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Months after he smashed a slavery-themed window in Yale’s Calhoun College with a broom, cafeteria worker Corey Menafee stepped away from his job during a 30-minute break on Friday to return the favor for those who helped him regain that job this summer.
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Seniors Pottinger and Fletcher.
Devonte Fletcher, who plays the trumpet and is the band’s drum major, wants to be a music/ band teacher — preferably right back at Hillhouse High School in the years to come.
Flutist Iyonna Pottinger is equally passionate about majoring in music education, but wonders whether she should apply at an historically black college or to an in-state school where tuition is less.
Continue reading ‘Young Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your ... Applications’
by | Oct 19, 2016 8:02 am | Comments (2)
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Should Yale University change the name of Calhoun College?
Adding his voice to a debate that has been raging for over a year, Yale professor and film historian Charlie Musser, director of the five-DVD box set Pioneers of African American Cinema and author of the new Politicking and Emergent Media: US Presidential Elections of the 1890s, says yes. He came on WNHH radio’s “The Tom Ficklin Show” to discuss why.
Below is a selection of the interview.
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Officials of the state’s community colleges have backed off plans to seek a steep tuition and fee hike for thousands of students starting next semester – and instead plan to study the idea.
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Gateway Community College, which is inducting five more local people into its Hall of Fame this coming Thursday, issued the following release:
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Yale’s Kari Nordstrom points out details of the new science building.
Yale University can proceed with the construction of a new $120 million science building.
by | Sep 15, 2016 8:42 am | Comments (33)
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Grad students Kelly Goodman, Julia Powers, Greenberg, Alyssa Battistoni outside court Wednesday.
Hartford — Columbia’s graduate student teachers may be “employees,” but their counterparts at Yale aren’t.
So argued Yale lawyers in a windowless hearing room here as the fate of a 26-year-old drive for a union election headed to a legal climax.
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The University of Connecticut improperly redirected nearly $50 million in state funds earmarked for deferred maintenance to instead expand and upgrade various facilities, the state auditors reported.
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Yale attorney Joseph Hammer displays the moat.
The Board of Zoning appeals gave Yale University the green light on variances it needs to execute plans for a new $150 million student center and performance center named after an Old Blue hedge funder.
by | Sep 7, 2016 8:20 am | Comments (23)
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Holmes outside City Hall after “historic” vote.
New Haven lawmakers made quick work Tuesday night of giving Yale University the go-ahead to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on construction projects.
by | Aug 29, 2016 5:40 pm | Comments (19)
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Ramesh: Victory “feels more possible” now.
While preparing to lead a class on democracy in India this semester, Hari Ramesh took time out to join his fellow graduate students Monday in seeking to bring democracy to New Haven.
by | Aug 26, 2016 12:58 pm | Comments (12)
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New Haven’s 1,373 newest downtown residents arrived to their new lodgings Friday morning welcomed by friendly cops, blaring music, free fruits and water — and a notice that they’re about to live amid a labor-management showdown.
by | Aug 25, 2016 8:26 am | Comments (70)
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Marchand: Artful Ducker.
City officials scrambled this week to prevent another Yale-union spat from blowing an unexpected $5.6 million hole in the just-ended fiscal year budget.
In the end, Yale leveraged a threat to win assurances it can proceed with a plan to build a new biology lab.
by | Aug 23, 2016 4:07 pm | Comments (9)
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Yale Local 33 members at a recent demonstration.
Graduate student teaching assistants at Columbia University won a ruling Tuesday that may inject new life into the decades-long quest to unionize their contemporaries at Yale.
Continue reading ‘NLRB Ruling Boosts Yale Grad-School Union Drive’
by | Aug 22, 2016 8:11 am | Comments (0)
The state more than doubled the amount of money it sends Gateway Community College from a needs-based scholarship fund.
by | Aug 12, 2016 2:22 pm | Comments (3)
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Local activists call for name change.
“Douglass College” became “William Pickens College” for a few minutes Friday, as local activists again rechristened the Yale residential college still officially known as Calhoun.
by | Aug 11, 2016 12:55 pm | Comments (2)
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Chambers, fulfilling her dream.
Fontaine Chambers is about to start the next step of her journey toward a career in criminal justice. But first she’s taking a bow.
by | Aug 4, 2016 8:29 am | Comments (14)
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Kane with Menafee outside the Elm Street courthouse.
If the first Yale cops on the scene of a smashed window panel had had their way, a cafeteria worker would never have faced a felony criminal charge. And Yale University would not have suffered an international embarrassment.
by | Aug 1, 2016 5:05 pm | Comments (8)
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Activists’ temporary renaming of Calhoun last week.
Yale University President Peter Salovey Monday reopened the door to possibly renaming Calhoun College, which is named for infamous slavery proponent John C. Calhoun.
by | Jul 28, 2016 12:31 am | Comments (20)
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Marchand, right, reveals the ask Wednesday night.
Walker, Zucker: We’ll talk.
It seemed as though Yale’s plan to build a new biology lab broke through a legislative logjam at City Hall Wednesday night.
Aftewards, Yale’s top official present lined up a phone date with the city’s top legislator — just to make sure.
by | Jul 26, 2016 1:10 pm | Comments (29)
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Menafee Tuesday outside court, gagged, with attorney Kane.
Activists renamed Calhoun College Tuesday.
In the wake of widespread protests, the African-American cafeteria worker who broke a slavery-themed window in Yale’s Calhoun College had criminal charges against him dropped Tuesday and got his job back — on the condition that he forfeit his right to speak publicly.
by | Jul 25, 2016 12:11 pm | Comments (9)
This window panel remains in Calhoun College.
Now-gone panel.
Twenty-seven shards of glass: That is what remains of a stained-glass pane at Calhoun College depicting slaves picking cotton after Corey Menafee, an African American employee at Yale University, knocked it down with a broomstick. Mr. Menafee explained his act with great clarity, stating that “… I don’t know, something inside me said, you know, that thing has to come down … It was a picture that just — you know, as soon as you look at it, it just hurts.”
by | Jul 20, 2016 8:08 am | Comments (0)
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Machado.
Tashi Sanchez dreamed of being a teacher since she was 8 years old.
by | Jul 19, 2016 5:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Kendrick: It’s “where you end up that counts.
New Haven high-schools students will be able to take more college prep courses this fall and get federal grants to help pay to take college courses, officials announced Tuesday.
by | Jul 19, 2016 12:49 pm | Comments (47)
Menafee appearing on the “Democracy Now!” news.
Corey Menafee, the cafeteria worker who lost his job after smashing a slavery-themed stained-glass window panel in Yale’s Calhoun College, plans to return to work Monday.