City's crime rate drops 21 percent
New Haven experienced a massive 21 percent decrease in reported crime last year, and the city has seen crime fall by over 50 percent since 1990, according to the city's recently released Uniform Crime Report data for 2000. Mayor John DeStefano Jr.
Frank Keil named new Morse master
Frank Keil has only been at Yale since 1998, but in his time here he has taken on a heavy load -- teaching, researching and serving as the director of undergraduate studies for two majors. In July, Keil will have a much busier schedule when he...
Dean, head of Latino center to leave Yale
Assistant Dean Richard Chavolla, the first director of the University's newly consolidated Latino cultural center, is leaving for the nation's capital after four years at Yale. Chavolla made the decision to leave after his wife, Anna Ortega-Chavolla...
Nursing home workers' union stages strike
All they had were solidarity and a litany of grievances, but with a booming megaphone in tow, the striking nursing home workers stood their ground outside the Jewish Home for the Aged, assailing passing cars with their chant, "No contracts, no work, no...
Yale moves forward with Science Hill projects
As planning and construction efforts on Science Hill intensify, the first major piece of last year's $500 million initiative is nearing completion. The $42 million Class of '54 Environmental Science Center, located on Sachem Street next to the...
Great changes marked Yale life during 1960s
A new Yale experience replaced Old Yale in the 1960s. "In the fall of 1963, freshmen wore white Levi's and drank beer," said Jeffrey Orleans '67 LAW '71. "In the spring of 1967, the students wore blue Levi's and smoked grass." The composition of the...
Unlike Yale, others have student trustees
Cornell University sophomore Leslie Barkemeyer does not just take finals; soon, her duties will also include helping decide key university issues ranging from faculty salaries to financial aid. Last week, Barkemeyer was also elected to the university's...
Yale researcher a victim of hit and run
Police continued to search Tuesday for the driver of a gold pickup truck that struck Yale astronomy researcher Gordon Drukier's bicycle and seriously injured him before fleeing the scene last Thursday. Drukier, 38, was riding to work along Whalley...
Prof becomes city's first black Green proprietor
Law professor Drew Days III has just secured himself a place in New Haven history -- and not because of his stints as the U.S. solicitor general and assistant attorney general. Instead, Days has been selected to a position of even greater historical...
Hill of projects for aid director
As a sophomore at Hope College in Michigan, Myra Smith, Yale's new financial aid director, didn't know much about aid. She spent her time dancing and studying for her pre-med classes -- her dad did all that aid stuff. But when she learned she would...
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