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7 years
BREAKING: CALHOUN COLLEGE TO BE RENAMED FOR GRACE MURRAY HOPPER GRD '34
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Yale Police officers on Monday evening interrogated a black graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola GRD ’19, for more than 15 minutes, after a white graduate student reported Siyonbola to the police for sleeping in the HGS common room.
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YALE KNOCKS OFF AUBURN. THE BULLDOGS ARE MOVING ON.
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2 years
BREAKING | Nathan Chen ’24 wins gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics after a dominant free skate. Story to come. #Olympics2022 #Olympics
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“My email regarding the protest at Grove and Prospect was mistaken and I apologize for the suggestion that the protesters might turn violent,” Lewis wrote to the News in the late afternoon. “I was repeating speculation I had overheard and I should not have done so.”
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2 years
BREAKING | Two unnamed Yale Law School students filed a complaint Monday against three YLS administrators and Yale for allegedly “blackball[ing]” them from job opportunities after they refused to endorse a statement in the ongoing investigation against Law Professor Amy Chua.
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NEW: More than 400 protesters demanded today that Yale divest from military weapons manufacturers as the trustees gathered for University President Peter Salovey’s send-off party. With about 250 people still protesting, at least 12 cops are on the scene.
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Yale Daily News
4 years
BREAKING: Amid the rapid spread of COVID-19 — the disease caused by the coronavirus — the University announced on Tuesday evening that classes will be held online until at least April 5 and that students should remain home after spring recess.
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SCITECH & UNIVERSITY | After seven years of employment at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Dena Simmons resigned from her post as the Assistant Director last Tuesday, effective immediately, citing her experiences with racism in the workplace.
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3 years
UNIVERSITY | Over 2,000 people have signed a petition demanding that Yale-NUS College remove Kay Kuok Oon Kwong from its Governing Board over allegations that she has business ties to war criminals in Myanmar.
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Yale Daily News
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BREAKING: New Haven police spotted in riot gear inside the Schwarzman Center. Updates to follow.
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NEW: More than 400 protesters demanded today that Yale divest from military weapons manufacturers as the trustees gathered for University President Peter Salovey’s send-off party. With about 250 people still protesting, at least 12 cops are on the scene.
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Yale Daily News
5 years
BREAKING: Harold Bloom GRD ‘55, the Sterling Professor of English who championed and staunchly defended the Western canon, died today at 89.
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8 years
@Yale March of Resilience gathers on Cross Campus, 1000-strong
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BREAKING: The Yale Corporation — the University’s highest governing body, which includes Yale’s 16 trustees as well as President Peter Salovey — is currently meeting at the Greenberg Conference Center. The News is outside the building but was told it was closed for the meeting.
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BREAKING: Cops have gathered at Beinecke Plaza, where pro-Palestine protesters urging Yale to divest from military weapons manufacturers set up tents overnight — the third night of their ongoing encampment. More than 12 police officers have blocked off entrances to the Plaza. 🧵
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As of 8:46 a.m., over 1,500 University alumni, parents and graduating seniors had signed a pledge to withhold donations until Yale divests. The group sent the News a press release outlining their support for students demanding divestment in the wake of dozens of student arrests.
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Yale Daily News
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Despite his coaching staff being across the country and Yale classes eating into his precious practice time, Nathan Chen ’22 remains the world’s best male figure skater.
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BREAKING | Nathan Chen ’24 has shattered the world record in the men’s short program, putting him in pole position ahead of the free skate on Wednesday ET. Story to come. #Olympics
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UNIVERSITY | Students filled the ballroom of the Omni Hotel on Monday evening to watch Texas Sen. Ted Cruz record an episode of Verdict, the podcast he hosts with political commentator @michaeljknowles ’12. @lucyehodgman and @olombardo101 .
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BREAKING | It was a Nathan Chen ’24 masterclass as he earned the highest short-program score in Olympic history, won silver with Team USA and finished with a flourish to win gold.
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Yale Daily News
3 years
UNIVERSITY | Rachael Shaw-Rosenbaum ’24, a first-year student in Branford College, recently died by suicide at the age of 18. She is remembered by friends, family and teachers for her kindness, wit, musical talent and willingness to take on challenges.
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Yale Daily News
6 years
A photograph that appeared in @yaledailynews on Jan. 18, 1985, shows Brett Kavanaugh’s fraternity brothers waving a flag woven from women’s underwear as part of a procession of DKE initiates marching across Yale’s campus, via @Hailey_Fuchs @BrittonDaly
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"That's the best basketball team that we've beaten in Yale basketball history." - Head coach James Jones
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4 years
After winning first place at the 2020 U.S. Figure Skating National Championships in Greensboro, N.C., Olympian Nathan Chen ’22 has become the first man to win four consecutive national titles since Brian Boitano won first at the U.S. Championships in 1988.
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6 years
Read our story here:
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In today's Yale Daily News: what Brett Kavanaugh was up to back in his school days, when he belonged to a secret society known as "tit and clit". Motto: No means yes. Yes means anal.
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BREAKING | FB: For the first time in 37 years, the Yale Bulldogs are the outright Ivy League champions following their 24–3 victory over Harvard in the 134th playing of The Game.
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MATT KNOWLING BUZZER BEATER TO WIN IT. YALE IS IN MARCH MADNESS. THE GAME IS OVER. KNOWLING AT THE BUZZER
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Yale Daily News
5 years
A group of U.S. senators, including Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is hoping to use a decades-old law to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen.
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Yale Daily News
6 years
Yale responds after a black graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola GRD ’19, was reported to police by a white graduate student, Sarah Braasch GRD ‘20, for napping in a Hall of Graduate Studies common room, describing the incident as “deeply troubling.”
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Yale Daily News
4 years
#BREAKING : Yale Athletics has reverted to Phase 0 following a six-person outbreak on the hockey team, the News has confirmed. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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Yale Daily News
3 years
#BREAKING : Yale has entered an orange COVID-19 alert level and Yale Athletics has reverted to Phase 0 after testing identified a cluster of 20 cases among students in Hopper, Davenport and Saybrook. All residents of these colleges have been asked to quarantine in their suites.
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Yale Daily News
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BREAKING: Two Yale administrators told the assembled protesters on Beinecke Plaza that if they do not leave by 11:30 p.m. they may be subject to disciplinary action for both days of the encampment.
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Yale Daily News
6 years
SPORTS| FB: For the first time since 2006, the Yale football team is guaranteed a share of the Ivy League title. The Bulldogs overcame a first-half, 24–7 deficit to defeat Princeton 35–31 in New Jersey.
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ARTS | When Jeremy Strong ’01 was a student at Yale, he nearly bankrupted the Dramat to bring his favorite actor to campus. Twenty years later, Strong returned to campus to deliver a talk about his own acting career. @jordtwitzgerald and Camille Chang.
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Yale Daily News
2 years
Yale and 15 other major universities are being sued for alleged antitrust violations, the Wall Street Journal reports. The suit claims the schools engaged in price fixing and unfairly limited aid through a shared methodology to calculate needed aid. Story to come.
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Yale Daily News
2 years
Yale College will delay the start of the spring semester from Jan. 18 to Jan. 25 and shorten spring break from two weeks to one. Yale’s graduate and professional schools will do the same. The University has not yet announced the change.
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Yale’s marching band was not able to secure enough members to travel to Friday’s matchup against Auburn over the University’s spring break, so Idaho’s band put on Yale T-shirts and made the 90-minute drive to Spokane to sub in. @BenHRaab reports.
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YALE IS GOING DANCING. The Bulldogs will appear in March Madness for the seventh time in program history. 📸 @BenHRaab
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SPORTS | Nathan Chen ’24, who won a silver medal in the team event, broke his own Olympic record score and the world record for the men’s single short program event ahead of the free skate on Wednesday. @CARELFABRITlUS
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Yale Daily News
12 days
Around 125 people gathered for the Jews for Ceasefire protest Seder on Cross Campus. Attendees of the Seder remained on Cross Campus and were concentrated around a cardboard model rocket, was erected shortly after the Seder began, with the message “BOOKS NOT BOMBS” painted on it.
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BREAKING: “Uncommitted” secures 21% of the Democratic presidential vote in New Haven, beating organizer expectations. Story to come.
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SPORTS | Nathan Chen claimed first place this past weekend at 2021 Skate Canada International at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver.
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Yale Daily News
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Protesters have moved from Schwarzman to Cross Campus. About 150 people — both protesters and students already on Cross — are on the grass. Protesters’ chants include “Two, four, six, eight, Israel is a terror state” and “From the sea to river, Palestine will live forever.”
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BREAKING: The @warriors selected Miye Oni ‘20 with the 58th pick in the #NBAdraft . This is the first time since 1995 that an NBA team selected an Ivy League player. Need a refresher? Check out @wjmcmack ’s profile of the star guard: (📸: @marisa_peryer )
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Yale Daily News
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#BREAKING | Yale announced that it has moved all remaining final exams online. Spring term classes are set to begin on Jan. 18 and experts said a fully remote term is unlikely, but administrators have not ruled out the possibility of a remote start to the semester.
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Yale Daily News
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SalivaDirect, created by Yale researchers and authorized by the FDA this morning, is more straightforward and lower-risk to administer than a typical nasopharyngeal test. And it’s cheap, too. Read more about the “open source” testing protocol here:
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YDN Sports
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In mid-May, the NBA approached Yale researchers about a partnership that could help validate their saliva-based test for COVID-19. On Saturday, the FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization for SalivaDirect, which could cost only $10 or less a test.
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SPORTS | All eyes were on Nathan Chen ’24 this weekend in Nashville at the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. And with the 2022 Winter Olympics fast approaching, the three-time defending world champion delivered yet another gold medal performance.
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BREAKING: No. 13 Yale will face No. 4 Auburn in the first round of March Madness. The Bulldogs are headed to Spokane, Washington.
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BREAKING: Yale University just announced that it is extending its COVID-19 response measures of keeping students off campus and moving teaching online through the full spring semester, including final examinations.
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6 years
BREAKING: Hillary Rodham Clinton LAW ‘73, the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, will be this year’s Class Day Speaker.
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4 years
At least let us take you out to dinner first @theyalerecord 😔
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The Yale Record
4 years
Got matched with @yaledailynews on Yale Marriage Pact, might smash and dash but honestly I think it’s time to give up on love. If I wanted to hit it and quit it I would’ve just called up @YaleHerald 😏
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UNIVERSITY | Just 15 months after assuming the position, Raven Rodriguez has resigned from her post as the Yale School of Nursing director of diversity, equity and inclusion effective immediately.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie GRD ‘08 at Class Day: “One of the tenets I try to live by is 'never admire quietly.' If I admire something about someone, I let them know … Remember that people will hardly ever forget small acts of kindness.”
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BREAKING: Hip-hop artist A$AP Ferg will headline Spring Fling this year, the Yale College Council announced on Wednesday at Toad’s.
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BREAKING: Yale will require COVID-19 vaccines for all students who plan to return to campus in fall 2021. The University is also considering whether to require vaccines for faculty and staff who return to campus and expects to make a decision in June.
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BREAKING: President Peter Salovey sent an email today about the encampment on Beinecke Plaza. The University will “pursue disciplinary actions according to its policies” and Yale police are investigating reports of harassment and intimidation on the Plaza. Story to come.
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SPORTS | Yalie and champion figure skater Nathan Chen ’24 set an Olympic record in his first skate at the 2022 Winter Olympics with a first-place finish of 111.71.
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6 years
With a standing ovation from the Class of 2018, Hillary Rodham Clinton LAW ‘73 takes the stage as Class Day speaker.
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BREAKING: Yale football defeats Princeton 36-28 in overtime. With the win, the Bulldogs now can earn at least a share of the Ivy League Championship with a win against Harvard in The Game next Saturday.
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Yale-NUS, an often-controversial collaboration between Yale and the National University of Singapore, will close its doors in four years. A new interdisciplinary college will take its place without Yale's name attached.
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2 years
The University has mandated booster shots for the spring term, following institutions including Harvard, Princeton and Brown.
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"We can hoop and we know that. The Ivy League can compete with any team in the country." - Yale forward Matt Knowling
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They’re onto us.
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yitter journalists always say "words in ..." in their bios but it's never words in their essays due at midnight
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In an email just over an hour ago, Yale President Peter Salovey wrote that the morning arrest of 47 pro-divestment student protesters was because students did not heed administrators’ warnings. Salovey also described possible disciplinary action. More:
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OPINION | "The University should rescind their bivalent booster requirement and provide a transparent and logical explanation of how mandate decisions are made." Words by Mathias Skadow.
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4 years
Following months of local protests calling for justice in her case and amid a nationwide movement against police brutality, Stephanie Washington is taking Yale, New Haven, Hamden and the police officers who shot at her to court.
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SPORTS | “If this competition was about making a statement, Nathan Chen definitely just said ‘Beijing 2022 — it’s mine,’” two-time Olympian and NBC commentator Johnny Weir said during last weekend’s broadcast.
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BREAKING: Fourteen students have announced the end of their hunger strike after eight days. The hunger strikers, who announced the end of this act of protest in an Instagram post this evening, continue to call on Yale to divest from weapons manufacturing.
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2 years
Columbia University has urged professors to shift exams online. Students were told to leave campus as soon as their in-person obligations were finished. Stanford announced today that classes would be held online for the first two weeks of winter quarter.
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SCORE: Yale earns its second consecutive Ivy football crown, besting Harvard 23-18 in The Game and tying with the Crimson for an overall league record of 5-2. Congrats, Bulldogs — and boola boola! Recap the 139th Yale-Harvard showdown here:
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LIVE: Ready for The Game? The News has you covered — check back for live updates from the Yale Bowl as the Yale Bulldogs take on the Harvard Crimson for the 139th time. Kickoff is at noon🧵
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SCITECH | Yale researchers have successfully adapted an existing COVID-19 test into a more efficient method using multiplex RT-qPCR assays. If implemented, this enhanced test could save time, money and labor, helping labs optimize and expand testing.
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2 years
Without an announcement, Yale has moved from Yellow to Orange COVID-19 alert level. Description here and story to come.
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BREAKING: Yale announced Wednesday that it will not divest from military weapons manufacturers — a decision that comes amid months of student protest, including a hunger strike. The University did expand its divestment policy for assault weapons manufacturers. Story to come.
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UNIVERSITY | Faculty have drawn attention to Yale’s connection to Len Blavatnik, a Russian billionaire and philanthropist who received his wealth from state-owned aluminum and oil assets after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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SCITECH | Virologists and doctors at Yale New Haven Hospital have successfully replicated the COVID-19 test, which will allow more people in New Haven County to be tested, and will give a more accurate picture of how far the disease has spread.
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New Haven police chief Karl Jacobson said that as of 1:15 p.m., NHPD had received no reports of violence from the protest today or at any point during the encampment.  He added that officers have not used riot gear but do have it accessible.
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The more than 300 protesters continue to block the intersection. There were more than 40 officers on the scene; they have now almost all entered the Schwarzman Center rotunda and are not allowing students inside.
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6 years
On Monday, the No. 3 Bulldogs finally proved that the top lacrosse team in the nation hailed from New Haven. Yale earned its first NCAA title in program history, defeating No. 4 Duke 13–11 in the national championship game in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
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BREAKING: More than 600 pro-Palestine protesters are on Beinecke Plaza to continue demanding that Yale divest from military weapons manufacturers. Pro-Israel demonstrators had also gathered on the Plaza but left at 11 p.m. The News reports live:
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UNIVERSITY | Suzanne Brown ’23 noticed a phenomenon in which many higher-income students play down the extent of their wealth, while some lower-income students also face pressure to “cosplay as a different class character.”
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YLS profs Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld are under intense scrutiny after they reportedly told female law students interviewing with Brett Kavanaugh that the SCOTUS nominee prefers female clerks who are good-looking and attractively dressed.
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Meanwhile, demonstrators on Beinecke Plaza — many of whom spent the night in tent encampments — appear to be gearing up for another day of protest outside the Schwarzman Center.
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With Yale announcing that students should not return to campus for the rest of the semester, here are some things you should know:
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There are currently more than 350 protesters blocking the intersection of Grove and College Streets. Most protesters have now sat down on the road. A protester is playing the drums in the center of the circle while some others dance.
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Yale Daily News
2 years
OPINION | When I decided to follow through on my plans to return for the fall semester, I underestimated how all-consuming grief is.
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5 years
BREAKING: American feminist and journalist Gloria Steinem spotted going into the Yale Center for British Art, where Yale hosts a banquet for those who will receive honorary degrees at commencement on Monday morning.
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UNIVERSITY & SCITECH | Yale public health officials estimate that the vaccine could be available to all members of the Yale campus community by April — with student vaccinations possibly starting in the coming weeks.
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7 years
Vigil in front of Sterling Memorial Library in support of those affected by President Trump's immigration ban
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3 years
UNIVERSITY | Andrew Dowe, lecturer and director of undergraduate studies of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and associate director of the Office of LGBTQ Resources, died unexpectedly this weekend in his home. He was 34 years old.
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11 years
FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, FOR YALE AND FOUR GOALS
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Over 100 Yale students gathered on Cross Campus at 12:30am Wed. for a "primal scream" in response to Trump's lead. Video by Britton O'Daly
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“While Yale students put their bodies on the line to stand in solidarity with Gaza, the least we can do as alumni is pledge our support for their cause and urge Yale to accept its students’ demands,” Ryan Gittler-Muñiz ’20 wrote in the statement.
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FINAL | Yale 57, SDSU 85 As Spokane arena emptied, the University of Idaho marching band stuck around to play one final tune.
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