Earlier this week, William Sledge, from his perch as Master of Calhoun College - a spot that puts him in loco parentis for one twelth of Yale's student body - having already donated $250 to Ward 1 Aldermanic candidate Dan Kruger, took to the pages of the YDN to vilify current Alderman Ben Healey for supporting the removal of arrest powers from the constables at Yale - New Haven Hospital, who are accountable not to the city but to the Hospital Board, in response to a pattern of that Board using the constables not to protect patients but to arrest leafletting staff. Sledge, who serves as Medical Director of YNHH's Psychiatric Hospital (that he serves as Calhoun Master while otherwise employed not by the University but - since it was subcontracted last year - by the Hospital further disproves the argument that the two institutions are discrete), argued that Healey's move to defend patients and workers from illegal, counterproductive, and unjust abuses of the constable power, reflected a strong bias towards meeting the goals of the union and indicate that his activity as an alderman is driven by an ideology that is so strongly pro-labor that it overwhelms matters such as the security of those he represents. This bias gets in the way of clear thinking and inhibits the political and administrative imagination required to work out creative solutions. Alek Felstiner, who witnessed the arrests last year, ably and resoundingly refutes the argument here.