a tough exam … [Ona’s playing] just can’t help [but] to inspire you to dig a little deeper.”

McConnell said she remains active in the fight against myo-tonic dystrophy throughout the year through her involvement as a board member for the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation. The non-profit organization organizes con-ferences, raises money, and gar-ners awareness about the disease in the hope of finding a cure.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at [email protected] .

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MORICE FROM PAGE 12

MCCONNELL FROM PAGE 12

BY HOWARD FENDRICHASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Chants of “Let’s go, Andy!” rang out between points during the last service game of his career, and again before the start of what would wind up as the last return game.

Always a fan favorite at the U.S. Open, and the 2003 cham-pion, Andy Roddick, headed into retirement with a 6–7 (1), 7–6 (4), 6–2, 6–4 loss to Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday.

It was an emotional fare-well for Roddick, who sat in his changeover chair, covering his face with a white towel, after sail-ing a running forehand long on the last point. He choked up dur-ing an on-court speech at Arthur Ashe Stadium, telling the crowd, “Oh, wow. For the first time in my career, I’m not sure what to say.”

“Since I was a kid, I’ve been coming to this tournament. I felt lucky just to sit where all of you are sitting today, to watch this game, to see the champions that have come and gone,” Roddick

told the fans. “I’ve loved every minute of it.”

The American surprisingly announced last Thursday, his 30th birthday, that the U.S. Open would be his final tournament. That impromptu news confer-ence came a day before Roddick’s second-round match, and he wound up winning that one, and a third-rounder, too, riding a wave of support in the stands.

But those two opponents were ranked 43rd and 59th, and the seventh-seeded del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, pro-vided a far more daunting chal-lenge - especially once he lifted his energy level and got his big, flat forehand cranked up.

The match was suspended because of rain Tuesday night after Roddick took the first point of the opening-set tiebreaker, and they resumed more than 18 hours later in front of thousands of empty blue seats. It took Rod-dick only four minutes to close that set, fresh and strong as can be, while del Potro was rather sluggish.

The key, probably, was the sec-ond set. Neither man faced so

much as a single break point, and this time it was del Potro’s turn to dominate the tiebreaker. Gain-ing more traction on his oppo-nent’s once-all-powerful serve, del Potro whipped a cross-court forehand return right at Roddick’s feet on set point.

Del Potro’s momentum swing continued when he broke to begin the third set. He hit a drop shot that Roddick chased, grunting loudly, and eventually del Potro deposited a passing winner that left Roddick hanging his head.

Del Potro broke again for a 3–0 edge in that set, producing a drop shot winner that Roddick didn’t even chase. As he walked to the sideline for the changeover, Roddick grimaced and flexed his right shoulder — the one that hit a then-record 155 mph serve years ago but now aches. He jok-ingly referred to it as “Hamburger helper” after his previous match.

Up 1–0 in the fourth, Rod-dick got a chance to make one last stand and postpone retirement for at least a set, if not another match, when del Potro double-faulted to hand over a break point. But Roddick sailed a backhand

long, then dropped his racket at his feet and leans forward with hands on head, the very picture of exasperation.

When Roddick double-faulted, then missed a forehand, to fall behind 3–2, the competitive por-tion of the match was essentially done. The rest of the way was a chance for spectators to salute a guy who always wore his emo-tions on his sleeve while finishing nine consecutive seasons ranked in the top 10.

Roddick made a brief appear-ance at No. 1 following his only Grand Slam trophy — and the most recent for an American man — nine years ago. He appeared in four other major finals, losing to Roger Federer each time, and wound up with 32 tournament titles overall.

“It’s been a road of a lot of ups, a lot of downs, a lot of great moments. I’ve appreciated your support along the way,” Roddick said. “I know I certainly haven’t made it easy for you at times but I really do appreciate it and love you guys with all my heart. Hope-fully I’ll come back to this place someday and see all of you again.”

Del Potro joined the fans in standing to applaud. He moved on to a quarterfinal against defend-ing champion Novak Djokovic, who advanced when his oppo-nent, No. 18 Stanislas Wawrinka, stopped because of illness and fatigue while trailing 6–4, 6–1, 3–1.

Djokovic’s Serbian Davis Cup teammate, No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic, finished his rain-interrupted 6–3, 7–6 (5), 6–2 victory over No. 19 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Ger-many, and gets No. 4 David Ferrer of Spain in the quarterfinals.

Olympic champion Andy Mur-ray became the first man to reach the semifinals, coming all the way back after being one point from facing a two-set deficit to beat No. 12 Marin Cilic 3–6, 7–6 (4), 6–2, 6–0.

Four-time major champion Maria Sharapova also turned things around to win her quar-terfinal Wednesday, coming from behind after a rain delay for the second consecutive match and defeating 2007 Wimbledon run-ner-up Marion Bartoli 3–6, 6–3, 6–4.

Sharapova was down 4–0 on

Tuesday when play was stopped. But she wound up improving to 12–0 in three-set matches this year.

“It’s a great statistic. It shows that I enjoy the battle no matter what the score is,” said Sharapova, who will face top-seeded Vic-toria Azarenka in the semifinals. “The third set, it’s the last set out there, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t put everything out there.”

Serena Williams faced no such trouble in her quarterfinal Wednesday night.

Williams, who has won three of her 14 Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Open, hit 12 aces while defeating 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic 6–1, 6–3.

Williams’ semifinal opponent will be 10th-seeded Sara Errani of Italy, who eliminated her good friend and doubles partner, No. 20 Roberta Vinci, in straight sets.

The story of the day, though, was Roddick’s departure — from the tournament and from tennis — and Williams watched his loss to del Potro.

“I love Andy so much,” Wil-liams said. “Such a good friend.”

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Max Morice ’15 averaged three points per game — one goal and one assist — during his time at Yale.

‘Get a Grip’ marks third year

Pro athletes: innocence lost?

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THE NUMBER OF GOALS MAX MORICE ’15 SCORED DURING HIS FIRST AND ONLY YEAR WITH YALE MEN’S SOCCER. Morice has left Yale and is pursuing a professional soccer career this season with Stade Rennes of France.

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KELLY JOHNSON ’16IVY LEAGUE HONOR ROLLJohnson, a setter on the volleyball team, was placed on the Ivy League Honor Roll this week. Johnson has 2.90 kills per set, 5.00 service aces per set, and 2.30 digs per set. The Bulldogs will compete against Villanova and North-western this weekend.

RYAN LAVARNWAY ’09HITS HOME RUN IN BOSTON WINAfter failing to hit a home run in his first 69 at-bats in the Majors this season, Lavarnway —normally a dependable power hittter —finally went long Tues-day night to help the struggling Red Sox break a seven-game losing streak with a 4-3 win against the Seattle Mariners.

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Looking back, Monday was not the best night to be at the U.S. Open. Top seed Roger Federer had already played earlier in the afternoon, and the Andy Roddick farewell tour wouldn’t resume until the next day.

But watching two rising stars gave me hope that passion still lives somewhere in sports today.

Those of us seated in the upper prom-enade level were assaulted with a harsh, humid wind that foreshadowed rain coming to Queens. The tournament organizers obvi-ously recognized this before I did and moved one of the two scheduled night matches out of Arthur Ashe and into the smaller Louis Armstrong stadium. The Williams sis-ters were pushed out of the main bill, so the remaining match had to be something huge that included Novak Djokovic, right?

Nope. Most of the 20,000-plus night-session attendees (including me) stuck around to see unassuming third seed Andy Murray take down youngster Milos Raonic in straight sets.

Murray isn’t American. He’s not as flashy as Rafael Nadal, nor as confident (or dare I say arrogant?) as Federer or Djokovic. But on Monday night, men and women alike pleaded, “Come on Murray!” — though the result was never really in doubt. At some point, I had to feel bad for Raonic, the 21-year-old Canadian with a massive serve but no love from the Americans at Arthur Ashe. He was clearly the underdog, but unfortunately, he was up against tennis’s definition of underdog. Is that why we love Andy Murray? Are we captivated by a sim-ple beat-the-odds story? Or is there some-thing more to our fascination with the Grand Slam-less Briton?

My deep investigation into this topic took me back to my own experience in Lon-don this summer. I arrived in the midst of Wimbledon, and not unexpectedly, the city was abuzz with tennis talk. In between the Queen’s Jubilee and the rapidly approach-ing Olympics, Londoners still made time for tennis. Horrible tennis puns headlined the British tabloids, and not surprisingly, the focus was all on hometown boy Andy.

With Murray-mania in full force, it was impossible not to root for him. I watched the Wimbledon final at the aptly named Sports Café in the heart of London, and I’ve never seen a crowd’s energy rise and fall with every point like it did for Murray. The atmosphere was jubilant one moment but turned abso-lutely silent when he lost a crucial service game in the fourth and final set.

Andy lost to Federer at Wimbledon, but perhaps the most important moment for the evolution of his career came right after the conclusion of the final. Post-match inter-views are usually trivial, but this one was special. Murray, overcome with emotion, realized right there that he lost his chance to beat big bad Roger on his home court. He was respectful, graceful and restrained, although his eyes filled with tears. And then, as if he needed to apologize, he choked out:

“I am getting closer.”This is when I realized that Murray is

more than an underdog. He’s human. Rafa, Djokovic, Roger — they’re celebrities. They’re cool, calm and collected — winning Grand Slam tournaments is just part of the job description.

Murray steps onto the court like he has something to prove, yet he’s captivatingly vulnerable. He curses and slams his racket after a bad point, but the anger is focused pitifully inward. He gets mad at himself, and it’s easy to see his displeasure. The glum facial expressions, the looks of dejection between games when things aren’t going right — this is a guy who lets the world know

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BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERGSTAFF REPORTER

When asked to name the student seen juggling and bouncing a ball around Yale’s campus, Men’s Soc-cer Head Coach Brian Tompkins did not have to think twice: Rarely could former sophomore Max Morice be seen without a soccer ball by his side.

But when Morice was offered a chance to take his lifelong passion to the professional level by sign-ing with Stade Rennes in France, the opportunity was too good to pass up.

“This has been my dream since I was a small boy, to play professional soccer,” Morice said.

After completing his freshmen year and playing in all 17 of the soc-cer team’s games, Morice signed a professional soccer contract with Stade Rennes as one of two new recruits this summer. The team normally only takes players from

France, but Morice’s family is from France and his grandfather was able to arrange a trial.

For the left-footed midfielder, soccer runs in the family. Morice’s father Pierre played with the team Nantes in the France First Divi-sion and in the United States with the Minnesota Thunder. Morice’s brother, Peter, played at Columbia.

Despite his talent on the field and commitment to the game, Morice’s early departure from Yale came as a surprise to Tomkins and three team-mates interviewed. While they said they recognized that Max’s passion for soccer would likely drive him into the profession eventually, they did not expect it would come so early.

But Tim Carter, Morice’s coach for all four years at Shattuck St. Mary’s School in Minnesota, said he could imagine Morice pursuing a professional career before graduat-ing college.

“Playing professionally was cer-tainly always in the back of Max’s mind,” Carter said. “I know Max has the mental strength, discipline and character to take him to this next level now.”

But Carter added that playing a year of collegiate soccer puts Morice in a stronger position to make the transition than if he had entered the professional ranks directly after high

Morice ’15 chases pro dreams

Years after diagnosis, McConnell ’13 inspiresBY ALEX EPPLER

CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Ona McConnell ’13 grasped two fingers on her left hand with her right fist, struggling to release her grip. While trying to relax the muscles in her hands, McConnell explained that this occurs every time that she grasps her field hockey stick — several times a day, six days a week as a member of the varsity women’s team. “This is myotonia,” she explained.

McConnell said her passion for field hockey began at the age of 9, and she eventually drew enough attention as a goalkeeper to be recruited for the varsity team at Yale.

During her senior year of high school, however, she noticed a decline in the quality of her game: she began missing balls that she normally would have saved. Toward the middle of her freshman year at Yale, she expe-rienced difficulty relaxing her grip. A doctor’s visit concluded with a diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy.

The first question she asked her doctor was, “Can I still play field hockey?”

She later asked doctors if playing sports would make her condition worse, and they told her that the evidence was incon-clusive. McConnell told them, “If you can’t prove it, I’m going to continue.”

While McConnell continued playing, she said her skills in goal

have declined and her opportu-nity to earn playing time is low. She said that the symptoms of her disease persist, including the myotonia, which causes both her muscles to cramp and also con-stant fatigue. No cure for myo-tonic dystrophy exists, and the medicines that she takes to com-bat some of her symptoms add cognitive slowness to her other symptoms.

“It was really annoying to not be able to do what I could [in goal],” she said. “I might have dropped out of Yale if it wasn’t for my team.”

Soon after the diagnosis, McConnell met with head coach Pam Stuper, and the two brain-stormed a way to raise awareness and money to combat the dis-

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Max Morice ’15 is taking his passion for soccer to France to play with Stade Rennes this season.

YALE BULLDOGS

Get a Grip raised about $90,000 from 2010-’11.

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I know Max has the mental strength, discipline and character to take him to this next level now.

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