NY Observer > Yale University http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/24599/feed Articles from Observer.com en Paul McCartney Awarded Doctorate By Yale http://www.observer.com/2008/paul-mccartney-awarded-doctorate-yale

Call him Dr. Sir McCartney! Or rather, Paul McCartney, D.Mus., M.B.E.? Actually just stick to Mr. McCartney.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/paul-mccartney-awarded-doctorate-yale#comments Style Paul McCartney Yale University Mon, 26 May 2008 11:57:05 -0400 Irina Aleksander 69663 at http://www.observer.com Boola Boola…and Moola! Aging Yalies Raise Hell on Upper West Side http://www.observer.com/2008/boola-boola-and-moola-aging-yalies-raise-hell-upper-west-side

Last October, in the chandeliered Tap Room of New York’s Yale Club, some members of the college’s Class of 1987 were lunching together when Timothy P. Harkness, class secretary, and one of the litigators that represented Arthur Andersen in the Enron trials, had a capital idea.

Why not re-create the 30-year-old New Haven tradition of “Feb Club,” a month-long chain of nightly campus parties thrown by Yale seniors, to alumni around the globes?  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/boola-boola-and-moola-aging-yalies-raise-hell-upper-west-side#comments Style Yale University Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:11:51 -0500 Max Abelson 64706 at http://www.observer.com At Yale-Harvard: Plaid, Pipes, Hammers and Soulja Boy http://www.observer.com/2007/yale-harvard-plaid-pipes-hammers-and-soulja-boy

Star Childs, who graduated from Yale with a forestry degree 27 years ago, was hammering a nail into a stump outside Sunday’s Yale-Harvard football game. He wore a tie, vest, and blazer, plus matching knit cap, and had a red cup in his non-hammering left hand.


The dozen students gathered around him cheered. “I’m a forester, I’m a lumberjack! And I’m okay,” Mr. Childs said. His family owns the one-room Yale Outdoors Cabin, with fireplace, in Bethany, CT.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/yale-harvard-plaid-pipes-hammers-and-soulja-boy#comments Arts & Culture Style Harvard University Yale University Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:11:10 -0500 Max Abelson 60608 at http://www.observer.com Caro v. Moses: It's an Ivy League Thing http://www.observer.com/node/35994 moses%20and%20caro.JPG

"It's a Princeton versus Yale thing."

That's Edward Tenner, the author of Why Things Bite Back, summing up the rivalry between Robert Caro and the master builder.

Mr. Caro graduated Princeton in 1957; Moses finished Yale in 1909.

Mr. Tenner told The Real Estate:
There is a certain kind of ultra-industrious Princetonian that does everything in a most thorough way and is totally obsessed with doing it right. Then there is the Yalie who loves to spread his feathers and bask in the limelight and Moses was extremely Yalie in that sort of way. I can just see Caro getting dressed up in his coat and tie to beaver this Yalie down to size.

Other Yalies: William F. Buckley Jr.; Cole Porter; George W. Bush; Jennifer Beals.

Other Princetonians: George Kennan; Woodrow Wilson; Samuel Alito; Brooke Shields.

Mr. Tenner has a whole anatomy of the Ivies which you can find via his website. He, by the way, is Princeton '65.

- Matthew Schuerman]]> http://www.observer.com/node/35994#comments Real Estate Brooke Shields Princeton Robert Caro Yale University Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:15:00 -0400 Observer Staff 35994 at http://www.observer.com Editorials http://www.observer.com/node/37079 A Bloomberg Bonus for City’s Hidden 20 Percent    read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/37079#comments Latin America New York University Yale University Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:00:00 -0400 Observer Staff 37079 at http://www.observer.com Editorials http://www.observer.com/node/37238 A Bloomberg Bonus for City’s Hidden 20 Percent    read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/37238#comments Latin America New York University Yale University Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:00:00 -0400 Observer Staff 37238 at http://www.observer.com Shhhh! De Niro’s Spy Flick Keeps It to a Whisper http://www.observer.com/node/36529 Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, from a screenplay by Eric Roth, has been described as &ldq  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/36529#comments Arts & Culture Alfred Hitchcock Angelina Jolie Eric Roth Yale University Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:00:00 -0500 Andrew Sarris 36529 at http://www.observer.com Maybe Sacha Baron Cohen = Stanley Milgram? http://www.observer.com/node/33566 The Forward reported two years ago that Sacha Baron Cohen was playing clubs as Borat, in a singalong urging the audience to throw Jews "down the well" to purify his country. Sounds like he's modeling Stanley Milgram, the Yale psychologist whose famous experiment induced its unwitting subjects to turn up the electric shocks for every bad answer from a supposed test subject, screaming in pain through the walls from another room. Thereby answering the question: Will otherwise decent people follow murderous orders? Cohen seems to be testing an antisemitic principle of human nature.]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33566#comments Sacha Baron Cohen Stanley Milgram Yale University Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:51:21 -0500 Observer Staff 33566 at http://www.observer.com Time's True Progenitor— Luce’s Rival Resurrected http://www.observer.com/node/39485 Time Inc. was in trouble.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39485#comments Arts & Culture Briton Hadden Henry Luce Time Inc. Yale University Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:00:00 -0400 David Propson 39485 at http://www.observer.com How the Internet Is Replacing the Book http://www.observer.com/node/33395 The other day I got a copy of Stephen Walt's 2005 book Taming American Power:The Global Response to U.S. Primacy and was surprised to read the section on the Israel lobby. It was nearly as forceful as the paper on the same subject that he and John Mearsheimer published three months ago in the London Review of Books. It had many of the same ideas (including the red-hot assertion that the Israel lobby helped propel us into the Iraq war). Yet I didn't know Walt's name till the day in March that his LRB piece appeared, when a political friend emailed it to me after he was sent it by a realist friend of the authors. And when Walt spoke last month at the Naval War College, lieutenant commanders weren't bringing up the book; they were bringing up copies of his paper to be autographed. Walt himself said that the paper had been downloaded from the Kennedy School website over 200,000 times in the first month or two after publication. Wow. I wonder how many copies of the book Norton has sold.

New ideas are exchanged on the internet. That's the thoroughfare. Walt and Mearsheimer might be able to sell a big book contract now, because people want to curl up on the couch at night with a good solid story about something they know is important, but the flow of new ideas is all electronic.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33395#comments John Mearsheimer Juan Cole Stephen Walt Yale University Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:01:15 -0400 Observer Staff 33395 at http://www.observer.com