University | 1:45 pm | February 6, 2013 | By Grant Bronsdon

Cory Booker LAW ’97 may become an ice cream flavor

Cory Booker LAW '97 will be this year's Class Day speaker.

Stephen Colbert. Willie Nelson. Jeremy Lin. Jimmy Fallon. Napoleon Dynamite. And now, Cory Booker? For you ice cream aficionados out there, you probably already know that every member in the above list has a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor named after him. Now, it looks like Newark Mayor and Yale Law alum Cory Booker »

University | 12:41 am | January 9, 2013 | By Grant Bronsdon

Aaron Carter, teenage heartthrob, to perform at Toad’s

Aaron Carter will sing at Toad's in February.

If you’ve been looking for a way to express your inner preteen recently, or if you just want to listen to some classic childhood throwbacks, then head over to Toad’s Place on Feb. 27 for the one-time teenage sensation Aaron Carter. Carter, who has not released an album with new songs since 2002, is more »

University | 4:14 pm | October 11, 2012 | By Grant Bronsdon

SOM graduate nominates self for Yale presidency

Wick Sloane SOM '84 has declared his candidacy for Yale's top job.

Have you been dismayed by the lack of media coverage on the Yale presidential search? Do you fervently wish that somebody, anybody, would just take this job? If so, fear not, because a Yale School of Management graduate has published a new column on Insider Higher Education in which he openly — and somewhat satirically »

University | 2:10 pm | October 5, 2012 | By Grant Bronsdon

Businessweek considers presidential search

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Yale isn’t the only Ivy League school looking for a new president this year. Both Princeton and Dartmouth are also on the prowl for new presidents, and, according to Businessweek, highly-ranked Washington officials such as CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus (Princeton Ph.D. ’87) and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (Dartmouth ’83) have been mentioned, among others, »