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Yale Student Killed When Lab Machine Snags Hair

Apr 13th 2011 – 10:35PM
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Yale University student nearing graduation was killed inside a school chemistry lab when her hair was pulled into a piece of machine-shop equipment, school officials said Wednesday. Michele Dufault, a senior majoring in physics and astronomy, died Tuesday night after her hair became caught in a...

Want to Live to 100? Take Life's Curveballs in Stride

By Jane HealeyApr 11th 2011 – 1:28PM
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Helen Reichert has a large social network of friends in her community. She loves chocolate truffles and Budweiser beer and recently considered taking up smoking again. When her doctor protested about the smoking, she reminded him she'd outlived several physicians and told him he should mind his own business. Helen Reichert...

New Push in Fight Against Sexual Violence on Campus

By Mara GayApr 5th 2011 – 4:20PM
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Months after she was raped in her dorm room during her freshman year at Kansas State University, Madeleine Lietz heard a rumor. The man who raped her, also a Kansas State University student, had finally been expelled -- not for sexual assault, but because he had simply failed his classes and flunked out. In an account...

Why Are We Fixated on Celebrities' Stuff? [VIDEO]

Mar 13th 2011 – 5:19PM
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Yale University Police Investigate Report of Forced Drinking and Nudity

By Dana KennedyMar 4th 2011 – 10:42AM
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Police at Yale University are investigating a report of a "naked party" held off-campus by a senior society that may have involved forced, heavy drinking and possibly even a sexual assault, according to a school publication. The party was held Feb. 19 by the Pundits, Yale's senior prank society, the Yale Daily News...

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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut.

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