Zachary Abrahamson
Zachary Abrahamson
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Zedillo discusses World Bank report
Yale professor Ernesto Zedillo, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, recently led a review of the governance and international priorities of the World Bank. The 46-page report, “Repowering the World Bank for the 21st Century,” calls for a restructuring of the Bank’s governing bodies and a rethinking of how the Bank devises strategy, among other recommendations.
UP CLOSE | Measuring Yale’s value in clubs and classes
The words could have been written yesterday. “Extra-curricular activities have hindered academic interest due to the concept of the successful Yale man,” wrote the Aurelian Honor Society in their 1957 report entitled “Academic Indifference at Yale.” “If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities.” It was 1957. A group of 14 seniors forming the society was set to graduate. Just four years earlier, the men entered Yale to the words of Gaddis Smith ’54, then-chairman of the Yale Daily News.
Studios to relieve crunch
With the opening of the Broadway Rehearsal Lofts earlier this month, members of undergraduate dance and theater groups are breathing a sigh of relief that the new space will help relieve what has for several years been a chronic crunch on rehearsal and performance spaces on campus. But despite the plush new digs, dance groups can still expect a space crunch on campus.
Focus on the food
With aramark out of the way, dining services director to focus on creativity, food quality, text messaging
There is a beginning for all things. For Rafi Taherian, Yale’s new executive director of dining services, that was Stir (or, to undergraduates, the “Ivy Noodle station in Commons”).
YCC, take two
As another academic year gathers steam, the Yale College Council has many choices to make. Issues spanning financial aid, dining services and activities-funding confront president Rich Tao ’10 and his E-board.
Dean Search: Without seat on committee, YCC to solicit student input
Elis will have a voice in picking the man or woman who will become what many are calling “the new Dean Salovey.” They just won’t have a seat at the table.
Intercultural czar lays out plan
It’s not easy to get Yalies to talk about race. But Kirk Hooks is trying to do exactly that. In early August, the University announced the hiring of Hooks — its first intercultural czar — with little fanfare.
Yale to add alcohol director
It’s not a czar: It’s an educator. That about sums up the University’s vision for Yale’s first-ever director of alcohol and substance abuse initiatives, a new Dean’s Office post the University is trying to fill by fall 2009.
Admin: Position not a reaction
It’s not a response, administrators said. Then what is it?
In dean’s office, a fresh face
It was the piece that ended Raymond Ou’s piano career. Over a decade later, it was the piece that brought him to Yale.