I was about eight years old when I received a starfish-shaped plastic container full of squelchy, rubbery, yellow matter. It was utterly baffling. The label simply identified the stuff as “Nickelodeon Gak,” and provided no instructions for how one might go about playing with it. It was a toy that actually did nothing, the brainchild […]
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Jen Harris
Charged with filling three open undergraduate seats on the University’s Minority Advisory Committee, the Yale College Council has already submitted a list of candidates to Yale President Richard Levin. But though Levin has not yet announced his selections from this list, there are already complaints from representatives of minority groups on campus who said they […]
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Jen Harris, Julie Post
Nearly 10 months after last year’s Harvard-Yale football game in Cambridge, Mass. ended in several arrests and dozens of citations for underage drinking, the Yale administration is discussing whether to change its policy for the tailgates at the Yale Bowl this November. Administrators have not yet come to any conclusions and are unlikely to resolve […]
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Jen Harris
Comedians Ed Helms and Horatio Sanz will perform at the Fall Show Oct. 14, the Yale College Council announced late last night. Helms, a correspondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and Sanz, a cast member of “Saturday Night Live,” will perform at the show, which will be held in Woolsey Hall. Tickets will […]
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Jen Harris
About 37 percent of Yale’s undergraduate student body has opted out of the optional $50 student activities fee, a surprising figure given that 78 percent of student voters supported it in a referendum last spring. At least 1,958 students opted out by the Sept. 15 deadline, leaving about $164,000 in fee revenue — about 23.7 […]
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Jen Harris, Tyler Hill
Seven months after the University announced substantial changes to undergraduate financial aid, the student groups that were most active last year in pushing for change say the reforms were not enough and are drafting proposals for further additions to Yale’s aid package. The Yale College Council will soon introduce a resolution calling on the administration […]
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Jen Harris
This year’s Fall Show will most likely be headlined by a comedian, Yale College Council officers said Thursday. The council has an offer out to one of the comedians listed in its YaleStation survey last month and YCC officers said they are currently in the “final stages” of negotiations, but because of the sensitivity of […]
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Jen Harris
The Yale College Council has decided to run a regular shuttle from various points on campus to Shaw’s Supermarket on Whalley Avenue once every two weeks after its trial run shuttle last Sunday proved popular, with between 40 and 50 students taking advantage of it. The regular service will run longer and later in the […]
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Jen Harris
As the deadline for opting out of the Yale College Council’s student activities fee nears, some on campus have voiced concerns about the lack of direct communication between the YCC and students explaining the fee and how to waive it. While the fee is automatically billed to students’ bursar accounts, students can choose to opt […]
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Jen Harris, Jessica Marsden
As New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast struggles to repair the damage from Hurricane Katrina, students from several campus organizations have begun fund-raising efforts to help care for victims of the storm and rebuild their communities. The Yale College Council, fraternities and individual students alike are planning events including raffles and benefit […]
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Jen Harris
Students already weary of dining hall fare will have an easier way to expand their culinary options this Sunday, when the Yale College Council will run a free shuttle looping from various points on campus to Shaw’s Supermarket on Whalley Avenue from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday’s shuttle will be a trial run and, if […]
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