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Lindsay Gellman: Never Miss a Beat

2012-05-29T16:35:19Z

Before I knew it, I was chasing espresso shots with black coffee. By junior year, my friends and I started getting into Diet Coke, Red Bull, and even 5-hour Energy. One thing we've learned is the first step is admitting you have a problem, and I admit it: I leave Yale a full-fledged caffeine addict.

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Lisa Kaas Boyle: 17-Year-Old Wins "Date with History": An All Star Salute, Trip to Rio, and Chance to Save the World

2012-05-25T11:02:08Z

Brittany Trilford, a 17 year old school girl from Wellington, New Zealand is the winner of an international search for a person under the age of 30 to represent youth and future generations at the Earth Summit this June 20-22 in Rio De Janeiro.

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Richard C. Levin: Taking Responsibility

2012-05-23T08:42:03Z

Public investments were the foundation of late 19th century America's prosperity. We need to make such investments again today, both in our infrastructure as well as our people.

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Barbara Walters Examines Leadership With Yale Class Of 2012 (VIDEO)

2012-05-21T11:02:54Z

ABC News' Barbara Walters delivers a punchy speech to Yale's class of 2012. She discusses her experiences interviewing world leaders on the topic of l...

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J.D. Rothman: Calculator Shopping, the Night Before the SAT

2012-05-05T10:23:18Z

What time does Staples close, in case your child can't locate his TI-183 calculator the night before the SAT exam? What is the ACT?

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Dr. Tukufu Zuberi: Honoring W.E.B. Du Bois 2012

2012-04-24T09:45:51Z

The Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania appointed Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Honorary Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies on February 17th 2012. This short video captures the day's activities.

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Chaim Levin: Jewish Queer Youth Speak Out At Yale

2012-04-23T13:11:58Z

Everytime I discuss going through reparative "therapy" to change my orientation because I believed I could not be gay and Jewish, I continue to be surprised by the shock of the audience.

Read more: Coming Out, Education, Lgbt, Repairative Therapy, Jewish, Jqyouth, Yale, Religion and Sexuality, Judaism, Religion News

The College Majors That Make You Richest

2012-04-18T08:50:03Z

In a challenging job market, college graduates face an uncertain future. That's not to say they have no control over the situation.

Majoring in ma...

Read more: National Association of Colleges and Employers, Science, College Majors, Careercast, Math, Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, Wages, Yale, Business News

Jim Luce: Yale Honors Incredible Indian Actor-Activist Shah Rukh Khan

2012-04-13T14:33:24Z

Shah Rukh Khan is a major, global entertainment figure who cares deeply about creativity and humanity. For this reason, this week Yale University presented him with its Chubb Fellow Award.

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James Murphy Wants To Make Turnstiles A Musical Experience

2012-04-10T16:04:55Z

Love New York, but beeping subway turnstiles bringing you down?

James Murphy, formerly of LCD Soundsystem, would like to change that. Murphy recent...

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Jim Sleeper: A Small But Solid Victory for Liberal Education

2012-04-06T16:44:26Z

The Yale-NUS college train has left the station, according to this spin, and while some dissidents may have hoped to derail it by dancing a dance of protest, those who understand how the world really works will now get on with doing that work.

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Jim Sleeper: The Showdown Over Liberal Education at Yale

2012-04-04T08:35:23Z

The very survival of the new global economy and public sphere depends on colleges like Yale standing somewhat apart from "the arts and sciences of career management" that markets and states have insinuated increasingly into their training at places like Yale.

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Maxim Thorne: Wealth, Weddings, Poverty and Philanthropy -- A Weekend Rolling in American Philanthropy

2012-04-03T17:48:31Z

Why is John and Heather's wedding and what John's studying now important? Why is remembering the philanthropic investment in transforming and liberalizing education so important?

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Nicki Richesin: Conversations With Christopher Bessette and Dermot Mulroney on Trade of Innocents

2012-04-03T12:24:05Z

The problem of human trafficking is all over the world. Slavery is alive and well in the 21st century; it's time we as a people put an end to it. It's definitely time modern day abolitionists made it known we are not going to turn away from it anymore.

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15 Celebs Who Went To Ivy League Schools

2012-04-01T20:45:20Z

Before Elizabeth Banks had a starring role in 30 Rock and the The Hunger Games, she was a sorority girl at the University of Pennsylvania. Rachel Drat...

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Maxim Thorne: How Howard Pew's Vision Gestated Rick Santorum -- and Lessons for Progressive Philanthropy

2012-03-26T10:14:37Z

As we witness the tentacles of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United v. the FEC, I wonder at the walls being torn down between corporation and individual giving.

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Jim Sleeper: How Yale's Singapore Venture Imperils Liberal Education

2012-03-16T12:21:54Z

Liberal education probably couldn't survive without markets and states, but Yale's Richard Levin should be reminded that, in effect, in a liberal capitalist republic like ours, markets and states can't survive without liberal education.

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From The Cotton Fields To The Art Gallery

2012-03-15T12:43:10Z

When most artists were in art school, Winfred Rembert was working on a chain gang. He was serving time in a Georgia prison after being arrested at a c...

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J. Michael Welton: Mastering the Language of Buildings

2012-03-07T21:49:54Z

Alexandra Lange's Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities is an instructive treatise on how great criticism comes to be.

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Making A Difference Colleges

2012-03-09T12:39:13Z

Some students spend their collegiate career trying to make a difference in the world. We applaud them!

Inside College recently named 63 colleges t...

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Susan Braudy: I Remember Joe Heller -- Part 3

2012-03-05T20:04:53Z

I cornered Heller after class. An expression of fear widened his eyes after I insisted on accompanying him on the train back to Manhattan to interview him.

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It's Now Cheaper To Go To School At Harvard Than In Cal State

2012-03-05T10:50:22Z

Going to school at Harvard University is cheaper than attending a public university in California.

According to the Bay Area News Group, a "family ...

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Susan Braudy: I Remember Joe Heller -- Part 2

2012-03-01T13:53:23Z

As an artist, he dared to write the unthinkable: that it's totally insane to be 22 years old and to see another soldier's half-digested lunch spill in a bloody mess out of his flak jacket after he'd been pulverized by a bomb.

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Yale Students Pose To Say 'Call The NYPD'

2012-02-28T14:19:08Z

Students at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. are protesting the NYPD after a series of articles revealed the New York police spied on Muslims on ca...

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Susan Braudy: I Remember Joe Heller -- Part 1

2012-02-29T11:30:51Z

In 1967, my life turned a sharp corner. I impulsively decided to audit Heller's playwriting seminar at Yale. His mordant new novel, Catch-22, was suddenly as relevant as Bob Dylan, whose music I would learn he loved.

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