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This fall, there are eight courses being offered in Native American and Indigenous studies, spanning six departments and with 101 students currently enrolled.

Monday, Oct. 9 is not a particularly exciting day for most of the Yale population. But for an albeit small, but fun-loving subset, Oct. 9 is a day of great merriment, a day to reflect upon “the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.” There are no pilgrims, there is no Macy’s Day Parade, but Canadians across the nation still eat turkey and give thanks. I could not tell you why we have a national holiday that seems to just copy the American holiday but with no actual purpose. ...

Howard Lamar GRD ’51 — former University president, Yale College dean and history professor — was remembered for his study of the American west, community-oriented leadership philosophy and role as a loving father in a memorial service on Saturday.

Though most professors declined to comment on the University’s ongoing presidential search, those that did praised outgoing University President Peter Salovey while outlining the qualities they hope to see in his successor.

There was anger after the campus police union — which is renegotiating a contract — shared a safety flier with a picture of the Grim Reaper on it.

Yale University administrators and police officials are trying to reassure first-year students and their parents after the union representing Yales campus police distributed flyers describing New Haven, the city where the university is located, as crime-ridden and dangerous. The flyers, which included alarming crime statistics, were criticized by Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell and New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker as misleading and cherry-picked.

Yale administrators and police officials have been scrambling to calm first-year students and their parents.

The town-gown relationship has long been fraught between Yale, one of the world’s most selective universities, where white students make up the largest demographic, and New Haven, which has long struggled with crime and poverty, and is majority Black and Hispanic.

<p>The historian was praised by colleagues and former students for his scholarship, mentorship and personal warmth. </p>

Howard Lamar, who died on Feb. 22, helped reshape the study of the American West, through his own work and his mentorship of generations of historians.