Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
Major League Baseball squads are not the only teams in spring training right now: Beginning this week, freshman-counselor teams for the 2008-’09 school year will warm up with a new training regimen focused on expanding their knowledge of Yale’s cultural resources. In order to relax the pace of training — which is usually held during a harried week in August before...
Over 400 students from 53 different colleges and universities converged on Yale over the weekend for the 13th Annual Black Solidarity Conference, where participants discussed the racial dynamics of electoral politics and the importance of student activism. Students at the conference, titled “The Ballot or the Bullet: Revitalizing the Revolution,” discussed what many...
Sociology professor Elijah Anderson transported students Tuesday from a warm room in the Afro-American Cultural Center to a street corner in the “hood,” as he described the problems of poor urban living and associated social trends. Anderson, a well-known sociologist who focuses on the structure and functioning of inner cities, was asked to speak of his experiences...
In 19 months, Elis taking their first walk through Phelps Gate will be inundated with sources of support. But one long-standing fixture of this network — the Ethnic Counselor — will be missing. Two weeks after Yale administrators announced that the freshman counseling program would undergo major changes in 2009 — including the merging of ethnic counselors into...
The rhythmic beat of African drums reverberated throughout the Afro-American Cultural Center as buoyant dancers filed into the room. The echo of the dancers’ bare feet pounding the floor was matched by the audience’s steady clapping. More than 70 students gathered at the Af-Am Cultural Center on Saturday for “Crank Dat for Kenya,” a performance event aimed at...
Only two months after a dining-hall employee discovered a racial slur spraypainted on a wall outside Pierson College, hundreds of students, professors and local residents came together over the weekend to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. in what several described as a markedly cohesive atmosphere. The memory of the graffiti and other recent instances of...
The Association of Native Americans at Yale is hosting the 2007 All-Ivy Native Council Summit, a conference that will welcome approximately 65 Native American students attending Ivy League and other nearby universities. The summit, which will begin today and run through Dec. 2,, is intended to foster networking opportunities for Native American students and provide the...
The Afro-American Cultural Center, founded by a group of students in the 1960s, is celebrating the ideals of its founders today. In a formal ceremony, the Af-Am House will rededicate itself to the values of its student founders in an evening that will include alumni presentations, recognition of donor and contractor contributions to the renovated building, a tour and...
The Yale College Dean’s Office will create an “intercultural/multicultural affairs office” to provide an outlet for students to report grievances of racial harassment or incidents of hate speech, Assistant Dean of Yale College and Director of the Afro-American Cultural Center Pamela George announced in an e-mail to some students Friday. A mission for the office has...
Following outrage from the University community in response to racist graffiti found outside Pierson College on Tuesday, College deans have said they have begun laying out specific plans to prevent similar incidents in the future — including the possible creation of a new multicultural office. Dining hall staff discovered graffiti early Tuesday reading “Nigger...
The stage wasn’t quite as packed with candidates as the recent 2008 presidential debates, but the decision by all five Ward 22 and Ward 2 aldermanic candidates to set aside their differences and sit side-by-side for a forum Tuesday night at the Afro-American Cultural Center was a first in Yale-New Haven political history. Once at the table, though, the differences...
This weekend marks the Dominican Students Association’s first-ever conference, the first step, its organizers say, in building a more connected network of Dominican college students. About 400 students and recent graduates from more than 90 colleges and universities are expected to attend the first National Dominican Student Conference, which kicks off today and runs...
