Cross Campus
Scroll DownApril 5, 2016
The interview. Bob Woodward ’65 and Robert Costa interviewed Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for The Washington Post. Speaking about Richard Nixon — whose administration’s Watergate scandal Woodward uncovered — Trump said, “And Nixon failed, I think to a certain extent, because of his personality.” Woodward responded: “And he broke the law.”
Angels & Demo(crats). With the Connecticut Democratic primary coming up on April 26, State SenatePresident Martin Looney, who represents New Haven, has yet to make an endorsement in the race for the nomination. Mayor Toni Harp, Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Sen. Chris Murphy have all extended their support to Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. Clinton and Blumenthal were classmates at Yale Law School.
Tee time. Former President George H.W. Bush ’48 was honored by Shell Oil Company with the 2016 Shell Legacy Award for charitable giving. The 41st president has given to and helped fundraise for a diverse range of charities since the end of his term in office. Bush, who is a longtime supporter of the Shell Houston Open, was awarded the honor at the event. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the open, which was won by American golfer Jim Herman this year.
Take me out to the ball game. As baseball season continues, we remember the first President Bush as one of the greatest baseball captains Yale has ever seen. In 1948, Babe Ruth came to New Haven and presented Bush with the original manuscript of his autobiography “The Babe Ruth Story” on home plate at Yale Field.
Sign me YUPP. The Yale Undergraduate Prison Project and Davenport College will jointly host Max Kenner, the founder of the Bard Prison Initiative, for a Master’s Tea at 4 p.m. this afternoon. The Bard Prison Initiative provides higher education to incarcerated men and women.
Kum(ykov) if you can. Students and Alumni of Yale will lead a conversation with Russian businessman and Branford Fellow Azamat Kumykov GRD ’15 at 4 p.m. at the Rose Alumni House.
Cooler than me. If you thought the weather yesterday was treacherous, the low temperature of 23 degrees Fahrenheit was far higher than New Haven’s record low in April 4, 1954 of 11 degrees.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY 1962 Francisco P. Laplaza, dean of the Law School of the National University at Buenos Aires, visits Yale at the invitation of Yale Law School Dean Eugene Rostow.
April 4, 2016
Early birds. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 agreed to a debate on “Good Morning America” ahead of the April 19 New York primary. “I think it’s a great opportunity to reach an audience that may not always be able because of other obligations to tune in to debates,” Clinton said. Her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, has yet to agree to the morning debate.
16 years later. Onaje Woodbine ’02, a former member of the Yale men’s basketball team, wrote a piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he described why he quit the team after his sophomore season. “On the basketball court, I would be perceived by … the predominantly white Yale campus as a typical black man, naturally gifted in body but equally defective in mind,” Woodbine wrote.
Rash(ida) decision. Harvard announced that Rashida Jones, who graduated from the college in 1997, would be delivering the Class Day address this May. “It’s where I first had the idea for Facebook, which went on to make me billions of dollars and change the world. Oh, wait, that wasn’t me …,” Jones joked. The Yale Class Day chairs have not yet announced this year’s speaker.
UConn’d. Last night, the UConn women’s basketball team defeated Oregon State 80–51 to extend its victory streak to 74 games and take one more step toward winning four straight NCAA championships. The Huskies will battle the Syracuse women on Tuesday night for the national title.
The best duo besides Duo Mobile. Timothy Dwight College will host a Chubb lecture with Paul Simon, one half of the iconic musical duo Simon & Garfunkel. Simon will speak at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in Battell Chapel.
Smoker? I barely know her. The Owl Shop, one of New Haven’s oldest bars, got a shoutout in The New York Times in this past weekend’s arts supplement. The Times described the Owl Shop as one of the few venues that retains the smoke-filled vibe of bars before smoking bans existed.
April is the awareness month. In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness month, students will host a town hall about rape culture on Yale’s campus. The open discussion will be held at 8 p.m. this evening at the Afro-American Cultural Room.
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY 1990 The Silliman College housing committee distributes a letter to all students in the residential college, asking for volunteers to move off-campus. Silliman is facing a housing crunch spurred by the closing of a 20-person annex.
April 1, 2016
20/20 vision. Hundreds of thousands of high school seniors suffered through “Ivy Day” and opened college decisions from the Ancient Eight schools yesterday. All but two Ivy League universities — Brown and Dartmouth — demonstrated lower acceptance rates this year than last. Harvard had the lowest rate, admitting only 5.2 percent of its applicants.
All up in the kitchen in my heels — dinnertime. This Sunday, New Haven will kick off its annual spring restaurant week. Nearly 30 of the Elm City’s finest restaurants will offer multi-course prix fixe lunch for $20.16 and dinner for $34. Participating restaurants — which include Florian, Zinc, 116 Crown and Union League Cafe — encourage patrons to make reservations as soon as possible for the coming week.
Insta-famous. R&B performer Janelle Monáe, this year’s Spring Fling headliner, Instagrammed a screen shot of the News’ announcement and directed her followers’ attention to the statement that said she will be the first black female headliner in University history. “Excited to be a part of history. Long time coming but it came,” Monae wrote.
Connecticut takes action. Gov. Dannel Malloy signed an executive order yesterday that banned state-funded travel to North Carolina. The order came in response to the Tar Heel State’s House Bill 2 legislation which dictates how businesses treat gay, lesbian and transgender patrons, especially with regard to public restrooms. Malloy dubbed the legislation “unacceptable.”
