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  1. Cross Campus: 04.07.09

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    Senior society pre-tap is tonight. Societies are allowed to tap from tonight until Tap Night, which is next Thursday.

    Police officers shot an unidentified man with a stun gun last night after he became “combative,” according to the New Haven Police Department. The man, who was spotted walking in the middle of the roadway near Shelton and Bassett streets in the Newhallville section of the city, appeared to be under the influence of drugs, police said.

    Despite periods of torrential downpour, New Haven experienced less than an inch of rain yesterday.

    Still, all intramurals were called off yesterday due to the rain. According to the Yale Intramurals Web site, the games will be rescheduled for a future date.

    Not all Elis were deterred by the weather. The Junior Class Dinner last night drew a medium-size crowd despite the rain. Members of the Class of 2010 ventured to Commons Dining Hall in semiformal attire to enjoy the smorgasbord offered annually by the Yale University Dining Services.

    Timothy Dwight College claimed the Adams Cup as the victor of Yale’s intramural debate tournament. The Cup “seeks to promote competitive, lively and thoughtful debate among Yale students,” according to the event’s Web site.

    Roger Pearson, a former Democratic first selectman in Greenwich, announced that he will “likely” mount a primary challenge against Sen. Christopher Dodd for his seat in the United States Senate in 2010. Polls have showed Dodd losing to former Republican Rep. Rob Simmons in a general election matchup.

    This day in Yale history

    1967 Rev. B. Davie Napier, former Calhoun College master, encouraged the admission of girls to Yale, saying, “Don’t let ’em temporize with the system any more. Get with it. Let’s make Yale College fully coeducational.” In a provocative sermon, Napier said that “the University may represent the most effective difference between salvation and damnation — literally.”

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  2. Cross Campus: 04.06.09

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    Pierson College won Olympic glory — of the freshman variety — this weekend, avenging its last-place finish in last year’s Freshman Olympics. Branford, Saybrook and Pierson colleges were all tied after Saturday’s events, but Pierson dominated the tiebreakers Sunday, which consisted of word unscrambling of Beatles songs, a cartwheeling competition, a three-legged race and a water flip cup game.

    Juniors need not fear homelessness, at least in Davenport. According to a Friday e-mail from Davenport Dean Craig Harwood, “it looks like we will have enough room for all juniors on campus or adjacent to campus in our traditional annex apartments directly next to campus: 210 Park St. and the row houses at 90 and 94 York Square Place.”

    Attention, science majors: The trip up Science Hill is about to get even longer. Prospect Street Bridge, currently the most direct route up Science Hill by foot or automobile, will be closed to vehicular traffic for about a year starting this summer.

    A Facebook group has been created in support of Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh’s nomination to the State Department. The group description states, “We should not allow a far-right minority to define one of the brightest legal minds of our generation.”

    The bells of Harkness Tower received some bad press yesterday — Ted Everhart ’09, a Saybrugian, posted a number of flyers around campus that read, “Yale Carillon: What you do is RUDE. Please stop immediately.”

    Frog fanatic David Skelly, a professor at Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, was featured on the PBS show “Nature” yesterday evening. He presented his findings in a segment entitled “Frogs: The Thin Green Line.”

    An article in Friday’s New York Times featured Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his Web site, GalaxyZoo.org. The site allows users to classify galaxies online; 200,000 people have participated so far. Another Yale astronomy researcher, Shanil Virani, said: “There are still great advances made by amateur astronomers. They’re the ones looking at the night sky.”

    Broadway was defiled by orange spray graffiti on several shops, including Thali Too and Campus Customs, yesterday morning.

    This day in Yale history

    1977 Former News Chairman William F. Buckley Jr. ’50 spoke to students in Pierson College dining hall. Buckley joked with the crowd and thanked then–Pierson Master Gaddis Smith ’54 GRD ’61 (also a former News chairman) for allowing him to talk about something other than politics. Instead, he reminisced about his sailing days.

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