University
Tony Blair to headline Class Day
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be this year's Class Day speaker, the Senior Class Council said Wednesday in an announcement confirming one of Yale's worst-kept secrets in recent memory.
Rumors that Blair would speak at Class Day first surfaced more than two months ago, but Yale officials said that security concerns forbade their revealing the identity of...
Features
Furry, feathered creatures bring home back to Yale
April opens her window and makes a clicking noise with her tongue. Ten meters outside the Yale residential college, a plump female squirrel named Lucky perks her ears and scampers over to the third-floor window.
Lucky, whose hazelnut coat is shaggy from recently giving birth, climbs a nearby tree and expertly crosses a bathrobe belt that April — whose name has been...
City
DeStefano: Crime, education priorities
For New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., violence reduction and education continue to be the city’s highest priorities.
Echoing the concerns and priorities he has laid out in previous public forums this year, DeStefano highlighted the need to focus on crime reduction, schools and securing state funding at his fourth and final community budget meeting Thursday evening at...
Science + Technology
Charity walk raises $30K for AIDS
Sweating for a cause, nearly 700 students, faculty members and Elm City residents swarmed the New Haven Green on Sunday morning to participate in the fourth annual AIDS Walk in New Haven.
The event — a 5-kilometer walk through the city — is sponsored each year by the Yale chapter of AIDS Watch and is designed to raise funds for 10 local HIV and AIDS service...
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