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Elicker reports State of the City Faculty call for higher The mayor talked economy, salaries affordable housing and education BY YASH ROY, YURII STASIUK AND NATHANIEL ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTERS Amidst a burgeoning housing crisis and lower-than-expected test scores in New Haven schools, Mayor Justin Elicker sees brightness on the horizon for the Elm City. Alders and New Haveners gathered in City Hall Monday evening as Elicker delivered his fourth annual State of the City address. Elicker presented an optimistic outlook of the city’s future, telling the crowd that the city is on track to meet the challenges of 2023. Top of his list for the new year: better solutions to the city’s housing crisis, improving attendance and test scores in New Haven Public Schools and continuing economic growth and fiscal stability in New Haven. SEE ADDRESS PAGE 5
Alders and New Haveners gathered in City Hall Monday Evening / Nathaniel Rosenberg, Contributing Photographer
Report reveals higher comp. at peer insitutions BY WILLIAM PORAYOUW STAFF REPORTER During a meeting of the Faculty FASSEAS Senate last December, professor of economics Costas Arkolakis spoke about professor salary discrepancies between Yale and its peer institutions. Arkolakis, who was introduced by senate chair Paul Van Tassel, spoke on behalf of the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty. According to the committee’s report, Arkolakis found that salaries for faculty at the SEE SALARY PAGE 5
New details emerge about Phelps Gate assault Female student hospitalized after assault by seven juveniles BY MIA CORTÉS CASTRO STAFF REPORTER On Friday, Jan. 20, a female undergraduate student was assaulted by seven juveniles outside of Phelps Gate, across the street from the New Haven Green. The community was first alerted about the assault four days later, when Yale Police Department Chief Anthony Campbell sent out a Public Safety Advisory email. Immediately afterwards, a screenshot of the email was posted on the anonymous chat app Fizz, to which the victim responded, thanking the Yale community for their support. The student who reported the assault told the News that she was on her way into Old Campus when a group of six to seven teenagers blocked her path. The perpetrators then both verbally
and physically assaulted her, hitting her several times and smashing her head to the ground. Campbell told the News that YPD responded to the incident at 10:41 p.m. “There was a guy on a bike in a blue hoodie who stopped me and asked for a hug,” the student, who has been granted anonymity to protect her privacy, told the News. “It was a very weird request and I assumed it was one of the high-schoolers on campus for the [Yale International Relations Association] event just acting obnoxious so I politely said no and continued walking.” 20 seconds later, she said, she felt one of the teenagers hit her in the back of her head. She turned around and was approached by another boy who witnessed the attack. Though the female student does not know whether he was affiliated with the perpetrators, she said he offered to help her. The boy then called the group of perpetrators back in order to confront them. The boy pointed out a girl in a white jacket who was walking away, saying she had been the one to hit the female student. The student then approached the girl to ask if she had hit her. SEE ASSAULT PAGE 4
The student said she was frustrated by YPD's system of alerting the community. / Tim Tai, Photography Editor
Peer-led FGLI office hours launch Students vote BY BRIAN ZHANG STAFF REPORTER
At the forefront of the program is a drive to up inter-student connections / Yale Daily News
CROSS CAMPUS
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY, 1933.
Yale Divinity School announces they will end sex discrimination in admissions. They will begin accepting women in the program for the following year. Unfortunately, the admission will be limited to 10 women.
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'Yes' on Yale corp. reforms
A new office hours program for first-generation, low-income students will station student ambassadors throughout various residential colleges. At the forefront of the program is a drive to up inter-student connections and build stronger intra-residential college communities. Spearheaded by the FGLI Community Initiative at Yale — an administration-led effort that seeks to empower socioeconomic diversity within the student body — the program is slated to open on Feb. 7 and assume a biweekly schedule for the remainder of the spring semester. This year’s ambassadors are Drake Prince ’24, Natalie Sangngam ’23, Huda Siddiqui ’25, Sayda Martinez-Alvarado ’23, Reece Maccaux ’24 and Linh Pham ’24. Information on their stations and schedules is available online, and each station will have light snacks and laptop stickers for visitors. “As FGLI students, we are often the leaders for our siblings and others in the community,” Prince said. “We are used to being the one that others come to for help, but now you need to be the person who … knows how to seek help. Yale has a lot of
A Yale College Council referendum, which opened Jan. 30, saw students vote overwhelmingly in favor of more democratic trustee elections. Over 2,000 students — almost 90 percent of referendum participants — voted in the affirmative to the referendum’s two yes-or-no questions: “Should the board of trustees for Yale Corporation consist of democratically elected trustees?” and “Should students, professors, and staff be eligible to vote for candidates for the board of trustees for Yale Corporation?” Approximately 30 percent of Yale’s undergraduate population voted in the online referendum. The Yale College Council sent a letter to the Board of Trustees on Feb. 6 with the results of the referendum and several policy recommendations aimed at “achiev-
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BY EVAN GORELICK AND JANALIE COBB STAFF REPORTERS
EEK Brandford College students have reported mouse sightings in the college. PAGE 7 NEWS EDUCATION The First Connecticut school for LGBTQ+ students is set to open in New Haven. PAGE 11 NEWS