from GolfWorld How Yale, the country’s best college golf course, is back from the dead By Joel Beall September 30, 2020 He walked off the course as if witnessing a resurrection. There was a glance back at the green and down the fairway, as to confirm what happened had happened. “It’s miraculous, really,” Robert Massimilian…
from the atlantic.com How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition By Daniel Markovits Aug. 19th, 2019 . Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. Updated at 4:38 p.m. ET on September 4, 2019. In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and…
from: Erie Times News The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a family…
David Harrison Idol II died Saturday, August 22, 2020 at his home on Hillcrest Dr. in High Point. He was 74 years old. David was born May 20, 1946 in High Point to Percy Cornelius Idol and Lillian Small Idol. He was educated at Woodberry Forest School, King’s College, Taunton, and Yale University, and he…
from USA Today FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale in partnership with the NBA, NBPA Jeff Zillgitt USA TODAY A saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by researchers at Yale in partnership and funding from the NBA and National Basketball Players Association was approved on Saturday for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration….
from the New York Times Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process The Trump administration said the university discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale defended its practices and vowed to maintain them. by Anemona Hartocollis, Aug. 13, 2020 The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of violating federal civil rights law…
from Campus Reform by Ben Zeisloft Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent on Aug 06, 2020 at 10:30 AM EDT One-fifth of Yale and Harvard students will not enroll for the fall semester. Universities across the United States are anticipating drops in enrollment. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 20 percent of Harvard and Yale University students will not re-enroll…
While institutions are being forced to put in place mental health awareness protocols, advisories, counselling centres and have full-time psychiatrists on campus, among other measures, a new study from researchers at Yale University has backed the multiple benefits of breath work in increasing mental well-being among students, in a short period of time.
Richard Seltzer is accelerating his output of novels, having published Parallel Lives only 6 months ago. (See our review of it — Richard Seltzer’s New Novel: Parallel Lives.). Rumor has it that he has two more novels accepted for publication and another under contract. Can you say “prolific?”
Beyond The 4th Door is now available on Amazon, which describes the novel thusly:
Without knowing why or how, two college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep and with no memo […]
How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic Craig McFarland was accepted by all eight Ivy League schools. At first he committed to Yale, but the ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus caused him to change his plans. By Johnny Diaz July 17, 2020, When he was applying to colleges last year, Craig McFarland…
from fox5dc.com Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’ Jun. 10th, 2020 NEW HAVEN, Conn. – As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the history of the black experience in the U.S….
from nytimes.com Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January By Billy Witz, Jul. 8th, 2020 The league’s decision could be influential for other university presidents as they consider how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. It is the first Division I conference to suspend football for the fall. The Ivy League presidents placed all sports…
FROM amgreatness.com Canceling Yale By Roger Kimball • June 22, 2020 I see that #CancelYale is trending on Twitter and elsewhere in social media. It’s a development I’d like to encourage—not, to be frank, because I think that canceling things is a good idea. Quite the opposite. But if the Left is going to pursue its dream of destroying every…
from news.yale.edu science laboratory test tubes , lab equipment for research new medical Jun. 24th, 2020 Yale University has been designated by The Hartwell Foundation as a Top Ten Center of Biomedical Research for 2020, garnering this distinction for its strengths in child health research in alignment with the foundation’s philanthropic mission. As a Top Ten Center,…
from: campusreform.org Conservatives troll leftists with ‘#CancelYale’ Jun. 22nd, 2020 As colleges move to take down statues and change building names, conservatives challenged “cancel culture” by pointing out that Yale University’s founder was literally a slave trader. “Yale University was named for Elihu Yale. Not just a man who had slaves. An actual slave trader….
from fxstreet.com Yale’s Stephen Roach calls a 35% drop in the US dollar Yale University’s senior fellow Stephen Roach, one of the world’s leading authorities on Asia, expects the US dollar to decline by 35% against other major currencies due to ballooning fiscal deficits. “The U.S. economy has been afflicted with some significant macro imbalances…
