Yale Daily News

Updated: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 11:22am

Downturn may hit Yale, too (3)

NEW YORK — Faced with turmoil in the financial markets, the University will consider cutting back...

Clinton to speak at Woolsey

Bill Clinton LAW ’73 will return to Yale on Saturday for his 35th reunion. The 42nd president of...

Crisis aside, UCS no haven for grads (2)

Carlos Francisco Fernandez ’08 never intended to contact Undergraduate Career Services after...

Cross Campus: 10.1.08

The ‘Stache’s’ new groove. Peter Salovey is officially the former dean of Yale...

Elis break minority trends abroad (1)

Angel Ayala ’10 has spent the past two summers in Beijing and plans to study in Paris next...

University News

Band suspended for graffiti at Game 12.01.08 (4)

At the Yale-Harvard football game on Nov. 22, the Yale Precision Marching Band may haven taken its “respectfully irreverent” motto too far — at least according to Director of Yale Bands Thomas Duffy. After the band used a prop bearing profane writing during its Game halftime show, Duffy suspended the YPMB on Nov. 24. The band’s leadership said they were unaware...

City News

Alum to advise Obama 12.01.08

It took Austan Goolsbee ’91 GRD ’91 17 years to go from being an aide to Yale’s economics faculty to being an aide for the President of the United States. On Nov. 26 President-elect Barack Obama appointed Goolsbee, now a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, a three-member body...

Sports

FOOTBALL | The Game is lost 12.01.08

BOSTON — And you thought last year was ugly. For the second consecutive year, the Eli offense simply did not show up in The Game and rival Harvard walked off the field crowned Ivy League champions on Nov. 22. After last season’s 37-6 drubbing of the Bulldogs in New Haven, the Cantabs yet again looked dominant and shut out Yale, 10-0. Harvard (9-1, 6-1 Ivy) shares...

Features

Turkey, stuffing in Elm City 12.01.08

Even though she stayed on campus over break, Katy Grunzweig ’11 said she watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday morning. Still, she said she was nostalgic for the familiar company of her mother and the opportunity to cook Thanksgiving dinner with her. “I missed the traditions a lot,” said Grunzweig, who lives in Spokane, Wash. “It felt a little...

Sci/Tech News

Hospice founder leaves legacy 11.21.08 (1)

Florence Wald NUR ’41 GRD ’56 devoted her life to death. Even until her own passing this month at the age of 91, Wald worked tirelessly to make the process of dying dignified and comfortable for countless terminally ill patients. In fact, the former dean of the School of Nursing died while receiving the kind of end-of-life care she herself introduced to the American...

Art News

THE GAME | Eli dad makes 1968 epic 11.21.08

Every Yalie bemoans hearing the same three words: Harvard beats Yale. Yet those words — “Harvard beats Yale 29-29” — c0mprised the headline that appeared in the Harvard Crimson after the Elis’ devastating collapse against the underdog Cantabs at the end of the 1968 football season. And now that legendary headline is also the title of a new documentary by...