Editor’s Note: This story is about Nathan Chen, but don’t overlook JE freshman, Sophie Ascheim, who just won an Oscar. from the LA Times Nathan Chen discovers a world outside of figure skating at Yale By HELENE ELLIOTT | MAY 10, 2019 Nathan Chen is comfortable being the center of attention when he skates, accustomed to…
from: New Haven Register Yale students develop ‘active shooter’ alert app By Jordan Grice Updated 6:07 pm EDT, Monday, May 6, 2019 It took three and a half minutes for faculty and students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., to learn there was an active shooter in their school. Four Yale University students feel…
Ed’s widow updated our information: “When my husband Edward passed away at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, one of the hardest things to do was pack up the books that were piled on every available surface in the room. Never one for small talk, Edward loved to engage the hospital staff in discussions about his books on philosophy and religion.
A roommate that Edward had after college wrote “I never tired …
Editor’s Summary: The ONLY way to register for the reunion (and on-campus housing) is to go to the Registration Page and sign up. No smailmail is coming.
The Reunion Committee is delighted with the pace of reservations. According to the statistics from the Yale Alumni Association, we are running at or ahead of recent Yale Classes and their 50th Reunion attendance registrations.
“Yale decided that online registration …
Madeline Hoffman holds the Class of 1969 Scholarship for 2018-19. Yale reports that: “Maddie gained valuable experience as a high energy physics intern at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, in Livermore, California.
Back on campus for her senior year, this …
Editor’s Note: This is the third of three articles and columns addressing Yale and race. Here, President Salovey responds to the criticism set forth by Heather McDonald in “At Yale, ‘Diversity’ Means More Of The Same.” See also Dr. Salovey’s statement on diversity and inclusion from earlier in April. OPINION | LETTERS Yale Is Right…
Editor’s Note: This is the second of three articles and columns addressing Yale and race. Op-Ed Contributor Heather MacDonald points out the accretion of administrative bureaucracy addressing racial matters at Yale and argues that it is seriously counter-productive. Compare also the critique coming from the faculty in “13 Tenured Professors Withdraw from Ethnicity, Race and Migration…
Editor’s Note: This is the first of three articles and columns addressing Yale and race. Here, the conservative (according to Wikipedia) National Association of Scholars takes Yale to task for “de facto segregation” in supporting racial initiatives that deal with blacks separately. Here is their bill of particulars: Segregation by Design on Campus How racial separatism become…
From NPR News by EVAN DENNY • An aerial view of Yale New Haven Hospital WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Yale New Haven Hospital announced plans on Monday to build a new state-of-the-art neuroscience center for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The facility, which is expected to cost under $1 billion, has a goal of advancing treatment for people…
from Yale Daily News UP CLOSE: Woodbridge loyalists question Salovey’s leadership By Serena Cho Photos by Robbie Short, Daniel Zhao and Jakub Madej Graphics by Chris West One afternoon last fall, four of Yale’s most generous alumni joined former University Secretary Sam Chauncey ’57 and Chief Investment Officer David Swensen GRD ’80 for lunch at the Racquet and Tennis…
I have assembled many materials and commentaries on the Halloween affair and debated about publishing it here. Although the “Halloween affair” is complicated and has three sides to the story,** there is no doubt that it is an ugly chapter in recent Yale history, a chapter that makes NO ONE proud.
But despite that depressing display of human nature, Professor Christakis has produced a work of both laudable scholarship and material accessible by the general reader. Relying on his expertise in social networks and evolutionary biology, he concludes …
The schedule for our Class of ‘69 programs covers four days, Thursday through Sunday, May 30 through June 2, 2019. Each day contains some stimulating, entertaining events presented only to our class members and our spouses and guests. The events organized by the Yale Alumni Association for all of the reunion classes will be held…
Other Colleges Are Close Behind
Here’s an interim report on how YOUR college is doing in the contest to see which college will win a long weekend in St. Croix. (See “College With Best Attendance Will Win Long Weekend on St. Croix.”)
Come to Sprague Hall just after lunch on Saturday to experience a great concert put on by some of the professional musicians in our Class: The Real Stormin’ Norman Zamcheck (ES), Rick Drost (BR), and host John O’Leary (SM), accompanied by Mat Kastner (SY).
Between them, they have played national venues such as NY’s The Bitter End and Carnegie Hall, LA’s Hollywood Bowl and Troubadour, and Cambridge’s Passim. They will perform their own songs as well as several 60s classics, including the song YOU chose in our survey as your favorite song.
from: New Haven Register 13 Yale professors withdraw from ethnic studies program By Meghan Friedmann | March 31, 2019 Photo: Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media File Photo Students walk into Yale University’s Old Campus in New Haven last October. NEW HAVEN — Wandering around the Yale University campus, visitors might notice a sign that reads…
…. When I mention this to my Peets Coffee drinking buddy, a Dartmouth grad who has a terrific sense of humor, he mentioned an article in Smithsonian Magazine about a secretly invented Yale grad from the Class of 1943 … whose exploits were published in the YAM 1943 Class Notes. He sent me the article and the obit of the perpetrator of the faux exploits …
