A tradition of their own, 37 years and counting
Overcoming their alma maters’ rivalry, Richard Sperry ’68 and Roger Cheever, Harvard class of 1967, say they hold the record for most consecutive Games attended.
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Lessons, and hope, from 1916
It’s November, and with only one win against Harvard in the last eight years, Yale football fans are apprehensive before The Game. A new coach has been brought in to turn the team around, but with a young team and the lingering memory of a tough loss at last year’s Game, Yalies have few reasons to lift their hopes this time around.
Twins team up, split up
They are both Computing and the Arts majors in Silliman College and have roomed together since freshman year. At the start of each semester, they pore over the Blue Book together and decide which classes to take — they have had identical schedules all five semesters they have been at Yale.
Mr. Yale knows no gender
Jen Ivers ’10 doesn’t want to make a statement; she just wants to be Mr. Yale.
Race to the real world
On the surface, Vivek Raman ’10 is like many of his college classmates. A casual dresser, Raman can frequently be seen rushing from class to class, or grabbing a sandwich at Subway. In his spare time, he plays recreational squash, and he is interested in finance.
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
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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.
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.
