Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by descendants of the Apache Geronimo, a warrior chieftain whose remains are rumored to be held inside Yale’s oldest secret society, seeking the return of their ancestor’s skull. The motion, submitted June 10 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, moves to dismiss the suit...
When New Haven Police Department officers could not subdue a man outside Toad’s Place late Saturday night, they used one of the newest weapons in their arsenal: the Taser. Two years ago, police would not have had this option — a few NHPD officers were first armed with the stun guns in July 2007. Since they were introduced to the department, NHPD spokesman Joseph...
When the Yale a cappella group Spizzwinks(?) journeyed across Asia on its 2007 summer tour, a trip to the nonprofit school Gitameit Music Center in Rangoon, Burma, struck a memorable chord. Visiting Burma’s only community music school, the students were moved by the performances of the Gitameit choir, Spizzwinks(?) member Nathaniel Granor ’09 recalled. After two...
When Danielle Tomson ’12 walked into my “International History” class on the first day of the semester, I noted her use of bold red lipstick in conjunction with black skinny jeans, black leather boots and a wonderful black military coat. This girl was anything but funerary in her New York uniform, and I made sure to survey her outfits over the coming weeks. I was...
Officials from Yale-New Haven Hospital and the U.S. Army jointly announced Tuesday an effort to reincorporate ex-soldiers more successfully into society. Under the agreement, the hospital will become one in a growing list of official partners of the Army’s Partnership for Youth Success, or PaYS, whereby a soldier’s occupational abilities in the military are matched...
A small group of students staged a quiet sit-in at the “Studies in Grand Strategy” seminar Monday afternoon, protesting the appointment of John Negroponte ’60 to a teaching post at Yale beginning next fall. Wearing business attire, the five protesters, all undergraduates, carried signs decrying Negroponte’s alleged cover-up of human rights abuses by the Honduran...
By Fernanda Lopez KUBARK – The CIA’s declassified manual on counterintelligence and torture — opens with a preliminary disclaimer: “There is nothing mysterious about ‘questioning.’ ” In KUBARK-speak, “questioning” presupposes a simple substitution: The “death threat” must be countered with requisite measures of brutality sufficient to culminate...
Nationalism is alive and well at Yale. Why? Because Captain Freedom is here. The recent success of the men’s hockey team was remarkable, but I found myself more intrigued by one of their mascots. “Captain Freedom” is a Delta Kappa Epsilon brother (currently Tim Handlon ’10) who skates around Ingalls Rink, energizing hockey fans. His uniform may be cobbled...
Imagine you live in the Gaza strip. Your grandparents fled from their homes in 1948, and they have taught you all your life that this was a grave injustice — the only injustice. You live in downtrodden Gaza City with your extended family in a one-room apartment, getting food and water only when Israeli politics allow. One day, your crazy uncle shoots rockets into...
BAGHDAD Backed for days in Baghdad with dust storms and red skies to the north. My videographer and I have been making our way slowly around the safe area, getting money shots of Saddam’s greater follies in the vanishing desert twilight. The dust has been good to us, giving us time to chew our way through the idea of being in Iraq. It’s actually pretty safe here if...
Wen Yu Ho ’10 is a typical college student, at least by Yale standards. He serves as the librarian for the Yale Symphony Orchestra. He is the president of Yale’s Malaysian and Singaporean Association. He plays piano in a student jazz group. But unlike most juniors, Ho is 23 years old. Before enrolling at Yale, he served for over two years in the Singaporean...
Professor Paul Bracken walked into his class yesterday and — like any good student — sat down in the front row. When the highest-ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces guest-teaches a course on “Strategy, Technology, and War,” listeners should take notes — chances are that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen knows a little...
