Yale Daily News

Updated: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 4:08 a.m.

The News' View

News' View: Don’t delay approval

The School of Management needs a new home. This was painfully obvious last week, when it welcomed its new dean in the Law School auditorium because SOM does not have a space large enough to seat its students and faculty.

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Staff Columns

Shor: Finding a free moment

As James Cersonsky pointed out in his column, “Saintly values” (Feb. 5), the Super Bowl is more than a game. As an integral part of American culture, sports have the power to unite people over a common, if somewhat inconsequential, goal. Yet as I witnessed on Sunday night, sports not only bring people together, but also teach us a lesson in how to sit back and, for once,...

Guest Columns

Wellman: Trash Harvard, recycle the rest

At Yale, we have an army of student groups addressing the myriad demands of policy and practice needed to make a large campus environmentally friendly. We have “frozen local” green beans in the dining hall, articles praising an ultra-sustainable Kroon Hall and students balancing plates to save tray-washing water. The University is trying to be good to our planet. It’s a...

Letters

Letter: No need for The New York Times

Re: For a paper in print (Feb. 1): When I first heard that the University planned to remove The New York Times from our dining halls, I, like many, was angry. To me, access to the Times represented access to a form of higher quality information and demonstrated that the University encouraged its students to engage with the world — a principle that in my mind justified the...

The News' Views

News' View: Don’t delay approval

The School of Management needs a new home. This was painfully obvious last week, when it welcomed its new dean in the Law School auditorium because SOM does not have a space large enough to seat its students and faculty.