Stuff Yalies Like #3: Vegetables
Before I came to Yale, I only knew two vegetarians, and one of them doesn’t even count because she’s pescetarian — also a word I hadn’t heard before I came here. I thought that vegetarians were strange, like curling players or people who don’t have Facebook. But once I got to campus and started eating in dining halls with other freshmen, I realized that the mantra “One in four, maybe more” doesn’t only apply to sexuality.
Bloomberg criticizes Levin for NYPD remarks
Defends NYPD for controversial surveillance. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday criticized University President Richard Levin's statement calling the New York Police Department's surveillance of Mulsim students at Yale "antithetical" to the values of the University.
Williams takes new gig at UTEP
Will become UTEP's safeties coach. Former Yale football head coach Tom Williams has signed on as safeties coach at the University of Texas at El Paso, according to reports.
In my biopic, Natalie Portman will play me
After spending a few weeks in Europe, I’ve begun to realize that my semester off is less about needing a break from Yale and more about needing a break from America in general. Yet despite this fact, or maybe because of it, each time that I discover a custom or worldview that I prefer to its American counterpart, it feels like a betrayal to the society that has undeniably shaped my identity.
Yale admission makes Chinese girl media darling
Mother says she's no tiger. Chen Yunyi, a 17-year-old Chinese student, has become the "latest household name" in China after scoring admission to Yale, the China Daily reported Monday.
W. HOCKEY | Elis wrap up season
In its last weekend of play, the women’s hockey team ended its worst season in history with its highest scoring game of the season, albeit a loss.
GYMNASTICS | Elis hit season high
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Yale Gymnastics will springboard into the Ivy League Championships this weekend on the heels of another season high score.
W. TENNIS | Elis take ECAC championship
In beating Princeton to win the ECAC Indoor Championships for a fourth consecutive year, the No. 25 Yale women’s tennis team (6-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy) continued its torrid start to the spring season.
ITS finalizing new supercomputer queue
Yale’s Information Technology Services is working to implement a new policy that aims to equalize the access Faculty of Arts and Sciences research groups have to five University supercomputer clusters.
M. TENNIS | Bulldogs fall to three rivals
The Bulldogs, seeded No. 8 for the tournament, went into the weekend with a 4–0 record and came out 4–3. The Elis fell to nationally ranked No. 60 Harvard and No. 70 Princeton 4–1 in the first and second rounds. The tournament ended with a 3–2 loss to Columbia on the last day. But the teams remains optimistic for the upcoming season and will host a round robin tournament Mar. 3.
Students protest Arizona bill in Commons
A protest was staged against Arizona’s House Bill 2281 in Commons on Monday.
Students to design composting toilet
A small group of graduate and undergraduate students have committed to meeting weekly to discuss compost toilets.
Merging the arts and sciences, one lecture at a time
Every Tuesday afternoon at the Whitney Humanities Center, eleven students find themselves at a crossroads.
TORSIELLO: Does ‘Obamacare’ jibe with behavioral econ?
If you paid any attention to the news and debates surrounding health care reform, you might have come away with this bottom line: the system is broken.
Experts split over private equity
Pension funds allocating their assets to private equity have reaped little or no rewards on average, according to a Yale study.
Fighting piracy with a ‘liberal policy’
Though the RIAA maintains the right to sue students, punishment is left largely to the discretion of universities.
LASMAN: The age of historical ignorance
Beartrap
Yale so venerates written words and old stone that it’s hard to imagine a world that does not accord respect to such relics. Yet cathedral-shaped Sterling would have offered a tempting target to the most determined and destructive attackers Anglophone culture has ever seen.
ENRIQUEZ: Defining secure communities
The first scare came in December. I received news from City Hall that the Secure Communities Act was to be implemented in New Haven. I broke into a cold sweat as I considered the implications of the act.
StickK helps the irresolute
A website founded by Yale professors is dedicated to helping people keep resolutions.
Philosopher, pioneer dies
Ruth Barcan Marcus GRD ’46, who pioneered the field of quantified modal logic, passed away Sunday. She was 90.
Officials protest Secure Communities program
City and state officials gathered at City Hall Monday afternoon to protest the implementation of Secure Communities.
Transparency of financial markets questioned
More information may not always make markets work better, say two Yale professors.
Conflict of interest disclosure 'no panacea'
School of Management Professor Daylian Cain is an expert in behavioral economics and moral psychology. His research focuses on conflicts of interest, cases in which one actor has interests misaligned with his/her role as an advisor to another actor. He spoke to the News about disclosure regulation in the financial industry.
SCHWARTZ: Writers need shame
The Gadfly
The possibility that students are being subjected to ethnic slurs and feel unsafe should alarm the entire Yale community. Regardless of one’s position on the relative merits of the NYPD’s recently revealed anti-terror tactics, basic civility, tolerance and student safety should be completely uncontroversial — and non-negotiable.
LETTERS: 2.21.12
Letters from Tuesday's paper.
Small Orange Circles
Fiction
It was Anthony who first told me the Sun would explode. He said he’d seen it in a magazine. (Or a book, he couldn’t remember. Didn’t I read?) He was kicking a pebble, or a soda can — or maybe he wasn’t kicking anything at all — it doesn’t matter.
Kid in a Candy Shop
Profile
"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." — “As You Like It,” Act II, Scene VII
Professor links religion and government in Iran
Political theorist and professor at Princeton University Miriam Kunkler described the interaction between religious and secular elements within the Iranian constitution as “complicated” during a talk Monday afternoon.
NUS program pioneers liberal arts
The focus on interdisciplinary studies will not be entirely new when Yale-NUS College opens.
Close to Home
Cover
“Afghanistan doesn’t deserve to be in the U.N.,” he said on the third day of class. “It’s too primitive.” All the heads in the room turned to look at the girl in the hijab. She had her head down, scribbling notes, but she felt their eyes watching her, waiting for her to blow up or burst into tears. Wazhma Sadat said nothing.
Yes, Sir?
Crit
I may have been the first one to notice him in the doorway. I had just stopped by for a quick drink.
The Physical Level
Observer
At the bottom of Stair 96, in the steamy, labyrinthine bowels of Payne Whitney Gymnasium, there’s a sign scotch-taped to the wall: “SPINNING CLASS THIS WAY” it instructs cheerily, and a scribbled red arrow points down the hallway.
Langdon Hammer ’80 GRD ’89
Q’s
Langdon Hammer ’80 GRD ’89 has reviewed poetry for the New York Times and The American Scholar, in addition to editing “Hart Crane: Complete Poetry and Selected Letters.”