Andre Fa’aoso, an incoming first-year student at Yale, has been in the United States for 12 days.
He arrived from New Zealand on his own, three suitcases in tow.
As he pulled his luggage through downtown New Haven, Conn., a woman handed him a flier describing his new city as crime-ridden and dangerous.
It listed alarming local crime statistics and instructed students to “remain on campus,” “avoid public transportation” and “stay off the streets after 8 p.m.” Illustrated with a picture of the Grim Reaper, the flier wished students an ominous “Good luck.”But perhaps most jarring was the source of the flier, listed plainly in its text: the union that represents Yale’s own campus police.
In the days since the union distributed the “survival guide” leaflets, Yale administrators and police officials have been scrambling to calm first-year students and their parents.
Persons:
Andre Fa’aoso
Organizations:
Yale
Locations:
United States, New Zealand, New Haven, Conn