David Yaffe-Bellany
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Harvard sees new pass-fail policies

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday to approve an overhaul of the college’s General Education requirements that will allow students to fulfill as many as half the requirements pass-fail.

Harvard grad students back union effort

The announcement by the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers merely underlines the central challenge faced by graduate student unionization movements across the country.

Students prefer GPSCY to Schwarzman plans

The $150 million Schwarzman Center, conceived partly as a weekend hangout space for students across the University, will include several features designed specifically to appeal to the thousands of students in Yale’s 13 graduate and professional schools: a late closing time, a bar serving beer and wine and an upstairs room reserved for graduate and professional students.

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Schwarzman to prioritize grad students

The recently released advisory committee report outlining recommendations for the Schwarzman Center paints a lavish picture of bistro-style dining and weekend concerts. But for students in the graduate and professional schools, the 2020 opening of the $150 million campus student center will fulfill a far humbler vision: a campus hub designed to combat the social isolation many describe as endemic to graduate school life.

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GPSS details child care struggles

“Providing greater child-care support is extremely important so that we can attract and retain the best students, especially women, in graduate school,” Cooley said.

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Schwarzman Center report released

The presidential advisory committee released a report on its findings Thursday afternoon, outlining detailed recommendations designed to make the space welcoming to students across the University.

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Few attend Corp naming sessions

Last Thursday evening, just a few dozen undergraduates sat scattered across the nearly 450 empty seats in Yale’s cavernous Law School auditorium.

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Students call for Thompson over Calhoun

Student support has begun to coalesce around a new potential candidate for the renaming of Calhoun College: Roosevelt Thompson ’84.

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Calhoun portraits removed

They had come to take down the glowering portrait of outspoken slavery advocate John C. Calhoun that had hung on the back wall since the 1930s.

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Calhoun paintings to come down

In a Jan. 17 email to her college community, Calhoun Master Julia Adams announced plans to remove three portraits of Calhoun — one in the dining hall and two in the master’s house — that have hung in the college since the 1930s.

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SQUASH: Yale opens Ivy season at Brown

The men’s and women’s squash teams will look to maintain their impressive early-season form as they travel to Providence, Rhode Island on Tuesday to play Brown in the Elis’ first official Ivy League match of the 2015–16 campaign.

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