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.
Our website editor approached me with a question: Given our level of retirement savings, how would I advise us 69ers (given my career in Wealth Management) about investing at this age? What sort of practical tips would I pass along?
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…
The Morning was a Yale folk-rock band, birthed in the campus basements in the winter of ’67. Within six months it was playing the major coffeehouses in Greenwich Village and within 18 months it was sharing stages with Joni Mitchell, The Grateful Dead, Cream, Sly & the Family Stone, Jackson Browne, The Smothers Brothers, and Muddy Waters at the top nightclubs and concert venues on both coasts.
The right sidebar on the home page shows only the last five (5) comments. Responding to popular demand, here is a page that shows ALL comments, in reverse chronological order, 12 per page. (This page is always accessible from the link at the end of the five (5) comments in the sidebar.)
In this addition to the Yale 1969 Archives, I have scanned, processed and now re-published a Supplement to the Yale Daily News, which was originally published on May 14, 1969. I suspect that, owing to its being published so close to our graduation date, many people in our class may have never seen it before. Believe me, it’s worth reading!
from USA Today Nathan Chen balances Yale studies with third U.S. figure skating championship By Christine Brennan | Jan. 27th, 2019 DETROIT — This was going to be a year of transition for reigning world champion and Olympic team bronze medalist Nathan Chen. At 19, he was heading across the country to college. Southern California was behind him. Yale beckoned. This was going to be a grand experiment: he was trying to be a full-time…
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/24/texas-endowment-surpasses-yales/ Texas endowment surpasses Yale’s By Lorenzo Arvanitis – Jan. 24th, 2019 Yale no longer has the second largest endowment among institutions of higher education. The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company announced last month that the joint endowment it manages for two schools — University of Texas and Texas A&M University — surged to $30.9 billion, surpassing Yale’s $29.4 billion endowment during the 2018 fiscal year which ended on June 30. Texas’ high returns were largely…
As we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them, we also have to laugh occasionally at our current political scene. I’ve done this by publishing two satirical novels about contemporary politics, PRYME KNUMBER, and a sequel, BERNIE WEBER AND THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS. They are set in Washington, Milwaukee, and Yale. Some of our classmates appear as characters.
In both novels, Bernie Weber, a young, Milwaukee-based math genius of humble background, is chased by villains trying to force him to reveal his solutions to two unsolved problems in Mathematics, which could be used fo …
from Yale News Yale, other schools file amicus brief on ‘unlawful presence’ visa change January 17, 2019 Yale University has joined with more than 60 other institutions of higher education in filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in a case before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina about the Department of Homeland Security’s new policy regarding the calculation of “unlawful presence” for international students. Under the new policy,…
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/17/students-can-now-register-as-non-binary-with-sis/ Students can now register as non-binary with SIS by Jever Mariwala, January 17, 2019, Staff Reporter, Yale Daily News Students can now change their registered gender in the University Student Information System, University Registrar Emily Shandley announced in an email to the Yale community Wednesday. The policy change arrived two months after the Trans Rights Coalition at Yale — a newly formed group of Yale-affiliated organizations — launched a petition calling on University President Peter…
The Reunion Committee made some recent announcements about the upcoming reunion. They fleshed out more of the details, asked us to preregister online and published the sequence of events leading up to the reunion itself on May 30-June 2. Click through to preregister and learn more.
Like many others, Dr. Jim Porter (SM ‘69, Ph.D. ’73) assumed that “Scientists don’t win Emmys.” But this year he falsified that hypothesis when his film, Chasing Coral won an Emmy for Outstanding Nature Documentary. Previously, it had been recognized with an Audience Choice Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and had been conferred a 2017 Peabody Award. “The Emmy was thrilling enough,” Porter said, “but winning all three of these awards was the journalistic equivalent of…
We’ve created a simple 3-question survey, asking you to choose your favorite musical artist, favorite album, and favorite song from the 1960s.
So please take a moment to respond. (You don’t even need to be logged into Yale1969.org to use this link!) Taking the survey is guaranteed to give you a dopamine rush of nostalgia.
In a recent e-mail blast to alumni of Jonathan Edwards College, Mark Saltzman, Head of the College, and Mark Ryan, Chair of the JE Trust, announced the forthcoming publication of a new “introductory history” of the College. Alumni of JE are invited to contribute reminiscences for the publication, and, if they wish, to donate. See https://jespiders.org/. Reminiscences, which can be submitted through the website, will be accepted until February 1.
When Random House first published Charles Reich’s The Greening of America in 1970, they thought so little of the radical manuscript that just 5,000 copies were printed. The New Yorker followed the book’s publication with the longest excerpt in the magazine’s history, prodding the publisher to issue a dozen reprints—eventually selling some 2 million copies. The debate about American political culture that the book unleashed has been compared to the impacts of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the Kinsey Report.
