Yale Daily News

Updated: Friday, November 6, 2009 4:05 p.m.

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A ride on the bookmobile

At 2:30 a.m., around the time many Yalies finally tuck themselves into bed, Lenny Gaudino’s day is only beginning. On any given weekday, Gaudino is awake in the wee hours of the morning to start his daily routine with some light jogging.

Pricey plants pilfered

David Garinger knew something was awry as soon as he arrived at Yale’s Marsh Botanic Garden on the morning of Sept. 24.

YPU celebrates 75 anniversary

The Yale University Art Gallery auditorium echoed with hisses and fist-banging this weekend as about 140 current and former members of the Yale Political Union gathered for the organization’s 75th anniversary celebration.

Yale-Vassar: The marriage that almost was

While this year marks the 40th anniversary of the enrollment of women in Yale College, it could have been the 42nd anniversary instead.

Professor goes back to school

Tamar Gendler ’87 likes to save paper. So she prints her problem sets for PSYC 518, “Multivariate Statistics,” on the back of discarded pages from the rough draft of a book she is writing.

In recession, shelters short on space, funding

After New Haven’s first snowfall of the season Thursday, the coming winter portends difficulties for New Haven’s homeless, many of whom will need to spend the nights braving the elements because of limited space in local shelters.

Sociology department seeks a place to call home

The Sociology Department is looking for a home.

Blog dishes Divinity School gossip

“I’m sure that some pastor somewhere finds this funny,” Rachel Duncan DIV ’11 said.

Plaque placement sometimes a mystery

Ruizhi Qin ’11 returned to her Saybrook College double one day last month to find a new addition to the decor: a bronze plaque on the wall. It read: “This room was renovated in 2001 through the generosity of Thomas Leatherbury ’76 LAW ’79.”

Name changed, Family Weekend begins

Though students’ relatives will flock to campus this weekend, filling Union League Café, the Omni Hotel and the Yale Bowl as usual, campus visitors will not be treated to the “Parents’ Weekend” of years past. This time, it’s officially called “Family Weekend.”

Yale fights the war on ivy

Yale, it may be said, is the quintessential Ivy League school. So where, then, is all the ivy?

Levin’s aide ‘holds Yale together’

Regina Starolis has worked for each of the last six presidents of Yale and, according to Richard Levin, her current boss, “she quite literally knows everyone in this University.”

Artist in the Elm City

On a late September evening Silas Finch’s three-room studio on the third floor of the Gotham Arts and Commerce Building at 39 Crown St. is empty save for the artist. Low rock music comes from a stereo in the back of the room as Finch sands away at spoon handles inlaid with varnished newspaper that he plans to attach to a beaded necklace.

Late-night health hazards

When representatives from Yale Dining toured many of Yale’s 12 residential college butteries last spring, they were distressed by the relaxed sanitation standards kept by the student workers.

COEDUCATION AT 40 | PART 5 OF 5

Yale inspired a career in medicine

As part of a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College, the News today presents the last of four profiles, each telling the story of one woman who entered Yale in the fall of 1969.

COEDUCATION AT 40 | PART 4 OF 5

A 'gender revolution,' inspired at Yale

As part of a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College, the News today presents the second of four profiles, each telling the story of one woman who entered Yale in the fall of 1969.

COEDUCATION AT 40 | PART 3 OF 5

Finding a home away from home

As part of a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College, the News today presents the second of four profiles, each telling the story of one woman who entered Yale in the fall of 1969.

COEDUCATION AT 40 | PART 2 OF 5

First female Elis left friendships behind

As part of a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College, the News today presents the first of four profiles, each telling the story of one woman who entered Yale in the fall of 1969.

Forty years of women at Yale

Although some alumni and upperclassmen opposed the decision of then-University President Kingman Brewster ’41 to admit women to Yale College, the change, it seems, was inevitable.

Veterans enlist at Yale

At this time last year, Jon Heavey SOM ’11 was working as a battalion surgeon in Khadamiyah, a neighborhood in Baghdad. Heavey described the job as partly routine, mixed with “waves of mass causality.”