University | 6:36 pm | October 2, 2012 | By Grant Bronsdon

Yagoda ’14 collects $9,300 on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’

Joey Yagoda '14 collected $13,600 after the first round of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?," which aired Monday.

After a second day on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?,” Yale College Council Treasurer Joey Yagoda ’14 walked away with $9,300 in winnings, making it to the ninth question before deciding to leave rather than guess the answer. Yagoda left and collect only half of his winnings — which had numbered $18,600 at its »

University | 7:56 pm | October 1, 2012 | By Grant Bronsdon

Yagoda ’14 appears on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”

Joey Yagoda '14 collected $13,600 after the first round of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?," which aired Monday.

Want to be a millionaire? Do you know a lot of random trivia? Yale College Council Treasurer Joey Yagoda ’14 does. The Calhoun junior appeared on the television show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” — which aired Monday — with host Meredith Vieira on Sept. 6. Yagoda, who collected $13,600 by the end of »

University | 6:08 pm | September 10, 2012 | By Grant Bronsdon

26-year-old woman pretends to be Columbia freshman

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Check your friends’ ID cards, Elis — you never can tell who’s eating pancakes next to you in Commons. For the past few weeks, a woman calling herself “Rhea Sen” has been pretending to be a freshman at Columbia University, the Columbia Daily Spectator reports. Her real name, according to authorities, is Briva Patel, and »

City | 2:04 pm | September 8, 2012 | By Grant Bronsdon

Tornado watch in effect for New Haven

Yikes.

If you are planning on leaving your room today, you may want to think twice: the National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for New Haven County (that’s us), along with much of Connecticut and parts of New York and New Jersey. According to this map from the National Weather Service, there’s a 5 »