Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
Among Yale students, the only university that’s more fun to ridicule than Harvard is, of course, Yale. “The Yale Show,” a musical comedy that pokes fun at Yale archetypes, opens tonight in the Off Broadway Theater. It marks the first anniversary of a tradition that started last spring when then-seniors David Chernicoff ’07, Eli Clark ’07, Eric March ’07...
Thomas Hsieh pitches questions to softball’s Ashley Sloan ‘10. The outfielder earned first team All-Ivy honors in her freshman season. TH: So after three long years of servitude to the News, my time here is finally coming to an end. And now, you’re the subject of my last interview, my last article. What do you have to say to that? AS: I actually didn’t know...
There’s a reason he calls himself a “trivia question.” Which Ivy League basketball player had the longest NBA career? The answer: Chris Dudley ’87. Although he has never been an all-star, Dudley has played professionally for 16 seasons, six more than his most famous Ancient Eight predecessor, Princeton’s Bill Bradley. And his career, which ended in 2003, was...
In the last weekend of competition before the two-week hiatus that precedes the Heptagonal Championship, several members of the men’s and women’s track teams had the opportunity to gauge their performances against some of the nation’s top competitors. Relay teams and several individuals representing the Bulldogs competed in the three-day-long Penn Relays, a...
This has been a tough year for Yale. In trying times, sports are enjoyable entertainment and valuable diversions. And the lighter side of sports is even more refreshing when relief is so welcome. This year alone has seen death threats that forced a student off campus, several tragic car accidents, multiple instances of offensive graffiti on campus and an art project that...
The old race The first ever intercollegiate competition began with rowing. In 1852, Yale challenged Harvard to a rowing race along the Thames River in Connecticut, and although the Bulldogs lost the race, time has ranked the sons and daughters of Eli consistently among the best in the nation. This year, the Yale women’s crew team is second in the nation behind UC...
At the Yale-Harvard dual this weekend, both Crimson and navy blood was shed. The Eli men pierced the Crimson in the dual-style meet with a 112-50 victory in New Haven on Saturday, but the Bulldog women fell to Harvard with a score of 96-65. The meet marked the first Ivy League match-up of the outdoor season and the last conference meet before the Ancient Eight faces off...
Ned Fulmer has opened a can of worms. In his column, “Either go big, Bulldogs, or just go home” (4/14), Fulmer makes his case for changes in how the athletics program recruits its athletes — a case that is pretty flimsy in itself. However, that’s not where my issue lies. The biggest problem with Fulmer’s article was the inappropriate way he tries to build his...
Please allow me to apologize for my inflammatory column on Tuesday (“Either go big, Bulldogs, or just go home”). I made exaggerations, generalizations and used stereotypes that were grossly inaccurate. It was wrong to employ them, and I apologize if they were interpreted as personal attacks. They were not meant to be. In no way do I want to belittle the achievements...
Frank Keefe, the head coach of Yale’s men’s and women’s swimming teams, has lost his fair share of athletes over the years. “There’s quitting,” he said, “and then there’s quitting for the right reason.” Keefe is not the only Yale coach to experience heartburn at the exodus of student-athletes, a number of whom leave their teams each year in order to...
Yale administrators and students and parents from middle- and upper-middle-income families were not the only ones to welcome the University’s much-hyped announcement of increased financial aid earlier this month. Another group, overlooked in the midst of the hoopla, had reason to celebrate, too: the Yale athletic community. Administrators in Ray Tompkins House and the...
Even if two new residential colleges increase the number of freshmen filing through Phelps Gate each August, the number making the early-morning trek to Payne Whitney Gymnasium will probably remain the same. University President Richard Levin said Yale College will most likely not admit more recruited athletes if the student body expands, although no official conclusions...
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