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CROSS CAMPUS Double dipping. It looks like
Cory Booker LAW ’97 will have numerous speaking engagements this semester. In addition to delivering Yale’s Class Day speech on May 19, the Newark mayor is slated to give the commencement addresses at Cornell and Washington University in St. Louis. When it comes to commencements, Booker has plenty of practice: He has delivered eight graduation speeches since 2009.
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As Levin prepares to leave office, admins look to secure large gifts
PHILLY MAYOR TALKS DOMESTIC TERRORISM
Though the women did not race, the coed team placed fourth in N.Y.
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Legislating post-Newtown Prominent state senator joins race for mayor BY DIANA LI AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTERS
Less than 20 minutes later, officers arrived at the school, ready to apprehend a gunman. But the scene was eerily quiet. Inside, 20-year-old Newtown resident Adam Lanza had shot himself as he heard law enforcement approaching. He had just killed 20 first-grade children and six educators with a Bushmaster assault-style semiautomatic rifle in the second deadliest school shooting in American history. Soon after, a stunned public began a national conversation about the
And then there were six. Connecticut State Senator Toni Harp ARC ’78 announced Monday that she will run for mayor of New Haven, making her the sixth candidate vying to succeed Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Harp, who previously said she was not going to run, is now planning to file official campaign paperwork at the end of the week. If she wins, she will be the first female mayor in New Haven history. “I’ve had a lot of experience and I’m used to working with other people … I respect the legislative branch and I understand its importance in helping frame policy that affects every level of government, and that’s what I would do as mayor,” Harp said. “I’ve been in the Senate for the past 20 years and have worked really hard to ensure that we have the resources that we need in our city to make it as successful as possible.” Harp added that she has a “strong sense of policy” and that she was part of the group that instituted community policing in New Haven, which has seen a resurgence in recent years, when she served on the Board of Aldermen before going to work in Hartford in 1993. At 65 years old, Harp is an 11-term incumbent state senator representing
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On stage. Almost a year since
Marina Keegan ’12 died just days after graduating from Yale, the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will be putting up the first professional production of her play “Utility Monster,” slated to run from May 25 to June 22. “Utility Monster” was first staged as a Dramat spring experimental production in 2011. EMMA GOLDBERG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
In the hot seat. University
President Richard Levin’s two-part conversation with prominent journalist Charlie Rose aired last night on Bloomberg TV. In the interview, Levin reflected on his presidency and discussed his new book, “The Worth of the University.” Feelin’ philanthropic.
Blackstone founder Steve Schwarzman has decided to donate $100 million to endow a scholarship program — intended to mirror the Rhodes Scholarship program — at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Known as “Schwarzman Scholars,” the 200 recipients of the award will receive funding to study in a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University. In addition, Architecture School Dean Robert Stern will design the teaching building that will be constructed for the program. Money money money. The winners of the Yale College Council’s 10K Initiative have been announced: This year, funding will be split between a “bike share” program and rock-climbing wall. Launched in 2010, the initiative seeks to fund student-proposed plans that will improve campus life. Medical marijuana revisited.
Patients, advocates and prospective marijuana growers attended a public hearing held yesterday to discuss proposed medical marijuana legislation that will be presented to lawmakers in July. According to The Hartford Courant, Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein will ultimately propose between three and 10 growers and a separate group of licensed dispensers.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1980 About 150 students and professors convene on Cross Campus to protest draft registration. Participants of the rally, organized by Campaign Against the Draft, speak out against the draft and sing slogans, including “They told us another war would never come again.” Submit tips to Cross Campus
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The March for Change rally in February drew a crowd that police estimated at 5,500 in front of the State Capitol in Hartford.
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our months after the Newtown shooting, the state has responded with legislation on mental health, school safety and gun violence. But will these efforts help prevent future tragedy? MICHELLE HACKMAN reports.
At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2012, dispatchers at the Newtown police station started to receive a frantic flurry of phone calls about a disturbance at a local elementary school. “Sandy Hook School. Caller is indi-
cating she thinks someone is shooting in the building,” one dispatcher told officers, according to 911 tapes.
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Canceled ‘Visitas’ unlikely to affect yield BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER Hundreds of newly accepted Harvard students flocked to Cambridge, Mass., over the weekend to participate in the university’s signature prefrosh welcome event — only to find out that they had nowhere to go. Due to public safety concerns surrounding the bombings at the Boston Marathon last Monday and the citywide manhunt for suspects that effectively shut down the greater Boston area on Friday, Harvard canceled its annual three-day Visitas prefrosh weekend on Friday afternoon. The sudden cancellation of the program — which would have run from April 20 to April 22 and is similar in format to Yale’s Bulldog Days program — precluded several hundred prospective students from arriving on campus, and left the other several hundred who had already arrived in Cambridge with no structured events to attend. Still, experts and college counselors interviewed said they do not think the cancellation will have a large impact on the percentage of students who matriculate at Harvard this year. “Personally, I do not think this will affect anything — Harvard and [its peers] are in the rarified arena of super-high yield, no matter what,” said Terry Kung, college counselor at Immaculate Heart High School. “Those determined to go to Harvard will go.” Officials at Harvard sent an email Friday at around 2 p.m. to students announcing the cancellation of the program. Though there was no known threat to Harvard’s campus, they said, the turmoil in Boston — as well as SEE VISITAS PAGE 5
Fernandez launches campaign BY NICOLE NAREA STAFF REPORTER After Sen. Toni Hart shook up the field as New Haven’s sixth mayoral contender to announce her candidacy, Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, former city economic development administrator, emphasized affordable housing and education reform in his campaign launch event Monday evening. Fernandez addressed a crowd of about 100 New Haven residents, including members of immigrants rights advocacy groups, Board of Aldermen members and business leaders, gathered in Orange Street’s Art Space gallery. The diverse audience was reflective of Fernandez’s “One City” campaign goal to bridge socioeconomic and racial divides in New Haven. The former director of New Haven-based LEAP — an academic and social enrichment program for children and youth — advocated embracing community
policing to make Elm City streets safer and implementing transparent school report cards that would make public school evaluations easily accessible to parents. “We can be one city that says that a high-quality education is the right of every child,” said Fernandez, who has an eight-year-old son in the New Haven public school system. “We can together … tackle the root causes of crime, ensuring that that our children have safe, high-quality community centers in every neighborhood.” Besides outlining policy objectives to undecided voters, Fernandez and his staff used the event to address criticism that his campaign lacks financial transparency. Fernandez opted not to participate in New Haven’s Democracy Fund, the city’s voluntary public-financing system for mayoral campaigns — funding that candidates Ward 10 Alderman SEE FERNANDEZ PAGE 5
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Mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 spoke at his campaign launch in Orange Street’s Art Space gallery.
Faculty debate costs of Yale-NUS BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER The most recent meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences forum saw a modest turnout on Monday of roughly 30 professors, a considerable improvement from February’s meeting. The forum, which meets twice per semester and was launched by President-elect and then-Provost Peter Salovey in fall 2012, is intended to provide a venue for professors to discuss University issues and policies with each other and administrators. But after fewer than 10 faculty members not giving presentations attended the February meeting, some professors questioned whether the forum
would eventually be discontinued due to lack of participation. Professors who attended Monday’s meeting said the forum featured discussions on the University Library’s efforts to combat rising database subscription prices and on the costs of Yale-NUS, the college Yale is establishing with the National University of Singapore. “[The faculty] asked me to talk about the costs of Yale-NUS to plain, vanilla Yale,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “Which wasn’t such a useful discussion [compared to the library discussion] because it’s hard to know what to say about them. The costs easily quantified are mostly paid by NUS, but a lot of the costs one might think of … you can’t quantify and hence you couldn’t bill for.”
Attendees said there were tense moments during the discussion about Yale-NUS because some professors had hoped that Polak would be able to provide concrete numbers about the costs the venture has created for Yale. Professors were particularly interested in the implicit costs of the redirection of administrators’ time and energy away from Yale issues and toward Yale-NUS. Polak said the financial costs of these efforts are difficult to quantify because administrators do not keep track of how many hours are spent on which issues. Most of the direct costs of YaleNUS are covered by NUS itself, attendees said. Though a few faculty SEE FACULTY FORUM PAGE 5