A report compiled by the University’s Office of Institutional Research last June showed that the number of Yalies who had gone into “business and finance” — a category that includes jobs such as banking, real estate, accounting and areas of consulting — had decreased significantly over the past decade. The decline has been mirrored across »
Elm City residents and workers joined forces with Occupy New Haven protesters Tuesday afternoon at City Hall to march for better-paying jobs, safer streets and more opportunities for city youth. The march — which attracted over 600 people from the Occupy New Haven protest, community groups and labor unions — began with a rally inside »
By the time students and professors arrive on campus next fall, they will likely find an enhanced, more “Facebook-like” course management site. Information Technology Services will soon begin testing a new system designed by Sakai, the group of leaders from universities and commercial organizations that developed Yale’s Classesv2 server. As administrators determine how best to »
Yale students made their official entrance into the Occupy movement Tuesday evening with a protest at a Morgan Stanley information session. Armed with signs scrawled with slogans such as “Occupy your mind” and “Is this your dream?”, a group of 25 Yale students gathered around 5:30 p.m. outside of the Study Hotel on Chapel Street, »
Though the world is still recovering from the 2008 economic crisis and financial stresses are rippling across Europe, investment banker David Darst ’69 told students Tuesday afternoon that this instability will soon pass. Darst, the managing director and chief investment strategist of the financial services firm Morgan Stanley, discussed the plight of the global economy »
In both the Davenport and Jonathan Edwards College basements, framed collections ofhand-printed posters and invitations line the walls near the colleges’ print shops. Some display images ofYale buildings, while others are simply elaborate greeting cards or concert posters. These are not displays commemorating an art that has died; in Davenport and JE, with the support »
This weekend, snow created divisions among the protestors of Occupy New Haven, at least for a few hours. The unexpected five inches of snow that accumulated between noon on Saturday and early Sunday morning brought chaos and inconvenience to the roughly 35 protesterscurrently inhabiting the New Haven Green in the city’s branch of the anti-corporation »
The rapid industrial development that has detrimentally impacted China’s environment is not a problem that the nation can address alone, environmental law professor Jingjing Liu asserted Thursday. At the inaugural Yale-China Association fireside chat of the season, Liu, a professor at Vermont Law School, spoke to an audience of roughly 40 members of the Yale »
Contrary to common parenting advice, doing good is not always the right thing, according to Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan. Oakley, the author of a recently released book entitled “Cold-Blooded Kindness: Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer, or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving You, Dear, and Other Reflections »
For those who have ever wondered why rappers like Jay-Z and P.Diddy favor “blingy” jewelry like massive gold chains and diamond-encrusted rings, Lyneise Williams GRD ’04 may have an answer. On Tuesday, Williams, a professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke to a crowd of about 40 at the »
For a few hours Saturday the New Haven Country Club got a taste of a Bavarian beer hall. AIDS Project New Haven hosted the first annual Oktoberfest — a German-style beer celebration to raise money for AIDS treatment — at the clubhouse in Hamden, where over 130 people enjoyed the German beer, food, traditional music »
