Articles by Emily Rappaport

The Herald’s guide to the 2013 Oscars

For me, like for all cynical assholes, some things remain sacrosanct, even on my most cynical, assholic days: presidential election returns, the Olympics, and, most importantly, award shows of all shapes and sizes. Oscars,...

Shooting in silence

By Emily Rappaport

In the quiet lanes of Newtown, how safe the young victims were from harm was not a function of how cared for or cherished they were. But on the streets of New Haven, there...

16. BEST WIRELESS NETWORK

By Emily Rappaport

I am a woman of many shticks. In fifth grade, I made a list of things I hated, and I had a good ol’ rant to go along with each of ’em. Nuts? Awful....

31. BEST TV BINGE

By Emily Rappaport

Whatchu know ’bout me? Presumably nothing, but since we’re all friends here, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’m a full-nine-yards kind of gal. A binger, if you will. Give...

78. BEST ELECTION RESULT

By Emily Rappaport

True life: I have a thing for Election Day. This year, Nov. 6 brought a whole lot of great results for me. I voted for the first time, I treated myself to a Dunkin’ Donuts...

Sitting down with Steve Ackerman

By Emily Rappaport

Steve Ackerman, BR ’57, played football during all four years at Yale—first, in the fall of 1953, on the freshman team (freshmen weren’t allowed to play varsity), then on the varsity team for the...

An alternative ghost tour?

By Emily Rappaport

On a ledge inside the New Haven Information Center—a glass box on the corner of College and Chapel Streets whose windows are decorated with the questionable slogan “It all happens here”—there are piles of...

Codemakers: Computer science at Yale, hacked.

By Emily Rappaport

How much money do you make?” In a Monday morning lecture early this month, “Introduction to Programming” Professor Daniel Abadi demonstrated how to build a basic program that started by asking this question, and...

I got 99 problems but the colleges are 12

By Emily Rappaport

Chances are that if you’re reading this, you once had to write 500 characters about why you wanted to go to Yale. More likely than not, you said something about the residential college system...

Pay-wall? Perhaps not so bad after all

By Emily Rappaport

The New York Times has made some strategic mistakes in its day, and I don’t just mean publishing articles like “Can We Feel Good About Our Necks?” and “Yankees Caps Are Popular Among Criminals.”...

Relax! It’s harmless ‘fun fun fun fun’

By Emily Rappaport

This column was originally going to be about bringing ROTC back to Yale, or the disturbing role of sorority culture in perpetuating body image stereotypes. But then I remembered Rebecca Black. This is where...

Ensnared in the Interweb: Digital ADD

By Emily Rappaport

I am as tired as you are of hearing about the Internet’s negative effects on teenagers. Every time I see an article on the cover of the New York Times Style section called something like...

Dean Mary, the Rumpus is bullying me

By Emily Rappaport

If you knew me in eighth grade, you probably also knew about my gossip blog. I posted it to my Myspace once a week and wrote stuff like, “I have one word to describe...

(s)Now is the winter of our discontent

By Emily Rappaport

Picture this: A mysterious substance falls from the sky. Cars start spinning off the road. Flights get cancelled. Trains stop running. Houses lose power. People can’t get to work or school. Old people slip....

The Elm City Food Co-op will sit on the corner of Chapel and State Streets (Courtesy Becker & Becker)

Food co-op to save New Haven’s crisis?

By Emily Rappaport

Emily Rappaport looks at the next hope for food shopping in downtown New Haven While Yale students have benefited from increased access to high-quality foods in the school’s dining halls over the past...