Some court documents in the case of Raymond Clark III, who is charged with the murder of Annie Le GRD '13, will be unsealed Thursday, a judge ruled today.

Dwight Hall’s planned move from its eponymous Old Campus home to 143 Elm St., first announced in November 2006, has been postponed indefinitely.

After finding out she had been laid off from her job as a registered nurse and internal auditor at the School of Medicine last April, Shelli Eason visited Yale human resources’ career center every day for months.

For student musicians, waiting in line for practice rooms, kicking other students out of rooms they have reserved, rescheduling rehearsals or conceding defeat and settling for out-of-tune pianos are all familiar ordeals.

Prerequisite courses for pre-meds could soon become a thing of the past.

“I love you!” screamed a girl seated in the buzzing crowd when James Franco made his way to the small stage in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday afternoon.

When renowned architect Peter Eisenman entered the Yale School of Architecture’s Paul Rudolph Hall to teach “Formal Analysis” Thursday, his title was still the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor of Architectural Design.

<b>Bill would extend employment benefits</b>
Connecticut workers will have an additional 14 weeks of unemployment benefits if President Barack Obama signs legislation the House of Representatives passed Thursday. The Senate also passed the bill, which Conn. Sen. Chris Dodd co-authored, on Thursday. The bill also for the first time extends homebuyer’s tax credit to cover individuals who have previously purchased and lived in a home for at least five years. The extension means that more than 70 percent of current homeowners will be eligible for the program should they wish to purchase a new home.
<i>—Yale Daily News</i>

While the mayoral and aldermanic campaigns came to an end Tuesday, a campaign for statewide office is just heating up.

Finishing each other’s sentences, the comedy duo Frangela did not let political correctness get in the way of cracking jokes and making social commentary at a Saybrook College Master’s Tea Thursday.

The Board of Aldermen approved the groundbreaking New Haven teachers’ union contract on Thursday, clearing the path for city officials to embark on extensive public school reform plans.

Everybody blames the smokers. One little fire in Branford and the hegemonic, white-lunged majority hurls hatred at a threatened and dwindling, black-lunged minority. The comments on the News’ Web site disturb me. One poster, an anonymous coward, even used the slur “hipster.” That hurt.

I had just sat down in one of the wire chairs in Thain Family Café in Bass Library and opened my computer, when a girl I recognized turned to me from the next table. “Did you see that e-mail?

Last night the Board of Aldermen approved the new contract for New Haven teachers, representing the end of a well-run process, and a beginning for real school reform in the city.

Speaking last week about the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the EU Commission, described the process involving the preparation, negotiation and ratification of the treaty as a “marathon with hurdles.”

In an affront to students everywhere, Berlanty Azzam, a 21-year-old Business major at Bethlehem University from Gaza, was stopped on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the West Bank, on her way back from a job interview in Ramallah.

Lanny Davis’s opinion piece (“Neither lux nor veritas,” Nov. 2) in support of his client Dongguk University’s lawsuit against Yale is misleading and unfair.

The Bulldogs return to the Yale Bowl Saturday after three straight road games. The Elis host Brown in a must-win game to stay in the Ivy League race.

The men’s hockey team will take its first steps toward defending its ECAC championship this weekend.
The Bulldogs will travel to upstate New York to play Rensselaer (4–3–1, 0–0 ECAC) tonight at 7 p.m. and Union (3–3–1, 0–0) tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Though the loss to Penn significantly lowered the Bulldogs’ chances of repeating as Ivy League champions, the Yale volleyball team (17–3, 7–2 Ivy) will set out to finish the regular season strong on the road against Harvard (10–11, 6–4) and Dartmouth (9–11, 5–5) this weekend.

The Yale field hockey team will look to finish one of most successful seasons in the program’s history with in its game against Brown (5–11, 0–6 Ivy) Saturday at Johnson Field.

ECAC play is coming to the renovated Ingalls Rink.
The Yale women’s hockey team will host Princeton (2–1–1, 1–0–1 ECAC Hockey) and Quinnipiac (4–3–1, 2–0) this weekend for its first home conference games of the season.

After an impressive win against Columbia last weekend, Yale welcomes a strong Brown squad to Reese Stadium for Senior Day on Saturday.

It all comes down to tomorrow.
The Yale women’s soccer team will have one last chance to earn a share of the Ivy League title when it takes on Brown on Saturday — a shot that also depends on Harvard’s performance against Columbia the same day.

<b>RUNNING GAME NEEDS TO IMPROVE</b>
The Yale running game has not been effective over the last three weeks, averaging 1.9 yards per carry (206 yards on 109 attempts). Meanwhile, the Elis’ three opponents — Lehigh, Penn and Columbia — have rushed for 549 yards on 119 carries, an average of 4.6 yards per rush. Against a talented team such as Brown that has scored 178 points this season (53 more than Yale), Yale needs to control the game by keeping possession and running the ball effectively. Jordan Farrell ’10 and Mordecai Cargill ’13 lead the Elis in rushing — one of them, along with the offensive line, needs to step up for the Elis. That would also help open up the Bulldogs’ passing game. The Bears are a strong passing team behind Kyle Newhall-Caballero, who has thrown for 1,981 yards but also runs the ball well — rushing for 108 yards to date. Zachary Tronti leads Brown in rushing with 536 yards.

When Yalies move off campus, they lose the basic support network that Yale’s residential college system provides. So, who do they turn to? As this point, students trade masters and deans for landlords and property managers. These are relationships that can turn sour at the flip of the switch or the breaking of a pipe.

Last Friday the student body received the usual don’t-rape-someone-this-weekend e-mail from Dr. Carole Goldberg, which accompanies such rape-likely occasions as Halloween and the Freshman Screw.

What do you think a play called “A School for Greybeards or The Mourning Bride” could be about?

Music Review of Songs from the Past

The Yankees don’t have a lot of hair. The official policy, since the dawn of the Steinbrenner era, has been that only neatly trimmed mustaches are permitted. And while this is not the only reason for my conversion to Yankees super-fandom in the past few months, I’m not counting it out as a factor.

I always have to explain my knees. There’s a keloid on my left, an irregular pink mound that started as an angry scar and just kept growing, the last evidence of my fall from a bike at age 13 (that, and the fact that I haven’t successfully ridden a bike in the six years since then). Skinny Asian female, about five feet three inches, has a birthmark on her smallest toe and a disfigured left knee.

Size matters, and Yalies think big! From the giant inflatable Handsome Dan to the enormous phallus known as Harkness Tower, big means beautiful at Yale. But when it comes to carbon footprints, smaller is better.

An overly-pensive prince and a tempest-tossed, cross-dressing maiden currently share the stage at the Whitney Theater, but their names are not Hamlet or Viola.

It is rare at Yale to see the “revival” of a play that means just that— a new life for an underperformed work. Most revivals here lay claim to the obviously undead; Shakespeare and Shepard, Wilder and Wilde, are the favored corpses of campus theater. But a performance on Wednesday afternoon was a clear exception.

The Yale Cabaret’s mission statement this year is “a gauntlet thrown in the face of our future.” But its current production, “The Surrender Tree,” more aptly portrays the gauntlet thrown in the face of our past. The play is a staged-adaptation of a Spanish and English children’s book by Margarita Engle about the Cuban War of Independence.

This week Julian Casablancas dropped “Phrazes for the Young,” Casablancas’s first solo album and one of the best debuts I’ve heard.

The spring of my junior year of high school was the time when my musical sensibilities began to take shape. I started attending noise shows, downloading album upon album of math rock and ambient drone and exhibiting a condescending lack of interest anytime my friends tried to talk to me about music.

It all started with Trash. And by Trash, think nightclub night. No really, it was a night started by Turkish electro DJ Erol Alkan in 1997 at The End, a club in London.

Last February, feet of snow obscured Yale’s walkways. But thousands of miles south, beneath ancient blankets of ice, Professor Thomas Near braved the Antarctic chill in pursuit of rarely-seen sea creatures — dead or alive.

Louis’ Lunch. You’ve all heard the stories. The birthplace of the hamburger. No ketchup allowed. A late night eatery? Maybe not.

<b>Two Harvard Business School students in drag</b> allegedly manhandled a cop outside the annual “Priscilla Ball,” where male Harvardians cross-dress and drink tequila. One student allegedly grabbed an officer by the throat, while the other took pictures and said, “This is going to get us a lot of money.” The students’ lawyers claim both are promising business students.