Author Archives: Andrea Maikovich

Ten-year-old Raychelle Durham said she has always hoped that some day, when she is a little older and a little taller, she will be a Yale cheerleader. The New Haven fifth grader was thrilled when she got the chance to take the field a little sooner than expected. On Friday, the Yale cheerleaders hosted a »

Author Peter Matthiessen ’50 has tromped around the Everglades, searching for clues to uncover the truth behind a tale of execution and drunkenness. He has also been on expeditions in Nicaragua to learn about the culture and dialect of fishermen. In a Davenport College Master’s Tea Tuesday, Matthiessen recounted tales from these adventures and stories »

Two Yale graduates were awarded Nobel Prizes this week for their contributions to physics and chemistry. Retired Yale professor John Fenn GRD ’40 won one of three Nobel Prizes in chemistry, while retired University of Pennsylvania physics professor Raymond Davis GRD ’42 was one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics. The Nobel »

While Americans often associate slavery exclusively with the South, a conference this weekend hopes to spread the message that the “peculiar institution” is a part of all U.S. history and even of New Haven history. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition is co-sponsoring the conference, entitled “Yale, New Haven »

As vacant buildings are filled by new tenants and empty lots are replaced by new shopping venues, the last of New Haven’s original nine squares to undergo redevelopment is edging closer toward renewal. New Haven’s Ninth Square, the downtown region bound by Chapel, Church, George and State streets, is currently a focus of the city’s »

For Yale students, the beginning of September is all about shopping. There are courses to compare and futons to buy. And after next week, there will be one more item to add to the list: ice cream. Ashley’s will open at 280 York St., the former location of the Whimsels crepe shop. The parlor will »

For Yale students facing finals, stress is having to learn a semester of material in one week. For Paul Steiger ’64, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, stress is having hundreds of checks from subscribers voided as they pass through the steam machines implemented in response to anthrax threats, having your headquarters located across »

Plenty of people who exercise at Payne Whitney Gymnasium train for marathons. But one man who frequently works out on the fourth floor is preparing for a very different type of race. John Nussbaum, a self-employed businessman from New Haven, is attempting to earn a place on the ballot for the Democratic primary this September »

Helping to kick off a week of events ranging from talks on globalization to a dance, a lecture that was part of the first annual Latin American Awareness Week packed Luce Hall yesterday. The discussion on “Perspectives on Globalization in Latin America” Tuesday was one of the opening events in a week of activities organized »

With summer a mere two months away, many Yalies are questioning how the academic year could have passed so quickly. The artists in one local organization, however, have devoted themselves to capturing each of life’s moments before they slip away, and preserving them on 4×6 glossy paper, 8×10 black and white portraits, or blown-up posters. »

Metro-North Railroad is seriously considering creating a new route connecting the New Haven Line to Penn Station New York, using tracks on which only Amtrak trains currently run. The goal of the project is to make passengers’ commutes to their New York destinations quicker and more convenient, particularly for those travelling downtown or who need »

One would not expect the editor in chief of one of America’s most popular health and fitness magazines to approve of that occasional late night trip to Durfee’s or Yorkside. But Lucy Danziger of Self magazine looked out at a room full of female Yale students last night with more than approval. “If you weren’t »