Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Police, Univ. silent as rumors spread

Contributing Reporter, Staff Reporter, Contributing Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Just four weeks into his Yale College career, a Branford freshman returned to his suite early last week to find his bedroom ransacked and death threats scrawled on the walls. Rumors swirled. For freshmen living in Vanderbilt Hall, it was an unpleasant beginning to their Yale careers.

And the response from the University did not help.

A week after the incident was first reported, most University administrators’ lips remain sealed and police officers continue to describe it simply as “criminal mischief” and have declined to elaborate further, citing the need to preserve the...

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