From Time, Inc. She Was in a Secret Society at Yale. Her Latest Novel Explores the Dark and Mysterious World of the Ivy League by Annabel Gutterman October 8, 2019 Leigh Bardugo has built new and unrecognizable worlds full of evil, darkness and monsters in her best-selling young adult novels. But in her adult debut,…
“Diversity” is the most powerful word in higher education today. No other has so much authority. Older words, like “excellence” and “originality,” remain in circulation, but even they have been redefined in terms of diversity.
from Yale News By Mike Cummings July 30, 2019 Yale Daily News coverage of Coeducation Week, an event in November 1968 during which more than 750 women from 22 colleges visited campus to attend classes and live in the residential colleges. (Photo credit: Dan Renzetti) On Dec. 22, 1783, Yale President Ezra Stiles interviewed…
from Inquisitr Elected Officials Don’t Care About The Opinions Of Their Constituents At All, Yale University Study Finds Study surveyed more than 2,300 state legislators, finding that party loyalty was much more important to them than the views of their constituents. When asked how he expects to pass some of his proposed, sweeping legislation such…
from https://www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/marie-borroff/121410 Marie Borroff Tue, 07/16/2019 – 8:45am Marie Borroff, distinguished scholar, poet, translator and teacher of English literature, and one of the pioneering women at Yale University, died at her Branford, Connecticut, home on July 5. She was 95. A long-time summer resident of Boothbay Harbor, this is the first summer in 70-some years…
Charles A. Reich, who as a 42-year-old Yale Law School professor swapped button-down Brooks Brothers shirts for hippie beads and vaulted to intellectual celebrity by venerating the counterculture in his manifesto, “The Greening of America,” died on Saturday in San Francisco. He was 91.
The final numbers are in from the YAA, and Silliman outpaced everyone, holding off late surges by Morse and Branford. Final results (classmates attending divided by living classmates per college):
YALE UNIVERSITY has elected its first-ever black student body president.
Kahlil Greene is the first black person appointed to the role in the prestigious university’s 318-year history.
As the president of the student body, Greene will be responsible for addressing issues faced by undergraduates on campus.
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Hey, after the reunion, Yale1969.org will publish pictures, reflections and memories captured at the reunion. So, if you attend, please take pictures! If you get some good ones, please send them to us. (Attach a note with the names of any people in the pictures.) See below for tips and how to send them. Even…
From his widow, Anita:
After graduation, Bill took a job as an apprentice blacksmith at Mystic Seaport (it was the sixties after all). An MME at U Mass Amherst followed, then a 3-year stint with Bell Labs in Atlanta doing fiber optic cable research. Unhappy with being a miniscule cog in a huge corporate …
The 1969 Class Survey included the following question: “If you could write a note to your 1969 self, what would it say? (50 words or less, please)” Herewith is a small sampling of your advice to your 1969 selves… For a small-town boy from the Texas Panhandle, you did all right, in large part because…
Spouses and partners are asking, and some Classmates are asking, too: What’s the dress code for the reunion? The Reunion Committee says: Business casual-throughout the weekend, nothing formal. For Friday Dinner- Men – coats, with or without tie, encouraged Women – cocktail dress, Capri, pants suit, or skirt/ blouse combination. My wife interprets this as…
Editor’s Note: This story is about Nathan Chen, but don’t overlook JE freshman, Sophie Ascheim, who just won an Oscar. from the LA Times Nathan Chen discovers a world outside of figure skating at Yale By HELENE ELLIOTT | MAY 10, 2019 Nathan Chen is comfortable being the center of attention when he skates, accustomed to…
from: New Haven Register Yale students develop ‘active shooter’ alert app By Jordan Grice Updated 6:07 pm EDT, Monday, May 6, 2019 It took three and a half minutes for faculty and students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., to learn there was an active shooter in their school. Four Yale University students feel…
Editor’s Note: This is the third of three articles and columns addressing Yale and race. Here, President Salovey responds to the criticism set forth by Heather McDonald in “At Yale, ‘Diversity’ Means More Of The Same.” See also Dr. Salovey’s statement on diversity and inclusion from earlier in April. OPINION | LETTERS Yale Is Right…
Editor’s Note: This is the second of three articles and columns addressing Yale and race. Op-Ed Contributor Heather MacDonald points out the accretion of administrative bureaucracy addressing racial matters at Yale and argues that it is seriously counter-productive. Compare also the critique coming from the faculty in “13 Tenured Professors Withdraw from Ethnicity, Race and Migration…
