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Harvard and Yale Yield Rates Remain Unchanged
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- May 9, 2008
But Dartmouth is 'in a holding pattern' with its wait list.
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Yale Writing Tutors Inundated With Needy Students
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- April 23, 2008
Writing tutors at Yale have recently seen an overwhelming influx of struggling essayists.
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Yale Threatens to Ban Art Project
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- April 21, 2008
Student must admit that controversial display was a work of fiction.
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Yale Student Turns (Maybe) Abortions Into Art Project
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- April 18, 2008
News of the controversial project spread quickly across the blogosphere.
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Student Profile: Why Yale Was the Right Program for Him
By Linda Kulman -
Education
- March 26, 2008
If not for his drawings and paintings, Ahmed Alsoudani might still be in Syria.
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Tony Blair to Teach Class at Yale
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- March 10, 2008
Former PM will teach about faith and globalization.
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Yale Students Outraged Over Swastika
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- February 26, 2008
The Yale campus hasn't exactly had its best year for public relations.
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Yale Women's Center Demands Change Over Sign
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- February 19, 2008
The center says fraternities create a misogynist culture on the campus.
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Yale Dips Into Its Endowment, Too
By Kim Clark -
Education
- January 17, 2008
Yale is upping the ante in what's turning into an academic-generosity bidding war.
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Yale to Harvard: We’ve Got Money to Give Away, Too!
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- January 9, 2008
Yale University made its announcement this week that it will dip $1.15 billion deep into its endowment to boost financial aid, increase research, and expand its free online resources.
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Get an MIT or Yale Education Free
By Kim Clark -
Nation & World
- December 20, 2007
50 Ways to Improve Your Life in 2008: Get a MIT or Yale education on the Web
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- December 13, 2007
There's free food at the University of Oklahoma after the ice storm; Penn State's student government find out what students are "pissed" about; Yale tries to improve its dining program
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Higher Education: Now Only a Little Less Unattainable
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- December 11, 2007
Harvard's more affordable. If you could just get in.
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Nooses: A Nationwide Epidemic
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 16, 2007
From Connecticut to Minnesota, a disturbing new trend.
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Death Threats (and Little Info) Unsettle Yale Campus
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- October 3, 2007
One freshman's run-in with death threats and vandalism in his dorm room at Yale.
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A History of Controversial Campus Speakers
Nation & World
- October 1, 2007
Controversial campus speakers have been strongly protested with everything from petitions to pies.
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Yale Prof.: If Economy Tanks, Hillary and Dems Win in a Landslide
By James Pethokoukis -
Capital Commerce
- September 12, 2007
Just how badly might a weak economy hurt Republican presidential candidates—and help Democrats—in 2008? To find out, I rang up Ray Fair, an economics professor at Yale University. He's known for his political forecasting model that incorporates economic data as a big factor in predicting which party will win the White House.
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Blacks and Law School Discrimination
By Michael Barone -
Michael Barone
- August 29, 2007
Report shows that racial admission preferences end up hurting the very people they were intended to help.
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It's Like Family Feud but With Biz Students
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 13, 2007
On CNBC's Fast Money MBA Challenge, teams of business grad students duke it out.
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Gunshots Lead to a Suspension
By Christina Mueller -
The Paper Trail
- July 19, 2007
A Yale University fraternity member was arrested and suspended from the university after allegedly firing two rounds into the frat's ceiling, the Yale Daily News reports. The frat house where he was living also had to be evacuated after police found bomb-making materials there, in addition to two illegal assault rifles, nine firearms, ammunition, and a supply of chemicals in the student's room, according to the police.
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Harrison Ford at Yale: 'I'm Not a College Grad, but I Play One in Movies'
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- June 28, 2007
Indiana Jones has raided the tower of ivory at Yale University in the first crusade to shoot the fourth film in the 26-year-old series, the New York Observer reports. New Haven storefronts have been transformed into 1957 (how specific) scenery, and a cloud of secrecy (via confidentiality agreements) has befallen the sleepy college town.
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Winter Break Update: Yale A Cappella Group Attacked in San Francisco; One Student Seriously Injured
The Paper Trail
- January 11, 2007
New Year's Eve ended with a brawl for Yale's all-male a cappella group, the Baker's Dozen, whose private San Francisco performance (their last song was "The Star-Spangled Banner") was followed by a beatdown. The attack began when two party crashers started hurling antigay slurs, then continued after midnight when two vans full of young local men attacked the singers on their way out of the party.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- December 18, 2006
–Students at Yale Law sued the Department of Homeland Security last week, charging racial discrimination against local Hispanic residents. It was the second time in the last month the law school has taken on the department, the Yale Daily News reports.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- December 14, 2006
The Yale professor whose "Diagnosis" column inspired the television show House is still a consultant for the show, the Yale Daily News reports.
Final exams are hard but much harder when you also have a part-time job, the Auburn Plainsman reports.
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In Last Year of Early Apps, Harvard, Princeton See Rise
The Paper Trail
- December 1, 2006
The schools that aren't cutting their early admissions programs may have seen a decline in applicants--but Harvard and Princeton, which won't be accepting anyone early after this year, have seen the opposite pattern. Yale's dean of admissions told the Yale Daily News the schools might be benefiting from the publicity surrounding their announcements.
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