[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 16, 2003)]
[House]
[Pages H8257-H8258]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HOLDING UP THE VALUES AND VIRTUES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks).
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, most times when a Member goes 
to the floor to speak about their alma mater, they are raising up the 
flag of joy and promoting some football contest or sports contest and 
rooting their friends and fellow classmates on.
  Today, I rise as alumnus of Yale University to ask them to uphold the 
values and virtues of our dear and beloved school, and that is equality 
and humanitarian service and respect for all.
  Since being a student at Yale, one of the first women, we have 
encountered

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this conflict between worker and university; 10,000 people gathered on 
the square in New Haven just last weekend.
  It is time for the president of Yale University to uphold the values 
of the school and respect the working people who work there, the dining 
hall workers, the janitors, provide for arbitration, binding 
arbitration, and settle this matter.
  Stop embarrassing the thousands upon thousands of Yale graduates, who 
every day go out and work to make life better for those who cannot work 
or improve their own lives. It is an unfortunate and disgraceful act, 
that we are continuing to undermine those who come to work every day to 
help students learn and be the best that they can be.
  I say to the president of Yale University, settle this matter, and 
stop embarrassing those of us who believe that Yale has the greatest 
calling, to educate people who will serve not only the Nation, but save 
the world.

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