from the New York Times Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process The Trump administration said the university discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale defended its practices and vowed to maintain them. by Anemona Hartocollis, Aug. 13, 2020 The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of violating federal civil rights law…
from Campus Reform by Ben Zeisloft Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent on Aug 06, 2020 at 10:30 AM EDT One-fifth of Yale and Harvard students will not enroll for the fall semester. Universities across the United States are anticipating drops in enrollment. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 20 percent of Harvard and Yale University students will not re-enroll…
OK, you are part of a group of Yalies, and you want to help them stay in touch. The group might be composed of your roommates and neighbors from “back in the day.” It might be your spook. Or your sports team or another extracurricular activity. It could even be a “shared interest group” of…
Michael Medved now contributes to the American cultural and political conversation as a radio show host, author, political commentator, and film critic. His talk show, The Michael Medved Show, is syndicated to over 200 stations from his home in Seattle. Michael will speak to us privately about the current political situation, the Trump Presidency, and the upcoming election from an independent Conservative point of view.
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While institutions are being forced to put in place mental health awareness protocols, advisories, counselling centres and have full-time psychiatrists on campus, among other measures, a new study from researchers at Yale University has backed the multiple benefits of breath work in increasing mental well-being among students, in a short period of time.
Richard Seltzer is accelerating his output of novels, having published Parallel Lives only 6 months ago. (See our review of it — Richard Seltzer’s New Novel: Parallel Lives.). Rumor has it that he has two more novels accepted for publication and another under contract. Can you say “prolific?”
Beyond The 4th Door is now available on Amazon, which describes the novel thusly:
Without knowing why or how, two college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep and with no memo […]
Now that COVID constrains travel and large social events, your Class Council and Class leaders today announce some exciting new features supporting onlne sharing among classmates:
* New Home Page. Check it out!
* Newsletter. More frequent and simplified.
* Class Colloquia. These have been very popular; three more are coming in the Fall.
This is the first step in evolving this Yale1969.org website from a “magazine” format (mostly articles), to more of a “community center” where sub-groups of our Class can connect and extend/maintain […]
I fear I have been blinded for a period of years by my institutional affection and great memories from noticing what appear to be some disturbing long-term trends at Yale. The much-publicized recent campus culture issue involving hate speech vs. freedom of speech and similar matters of a quasi-political nature are only marginally related, if…
Editor’s Note: This is adapted from a memo Reed sent to the Biden Campaign.
A President Biden will face problems larger in scale and scope than any previously presented to the United States. The conjoined COVID-19 crises (aka the “pandemiconomy”) now seem monumentally daunting. Yet they may succumb to easier solutions than the long list of secular challenges that threaten the Republic:
* economic inequality,
* immigration,
* infrastructure,
* national security, […]
I wanted to share a short “In Memorium” note for one of the professors who taught us while we were at Yale. His name is Prosser Gifford. He went to Hotchkiss School and then Yale and then to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then, after a stint at Harvard Law School, he returned to finish…
The 3rd Class Colloquium in our series was a huge success as Reed Hundt took us on a Greyline Tour of the issues being debated right now in Congress and how revolutions in communications and computing amplify both the possibilities and the threats coming soon. Here is the recording of Reed’s presentation and the Q&A. …
How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic Craig McFarland was accepted by all eight Ivy League schools. At first he committed to Yale, but the ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus caused him to change his plans. By Johnny Diaz July 17, 2020, When he was applying to colleges last year, Craig McFarland…
from fox5dc.com Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’ Jun. 10th, 2020 NEW HAVEN, Conn. – As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the history of the black experience in the U.S….
Echo in the Canyon is an 82-minute rock doc that traces the music of this period—1965 to 1967—through the songs of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Beach Boys, and Mamas and Papas. These pop pioneers lived, hung out, and swapped songs (and occasionally lovers) in the Hollywood Hills in a woodsy region known as Laurel Canyon. It quickly became an innovation nexus that changed music forever.
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I was hooked from the start, beginning with the opening chords of “Turn! Turn! Turn!” through “The Bells of Rhymney” and “Wild Mountain Thyme.” These Byrds’ classics played well against the sweeping aerial visuals of Laurel Canyon. Highlights […]
from nytimes.com Ivy League Places All Sports on Hold Until January By Billy Witz, Jul. 8th, 2020 The league’s decision could be influential for other university presidents as they consider how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. It is the first Division I conference to suspend football for the fall. The Ivy League presidents placed all sports…
FROM amgreatness.com Canceling Yale By Roger Kimball • June 22, 2020 I see that #CancelYale is trending on Twitter and elsewhere in social media. It’s a development I’d like to encourage—not, to be frank, because I think that canceling things is a good idea. Quite the opposite. But if the Left is going to pursue its dream of destroying every…
