Gross Dartmouth hazing leads to outrage
Frat pledges did nasty stuff. Outrage over accounts of hazing published in Dartmouth's campus newspaper has led to action from professors on the New Hampshire campus.
Street car might actually come to New Haven
Meeting looks at streetcar again. Forget Yale Transit — New Haven officials are looking at getting a street car once again.
Miller wants NHPD chief to teach seminar
Would examine community policing model. In a Monday interview with the News, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said she would like to have newly appointed New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman teach a residential college seminar in Fall 2012.
Duron '14 appears on "The Voice," does not advance
Christina Aguilera has big regrets. Destin "Dez" Duron '14 appeared on the hit NBC talent show "The Voice" Monday night, but his voice wasn't quite enough to move on.
True Love Week interrupted by "kiss in"
Protest speaker from Providence College. At the second event of True Love Week on Monday night, love was certainly in the air — especially for the group of Yalies who staged a "kiss in."
BAIG: The anatomy of the kiss-in
When I entered the talk entitled “The Person as a Gift” by Providence College Professor Anthony Esolen last night, I was aware of two things. Esolen had written a ten-part manifesto decrying homosexuality, and I had been sent an email detailing a “kiss-in” demonstration to disrupt Esolen’s lecture.
SCHWARTZ: Sex Week and sensibility
The Gadfly
We are, of course, in the middle of Yale’s legendary Sex Week. Remembering that evening two years ago when half of participants in a meeting I was attending disappeared for a massive “how-to” workshop on oral sex (titled “Babeland’s lip-tricks: blowjobs and going down”), I found myself dreading this week. This year, however, I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The tone just seems more normal. I’m not quite sure how, but the organizers seem to have reasonably navigated the perilous path between prurience and Puritanism.
LASMAN: Acting, nationally
Beartrap
Most of us support free speech and artistic expression. As enlightened, creative and (largely) liberal young people, we value the right of artists to produce whatever they want. Should this prove awful, objectionable, even offensive, we trust that wider cultural forces will react accordingly, contesting bad art and relegating it to obscurity or infamy.
DE WOLF: The art of cutting corners
During the summer before I started college, I was filled with anticipation and expectations. Ahead of me were four years when I could pursue my academic interests in an environment dedicated to learning. I would meet smart, engaging professors and students who had novel and creative thoughts and ideas. In classroom discussions and conversations over dinner, we would share and cultivate these new ideas, building ambitious plans for the future.
W. HOCKEY | Elis lose 18th straight
The women’s hockey team played strongly in the first two periods of its away games against St. Lawrence and Clarkson this weekend, and if hockey games consisted of only two periods, the team might have managed to tie a game.
FENCING | Elis defeat Vassar and Drew
On Saturday, both the men and women’s fencing squads dominated over Vassar College and Drew University at Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The teams show promise going into the Ivy League Championships, the first time the teams will face Ancient Eight opponents this season, at home at the Coxe Cage next weekend. The men’s team is currently ranked fourth in the Ivy League, and the women’s team is in eighth place.
Mayor, BOA set agenda
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. laid out his plan for the city in his annual State of the City address Monday evening, emphasizing public safety, job growth and education reform.
TRACK | Elis hit personal bests at Coxe Cage
The men’s and women’s track teams each collected four first-place finishes this weekend against competition that included Sacred Heart, St. Joseph’s, and Ivy League rival Penn, as they hosted the eighth annual Giegengack Invite at Coxe Cage. On Friday, the highlight for the men’s team was a podium-sweeping performance in the 5000-meter run. Isa Qasim ’15 took first in the event, with Matthew Thwaites ’13 and Kevin Lunn ’13 just behind him in second and third. All three Eli runners set personal best times as they distanced themselves from the rest of the field.
Complaint alleges bias in elite admissions
Higher education experts say there is not enough information to determine whether discrimination occurs in college admissions today.
“Piggy back” majors reach stand-alone status
The faculty’s approval of ethnicity, race and migration as a stand-alone major last Thursday has left South Asian studies as the only major that must be taken with a second area of study.
Sinha warns against stress
Rajita Sinha primarily examines the dependence of stress and addiction on gender, as well as the biological basis for the close relationship between stress, self-control and addiction.
Mice crucial in autoimmune research
A new Yale study on diabetes may enable breakthroughs in the prevention and treatment of autoimmune disorders.
Journalist asks for U.S. foreign policy change
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour called for a “change in strategy” in American foreign policy towards Middle Eastern countries in Tuesday talk at the Whitney Humanities Center.
Panel discusses body image, sex
Issues surrounding body image and its impact on mental and sexual health were discussed at a Monday panel in a crowded Branford Common Room.
Universities weigh complaint options
Recent attention has focused on the University’s complaint processes.
Dimberu: Solar storms threaten
Technophile
During the past few weeks, the Earth has been bombarded with the intense radiation released from the Sun during a coronal mass ejection (CME), a potentially dangerous form of space weather.
Imaging tech helps clear up a cloudy disease
Novel imaging techniques at the Yale Child Study center are providing a first look at the active brains of children with a rare neurodegenerative disorder.
GYMNASTICS | Bulldogs leap over Brown
Yale beat Brown and dominated the all-around competition at last Saturday’s tri-meet against New Hampshire and Brown in the New Hampshire Invitational.
Mayor outlines policing plan
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. sketched out a broad strategy for improving the Elm City’s public safety.
Rainforest class preps for trip
This spring break, when many Yalies head south, fifteen won’t be headed for balmy beaches, they’ll be venturing into the jungles of South America to forage for fungi.
Yale stands by drug policy
In response to a July 1, 2011, Conn. state law decriminalizing marijuana, the University of Connecticut announced a change to its disciplinary policy last Tuesday — effecting a more lenient punishment for first offenders.