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Your Score is Relative
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Your Score is Relative. Your Score is Relative. Apr 04, 2014. When Diana Orozco ’16 was applying to college, she wasn’t getting any help from her mother. Rather, her mom was too busy doing her own high school work. While I was writing my college admissions essay, she said. I was also helping my mum spell words such as ‘serious,’ in her own homework. Even as admissions use broader metrics to evaluate a greater number of candidates, both they and the students they seek must still deal with the real effects...
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Journalist describes challenges to profession
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Journalist describes challenges to profession. Journalist describes challenges to profession. Oct 28, 2014. Changes in modern technology have dramatically shifted the news landscape, according to journalist Benjamin Torres Gotay. We live in an era of noise from the moment we wake up to the moment we close our eyes to get a good night’s rest, he said. Things are radically different now as you may all know. Anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account can become a news outlet. Even though El Nuevo Día is one ...
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Classesv2 site extends to smartphones
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Classesv2 site extends to smartphones. Classesv2 site extends to smartphones. Feb 08, 2012. Information Technology Services is testing a new mobile Classesv2 website that allows students to check syllabi and course readings on their smart phones. 8220;We know the mobile environment is not the easiest environment to do complicated transactions,” said Hirsch. “We are focusing on tools that would share info with students that they might want to access while in transit.”. Owen Barrett ’15, a current us...
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Supreme Court declines to hear Zedillo suit
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Supreme Court declines to hear Zedillo suit. Supreme Court declines to hear Zedillo suit. Oct 07, 2014. A prolonged lawsuit alleging human rights abuses against Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81, head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the former president of Mexico, has come to a decisive close. A statement released by Zedillo’s lawyer, Jonathan Freiman LAW ’98, praised Zedillo’s service to the Mexican people and expressed relief that the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. The Supreme Cou...
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WEINER: Jewish life and compassion at Yale
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WEINER: Jewish life and compassion at Yale. WEINER: Jewish life and compassion at Yale. Sep 11, 2013. The High Holy Days are upon us, a time for Jews to reflect and to atone for any wrongs they’ve committed. During my time at Yale, the Jewish holidays felt incomplete without the presence of Yale’s leader in Jewish life. For over 30 years, Rabbi James Ponet has been the Jewish chaplain at Yale, and has inspired generations of Yalies with his unending, compassionate wisdom. Just as he did during those many...
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Cho faces additional charges
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Cho faces additional charges. Cho faces additional charges. Feb 27, 2014. After posting a $5,000 bond in cash after his initial arrest, Gourmet Heaven owner Chung Cho was arrested for the second time on Monday for five violations of illegal discrimination against workers and five violations of failure to keep wage records between Nov. 22 and Jan. 19. Cho was arrested for the first time last Thursday on 42 felony and misdemeanor charges for wage theft committed throughout 2013. After workers’ complaints o...
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KAZARYAN: Sharing Sochi background
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KAZARYAN: Sharing Sochi background. KAZARYAN: Sharing Sochi background. Sep 20, 2013. This is just another step on a long road of human rights violations being paved by the Russian government. Many people are condensing this history as they discuss the upcoming Sochi Olympics and whether the political situation in Russia warrants a boycott. I would like to start, however, by providing a summary of the legislative history of gay rights in Russia as essential background to this discussion. Second, the fact...
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Longtime Yale biochemist dies
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Longtime Yale biochemist dies. Longtime Yale biochemist dies. Mar 28, 2014. Donald Crothers ’58, a biophysical chemist who served on the Yale faculty for half a century, died on Sunday, March 16 at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven. He was 77. He was absolutely unique and amazing, said Leena Kareoja-Crothers, his wife of 54 years. I just can’t think that a human being could be any better. In 1979, Crothers co-authored Physical Chemistry: With Applications to the Life Sciences, which was the foundat...
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Wang ’17 remembered as brilliant, selfless
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Wang ’17 remembered as brilliant, selfless. Wang ’17 remembered as brilliant, selfless. Jan 28, 2015. As news spread of the death of Luchang Wang ’17 Tuesday evening, classmates, friends and mentors remembered a young woman whose intellect was matched only by her compassion, whose care for her academic work ran as deep as her concern for the injustices she observed in the world around her. Wang died in an apparent suicide on Tuesday. Her motivation in life was to make the world a better place, said Tammy...
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SINGER: Salovey’s rabbinic legacy
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SINGER: Salovey’s rabbinic legacy. SINGER: Salovey’s rabbinic legacy. Nov 27, 2012. In 19th-century Europe, a Rabbinic dynasty arose that would change the face of Orthodox Jewry and the face in Woodbridge Hall. The dynasty’s name would become synonymous with both brilliance and leadership the Soloveitchiks. Since the mid-19th century, each generation of the Soloveitchik family has produced, and continues to produce, distinguished scholars and important spiritual leaders. A third branch of the family took...
