The YDN reports on the talks between Yale Vice President Bruce Alexander and Mayor John DeStefano on increasing Yale’s contribution in lieu of taxes to the city:

“I think that the issues in New Haven are no different from issues across the country,” Alexander said. “As resources are constrained from time to time, a community needs to pitch in to help make ends meet.”

Funny, pitching in is what many of us have been pushing the University to do more of for a while. But as with every Yale concession, media message number one is that organizing from the involved communities had nothing to do with it:

“Frankly, efforts to bring pressure on the University has a counterproductive effect, as you might expect, because we do so many positive things in the city that we don’t feel the need to respond when people approach us in a negative or adversarial way,” Alexander said.

It’s going to take more of that pressure now to hold the University to – and expand on – its new promises.