In the nipping winter of 1917 — three months before Congress would declare war on Germany — Yale held a student-wide vote. The resolution — calling for the College to offer some form of universal military service — passed overwhelmingly. The tally was 1112-288. The Pentagon swiftly established the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) on campus, one of the...
If you pay attention to only one administrative story line this year, make it the one dominating news this week: the search for the next dean of Yale College. Nothing in President Levin’s playbook compares in sheer gravity. No appointment has a more direct and immediate impact on student life and classroom experience. Few administrators enjoy more frequent access to...
Forget the college with the highest GPA. Can you guess which one has featured “insect/rodents” in its dining halls recently? That would be the large college at Wall and Temple. Congratulations, TDers! But Timothy Dwight is not alone when it comes to sometimes-suspect sanitation. According to inspection reports obtained by the News, 14 dining halls lost literal...
To some this week, Harvard Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons must sound like a hero. Chair of a committee that explored — and ultimately discounted — the present worth of the SAT, he told his school’s newspaper this week that one day, the test might be optional for prospective Cantabs. It’s a sexy proposal, to be sure, and his larger point that the SAT...
Why is Tony Blair at Yale anyway? Friday’s Woolsey appearance aside, he’s not here to bewilder hundreds of Yale students in massive lectures. (We’ll leave that to certain Cold War and Con Law professors.) Friday’s buzzing media presence aside, he’s not here (believe it or not) on an elaborate PR campaign for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. (OK...
When a bubbling Peter Salovey entered Luce Hall three weeks ago, Richard Levin and Andrew Hamilton in tow, the secret was out: the widely admired dean was about to become the University’s number two. There was, however, an elephant in that auditorium: Yale College would be losing its number one. And no one quite knew what that meant. Three weeks later, the student...
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John L. Lahey has been the president of Quinnipiac University for 21 years. One would think that in this two-decade span, he would have learned a thing or two about education. But his administration’s threat this week against the campus’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists — for its interactions with an independent student newspaper — runs...
Yalies relish the cerebral: big ideas, big debates and big conversations. We can’t help it. But sometimes, it’s worth a reminder that the “basics” in life can make the difference — sometimes even the difference, as we have been reminded too often this past year, between life and death. Here in New Haven, that’s particularly true because one such “basic”...
