Levin responds to monitoring of Muslim students
President stands with the students. In a Monday night email to the Yale community, University President Richard Levin responded to reports that surfaced on Saturday that the New York Police Department monitored Muslim students at Yale and at least 14 colleges around the Northeast.
New Haven Indy brings backs reader comments
Comes alongside a new policy. The New Haven Independent brought the comments back on Monday with a new policy for keeping the discussion civil.
Magdanz '12 wins Luce Scholarship
Will work on environmental issues. Reid Magdanz ’12, an environmental studies major, has been awarded a Luce Scholarship to spend a year working in Asia, Director for National Fellowships Katherine Dailinger said over the weekend.
Senior Class Gift heads into final stretch
Up to 85.4 percent participation. As this year's Senior Class Gift campaign nears its end, organizers say they're on track to beat last year's record of 97 percent participation.
Through the Lens: 2.20.12
A look inside Union Station. Staff photographer Vivienne Jiao Zhang visits the century-old Union Station to snap shots of its ornate ceiling, limestone walls and stainless steel tunnels.
Global Zero conference discusses nuclear disarmament
Over the weekend, Yale played host to an international summit of students, activists and experts who gathered to discuss nuclear disarmament.
Occupy asked to leave the Green
If City Hall has its way, Occupy New Haven may soon leave its home on the New Haven Green.
SQUASH | Elis finish sixth in nation
Ranked No. 1 in the nation for two weeks during the season, the Bulldogs entered the Men’s College Squash Association National Team Championships with high hopes.
Conference explores African-American sexuality
Over 700 African-American students from across the country gathered on campus this weekend to discuss sexual issues in the black community during the 17th annual Black Solidarity Conference.
M. BASKETBALL | Elis fall to Cantabs
Going into this weekend the Bulldogs controlled their own destiny. Now they will not be able to get by in the Ivy League without a little help from their friends. Yale (17-7, 7-3 Ivy) took care of business at Dartmouth (5-21, 1-9 Ivy) 70-61 on Friday night, but it could not conquer the balanced attack of Harvard (23-3, 9-1 Ivy) and fell 66-51 in Cambridge, Mass.
M. HOCKEY | Elis blast Ivy foes
In the last regular season homestand of their career, the seniors of the men’s hockey team went out in high fashion.
Greens descend on Elm City
On Saturday morning, members of the Green Party of Connecticut, a state affiliate of the national Green Party, sat down in the children’s activity room of the New Haven Free Library to discuss the future of their party’s platform.
NYPD monitored Yale Muslim Students Association
NYPD officers monitored Muslim students at at least 15 colleges.
TAYLOR: Learning to live with inanity
Why am I here? It’s a question I have been asking myself a lot this semester. As in, why am I sitting in the back row of this gut QR lecture, picking at a Clif bar and obsessively checking my email? Put otherwise: Why does Yale have distributional requirements?
New Haven Promise kicking into gear
New Haven Promise has started to deliver.
Muslim students convene at Yale
Muslim students from across the Ivy League networked and shared spiritual and cultural experiences.
W. BASKETBALL | Ivy race tightens
The Bulldogs and the Cantabs will duke it out for second place in the Ivies, and a spot in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, during the final games of the season. While Yale fell to Harvard last weekend, and Princeton further secured its first place conference position with wins against Cornell and Columbia, the Bulldogs managed to stay half a game ahead of the Crimson with a win against Dartmouth on Friday.
Div School Students to name ‘Idol’
Divinity School students jammed to “Party Rock Anthem” and other popular tunes Friday night as they revived Divinity School Idol for the first time in recent years.
M. LACROSSE | Elis cap off preseason
While the scrimmages the No. 18 Bulldogs played against Tufts and Quinnipiac were unscored, Yale’s performance showed promise for the start of the team’s official season to kick off next Saturday. Although no official statistics were kept, and the scoreboard itself showed only time, midfielder Dylan Levings ’14 said Yale outplayed both Division III Tufts and Quinnipiac. Yale’s offense moved the ball well and opened up scoring opportunities early and frequently against each opponent.
YES-W draws prospective science students
Organizers of the second annual Yale Engineering and Science Weekend (YES-W) solicited alumni of the program and slightly modified the schedule of events to help showcase the University’s resources to over 100 prospective students this weekend.
Week of events promotes engineering on campus
In conjunction with National Engineer’s Week, the Yale Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be sponsoring a week’s worth of events on campus to promote opportunities in the field.
BELDING: Stand up for Muslims’ rights
Recently revealed evidence that the New York Police Department has been keeping tabs on the MSAs of fifteen colleges, including Yale, suggests that the MSA’s call for tolerance may be falling on deaf ears. The NYPD’s surveillance suggests that Muslims’ First Amendment rights have been deemed an acceptable casualty of the war on terror.
ZELINSKY: Finding a focus in the liberal arts
All my friends seem to have a theme. They build their Yale careers around sexy topics like public health, economic development or the environment. One friend has wanted to be a pediatric oncologist since age 7; another fell in love with paleontology after a middle school class trip.
Cancelled faculty meeting reinstated
The change comes because of objections from faculty members.