Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
Dwight Hall administrators announced Thursday that Alex Knopp, visiting clinical lecturer at Yale Law School, will succeed Kathrine Burdick as executive director of the nonprofit center for public service and social justice on July 1. Knopp, whose credentials include 15 years as a state legislator and four years as the mayor of Norwalk, Conn., brings a passion for public...
To the Editor: Chris Merriman’s article (“Day of service expands to week-long volunteering,” 4/22) starts with a misleading statement: “This year, Yalies will have not just a day, but a whole week to give back to New Haven.” While Community Service Week has indeed been expanded, Yale students already spend thousands of hours teaching in New Haven schools...
This year, Yalies will have not just a day, but a whole week to give back to New Haven. In previous years, the Yale College Council community service initiative consisted solely of the Yale Community Day of Service. Yet in its fifth year, the day of service — its biggest yet — is for the first time a part of a larger week of volunteering and outreach, which includes...
With the presidential elections running at high speed on the nation’s airwaves, the YCC elections drawing to a close tonight and classes rushing toward the finish line, it’s easy to let things slide. Forget about an obligation or two. But in the end of the year push at Dwight Hall, things keep moving: Yale students sign out cars, take buses and walk to New Haven...
Abigail Cheung ’11, co-chair of this year’s Freshman Class Council, said she wants to go to the “next level” — the Yale College Council — and will “communicate, celebrate and innovate” if elected YCC secretary this week. “YCC is just the next level,” she said. “And the experiences I had [on the FCC] have made me really well-suited as...
For a select group of New Haven youth, promoting personal growth, protecting the environment and doing the “Evaporation Dance” go hand in hand. Four local high-school students spoke Monday at Silliman College’s “Not Your Average Master’s Tea,” sponsored by the Dwight Hall Urban Fellows, about their leadership and involvement in combining environmentalism and...
Every student trained at the New Haven Police Academy is required to watch a movie called “Know Me: Re-examining Police Perception and Treatment of Youth.” Surprisingly, the short film was not produced by the police department, but by a group of high-school students who work with Youth Rights Media, a nonprofit in New Haven. The success and usefulness of this video is...
By getting involved in the community, individuals as well as companies can pursue their own self-interest while helping others, John E. Pepper Jr. ’60 told a Dwight Chapel audience Wednesday. In a lecture titled “Doing Good While Doing Well,” the former Yale Corporation senior fellow and current chairman of the Walt Disney Company espoused his view of service as...
Members of Yale’s religious community showed solidarity last night in more ways than one. “Strangers No More,” a panel held Thursday night as part of Dwight Hall’s New Haven Solidarity Week, brought together about 40 Yale students of numerous faiths to discuss the Elm City ID card. The newly re-formed Interfaith Alliance for Justice — which comprises members of...
Latin music, Salsa dancing, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and 200 members of the Yale community kicked off New Haven Solidarity Week in Dwight Hall on Monday evening. The festivities marked the beginning of a five-day series of events aimed at mobilizing Yale students, administrators and faculty members to sign up for the Elm City Municipal ID Program. NHSW, which was...
New Haven Solidarity Week kicked off Monday amid growing disagreement between Yale’s Local 35 union and an anti-illegal aliens group, which has now brought Yale students and University management into the fray. Thirteen Yale student groups released a statement yesterday condemning a Community Watchdog Project-sponsored petition that calls for the withholding of union...
Approximately 110 Elis gathered at Dwight Hall on Saturday morning to take part in the third annual Freshman Day of Service. The event aims to foster a long-term commitment to community service and awareness among those who participate. It is a collaborative effort between the Yale College Council, the Freshman College Council, Dwight Hall, the Yale College Dean’s...
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