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Faculty reflect on admin growth BY PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH STAFF REPORTER Over the last two decades, the number of managerial and professional staff that Yale employs has risen three times faster than the undergraduate student body, according to University financial reports. The group’s 44.7 percent expansion since 2003 has had detrimental effects on faculty, students and tuition, according to eight faculty members.
In 2003, when 5,307 undergraduate students studied on campus, the University employed 3,500 administrators and managers. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on student enrollment, only 600 more students were living and studying at Yale, yet the number of administrators had risen by more than 1,500 — a nearly 45 percent hike. In 2018, The Chronicle of Higher Education found that Yale had the highest manager-to-student ratio of
any Ivy League university, and the fifth highest in the nation among four-year private colleges. According to eight members of the Yale faculty, this administration size imposes unnecessary costs, interferes with students’ lives and faculty’s teaching, spreads the burden of leadership and adds excessive regulation. By contrast, administrators noted much of this increase can be attributed to growing num-
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Salovey discusses YPD reforms BY PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH STAFF REPORTER A year after external consultancy firm 21st Century Policing Solutions proposed a series of reforms to the Yale Police Department, the University has made progress on their implementation, according to University President Peter Salovey and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins. The changes, however, have failed to assuage the concerns of students
who question the necessity of the YPD’s existence. In 2019, the University commissioned 21st Century Policing Solutions, or 21CP, to produce a report on the YPD’s policing practices. Last year, the University received the report, which detailed a series of potential reforms to the department. Over the course of the last year, the University and the YPD reviewed and implemented a number of those recommendations, Higgins said. How-
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ever, some students on campus said that the New Haven Police Department can address issues of imminent violence instead of the YPD, and that they would feel safer if the University disarmed and ultimately abolished the department. However, Yale has no intention of doing so, Salovey said. “We’ve made a lot of progress since the report’s release in 2020,” Higgins wrote in an email to the News. “Although a lot has been completed, much work remains. All the policy recommendations have been reviewed and most are implemented. Policing should serve as one component within a network of other care-based campus resources. I believe culturally responsive, localized approaches to policing are most desirable and produce the best outcomes.” Jaelen King ’22, the former chair of Black Students for Disarmament at Yale, said that he hopes the push for police reform is not limited to the immediate aftermath of a tragedy like the police killing of George Floyd last year.
The Yale Police Department has begun implementing certain reforms.
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BY ANASTASIA HUFHAM STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday, the University announced new steps toward its goal of achieving zero carbon emissions from campus by 2050. The details of the climate action strategy include generating new funding for climate research and changes to the Yale Carbon Charge to revamp the University’s energy consumption. In June, President Peter Salovey and Provost Scott Strobel reported that the University had reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent from 2005 to 2020. They also announced the University’s goal of achieving zero actual carbon emissions on campus by 2050, with the expectation that Yale would reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035. On Tuesday, the University announced that, by 2035, it will reduce actual emissions by 65 percent from 2015 levels. “We are hopeful that this plan will help our campus community think critically about the energy
we use and the spaces we inhabit, and how … we can be as resourceful and responsible as possible,” Amber Garrard, Yale Office of Sustainability associate director, wrote to the News. “Getting to zero emissions will require us to shift behaviors and expectations to a certain degree, and we hope this is a challenge that members of our community will embrace.” The University will employ various methods to achieve a carbon-zero campus by 2050, primarily through electrification. The climate action strategy includes preparing campus buildings for electrified heating and rooftops for solar panels, along with “spaceuse policies that support emissions reductions.” Future campus construction will feature renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic solar arrays and geothermal wells with heat pumps. Currently, there are more than 400 campus buildings to modify. Over the next 30 years, the climate action strategy is projected SEE CLIMATE PAGE 4
Ivy title at stake as Bulldogs face Princeton
College bomb threats possibly linked, NHPD says BY SAI RAYALA STAFF REPORTER Last Friday’s bomb threat at Yale may be connected to bomb threats that targeted several other universities over the weekend, New Haven Police Chief Renee Dominguez said on Tuesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the investigation. On Friday at approximately 1:55 p.m, the New Haven Police Department received a call to its nonemergency number reporting a bomb threat at eight locations around the university. The Yale Police Department evacuated several campus buildings. Five hours later, the Yale Police Department announced that “there is no validity to the bomb threat made against Yale.” Dominguez said that NHPD Captain John Healy was notified over the weekend by YPD Lt. Brian Donnelly that the individual who targeted Yale was “possibly related” to the similar bomb threats that multiple other universities experienced over the weekend. These universities include Princeton, Stanford University, Miami University in Ohio, Ohio University, Cornell, Columbia and Brown, according to Dominguez. The News was not able to reach the Stanford or Princeton police departments for comment and was not able to confirm Dominguez’s claims of threats at these two universities. On Thursday, three more universities received bomb threats — the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University. According to ABC, authorities are currently investigating a SEE THREAT PAGE 4
CROSS CAMPUS
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY, 1969. Over 500 members of the Yale community begin a two-day "National Fast for Peace," joining 2,500 people around the country. Water is the only substance participants are allowed to have.
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The Bulldogs will travel to Princeton to face the Tigers in a battle between two of the top teams in the conference. BY JARED FEL AND NADER GRANMAYEH STAFF REPORTERS With the Yale-Harvard game fast approaching, Team 148 will hit the road one final time this season to take on the Princeton Tigers. The Bulldogs and Tigers currently sit alongside Dartmouth in a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League. The Bulldogs (5–3, 4–1 Ivy) are coming off a game that saw 529 yards of total offense and a 63-point onslaught against Brown — the most the team has ever scored under head coach Tony
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Reno. Quarterback Nolan Grooms ’24 has been scorching hot this season, scoring four touchdowns in his first collegiate start against Penn, throwing for a career-high in yards against Brown and leading a second-half comeback against a stingy Columbia defense that had only previously allowed 16 points per game. The sophomore signal-caller earned Ivy League player of the week awards in two of his first three career starts. “Obviously game reps are very important for a quarterback,” Grooms said when asked about his inexperience as a starter. “But I feel like here we do a great job sort
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of simulating the game situation in practice … it’s easy to play quarterback when you got guys like Melvin Rouse … [and] Darrion Carrington.” The aforementioned Blue and White receivers both had impressive touchdown catches in Saturday’s blowout win against Brown. Princeton (7–1, 4–1 Ivy), meanwhile, suffered its first loss of the season last week in a 31–7 road collapse against Dartmouth. The Tigers had a 7–0 season start for the third time in a row, but SEE TIGERS PAGE 5
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The Yale New Haven Health System is facing an ongoing shortage of nurses following a nationwide labor shortage.
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will switch to a free-admission policy for all visitors upon its re-opening in 2024.
Students gathered in Beinecke Plaza last Friday to call on Yale to divest from fossil fuels and revise its spending policies.
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