Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
It is Tuesday morning at John C. Daniels Magnet School. Class is in session and the building is quiet, save for faint music echoing down the sunshine-flooded halls. Inside the music auditorium, more than a dozen sixth-grade students perch in front of music stands, flutes, clarinets and trumpets in hand. Some play Brahams, others Christmas carols. Music classes like this...
Jeff Brenzel has a lot of applications. When not sorting through this year’s record 22,528 candidates for admission to Yale College, the dean of undergraduate admissions occupies some of his spare time with quizzes, movie compatibility tests and videos on his crowded Facebook profile. Facebook connects him to another Yale administrator, Director of Public Affairs...
Late one night this fall, University President Richard Levin sat at home with the telephone to his ear, talking to a News reporter about the prospect of building two new residential colleges behind the Grove Street Cemetery. The conversation turned to athletics. The University will not admit an increased number of recruited athletes, Levin said, “when we get...
The Freedom of Information Commission’s Wednesday ruling that the Yale Police Department’s records should be subject to public scrutiny is requisite step forward for any university that purports to value transparency and accountability. As one of the only bodies at Yale that can, with the click of handcuffs or the bang of a bullet, change a student, city resident’s...
Despite the variety at Yale, students share at least one common experience: the contents of their inboxes. A semester’s worth invariably contains propaganda to join the several hundred campus groups “signed up” for at a frenetic bazaar many months ago, proclamations of dance parties at T0ADS!, demands from Jill Carlton, Registrar, to submit web evaluations — and...
There were slides of Harvard’s brick-clad buildings, of Stanford’s mission-revival aesthetic, but Yale’s distinctively eclectic campus was physically on display at this weekend’s symposium on university architecture. Although attendees learned of campus buildings across the country, they sat in Louis Kahn’s Art Gallery, having walked past Kahn’s British Art...
Ten men have had the distinction of being full-time President of Yale since 1878. Over the past 130 years, each has faced the challenges of governing the University in a changing world. Reverend Noah Porter, 1871-1886 While many important changes occurred under Porter’s watch, such as the development of football and the completion of the Peabody Museum, some would...
Ten minutes into Tuesday morning, the seventh-graders are almost ready for gym class. Deborah Frankel ’06, an English teacher at Katherine Brennan School in New Haven, stands with a timer in her hand, waiting on one slowpoke. The student, who has a bag strapped across her shoulder despite the “no backpacks in class” rule, is getting ready to talk back to her...
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...
At the John S. Martinez School, seventh graders will create their own versions of the detective game “Clue,” inspired by Sherlock Holmes. At James Hillhouse High School, students will be creating conic sections to understand space navigation. At High School in the Community, students will be creating graphic arts posters to fight eating disorders and drug...
With a major outreach effort potentially on the horizon, Yale students may soon have an easier time counting themselves as members of the New Haven community. Students and City Hall officials said they are exploring strategies to register Yalies with the city’s municipal ID card program, the first in America to offer ID cards to all residents, both documented and...
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...
