 According to the New Haven Independent, the commission says the tenants failed to prove the landlord chose not to renew their leases because they were part of a union. Shelley Hasman Kadish, WSHU News. Stony Brook University has named Richard McCormick as its new interim president. He was Rutgers president from 2002 to 2012 and led the University of Washington before that. McCormick succeeds Maury McInnis, who became president of Yale,