Author Archives: Jeff Muskus

While nearly 100 art and environmental science students marched to Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton’s office at noon Monday, local labor leaders met with U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 to outline their grievances with the University and attempt to garner support for a potential teaching assistant strike next week. The students, most of whom »

After a month-long trial of unrestricted dining hall access, officials said, students who flocked to Berkeley’s dining hall have issued their verdict: they like its all-organic menu and they want more. Directors of the Yale Sustainable Food Project said they have redoubled their efforts to expand the range of organic options to Yale’s other dining »

As Yale struggles to catch up to its more environmentally-conscious peer institutions, some campus activists are pushing for initiatives they say may help make the University more green. Hundreds of student advocates for Yale environmental reform joined the Climate Campaign to petition for superior fuel efficiency and reliance on renewable energy sources during last Friday’s »

Yale is moving forward with changes to its internal identification system that officials hope will better protect students’ personal information, such as Social Security numbers, from hackers like those who allegedly have invaded data networks at several universities in recent weeks. Information and Technology Services officials have nearly finished phasing in the use of a »

A group of students lashed out at the administration on Tuesday and questioned the ethics of University investments during Chief Investment Officer David Swensen’s stewardship of the now-$12.7 billion endowment — suggesting that skeletons lie in Yale’s closet beside previously acknowledged investments in corporations that supported South African apartheid. Possible investments in the government of »

The total Yale College term bill for the 2005-06 academic year will rise 5.5 percent to $41,000, University officials said Monday. This year’s increase in the term bill, the total cost of tuition and room and board, is the highest since 1993. Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton said the increase was necessary to balance the rising »

After the Cross Campus Library is renovated, students may no longer have to rely on vending machines for sustenance while they study. Library staff members filled about 50 desks in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall Thursday as architects Gary Ainge and Tom Beeby pitched preliminary designs for renovations to CCL, which will begin in »

After working for the past few months with local restaurants for a possible decrease in the surcharge for the University’s Flex dollars program, Yale Dining Services officials said late last week that the meal plan will remain unchanged for at least the rest of the current fiscal year. Bulldog Burrito owner Jason Congdon said he »

Most students say they know better than to send personal information to someone claiming to be a deposed African prince, but some students fell for a similar ruse when they were tricked last week by a Web site that looked just like one from Yale. Last Monday some users received an e-mail directing them to »

In spite of hefty alumni contributions, donations to Yale ranked ninth among higher education institutions last year, according to a report released this week by the Council for Aid to Education. Yale received $265 million in contributions during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2004, according to the report, which surveyed 971 institutions nationwide. »

Safety concerns nixed a planned student passage through Beinecke Plaza, but if renovations are completed this spring as now scheduled, students will again be able to take the shortcut through Commons on their way to Science Hill. While the plaza’s finish date was originally slated for last fall and then this March, Yale project management »

New Haven officials have already approved the zoning requirements and this past weekend the Yale Corporation gave final construction plans for Trumbull College the go-ahead, Yale Senior Architect Laura Cruickshank said Tuesday. But the renovations are still missing one key element — a hefty alumni donation. Residential college renovations typically rely on one principal donor »