Yale Trustee Fareed Zakaria ’86 was suspended by Time Magazine and CNN today after plagiarizing parts of his Aug. 20 Time column on gun control. Zakaria, editor-at-large of Time Magazine and host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, admitted in a statement that portions of the column closely resemble paragraphs in an April New Yorker article »
Yale football captain Will McHale ’13 had his captaincy suspended Saturday due to a fight he had in May with another male student. McHale, who was arrested May 15 by Yale Police, faces a charge of creating a public disturbance, an infraction. He has not yet entered a plea, and is due to appear in »
Provost Peter Salovey will accept most recommendations made in a spring report on faculty resources, but tabled a decision on whether to implement “tenure ratio guidelines” — one of the report’s central concerns. A committee chaired by economics professor William Nordhaus ’63 proposed in its report that the University control the rising ratio of tenured »
While professors have been preparing for a debate on Yale-NUS at today’s faculty meeting, controversy surrounding the Singaporean liberal arts college has begun to pop up in a number of media outlets. In a Bloomberg News op-ed published Tuesday, Clare Malone discusses the challenges involved in introducing a liberal arts education to a place unaccustomed »
As far as Spring Fling-type activities go, Taio Cruz is a solid choice for headliner. But he wasn’t Cornell’s first pick to lead Slope Day — the Ithaca Ivy first faced a few rejections from big names before settling on the British pop star and rapper. The Cornell Daily Sun reported that Flo Rida and »