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Zachary Brunt, a freshman at Yale, was found dead in the Josiah Willard Gibbs Laboratories on Wednesday afternoon. While an official autopsy is needed to confirm the cause of death, the master of Brunt’s residential college Richard Schottenfeld said on Wednesday night that it appeared to be a suicide.The Yale ...

A woman who was injured in a U-Haul truck accident during the annual Harvard-Yale football game in New Haven, Conn., in November is suing both the U-Haul Company of Connecticut and Yale junior Brendan Ross, who was driving the truck. The incident injured two women and killed another.

After seven months of deliberation, the University unveiled on Sunday its recommendations for implementing the freshman-rush ban. However, Princeton is not the only school in the Ivy League determining how to enforce a ban on freshman rush.

Yale is currently assessing how to implement the ban it announced in early March. Penn and Dartmouth already have well-established delayed-rush systems. Princeton’s policy of nonrecognition of fraternities and sororities puts it in a unique position among peer schools that have sought to delay rush, and, as a result, its policy looks different from the systems in place at other schools.

Starting next year, fraternities and sororities at Yale will be prohibited from holding fall rush for freshmen, Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Dean of Student Affairs Marichel Gentry announced to the Yale student body last Thursday.

In a lecture on Tuesday, Yale University professor Matthew Frye Jacobson presented his online American history documentation project called “Historian’s Eye.”