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May 11, 2017 12:35 pm
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Protesters block the intersection of Elm and York Thursday.
The eight Yale graduate students sitting back-to-back in a circle at the intersection of Elm and York streets had a few options: They could do as the officers requested and get out of the street. They could stay and be ticketed. Or like some of their colleagues simultaneously blocking Church and Chapel and at College and Grove streets, they could be taken into custody.
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May 10, 2017 12:08 pm
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Rosa DeLauro, Toni Harp, and Tyisha Walker wheel Decker, Sessions and Moe to Woodbridge Hall.
After two weeks putting nothing more than water into their stomachs, three of the original eight graduate teachers still fasting to press Yale to negotiate with their union mustered the energy to ask their employer: How much longer?
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May 5, 2017 5:21 pm
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Members of Local 33 and retired members of Locals 34 and 35 march out of Yale SOM Friday.
A graduate teacher union that is gaining notoriety for its ability to embarrass its nemesis pulled one more trick from up its sleeves Friday as its members unfurled a very larger banner inside the Yale University School of Management.
The banner had just two words on it: Trump University.
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May 4, 2017 7:35 am
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New Haven Rising’s Scott Marks shows off his hopscotch skills.
Members of UNITEHERE Local 33 didn’t have energy for much on the eighth day of a fast to push Yale University to the negotiating table, but the young and the young at heart made up the difference.
Melissa Etheridge, who broke onto the charts with her 1988 single “Bring Me Some Water,” carried an armload of Fiji bottles onto Beinecke Plaza on Tuesday afternoon.
Nursing student Aliza Kreisman checks faster Robin Canavan’s vital signs.
While graduate student demonstrators diverted the cops’ attention at two other locations, 30 supporters of a union protest fast slipped onto Yale’s Beinecke Plaza and swiftly erected a 25-foot-tall structure that has become a festive “Occupy Wall Street”-style gathering spot — and a headache for the university.
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May 1, 2017 4:40 pm
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro visiting the protest encampment.
(Opinion) Just last month an Italian journalist — who was illegally detained — was released from a Turkish prison after a six-day hunger strike, nine nurses in the Mexican state of Chiapas — who were drawing attention to shortages of supplies and demanded the payment of wages and retirement payments — ended a 10-day hunger strike, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners declared an indefinite hunger strike in Israel, and eight Yale graduate students declared an indefinite fast.
The rationale behind the latter hunger strike does not compare by any standard to any hunger strike known to me, it is a distasteful show of self-righteousness masked as a selfless sacrifice of eight martyrs for the apparent greater good of graduate students in eight departments.
This alternative hunger strike might come across as comical at first, but it is not, it makes a mockery of a “path that many others have [traveled before],” to quote Aaron Greenberg.
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Apr 29, 2017 8:53 pm
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DeLauro joins the Local 33 fasters and their supporters in Beinecke Plaza.
On the fifth day of a graduate student-teacher fast taking place at the heart of Yale University, the sun-dazed but spirited protesters received a visit of support from a U.S. congressperson with deep roots in New Haven labor history.
On the second day of protest, fasters said their hunger pangs had grown far more painful.
Yale graduate student teachers have a right to a union, but their most recent protest fast might not be the best method to obtain one, in the view of a candidate seeking to represent the campus on New Haven’s Board of Alders.
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Apr 28, 2017 7:09 am
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Aaron Greenberg.
Eight members of UNITEHERE Local 33, the new union representing some graduate student teachers at Yale, announced Tuesday that they have launched a hunger strike to try to convince the university to negotiate a first contract. One of the eight, union Chair Aaron Greenberg (who’s also a Wooster Square alder), offers his reasons in the following article. Click here and here for background on both sides of the dispute.
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Apr 19, 2017 4:37 pm
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Powers presents to neighbors.
As Yale closes up its “Commons” for a $150 million rebuilding, it’s looking to a York Street garage to serve as a temporary replacement for student dining and big events.
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Apr 14, 2017 1:27 pm
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Mednick with members of her “family” of graduates.
Nine years after she started an innovative soccer-cum-academic mentoring program for immigrant and refugee students, Lauren Mednick threw a party to celebrate that first group of wings and strikers’ biggest goal yet: their graduation from college.
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Mar 20, 2017 4:35 pm
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Camille: From Jesuit to Dominican.
As the incoming 14th president of Albertus Magnus College, Marc M. Camille promises to lure more first-generation undergrduates and add more practical options to a growing curriculum — and bring Catholic education fully into the 21st century.
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Mar 15, 2017 12:50 pm
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On a bracing March day about 40 years ago, the members of the women’s Yale crew team got tired of waiting, shivering after practice, for the boys to finish their showers. So they stripped naked in the gymnasium and wrote “Title IX” on their bodies to make a point.
New and slow to co-education, and even slower at providing facilities and equipment for its women athletes, Yale University in 1976 was on the receiving end of that demonstration, underlining the need for women’s showers and facilities equal to those of men.
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Mar 6, 2017 5:21 pm
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Walker: Not-for-profits need to step up.
Hartford—Two groups facing financial pressure — cities and not-for-profits — have found themselves on opposite sides of a state bill that would give New Haven power to limit new property-tax exemptions.
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Mar 2, 2017 1:07 pm
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A furry diner returned to the Southern Connecticut State University caf — and it’s not quite clear if it’s the last time he and his friends show up to eat.
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Lucy Gellman & Michelle Liu |
Feb 24, 2017 9:00 am
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Pro-union physics students mourn after the vote.
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Graduate student teachers in at least six — and likely eight — Yale departments voted to unionize Thursday, an opening victory in a longer quest on campus.
By a 2 – 1 vote, the National Labor Relations Board denied a request by Yale for an “expedited review” of a decision that allowed nine “micro-units” of graduate students to vote in unionizing elections Thursday.
Once again 40 LEAP teens and chaperones are on a college tour across the south during the New Haven Public Schools winter break. On Day 1 they visited schools in Atlanta, including Clark Atlanta, Georgia State University, as well as Spelman and Morehouse Colleges. Two LEAP junior counselors on the trip share their experiences below.
