INCOMING: Love
Spring has arrived in New Haven, and with it the scent of flowering trees and flowing pheromones. It is no coincidence that more babies are born in September than in any other month. Do the math, look around Cross Campus, and draw your own conclusions.
OUTGOING: Truth
Two journalistic integrity scandals blew up over spring break, …
5. “Is this cooked in animal fat?”
4. “So, was it an arranged marriage?”
3. “Are you from East Sudan or West Sudan?”
2. “If civil war breaks out, do I get my money back?”
1. “How do you say ‘wi-fi’ in Pashtun?”
Cr: Passion Pit for Spring Fling
Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. These are the words I spoke aloud as I filled out the Spring Fling Committee’s survey for the fourth and final time. It is also the title of a Judy Blume book about a girl who wants to get her period. I continued …
Since October 2011, freshmen on Old Campus have been treated to the beat of drums, chants, shouts, and an electric guitar rock concert from the Occupy New Haven encampment across the street on the New Haven Green. However, come Mar. 28—the deadline for the Occupiers to leave—the music may cease.
[Click here to see photos from inside the …
5. Evian refills and chocolate cake
4. Danny Serna-Jolie’s right leg
3. “Why don’t you write for the ‘Daily‘?”
2. Hannah Flato’s dress
1. An intrepid Herald published infiltrating the Levin-de La Bruyère conspiracy
INCOMING: Deportations
The Immigrations Enforcement Agency (ICE) arrested over 40 undocumented Connecticut residents in the past week, the New Haven Independent reported. The people arrested came from 20 different countries, and all but one had been convicted for another offense. The arrests come in the wake of clashes between ICE and the State of Connecticut over …
Cr: Crinkling
A crisp crinkle can be at once the most enjoyable and most annoying sound in a library. After I sneak my bag of Smartfood White Cheddah, my pack of Peanut M&Ms, and my Peach Os pouch past the persnickety guards and into Starr reading room by stuffing it into my pants (I put it …
It goes without saying that Yale feels like an island. Its castles and the students who inhabit them are not exactly a seamless addition to New Haven’s urban fabric. There is much talk about the nature of the relationship between Yale and New Haven—much of it not positive—and although many people at Yale have been …
Rarely do you hear Yale and Harvard spoken in the same sentence without mention of the word rivalry. In the past three seasons of women’s squash, the momentum has shifted back and forth between the two schools, but most recently, it is the Crimson who have ended up on top. With the regular season and …
Yale’s endowment is 615,000 times as large as this year’s Senior Class Gift (SCG). Nevertheless, the Class of 2012’s three-week fundraising campaign was fraught with bad feelings, thanks to the 2.5 percent of seniors who chose not to donate—and the Gift Committee members they accused of pestering them to the point of harassment. Meanwhile, the …
INCOMING: The Oscars
It’s here! It’s the Superbowl after the Superbowl. It’s the night we buy all the Tostitos and salsa in Gheav. It’s the reason why the Herald bought a high-def TV. Just kidding. But it is one of our favorite nights (even though we don’t care about any of the awards besides Best Picture, …
5. Staycation at the Study
4. The lighthouse at Lighthouse Point
3. Camping trip to Occupy
2. Green’s farms, the most mysterious Metro-North stop
1. Staycation at the Hotel Duncan
Cr: Dick Levin FTW
The weather’s been really nice, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. Only boring people talk about the weather and let’s give ourselves a little credit—there were plenty of great moments this week. Curveball! While the whole NYPD racial-profiling thing isn’t super tight, something good did come out of the whole mess. President Richard Levin …
Bass Café is a terrible place to meet up. Because it’s such a great place to meet up, the tables are packed, and I’m wandering fruitlessly in search of Dorian Grinspan, SY ’14. Yale Facebook tells me he’s a worried, bushy-haired brunette who looks nothing like the future king of college fashion. No one seems …
I wouldn’t be at Yale today,” says Hong Tran, JE ’14, “if I hadn’t received a full ride.” Cost was a recurring concern as she went through the college application process—Tran’s family’s annual income is 6,000 dollars. Yale’s financial aid package—which comes without loans, merit-based scholarships, or attention to grades and test scores—is a rare …
Just as he had in high school, Washington State Representative Jamie Pedersen, PC ’90, LAW ’94, fit a no-frills job at McDonald’s into his Yale schedule. He stayed on as a “swing manager,” overseeing the franchise between full-timers’ shifts, even after it moved from downtown all the way out to Whalley Avenue.
“At the time I …
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, …