March 24, 1995
Volume XIX, Number 9

News

• The Bass Grant: Why Yale gave $20 million back
• Yale sports face unique academic challenges
• Park Plaza renovations gain city's final approval
• Surviving media spotlight, rape victim speaks out
• Sophs forced to stay on campus
• 'U.S. News' gives Yale graduate schools high marks

  Yale Week

• Presidential advisor discusses Washington
• Rally in Battell defends affirmative action
• Secretary General, Bosnian envoy speak
• Pierson burglarized
• Yale Police to patrol on mountain bikes
• Yalebeat

  Other News Features

• Police Blotter for the Week Ending Mar. 24
• Around the Globe
• World News in Brief

Opinion

• Let facts, not feelings, guide affirmative action debate
• O.J.! Tonya! Bobbitt! Menendez! Bass!
• Contract 'on' America shafts everyone, including us
• PC language promotes ignorance, prevents intelligent decisions

  Columns

• Sauerkraut
• Against the Current
• Damn Neo-Con
• The Widening Gyre

Arts & Entertainment

Reviews

• Archers combine agression and pop
• Author Carey creates dizzying, altered worlds
• Elastica stretches like nice and flexibe New Wave
• Sympathetic applause for historical tyrant King George
• Annie Lennox sounds like music for elevators
• 'the maids' serves up tantalizing sexual ambiguity
• 'Strawberry' takes a look at Cuban sexuality
• Matthew Sweet's latest get pretty close to '100%'
• Film Reviews

  Static

• Book
• Exhibits
• Theater

• Minor Threats

Sports

• Four-peat within baseball's reach
• Bulldog gymnasts aim high at ECACs
• Eli men undergo facelift
• Deflated NBA gets needed burst of Air
• Bulldog women are kicking lax

• Residential College Intramurals

• The Herald Athletes of the Winter

  Sports Shorts

• Swimmers pounce on Navy, finish third at Easterns
• Pitching, speed keys to Ivy title hopes for softball
• Young squads are proving successful in Eli tennis
• Athlete of the Week: Gabe Hunterton

• This Week at Home

Calendar

• Friday, March 24
• Saturday, March 25
• Sunday, March 26
• Monday, March 27
• Tuesday, March 28
• Wednesday, March 29
• Thursday, March 30