Salaam, Arabic for peace, was the word of the day. Last Monday, over 100 students gathered over Turkish food to kick off Islam Awareness Week, a four-day long series of panels on the world’s fastest growing religion. The week’s festivities concluded on an overcast Friday afternoon with Jumu’ah, a weekly prayer service. As the call …
On Wed., Feb 8, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy gave his State of the State Address, highlighting education reform as a crucial aim for the coming year.
“No one should doubt my resolve,” he declared. “I am determined to fix our public schools.” Malloy’s long-awaited legislation proposal outlined concrete changes in the Connecticut education system, including …
My own years at Yale have been all the more difficult without any guidance or campus support from others who have been in my position,” wrote Cecily Carlisle, BR ’14.
Carlisle is a member of what she argues is an underserved campus group: first-generation college students (FGCS), or students whose parents did not attend college. Carlisle, …
5. Lets get baked…goods from Claire’s Cornercopia.
4. Morse/Stiles…y u haz no forks?
3. Everyone in Gheav…is too damn high
2. One does not simply…split a Wenzel!
1. –Daddy I wet the bed. –Hold on, let me get the YDN.
INCOMING: Theme majors
Students can now choose Ethnicity, Race, and Migration as their sole concentration of studies. The faculty’s decision is part of a larger trend within the University’s academic policy: approaching the liberal arts not as a mixture of independent disciplines, but as an interdisciplinary study of a single subject.
OUTGOING: Democracy
The New Haven Independent announced …
Cr: NFL post-season
For Yalies whose annual exposure to football does not last beyond the second half of The Game, this year’s NFL post-season showed just how exciting the gridiron can be. There was something for everyone. Tim Tebow (have you heard about his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?) stunned the football world with an overtime …
Anthony Esolen, a professor of English at Providence College, is standing at the front of a crowded classroom in WLH, delivering a long, complicated anecdote involving the Super Bowl, Celtic music, and small children step dancing. Suddenly, the first beats of Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” play from a cell phone. On cue, a dozen …
Past Timothy Dwight College and up three stories in a closet-sized Whitney Humanities Center office, there is a post-doctorate Mellon Fellow unlike all the rest: Gwenda-lin Grewal. Although this name may call to mind a medieval queen in King Arthur’s kingdom or an elfin princess who used to know Gandalf the Grey, replace flowing robes …
It has been a good year for the Yale men’s basketball team. So far, the Bulldogs have won 15 games and lost only five. Last Saturday, the team beat Princeton, 58-54. The day before, the Bulldogs also won, 60-53, against Penn. By contrast, on Jan. 27 the team was defeated by Harvard 65-35.
“To go from …
CORRECTION: The “index” blurb on p. 5 of our Feb. 3 issue incorrectly reported the number of complaints brought by undergraduates as 13. There were 27 complaints brought by undergraduates, according to the Report on Sexual Misconduct.
5. XXX Haiku Workshop: How to write Hilarious (and Ethical) Shock-Value Comedy without Losing Your Soul
4. Play With Your Playlist: Talk with Suki Dunham, Founder of OhMiBod Musical Vibrators
3. Immigrant Sex Lives, Practices, and Erotic Imaginations
2. A Tantric Toolbox of Personal Enlightenment, Interpersonal Intimacy and Humanitarian Aid
1. Peg-Ass-Us: A Fairy-Tale with a (Very) Happy Ending
INCOMING: Facebook statuses about standing with Planned Parenthood
In case you’ve been living in a hole, the Susan G. Kormen foundation, one of the largest women’s health advoacy groups in the U.S., decided to cut its funding for Planned Parenthood, one of the other largest women’s health advoacy groups in the U.S., to provide breast cancer …
Cr: February
It’s only a few days in, but February is killing it. The weather is balmy, midterms haven’t happened yet, and football is going down if that’s your jam. Sex Week is in the air, prospective EP&E majors are writing op-eds about striking out at Toad’s, and Yale men are trying to get better at …
I have come to gamble in the home of a man I’ve never met, at a table full of academics who have played poker since I was in preschool. He lives in a loft off of Orange Street; the neighborhood isn’t especially threatening, but I plan escape routes as Yale slides out of sight. When …
Pat Witt has given Yale an avalanche of press. Most of that press refers to a distinction between formal and informal sexual misconduct complains without hashing it out. We at the Herald think you have the right to know the substance of this distinction. To that end, we have charted the course of each complaint through …
5. “You are invited to address me by my name, Ms. Viggiano”
4. “Do you think that a masters in business and administration makes you smarter than two thousand years of truth and wisdom?”
3. “He invited me to send my academic material to his boyfriend who is a specialist. If you don’t see that this is not …
INCOMING: Rush period for Greeks
Oh no, not again! Don’t you know I’m a girl, Sigma Chi? Stop asking me to rush you! That goes for you too, Zeta Psi. Thank you for not emailing me, SigEp, even though I know it’s because you were busy interviewing at McKinsey. I don’t even know what to say …
Cr: Year of the Dragon
What comes once every 12 years, breathes fire, has scales, enjoys wheat and poultry, and is luckier than every fortune cookie ever in the history of the world? The answer is the year of the dragon, and this week it swooped majestically out of the sky and descended upon us mere …
This past November, nearly 1,000 students turned out to vote in the aldermanic elections, breaking the 2005 voter turnout record of 800 and decisively electing Sarah Eidelson, JE ’12, to represent Ward 1. On both sides of the race, these aldermanic campaigns demonstrated the capacity of Yale’s student body to mobilize for a cause—but for …
Iris Cano, PC ’12, now a member of the Yale Mexican Students Organization (YMSO), made no distinction among three of the prominent Latin American student groups when she first came to Yale. Hailing from a border town in northern Mexico, Cano settled on YMSO after attending the Cultural Connections pre-orientation program. But despite the ostensible …