NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 97 · yaledailynews.com
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Local 34 delivers petition
Carson and burn. Ben Carson
’73, who led the race for the Republican presidential nomination for a brief stretch, announced that he will not attend Thursday’s GOP debate. Although Carson has not formally dropped out of the race, he released a statement yesterday saying, “I do not see a political path forward in light of last evening’s Super Tuesday primary results.”
Troubled by Trump. State
Republicans have expressed concern about presidential hopeful Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination in light of the controversial candidate’s success on Super Tuesday. “All of the work we’ve done … to improve the brand’s image … to make this party a big tent party … There’s a feeling that Trump has flushed all that down the drain,” Republican strategist Bill Cortese, Jr. told the Hartford Courant.
Starstruck. The Opera Theatre
of Yale College presents “L’étoile” — an 1877 operetta by Emmanuel Chabrier. Performances of the show begin tonight at the Medical School’s Harkness Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets can be reserved through the Yale Drama Coalition’s website.
Meals on wheels. ActualFood, a New Haven company which has created a pilot program to introduce free, same-day grocery to the Elm City, invites Yale students to learn about its services at Helen Hadley Hall at 5:30 p.m. this evening. Better than Erotica. The Yale
Undergraduate Aerospace Association will host the fourth annual Aeronautica today at 5:30 p.m. in Sudler Hall. The event is a celebration of engineering and innovation at Yale.
Get out the vote. Tomorrow
is the final day for members of the class of 2017 to cast votes for their officers. Elected officers will serve their classmates from senior year until the fifth reunion, and their duties include organizing events and writing class notes.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1993 After approval by the Yale Corporation, the University term bill rises 5.9 percent to $25,110. Yale remains the most expensive school in the Ivy League. The University also pledges to increase its financial aid budget by $25.6 million in response to the term-bill hike. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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Groups question Schwarzman space plans BY DAVID SHIMER AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS
Although Alpern said the workers should not be worried about job security, the union’s petition suggests that the medical school staff have cause for concern. “We’re here, we’re going to bang on this locked door until we get the job security we need,” shouted Local 34 President Laurie Kennington on the steps of Woodbridge Hall.
When it opens in 2020, the Schwarzman Center will present Yale’s undergraduate, graduate and professional students with a new central space on campus to gather. As administrators involved with the center’s planning gravitate toward establishing flexible spaces for student groups to use within the center, organizations that have petitioned for areas specifically targeted to their groups say it is unclear whether the planned design will meet their needs. The $150 million donation from The Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69 will enable Yale to establish its first University-wide student center, and the administration has actively sought student input since the project was first announced last May. A report released on Feb. 11 from the Schwarzman Center Advisory Committee to University President Peter Salovey underscored that the design of the space must be flexible and able to accommodate multiple functions. While the committee acknowledged that certain student organizations, such as dance groups and the LGBTQ Student Cooperative, made strong arguments in favor of space allocated specifically to their needs, it ultimately recommended that spaces serving a single group be avoided. But students within those groups, which are seeking to expand or establish their presence on campus, continue to question the degree to
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Check your spam. Helen
Garner, an Australian novelist who was one of the winners of this year’s WindhamCampbell prize in nonfiction, did not believe that she had won when she received notice from Yale. Garner thought the message she received from the University which said she had won $150,000 to support her work was a spam email. “I thought what the hell is this? Somebody’s having me on,” Garner said.
SUBLITE IT UP
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Local 34 delivered the petition to Woodbridge Hall Wednesday. BY MICHELLE LIU AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Local 34, Yale’s union of clerical and technical workers, petitioned the University on Wednesday to secure the 986 Yale School of Medicine jobs the union says are at risk of disappearing. While on their lunch break, union leaders delivered identical petitions bearing signatures from over
2,500 Local 34 union members to both School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern and University President Peter Salovey. While Salovey did not greet the union members outside of Woodbridge Hall, Alpern listened as Yolanda Giordano, Local 34 recording secretary, explained the plight of medical school staff who fear their jobs are being transferred to YaleNew Haven Hospital, where their jobs are not protected by the union.
Second wave of posters hits campus BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Two days after signs calling on the Yale men’s basketball team to “stop supporting a rapist” first appeared on campus, a new set of posters express-
ing a similar message appeared Wednesday morning in the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona lecture hall. All of this week’s posters referred to the recent controversy surrounding the basketball team’s show of support for former captain Jack Montague
Professional students decry child-care burden BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER Yale’s two graduate and professional student assemblies embarked on a new campaign last semester to secure child care subsidies for student-parents at the University, lobbying administrators and collecting new data that illustrates the difficulties of raising children on a meager paycheck. But while the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has pledged to make child care her top fundraising priority, securing subsidies for student parents in the professional schools may prove significantly more difficult. The challenges faced by graduate-student parents and student parents in the professional schools are fundamentally different, according to representatives from the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, the organizations spearheading the push for child care subsidies. The graduate school offers free health insurance to the children of graduate-student parents, but
that benefit is not available to student parents in the professional schools, who are estimated to make up about 4 percent of the professional school population. According to new data gathered by the GPSS, about 6 percent of professional school student parents are single parents, compared to 1 percent of graduate-student parents. But while Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley has vowed to address the child care needs of graduate-student parents, in the professional schools, the patchwork of divergent fundraising priorities and financial aid programs has posed a significant hurdle to the ongoing campaign to provide subsidies to student parents who are not pursuing a Ph.D. “In practice, this is going to be very, very difficult — finding the same kind of funding across graduate and professional school students,” said Wendy Xiao MED ’17, who chairs the Facilities and Health Care committee of the GSA. “Getting funding for all SEE CHILD CARE PAGE 6
’16, who was withdrawn from the University on Feb. 10 for reasons the team and University have not specified. At last Friday’s Yale–Harvard basketball game, the team came out for warmups wearing T-shirts which had Montague’s jersey number and nickname,
“Gucci,” on the back and “Yale,” spelled backwards with inverted letters, on the front. Monday’s posters featured an image of the team wearing the shirts. By 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, new posters were hung on two billboards just outside the lecture hall and placed on chairs
inside the hall. A handwritten note chalked on the classroom’s blackboard read “Rape culture is standing by your teammate and silencing Yale’s victims of sexual assault.” But by 8:30 a.m., shortly SEE POSTERS PAGE 6
Profs, admins clash over budgeting
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University administrators and FAS faculty continue to dispute over budget negotiations. BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Tensions have escalated in the past year between University administrators and Faculty of Arts and Science professors over budget negotiations affecting departments and initiatives in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences. Over the past few months, several departments across the FAS divisions have raised concerns about various financial policies and budgetary issues
administered through the Provost’s Office. In November, anthropology professor Karen Nakamura GRD ’01 announced that she would leave Yale for University of California, Berkeley, citing the University’s unwillingness to offer her competitive research resources. At a Nov. 18 FAS Senate meeting, Classics Department Chair Kirk Freudenburg criticized the administration’s all-funds budgeting policy, which essentially gave control of the endowed funds to the University, taking their control away from the
department. And on Monday, faculty members involved with the Yale Climate & Energy Institute expressed dismay at the initiative’s defunding. While faculty members interviewed acknowledged that the University’s budgeting requires some give and take, they expressed deep concerns about the lack of departmental input and communication between faculty and the Provost’s Office when negotiating budgetary issues. “Part of the reason for the SEE BUDGET PAGE 4