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July/August 2008
A medical student who was just weeks away from graduation was hit by a
car while crossing South Frontage Road on April 19 and died the next day. Mila
Rainof '08MD was to begin an internship in emergency medicine in California in
the fall.
The victim in the sexual assault case involving former Yale geology
professor Antonio Lasaga is suing the university for negligence. Lasaga was
convicted in 2002 of sexually assaulting a New Haven boy over a six-year
period. The suit alleges that another geology professor, who is no longer at
Yale, once discovered Lasaga and the boy in an empty classroom but did not
report the incident. The university says the suit is "without a legal basis."
Charged with voyeurism after he had sex with another student last year
and made a video recording of the act without her knowledge, Casper Desfeux '10
pleaded guilty in June and was sentenced to two years' probation. Desfeux was
arrested after he showed the video to his roommates, one of whom told the woman
involved. "You should be ashamed of yourself," Judge Philip Scarpellino told
Desfeux at his sentencing.
Call it Coffeegate: in May, the Yale Daily News printed allegations that the Bass Library's Thain
Family Cafe was secretly substituting decaffeinated espresso for regular at
various times during the year -- including the last two weeks before finals -- as a
result of inventory problems. The cafe's manager called the allegations
"absurd."
Yale's new sculpture building complex on Howe Street
was cited as one of the top ten green buildings of the year by the American
Institute of Architects. The project includes a parking garage, a gallery, and
studios for sculpture students in the School of Art. It is the first building
in Connecticut to earn a platinum rating under the Green Buildings Council's
LEED rating system. 
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