Yale Daily News

Updated: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:44 p.m.

The News will resume publication on August 27, 2010.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

State police investigate accident as Che '13 recovers

State police are leading the investigation into how Yonglu Che ’13 was struck by a Yale Police car last Sunday. Che is recovering and reportedly in good spirits.

Online Exclusive

Velázquez original discovered in Yale storage, curator says (8)

A former associate curator says a battered canvas that has sat in the University Art Gallery's storage for nearly a century is an early work by the famed Spanish court painter.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

250 staff laid off since May (36)

About 150 Yale employees have voluntarily resigned and almost 100 more have been laid off since May, when the most recent round of University layoffs began. The layoffs followed the announcement in February of a tightened budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

Online Exclusive

Yale Rep nets $1.95M in gifts

The donations, from the Minnesota-based Robina Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will support the Yale Center for New Theatre, a program founded in 2008 by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the School of Drama.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

Future of Rudy's lot remains unclear (2)

The bar's owner said his landlord asked him to leave to make room for the expansion of Main Garden, the Chinese restaurant next door. The landlord, Teun Pang Chan, said only that he is in negotiations with a small group of parties interested in Rudy’s current location.

Ryan Nees/Contributing Photographer

CROSS CAMPUS

Sorry, ladies: No Prof. Franco just yet (24)

UPDATED: Heartthrob James Franco GRD '16 will not be teaching a class this spring after all. But he's cooking up a different project that will involve undergrads.

City News

State rep. hopefuls debate local issues on campus 4.29.10

Education, homelessness and the economy were the hot-button issues at a forum for state representative candidates hosted Monday night by the Yale College Democrats in the Branford College common room.

Sports

Golob: Yale sports’ charm 4.29.10 (3)

Barring success in national tournaments, like the men’s hockey team’s in the past two years, most Yale teams operate under the radar and outside of the world of ESPN, NESN, YES, MSG and any other anagram you might throw out there. Even when the hockey team made it to the NCAA Tournament, ESPN still wrote it off — this year, at least. I think this detachment allows Yale...

Sci/Tech News

Environmentalist’s talk filmed for documentary 4.30.10 (4)

Bjorn Lomborg spoke about climate change in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Wednesday. But some audience members said they thought the staged nature of the talk, which was filmed for a documentary, stifled Lomborg's discussion of the issues.

Art News

YUAG renovations on schedule 4.29.10

The two large red cranes on Chapel Street, the scaffolding and protective fencing around the periphery of Egerton Swartwout’s Old Art Gallery and Street Hall, and the occasional disruption of traffic on High Street are signs of progress.