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...SMILES YESTERDAY for E. Forbes Smiley III, who was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison and ordered to pay roughly $2 million for pilfering rare maps from schools around the country. The YDN carries a report—Smiley was caught at Yale??as does The Crimson. Harvard is still missing 13 maps, at least five of which Smiley has admitted to stealing...
...merely banned drinking games and limited the length of the festivities.The new policy has its obvious health-related flaws, which have been well-chronicled in these pages. Students, opponents say, will drink in the houses, binge drink, or avoid seeking help for dangerously intoxicated friends for fear of punishment. Yale??s tougher policy led to a significant drop in alcohol hospitalizations last year.Meanwhile, the Undergraduate Council has temporarily put aside its trivial squabbles and united around something that students actually care about, and for that they should be lauded. But this is a sports column, and there?...
...Yale??s chief investment officer, David Swensen, who reportedly earned $1.15 million in 2004, has criticized Harvard’s high in-house salaries. Under his leadership, the Elis’ endowment has produced annualized returns of 17.2 percent over the past decade, Yale announced yesterday. Harvard’s 10-year annualized return is 15.2 percent, according to figures released by the University last week...
Author and playwright William A. Strauss ’69 said yesterday that “Yale??s announcement confirms that you can pay reasonable compensation to a fund-manager and get outstanding performance.” Strauss and several fellow alums from the Class of ’69 have urged the University to use its endowment largesse to freeze tuition, eliminate undergraduate borrowing, and provide debt relief to recent grads in modestly-paying jobs...
...Yale??s endowment return rate also eclipsed that of the third-richest university, Stanford. The California party school reported returns of 19.4 percent this past year, raising its overall holdings to $15.2 billion...