1 of 3/ WSJ on Yale and Race

1 of 3/ WSJ on Yale and Race

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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 the norm at elite universities like Yale, Brown and Wesleyan. By Peter W. Wood and Dion J. Pierre April 29,…

Yale New Haven Hospital Unveils Plans For $838 Million Neuroscience Center

Yale New Haven Hospital Unveils Plans For $838 Million Neuroscience Center

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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 with challenging neurological diseases. Yale New Haven Hospital CEO Marna Borgstrom made the announcement. “Our goal is to move closer…

Woodbridge loyalists question Salovey’s leadership

Woodbridge loyalists question Salovey’s leadership

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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 Club — an exclusive, all-male social club on Park Avenue. The net worth in the room hovered in the billions….

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, by Nicholas Christakis

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, by Nicholas Christakis

ByWayne Willis

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 …

New: Key Reunion Class Events

New: Key Reunion Class Events

ByBill Newman

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 on the Friday and Saturday mornings.  Reunion-wide programs, such as President Salovey’s address and the Yale music program, take place…

Classmates in Concert, 50th reunion, 2019

Revised: Classmates in Concert: 1:30 pm, June 1, Sprague Hall

ByJohn O'Leary

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.

13 tenured professors withdraw from Yale’s Ethnicity, Race, & Migration program

13 tenured professors withdraw from Yale’s Ethnicity, Race, & Migration program

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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 “-41 ETHNIC STUDIES FACULTY” and “$50 MILLION FOR WHAT?” pasted alongside pie charts that break down the demographics of Yale’s…

Dave Henderson, Yale 1943, was Becoming an Embarrassment

Dave Henderson, Yale 1943, was Becoming an Embarrassment

ByHarry Forsdick

…. 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 …

US Senators Call On DoJ to Defund Yale Law School

US Senators Call On DoJ to Defund Yale Law School

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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…

Bribing admission to college for your kids

Bribing admission to college for your kids

ByMacon Cowles

Gents, my good wife Regina turned me on to this literate, fabulous commentary in the Atlantic on the college admissions scandal. It is by Caitlin Flanagan. She has a BA and MA in Art History from UVa. She writes it from the point of view of a woman who taught English for 4 years (her best job ever) and then was a college counselor (worst job ever) at the “Harvard-Westlake School” in Los Angeles. This…

Yale Repeats as National Quiz Bowl Champ

Yale Repeats as National Quiz Bowl Champ

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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.  

Mini-Reunion In Florida … “Friendships Formed Thru Yale”

Mini-Reunion In Florida … “Friendships Formed Thru Yale”

ByHal Valeche

Although some of us were virtual strangers, the group gelled incredibly well, and we had a great series of discussions over dinner, which lasted from 6 until just after 10.  I think we all felt we had made some new friends (yes, it is certainly possible at our age) and were enthused about reconnecting with each other and all our other friends in New Haven …

College With Best Attendance Will Win Long Weekend on St. Croix

College With Best Attendance Will Win Long Weekend on St. Croix

ByJohn Nelson

The Reunion Committee is happy to announce our equivalent of a challenge grant: The college with the largest number of attendees (as a percent of its total) will be able to spend a very long weekend in St. Croix, with free accommodation at this spectacular, private, seaside villa! Check out the pictures and details … then call your college-mates and urge them to attend.

Yale Gets A New SCHOOL: Jackson School of Global Affairs

Yale Gets A New SCHOOL: Jackson School of Global Affairs

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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…