Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
The University’s Internet service went dark Friday for more than an hour after a power failure in an Information Technology Services equipment room. Students were jolted into an unwanted Facebook reprieve at 1:38 p.m., and not all of campus was back online until at least 3 p.m., ITS officials said. It was the most significant unplanned outage in recent...
If a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, does anyone care? Apparently Yalies care — as long as that tree is in the center of Cross Campus. Frequent exclamations of “Oh My God!” could be overheard Sunday evening as Elis, braving piercing winds in their walk across Cross Campus, noticed a large fallen tree between William L. Harkness Hall and Calhoun College...
The only possessions Jacqueline Gosnell ’08 has to start the new semester were in the suitcases she brought back from home. Hot-water pipes burst in Davenport College’s K and E entryways last week, damaging three suites and forcing Gosnell and eight other students to relocate to different dorms for up to two months. The cause of the plumbing failures is still...
While many students enjoyed their winter vacations in warmer locales, temperatures in New Haven plunged near zero two weeks ago. For many in the Elm City, the cold temperatures were uncomfortable. But for Yale’s Central Power Plant, they were much worse. In a bizarre chain of events, the chilling temperatures led to a massive explosion at the power plant early in the...
Updated Friday 9:14 p.m. A two-alarm fire broke out at Yale’s Central Power Plant on Tower Parkway early Friday morning, sending flames shooting high into the air just across the street from the Hall of Graduate Studies. The blaze was reported around 5:30 a.m., New Haven Fire Marshal Joseph Cappucci said. No injuries were reported. By sunrise, fire crews had...
With regard to construction around campus, the University is playing a “large game of dominos,” according to School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern. As new facilities open up, programs are rotated around campus to allow for other buildings to be renovated or demolished. The new Sculpture Building and Garage, which opened this semester on Edgewood Avenue, one block...
With the dust barely cleared from the last round of intensive renovations at the Yale Bowl, the cranes and construction crews are set to return to the historic facility at the end of the academic year. In late spring 2008, construction will begin on the Kenney Family Field Center and the Jensen Family Plaza, two new additions to the Yale Bowl complex, Senior Associate...
Having expanded wireless Internet access in three classroom buildings over the summer, administrators are preparing to unveil a new initiative that will offer a connection to the Web wherever it is needed. The plan will extend wireless access to all areas where it is in demand over the next two years, including student dorm rooms, according to administrators in...
Fears of a possible fire yesterday at William L. Harkness Hall turned out to be a false alarm, but officials responding to the call said they were truly alarmed by students’ lack of fire safety. Yale fire marshals and members of the New Haven Fire Department responded to a report of smoke at William L. Harkness Hall on Tuesday morning, which came from a burnt elevator...
Cross Campus’s lush lawn once again calls out to sunbathers and soccer players, but the planned re-opening of the library later this semester will not bring an end to the sight of blue construction walls and tarps around campus. The following is a road map to the biggest construction projects of 2007. Jonathan Edwards College: The JE renovation, which follows a...
Just as the finishing touches are put on plans for a new state-of-the-art biology laboratory, administrators are trying to hammer out the details of a proposal to build new undergraduate housing while construction workers are preparing a wing of the art gallery for its opening. As familiar as this situation might sound to any Yalie, it could also describe the frenetic...
Construction on a new biology building on Whitney Avenue, originally slated to begin last summer, is now expected to begin in 2009, potentially delaying a series of Science Hill projects. The building will be the first new facility for the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department since 1965. Its original design met with resistance from community leaders...
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