I was stoned when I saw the eskimoed figure crunching down the street with a flashlight and cocker spaniel. The iced trees hung in on the road and my dazed synapses made suburbia look like a cave. The figure trudged ahead as I flexed my stiff fingers, watching her from my hot box of dry heat …

As a self-proclaimed musical connoisseur, it is a personal habit of mine to create a playlist that corresponds to every major event in my life. As I scroll through  “Black Bar Mitzvah” (don’t ask) and “Camp Yale,” my eye lingers on one compilation of songs in particular: “Sophomore Unslump.”
I conceived this mixture of indie-Swedish pop …

Rappers, dictators, policemen: a normal Monday.

Problematic when this is good news.

In response to the deeply disturbing news that the New York Police Department had been surveying the Yale Muslim Student Association (among many other MSA’s around the country), which President Levin described as “antithetical to the values of Yale, the academic community, and the United States,” the YMSA has created Call the NYPD, a photo …

On Thursday night, something went down in Commons.  It was a food expo.  It was a top chef cooking competition.  It was a shit show par excellence.
We’d all been getting the daily emails–tempting us to “Eat at Commons,” bribing us with iPads and chicken tenders, very helpfully reminding us that as each day passed, we …

Nerds are in, hippies are out.

Confidentiality, careers, (anything but) conflict-free.

Esolen, I don’t think we’re at Providence College anymore.
On Monday night, Yalies came out in droves, packing WLH 116 for Professor Anthony Esolen’s talk on “The Person as a Gift” in order to stage a “kiss-in” protesting the True Love Week speaker’s ragingly homophobic and acrimonious past writings.  Fifteen minutes into Professor Esolen’s lecture (which was confusingly …

Exclusively for the Yale Herald, New York entrepreneur Ari Goldman, CEO of the “Choice Collectibles,” a real-estate investor and a regular on Giuliana & Bill, reveals his secrets to successful decision-making. He insists that in business and life, there will always be another deal. Could that mean a career in politics?
It’s 10 a.m. and the snow is covering the …

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 …

 
As our campus hurtles toward the event that launched a thousand op-eds, mailboxes were hit last night with yet another volley in the war of attrition that has developed around Sex Week: an email alerting us to “Undergraduates for a Better Yale College presents…True Love Week,” which will run parallel to Sex Week.  For those of …

Listen long and hard. You simply won’t hear it. Never, ever.
“Willoughby’s soon?”
“I’m SO close with my advisor”
“Sophomore streak!”
“Cain 2012!”
“Ya, I’m free then”
“Good morning, World!”
“Totally didn’t black out last night!”
“Those parties are only fun if you’re sober”
“I get so much out of those Elmseed meetings”
“My TA is a real expert!”
“Danish later? ABP?”
“OMG best powerpoint ever”
“Shopping period …

Crimson tide, white-out, Blue’s shower.

305 Crown Street is perhaps the most unassuming building at Yale. Its location—snugly nestled between the Native American Cultural Center and a random off-campus apartment housing—doesn’t really lend itself to bombast. Unbeknownst to most Yalies, however, the building houses perhaps the most eclectic collection of Yale organizations on campus: the Yale Angler’s Journal, the Yale …

Well, Insomnia has finally hit New Haven, and Yalies are responding as though they’d never seen a cookie before (seriously, guys, you do realize that literally thousands of these things are served in the dining hall every day, right?). Faced with such overwhelming baked-goods-madness, I obviously had no choice but to succumb to the hysteria …

Yesterday, Harvard put up their annual Yale Sucks video, and while it certainly has some minor technical issues that some quicker cuts would easily solve, it is in fact far superior to the not-as-good thing Yale has thrown together. Watch the two videos and judge for yourself:

 
This is incredibly frustrating — we’re the underdog! Our …

If there’s one thing that really puts me in “rage mode,” it’s a well thought-out email from an administrator. Today’s email from Gentry could not have been any better for this purpose. He had it all: bold-faced headings, self-referential hyperlinks, plenty of appositives, and enough apologetic quotation marks to sink a ship. But these are …

Idk, recycle them. The race is over. My phone is not ringing anymore. My room is lonely; I long for the company of activists and clipboards. What will fill this void left by the conclusion of aldermania? A new hobby perhaps. Bingo? Bingo. B-I-N-G-O! And crosswords! Nah, word searches. That’s more up my alley. Anyone …

Kathy Riegelmann is a fitness instructor who views desserts slightly differently than do others in her field. Riegelmann doesn’t shun them. She makes them—and feeds them to everyone who enters her cupcake shop, Katalina’s Bakery.
Katalina’s, which opened Nov. 21 on Whitney Ave., serves a wide range of cupcakes, cookies, and brownies in standard, vegan, and …