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Yield rate increases despite campus turmoil

After an especially turbulent year on campus, fraught with widely publicized controversies over race, the yield rate for the class of 2020 increased over last year’s, despite expectations that the debates would discourage students from attending Yale.

Yale doctor’s column raises questions — again

David Katz SPH ’93 — the Yale-affiliated doctor whose over-the-top Huffington Post review of his own self-published novel caused a furor in the nutrition community last year — has once again tested the boundaries of ethical journalism.

Student organizations hold first health organization bazaar

Yale’s first-ever Health Activities Bazaar attracted nearly 200 students on Saturday. Organized by Sophia Yin ’18, the policy chair of Yale Medical Professions Outreach, the bazaar was a gathering of health-related organizations at Yale.

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Dramat draws casting controversy

The Yale Dramatic Association has cast a white woman in a role traditionally been played by a black man for the organization’s flagship fall show, “Wild Party,” drawing widespread criticism from the theater community.

Spanish prof on unexpected leave

Amid persistent allegations of sexual harassment and abuse of power within the Spanish and Portuguese Department, Spanish professor Roberto González Echevarría GRD ’70 — who has been at the heart of many of the allegations — is not at Yale this term, although no public explanation of his absence has been given.

Recent grads adjust to working for Yale

Yale has been the top employer for graduating seniors every year since 2013, when the Office of Career Strategy began collecting data on what students were doing after graduation. Thirty-nine members of the class of 2016 are now working for the University.

New colleges begin to take shape

Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray colleges are no longer just abstract concepts, but physical buildings that could shift the center of campus and alter student life.

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Squash Haven maintains support through college years

In 2007, when Dante Haughton was a fifth-grader at Edgewood Magnet School, he heard about Squash Haven, a new program offering squash training and academic […]

New admins share Yale-NUS ties

Charles Bailyn ’81 has been back in New Haven for several months, but he still has Singapore on his mind.

Yale, UChicago approach free speech differently

In the weeks since the University of Chicago issued a letter condemning trigger warnings and safe spaces, supporters and critics of the letter have returned to a similar debate that took place on Yale’s campus last fall.

Beinecke reopens after renovation

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library reopened Tuesday after a year of renovations, a celebration for students, tourists and librarians alike.