An 88-day relay for life 3.31.09
After braving barnacles and brine in the name of cancer research at Yale, Paul Ridley stepped into the record books and onto dry land at 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
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Seniors get tech tips from Elis 3.30.09
Wedged in the corner of the Tower One Retirement Community’s first floor, room 100 is living up to its name: the “Activities Room.” Complete with a kitchen, multipurpose table and 14 computers, the room has taken on an additional role: technology center.
Earth Hour promotes awareness 3.30.09
From the Great Pyramids and the Sydney Opera House, people, institutions and landmarks around the globe powered down from 8:30 to 9:30 local time Saturday night in order to raise awareness about the benefits of energy conservation and the issue of climate change.
Yale battles Howard in ‘Great Debate’ 3.30.09
It was an event styled after the 2007 movie “The Great Debaters”: A troupe of debaters from a historically black college came north to take on a national debate giant. But this time, the stakes were lower and the teams different — whereas Harvard and Wiley faced off in the movie, Yale took on Howard University this weekend in Woolsey Hall.
AYA aims to expand service day 3.25.09
Less than two months before the Association of Yale Alumni’s first-ever dedicated, global alumni service day, organizers of the program are pushing to double its scale and get more alumni cleaning parks, working in soup kitchens and teaching underprivileged children to swim, among other volunteer activities.
Grad students push for union 3.05.09
It has happened year after year, like clockwork, for the past eight years. And on Wednesday, it happened again — the Graduate Employees and Students Organization urged the University to accept the group as a union.
Yale sneakers to debut 3.05.09
Managers of a new student startup are anxiously preparing for their big kickoff.
Elis brave cold for gender neutrality 3.04.09
As the icy wind whipped across campus on Tuesday evening, it promised to be a long, cold night for the students sleeping “in” on the frozen ground.
STEP tries multimedia with video campaign 3.03.09
Giving up their Valentine’s Day was not the only sacrifice STEP volunteers made for their newest video. The students also had to clear their set — the Sigma Phi Epsilon house — of empty beer cans.
Student playwrights seek to produce work 3.02.09
Over the weekend, Yalies wanting to see a campus production could choose between the Freshman Show, “Laughing Stock,” and two student-written shows, “An Animorphs Musical” and “With Kings in the Back.” From script to stage, student playwrights can be involved in every aspect of a production.
Margulies: playwright and prof. 3.02.09
Donald Margulies is “recuperating.” In the past five and a half weeks the Yale adjunct professor of English and professor of theater studies has made four round trips with stops in Los Angeles, New York and New Haven.
Apache heirs sue Skull and Bones over remains 2.18.09
The descendants of the Apache Geronimo, a warrior chieftain whose remains are rumored to be held inside Yale’s oldest secret society, filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the return of their ancestor’s skull.
