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MLK with Brewster.
“You are an accessory to the civil war which we are going to have and the innumerable crimes of rape, robbery, and murder which afflict numerous innocent victims when you inflame the passions of negroes when you donate oily, unctuous Martin Luther King a degree.”
by | Jan 5, 2016 1:18 pm | Comments (0)
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Yale’s School of Architecture may just be the best graduate program in its field, and it’s getting a new dean.
by | Dec 22, 2015 5:20 pm | Comments (1)
Dee Lindsey was laid off from from her last “real” job as an administrative assistant in January 2013 — and has since had a difficult time finding steady work.
Continue reading ‘102 Long-Term Employed Ready To Reenter Workforce’
by | Dec 16, 2015 5:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Musinipally: Citizens should be able to view video.
As New Haven cops prepare to join colleagues across the country in wearing body cameras, a new white paper from Yale Law School sounds the alarm on the importance of public access to the footage that those cameras will capture.
by | Dec 16, 2015 7:19 am | Comments (0)
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Living in a town that is home to one of the top-ranked colleges in this country, we might become a bit blasé about its status. When the media explodes with stories of protests about racism at the school or badly handled rape cases, or when we experience simply the usual town-gown tensions, we might pause to think about how elite colleges are a world unto themselves, but do we think about what the kids there had to do to enter that world?
peerless, Jiehae Park’s dark comedy at the Yale Repertory Theatre, which runs through Dec. 19, aims its satire close to home in that respect.
by | Dec 9, 2015 8:56 am | Comments (1)
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Demonstrators spotlighted Yale’s mental-health system.
An international student’s dismissal after a hospitalization took center stage Tuesday night at the latest rally by supporters of a drive to unionize the Yale’s graduate-student teachers.
by | Dec 2, 2015 8:04 am | Comments (17)
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Harries, Yale’s Peter Salovey, Harp, Herbst at announcement.
High School in the Community seniors Atheijok Akok and Caroline Ricardo are both applying to the University of Connecticut — and a new scholarship program through the New Haven Promise could get them extra money to attend.
by | Nov 22, 2015 9:46 am | Comments (1)
As Yale students departed their protest-filled campus for Thanksgiving break, they left behind sounds of harmony in the courtyard where the friction all began.
by | Nov 20, 2015 8:36 am | Comments (6)
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Harry Pylypiw stumbled across a Quinnipiac River “hot spot” where previously undetected chemicals pour into fish-filled water streaming toward New Haven Harbor.
Now he wants to find out if we should worry about that. And if it’s legal.
by | Nov 19, 2015 9:00 am | Comments (15)
New Haven is a company town … well, a two company town: Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital. Their building permit fees have balanced the City of New Haven’s budget. Their incredible allure and endowment create an arts climate here that is extraordinary. The architecture school has meant dozens of modern masterpieces by the worlds Great 20th Century (and maybe 21st century) Architects to be built: Ingalls Rink, British Art Center, Rudolph Hall. The list goes on.
by | Nov 19, 2015 8:33 am | Comments (26)
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Overflow crowd at Wednesday evening’s event.
Yale’s three-week-old student protest movement joined forces with the university’s labor unions, promising to push together for a more diverse campus that treats students and workers better and improves its mental health care.
by | Nov 17, 2015 5:26 pm | Comments (4)
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Ogle, who helped develop the boot camp.
New Haveners looking to boost their web-building skills can now head down to Church Street.
by | Nov 13, 2015 2:58 pm | Comments (38)
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Chang reads aloud protesters’ demands.
The racial-justice movement exploding at Yale landed at midnight at the Hillhouse Avenue doorstep of University President Peter Salovey — who waited with words of encouragement.
by | Nov 13, 2015 3:18 am | Comments (5)
Yale students speaking out about racism on campus.
I’m not about to join calls for two Yale residential-college masters to resign amid protests or to defend the uncivil “acting out” to which they were subjected. I’ve witnessed and criticized plenty of destructive racial political theater over the years that vilified the innocent and silenced people with legitimate differences of opinion.
But, unlike some observers in the national media, I also understand the difference between mob behavior and the foolish lashings-out of a few 18 – 20-year olds, at Yale or any other college, especially those who didn’t attend well-integrated schools and have found themselves plunged after high school into Yale’s daunting and dazzling campus culture.
by | Oct 22, 2015 4:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Satcher with an admirer, Yoo Jin Chang, an Americorps/VISTA staffer in early childhood at the mayor’s office.
Nursing student Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka walked two miles Thursday morning — and not only to get in her daily exercise.
She had a breast-feeding policy question to ask of former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher who was delivering a keynote lecture on why poor and minority populations, including those in New Haven, continue to have more diabetes, obesity, and other health problems than the national average.
by | Oct 20, 2015 12:01 pm | Comments (5)
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Kelly electrofishes in Q River, sending a mild electrical current to immobilize fish for capture.
Estrogen, fertilizers, plastic and heavy metals may kill entire species of fish in the Quinnipiac River — and limit humans’ dinner and recreation options. Unless four University of New Haven researchers succeed in sounding the alarm.
by | Oct 16, 2015 12:52 pm | Comments (8)
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Years into a revived organizing drive, Yale graduate-student teachers vowed to persist amid what they called an “intimidation” campaign.
by | Sep 30, 2015 6:07 am | Comments (0)
Jack Kramer of the UConn Foundation sent int he following write-up:
University of Connecticut officials pledged to increase the school’s outreach to Greater New Haven area alumni at a recent event held in the Elm City.
by | Sep 17, 2015 2:36 pm | Comments (1)
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s father smoked despite being a doctor. Murthy and his sister used to cut their father’s cigarettes in half to try to force him to stop.
by | Sep 9, 2015 7:45 am | Comments (7)
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Professor Dyson watches from the alder pews.
New Haven’s lawmakers spoke with one voice Tuesday night in OK’ing a five-year lease for a Fair Haven urban farm, a $350,000 grant for a plumbing-supply company to expand on Grand Avenue, and receipt of $700,000 to help kids in trouble.
Raejana Mattaway watched the rapid debate-free decision-making — and concluded she might enjoy making the move one day from Shake Shack to the halls of government.
by | Aug 31, 2015 4:29 pm | Comments (18)
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New Haven Mayor Toni Harp Monday added her voice to those calling for Yale to remove a leading slavery advocate’s name from one of its 12 residential colleges.
by | Aug 29, 2015 9:30 pm | Comments (3)
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Yale University is following the lead of South Carolina — taking a look at whether it should withdraw an official symbol of the Confederacy.
by | Jun 18, 2015 12:49 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven lawyer Greg Pepe gave over $10,000 in college education scholarships to deserving high school seniors. Why? In part, to give other students something to LEAP for.
Continue reading ‘Scholarships Give Teens Something To LEAP For’
by | May 25, 2015 9:19 am | Comments (10)
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In a commencement speech with resonance for the entire country, New Haven’s latest wave of budding “1 percenters” were sent off with congratulations — and a sobering perspective on how the bid to create a meritocracy in higher education has unintentionally created a “new aristocracy.”
Continue reading ‘Will The “New Aristocrats” Broker The Deal?’
by | May 11, 2015 1:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Never in her life had Rachel Zwick gone into Home Depot — or any store — to buy a five-sixteenths combo wrench or five-inch floppy disks for sanders.
Continue reading ‘Co-Op Grad Scores Backstage “Matilda” Role’