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May 2013

  • Women's crew pulls into NCAA tournament

    Nine a.m. is not early for crew athletes, who are accustomed to strenuous predawn workouts. So when the Yale varsity women's crew hits the water... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 30 2013 10:33am

  • Two new faces for Yale Corporation: Hill & Bekenstein

    An oilman and conservationist is retiring from Yale's governing board, to be replaced by a moneyman and cofounder of Bain Capital. At the same time... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 29 2013 08:54am

  • Yale team sails to national championship

    It's not just frozen-water skaters who can bring home a national trophy. This weekend, Yale's coed sailing team won a three-day tournament, the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 28 2013 11:27am

  • Yale to pay $3 million for High and Wall Streets

    Four blocks of city streets in the heart of New Haven—and the heart of Yale's campus—will be sold to the university for $3 million. The... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 24 2013 12:00pm

  • Sully, we hardly knew ye

    Sullivan's on Chapel, the shamrock-bedecked watering hole for generations of Yalies (since its former days as Kavanagh's), is closing. "Yes it is... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 23 2013 01:03pm

  • Campus sexual climate:
    mix of sun & clouds

    "With regard to its approach to sexual misconduct, the Yale of today is substantially different—and better—from the Yale of last year or... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 22 2013 11:01am

  • Prof’s mugging cancels neighborhood architecture project

    The foundation was already in. But after an 83-year-old professor was assaulted at the building site, Yale architecture students and faculty have canceled... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 21 2013 12:26pm

  • Levin honored at commencement

    There aren't a lot of surprises at a Yale commencement, which goes off like clockwork every year with the same hymns, the same language for the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 20 2013 11:22am

  • You've got to MOOC

    Early to the online-education party with the free video lectures known as Open Yale Courses, Yale has sat out the more recent phenomenon called... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 20 2013 10:43am

  • Last-minute goal ends men's lacrosse season

    Last weekend, the men's lacrosse team came back from a 5–1 deficit to beat Penn State 10–7 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. It... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 18 2013 01:45pm

  • Yale fined $165,000 for crime-report violations

    Nine years after the US Department of Education began to investigate questions about Yale's reporting of campus crime, the department has fined the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 16 2013 06:03am

  • Walking across America—in silence

    If you see a young man walking the highway some time in the next year—pushing a jogging stroller full of belongings and wielding a 4x5 view... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 15 2013 11:43am

  • Violence expert learns
    a lesson the hardest way

    Lori Post was studying violence long before it struck home. With a PhD in sociology and an emphasis on injury prevention, she researched domestic... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 15 2013 06:20am

  • Sterling's nave to close for a year

    Take a good look at the nave of Sterling Memorial Library this month if you can—you're not going to see it again till the fall of 2014. On... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 14 2013 08:05am

  • Weekly sports roundup (5/6–12): lacrosse advances at NCAAs

    Trailing Penn State 5–1 at halftime, the men's lacrosse team turned things around in the second half to pull off a 10–7 upset in the first... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 13 2013 11:45am

  • Gatsby's Yalies

    With Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby opening today, two of the best known fictional Yalies again come to the fore: the snobbish, racist bully Tom... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 10 2013 10:08am

  • Back to high school?
    Whiffenpoofs on ‘Glee’ tonight

    Tonight's season finale of Glee is “All Or Nothing”: “It’s finally time for Regionals, and the glee club is more... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 9 2013 08:39am

  • After arson threat, Jewish center remains ‘open and welcoming’

    An apparent arson threat against Yale’s Jewish center has produced extra security measures but no raising of the drawbridge. “We are... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83,’97MSL</span> | May 8 2013 08:35am

  • Psst! Wanna buy a street?

    Yale and New Haven City Hall have reached a deal to sell parts of two downtown streets to the university. Under the agreement, which needs approval... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | May 7 2013 09:57am