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July 2013

  • Sunshine or menace?
    Yale law prof rattles employers

    Ian Ayres ’81, ’86JD, has (temporarily) passed himself off as African American, butted heads with his students over in-class web surfing, and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 29 2013 11:24am

  • When requesting flextime,
    men have more muscle

    Want your boss to agree to a flexible work schedule? As with so much else in the workplace, here's the key to success: be a man. That conclusion is... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 24 2013 11:18am

  • The road to a book deal

    If you've ever doubted that the Yale Alumni Magazine is a stepping-stone to success, keep reading. A couple of years ago, we invited Elizabeth Bradley... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 23 2013 10:24am

  • Speak slowly for Yale Law grads?

    A Harvard-educated judge's jocular remarks about Yale and gun-toting women turned into cause for concern about bias on the bench—but the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 25 2013 10:17am

  • Federal court dismisses
    war-crimes suit against Zedillo

    A federal judge has dismissed a suit accusing Ernesto Zedillo ’81PhD—former Mexican president and current director of Yale’s Center... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 22 2013 11:58am

  • Yale blue meets NHPD blue

    "The law" means one thing to those who study and teach it in ivy-covered classrooms. It has a very different meaning to those who enforce the law, and those... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 19 2013 07:44am

  • The Yalies who defend Snowden—and accuse him

    Edward Snowden has become one of the country's most famous (or infamous) high school dropouts. But that doesn't mean the fugitive NSA leaker is of no... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 18 2013 10:03am

  • Who's on first? With Bush 41
    baseball cards, it's hard to tell

    The intrigue doesn't quite match up to his tenure as CIA chief. Still, spy aficionados and conspiracy theorists might want to take a look at the Mystery... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, 97MSL</span> | July 17 2013 10:35am

  • Feds slightly reduce Yale fine
    for crime-reporting violations

    The federal Department of Education has slightly reduced a fine against Yale University for violations of a crime-reporting law in the early 2000s.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 16 2013 07:15am

  • In the governor's in-box:
    your favorite alumni magazine

    A bill to bar minors from Connecticut tanning salons was not the only important item on Governor Dannel Malloy's desk last Friday. At the top of the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 15 2013 08:37am

  • Fall (football) fashion preview

    From Walter Camp to the Yale Bowl, tradition is the foundation of Yale football. So when head coach Tony Reno set out to update the team's uniforms, he... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Henry Furman ’14</span> | July 12 2013 07:30am

  • Oh, the humanities: 2.5 Yalies
    honored with NEH medals

    Two and a half Yalies received National Humanities Medals on Wednesday for their contributions in history, higher education, social documentary and cultural... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 11 2013 07:30am

  • From Army pilot to marsh boat:
    a Yale student's Iraqi journeys

    The first time Carina Roselli ’14MEM went to Iraq, she was an Army officer and helicopter pilot "living on an enormous Air Force base, which I... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 10 2013 09:10am

  • Edmund Morgan, famed historian
    of colonial America, dies at 97

    In 2002—16 years after retiring from the Yale faculty and nearly six decades after publishing his first book—Edmund S. Morgan hit the New... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 9 2013 08:11am

  • Refinancing student loans:
    a Yale alum's Senate plan

    Yale University no longer expects undergraduates to borrow money as part of their financial aid packages. But across the country, college students are... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 8 2013 11:50am

  • Ben Franklin was a Yalie?

    While we're honoring our Founding Fathers this holiday weekend, take a peek at this eighteenth-century bust of Benjamin Franklin, carved from North... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 5 2013 05:38am

  • Freedom's rare air

    Far from the blood and chaos of contemporary struggles against tyranny, this artifact of our own nation's birth is on display in the cool quiet of Yale's Beinecke... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 4 2013 06:05am

  • The Yale men who died at Gettysburg

    Walking through Yale's Civil War Memorial this morning on my way to work, it occurred to me to look for alumni who died at the Battle of Gettysburg, which ended... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 3 2013 07:40am

  • Low income, high test scores?
    Watch for Yale in the mail

    Yale is stepping up its recruiting among low-income high achievers, in the face of new research showing how few of those students even apply to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 2 2013 11:18am