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December 2013

  • Weekly sports roundup (12/23–12/29)

    In the midst of the holiday season, it's off-time for most of Yale's athletic teams. But the women's basketball team traveled south to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | December 30 2013 04:30am

  • Manhattan memorializes a Yalie

    It's not just the memory of Liz Berger ’82 that lives on. Four months after she died of cancer, "Ms. Berger is still winning strategic victories for... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 23 2013 11:12am

  • Weekly sports roundup (12/16–12/22)

    With reading period and finals behind them, the women's and men's basketball teams hit the hardwood with three games last... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | December 23 2013 07:19am

  • From Nemo to Nobels: ten biggish things that happened at Yale this year

    So you went off the grid with no forwarding address in 2013? Let us catch you up on what happened at Yale this year. 1. We got a new president. That's a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 20 2013 05:23am

  • Law clinic sues Obama over
    secret trade negotiations

    "Yale suing Obama administration," tweets FOIANews. That's a stretch: a team of Yale law students is helping a news reporter sue the administration... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 19 2013 11:05am

  • Yalies on the MTA

    That old folk song about Charlie on the MTA has a new plot. Substitute the Big Apple for Beantown and student fund-raising for populist politicking... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 18 2013 08:53am

  • J. Press will tear down building

    Nearly a year after Winter Storm Nemo forced the closing of the J. Press building, the classic men's clothier will demolish its historic York Street... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 17 2013 06:44am

  • Weekly sports roundup (12/9–12/15)

    In what is surely the quietest seven days of the year for Yale varsity sports, most athletes were knuckling down for reading period and finals this past... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 16 2013 08:20am

  • Student voices: undergrad hedge funds, a visit to Whitlock's, and more

    “Most college start-ups do not post eight percent returns within their first nine months of existence. But Refraction Capital is no ordinary... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Minami Funakoshi ’14</span> | December 13 2013 05:51am

  • Many years an inmate

    Born a free black person in the early 1800s, Austin Reed did not stay free for long:  he was sent to the "House of Refuge," a Manhattan reform... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 12 2013 12:20pm

  • In historic move, faculty votes
    to give itself the vote

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted this week to establish an elected faculty senate—the first in Yale's 312-year history—in a move... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 11 2013 12:13pm

  • Cynthia Russett ’64PhD,
    historian and feminist

    Cynthia Russett ’64PhD, historian of American women and teacher of Yale women and men for more than four decades, died December 5 of multiple... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 10 2013 07:26am

  • Welcome to the doghouse

    It was surely the canine social event of the season. Eli, the Yale Police Department's bomb-sniffing labrador retriever, was there, as was Remy, a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 9 2013 10:58am

  • Weekly sports roundup (12/2-12/8)

    After winning the Ivy League championship for the fourth straight year, the women's volleyball team fell to Utah Friday night in the first round of the NCAA... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 9 2013 12:12pm

  • When Yale activists targeted apartheid

    Amid the outpouring of love and admiration for Nelson Mandela following his death yesterday, a young person—or one with a short... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 6 2013 06:58am

  • The Erector Set turns 100:
    real-life magic from a Yale doctor

    If you were a young Yale-trained physician and Olympic gold medalist in pole vaulting, you would surely decide to make your living in the magic... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 5 2013 01:06pm

  • Dispute with Yale could land
    Toad's Place in legal hot water

    The latest battle of the bands at Toad's Place pits the nightclub itself against its York Street neighbor, Yale University, in a legal tussle that could... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 4 2013 11:12am

  • Yalie hopes to set speed record for skiing to the South Pole

    As his peers buckle down for the end of the semester, Yale sophomore Parker Liautaud is skipping class for an expedition in the Southern hemisphere.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | December 3 2013 10:34am

  • Weekly sports roundup (11/25–12/1)

    While most Yale students were away last week and consumed with thoughts of Thanksgivukkah and football, the basketball and ice hockey teams were in action.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | December 2 2013 12:08pm