Arielle Levin Becker
Riccio reelected to union office

Members of Local 35, which represents Yale’s service and maintenance workers, reelected Chief Steward Meg Riccio to her fourth two-year term in a Halloween election. […]

Union faces national membership crunch

The parent union of Yale’s two recognized labor groups has faced financial cutbacks and layoffs of more than a third of its membership because of […]

Yale, unions call in consultants

With union contracts expiring in less than three months, University and labor leaders plan to put off formal negotiations until at least December. Instead they […]

Labor Council endorses mayor

Earlier this fall, with potentially divisive negotiations between Yale and its unions looming, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. welcomed an endorsement from the Greater […]

Graduate aid at Harvard may change

Nearly a week after Harvard University President Lawrence Summers announced possible plans to change graduate student financial aid, Harvard officials say they are still unsure […]

Schiavone, from the banjo to the stump

Joel Schiavone ’58, the man who once owned downtown New Haven, is hunched in a portable camping chair, propped against the wall of a public […]

Amid tercentennial celebration, students slowly learn about U.S. attack

It was 2:45 p.m. on Old Campus, three hours before the Counting Crows started to play, just over two hours after the United States began […]

Yale’s 300th birthday to outdo past celebrations

For its 50th birthday, Yale celebrated with a Latin discourse, recited at Commencement by Ezra Stiles Sr. 1746. Its 100th birthday did not receive even […]

Advocate and organizer Sullivan dies at 40

Lisa Yvette Sullivan GRD ’91, a dedicated children’s advocate and political organizer who helped New Haven elect its first black mayor, died Monday in her […]

David Berray ’84

It was the first day of his freshman year, 1980, when David Berray ’84 stuck his head out of his fourth story window at the […]

A controversial figure, Kimber still at center of political scene

On the Rev. Boise Kimber’s wall hang photo collages of the minister schmoozing with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Bill Clinton. Nearby there is a […]