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Business New Haven
2/7/2000
By: BNH
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And Hey - They Still Owe
New Haven $50 Million!
However eloquent the editorial in your January 10 issue [“New Haven and the Three E's”] appeared to be, after ten years of this sort of thing, don't you give up?
New Haven isn't listening.
The “Three E's” define Yale University perfectly. They [Yale] are: 1. Education 2. Entrepreneurship 3. Environment. They are the “clean and safe” that the city aspires to be. Poor (not literally) Joel Schiavone and Brian Alden are the forgotten.
The “control” you describe is less the city's and more the core drive of Yale University. If ever the two get their acts together synergistically, they'd have Yale satellite classrooms at Hillhouse and Cross. That would be “education” of New Haven's potential workforce. Instead of custodial positions at Yale, New Haven kids might have a shot at professorships.
But this is dreaming. Nothing original or creative has ever been generated from this weird, very weird town-gown relationship, although there is so much talent and intellect in the city of New Haven and the City of Yale.
Contrary to your editorial position, I don't think this is any reflection on Mayor DeStefano. It is simply centuries of the same old thing: your “Three E's” that never leave the granite blockhouse, the gothic impediment that governs New Haven.
But keep sluggin'. You're the only paper in New Haven worth reading, except Paul Bass' writing in the Advocate.
- Russ Madison
President/Creative Director
Lone Wolf Advertising
Woodbridge
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