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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale athletics department mourns the passing of former head football coach John Pont, who passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 80. Pont died at his home in Oxford, Ohio, after [...]

A nice piece about the Bulldogs that are getting ready for the Olympics at Lake Placid’s Olympic Training Center.
 

No word on what it was, at least not from the Daily News, but I’ll hazard a guess that it didn’t involve self-insemination:
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week.
The announcement — which came Monday, [...]

On Sunday, the Harvard Republican Club and Harvard College Democrats passed a bipartisan bill in the Undergraduate Council specifically geared towards Harvard ROTC students. This bill, entitled Supporting ROTC Students and developed according to recommendations from the Harvard ROTC Association and current ROTC cadets and midshipmen at Harvard, has three primary components:

An extra section will [...]

First, Yale women address Aliza in a letter published in the Yale Daily News:
To the Editor:
Dear Aliza,
Upon hearing the extent of your enterprising senior art project, a few of your sisters and fellow travelers in the academy would like to respond to you, as a woman and a young academic.
This week, you have sparked a [...]

A neat pictorial of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Yonkers from For God, For Country and For Yale.

Abortogate. You heard it here first!
Here’s the latest from the Yale Daily News:
On Sunday, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said Shvarts would not be allowed to open her exhibit unless she issued a written statement admitting that her project — which she claimed comprised nine months of self-inseminations and subsequent induced miscarriages — was nothing [...]

It’s been a rough week for the Ivy League.
Yale’s still suffering from the fallout of art student Aliza Shvarts, who will be forever immortalized for her senior art project that depicts herb-induced abortions/miscarriages. Now the Yale administration is faced with the tough task of cleaning up after Shvarts’ mess, an endeavor that is made even [...]

I’m glad I waited to post this one, since a lot of bloggers and their respective commenters are crying foul.
First, the story, from Hot Air:
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient [...]