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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 · VOL. CXLV, NO. 1 · yaledailynews.com · @yaledailynews
City pumps $200m to stem floods New growth halted in Long Wharf BY YASH ROY STAFF REPORTER A pipe, a wall and a drain. That’s how the city of New Haven plans to fight rising sea levels.
“While this might not sound flashy to most, this project is incredibly important to people in my community in Long Wharf and City Point who have to deal with flooding on a regular basis including two weeks ago,” said Alder Carmen Rodriguez at a Monday press conference. “This is a really huge deal that will protect us down the line.” The three projects will be funded by a new $200 million investment in resiliency
infrastructure following a night of severe flooding two weeks ago. The bulk of funding comes from an Army Corp of Engineers grant that will build a seawall, living shore and pump system to better protect Long Wharf. Combined, these projects will almost double the amount of water the city can drain into the harbor. SEE INVESTMENT PAGE 4
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Cox to sue NHPD over paralysis case BY MEGAN VAZ AND DANTE MOTLEY STAFF REPORTERS Randy Cox, who became partially paralyzed while in NHPD custody in June, is now preparing to sue the department four months after the incident. After the vehicle transporting him was abruptly stopped, causing Cox’s injuries, officers offered him little medical help at a detention facility, repeatedly dragging him into a wheelchair and later into a holding cell. The incident, captured in videos released by the city government, sparked local protests against New Haven police and the placement of five NHPD officers on administrative leave. Now, months after the incident, Cox’s legal team has announced its intentions to sue the city sometime in the following week, despite delays in a state-level investigation of the officers’ conduct that have pushed back the official suit’s filing. “We had hoped that today we would have a finding by the state police on their investigation of these New Haven officers,” said RJ Weber, one of Cox’s lawyers, at a Sept. 15 vigil. “We had hoped those things would have been completed by now so that we could have a federal complaint filed and presented to you today, but due to those setbacks and those delays, I don’t anticipate that that lawsuit’s going to be filed for another week to ten days.”
Courtesy of Njideka Crosby
Crosby exhibit will premier Sept. 22 BY OLIVIA CHARIS ARTS EDITOR
Lawyer Ben Crump, left, will represent Cox in court / Yash Roy, Contributing Photographer The Incident On June 19, NHPD officers responded to a 911 call alleging a weapons complaint at a Lilac Street Block Party, then-Acting Police Chief
Regina Rush-Kittle said in a June 20 press conference. Several officers stopped and arrested SEE LAWSUIT PAGE 5
Communications at Yale Media access to campus has been gradually curbed A SPECIAL REPORT BY SARAH COOK STAFF REPORTER Last November, after an email from a Yale Law School student sparked national discussion on racism and free speech, Yale Daily News reporters attempted to enter the Law School to speak to students on the matter, but were soon met with an email barring them from entering the Law School without pre-approval.
"From an academic point of view and educational point of view, if a university is a place where the truth is thought to be found, you wonder why it wouldn't be okay for anybody to call anybody and ask what they think." Sam Chauncey '57 The email was from Yale Law School Assistant Dean and Chief of Staff Debra Kroszner, who formerly served as managing director at the Office of Public Affairs at the Law School. Kroszner wrote in her email that the Law School had received complaints about News reporters being in the Law School building. She stated that it has “long been the policy” that members of the press receive approval from Kroszner’s office to enter the premises. But this policy is not uniform across Yale. Interim Vice President of Communications Karen Peart said that it is unique to the Law School — which has faced a series of scandals in the past two years. The rule applies to all internal and external members of the press, Peart added. Tim Tai, Photography Editor
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On Tuesday, the Yale Center for British Art previewed a Njideka Akunyili Crosby ART ’11 exhibition — showcasing the center’s first pieces from a Yale alum. YCBA Director Courtney J. Martin GRD ’09 described the exhibition, the third and final installment of a series curated by the Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als, as a “milestone” for the center. The exhibition opens to the public on September 22. “This is the first time that we will have an exhibition by a School of Art alum here in the Yale Center for British Art,” Martin said at the opening. “The idea that someone who has come here would also then show with us is also a feat.” “I don't know that we will have one of these in my lifetime again,” she added. The center typically showcases works from artists of British descent or those who hail from various parts of the former British empire. Not many who fall in those categories graduate from the Yale School of Art, Martin said. Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who was born in Nigeria before coming to the United States in 1999, graduated from the Yale SEE YCBA PAGE 4
No-go for dining to-go BY ANIKA SETH AND WILLIAM PORAYOUW STAFF REPORTERS Twelve of Yale’s 14 residential college dining halls are now only providing to-go boxes to students who test positive for COVID-19. Students told the News that the policy makes accessing meals while sick challenging — a particularly pressing issue for immunocompromised or low-income students. “I appreciate the attentiveness that Yale Dining has to COVID, but I find it odd that they won’t give to-go boxes to students who have been contacted, or students who in general feel sick and want to stay in their rooms,” Evelyn Letona Robles ’25 wrote in an email to the News. “I don't think the varying degrees of illness on campus are accommodated through the Yale Dining experience.” According to Yale Hospitality, takeout box options are available for students. Senior Director of Yale Hospitality Robert Sullivan told the News that sick students may request to-go boxes from the dining hall manager or desk attendant, no matter what their illness. SEE DINING PAGE 4
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The News reports that at least five residential colleges have hired graduate students to enforce a new dress code in the dining halls. Undergraduate students must be wearing a formal coat and tie to enter the dining halls.
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