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Students get clever with robots
This weekend, a rowdy, banner-waiving, youthful crowd filled the New Haven Coliseum. Dressed in team colors, they formed a conga line and danced down the aisles to the song "Hot, hot, hot." But these high school students were not cheering for their...
Good fire doors make odd neighbors
Thin fire doors sometimes bring neighbors closer together than they would like
Fire doors in Yale's residential rooms are there to save lives, but at 4 a.m., many a Yalie would rather risk peril in a raging fire than listen to his neighbor sing along to a Disney soundtrack. Imagine trying to sleep while gangster rap music is...
Etiquette classes debut in Saybrook
Despite their prep school pedigrees, many Yalies appear to have been raised in a barn. At one table, there is a girl eating with her elbows on the table. A few seats down, another student is playing with his food. One particularly feisty table of...
Yalies with piercings: a small but visible minority
Last April Fool's Day, Marissa Ain '04 called her mother with some surprising news. She said that she had dyed her hair purple, pierced her tongue and eyebrow, and was dating a 25-year-old. "Two of those four things were true," Ain said. "But all my...
Broad use of meningitis vaccine questioned
Beverly Beckwith had just started working as the director of nursing at the University of Connecticut when an epidemic struck the student body. "It was initiation by fire," Beckwith said. On April 30, 1993, a UConn student came down with bacterial...
Externships let Yalies learn from the best
Ashleigh Hegedus '03 stood by a patient whose ribcage was wide open as a group of doctors stopped his heart from beating, took blood vessels out of his leg, and proceeded to insert them into the clogged areas of his heart. She then saw them put the...
Shakepeare Lady Gets Her 15 Minutes of Fame
Margaret Holloway DRA '80 spoke loudly and rapidly about her life as she sat on the stoop of a building near the Whitney Avenue. Willoughby's coffee shop. She is on this corner often. At nightfall, on the corner of Wall Street, sounds of Holloway's...
Gay studies, professors face rocky road at Yale
Former Yale professor Jonathan Weinberg '78 said he first came out in 1977 because of a gay and lesbian group on campus that, on "National Coming Out Day," encouraged students to wear jeans if they were gay or if they were supportive of gays.
Store offers free books to students, residents
Clutching his mother's wheelchair, 8-year-old Tyrone Greene stared in incredulity at the stacks of books bigger than him. "It's a good thing the books are free," Greene said as he picked up a book with a Tonka truck on the cover. "There's not even a...
Forestry school looks to become global force
As Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies enters its second century, students and faculty alike are reflecting on its history, with a critical eye towards the future. The school started 100 years ago as a pioneering school of forestry.