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Intl. students face housing shortage Ivy League
financial aid changes
Internationals forced off campus amid housing shortage BY WILL PORAYOUW AND SARAH COOK STAFF REPORTERS
Ivies could soon offer merit, athletic scholarships
The residential college system is framed by the University as “the cornerstone of Yale College’s mission.” But international exchange students have not been living in Yale’s undergraduate housing this semester as promised, frustrating students and putting future exchange programs into question. Undergraduates who are a part of the Yale Visiting International Student Program, or Y-VISP, have not been residing in Yale’s residential colleges in the fall of 2022. Instead, they are living in a mix of Albertus Magnus College dormitories, the Omni Hotel and graduate student housing. The Y-VISP website states that students granted admission into the program were to “live alongside Yale students in one of fourteen residential colleges.” The reasoning, according to the University, is a current housing shortage — which makes it unlikely that the program will continue to accept applicants through the 2023-24 academic year. “It was advertised — at least the impression I got — was that [Y-VISP] was like getting the Yale experience for one year,” Patrick Cho, an exchange student from Hong Kong University, said. But Cho said that in terms of housing, that has not been the case for him. He told SEE INTERNATIONALS PAGE 5
BY ANIKA SETH AND NICOLE RODRIGUEZ STAFF REPORTERS
Visiting students noted feeling distant from their residential colleges / Yale Daily News
Cox case renews medical Miranda bill Would require police to call for medical assistance BY NATHANIEL ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTER Police officers in Connecticut may soon be required to call for emergency medical care when in contact with a per-
son who requests care or is experiencing an emergency medical condition. This reform is the crux of the Medical Civil Rights Act, a piece of legislation that was proposed in March by State Senator Martin Looney with the backing of the Medical Civil Rights Initiative — a group that advocates for the passage of medical civil rights bills across the country. While the bill passed the Senate unanimously, it died in the State House. Senator Looney plans to reintroduce the bill for the 2023 session, especially in the wake of Randy
Cox’s paralyzation at the hands of New Haven Police Department. “If we had passed [the Medical Civil Rights Act], at the point that he said, ‘I can’t move’… they would have had a duty to immediately request EMS,” Leonore Dluhy, the director of the Medical Civil Rights Initiative, told the News. “They would not have continued with the transport with him.” Cox sustained spine and neck injuries — leaving him paralyzed — while being SEE MEDICAL RIGHTS PAGE 5
Progress on University hiring goals vague BY MEGAN VAZ AND WILLIAM PORAYOUW STAFF REPORTERS
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Longtime crew coach to retire After fruitful careerer, Gladstone will retire in 2023 After capping off a 13-year coaching career at Yale, men’s heavyweight crew head coach Steve Gladstone will retire at the culmination of the 2022-23 season. Gladstone began his illustrious tenure at Yale in 2010 after previously coaching at Princeton, Harvard, University of California, Berkeley, Brown, the U.S. National Team and the California Rowing Club. At the onset of his career with the Bulldogs, Gladstone had coached 37 lightweight and heavyweight boats to different championships and national titles. Since Gladstone came to New Haven, Yale heavyweights have captured three national championships, six EARC titles and for the first time in 26 years, swept the river at the Yale-Harvard Regatta. “I consider it an honor and a privilege to work closely with Steve, a proven coaching legend and inspiring leader,” Director of Athletics Vicky Chun told Yale Athletics in a press release. “He has brought Yale’s Heavyweight Crew program and every program under him to national and global success and has been instrumental in the growth of the sport. In his career, Steve has
According to administrators, Yale constantly communicates with its contractors / Tim Tai, Photography Editor
CROSS CAMPUS
INSIDE THE NEWS
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY, 1915.
The EJC met with the CT Attorney General’s office
Sophomore, junior, and senior students vote on proposal of a full Student Council to replace the exisiting Senior Council. They will lead class elections, social and academic events on campus.
The 568 Presidents Group Though Yale was founded in 1701, the Ivy League did not officially form until 1954.
BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ STAFF REPORTER
The University aims for at least 20 percent of workers on its construction projects to be New Haven residents — but how does it ensure this goal is met? In 2019, Yale and its two recognized unions of campus workers, Local 35 and Local 34, signed an agreement stating that the University would ensure that general contractors on its construction projects hire the set proportion of residents. When asked whether the University had reached this benchmark on current construction projects — several of which were detailed in an October email sent by University Provost Scott Strobel — both University President Peter Salovey and interim Vice President for Communications Karen Peart referred the News to J. Mike Bellamy, who became vice president for facilities and campus development on Oct 3. Bellamy told the News that the University’s standard contract agreement states that construction managers should afford preference to New Haven residents. He added that 20 percent of new hires should come from the city in the event that a subcontractor increases its workforce for a project. Bellamy did not respond to multiple requests for SEE CONSTRUCTION PAGE 4
Marked by selective admissions rates and worldwide prestige, the eight private universities that compose the Ivy League are known as elite hubs of academic excellence. But these characterizations often fail to recognize how the League first developed: as a Division I athletic conference. The Ivies do not offer merit scholarships of any kind. This also applies to athletic awards, making Yale and its peers the only eight of the 350 total Division I schools to not offer financial awards to exceptional student athletes. But now, the question of merit scholarships — including athletic and academic awards — is back up in the air after an exemption in the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 expired at the end of September. This expiration follows on the heels of a related financial aid lawsuit against 17 of the nation’s most prestigious schools, including six of the eight Ivies. Now, Ivy League schools cannot jointly decide to withhold merit scholarships from students, including student athletes, without risking legal repercussions. “I am always in favor of reducing costs of tuition, in any way and as much as possible,” Sophia Kanga ’25 said. “So generally, I support the idea of merit-based aid. But I would never want merit aid to impede the availability of need-based aid.”
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GNOMECOMING The Davenport formal
was canceled mid-event in response to students sneaking in alcohol. PAGE 8 NEWS
TRIAL Qinxuan Pan faced evidence in court for the murder of Kevin Jiang ENV ’22 PAGE 11 NEWS