Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
On Nov. 25 at 7:15 a.m., a construction crew for a project unaffiliated with the University accidentally damaged a major fiber-optic line between the central and medical campuses. The incident cut the medical campus off from voice and data services — including e-mail — for about three hours while Internet Technology Services worked to reroute network traffic. Joseph...
On May 25, 2006, as the Cross Campus Library was set to undergo a massive renovation that turned it into the plush Bass Library, over 100 Yale staff and faculty gathered to mark the start of construction. A cake was served with “Farewell Original CCL” written in icing. Attendees stood among balloons and empty shelves. University Librarian Alice Prochaska donned a...
New Haven is about to get a 10th square. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced Thursday that he has appointed Northland Investment Corp. to develop the 4.5-acre site of the former Veterans Memorial Coliseum, as part of a plan that city officials hope will turn a currently derelict segment of downtown into a bustling business and residential district in just a few...
On Feb. 17, 1959, architect Eero Saarinen ARC ’34 declared he had a new vision for residential life at Yale. The result was Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges. According to Saarinen, the colleges’ rooms, which have no shared common spaces, were conceived in order to depart from the cookie-cutter pattern of existing Yale suites. “Our primary effort was to create an...
Surrounded by a Sunoco gas station, Carlos’s Fruits and Vegetables and the overgrown grass of a front yard, the intersection of Ferry and River streets in Fair Haven bustles Monday afternoon. The sounds of rap, rock and reggaeton music blare from open car windows as neighbors stop to chat outside their homes and shops. Just a block away, though, the contrast is stark...
On a sunny post-Labor Day afternoon, Simone Berkower ’09 parted the curtains behind the treadmill in her room, turned the air conditioner on maximum power and sat back against the five pillows on her queen-size bed, freshly showered and dressed in summer garb. On a television nearby, pristine scenes of waterfalls and flower petals accompanied a hazy soprano...
Sometimes, money really can’t buy everything — even at Yale. Despite one-time promises of a timely opening, construction on Jonathan Edwards College has been delayed, rendering nearly all common spaces and several suites unavailable to students. All basement facilities except the laundry room will also remain off-limits until around Thanksgiving, said JE Master Gary...
They may be situated farther from central campus than their peers, but students to be housed in Yale’s two new residential colleges won’t find themselves calling the minibus to grapple with a common cold — or, for that matter, the aftereffects of a late-night romp. On Monday, top University and city officials broke ground on the 138,000-square-foot, or 3.2-acre...
Soon after the late Eero Saarinen ARCH ’34 took the commission to design a new hockey rink for Yale in 1956, he sent an associate, David Powrie, on a trip. In a telephone interview last week, Powrie recalled his whirlwind journey across the northeast almost as a reconnaissance mission. He remembers cataloging the details of an assortment of New England’s many rinks...
For the first time since a new roof was installed in the ’80s, a wall of metal scaffolding climbs up the High Street side of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. Current construction on the building will not dramatically alter the structure of the building but rather repair existing maintenance problems, beginning with repairs to the roof, Director of the...
When Stan Garstka visited the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business recently, he was sure to check out its locker rooms, showers and all. Garstka is not a coach, though. He is deputy dean of the Yale School of Management. And his visit to Chicago is nothing if not an indicator of the distinctive approach SOM officials are taking as they plan for a new...
Two engineers working on the renovation of the Rudolph Building — formerly the Art and Architecture building — were stranded 100 feet high on faulty scaffolding Thursday evening. Around 5 p.m., as the two were examining one of the building’s walls, a cable that held the platform on which they were standing failed, leaving them dangling. City firefighters and the...
