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April 2014

  • Who wrote the Serenity Prayer?
    Looks like Niebuhr after all

    “John Maynard Keynes is said to have made a wonderful comment when he was accused of inconsistency of opinions over time,” Fred Shapiro writes in the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked"></span> | April 29 2014 04:54pm

  • New Calhoun College master:
    you can look her up

    If you look up "Julia Adams" on Wikipedia, you'll find an article about actor Julie Adams, star of TV and movie Westerns in the 1940s, ’50s, and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked"></span> | April 28 2014 04:20pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: baseball goes to postseason

    In a Senior Day doubleheader postponed from Saturday because of rain, the baseball team beat Brown 4–3 and 6–5 at Yale Field on Sunday. Two days earlier in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 28 2014 04:33pm

  • After last-minute line-up changes, it's time for Spring Fling

    Today is the final day of classes of the spring semester, and while most students are preparing to buckle down for a week and a half in the library, members... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | April 25 2014 04:05pm

  • (Bush x 2) + (Clinton x 2) =
    Yale Day of Service chairs

    Five years ago, the Association of Yale Alumni organized its first international Day of Service. Now the event is so popular that three former US... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 24 2014 03:58pm

  • Dorothy Robinson retiring after 29 years as Yale's top lawyer

    Dorothy Robinson, the head of Yale's legal office since 1985 and a university vice president, will retire in August. “Dorothy’s service has... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 23 2014 04:46pm

  • SOM brings back the bell curve

    Debates about changes to the grading system in Yale College gripped campus at this time last year. Now, the conversation has shifted to the School of Management. It... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | April 22 2014 12:45pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: heavyweight crew claims Blackwell Cup

    As part of a generally strong week for Yale athletics, the men's heavyweight crew  defeated both Penn and Columbia on Saturday morning to claim the Blackwell... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | April 21 2014 04:00pm

  • Students say Peabody
    should return Tlingit carvings

    The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History should return two Tlingit carvings to natives in Alaska, two Yale students argued at a recent panel... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 18 2014 02:55pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: coed sailing wins Ivy honors

    For the third straight year, the No. 2 coed sailing team won the Owen, Mosbacher, and Knapp Trophies—a trifecta that represents an informal Ivy championship... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | April 14 2014 04:51pm

  • With spring in the air,
    Yale alumni run for office

    With tax season wrapping up, the political season is kicking into gear. (Cause and effect? We'll leave that judgment to you.) As usual, there are plenty of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 14 2014 04:35pm

  • What would Joseph wear in the lab?

    Yale's Environmental Health and Safety department is sponsoring an "Amazing Technicolor Lab Coat" contest: members of the Yale community are invited to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 11 2014 11:45am

  • It's a bird, it's a plane—it's a commercial drone litigator

    Brendan Schulman ’96 has "a garage full of drones, much to my surprise." Most of us know them as model airplanes, and Schulman has been flying them... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 10 2014 02:56pm

  • A new Fab Four for the music school

    When the Tokyo String Quartet retired from performance—and from its residency at the Yale School of Music—last year, the school didn't... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 9 2014 04:08pm

  • Peter Matthiessen ’50,
    writer and activist, dies at 86

    Peter Matthiessen ’50 was a prep school kid from New York City who served in World War II before coming to Yale. He was a fisherman, a CIA operative, a Zen priest, a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 8 2014 04:41pm

  • Australian priest & scholar
    to lead Berkeley Divinity School

    Five years ago, if someone had mentioned the Berkeley Divinity School, I would have thought they were talking about the University of California. But now... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 7 2014 04:16pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: season ends for men's basketball

    The men's basketball team had its most successful postseason run in more than 50 years, making it to the finals of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. The Bulldogs... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | April 7 2014 04:14pm

  • Student voices: undercover tourist, broccoli PR, etc.

    “Asian tourists were clogging up the sidewalks,” Kimberly Guo ’17 has heard students complain. When are these comments harmless observations, asks... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Minami Funakoshi ’14</span> | April 4 2014 02:00pm

  • Pierre Capretz, creator of French in Action, dies at 89

    Pierre Capretz, a Yale educator and creator of the popular language course French in Action, died on Wednesday. He was 89.  Capretz arrived in the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Gavan Gideon ’14</span> | April 3 2014 03:47pm