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DOLLARS AND CENTS
EQUAL PAY?
More non-SOM students sign up for classes at Yale’s business school.
FEMALE NURSES MAKE LESS THAN MEN, STUDY FINDS.
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Keitazulu to challenge Harp
All in good faith. Things just happened to work out such that both Passover and Easter fall on the same weekend this year. As a result, many students will be on their best behavior, attending services and wearing nice clothes — imagine if people at Yale were always this pleasant.
Admins meet YCC halfway on mental health proposals BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER
there will be more than a few chances to let loose this weekend. Take the WYBC Ante-Fling party, for example, which will take place tonight at Toad’s. Complete with an open bar and performances from Giraffage, Mitski, Silk Rhodes and Allies, the event is sure to be a change of pace, if nothing else: After all, how often do people do Friday Toad’s?
Mission accomplished. John Kerry ’66 can finally exhale, if for just a moment. Talks between the secretary of state and Iran’s Mohammad Javad Zarif yielded progress toward the United States’ ultimate goal of dismantling the nuclear program in Tehran. Remember, Yalies always get the job done. *Sometimes get the job done.
Yale politics, meanwhile, are about to kick into overdrive, as campaign season for the Yale College Council has officially kicked off with websites and social media campaigns going live to get things started. You had a good run, Herbert. We’re eager to see how your successor holds up. “Neighborhood Party.” Poles,
coconuts, benches, fire and food. Somehow, Kasama: The Filipino Club at Yale will combine all of the above into a cultural show, according to promotional materials for its “Barrio Fiesta” event tonight.
Not quite “Midsummer.”
Even so, the Korean American Students at Yale and the Korean Graduate Students Association will be collaborating to put on a cultural show of their own: “A Midsummer Night’s Madness.” Feeling lucky? Not many
items merit this much advance warning, but we figure this one’s important enough: The last day to convert a course from Credit/D/Fail to a latter grade is Monday. Brace yourself for a wave of returned grades this weekend, as many grapple with the decision.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1990 New Haven Mayor John Daniels and University President Benno Schmidt Jr. institute an annual $1.5 million payment from Yale to the city. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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New biology building would cut down trees, drawing faculty ire. PAGE 9 SCI-TECH
Not church music. Still,
Making more music. After announcing her plans to visit campus roughly a month ago, Sara Bareilles has arrived. Bareilles’ composition master class — held by The Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater and the Yale Drama Coalition — is this evening at 5 p.m. Just don’t ask her to write you a love song.
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consider themselves unemployable need to have access to education. Barbara Fair, a racial justice activist and secretary of the American Civil Liberties Union’s New Haven chapter, said she hopes even more candidates enter the mayoral race to challenge Harp. “I wish there were more options
Five weeks after an open forum in which Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway refused to commit to addressing the Yale College Council’s 2013 and 2014 recommendations on mental health point by point, he, along with Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin, has done just that. At the Feb. 25 forum — where students were invited to voice their concerns over Yale’s mental health resources and policies — YCC president Michael Herbert ’16 asked a panel of administrators if they would promise to address, by the end of the year, every recommendation in the YCC’s 2013 report on mental health and 2014 report on withdrawal and readmission. Holloway said he would not. But in a college-wide email sent Thursday afternoon, the YCC announced that four of its members had met with Holloway and Genecin and addressed seven recommendations from the 2013 report. The email included a document outlining the recommendations that had been addressed and the administration’s response. But while the YCC members involved expressed sat-
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Mayor Toni Harp faces an opponent, plumber Sundiata Keitazulu, in her bid for a second term. Keitazulu also ran in 2013. BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp will have at least one opponent in the mayoral race this November. Newhallville plumber Sundiata Keitazulu filed papers to run for election with the city clerk’s office Tuesday. Keitazulu, who also ran in the 2013 election, said his campaign
will focus on job creation and education reform in the city. “That’s the one part of our city that has never been addressed,” Keitazulu said. “The unemployed and the unemployable. I want to take advantage of that human resource.” Keitazulu said he hopes to lower crime rates in the city by lowering unemployment. The city needs new jobs, he said, and those who
Students, faculty consider PSE alternatives BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Following the announcement of the cancellation of the “Perspectives on Science and Engineering” program for all future terms, students and faculty are exploring the best way to fill the remaining gap in science curricula. “There’s a desire to have something that would be for people who are really interested in science and want to major in
it, but obviously it can’t be a repetition of ‘Perspectives,’” said Charles Schmuttenmaer, professor of chemistry and PSE codirector. “I think there’s a place for science departments to offer more science seminar courses for freshmen.” For most of its run, the 22-year-old program was connected to a summer research fellowship for freshmen. Several years ago, the ties between “Perspectives” and the fellowship were cut, and non-PSE fresh-
City job rates rise amid state declines BY QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Reversing a trend of growing job rates, the state lost a total of 3,700 jobs in February, according to a survey conducted by the Connecticut Department of Labor. Amid that decline, New Haven’s job rates grew. For the past few months, Connecticut has experienced strong job growth statewide, including an increase of 7,500 new jobs in the month of January. Although the report finds declines for last month, economist at the Connecticut DOL Patrick Flaherty said the drop is not surprising. “It’s just one month. Don’t get too carried away,” he said. “The fall in February was probably offsetting excessive growth in January.” Flaherty said it is common to see strong growth in employment rates followed by a pullback. Yale economics professor Giuseppe Moscarini agreed that a month with strong job growth
men were able to apply for that fellowship. This administrative change reduced some demand for the program, said Schmuttenmaer, but it ultimately served the research community by allowing more students to apply, leading to more compelling proposals. But the change also resulted in a loss of interest in PSE — with no research funding incentive, students said, the program was less appealing to them. And with more students coming to Yale
with a concentrated research interest than ever before, there was less demand for a broad survey course, said Sandy Chang ’88, professor of laboratory medicine and PSE co-director. “A lot of the freshmen we take in are already very specialized — they’ve done their chemistry research or their biology research — so they’re already pointy kids,” said Chang. The best way to serve these “pointy” students — those who have specific, as opposed to gen-
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Besides the natural cycle of job growth and decline, cold weather also contributed to the fall, according to Flaherty. “We had a very cold month in February. There are certain days when some people weren’t able to work,” Flaherty said. The DOL collected their data using Current Employment SEE JOB RATES PAGE 4
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The fall in February was probably offsetting excessive growth in January. PATRICK FLAHERTY Economist, State Department of Labor
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NACC dean search underway Three of Yale’s four cultural centers are looking for new directors. The Afro-American Cultural Center, La Casa Cultural and the Native American Cultural Center have all formed dean search committees and are actively soliciting qualified candidates. Last Friday, the NACC’s dean search committee — which includes students, faculty and administrators — met with students at the center to discuss the characteristics they hope to see in a new dean. Across the board, students expressed satisfaction with how the house has been run thus far and hoped that the new dean would bring a similar level of support and involvement to the NACC. “We need someone who is committed to us,” NACC Peer Liaison Helder Toste ’16 said. “Because [Native Americans are] such an ethnically diverse group, it’s very difficult to have a dean who isn’t around.” While the background and
is often followed by a month of job loss. In small states, he said, the reversal is particularly common because the smaller sample size is more conducive to sampling errors.
eral, interests — while keeping with what worked well in the PSE model would be to offer a similar program as two full-credit, semester-long standalone courses, Chang said. One semester would focus on the biological sciences while the other would focus more on the physical sciences. That way, students who have more specialized interests could choose to take one semester and not the other.
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Members of the Native American Cultural Center have begun the search for a new dean.