Since the beginning of the summer and the start of the global economic collapse, Yale University’s endowment has nosedived, losing roughly 25 percent of its total worth, or $5.9 billion, in only six months.
In an open letter to the community, University President Richard Levin confirmed the drop, but assured distraught Yalies that, despite the...
Did you know there are five boroughs in New York City?
That’s right; five. Smug Manhattanites love to pretend that the Big Apple begins and ends with their tiny, bourgeois island, but they’re wrong.
If you head northeast, you’ll wind up in the Bronx, a place that Yuppie parents warn their impressionable children never to go to at night lest ...
According to Yale University’s Report on Campus Security, there were only eight instances of alleged forcible sex crimes in 2007.
However, the Sexual Harassment Assault Resources & Education Center claims there were, in fact, 24 reported incidents, four times the official number released by the University.
So, who’s lying here: the Yale admi...
Common Sense Lesson #1: Ivy League or not, never leave the door to your residency unlocked.
Over the weekend, a Yale student learned this harsh lesson the hard way when she returned from Thanksgiving Break to find her room in shambles and a strange man sleeping in her bed.
Hayley Carpenter ’11 arrived on campus on Saturday morning, and when ...
After twelve years of dedicated service, Jack Siedlecki is stepping down as the head coach of the Yale Bulldogs.
While the exact reasoning behind his sudden retirement is unclear, the immediate impetus may have been the disappointing, crushing defeat suffered at the hands of the Harvard Crimson last week, coupled with a lackluster season marre...
Despite Boston’s attempt to rain on everyone’s parade with their draconian alcohol laws, the Harvard-Yale tailgate went off without a hitch.
As everyone knows, the best way to gauge the “success” of any collegiate shindig is by reviewing the number of alcohol-related hospitalizations, and this year, there were nine in total, which is admittedl...
Forty years ago in 1968, an unidentified Yale student purchased eight tickets to the Game, the annual football grudge match against Harvard, for a paltry $48 and sold them for $1,000 to desperate alumni in New York, who were unable to secure tickets after they had sold out.
This week, a similar sequence of events transpired at Yale.
First, t...
In an effort to ascertain the prevalence of drug use on campus, the Yale Daily News circulated a poll to roughly 600 undergraduates to find out if they had used or seen someone else use drugs during their time in New Haven.
Of the 300 respondents, roughly 35 percent said they had used an illegal substance at Yale, and at least, 47 percent knew...
In a time of economic instability, every penny of a university’s billion-dollar endowment counts, especially when the fiscal year’s current projections continually dwindle.
At Yale, one outspoken group of pseudo-philanthropists, the Responsible Endowment Project, wants the University’s Investments Office to use their $22.9 billion endowment wi...
Every year, the Yale-Princeton grudge match is hyped up to high heavens, and every year, it disappoints everyone who didn’t attend the pregame tailgate.
But, this year was different; for the first time in 71 years, the Yale Bulldogs shut out Princeton, striking a much needed blow to Princeton’s smug persona and keeping their hopes alive at sec...
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