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Worker Smashes “Racist” Panel, Loses Job

by , and | Jul 11, 2016 4:06 pm | Comments (5)

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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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Yale Tax Fight Turns To Tech

by | Apr 27, 2016 4:43 pm | Comments (26)

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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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Yale Fights Back; Lemar Rips “Scare Tactics”

by | Apr 13, 2016 3:15 pm | Comments (35)

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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.”

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Tax Yale Effort Revived

by | Mar 16, 2016 7:57 am | Comments (41)

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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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Dixwell Lot Reimagined

by | Mar 14, 2016 3:22 pm | Comments (6)

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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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GESO Rebranded “Local 33,” Preps For Fight

by | Mar 10, 2016 8:58 am | Comments (9)

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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.

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Gateway C.O.O.K.s Up Community

by | Mar 1, 2016 8:06 am | Comments (2)

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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.

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Code Crackers Find Elm City InGenius

by | Feb 12, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (1)

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Mainiero, Greenfield and Butterly at their new East Rock HQ.

Boston, New York City, somewhere in California — all were contenders to be the home of a small start-up looking to make a big name for itself.

The founders of InGenius Prep, a college admissions prep company, lowered their anchor here in New Haven instead.

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QU Students Crash Trump Rally

by | Feb 9, 2016 8:36 am | Comments (5)

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McLean and class at the rally..

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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Food Writer Cooks Up A Gateway Course

by | Jan 26, 2016 1:21 pm | Comments (0)

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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.

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