Overcoming their alma maters’ rivalry, Richard Sperry ’68 and Roger Cheever, Harvard class of 1967, say they hold the record for most consecutive Games attended.

The Yale School of Medicine will respond by Dec. 8 to a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asking about the school’s policy on medical ghostwriting, whereby companies publish articles under researchers’ names, School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said Wednesday.

Photography student Miranda Lewis ’12 said she worked all summer to purchase a new digital camera for her “Digital Photography” class.

WEST HAVEN — The last reported “crime” at Yale’s 136-acre West Campus occurred four to five years ago, said Thomas Paddock, one of the four head security officers who cover the area.

The 5 percent fall in early applications to Yale this year can be largely attributed to the financial downturn, according to eight college counselors interviewed Thursday.

Charles Ellis ’59 and his wife University Secretary Linda Lorimer have become the first couple to win the Yale Medal for independent contributions.

Elm Street was alive with the sounds of laughter, the strains of a guitar and the shouts of people calling, “Fight the fight — end homelessness!”

If Attorney General Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 has his way, patient injuries resulting from medical mistakes will be harder for Connecticut hospitals to keep under wraps.

More than $1.5 million of federal stimulus funding is going toward fighting domestic violence in Connecticut — but probably not in New Haven.

<b>Tis’ the season, city and Yale officials say</b>
New Haven will become “a winter wonderland for the holidays,” City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga announced Thursday. Next Monday, Market New Haven Inc., a marketing organization that aims to improve the city’s image, will start its “2009 Holiday Campaign” with a launch event at the Shubert Theater. The event is expected to draw attendees such as Mayor John DeStefano Jr., as well as Market New Haven chair and University Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander ’65.
<i>—Esther Zuckerman</i>

It has been too long since Yale beat Harvard. We hope for a victory on Saturday, but we are also ready to give Tom Williams some time.

The Freshman Class Council has finally resolved its T-shirt troubles, substituting a generic anti-Harvard logo for a problematic F. Scott Fitzgerald line calling Harvard men sissies.

Writers from Thucydides to George Orwell have observed that, in political disputes, the meaning of words is often the first casualty.

The men’s hockey team fell just short last night against UMass at Ingalls Rink. In a game of runs, the Bulldogs lost 4–3 in a last-minute overtime goal.

The women’s basketball team suffered its first lost of the season Thursday at the hands of the No. 7 ranked Arizona State Sun Devils at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs (2–1) were soundly defeated 82–46, as the Pac-10 Sun Devils (2–0) dominated from the opening tip.

After winning its first game of the season Tuesday against Colgate, the men’s basketball team will look to continue their momentum Saturday night against Quinnipiac (1–1) at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

A pair of recent News pieces begin to outline the tensions plaguing post-9/11 American-Muslim relations.

While most of Yale gears up for The Game on Saturday, the women’s hockey team will take on the Crimson Friday night at Ingalls Rink.

As a student worker at Yale Recycling, the agency that coordinates recycling on campus, I’ve recycled everything from solo cups to furniture. But the piano was a first.

After a rigorous preseason, the men’s squash team steps back on the court Saturday for its first match of the season. The Bulldogs will take on Williams, which they beat in the 2008–’09 season 9–0.

I am Connecticut Limo — the incompetent taxi service familiar to all Nutmeggers and Yalies who travel. Transporting people is my vocation; it’s all I am asked to do and yet I fail miserably.

After finishing second at the Ivy Scrimmages last weekend, the Yale women’s squash team is looking to capture a win in its first regular season match against Williams College on Friday at the Brady Squash Center.

Poor Barack Obama. Whether or not you support him, our president has been dealt a pretty tough hand.

<b>The forecast for Saturday’s Game is a high of 57 degrees,</b> a full 28 degrees warmer than last year’s unusually frigid Game in Cambridge.

<b>You can stop planning your move to Canada.</b> Two letters signed by 650 Yale students, faculty and staff, were sent to Sen. Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 Thursday, urging him to reconsider his pledge to filibuster a bill containing the public option.

<b>Wanted: new University librarian.</b> Following the departure of Alice Prochaska, University President Richard Levin announced Thursday the formation of a search committee for a new chief librarian, headed by English professor Pericles Lewis. Other committee members include psychology professor Paul Bloom, political science professor Douglas Rae and Deputy Provost Lloyd Suttle.

<b>Three New Haven properties caught fire Wednesday.</b> One blaze, at three students’ 336 Edgewood home, is thought to have been started by a kitchen accident. “The kitchen is completely burnt up,” a fire official said. “And the Red Cross had to take the students in.”

<b>Old Campus, though, was lit up Thursday night</b> with festive lights spelling out “JE SUX” across Farnam Hall. While the sentiment may seem redundant and tired to some, most can agree on at least one conclusion: JE SU(X/CKS).

<b>The Pierson College flag</b> was conspicuously missing from Thursday night’s pep rally, despite an alarmed e-mail sent to the college’s community around 4 p.m. Thursday requesting that it be returned.

<b>Cantab chaos.</b> The chair of the Harvard Undergraduate Council’s election commission resigned Thursday after the commission decertified the results of the presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud and tampering.

<b>A chance to stock up on snacks for The Game?</b> The Silliman College dining hall celebrated National Pop-Tart Day on Thursday with a large table in the dining hall with free Pop-tarts of every flavor.

<b>Stop killing mother nature.</b> Members of the Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership sent e-mails Thursday to remind students to unplug their appliances and defrost their refrigerators before break.

<b>This day in Yale history</b>
<i>1916</i> Two Yale College students who left campus to “make their fortunes without the benefit of family influence” were found in a Canadian lumber camp. Their fathers made their way to the Canadian Northwest to try to convince the boys to return to their studies.