Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

Students: GESO guilty of harassment

The Graduate Employees and Students Organization is trying to increase its numbers to gain union status, but Steven Corcelli GRD '01 and at least 137 other graduate students contest that GESO's recruitment tactics border on harassment. His petition...

WYBC finds new studio location

Longtime campus radio station WYBC has found a new home at 142 Temple St. across from the Omni New Haven Hotel and will likely move by next fall, WYBC board members said. The station is currently deep into negotiations for a 10-year lease in the...

Yale crime rate drops 14 percent

The number of crimes reported at Yale dropped dramatically last year, continuing a trend that began nearly 10 years ago. The University saw a 14 percent drop in reported crimes in 2000, from 583 to 501, according to Yale's Uniform Crime Report, which...

For expensive college projects, fund raising slow

Funding Berkeley and Branford college renovations was easy. But the Yale Office of Development is working overtime to secure funds for the renovations of Saybrook and Timothy Dwight colleges and Vanderbilt Hall. As campus renovations continue...

Upscale clubs join city's social night life

After Yale ushered in a new era of gentrification with stores such as Urban Outfitters, Gourmet Heaven and Au Bon Pain gracing Broadway's street fronts, two new club entrepreneurs have taken a page out of the University's playbook. Alchemy/Lounge 215...

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Graduate stipends to rise by 20 percent

While still not quite making Alex Rodriguez-type money, many Yale graduate students will receive a substantial pay increase next year. The announcement of the almost 20 percent raise in stipend levels for humanities and social science doctoral students...

University News

Senator assails ghostwriting 11.20.09 (5)

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 of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said Wednesday.

Sports

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FOOTBALL | A disappointing end to The Game 11.21.09 (3)

All season Yale head coach Tom Williams has used trick plays to his team's advantage. But that changed for the Bulldogs at the Yale Bowl on Saturday — and in the most critical of ways. Harvard overcame a 10–0 deficit in the fourth quarter and defeated the Bulldogs 14–10.

Features

A tradition of their own, 37 years and counting 11.20.09 (4)

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.

Sci/Tech News

West Campus stays safe 11.20.09 (2)

WEST HAVEN — The last reported “crime” at Yale’s 136-acre West Campus occurred four to five years ago, said Thomas Paddock, one of the four head security officers who cover the area.