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Yale files joint amicus brief against graduate student unionization

Alongside other elite universities and colleges, Yale filed an amicus brief on Monday to the National Labor Relations Board to argue against a pending Columbia University case on graduate student unionization.

Society opt-in offered again

Tap letters have been sent out to members of the junior class over the past few weeks, marking the beginning of the senior society recruitment process. Unlike in past years, however, this year the entire tap process will be accessible to all interested juniors.

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Former SOM dean dies at 81

Paul MacAvoy GRD ’60, professor emeritus of management studies at Yale School of Management and a former dean of the school, died in Sarasota, Florida […]

Yale-NUS club leaders visit Yale

Despite their exhaustion and jet lag after long flights from Singapore to the U.S., a delegation of Yale-NUS students navigated packed schedules of meetings with […]

Black leaders talk sports, art

Students and faculty at the Yale School of Art held a presentation Sunday afternoon called “Game Recognize Game,” which addressed modern civil rights issues in […]

Buckley program hosts gala

Fifty years ago, conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr. ’50 launched his public affairs talk show “Firing Line” despite his distaste for television. When the […]

Yale, Yale-NUS offer first joint course

For the first time, Yale students in New Haven and Yale-NUS students in Singapore can enter the same “classroom” and collaborate virtually on group projects. […]

Students prefer GPSCY to Schwarzman plans

The $150 million Schwarzman Center, conceived partly as a weekend hangout space for students across the University, will include several features designed specifically to appeal to the thousands of students in Yale’s 13 graduate and professional schools: a late closing time, a bar serving beer and wine and an upstairs room reserved for graduate and professional students.

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Lecture concludes stereotypes are true

Yale’s Psychology Department hosted a Wednesday lecture that came to a controversial conclusion: Stereotypes are, in fact, accurate.

YouTube star explores race in films

On Wednesday night, an audience of approximately 60 Yale students, faculty members and New Haven residents watched a video of all the lines spoken by people of color throughout the entire Harry Potter series. Although the movies span nearly 20 hours, the clip took less than five minutes.

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Congress questions endowment spending

As tuition costs at the nation’s largest universities rise, Congress is pressuring schools like Yale to spend more from their large endowments on financial aid for low-income students. But University officials said the endowment is a complicated system and these proposals may be misguided.

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