Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
Less than a month after it officially embarked upon the addition of two new residential colleges, the University is close to choosing an architect for what will be Yale’s most prized commission in decades. The selection will be announced within a month or so, University President Richard Levin said Sunday. The Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing...
After a two-year tug of war with administrators, Quinnipiac Chronicle editors are taking matters into their own hands — and considering severing ties with the school permanently. According to editor accounts, about 20 members of the newspaper met Wednesday night to begin planning for the possible creation an independent online newspaper. The discussion came on the...
Among Yale students, the only university that’s more fun to ridicule than Harvard is, of course, Yale. “The Yale Show,” a musical comedy that pokes fun at Yale archetypes, opens tonight in the Off Broadway Theater. It marks the first anniversary of a tradition that started last spring when then-seniors David Chernicoff ’07, Eli Clark ’07, Eric March ’07...
Thomas Hsieh pitches questions to softball’s Ashley Sloan ‘10. The outfielder earned first team All-Ivy honors in her freshman season. TH: So after three long years of servitude to the News, my time here is finally coming to an end. And now, you’re the subject of my last interview, my last article. What do you have to say to that? AS: I actually didn’t know...
Major League Baseball squads are not the only teams in spring training right now: Beginning this week, freshman-counselor teams for the 2008-’09 school year will warm up with a new training regimen focused on expanding their knowledge of Yale’s cultural resources. In order to relax the pace of training — which is usually held during a harried week in August before...
Students with disabilities may have an added incentive to choose Yale over its rivals — at least by the time 2013 rolls around. When it implements a new “peer mentors” program as part of its reform of the freshman counselor system in fall 2009, Yale will be the first Ivy League school to provide student-to-student guidance geared specifically toward freshmen with...
The upcoming overhaul of the freshman-advising system will significantly improve the quality of the previously decentralized counseling resources available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer freshmen, according to administrators and students familiar with the program’s development. The planned changes — which will take effect in fall 2009 — will...
In 19 months, Elis taking their first walk through Phelps Gate will be inundated with sources of support. But one long-standing fixture of this network — the Ethnic Counselor — will be missing. Two weeks after Yale administrators announced that the freshman counseling program would undergo major changes in 2009 — including the merging of ethnic counselors into...
Administrators unveiled their plans for long-term, major adjustments to the ethnic counselor program to the News on Monday, laying out a proposal that would incorporate the role of the ethnic counselor into that of the freshman counselor, who will become responsible for providing enhanced community support for cultural affairs on campus. Dean of Freshman Affairs George...
This was not the Yale they saw in the glossy University brochures. Nor was it the Yale presented during the guided tours of campus. “Vanderbilt’s cursed,” joked Adam Begley ’11. “It’s a horcrux.” Branford College’s newest crop of students — residents of Old Campus’ Vanderbilt Hall — did not expect members of their class to be confronted with...
Yale 101 is not listed in the Blue Book, but University administrators said they hope this new lecture series will help freshmen transition into college life. Organized by the Office of Freshman Affairs, Yale 101 is a set of informational workshops and lectures held throughout the year and designed to offer assistance to freshmen beyond orientation. Administrators said...
The University is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the year’s opening days in the hopes of making freshman orientation a more welcoming time for new students and their parents, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said. The review spans the entire spectrum of freshman orientation activities, from the freshman assembly and address to preorientation programs...
