Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
A gay Yale Law School student was assaulted earlier this month, ostensibly because of his sexuality, according to a New Haven Police Department report. On Saturday, April 5, Craig Konnoth LAW ’10 was assaulted by two unidentified males outside the New Haven Towers apartment complex near the intersection of Crown and High streets, one block from Old Campus, according to...
The Ivy League tide of gender-neutral housing may prove too powerful for any Ancient Eight school to resist for much longer — and that includes Yale. Of the eight schools in the Ivy League, only Yale and Princeton currently do not offer some form of gender-neutral housing to undergraduates. But if an ad hoc committee of faculty members and administrators recommends...
Back in kindergarten, most boys had a fail-proof way of explaining the workings of the female mind: cooties. Soon, though, cooties become obsolete and now — after puberty, hormones and periods — understanding women is often perceived as a hopeless task for the college-aged man. But not for Colin Adamo ’10. As one of only four men who have declared a Women’s...
In response to student demand, an “ad-hoc committee” of administrators is investigating the possibility of gender-neutral housing on campus, Dean of Administrative Affairs John Meeske said this week. The committee, which was convened late last semester around the same time the Yale College Council formed a gender-neutral housing committee of its own, will spend the...
The University appointed its first openly gay residential-college master Wednesday, tapping acclaimed singer Richard Lalli MUS ’86 to lead Jonathan Edwards College beginning next year. He will be joined by his partner, Michael Rigsby MED ’88, who will add the designation of associate master to his current title: medical director of Yale University Health Services...
With its dark mahogany walls, sparkling wine glasses and 19th-century-era paintings, the Quinnipiack Club is suffused with tradition. But innovation overtook tradition yesterday when the Qpack Club played host to Connecticut’s recently inaugurated Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Commerce, one of over 40 American GLBT chambers that have opened up in the last...
An appeals court ruling has struck a second blow to Yale Law School’s efforts to avoid aiding military recruiters who discriminate against students on the basis of their sexual orientation. The case, Burt v. Gates, addressed the authority of the law school to ban military recruiters from its biannual career and interview fairs if they refuse to sign the school’s...
Over the past decade, evangelical Christianity has increasingly defined itself by opposition to homosexuality. This movement, headed by Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, relies in large part on two “scientific” assertions: First, children do better when raised by a mother and father. Second, homosexuality is a moral choice, not something one is born with —...
It may be just a few weeks into spring, but Yalies are already seeing rainbows on campus. Pride at Yale, a 16-day celebration of gay and lesbian culture, is intended to draw the Yale community’s attention to issues such as gay dating and homophobia. It will also provide an opportunity for students from Yale College, the graduate school and professional schools to...
Before coming to Yale, Andrew Dowe ’08 attended a small Catholic all-boys school in Tampa, Fla. During his four years at the institution, he covered himself with not only a tie and dress pants, but also a false identity. Dowe, who is black, said he had expected that his arrival at a liberal college campus would be an escape from the conservative and largely Caucasian...
The social and political hurdles faced by transgendered individuals will be the focus of the fourth annual Trans Issues Week this week. The events, organized by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Cooperative, aim to raise awareness about the recent addition of “gender identity” and “gender expression” to the University’s official nondiscrimination...
As Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg prepares to depart, the committee charged with replacing her must fill a position that has evolved to keep pace with a Yale community grown increasingly diverse since Trachtenberg was hired over two decades ago. Several administrators said the creation two years ago of a Dean of Freshmen Affairs position — whose...
