It has been too long since Yale beat Harvard. We hope for a victory on Saturday, but we are also ready to give Tom Williams some time.

With the outcome of today’s election all but certain, it’s time for change in the city’s electoral process.

The three deaths at Yale in the past week remind us of life’s fragility and of the strength of our community.

Reaccreditation gives us the opportunity to improve our University. Let’s not waste it.

The warrants against Raymond Clark III have been sealed for far too long. We hope they will be opened today.

The column on this page by Yale’s residential college deans and masters raises many important concerns about bladderball.

Yesterday’s announcement that Charles Ellis ’59 has withdrawn his proposal for improvements to the Grove Street Cemetery is both a setback and an opportunity for those of us who care deeply about Yale and New Haven.

As hordes of students from each residential college rushed to Old Campus on Saturday afternoon to take part in the bacchanalia called bladderball, so too did the new editorial board of this newspaper.

Over the weekend, the News completed the process of electing its new editorial and business board members.

Newspapers, they say, are dying. Perhaps — somewhere else. On this campus, journalism is alive and well.

The University is right not to overrule a master’s invitation to a controversial Danish cartoonist to speak on campus today.

A week and two days after Annie Le GRD ’13 was reported missing, a suspect in her murder was arrested and charged. All the University and law enforcement officials involved in the investigation deserve the gratitude and praise of the Yale community for their tireless work.

After 10 Amistad St. morphed from an anonymous research laboratory to a media campground, after missing-person posters were plastered on campus and billboards hung above local highways, after the breathless television news reports and endless searches with bloodhounds, University President Richard Levin said the only thing that could be said: “This is as bad as it gets.”

On Sunday thousands of student flooded Old Campus to hear live music performed by fellow Yalies and to eat food from a diverse selection of national and regional cuisines. The day was beautiful; the music was exciting and fun; the food — until it ran out — was tasty.

The predatory and offensive e-mail is public, spread widely across campus. Little more fallout can come of it. But a stronger response can — and must — be seen.

Historic preservation is not a blind rule, but a balancing act: The preservation of the past must be balanced with the construction that is necessary to allow for growth and progress.

Forty years ago, freshman move-in day at Yale was a little different. As usual, a thousand new students and their families descended on Old Campus, as had been the case for decades. There was the expected gridlock on local streets, the clamor of packing and unpacking, stair-climbing and box shuffling; and, perhaps above all else, the excitement of a new class of Elis embarking upon their bright college years.

The campaign has shown an exciting debate about New Haven, as well as three capable candidates. Among them, one seems most ready to be an effective alderman for Ward 1.