Yale Daily News

World leaders to return to Yale for 2nd tercentennial weekend

Dozens of top scholars and industry and world leaders will return to Yale in April to celebrate the University's 300th birthday in the tercentennial year's second weekend. Former President George H. W. Bush '48, Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau '70...

Candidates prep for Ward One endorsement

In preparation for November's election to replace Ward One Alderman Julio Gonzalez, Gonzalez and student leaders are conducting a search process for student candidates. The search precedes the Democratic Ward Committee's endorsement of a candidate...

Davies overhaul delayed; center to find new home

The John H. Davies mansion will not be ready for occupation when former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott '68 arrives at Yale this fall to launch the new Center for the Study of Globalization. The interior of the mansion -- the globalization...

Economics makes seven senior offers

By adding as many as seven new senior professors, the Yale economics department hopes to tap the supply of top economics scholars and fill a demand for more faculty. With one professor already accepting Yale's tenure offer and six more senior offers...

PanGeos slowly losing its spice

Outside of the Silliman College dining hall, the quadrangle was covered with New England snow colored brown and white from sidewalk grit and the pressing of Yalies' duckboots. Heads covered against the wind, the students tread heavily in for dinner.

Campus safety only half the battle

The old joke about Yalies getting shot while screwing in a lightbulb just doesn't seem to apply anymore. The question is whether anyone has noticed. The Yale Police Department released its annual crime report last week, and the numbers looked good:...

Schiavone fights charter provision

A judge heard oral arguments Thursday in the case that will decide whether Joel Schiavone '58 is an eligible candidate for mayor of New Haven. The Republican real estate developer has mounted a constitutional challenge against the city charter's...

Intruder showers in BR

A female student in Branford got a unpleasant surprise Thursday morning when she found an intruder taking a shower in her bathroom, Branford Master Steven Smith said. When the student left the bathroom to call police, the man apparently left, police...

AYA online courses continue

The Association of Yale Alumni will launch its second series of online courses for alumni this February, and the courses could be used for more than just that. Yale will offer one literature and one psychology course for alumni, the same classes that...

Frosh counselors' prestige varies

Work was piling up, midterms were around the corner, and of course there was always rugby practice. The last thing Branford College freshman counselor Regina Fitzpatrick '01 needed was 'N Sync reverberating through the B entryway of Vanderbilt Hall.

SOM prof: let economy be

School of Management adjunct professor David De Rosa issued a stern warning against government intervention in financial markets with a new book published yesterday. "In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The Case Against a New International Financial...

Report says no racial profiling by Conn. police

Connecticut police officers do not pull over black and Hispanic drivers because of their race, an unprecedented study on traffic stops reported this week. While other states have been embroiled in complaints of racial profiling, the study argues that...

Man shot in Fair Haven

One man died and another was wounded Thursday night in a shooting in the city's Fair Haven section, police said. Police were called to the Farnham Court housing complex at about 7:45 p.m. on a report of a stabbing. The victim actually had a minor...

Where have all the athletic fans gone?

The Friday afternoon dining hall pep rally -- replete with open microphone, free T-shirts and background music -- is a fitting metaphor for a sobering reality of Yale athletics in the last decade: student apathy. Officers from the Department of...

Coming together on campaign finance reform

Politics is perception. Nowhere is this popular maxim truer than in the case of campaign finance reform. Overall, there is startlingly scant evidence to suggest campaign contributions influence politicians in any meaningful way. Nonetheless, Sen.

Battling mid-week doldrums with TV temptations

Most people complain about Wednesday because it's the stressful Hump Day, but they usually are quite relaxing for me. Two hours of mind-numbing Dawson's Creek and the sultry Temptation Island allow me to rest every one of my brain cells. After a couple...

Don't forget the old Milken

M. hockey ready to fight Irish in Coliseum battle

It's not everyday in sports, or in life in general, that the past, present and future merge as neatly as they will for the Yale hockey team this weekend. With major records on the line for their coach and several players, and the ECAC stretch run on...

Women's squash destroys Amherst 9-0

It was the perfectly timed confidence-booster the women's squash team needed. Wednesday, the No. 7 Bulldogs, (5-2, 0-2 Ivy) crushed No. 12 Amherst (8-6) 9-0, breaking the Jeffs' three-game winning streak while also redeeming a tough loss against...

W. hoops looks for revenge vs. Brown

The women's basketball team will be looking for revenge Saturday when the squad faces Brown in Providence, R.I., at 2 p.m. Yale (5-11, 0-3 Ivy) fell to the Bears (8-8, 3-0) last Friday night at the John J. Lee Amphitheater by a score of 67-55.

W. hockey hosts two non-conference teams at Ingalls

Thirteen -- that's the number of players on the Concordia women's ice hockey team that have played on the U.S. or Canadian national or Olympic teams. And Yale takes the ice against this powerhouse tonight. The Yale women's hockey team (2-16-1, 1-14-1...

Once upon a Super Bowl day, New York, Baltimore will play...

As Super Bowl XXXV looms now just two days away, it seemed only natural to devote this space to that topic. However, in the 12 days since the conference championship games were played, reporters have covered nearly every angle possible, no matter how...

Taking a risk

Some of my critics, since eaten by Ming-xei at the National Zoo, have commented that my articles are a mixture of half-truths, opinions, and bad jokes. This week, however, at the behest of the editors of this paper, I'm adding some facts to the broth.

Glowsticks hit campus, become the new rave

Tyler Golson '04 and Nicole Gabona '01 are hot from the workout. Sweeping her arms in figure eights around Golson's head, Gabona smiles and swings her hips to the interconnected techno beats pounding from the stereo and resounding in her head.

Asian art show suffers from narrow focus

With objects ranging from a hulking bodhisattva, a flamboyantly painted box and a large collection of pottery, the Yale University Art Gallery is currently showing "Ancients and Moderns: Tradition and Transformation in the Arts of Asia," an exhibit...

I'm not wearing anything under my scarf

This is a rare occasion. I was going to write this week's article on nudity or strippers or the annoying people in one of my numerous sections and figure out some way to construe these subjects so as to relate to fashion (runners-up included: "Why We...

Unconventional art overlooks bus stop

Over a huddled line of cold New Haveners waiting for a bus, a majestic line of giant white seagulls hangs frozen in the midst of flight. An abandoned lot in the business district of New Haven may seem like an odd place for an art exhibit, but on Chapel...

I may not exercise, but I always use a razor

We've been down this road before, my friends. It was last year before spring break, when preparations involved getting a bikini waxing from a woman who claimed to be from a country that I'm pretty sure she made up. The language barrier was real enough...

New experimental play is the 'Meet'-iest curtains around

Preposterous (and delightfully so). Much like Anna Nicole Smith's pictorial in this month's Playboy, Louis Cancelmi's '00 new play, "Meet Curtains," sets this reviewer on fire. Somewhere between Beckett and Bernhard, this shocking new comedy mixes...

Disturbed's 'Voices' tried, almost true

Remember Kid Rock's incomprehensible anthem "Bawitdaba?" Disturbed's single "Voices" is just like that, and it all starts right on the cover, with the group's name written in typewriter font over a bunch of wallet-chained white guys looking sullen and...

They may be local heros, but 'Constellations' misses Joe

Perhaps someone should find Joe. Maybe he could help the band with their songwriting. "Breaking Down the Constellations" is the first full-length record for the alternative rock quartet Missing Joe. The album, released on the band's own record label...

Rockin' Darwinism and the Catholics

Popular music follows an evolutionary path. The success of most musicians depends not on their skill but instead on their adaptive advantages, which distinguishe them from others of their time. People remember The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Nirvana more...

Steely Anderson out of place in 'House of Mirth'

Money may not buy happiness, but it is the only means of survival for an unmarried socialite of the Gilded Age. Terence Davies' screen adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel "The House of Mirth" captures the bleak exclusiveness of elite New York at the...

Penn's 'Pledge' promises but fails to deliver

Even before the violated corpse of a little girl comes to light, the first glimpse of Jack Nicholson's face suggests that Sean Penn's "The Pledge" will not be the feel-good movie of the year. Although marketed as a conventional serial-killer...