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Oct 18, 2010 5:50 PM CDT

More Fallout for Yale Frat's Rape Chant

National board suspends pledge activities, outcry continues

(Newser) - A Yale fraternity is coming under further scrutiny after pledges were heard chanting "No means yes! Yes means anal!" among other gems last week. The executive director of Delta Kappa Epsilon has told the chapter to suspend all pledging activities, and is due to drop by campus for...

Yale Plans Singapore College

Sep 14, 2010 11:34 AM CDT

Yale Plans Singapore College

It will open liberal arts school within national university

(Newser) - Yale plans to open a liberal arts college in Singapore, and has bigger plans of reshaping higher education in Asia. Yale-NUS—it's a partnership with the government-run National University of Singapore—is planned as a highly selective college that would draw talented students from all over Asia, where liberal arts...

Peonies: The New Saving Grace for Chemo Patients?

Aug 19, 2010 7:46 AM CDT

Peonies: The New Saving Grace for Chemo Patients?

Together with licorice, peonies ease nausea, cramps

(Newser) - A new drug could help ease the suffering of chemo patients, and it’s made up of some pretty humble ingredients: Peony flowers, licorice, and the extracts of dates and skullcap plants. If that sounds more like a home remedy than a drug, that’s because it is. Researchers at...

McChrystal to Teach at Yale

Aug 16, 2010 8:47 AM CDT

McChrystal to Teach at Yale

Ex-General eschews defense industry, politics

(Newser) - Stanley McChrystal has landed on his feet, with a new teaching position at Yale. He’ll be heading up a course on leadership at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, alongside such notable names as former US ambassador John Negroponte and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, Politico reports. Apparently people...

Another Ivy Leaguer?
Other Schools Do Exist

opinion

May 11, 2010 12:35 PM CDT

Another Ivy Leaguer? Other Schools Do Exist

Enough already with Harvard and Yale: blogger

(Newser) - The Supreme Court and White House may as well be decorated in ivy, complains David Bernstein. "Once Elena Kagan gets confirmed, every Supreme Court Justice will have attended Harvard or Yale law schools," he writes. And Kagan—whose bachelor's degree, for the record, is from Princeton—was nominated...

Yale Doctor Gunned Down Outside Home

Apr 27, 2010 3:37 AM CDT

Yale Doctor Gunned Down Outside Home

Former colleague who blamed doc for firing charged with murder

(Newser) - A Yale doctor was shot and killed in front of his pregnant wife yesterday by a former colleague who blamed him for the loss of his job, police say. Lishan Wang was arrested near the scene and charged with murder after Vajinder Toor was gunned down in front of his...

Swarthmore, UVa.
Top College Value List

BANG FOR YOUR BUCK

Jan 12, 2010 12:52 PM CST

Swarthmore, UVa. Top College Value List

Princeton Review list weighs affordability, academic quality

(Newser) - The Princeton Review's annual list of the best college values takes into account price—cheap tuition or generous financial aid get a thumbs up—and weighs that against the academic quality of a school based on surveys, professor-to-student ratios, and the like. USA Today takes a look at the list....

Annie Le's Family Bids Farewell

'A THOUSAND WHYS'

Sep 27, 2009 7:27 AM CDT

Annie Le's Family Bids Farewell

(Newser) - Annie Le's family tried to reconcile the zest with which she embraced life with the senseless brutality of her death yesterday in a private funeral service held in California. "We could ask a thousand whys for the rest of our life," said her pastor, while Vivian Van Le...

Ivy League Crimes
Are More Equal
Than Others

OPINION

Sep 18, 2009 2:49 PM CDT

Ivy League Crimes Are More Equal Than Others

To grab headlines, commit or fall victim to murder at Harvard or Yale

(Newser) - The killing of Yale grad student Annie Le dominated headlines around the world, "but every murder is uniquely dramatic," Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Why this one? It involves a magic word. "Three murders at a Midwestern college equal one murder at Harvard or Yale," Shafer...

Co-Workers:
Clark's a
'Control
Freak'

Sep 18, 2009 3:17 AM CDT

Co-Workers: Clark's a 'Control Freak'

Lab tech placed in solitary after being charged with murdering Annie Le

(Newser) - Raymond Clark's co-workers at the Yale animal lab where he worked say the murder suspect was a domineering "control freak" who considered the animal cages his territory, a law enforcement source tells AP. Clark was placed in solitary confinement yesterday after being charged with murdering grad student Annie Le,...

Clark Charged With Murder

Sep 17, 2009 11:13 AM CDT

Clark Charged With Murder

Yale lab tech accused of killing Annie Le arraigned, enters no plea

(Newser) - Raymond Clark III has been charged with the murder of Yale grad student Annie Le, the Hartford Courant reports. Clark, a lab technician at Yale, was arrested this morning at a motel and arraigned in Superior Court in New Haven. Clark, 24, did not submit a plea. His bail remains...

DNA Links
Lab Tech to
Yale Murder

Sep 17, 2009 2:24 AM CDT

DNA Links Lab Tech to Yale Murder

Raymond Clark to be arrested today

(Newser) - DNA from the Yale lab tech suspected in the murder of grad student Annie Le has been linked to her death, sources tell the New Haven Register. Raymond Clark, 24, is expected to be arrested today, and is currently under police surveillance at the Connecticut motel where he's staying. The...

Yale Suspect
Clark Was Last
to See Le Alive

Sep 16, 2009 9:46 PM CDT

Yale Suspect Clark Was Last to See Le Alive

Records of their computer swipe cards show he entered lab just after she did

(Newser) - Raymond Clark, the prime suspect in the killing of Yale graduate student Annie Le, was the last person to see her alive, records of their computer swipe cards show. A source familiar with the records tells the Hartford Courant that Le used the card to gain access to the same...

Annie Le Strangled: Autopsy

Sep 16, 2009 1:06 PM CDT

Annie Le Strangled: Autopsy

(Newser) - Connecticut's state medical examiner says Yale University grad student Annie Le died of traumatic asphyxiation, meaning she was strangled. Dr. Wayne Carver's office released a short statement about the autopsy today, three days after 24-year-old Le was found hidden inside the basement wall of a Yale medical school research building....

Annie Le Suspect Is Released

UPDATED

Sep 16, 2009 8:22 AM CDT

Annie Le Suspect Is Released

Raymond Clark is engaged to live-in girlfriend Jennifer Hromadka

(Newser) - Raymond Clark, the lab tech "person of interest" who was picked up by police last night in connection with Yale grad student Annie Le’s murder, was released this morning after DNA samples were taken, CNN reports. Clark shares his apartment with the girlfriend he is engaged to marry...

Cops Detain 'Person
of Interest' in Yale Murder

Sep 15, 2009 9:57 PM CDT

Cops Detain 'Person of Interest' in Yale Murder

(Newser) - Connecticut authorities took a “person of interest” into custody tonight in connection with the investigation into the death of a Yale graduate student, WCBS-TV reports. Raymond Clark, a lab technician who worked with Annie Le, also 24, has been in authorities’ sights the past few days; they have a...

High-Profile
Murders
Haunt Yale

Sep 15, 2009 5:01 AM CDT

High-Profile Murders Haunt Yale

Race and class issues feature heavily in killings from past

(Newser) - Graduate student Annie Le's murder is just the latest in a series of high-profile killings to rock Yale University in recent history, reports Gawker, which dubs the university "Murdertown of the Ivies." The Yale killings too often feature a troubling mix of race, class, and bungling by authorities,...

Yale Holds Vigil for Annie Le

Sep 14, 2009 9:24 PM CDT

Yale Holds Vigil for Annie Le

(Newser) - Hundreds of students and faculty members turned out tonight on the campus of Yale University, NECN reports, for a candlelight vigil in memory of Annie Le, the 24-year-old grad student found dead yesterday on the New Haven, Conn., campus. Le’s body was discovered inside a wall in a lab...

Yale Student's
Body Found: Cops

UPDATED

Sep 13, 2009 8:46 PM CDT

Yale Student's Body Found: Cops

Annie Le's remains recovered on her would-be wedding day

(Newser) - A body believed to be that of a Yale graduate student missing since Tuesday has been found, the New Haven Independent reports. Annie Le, 24, had last been seen in the building that housed her lab; "we are assuming" the remains found within a wall in the basement...

Yale Offers $10K Reward
in Missing-Student Case

Sep 11, 2009 7:52 PM CDT

Yale Offers $10K Reward in Missing-Student Case

Search continues; still no evidence of foul play in disappearance of Le

(Newser) - Yale University offered a $10,000 reward today for information leading to the whereabouts of a missing graduate student. Meanwhile, investigators reviewed security-camera footage and checked the blueprints of the building where Annie Le was last seen on Tuesday. Le, 24, was supposed to be married Sunday.