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November 2013

  • Assistant professor dies in jail
    after domestic dispute

    A Yale assistant professor died in jail over the weekend after his injury and arrest in a domestic dispute, the New Haven Independent reports. New Haven... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 27 2013 08:26am

  • Weekly sports roundup (11/18-11/24)

    While most students and many alumni were tailgating and attending the Harvard-Yale football game, Kevin Dooney ’16 was racing as Yale's first men's cross... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | November 26 2013 09:21am

  • Yale lockdown lifted;
    no gunman found

    Reports of a gunman on the Yale campus today led to a daylong lockdown and intensive search—apparently the result of a hoax call and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 25 2013 11:48am

  • 3 seniors named Rhodes Scholars

    This year's Rhodes Scholars from Yale are tackling disease, poverty, and citizen apathy. And that's before they even graduate from college. Isabel... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 25 2013 09:36am

  • Fossil fuel referendum passes

    Yale College students approved a referendum calling on the university to "divest its endowment from those fossil fuel companies contributing the most... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 21 2013 12:11pm

  • Packer's Unwinding wraps up
    a National Book Award

    "At a black-tie dinner at Cipriani Wall Street," George Packer ’82 received a National Book Award last night for casting "a discerning eye on banks... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 21 2013 07:43am

  • School to farm to school:
    a FoodCorps odyssey

    It's one thing to make a documentary about food policy and the politics of obesity. It's another thing to become part of the solution. Curt Ellis... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 20 2013 12:09pm

  • On tap at Yale: more budget cuts

    Even a corporation with $20 billion in the bank needs to live within its means. That's the message from Yale's new president and provost. Five years after... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 19 2013 09:49am

  • Loved, hated, loved again, A&A turns 50

    You're probably seeing a lot of remembrance and rumination this week about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy (the actual... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 19 2013 06:38am

  • Alum takes aim at Yale over
    low enrollment of veterans

    While Yale commemorated Veterans Day in front of the war memorial in Beinecke Plaza last week, Wick Sloane ’84MBA took a different approach. At "the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 18 2013 11:57am

  • Weekly sports roundup (11/11-11/17)

    All eyes are on the football team as we enter the final days before this year's Yale-Harvard game, but other teams have earned themselves a portion of the spotlight, too. The... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | November 18 2013 12:57pm

  • Is there an MBA in the house?

    With his signature Affordable Healthcare Act facing both assaults from the right and self-inflicted wounds, President Obama just called in a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 15 2013 09:46am

  • Remembrance of things Proust

    What is it about memory? I was certain that Proust's memory-inducing treats were marzipan. Au contraire: they were madeleines. I can you tell where and when I... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 14 2013 09:20am

  • Lux and Happiness

    Amid the frenzy of papers and projects, some Yalies are working seriously on their happiness. Margarita Mooney ’95, an associate research... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 13 2013 10:37am

  • Student referendum slated
    on fossil fuel divestment

    As heating season kicks in here in New Haven (we saw a brief snow flurry this morning), a campaign for Yale to sell off its fossil-fuel investments is... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 12 2013 11:01am

  • What the cool kids are coding

    You were maybe thinking that hacking is a bad thing, like those teenage criminals breaking into your credit card account? For the college kids, it has a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 11 2013 12:06pm

  • Weekly sports roundup (11/04-11/10)

    As the fall season comes to an end for some of Yale's athletes, others are just about to face weeks and months of competition as the winter season takes off. And for... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | November 11 2013 11:40am

  • Committee rethinks solution to grade "compression"

    That Yale College faculty plan to replace the A–F grading system with a numerical system? Never mind. As we reported in a feature article in our... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | November 8 2013 10:11am

  • $25M gift will restore
    dorm life to Law School

    Football players aren't the only Yalies who are moving back on campus. Five years from now, Yale Law students will again have a chance to live in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | November 7 2013 09:33am