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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.
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The plight of a cafeteria worker whom Yale police arrested for smashing a stained-glass window depicting a slavery scene was “regrettable for all concerned,” university President Peter Salovey wrote in a campus-wide email.
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Menafee Tuesday outside the Elm Street courthouse.
Corey Menafee wants his job back.
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Menafee outside the courthouse.
The African-American cafeteria worker who lost his job after breaking a slavery-themed stained-glass window in Yale’s Calhoun College said he resigned as part of a quid-pro-quo agreement with the university not to pursue charges against him.
He kept his end. He’s still facing charges.
Continue reading ‘Crowd Cries “Free Corey!”; Case Continued’
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The original panel, depicting slaves carrying bales of cotton.
An African-American dishwasher lost his job after breaking a stained-glass panel in Yale’s Calhoun residential college dining hall that depicted slaves carrying bales of cotton.
The dishwasher, Corey Menafee, said he used a broomstick to knock the panel to the floor. He said he was tired of looking at the “racist, very degrading” image.
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Chanel DuBois, 41, at Gateway graduation Thursday.
When Fereshteh Ganjavi came to New Haven as an Iranian refugee in September 2011, she thought that her college degree would come with her.
No dice, employers said as she began the long and tedious search for jobs. She’d have to start from square one.
Continue reading ‘Class Of Strivers Wins Long-Sought Degrees’
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Erika and Nicholas Christakis.
Yale’s Nicholas Christakis has stepped down from his position as Silliman Head of College after becoming the center of controversy this year about the campus climate for people of color.
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Zucker: 280 construction jobs unnecessarily delayed.
A regulatory denial Thursday night means Yale must start all over with the process of getting zoning approval to construct a new bio lab — and first obtain an OK for a science district parking plan.
Continue reading ‘Science Hill Vote: Labor Wins, Yale Loses’
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Camacho, Matos, Meares, and Weaver at WNHH.
Inside the college walls, the title of “master” was eliminated. Outside the name of a leading slavery advocate, John C. Calhoun, remained at the entrance.
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Reyes, Porter, Keyes & Winfield in the WNHH studio.
Roland Lemar dialed a lobbyist to see if they could fix the language on a bill that divided town and gown. The lobbyist didn’t want to talk specifics. “We just want this to go away,” he told Lemar.
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Better that students learn about slavery and understand how to argue against it than whitewash it from memory.
Continue reading ‘Slavemaster Still Honored; “Master” Bites The Dust’
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Salovey at Wednesday’s press conference.
Yale’s president upped the ante Wednesday in the battle over a proposed new state law, questioning New Haven elected officials’ motives and shifting the discussion from endangered symphony concerts to a putatively endangered local economy.
Alexander (left): Looney’s fronting for unions. Looney (right): “That’s absurd. They know better than that.”
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Woolsey Hall: Tax target? Wishnie (inset): Yale’s wrong.
Eleven law professors have reviewed Yale University’s arguments that a pending state bill affecting a small portion of the school’s tax breaks is unconstitutional. The professors gave Yale an F.
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Deliverance Church’s Ron Hurt.
Churches pay taxes on commercial activities, so Yale should, too.
Continue reading ‘Clergy Back Bill To Clarify Special Yale Tax Exemption’
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Soon-to-be-outdated signage on Grove Street?
Politics collided with the performing arts as Yale University threatened to evict the New Haven Symphony from its performance hall as part of a fight over a proposed state law.
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Mixed Bag? 433 Temple.
Yale has enlisted its community to lobby legislators to kill a bill that scrutinizes a portion of the university’s tax exemptions, leading New Haven State Rep. Roland Lemar to accuse the school of waging a misleading campaign based on “inaccurate” and “unsubstantiated scare tactics.”
Continue reading ‘Yale Fights Back; Lemar Rips “Scare Tactics”’
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Isabel Skarzynski and Loraine Stokes lead the marchers.
Chanting, “Feminists unite. Reclaim the night! SlutWalk!” a band of Southern Connecticut State University students and faculty marched through the center of campus — and into school history.
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Harp announcing support for bill.
Mayor Toni Harp pointed to Yale’s recent purchase of 350 George St. and the university’s travel agency as examples of why she supports a State Senate bill to clarify a 182-year-old statute that governs the city’s ability to tax the university’s real estate holdings.
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Ponce de Leon, Li.
Yanbo Li and Juan Pablo Ponce de Leon looked at a large empty lot at a four-way intersection at the northern edge of the Dixwell neighborhood and saw a four-story affordable housing development with multiple entryways, green terraces, and shared balconies.
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After weeks of mystery, a stated reason emerged Monday for why Yale expelled the captain of its championship basketball team.
Continue reading ‘Expelled Hoops Captain: Sex Was Consensual’
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The march Wednesday night to the convention.
Stepping up a quarter-century-old labor fight, hundreds of Yale graduate students marched through downtown Wednesday evening and then, with the help of a U.S. Congresswoman and other top officials, held a convention to authorize a new union to represent them.
Continue reading ‘GESO Rebranded “Local 33,” Preps For Fight’
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Franco-Camacho and the ceviche.
Arturo Franco-Camacho, chef de cuisine at the new Shell & Bones restaurant, was in a ceviche-making mood. The driving rain instilled in him a taste for the chilled, citrusy seafood soup. Several shrimp had been blanched and split. Freshly-squeezed orange juice was waiting in the wings. An assistant stood by to see what help Franco-Camacho needed.
But for some reason, it was taking him twice as long.
by | Feb 24, 2016 5:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Savarino, third from right, was attracted to the long history of train jobs.
Steve Hardy.
Hillhouse High School graduate Steve Hardy enrolled in Gateway’s new railroad engineering program because of the projected spike in jobs available in the industry.
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Charles Nixon addresses Tuesday’s crowd.
Charles Nixon, a student at a glistening new culinary arts academy in Newhallville, never thought that he would go into cooking as anything more than a hobby. Then he lost his job with AT&T.
by | Feb 16, 2016 8:33 am | Comments (2)
Fifth-graders chant the UConn fight song.
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Principal Cordero.
Born and bred in New Haven, Heriberto Cordero got a full ride to Quinnipiac University through a partnership with his local public middle school.
Now, back home as a principal, he wants to help his Fair Haven students follow in his footsteps.