Finnegan Schick
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D’Attilo case reaches hearing

The Connecticut couple who won a record-breaking $25 million in a 2003 lawsuit against the doctor who severely injured their newborn son’s brain was back in court Thursday morning, accusing the lawyers who won their case of defrauding them of millions in legal fees.

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New position aims to unite Yale vets

When Elizabeth Verardo GRD ’16 first came to Yale as a student at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs in 2014, straight off her second deployment to Afghanistan where she flew Apache helicopters, she was worried she would have trouble fitting in among Yale’s cloistered classrooms and students who had never been in a war zone.

Yale endowment weathers China market woes

Even as Chinese stocks falter and falling oil prices spur worries of global economic instability, the Yale Investments Office may have little cause for concern.

Local 34 confronts Yale on ITS layoffs

Yale union members who were laid off last week petitioned University President Peter Salovey and Provost Ben Polak Monday afternoon to rescind the layoffs.

University fundraising trails peers

Yale ranked 15th in a list of charitable contributions made to universities nationwide last year, the same as the year before, according to a survey released last week.

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Students respond to Stiles basement flooding

According to a Yale facilities hotline employee, the flooding was an “emergency, and a priority,” yet on Sunday afternoon the nearly one-inch-deep water pooling outside the Stiles laundry room went unaddressed for several hours.

Secret societies: tombs or vaults?

With locked doors, slim windows and shut gates, secret societies at Yale do their best to keep out of the public eye, though their tax information is hidden in plain sight.

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ITS cost cuts bring layoffs

Kimberly Tighe’s ex-husband died on Jan. 7, but she still came to work like it was any other day. It was the same day she realized she might lose her job. Two weeks later, she was laid off.

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Faculty discuss potential impact of HGS gift

The $50 million donation set to transform the aging Hall of Graduate Studies into a modernized humanities hub has excited the imagination of Yale’s faculty.

Workers weather storm

Marco Olivar leaned on his shovel outside an entryway in Timothy Dwight on Saturday, standing with a half dozen fellow snow shovelers. It was 7 […]

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Shareholder resolution filed against Exxon

Together with a Swedish pension fund and United Steelworkers, the largest industrial labor union in North America, a handful of undergraduates at Dwight Hall are confronting the oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil on an issue central to campus’s divestment debate: shareholder engagement.

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