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foxnews.com Hawley suggests Trump admin strip Yale of federal funding if ‘targeting’ of religious students continues By Gregg Re |  Apr. 9th, 2019 Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter early Tuesday to Attorney General William Barr calling for the Justice Department to closely monitor Yale University — and to cut off the institution’s federal funding if its law school continues to “target religious students for special disfavor.” The fiery two-page missive, exclusively obtained by Fox News, comes days after Texas Republican…

Yale wins National Quiz Bowl competition By:  Hector Ramirez NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Congrats are in order to some Yale students! Yale University took home the nation’s top spot at this weekend’s NAQT Quiz Bowl tournament. Quiz Bowl is one of the most difficult academic tournaments that tests students knowledge, ranging from sports, pop culture, literature, and biology. This is the second year in a row that Yale has won.  

New Haven Register Yale moves forward with transforming Jackson Institute By Tara O’Neill | Apr. 6th, 2019 NEW HAVEN — Yale University’s Board of Trustees has approved the transformation of the university’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs into a school. The trustees are hoping to open the new school in the fall of 2022. But in order for that to happen, an additional $200 million has to be raised for its endowment. The announcement came…

wsj.com The Yale Dad Who Set Off the College-Admissions Scandal By Jennifer Levitz and Melissa Korn Updated March 14, 2019 4:32 p.m. ET The tipster who led federal authorities to the biggest college-admissions scam they have ever prosecuted was Morrie Tobin, a Los Angeles financial executive who was being investigated in a securities fraud case, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Mr. Tobin was being questioned in an alleged pump-and-dump investment scheme—in which people conspire…

nytimes.com Opinion | A ‘Disgusting’ Yale Professor Moves On How a target of students’ ire came to write a book about humanity’s transcendent goodness. By Frank Bruni, March 19, 2019 An intellectual rock star, Nicholas Christakis has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard and, since 2013, Yale. He has done trailblazing work — distilled in a TED talk, of course — on how our social networks shape us. All of the most esteemed academies that validate…

from dwighthall.org Sam Slie, emeritus Dwight Hall at Yale board member, Dies at 93 A service celebrating the life of The Rev. Dr. Samuel Nathaniel Slie will be held Saturday, March 23, at 12:30pm, in Battell Chapel, in New Haven, where for decades he served as Associate Pastor of The Church of Christ in Yale University. A much beloved pastor, a friend to thousands, and a beacon for interfaith cooperative ministry, Sam died peacefully at…

   from washingtonpost.com FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme by  Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky | March 12  The Justice Department on Tuesday charged more than 30 wealthy people — including two television stars — with being part of a long-running scheme to bribe and cheat to get their kids into big-name colleges and universities. The alleged crimes included cheating on entrance exams, as well as bribing college officials to say…

from washingtonpost.com Opinion by Mitch Daniels | Mar. 11th, 2019 Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in November 2015. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Mitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana. A growing staple on the menu of most colleges and universities is the opportunity to study abroad, through which a student earns credits by traveling to a foreign land for coursework…

Fifteen Yale University students have been cited for trespassing following a demonstration in which they called for the university to divest from fossil fuel companies and companies that hold Puerto Rican government debt.

nypost.com Inside the training program that helped launch Gillibrand’s political career By Frank Ryan  | Feb. 23rd, 2019 In 2005 an ambitious young lawyer attended a five-day intensive training program at Yale University. The short but grueling schedule at the Women’s Campaign School was packed with workshops on polling, fundraising, public speaking, handling the press — and makeup. Eighteen months later, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was serving in the House of Representatives, her first step in…

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut, comes as universities across the country have been trying to crack down on bad behavior by fraternities, from binge drinking and sexual harassment to abusive hazing rituals that have led to several deaths. Aware that their image has been tarnished, fraternities have often been partners with universities in trying to change party culture.

from washingtonpost.com It took 109 years, but Yale’s storied a cappella group just got its first female singer By Julie Zauzmer – Feb. 8th, 2019   When Sofia Campoamor was a ninth-grader at Washington’s Sidwell Friends School, a special-guest group dropped by her chorus class: the Whiffenpoofs, the oldest college a cappella group in the country. The members of the singing group told Campoamor and her friends about their astounding opportunity — a one-year trip around the…