by | Sep 14, 2020 1:10 pm | Comments (1)
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The glass table where Kaye Paddyfote attended Professor Khalilah Brown-Dean’s lecture on America’s prison system was spotless. Not a crumb was left from the cupcakes sitting on the nearby counter from a roommate’s birthday the night before.
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Six Dwight scholars heading to college have received scholarships from The Firebirds Society of the Greater New Haven, Inc. in honor of keeping alive the influence of George Sweeney, the first black firefighter to serve in a New Haven firehouse.
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by | Sep 10, 2020 12:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Students who missed taking their SATs this spring will have a chance this fall — in person at area high schools.
This is the latest decision from the New Haven Public Schools Board of Education, which held an emergency meeting on Wednesday.
Aside from these testing opportunities, the Board of Education has closed school buildings to students out of safety concerns as the Covid-19 pandemic continues.
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John Bell works to remove a fuel pump.
John Bell was finally back getting his hands dirty learning how to fix up a car, now that his college worked to find a way for him to do it safely amidst a pandemic.
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by | Sep 9, 2020 12:09 pm | Comments (6)
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87 Trumbull St., en route to becoming 85 Trumbull.
Yale has picked up and moved — a two-story Trumbull Street academic building several hundred feet down the block, to make way for a new planned Economics Department building to be constructed near the corner of Prospect Street.
by | Sep 8, 2020 2:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Jessica Reid passes the flame to freshman Zaporia Satterfield.
Albertus Magnus’s Class of 2024 was passed a virtual torch from the senior class as the college found a way to continue its traditional convocation candle-lighting tradition to kick off a school year marked by a pandemic.
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by | Sep 8, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (4)
Indra Nooyi, Albert Ko address Tuesday’s panel.
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Maritza Bond, Justin Elicker.
Governor, mayor, top teams assess pandemic at public health forum in town.
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by | Sep 4, 2020 3:00 pm | Comments (2)
Jacob Payne, Jess Guerrucci: Coronavirus complicates senior year.
For Jacob Payne, each day this week has been defined by a thrice-daily trek across Grove Street to get a meal to bring back to eat in his Yale dorm room. So far, there are only two other students living on his floor. It’s silent when he leaves his room, walks down the hall, down the stairs. His footsteps echo.
Meanwhile, Jess Guerrucci has been living the busy student life, albeit with some adjustments, down the road at Southern Connecticut State University, working and eating and taking classes alongside her peers.
by | Aug 25, 2020 6:24 pm | Comments (8)
Movers carry Quentin Vergara’s belongings to his dorm room.
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Ananya Asthana arrives to move in.
Ananya Asthana was about to head to the room where — fingers crossed — she’ll be living for the next year.
First, though, she would need to get tested for Covid-19. Then, she would have to lug two sacks full of food up to the bedroom she has to herself, where she’d remain for up to 48 hours before receiving an initial negative test result.
by | Aug 25, 2020 6:19 pm | Comments (0)
New Albertus Magnus College students began moving into their residence areas Tuesday with the goal of “not letting Covid stop my life,” as freshman Avlin Mayers, 17, put it.
by | Aug 25, 2020 2:49 pm | Comments (2)
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Blumenthal at Tuesday’s press conference.
If New Haven schools reopen at some point, the Yale School of Public Health might have a new way to help them test for Covid-19 quicker.
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by | Aug 20, 2020 8:01 am | Comments (16)
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New Haven Chief Reyes and YPD Chief Higgins.
The chiefs of police for both Yale and New Haven defended the university’s police department as a critical “partner” in providing public safety in New Haven, during an aldermanic committee hearing focused on the inner workings and proper role of the local private police force.
by | Aug 19, 2020 1:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Quinnipiac University in Hamden.
Over the next few weeks, thousands of Quinnipiac University students will return to northern Hamden for a very different college experience defined by the restrictions of the pandemic.
Even with those restrictions, whether or not the university makes it through the year without an outbreak may be up to how cautious students are willing to be.
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by | Aug 18, 2020 11:30 am | Comments (2)
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The imminent reopening of the city’s six local colleges and universities represents both a much-needed economic boost — and a potential health risk.
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by | Aug 15, 2020 9:51 pm | Comments (9)
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JT Mullins at a July campus-community protest.
Yale’s black student leaders have fired back against a Department of Justice investigation that accused Yale of illegally discriminating against white and Asian American applicants in its undergraduate admissions process.
Student activists and faculty argued in interviews with the Independent that Black, brown, Indigenous and other disadvantaged students face much greater challenges getting into college than the average white or Asian American applicant and that race-conscious applications are necessary in a society with a long history of racial injustice that continues until today.
by | Aug 14, 2020 5:41 pm | Comments (0)
Leaders of black student groups at Yale released the following open letter Friday afternoon to U.S. Attorney William Barr and the Department of Justice over the filing of a lawsuit against Yale for allegedly discriminating against whites and Asian-Americans by practicing affirmative action:
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by | Aug 13, 2020 5:11 pm | Comments (4)
A two-year federal investigation into Yale’s undergraduate admissions process concluded that the university has practiced “long-standing and ongoing” racial discrimination against white and Asian American applicants.
A university spokesperson dismissed the findings as “a meritless, hasty accusation.”
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by | Jul 31, 2020 11:13 am | Comments (1)
Fire Lt. Justin McCarthy, David Youtz with boxes masks.
Amid worsening tensions between the U.S. and Chinese governments, a city-to-city international friendship remains strong — as large boxes containing 10,000 surgical masks arrived here in New Haven as a gift from our sister city Changsha.
by | Jul 29, 2020 9:38 pm | Comments (29)
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Hundreds of cars jammed the streets of Downtown New Haven from Hillhouse Avenue all the way to the Yale School of Medicine during rush hour Wednesday to demand that “Yale respect New Haven.”
by | Jul 24, 2020 11:21 am | Comments (11)
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Local 33 leader Eckert-Erdheim: “Transparency, accountability” needed.
Preparing for a possible pandemic spread and mental health crisis on campus, Yale is hiring “public health coordinators” to provide “on-site crisis intervention and emergency management” for undergraduate students living on campus.
Those coordinators will be graduate and professional students with three weeks of training under their belt by the start of the academic year, if all goes according to plan.
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by | Jul 6, 2020 3:15 pm | Comments (3)
Quinnipiac President Judy Olian: Layoffs, expansion.
A week after Quinnipiac University professors sent a letter to university administrators decrying recent layoffs and demanding that the university rehire faculty and staff, the university appeared before the Hamden Inland Wetlands Commission to start the approval process for a new student wellness center it plans to build this fall.
by | Jul 1, 2020 11:46 am | Comments (6)
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Walker-Myers: Yale should work with unions to ensure safety.
New Haven’s university-dominant retail economy got some partial hopeful news Wednesday morning: Of Yale’s 6,250 undergraduate students, three out of four class years will be allowed on campus for the fall semester.
by | Jun 26, 2020 1:31 pm | Comments (76)
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Elihu Yale; William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire; Lord James Cavendish; Mr. Tunstal; and Enslaved Servant, ca. 1708
“Nothing is known about the boy on the right, who has just finished pouring Madeira (a sweet, fortified wine) into the glasses on the table… the silver collar and padlock around his neck indicate that he is enslaved.”
So begins the curator’s comment for a portrait of Elihu Yale, one of three paintings in Yale University’s collection that depicts a slave attending to Elihu the slavemaster.
by | Jun 4, 2020 3:55 pm | Comments (3)
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DeBorah Davis Scholarship winner Sam Koroma and his mother.
When Sam Koroma moved from Sierra Leone to the United States, he did not expect ever again to participate in community service. He had gleaned from U.S. television shows and movies that his future home has no poverty.
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by | May 29, 2020 3:10 pm | Comments (0)
Southern Connecticut State University, Gateway Community College, and other state colleges and universities are planning to resume in-person classes this fall, according to the state higher education system’s president.