To the Editor: The New Haven Student Fair Share Coalition, which Associate VP for New Haven and State Affairs Michael Morand called a "small group" making a "partisan press bid," ("Fair share coalition presses for payment") represents sixteen undergraduate organizations, from the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, to the Black Student Alliance at Yale, to the Muslim Student Association, to Peace by Peace, which together are calling for Yale to make an institutional financial investment in New Haven commesurate with Yale's economic power in New Haven and its aspirations for local and national leadership. Last night, before a vote in which half of Dwight Hall's Cabinet demonstrated support for the Fair Share Campaign, Yale's Associate General Counsel referred to the push for the nation's second wealthiest university to contribute more to one of the nation's poorest cities as "a zero-sum game" ("Dwight Hall rejects Fair Share proposal," 4/21). This echoes Morand's argument in these pages ("Math won't add up in proposed PILOT cuts", 3/5) that for an $11 billion institution to spend more money on improving the public school education of low-income children would have to mean spending less money on extending a Yale education to low-income undergraduates. Our coalition is calling on Yale to stop clinging to an 1834 tax "super-exemption" and to show civic leadership at a time of fiscal scarcity when citizens throughout the city will be paying increased taxes for the third year in a row and further cuts to education funding appear imminent ("City ready for cuts in state aid," 4/14). For the Office of New Haven and State Affairs to pit the needs of undergraduates and those of New Haven's other students against each other while accusing our coalition of being "divisive" is as cynical as it is ironic.