Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
It has been a long year for Rebecca Taber ’08 and the outgoing leaders of the Yale College Council.
Since assuming the YCC presidency last September, Taber has spent the year meeting with administrators, speaking to student groups and spending hours each day responding to student e-mails.
The objective? Engineering an internal reform agenda...
The number of students who have accepted their offers of admission to Yale for fall 2008 has remained at a level consistent with past years, despite dire predictions reflecting the uncertainty in the Ivy League admissions playing field this year. So far, the University’s yield — the percentage of accepted students matriculating — stands at 68.9 percent, compared to...
Manifest Destiny: Yale Looks WestA Six-Part Series 1) In a whirlwind, Yale goes West2) With West campus, Yale excuses form for function3) Ortiz’s new calling: Yale-West...
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week. The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — puts to rest the question of...
On Feb. 8 of last year, members of the class of 2007 knew that Fareed Zakaria ’86 would be their Class Day speaker. The year and a month before that — Jan. 12 — the class of 2006 learned that Anderson Cooper ’89 would deliver the Class Day address. But this year, as the calendar turns to May, seniors, who will graduate in only 25 days, have still not been told...
A faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations currently being investigated by the University after allegations of sexual harassment committed sexual harassment twice against the same victim, not once as previously reported. The faculty member also pressured others in the department to keep quiet about the incidents, according to...
With the offer of a Robertson Scholarship luring him to Duke University, Dan Ewert needed a reason to choose Yale. When the University announced an overhaul of its financial-aid system this past winter, he got the excuse he needed. “I was pleasantly surprised with the financial-aid package,” said Ewert, who attends Germantown High School in Germantown, Wis. “For me...
Students hoping to pull all-nighters during Reading Week may want to avoid the Thain Family Café. According to several reports from student employees and a document obtained by the News that appears to be part of the café’s internal records, some managers at the café have been substituting decaf espresso for caffeinated espresso at various times since the fall —...
University President Richard Levin on Thursday will announce the names of this year’s Yale World Fellows, who will participate in the annual four-month program which aims to promote international dialogue by developing a worldwide network of emerging leaders. The 18 fellows, selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 applications, are distinguished early- to mid-career...
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week. The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — appears to provide an answer to...
Students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity who were involved in January’s “Yale Sluts” incident stood before the Executive Committee of Yale College three weeks ago and were found “not guilty” on a charge of intimidation and harassment, sources close to the proceedings confirmed this weekend. The group featured in the photograph that sparked the...