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Tiger Cub: meet your match. Robert Hess, profiled this morning on Bloomberg, is a nineteen year old chess prodigy, budding hedge-funder, and Yale ’15. He’s currently in St. Louis awaiting his chance to play in the semi-finals of a tournament whose winner will take away $40,000 in cash. Luckily for Robert, he knows a thing …
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An anonymous tipster under the pseudonym “Angry Yalies” just tipped us off to posters that have been circulating around campus in response to what the tipster describes as the “racist, classist logic” of a column in today’s YDN by Nate Zelinsky. The column, titled “Taking our Alderman to task,” alleges that current …
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Every year, the wonderful people behind Name of the Year cast aside their NCAA Tournament brackets to coordinate a competition that pits funny names of real people against one another. In their own words:
Name of the Year was founded in 1983 on an Ivy League campus. Its mission has remained unchanged: to discover, verify, …
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Confession: I used to be a New York Post reader. Correction: I didn’t really “read” the Post. But when the Murdoch-owned, right-leaning tabloid still retailed for 25 cents at newsstands in New York, I would happily part with a quarter to enjoy the three minute buzz provided by Page Six and the ten-to-thirty minute comedown …
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If you can make it past the fearsome new pay-wall at the New York Times, you’ll find a slew of opinion pieces in the website’s Room for Debate section that seek to explain the causes and consequences of low college acceptance rates at elite universities. By now this sort of thing has become an annual …
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Christopher Yuan, a self-described “former homosexual,” will speak to an audience of Yale students at the Af-Am House this Friday at 7:00. Yuan is making his first appearance at the Gay Ivy at the invitation of the Yale Christian Fellowship and Yale Students for Christ, although it seems likely that the audience will include quite …
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Yale’s investment portfolio wasn’t dangerously unbalanced—it just needed a bit more cash. That’s the gist of Timothy J. Keating’s argument in a column posted today on Forbes.com. Prior to the financial crisis, Yale’s endowment was the envy of investment officers at colleges across the U.S. David Swenson’s Investments Office developed a much-imitated strategy of portfolio …
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Monty, the Yale Law School therapy dog, has hit the big time, landing at #4 on the New York Times’ daily list of Most E-Mailed stories. The Times pup piece quoted Blair Kauffman, law librarian, extolling the benefits of sessions with the hypo-allergenic super-dog: “It is well documented that visits from therapy dogs have resulted …
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Yesterday the New York Times Style section ran a story on the Native Society, a “professional networking club” for the post-collegiate set with a “native sensibility.” The Times repeatedly compares the Society to a scene out of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, which is accurate if you subtract all the self-deprecating wit that made Stillman’s characters fun …
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The selection of Tom Hanks as this year’s Class Day speaker won rave reviews from seniors eager for a fresh alternative to the usual luminaries of politics and journalism who have addressed the senior class in recent years. But Hanks’ big-tent appeal isn’t the only reason to look forward to his appearance on class day: …
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If you’re not a regular reader of Time Magazine or a Jehovah’s Witness you may not be aware of the fact that Millions Now Living Will Never Die. Seriously: smart people like Larry Page (CEO of Google and founder of the Singularity Institute) believe that in the not-to-distant future, computing power will increase exponentially and …
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For many Yalies, mid-February is a good time to start panicking. The weather is getting a little warmer, the days a bit longer, all of which should make us feel better but only serves to remind us that summer is not that far away and oh my god I don’t have a job or a …