Update, 3:35 p.m. Sunday | Salovey stopped by the Freshman Bazaar this afternoon and, again, was decidedly mustache-less. Photographic evidence above. This is not a joke: Provost Peter Salovey appeared at the Freshman Assembly ceremonies this morning without his trademark mustache. It is unclear when Salovey — who was the subject of a...
Update, 4 p.m. Tuesday | Not a freshman? The speeches from Saturday's two Freshman Assembly ceremonies have now been posted online. Click here to read University President Richard Levin's remarks, and here for Dean of Yale College Mary Miller's...
University President Richard Levin's summer media blitz continues this week with an essay in Newsweek that outlines his views on how colleges and universities should respond to the economic downturn. "For private endowment-dependent schools, two questions loom large: Did we spend too much during the good years? And did...
A video of University President Richard Levin's hour-long interview with Charlie Rose of PBS last night is now online. In the...
University President Richard Levin will sit down with Charlie Rose of PBS this evening for an hour-long interview. The show airs at 11 p.m. Eastern time. Levin last spoke with Rose in 2004, when he and the television host talked about everything from Yale's relationship with then-President George W. Bush '68 to the skills required to run a university and the health of...
Don't try to send an e-mail to an msn.com, hotmail.com, or live.com address from your Yale e-mail account; Microsoft is currently blocking all e-mails sent from mail.yale.edu to those domains. According to a
Updated 7:44 p.m. Elis will find a bit of a surprise when they look at their Yale account statement today: The optional student activities fee has been increased from $50 to $75 for the next school year. The Yale College Dean's Office said in April that it was considering raising the fee,...
Updated 9:57 p.m. In a stunning, heartbreaking and utterly tragic announcement for those who need their daily chicken avocado wrap, Yale Dining Services announced today that undergraduates on University meal plans will no longer be allowed to swipe at the Law School Dining Hall beginning this fall. In an e-mail message to students, the executive...
Now that his successor has been named, what happens if Harold Hongju Koh fails to win confirmation as legal adviser to the Department of State? Put it this way: Yale officials really, really don’t think that’s going to happen. It better not, at least, or Koh may come back to find himself working in a much smaller office in the Sterling Law Building.
Before Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 was nominated to the Supreme Court, she was a student at Princeton — and a classmate of Yale College Dean Mary Miller. Along with four other students, Sotomayor and Miller served on a student search committee for a new assistant dean of student affairs. Frustrated with the process, the group wrote a letter to the editor in the September...
The University distributed a letter to members of the class of 1999, asking for their help with the ongoing investigation of Suzanne Jovin’s slaying. (Read the story here.) Jovin, a political science and international studies double major, was found stabbed 17 times on the evening of Dec. 4,...
Officiating weddings for the children of his Provost's Office colleagues, apparently. In fact, Salovey's shout-out in today's New York Times — for officiating the wedding of Clelia Peters '00 and Blake Suttle '97, the son of a deputy provost, Lloyd Suttle, and the coordinator of the...
