Yale Daily News

Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm

The News will resume publication on August 28, 2009.

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

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Koh faces scrutiny from Senate Republicans 4.28.09 (9)

WASHINGTON — Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh entered the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations conference room this afternoon with a huge smile across his face. Whether he left the room feeling the same way is another matter entirely. The Foreign Relations Committee met Tuesday to discuss Koh’s nomination as legal adviser to the Department of State. While...

City News

UP CLOSE | Cities try regional solutions 4.27.09 (5)

BETHANY, Conn. — Bethany is small, says its First-Selectman Derrylyn Gorski — so small in fact, that the town of 5,600 relies on its neighbors to get by. Several years ago, Gorski said, Bethany officials realized it could not afford both a street sweeper and a catch basin cleaner (an elephant-like vacuum used to clean storm drains). The solution, Gorski says, was to...

Sports

SOFTBALL | Weekend sweep ends year 4.27.09

Coming into the season, the softball team didn’t know what to expect from senior pitcher Deanna DiBernardi ’09. The southpaw had a shoulder injury that could only be fixed with major surgery and was put on a 70-pitch limit for each of her starts — until a couple weeks ago, when the decision was made to let DiBernardi stay in games as long as she was effective and...

Features

Shattering Yale’s glass ceiling 4.27.09 (28)

When the University of Pennsylvania named then-Yale Provost Judith Rodin its president in December of 1993, much was made of the fact that a woman had finally risen to the top post at an Ivy League school. “I think it’s about time,” Rodin said at the time. Yale pointed out that it had already had a female president. Hanna Holborn Gray, after all, had served as...

Sci/Tech News

Yale preps for swine flu 4.27.09 (4)

Federal officials declared a national health emergency Sunday following the identification of 20 cases of swine flu — a new form of influenza — in five states. Here on campus, Yale University Health Services has a “robust emergency plan” that can be deployed in the event of a pandemic flu, said Paul Genecin, the director of Yale University Health Services. But he...

Art News

On the ground: LGBT alumni celebrate with Wainwright 4.27.09

“I’m gonna see some folks who have already been let down. I’m so tired of America,” sang Rufus Wainwright, opening his concert with the melodic strains of his popular song “Going To A Town.” As the audience erupted into applause, Wainwright shook his head and tweaked the words for his next line: “They never really seem to want to tell the truth. I’m so...