Author Archives: Naomi Massave

Dean of Administrative Affairs John Meeske said next year’s housing process has finally been settled. He found room for the extra Saybrook College rising juniors in Lawrance Hall and McClellan Hall, but he is worried about the following year’s housing. “Saybrook needed 34 [annex] spaces,” Meeske said. “[They got] three suites in Lawrance and three »

The International Students Organization and the Office of International Students and Scholars have agreed to start an international counselor program to help fill the needs of international students. ISO President Mansoor Razzaq ’03 and several other students met yesterday with the OISS Director Ann Kuhlman, and came up with a plan for a pilot program. »

Yale College Council Vice President EB Kelly ’03 told treasurer candidate Scott Simpson ’04 to remove his campaign posters yesterday because some administrators found them offensive, Simpson said. Simpson said one of the posters said “If I win, I’m going to s— my pants” and the other depicted him drinking alcohol. In Kelly’s e-mail to »

Several months after the Yale College Council proposed an acquisition of YaleStation, YCC members formally approved the deal Sunday night. Under the agreement, YaleStation will be a part of the YCC and will be led by a chairman elected by the YCC. In response to worries about conflict of interest, however, YaleStation will no longer »

In response to an e-mail sent out Tuesday by the Council of Masters announcing that students would have to adhere to stricter storage policies this summer, the Yale College Council has drafted a letter asking the Council of Masters to hold off on the new policies for a year in order to give students more »

Yale College Council officer hopefuls declared their candidacies yesterday, setting the stage for a week of elections. YCC Vice President EB Kelly ’03 said there will be a meeting with all candidates tonight, where the YCC will discuss the rules of campaigning. Formal campaigning cannot begin until this Saturday at 8 a.m., Kelly said. Undergraduates »

As the federal government introduces more legislation regarding international students and scholars, Yale officials are working to keep students informed. Though Yale Federal Relations Officer Richard Jacob said national decisions are far from definite, the Bush administration has been working on a plan to limit the areas of study in which international students and scholars »

Professors often require students to turn in their assignments on time. Now the tables are turned. The Yale College Council passed a resolution Sunday night calling for the creation of a new standing committee on the Registrar’s Office and a monitoring system to ensure that professors turn in their grades on time. Resolution authors Evan »

Though there will be more beds than usual available for annexed students on Old Campus next year, Dean of Administrative Affairs John Meeske is scrambling to find more room for rising Saybrook College juniors. Meeske said Saybrook Dean Paul McKinley had not initially asked for any annex space on Old Campus, but now anticipates his »

The day after a marathon Yale College Council meeting ended early Monday morning with the repeal of last year’s resolution supporting card-count neutrality for GESO, representatives reflected on how they came to their decision. The resolution passed Monday was a strong departure from the original resolution written by YCC Rep. Matthew Robinson ’03, which called »

One year after the Yale College Council quietly passed a resolution calling on the University to adopt a policy of neutrality toward graduate students and hospital workers attempting to unionize, an attempt by YCC members to repeal the resolution did not go so unnoticed. Instead, with Yale and its two largest unions in the midst »

By a vote of 22-5-1, the Yale College Council passed a resolution early this morning repealing its previous support for a card-count neutrality agreement in the graduate student unionization debate. The council’s decision came after five hours of debate on a resolution written by Pierson College Rep. Matthew Robinson ’03 that condemned neutrality and called »