A move just one block down Grove Street may well be a move almost entirely out of the daily lives of the student body — and undergraduates are worried. Yale College Dean Peter Salovey is, after all, one of the most recognizable faces on campus. What is it, then, that students are hoping for in their new dean, who will be selected over the next month by a search...
Ah Yale! The grass is green, the sun is out and all of our friends have gotten more attractive and less annoying over the summer. But the blissful idleness of Camp Yale and shopping period is fleeting and so is the good weather. A few short weeks past the free food and August temperatures freshmen will be chanting “why not Stanford?” instead of the Bulldogs’ fight...
For weeks, Barbara Golden and Deborah Oswalt tried to see two of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings, which were on display at the Yale University Art Gallery for the summer. But every time they tried, they were turned away because of the crowds. Last night, the two friends, who are New Haven residents, got that chance at the fourth-annual open house held by the...
For the last of three days, Labyrinth books on York Street has featured extended hours, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., to cater to students itching to get their hands on their books for the semester. “The hours are nonstop,” employee David Hubbard said yesterday. “We keep cranking books out.” He said he had sympathy for students looking for the best deal. “They are always...
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...
Students with disabilities may have an added incentive to choose Yale over its rivals — at least by the time 2013 rolls around. When it implements a new “peer mentors” program as part of its reform of the freshman counselor system in fall 2009, Yale will be the first Ivy League school to provide student-to-student guidance geared specifically toward freshmen with...
The upcoming overhaul of the freshman-advising system will significantly improve the quality of the previously decentralized counseling resources available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer freshmen, according to administrators and students familiar with the program’s development. The planned changes — which will take effect in fall 2009 — will...
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...
Administrators unveiled their plans for long-term, major adjustments to the ethnic counselor program to the News on Monday, laying out a proposal that would incorporate the role of the ethnic counselor into that of the freshman counselor, who will become responsible for providing enhanced community support for cultural affairs on campus. Dean of Freshman Affairs George...
This was not the Yale they saw in the glossy University brochures. Nor was it the Yale presented during the guided tours of campus. “Vanderbilt’s cursed,” joked Adam Begley ’11. “It’s a horcrux.” Branford College’s newest crop of students — residents of Old Campus’ Vanderbilt Hall — did not expect members of their class to be confronted with...
Yale 101 is not listed in the Blue Book, but University administrators said they hope this new lecture series will help freshmen transition into college life. Organized by the Office of Freshman Affairs, Yale 101 is a set of informational workshops and lectures held throughout the year and designed to offer assistance to freshmen beyond orientation. Administrators said...
The University is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the year’s opening days in the hopes of making freshman orientation a more welcoming time for new students and their parents, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said. The review spans the entire spectrum of freshman orientation activities, from the freshman assembly and address to preorientation programs...
