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Ivy Muslims hold conference
The first ever Ivy Muslims Conference this weekend persevered despite a mid-Atlantic snowstorm Friday night. Muslims from five Ivy League schools convened at Yale Saturday and Sunday in the first conference organized by Muslim Student Association chapters across the Ivy League. About 120 delegates from each Ivy League school attended, with 30 delegates from Yale. Attendees from the Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton chapters were absent due to the snowstorm that hit Friday night.
Af-Am dean search discussed
Though students expressed sadness over the departure of Assistant Dean Pamela George from her position as director of the Afro-American Cultural Center after 10 years, they said the search for a replacement has provided an opportunity to build on her legacy.
Slifka gets new director
After a year of waiting, the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale has a new director: Steven Sitrin, a Rhode Island resident who has served as director of student life centers at both Carnegie Mellon University and George Washington University.
Slifka Center hires artist in residence
Fourteen years after its establishment, the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale now has its first ever artist-in-residence: filmmaker Ilana Lapid ’99.
Spike Lee criticizes media
Filmmaker Spike Lee is proud of the New York Yankees but not the founding fathers. Sporting a Yankees baseball cap and blazer, Lee coolly denounced presidential forefathers such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as the main reason anti-black sentiment still exists in the media.
No minced words at Spike Lee Dean's Tea
Sporting a Yankees baseball cap and blazer, Lee coolly denounced George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — in expletive-laced language — as the main reason anti-black sentiment still exists in the media. “We should blame this founding father s---,” he said, citing the fact that both those former presidents owned slaves. As part of the Dean's Tea series, the Afro-American Cultural Center hosted filmmaker Spike Lee at 4 p.m. Monday at the Whitney Humanities Center. Lee spoke extensively about the inspiration behind his most famous films, images of black people in American mainstream media and the death of Michael Jackson.
Yale Dems lobby for mayor
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has recruited the Yale College Democrats to help advance his primary re-election campaign push moving into Tuesday’s election: improving New Haven’s schools.
Cultural houses host panel on law careers
Minority students worried about succeeding in a law career can look to the experiences of others who have forged the way, according to the organizers of Tuesday’s “Minorities in Law” panel.
Professor goes back to school
Tamar Gendler ’87 likes to save paper. So she prints her problem sets for PSYC 518, “Multivariate Statistics,” on the back of discarded pages from the rough draft of a book she is writing.
Undergraduate Organizing Committee chalked colleges
The Undergraduate Organizing Committee has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the campaign of chalk and fliers that proposes new names for Yale buildings the group says are named after supporters of slavery.