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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2023 · VOL. CXLV, NO. 23 · yaledailynews.com · @yaledailynews
YCC abandons self-compensation proposal BY JANALIE COBB STAFF REPORTER
Pres. and vice pres. face student backlash to proposal Students voiced opposition to a budget proposal raised by Yale College Council President Leleda Beraki ’24 and Vice President Iris Li ’24 that would pay the two leaders $4000 each from YCC funds.
Beraki and Li first brought the proposal to the YCC on March 5, but delayed voting on it until the following YCC meeting on April 2. In the week prior to the meeting, an image of minutes from the March 5 meeting detailing the proposal was posted to the campus chat app Fizz, generating widespread criticism from anonymous student posters. The proposal was ultimately not on the agenda for the April 2 meeting, and was not discussed or voted on. In a joint statement to the News, Beraki and Li wrote that the primary purpose of the proposal was to remove barriers to
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access that the positions of President and Vice President presented. “In order to keep up with the demands of YCC and our academics, we both had to either quit jobs or relinquish numerous hours of work,” the statement read. “While both of us are able to take a reduction to student job hours without the loss of those wages significantly impacting our Yale experience, we recognize that not all students here would be able to run for Yale College Council office given that financial restriction.” Funding for this proposal would have come from the YCC endowment, which SEE YCC PAGE 4
Uni. orders student groups out of 305 Crown St. BY SARAH COOK AND MIRANDA WOLLEN STAFF REPORTERS The proposal, raised by Yale College Council President Leleda Beraki ’24 and Vice President Iris Li ’24, would have compensated both of the two leaders $4000 a year./Tim Tai, Photography Editor
Emami named new School of Nursing Dean BY WILLIAM PORAYOUW STAFF REPORTER Azita Emami is set to take over as the dean of the School of Nursing, University President Peter Salovey confirmed in a Monday email sent to Yale faculty, staff, students and trustees. Emami — who currently serves as executive dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Washington — will begin her appointment on Aug. 1. As the Yale School of Nursing responds to recent criticism from students claiming professors neglected the role of race in health education, Emami says she will prioritize promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in the school’s culture and in its academic curriculum. “Nursing is a profession where our responsibility is to care about and for people no matter where they come from, Emami, listed diversity, equity and inclusion as her top priorities for her new role. / Courtesy of Yale President
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Professor Dragomir Radev dies at 54 BY MIRANDA WOLLEN STAFF REPORTER A prolific force in his field, Dragomir Radev, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science at Yale, wrote two books and numerous papers on computational linguistics and natural language processing. He died last Wednesday at the age of 54. Radev led the U.S. team to victory in multiple International Linguistics Olympiads, taught an open course in NLP to over 10,000 students and loved foreign language movies. Radev was also a family man, devoted to his wife Axinia and their two daughters, Laura and Victoria. “I knew Drago as a leader in his community,” Jeffrey Brock, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sci-
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THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY, 1972. A report is issued by the Dahl committee recommending multiple structural changes to the University, including increasing admission of women and recruitment of more student scientists.
ences, told the News. “He had a love for people and colleagues, and he was much loved in return.” Brock noted that Radev’s interests were varied, ranging from automated book summarization to attempts to program humor into natural language processing systems. In addition to background information on his academic work and course offerings, his website includes a list titled “My favorite movies,” organized by director, country of release, awards, release year and the year Radev first watched them. Indeed, Sterling Professor of Political Science Alan Gerber ’86 agreed that Radev refused to confine himself to a single area of interest or academic field. SEE RADEV PAGE 5
INSIDE THE NEWS JANET YELLEN VISITS YALE PAGE 6 NEWS
On Thursday, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Hannah Peck sent an email to student groups housed at 305 Crown Street — including The Yale Herald, The Yale Record and the Yale Political Union — informing them that they have until the end of the year to vacate their on-campus spaces. The building, which hosts 15 student organizations, will be converted into shared storage for multiple campus organizations. In her email to students, Peck wrote that over 500 registered undergraduate organizations rely on Yale’s resources, and that the decision is an effort to optimize them. “Some groups that used to require physical space for their work moved online during covid and are now often SEE CROWN ST. PAGE 4
YHHAP Fast returns for spring fundraiser BY DALIYA EL ABANI STAFF REPORTER
Dragomir Radev was described as tireless and compassionate. /Courtesy of YSEAS
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In the fall, 1,277 Yale students donated their meal swipes in support of local organizations that seek to alleviate hunger and homelessness in the New Haven area, translating to a total monetary value of $10,087.38. This spring, the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project hopes to do it again. On April 15, Yale College students can once again choose to donate their meal swipes to be converted into tangible funds given to YHHAP through Yale Hospitality. Between April 5 and 14, students can log in to their SIS account, select the “Dining” tab, and opt-in to SEE FAST PAGE 5
CLIMATE Youth climate activists led a “fossil fools” protest in Downtown New Haven. PAGE 7 NEWS
BIODIVERSITY Yale researchers evaluated the impact of the Paris Agreement on wildlife preservations. PAGE 7 SCITECH