Vivian Yee
Editor in Chief
Vivian Yee
Editor in Chief
Recent Stories
For Our Readers: Covering a suicide
The death of John Miller MUS '07.
For Our Readers: Covering a tragedy
Amid the hubbub of Bulldog Days’ beginning and the continuing controversy over the Title IX investigation into Yale, the campus lost a student this past week. Michele Dufault ’11 was the sixth student to die in the past two years. Several of us at the News were her friends or acquaintances; all of us knew people who had been in Saybrook, or the Yale Precision Marching Band, or the physics or astronomy departments, or the Yale Drop Team, with her. In reporting on her death and attending her vigil, we encountered distraught friends everywhere.
For Our Readers: Reporting and WEDing Title IX
At 3:48 p.m. last Thursday, Hannah Zeavin ’12 e-mailed me a press release that began: “On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an investigation of Yale University for its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment on campus, in violation of Title IX.” Thus began a week of frantic reporting about the Title IX complaint for campus publications including the News, Broad Recognition and the Herald, as well as for national news outlets from ABC to the New York Times.
Introducing “For Our Readers”
Today marks the debut of “For Our Readers,” an online column written by the editors of News for the benefit of, well, our readers.
Floodwater hits central campus
Saturday is supposed to dawn sunny and clear, but it may be too late: Stormwater flooding has been reported all over campus, from the Timothy Dwight basement and dining hall to the athletic fields.
For modern administrators, one mansion is too many
The houses of Hillhouse Avenue once provided a center of social life for Yale administrators and New Haven’s upper class. Years later, Yale’s president, provost and college dean all elect to keep the private homes they occupied before being appointed.
In focus: How one department coped with budget cuts
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations has had to make serious choices about how to preserve its academic programs while also cutting its budget. The choices it made provide a peek into what departments across the University have done since Yale’s endowment tumbled in 2009.
Swensen model still highly regarded among investors
Although the endowment posted an 8.9 percent return, the lowest in the Ivy League, industry experts still seethe Swensen model of institutional investing as a successful approach in the long term.
Endowment posts 8.9 percent gain
Return is lowest in the Ivy League so far
Yale's endowment has posted the lowest return announced in the Ivy League so far, in part because of its real estate investments, which lost value this year even as other parts of the endowment grew.