Archive: 2000

  1. Clark Terry stirs it up at Sprague Hall

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    Clark Terry, former trumpeter in Count Basie’s and Duke Ellington’s bands, performed with his quintet Friday night to an amiable and appreciative crowd.

    The concert, which was held in the elegant Morse Recital Hall of Sprague Memorial Hall, featured the legendary jazz trumpeter playing with remarkable energy for his 80 years. In addition, Terry’s supporting musicians — Dave Glasser (alto saxophone), Helen Sung (piano), Marcus McLaurin (bass) and Sylvia Cuenca (drums) — worked well together in providing a solid framework for the music and engaged in highly enjoyable solos throughout the performance.

    Terry, who played with Count Basie’s band in the late 1940s and was later a featured soloist in Duke Ellington’s orchestra for eight years, has his jazz foundations rooted in the swing tradition. Not surprisingly, all of the pieces played at Friday’s performance were in standard 4/4, 32-bar song form. These included the usual suspects (“Bye-bye Blackbird”) as well as lesser-known, sometimes tongue-in-cheek numbers (“Samba de Gums”). Terry prefaced each of the songs with personal, often amusing anecdotes, and his warm stage manner helped put the audience at ease.

    Although technically speaking, Terry’s virtuosity is not at the same level as it was in his youth, he still displays adroit embouchure control and makes up for any lack of pyrotechnics with an almost palpable feel for the music.

    That isn’t to say that pyrotechnics aren’t to be found in Terry’s playing, for his chops still function impressively. For instance, after a simple call and response between the trumpet and saxophone in the song “I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed,” Terry embarked on his solo by first playing a set of whimsical glissandos before launching into a series of intricate runs. His vibrato-less tone vaguely resembles that of Miles Davis (especially when playing with a harmon mute), and it is understandable that Terry was an influence on the younger trumpeter.

    Glasser’s alto sax playing throughout the program was Adderley-esque in terms of swinging drive and note selection. This made itself especially apparent in the encore selection (“It Could Happen to You”), during which he engaged in a blazing saxophone solo.

    On piano, Sung demonstrated impressive technique (almost certainly classically based). She incorporated interesting, quasi-traditional voicings and a good overall feel for the music.

    The finger, hand and arm weight with which Sung approached the keys allowed her to create a smooth yet strident sound regardless of the speed of her playing. Her solos on songs such as “Samba de Gums” and “Satin Doll” were for the most part horizontal, utilizing a wide variety of runs reminiscent of Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio work. Occasionally she would move appropriately outside the harmonic structure of a piece, but never at the expense of the overall sound.

    The rhythm section of the Quintet, like the horns and piano, displayed a keen sense of ensemble and solo playing throughout the concert. McLaurin ornamented the bass line with velvety runs and a good sense of the beat — sometimes fast but always rhythmically correct.

    On the drum set, Cuenca consistently kept good time, whether simply maintaining the beat or taking a solo. At times, she would throw out cute, almost playful rhythmical statements, while at other times she would take a much more bombastic approach to her playing.

    Clark Terry’s performance on Friday was for the most part a display of traditional, pre-bebop jazz. The playing was straight, the song selection was cheerful and the atmosphere was lively and enjoyable. As people were exiting the show, Terry extemporaneously launched into a poignant soliloquy on his trumpet. The audience quickly quieted down and for maybe ten more seconds listened to the tenderly improvised melody — Terry’s way of saying “thank-you” and “good-bye.”

    Even at age 80, Clark Terry hasn’t lost the spontaneity so importantly associated with jazz music and the feeling of pleasant surprise that his sound can create.

  2. City gets federal funds for mall trolley project

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    The city is one step closer to having trolleys return to its streets.

    Congress will give New Haven $1 million next year to help the city develop an electric trolley system to connect the planned Galleria at Long Wharf mall with downtown and West Haven. The city expects mall construction to begin next year.

    The appropriation was part of $7.2 million in transportation-project funding federal legislators secured for the city Friday. In addition to the trolley project, the 2001 spending bill allocates $3.2 million for the replacement of the Q-Bridge and $3 million for a project to expedite the state’s truck inspection process. The 40-year-old Q-Bridge carries Interstate 95 in New Haven and is often congested.

    “These projects will not only aid in the effort to reduce traffic congestion, but will also help to promote mass transit alternatives,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said.

    Earlier, on Thursday, the city learned it would be getting $2.75 million in federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for lead-paint abatement.

    The money would be used to eliminate lead-based paint in city homes and to prevent childhood lead poisoning. The grant could be used to make 200 homes lead-free, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said.

    — YDN Staff

  3. Yugoslavia revolts without bloodshed

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    The 20th century will someday be remembered as a dark age in the history of politics. It is a century that has seen two world wars, millions upon millions killed by the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot and almost all of sub-Saharan Africa engulfed in a massive civil war. It is a century whose central lesson may someday be to fear any ideology that claims to have The Answer — such as the “final solution” or “cultural revolution” — to the problem of human political interaction.

    Former dissident and current Czech President Výclav Havel wrote that the price of such ideologies “is abdication of one’s own reason, conscience and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority.” In this century, we have seen the human cost of this abdication.

    Perhaps it will also be remembered that the last few years of the century pointed to the beginning of a new era. Perhaps it will be remembered that the fall of communism in Europe was almost entirely peaceful, even in Russia. Perhaps it will be remembered that, when the Berlin Wall came down, protesters were exchanging flowers — not gunfire — with troops. And perhaps it will be remembered that the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986 and of Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1990 were occasioned by peaceful, large-scale popular uprisings.

    Of course, there have been dissonant notes — Tiananmen Square and the fall of communism in Romania, for instance. But the paradigmatic case as the century draws to a close has shifted from the Soviet Union’s crushing of the “Prague Spring” in 1968 to Havel’s “Velvet Revolution” in the same country 21 years later. The new model was one of the peaceful transition from authoritarian to democratic rule after massive popular demonstrations. As one Czech protester put it, “’89 is ’68 upside down.”

    Last week the world was fortunate enough to see another display of the power of peaceful protest to bring down an oppressive regime. Saturday, Vojislav Kostunica was sworn in as president of the Yugoslav Federation. He replaced Slobodan Milosevic, who had been in power for 13 years. Milosevic had unwisely called an election in an attempt to solidify the base of his rule. When he lost the Sept. 24 election to Kostunica, the candidate of a coalition of opposition parties, Milosevic managed to steal just enough votes to claim that a runoff would be necessary, setting off a wave of national protests.

    The turning point probably came last Wednesday, when police refused to disband a strike at the Kolubara coal mine, which provides the coal for half of Serbia’s electricity generation. When the police came to put an end to the strike, the miners called in supporters — as many as 20,000 of them — and they peacefully occupied the mine. At that point, the police backed down, with one commander telling the New York Times, “I’m fed up with this. After this, I’m throwing my hat away and going home. The police in Serbia are more democratic than you think.”

    The next day protesters took over Belgrade and occupied the state-run media, which had served so effectively as Milosevic’s propaganda machine for the last 13 years and the Parliament building. Police chose not to take serious action against the protesters. Friday, the courts Milosevic had so effectively manipulated also turned on him, declaring Kostunica the outright winner of the election. That night, after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Milosevic resigned, and Kostunica was sworn in the next day.

    Kostunica promises to be a very different kind of leader. He is a constitutional lawyer who once translated The Federalist Papers into Serbo-Croatian. That’s a very promising sign to those who recall James Madison’s words in Federalist No. 49: “The people are the only legitimate fountain of power,” or Alexander Hamilton’s words in Federalist No. 22: “The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.” A far cry indeed from Milosevic’s governing philosophy.

    Kostunica talks frequently about the rule of law, freedom of the press and an independent judiciary, things Milosevic never particularly cared for. He has also repeatedly criticized Milosevic’s isolationism, saying, “We want a normal life in a normal state.” In response, the European Union plans to begin lifting sanctions against Yugoslavia today, and the United States is expected to follow suit.

    The Kostunica administration faces a number of problems, including building a viable coalition in Parliament and re-tooling the government to serve democratic interests. But the way in which he came to power was a huge step towards a successful transition to democracy. With its almost entirely bloodless overthrow of the Milosevic regime, Yugoslavia showed itself to be firmly within the recent trend of peaceful democratic transition and in firm contrast to a century otherwise marked by bloodshed.

    In three months we begin a new century. Let’s work to make it a century in which the bloody politics that dominated most of the twentieth century are firmly and forever repudiated. Let’s work to make it a century in which the newer trend of peaceful movement to popular sovereignty is entrenched and expanded. Let’s work to make it a century modeled on Havel and Kostunica, to stand in eternal contrast to the century of Hitler and Pol Pot.

    Josh Chafetz is a senior in Berkeley College. His columns appear on alternate Mondays.

  4. Branford dining woes continue

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    Lunch in Branford College is a rare event these days. That’s because it never happens.

    Two months into the school year, Branford’s dining hall is still not fully operational, and with construction hang-ups all over the college, students are up in arms.

    Branford was slated to be fixed up over the course of last year as part of a University-wide initiative that will see the renovation of each of Yale’s 12 residential colleges. But the Branford renovation went awry when the construction blueprints didn’t correspond to the building’s actual structure and delays kept the college’s servery from being completed on time.

    Branford students were forced to eat in a tent until Sept. 26, when their dining hall reopened with food imported from Jonathan Edwards College. Branfordians were each given 35 Flex Dollars as compensation for the inconvenience. Branford is currently open for dinner on Tuesdays and Thursdays and for continental breakfast Monday through Friday. The air conditioning is still not up and running.

    The dining hall staff is doing what it can to mitigate the situation.

    “We’ve tried to give them everything we possibly can,” said Julia Esposito, who has worked for Yale University Dining Services for 19 years. While she expressed regret for the delays, Esposito said that she and her daughter, who both work the breakfast shift in Branford, were ready and willing to help get students the kind of food they want.

    Few people eat in the new Branford dining hall — only about 20 to 30 students show up each morning for breakfast, Esposito said. That number is low in comparison with JE’s tally of approximately 100 morning customers.

    Berkeley, Davenport and JE have all become havens for refugee Brandfordians, and Branford’s community life seems to have been negatively disrupted by the lack of a dining hall, Vanessa Wolf ’01 said.

    “The thing that is most troubling [is] I don’t have any forum to meet with other Branford people,” Wolf said as she sat down to breakfast on Friday morning.

    “The delays have been disappointing,” said Jason Arroyo ’02, who complained about the incessant construction work that keeps many from sleeping.

    Arroyo’s friend Chris Eckerle ’02 said he was disappointed that the common room, the basement and the library remain incomplete as well.

    Despite the renovation difficulties, Branford dining hall manager Chris Pascale spoke glowingly of the good things that have come out of the renovation. She said that Master Steven Smith — who was unavailable for comment — had unattractive, yellowing plexiglass removed from college windows. Paintings of former Branford masters were retouched, and the globes in the lighting fixtures were replaced.

    Pascale added that the new dining hall, which will share a downstairs kitchen with Saybrook, will include a host of new features including an open-air grill where students can see their burgers and chicken being cooked. This means a student can request his or her food cooked a certain way.

    Pascale and her co-manager Mildred Moore said they were sympathetic to student complaints.

    “If you’re a Branford student, wouldn’t you want to eat in Branford College?” Pascale asked.

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  5. Search begins for deans, masters

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    With a quarter of Yale’s current crop of residential college masters and deans leaving by the end of the year, there are several important holes to fill in the Yale community.

    Two deans are leaving at the end of this semester, and another dean and three masters will depart after the academic year. The University must now select six leaders who will play crucial roles in shaping residential college life for years to come.

    “This is not a crisis,” Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead said. “All the masters have served long terms, and you can’t expect anybody to serve forever. We are most grateful to all those who have done these jobs, and we hope to find excellent successors.”

    The replacement process begins very soon for Davenport and Berkeley colleges, which will lose Acting Dean Eileen Hunt and Dean Laurence Winnie at the end of the semester.

    “Dean Brodhead is forming a search committee even as we speak,” Winnie said.

    Brodhead is responsible for appointing committees to replace deans, while Yale President Richard Levin oversees a similar process to replace masters.

    Committees screen applicants from both inside and outside the Yale community.

    “It’s a national search,” departing Trumbull Dean Peter Novak said.

    After search committees — composed of students and college fellows — are formed, they begin to review the candidates, who apply to a general pool, Novak said.

    For example, one does not apply to be dean of Trumbull College specifically.

    “You just apply for residential college dean,” Novak said.

    But sometimes people have greatness thrust upon them, departing Morse Master Stanton Wheeler said.

    “My own experience is that one does not apply for the job, one is approached for the job,” Wheeler said.

    Nevertheless, cases where someone applies generally for a position raise the question of whether there will be intercollege competition for top candidates.

    “I don’t know how they’re going to parse that,” Winnie said.

    Diversity in both gender and ethnicity may be another issue in finding new masters and deans. Only eight of 24 deans and masters are women (one of whom, Davenport’s Hunt, is leaving). And the only African-American dean or master, Davenport Master Gerald Thomas, is leaving at the end of the year.

    Departing officials were unsure of whether increasing diversity would be a consideration in the searches.

    “I think they always consider [diversity] as much as the pool allows,” Winnie said.

    Levin agreed with respect to the search for new masters.

    “[It’s] desirable to have diversity within the group, certainly,” Levin said. “[There are] no strict ideas about that — we want the best possible people.”

    The last three masters appointed have been women.

    Howard Han ’02, a master’s aide in Berkeley — which is losing both its master and dean — said the committees should look primarily at how new leaders will interact with students.

    Han said the most important quality for a master or dean is the “ability to relate to and inspire trust in the students.”

    The departing deans and masters themselves will not have a say in finding their replacements.

    Novak said the rationale is that since the former officials are leaving, they should not be major determining factors in the new appointments.

    One consideration that is a factor, though, is the relationship between the remaining dean or master and the new appointee.

    “You always want to have deans and masters who work well,” Winnie said.

    Winnie is in a different situation in Berkeley, which is also losing Master Harry Stout. Stout is leaving at the end of the year, but Winnie is not distressed.

    “The timing works well,” he said. “The team [of Stout and the new dean] will be here for a whole term before the master changes.”

    Davenport, also losing both its dean and master, is on a similar schedule.

    Although there are a lot of vacant positions now, Levin said he is not worried because he once replaced four masters in one year.

    “I’m pretty confident that we can get people to do the job,” he said. “I think we’ll be OK.”

    Winnie was even more confident in the ability of University officials to find replacements.

    “I think they usually have a pretty clear idea of what they want,” he said. “They always end up coming up with a superlative group of people.”

  6. Bulldogs bite Big Green 24-14

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    Peter Lee ’02 began his first season as Yale’s starting quarterback four weeks ago as the object of a pressing litany of questions. As he sprinted off the field after throwing the game-winning touchdown in the middle of the fourth quarter Saturday, with his arms raised and fists pumping, Lee could be confident that none remained.

    The Bulldogs (3-1, 1-1 Ivy) had just defeated Dartmouth (0-4, 0-2) 24-14 Saturday afternoon, marking the first time Yale has won in Hanover, N.H., since 1989.

    With just over eight minutes remaining in the game and the Elis trailing Dartmouth 14-10, Lee faced a pivotal fourth and goal situation at the Big Green’s five-yard line. The Bulldogs had been denied points in the red zone twice earlier in the game, as they were unsuccessful in trying to pound the ball in on the ground.

    The 6’5″ southpaw signal caller took the snap and waited what must have seemed like an eternity for him. Eric Johnson ’01 broke free and Lee found him with a seven-yard dart that put the Elis up for good. Johnson lived up to his status as Yale’s all-time leading receiver by holding onto the ball despite being leveled after making the catch.

    “I just came over the middle,” Johnson said. “Peter had to throw a great ball because I got hit by two or three guys right after I caught it.”

    The dramatic touchdown — Lee’s second of the game — was the culmination of a 16-play, 81-yard drive that chewed up 7:03 and put the Bulldogs back on track in the Ivy League race.

    “That was a critical drive,” said Lee, who finished the game with a season-high 254 yards passing. “It [the touchdown pass] was the most emotional play of the game, and for me, probably the most exciting point in the season.”

    The defense, now backed by a 17-14 lead — Yale’s first of the game — held the Big Green scoreless for the duration.

    On the drive following Johnson’s touchdown, the Big Green was able to move the ball to the Yale 26-yard line, where it faced a critical fourth down of their own. Unlike Lee, though, Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann could not get the job done as Ray Littleton ’02 bailed out the Elis with a crucial interception.

    “We were keying on the slant play,” Littleton said. “I just wanted to make sure I didn’t lose [track of] the ball.”

    As the Eli offense was running down the clock on the ensuing possession, tailback Rashad Bartholomew ’01 — who is now third on Yale’s all-time rushing list — contributed some additional padding. Bartholomew clinched the game with an electrifying 79-yard touchdown sprint.

    “I was just trying to get a first down,” said Bartholomew, who put up an impressive 188 yards on 26 carries. “David Farrell ’03 [offensive lineman] made a great block and I just saw open field. There was no one by me and I was able to take it to the house.”

    With Saturday’s pivotal win, the Elis evened their record in the Ivy League.

    “I thought our kids played hard,” Dartmouth head coach John Lyons said. “We had some opportunities to win today, but we turned the ball over too many times.”

    Indeed, it was the opportunistic play of the Eli defense and Lee’s heroics on offense that allowed the Bulldogs to scratch and claw their way to victory. After allowing Dartmouth to march to a touchdown on their opening drive, the Bulldog defense gave up only seven points the rest of the way.

    “They had the kind of offense that you need a series or so to get used to,” Yale head coach Jack Siedlecki said. “No matter how much you practice, it’s different in the game.”

    The biggest challenge for the Eli defense was containing wideout Damien Roomets, who entered the game ranked second in receptions in Division I-AA. After allowing him to catch three passes on the opening drive, the Bulldogs’ held the lanky junior to only four more short catches on the day. They were also able to control the Dartmouth running attack, holding them to only 3.9 yards per carry.

    The defense’s performance was even more impressive considering that it was missing All-Ivy safety Than Merrill ’01, who sat out the game with an ankle injury. His replacement, Barton Simmons ’04, shined in his debut, tying for team lead in tackles with 13. Todd Tomich ’01 also extended his Yale record for interceptions by hauling in his 16th.

    On offense, the Elis maintained an effective balance between run and pass, even though the weak Dartmouth secondary allowed Lee to air it out a little more than normal.

    The Bulldogs’ first touchdown of the game came on a 29-yard pass from Lee to wide receiver Billy Brown ’02 — who finished with four catches for 93 yards in the best game of his career.

    Lee showed for the second straight week that he is able to distribute the ball well, something that had concerned Siedlecki earlier in the year.

    “We are getting a little more distribution of the ball; five receivers made catches and this makes us tougher to defend,” Siedlecki said.

    Despite their loss, Dartmouth proved to be a much tougher opponent than the Bulldogs expected, adding truth to the old adage that there are no easy wins in the Ancient Eight.

    “We did a lot of good things out there today,” Mann said. “We have plenty of reasons to be positive.”

    A scary moment for the Bulldogs occurred when linebacker Bill Thompson ’02 sustained what appeared to be a serious injury in the fourth quarter. Thompson lay nearly motionless on the field for several minutes after a collision on a Yale kickoff. Medical personnel immobilized Thompson’s back and neck, and took him off the field on a stretcher. Siedlecki reported Sunday morning that Thompson had undergone an X-ray and an MRI, neither of which showed any damage, and that Thompson had suffered merely a “bad stinger.”

    The Bulldogs have a final non-league game at Fordham next weekend before finishing their season with five-straight Ivy games.

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  7. Studios fling doors open

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    This week City-Wide Open Studios is putting 350 New Haven artists on the map.

    The organization takes local artists’ work and provides exhibition space all over the city in a three-week celebration of the Elm City’s art.

    The opening celebration was held Friday night at the Chamberlain Building (77 Crown St.). A jazz band played softly as patrons looked at small works by every artist involved with the project.

    Along with these sample pieces were guides to subsequent exhibits so that patrons could choose work that interested them and attend those artists’ full exhibitions.

    The goal of the exhibition is to expose New Haven artists to the public and to get the word out about art in the city.

    “A lot of the work is for sale,” said Helen Kauder, director of Artspace, the umbrella organization that runs City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS). “It’s a way for artists to boost income.”

    Exhibition space across the city includes traditional galleries and innovative new venues. The Smoothie Building, an abandoned bra factory, will house larger installations, bands and dance performances. Restaurants, music stores and even the streets of New Haven will also serve as artistic settings during the exhibition. In addition, several artists will be opening their studios for tours.

    The CWOS program is open to all artists from Fairfield to the shoreline who want to get involved.

    “It’s a democratic, unjuried event and any artist is invited,” Kauder said. “Every artist here is interested in making a dialogue with the community.”

    The artists involved are enthusiastic about the project, and it has expanded greatly in the last three years since its inception.

    “It’s a fantastic event,” said Martin Kruck, whose work at the main exhibition consisted of a simple metal clipboard and a sparse sketch. “It gets a lot bigger every year.”

    Participants also look at the event as a head start in the art business.

    “It’s a great way to get immersed in the art community,” said Mia Brownell. Brownell chose a small oil painting to show at the main exhibit, and more of her work will be at the Smoothie Building.

    The main exhibition encompassed a huge variety of styles and media. There were drawings in charcoal and even colored pencil, computer generated images, delicate alabaster forms and photographs of all kinds. Taking note of the work that caught their attention, visitors walked around the gallery and planned the rest of their visits accordingly.

    City-Wide Open Studios: If You Go

    The main exhibition at 77 Crown Street is located at the corner of Crown and Orange Street, across from JK Hair Art on Crown Street and between Bentara and Royal Palace restaurants on Orange Street. The main exhibition gallery will be open seven days a week from October 6 through October 21, 2000, from 12-5 PM. A website for the exhibition can be found at http://www.cwos.org/

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  8. McSorley should be held responsible for on-ice actions

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    To the Editor:

    Mike Obernauer (“McSorley Trial Unnecessary,” 10/5) wrote that despite the “brutality” of the illegal check against Donald Brashear, Marty McSorley of the Boston Bruins should not be held legally accountable by Vancouver prosecutors for his violent outburst on the ice.

    Obernauer fails to provide a sufficient reason why hockey players should be exempt from the law. Why should the sporting arena provide immunity to violent aggression that would in any other venue be considered assault?

    Obernauer may be correct in asserting that McSorley is being “selectively” prosecuted when many hockey players break laws on the ice. But he is wrong to assert that that, “too many people, including the Crown prosecutor, have let their emotions corrupt their reason.”

    To the contrary, prosecutors are not letting their love of Canada’s pastime corrupt their sound legal reasoning. McSorley intentionally knocked his opponent unconscious. His violence should be subject to more than just the NHL punishment Obernauer prescribes; McSorley’s actions should be subject to investigation by authorities sworn to hold everyone to the same legal standards — on the ice or off.

    Morgan Barth

    October 6, 2000

    The writer is a high school classmate of Michael Obernauer.

  9. Women’s soccer falls to Dartmouth 4-1

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    This game featured two potential Ivy League champions — but one had to fall.

    The women’s soccer team (6-4-1, 1-2 Ivy) faced off against an evenly matched Dartmouth squad (6-2, 2-1 Ivy) last Saturday at Chase Field, only to fall 4-1. Two quick goals by the Big Green set the tone early, but even the most diligent efforts by the Elis fell short.

    Dartmouth head coach Erica Walsh made an uncanny prediction before the game.

    “We win games when we control the air game,” Walsh said.

    That seemed to be the only difference between the two teams, and that was what beat the Bulldogs. Physically outmatched, the daughters of Eli lost the battle for control of loose balls in the air.

    It was evident, right from the start, that the game would be very physical. Big Green forward Jen Murray scored early, off a cross in the ninth minute. This goal brought with it an intensity that never waned.

    Less than seven minutes later, Dartmouth team captain Jessica Post recorded her fourth goal of the season, which put the tally at 2-0.

    Quick goals seem to be key in soccer, and they were no less important in this game.

    “The early goals were important for us,” Post said. “We came out ready to play and caught Yale off guard.”

    One would think that a two-goal deficit would be enough to keep the Bulldogs at bay. But this was not the case in Hanover.

    “At that point it would have been easy to give up and just go through the motions,” forward Lauren Gillies ’03 said. “But we really didn’t. We put up a fight just like it was tied at 0-0, as if [the second goal] hadn’t happened.”

    With drive and determination, the Bulldogs battled back. League leading scorer Chandra King ’03 cut the deficit to 2-1 with her eighth goal of the season in the 24th minute of play.

    The first half ended with the 2-1 score and the Bulldogs were still in the game. This was familiar territory for the Elis, as they had erased similar debts in their last few games. In their last game against Cornell, the Elis fell 1-0 early only to win 2-1, so they hoped to give a repeat performance in New Hampshire.

    Yale came out of the locker room hungry and looking to score a quick goal to get back in the game. Gilles said they played like the next team to score would win the game.

    Head coach Rudy Meredith shifted his team around and placed an extra forward on offense. Although this move made the Bulldogs’ backfield vulnerable, they desperately needed a goal.

    “With two players in the back, we were taking a risk,” Gillies said. “But we had to take it at that point because if we were going to lose 3-1 or 8-1, it is still a loss not matter how it adds up.”

    King, along with the other Eli forwards, hustled and put the Big Green back on its heels. Unfortunately, they couldn’t capitalize on these efforts.

    “We kept up the intensity for 90 minutes but came up short in the end,” Ritha Belizaire ’02 said.

    After 20 minutes of fierce play, the Big Green scored its third goal. Dartmouth forward Jamie Lang, former high school teammate of Eli defender Lee Anne Jasper ’04, scored a header in the 65th minute of play. Teammate Post had an assist, number 20, which pulled her to within one of Dartmouth’s school record.

    The two-point margin all but sealed Yale’s fate. Dartmouth put the nail in the coffin with a late goal in the 74th minute to settle the game, 4-1.

    “I think we won because we wanted the victory more than them,” Post said

    In the Bulldog net, Sarah Peterson ’02 played the first half and made two saves for her efforts, while Lindsay Stable ’03 finished out the game and contributed five saves.

    The Bulldogs hope to rebound from this weekend’s performance against the University of Connecticut Wednesday. This would be an upset victory though, as UConn is ranked seventh nationally. Such a win would give the Elis the confidence they need for their rough upcoming schedule, which includes national powers like No. 1 Notre Dame.

    “Although it was a big game, our season is not over,” Gillies said. “Anything can happen, especially against Notre Dame.”

  10. Green Party has noticeable flaws

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    To the Editor:

    In the wake of the Nader hit on campus, it seems any detractors of the Green Party candidate are at risk to be anathematized. However, I can’t help but notice two flaws in the Green Party campaign concerning both Nader and his supporters.

    First, the Nader-LaDuke ticket has thus far failed to appeal to minority voters. To a large degree, the Green Party’s movement still is of white kids, by white kids and for white kids. They lack the gut feeling for black, Hispanic and Asian-Americans who fall short of a middle-class background and a college degree, although they may sincerely believe they are on those people’s side.

    This also holds true for their attitude towards people in the Third World. More often than not, the Green and other Leftists’ well-intended strife on the behavior of Africa and South America does not respond as much to the needs of the oppressed and exploited as to their own self-righteousness. Their lamentably superficial views of international issues make even George W. Bush look good in this regard.

    Second, even this somehow less-than-perfect idealism of the Green Party is being compromised in the course of the campaign. Its ten key values sound very much comprehensive and admirable. However, they have been reduced in Nader’s interpretation to a simplistic and dull anti-corporate rhetoric; other messages which are less effective in wooing voters are skipped.

    Either Nader is sacrificing principles for his presidential bid, or his party is doing so by choosing a leader with different goals in mind. The philosopher Wittgenstein once wrote, “there is not a single fiber that runs through a rope.” There is not a single reason for all social ills; even the evil of corporate power cannot explain it all. Chanting too much the mantra of “fighting for the American workers” at the expense of other concerns leaves Nader’s voice undistinguishable from those of Gore and Buchanan.

    Xiaofei Tu DIV ’01

    October 8, 2000

  11. The Yale student and the News

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    On January 28, 1878, the first five-cent, four-page issue of the “Yale News” rolled off the presses at 11:50 p.m. The inaugural words were pithy and self-justifying: “The innovation which we begin by this morning’s issue,” it read, “is justified by the dullness of the time and the demand for news among us.”

    One hundred and twenty-two years later, our sense of purpose may be slightly more high minded — these are, after all, hardly dull times — but our mission remains stubbornly static: to bring Yale students timely, thoughtful and balanced coverage of our University and New Haven.

    Today’s issue marks the beginning of the official stewardship of the Yale Daily News Managing Board of 2002, a group of 26 editors whose names appear on the masthead above this space. As we carry the Oldest College Daily into a new century and into Yale’s 300th year, we will stay true to our tradition of journalistic integrity while reshaping and improving this newspaper.

    We take seriously our role as Yale’s newspaper of record, as we are responsible each day for writing the first draft of the University’s history. But we also recognize our role as a mirror to student and faculty life. We are a vehicle for communication and debate among a community of more than 21,000 students, faculty and employees. To that end, the Managing Board of 2002 is committed to expanding the role and range of its feature and opinion writing to better engage our readership.

    The Managing Board of 2002 also believes that the Briton Hadden Memorial Building should serve as a school within a school where Yale students learn to analyze the University and New Haven, hone their journalistic skills and build lasting friendships.

    This year’s editors have the good fortune of a tenure that falls in line with Yale’s tercentennial celebrations. We will offer not only in-depth and timely coverage of this milestone, but also reflective and introspective analysis of Yale’s past, present and future. As always, the Yale Daily News will pursue aggressive coverage of City Hall and New Haven. This year, the newspaper will cast an even wider net over both while focusing on the interactions between the University and its host city. We will also expand our coverage of the arts at Yale, using our weekend section to showcase students’ creative energies. Athletics, which have often defined this University in the public imagination, will also remain an important part our daily coverage.

    In their first issue of what would become the Yale Daily News, the anonymous editors wrote that they hoped to “have the cooperation and welcome so necessary” to build a student newspaper. On that January night 122 years ago, the editors recognized a commitment, first and foremost, to the Yale student. It is that commitment which inspires us still.