The game is in six days. So why haven’t you seen any eager freshmen already sporting their official FCC game shirt?
After submitting the shirt design to the Dean’s office and the Yale licensing office, the FCC was asked to consult with Harvard Licensing, said Nathan Kohrman ’15, chair of the Freshman College Council. This was the first time the FCC was asked to cross enemy lines during pre-game prep, he added.
But this was no mere formality. Harvard “had a problem with our use of their name,” Kohrman explained, and so did not allow the FCC to use their name.
“After a week of us navigating the licensing bureaucracy to little avail,” Kohrman said, “Harvard ultimately told us that they in fact took issue with our use of celebrity names in conjunction with their name.”
The shirt originally featured Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates “liking” a Facebook post about dropping out of Harvard. According to a Facebook page, a modified version of the shirt will go on sale tomorrow at 8 p.m. The new version replaces Gates and Zuckerberg with a sentence reading “people who like this also like Social Networks, Personal Computers and Roads Not Taken.”
It’s not the first time controversies have surrounded the FCC’s design. In 2009, the LGBT Co-op protested the shirts’ use of the word “sissies,” calling it a “thinly veiled gay slur.”
Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler has been chosen to oversee Title IX compliance at the University, Provost Peter Salovey announced in a Monday email to the News.
Spangler will be responsible for supervising and training Title IX coordinators at each of the University’s schools and “assessing the campus climate with respect to gender,” Salovey said. The University currently has 15 Title IX coordinators across the college and graduate and professional schools.
“Stephanie Spangler has been involved for many years as one of the University’s experts on various aspects of compliance — from research misconduct to laboratory safety to the protection of human subjects to the confidentiality of health information,” Salovey said. “She will now include sexual misconduct in her portfolio, having already assisted the University in this domain on a case-by-case basis.”
The appointment comes after President Richard Levin released the report of the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate last Thursday, which recommended increased training for Title IX coordinators and better communication to the community about their roles. The coordinators for each school are now listed on a new sexual misconduct response website the University unveiled along with the report.
Spangler is currently deputy provost for health affairs and associate vice president for West Campus planning and program development.
The Yale College Council is pushing for Yale to give undergraduates an extra three weeks in the semester for deciding whether to take classes Credit/D/Fail.
The YCC submitted a proposal to Yale College Dean Mary Miller last week that would allow students to elect to take courses Credit/D/Fail up to five weeks into the semester — three weeks later than the current deadline at the end of shopping period.
Paul Desan MED ’93, director of the Winter Depression Research Clinic at the Yale School of Medicine, recently submitted an improved version of a light box — one of the most popular treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) — to the Food and Drug Administration for review. If approved, the device would be the first ever light box to be federally recognized for SAD, greatly improving the light box market for consumers, Desan said.
In a rare appearance outside its reservation in New Mexico and Arizona, the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation came to Yale to meet with students and hear a case on campus Monday evening.
About 250 people watched in the Law School Auditorium as the Court judged the case Navajo Nation v. RJN Construction Management, Inc., Robert J. Nelson and The Home for Women and Children, which involves a dispute over land ownership.
THE WEATHER
High of 62 degrees, low of 47 degrees, chance of showers.
THE FOOD
In the colleges
Breakfast: Maple Flavored Organic Oatmeal, Waffle Bar, Ham & Cheese Scones
Lunch: Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup, Corn Chowder, Marinated Oven Roasted Tofu, Manicotti, Hand Shaped Angus Hamburger, Hand Shaped Angus Cheeseburger, Italian Deli Zep, Steakhouse French Fries, Sliced Fresh Carrots, Chipotle Carrot & Cucumber Salad, Mesclun, Cauliflower & Cheddar, White Bean Salad with Sundried Tomato Vinaigrette, Plain Brownie
Dinner: Rosemary Lemon Whole Roast Chicken, Mushroom Tart With Fontina & Ricotta, Crunchy Pork Chop, Tofu Lo Mein, Chicken Gravy, Mashed Fresh Potatoes, Fresh Cauliflower, Chipotle Carrot & Cucumber Salad, Mesclun, Cauliflower & Cheddar, White Bean Salad with Sundried Tomato Vinaigrette
In Commons
Breakfast: Cream Of Wheat Without Milk, Waffle Bar, Zucchini Frittata, Texas French Toast, Cage-Free Scrambled Eggs, Scrambled Egg Whites, Bacon Slices, Shredded Potatoes, Ham & Cheese Scones
Lunch: Escarole & Sausage Soup, Minestrone, Turkey Mango Chili, Vegan Shepherd’s Pie, Bolognese Sauce, Spaghetti, Organic Tomato Sauce, Chefs Choice All-Natural Burger, Herb Marinated Chicken Breast, Garden Burger, Chinese Marinated Tofu, Pepperoni Pizza, Cheese Pizza, Cheese Calzone, Chinese Greens with Garlic, Green Bean & Tofu, Shrimp Fried Rice, Jasmine Rice, Cantonese Chicken Wings, Italian Deli Zep, Dirty Rice, Sautéed Swiss Chard, Broccoli Olive & Ricotta Salata Salad, Creamy Coleslaw
The University will once again partner with the United Way of Greater New Haven to work towards decreasing the effects of poverty this month, but this year’s campaign will carry an extra significance.
The campaign will also allow faculty, staff and students to honor the memory of former Provost and University Librarian Frank Turner GRD ’71, who died last November of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 66, by giving money to the campaign in his name.
“[I]t is hard not to think about his passion for the University, the library and the New Haven community. … Giving to the United Way was a personal commitment Frank and his wife, the Reverend Ellen Tillotson, planned annually. Without hesitation, they believed that contributing to the campaign makes a measurable difference,” Provost Peter Salovey wrote in a letter to the campus community on Nov. 11, the anniversary of Turner’s death.
Tillotson added that Turner supported the United Way for decades and believed it was a concrete way for the Yale community “to participate meaningfully in the vitality of the New Haven community.”
Last year’s campaign raised over $1 million, helping over 100 children from low-income families receive full-time care and education. Donations can be made online.
Want to spend your first day of Thanksgiving Break eating dining hall food?
Well you’re in luck! Yale Dining’s hosting a tailgate for The Game. In an email sent to students on Friday, Yale Dining began advertising for its own celebration of Yale pride and asked students to bring their IDs to access the goodies. The menu for tailgate will include Pulled Pork sandwiches, Nitrate-free all beef hot dogs and vegan chili, said Regenia Phillips, Director of Yale Dining. She added that sides like chips and cookies would also be provided.
Every residential college will also have its own tailgate, the email said. According to the SAC chairs of several colleges, these will be catered (like, not by the dining hall).
“Each residential college will have ribs, steak tips, potato salad, cole slaw, corn-on-the-cob,” said Zola Quao ’13, one of Morse’s SAC chairs. “[It’s] basically anything you’d ever want to eat at a tailgate.”
Though variably enforced, residential college tailgates will be accessible only to students in the college.
But where Dining’s party is concerned, Harvard gets to come too. Dining expects that their tailgating tent will be the primary destination for hungry Harvard students, Phillips said, and they are preparing to accommodate 2500 students.
Yale pride? Check. Solo cups? Got ’em. Tickets? No worries — current students don’t have to worry about procuring actual tickets for The Game on Saturday.
All Yale students will be able to gain free admission into the student section of the Harvard-Yale matchup by simply presenting their Yale IDs at the Yale Bowl, ticket office representative Ashley Sherkus said. Sherkus added that each student can purchase up to four guest tickets, which are available at the ticket office and cost $5 each.
Those without an in won’t be as lucky. Tickets for the general public are currently available for purchase at the ticket office, online, over the phone or through fax or mail. Additional handling fees will be charged for orders placed online and over the phone. Prices range from $8 for general admission to $30 for visitors and premium reserved seats.
The ticket office, which is located at 20 Tower Parkway, will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. this entire week.
One of my favorite things about the writing process is that, in the end, it’s all about solving problems. As someone who achieved moderate success with high school level math, I’m not surprised that I’m halfway decent at solving the problem of changing other people’s long, oddly worded sentences into coherent nuggets of meaning. Being the editor is always great; you get to be the smartest and the best and tell everyone why what they painstakingly, meticulously, SLAVISHLY threw together five minutes before the deadline is philosophically misguided and full of careless grammatical mistakes. However, this also means you understand the cruel, soulless superiority complex that overcomes even the blondest, sweetest looking of editors when faced with an egregious dangling modifier or quotation that concludes with any verb besides “said.” You know, if someone were editing this right now, I imagine he would say, “That sentence is too long!” and I would know that he was thinking to himself, “I am so much smarter and better and more destined for success and fame than Lauren because she writes horrible sentences like that one. I am the champion of words.”
I hate this very much. When I’m being edited, I usually respond by frowning in an intellectual-looking way and nodding in agreement to make it seem like I, too, had thought of that very obvious and plebeian suggestion and was just taking a risk with that comma splice to “play around.” I imagine this makes me seem edgy and confident and unafraid of rejection. In reality, I want to bite someone and then cry because this edit has made me realize I’m the worst writer in the history of all time.
Rational Me knows editing is important and crucial and stuff, though. I mean, it’s one of the quintessential facts of life: your metabolism will slow down, your brand new iPhone 4S will soon become obsolete, and you will have problems with your third paragraph.
Still, Irrational Me is usually in charge. I often ask my boyfriend to read my stuff before sending it elsewhere because I trust him. By “trust him,” I mean I can expect him to praise me endlessly and swear that nothing could be more perfect than the 1000-word essay I’ve written on Tabasco sauce, except for maybe my hair/eyes/skin/body/self. At the same time, I would also much rather hear constructive criticism from someone who can kiss it and make it better than from a scary writing professor, and Rational Me knows there’s always a way for a piece to improve. This creates an interesting paradox.
“OH MY GOD, YOU CANNOT SERIOUSLY THINK THERE’S NOTHING WRONG,” I screech as tears of frustration stream down my perfect face. “OH MY GOD, YOU’RE TRYING TO SABOTAGE ME!!!! I BET YOU DON’T EVEN LIKE MY HAIRCUT LIKE YOU SAID YOU DID, EITHER!!!!”
Quinnipiac University students are an indelible part of the Saturday night experience in New Haven Saturday, but possibly not for long.
Dattco, the transportation company that provides the university’s shuttles into downtown New Haven, may cut QU off due to rising cases of public urination near or on the buses, the university’s student newspaper Quad News reported last week.
Thirty-eight students, 32 of whom were female, have faced charges related to public urination in just the past two months — that’s five incidents a week, give or take.
So how are Quinnipiac students reacting? Columnist Mike Lewis urged his fellow students to hold it until they could find a bathroom.
“Not only have 38 citations been issued, but they’ve been issued over the past two months. That’s 60 days,” Lewis writes. “That means that on two thirds of all days since the beginning of September some Quinnipiac student was literally being caught with their pants down by the New Haven police.”
“Without the shuttle QU girls will have nowhere to show off that cute little skirt they bought over the summer that they couldn’t wear until they got back to school because they had no desire to see their fathers cry,” Lewis went on to write, expressing concern over the potential loss of the shuttle.”
To keep the buses around, Quinnipiac’s student government is mobilizing to start a campaign educating students about the detrimental effects of public urination, with president Andrew McDermott adding in the Quad News that the education is necessary for a “much-needed culture change.” We’ll let you know when that change happens.
Hold it, QPac. Quinnipiac University may lose its contract with the transportation company Dattco after a spike in the number of reported incidents of public urination on or near the shuttles, the Quad News at Quinnipiac reported this weekend. Thirty-eight Quinnipiac students, including 32 female students, were cited for public urination by the New Haven Police Department in the past two months, more than any other school in the region, the Quad News reported.
A new leader. Mario Monti GRD ’68, a former member of the European Commission and president of Milan’s Bocconi University, accepted a mandate on Sunday to take over as Italy’s new prime minister following former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Saturday afternoon resignation.
The young and the inspiring. Jake Conway ’11, the founder of Yale’s first LGBTQ-interest magazine, Q, was selected as one of this year’s OUT100, an annual listing of the 100 most inspirational members of the LGBTQ community.
Knitting for good. A group of seven School of Public Health students met in the school’s student lounge on College Street this Saturday to knit scarves that will be donated this Christmas to the New Haven Home Recovery — a local nonprofit that provides support to homeless women and children.
Aww! The Friday wedding of John Balzano and Anthony Porto, both of whom work at the University, made the wedding announcements section of The New York Times on Sunday. Balzano is a lecturer at Yale Law School, and Porto is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine.
Harvard is no fun. Because of issues with Harvard Licensing, the Freshman Class Council has been unable to sell its T-shirts for The Game. Harvard Licensing, which the Yale College Dean’s Office said FCC had to consult before they could print the shirts, objected to the use of the names of celebrity alumni, like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.
OK, so Harvard is a little fun. As Sex Week at Yale faces its possible end, some of our Cantab comrades are planning the first-ever Sex Week at Harvard College, the student organization Sexual Health Education & Advocacy throughout Harvard College announced Nov. 11.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1957 Princeton students wake up to the letter “Y” burned in grass near the school’s Palmer Satdium and to a fresh coat of white paint covering 1879 Hall, just days before the Princeton-Yale football game.
Not everyone at Morgan Stanley’s information session on Tuesday will be in suits — some Occupy-minded Yalies will be protesting outside the investment banking firm’s session.
Undergraduate Career Services facilitates dozens of career-related events a year, many of them focusing on opportunities in the financial services industry. One such event, a routine recruiting session for Morgan Stanley, is currently scheduled for Tuesday. Attendees at the informational meeting can expect the usual pomp and circumstance of collegiate recruiting: sturdy handshakes, well-fitted suit, and hopefully a shot at secure Wall Street bliss.
But they might not be expecting a group of protestors just a few blocks from the door: the “Occupy Morgan Stanley Info Session” will be waiting.
Marina Keegan ’12, the president of the Yale College Democrats, sent an email to the Dems’ panlist saying the event — organized by an Occupy Yale working group — will consist of 4:30 p.m. sign-making in the Dwight Hall Library, followed by a 5:30 protest outside of 1157 Chapel St., where the Morgan Stanley event will be held. When Morgan Stanley representatives begin their official information session an hour later, the Occupy protestors will move to the steps of the School of Art, where an “Alternative Info Session” will occur.
One goal of the event, Keegan explained, is to address the reasons why Yale students gravitate towards jobs in finance and consulting, and “make students think more critically about what they’re going to be doing next year in a broader context.”
“The other side of things needs to be presented,” Keegan said of the protest.
Both the Morgan Stanley info session and its Occupation are scheduled to occur Nov. 15.
After Silvio Berlusconi resigned from his post as Italy’s prime minister Saturday afternoon — ending a tumultuous 17-year chapter in Italian politics — Mario Monti GRD ’68, a former member of the European Commission and president of Milan’s Bocconi University, accepted a mandate on Sunday to become the nation’s new prime minister.
Italy must repay or refinance nearly 200 billion euros (about $276 billion) in bonds by April 2012. Last week, the political situation drove the yields on Italy’s bonds to 7.4 percent, a rate at which other countries in the euro zone have sought bailouts. With such high rates of interest, Italy will have a hard time handling its debt load, the New York Times reported.
Monti’s appointment follows a call by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in support of Monti to form a broad coalition to pass urgent economic legislation. He has declined to say how long he hopes to govern, but is expected to present his cabinet and program to the Italian parliament in a few days.
“We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future,” Monti said at a news conference Sunday.
Monti, aged 68, studied with Nobel Prize winner James Tobin at Yale as an economist and won the nickname “Super Mario” as Europe’s competition commissioner in 2001 for preventing a proposed merger between technology giants GE and Honeywell. He served as a member of the European Commission between 1994 and 2004, and is the current president of Bruegel, a European think tank he established in 2005.
Monti was born in Lombardy, the same part of Italy that Berlusconi comes from.
