Jacob Leibenluft
Jacob Leibenluft
Recent Stories
Leibenluft: Exploring the great mystery of the News
One of the greatest mysteries surrounding the Yale Daily News is surely this: How, for 130 years, have generations of Yalies been convinced to spend night after night working on a college daily?
Colleges vie for low-income students
Admissions officers question whether size of target student pool is sufficient
When Harvard revealed last month that it would significantly expand its financial aid next year, administrators at Yale and several other Ivies did not just notice what Harvard announced. They noticed when Harvard announced it. Harvard's new policy --...
Among admits, a search for singular Elis
One in four freshmen are the only Yalies from their school in last five years
Just less than one quarter of students in the Class of 2009 were the only graduates from their high schools to enter Yale in the last five years, while more than two in five come from schools that have sent five people to Yale during that period, an...
Coffin's legacy shows evolution of activism
Shortly after the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. '49 DIV '56 returned home to New Haven from Alabama in 1961, he received a letter marked "Confidential" from Yale provost Norman Buck. Coffin, Yale's chaplain, had been arrested for leading "freedom...
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After weeks of apparent success in combating a spike in street crime that began last fall, four robberies this week offered the first serious test of whether the University's response has been sufficient to maintain security on and around campus.
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Gary Fencik '76 did not know what he was getting into in the fall of 1985. The Chicago Bears' All-Pro safety had been asked by his teammate, wide receiver Willie Gault, to join nine Bears on a rap song they were making for charity. Fencik agreed...
100 years of modern football
By the time the 1905 Harvard-Yale game ended, American football was in a state of crisis. At Yale and Harvard, the game was as popular as ever. On Nov. 25, 1905, roughly 43,000 spectators watched the Bulldogs take on the Crimson in Boston with the...
Election turned on strategy
As Nick Shalek '05 decided during the summer whether to run for Ward 1 alderman, he knew that he had virtually no experience in New Haven politics, no knowledge about how to run a campaign in Ward 1, and few established contacts among the...
Alito was quiet scholar
Nominee's Law School years shed light on conservative leanings
Among his former classmates, there is almost universal agreement on what Samuel Alito LAW '75 was not when he attended Yale Law School. He was not loud. He was not a radical. He did not call attention to himself. Instead, his classmates said, the man...
Will India Buy Yale?
It doesn't have Yale's international reach -- virtually every student at the school is Indian-born and raised. But it does have one thing: the Yale logo on its letterhead. Yale established a "memorandum of understanding" with Great Lakes, a special...