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  • May 2008

    • Coaches Take Lessons From Iraq Troops

      newser  |  ESPN  |  May 29, 08 5:38 PM CDT

      Coaches Take Lessons From Iraq Troops

      Five big-name college football coaches toured the Middle East for five days, but it was they who came away star-struck by the troops—particularly the teamwork they witnessed among kids the same age as their own players. "We put signs up saying, 'Leave your egos at the door,'" Charlie Weis told ESPN. "If you get your team to live that creed the way these soldiers do, you'll be OK." More »

    • Sir Paul Picks Up Yale Doctorate

      newser  |  Yale Daily News  |  May 27, 08 3:09 AM CDT

      Sir Paul Picks Up Yale Doctorate

      Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Yale University yesterday during the 307th commencement at the Ivy League institution. The identities of recipients of honorary degrees are usually a closely guarded secret, but McCartney's presence on the Yale campus was impossible to keep under wraps, reports the Yale Daily News. More »

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      Paul McCartney  • Beatles  • Yale University  • commencement speech  • Richard Levin

  • April 2008

    • 'Abortion Art' a Hoax, Yale Says

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      'Abortion Art' a Hoax, Yale Says

      When Yale art student Aliza Shvarts said she’d impregnated herself “as often as possible,” aborted all the results, and intended to display the resulting menstrual blood, people got a bit upset. Students gathered in protest as the story blazed across a disgusted blogosphere. One problem: It was all made up. Yale said yesterday the piece was a “creative fiction,” the Washington Post reports. More »

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      art  • abortion  • Yale University  • hoax  • Yale  • Aliza Shvarts

    • Top Colleges Report Record Low Rates of Admission

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 1, 08 3:01 PM CDT

      Top Colleges Report Record Low Rates of Admission

      Acceptance letters from the nation's top colleges will begin to arrive on prospective students' doorsteps today, but far more rejection letters are in the mail than ever before, reports the New York Times. Harvard and Yale accepted only 7.1% and 8.3% of applicants, respectively, both record lows as schools struggle with changing demographics. More »

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      education  • college  • Harvard  • university  • Yale University  • college admissions  • Ivy League  • Columbia University  • Dartmouth  • college applications

  • March 2008
  • January 2008

    • Yale Joins Financial Aid Parade

      newser  |  Yale Daily News  |  Jan 14, 08 4:55 PM CST

      Yale Joins Financial Aid Parade

      Yale will greatly increase its financial aid offerings in a plan similar to the one Harvard unveiled last month, the Yale Daily News reports. Families making between $120,000 and $200,000 ($20,000 more than Harvard's cut-off) annually will pay tuition of around 10% of income, and those earning $60,000 to $120,000 will pay a lower percentage. Kids whose family income is lower get a free ride. More »

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      Harvard  • Yale University  • financial aid

    • Yale Ups Endowment Spending

      newser  |  Yale Daily News  |  Jan 8, 08 8:46 AM CST

      Yale Ups Endowment Spending

      Yale will significantly increase spending from its $22.5 billion endowment next year—providing more financial aid and launching new research. The university will draw $1.15 billion from its endowment compared with $843 million last year. The decision comes after Yale and other top universities were criticized for sitting on their enormous wealth, reports the Yale Daily News . More »

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      Yale University  • Ivy League  • endowment  • financial aid  • Senate Finance Committee  • Chuck Grassley  • Richard Levin

  • December 2007

    • Tax Harvard to Help Fund Poorer Colleges

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Dec 21, 07 4:17 PM CST

      Tax Harvard to Help Fund Poorer Colleges

      The growing disparity between the richest universities and their more modest counterparts is not as often discussed as other aspects of America's wealth gap, prominent investment banker Herbert Allen writes in the New York Times —but it should be. The nation’s wealthiest colleges have endowments topping $1 million per student—thousands of times greater than those of the poorest. More »

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      Harvard  • Yale University  • endowment  • Princeton University  • income disparity

    • Quote of '07: Don't Tase Me, Bro!

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Dec 19, 07 1:36 PM CST

      Quote of '07: Don't Tase Me, Bro!

      As he was being arrested at a John Kerry rally, a college student yelled, “Don’t Tase me bro!” He was Tasered anyway, and that yell is the top quote of 2007, according to the Yale Book of Quotations. Here’s the rest: Miss Teen South Carolina’s “US Americans” answer “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country” —Mahmoud Ahmadinejad More »

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      list  • Yale University

    • In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Dec 3, 07 1:08 PM CST

      In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

      As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in almost every dimension," boasts Yale's president. More »

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      Harvard  • Stanford University  • Yale University  • Ivy League  • Princeton University  • brain drain

  • November 2007

    • College Gets Podcasted

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Nov 24, 07 2:30 PM CST

      College Gets Podcasted

      Want to attend Yale for free? Thanks to Apple, you sort of can. Many colleges, including Yale, Stanford and MIT, now offer free lecture downloads through iTunes U. You won’t get a diploma, but thousands of non-traditional learners don’t mind, the LA Times reports. “They thirst for understanding and knowledge,” said one podcasted prof. “Something revolutionary is happening.” More »

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      iPod  • iTunes  • MIT  • higher education  • Yale University  • iTunes Store  • UC Berkeley  • Stanford  • podcast

    • Even Babies Know Friend From Foe

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 21, 07 7:50 PM CST

      Even Babies Know Friend From Foe

      Babies know how to pick out friends from enemies even before they can talk, a new study suggests. The findings could mean that such social behavior is innate rather than learned from parents, said researchers at Yale University. In the study, babies 6 to 10 months old clearly preferred playing with toys shown to be helpful rather than hurtful, the AP reports. More »

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      babies  • Yale University  • nature vs. nurture

  • September 2007

    • Yale Returns Artifacts to Peru

      newser  |  Yale Daily News  |  Sep 17, 07 1:08 PM CDT

      Yale Returns Artifacts to Peru

      A group of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu almost a century ago for Yale's Peabody Museum will be returned, Yale and the Peruvian government announced on Friday. The collection to be returned consists of 380 museum-quality objects, as well as part of those in the research collection. Yale will grant Peru title on all excavated objects. More »

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      Peru  • Yale University  • Machu Picchu  • Alan Garcia  • artifacts

  • August 2007
  • July 2007

    • The Mind Thinks More Than It Knows

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 31, 07 3:46 PM CDT

      The Mind Thinks More Than It Knows

      After just handling a stranger’s coffee, people make subconscious judgments about personality, psychologists say. Asked to hold a lab assistant’s cup of hot or iced coffee, Yale students associated cold drinkers with selfish personalities, the Times reports. The experiment is part of a body of research that leads to the conclusion that the brain has a mind of its own. More »

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      evolution  • brain  • psychology  • Yale University  • mind

  • April 2007

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