Author Archives: Lorenzo Ligato

A crowd holding signs and waving Burmese flags welcomed international human rights and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi as she arrived to Sprague Hall to deliver a public address Thursday morning. Visiting Yale as part of an 18-day tour of the United States, Suu Kyi urged the establishment of an independent judiciary in Burma »

A delay in sorting mail at the Yale Station post office could leave many students without their packages ­— and, more importantly, their textbooks — for at least a few more days. Due to a hefty influx of incoming mail and parcels, the post office at 206 Elm St. has fallen behind schedule on processing »

In preparation for November’s general election, the Yale College Democrats began mobilizing this weekend for U.S. Senate Democratic nominee and current U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy. During a registration drive organized by the Dems, a crowd of over 85 Yale students holding hand-painted signs welcomed Murphy as he arrived at Phelps Gate just after 3 p.m. »

As Barack Obama took the stage in Charlotte, N.C., to accept the Democratic party’s nomination for president Thursday night, his campaign organized a watch party that drew dozens of New Haven supporters. Around 80 New Haven residents from across the city gathered at 100 York St., in the apartment of Lydia Bornick, executive director of »

Students at Yale, Cornell and Columbia will see new languages taught this fall — but they won’t necessarily meet all the instructors in person. In an effort to expand its language course offerings, Yale’s Center for Language Study is partnering with Columbia and Cornell to offer videoconference-based classes in eight uncommonly taught languages. Each of »

After he took a break from Yale in the fall of 2011 to work on a writing project in his hometown of Sitka, Alaska, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins had to defer graduation by a semester. Now, only one course credit stands between Kreiss-Tomkins and the completion of his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, but his candidacy for »

Over 200 freshmen wishing to place out of segments of the new year-long Introductory Biology course took a series of placement exams this summer, marking a departure from previous years. In the past, students who majored in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, or Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology were exempt from taking »

Patricia Pessar, professor of American studies and anthropology and founder of the Ethnicity, Race and Migration program, died last month after a decade-long battle with cancer. She was 63. A scholar of immigration and social movements in Latin America, Pessar helped forge the interdisciplinary study of issues related to global migration, ethnicity, nationality and race »

Prospective freshmen visiting campus for Bulldog Days had the opportunity to meet Gov. Dannel Malloy at a Tuesday night talk in Linsly-Chittenden Hall. The event, sponsored by the Yale College Democrats, drew over 100 admitted students to hear Malloy discuss political activism on campus, the upcoming presidential election and what it means to be a »

Every May for the past three decades, about half of Yale College graduates leave the University with a degree in history, economics, English, political science or biology — each of which has been a part of the Yale curriculum since at least the early 1900s. But over the past 15 years, Yale’s undergraduate curriculum has »

Whether he is hiking, exploring New Haven’s East Rock or planning YCC projects, YCC events director candidate Bryan Epps ’14 said he knows how to get things done. A current YCC representative for Silliman and co-chair of Silliman College Council, Epps said that, if elected, he will put to use his two-year-long experience in student »

Henry Paulson Jr. reflected on his experiences as U.S. Treasury Secretary and stressed the need for leaders to form strong relationships with colleagues at a Tuesday talk at Sage Hall. Paulson, who served in the administration of George W. Bush ’68 from 2006-’08, told a crowd of more than 100 people that effective leaders must »