* Pissing-off Townies : Why Yale is Resented

THE
RAW
INTERFACE
OF TOWN
AND GOWN





Here's a novel idea which would make Yale and its campus less of an object of resentment among townspeople and therefore less of a target for crime:

Train every employee in the Yale Human Resources Department (AKA Personnel Department) to approach every job applicant (from the lowly broom sweeper to directorship positions ) with THIS ATTITUDE:

Maybe we can't give you a job but we can make this application process one of the most positive and encouraging experiences of your life so that you will think of Yale as a actual nourishing mother (alma mater) whether you attended here or not.

Unfortunately, my experience, and the experiences of those I have known for the last 45-years of my adulthood, as both a native of New Haven/Mt. Carmel and a graduate of the Divinity School, has been exactly the opposite. And job-applicants are a highly vulnerable lot, both to good and bad stimuli.

Here---THE INTERFACE OF TOWN AND GOWN AT ITS RAWEST ---is where to make a difference.

And instead, applicants are treated poorly.

Let's leave it at that. (You can read my post below for more peppery language.)

Here's a second idea which would make Yale police-work easier and the campus safer:

Create a massive Apprenticeship Program at Yale for underprivileged youth, defeating the faux nihilism which kids who see no future adopt as a pose, a nihilism which definitely makes Yale and New Haven less safe.

C'mon Yale.

You got the bucks and the brains to do this.

If you can organize football games for 50,000 people, you can create an apprenticeship program for a few thousand teen-agers----and turn despair into determination in the process.








News' View:
Commitment
to community
policing

By The Yale Daily News


Published Monday, March 29, 2010

We know him mostly by the e-mail messages he sends. They’re always “consistent with federal reporting requirements,” and they rarely tell of anything happy: a robbery on Mansfield Street, an assault on Orange, an employee in possession of firearms in a Yale parking lot. But, like so much of the work Yale Police Department Chief James Perrotti has done during his 25 years as a YPD officer and 12 as chief, they help keep members of the Yale community safe.When he retires at the end of June, Perrotti will leave behind big shoes to fill. Still, the announcement he made last week gives us...

#1 By Sink Snooty Yale 5:39a.m. on March 29, 2010

"Safer" campus?

The notoriously pompous, snooty Yale Personnel Department and its impenetrable, elitist application paperwork (now digit-work I suppose), should be ABANDONED and a public Human Resources COMMUNITY OUTREACH Department instituted which features an APPENTICESHIP PROGRAM AT YALE FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH.

The Yale Personnel Department has done more damage to community relations in my 45 years as a community member than any other arm of the University.

Paul D. Keane
M.Div. '80




PS:
Yale's Personnel Department is AKA "Human Resources"

#2 By Perotti 11:04a.m. on March 29, 2010

Perotti was truly a king of kings. May we be safe once his ever watchful eye takes a well deserved rest.

#3 By Guys... 1:07p.m. on March 29, 2010

Square the circle. Perrotti's cut crime every year for 12 years, but your only transparency complaint is we don't know how much money he's making?