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From Yale Press Release. Beinecke Library acquires papers of humorist David Sedaris By Michael Morand december 10, 2018      The guide that David Sedaris was given when he worked as an elf at Macy’s, an experience that inspired his breakthrough essay “The Santaland Diaries.” (Photo credit: Tubyez Cropper) The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of David Sedaris, noted American humorist, author, and essayist. Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh, North…

  from the dailycaller.com FLASHBACK: That Time George H. W. Bush Met Babe Ruth While Playing Baseball At Yale By Evie Fordham | Politics and Health Care Reporter|Dec. 1st, 2018 Former president George H. W. Bush passed away Friday at the age of 94 after a life full of historic experiences — including meeting famed baseball player Babe Ruth before anyone knew Bush would become the 41st president of the U.S. Bush was captain of the…

You have recently joined a book club.

Before each meeting, one member of the literary collective sends an email to the club secretary offering a few thoughts on the assigned text. This month, it’s your turn to compose the brief review.

A new study suggests that the words you use may depend on whether the club secretary’s name is Emily (“a stereotypically White name,” as the study says) or Lakisha (“a stereotypically Black name”). If you’re a white liberal writing to Emily, you might use words like “melancholy” or “euphoric” to describe the mood of the book, whereas you might trade these terms out for the simpler “sad” or “happy” if you’re corresponding with Lakisha.

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has entertained millions with his Pulitzer Prize-winning strip “Doonesbury,” but he never expected it to be his career when it started 50 years ago, he says in an interview with his wife, “CBS Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley, to be broadcast December 2.

“It was more or less an accidental career,” Trudeau said. “It didn’t seem to me that I was going to be bound to this thing, for any extensive period of my life – and here it is, 50 years later.”

(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, Shakespeare and other “Major English Poets” on students.  Conservatives see it as another example of Faculty and Administration caving into…

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 Alsemeiry, Eren Orbey, and Riley S. Tillitt will head to Oxford University following graduation as Rhodes Scholars representing the United…

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 public data from the FEC. Since Jan. 1, Yale professors, lecturers and instructors have donated $302,943 to political candidates, political…

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 America Did your alma mater make the list? by STEFANIE WALDEK Posted November 5, 2018 With their vast collections of buildings,…

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 Puritan settler, right, with a musket. The musket has been covered with removable stone. (Yale University via Associated Press) Summer…

(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 for The New York Times   NEW HAVEN — On Jan. 12, a few days after registration opened at Yale…

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 days as a student at New Haven’s Sheridan Junior High School and Hillhouse High School. “Growing up in New Haven,…

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 suasion, Yale might be able to avoid certain investments through ‘excuse’ provisions, which are part of some private equity funds,…