2A - Monday, March 30, 2009 Yale to stop sending paper rejection letters BOXCAR CHILDREN The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com C ht idcigan 3atly 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com GARY GRACA ELAINA BUGLI Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 graca@michigandaily.com bugli@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Officehours:Sun.-Thurs.11a.m. - 2a.m. 734-763-2459 News Tips news@michigandaily.com Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Photography Department photo@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@mrichigandaily.com ApplicantstoYaleUniversitywill no longer receive a rejection letter in the mail, theYale Daily Newsreported. To save paper and reduce mailing costs, Yale University will not mail rejection notices if the prospective student has checked the decision online. Yale announced the plan last week in an effort to cut expenses after the university's endowment decreased this year. In the article, Yale Dean of Admis- sions Jeff Brenzel said the change will save the university from print- ing and mailing more than 20,000 rejection letters. He added that 95 percent of appli- cants check the decisions online with- in 72 hours after they are posted. Yale will still send paper letters notifying students if they are accept- ed or placed on the waiting list. If students do not check the admission decision online, the university will send them a letter regardless of the decision. HARVARD TRADITION TURNS DANGEROUS RiverRun-along-standingHarvard tradition in which students write the name of their desired housing on card- board boats to sail down the Charles River - ended with the presence of the Cambridge Fire Department and Mas- sachusetts State Police this year, The Harvard Crimson reported. The event began with students launching their creations into the river. Students then started to drench their boats with flammable solutions like Axe Body Spray and nail polish remover, which drew the attention of firefighters and police. Some then lit their boats on fire. Officials warned the students to leave the area. In retaliation, Harvard freshman Kelsey Koff and her group of friends disobeyed the orders. "We went all the way down to the other end of the river and doused our boat in nail polish remover," Koff said. CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITIES DRASTICALLY REDUCE THEIRACCEPTANCE RATES Students who would normally be accepted to universities in Cali- fornia may now receive more rejec- tion letters than acceptance letters, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The drastic cut in admission accep- tances is a result of the initiative to decrease enrollment in California universities by 10,000 full-time stu- dents - a decision made in light of the state's economic crisis. Pat Lopes Harris, a spokeswoman for San Jose State University, said determining which students to reject is hard on admissions officials. "It comes with great difficulty because the same staff who normally works to figure out which people get in now has to turn around and figure out which people need to be exclud- ed," Harris said in the article. - STEPHANIE STEINBERG Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales Online Sales Finance sports@michigandaily.com display@michigandaily.com classified@michigandaily.com onlineads@michigandaily.coer Sophie Lete-Traka gets a push down South University Avenue at Phi Delta Theta's and Ann Arbor Active Against ALS's First Annual Boxcar Derby on Saturday. CRIME NOTES Four trays of MoJo bathroom food stolen painted with WHERE: Henry Vaughan Pub- lic Health WHEN: Friday at about 9:30 a.m. WHAT: An unknown subject stole four trays of food from the kitchen of the Public Health School, University Police reported. The door to the kitchen was unlocked when the theft occurred. watercolors WHERE: Mosher-Jordan Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Saturday at about 12:10 p.m. WHAT: An unknown subject painted the walls in the wom- en's restroom on the first floor, University Police reported. The subject used green and red water color paint. Police have no suspects. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Lecture on Free HIV/AIDS autobiographies testing WHAT: Robin Lane, histori- WHAT: A counselor from cal advisor to film director the HIV/AIDS Resource Oliver Stone, will give a lec- Center will offer HIV/AIDS ture about famous autobiog- testing. Testing is free and raphies written in the time of anonymous. Augustine. 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