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Early 2000- August 2001
"Like It Is"
with Gil Noble
(WABC, Channel 7 New York, 9/2/01 from 12-1pm)
A one-hour panel discussion of slavery's legacy and Yale University,
with Gil Noble, Rev. Eric Smith (Cmty Baptist Church), Kurt Schmoke (Sr.
Fellow of Yale Corporation), and Antony Dugdale (one of the authors
of the essay).
Reparations
debates at Ivy League schools
(National
Public Radio, Weekend All Things Considered, 9/1/01)
Correspondent Phillip Martin reports on the status in the United
States of the movement to obtain reparations for slavery, especially at
Yale and other Ivy League universities.
Poll
says unions favored over companies in disputes
(AP-New Haven Register, 8/30/01)
Americans' sympathy in labor disputes has tilted toward unions
over companies in the past couple of years, says an Associated Press poll
taken at a time of job layoffs and economic uncertainty.
The
Problem with Payback
(The Washington Post, 8/28)
By Kurt Schmoke, Sr. Fellow of Yale Corporation
Some students at Yale University recently wrote an essay documenting
the fact that slaveholders and proponents of slavery, along with abolitionists,
figured prominently in the 300-year history of Yale. For me, the essay
raises the same question as does any account of slavery: What is to be
done today?
The
Enduring Legacy of the South's Civil War Victory
(The New York Times, 8/26/01)
By David Brion Davis, Director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center.
The United States is only now beginning to recover from the Confederacy's
ideological victory following the Civil War. Though the South lost the
battles, for more than a century it attained its goal: that the role of
slavery in America's history be thoroughly diminished, even somehow removed
as a cause of the war.
Race
and Man at Yale
(The Boston Globe, 8/24/01)
When Yale University included in a brochure celebrating its 300th
anniversary this year some self-congratulatory lines about its ''long
history of activism in the face of slavery,'' three Yale graduate students
quickly set the record straight.
The
Morse Code of Slavery
(New Haven Advocate, 8/23/01)
"Slavery or the servile relation is proved to be one of the
indispensable regulators of the social system, divinely ordained for the
discipline of the human race in this world, and that it is in perfect
harmony ... with the great declared object of the Savior's mission to
earth." --Samuel F.B. Morse
Names
Carved in Stone
(The Christian Science Monitor, 8/21/01)
What's in a name? Potential for a good debate on honor and history.
Vínculo
com a escravidão abala Yale
(Folha de São Paulo, 8/20/01)
A Universidade Yale ficou constrangida com a divulgao de uma pesquisa
que revela ligaões profundas entre a instituio
e diversos conhecidos defensores da escravidão nos Estados Unidos.
Yale's
names reflect history
(New Haven Register, 8/19/01)
Three Yale graduate students have proved once again that a little
knowledge combined with a narrow perspective can be a truly dangerous
thing.
Read the Letters
to the Editor in response.
Yale
and the Price of Slavery
(New York Times Op-Ed, 8/18/01)
By HENRY WIENCEK
The "presentism" defense,
which can be useful for any misdeed, is most commonly deployed when the
morality of slavery comes up.
Cash
from Slavery mars Yale 'Birthday'
(The London Times, 8/18/01)
YALE University's celebration of its 300th year has been marred
by the disclosure by three of its doctoral students that the institution's
past is tainted by slavery. Marking the tercentennial, the university
had boasted about its "long history of activism in the face of slavery."
Yale,
Slavery and Abolition
(Wall St Journal editorial, 8/17/01)
This summer holiday has not been kind to our best and brightest.
Smack in the middle of Yale's 300th birthday celebrations comes the embarassing
news that eight out of ten of its residential colleges are named for ...
slaveholders.
Enlightenment
at Yale
(Jewish World Review, 8/17/01)
NEWS FLASH: Yale University has just issued a press release to
"regret and renounce" the evils of slavery. One-hundred-and-thirty-six
years after the end of the Civil War, the New York Times reports
that the venerable institution has now taken a stand on the issue.
At
Yale, a Pro-Slavery Taint
(International Herald Tribune, 8/17/01)
As it marks its 300th anniversary, Yale University is celebrating
what it calls its "long history of activism in the face of slavery" ...
But in a research paper, three Yale doctoral candidates say the university
is ignoring the murky side of its history.
Editorial
Cartoon: By John Englehart
(Hartford Courant, 8/17/01)
Yale
Slavery Case: A Lesson In Responsibility
(The Hartford Courant Op-Ed, 8/17/01)
Researchers at Yale University have rained on the parade of the
school's 300th anniversary by bringing to light Yale's involvement with
holding and trading slaves.
Yale's
Unworthies
(Hartford Courant Editorial, 8/16/01)
It would be unrealistic to expect an institution as old as Yale
to be untouched by the abominable practice of slavery and the racist creed
that underwrote it.However, what is disconcerting is the university's
insensitivity and lack of balance in choosing who and what to honor over
the years.
Looney
gains health workers union backing
(New Haven Register, 8/15/01)
Mayoral candidate Martin
Looney received the endorsement Tuesday of the New England Health Care
Employees Union, more than 1,000 members of which live in the city.
Wrestling
With the Legacy of Slavery at Yale
(New York Times editorial, 8/14/01)
Americans tend to believe that slavery was peculiar to the South
and that the North, particularly the New England states, was "free."
A
Shameful Past
(Hartford Courant, 8/14/01)
Amid a year of ponderous reflection in celebration of its 300th
birthday, Yale University has suddenly found itself snagged in the moral
equivocations of its past. On Monday, researchers presented a study of
previously undisclosed - or overlooked - links between the university's
favorite sons and the
institution of slavery.
Yale
told to admit slave ties
(New Haven Register, 8/14/01)
Yale University should acknowledge it has been "complicit in the
institution of slavery," according to a historical report issued Monday
by three Yale graduate students.
Report
looks into Yale, slavery and abolition
(Channel 8, news broadcast)
Essay
Explores Slavery as part of university's history
(Channel 3, news broadcast)
Slave
Traders in Yale's Past Fuel Debate on Restitution
(New York Times, 8/13/01)
As Yale University celebrates 300 years of what it calls its "long
history of activism in the face of slavery," three Yale scholars said
that the university relied on slave-trading money for its first scholarships
and endowments.
Candidates
Back Yale Unions
(New Haven Register, 8/12/01)
Union organizing drives at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale University
have entered the Democratic mayoral primary campaign, with both candidates
supporting the workers' efforts.
Yale's
New 'Hood
(New Haven Advocate, 8/9/01)
Shirley Lawrence's 65-year-old mother moved out of her home on
Mansfield Street in New Haven last week. She didn't want to leave. Her
landlord, Yale, made her.
The
Wilhelm Hope
(New Haven Advocate, 7/26/01)
The Freedom Rides are returning, with a new twist: This time busloads
of illegal immigrants will ride into D.C., defying authorities to arrest
them. The riders' allies and organizers: American labor unions.
Hotel
Union President Seeks Better Coordination
(LA Times, 7/18/01)
The president of the
hotel workers union on Tuesday called for more coordination between the
hundreds of locals that make up the organization in an effort to gain
clout in an industry dominated by a few multinational corporations. John
Wilhelm, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union,
offered a five-year plan at the union's annual convention in Los Angeles...
Protest
looms over union rights at Yale
(The Guardian, 7/6/01)
LONDON--English lecturers are set to protest this evening outside
the central London anniversary celebrations of one of America's most famous
universities, Yale. The Ivy League institution is denying its staff union
rights.
Naturally,
Dahling
(New Haven Advocate, 7/12/01)
Is Yale University ducking out of paying taxes on its golf course?
Yale says no. A Yale union researcher says yes. The city's assessor says
no. Now, Alderman Matt Naclerio wants alderbeancounters to check the books.
Alderman
seeks investigation of Yale Golf Course tax status
(New Haven Register, 7/5/01)
An alderman wants
an investigation into allegations Yale University is not paying sufficient
taxes on the Yale Golf Course, but the city's assessor says the complaint
is incorrect.
Organization
Man
(The Nation, 7/16/01)
An article about John Wilhelm and his leadership of H.E.R.E.
Organizing
Labor -- What's the Beef?
(San Francisco Chronicle, 6/27/01)
Across the country this month, working people have been demonstrating
for the right to organize. Some readers might wonder: Don't we already
have laws protecting the right to organize?
Yale
Bites Unions
(The Nation, 7/2/01)
On a Friday afternoon in late April, Woolsey, the great hall at Yale,
is packed with Old Blues. Gilt scrolls frame the proscenium, and from
the ceiling hangs an enormous screen bearing the word YALE. Outside in
the street, there's another restless crowd massing.
Welcome
to Global U.
(New Haven Advocate, 6/14/01)
Rick Levin gave a speech the other day that will determine his
legacy as Yale's president. It offered the most descriptive vision yet
of Yale's new role in the 21st century. You may have missed Levin's address.
Unless you happened to be in China.
Board
tackles slave reparations, labor issues
(New Haven
Register, 6/8/01)
A resolution supporting a study on possible reparations to descendants
of slaves was approved this week by the Board of Aldermen.Two other aldermanic
resolutions urged Yale to allow graduate instructors and hospital workers
respectively "to organize a union without interference" from administrators.
Dolores
Colon: "Uncle" Eli's watchdog
(New Haven Advocate, 6/6/01)
Dolores Colon wasn't your typical Yalie. One day she'd have a meal
with a classmate named Rockefeller (son of former West Virginia Sen. Jay
Rockefeller). The next day, she'd redeem her food stamps.
New
alderwomen gets right to work
(New Haven Register, 6/5/01)
It was only a matter of hours before Dolores Colon, the newest
member of the Board of Aldermen, went to work.
Clergy
petitions Yale to be union-neutral
(New Haven Register, 5/31/01)
Religious leaders unrolled a large scroll with signatures from
287 clergy, calling on Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital to
be "neutral" on labor union activities.
The
Predator on the Hill
(New Haven Advocate, 5/31/01)
Budget-battered Yale-New Haven Hospital cuts corners and goes after
working families' homes.
Democracy
Wins One
Yale unions avoid W's "animal pit"--and make their point
(New Haven Advocate, 5/24/01)
It wasn't supposed to happen like this. The cops said they couldn't
do it. The Secret Service said they couldn't do it. But there they were
Monday morning: hundreds of Yale workers ...
Medical
Parking Needed
(New Haven Register, 5/23/01)
Marcia Gyerko has worked at Yale-New Haven Hospital for only four
months, but she's already learned something about parking around the medical
complex. "It's a mess," she said.
Card
Count is the Best Way to Form Union
(New Haven Register, 5/21/01)
On April 20, workers asked Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital
to enter into a card-count neutrality agreement with the two unions being
formed by graduate teachers and hospital service staff. Yale has refused.
Yale Responds:
Card
Count Not Right for Yale Workers
(New Haven Register, 5/30/01)
We oppose "card count
neutrality" at Yale for two reasons. First, we believe that all members
of our community Ñ faculty, students, and staff Ñ should have the right
to express themselves freely on the matter of unionization. Second,
we favor the time-honored method of a secret ballot election after a
period of free and open debate. The secret ballot is a fundamental democratic
right.
2001:
A Parking Space Odyssey
(New Haven Advocate, 05/17/01)
If you live near Yale University or Yale-New Haven Hospital and
have a designated parking space, kiss it. If you have a driveway, rope
it off. If you're driving in from out of town, you may have to shove the
car up your butt. That's the current state of parking, thanks to Yale.
And it's only going to get worse.
Graduate
Students Push for Union Membership
(NY Times, 5/15/01)
Graduate students are starting to see themselves more as workers
-- and are turning to labor unions for help.
Yale-New
Haven officials, workers
at odds over unionization
(New Haven Register, 5/5/01)
While some workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital describe an "atmosphere
of fear" because of managers' alleged intimidation of employees seeking
a union, a hospital spokesperson says most workers are "quite pleased"
there.
The
4-in-1 Gamble
(New Haven Advocate, 5/03/01)
There's a new slogan on Yale's campus: "One employer, one federation!"
To translate that slogan into human terms, talk to Willie Tart and RosaAnna
DeFilippis.
The
Ad the Register Wouldn't Let You See
(New Haven Advocate, 4/26/01)
To tell their story to alumni visiting campus last weekend for
the university's big 300th birthday bash, the unions wanted to buy a full-page
ad in the New Haven Register ...
Protesters
outside Yale diverse but oddly united
(New Haven Register, 4/22/01)
While former President George Herbert Walker Bush discussed "Yale University
and Public Service," a political smorgasbord of more than 200 protesters
questioned the university's sense of altruism ... They included former
Yale University employees and retirees protesting about what they say
are meager pensions, undergraduates protesting financial aid, members
of ...
2,200
march in support of unions at Yale
(New Haven Register, 4/21/01)
An estimated 2,200 Yale students, clergy, hospital workers and
other employees marched from opposite ends of downtown to the Green Friday
evening to demand a neutrality agreement on unions from the university.
For
Protesters at Yale, a Who's Who Audience
(New York Times, 4/21/01)
Many of Yale University's most famous alumni have returned to campus
to participate in a series of private seminars and lectures on the school's
impact on world culture and politics.
Yale
Alumni Gathering Spurs Protests
(Hartford Courant, 4/21/01)
A confused Yale alumnus unbuttoned his blazer and reached into
his pocket for a booklet outlining Friday's events marking the school's
300th birthday. The crowd of clergy clutching signs and chanting slogans
was not on the official agenda. Neither were the hundreds of students
shouting en masse around the corner ...
Yale
Celebrates 300th Anniversary, While Unions Demonstrate
(AP Wire, 4/20/01)
Yale University started celebrating its 300th anniversary Friday
with an alumni weekend that drew accomplished Yalies from around the country,
and drew labor activists in support of school workers who are trying to
unionize.
At
Rally, GESO to ask for Neutrality
(YDN, 4/19/01)
After spending all year aggressively encouraging the Yale administration
to adopt card-check neutrality, GESO will make its demand for neutrality
official at a ...
NYC
schools blaze trail on TA unions
(YDN 4/17/01)
At Columbia, graduate students have filed a union petition. Eyes
at Yale are on Columbia and New York University as TA unionization heats
up in New Haven.
Unions
vote to support GESO, hospital workers
(YDN, 3/29/01)
In their first joint meeting since 1996, members of Yale's two
recognized unions, Locals 34 and 35, voted overwhelmingly last night .
. .
Columbia
TAs seek to unionize
(YDN 3/29/01)
Teaching assistants and research assistants at Columbia University
filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board yesterday
AIDS
Drug Debate Intensifies
(Hartford Courant, 3/20/01)
Anger intensified Monday at Yale as students and faculty reinforced
an effort to get a Yale-owned AIDS drug to developing nations.
Yale,
Bristol-Myers and AIDS in Africa
(YDN, 3/19/01)
What the international media left in their wake last week after
pummeling the University with a series of reports about AIDS, Africa and
...
NYU
to bargain with grad union
Agreement averts looming TA strike
(YDN, 3/2/01)
Mere hours before a vote that could have authorized a teaching
assistant strike at New York University began, NYU announced yesterday
it will become the first private university in the country to bargain
with a teaching assistant union.
Sorting
out Aramark and Yale's Priorities
(YDN, 2/28/01)
Over the last two years, Aramark
Corp has dramatically and unapologetically slashed the dining hall
food budget. But those profits come at a cost: the quality of the food,
the creativity of chefs and the satisfaction of students.
Hospital-Union
Grievances Still Unresolved
(YDN, 2/28/01)
As Yale-New Haven Hospital's long-postponed hearing before the National
Labor Relations Board draws nearer, the ongoing meetings to resolve accusations
brought against the hospital by New England Health Care Employees Union
District 1199 seem no closer to resolution.
In
Aramark kitchen, less is spent on food
(YDN, 2/27/01)
When the University hired food-services giant Aramark Corp. in the fall
of 1998 to take over Yale College's dining services, Yale thought it had
found the ideal managed-services firm to control the rising cost of food
preparation and to improve the...
Yale
Hostility towards Labor bucks Basic Human Rights
By Lance Compa (New Haven Register, 2/25/01)
Managers want to reverse recent NLRB decisions allowing university
teaching assistants and temporary staffing agency workers to join unions.
Surprisingly, one of the employers chafing for change is not a profit-maximizing
mogul. Richard C. Levin ...
City
must fix class size and starting pay
By Bob Proto (New Haven Register, 2/21/01)
New Haven should reduce public school class sizes and raise the
starting salaries for new teachers. Only this bold move can prevent a
short-term biotech boom from becoming a long-term biotech bust.
More
schools try to form TA unions
(YDN, 2/21/01)
Teaching assistants at several Ivy League schools, following the lead
of graduate student organizers at Yale, are working to join the growing
national campaign for TA unions.
Dining
Service Chefs Blame Aramark for Food Quality
(YDN, 2/15/01)
More than 15 of Yale's top chefs yesterday said they believe that food
quality and quantity has declined in recent years because Aramark Foods
Inc., the principal provider of food products for the residential college
dining halls, has overzealously cut costs.
Democracy,
Hypocrisy and Aristocracy 101
(New Haven Advocate, 2/14/01)
A week - and a peek
- inside Yale's open door. Democracy's a messy sport, a worthwhile but
hard-to-achieve ideal.
Union
organizers play part in DeVane lecture, meet with mixed reaction
(Yale Daily News, 2/14/01)
Yesterday's installment of the "Democratic Vistas" DeVane Lecture Series
brought the American social movement to life for the Battell Chapel audience...
Freedom
of association should be on the democratic vista
(Yale Daily News, 2/14/01)
Plans
on hold for GSA union meeting
(Yale Daily News, 2/12/01)
As GESO and the administration continue to dispute the controversial issue
of teaching assistant unionization, the often-overlooked Graduate Student
Assembly is working to make its voice heard but is encountering some of
the same conflicts of interest...
Levin
takes heat on union organizing
(New Haven Register, 2/9/01)
Yale President Richard C. Levin had expected a measured academic
dialogue on democracy. Instead he wound up in a debate on Yale's handling
of union organizing drives.
GESO
relies upon recognized union support
(Yale Daily News, 2/5/01)
A labor alliance between such seemingly disparate groups of workers as
maintenance employees and graduate students may seem unlikely. But the
ties between ...
Graduate
stipends to rise by 20 percent
(Yale Daily News, 1/19/01)
While still not quite making Alex Rodriguez-type money, many Yale graduate
students will receive a substantial pay increase next year. The announcement
of the almost 20% raise in stipend levels ...
In
renovation plans, Yale eyed possible labor unrest
(Yale Daily News, 1/12/01)
Toward the end of last year, Yale officials considered the possibility
of a strike by the University's two recognized unions when determining
the order of major renovation projects, several administrators have confirmed.
Conversations among high-level...
Kennedy:
Shelve GESO TA skirmish
(Yale Daily News, 1/9/01)
Prominent history professor Paul Kennedy has become the focus of the latest
skirmish between the Graduate Employees and Students Organization and
the Yale administration. But even as the National Labor Relations Board
investigates an unfair labor...
The
Rise & Fall of Civilization
(New Haven Advocate, 1/4/01)
Babies trapped in burning buildings. Helpless old people unattended in
nursing homes, facing death unless someone helps them quick. If you think
that's scary, now consider this tragic scenario inspired by one of the
world's most renowned professors, one Paul Kennedy.
GESO
files complaints with NLRB
(Yale Daily News, 12/13/00)
The Graduate Employees and Students Organization has filed two complaints
against Yale with the regional National Labor Relations Board, one in
response to an e-mail sent by Paul Kennedy in which the prominent history
professor said he would not offer...
Unions
and Universities
(NYT, 11/25/00)
The New York Times official editorial position on the
unionization of graduate student teachers and researchers.
U.S.
Panel Allows Union Organizing by Postgraduates
(New York Times, 11/2/00)
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled for the first time that graduate
students who work as research and teaching assistants at private colleges
and universities have the right to form unions
NLRB
Says Teaching Assistants May Bargain Collectively
(Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/2/00)
In a far-reaching opinion, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday
that graduate teaching assistants are employees
Yale
students support ruling in favor of unions
(New Haven Register, 11/2/00)
Yale graduate students praised a ruling by the National Labor Relations
board Wednesday that gives researchers and teaching assistants in the
nation’s private universities the same rights as other workers to form
unions.
Board
upholds ruling that lets TAs unionize
(Yale Daily News, 11/2/00)
In a decision that could have enormous consequences at Yale and across
the nation, the National Labor Relations Board yesterday unanimously
Yale
unions celebrate labor history
(Yale Daily News, 10/19/00)
History shows that when Yale's workers organize, the University
listens. That was the lesson ...
1,000
hurl challenge at Yale for union rights
(New Haven Register, 10/19/00)
More than 1,000 Yale employees filled a massive circus-style tent on the
New Haven Green Wednesday, challenging Yale to ...
Mayors
join in celebration of labor
(New Haven Register, 10/18/00)
By New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., West Haven Mayor
H. Richard Borer Jr. and Hamden Mayor Carl Amento.
Tonight we will gather with more than 1,000 members of the Yale and Greater
New Haven communities under a tent on the New Haven Green.
Yale,
The Reluctant Partner
(New Haven Advocate, 10/18/00)
Bill Felder and Bill Alexander are best friends. In search of better
lives, they both moved to the New Haven area from the South--Felder from
South Carolina and Alexander from Florida--in the 1950s. Both ...
Unions
to Test Democracy at Yale
(New Haven Register, 10/12/00)
In the eyes of Yale's union leaders, the university's upcoming tercentennial
is a test of how inclusive and democratic Yale's present day leaders really
want to be.
"Democracy
at Work" on October 18
(New Haven Advocate, 10/11/00)
"It promises to be the community activist event of
the season."
Hospital
officials discourage union, complaint claims
(New Haven Register, 10/5/00)
Yale-New Haven Hospital officials have been illegally "interfering with,
restraining and coercing" hospital employees seeking to form a labor union,
according to a complaint issued by the NLRB.
Yale
grants employees MLK holiday
(Yale Daily News, 10/3/00)
Much to the delight of Yale staff and local union leaders, the
University has declared Martin Luther King Day a holiday for its non-faculty
employees.
Yale
Endowment Tops $10 billion
(New Haven Register, 9/28/00)
Yale's endowment has again skyrocketed over the past fiscal year, reaching
a record $10.1 billion.The new total compares with $7.2 billion in the
previous year and $6.6 billion the year before. In 1990, the endowment
was $2.5 billion . . .
King
holiday to be 45th day off with pay for workers at Yale
(New Haven Register, 9/28/00)
Yale's corporate officers decided this summer that "this was a propitious
time to honor Martin Luther King's birthday . . . "
ENDOWMENT
AT $10 BILLION
(Yale Daily News, 9/27/00)
Buoyed by extremely strong performance in venture capital investments,
Yale's endowment rose nearly 40 percent in the 12 months ended June 30,
finishing the fiscal year at $10 billion
Yale
presents rosy budget to Corporation
(Yale Daily News, 9/26/00)
Just five years after the end of a string of budget deficits, Yale will
run a surplus for the next decade. Extremely strong growth in Yale's private
equity investments . . .
To
improve the city, Yale must help its workers
(Yale Daily News, 9/22/00)
Yale is the single largest civilian employer in the entire state
of Connecticut. When Yale helps its workers, it helps New Haven . . .
GESO
seeks support from faculty
(Yale Daily News, 9/20/00)
As they pick up mail in their departmental post boxes, Yale faculty find
they are receiving teaching assistant union propaganda . . .
Yale
Posts Labor Rights Signs
(Yale Daily News, 9/12/00)
If you don't look carefully enough, you might not notice the latest signs
of Yale's graduate student unionization dispute ...
Mentally
Ill Children Seek Care In ERs As Services Shrink
(Courant 8/6/00)
Across the country, a shortage of psychiatric beds and services are forcing
mentally ill children into emergency rooms, nursing homes or non-psychiatric
hospital wards . . .
Commissioner's Letter written to clarify YPI ruling
(Register 7/7/00)
The article (below) suggested that I have reversed my May 12 ruling. Let
me categorically state that there has been no flip-flop . . .
Who
Counts?
(Advocate 6/22/00)
When it comes to calculating the need for mental health care, the answer
is: Not patients or workers . . .
Yale Allowed to Close 11 Psychiatric Beds
(Register 6/17/00)
Less than 3 weeks after Yale was ordered to keep all of its psychiatric
beds open, the state appears to have reversed its ruling.
'100-for-300'
hiring plan: 'A Lasting Monument' (YDN 4/14/00)
Next year, Yale turns 300, and to celebrate that birthday, GESO is calling
for the university to create and endow 100 new ladder faculty positions.
Yale
alum encourages science students to unionize (YDN 10/1/99)
Jonathan King '62, a professor of molecular biology at MIT, likened GESO's
efforts to form a union to the creation of the Royal Society in 1662.
Faculty
acknowledge part-time teaching problem (YDN 4/28/99)
Professors sign a letter in recognition of Yale's over-reliance on adjunct
and graduate student teachers.
Contact
people
For
questions about upcoming FHUE events, or to schedule an interview, please
call:
Deborah
Chernoff
FHUE Communications Director
chernoff@yaleunions.org
425
College St., New Haven, CT 06511
Office Phone: (203) 624-5161 ext. 302
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