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Rate More on parking

Original at Portal 31 external link    Wed, Nov 18

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) SHUTTLE BUSES FROM DOWTOWN NEW HAVEN BLUE LINE is located at the Corner of Chapel and College Streets adjacent to Old Campus and the New Haven Green. The WHITE LINE is located at Payne Whitney Gymnasium (70 Tower Parkway) on the Yale campus.

Rate Switching gears a bit

Original at Portal 31 external link    Mon, Nov 16

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) The first of the stories we are writing leading up to Saturday's Yale/Harvard game appeared in the paper today. As promised, it was a story on Yale senior safety Larry Abare's expected return to the field after missing 4 1/2 games with a broken arm.

Rate Violet Frasier

Original at New Haven Independent external link    Mon, Nov 16

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By thomas macmillan age 74, of New Haven, passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at Yale New Haven Hospital. She was the widow of Esaw Frasier. She was a resident of New Haven for the past 54 years. Violet retired from Yale University and spent her life as a devoted wife an...

Rate Abare eager to return

Original at Portal 31 external link    Sun, Nov 15

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) Abare played it cool when I spoke with him earlier on Monday about his status for Saturday's game against Harvard but clearly he wants to play in the worst way and it looks like he will get his chance. I think I’ll keep a safe distance from Larry before the game just because he will be really exci...

Rate Nothing at stake?

Original at Portal 31 external link    Fri, Nov 13

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) Year in, year out, The Game is a season onto itself. The alumni will have a significantly different take on a 4-6 season with a loss to Harvard and a 5-5 season capped with a victory over the Crimson. Williams' predecessor Jack Siedlecki was 23-7 in the last three years but his struggles agains...

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Rate Tuesday press conference highlights

Original at Portal 31 external link    Mon, Nov 9

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) There's no change in the injury status of receiver Chris Smith and safety Larry Abare. Williams said there is a chance Smith can play against Harvard while Abare has been trying to persuade the Yale medical staff to slap a cast on his broken right forearm so he can get back on the field. If Abare...

Rate A little housecleaning

Original at Portal 31 external link    Fri, Nov 6

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) Yale will have its pre-game walk from the Walter Camp Arch around 11:20 a.m. where fans can line up and greet the team as it makes the walk to the Yale Bowl. · Rhodes Scholars · Asa A. Bushnell Cup Winners (Ivy League MVP) · Ivy League Rookie of the Year Selections · Ivy League Championship Teams

Rate Mary Lucky

Original at New Haven Independent external link    Mon, Nov 2

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By thomas macmillan Mary M. Alston Lucky, 72, of New Haven, departed this life on October 31, 2009. She was the widow of Winston Lucky, Sr. She was a former employee of Yale New Haven and Saint Raphael's Hospitals. Prior to retiring, she was employed in various areas of Allied Health. She was a member of Zoe Ministrie...

Rate 5 Keys to the Game: Yale

Original at Roar Lions Roar external link    Fri, Oct 30    5 related articles

By Jake(noreply@blogger.com) 1) Harass the Yale O-line The Lions are already going to show Yale some new players, but I think a key to the game will be trying some plays the Elis haven't seen as well. Yale has a good enough defense to react to surprises well, but no one's perfect.

Rate Tuesday press conference wrap

Original at Portal 31 external link    Mon, Oct 26

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) Starting at 8:00 am on Nov. 21, FREE shuttle buses will bring fans from downtown New Haven to Yale Avenue at the Yale Bowl. The buses will run during and after the game from Yale Avenue to two downtown locations. The BLUE LINE is located at the Corner of Chapel and College Streets adjacent to Old C...

Rate Smilow Ribbon Cut

Original at New Haven Independent external link    Thu, Oct 22

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By Paul Bass Hundreds of power brokers past, present, and (they hope) future converged on New Haven for the opening of Yale-New Haven's new 14-story cancer hospital, as its top doc held out hope for eliminating the disease "in our lifetime."

October of 2009

 

Rate Yale 7, Lehigh 0

Original at Portal 31 external link    Fri, Oct 16

By Jim Fuller(noreply@blogger.com) The only touchdown came on a 40-yard run by linebacker Paul Rice on a fake punt. Yale had been whistled for delay of game making the call all the more surprising. Yale is now 3-2, 1-1 in the Ivy League heading into Saturday's game at Penn. The Quakers won 27-13 at Columbia.

Rate Thousands Seek Bargains, Jobs

Original at New Haven Independent external link    Thu, Oct 15

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By Allan Appel Lulu Bland recently got laid off from her factory job. She went shopping Wednesday for a new job at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Across town, John L., an unemployed restaurant worker, was shopping for $2 shirts and pants.

Rate Bulldogs roll

Original at Portal 31 external link    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...

Rate 3 Cyclists Struck In 1 Hour

Original at New Haven Independent external link    Fri, Oct 9

By thomas macmillan Yale-New Haven Hospital admitted three injured cyclists in one busy hour on Thursday afternoon. One remained in serious condition.

Rate Man Shot In Leg

Original at New Haven Independent external link    Thu, Oct 1

By thomas macmillan A man walked into the Yale-New Haven Hospital ER at 12:30 p.m. Thursday with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg, according to police. He told police he was shot in the area of Rosette and Arthur Streets. Police could not locate a crime scene.

Year 2009

 

Rate Football Cornell 14, Yale 12

Original at elf.elynah.com external link    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...

Rate 2868 receive degrees at 308th Commencement

Original at Yale Daily News external link    Mon, May 25

 CT The sun split the morning clouds as 3129 candidates for degrees from Yale's 12 residential colleges and 12 graduate and professional schools marched onto Old Campus for the University's 308th Commencement. Over 2800 degrees were awarded Monday, ...

Rate A Degree in English

Original at New York Times external link    Thu, May 14

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 United States While most colleges and universities now issue English diplomas, some prominent holdouts — including Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania — still use Latin. Many students and alumni cherish the tradition. In 1961, when Harvard switched to ...

Rate Opinion: 'Harvard Beats Yale 29-29' is a gut-check on the '60s

Original at Allentown Morning Call external link    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, ...

Rate IvySports Roundup: March 27th - March 29thVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at IvyGate external link    Mon, Mar 30

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By Max Wasserman Holds bragging rights over: Princeton 3. Harvard Harvard topped Yale in women’s lacrosse. Meanwhile in men’s lacrosse, the 13th-ranked Crimson destroyed the Blue Hose, which may or may not be a team made up of Dr. Manhattan’s penis. Holds bragging rights over: Harvard 6. Princeton 8. Yale

Rate Last piece in place

Original at Portal 31 external link    Wed, Mar 25

By noreply@blogger.com (Jim Fuller) Tom Williams' first staff at Yale is now officially announced. The final addition was receivers coach Kefense Hynson who comes to Yale from the defunct Western Washington program. Yale will kick off its spring practice on Apr. 6. The 12 practice sessions allowed by the Ivy League will culmin...

Rate Opinion: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 HD 1080p TrailerVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Mar 22

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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...

Rate Art Review The Art of Tea

Original at New York Times external link    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. ...

Rate IvySports Roundup: March 13th - March 15th

Original at IvyGate external link    Mon, Mar 16

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By Max Wasserman 4. Princeton Only two Ivy League schools have men’s volleyball teams, so congratulations to Princeton on winning the Ivy League title this weekend, I guess. Up next for the Tigers are games against more traditional men’s volleyball powers, like NYU and Springfield College. 6. Harvard

Rate Opinion: Ann Coulter Hates Cornell, Cornellian Hates Poor People

Original at IvyGate external link    Thu, Mar 5

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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...

Rate Skull and Bones Sued For Possessing Geronimo’s Skull and Bones

Original at IvyGate external link    Fri, Feb 20

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By James Yu According to lore, members of Skull and Bones — including former President George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush — dug up his grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale was stationed at the fort during World War I, taking his skull and some of his bones.

Rate Opinion: Winning and Cheering

Original at Roar Lions Roar external link    Mon, Feb 2

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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...

Rate Opinion: Howard Dean, professor?

Original at Yale Daily News external link    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 ...

Rate Opinion: William F. Buckley, Jr. interviews author of book on thirst for oilVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Jan 20

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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...

Rate Opinion: Connecticut Hospital Opens $10.3 Million Surgery Center

Original at Becker's ASC Review external link    Mon, Jan 12

 Illinois - It is a major academic affiliate of Yale University School of Medicine and a member of the Yale New Haven Health System.

Rate Opinion: Duke’s endowment, budget reporting trails Harvard’s & Yale’s

Original at John In Carolina external link    Wed, Dec 17

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...

Rate Harvard-Yale Game, In Cocktail Form

Original at Bostonist external link    Fri, Nov 21

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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...

Rate Opinion: Gossip Girl: Bulldogs Blair and Serena Go At It At Yale [Recaps]

Original at Gawker external link    Tue, Oct 14

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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...

Rate Opinion: Viewing the city, via studio

Original at Yale Daily News external link    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

Rate Robert Brustein: Remembering Paul Newman

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Sep 29

By Robert Brustein 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 friends at Yale. One of these was the director, Elliott Silverstein, who he told...

Rate Opinion: Yale-New Haven Hospital activates Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager

Original at Computer Business Review external link    Tue, Aug 12

 UK - By Staff Writer With its pharmacy information and computerized physician order entry solutions on one integrated platform, Yale-New Haven Hospital now has ...

Rate Love Will Bring Us Together - Yale Hosts High Profile Christian-Muslim Conference

Original at IvyGate external link    Mon, Jul 28

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By Juli Min Yale may enjoy throwing students out just for kicks. But starting tomorrow and continuing till Thursday, the University Divinity School will be welcoming prominent Christian and Muslim scholars and leaders to participate in a series of public sessions to promote peace and understand...

Rate Prodigygate Part III: In Which Osberg Actually Files a Lawsuit

Original at IvyGate external link    Tue, Jul 15

By Mike Bechek Rough, but last I heard, schools don’t usually make a habit of locking students out of their rooms just to be a bitch. Osberg wants $15,000 (about 0.00006% of Yale’s endowment) and to be re-admitted into the program, but that looks doubtful. Any Yale MFAs still reading IvyGate these days? Sen...

Rate Opinion: Govs to meet in NH on warming - Connecticut Post

Original at Connecticut Post external link    Tue, Apr 15

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NEW HAVEN - Governors from across the United States will meet at Yale University tomorrow and Friday to review state-level programs to combat global climate ... US Governors to Gather at Yale for Climate Change Conference Earthtimes

Year 2007

 

Rate Yale law students sue over "the scummiest kind of sexually offensive tripe" at AutoAdmit.

Original at Althouse external link    Tue, Jun 12

By Ann Althouse ADDED: Over at AutoAdmit, they're trashing the complaint. MORE: Glenn Reynolds: "Stuff that offends dumb hicks in the heartland is constitutionally protected. Stuff that offends Yale Law Students must be stamped out!" Yeah, really.

Year 2006

 

Rate Architecture Review | Yale University Art Gallery

Original at New York Times external link    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 ...

Rate Opinion: Catlin Gabel graduate now at Yale is named Rhodes Scholar

Original at OregonLive.com external link    Tue, Nov 21

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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. ...

Rate Opinion: US colleges seek critical thinking, global knowledge

Original at Shanghai Daily external link    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...

Rate A Nasty Trick in New Haven

Original at Chronicle of Higher Education external link    Wed, Jan 11

The name of Robert Gordens, a professor at Yale University, has turned up lately in plenty of e-mail inboxes. That would hardly be news -- if Mr. Gordens actually existed. The e-mail messages that purport to come from the Yale...

Year 2005

 

Rate Yale Urged To Divest

Original at Hartford Courant external link    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 ...

Rate La. students could use Yale financial aid

Original at Yale Daily News external link    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...

Rate Three Elis capture Rhodes

Original at Yale Daily News external link    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...

Rate Czinger on Top, Tackling Business or Quarterbacks

Original at Greenwich Citizen external link    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. ...

Rate Fin. aid meeting sets positive precedent

Original at Yale Daily News external link    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...

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