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CREDIT/D/FAIL: Week of April 19, 2013

CREDIT: Pre-frosh  It’s so easy to hate on Bulldog Days because, le duh. You have to wear the shirt/hat/fanny pack of an organization you’ve long since stopped caring about and convince a bunch of...

TOP FIVE: Week of April 12, 2013

Top five ways to hold on to your sadness even though it’s spring 5: “I just don’t enjoy seeing people smile.” 4: “I still haven’t figured out my summer!” 3: “I wish I went...

TOP FIVE: Week of January 25, 2013

Ways you can still get into that seminar 5 Program a friend as “Beyoncé” on your phone, then conspicuously receive a call from that friend during class. 4 Hunger strike: you won’t feed your...

INDEX: Week of January 25, 2013

62 The number of mass shootings that have occurred in the United States since 1982. 49 The number of those shootings in which the firearms had been legally obtained. 28 The number of countries...

BOOM/BUST: Week of January 25, 2013

INCOMING: Math You’ve probably noticed the Great Migration: the hordes of people venturing up Science Hill in skinny jeans and baggy sweaters. The poor souls who, after acing physics in high school, decided that...

3. BEST FRESHMAN

Z went to high school in a small town in northwest Oklahoma, where he played semi-professional basketball and wrote a play that eventually went up off-Broadway. It was called Pieces/ Peaces, and New York...
(Christine Mi/YH Staff)

There is no spoon

The beginning of my freshman year, I faced a pretty common problem: I didn’t know how to tell my suitemates I was gay. So I didn’t tell them. In retrospect, it’s clear to me...

BOOM/BUST: Week of November 9, 2012

INCOMING: Sports As the “getting to” and “housing at” Harvard emails begin to trickle in, we’re reminded that next week is Yale’s chance to express just how ridiculously passionate we are about football. Then,...

TOP 5: Week of November 9, 2012

Ways to let everyone know you’re really politically conscious 5 Long Facebook status you spent three minutes crafting 4 Pithy Facebook status you spent two hours crafting 3 Election night drinking games 2 Refusing...

INDEX: Week of November 9, 2012

21 million The spending cap, in dollars, for Canadian political campaigns. 1 The size, in justices, of the majority in the Citizens United decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled it legal for corporations...

CREDIT/D/FAIL: Week of October 12, 2012

CREDIT: TAs Let’s hear it for the TAs, those graduate students who venture so boldly into our classrooms with absolutely zero teaching experience under their belts. They have to spend fifty minutes alternating between...
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Yalies Score Emmys

I'm pretty broken up about the fact that Arrested Development didn't win anything—maybe next year!—but the Yale Alumni Magazine noted some definite highlights for all of us blue-and-white-blooded bulldogz.
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A memo to the Spring Fling Committee

Time’s up, folks! If you haven’t already filled out your application to be on the Spring Fling 2013  (2013?! already?!?!) Organizing Committee (or SFOC, ya know?), your ship has sailed and you are stranded...

Credit/D/Fail: Week of September 7, 2012

Cr: Regulations Remember the sixth book of Harry Potter, when Dolores Umbridge takes over Hogwarts and implements those infantilizing, demoralizing, draconian policies? Well, Mary Miller is Yale’s new Umbridge—and I bet these off-campus party...
thanks but no thanks to saybrook

The newest #whatshouldwecall

When one Yale meme dies, another springs right up to take its place. Here is #whatshouldwecallyale. Only eight posts so far (and no password!), so there’s plenty of room for new material, all ye...
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And, Scene

It’s around 11 on a Monday night. I’m in the library, looking for somewhere I can pretend to work. I’m nervous and fidgety and trying to keep my excitement in check. It’s the same...
Bootiful.

Cherry blossoms!

Enjoying the first week of spring, round two? Well, in keeping with this year’s weird weather patters, the cherry blossoms in Wooster Square have come out early. And this is a very big problem...
Dangerous Liaisons Poster

Yale a cappella group makes (inter)nationals

Out Of the Blue (known as OOTB, pr: “ooht-buh”) won first place at the Northeast Semifinal of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA, no idea how to pronounce it) this weekend. “International”...
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Yale celebrates Presidents Day

Instead of giving us the day off, Yale decided to celebrate the holiday by uploading a Facebook album called “Happy Presidents Day,” which contains Yale-related images of American presidents, like a photo of George...