YHHAP campaigns against welfare cuts

For two hours in front of Dwight Hall Friday, members of the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project asked students crossing Old Campus to come and participate in its combined letter-signing event and phonathon.

Organizers asked students to sign form letters and make calls to 21 important state legislators to discourage potential welfare cuts from the state budget. They also encouraged students to send similar signed letters to Governor John Rowland.

The Connecticut General Assembly will meet Tuesday in a special session to decide upon cuts from the state budget.

YHHAP coordinators said they were forced to ask students to address their envelopes as well, making it less likely that the legislators would throw the mail out due to recent fears of anthrax contamination.

Beth Rubenstein ’03, aFirefighters in Minnesota were in awe on Tuesday when an eagle — the ultimate symbol of American patriotism — perched on a 9/11 memorial.

The fire department in Coon Rapids, a town roughly 15 miles north of Minneapolis, set up its aerial ladder from a fire truck on a bridge along Highway 10 to take part in an anniversary tribute.

The eagle landed on one of the aerials after fire officials set it up, and stayed put for less than a minute.

Still, Chief Jerry Streich, of the Andover Fire Department, captured the patriotic moment in a Facebook Live feed, and told news station KARE the bird had positioned itself around one of the national moments of silence.

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"Isn't that unbelievable?" Streich said. "This eagle just landed on