refrain:Shame on Yale

Diversity in the faculty and student body: There

remains only one black woman with tenure at Yale. The fraction of tenured

faculty of color hovers at 7.5 percent, and of women faculty, at 18.5

percent. To add insult to injury, when 300 graduate students submitted a

formal grievance protesting the state of diversity at Yale, the

administration claimed to have lost it, though the document was hand-delivered to the offices of several top administrators, including

President Levin.

Affordable child care: Last February, a Yale Daily News

editorial lauded the efforts of Local 34 and GESO to improve child care options

at Yale. However, the only individual who has benefited from this effort is Yale

Corporation member Linda Mason, whose child care firm, Bright Horizons, received

a contract to study Yale's child care needs. Shamefully, Yale parents and their

children still lack access to affordable child care.



Dependent health care: At a time when

Connecticut faces a budget crisis predicted to top $1 billion, the Yale

administration continues to force the children of its graduate teachers and

researchers onto state aid through its unaffordable dependent health care

plan.



Retirement with dignity: Last fall Yale made an agreement to

review retirement benefits for the 200 retirees not covered by Local 34 and

Local 35's latest contract. The average monthly pension for people who retired

from Yale before 1990 with 26 years of service remains a disgraceful $410. Yale

now refuses to negotiate.

Wait. Hold on. They lost the diversity greivance? Are you joking? That may be even more fucked up than Linda Mason and the pork-barrel politics of making sure workers don't have acces to child care. I really, really want to get arrested right now.