Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Briefly: Yale professor mugged at gunpoint

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, November 3, 2008

Paul Bass ’82, the editor and founder of the online newspaper The New Haven Independent, was mugged Saturday night in the Westville neighborhood of the city. Bass, who is also a political science professor at Yale, wrote about the incident on the Independent. He said that as he was walking home from synagogue with his wife and a friend Saturday evening around 7 p.m., two boys dressed in black jumped out of the bushes holding a gun. The boys demanded money, but since it was the Sabbath, Bass said neither he nor his wife had any. After searching the group’s pockets, the boys rode off.