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Whiffenpoofs

Guides

Moving to Yale and New Haven

• Be sure to register your car with Connecticut license plates if you want to get off-street parking on zoned streets.
• If you're looking for off-campus housing, the best resources are Craigslistand Yale Off-Campus Housing

30 Cool Things That Happen at Yale and Few Other Places (if any)

1. Casino Night- Hosted by Ezra Stiles and Morse College it was rated by Rolling Stones magazine as one of the top college parties of year.  During this night Yale undergrads don their tuxedos and suits and enjoy their own student run casino.
2. Naked Parties-
3. Masters Teas -

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Campus

Theater

Museums

Religious Life

Lost & Found

Town

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut the city that invented the pizza and hamburger in America.

News

• Info New Haven - website directory to New Haven Restaurants and nightlife
• New Haven Independent - local online newspaper
• New Haven Register- local old school paper

Parking

Haircuts, Barbers and Salons

Transportation

Supermarkets and Food Shops

Laundry and Dry Cleaning

Food and Drink

Takeout menus

Restaurants That Deliver

Vegetarian

Residential Colleges & Housing

Residential Colleges

Branford

Berkeley

Calhoun

Davenport

Timothy Dwight

Jonathan Edwards

Morse

Pierson

Saybrook

Silliman

Ezra Stiles

Trumbull

Dorm Rooms

Best for Parties

Best Views

Biggest

Smallest

Best for Quiet Study

Content Produced by Yale People

Books

Blogs

• Andrew Sullivan - conservative Yale grad Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog at The Atlantic
• Ferentz Lafargue - Yale grad and now assistant professor's blog associated with his book "Songs in the Key of My Life."
• The Book Publicity Blog- Yale '98 grad, Yen, shares news, trips, miscellany for book publicists
• Obesity Blog - weblog of the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, aims to encourage global discussion of the most critical issues regarding food policy and obesity
  
• Jews, Muslims, and Dialogue- an online project of Jews and Muslims (JAM) at Yale, an organization dedicated to sustained dialogue and raising awareness of Judaism, Islam, and the myriad of issues facing Jews and Muslims today.
  
• The Yale Record- America's oldest College Humor Magazine
• The Yale Globalist- The Yale Globalist Blog is the online home of the Globalist community. Check back often for news updates and commentary exclusively from the Globalist's staff and friends.
  
• Balkinization -an unanticipated consequence of Jack M. Balkin.  The legal blog, founded by Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Jack Balkin, has enjoyed tremendous success since it entered the blogosphere on January 13, 2003, racking up more than 3 million visitors and 4.5 million page views.
  
• Vestal Design - cool design blog by Yalies who started a design company.  Props to Diego Rotalde in Peru ;-)
  
• The Hippolytic - named after Hippolyte Havel, a turn-of-the-century New York anarchist, playwright, waiter, and journalist. Combining a passion for progressive causes and activism with a keen awareness of the intersections between arts and politics, he embodies much of the cosmopolitan, democratic values that drive the publication. And while the terms and circumstances of debate may have changed a hundred years later, Hippolyte remains a guide for campus progressives – ever rebellious, ever critical.
  

Podcasts

Music

Art

Film/Video

Academic Papers

Tips and Advice for

Frosh

• Don't Blow off the the freshmen holiday dinner.
• Don't ask for a dean's excuse your freshmene year if you can help it; you may need it more in future years.
• Be sure to eat in all 12 residential colleges at least once.
• Don't miss the midnight Halloween Yale Symphony Orchestra peformance; yes, it's what cool nerdy Yalies do.

Seniors

Graduate and Professional Students

Jr. Faculty

Staff

Alumni

Best Of

Best Study Spots

• Carrells in the Bass Library
• The Law Library
  

Best First Date Places

• Criterion Cinema- independent and artsy theater

Best Out of the Way Date Places

• Istanbul - Turkish restaurant on Crown Street (hiding in plain view)
• Thali- upscale Indian Restaurant in Ninth Square

Best Student Jobs

Best Sleeping/Napping on Campus
Best CAs
Best Bathrooms
Best Places to Park Downtown

• Lake Place behind the gym
• Yale staff parking lots after 4:30 p.m.

Worst Of

Bathrooms

• Woolsey Hall & Commons

Alumni

Yale Class Websites

Yale Clubs

History

Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.

Yale College survived the American Revolutionary War (1776–1781) intact and, by the end of its first hundred years, had grown rapidly. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the establishment of the graduate and professional schools that would make Yale a true university. The Yale School of Medicine was chartered in 1810, followed by the Divinity School in 1822, the Law School in 1824, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847 (which, in 1861, awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States), followed by the schools of Art in 1869, Music in 1894, Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1900, Nursing in 1923, Drama in 1955, Architecture in 1972, and Management in 1974.

International students have made their way to Yale since the 1830s, when the first Latin American student enrolled. The first Chinese citizen to earn a degree at a Western college or university came to Yale in 1850. Today, international students make up nearly 9 percent of the undergraduate student body, and 16 percent of all students at the University. Yale’s distinguished faculty includes many who have been trained or educated abroad and many whose fields of research have a global emphasis; and international studies and exchanges play an increasingly important role in the Yale College curriculum. The University began admitting women students at the graduate level in 1869, and as undergraduates in 1969.

Yale College was transformed, beginning in the early 1930s, by the establishment of residential colleges. Taking medieval English universities such as Oxford and Cambridge as its model, this distinctive system divides the undergraduate population into twelve separate communities of approximately 450 members each, thereby enabling Yale to offer its students both the intimacy of a small college environment and the vast resources of a major research university. Each college surrounds a courtyard and occupies up to a full city block, providing a congenial community where residents live, eat, socialize, and pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. Each college has a master and dean, as well as a number of resident faculty members known as fellows, and each has its own dining hall, library, seminar rooms, recreation lounges, and other facilities.

Today, Yale has matured into one of the world’s great universities. Its 11,000 students come from all fifty American states and from 108 countries. The 3,200-member faculty is a richly diverse group of men and women who are leaders in their respective fields. The central campus now covers 310 acres (125 hectares) stretching from the School of Nursing in downtown New Haven to tree-shaded residential neighborhoods around the Divinity School. Yale’s 260 buildings include contributions from distinguished architects of every period in its history. Styles range from New England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Moorish Revival to contemporary. Yale’s buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches comprise what one architecture critic has called “the most beautiful urban campus in America.” The University also maintains over 600 acres (243 hectares) of athletic fields and natural preserves just a short bus ride from the center of town.