Taryn Williams
Taryn Williams
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An anniversary, but no cause for celebration
Today is Universal Children's Day, the anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The document, which has provisions that range from protections against the use of child soldiers to guaranteeing all children the right to a...
Former ambassador talks about U.S.-China relations
Former U.S. Ambassador to China James Lilley '51 said yesterday that he is optimistic about U.S.-China relations and predicted a peaceful resolution to the standoff between China and Taiwan. But Lilley added that North Korea poses more serious...
Biology major transforms, but still faces obstacles
Science Hill redevelopment brings new opportunities
Yale biology is evolving. At a time when the major is undergoing significant restructuring and the biology departments' facilities will be transformed by a $500 million Science Hill redevelopment project, the biology departments are looking to maintain...
University moderates 'Teli' fight
The scuffle over a Yale online television station gives new meaning to the phrase "TV drama." A debate erupted last semester between some of the founders of the student-run television Web site Teli and YaleStation.org. The two sides are contesting who...
Onion co-founder extols the virtues of humor
The phrase "A living eight-pound man has been rescued from a woman's vagina" does not come up at a typical Master's Tea. But it was one of the many headlines from the spoof newspaper The Onion that amused the audience at a Pierson Master's Tea Thursday...
Jeffords addresses packed house
The man who created the current Democratic majority in the Senate came to Yale Friday. Senator James Jeffords '58 of Vermont, whose decision to leave the Republican party in May gave Democrats control of one house of Congress, addressed first a...
Globalization center has new vision after Sept. 11
An hour into the first staff meeting of Yale's brand-new Center for the Study of Globalization, Director Strobe Talbott's assistant broke into the meeting to announce that there was something on the news she thought they should see. It was the morning...
Bradley Hoorn '01 remembered with memorial service
Students, recent graduates and the family of Bradley Hoorn '01 gathered in Dwight Chapel Sunday afternoon to remember the life of the Calhoun College graduate who died Sept. 11 in the World Trade Center. Friends told stories about Hoorn's days at Yale...
Yale Police will move to Dixwell
With the encouragement of nearby residents, Yale intends to build a new police station at a site behind the Grove Street Cemetery in the Dixwell neighborhood. The University has acquired property at the corner of Ashmun and Lock streets -- two...
Sociology recovering, filling vacancies
With four senior appointments in the last three years and searches to fill more top spots ongoing, the Sociology Department is coming back from the dead. As it continues its massive, and thus far successful, rebuilding effort, Sociology is enjoying a...