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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 · VOL. CXLIV, NO. 24 · yaledailynews.com · @yaledailynews
Leaked FAS Senate report blasts bureacracy Faculty decry admin bloat in leaked draft report BY ISAAC YU STAFF REPORTER A draft report obtained by the News this week reveals deep dissatisfaction among faculty representatives with regard to both a dra-
matic increase in University administrators, as well as their salaries. Titled “Size and Growth of Administration and Bureaucracy at Yale”, the report is dated to January 2022 and was written by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate’s seven-member Governance Committee. The report notes that at a Senate meeting with FAS department chairs held in 2020, chairs reported an “‘onerous bureaucracy’” that slows down decision making as well as a lack of available funds for academic purposes.
“Yale’s fundamental mission is research and teaching,” the draft report reads. “The apparent disproportionate rise in administrative positions and costs relative to faculty positions and costs may well be to some degree in the service of that mission, but it requires explanation and oversight.” Administrative bloat has long been a concern of some faculty members, and while discussion on the report has been tabled for the time being, the draft document represents the first formal effort from the Faculty of Arts and
Family sues YNHH for neglect BY SOPHIE WANG AND BRIAN ZHANG STAFF REPORTERS Tina Darnsteadt went to sleep on May 10 assured that Yale New Haven Hospital was giving her son Billy Miller proper medical treatment for an overdose. Earlier that day, 23-year-old Billy ingested a “white powder” that was unknowingly laced with fentanyl. Local first-aid responders administered him naloxone and rushed him to the hospital. Instead of receiving an additional naloxone dose, however, Billy spent seven hours lying unattended in the ambulance bay of the hospital. Security footage shows people walking by him all night. Around 2 a.m. on May 11, a nurse found that he had been experiencing a cardiac arrest for an unknown period of time. Despite bringing his pulse back, medical professionals pronounced Billy brain dead the next day. Billy’s family is now pursuing legal action against YNHH, under the representation of Sean McElligott LAW ’01. “My son was a victim,” said Billy’s mother, Tina Darnsteadt. “When you lose someone, the grieving process is different for everybody. But with the nature of how my brother passed, he didn’t just die — he was killed,” Billy’s sister Rebecca Miller said. After Billy was taken to the hospital, Rebecca called three times to check up
Sciences Senate — an advisory body elected by members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — to weigh in on the issue. According to University spokesperson Karen Peart, the draft document has not been endorsed by the senate and has not been submitted to the administration. As such, she said, University leadership has not seen the document and is “unaware” of its underlying assumptions and claims. SEE SENATE PAGE 4
COPS & COURTS
Police investigate suspected hate crime Latino man in hospital after York Street attack
The family of Billy Miller is taking legal action against the hospital on grounds of neglect / Yale Daily News on him. Every time, she was reassured with “no tone of concern” that he was in an ambulance bay within the hospital — leading her to believe that there was no immediate cause for familial intervention. Moreover, earlier that same day, Darnsteadt thought Billy sounded normal on a phone call while in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. He had just been given naloxone, a drug that reverses fen-
tanyl’s potency but is unable to outlive fentanyl in the human body system, thus requiring it to be readministered. The miscommunication was not just logistical –– Billy’s family members were not aware of the complicated biological relationship between fentanyl and naloxone. Had they been properly informed by SEE YNHH PAGE 5
Yale, New Haven buildings flood A
spell of torrential rain hit the city of New Haven on Tuesday, unleashing a month’s worth of rain in a day and knocking out infrastructure throughout Yale and the city at large.
BY NATHANIEL ROSENBERG, YASH ROY AND SOPHIE SONNENFELD STAFF REPORTERS A Latino man suffered two jaw fractures and a head injury from an attack that the New Haven and Yale Police Departments are now investigating as a hate crime. The incident occurred just steps from Davenport College this weekend. As the investigation continues, the Yale and New Haven Police Departments have offered conflicting accounts of when they knew about the assault. The New Haven Police Department took down two separate reports of the incident, and for much of the week operated off of a report that made it appear as though both NHPD and YPD were only made aware of the incident at least 18 hours after the potential hate crime. However, a police report obtained by the News shows that NHPD was on site and aware of the incident approximately 28 minutes after it occurred. NHPD Police Chief Karl Jacobson has since acknowledged that his department made an error in its communication. YPD Chief Anthony Campbell claims that his force followed their communication protocol. SEE HATE CRIME PAGE 5
Two anon chat apps vie for Yale users BY OLIVIA LOMBARDO AND MEGAN REINMANN STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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Sidechat and Fizz, two anonymous chat apps expanding to college campuses across the country, recently recruited Yalies to promote their launch at the University. The two platforms rose to prominence as competing replacements for Librex, a Yale-founded anonymous app which shut down suddenly in February of this year. SEE APPS PAGE 4
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THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY, 1991.
Dean of the Yale School of Music Robert Blocker will retire in August
The Berkeley Brownie Radio Network had its first broadcast at 9 p.m. Radio hosts Seth Klein '93 and Robert Cook '93 ran the station out of Klein's room using an antenna on Berkeley College's South Court roof.
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ZAKKA Offering everything from squishmallows to Korean mascara, New Haven’s Zakka Yale has a variety of Asian products. PAGE 9 CITY
HOPPER Grace Hopper College has new stained glass windows to commemorate history and look to the future. PAGE 12 UNIVERSITY