Author Archives: Kirsten Schnackenberg

Though several fraternities who normally attend tailgates will not be present at the first tailgate of the 2012 football season this Saturday, fraternity leaders and other students interviewed said the new tailgate regulations did not affect their decisions. Last January, administrators issued new tailgating restrictions — prohibiting U-Hauls and kegs, confining student tailgating activity to »

Two experts on Iraqi politics asserted that economic sanctions against Iraq throughout the 1990s resulted in disastrous humanitarian consequences in a Wednesday afternoon talk. Joy Gordon, a philosophy professor at Fairfield University, and Hans-Christof von Sponeck, head of United Nations operations in Iraq from 1998 to 2000, each gave talks at the Institution for Social »

While many might consider dance only a form of artistic expression, club sports teams at Yale that incorporate dance showcase both its artistry and its athleticism. Dance and sports that contain dance elements require tremendous athletic ability. When combined with competition, in teams such as the Yale Ballroom Dance Team, dance can become a sport »

Windy days on the Atlantic should be used for more than just sailing and flying kites, environmentalists say. A report by the National Wildlife Federation released last week recommended the construction of offshore wind turbines along the coast of Connecticut and 13 other East Coast states. Currently, the United States does not have a single »

Jo Handelsman, a professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, is nationally acclaimed for her efforts to improve science education and to attract and retain more women and minorities in scientific fields. At Yale, she teaches a freshman and sophomore biology class, “From Microbes to Molecules,” and heads a lab focused on »

A member of the Israeli parliament spoke to a packed room in William L. Harkness Hall on Wednesday night about Israel, the Arab Spring and the future of the Middle East. Einat Wilf, the chair of the Education, Sports and Culture Committee of the Knesset — Israel’s legislative branch — and a native of Israel, »

When asked to name the student seen juggling and bouncing a ball around Yale’s campus, men’s soccer head coach Brian Tompkins did not have to think twice: Rarely could former sophomore Max Morice be seen without a soccer ball by his side. But when Morice was offered a chance to take his lifelong passion to »

There may be more to fear from global warming than environmental changes. According to several leading climate scientists and public health researchers, global warming will lead to higher incidence and more intense versions of disease. The direct or indirect effects of global warming might intensify the prevalence of tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, dengue and Lyme disease, they »

In the 2010-’11 season, golf captain Jeffrey Hatten ’12 placed fourth at the Ivy League Championship, was selected for first team All-Ivy, and achieved three straight top-10 finishes. The captain, who swings lefty but putts righty, averaged a score of 76.4 over eight tournaments and shot a low round of 71 in the 2010-’11 season. »

In front of a full house at Hastings Hall, French architect Francois Roche delivered a Monday night talk entitled “The Risks of Hiring Me.” While the title of the School of Architecture talk suggested it would focus on architects’ job prospects in the current economic climate, Roche’s comments instead delved into the intersection of nature »

Patricio Navia, master teacher of New York University’s Liberal Studies Program and a renowned Chilean political commentator, discussed Thursday how Latin American countries are working to overcome historic socioeconomic inequalities. Navia spoke to roughly 20 students in William L. Harkness Hall about the challenges Latin American countries — and Chile in particular — face in »

Klaus Kleinfeld, chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh, Pa.-based aluminum company Alcoa, spoke about global developments in business at a Wednesday master’s tea. Kleinfeld spoke to roughly 50 people in the Morse College master’s house about the ways in which business has shifted in response to several global trends of recent decades, in addition to identifying »