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Yale Student Killed When Lab Machine Snags Hair
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW 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 fast-spinning lathe, university President Richard Levin said. Her body was found by other students who had been working in the building, he said. Facebook Michele Dufault was killed inside a school lab when her hair was pulled into a piece of machine-shop ...
Want to Live to 100? Take Life's Curveballs in Stride
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsHelen 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 is 109 years old. Her doctor, Dr. Mark Lachs, is director of geriatrics for New York Presbyterian Health Care System and the author of a new book, "Treat Me, Not My Age." Lachs says that while Reichert is probably blessed with a longevity gene, she also possesses a powerful ...
New Push in Fight Against Sexual Violence on Campus
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsMonths 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 some fear is common among survivors of sexual assault at the nation's colleges and universities, Lietz said her school's reaction -- or non-reaction -- to her rape was akin to a second trauma in itself. "I was given little to no help after the assault. The issue -- the ...
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Yale University Police Investigate Report of Forced Drinking and Nudity
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsPolice 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 reported. About 50 people attended the party during which they allegedly were told to disrobe. The party was part of the Pundits' "tap" process which involves "tapping" someone whom they want to invite to become a member. "The biggest problem, and what was dis-inhibiting people, ...
Scientists: Ancient Bird Evolved 'Nunchuck' Wings
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsScientists have discovered fossils in Jamaica of an extinct, flightless bird whose wings, they believe, evolved into huge bony clubs used to clobber predators. The chicken-sized bird, with a long beak and legs, couldn't fly and had no way to defend itself, aside from with its strong arm-wings. With thick, curved arm bones hinged at the shoulder, the birds are believed to have used their wings not for flight but to fight -- flailing them as a defense mechanism. The bizarre appendage has never been seen in any species before. "It's the most specialized weaponry of any bird I've ever seen," ...
Study: Girls Who Play Video Games Are More Aggressive
By Michael McLaughlin - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- In a video game battle of the sexes, game-playing girls might brutalize their male opponents, but in a boys-only battle of the wits, the game players could outscore other lads. A new study by a Yale psychiatrist finds that teenage girls who play games are more likely to get into serious fights and carry weapons, while adolescent boys who play games aren't more aggressive than other boys, according to a summary of the research in MedPage Today. Lead researcher Dr. Rani Desai, who published the study in the journal Pediatrics, hopes to convince people there isn't a ...
Patrick Witt Knows Yale-Harvard Is More Than Just a Game
By John Walters - AOL NewsOne evening last fall, Yale student Patrick Witt was studying inside his eight-man suite inside Jonathan Edwards College, his residence hall. As Witt pored over a book, one of his roommates approached and asked if he would be attending the tailgater before that Saturday's Bulldog football game. "I'd love to, but I can't," Witt replied. "I'm on the team." For Witt, a quarterback who spent his first two seasons playing at Nebraska, it was just another, "I don't think we're in the same conference as Kansas anymore" moments. "We'd shared a suite for a month or two by that point," Witt said. "I ...
Ranks of Millionaire College Presidents Grow
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 15) 00 The club of private college and university presidents earning seven figures is getting less exclusive. Thirty presidents received more than $1 million in pay and benefits in 2008, according to an analysis of federal tax forms by The Chronicle of Higher Education. More than 1 in 5 chief executives at the 448 institutions surveyed topped $600,000. Most of the pay packages were negotiated before the full force of the recession. But even if the numbers dip slightly in next year's survey, executive pay is expected to keep climbing over the long term as colleges compete for top ...
McChrystal to Teach Yalies About 'Coping With Failure'
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal isn't heading up military operations in Afghanistan anymore, but he appears ready to take the classroom by storm. The syllabus is out for his fall leadership course at Yale, where the former four-star general will school graduate students on the intricacies of "coping with failure," "navigating politics" and "the effect of modern media." McChrystal gathered plenty of first-hand course material for the seminar earlier this year, when he was forced to resign after publicly criticizing top White House officials in a much talked-about Rolling Stone ...
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