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In renovation plans, Yale eyed possible labor unrest

Toward the end of last year, Yale officials considered the possibility of a strike by the University's two recognized unions when determining the order of major renovation projects, several administrators have confirmed. Conversations among high-level...

Students, profs protest holding MLK Day classes

The University's decision to hold classes Monday on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is drawing protest from students and heavyweight Yale professors, 25 of whom have signed a strongly worded letter urging administrators to reconsider the issue next...

Bargain sushi in Durfee basement

Yale students will still have to venture outside the ivy walls to sake bomb, but they can now drop by Durfee's for sushi. In an attempt to keep abreast of college dining trends and the needs of its clientele, Durfee's will add sushi to its menu...

Mayoral hopefuls turn in and spin finance reports

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and state Sen. Martin Looney, who are seeking the Democratic nomination in this fall's mayoral race, filed their first campaign finance reports of the year Thursday, and both sides immediately tried to spin the numbers in their...

Orthodox Jews relieved by 'Yale 5' loss

A line from the bar mitzvah ceremony best sums up the reaction of the Yale Orthodox Jewish community to a recent ruling that will likely mark the end of the legal saga of the so-called "Yale Five," which brought internal controversy and external...

GASO gives GESO a ribbing

GASO has no members, is not an organization and has a name that means absolutely nothing. But a collection of individuals who support this "non-organization" that is labeled under a false acronym emerged in 1998 as the main graduate student-led...

Class Day seeks fitting speaker

From Old Campus cakes to prestigious visiting lecturers, Yale has been vigorously celebrating its 300th birthday, and the seniors in charge of selecting a Class Day speaker are looking for someone fitting for such a commemoration. Members of the...

Ecstasy use in city increases sharply

Police have been predicting for years that popular club drug Ecstasy was on the way in. Now they want to shove it back out the door before more people end up like Michael Fox. Fox, 19, who police believe overdosed on several drugs last weekend --...

SEC Chair honored with SOM award

Although the Yale School of Management has yet to reach its 25th birthday, SOM graduates have already risen as the cream of the business world crop. SOM honored U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt SOM '78 Thursday with its...

City schools rank high in racial diversity

In terms of meeting state guidelines for school desegregation, New Haven has been getting high marks when compared to other Connecticut cities. This month, state Education Commissioner Theodore Sergi proposed building more interdistrict magnet schools...

City tries to ease parking woes

Have car, will travel -- unless there is nowhere to park. This is the quandary New Haven residents and visitors to the Elm City have faced for years. The lack of garage and on-street parking in downtown New Haven has been a perennial problem for the...

The mayor, his mall and their legacy

In the last decade, the siren song of the downtown regional shopping mall has twice ensnared the administration of Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Burned by a combination of lackluster state financing and opposition from a coalition of local groups -- once in...

Refocusing the RU-486 debate at Yale

On Monday, the Yale community was shocked or delighted to learn Yale will be offering the morning-after pill RU-486 to students and staff under its standard health plan. The vitally important abortion debate is now back where it belongs, in the hands...

University policy ignores King legacy

Pop quiz: True or false: Yale College graduated as many blacks in 1969 as in 1996. True or false: Yale's African American Studies program only became a full-fledged department after its chair resigned in protest at her program's treatment.

Holding Palestinian elections would be difficult

United States not only NATO combatant

CORRECTIONS

CORRECTIONS An article in Tuesday's paper incorrectly stated that John Lapinski, an assistant professor of political science, led a team that called the 2000 presidential election for NBC. In fact, Lapinski was only a member of the NBC's team of...

Men's hockey returns to Whale

As the old adage goes, it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. The men's hockey team is looking at this weekend to prove that these Bulldogs still have a lot of fight left in them. Yale (6-8-0, 4-6-0 ECAC)...

Men's hoops begins Ivies with big hopes

The parents of current Yale legacies probably do not remember the last time the men's basketball team won the Ivy League championship. The Ancient Eight title has not called New Haven home since 1963. Not even Chris Dudley -- Yale's lackluster answer...

W. basketball opens Ivies vs. Harvard, Dartmouth

Without a doubt, the most important moment of the Bulldogs' young season will occur tonight at 6 p.m. in the John J. Lee Amphitheater. That's when the women's basketball team tips off against Harvard (3-10, 1-0 Ivy) in the team's opening weekend of...

Pro soccer team drafts Schmidt

When Matt Schmidt '01 was growing up in Milwaukee, he would play for his 10- to 12-year-old soccer team in short contests during the halftime of Milwaukee Wave soccer games. He would get nervous before the games, but the next day at school he would...

Women's hockey looks for revenge

Women's hockey head coach John Marchetti looked at this weekend's schedule and saw Cornell in bold letters. He remembered last year's heartbreaking loss in which his team fell 2-1 in overtime, and realized this weekend could be a chance for redemption.

In preseason tune-up, men's squash wins key championship

Last weekend at the U.S. Squash Racquets Association's National Team Championships in Hartford, Conn., one of Yale's (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) four five-man teams led by Brian Smith '01 won the B division competition over eight teams, gaining its first title in a...

Football's Phillips selected to Fla. All-Star Classic

The Yale football season ended a month-and-a-half ago at Harvard Stadium, but cornerback Josh Phillips '01 still has one game left. The senior, a four-year letter winner at defensive back and running back, will compete in the Florida All-Star Gridiron...

Getting a laugh, with or without a script

"You have to trust your instincts. You have to work together." Instructions suitable for any team, these words came from the mouth of Bradley Bazzle '02, the head of the improvisational comedy group The Viola Question. Although they specialize in the...

Top 10 reasons to skip class during shopping period

10 Pacing is everything. Serious attendance now will only lead to rampant before-noon drug use later. Skip tomorrow's econ lecture to insure that you make it to the midterm. 9 Boy, you must have had some serious beer goggles on last night to bring...

Telling the frozen North, 'Prends-le!'

I've always thought of Canada as a big cold place where people speak some strange version of French and all wear a lot of fur. These opinions came from middle school French and social studies, and they never changed because it was always more fun to...

African art show haphazard, contradictory

The Yale University Art Gallery has covered one of its first floor galleries with broken LPs, posters of "Shaft" and "Superfly," and chalked Kongo graphic-writing systems. Emphasizing the relationship between art and its audience, an exhibit of...

My editors wrote this horrible headline

I have beef, my friends. And I am not referring to my Texan penchant for consuming animal carcasses. I have beef with those tyrants known as "editors," whose job description includes turning my column into the 1.0 version of its original form.

BAR, supposedly top-shelf, ain't all it's cracked up to be

I've been against mesh T-shirts since I was a boy in a sailor suit. The world is a sad enough place, I say, without adding mesh T-shirts to the mix. Still, I suppose even we who are that article of clothing's staunchest opponents must acknowledge that...

Meat Puppets stuck in a golden, but bygone, age

Remember the early 90s? -- The death of sophisticated songwriting or the dawn of a music genre with integrity that would define a generation, depending on your opinion. The acts that rode the indie-rock and grunge wave into the mainstream either became...

Poe fresh, but haunted by monotony

Much like the subject matter of her namesake, Poe has decided to focus her creative energies on the dead, mysterious and supernatural. "Haunted," the singer/songwriter's follow-up to her 1995 gold album "Hello," finds Poe not only confronting personal...

Despite Depp, 'Chocolat' hard to stomach

When a "sly" north wind blows open the doors of a village church in the middle of a sleepy Lenten service in the opening scene of Lasse Hollstrom's "Chocolat", it hardly takes a clever viewer to predict that the little town is about to experience some...

'Traffic' one hell of a ride

When "Erin Brokovich" hit theaters last February, more than a few critics concluded that director Stephen Soderbergh, the indie demi-god behind sex, lies, and videotape, had finally sold out, abandoning artistry for security. Soderbergh's follow-up was...