Philip Rucker
Property rights key to democracy, Peru adviser says

Hernando de Soto, adviser to former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, spoke at a Yale Law School lecture Wednesday afternoon, calling on developing nations to start […]

YCC hopefuls campaign creatively

While colorful campaign posters cover campus billboards, some Yale College Council officer candidates are turning to alternate campaign methods to stand out from the pack. […]

Campus groups provide entertainment at Communiversity Day

With a butterfly sticker on her left cheek, eleven-year-old Mabel Martinez hid from the rain in the lobby of Linsly-Chittenden Hall wearing a blue, poofy […]

Oy vey! Davenport master’s son celebrates bar mitzvah

With colored strobe lights shining and Janet Jackson’s “All For You” blaring through the windows, the Davenport College dining hall was hopping Saturday night. But […]

Broaden affirmative action, Simmons says

With the Supreme Court set to weigh in this summer on the use of race in university admissions, Brown University President Ruth Simmons called for […]

City’s school bus company to pay $200k in fines

The bus company contracted to transport New Haven’s schoolchildren will pay $200,000 in fines after its drivers caused delays and missed stops during the first […]

Cruz is first Latino to earn drama Pulitzer

Waiting at Union Station for a train home to New York after teaching his Monday playwriting class, it was just another day for Yale School […]

FPC gets new sponsorship for summer

Despite recent doubts about its solvency, the FreshPerson Conference will greet members of the newly admitted Class of 2007 this summer thanks to new sponsorship […]

America Counts tutors inspire city students

Down the long hallway of a makeshift school building where bright, colorful student art covers the walls, Noelio Espinal, 12, and Derick Pagan, 11, sit […]

Prof panel addresses Iraq war at teach-in

As coalition forces move closer to Baghdad and as casualties continue to mount, Yale professors offered varying perspectives on the war to an overflow crowd […]

Students rally to support troops

Surrounded by memorials of war on the steps of Beinecke Plaza, about 200 Yale students and a few local residents from a range of political […]