Archive for 2009
Drink of the week featuring Yale-themed liquor.
We’ve got Bulldog burritos, a 3-story blow up bulldog, and now a bullblog. Bulldog gin is a clear step in the right direction. Made for true bulldogs.
Course schedules speak volumes
Yes, you think you’re smart. But now that shopping week is over, perhaps it’s time for some self-reflection. To that end, we bring you a fast formula for finding out what your course schedules are saying about you behind your back.
Puerto Rico invades New Haven
For those of you are deaf, and don’t hear the beats and revelry, today is the Puerto Rican Day parade.
Bullblog tip-off: English Building Market
Truth: this antique store has a nonsensical name. Truth: its neighbors are all wig stores and Foot Lockers. But the biggest truth? English Building Market is the best store in New Haven no one goes to.
Twitter is facebook updates is twitter tags
You can now tag your friends in status updates, proving once again that twitter is completely obsolete.
Joe Satran at Delphi
I think Zimmer has been reading Bullblog. Earlier in the article, he quotes “Yale University linguist Laurence R. Horn,” so clearly Mr. Zimmer has his inner eye fixed on New Haven.
Where my gays at?
This week has had a few minor stories that homos should be taking note of. For maximum suspense, I present them in ascending order of impact.
Law and order in the post-coeducation era
In the breaking light of Coxsackie, New York, which yawns its way 100 miles from Scarsdale up the Bronx River Parkway, Richard Herrin SY ’75 thought he saw a sign.
It was around 6 am on July 7, 1977 when Herrin parked a stolen car outside St. Mary’s Church on Mansion Street, figuring the House of [...]
Morehead to serve third term as Ward 22 alderman
Ward-22 Alderman Greg Morehead effectively assured himself of re-election on Tues., Sept 16, by winning the Democratic primary in a hotly contested tripartite race. Morehead won 224 of the 445 votes cast; his main opponent, Lisa Hopkins, won 216 votes; and minor candidate Cordelia Thorpe received only five. Morehead’s eight-vote margin of victory is [...]
Auto-Tune dulls T-Pain by buying you a ‘drank’
It’s the biggest revolution in music since the phonograph hit the market. It has shaped the very fabric of our party playlists. It’s hidden in every song we listen to. It’s Auto-Tune. But what is this strange phenomenon that has invaded our airwaves, strapped us to our speakers and ravaged our aural orifices with the [...]
Checking out Fashion Week from waist-down
There’s nothing quite like a really good pair of pants. So frequently are trousers placed in the no-brainer category, as if God created them as a mere complement to the standout jacket or top. So when I think of the best parts of New York Fashion Week, I can’t help but think of pants. No [...]
The Herald pays tribute to four Yale woman artists
In honor of the fortieth anniversary of women at Yale, Miranda Lewis salutes influential artistic Yale alumnae.
As a current Yale student, a female member of the Class of 2012, it is easy to forget that women did not always make up 50 percent of the student body. Just 41 years ago, the Yale campus [...]
Yale volleyball seeks to recapture Ivy League title
After last year’s impressive finish, the Yale women’s volleyball team, which finished 2008 ranked No. 30 in the country, is now ready to defend its Ivy League title. The athletes all have the potential and drive to achieve this goal, and while the Bulldogs will undoubtedly face challenging opponents, the team, if it plays up [...]
Y-Factor: Tallying a series of messy events
The Y-Factor is a regular column featuring our writers’ thoughts (humorous and otherwise) on the Yale romantic experience.
It’s your first year at Yale.
You’re forced to live with random strangers and learn basic street-fighting skills to ensure that you survive your nightly trip to G-Heav. None of the street names are familiar, Urban Outfitters slowly drains [...]
Movie/Music Reviews- September 18th
Movies
The September Issue
R.J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue opens with a close-up of the longtime Editor-in-Chief of Vogue magazine and notorious Ice Queen of the past quarter century, Anna Wintour. Anna’s face, sans sunglasses, is a somewhat jarring and unexpected visual for an editrix so elusive that people in the fashion industry joke about her [...]
Feature Story: Coping with the Tragedy on Amistad St.
On Mon., Sept. 14, as flickering candles lit the warm evening, Yale students packed the Cross Campus lawn to honor the memory of a girl that most of them had never met. Following the tragic and disturbing events of last week, which culminated in the discovery of Annie Le’s body in the wall of a [...]
3-point potshots
Questions:
1. Brett Favre has come out of retirement yet again, signing with the Minnesota Vikings. What the hell is he thinking?
2. Ah, another fall sports season: football, volleyball, cross-country, soccer, field hockey. What Yale sport are you most looking forward to?
3. With a .639, the Yankees have the best win percentage in all of Major League Baseball. Will [...]
IM Roundup
Berkeley
Eleven other colleges recoiled in anticipated pain and misery as Berkeley rumbled back onto the field/court/ping-pong table to kick off the fall intramural season, which Sports Illustrated described last month as “Berkeley’s for the taking.”
The BK locker room was electrified this past week with the news that Usain Bolt would be counted among several Olympic [...]
The Quarterback Question: Brook or Witt?
Keep Brook Hart at quarterback this season.
The most popular player on a football team is always the backup quarterback.
So goes the saying, at least, the idea being that fans are restless, relentless, and ultimately don’t know what they’re talking about. But sometimes they’re right.
Brook Hart, TC’11, knows that. At least, he knew that last year, [...]
WYBC abandons airwaves, starts streaming online
A nostalgic blue color provides the backdrop to the history webpage of Yale Broadcasting Company, Inc. (WYBC), a student-run radio station. The page features an old black-and-white photo of three men and one woman speaking into microphones, and next to it, in soft, grey writing, the website boasts that, “during World War II, per order [...]
Bladderball to make a comeback, students speculate
We all know that Jonathan Edwards College uses self-deprecating humor to conceal its insecurities (and its fortune). In fact, little explanation is necessary to explain why JE sucks, but the true story actually lies within the history of Bladderball.
Quite evident in the name is the fact that the original, rugby-ish game was played in the [...]
Yale Intramurals: all sports for all students
If you are a passive observer of intramurals, you might automatically conclude it’s another David and Goliath tale, a classic example of the big guy beating up on the little guys. Silliman is a force to be reckoned with, holding three championships in the past four years, and the argument I always hear from [...]
Unjustified waste of money in Obama’s plans
On Tues., Nov. 4, 2008, a historic day in many respects, Barack Obama was elected the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. Obama won over a nation yearning for a change—change in identity, in leadership, and in policy—with his youth and charisma. And so the first African-American President in our nation’s history was [...]
Allowing cruelty to teach us a valuable lesson
Sometimes moments of brilliance drop like bombs of pigeon poop on a sunny day: an unexpected, celestial gift plummets down, inspiring shock, awe, and (in the case of pigeon poop) mental imagery of Clorox stain-remover. I experienced such a moment this past summer. A friend and I conceptualized the “Freshman Prey Tally”: a poster, to [...]
Steven Chu takes on snacks, the environment
He may not write fashion fiction, but he did one-up J.K. Rowling, at least in relevance, as her successor for Harvard’s commencement speaker. Director of an overhauled Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Secretary Steven Chu has proven instrumental to Obama’s therapy of the Bush-era environmentalist personality in Washington. For eight months, his voice has [...]
footnotes: how does a residential college get its name?
The look and location of the two newest residential colleges may have been decided upon, but nothing else about this pair of hypothetical communities—mascots, cheers, coats of arms—is a fait accompli. Most conspicuous among these uncertainties regarding the colleges’ identities is their lack of names.
Unlike the handful of American universities with residential colleges, including Princeton [...]
Guilt, mascara, and the progress of modernization
The French sociologist Émile Durkheim argued in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life that faith is little more than socialized power deified. Because the essential power relations that drive a society’s basic functions operate so far over and above the individual’s existence, man copes with the existential conundrums those relations create by assigning divine origins [...]
Demolition looms on site of newest colleges
When you step into Prospect Place, the heart of the anticipated thirteenth and fourteenth residential colleges, it is hard to imagine the gothic minarets and tranquil greens that will in a few years dominate these blocks, a triangular zone enclosed by Sachem, Prospect, and Canal streets. Parts of the area, a scattering of buildings ranging [...]
YDN in six words or less: 9-18-09
Niarchos and NHPD solve mysteries.
Another bullblog tip-off: calling all brooding poets!
All moleskine products 20% off at the Yale bookstore: get ‘em now to show off how artsy you are!
Bullblog Tip-off: Dollar Desserts
We’re sad the muffins aren’t on sale, but still — Dark Chocolate Chip Delight cupcakes? Aztec brownies? Oatmeal Cranberry cookies? Peanut Butter truffles? Okay, Atticus. We feel you.
Shaw’s to become obsolete
Off-campusers, Swing Spacers and College Kitchen abusers, this means the days of sketchy walks to Shaw’s for Goya pinto beans and corn tortillas are about to come to an end.
Seasonal Confusion
Sometimes I have a hard time deciding what I want to wear, sometimes I have trouble deciding what season I want to wear.
YDN in six words or less: 9-17-09
Will Clark’s arrest keep admissions tough?
Crush of the week: Grace Oedel
I have a lot of crushes. What can I say — I have a lot of love to give. So does the Bullblog, along with a great forum to give it. So Crush of the Week is our collaboration. We’re spreading the love.
Breaking News from Gourmet Heaven
THIS JUST IN: Gourmet Heaven, following Durfee’s’s lead have lifted their $5 ban on credit purchases! Now if only they would start accepting Bursar….
Major English Problems
My extensive research has shown that there are two types of English majors at Yale. I took Vikings! to fulfill the pre-1800 requirement (I think the exclamation was actually in the course title, or at the very least was on the first slide of every powerpoint presentation. We also learned a lot about polar bears). [...]
Following drinking age editorial, Congress takes immediate action
Upon passage of both parts of the exam, the test taker would receive a state-issued photo ID to show a police officer if they are pulled over for speeding or if they’re found in an alley in a pool of their own sick.
Unlike is not a verb
Unless clicking “unlike” on facebook makes one note how different that item is from—something—they should change the word.
Fashion queen to chat up Ricky Lev while thousands gape
Lovely Linda Lorimer just sent out a campus-wide message announcing a Mondo Master’s Tea (President’s Tea?) with Queen Rania—AKA one of the best dressed women of all time.
YDN in six words or less: 9-16-09
Suspect is detained and super creepy.
Comeback Kid
When googling “Mischa” “Barton” “Yale”, you learn from what I hope (for her sake) is not her official site that she has dreams of attending the Yale School of Drama! I mention this only because she has relatively nothing to do with our fine university, and, if that little nugget is in any way based [...]
Spotted: Nemerov’s nighttime stroll
We always wonder, watching him up there on stage, delivering those erotically rhythmic lectures, how Alexander Nemerov stays so trim.
Sam Tsui gets a trashy shoutout
In a fairly boring post about Michael Jackson, that popular video of the man of many button-downs, Sam Tsui, performing a cappella a medley of Jackson hits was the main event. He gets a lot of love from the commenters.
YDN in six words or less: 9-15-09
Students find solace at candlelight vigil.
Another reason to get the H1N1
You don’t have to take out your own trash.
Sorry AP: It’s a tragedy, but we’re not scared
The story the AP is running on Annie Le hedges its bets on the campus reaction to the killing, saying both that her killing was likely targeted and that many students are fearful for their own life.
Win your friends a facebook facelift courtesy of bullblog
Don’t wait! Win a chance to have an annoying profile made over today.
God, I hate freshmen
Emma: One day, February will be upon you. You won’t remember how the sun shined during those first days of September, or how your body used to feel before you started drinking grain.
Sangria college style!
This recipe for sangria is so yummy. Good luck remembering drinking it!
The Bullblog Blacklist: 9-14-09
The Bullblog editors, though sunny in disposition, are not always pleased with the things that exist in the world (TTEITW). Some of them just make us angry. Here’s a rundown of some of our least favoritest TTEITW this week.
Bullblog Tip-off: 12th Night
A traveling theater troupe will perform Twelfth Night in the Off-Broadway Theater tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 7pm. I’ve always thought Twelfth Night was one of the best comedies, and these people are British, so they can do the accents and everything. Reservations are free and available at the Yale Drama Coalition website.
YDN in six words or less: 9-14-09
It’s a sad day for Yale.
Edward Norton runs; I get hot and bothered
As CNN reports, Ezra Stiles College’s native son (perhaps our one and only), Ed Norton, is set to run the NYC Marathon with a group of African tribesmen.
If you thought the story couldn’t get any more hipster, just wait: In Ed’s new movie, Leaves of Grass, he plays an Ivy League professor who joins forces [...]