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W. TENNIS NO. 26 BULLDOGS SWEEP PAST Q-PAC
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HEALTH CARE LAW
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Federal judge hears protesters’ lawsuit to remain on Green
OVERHAUL’S FATE AT SUPREME COURT PROBED IN PANEL
Five-goal effort from DeVito ’14 leads Yale past Marist, 13–9
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Yale values to be tested in Singapore
Special guest. Jimmy
McMillan, who gained fame for declaring the rent “too damn high,” stopped by Davenport on Wednesday for lunch. McMillan was on campus to shoot a segment of a new Web series with Michael Knowles ’12. The series, a weekly political show titled “Too Damn Live with Michael Knowles and Jimmy McMillan,” debuts next Thursday. Knowles said McMillan called Davenport’s fare “some damn good food.”
Infamous. On Tuesday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart questioned Rick Santorum’s statement that Mitt Romney was “the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.” As evidence, he showed the now-infamous clip of East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo telling a reporter, “I might have tacos when I go home,” when asked about how he could support the Latino community. According to Stewart, Romney is at least a step up from “taco mayor.” Another chance. For registered
campus organizations who failed to send a representative to required training sessions in January: Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90 will be holding makeup sessions today and tomorrow at 3 p.m.
Keeping taxes low. In response to gas prices soaring above $4 a gallon, the Connecticut General Assembly voted unanimously on Wednesday to pass a bill that caps the gas gross receipts tax in Connecticut at $3 per gallon. Punishment’s price. A
fiscal note attached to the bill that would abolish the death penalty currently in the state’s General Assembly reveals just how much capital punishments cost the state. In all, it’s about $5 million a year — without capital punishment, the state would save $455,000 per inmate currently sentenced to death, according to the Office of Fiscal Analysis.
In the news. Paul Lorem
’15 was featured in New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof’s column this week. On the eve of admissions decisions, the piece examines Lorem’s long path to Yale from rural South Sudan. “Congratulations to Lorem as well as to college applicants who receive great news today — and let’s work to help all those other Paul Lorems out there, at home and abroad, step onto the education escalator,” Kristof writes.
All roads. Toad’s Place will hold its Wednesday dance party tonight.
BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER
dministrators have claimed Yale-NUS College’s academics will be unhindered by any restrictions in the country, but critics question what will happen when students venture outside the classroom. In the final part of a three-part series, AVA KOFMAN and TAPLEY STEPHENSON report how freedoms in Singapore will differ from those in New Haven.
new space for political discourse in the nation. In signing the founding document outlining plans for YaleNUS, Yale and National University of Singapore administrators agreed to allow “academic freedom and open inquiry” at the joint liberal arts college.
public demonstrations are allowed. Elsewhere on the island, the Singaporean government more strictly curtails activism and freedom of expression, but Yale administrators say Yale-NUS College will create a
But the new college will enter a setting where a majority of 27 Singaporean students interviewed said they habitually measure their words
As the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences undertakes a comprehensive review of its terminal master’s programs, the funding arrangements those programs have with the school may change. Though master’s students pay tuition to the Graduate School — unlike Ph.D. students, who are guaranteed five years of full financial support — the Graduate School typically keeps most of the students’ tuition payments and gives a percentage back to their respective programs. But the percentage that various programs receive varies widely, administrators said, and six of eight directors of graduate studies for master’s programs interviewed said they were unclear on their programs’ current financial arrangements with the Graduate School. In an effort to “regularize” the amount of funding from tuition fees that each program receives, administrators are gathering data on programs’ various financial arrangements with the Graduate School, Deputy Provost for Social Sciences and Faculty Development Frances Rosenbluth said in an email. “Of course we don’t want masters programs to be cash cows that expand without regard to academic standards,” Rosenbluth
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The Speakers’ Corner in Singapore’s Hong Lim Park allows citizens to participate in demonstrations without a police permit.
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SINGAPORE — On the edge of a small park in Singapore’s financial district lies the “Speaker’s Corner,” a grassy field the size of a residential college courtyard that serves as the only place in the country where
YALE-NUS COLLEGE PART 3 OF 3
Local residents weigh impact of new SOM campus BY BEN PRAWDZIK AND DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTERS With construction of the new School of Management campus on Whitney Avenue now 11 months underway and the structure beginning to take shape, local residents and businesses are coming to understand the impact the campus will have on the surrounding neighborhood. The $230 million project has thus far combined steel with concrete into the looming 242,000-square-foot building now visible along Whitney Avenue. Local residents, many of whom opposed the new campus when Yale sought its approval by the Board of Aldermen, have come to accept the building as a reality. But as the rising steel skeleton reveals the true physical size and scope of
the building firsthand, twolocal businesses said they expect commercial growth, while several residents said they fear decreases in their homes’ values and a permanent shift in the neighborhood’s character. “Sometimes buildings like [the new SOM building] look better if there’s more space around them because it balances the environment,” said John Herzan, the preservation services officer for the New Haven Preservation Trust. “In this case it looms over the neighbors.” The future SOM campus is bordered on two sides by the Lincoln Street and Bradley Street residential neighborhood, whose residents fought the building’s construction when Yale first put forward its proposal in 2009. Twenty resSEE SOM CAMPUS PAGE 6
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The design for the new SOM campus on Whitney Avenue, top, has been approaching fruition as construction moves ahead, but some of its neighbors are apprehensive about the impact of the final result on the area.
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Downtown alderwoman’s departure leaves gap BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1945 An exhibit at the Yale Art Gallery showcases the 1640 plan for New Haven, America’s earliest city plan.
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Review of master’s programs underway
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Frances “Bitsie” Clark retired from the Board of Aldermen this year.
t 80 years old, Frances “Bitsie” Clark stands just five feet tall. But as a recently retired alderwoman and current executive director of a New Haven nonprofit, Clark continues to make her mark on the city with energy that has not faded. “Bitsie turned 80 in October, but she might as well have just turned 30,” said Maryann Ott, current director of New
Alliance Foundation, an organization that provides financial support to charitable community groups, and a former colleague of Clark’s at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, which Clark used to head. “She has a joie de vivre that is unparalleled for most people, let alone an octogenarian.” A mother of two children, Clark — called “Bitsie” by all who know her — came to New Haven in the 1950s and embarked on decades of civic activism. Though she retired
in January from her post representing downtown New Haven as the alderwoman for Ward 7, a position she held for eight years, friends and colleagues say she has not lost steam and describe her as “a force of nature” and “a city legacy.” Her retirement from the board was intended to clear her schedule to focus on her role as the executive director of East Rock Village, a local nonprofit that provides health and living services that allow the elderly to SEE BITSIE PAGE 6