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Yale is now scouring for an additional 5 percent in budget cuts from departments, since administrators had planned for an economic rebound that never came, and humanities and foreign language departments are suffering. “The only area where we can reduce costs is the one area where undergrads need us the most, language instruction,” Benjamin Foster, acting chair of Yale's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department, told the Yale Daily News. “But it’s chickenfeed compared to the rest of Yale’s budget...
Houses have had to trim costs after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences mandated a 25-percent cut in House budgets, which may have limited the House’s options when deciding how to safeguard the potentially valuable collection...
...Seventy-five percent of [Yale’s] team looked at coming here and for one reason or another didn’t end up here,” Clark said. “That close connection with both schools makes for a great rivalry...
...been implemented and inviting them to have a look. The report’s authors expect that the adopted proposals—which replace many non-recyclable, non-compostable goods with versions better for the environment—will reduce Fly-By’s trash levels by 90 percent and cut 29,353 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per year...
...years ago, 72 percent of the US Under-20 (U20) roster for the FIFA Youth World Cup concurrently played ball in college. In 2007 the U.S. U20 roster—featuring senior Harvard striker Andre Akpan—only had five players in college; the rest of the team consisted of professionals. The 2009 Youth World Cup is currently underway, and only 33 percent of the US roster is affiliated with a college squad. What’s caused this rapid shift away from college soccer as the primary feeder to our national teams...