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...
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...
Brodhead returns to teaching
For 18 lucky seniors, Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead's house will double as a classroom this semester. The special location is appropriate, since these students are taking Brodhead's highly anticipated residential college seminar, "The American...
Yalies protest, celebrate Bush inauguration
Matthew Ferraro '04 has a date for tomorrow at noon. A date with his television, that is. With a bowl of popcorn in one hand and his remote control in the other, Ferraro, like many Yalies, will watch the inauguration of our country's 43rd president.
Local band to play at inaugural ball
One of New Haven's best known big bands, the Pat Dorn Orchestra, was selected to play in its fourth presidential inauguration ball Saturday after winning a bid two weeks ago. The band, composed of 18 members based in New Haven, but with members from...
Two physics profs held up at gunpoint
Two Yale physics professors were held up at gunpoint by two suspects on Prospect Street near the Yale Divinity School late Tuesday night. The professors left Sloane Physics Laboratory on Science Hill at about 11:30 p.m. and walked north towards the...
UHS fights colds with clinic
Those coughs and sniffles emerging around campus may finally have met their match. Nasty colds and flu viruses are keeping many Yalies homebound during the winter months simply because they might not know how to properly treat them. University Health...
Law renovation nearly done
The Yale Law School pulls into the last leg of its five-year renovations this month with the final additions to its dining hall. "We're just about finished," Yale Law School Deputy Dean Kate Stith said. "We're just waiting for the cafeteria to be...
City drops FOIA-blocking bill
Just days after proposing a controversial measure that would allow municipalities to reject Freedom of Information Act requests, Mayor John DeStefano Jr.'s administration backed away from the proposal Tuesday morning. The bill, which was inspired by...
Man threatens Harvard exam with bomb
A man claiming he was "declaring war on the United States of America" threw a Harvard examination into chaos Thursday when he interrupted the early-morning final and threatened to set off a bomb attached to his chest. No one was harmed in the incident...
