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(Update: 1/10/2019: Yale Daily News reports that the plan was illegal and will be abandoned.) Yale University students who want to use the “morning-after pill” soon will have the emergency contraception available via vending machine, the Yale Daily News reports.
The YDN reports that the machine will be “installed in Silliman’s Good Life Center” prior to winter break. The so-called “wellness-to-go” machine also will sell other “over-the-counter medications, condoms” and lubricants, YDN reports.

A major gift from the Poorvu family will establish a permanent endowment for the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, covering the center’s operational costs and supporting its future programming, the University announced on Nov. 19.

The center will now be called the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning in recognition of the gift from William Poorvu ’56 and his wife, Lia Poorvu, and their children Alison Poorvu Jaffe ’81 and Jonathan Poorvu ’84.

This is also an older controversy, having started with a student petition in 2016 and resulting in a faculty vote to make the change in graduation requirements in Spring, 2017. Liberals see it as reform and adding flexibility in course requirements for an English major, allowing more diversity and not forcing a canon of Chaucer,…

Three Yale seniors were among the 32 recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships this year.   Yale, Duke and Princeton each had three winners.  (Full list).  This years’ group also set a record for the most women (21) and, for the first time ever, a DACA recipient. The news office at Yale reported: Yale seniors Rayan…

From The Yale Daily News by Karena Zhao Data from Federal Election Commission filings demonstrate that a vast majority of 2018 campaign contributions made by Yale faculty members went to Democratic campaigns and political action committees. The News analyzed this year’s donations from University employees who are listed as professors, lecturers and instructors based on…

Editor’s Note: This just in from Architectural Digest … the list of the 50 “most beautiful” colleges in America.  Yale is number one. We are deleting the others to save space and download time, but you can see the also-rans and read the whole article here. ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN The 50 Most Beautiful Colleges in…

Editors Note: This is an oldie, but one that has been suggested several times since it was published.  Now that we have “Yale, Around The Web” department, we now have a place to publish it. from washingtonpost.com by George Will Aug. 30th, 2017 A doorway carving at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., campus depicted a…

(from the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/nyregion/at-yale-class-on-happiness-draws-huge-crowd-laurie-santos.html) By David Shimer|Jan. 26th, 2018 Jennifer Chen, left, and Sean Guo are among the almost 1,200 students taking Laurie Santos’s “Psychology and the Good Life,” at Yale. The class was recently moved to Woolsey Hall, the university’s concert venue, from Battell Chapel, which could only accommodate a crowd of 800.CreditCreditMonica Jorge…

From the New Haven Register:  https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Top-50-300-year-relationship-molded-New-Haven-13303757.php By Ed Stannard|Oct. 13th, 2018 NEW HAVEN — Judith Schiff is a living encyclopedia of Yale University history. As the chief research archivist at Sterling Memorial Library, Schiff can offer dates and facts as if she had just looked them up that day. But Schiff’s relationship with Yale goes back to her…

from Bloomberg News:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-11/yale-opens-door-to-exit-private-funds-in-social-investment-shift By Janet Lorin Oct. 11th, 2018 Yale, which has about 60 percent of its $29.4 billion endowment in such alternative assets, made the statement as part of its ethical investment policy. The Ivy League school said it will work with its outside managers to adhere to its standards. “In addition to attempting moral…

from CNBC. The most influential endowment manager just jumped into crypto with bets on two Silicon Valley funds Swensen, who manages Yale’s $29.4 billion endowment, has invested in two funds dedicated to cryptocurrencies, sources tell CNBC. The funds are run by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm, which was started by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former…

Archives at Yale, a new software tool launched in early September, allows students, faculty, and other researchers to search more precisely across and within more than 5,000 collections held by 10 Yale libraries and museums. The new tool is based on a widely used open-source web application — which means that Yale’s investment in developing…

U.S. Education and Justice Departments are investigating. University says its practices are legal. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/09/27/us-reveals-investigation-alleged-anti-asian-bias-yale By Scott Jaschik September 27, 2018 The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice revealed Wednesday that they are conducting an investigation into whether Yale University discriminates against Asian American applicants. The investigation comes as a lawsuit making similar claims against Harvard University — and backed by…