Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
For years, New Haven’s firefighters have waited.
Not a single firefighter has been promoted to captain or lieutenant since the city threw out the results of its now-infamous 2003 promotion exam, on which no black firefighters did well enough to be considered for a promotion. The city’s action drew a lawsuit from Frank Ricci and 19 other...
Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, nominated Tuesday by President Barack Obama to become the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court, has come a long way since publishing her first article in the Yale Law Journal. As the Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge prepares for a confirmation hearing that, at least according to media accounts, seems to grow more controversial by...
When the University of Pennsylvania named then-Yale Provost Judith Rodin its president in December of 1993, much was made of the fact that a woman had finally risen to the top post at an Ivy League school. “I think it’s about time,” Rodin said at the time. Yale pointed out that it had already had a female president. Hanna Holborn Gray, after all, had served as...
As incoming freshmen, Yalies are showered with laundry lists of can’t-miss experiences to have before graduation — taking a class with Harold Bloom GRD ’56 or attending a Master’s Tea, hooking up in the stacks or sliding across the women’s table. But with just a month until Commencement, what do graduating seniors still hope to do while at Yale? In an e-mail...
On a gorgeous summer night in August 2007, Diana DIV ’08 picked up her partner Sarah from John F. Kennedy Airport. Diana and Sarah were planning to go to Hammonasset Beach in Madison, Conn. to propose to one another, but when they stopped to visit the Yale Divinity School — they decided to pop the question right away. “It was at the chapel that the lightening bolt...
The paper airplane swooped around the rafters of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium amphitheater, performing two loop-de-loops. It circled above the heads of the crowd twice, then floated down to rest, returning to the hands of its creator, Jack Hart ’12. In front of about 150 spectators and other contestants at the Red Bull Paper Wings paper airplane competition last month...
After several toilsome months of research and writing, graduating seniors are ready to reap the awards for their senior essays. But out of hundreds of students who have completed their essays this past year, only a handful will be formally recognized and rewarded for their work. As some seniors apply for awards this month, they are discovering vast disparities in the...
Last night was cold and clear, but it certainly wasn't quiet. Costumed bands of students hurtled across campus, going through the motions to gain acceptance into one of Yale's senior societies, the groups of roughly 15 students who meet every Thursday and Sunday evening in their last year of college. Among the juniors strung out along Elm and High streets...
On Oct. 6, 1994, just over a year after his inauguration as Yale’s president, a boyish-looking Richard Levin addressed his faculty. He talked at length about plans to renovate some of Yale’s oldest buildings and then mentioned the ongoing construction of Henry R. Luce Hall, which he said signaled the new administration’s focus on “aesthetics.” Maybe he should...
Yale’s party suites, from Saybrook’s “12-Pack” to the Davenport “Cottage,” have more in common than offering beer kegs and spacious common rooms for students in their respective colleges. As most residential colleges are wrapping up their housing draws this month, a final tally shows that of out of seven residential colleges that will include party suites...
As Yale University Health Services is forced to cut costs, Elis facing the realities of a struggling economy and a bleak job market are turning increasingly to YUHS counseling services. Staff reporter Florence Dethy investigates. The very economic downturn that is driving Elis to enlist themselves in counseling services is forcing Yale University Health Services...
