Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
After months of consideration, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will formally begin discussing the possibility of implementing some form of academic minors at a May 7 meeting. At the meeting, the Committee on Majors will give a presentation on minors, covering the arguments supporting and opposing the idea and introducing three possible courses of action, but no formal...
Jarrad Aguirre ’09 and Matthew Baum ’09 were among 20 college students nationwide named by USA Today on Wednesday to the All-USA College Academic First Team. The two were chosen from a pool of hundreds of nominees from across the country, based on their grades, leadership, activities and use of their talents outside a classroom setting. Yale and the United States...
How to justify the humanities has fueled a popular debate recently. There has been a fad of writing about the topic in newspaper articles, editorial columns and books by prominent (and Yale-affiliated) public intellectuals, such as “Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life,” by former Yale Law School Dean Anthony...
Vegetarians are not evil. There. I said it. Just last year I argued otherwise in the Yale Herald, dismissing vegetarianism as the childish product of poor self-control, faddism and cultural ignorance. I was wrong. To go veggie is a noble decision in pursuit of sustainability. The data doesn’t lie: Depending on the animal, every calorie of comestible meat demands...
In a long uninterrupted video, Aliza Shvarts ’08 sat naked in a shower stall holding a cup streaked with blood between her legs. She claimed to have documented a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself and took legal abortifacients to induce multiple miscarriages. Staff reporter Danika Fears investigates the senior project that shook...
The recently acquired collection from the research of silent film star turned Egyptologist Natacha Rambova will pave the way for new research, John Darnell, Yale professor of Egyptology, said Monday. More than 40 people gathered in the lecture hall of Sterling Memorial Library to hear Darnell discuss more than 10,000 items that comprise the new Egyptological archive...
The Program of Ethics, Politics and Economics is changing the course requirements for its majors, starting with the class of 2012. Instead of being required to take one course each in three of four core areas, students will take one course each in two of three core areas, plus one course in a separate category called “Advanced Topics.” Previously, students could...
In response to growing demand for the major, the Program of Environmental Studies announced last week that the application deadline for the 7-year-old environmental studies major will be moved up from May 15 to March 27 and that the major may be capped due to limited faculty availability. The earlier deadline will give the department time to determine how to meet the...
Yale College faculty members voted unanimously Thursday for the creation of two new undergraduate majors: Modern Middle East Studies and Computing and the Arts. Both majors received the faculty stamp of approval after lengthy campaigns by professors and administrators to design the interdisciplinary majors and drum up faculty and student support. The formalization of the...
As students gathered Tuesday night for the third forum on the possible addition of two new residential colleges, they joked with deans about the need for a “Gourmet Heaven 3” to attract students to the proposed Prospect Street site. Questions that followed focused on students’ concerns about how the proposed colleges’ location could change undergraduate social...
Enthusiastic about the offerings and applications of the ethnicity, race and migration major, a group of students is pushing for ER&M to become a stand-alone major, citing its importance in a multi-cultural, globalized society. Ten students — including ER&M majors and those in other departments — met Friday to develop a game plan for strengthening the University’s...
Despite the growing support of hundreds of Yalies for a new undergraduate major in health studies, administrators said it will be at least a year before such a program can become a reality at Yale. Students lobbying for the creation of the new health studies major organized and circulated a petition in dining halls and at Yale’s Health Care Access Week, which collected...
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