A Scholar and Gentleman
One hundred years ago, Owen Johnson's novel "Stover at Yale" was published. An American version of "Tom Brown at Oxford," the book recounts Dink Stover's transition from the Lawrenceville School to Old Campus. As expected, his classmates, professors, and coaches groomed him into the Yale gentleman — a class leader, a football star, and a member of Skull and Bones.
Cross Campus Presents: 2011 through the Lens
Photos of 2011's top stories. It's been a busy year for Yale and New Haven. Scroll through this gallery to see some of the year's lasting images.
A portrait of Mr. X
In his new book “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” Yale history professor John Lewis Gaddis paints an engaging and detailed portrait of his subject.
Stephen Gyllenhaal: accidental director, hip-hop enthusiast, situational lawbreaker
At one point, film director Stephen Gyllenhaal (“Waterland,” “A Dangerous Woman,” “Losing Isaiah”) chose wrestling over Yale. His latest movie production, “Grassroots,” about two slackers running for office in Seattle, Wash., will premiere at the Whitney Humanities Center today at 7 p.m. WEEKEND managed to only mention his children once, tangentially.
Irene Dispatch: Stocking up at Stop & Shop
Even though it was only 8:00 am, the Stop and Shop was already bustling with shoppers stocking up for the hurricane.
There’s no VPN in your Jasmine Revolution
The policeman inched towards me with a cold, methodical gaze.
OCI is live for 2011-2012 school year
UPDATED: 6:17 p.m. Yalies, start blue-booking because courses for fall 2011 and spring 2011 are available on Yale Online Course Information (OCI). A big change to this year's OCI is listing for classes in the new Global Affairs major, which include "Gateway to Global Affairs," "Violence and Cvil Strife," and "Water, Disease & Global Health."
Harold Koh defends U.S. involvement in Libya
Has Harold Koh flip-flopped? The former Yale Law School dean, now serving as the State Department legal adviser, is defending U.S. involvement in Libya without Congress's approval. On Tuesday, he will appear in front of the Senate Foreign Relations to argue the White House's actions are lawful.
WEEKEND | Who needs Tyco?
A young man came into the narrow print shop with a 300-page book in his hand.
WEEKEND | PKU Bikin' Blues
In 1991, Fred Strebeigh, who now teaches non-fiction writing at Yale, wrote about how students and citizens used bicycles to mobilize for the Tiananmen Square protests. He described China as "a country with only a few thousand privately-owned cars but some 220 million cycles."
Dream deferred
Instead of turning to Undergraduate Career Services — like students interested in pursuing careers in business, medicine, law, non-profit, or education — Yale’s proto-wordsmiths largely rely on other, more informal resources. Although Yale has improved and expanded the writing concentration within the English major, the program does not offer practical preparation for the writing profession. Students depend on unofficial social networks, writing professors and their own determination to succeed in the literary arts.
ROTC not necessarily a guarantee, Times reports
ROTC's return to Yale and other Ivy League universities that had banned the program might not be a guarantee, according to a Jan. 27 article in the New York Times.
Obama supports ROTC's return to campuses
Bring back ROTC. That message was a part of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Yale Daily News Roundtable: ROTC
Multimedia reporter Baobao Zhang leads a round table on ROTC.
37 panlists spammed, students learn of others' lost items
Did you get spammed? A mass e-mail chain has been circulating between students on 37 panlists on Friday night.
Zhang: The Tiger Mother, unplugged
I once told my friend that I would send my future kids to boarding school.
ROTC may return to Yale
After President Barack Obama signed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” — the military’s policy banning gays and lesbians from serving openly — on Dec. 22, University administrators began working to reintroduce ROTC, which was banned from campus during the Vietnam War.
Yalies support ROTC return, survey says
Online Exclusive
A new survey by the Yale College Council reveals substantial student support for ROTC's return to campus.
Admins to discuss ROTC with military reps
Online Exclusive
Yale administrators are moving quickly to bring the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) back to campus since Congress voted last week to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that banned gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military.
DADT repeal may pave way for ROTC return
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Congress's decision to repeal " "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the military's policy that bans gays and lesbians from openly serving, makes it easier for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to return to campus, said James Campbell '13, who heads the Yale College Council ROTC Committee.
Dartmouth freshman arrested for narcotics possession
Two Ivy League drug busts in less than two weeks! After the now infamous Columbia incident, Dartmouth freshman Delos Chang was arrested on six counts of possessing narcotics, the Dartmouth reported.
Open-air preacher returns
He's back... Confrontational open-air preacher Jesse Morrell struck Yale again Wednesday.
Briefly: Yale prof signs anti-DADT statement
The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell debate is over, according to a statement released Tuesday by 30 professors and scholars — including Yale Law School senior research scholar and lecturer Eugene Fidell.
Now Yalies can get "lunch" too
Yalies, too, can meet strangers for "non-romantic" lunches—thanks to YaleLunch.com. The website is created by Seth Riddley, the creator of HarvardLunch.com.
Koh tells WikiLeaks to stop it
WikiLeaks is at it again! But can the rhetoric of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh stop it from releasing 250,000 secret U.S. State Department documents?
Calhoun student dies from brain tumor
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Daniel Siegel '11 passed away Saturday morning due to an aggressive brain tumor, according to an e-mail from Master Jonathan Holloway to Calhoun College students.
Harvard student invents way to meet random people
Harvardlunch.com could potentially be the best or worst idea since Random Dorm.
Punk vs. Patriot
Like it or not, Mark Zuckerberg has become Mr. Harvard these days — thanks to Facebook and now to the film “The Social Network.” He has become the Bill Gates of our generation. And as we all know, Gates also attended Harvard as an undergraduate, only to drop out.
‘Rent’ imitates rock, not life
The Yale Dramat’s mainstage production of “Rent” rattles you like a stadium rock concert. The lights, the spectacle, the electrifying music culminates in a theatrical production. But the performance lacks a certain human touch, making it feel too much like art and not enough like life.
Struggling without structure
Oz Woloshyn, a student at Oxford University, said his study abroad experience at Yale — though educational and fun — lacked structure. A new study abroad program starting next year seeks to correct the lack of institutional help and social opportunity for visiting students.
Stewart rally pokes fun at media
The “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” organized by Comedy Central personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, drew over one hundred Yalies to Washington, D.C. Saturday.
Dispatch from D.C.: Halloween costumes and the Roots
Reporter Baobao Zhang writes in from the "Rally to Restore Sanity."
Special Multimedia Feature: "Hands on — Hands off" opening reception
The Yale School of Art faculty exhibition, "Hands off — Hands on," had its official opening reception on Tuesday, Oct. 26, in Green Hall. Staff reporter Baobao Zhang spoke with arts students and faculty members at the reception about the show, the works and a surprise fire alarm.
Harvard Club controversy
Ethical or not? For the past eight years, the New York City Police Foundation has been picking up the tab for New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly—for money he spend at the Harvard Club, according to the New York Times.
Documentarian talks New Haven and teachers' unions
New Haven education reform got a high profile shout out recently.
YCC to survey students on ROTC
The Yale College Council is working on plans to survey students on their interest in ROTC programs and in bringing an ROTC program back to Yale, more than 40 years after it was banned by faculty at the height of the Vietnam War.
Columnist is proud to be a Yalie
Proud of your Yale education? Yale alum Anne Applebaum ’86, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, sure is. She quickly to pounce on Christine O’Donnell’s "I didn't go to Yale ad," calling it “anti-elite-education populism.”
Gant is already looking for employees
Gant's New Haven store, opening in November, is already looking for part-time sales associations. The company posted an ad on Craigslist looking for potential employees "with a flair for contemporary American fashion."
Gant tweets about Yale
Gant, the Swiss-owned clothing brand that sells preppy attire, is tweeting about their return to New Haven.
Gant returns to New Haven
Gant, a Swiss-owned clothing store that started in New Haven in the 1940s, is coming back to York Street. It may compete with J. Press and J. Crew.
Non-profits have slight edge in campus recruiting
Few organizations know of fee waiver option through UCS
When it comes to recruiting Yalies through the Undergraduate Career Services eRecruiting website, non-profit organizations may have a slight advantage over investments banks and consulting companies.
Yale spinoff wins suit against Apple
Damages to company still in limbo
Mirror Worlds, the software company owned by Yale computer science professor David Gelernter, was set to win more than $600 million in a lawsuit against Apple Inc. last Friday. But Apple successfully filed an emergency motion on Sunday to prevent the verdict from being enacted.
Backstage: Fareed Zakaria '86
Journalist, TV Personality, Former YPU President
Journalist and Yale trustee Fareed Zakaria ’86 defies convention. An intended science major, he became president of the Yale Political Union and quadrupled its membership. He entered the world of journalism and, at 28, became the managing editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine. During his career, Zakaria crossed and recrossed the lines between print, magazine and broadcast. Along the way, Zakaria has penned two best-sellers, “The Post-American World” and “The Future of Freedom.” In addition to his weekly CNN program “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” he served as the international editor of Newsweek before recently moving to Time Magazine.
At Columbia, a push for ROTC despite setbacks
Two Columbia students have organized an intercollegiate conference in early October to discuss the return of ROTC to campuses that have banned them.
Levin offers support for immigration proposal
Bill would provide amnesty for students who entered U.S. illegally
Twenty-four Yale students met to lobby senators to pass the DREAM Act, an amendment to a bill facing the Senate that would provide amnesty for students who have entered the United States illegally. University President Richard Levin lent them his support Monday — making his first public statement on the matter after declining to do so in the past.
With city board's approval, DKE plans expansion
Zoning board approves, but neighbors, Univ. concerned
The city’s Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday approved plans to merge the two Lake Place lots owned by a national DKE affiliate so that DKE can have one bigger, restored building instead of two in varying degrees of disrepair.
CollegeOnly big on ambition, low on users
New social network seeks more privacy than Facebook
The new social network site, which limits its users to college students and is currently available only to Yale, Princeton and Cornell students, is still in its early stages of development.
For God(?), for fun, for Cali
Katy Perry’s single “California Gurls” was supposed to be the high-fructose answer to J-Zay’s “Empire State of Mind,” the tabloids declared in May. I just laughed back then. After watching the music video, in which Perry shoots whipped cream from her bra, I laughed some more. But I stopped laughing when one evening this summer, strolling in the East Village, I started to hum her melody. Between YouTube and parties, radios and shopping mall loudspeakers, Perry’s ingenious music machine had succeed (again) in planting bubblegum in everyone’s minds.
Few Yalies embrace e-books
College students nationwide prefer print editions
The Yale Bookstore has launched its first serious e-textbook sale, but the phenomenon has yet to catch on.The devices are rare, even in large lecture classes.
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