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Article: Striking workers at Yale demand a degree of respect
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2003
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Striking workers at Yale demand a degree of respect
Loud demonstrations disrupt classes, business at Ivy League
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By MARC SANTORA New York Times
Sunday, September 7, 2003
New Haven, Conn. -- Inside the large auditorium where long red
velvet curtains hang from cathedral-style windows and oil paintings
of prosperous and powerful men line the walls, hundreds of Yale
University students packed in to hear the introduction to a course
about the transformation of the modern city, using New Haven as the
model.
But as professor Douglas W. Rae began his lecture on Thursday, he
was soon drowned out by sounds of the transforming city outside:
blaring horns, pounding drums and the angry voices of ...