Yale Daily News

Today might only be the first day of autumn (the mild weather sure is nice, isn’t it?), but it’s never too early to look forward to hockey season, especially when your team is dubbed the conference favorite. The ECAC’s preseason polls — both coaches’ and media — were released yesterday, with the journos picking Yale to win the conference this year.

September 23, 2015

One of the week’s more popular Facebook events has been the “Myth of the Model Minority” discussion taking place in St. Anthony Hall this afternoon, which garnered even more RSVPs than Sig Chi’s event.

September 23, 2015

Shopping period ended a while ago, but there remain still more deadlines to mind: Today is the last day for undergrads to apply for credit for GSAS classes.

September 23, 2015

2014 A line outside the Apple Store on Broadway erupts into a brawl among customers waiting to purchase iPhones.

September 23, 2015

Yesterday, after passing the one million digital-only subscriber mark, The New York Times published “50 of Our Best,” a collection the paper’s landmark works, ranging from the legendary “Snow Fall” multimedia feature to this summer’s “Inside Amazon” piece to Charles Blow’s “Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint” op-ed. Underscoring it all was the Times’ emphatic commitment to pursuing innovations in online journalism. We can only imagine, dear readers.

September 22, 2015

Amid all the stuffiness of finance and consulting recruiting season, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and Yale Entrepreneurial Society (yes — they are different groups) will put on a joint networking study break. Facebook, Uber and more await, so put on your best hoodie.

September 22, 2015

Tackles and the Internet — such is Tyler Varga’s ’15 job these days. Making his Monday Night Football debut last night, the former Eli running back was trending online last night, in a game that also featured players from Harvard and Stanford.

September 22, 2015

CNN Head of Social Media Samantha Barry stopped by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s ’71 Global Affairs seminar last night to lecture students on #socialmedia, according to a tweet Barry sent out on her way out of New Haven. By the way, follow along for the News’ latest: @yaledailynews.

September 22, 2015

This evening, the Black Student Alliance at Yale — in conjunction with the Yale Black Women’s Coalition, the Yale African Students Association and Yale NAACP — will host a discussion on the Calhoun and “master” issues that continue to stir conversations on campus.

September 22, 2015

The second-most popular article throughout Monday on The New Yorker’s website was a satirical riff on Ben Carson ’73 and his supposed defiance of the “all brain surgeons are smart” stereotype. We disagree: Yalies are all smart.

September 22, 2015

The University’s (new, oddly enough) collection of VHS tapes will continue being put to use with the first in a series of horror movie screenings in Bass Library, beginning with “The Driller Killer.”

September 22, 2015