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Daniela Brighenti, Qi Xu and David Yaffe-Bellany |
Jul 11, 2016 4:06 pm
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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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Aliyya Swaby |
May 26, 2016 1:29 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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Markeshia Ricks |
Mar 16, 2016 7:57 am
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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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Aliyya Swaby |
Mar 14, 2016 3:22 pm
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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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Aliyya Swaby |
Mar 10, 2016 8:58 am
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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.
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Lucy Gellman |
Mar 1, 2016 8:06 am
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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.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Feb 24, 2016 5:11 pm
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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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Lucy Gellman |
Feb 23, 2016 3:26 pm
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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.
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Lucy Gellman |
Feb 9, 2016 8:36 am
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Manchester, N.H. — Less than 12 hours from the start of the first-in-the-nation primary, Quinnipiac University Professor Scott McLean had an assignment for his road-weary students: Attend a Donald Trump rally as one of his staunch supporters, sporting red campaign swag and foam pointers for believability. Stick it out through every vitriolic comment and unexpected jab. And then, if they were willing to shake their cover just a little, give it a grade.
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Lucy Gellman |
Jan 26, 2016 1:21 pm
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By the time Priscilla Martel took Anne Greene’s “Portraits of People,” a creative nonfiction course taught at Wesleyan University in the 1980s, she was already deep into a love affair with food. Now, after decades of mixing that culinary fondness with an appreciation for the written word, she’s spreading the love in a downtown New Haven classroom.