The Week in Brief

Hugh Eastwood, ES '00, a development analyst at University Properties, explained that the move reflected efforts to serve students' needs more directly. University Properties conducts surveys and meets with focus groups to determine what types of businesses Yalies want at high-profile locations on campus. "What we found is that students wanted more late-night [establishments] on that area of Broadway. We'll get a new tenant that fits that demand for retail and food," Eastwood said.

The management administrators of Council Travel, located in New York, agreed to the move from its spot next to Ivy Noodle at the request of University Properties. The move is set to occur within the next month.

Workers expressed optimism about the decision. Teri Ramos, manager of the New Haven branch, thinks the move will be advantageous for business. "The Wall Street office is actually more centrally located with the Yale student population," Ramos said. "The space is a little bigger, too."

—Amsalu Dabela

Furry tenants take over off-campus rooms

Off Broadway Manager D.J. Ornato confirmed that mice have been spotted in the building, but feels that the problem, is well under control. "The properties are all exterminated each month, but whenever someone reports a problem to us we respond within 24 hours," he said.

Nora Ericson, BR '01, who lives in Harrison Court, said that she has noticed the infestation back in June, and although the management called Safeway, a private extermination company, the problems still hasn't been solved. "The exterminator came twice and we've put enough posion for 40 mice," Ericson said. She added that, though the poison is gone, "There are still tons of mice here. You can hear them in the walls."

—Justin Loring

Yale organization fights world blindness

Staple spent last summer working in an ophthalmologist's office, where she frequently observed the emotional effects of vision loss. "I now believe that many of the devastating effects of eye diseases can be prevented through public education about the importance of regular eye exams," she said.

The organization has already begun working on vision education programs that will be implemented throughout the New Haven area. Starting in November, Yale students will lead information sessions about how to prevent vision loss and will provide regular screenings in the New Haven community to detect ambylopia (lazy eye) and strabismus (cross eye) in young children, conditions that can cause blindness if left untreated before the age of five.

Unite for Sight has also just begun a month-long eyeglass drive to collect prescription glasses and UV-protected sunglasses which will be sent to developing countries, where the glasses will be dispensed to patients who cannot afford them.

—Anna Arkin-Gallagher

Coming Out Day at Yale aims for open minds

National Coming Out Day has been celebrated nationally for the past 12 years as part of the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) ongoing effort "to empower every lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered person to make a difference," according the HRC website. To promote the occasion on campus, the Queer-Straight Alliance (QSA)—for the second time since its inception in the fall of 1999—distributed pink flags to rooms on Old Campus for students of all sexual orientations to display from dorm windows in a show of support. "We feel that the project helps create a better environment in which freshmen can come out," Casey Pitts, BK '03, a coordinator for QSA, said. "It also brings about discussion as roommates decide whether or not to display the flag." In addition to assisting the QSA, the LGBT also scheduled a student panel discussion on Tuesday evening and hosted a chat and concert with the famed Broadway actor, singer, and queer rights activist Anthony Rapp. Additional activities included a discussion by Biways about bisexuality and a meeting for PRISM about coming out as a queer person of color.

LGBT Co-op coordinator Maya Gideon, MC '02, described the week's festivities as a "great success." She hopes National Coming Out Day will continue "to foster a positive atmosphere for people of all sexual orientations." Pitts agreed. "We hope that, through our actions, some of the hostility still faced by queer people can be reduced," he said, "and that sexual orientation will be recognized as one of many traits that define a person."

—Katie Malizia

CHRISTINE MOUNDAS/YH Disappointed with the YDN coverage of his Cross Campus preaching, Soldiers for Christ member Steven White (posing here with Rob Rhee, TD '04) said the editors responsible now top his list of hell-bound people, which includes all minorities, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and homosexuals.

HEARD

"Isn't there something you can turn on, or turn off, or fire a round into?" —Vincent Scully, Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to the Renaissance "Human sexual embrace can (it doesn't always, God knows) differ from the copulation of the four-legged." —William May, Bioethics "I actually own a pair of underwear with the inscription: God, give me chastity—but not yet." —Lee Patterson, Human Nature and the Natural World in the Middle Ages "To write like a real idiot takes absolute talent." —Vladimir Golstein, Literature and Empire in Russia

Ivy League Notebook

Penn

Students, faculty and alumni comprising a 40-member choir sang with Barbara Streisand in her final two concerts at Madison Square Garden last week. The choir spent months learning several of Streisand's songs in preparation. Strangely, the group spent the first half of the show backstage, where it sang most of its repertoire into the sound system. "I guess we were just too Penn-ful to look at," one visually revolting choir member suggested.

Brown

"Love Your Body Day" visited Brown last week, part of a collaboration between different women's organizations at the university. The groups set up booths on the main lawn and distributed information, letting women "know that there is support to encourage all body types," Amy Chang '03 told reporters. Healthy snacks were handed out and students were encouraged to exercise regularly. The sponsors of the day also showed an instructional masturbation video. Tip one from the video? "Do not attempt to masturbate while fantasizing about a fellow Brown Bear. You're all ugly."

Dartmouth

The Student Life Initiative Committee on Greek Life is currently being formed to evaluate fraternities and sororities. The committee, which will consist of administrators, faculty, alumni, and students is supposed to ensure that Greek organizations contribute more to the university, Dartmouth's Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said. The committee, will address "everything from the beginning to the end of the Greek experience." Special attention, he added, will be paid to the continued provision of beer goggles, required protection in the glaring ugliness rays of Hanover.

—Compiled by the beautiful Amsalu Dabela from The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Dartmouth, and the Brown Daily Herald.

YALE INDEX
1. Average number of midterms Yalies have in October:	4.5
2. Average number of hours Yalies study for each midterm:	5
3. Average number of hours Yalies study for "Listening to Music" midterms:	0.5
4. Percentage of Yale students who enjoy listening to Sting:	75
5. Number of hours Sting lasts during tantric sex:	8
6. Percentage of Yale students who engage in tantric sex:	1
7. Number of Herald editors who get strangely horny during midterms:	3
8. Number of midterms testing expertise in tantric sex:	0
9. Percentage of Yalies who would rather have tantric sex than take a midterm:	100
10. Number of potential tantric sex sessions midterm-studying displaces:	3
11. Percentage of Yalies who are Sting:	0
12. Number of classes this semester with "sex" in their title:	5
13. Number of classes with "Sting" in their title:	0
14. Percentage of "Yale men" who call their thing "Sting":	1
15. Percentage of Yalies who use "listening to music" as a euphemism for sex:	25
16. Percentage of Yalies who listen to music because they can't have sex:	50

—Compiled by Andrew Heller and Kushal Dave

1, 10) Math; 2) Delusion; 3, 4, 7) Informal survey; 5) Experience. Not; 6, 15) Sexile; 8, 12) Bluebooking. A lot; 9) Common sense; 11) Directory; 14, 16) My vast CD collection

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