Consider the hallmark fantasy of many a tween dream: You, center stage, amid toned bodies and hips gyrating to the rapid beat of salsa music. The desire to contort your body to music is instinctive, and yet it seems to require divine inspiration to be able to execute such movements gracefully and sensually.
Some have found …
Congrats, you’ve eschewed the Yale scene on this fine Friday’s eve. Instead you head off to a barn, families, and—your pulse quickens—contra dance! The phrase contra dance, once uttered, conjures images of bonfires and covered wagons. Could this fest be real? Held roughly once a month, this body-moving bash is called Bethany Music and Dance …
Yale: Paragon of the humanities, liberal arts, and performance…right? Without a doubt, artistic expression constitutes a large part of its extracurricular scene at Yale. The list goes on and on: Acapella, theater, photography, symphony, and even carillons, if that’s your thing. But there’s a notable absence in this vibrant scene: dance. Despite Yale’s dedication to …
Ugly Radio makes a bold claim on its website: It pledges to play “only the best independent recording artists 24/7.” The online radio station (www.uglyradio.net), which streams live from its studio across the New Haven Green, plays independent hip-hop by day and the occasional talk show by night. The under-produced radio shows and unpolished website …
“I’m going to explore my residential college basement!” This statement could probably have been in “Shit Yalies Never Say.” While prefrosh grow starry-eyed at the thought of pimped-out basements (hey, it’s just like a Friday night in the suburbs!), most students use them to masochistically jog on treadmills and “buy” food from the butteries. For …
I recently learned that there are tunnels connecting every building beneath Science Hill. When I heard, my first reaction was utter shock. Why the hell have I been walking from chemistry to biology to lab in the biting cold?
Obviously, I wanted to learn more, so I did some sleuthing to see what these mysterious tunnels …
The term “underground” applies to 216 Dwight St. literally. The house’s basement hints at the primeval—or at least the late 1960s—with sloping walls and threadbare-chic couches. The first time I went to 216 Dwight, I showed up early to a show hosted by WYBC; the lights were off and the place was silent—I was pretty …
What’s Yale’s rap scene like? Certainly not a question you’ll overhear in the Admissions Office. In fact, this may be the first time anyone’s even bothered to ask. Today. Feb. 21, AFC. AFC meaning “After Frat City”—you know, that banger that dropped last December? The one that put Lars “MC Lars” Knudsen, PC ’12, and …
What’s it like to be a townie? After they’ve cut the umbilical cord connecting them to Momma Yale, most students don’t stick around to find out what life is really like in New Haven. Every year, however, a few daring graduates decide to stay and—whether they realize it or not—become real citizens of New Haven.
Zach …
While my idea of a student job is 12.50/hr for stapler duty, a good number of Yale students have found jobs on campus that offer a fulfilling experience in addition to a paycheck. These positions range from Beinecke librarian to daycare teacher. While they vary in hours per week, wages, and prerequisite experience, the coolest …
It is notoriously hard to fail a class at Yale, and the same appears to be true for on-campus jobs. From research positions to residential college buttery posts, being let go seems more myth than reality. None of the students I talked to could remember hearing of other students being fired. While employers admit that …
Fresh out of Yale College, Chika Ota, TC ’11, landed a job at the Yale Office of the University Printer. “The atmosphere here is pretty lax,” she admits. She has to be on her game all the time, though—the job is official Yale business. “You have to make sure you know what you’re doing and …
“Hi.” “Hey.” “Sup.” “To. Yo*. Lol sorry I suck at typing.”
And this, my friends, is how nearly 95 percent of all Grindr conversations begin. My experience with this unique and morally questionable iPhone app began nearly three weeks ago, after my friend told me that it was taking the gay community by storm.
“Alright then,” I …
Over the last four weeks, a new blog has been making the rounds on the Facebooks and Twitters of Yale students: By Yale Women for Yale Men (BYMFYM (bime-fime)). Its daily posts offer exhaustive advice on sex, relationships, friendship, and everything in between—see the four paragraphs from “The Yale Man’s Guide to Texting” on the …
Nestled behind the Yale Daily News building is the small and unassuming graduate student bar Gryphon’s Pub, otherwise known as GPSCY. It’s famous for hosting weekly karaoke, beer tasting, the occasional round of speed dating, and famously cheap drinks. According to one chemistry graduate student interviewed, GPSCY is one of the main factors that differentiates …
When it comes to the Valentine’s Day plans of Yale College masters and deans, the days of speed dating, blind dating, and speedy blind dating are long gone. Celebration of this romantic holiday takes on a different form for these adults, many with families. Branford College’s master Elizabeth Bradley, GRD ’96, takes a practical …
Kate Bengtson, MC ’13, née Reynolds, never imagined that she’d get married—and certainly not in college. When, as a ninth-grader, she met the boy who would later become her husband, she had a different future in mind: “I was planning on being a lawyer with no friends and 40 cats.”
But by a series of unexpected …
For Yalies like myself, who consider New Haven to be a more physically, figuratively, and artistically polluted version of Providence, perhaps you’ll find solace in the New Haven Artspace.
As a nonprofit community-based project, Artspace appeals to local artists in search of an outlet to publicize their work, explains Lizzy Star, BK ’10, who is currently …
It’s 11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I’m in the Blue State on York Street for the second time in two days, looking to talk to Tizzie Mills, a man who at once seems ever-present and elusive.
“I don’t know that much about Tizzie…although once he walked like two miles to come to a bonfire at …
Eva Mendes, the critically acclaimed co-star of Will Smith in the poorly-rated romantic comedy Hitch, famously proclaimed “I love my country, but I believe we are too quick to censor nudity.” Was Mendes on to something?
I don’t know, and quite frankly, it doesn’t matter. But for a closer look at the state of nude modeling …