NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 47 · yaledailynews.com
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Divinity School aims to increase diversity in its faculty
Día de los Muertos display taken down early for donor event at F&ES
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Racist signs found on Old Campus
Ben bites back. At the Republican presidential debate last night, Ben Carson ’73 quipped about recent media scrutiny of his autobiography, “Gifted Hands.” “First of all, thank you for not asking me what I said in the 10th grade,” Carson said to an applauding crowd. The candidate added that he had no problem being vetted, but said certain news outlets were falsely accusing him of lying.
Honoring heroes. Here in the
Elm City, Mayor Toni Harp and the New Haven Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee will host the city’s annual Veterans Day celebration at the Center Church on the Green this morning at 11 a.m. The event will feature musical performances and will be followed by a placement of wreaths at war memorials around the city.
And we’ll never be royals.
As Yale students and administrators alike debate the renaming of Calhoun College, several students at Harvard Law School are calling on the institution to change its seal, which has ties to a 18th-century slaveholder. The image on HLS’ seal is borrowed from Isaac Royall Jr.’s family crest. The Royalls, a Massachusetts family, made the bulk of its fortune through the slave trade. Free the pizza. In an email to Ezra Stiles students early this morning, Master Stephen Pitti announced that the MorseStiles dining hall, with its famous brick-oven pizza, would be open to all students prior to 6:30 p.m. for the rest of the week. The decision to suspend the “no transfers” rule, Pitti said, is in the spirit of building community in light of recent troubling campus events. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1968 University President Kingman Brewster announces that he will present a proposal to admit women to Yale College at a faculty meeting after hundreds of students marched from Cross Campus to his house following a coeducation rally. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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Admins address diversity, free speech BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS
Common enemy. The Republican National Committee, in charge of organizing last night’s GOP debate in Milwaukee, made the event Wi-Fi password “StopHillary.” The frontrunner in the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, has been referenced by several Republican candidates as the main opposition in the race. Happy Veterans Day. Speaking of Clinton, yesterday the 2016 candidate announced her plan to reform the Department of Veteran Affairs in honor of Veterans Day today. At a New Hampshire campaign event, Clinton said she would, if elected, conduct a review of the government agency to identify problems such as staffing challenges and high operating costs.
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the signs contained additional messages. According to Holloway, those messages included references to black criminality, violence and acts of rape. Holloway’s email said the Yale Police has obtained video footage of the incident, and the department’s
The day after more than 1,000 students marched in a show of solidarity for minority students, University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway released a statement on acceptable forms of protest as well as the importance of diversity and freedom of speech on campus. The same day, more than 200 faculty members signed an open letter in support of minority students. In a Tuesday email to the Yale community, Salovey and Holloway wrote about the importance of two University principles: respect for diversity and as freedom of speech and expression. Their joint email comes after more than a week of student protests, forums and closed-door discussions between students and administrators. While Salovey and Holloway each sent individual emails late last week affirming the need for the University to do better in light of racial controversies on campus, their joint Tuesday email sent a clearer message: While all students have the right to protest and counter-protest, they do not have the right to engage in “threats, coercion and overtly disrespectful acts.” Salovey told the News that student protests cannot infringe on a speaker’s right to be heard. “Protests where people prevent others from hearing or interacting with the
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Signs bearing racist messages were found on Old Campus on Tuesday evening. BY DAVID SHIMER AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS On Wednesday night, just hours after Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and University President Peter Salovey sent out a joint email affirming the University’s support for diversity and open discussions, Holloway sent another email to the
Yale community notifying students that signs displaying racist messages had been found on Old Campus. The front side of the signs featured two phrases: “All Lives Matter” and “No More Dead Black Children.” But Afro-American Cultural Center Director Rise Nelson Burrow told the News that the backs of
Recount confirms Eidelson’s victory BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s election season has finally come to an end, as Tuesday’s recount of the Ward 1 election has reaffirmed incumbent Sarah Eidelson ’12 as victor. The recount, held in the Hall of Records at 200 Orange St., arrived at the same result as
the count on election night: Eidelson defeated Republican challenger Ugonna Eze ’16 with 386 votes to his 369. Eidelson’s 17-vote margin was the closest in Ward 1 history. Recounts are automatically triggered in elections with a margin of victory smaller than 20 votes. State law required the recount to occur by Tuesday at the latest. Roughly 20 people —
New BOE elects criticize Harries BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Newly elected New Haven Board of Education members Darnell Goldson and Edward Joyner said Tuesday that before they vote on whether to renew New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries’ ’95 contract, they want to see more of his leadership. On the night of last Tuesday’s BOE election — the first time Elm City residents voted for two BOE representatives, a position the mayor historically appoints — Goldson and Joyner said if asked now, they would be inclined to vote against the renewal of Harries’ contract as the NHPS superintendent when it expires in 2017. The BOE negotiates contracts with the superintendent for their time in the position and votes on whether or not to extend that contract as it approaches its expiration date. The board voted to renew Harries’ latest three-year contract with NHPS in 2014. After last week’s election, the new BOE representatives discussed
their opinions about the next superintendent contract on which they will vote. The two newly elected members, who officially join the BOE in January, said that while Harries should improve communications with the district, they do not currently have sufficient information to call for the renewal or termination of his contract. “I was asked if I had the vote now, I said no and I still say no [to renewal]. Now that’s very different than saying that I want him out,” said Joyner, the former executive director of Yale’s School Development Program. “Harries has a year and a half left to show whether or not he deserves to continue to be superintendent, and it should be based on performance metrics negotiated between him and the board.” Goldson and Joyner emphasized the need for more transparency between Harries, the rest of the board and the school district. Goldson said he acquired the only information he currently has about SEE BOE PAGE 4
including Eze and Ward 1 CoChairs Jacob Wasserman ’16 and Sarah Giovanniello ’16 — attended the recount, the first held in New Haven since a 2012 race for ward co-chair in Beaver Hills. Before the count began, head moderator John Cirello read out the procedure for the recount. He said state law mandates that both Republi-
cans and Democrats be present for the opening of the ballot boxes. Cirello then gave Eze the option of not pursuing the recount. Eze declined. “Let’s see what happens,” Eze said. Recount procedures mandate that each individual ballot cast at the New Haven Free Public Library be entered into
the voting machine by poll workers Dominic Tamaro and Kevin Arnold, who also check the validity of each ballot. Office of Legislative Services Staffer Donald Hayden counted the votes cast at City Hall via same-day registration by hand. Wasserman said he was pleased that the result of the SEE RECOUNT PAGE 6
YPU debates affirmative action
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Dozens of students stood to protest the speaker’s arguments against affirmative action.
BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTERS The Yale Political Union held a debate Tuesday night on the topic of affirmative action, amidst ongoing campus discussions about race and the status of students of color on campus. Amy Wax ’75, a law professor at the University of
Pennsylvania whose work addresses issues of social welfare law and policy, spoke against affirmative action on the grounds that it ultimately disadvantages the underrepresented minorities it was originally designed to help. Although YPU members and Yale administrators expected students to protest the debate, Wax’s speech proceeded uninterrupted before the crowd
of roughly 200 students. The debate came several days after student activists rallied outside a free speech conference held by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program in protest of a speaker’s joke about the genocide of Native Americans. Students said they had heard that before the debate began, Afro-American CulSEE YPU DEBATE PAGE 6