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Monday, April 19, 2004

Communiversity Day is a Joke. Yale's continuing exploitation of the New Haven Community is hardly mitigated cause some fratboys take time out of their busy schedule of peeing on the floors of their poor, tortured roomates to do something not involving beer or vomit. Let's really talk about the relationship between Yale and New Haven in a way that transcends the big balloons they put up once per year when its ok for black people to be on old campus (not wearing a uniform or apron) without the cops getting called. Let's talk about a university that makes 5 million bucks a day off its own endowment and a city that's 3.7 million dollars in debt, the fourth poorest city in the country, a city with one of the (ostensibly) best hospitals in the region and the highest infant mortality rate in the country. Let's talk about ONSHA's connections to folks like Boise Kimber and what they did in certain aldermanic political campains this summer. Let's talk about 39 gratuitous layoffs, Plantations Redux, lets talk about those strikebreakers yale brought in in september and what they tried to do to this city to stop the movement. Let's talk about what "community service" REALLY means. Let's fight for a new social contract and a new vision of what this city's relationship with this university can be.

And let's keep in mind also the words of Vincent J. Sirabella:

“Yale’s alleged concern for the poor of New Haven is a farce. The employees of the university are the working poor of this city.”

¶ 9:26 PM

Smash Yale-[ comments.]

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