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Keep your body parts in check. A massive ginkgo tree in the Timothy Dwight courtyard lost a limb Monday night after the howling winds ripped one of the upper branches o! the tree. In a Monday email to the TD community, TD Master Je!rey Brenzel said he expects the tree to withstand its injuries, adding that he and TD Dean John Loge had personal stakes in the tree’s well-being.

Not Benjamin Franklin. A group of three students was spotted bravely attempting to fly a kite over Cross Campus yesterday afternoon. But when a police car pulled up and turned on its siren, the daredevils quickly fled the scene.

Dress to impress. The Yale Club of New York City opened its doors Monday to Yalies who were stranded in the city and waiting for the trains to begin running. In addition, the club’s strict dress code was temporarily relaxed to house the wandering stragglers.

For the lucky few. Only students directly a!ected by the storm, such as those residing in the Northeast, will be permitted to turn in their Early Action applications to Yale by the extended Nov. 5 deadline. All other applicants must turn in their materials by the original Nov. 1 deadline, though teachers living in the Northeast can submit their letters of recommendation by Nov. 5.

And the resilient few. The impending storm did not stop a few tourists from sightseeing Yale. Several tour groups were spotted on Cross Campus taking photos in front of Sterling Memorial Library and Berkeley College around noon on Monday, despite the ominous clouds gathering overhead.

Mad dash for the goodies. In the face of danger, Yalies took the opportunity to stock up on food. One student was spotted running across High Street shielding a box of Insomnia Cookies from the storm, while others were seen stashing extra snacks and fruit from their residential colleges’ dining halls. One group even stocked up on Tropicana cranberry juice to use as drink mixers for upcoming social events.

‘One with the darkness.’ Morse Master Amy Hungerford cautioned her students yesterday against riding their college’s elevators in the event of a power outage. In addition, she reminded students not to light candles if the power were to go out, telling them instead to “become one with the darkness.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY2001 Administrators express mixed reactions to the Yale Admissions O"ce’s plan to build a website that will announce admission decisions online.

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Sandy descends on campus, city

BY JASMINE HORSEYCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In a 9:15 p.m. press briefing Monday evening, Gov. Dannel Malloy issued a “Katrina-like warning” to steel the state for Hurricane Sandy — a storm which had already caused significant upheaval across the state.

The storm, which o"cials say could see up to 600,000 Connecticut Land and Power customers face power shortages, made landfall in New Jersey at 6:45 p.m. Downed power lines and widespread flooding were reported throughout the tri-state region, with Malloy urging those who had failed to evacuate to get to the highest levels of their homes and “ride this thing out.”

City Chief Administrative O"cer Robert Smuts ’01 said that once the need for evacuation due to high tide

has been monitored, attention will turn to recovery and clean-up.

“I think our biggest concern is those areas where we’re worried about flooding. There is the potential to have greater flooding than we’ve had for at least a century in New Haven,” Smuts said. “We have urged evacuation and we are also prepared for the people who have not followed these instruc-tions. Outside these areas, this is a pretty rough storm, but this is noth-ing extraordinary.”

While city officials ordered resi-dents to evacuate areas of the city prone to flooding Sunday night, some residents remained behind during the peak of the storm on Monday. Flood-ing a!ected parts of the city close to the water, and United Illuminating

Region responds to storm BY JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTER

As rain and winds reaching speeds of almost 90 miles per hour stormed into New Haven Monday night, downing trees and breaking windows, the University man-dated the first curfew for all students living on campus in recent memory.

The Emergency Operations Cen-ter, sta!ed by 26 administrators and sta! members in the second floor of 101 Ash-mun St., directed the University’s response to Hurricane Sandy, canceling Tuesday classes and ordering all students to stay in their residence halls from 5:30 p.m. onward.

Though the storm managed to top-ple the bus shelter outside Woolsey Hall, send a 100-pound exhaust fan flying from the roof of the Malone Engineering Center and break several windows across campus, University Vice President Linda Lorimer told the News Monday night that no physi-

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A tree falls in Timothy Dwight college due to severe winds caused by Hurricane Sandy.

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BY SOPHIE GOULDSTAFF REPORTER

Though Yale posted a subdued 4.7 percent return on its invest-ments for the latest fiscal year, the University outperformed many of its peer institutions in endowment growth.

Returns across the Ivy League for the fiscal period that ended June 30 were significantly lower than in the year prior, with Yale experiencing a sharp decrease from the 21.9 percent figure reported in fiscal year 2011. But the University’s return was sec-ond-best in the Ivy League, trail-ing only Dartmouth’s 5.8 percent performance.

“The one-year returns are quite good on a relative basis, meaning we have done well com-pared to most of our peer group,” Provost Peter Salovey said in a Monday email. “However, the recovery from the recession is slower than anticipated, and so one-year growth in the endow-ment does lag our original bud-get model.”

U.S. colleges and univer-sity endowment experienced an

average 0.3 percent loss this year — a significant drop from the 19.2 percent average return in fis-cal year 2011, according to a pre-liminary study released Thurs-day by the National Association of College and University Busi-ness O"cers and the Common-

fund Institute that surveyed 463 higher education institutions. Endowments worth more than $1 billion earned average returns of 1.2 percent.

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Yale returns top peers’

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMASCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The New Haven Green, where benches and bus stops traditionally serve as makeshift homes for the city’s homeless, was vir-tually deserted Monday as the city’s homeless popula-tion attempted to escape the weather.

Across the city, homeless residents have taken to shel-ters, bus stops and covered areas to avoid the onslaught of wind and rain that promises to continue through Tuesday. Homeless shelters that usually close in the morning will stay open throughout the day for the duration of the storm.

In addition to encouraging homeless residents to head to traditional homeless shelters, the city opened an emergency shelter at Hill Regional Career High School that has enough space and supplies for sev-eral hundred storm dodgers

and serves as an overflow for the homeless shelters. Even so, some homeless residents remain outside as the hurri-cane bears down on the city.

“The police department has been coordinating with emergency shelter providers,” City Hall spokeswoman Eliza-beth Benton ’04 said. “They’re reaching out to anyone in any [homeless] encampments, making sure that they’re safe

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ELIZABETH BENTON ‘04Spokeswoman, City Hall

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Obama to serve a second term in o!ce.

Four years ago, we wanted to be older. We longed for the magic of filling a bubble or pulling a lever — of showing our support for a young Illinois senator with big words and big dreams for our country. We were young, then — many of us too young to vote. But we were old enough to be inspired.

Today, we are no longer inspired. The novelty of tricolored campaign posters and star-studded music videos has faded into a newfound awareness of what party poli-tics really means. To our dismay, symbols and songs alone could not overcome an economy in crisis, two wars and a bitterly divided political arena. Politics had to become serious again.

In the past four years, we have seen partisan squabbles and speeches, and we have wondered where the politics of 2008 went. Our genuine excitement has been replaced by su"ocating apathy. No one will sing on Old Campus this year — or if we do, our voices will be awkward and strained.

We once chose Obama because he was inspiring. We wanted to vote because a man — more than the issues behind him — made us care. We cannot rely on that kind of motivation any longer.

Indeed, the 2008 election was an outlier. Few elections ever pulsate with that kind of history-making energy. More often than not, poli-tics is dirty and cruel — and, most disappointingly, boring. Trendy logos and catchy songs cannot last forever. In their place, we have been given the Ryan budget and an extensive health care bill — policy plans that few students, let alone elected o!cials, understand in their entirety.

Politics is not always romantic, but it is always important. Every election makes the history books, and our lack of entertainment or inspiration is an unfit excuse to stand on the sidelines.

We are a collection of once avid, now apathetic supporters of Barack Obama, but we remain dedicated to the policies he still represents. Ideas inspire us, and unlike the politicians who preach them, ideas do not easily fall victim to our cynicism.

As Election Day approaches, we have one week left to prove that presidential elections are about more than one man.

Here and now, we can reject becoming a generation of bumper stickers and slogans, and instead demand ideas. We can be part of a self-reliant generation, not waiting for charisma, but ready to carry on the cause.

In that spirit, the News endorses President Barack Obama for a second term.

Vote to support social justice. We want our gay friends to be able to marry, and we recognize that women have the right to choose, as well as the right to receive equal pay for equal work. President Obama was the first president to vocalize his support for marriage equality. He appointed judges to the Supreme Court who would uphold the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade. The first bill he signed in o!ce was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which made it easier for women to file charges against discriminatory employers.

Vote to revive the economy. Measures such as the 2009 Ameri-can Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the automotive industry bailout have ensured tepid eco-nomic growth through stimulus and job creation. Though the amount of progress made has not been ideal, we believe Mitt Romney advocates the kind of deregulation and trickle-down economics that created the recession in the first place.

Vote to support education. A portion of Obama’s stimulus pack-age was used to support Pell Grants and student loan forgiveness, and Obama’s Race to the Top plan, although imperfect, has largely helped to improve test scores. Romney, meanwhile, comes from a party whose leaders have dispar-aged higher education as elitist, and Romney’s own budget propos-als put education spending on the chopping block.

Vote for President Obama because he stands for what many of us believe, even when most of us are too tired, too bored or too indi"erent to admit we believe it.

Rosa DeLauro for Congress

The News endorses Congresswoman Rosa De-Lauro for the U.S. House of Representatives in Connecticut’s 3rd District.

Born and raised in New Haven, DeLauro, a Democrat, has served as our District 3 congressio-nal representative since 1991. During that time — from her pre-election post as the executive director of EMILY’s List to her role in founding Congress’ Progressive Caucus — she has proved herself a competent leader driven by her firmly held values.

Indeed, DeLauro, one of the most liberal mem-bers of the House, may prove too liberal for some. Yet the policy positions she advocates stand in stark contrast to those of her opponent, Wayne Winsley. Though Winsley lacks extensive political experience — his campaign website instead points to a breadth of life experiences, from his experi-ences serving in the Navy to leading the Danbury NAACP — it is his policies, not his pedigree, that should alarm us.

Whereas DeLauro would seek to expand access to reproductive health services and further marriage equality, Winsley’s platform speaks directly to his duty to religion in Tea Party-esque terms. Whereas DeLauro understands the importance of stimulus in saving a stagnating economy, Winsley speaks of both reducing taxes and reducing spending in near-meaningless platitudes.

Moreover, DeLauro has over 20 years of legisla-tive record to stand by, while Winsley’s “Action Plan” reads as a checklist of conservative buzz-words with little-to-no explanation behind them. Without the resume of a political career to stand on, Winsley needed to articulate policy suggestions to convince voters he has an understanding of the political arena to match DeLauro’s 21 years. With no mention of specific plans — or even responses to specific bills already proposed in the House — Win-sley’s platform has done little to convince us that his vision extends beyond his campaign.

It should be noted that DeLauro is not without her flaws. Her engagement with the student body pales in comparison to Senate candidate Chris Murphy’s e"orts to engage with campus. Though failure to engage with Yalies is not specifically a fault, our campus contains thousands of registered Connecticut voters, and we fear DeLauro’s failure to campaign here speaks to a lack of engagement with constituents.

In an increasingly partisan House, a vote for DeLauro might be one for further partisanship. But her demonstrated interests, although far left, ultimately align more closely with our values than Winsley’s empty rhetoric.

Chris Murphy for Senate

The News endorses Congressman Chris Murphy for the U.S. Senate.

This race has received national attention — and the influx of funding that goes along with it — as the winner of the race may determine which party holds a majority in the Senate.

But in a race with two relatively mod-erate candidates, we are disappointed to see the petty, negative campaigning that has engulfed competition for a Senate seat previously held by Joe Lieberman '64 LAW '67, former chairman of the News. Recent advertisements would have us believe we are replacing Lieber-man with either a corrupt Congressman who skipped paying rent until he was taken to court or a businesswoman who declared bankruptcy to “sti" people she owed.”

Neither candidate should be defined by these attacks.

Chris Murphy, the current represen-tative for Connecticut’s 5th Congressio-nal District, has strong ties to the state. Elected to his current post in 2006, Murphy spent many years immersed in the business of state politics, serving in both Connecticut's House of Represen-tatives and state Senate.

Murphy is a moderate Democrat, and he stands by his positions with convic-tion. He supports regulations to protect the environment and advocates for mar-riage equality. Murphy, a former chair-man of the Connecticut Public Health Committee, supports the president’s healthcare reform and has encouraged the development of medical research through the authorship of Connecticut’s Stem Cell Investment Act.

We believe Murphy’s greatest strength is his clear stance in support of educa-tional funding. As his platform bluntly decrees: “We won’t be the cheapest place to build things, so we must be the smartest.” Murphy does not see educa-tion as an isolated political special inter-est, but an integral part of a functioning state and a thriving nation. Murphy’s repeated interactions with students — whether on Yale’s campus or at other universities around Connecticut — serve as testament to his conviction in the importance of an educated and engaged youth.

Linda McMahon, a former executive at World Wrestling Entertainment, has a strong business background, and the vast majority of her platform focuses on a pro-business agenda, advocating deregulation, decreased government spending and tax cuts for families and businesses. But McMahon has done little to specify her values beyond her conservative economic beliefs.

She has expressed moderate views on abortion and gay rights — cautiously supporting the right to choose and the repeal of "don’t ask, don’t tell" — but she’s done little to convince us that these social issues would be a priority for her.

We believe that Murphy’s broad agenda and previous experience make him the better candidate. When we consider Murphy as a candidate, his platform clearly states his approach to each issue, his policies closely match our own and he has a demonstrated voting record to support his beliefs. So long as Yalies avoid their televisions, they might realize the same.

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“What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land.” EURIPIDES GREEK TRAGEDIAN, QUOTED FROM HIS

PLAY “MEDEA”

BY ANYA GRENIERSTAFF REPORTER

Gods and generals, superhe-roes and aliens, and intergalac-tic warfare and Greek tragedy will come together this Wednesday in “Iphigenia Among the Stars.”

A School of Drama world pre-miere, “Iphigenia” will be a thesis show for directing student Jack Tamburri DRA ’13, who worked with writer Benjamin Fain-stein DRA ’13 to weave the text of Euripides’ two plays centering on the tragic heroine — “Iphigenia in Aulis” and “Iphigenia Among the Taurians” — with the lan-guage and aesthetics of the 1970s superhero comics of Jack Kirby. Despite the play’s blend of inspi-rations, the production is not unusual for a thesis project in both its integrative production process and its reinterpretation of a classic play.

Dustin Wills DRA ’14, a sec-ond-year directing student at the school just beginning to plan his thesis show, said that weighty themes and epic proportions — such as those in “Iphigenia” — are hallmarks of many thesis produc-tions. These projects are the larg-est of the drama school’s shows in both budget and run time. Each of the three directing thesis shows this year has a budget of between $23,000 and $24,000, and is scheduled to run for six nights.

For directing students, shows like “Iphigenia” provide one last chance to work on large-scale productions before they graduate and are forced to work their way into the theater world from the bottom up, Wills said.

“It’s unclear when is the next time we’re going to have the opportunity to do this,” Wills said. “No one is being squeamish about the plays being chosen … they’re all big, big shows.”

“Iphigenia” takes place in outer space, a more expansive setting than that of the average stage production, Tamburri said. Marrying Euripides’ plays with science-fiction influences was “intuitive” for him, he explained, since the eerie “adventure story” of the original plays fits perfectly into the “epic space opera.”

Enlarging the audience’s imag-ination to encompass this imagi-native world was a unique chal-lenge of the production because such settings are usually reserved for film or graphic novels rather than the stage, where special e!ects capabilities are more lim-ited, Tamburri said.

Tamburri explained that the natural limitations of working with a Greek play made it more feasible to emphasize the play’s dramatic setting — in Greek the-ater, the audience typically sees very little of the action. This made the team’s task to create a world onstage where the audi-ence can believe “on a fundamen-tal, emotional level” that these fantastic events are happening o!stage, “without worrying too much about pyrotechnics.”

To maintain the show’s grav-ity of tone, the production spent a significant amount of money buying weighty, dense materials for the costumes, instead of the spandex most people associate with superheroes. Tamburri said that while superheroes onstage are usually done with “an ele-ment of camp and self-aware-

ness,” he and the designers were careful to avoid this “contem-porary irony” in the costumes or staging since “Greek tragedy is a uniquely humorless form of the-ater.”

Tamburri emphasized that the values and morals of Ancient Greek civilization are so di!er-ent from today’s that setting it in another universe entirely made more sense to him than doing a traditional “update.” But despite this divide, he added, many of Euripides’ critiques apply to today’s culture as well, such as his attacks on the idea that war is inevitable or that men are intrinsically more valuable than women.

“I wanted to present what is di!erent and unusual and distant to us about this material,” Tam-burri said. “It’s a beautiful world to immerse one’s self in, but there is also great ugliness in it.”

Sheria Irving DRA ’13, who plays Iphigenia, said she needed to strip away some of the distance and find the basic human needs and desires at the root of the character, which are as simple as those of a little girl who wants her father’s protection and dreams of being a wife and mother.

While Irving said she has embraced the role as an oppor-tunity to grow, neither she nor Tamburri cast her as Iphige-nia. As with all curricular proj-ects at the School of Drama, the cast and design team for the show was assigned by the respective department heads, who under-stand which experiences would benefit their students, Wills said.

Irving said that the faculty wanted to push Irving out of her comfort zone by making her the protagonist of a play.

“I’m usually the kooky charac-ters, the weird ones … [I’ve] never had a role where I am the desired, the wanted,” she said.

Tamburri said that while hav-ing teams assigned to directors can be challenging, the experi-ence forces them to work with a variety of personalities, which will be a constant requirement throughout their careers.

The final choice of play is also outside of the director’s control. Students develop and submit several proposals to James Bundy, the dean of the Drama School, who then chooses which proj-ect they will ultimately complete. Tamburri said faculty and deans prioritize shows they are sure will be valuable learning experiences, with the result that “a new take on a great play gets chosen over the small, idiosyncratic project.”

The school’s admissions struc-ture provides these opportuni-ties for collaboration by design, said Steven Padla, senior associ-ate director of communications at the School of Drama and the Yale Repertory Theater. The num-ber of students admitted to each department is based on pairing directors, designers and actors in the correct proportions to work on student productions.

“Iphigenia Among the Stars” will open on Wednesday, one day later than initially scheduled due to Hurricane Sandy. The show will run at the Iseman Theater through Saturday, Nov. 3.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anya.grenier@yale.edu .

BY JANE DARBY MENTONSTAFF REPORTER

As part of an e!ort to enhance humanities education at Yale, administrators are encouraging professors to offer more team-taught courses.

The push to increase the num-ber of team-taught classes comes from an idea initially proposed during faculty workshops on teaching methods in the human-ities funded by a $1.95 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Pamela Schirmeis-ter, associate dean for Yale Col-lege and the Graduate School, said the Yale College Dean’s O"ce will solicit proposals for courses to be o!ered as soon as next year. Pro-fessors and administrators inter-viewed said team-taught classes enable interdisciplinary study and can transform a traditional lecture into a more stimulating dialogue but added that without coordination, classes with mul-tiple professors can be disjointed.

“We’re going to be able to encourage and I hope nurture the development of sustainable team-teaching in the humani-ties,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said. “We want to encour-age this kind of synthetic big pic-ture view with wonderful teach-ers.”

Director of Undergraduate Studies for Humanities Norma Thompson, who taught a class with Berkeley College Dean and art history professor Mia Genoni

entitled “Evidence and Human-istic Inquiry,” said team-teaching was “intellectually stimulating.” She added that students told her they enjoyed the conversational format of the class.

Thompson said she is actively encouraging Humanities pro-fessors to consider collaborative teaching, adding that there will be a new team-taught course in her department on Freud next semester.

Medieval history professor Paul Freedman, who co-taught a class on the exchange between the East and West with a Chinese his-tory professor, said team-teach-ing enables a departure from the more traditional lecture format by opening broader dialogue and encouraging investigative think-ing.

“It’s fun to see professors dis-agree on things, and when it works well, [team-teaching] opens a lot of di!erent perspec-tives and gives a student a sense of how we know about the material that’s being discussed as opposed to just seeing the lecturer as com-plete authority,” Freedman said

But Freedman said he thinks team-teaching should not under-mine the value of traditionally-taught courses, adding that a bal-ance of the two formats is most desirable.

Professor Charles Hill, who co-teaches Grand Strategy with pro-fessors Paul Kennedy and John Lewis Gaddis, said that while team-teaching can be effec-

tive, he does not think the Uni-versity should make too many changes because the team-taught approach would not be conducive for all subjects.

“I think that the idea of a pro-fessor is that [he or she] professes something, that there is a point of view, a special angle of knowl-edge and thought,” Hill said. “When you team-teach, you are fragmenting something like that, and it can be very positive… but I don’t think fragmentation for fragmentation’s sake is the right way to go beyond where it is right now.”

Team-taught courses must be properly designed to be effec-tive, said Joshua Landy, a Stan-ford professor of French and Ital-ian who has co-taught multiple courses. In one of the classes he co-teaches with two other pro-fessors from di!erent disciplines, entitled “The Art of Living,” Landy said each professor deliv-ers his own lecture on each of the five books students read, and then all professors engage in a round-table discussion in which they debate their di!erent viewpoints.

Lanier Anderson ’87, a Stan-ford philosophy professor who co-teaches a course with Landy, warned against the “baton-toss-ing” model of team-teaching, in which professors do not interact with each other while teaching. But he added that when profes-sors use team-teaching to open a discourse, students engage more seriously with course material.

Sib Mahapatra ’13, who is enrolled in Grand Strategy, said students in the course benefit from having three professors with di!erent perspectives, but mul-tiple faculty members might be distracting in a class with a nar-rower focus.

Dana Schneider ’15 said she thinks team-teaching could encourage students to think more critically about material, particu-larly in humanities courses.

“One of the main points of a humanities course is to question a text and form di!erent interpre-tation,” Schneider said. “If you are have only one professor, you more likely to just agree with the professor, but with two or three professors who disagree, students are more likely to realize they can form their own interpretations.”

The Mellon grant, which the University received in July, funds an interdisciplinary concentra-tion in the Graduate School, a program for post-doctoral stu-dents and a series of 10 fac-ulty workshops to assess strate-gies for teaching the humanities. Though the grant will not directly fund undergraduate classes, the administration and professors aim to implement ideas generated in the workshops.

This year’s Mellon concen-tration in the Graduate School will be entitled “Technologies of Knowledge.”

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

Mellon grant sparks team-teaching push

BY AMY WANGCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Simply by checking a box on their application supplements, students applying to Yale this year can simultaneously submit applications to Yale-NUS Col-lege in Singapore.

The Yale Supplement — an add-on to the Common Appli-cation that the University requires all applicants to com-plete — includes a new selection box this year allowing students to share their Yale applica-tions with Yale-NUS without any additional fees or materi-als. Yale-NUS, a joint venture between Yale and the National University of Singapore, will enroll its first class of students in the 2013-’14 school year. Dean of Undergraduate Admis-sions Jeffrey Brenzel said in an email to the News that the Admissions O"ce has not yet received enough applications to determine how many students will select the option and that numbers may di!er for the early and regular admission rounds. But Jeremiah Quinlan, deputy

dean of admissions for the Uni-versity and Yale-NUS dean of admissions and financial aid, said he expects steady interest in the Yale-NUS option.

“After conducting outreach in over 30 countries on five con-tinents and raising awareness about Yale-NUS for the past 12 months, we expect some very strong and interested students to apply to the College, and we are looking forward to reviewing their applications,” Quinlan said in an email to the News.

Brenzel said that the decision to add the sharing option on the Yale Supplement stemmed from the desire to make the “applica-tion process as easy as possible” for students interested in apply-ing to both Yale and Yale-NUS. He added that he thinks inter-national students will be partic-ularly interested in the option.

The supplement also makes it clear to applicants that shar-ing their applications with Yale-NUS will not a!ect admission decisions at Yale. Because each school has a separate admis-sions process, Brenzel said he is not concerned about students

shying away from the option out of fear of jeopardizing their Yale applications.

According to the supple-ment, students applying to Yale even in the Early Action round are eligible to select the option to share their applications with Yale-NUS because the new col-lege is outside the United States, so it does not violate the single-choice rule for early applica-tions. Applicants interested in solely applying to Yale-NUS can do so through a separate appli-cation on the College’s website.

Students applying to Yale have had mixed reactions to

the addition of the Yale-NUS option. Two of six students interviewed said they have already selected or will select the option.

Vincent Tang, a high school senior from Oklahoma, said he is choosing to share his Yale application with Yale-NUS because of the opportunity to pursue a well-rounded and multicultural education outside of the United States. He said he remains slightly unsure whether the school will offer a typical “Yale experience” but added that he thinks the school can still o!er an interesting educa-tion.

“The curriculum should be very strong and unique because it will o!er two di!erent per-spectives on issues and topics,” Tang said, adding that he also appreciated how easy it was to share his application with both schools.

Yale-NUS College will enroll an inaugural class of 150 fresh-men next fall.

Contact AMY WANG at xiaotian.wang@yale.edu .

Yale-NUS joins Common App

‘Iphigenia’ reimagined

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“Iphigenia Among the Stars” reinterprets two classical Greek tragedies by Euripides as an epic space opera.

We expect some very strong and interested students to apply to the College.

JEREMIAH QUINLANDean of admissions and financial aid,

Yale-NUS

BY MONICA DISARE AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER

STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

After months of aggressive ads, debates and campaigning, the Connecticut Senate race is enter-ing its final week before elections.

As of Monday, polls show Democratic candidate Chris Murphy building a slight advan-tage over Republican competi-tor Linda McMahon, but the race nonetheless remains close. State Senate majority leader Mar-tin Looney said Murphy’s lead is a result of strong debate per-formances, which supporters hope voters will remember come Tuesday. Ben Mallet ’16, cam-paign director for the Yale College Republicans, said the race is still very close, and McMahon advo-cates will continue to campaign — shifting their focus from reg-istering voters to ensuring that those who have voiced support for McMahon turn out to vote for her on Election Day.

“Murphy’s message is coming across more clearly now, espe-cially since the debates,” Looney said. “He really showed his expe-rience and mastery on a range of issues, including the issue that will likely decide this election: the economy. The debates were a real turning point.”

A Rasmussen telephone poll of likely Connecticut voters released Monday indicated Murphy win-ning 51 percent of the vote com-pared to McMahon’s 45 percent. These latest polling figures come at the end of a month when candi-dates for the most part remained in a dead heat; McMahon had even pulled ahead by 1 percentage point in the start of October.

Looney said the Senate seat is still anyone’s game. Accord-ing to the RealClearPolitics Aver-age, Murphy leads McMahon by a four-point spread. Mallet agreed that the race is still up for grabs.

“It is so exciting how much momentum the McMahon cam-paign has gathered over the last couple months,” Mallet said, “and now it’s really neck and neck.”

Nicole Hobbs ’14, a student working on the Chris Murphy campaign, said in an email to the News that although she believes Chris Murphy is in a good posi-tion to win the election, there is still much work to be done in the coming days.

In hopes of breaking through in the polls, both campaigns are doubling down on voter turnout efforts. Hobbs said each cam-paign is in “get out the vote” mode — increasing canvassing and phone banking initiatives to convince people to vote.

The focus of the McMahon

campaign is beginning to shift from finding out where voters are to making sure voters come to the polls, Mallet said. One controver-sial strategy the McMahon cam-paign employed is unveiling a new campaign ad informing voters that many people in Connecticut are voting for both McMahon and President Barack Obama despite the fact that the two represent opposing parties, he added.

Looney called the strategy “surprising,” adding it “definitely angered the Republican base in the state.”

Volunteers on both sides spoke about building excitement in the final week of the campaign.

“With a week to go before the election, those working on cam-paigns are definitely feeling a range of emotions,” Hobbs said, “In only a week’s time we’ll be able to see if all of the hard work we have put in over the past months will bring us the results we have been working for.”

Mallet echoed that sentiment and said people at the McMahon campaign are excited for Election Day.

Former President Bill Clinton campaigned Sunday with Mur-phy in Waterbury, Conn. Speak-ing at the Palace Theater to a crowd of over 2,500, Clinton crit-icized McMahon for falling into lockstep with presidential can-

didate Mitt Romney’s economic policies. The McMahon cam-paign fired back, criticizing Con-necticut’s current economic stagnation and touting McMa-hon’s business record in an Oct. 28 press release.

“Connecticut needs more good jobs,” the McMahon campaign said. “McMahon has a six-point Jobs Plan ready to take with her to Washington to get our economy back on track.”

Neither campaign could be reached for an o"cial comment Monday afternoon. Campaign o"ces closed early in lieu of Hur-ricane Sandy.

As the race storms on, both campaigns said voter turnout on the day of the election is key.

“Who wins this election, whether we’re talking about the presidential election, the Senate race here in Connecticut or even more local races, will absolutely be dependent upon turnout,” Hobbs said. Mallet agreed, cit-ing the primary as an example of an election in which a few people changed their minds right before voting.

Polls open in Connecticut at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at

isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Senate race nears end

FROM THE FRONTPAGE 4 YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” WARREN BUFFET

AMERICAN BUSINESS MAGNATE, INVESTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST

reported nearly 5,000 New Haven residents without power as of 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Malloy ordered local officials in shoreline towns to “high alert” after an 8:15 p.m. emergency call with city o!cials from coastal cit-ies. Describing the situation in coastal regions as “dire,” he called

for an immediate evacuation of coastal towns for a Category 4 event, the highest possible warn-ing. Coastal regions in New Haven were listed as being of substantial concern for major flooding.

“I’ve told the mayors and first selectmen that they have no time to waste,” Malloy said. “To the extent they have the ability to order mandatory evacuations

I’ve told them must give this their highest priority. I was covncerned all along about the potential destructive impact of this last high tide, and unfortunately the best information we have confirms my worst fears.”

Malloy’s announcement came in response to the National Weather Service’s issue of a high wind warning and coastal flood

warning in Connecticut, which said that “historic and life threat-ening flooding” could occur up until 3 p.m. Tuesday. Tidal surges were expected to be up to 11 feet beginning Monday evening on western Long Island Sound, with breaking waves of 15 to 20 feet on ocean-facing shorelines in south-ern Fairfield, southern Middlesex, southern New Haven and south-

ern New London. The National Weather Service further reported that Sandy will move faster than expected at about 28 mph, causing wind gusts of up to 90 mph along immediate south-facing coast-lines of the same regions Monday evening.

Though Sandy was downgraded to a tropical storm by forecast-ers after it made landfall in New Jersey with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, it cut power to nearly a million New Yorkers and threatened Manhattan’s south-ern tip with a record 13-foot storm surge. One man was reported to have died after a tree fell on a house in Queens, and another reportedly died from electrocution. Reports of flooded subway lines, contin-ued strong wind gusts and power loss in lower Manhattan came in throughout Monday night.

Speaking on behalf of Connect-icut’s Emergency Operations Cen-ter Monday evening, Rick Fontana said the unprecedented tidal surge expected is causing concern with regards to areas that are close to the coastline.

“I would certainly not say that everything is under control,” Fon-tana said. “We are still in the mid-dle of the response to a Category 1 hurricane. The Emergency Oper-ations Center is coordinating together and trying to do the best job we can to protect public safety in the city of New Haven.”

Adding to Mayor DeStefano’s Monday morning closure of the City Hall and reiteration of the need for shoreline residents to evacuate, Gov. Malloy announced road closures for all state highways at 1 p.m. He also signed four exec-utive orders to assist Hurricane Sandy recovery e"orts, which he said will allow tax-filing exten-sions to Connecticut residents and businesses along with faster restoration of state power infra-structure.

Some Connecticut communi-ties, including Chester and Kill-ingworth, reported as much as 100 percent of residents without elec-tricity, while downed power lines created hazardous areas in the city of Tolland, Conn. Throughout the day, residents seeking refuge from the storm due to flooding and power outages arrived at storm shelters. In West Haven, more than 100 people were housed in the emergency center at Carrigan School Monday afternoon, while Jonathan Law High School in Mil-ford saw up to 35 residents arrive. Sta"ed by city personnel and vol-unteers, the shelter is providing three hot meals a day to residents and also accommodates animals.

Malloy directed all non-essen-tial state employees not to report to work on Tuesday.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at jasmine.horsey@yale.edu .

endowments as of June 30 ranged from $2.52 billion to $30.7 billion, with Yale’s $19.3 billion endow-ment coming in second only to Harvard’s.

Larger endowments have his-torically earned higher returns than smaller ones, NACUBO Pres-ident and Chief Executive Offi-cer John Walda and Commonfund Institute Executive Director John Griswold said in a statement. They added that this trend was briefly reversed during the recent finan-cial crisis, when “smaller institu-tions tended to outperform owing to their larger allocations to fixed income and short-term securities.”

William Jarvis ’77, manag-ing director of the Commonfund, told the News that many fiscal years are characterized by trends in investment performance, such as the 2009 and 2010 theme of a “strong rebound performance by the domestic stock market.” Fis-cal year 2012 was di"erent because “there was no overriding theme,” he said.

“Markets did poorly relative to their long-term performance,” Jar-vis said, citing the U.S. stock mar-ket and international equities as examples. “Those factors played out in portfolios in di"erent ways depending on how assets were

allocated.”Yale’s investment model, which

was pioneered by Chief Invest-ment O!cer David Swensen and has been emulated by many of its peer institutions, continues to favor illiquid, alternative assets such as private equity and real estate as part of its diverse portfo-lio. The Investments O!ce aims to allocate roughly 35 percent and 22 percent of its endowment to those two illiquid asset classes, respec-tively, in the current fiscal year.

Colleges and universities with endowments larger than $1 bil-lion invested 59 percent of their endowment assets in alterna-tive strategies on average this year, compared to only 14 per-cent for institutions with endow-ments worth less than $25 million, according to the NACUBO-Com-monfund report.

Several university investment o!ces have cited di!cult global economic conditions as a cause of the modest investment returns in fiscal year 2012.

“The first five months of the year were characterized by a sharp downward correction in the pub-lic equity markets, driven by the U.S. debt ceiling debate, stress in the eurozone, and fears of a slow-down in the Chinese economy,” said Jane Mendillo, president and chief executive o!cer of Harvard

Management Company, in a Sep-tember report.

U.S. markets improved con-siderably during the winter and spring, resulting in a 5.5 percent increase in the S&P500 Index for fiscal year 2012, but international equity in developed and emerging markets ultimately posted double digit losses for the year.

The value of Yale’s endowment dropped by about $100 million this year due to spending distributions. But Salovey said that when deter-mining spending levels, admin-istrators focus less on short-term fluctuations in investment per-formance than on the long-term growth of the endowment, which has grown from $2.8 billion to $19.3 over the past 20 years.

While the University’s endow-ment lost nearly a quarter of its value in fiscal year 2009 following the onset of the nationwide eco-nomic recession and posted the worst return in the Ivy League in fiscal year 2010 of 8.9 percent, Yale reported a 21.9 percent return in fiscal 2011, putting the University back on par with the performance of its peer institutions.

Yale’s endowment delivered an average return of 10.6 percent over the past 10 fiscal years.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

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The New Haven Green was left deserted as Hurricane Sandy approached the city.

HURRICANE UPDATE

EVACUATED AREASAll areas of Morris Cove

south of Girard Street Front Street and Haven

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Water Street and the highway in City Point

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cal injuries had been reported as students were largely adhering to the curfew.

Lorimer said the Yale Facilities Department sta! will inspect the campus this morning prior to allowing students to leave their dorms, adding that class can-cellations on Wednesday — the third day since the first cancella-tions — are highly unlikely.

“We’re hopeful,” Lorimer said. “We’re prepared for the worst, and we’re hoping for the best.”

Director of Facilities Ser-vices Roger Goode said it was too early to speculate Monday night about the cost of damages to the University until after the storm passes. Goode, who worked from the EOC Monday, said roughly 30 members of the grounds crew for the Facilities Depart-ment were on duty at any given time Monday, with shifts stag-gered to ensure sta"ng through the night.

Goode said he was not aware of any flooding on cam-pus Monday night, adding that the grounds crew successfully cleared fallen branches and trees from campus.

“Damage-wise, we’ve weath-ered the storm pretty well,” Goode said.

Lorimer and others staffing the EOC met with various deans

before coming to the consensus that canceling today’s classes is in the best interest of the stu-dents and faculty. She said deans will confer with the faculty of their schools after the storm to determine any plans for make-up classes.

Lorimer told students in an email around 6:30 p.m that the University was at risk of los-ing much of its power last night because the United Illuminat-ing Company, a public electri-cal company that serves 325,000 customers, had the right to decrease the power it allocated to

Yale if enough of the provider’s other customers lost electricity.

Stairwells and entryways have emergency lighting, Lorimer said in her email, adding that students could use their smart-phones to provide additional illumination in the case of a power outage.

“And you might want to add a flashlight app if you don’t have one,” she added in the email.

Lorimer said the EOC’s response effort encompassed various aspects of campus life. She said Executive Director of Dining Rafi Taherian coordi-

nated efforts to provide food for undergraduates and gradu-ate students from the EOC, and Deputy Director of Environ-mental Health and Safety Robert Klein also worked with the EOC to oversee laboratory safety, such as making sure various appa-ratuses in the science labs were secure.

Students interviewed were pleased with the Universi-ty’s swift and comprehensive response to the storm and the amount of updates they received by email.

Mark Trapani ’14 said he was

happy with the information Lorimer distributed and attrib-uted the effectiveness of the emergency response to her lead-ership.

“I would vote for Linda for president,” Trapani said, adding that Lorimer deserves a place in the “Yale Pantheon.”

Prior to Monday, the Univer-sity had not o"cially canceled classes since a massive blizzard in February 1978.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

FROM THE FRONT “Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.” HANNAH MORE

ENGLISH RELIGIOUS WRITER AND PHILANTHROPIST

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and directing them to appropri-ate shelters.”

Rick Fontana, the dep-uty director of the city’s Emer-gency Operations Center, said that police officers have been instructed to provide information on the emergency shelters to any homeless residents they see, in addition to visiting what Fontana called “known encampments.”

Columbus House, a home-less shelter with 155 beds on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard in New Haven that normally closes in the morning, is keeping its doors open throughout the day for the remainder of the storm. While it is operating for longer hours, however, it is also doing so with a reduced number of sta! due to the di"culty of traveling through the storm.

Nakia Culbreath, an employee at the shelter, said that while there has been an influx of res-idents since Sunday due to the hurricane’s arrival, there were still open beds.

“We’re not at capacity,” Cul-breath said.

In addition to traditional shel-ters and the emergency shelter at Hill Regional Career High School, the city opened a large space on Lexington Avenue, albeit without beds or supplies, where residents can escape the weather.

Gary Crawford, a homeless veteran and one of the few res-idents still on the New Haven Green as of late Monday after-noon, chose to ride out the storm in a bus stop on Elm Street. Crawford said that he had not chosen to go to a shelter because the closest one, Immanuel Bap-tist Shelter on Grand Avenue, was like a prison.

“You have to report. You’re searched down,” meaning strip-searched, Crawford said. “That’s why I say it’s like jail.”

According to the Yale Hun-ger and Homelessness Action Project, approximately 700 New Haven residents are homeless at any given time.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at

matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

ZOE GORMAN/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The high-speed winds of Hurricane Sandy have resulted in numerous fallen branches around campus.

Admins cancel classes for Tuesday Homeless look to shelters

for safety

You have to report. You’re searched down. That’s why I say [Immanuel Bapist Shelter] is like a jail.

GARY CRAWFORDHomeless New Haven resident

Damage-wise, we’ve weathered the storm pretty well.

ROGER GOODEDirector, Facilities Services

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HUMOR THROUGH THE HURRICANE

JOYCE XI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MORSE PUTS ON A TALENT SHOWFaced with the prospect of an uneventful night on lockdown in their college, a group of Morse seniors organized an “impromptu” talent show, publicized in a college-wide email from Morse Master Amy Hungerford.

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BY JULIE PACEASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama the candidate stepped aside Monday so the commander in chief could take over.

In the waning days of his re-election bid, the president scrapped two days of campaign-ing and retreated from the trail. He hunkered down at the White House to oversee the govern-ment’s response to the East Coast superstorm — and to proj-ect presidential leadership.

“The election will take care of itself next week,” Obama said, speaking to reporters at the White House after hastily flying back to Washington from Flor-ida, one of the handful of states the two campaigns are contest-ing the hardest.

Obama aides insisted that was not only the right decision, but also an easy one. Even with Obama locked in a tight race with Republican Mitt Romney, the president would have risked appearing to put politics over the public’s safety had he pressed on with his travel plans. And that could have been enough to turn o! some still-persuadable voters at a critical juncture in the cam-

paign.Now Obama has the oppor-

tunity — and the responsibil-ity — to show the type of com-mand in a crisis that only the president can o!er. While Rom-ney can make symbolic gestures, like canceling his own campaign events Monday and Tuesday, he doesn’t have the power to pro-vide tangible assistance.

“The president has real responsibilities and those responsibilities come first,” said David Axelrod, the president’s chief campaign strategist.

Of course, Obama’s response to the storm still had plenty to do with politics. And he used both his words and his actions to sharpen the contrast between a candidate running for president and a candidate who already is president.

After returning to the White House Monday morning, Obama walked through the rain straight into the Oval Office. He con-vened a meeting with top gov-ernment o"cials in the Situa-tion Room. And later, standing behind a podium bearing the presidential seal, he appealed to politically divided Americans to put their di!erences aside dur-ing the storm.

“We look out for our friends,

we look out for our neighbors and we set aside whatever issues we may have otherwise to make sure that we respond appropri-ately and with swiftness and that’s exactly what I anticipate is going to happen here,” he said.

Much of what Obama planned to do this week at the White House — hold briefings, autho-rize federal funding and stay in touch with o"cials in states affected by the storm — could have easily been done from the road. The White House sets up secure Internet and phone con-nections wherever he travels and many of his briefings, even when he’s in Washington, are done over the phone or video confer-ence.

Some aides mentioned that to the president as they contem-

plated how they would balance Obama’s robust campaign travel schedule with the impending storm. But those discussions didn’t last long. Obama told advisers he needed to be at the White House.

“This is one of the circum-stances where in his view it makes the most sense for him to be in place in the White House,” press secretary Jay Carney said on Air Force One’s bumpy flight straight into the storm.

Obama’s team had planned to kick off the final full week of campaigning with a trio of joint rallies with former Presi-dent Bill Clinton. The two pres-idents were supposed to spend Monday dashing from Florida to Ohio to Virginia rallying Demo-cratic supporters and trying to sway the small swath of unde-cided voters.

Even as it became clear the storm might disrupt some of those plans, the president did everything he could to squeeze in just a little more time on the campaign trail.

Obama moved up a flight to Orlando, Fla., where his first event with Clinton was sched-uled, from Monday morning to Sunday night in order to get ahead of the storm.

Obama aims to project leadership as storm hits

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President Barack Obama returned to the White House from a campaign stop in Florida in order to monitor Hurricane Sandy.

BY MARK SHERMANASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Monday weighed copyright protections for publishers, creative artists and manufacturers in a global marketplace in a case that has attracted the interest of Costco, eBay and Google. The outcome has important implications for consumers and multibillion dollar annual sales online and in discount stores.

The court was about the only Washington institution open on Monday. The justices and spec-tators who braved the rain and wind saw a book publisher face o! against a Thai graduate stu-dent in the U.S. who resold the publisher’s copyrighted books on eBay after relatives first bought nearly identical, cheaper versions abroad.

The court seemed to struggle with whether it matters where the books were produced and first sold.

The justices’ answer to those questions is of enormous inter-est to discount sellers like Costco and online business like eBay and Google that o!er good prices on many products that were made abroad.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons won a copyright infringe-ment lawsuit against the stu-dent, Supap Kirtsaeng. The high court is considering Kirtsaeng’s appeal, which argues that Wiley lost its right to control resale of the books once his relatives bought them legally.

Kirtsaeng used eBay to sell $900,000 worth of books pub-lished abroad by Wiley and oth-ers and made about $100,000 in profit. The international edi-tions of the textbooks were essentially the same as the more costly American editions. A jury in New York awarded Wiley $600,000 after deciding Kirt-saeng sold copies of eight Wiley textbooks without permission.

The issue at the Supreme Court concerns what protec-tion the holder of a copyright has after a product made out-side the United States is sold for the first time. In this case, the issue is whether U.S. copy-right protection applies to items that are made abroad, purchased abroad and then resold in the U.S. without the permission of the manufacturer. The high court split 4–4 when it tried to answer that question in a case in 2010 involving Costco and Swiss watch maker Omega.

Justice Elena Kagan sat out the Costco case, but is tak-ing part in the new dispute. She signed the government’s legal brief in the Costco case that took Omega’s side. The govern-ment is backing the publisher

against Kirtsaeng, but it advo-cates something of a compro-mise in laying down a rule for other disputes.

The court already has rejected copyright claims over U.S.-made items that were sold abroad and then brought back to the United States for resale.

The justices did not appear entirely comfortable with either side’s arguments, or the govern-ment’s middle ground.

E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Kirt-saeng’s lawyer, ran into skep-ticism from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when he suggested that a ruling for Wiley would allow publishers and other copyright holders control over repeated resale of their products if only they made them abroad.

“So a U.S. manufacturer who wants to sell into the U.S. market has this incentive to go and send jobs overseas. It’s an irresistible incentive if this court says the law is what Wiley says,” Rosen-kranz said.

Ginsburg replied, “Has that ever happened?”

Rosenkranz said he is sure it has, but could not come up with any specifics.

On other hand, Theodore Olson, representing Wiley, struggled to satisfy justices who wondered whether Rosenkranz might be right.

Justice Stephen Breyer asked Olson whether, without seeking permission, people could resell their foreign cars, libraries could sell or lend books bought from foreign publishers or museums could display paintings by Pablo Picasso. “Those are some of the horribles that they sketch. And if I am looking for the bear in the mouse hole, I look at those hor-ribles, and there I see that bear. So I’m asking you to spend some time telling me why I’m wrong.”

Olson did not allay Brey-er’s concerns with his answer. “I would say that when we talk about all the horribles that might apply in cases other than this, museums, used Toyotas, books and luggage, and that sort of thing, we’re not talking about this case.”

When Rosenkranz returned to the podium to conclude the argument, he said, “To Justice Breyer’s question, the bear is there. It is very much there.”

The current case has attracted so much attention because it could affect many goods sold online and in discount stores. The resale of merchandise that originates overseas often is called the gray market, and it has an annual value in the tens of billions of dollars.

Consumers benefit from this market because manufactur-ers commonly price items more cheaply abroad than in the United States.

High court weighs copyright case

The president has real responsibilities and those responsibilities come first.

DAVID AXELRODChief campaign strategist, Obama

campaign

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“You can’t just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.” PAUL KANTNER AMERICAN ROCK MUSICIAN

BY BEN HUBBARDASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activ-ists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syr-ia’s troubles started 19 months ago.

The death toll for what was sup-posed to be a four-day cease-fire between the regime of President Bashar Assad and rebels seek-ing his overthrow exceeded 500, and activists guessed the govern-ment’s heavy reliance on air power reflected its inability to roll back rebel gains.

“The army is no longer able to make any progress on the ground so it is resorting to this style,” said activist Hisham Nijim via Skype from the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun.

Activists said more than 80 peo-ple were killed nationwide Monday while videos posted online showed fighter jets screaming over Syrian towns, mushroom clouds rising from neighborhoods and residents searching the remains of damaged and collapsed buildings for bodies.

One video from Maaret al-Numan in the north showed residents try-ing to save a boy who was buried up to his shoulders in rubble. Another showed the dead bodies of a young boy and girl laid out on a tile floor.

The airstrikes focused on rebel areas in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, as well as on res-tive areas in and around the capi-tal Damascus. The regime has been bombing rebel areas in the north for months, but had sparingly used its air force near the capital, pre-sumably to avoid isolating its sup-porters there.

But analysts say that rampant defections and rising rebel capa-bilities have lessened the regime’s ability to take back and hold rebel areas, making air strikes its most e!ective way to fight back.

Monday was supposed to be the fourth and final day of an interna-tionally sanctioned cease-fire to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, one of the holi-est periods of the Muslim calen-dar. But violence marred the truce almost immediately after it was to go into e!ect on Friday and con-tinued apace through the week-end.

Syria launches airstrikes BY GILLION WONG

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NINGBO, China — A victory by pro-testers against the expansion of a chem-ical plant proves the new rule in China: The authoritarian government is scared of middle-class rebellion and will give in if the demonstrators’ aims are limited and not openly political.

It’s far from a revolution. China’s nascent middle class, the product of the past decade’s economic boom, is looking for better government, not a di!erent one. They’re especially concerned about issues like health, education and property values and often resist the growth-at-all-costs model Beijing has pushed.

The past week’s chemical-plant pro-tests reached an unruly crescendo over the weekend, when thousands of people marched through prosperous Ningbo city, clashing with police at times. The city gov-ernment gave in Sunday and agreed to halt the plant’s expansion.

Even so, the protesters did not back

down, staying outside city government o"ces hours after the concession. About 200 protesters, many of them retirees, returned Monday to make sure the govern-ment keeps its word on the oil and ethylene refinery run by a subsidiary of Sinopec, the state-owned petrochemical giant.

“In yesterday’s protest, the ordi-nary people let their voices be heard,” a 40-year-old businessman who would give only his surname, Bao, said on the pro-test line Monday. Government o"cials, he said, “should say they are completely can-celing the project. They should state clearly that they will stop doing these projects in Ningbo and the rest of China.”

The protest in Ningbo — a centuries-old trading center of tree-lined streets and canals south of Shanghai now surrounded by industrial development zones — was well-timed. It came a few weeks before a transfer of power in the ruling Commu-nist Party, and Beijing wants calm nation-wide so as not to detract from the leader-ship transition.

Given that pressure and the fact that many Ningbo o"cials also have middle-class concerns about air pollution and other quality-of-life issues, the local gov-ernment found it easier to back o!, Peking University sociologist Liu Neng said.

“The government would need lots of courage to insist on keeping this project. The cost would be too high if the protest escalated to another level,” Liu said. “Since the 18th party congress is around the cor-ner, it is very important to maintain stabil-ity.”

Chinese middle class protests gov.

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A proposed expansion of the Sinopec Zhen-hai petrochemical factory in Ningbo was canceled after protests by citizens.

In yesterday’s protest, the ordinary people let their voices be heard.

BAOChinese businessman

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Reigning NBA Sixth Man of the Year James Harden was traded from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Houston Rockets on Sunday after the Thunder were unable to reach an agreement on Harden’s contract extension. The Thunder received guards Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb, as well as two first-round draft picks and a second-round draft pick in exchange for Harden.

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The Yale women came into the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships with a No. 22 national ranking, but finished fifth in the tournament.

sixth with a score of 158. No. 7 Cornell captured the women’s title with 31 points and No. 23 Princeton grabbed the men’s championship with 26 points.

As the only nationally ranked squad in the Ivy League other than Cornell, the women’s team began the day with high expectations. Yet despite several strong individual performances, the Bulldogs struggled to capitalize on the momentum of a season that saw the team earn its first national ranking in seven years. The team dropped a spot from its fourth-place fin-ish last year as well.

Kayali, who covered the six-kilome-ter course in 20:49.00, and Liana Epstein ’14 at 20:53.5 led the way for the Bulldogs, finishing ninth and 11th overall, respec-tively. Their performances earned them both second-team all-Ivy honors. Emily Stark ’16, Caitlin Hudson ’13 and Anna Demaree ’15 also scored for the Elis, plac-ing 21st, 33rd and 34th, respectively.

“We were disappointed by our team performance today,” Gosztyla said in an email to the News. “We didn’t implement our pack running strategy that has been the strength of our team this fall, which then hurt our overall result.”

A number of other factors also contrib-

uted to the Elis’ poor performance. A hip injury sidelined standout athlete Millie Chapman ’14, and another of Yale’s top runners, Elizabeth Marvin ’13, slid to the back of the race because of illness. Kayali also said that the Bulldogs may have been negatively a!ected by the pressure to live up to its ranking.

Although expectations for the men’s team were not quite as high, head coach Paul Harkins noted that the team left room for improvement.

“I thought [the team’s performance] was solid,” Harkins said. “We’re still not 100 percent clicking on the same page or at the same time, but I thought it was solid.”

Matthew Nussbaum paced Yale’s

squad, finishing the eight-kilometer course in 24:05.00 and earning second-team all-Ivy honors. Alexander Conner ’16, Kevin Lunn ’13 and Tim Hillas ’13 fol-lowed Nussbaum, placing 32nd, 34th and 40th, respectively. Isa Qasim ’14 rounded out the scoring Bulldogs and broke into Yale’s full-strength top five for the first time this season.

“There were a lot of positives,” Har-kins said. “Yeah, we wanted a higher fin-ish, but I’ll take the blame a little bit for sending out some of the guys a little too aggressive.”

Harkins added that although the team continues to improve, it will take more time for the improvements to show because of the conference’s strength. The squad also finished sixth at last year’s Ivy championships at Princeton; that team’s top seven averaged a time of 25:46.30, while this year’s squad averaged a time of 24:41.20

The men’s and women’s cross coun-try teams will look to rebound on Nov. 9 at the NCAA Regional Championships at Hammonasset State Park in Madison, Conn.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

Elis face Ivy disappointment

freshman duo of Jason Brown ’16 and Martin Svenning ’16, 8–4 to advance to the finals.

The seniors were joined the next day by John Huang ’13 and Patrick Chase ’14, who had defeated their teammates Krum-holz and Daniel Faierman ’15 by 8 –3. Both veteran Yale doubles teams had prior experience play-ing with their respective part-ners, which made for an interest-ing final match between players who knew their opponents very well. Nationally ranked No. 54 Ho!man and Powers were victo-rious with a quick 8–2 win.

“After losing in the finals at regionals it was important to Powers and me to finish this tour-nament strong,” Hoffman said. “Chase and Huang are a really tough team to beat and are strong competitors. I’m excited to see what our doubles will be able to accomplish in the spring.”

In singles, Brown came out on

top after he defeated Hoffman, who was the defending cham-pion and this year’s No. 1 seed. The 6–4, 6–4 win was Brown’s third singles main draw title this fall. The match extended his win-ning streak to five and his season record to 17–1, a team best.

Five other Yale players also participated in the singles event, with Svenning and Faierman making it to the quarterfinals.

“Our team did a great job this weekend making sure to not take the tournament too lightly,” Fai-erman said. “We had a good week of practice leading up to the tour-nament and I think everyone felt as prepared as possible going in.”

The Connecticut State Cham-pionships is the final tournament for the fall season. Individual players will play in the USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships on Nov. 8.

Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .

Yale wins doubles and singles

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Jason Brown ’16 claimed his singles title at the Championships.

Accurso said.BU has allowed only 27 goals

this season, but Yale nearly took the lead on several occasions, including a shot from Borgo that forced BU keeper Jess Maroney to make a kick save in the 24th min-ute.

The Elis opened the second half with another chance to take the lead. A penalty corner in the 49th minute resulted in a pair of quick shots from back Molly Wolf ’16 and Barham. Both were denied and the Terriers were awarded a penalty stroke five minutes later when a Yale defender inad-vertently prevented a goal with her foot. BU back Kiley Allosso capitalized and put the Terriers ahead.

“[After the stroke], we didn’t give up and its better that they had to earn the goal rather than letting the ball go in the first time, but it was unfortunate that it gave BU momentum,” Barham said.

With less than eight minutes left in regulation, BU midfielder Macey Gaumond secured a win for her team after redirecting a pass from outside the circle. The Bulldogs were outshot 22–9 at the whistle. Cain finished with a total of 12 saves.

This game marked the sixth time Yale faced an opponent ranked in the top 20 this season.

“The purpose of playing these tough games was to grow together as a team and take the lessons we learned into our Ivy play,” Sharp said.

Yale seniors Barham, Sharp, back Lexy Adams ’13 and goal-keeper Ona McConnell ’13 were recognized for their contribu-tions to the team in a pregame ceremony on Sunday. With a total of 39 wins, this senior class holds the third-best record in the team’s 40-year history. The play-ers were instrumental in both of Yale’s second-place finishes in 2009 and 2010 leading up to the 2011 Ivy League title. They also comprise the first class in history to beat Harvard four times.

“There have been so many ups and downs this season,” Barham said. “Senior Day was less sad and less about it being our last home game because I think we were all just so happy to be playing the best hockey we’ve played all sea-son.”

The Bulldogs will take to the road one last time on Saturday to face Brown in Providence, R.I.

Contact GIOVANNI BACARELLA at giovanni.bacarella@yale.edu .

Elis close season in sixth

margin,” Weaver said.Despite the challenges of shorter dis-

tance events, the team was able to pull out a win. Freestyle swimmer Courtney Ran-dolph ’14 said the team was determined to use the scrimmage as a chance to prac-tice racing and build chemistry. The Bull-dogs will look to build on this success with renewed intensity in practice, focusing especially on the minor skills like starts, turns and stroke technique, she added.

Besides returning some of last year’s top scorers, the team features a slew of highly impressive freshman swimmers. Ali Ste-

phens-Pickeral ’16, Emma Smith ’16 and Eva Fabian ’16 all have Olympic Trials cuts. Weaver cited strong freshman per-formances as a highlight of the tri-meet.

“They represented us quite strongly in the freestyle events.”

The Elis will start their season against Columbia Nov. 9. Freestyle and butter-fly swimmer Jacqui Levere ’15, who holds Yale’s top time for the 200-yard freestyle, expressed high hopes for the team.

“We’re hoping to beat Columbia not only at Ivies but in our dual meet and try to give Princeton a run for their money for second-place Ivy,” Levere said.

Although the Bulldogs won the scrim-

mage meet this weekend, Randolph said their next competition will be very di!er-ent. At the scrimmage, Randolph said, not all of the Bulldogs were swimming their primary events, and the team could only enter two swimmers per event.

“I don’t believe the event wins and losses were all representative of an Ivy League meet line-up,” she said.

The Elis will next face Southern Con-necticut State University for a scrimmage at 3 p.m. Friday.

Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .

Strong performance in long distance

We’re still not 100 percent clicking on the same page or at the same time, but I thought [the team’s performance] was solid.

PAUL HARKINS Head coach, men’s cross country team

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The Elis excelled at a tri-meet scrimmage Saturday, placing first in the 500- and 1000-yard freestyles and in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

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TYLER DETORIE ’16ELI NAMED ROOKIE OF THE WEEKThe freshman preserved a 1–1 tie for the Bulldogs in the 89th minute on Saturday by sliding at the goal line to clear away a shot by Columbia’s Henning Sauer-bier after the Lion midfielder dribbled past goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 and appeared to have an open shot on goal.

TYLER VARGA ’15BULLDOG EARNS NATIONAL HONORThe sophomore running back was named National Running Back of the Week by College Football Performance Awards after rushing for 220 yards on 25 carries in Saturday’s loss to Colum-bia. Varga made his first collegiate start at quarterback on Saturday as well.

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BY ADLON ADAMSCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

In the final tournament of the Yale men’s tennis fall season, the Bulldogs dominated in the upper brackets on their home courts.

Yale hosted five other teams at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center for the Connecticut State Championships this past weekend. Yale captured both the singles and doubles titles along with both runner-up titles.

“We played very well relative to the other teams,” Zach Krumholz ’15 said. “I think that shows in the results as we held all four spots in the semifinals of both sin-

gles and doubles.”The Bulldogs ended their first day of

play with an overall record of 14–2 after going undefeated in their seven doubles matches. Yale controlled the semifinals with their top four doubles teams. The senior pair of team captain Daniel Ho!-man ’13 and Marc Powers ’13 defeated the

BY ALEX EPPLERCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

After the women’s cross coun-try race at Princeton University this weekend, head coach Amy Gosztyla told the Bulldogs that the meet was the team’s first bad race in two years, captain Nihal Kayali ’13 said. The No. 22 team in the country picked the wrong time for a subpar performance, closing an otherwise success-ful season with a fifth-place fin-

ish at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

Neither the women’s team nor the men’s team ran the race it wanted to at Saturday’s champi-onship meet. The women scored 108 points en route to a fifth-place finish, while the men placed

Bulldogs fall short at Heps

BY GIOVANNI BACARELLACONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The seniors on the field hockey team played their final two home games this weekend, leaving Johnson Field with a conference win and an impres-sive legacy.

The Bulldogs (5–11, 2–4 Ivy) faced the Columbia Lions (8–7, 3–3 Ivy) on Saturday and came out on top with a 3–2 overtime win. On Sunday, the team fell to No. 15 Boston University in a 2–0 shutout despite generating sev-eral scoring chances against a nationally ranked defense.

Coming off back-to-back losses its previous weekend, for-ward Jessie Accurso ’15 said the team went into practice focusing on working together as a unit.

“We worked on communica-tion,” Accurso said in an email to the News. “Our focus points were ‘communicate to connect to compete.’ Once we connected as a team, awesome things started happening.”

In Saturday’s Ivy League game against the Lions, momentum shifted back and forth between the teams, but Yale emerged on top. Columbia went into half-time with a 1–0 lead after mid-fielder Danielle Cosentino found the back of the net following a penalty corner in the 20th min-

ute.After drawing a penalty cor-

ner 10 minutes into the sec-ond frame, the Elis answered back with a goal from midfielder Mary Beth Barham ’13. Assists were awarded to the inserter, midfielder Erica Borgo ’14, and the stick stopper, forward Emily Schuckert ’14.

Only seven minutes later, Borgo converted a pass from captain Maddy Sharp ’13 and put the Bulldogs ahead. As the clock ran down, it appeared that Yale would come away with the win in regulation time.

But the Lions pulled their goalkeeper with minutes left in the game and upped the pres-sure in their o!ensive zone with a kicking back. Columbia forced Yale goalkeeper Emily Cain ’14 to save three shots within the final minute and ultimately earned a penalty corner with 28 seconds to go, which enabled Creaghan Peters to equalize in the final minute of play.

“It was disappointing to give up that goal with less than a min-ute left,” forward Emily Schuck-ert ’14 said. “We have had several overtime games this year already and we were confident that we could get a quick goal.”

Six minutes into sudden death overtime, Borgo capped her impressive o!ensive output with the unassisted game-win-ning goal.

“I think that since we had

really controlled a lot of the play in regulation and had been so cohesive throughout, our morale was high, and we were able to get them on their heels early,” Accurso said.

Cain finished with seven saves, including one in overtime. Yale outshot Columbia 24–17.

On Sunday, the Bulldogs played their final game in front of a home crowd against No. 15 Boston University (12–16 , 4–1

America East) on the team’s Senior Day. The first half of the game was scoreless . Though Yale was outshot 11–7, Cain stepped up in net, keeping the Terriers out on each of their five penalty corners.

“Because we played really well defensively, we were able to gen-erate good counter attack and have some really nice chances,”

Seniors bid farewell

BY DIONIS JAHJAGACONTRIBUTING REPORTER

After besting Colgate and Lehigh at a tri-meet scrim-mage Saturday, the women’s swimming team aims to echo its third-place finish in last year’s Ivy League Championships with another strong season.

In the scrimmage, the Elis had greater success in the longer dis-tance events, placing first in the

500- and 1000-yard freestyles and in the 800-yard freestyle relay. But the shorter distance events proved more elusive — Yale struggled with the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freestyle events.

Captain and freestyle swim-mer Joan Weaver ’13 was quick to note that many losses were in very close races. In the 50-yard freestyle, for example, Yale fell to Colgate 24.69 to 24.67.

“A lot of the races we didn’t win came down to the slightest

Strong pre-season for the Elis

Elis dominate at home

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Yale dominated at the Connecticut State Championships and won both the singles and doubles titles, along with both runner-up titles.

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CROSS COUNTRY

FIELD HOCKEY

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The team took advantage of the scrimmage as a chance to practice racing and build chemistry, as a preparation for the upcoming season.

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Despite being unable to improve on its sixth place finish last year, the Bull-dogs average time dropped by over a minute.

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The Elis outshot Columbia 24–17 in a 3–2 overtime victory.

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