After completing an additional round of chemotherapy last week, Mandi Schwartz '11 is set to undergo a biopsy today, the results of which, due Monday, will determine whether Schwartz will soon receive a potentially life-saving transplant.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, recently relieved of his post as head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, will teach a graduate-level seminar on leadership at Yale as a senior fellow at the Jackson Insitute for Global Affairs.

The Dean?s Office is not accepting applications for spring 2011 college seminars while a committee of residential college masters, deans, faculty members and students reviews the program for the first time in a decade.

For the second year in a row, construction on the Prospect Street bridge and the surrounding area will push 9:25 a.m. classes five minutes earlier and force Yale Transit to reroute its shuttles. The bridge's full reopening could be delayed until as late as June 2011.

Frosh frenzy. As the class of 2014 arrives on campus, their high hopes weighed down only by their copious luggage, upperclassmen flock to help them schlep, and to claim a free meal and T-shirt.

Despite media reports to the contrary, heartthrob James Franco GRD ?16 will not be teaching a class this spring, but he does plan to recruit students from English, Theater, Music and Film Studies to work on an undergraduate film production.

DUH no more? Yale University Health Services? new home at 55 Lock St. is called the Yale HEALTH Center, the University announced in May. The name change is part of the festivities surrounding YUHS? 40th anniversary, director Paul Genecin said. Founded in 1971 as the Department of University Health, YUHS changed its name more than 20 years ago.

For the eighth year in a row, Yale ranked third in U.S. News & World Report?s Best Colleges rankings, released last week. Harvard retained its top position on the list, while Princeton, which was tied with Harvard last year, slipped to No. 2.

Slifka Rabbi James Ponet ?68 officiated Chelsea Clinton?s wedding in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on Aug. 2. Ponet was joined by Rev. William Shillady in leading the interfaith ceremony between Clinton, who is Methodist, and her Jewish husband, Marc Mezvinsky. Asked why he was chosen, Ponet said he was referred to the couple by ?a number of people.?

The man charged in 2009 with stealing 39 works of art from various Yale and New Haven buildings, including the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life and the New Haven Public Library, received a three-year prison sentence last Friday.

Over a round of beers, Yale paleontologist Nicholas Longrich came up with an unconventional name for the dinosaur species he discovered: ?Mojoceratops.? In July, he officially dubbed the creature ?Mojoceratops perifania? with the publication of his paper in the Journal of Paleontology.

Though the Online Course Information website has been live since July, students can not yet construct potential schedules using the schedule worksheet option.

And make sure to get the Web address right. The Yale Record has published an online Blue Book of their own, featuring such courses as ?Art 207, Drawing Ponies? and ?LUNC 101, Lunch? (prerequisite: breakfast).

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1904 John Hay ?Jock? Whitney, son of Payne Whitney, is born. While at Yale, Jock allegedly coined the term ?crew cut,? now widely recognized as a hairstyle and J. Crew children?s brand.

Pollard named grad school dean
Thomas Pollard, a Sterling professor and the current chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, was named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in May. He served as chair of the search committee charged with finding the new dean, and though the committee submitted a shortlist, many members of the committee wrote to University President Richard Levin separately during the final round of the search to recommend Pollard for the position.

Since May, Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced the appointment of new deans for Berkeley, Branford and Ezra Stiles colleges.

New Haven Police have made arrests in three murders this summer, but at 16, there have been more murders in New Haven this year than in 2009.

Yale Police twice this summer searched the Woodbridge, Conn., home of former Yale genome researcher Lars Branden, who is suspected of filching laboratory equipment from the University.

This summer was going to suck. I was ready to be stuck in an empty New Haven ? even though, admittedly, it was my prerogative to stay. I was, for the school year, a persistently penniless freshman who spent cash on the tsk-tsk-worthy. So, as the days grew longer, I was full of a certain dull expectancy for heat waves and a yawning (paying) job at the Beinecke. I was. Then, I opened my eyes. Immediately, I saw streets whose veins are usually clogged with the thick blue of Yale memorabilia suddenly stream beautiful black faces in what is (lest we forget) a beautiful black town. I saw Old Campus deserted at tanning hours, leaving it open to speculation. I saw ambitious shades of green that left daguerreotypes hanging on the back of my eyelids. And, most importantly, I saw a pocketful of posy people, who happened to be very cozy coincidentally. New Haven is a summer paradise (all crime rates, poverty, scandals, politics aside). We all have our flaws. I exclaim it proudly.

This month, I paid $8 to watch a dyed-blonde Julia Roberts prance across the globe, draped in what can only be described as prototypes from J. Crew?s ?Ashrams and Anchors? line.
And then, a week later, I did it again.

This year, I was an OIS counselor for a second time, because I love spreading the love for Yale and because I?m a bit of a creeper. I retired from my post last night, before face-sucking internationals at Sigma Nu during the program?s graduation ceremony.

Hey gang! Excited to meet your new family for the next academic year? Well, you should be ? gaining friends can be a zesty, good-time enterprise rich with opportunities for ?best bros?- or ?BFFAEAEAE?-type situations. Now, I know what you?re thinking, namely, ?I?m gonna schmooze the shit out of these bitches,? and dammit, I admire your enthusiasm, but hold your horses, John Wayne! You don?t want to make any embarrassing mistakes along the wondrous journey toward harmonious suite familiarity. Here are a few tips to make sure it?s a smooth ride all the way through. Enjoy!

The solid sheets of white plastic, smooth and impenetrable like the back of a Polaroid photograph, stuck to the windows of the private room where the mama-san, a heavily painted older woman with thick pouting lips, brought him. He?d darted in an hour before midnight. According to the police report, the Mama-san extracted a $60 entrance fee from him. A young Korean woman with plucked eyebrows and dark hair streaked with blond entered the room. Her name was Sung Yeon Kim and she was 28 years old. She told him her name was Bonnie.

Is it possible for interns to sue their employers?
It?s a question that a lot of summer interns ask themselves, sometime between wiping the dried tears off their faces and brushing the beads of sweat off their brows.

Yalies tend to be overachievers. Loath to ?waste? a summer, hundreds of us join the throngs of college students nationwide who find internships during their time off. In a 2008 survey, 50 percent of graduating seniors reported participating in internships, according to The National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Perrotti takes up post at Boston College
Just days after James Perrotti retired as Yale Police chief, he took up a new position as interim police chief at Boston College in July. ?Retirement will have to wait a couple months!? he wrote in an e-mail to the News at the time. Perrotti spent 37 years with the YPD, the last 12 as chief. In April, former New Haven Police Chief James Lewis took over as interim YPD chief as Yale administrators conduct a national search for the next chief.
?Colin Ross

Twenty months and $3 million later, York Street?s famous eating club reopened Wednesday with a new bar, outdoor seating, a revamped menu and cheaper membership. The Whiffenpoofs joined donors and other supporters to celebrate the occasion with the Temple Bar?s signature silver goblets.

Rudy?s Bar and Grill, the popular 76-year-old watering hole that left its spot on Elm Street this summer, will move to its new location on the corner of Chapel and Howe streets by October, its owner said.

The first week at Yale can be overwhelming for newcomers, so I?ve graded various sentiments of insecurity that may cross a budding freshman?s mind: an ?A? means that the statement is completely true, a ?B? means it?s partially true, etc., all the way down to F, which means you are so wrong you should go to Harvard (which is, in itself, given an F because no one cares about Harvard jokes. At all. Until the Game. Then they are THE GREATEST).

To many Yalies, the beginning of a new school year means reuniting with old friends and making new awkward acquaintances, move-in day and shopping period, going on FOOT and not going on FOOT and being totally OK with it. But to some, it means just one thing ? another Dramat Fall Mainstage Musical.

In two weeks this summer, the Yale Repertory Theatre received two major donations that together total $1.95 million. The first, valued at $950,000, was received on July 19 from the Robina Foundation, a private nonprofit based in Minnesota. The second major gift, announced on July 28, came from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ? $1 million, to be given to the Theatre in stages over the next five years.

Coming up on the 100th anniversary of the rediscovery of Machu Pichu, and two months after Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd pledged his support to Peru in the ongoing debate over the ownership of Machu Picchu artifacts currently housed at Yale, a Peruvian politician has followed suit.

A laptop containing the personal health information of nearly 1,000 people was stolen about a month ago from the School of Medicine.

A District of Columbia judge July 27 dismissed the case brought by descendants of the Native American chieftain Geronimo against Skull and Bones, as well as the University and senior members of the U.S. government, in February 2009. Their lawyer, Ramsey Clark, said he is not giving up and will now turn to the agencies in the executive branch and the Department of Defense that his clients previously tried to bypass.

Two years into Yale?s budget crisis, the University has laid off nearly 5 percent of its staff and cut over 900 jobs. And there may be more to come.

This year?s Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament comes to an end tomorrow night, but the rally to keep it in Connecticut for future years is heating up.

Arriving at Yale has a lot in common with the major moments for which Yale itself is supposed to prepare us: starting a job, getting married, having a baby, leading the free world, etc. (And given our tuition, I expect to be prepared for no fewer than eight babies and three marriages.) Just like all those seminal events, we arrive on campus with a unique mixture of giddy, breathless excitement and mortal, stomach-turning dread. When it comes to mixing fun and fear, rollercoasters come close, and Yale is often metaphorized as one. Luckily, the second or third time you ride the Cyclone as a world-weary upperclassmen, you know at which dips and curves your stomach is going to drop and when your arms are going to fly skywards.

In Sikkim, the little thumb of India that juts north into the Himalayan foothills between Nepal and Bhutan, there are no seatbelts. As it was explained to me on our winding drive up to the school one typically foggy morning, this is so that if the car falls off a cliff, the passengers have a split-second more to bail and cling desperately to the mountainside while the vehicle itself plummets the remaining thousand feet to the valley floor. In the Himalayas, any number of factors ? the mist, a hairpin turn, a landslide ? might cause a driver to lose control on the narrow roads, which coil up the mountains like dragons on a temple column.

Given how expensive our meal plans are, Yale should offer food in its dining halls during Camp Yale.

It?s not easy to conduct an archeological expedition in an area where temperatures regularly reach 130 degrees and winds carry enough sand to turn the sun orange. It?s harder still to fathom that more than 3,500 years ago, the area was a key city for an ancient civilization.

Following the unexpected departure of its coach, the Yale women?s hockey team will attempt to improve on last year?s disappointing tenth-place ECAC finish.

Even the heels of the winningest season in school history and second-place finish in the Ivy League, , the Yale field hockey team has rallied around the motto, ?Raise the Bar.?

Nine months since the Bulldogs? tough 14?10 loss to Harvard at The Game, the team thinks a more experienced coaching staff and roster put them in a better position for this season.