Yale Daily News

Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:28 p.m.

Underdogs look for upset

Coming into Saturday’s game, the Bulldogs are the underdogs — and they aren’t afraid to admit it. In fact, captain and linebacker Paul Rice ’10 said this fact would make a victory all the better.

Predictions for the 2009 Harvard-Yale game

Prominent figures from Harvard and Yale predict the outcome of this year's Game.

A tradition of their own, 37 years and counting

Overcoming their alma maters’ rivalry, Richard Sperry ’68 and Roger Cheever, Harvard class of 1967, say they hold the record for most consecutive Games attended.

Senator assails ghostwriting (2)

The Yale School of Medicine will respond by Dec. 8 to a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asking about the school’s policy on medical ghostwriting, whereby companies publish articles under researchers’ names, School...

Expenses a concern for arts majors (4)

Photography student Miranda Lewis ’12 said she worked all summer to purchase a new digital camera for her “Digital Photography” class.

Sports

Underdogs look for upset 11.20.09

Coming into Saturday’s game, the Bulldogs are the underdogs — and they aren’t afraid to admit it. In fact, captain and linebacker Paul Rice ’10 said this fact would make a victory all the better.

Features

Lessons, and hope, from 1916 11.19.09 (3)

It’s November, and with only one win against Harvard in the last eight years, Yale football fans are apprehensive before The Game. A new coach has been brought in to turn the team around, but with a young team and the lingering memory of a tough loss at last year’s Game, Yalies have few reasons to lift their hopes this time around.

Sci/Tech News

Meteors disappoint 11.18.09 (1)

Though not expecting the skies to flare as they did on Nov. 13, 1833, meteor shower enthusiasts were prepared to face the cold and give up sleep for the post-midnight and pre-dawn spectacle that meteorologists predicted for Nov. 17, only to be obstructed by clouds.

Art News

Bush library plans unveiled 11.19.09 (14)

The public came one step closer, on Wednesday at 1 p.m. central time, to imagining how a library, a museum and a policy institute bearing the name of former president George W. Bush ’68 would look.