Updated: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 5:14am
Like the majority of Yale’s undergraduate population, I was not a recruited athlete. And, like everyone else here, I understand that our campus population is made up of varsity athletes and “non-athletes.” Yet many of these “non-athletes” were varsity athletes in high school, myself included, and still play club and intramural sports here. It is unfair, first of...
The Habitat Challenge has hit another speed bump just over a month before the trip is set to begin. The organizers of the annual fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity announced last week that, instead of driving across the country to promote New Haven’s chapter, students this summer will spend a month in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast building homes for Hurricane...
About 2,200 students, academics and professionals from all 50 states and 55 countries descended on New Haven over the weekend to exchange ideas about improving global health. The gathering, part of the fifth annual Unite for Sight Conference, included talks and panel discussions on a range of global-health issues. Although Unite For Sight focuses primarily on vision and...
When Vincent Scully ’40 GRD ’49 was master of Morse College in the early 1960s, he made a habit of cross-country skiing in the nearby Grove Street Cemetery. His route was, by necessity, circular — there is only one gate with access in and out of the expansive walled cemetery. In a telephone interview Thursday from his home in Florida, Scully was not thinking much...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — “One, two, three — Obama!” Hands fly skyward in a mock sports cheer, and a few bubbly volunteers — college students or recent, but experienced, young graduates — set to work, joining others already engaged in “getting out the vote.” It is March 18, and the remnants of St. Patrick’s Day are apparent in the green, clover-strewn...
In an effort to ease the search for a new head of the New Haven Police Department, the Board of Aldermen Finance Committee approved a measure last night that would increase the maximum allowable salary for the position. City officials have been engaged in a national search since outgoing NHPD Chief Francisco Ortiz announced in December he would resign following the...
How many times? The Coxe Cage track — like most others — is 200 meters in circumference. In other words, you have to run around it eight times for a mile-long race. And, unlike fall’s cross country, the 3,000-meter event requires each athlete to circle the track 15 times. But don’t worry, there is a counter who records the leader’s lap count. This gets sticky...
In the final rung of invitational-style competition for the indoor track and field teams, several Bulldogs earned themselves a spot in championship meets that follow the approaching two-week Ivy League season. The men’s and women’s teams were in Boston this past weekend competing for regional — IC4A for the men and ECAC for the women — qualifying times at Boston...
The Frank Shorter ’69 track felt the burn of blazing runners at the two-day Giegengack Invitational, where it witnessed a new meet and facility record set in the mile run. Jared Bell ’09 ran the mile in 4:08.07 for a fourth-place finish and an IC4A qualifying time, but running in under four minutes, Andrew Bumbalough of Georgetown took the prize with a time of...
The men’s and women’s cross country teams turned in less than stellar performances at the Heps and Regional Championships this year, but runners on both squads said they were proud to close the curtain on their seasons with their Nov. 17 finale at Van Cortlandt Park. The men’s team finished sixth out of 15 teams at the IC4A Championships in the Bronx, and the...
Low finishes at the Ivy League Championship two weeks ago may have left a bad taste in the mouths of the Yale cross country teams, but this past weekend’s race in Boston provided the runners with a big helping of redemption. The men and women garnered eighth- and 10th-place finishes, respectively, out the 34 teams that competed in the NCAA Northeast regional at...
The glass is not half-empty just yet for the men and women’s cross country teams, who both finished in the bottom half of their respective races in the Bronx. At the Heptagonal Championships, the Bulldogs managed to set both Ivy League and Yale records, despite the men’s eighth-place finish, with 170 points, and the women’s sixth-place finish, with 33 points...
