Meanwhile, in New Haven
Yale announced the end of the "quiet phase" of its fundraising campaign, which aspires to raise $3 billion for the university. Thus far,
Yale has raised $1.3 billion of that sum; it has five years to make up the rest. Sounds to me like they've understated their target so they can surprise with their results...
(Oh, and look—there's Sam Waterston again, speaking at Yale not long after speaking at Groton...)
Meanwhile, here's
a statement from the Yale Daily News that you'll never see at Harvard:
During the meeting [of the Yale Corporation], the University's highest decision-making body approved a much-debated amendment to Yale's official nondiscrimination policy, deliberated on the question of early admissions, and discussed the state of several ongoing and future campus construction projects.
Why won't you see it at Harvard? Because Harvard's Corporation is unhealthily obsessed with secrecy—not as a means of promoting better policy-making, but as a way of covering its own ass and avoiding accountability.
As a result, the Harvard Corporation refuses to issue statements about its deliberations, even ones that are as innocuous as the one above.
By the way, the change in nondiscrimination policy? It's adding the phrase "gender identity or expression" to the list of groups (women, gays, minorities, veterans etc.) that Yale won't discriminate against. I'm assuming this means cross-dressers and transgendered people—the move was promoted by a Yale group called the Queer Political Action Committee—but honestly, I'm not really sure.
