NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 117 · yaledailynews.com
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Off the Record. The Yale
Record printed fake issues of the News yesterday. The lead article, titled “Campus-wide blackout hits Yale,” ran with a completely black front page photo. The issue included all joke articles such as “Three found dead,” and “Global Grounds kicked off campus,” as well as a surprisingly long list of “People Who Contribute to a Respectful and Balanced Discussion in Section.”
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Yale cuts Dutch program BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER
the size of the colleges as well as the method of transitioning new students into the colleges. In 2012, the administration announced that the new residential colleges would
After reviving its Dutch program three years ago, Yale will drop the language from its course offerings at the end of this year. The University has decided not to renew its three-year hiring contract for a Dutch language lector, according to current Dutch lector Bonny Wassing. He added that the decision was explained to him as a cost-cutting measure undertaken by the Provost’s office. To Wassing, the drawbacks of cutting the Dutch program outweigh the minor fiscal benefit of its removal. “Of course I understand that people have to cut costs,” Wassing said. “But it’s just my salary they’re cutting.” Yale’s program lasted three years, barely enough time to build up a reputation, Wassing said. The program was also institutionally vulnerable, he said. It is folded into both the German Department and the European Studies Council but has no independent standing. “I’m very sad that after building up the program for three years they’re letting all that hard work go,” said Laura Grimbergen ’15, who currently studies elementary Dutch. But as Yale loses an on-campus language program, it stands to gain more through an online platform.
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Chemistry and coloring.
Work like a STEM major, dress like an art major. Yale Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is hosting an “Amazing Technicolor Lab Coat Contest.” Students are encouraged to decorate lab coats of any color and are even eligible to receive free lab coats from EHS.
Adding friends. The McDougal
Center held “Dinner with Strangers” this week so graduate students can meet new friends and/or “people from outside [their] department.” Participants all gathered for drinks before being shuffled into groups and sent out to one of six local restaurants serving Restaurant Week menus: Caseus, Zinc, Barcelona, ROÌA, Oaxaca and Heirloom.
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The University has decided to alter its design plans less than a year before breaking ground for the new colleges. BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS With less than a year to go before Yale breaks ground on its two new residential colleges, the Univer-
sity has decided to alter its design plans — adding more than 50 new beds and replacing some singles with doubles. According to several senior administrators, decisions were made earlier this year to change
Star Wars. The force is with
us this weekend. On Saturday, RJ Julia Booksellers is hosting members of the 501st Legion — an international group organized around wearing screen-accurate costumes of Star Wars. Stormtroopers, officers and even Darth Vader himself will be taking part in a meet and greet.
Democracy in action.
Campaigns for Yale College Council will be underway for the next week. Positions up for the vote are: president, vice president, finance director, events director and the 24 residential college representatives. The money shot. A new Twitter account has popped up publicizing the DFMOs of Brown University students. The Twitter handle @BrownMakeouts is posting photos of students kissing, usually on dark and blurry dance floors. The description reads “You may not remember, but we will never forget.” Internment summer camp.
The Harvard Crimson recently ran an editorial comparing internships to “internment.” The editorial, from the Crimson staff, argued that “unpaid internships exploit students eager to gain experience.” “Harvard should change, but more importantly, so should the myriad companies and organizations that recruit students to work for free,” the piece said.
Yale Dining vendors scrutinized BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTERS When Yale Dining dropped a bread vendor, students in the dining halls scarcely noticed. But one city lawmaker is “appalled” by the decision, saying it calls into question the University’s commitment to local sustainability. During a public meeting between the New Haven Board of Alders and Yale President Peter Salovey in March, Dwight Alder Frank Douglass criticized the University for terminating a long-standing partnership with Lupi-Marchigiano Bakery in the Hill neighborhood. Douglass — who worked as a chef for Yale Dining for 20 years — said abandoning the family-owned business does a disservice to the local economy. “To sustain our community, we need to involve our community and use our local community vendors,” Douglass said. “Are you helping out our local economy, or are you trying to destroy it?”
Lupi-Marchigiano owner Peter Lupi was surprised when Yale Dining representatives called him early last year to notify him that the University had decided to stop purchasing bread from his bakery. Although Lupi did not have a formal contract with Yale Dining, he had supplied its bread for 60 years and did not expect a change in the long-standing relationship. “We honored Yale,” he said. “They would always have our best pricing.” Director of Supply Management and Sustainability Gerry Remer did not give comment on the shift in bread vendors. Instead, she touted the University’s support for other New Haven vendors and Yale’s commitment to decreasing environmental impact in the area. Yale obtains products from different regional and local vendors via two primary distributors, U.S. Foods and Fresh Point. Remer said that using a distributor, rather than coordiSEE YALE DINING PAGE 6
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Yale Dining has ended its contract with local bakers for the supply of the bread in Commons and residential college dining halls.
Tap Night raged
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Students participated in Tap Night festivities on Thursday evening. BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTERS Students dining in Commons on Thursday witnessed a male student dressed as a pregnant woman pretending to give birth on a Commons table with the help of a fake midwife. On Thursday, campus was invaded by students dressed as pink dinosaurs, astronauts and Aladdin — with his monkey sidekick, Abu — as members of the junior class sought to fulfill their induction requirements for Yale’s secret societies. Commonly known as Tap Night, the event is one of Yale’s oldest traditions and serves as the culmination of society tap week, which began on April 3. “I was asked to be a famous fictional character,”
said a student outside Saybrook College dressed as the Super Mario character, who asked to remain anonymous. “When [Tap Night’s] done just for fun, it’s really great.” Many juniors were asked to keep their schedules free for the afternoon to participate in the festivities. In the early afternoon, one junior girl donned a floorlength red cape and black mask outside the Women’s Center, reciting Latin. “I’m reciting Latin, that’s all I’ll say,” she said. Many students in festive attire, busy with their induction activities, declined to comment to the News. Among these were men wearing black capes, veils and masks, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and various Disney princesses. A female student dressed as the Little Mermaid hold-
ing a dining hall fork stood on Chapel Street and smiled at bystanders. “I am not allowed to speak,” she mouthed to the News. Further down on Chapel Street, a junior pretending to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast passionately sang songs from the Disney film’s soundtrack. Outside the Apple Store on Broadway, two students dressed as Harry Potter and Dobby asked pedestrians for socks. Meanwhile, on Cross C a m p u s, two j u n i o rs dressed as Princess Leia and C-3PO from the Star Wars series stood near the Women’s Table, gesturing with their hands. “We’re pretending to use the force to ward off you passerbies,” the male student SEE TAP NIGHT PAGE 4