Shalek Commits Horrible Breach of Eli Trust (UPDATED)

by Nick Summers | August 30, 2006 at 10:15 am

Shalek Commits Horrible Breach of Eli Trust (UPDATED)This just in — to us, anyway: New Haven alderman Nick Shalek (Yale ‘05) was arrested 2 a.m. Sunday and charged with breach of the peace and other crimes after a donnybrook outside the Salty Dog Cafe, the YDN reports.

Shalek, a former captain of the hockey team and president of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, had landed a sweet post-graduation job working for the Yale Investment Office (the endowment), before running for alderman in the city’s first ward, which covers Old Campus and most of the residential colleges. We hear he’s a nice guy, and look at that handsome mug; he’s pretty much all you could ask for in a Yalie.

So it’s not that a public official was brawling in the streets that bothers us. It’s the fact that he was arrested at the Salty Dog Cafe, clearly a cheesy-ass towny hangout. Et tu, Shalek? You’re one of them now?

[Image by YDN]

UPDATE 10:42 a.m.: It’s the Salty Dog Saloon, not Cafe. Even more cheesy. Even more towny.

UPDATE x2: All charges have been dropped, says a reliable source.

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15 Responses to “Shalek Commits Horrible Breach of Eli Trust (UPDATED)”

  1. Comments John C. Calhoun Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 9:19 am

    By “most of the residential colleges,” you of course mean the REAL residential colleges. Ward 1 won’t have none o’ this Stiles and Morse shit.

  2. Comments mcteague Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 9:37 am

    last time i saw shalek he was in the 40/40 club in NY, smoking a fat cigar with 9 ball society.

  3. Comments 9 ball Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 10:40 am

    What does that even mean?

  4. Comments new englander Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 11:33 am

    learn to spell it right: “townie”. and he clearly didn’t want to be caught at any of yale’s undergrad dives. no one wants to be the kid who never left campus.

  5. Comments salty dog saloon Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 4:28 pm

    hey! that’s not very nice

  6. Comments IvyGate Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 8:25 pm

    Damn it, I knew that. Thanks, New Englander.

  7. Comments Morse and Stiles Says:
    August 31st, 2006 at 12:35 pm

    Don’t be talkin bout Morse and Stiles

  8. Comments fear the have Says:
    August 31st, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    this means nothing. probably just new haven cops trying to be tough.

  9. Comments ILuvBradyQuinn Says:
    September 1st, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    Go irish!

  10. Comments Ride the Bull Says:
    September 1st, 2006 at 3:56 pm

    The cops were just jealous of Shalek’s bull-riding abilities.

  11. Comments Helen Betts Says:
    September 4th, 2006 at 12:15 pm

    I would ride the bull, but i may break it.

  12. Comments The bull Says:
    September 6th, 2006 at 7:50 am

    I don’t want to be ridden by big people.

  13. Comments Brady Quinn Says:
    September 18th, 2006 at 10:14 am

    I suck

  14. Comments Helen Betts Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 8:45 pm

    I have a large rear.

  15. Comments Anonymous Says:
    September 21st, 2006 at 8:21 am

    For the record, Nick Shalek was totally exonerated yesterday in court. All charges filed against him were dropped.