We'll Be Back!
Apologies for the lack of updates throughout the afternoon; Internet access inside the Admissions Office was cut off around 1 pm. However, now for the update. . .
President Levin refused to meet with students all day, despite the continuous phone calls and emails he was receiving from students, parents, alums, and other members of the Yale and New Haven communities. Dean Shaw, as well, could not find the time in his schedule to meet with students except for a brief visit in the morning. But this certainly did not stop students from making their voices of heard--hundreds of students joined us outside throughout the day.
Around 4:30, over a hundred students congregated outside for two hours as evening came. Unfortunately, despite these students' banging on the door and placing continuous phone calls to the office next to where we were sitting, officials refused to open the door and let the food in.
At 6:30, we were told that the building was closing in 10 minutes. At 6:40, refusing to leave, we we took arrest, were issued citations by Yale police inside the Admissions Office, and then were escorted out the side door to a crowd of cheering students.
As we said at the rally afterward, We'll be back. Financial aid reform will come to Yale.
President Levin refused to meet with students all day, despite the continuous phone calls and emails he was receiving from students, parents, alums, and other members of the Yale and New Haven communities. Dean Shaw, as well, could not find the time in his schedule to meet with students except for a brief visit in the morning. But this certainly did not stop students from making their voices of heard--hundreds of students joined us outside throughout the day.
Around 4:30, over a hundred students congregated outside for two hours as evening came. Unfortunately, despite these students' banging on the door and placing continuous phone calls to the office next to where we were sitting, officials refused to open the door and let the food in.
At 6:30, we were told that the building was closing in 10 minutes. At 6:40, refusing to leave, we we took arrest, were issued citations by Yale police inside the Admissions Office, and then were escorted out the side door to a crowd of cheering students.
As we said at the rally afterward, We'll be back. Financial aid reform will come to Yale.
posted by Phoebe at 11:42 PM
3 Comments:
Whatever the YDN says, and regardless of Levin's condescending lies, you guys did good, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep up the fight!
I believe that you guys are a collection of the most ridiculous tools that this campus has ever seen. Honestly. Levin has better things to do than to reiterate what he told you two days ago. The best thing is that Yale WILL reform its aid policies and the UOC will take credit for it.
So sad... Go find something better to do with your lives.
What Levin said on Tuesday was that some financial aid reform was in the works; that he didn't know what it would look like yet; and that it is difficult for the Yale administration to decide what to spend money on since "we have more good ideas than money" or some such nonsense. Yale's endowment is a lot of money worth of good ideas - but leaving that aside for the moment, let's take Levin at his word. Let's assume everything he said is true. If Yale's administration is struggling to define financial aid reform (and to decide on what Yale's wealth should be spent) then the vocalizing of student opinions on the subject is crucial. Hundreds of people saying that financial aid reform is worth the university's money and supporting a platform that details what it should look like would be invaluable for an administration actually attempting to construct good new policy. And if no credible attempt is being made, all the more reason to protest. So honestly when everyone from Levin on down thinks this is an important issue to talk about right now, political action related to it could not POSSIBLY be a waste of time.
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