This week at Yale
HUD gives Yale grant; Dwight Hall plaque returned; Exotic Erotic crackdown; New YSO conductor opens 30th season.

'Flex Dollars' plan sells out dining hall workers

What a rush: a frosh's a cappella odyssey
Sick of them? Maybe we need more singing groups.

Blue slams UMass
The womens' field hockey team remains undefeated.

Should I stay or should I go?

In April 1990, Trumbull College juniors staged a sleep-out on the Old Campus lawn to protest the shortage of on-campus housing. That year, 100 Trumbull juniors requested to live on campus; however, even with additional annex housing, there were only enough beds for 53 of them. They reminisced about their first year at Yale - when they had a bed to sleep in.

In the early 1990s, the Yale Administration was concerned that undergraduates might miss out on the residential college experience. Five years ago, editorials lambasted the Office of Admissions for allowing too many freshmen to matriculate. Back then, there was no room to house them all. But now, newspaper editorials lament the purported "off-campus exodus" and students question whether the era of the residential college system has passed.

(See Off Campus)

Yale files injunctions against local unions

In one of several early shots fired in what's looking like a nasty and drawn-out labor conflict, Yale filed an unfair labor practice complaint Thursday against Locals 34/35 with the Hartford division of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

According to Gary Fryer, director of public affairs for Yale, the complaint alleges that the Locals have engaged in illegal activities by improperly intimidating and coercing merchants into not participating in Yale University Dining Halls' flex dollar meal-plan option. The NLRB's decision may not be known for at least a week, but could eventually result in legal action ranging from a court injunction against the unions to further adjudication at the federal level.

(See Unions)

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