Julie Post
Julie Post
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To grow, Yale goes to China
Levin sees strategic opportunity in booming country
Daniel Weisfield '08 thought he was leaving Yale thousands of miles behind when he traveled to China last year to study Mandarin in Beijing. But the humanities major soon discovered that he was far from being the only Yalie in the bustling city.
Yale to revisit Game policy
University seeks alternatives to drinking
Nearly 10 months after last year's Harvard-Yale football game in Cambridge, Mass. ended in several arrests and dozens of citations for underage drinking, the Yale administration is discussing whether to change its policy for the tailgates at the Yale...
Anthropology profs fear exodus
In wake of Graber uproar, faculty and students worry up to six professors may go
Just months after the Anthropology Department voted not to renew sociocultural anthropology professor David Graeber's contract, rumors are swirling that the department may lose as many as six additional professors by the end of the academic year.
Junior in ICU after accident
Choe '07 listed in critical condition after colliding with bus near SSS
A Saybrook College junior was in critical condition Tuesday evening after a collision with a moving Connecticut Transit bus in the afternoon in front of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. Wook Choe '07 collided with the right rear side of the bus at...
Committee to review tenure process
Group will lead surveys of faculty and research other universities' policies
Changes to Yale's complex tenure appointment process may be afoot as a committee to review Yale's tenure policies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will begin meeting at the end of this month with the possibility of recommending reforms by the...
Graeber appeals decision
Some speculate that refusal to renew anarchst's contract was based on his political opinions
Sociocultural anthropology professor David Graeber, a self-described anarchist whose contract renewal was denied by the University last spring, has formally appealed the decision amid suspicion the denial was based on his political views. Graeber was...
New profs join Math Dept.
After facing a string of vacancies due to retirements, the Mathematics Department is rebuilding its ranks this year with the additions of one tenured professor and six assistant professors. Bruce Kleiner, a former University of Michigan professor who...
GESO has 11 arrested in NYU protest
Eleven members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct Wednesday at a labor rally staged at New York University. The GESO activists were among 76 demonstrators from Columbia, NYU and other...
Levesque fills new freshman dean post
There is a fresh face guiding freshmen this year. George Levesque stepped into the newly-minted post of assistant dean of freshman affairs just over two weeks ago, taking on a position that was created last spring to oversee the academic and social...
NYU rally to draw GESO protesters
About 100 members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization are expected to demonstrate at a labor rally in New York today alongside New York University graduate students who are fighting to regain union recognition. In GESO's first organized...