Author Archives: Alexandra Adler

Several new blue phones are slotted to be installed in off-campus locations in response to the recent rise in violent crimes affecting students in these areas. The University plans to place three new phones near the Yale Divinity School, Deputy Secretary Martha Highsmith said. The increase in blue phones is part of an effort on »

While acts of violence against students on and near campus have raised safety concerns in the Yale community, crime has also been quietly on the rise in areas housing Yale graduate students further from campus. Students living in the area derisively called “the Graduate Ghetto” — the area north of central campus and around Science »

A Yale College junior was held at gunpoint on Edgewood Avenue Sunday night — the latest in a series of crimes this year that have led University Police to send patrols off campus and into the Dwight neighborhood. The student was grabbed by a man who demanded her money and cell phone at approximately 9:30 »

The union representing city police officers has filed a complaint with the state labor board, claiming Yale Police are overstepping their beat boundaries by upping patrols of the Dwight neighborhood in the wake of the shooting of a student. University Police Chief James Perrotti asked his officers to include the Dwight neighborhood in their patrols »

A Saybrook College junior was in critical condition Tuesday evening after a collision with a moving Connecticut Transit bus in the afternoon in front of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. Wook Choe ’07 collided with the right rear side of the bus at 12:58 p.m. yesterday as it was making a right turn onto Prospect Street from Grove »

Gregory Korb ’08 pleaded not guilty to charges of rape Tuesday in New Haven Superior Court. At the hearing — which took approximately one minute — the Calhoun College sophomore simply said, “Not guilty,” when asked for his plea by Judge Richard A. Damiani. Korb and his lawyer, William F. Dow III ’63, then asked »

Yale Police Department officers responded to a report of a physical altercation involving a student near the corner of Crown and High streets early Friday morning. Police arrested Joseph Fahrendorf ’06 outside the Soul de Cuba restaurant on charges of assault in the third degree and breach of peace in the second degree, both of »

An officer with the Yale Police Department is responsible for reporting to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, in an arrangement common to many college campuses that has raised concerns from civil liberties groups. A member of the Yale Police Department is assigned to such a task force, a legal partnership between the FBI and »

The friends and family of Andrew Kroon ’05 continue to honor his memory through a range of environmentally-friendly projects, including planting trees across the country and supporting causes Kroon pursued while at Yale. Kroon, a Latin American studies major and member of Berkeley College who was greatly devoted to the environment, passed away last spring »

Less than a week after a student was shot in the hand in an attempted mugging on Howe Street, a Yale employee was reportedly assaulted in her apartment building on the same street. Ashley Norman, a 22-year-old lab coordinator, said she was thrown to the floor and mugged as she waited for the elevator at »

The Connecticut chief medical examiner’s office has determined that Berkeley senior Andrew Kroon’s death last spring was caused by cardiomegaly, an enlarged heart, said Lorraine Siggins, the chief psychiatrist at University Health Services. Kroon was found dead April 16 in his room in the Taft Apartments. Siggins said the medical examiner’s report states that the »

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. One student was shot in the right hand and three others were robbed at gunpoint in two separate incidents early Sunday morning, prompting Yale officials to warn students to take caution when off campus. Theodore DeLong DRA ’07, a 27-year-old graduate student, was »