It has been one year since the Yale College Council stopped passing resolutions. Fall 2007 introduced the “project team,” a YCC platoon devoted to a small, specific issue or policy change, to the Yale lexicon. And last year it worked — sort of. In-house projects — Eli Days, a student DVD library — came off smashing successes. Other initiatives were not so...
A Pierson College senior was nearly mowed down by a car careening down High Street in the wrong direction Saturday afternoon. Several police cars were seen in hot pursuit. “Guns were brandished and people were yelling,” said another Pierson senior, who witnessed the chase as it reached Edgewood Avenue. Merrill Lynch CEO and Yale donor John Thain may...
For the members of the Yale College Council Executive Board who gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Friday night to tabulate the results of last week’s elections, the vote-counting party was something of an anti-climax. While competition for seats on this year’s Freshman Class Council was fierce in some colleges, spots on the YCC were in many cases uncontested or...
Heard, not seen. Jonathan Edwards College Master Gary Haller announced to his college Monday that while no Elis will sit on the Yale College Dean Search Committee, undergraduates can still submit nominations for the post. “We do want student input,” he wrote. E-mail Gary.Haller@yale.edu. The Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator at the...
It takes a bit of planning to enjoy Spring Fling. For most Yale students, there are papers to be juggled, an athletic practice to be postponed or an exam against the potential grade on which the prospect of a fun afternoon on Old Campus must be weighed. But for Yale Student Activities Committee Chair Tom Hsieh ’08 and YSAC’s two Spring Fling co-coordinators, Bobby...
The voting was swift and the results decisive. There will be no run-offs. Rich Tao ’10 walked away from a crowded field filled with his close friends Wednesday evening, claiming a whopping 45.2 percent of the vote in a Yale College Council presidential race most observers expected would head to a second round. That total was enough to earn the Silliman College...
The voting was swift and the results decisive. There will be no run-offs. Rich Tao '10 walked away from a crowded field filled with his close friends Wednesday evening, claiming a whopping 45.2 percent to claim the title of Yale College Council president-elect. Harrison Marks '10 and Katrina Landeta '10 lagged behind, finishing with 34.2 percent and 20.6 percent of the...
He was never a member of the Yale College Council before he ran for president. “There needs to be more involvement outside the council,” Zheyao Li ’06 told the News in 2004, explaining his decision to run in that year’s elections. A sophomore in Pierson College at the time, Li accused the body of not understanding the “actual everyday cares of the...
In Monday’s endorsement of Colin Leatherbury ’09, the News misstated the number of years the candidate served on YSAC. He has served for one year, not three. The News sincerely regrets this error.
During presentations, all four candidate for YSAC chair truly impressed us with their ingenuity and passion. Jon Terenzetti ’10 delighted with his suggestions for events smaller than Spring Fling that would engage the campus, such as the Social Cup. Travis Long ’10 proved he possesses the all-too-rare ability to simplify and clearly state his priorities, namely...
The last time Harlem Shakes played Yale, they did so in November 2006 in the Ezra Stiles Dining Hall to launch then-nascent music magazine Volume. Its first encore since sharing the stage with Girl Talk that night will come in April, when the homegrown rock quintet takes its largest stage yet in the Elm City. On the afternoon of April 29, before thousands of exuberant...
Two hip-hop acts are tentatively lined up to perform at this year’s Spring Fling festival on April 29, Yale Student Activities Committee members said Wednesday. Although the performers’ names remain a secret, and speculation about their identities has begun to ripple across campus. YSAC representative Colin Leatherbury ’09 confirmed that of the three bids...
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