Tom Stanley-Becker
Tom Stanley-Becker
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Occupiers struggle through cold
In the middle of their camp, Occupy New Haven is building a solar panel. The panel constructed of cabinet wood, glass, and metal coils will capture sunlight to heat their kitchen tent.
‘Surgery’ won’t fix London
London burned. But just days before the city went up in flames and riots spread throughout England, I was walking the streets of Tottenham, the district where the uprising began, with Member of Parliament (MP) David Lammy.
YCC | Archit Sheth-Shah ’13, treasurer
As a referee in intramural basketball, Treasurer Candidate Archit Sheth-Shah ’13 calls out fouls; if elected, he says he will call out the Yale College Council for spending too much on events, such as Spring Fling, and use the savings to stage a multi-band Fall Concert to replace the more modest Fall Festival.
Brookside to be revitalized
City officials and community members hope a new public housing complex will build a sense of collaboration between Hamden and residents in the West Rock neighborhood. Last month, construction began on a new housing complex close to both West Rock and Hamden, which the New Haven Housing Authority hopes will stimulate socioeconomic connections between residents in the isolated area on the Northwesternern edge of the city and the broader New Haven and Hamden communities.
GESO protests and publishes
About 250 graduate students congregated at Sterling Memorial Library Wednesday to release a report on what they describe as Yale’s corporate character and failure to collaborate with faculty and graduate students in making policy decisions about their work.
Moses’ play returns to the promised land
Playwright and newly hired television writer Itamar Moses earned his MFA in dramatic writing at New York University after graduating from Yale in 1999. Now a resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn, he has since written several critically acclaimed plays and taught a residential college seminar on playwriting. Moses’ play “Bach at Leipzig” which premiered off Broadway in 2005 and was inspired by a book he read while taking a music history course at Yale, is coming back to where it was first conceived in a new production at the Off-Broadway Theater. WEEKEND talked to him via telephone this past Tuesday about the drama of being a playwright.
Dispatch from the polls: Ward 2
As of 4:30 p.m., 517 people out of the 2,294 registered voters had come out to the Ward 2 voting place, Augusta Lewis Troup School. Voters were a mix of New Haven residents and a few Yale undergraduate students who live off campus and graduate students from Yale and Southern Connecticut State Universities.
DOUBLE TAKE | Finding sponsors for tournament
After sponsorship for the annual professional tennis tournament in New Haven was unclear for 11 months, Yale President Richard Levin courted sponsorship from friends at American Express and Aetna to keep the tournament in New Haven. This year, the tournament will no longer include men due to financial and logistical considerations, said the tournament’s director Anne Worcester.
Project Storefronts promotes economic development
As a part of Project Storefronts, new stores Detritus, The Grove, UpCycle Arts and the Crosby Street Gallery have opened at 71 Orange St., a block southeast of the New Haven Green. The initiative has enabled these stores by allowing them to use vacant space in the downtown area at low- or no-cost.