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Yale Considers Trashing NY Times; Students Overreact
Original at IvyGate
• Thu, Jan 28
By Alex Klein Yup. Uppity, over-caffeinated Yalies responded exactly as expected. Charlie Jaeger ‘12–self-proclaimed internet kingpin, Yale FML infiltrator, ‘Saybrook Blog’ and ‘Overheard in Saybrook’ founder, and, as of a day ago, Facebook Fan of the New York Times–quickly started a Facebook g...
Our New Fashion Columnist Presents: The Birth of the Cool
Original at IvyGate
• Thu, Jan 28
By Rene Bystron I turned around and saw the top of the Yale hipster crème. The secret society hipsters just stood in the corner, influenced by more illegal substances then they put into your drink at Toad’s on Wednesday night. I got lucky. I was in view of the hipster ruling class -– the American Apparel-cloth...
Annie Le Murder Suspect Pleads Not Guilty–Twice
Original at IvyGate
• Wed, Jan 27
By Alex Klein “While turning towards Officer Wood, Clark moved [a bloodstained] box of wipes from the corner to the far right corner and turned the box so that the blood splatter was facing to the right hand side of the cart away from plain sight.” Clark moved the box, then “leaned up against the cart and m...
Gay Ivy Video Roundup or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Yale Admissions Video”
Original at IvyGate
• Tue, Jan 26
By Alex Klein Our conclusion? Call the new Yale Admissions Video what you like, but ‘without precedent’? We think not. But, you protest, what about all the scared little high-schoolers out there, cringing and tearing up their applications at even a whisper of man-on-man action. Well, so what if they do...
Jersey Shore Cast to Beat Up the Beat at Yale
Original at IvyGate
• Tue, Jan 19
By Alex Klein We’re waiting with baited breath. Will Snooki find love and existential fulfillment at Yale? Will she find a New Poughkeepsie in New Haven? Will she eat a sausage? Will she get punched in the face? Vinny has similarly high expectations for his Yale visit:
“That’s Why I Chose” to Ram a Soldering Iron Into My EarsOriginal at IvyGate
• Sat, Jan 16
By Bobby Fineman Oh my god I will keep this short because !!!!!!! Yale has released a new admissions video called “Why I Chose Yale,” and it is bananas! Rotting, blighted bananas made of earnest on-key singing and poop. Here are some misrepresentative quotes from a Yale Daily News article. “It’s going to g...
Douglas Lilly
Original at New Haven Independent
• Thu, Jan 7
By thomas macmillan 63, of New Haven, passed away on December 31, 2009 at Yale New Haven Hospital after a long illness. Beloved husband of Alfreda Black-Lilly. Born October 5, 1946 in Stanley County, NC, son of the late Alfonso Lilly and Catherine Barger Lilly. Doug retired from Stop & Shop Warehouse after 3...
Months After Hit & Run, Victim Leaves Hospital
Original at New Haven Independent
• Wed, Jan 6
By thomas macmillan Miguel Alvarado stepped out of his apartment to walk his girlfriend to her car. A passing truck driver slammed into him, sent him flying into a parked car, and drove off into the night. Two months later, he finally left Yale-New Haven -- and police have no leads on the driver.
Yale Censors ‘Sissy’ T-Shirts, Flouts Own Free Speech Code, and Pisses Everyone Off
Original at IvyGate
• Tue, Dec 29
By Alex Klein “I want to go to Princeton… I don’t know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes. Monsignor chuckled.” “I’m one, you know.” ”Oh, you’re different—I think of Princeton as being lazy and good-looking and ari...
Decade In Review: State And Region
Original at Hartford Courant
• Sun, Dec 27
Best Football Game, Ivy Division: In the longest Ivy League game in history, Harvard beat Yale 30-24 in triple overtime at Yale Bowl in 2005. ... and more »
Best of 2009: The art that lingered touched both the mind and eye - New Haven Register
Original at New Haven Register
• Sat, Dec 26
Best of 2009: The art that lingered touched both the mind and eye subscription) Two that lingered, both at the Yale University Art Gallery, were relatively small presentations. Tucked into the gallery's summer season, “Time Will Tell: ...
Outbreak of Quadrophenia Strikes Yale Admissions Office
Original at IvyGate
• Tue, Dec 22
By Daniel D'Addario Come on, thin e-envelope! Alas, she is accepted. But the awkward conversations could ensue around the Crouch dinner table anyway, perhaps! All four students remain uncommitted to Yale, which uses single-choice early action, not early decision. While it would be adorable for the Crouch...
New Musical "Pop!" Ends With a Bang at Yale Rep - Hartford Courant
Original at Hartford Courant
• Sat, Dec 19
New Musical "Pop!" Ends With a Bang at Yale Rep blog) for its final performance at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven Saturday night. It had a pretty decent house considering the weather. ...
SOM Vote: Show Us The Money
Original at New Haven Independent
• Wed, Dec 16
Yale got provisional permission to build a bold new home for its School of ... New Haven gives conditional OK for Yale construction planNew Haven Register (subscription) Residents voice opposition to SOM plansYale Daily News all 3 news articles »
From Harvard's Gridiron to Oxford's Rugby Pitch
Original at New York Times
• Wed, Dec 9
Telegraph.co.uk Johnson was being offered the chance to play in an older rivalry, one between universities that make Harvard and Yale look like expansion teams: Oxford and ... Harvard-Yale Veteran Seeks Rugby Success With OxfordBloomberg all 38 news articles »
W. HOCKEY | Elis end '09 with best weekend yet
Original at Yale Daily News
• Wed, Dec 9
The teams were still tied 1–1 when the buzzer signaled the end of the first period, with Cornell outshooting Yale 11–8. And Hughes put her team ahead in the ...
God Hates Yale: Street-fighting evangelist terrorizes/amuses YaliesOriginal at IvyGate
• Tue, Dec 8
By Adam Clark Estes “Turn or burn,” you sodomizing, Obama-worshipping, drug-addled Yale students! So warns Jesse Morrell, the 25-year old mini-preacher who has descended on the fair streets of New Haven, spitting fire and brimstone, and railing against good old-fashioned Ivy League debauchery. For th...
Hoax Makes Monkeys Out of Yalies
Original at IvyGate
• Mon, Dec 7
By Daniel D'Addario Last week, monkeys were on the loose in New Haven. In a strange-enough-to-convince prank, “James A. Perrotti, Chief of Yale Police,” sent an email (from a Gmail account) to the university. Apparently five rhesus monkeys had gotten loose from the Child Study Center. Based on the email: The an...
Harvard-Yale Veteran Seeks Rugby Success With Oxford
Original at Bloomberg
• Sun, Dec 6
Telegraph.co.uk Johnson, a 25-year-old Californian, played for Harvard University four times in the 126-game football rivalry with Yale, and was on the winning side in all ... Oxford and Tradition Take on a New MeaningNew York Times all 102 news articles »
Decisions, decisions, decisions
Original at Portal 31
• Wed, Nov 25
By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) This Yale team had been through so much this year, disappointing losses to Cornell and Princeton, so many injuries, a constantly changing lineup and a nearly completely new coaching staff. They could easily have had their eyes elsewhere especially in an academic setting like the one the...
Bulldogs roll
Original at Portal 31
• Sat, Oct 10
By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) Yale's football weekend will conclude with a 1 p.m. JV game against Dean College Sunday at Clint Frank Field. Among the players on Dean's squad are former New Haven area products Michael Mainiero (Shelton), Marvin McClendon (Hillhouse), Rodney Williams (Hyde), Ron Vece (Amity) and Dan Ma...
Football Cornell 14, Yale 12
Original at elf.elynah.com
• Sat, Sep 26
By billhoward Final, Cornell 14, Yale 12, with Yale flubbing a pass for a 2-point conversion with :00 left. The beginning and end was exciting. In between, this was not must-see football unless you're the parents of the Cornell defensive players. Cornell's defense looks real: an end zone interception, a...
Yale, Totally GayOriginal at IvyGate
• Tue, Jul 21
By Michael E van Landingham Well, if Yale students think it’s true, it must be. The fact gay Yalies are more comfortable holding hands than they might at, say, Princeton, where the gay community reportedly turns to Craig’s List for discreet hook-ups, supports the claim a bit more, though.
Opinion: 'Harvard Beats Yale 29-29' is a gut-check on the '60s
Original at Allentown Morning Call
• Fri, Apr 17
The absorbing new picture ''Harvard Beats Yale 29-29'' dissects one staggering football matchup -- greatest college game ever, say many -- and, simply by letting the onetime gridiron stars talk about the game they played and the era it was played in, ...
Opinion: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 HD 1080p TrailerOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Mar 22
By rss@youtube.com (WatchinTVHD) Keywords: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 HD 1080p Trailer Full Action Uncut trailers 2009 2010 world news people groups film video funny silence 720p high quality definition dvd serious professional guide time earth funniest martial art family adult children horror science fiction comed...
Art Review The Art of Tea
Original at New York Times
• Fri, Mar 20
United States It is not very often that we see exhibitions of historical Asian art at Yale, making this one all the more special. “Tea Culture of Japan: Chanoyu Past and Present,” Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, through April 26. ...
Opinion: Ann Coulter Hates Cornell, Cornellian Hates Poor People
Original at IvyGate
• Thu, Mar 5
By Adam Clark Estes Yesterday Ann Coulter directed her incendiary commentary towards Cornell, the “plastic Ivy.” By basically trashing their College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for NOT being an Ivy League school, Coulter compares Keith Olbermann’s referring to his “Ivy League education” to many f...
Skull and Bones Sued For Possessing Geronimo’s Skull and Bones
Original at IvyGate
• Fri, Feb 20
By James Yu Controversy is brewing around Skull and Bones, the laughably un-secret secret society par excellence at Yale. Descendants of Geronimo, the 19th century Apache warrior, are suing the shadowy senior club for allegedly stealing the remains of their ancestor in 1918, and for keeping it at...
Opinion: Winning and Cheering
Original at Roar Lions Roar
• Mon, Feb 2
By noreply@blogger.com (Jake) I do know he was a 5"9 190-pound right guard who came to Penn from Uniontown Joint High School in New Salem, PA. He was also quoted later in the program in a running feature that I assume appeared in all Ivy League game programs at the time. Several players would be asked questions like, "who's th...
Opinion: Howard Dean, professor?
Original at Yale Daily News
• Mon, Jan 26
CT - This proposal — which is currently under review by committees in the 12 residential colleges — focuses on giving students firsthand experience interacting ...
Opinion: William F. Buckley, Jr. interviews author of book on thirst for oilOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Jan 20
By rss@youtube.com (grandcentralterminal) God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom," is a book published in 1951 by William F. Buckley, Jr., who eventually became a leading voice in the American conservative movement in the latter half of the twentieth century. Buckley wrote the book based on his undergraduate ex...
Opinion: LITTWIN: Ritter boldly goes past the bench
Original at Rocky Mountain News
• Fri, Jan 2
CO - Where Obama was president of Harvard Law Review, Bennet was editor-in-chief of Yale Law Review. Soon after coming out of Yale he went to work for Phil ...
Opinion: Duke’s endowment, budget reporting trails Harvard’s & Yale’s
Original at John In Carolina
• Wed, Dec 17
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By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) On Dec. 2 Harvard President Drew G. Galpin released a Financial Update, one of a number of recent letters she's released and interviews she's granted in which she's sought to keep the Harvard community informed as to the current value of Harvard's endowment and specific budgeting plans fo...
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Harvard-Yale Game, In Cocktail Form
Original at Bostonist
• Fri, Nov 21
By C. Fernsebner The above recipe rather overemphasizes the purple stuff, which is probably because we got it from from the web site of its importer, Haus Alpenz. Mr. McHarvardpants found it overwhelmed the gin and just made him want an Aviation. "It's kind of like visiting Yale: oh, this is nice, but it's not...
Opinion: Gossip Girl: Bulldogs Blair and Serena Go At It At Yale [Recaps]
Original at Gawker
• Tue, Oct 14
By Richard Twas young Blair's dream to attend Yale, because it is the most prestigious and be-named-after-a-lock-company'd of all the Ivies (well, not all. Blair contends that there are only three: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. I hate the Ivy system so I don't really know or care. I do know that Cornel...
Opinion: Viewing the city, via studio
Original at Yale Daily News
• Tue, Oct 7
CT - An ordinary walking tour of New Haven does not entail going into nondescript buildings on Orange, Church or Court streets, climbing up dark, ... Art review: Conn. artists gain art space Yale Daily News all 2 news articles
Will the Cavalcade of Oversexed, Social Climbing Ivy Leaguers Never End?
Original at IvyGate
• Tue, Sep 30
By Maureen O'Connor This week, New York Magazine strengthens its iron grip on the sexual narratives of upwardly mobile Ivy League females in New York. That’s right, the people who brought you “The Overserved Ivy Banker Chick” would now like you to meet “The Single College Girl Obsessed With a Yale Law Student...
Robert Brustein: Remembering Paul Newman
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Sep 29
By Robert Brustein It will be a long time before we can fully absorb what a loss his death has been. I first met Paul Newman when he was a student at the Yale School of Drama in the late forties. Having recently abandoned that training program in order to help start two acting companies, I nevertheless still had fri...
Architecture Review | Yale School of Art and Architecture
Original at New York Times
• Wed, Aug 27
United States - By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF NEW HAVEN — It’s hard to think of a building that has suffered through more indignities than the Yale School of Art and Architecture. ...
I’d Tap That: Skull & Bones Does Spring Break
Original at IvyGate
• Tue, Jul 22
By Robyn Schneider Related Posts August 23, 2007 — Ivy League Beach Read: Secret Society Girl (15)April 24, 2008 — Why We Love Skull and Bones, Reason No. 2678 (17)April 9, 2008 — Expect These People to be Really Smug This Week (84)December 17, 2007 — George H. W. Bush: One Last Bonesman Bash? (165)April 4, 2007 — S...
Yale law students sue over "the scummiest kind of sexually offensive tripe" at AutoAdmit.
Original at Althouse
• Tue, Jun 12
By Ann Althouse In the latest chapter of the AutoAdmit.com scandal, two female Yale Law School students have sued Anthony Ciolli, the Web site’s former “chief educational director,” and more than two dozen others who allegedly used pseudonyms and posted the students’ photos as well as defamatory and t...
Students File Suit Against Ex-AutoAdmit Director, Others
Original at Wall Street Journal
• Tue, Jun 12
By Amir Efrati “It’s bringing the right to protect yourself against offensive words and images into the 21st century,” said David N. Rosen, a New Haven, Conn.-based attorney for the students and a senior research scholar in law at Yale Law to the Law Blog in an interview. “This is the scummiest kind of sexua...
Architecture Review | Yale University Art Gallery
Original at New York Times
• Sun, Dec 10
United States - NEW HAVEN — The restoration of the Yale University Art Gallery reawakens one of America’s great architectural beauties from a slumber that has lasted too ...
Opinion: Catlin Gabel graduate now at Yale is named Rhodes Scholar
Original at OregonLive.com
• Tue, Nov 21
Duluth WeeklyCatlin Gabel graduate now at Yale is named Rhodes Scholar OR - The Catlin Gabel graduate, former West Linn resident and Yale University senior is the second student this week with Oregon ties to be named a Rhodes Scholar. ...
Opinion: US colleges seek critical thinking, global knowledge
Original at Shanghai Daily
• Sat, Sep 2
By Xu Qin IN June, while 9.5 million Chinese students were preparing for the national college entrance examination, Fang Ling, 18, received her admission notice to Yale University. And a full scholarship of US$48,000 for each year. The graduate of the Shanghai No 3 Girls School will enroll this fal...
Yale Urged To Divest
Original at Hartford Courant
• Fri, Dec 2
United States - NEW HAVEN -- A small part of Yale University's $15 billion endowment has been invested in the largest private prison company in the country - a revelation that ...
La. students could use Yale financial aid
Original at Yale Daily News
• Tue, Nov 29
New Orleans has been my home since birth. But when Katrina hit my hometown, I was at Yale and was relatively removed from the chaos. I watched grim reports on the news. I spoke to my family as they were forced to move from New Orleans to Houston, to...
Three Elis capture Rhodes
Original at Yale Daily News
• Mon, Nov 28
Three Yale students -- Nathan Herring '06, Jessica Leight '06 and Chelsea Purvis '06 -- are among the 32 nationwide recipients of the 2006 Rhodes Scholarship. The students were selected from a pool of 903 U.S. applicants based on their academic...
Czinger on Top, Tackling Business or Quarterbacks
Original at Greenwich Citizen
• Fri, Nov 18
CT - Twenty-five years ago, Czinger was the undersized middle guard, 5-foot-9 and perhaps 185 pounds, who anchored Yale University's outstanding defensive unit. ...
Fin. aid meeting sets positive precedent
Original at Yale Daily News
• Fri, Nov 18
This week, Yale President Richard Levin did something that the members of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee had pushed for throughout the past three years: He sat down with them. During their 45-minute discussion of Yale's financial aid policies...