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Meritocrats Of The World, Disunite!

by | Feb 20, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (30)

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Upstairs, downstairs: Roof goes on new luxury apartments at 201 Munson; rolling up a mattress before bulldozers come in to demolish a Lamberton Street homeless encampment.

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American meritocracy” has become a trap for people at both ends of growing income inequality, in the view of a Yale law professor who has made a name for himself diving deep into the data.

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Volunteers "Edit" Out Invasive Vines

by | Jan 29, 2024 10:03 am | Comments (9)

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Anthropology major Chris Kowalski (above) and Aaron Goode (below) de-vine by Beaver Brook.

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Clip high, clip low, create a window. Also don’t be a Tarzan and pull on those cut vines lest you disturb insect habitats or the birds high in the trees above.

Those were among the illuminating arboricultural tips offered for some serious de-vining of New Haven’s invasive-threatened native oaks, maples, sycamores, and hackberry trees growing on a beautiful but under-loved patch of city-owned forested greenspace.

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Yale Grad Union Ratifies 1st Contract

by | Dec 16, 2023 8:43 pm | Comments (7)

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Earth and planetary science PhD students Elly Goetz and Alex Ruebenstahl, voting "yes" on Local 33's first contract Friday.

At the 425 College polling place.

(Updated) Yale’s graduate teachers and researchers voted to ratify their first ever union contract with the university by a tally of 1,705 to 10 — making official a new five-year agreement that will see PhD students get at least 15 percent pay bumps and dental insurance, among other provisions.

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Grad Union Reaches Tentative Contract Agreement With Yale

by | Dec 8, 2023 4:51 pm | Comments (17)

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At a Local 33 rally on Hillhouse Ave.

Yale’s graduate teacher and researcher union has reached a tentative agreement with the university, which, if approved by a majority of its members, will grant the union its first ever contract — and will see PhD students receive at least 15 percent pay bumps and dental care, among other provisions.

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Mandy Buys Albertus Student Housing For $7.4M

by | Nov 28, 2023 12:21 pm | Comments (12)

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490 Prospect St.: Now owned by Mandy, leased by Albertus.

Tapping the current advantageous real estate market,” Albertus Magnus College has sold 20 units of student housing and related office and meeting space for $7.4 million to an affiliate of Mandy Management — and has entered into a long-term lease with the local megalandlord to preserve the property for school use.

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Hundreds Celebrate 51st Links Gala

by | Nov 9, 2023 1:54 pm | Comments (0)

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Sheila Carmon, Dr. Chaka Felder-McEntire (second from left), and Higher Heights high school students at Links annual gala.

The crowd listened, rapt, as Diane X Brown told her story. 

The scene was a lavish Saturday-night black-tie affair in the ballroom of Hamden’s Cascade Fine Catering to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the New Haven Chapter of The Links, a historic Black female advocacy organization rooted in community service and philanthropy.

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Ex-Yankees Ace Pitches Baseball’s Future Stars

by | Sep 26, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (1)

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Isiah Franklin, with Coach Alexander Baez and two Hartford baseball teammates: "Patience" is the word.

CC Sabathia: “I’ve been through so much on and off the field."

When CC Sabathia was nine years old, Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart visited Sabathia’s Boys & Girls Club — and that’s when the future Cy Young Award-winning left-hander knew what he wanted to do with his life.

It wasn’t just playing baseball.

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Career Paths Opened At ConnCAT

by | Sep 13, 2023 9:40 am | Comments (1)

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BioLaunch head trainer and lab operations manager Brionna Davis-Reyes sharing the magic of electrophoresis.

The opportunities must have sounded too good to be true for Alfred Washington, Elizabeth Cropper, and Shayne Miller. 

But there they were, as part of an open house hosted by the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).

Washington, a trainee on the cusp of an internship at a New Haven biotech company, was discussing the separation of protein molecules based on their size and electrical charge. Cropper, an instructor, was demonstrating blood draws in the phlebotomy lab. And Shayne Miller, a Culinary Arts Academy grad, was offering guests a cup of green tea lemongrass ice cream artfully wedged with a sesame seed cookie that he had earlier created.

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First-Years Welcomed To Fear City Yale

by | Aug 22, 2023 3:44 pm | Comments (62)

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Mayor Elicker, with the Yale police union handout in his left hand and the 1975 "Fear City" flyer in his right: This is "unbelievably offensive."

Yale first-years Hunter Robbins, Amber Nobriga, Lisa Chou, and Shukraat Adesina give mixed-to-negative reviews of the Yale police union's "Welcome to Yale" survival guide flyer.

Yale’s police union helped introduce first-year students and their families to New Haven this weekend with death-decorated flyers warning them not to go out after dark, to stay on campus, and to avoid using public transportation — inspiring the mayor and a host of top city and Yale officials to denounce the apparent contract negotiation ploy as shameful” and unbelievably offensive.” 

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"Amazing 8" Open New Promise Chapter

by | May 1, 2023 2:19 pm | Comments (7)

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Inaugural HBCU-bound Pennington Scholarship recipients, from left, Anaya Moore, Skye Williams, Tiara Walters, Laniyah McNeil, Antoine Pittman, Trinity Ford, Brianna Lane, and Migdalia Marquez at Monday's event with Promise President Patricia Melton.

Eight high schoolers made hopeful history Monday — and in the process helped New Haven confront historical wrongs.

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41 High-Schoolers LEAP Into College Tour

by | Apr 28, 2023 2:35 pm | Comments (2)

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LEAP counselors in front of the Howard University bookstore.

The following writeup was submitted by Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership Inc. (LEAP) Communications Coordinator Nicole Jefferson, with excerpts from LEAP counselors, about a college tour of D.C. and Georgia recently led by the local youth services nonprofit.

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On Service Day, Albertus Tends Its Garden

by | Apr 13, 2023 3:10 pm | Comments (4)

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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.

A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer. 

It does, however, if the green acre in question happens to be the garden at Albertus Magnus, a Catholic college in the Dominican tradition, where service and community are pillars of the faith of equal importance with the two others, study and prayer.

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