Updated: Friday, May 16, 2008 at 8:20pm
On Monday, the New Haven Board of Education terminated its food-service contract with the notorious firm Aramark and decided instead to run all food services in-house. Parents, workers, teachers and public-school students have fiercely criticized the company for putting profits before kids by serving poor-quality food and cultivating bad labor-management relations...
This past Saturday, the New Haven Green witnessed a scene that has become all too common: two rallies at loggerheads over the Beijing Olympics, both making overblown claims and neither willing to listen to the other’s perspective. The anti-Olympics rally fell victim to extreme viewpoints and name-calling, while the pro-Olympics rally missed the point altogether. Those...
Dean Salovey, I forgive you. I know, these days I am meant to call for your head. You limit speech. But you also kind of allow it. But you also really limit it! His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI came all the way from Rome, and you couldn’t even arrange for him to speak at Yale? He has some pertinent things to say about religion. Perhaps you would have if the Holy Father...
In 1886, Cuba’s liberal reformers and their allies in the international community pressured the Spanish government into abolishing the institution of slavery. Whereas in the United States, the slaves would have to suffer legalized discrimination in the “Jim Crow” South, no such thing would happen in Cuba. The blessings of freedom had been secured for all Cubans...
Fed up with corruption, both local and state lawmakers are tackling ethics reform that would punish those who abuse government positions for financial gain. But while the state Senate last week unanimously approved a bipartisan compromise, efforts at the local level are likely to be incremental. Aldermen would like to revoke pensions from those who commit felonies on the...
Two Yale Law School students will advocate for more than 600,000 Connecticut schoolchildren before the state Supreme Court in Hartford today. For the two students in Yale’s Education Adequacy Clinic, David Noah LAW ’09 and Neil Weare LAW ’08, more than a year of work will culminate today as they present their oral argument in a case that will decide whether...
For Alice Hodgkins ’11, it was simply a matter of checking a box on a form — and then, instead of walking through Phelps Gate with the class of 2010 last September, she was soaring above the clouds in North Carolina at the controls of a Cessna 150, earning her pilot’s license. That fall, as her would-be class adjusted to life on Old Campus, Hodgkins traveled to...
Wednesday night was Pre-tap, but I’m a little hesitant to write about the group I recently joined. I know, we’re not supposed to talk about this stuff with our masks off, so I won’t name which one it is. Let’s just say I accepted the offer because I wanted to really get to know some great people I would have never otherwise met. It’s not that elitist, even...
A United States House of Representatives committee unanimously approved legislation Wednesday intended to ensure that student loans will continue to be available amid the increasing turmoil in the credit markets. The legislation, approved by the House Education and Labor Committee, would, among other things, raise the annual limits on the amount of federal loans a...
Those Yalies who attended the Sex Week porn debate for Nightline saw firsthand an attempt by the religious right to disavow pornography, without any admittance that the reason, came judgment and not concern. Together, we watched as two men, a pastor and a reformed porn director, claimed that porn creates unrealistic fantasies and expectations about sex. Their faces were...
Sean Matteson could be doing more important things with his time. The 37-year-old mayoral chief of staff swivels in his chair like a restless teenager, no doubt frustrated to be wasting half an hour with a reporter. His eyes flick from any of several gaudy Post-it notes affixed to his computer screen to the two cell phones lying by his keyboard. His left hand taps...
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