In a unanimous vote, a taskforce of local leaders in Newtown, Conn. decided on Friday to knock down Sandy Hook Elementary School and build a new school in its place. The decision came after months in which the 28-person task force considered 40 different sites on which to build a school, settling on the original site both for its »
Yale Divinity School professor and former dean Rev. Thomas Ogletree is facing disciplinary charges for performing his son’s same-sex wedding ceremony. Ogletree, a member of the United Methodist Church, is facing a possible canonical trial for officiating at his son’s wedding, which took place last October at the Yale Club of New York. After the »
Six days after its second-straight Ivy League championship, the Yale men’s lacrosse team won its first NCAA tournament playoff game since 1992 when it came back to defeat Penn State 10–7 in University Park, Penn. Despite scoring first just three minutes into the contest, the Nittany Lions jumped up to an impressive 5–1 lead at »
Two Yale College graduates and four graduate students have been named 2013 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows, entitling them to up to $90,000 in tuition and stipend assistance for two years of graduate study. The fellowship aims to support graduate study for first-generation immigrants to the United States. Fellows are selected on the basis of »
The Whiffenpoofs can now add “Glee” to the growing list of TV shows where they have performed. On Thursday, Yale’s senior male a cappella group appeared on Glee’s Season 4 finale as the “world-famous Waffletoots,” a show choir hailing from a fictitious prep school in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Waffletoots competed against The New Directions, the »