Protesters ask Harvard to grant honorary degrees
Students expelled for homosexual acts. As Lady Gaga launches her Born This Way Foundation at Harvard today, protestors are calling on the university to renounce century-old anti-gay policies.
Meet the brains behind "White and Blue for You"
A Philadelphia high school senior. Last Tuesday, high school senior Jackie Milestone released a music video about her hopes to attend Yale after being deferred early action.
Stuff Yalies Like #4: Tourists
Yale’s aesthetic appeal, coupled with its academic reputation, attracts throngs of visitors to campus every year. Tourists of college campuses are a fascinating breed. They’re normal tourists with a scholarly bent, making them the strangest kind of tourist of all. For how many tourist spots can it be said, after all, that the bookstore is a necessary destination?
YLS offers tenure to Latino scholar
Would be first tenured Latino. At a Yale Law School town hall on faculty diversity, the school's faculty hiring committee announced it had, for the first time ever, offered tenure to a Latino professor.
LARSON: No need to divide history major
Nothing in Particular
Some of the history department’s changes — including the addition of a number of optional tracks in which history majors can specialize and the creation of a broad survey course on historical methodology — constitute substantive and oddly contradictory changes to the major.
Chamber musicians seek to engage today’s audiences
The Eli String Quartet, silent in shades of grey, walked onto the stage of Morse Recital Hall. But instead of sitting to play Béla Bartók’s “String Quartet No. 3,” second violinist Shawn Moore ’13 lifted a microphone to speak.
New student jazz to debut tonight
This evening in Sprague Memorial Hall, the Yale Jazz Ensemble will present its third of four concerts that will take place this academic year.
AIDS activist speaks about documentary film
Jim Hubbard, a Brooklyn-based experimental and documentary filmmaker and co-founder of MIX, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, screened his new film “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP” on Monday night at the Loria Center. Hubbard spoke to the News about the motivations behind “United in Anger,” a feature-length documentary on AIDS activist group ACT UP. Hubbard’s films, including the Ursula Award-winning “Memento Mori,” have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Berlin Film Festival and the London Film Festival.
Sustainability strategic plan on track
Yale is expected to meet the goals outlined in the 2010-2013 Sustainability Strategic Plan, according to an annual progress reported released Monday by the Office of Sustainability.
Paulson issues leadership advice
Henry Paulson Jr. reflected on his experiences as U.S. Secretary of Treasury and emphasized the importance for leaders to form strong relationships at a Tuesday talk at Sage Hall.
Panel outlines changes in hip-hop
Law school professors and hip-hop artists discussed how corporations and advertising have impacted the hip-hop industry.
Yale scientists run lecture on addiction
On Tuesday evening, Yale scientists taught New Haven residents about the physiological reasons why Facebook can be addictive.
Whitney looks back on 30 years
On Tuesday, founding members and fellows of the Whitney Humanities Center gathered to to take stock of the interdisciplinary institution’s history since its conception in February 1981.
NHPD to announce new assistant chiefs
New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman is expected to finalize his new leadership team within the next two weeks.
Electronic housing information systems spread
Several residential colleges are experimenting with web-based housing information systems that may soon spread to the rest of campus.
Nemerov confirms move to Stanford
Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92 will leave for Stanford after this semester.
SIRCUS: Thanks, mom, for my sports fanaticism
Behind every true sports fanatic lies an ethusiastic supporter. It’s high time that I thanked the woman who introduced me to my love of sports. I’m not really sure where, when, or how my mom stumbled into an affinity for sports, but she has supported my interest in ways I never would have imagined.
Re-evaluating group registrations
Some hold reservations about Yale's system of registering clubs.
BAILYN, DAVIS AND LEWIS: Rethinking liberal arts education
In March 2011, Yale and the National University of Singapore agreed to open Yale-NUS College, a new liberal arts college in Singapore, in August, 2013. Since then, the three of us, with fifteen faculty colleagues from a wide range of disciplines at Yale and NUS, have refined the broad outlines of a curriculum for the college and begun the search for the initial faculty.
TELUSHKIN: Leave nerds alone
If you’ve ever seen a high school yearbook, you’ve undoubtedly come across the quote attributed to Mark Twain: “I’ve never let schooling get in the way of my education.” Sometimes, this seems to categorize Yalies’ feelings about classes all too well.
W. LACROSSE | Rhodes leads Eli attack
Following the Bulldogs’ successful season opener against Holy Cross, the team has high hopes for this season. During the game, attacker and leading scorer Devon Rhodes ’13 scored four of Yale’s goals to lead the Elis to a 17–13 win against the Crusaders.
Superfly starts spring season
Yale’s men’s ultimate frisbee team, named “Superfly” and one of the nation’s oldest ultimate teams, will host its first tournament of the spring season — the Yale Cup — on Mar. 24 and 25.
Miller encourages fall break trips
As Yale College prepares to follow a new academic calendar with a five-day fall break in the 2012-’13 school year, Yale College Dean Mary Miller is encouraging professors to consider holding field trips during the short vacation.