Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

Downturn may hit Yale, too (3)

NEW YORK — Faced with turmoil in the financial markets, the University will consider cutting back its ambitious capital construction project in future years.

Clinton to speak at Woolsey

Bill Clinton LAW ’73 will return to Yale on Saturday for his 35th reunion.

Crisis aside, UCS no haven for grads (2)

Carlos Francisco Fernandez ’08 never intended to contact Undergraduate Career Services after graduation — at least until Lehman Brothers, where Fernandez worked in natural resources, filed for bankruptcy.

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Elis break minority trends abroad (1)

Angel Ayala ’10 has spent the past two summers in Beijing and plans to study in Paris next summer, possibly even taking next year off to travel and study French.

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Narcotics unit revived (1)

Lt. John Velleca stood at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Sherman Parkway Tuesday afternoon, his hair closely cut and his suit crisply pressed. Although he follows in the notorious and sourly remembered footsteps of his predecessor, he appeared unfazed by his reborn narcotics division’s tarnished past.

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Two Elis win Rhodes 11.22.09 (10)

Matthew Baum ’09 and Geoffrey Shaw ’10 are among 32 students nationwide who this weekend were awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate academic scholarship.

Sports

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FOOTBALL | Yale blows lead in final minutes 11.21.09 (33)

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.

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A tradition of their own, 37 years and counting 11.20.09 (6)

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.