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>

While the results of the actual football game have yet to be played out, Yale may already have Harvard beat in at least one arena: the tailgate.

Those who have been hankering for a cup of Baker’s Soup since the famed eating club Mory’s closed last December can get their fix at The Game this Saturday — but it may not be exactly the Baker’s Soup they remember.

It’s November, and with only one win against Harvard in the last eight years, Yale football fans are apprehensive before The Game. A new coach has been brought in to turn the team around, but with a young team and the lingering memory of a tough loss at last year’s Game, Yalies have few reasons to lift their hopes this time around.

Underage consumers are not the intentional targets of the recent crackdown on the purchase and consumption of alcohol on and around campus since mid-October, police officials said.

After years of planning, the short-term future of Swing Space is now thrust back into uncertainty.

New Haven is on track to have one of the lowest murder rates in the last 20 years, but not all city residents are convinced the police are using the right tactics.

Yale University Shuttle Services is expanding its routes to accommodate late-night studiers in Bass Library.

The public came one step closer, on Wednesday at 1 p.m. central time, to imagining how a library, a museum and a policy institute bearing the name of former president George W. Bush ’68 would look.

From Old Campus to residential college courtyards, autumn leaves blanket Yale’s campus each year. But gathering the leaves to keep University grounds tidy is no small task.