NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 46 · yaledailynews.com
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AU REVOIR Study abroad statistics reveal declining interest in visiting France PAGE 5 UNIVERSITY
More than 1,000 gather in solidarity
The Ben who cried wolf. In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Charles Blow examined recent accusations that 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson’s ’73 autobiography contains lies. One of the claims critiqued in Blow’s column, “Ben Carson and the Truth,” is the candidate’s statement that he turned down a full scholarship to West Point for Yale — a story that his campaign admitted was untrue. What would Harvard do? As recent racial controversies shake Yale’s campus, Harvard stood behind its students of color when the university defended affirmative action in “Fisher v. University of Texas” — the Supreme Court case in which Abigail Fisher charged that Texas denied her admission because she is white. A court ruling in Fisher’s favor could forbid universities to consider race in admission decisions. Trending twice. For the second time in two weeks, Yale has appeared in the top spot in Facebook’s “Trending” box. The first time, the buzz was about Lady Gaga’s campus visit. Yesterday, the University received thousands of mentions due to yesterday’s March of Resilience, which was attended by over 1,000 students. Major League. In its earliest presidential endorsement in history, the League of Conservation Voters — a prominent environmental group — stated its support for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 for 2016. The endorsement comes shortly after Clinton’s public opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, announced in late September. 100 most. New Haven Mayor Toni Harp’s name appeared in Connecticut’s NAACP chapter’s list of the 100 most influential African-Americans in the state. Also honored on the list were Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins and state Sen. Gary Winfield, who represents the Elm City. The list was decided at this weekend’s NAACP conference in Stamford. Campus in crisis. The Afro-
American Cultural Center will host “A Moment of Crisis: Race at Yale Teach-In” tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. in response to the recent dialogue on campus. The event will focus on topics such as valuing women of color on campus, mental health services for students of color, addressing male privilege and adopting ethnic studies at Yale. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1965 Prominent AfricanAmerican chemist Dr. Richard Goldsby moderates a discussion at Sterling Memorial Library about the lack of black faculty members at major universities, including Yale. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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A crowd of over 1,000 flooded Cross Campus in a show of solidarity and student power. BY JON VICTOR, MONICA WANG AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS With the multicolored messages from last Thursday’s chalking event still visible on the pavement, students and
supporters gathered once again on Cross Campus yesterday to stand in solidarity after a week of impassioned discussions about race at Yale. But student organizers and participants said Monday’s March of Resilience — in which
Acclaimed prof to leave Yale
hundreds marched from the Afro-American Cultural Center to Cross Campus — had a markedly different tone from the tense confrontation with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway that took place at the same location last week. Student leaders
at the event, which eventually attracted over 1,000 students, faculty and administrators, gave speeches about student power, solidarity and unity. The event also featured musical and cultural performances. Ultimately, the gathering transformed into
an impromptu dance party on Cross Campus, which students said allowed them to join together as a community to turn the tide of campus conversation. The march began at 2 p.m., SEE MARCH PAGE 4
Magnet schools seek higher enrollment
BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER One week after the University announced a $50 million faculty diversity initiative, Yale is losing a professor whose work spans four departments. Anthropology and East Asian Studies professor Karen Nakamura GRD ’01 announced in a Nov. 4 statement on her personal website that she will leave Yale to teach at the University of California, Berkeley at the end of the semester. Last spring, Nakamura was offered an endowed professorship and more laboratory resources than she currently receives at Yale. Her colleagues, who have repeatedly called on University officials over the last year to work to help retain Nakamura — who is a tenured Asian-American professor — said losing such a talented and interdisciplinary professor damages the Anthropology Department and diminishes Yale’s broader faculty diversity. Anthropology professor William Kelly, who advised Nakamura’s dissertation, described the University’s inability to keep Nakamura at Yale as “a very strong failure of nerve and imagination.” “This is somebody of quite significant dimension who is leaving,” Kelly said. “The [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] administraSEE DEPARTURE PAGE 6
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New Haven has 17 interdistrict magnet schools. BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER New Haven Public Schools magnet schools received only $36 million of the potential $37.2 million available from a state grant, but Chief Financial Officer Victor De La Paz says this funding gap reflects shortcomings in the state’s magnet school funding formula, not a failure of the schools themselves.
New Haven’s 17 interdistrict magnet schools — which admit students from New Haven and neighboring suburbs based on the results of a lottery — receive $3,000 per New Haven resident enrolled in the school and $7,085 for students who live in neighboring suburban towns, such as Woodbridge, Milford and Hamden. De La Paz said the state set a maximum cap on this year’s funding at $37.2 million, a figure based on the
number of Greater New Haven students enrolled in magnet schools on Oct. 1, 2013. Because the data from 2014 is still subject to final review, the state has to use the two-year-old data, he said. But the magnet school system only received $36 million of the potential $37.2 million, because 126 student seats were left unfilled on Oct. 1. SEE SCHOOLS PAGE 6
Bail, youth prison reforms likely in Connecticut BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER Reform could be on the horizon for bail bonds and judicial policies for low-risk young adult offenders in Connecticut, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Friday. Malloy said Connecticut
should be the first state in the nation to raise the upper age limit for juvenile sentencing from 17 to 20 at Friday’s Connecticut Law Review symposium on criminal justice reform. He also suggested the state grant young adults between 21 and 25 years old access to some of the protective judicial allowances
given to juveniles. This would include allowing young adults to have their cases heard confidentially, their criminal records sealed and the opportunity to have those records expunged. Malloy also suggested that Connecticut follow the example of states like New Jersey and reform bail payments to prevent low-
income individuals from being disproportionately impacted by pre-trial jail time. “We must end a cycle of crime and create the opportunity for success. And we must recognize that what may be trailblazing today may be the norm tomorrow,” Malloy said. “Together, we will continue the work that we
began almost five years ago to reduce crime, restore confidence in our criminal justice system and end the injustice of mass incarceration in Connecticut.” The Connecticut General Assembly passed legislation in 2007 that raised the upper age SEE REFORM PAGE 4