Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
The man who helped transform the Ivy League from a low-profile athletics conference to a breeding ground for national contenders has announced his retirement after 24 years of dedicated service. Jeffrey Orleans ’67 LAW ’71 revealed last week that he will step down from what some call the hardest job in college athletics — executive director of the Council of Ivy...
Despite allegations that Harvard University’s admissions standards for athletic recruits may be slipping, athletics officials at both Harvard and Yale say there is not yet enough evidence to speak to the allegations’ veracity. According to a New York Times article published Sunday, this year, Harvard’s basketball program recruited players with lower academic...
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...
This year’s Harvard-Yale experience was full of hopeful waiting — fans waiting for a touchdown, alumni waiting to enter the parking lot and students waiting for buses to get to and from The Game. While most students interviewed thought the busing system was adequate, many also said they were at least a little frustrated with slow-moving lines and inefficiently...
This weekend, the Eastern College Athletic Conference will honor Yale’s Senior Associate Athletic Director Barbara Chesler for her commitment to promoting women’s athletics both at Yale and across the country. Chesler will receive ECAC’s Katherine Ley Award at a dinner Sunday evening. A 23-year veteran of the Yale Athletics Department, Chesler has encouraged the...
A week after the University rolled out its Zipcar program, the city of New Haven is trying to bring the car-sharing service to downtown apartment dwellers. The University’s service, which allows Elis to rent cars on an hourly basis from Zipcar, Inc., has exceeded expectations for sign-ups in its first week, the program’s director said. 105 students and 48 faculty and...
There is no tenure track in the Department of Athletics. And so head football coach Jack Siedlecki will take the sidelines on Saturday, his Elis opening their most anticipated season in years against a historically dismal Georgetown squad, under the weekly scrutiny that haunts his job like a specter. Siedlecki has long been students’ and alums’ scapegoat for his...
Homophobic activities at the men’s tennis team initiation this fall have raised concerns among members of Yale’s LGBT community, a representative of whom met with Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg Monday to discuss how to respond to an event he described as a “terrible joke.” During dinner on Nov. 10, team members wearing women’s underwear and fishnet...
