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By   |   October 20th 2011

“You’ve got mail!” my AOL account cheerily informed me last night.
Then I was like: “Who is it from? The YCC? They are so communicative and transparent and they always have fun new stuff to let me know! Oh what’s this?
“An email about wenzels? Sweet! An email about doing stuff with wenzels, no less! What stuff do …

By   |   October 7th 2011

There is a large clock on Battell Chapel. Right now you can’t see it (the Chapel is being refurbished and large blue tarps cover its exterior), but according to Yale and “The City of Elms,” a guide to Yale College written in 1882, the Battell Chapel clock consists of a single face made of carved …

By   |   October 5th 2011

Everyone’s STILL riled up

By   |   September 30th 2011

You can walk around Yale’s campus, navigating the Gothic-inspired architecture, the most obvious medieval presence here. Or, to experience artifacts from the Middle Ages firsthand, you can visit the early European quadrant on the third floor of the Yale University Art Gallery. Weaving through the burgundy pogo-walls, you will enter a conversation between various panels …

By   |   September 27th 2011

Nothing goes down quite as smooth as a lecture on the Cournot Duopoly with a pinch of gchat and a side of juicy Facebook newsfeed, if you ask me. Round out the meal with some StumbleUpon, Hell! even throw in some addictinggames.com, if you’re feeling particularly wild. These are ingredients that we students have come …

By   |   September 23rd 2011

If you find yourself smelling the herbs of Kasbah Garden Café and hearing sultry jazz, then you’ve walked too far. In front of that well-frequented restaurant on Howe St. is a smaller establishment with more subtle sensory delights. Casablanca Boutique & Tailoring is the original business of Kasbah proprietor Lahcen Alouah, long-time resident of New …

By   |   September 23rd 2011

Do you have an empty feeling? It’s the feeling that you aren’t doing enough—you just aren’t doing enough to proudly declare to everyone on campus that you go to Yale.
Lucky for you, Campus Customs on Broadway is here to solve your vexing problem. “It’s a store that sells, obviously, lots of ways to say Yale,” …

By   |   September 16th 2011

The Grey Squirrel population in New Haven, especially near Yale, is remarkably high. Guess whose fault that is? Surprise! It’s all YOUR fault.
Anderson Wildlife Co., a local animal control company, lists the area around Yale and Edgewood as having one of the highest squirrel populations in Connecticut. That’s thanks to the careless habits of …

By   |   September 15th 2011
By   |   September 14th 2011

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, located at 31 High Street, was broken into this evening between the hours of 11 p.m. and 12 a.m., by a knife-wielding burglar. A brother living on the first floor of the house heard clutter in the neighboring bedroom. Entering the room, he was surprised to see a man in a …

By   |   September 6th 2011

The educated populace (maybe).

By   |   April 8th 2011

Credit: Campus tours
As the weather grows warmer and the new prefrosh crawl around campus like bacteria on a piece of deli cheese, excellent opportunities for mischief arise. I am eagerly awaiting my opportunity to impersonate a tour guide and offer hidden wisdom to the eager masses. For example, did you know that from an aerial …

By   |   March 31st 2011

The following is the press statement from 16 Yale students who filed a Title IX suit against Yale today:
UPDATED 2:04 a.m.
On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an investigation of Yale University for its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment on campus, in violation of Title …

By   |   March 30th 2011

Tomorrow, March 31, chef, activist, and author Barton Seaver will talk about his work to save the diverse aquatic life of the planet’s oceans–one delicious meal at a time. Seaver has manned the helm of some of Washington D.C.’s most acclaimed restaurants and he earned Esquire‘s 2009 “Chef of the Year” status from food writer …

By   |   March 30th 2011

A man impregnating his girlfriend’s “cuzin.” Lesbian love triangles (Summer leaves her girlfriend, also named Summer, for Amber). “Softball whores” throwing punches. These are just daily occurrences for tabloid talkshow host Jerry Springer, whose show is filmed just down the road from Yale in Stamford.
Recently several Yale students made the journey to Stamford to witness …

By   |   February 28th 2011

Tired of Mental Health services or paying for therapist? Now you might not have to! Campus Advice–a question-and-answer network started exclusively for Yalies by Jeff Rosen ’11 and Doug von Kohorn ’11–touts itself as “an online community where Yalies can ask for and receive advice from one another.” If we don’t pop-psychologize each other enough …

By   |   February 9th 2011

Two candidates for student body office at Concordia University have been complimented accused of looking “like beauty pageant contestants” in their campaign ads. In the university’s newspaper, The Concordian, the most likely bitter and frumpy Kelsey Pudloski proclaims:
If you pass by a bulletin board in any Concordia academic building, you will likely find it congested …

By   |   February 3rd 2011

President Levin: We need a Marshall Plan up in here.

By   |   January 14th 2011

If you are like me or Joe Satran, whenever you have a crush on someone, the first thing you do isn’t Facebook stalk or Google that person. You immediately find out their birthday via Yale Facebook and go to this website to discover your astrological compatibility. If the result is good, you begin the pursuit. …

By   |   January 13th 2011

The sassy Tatiana Schlossberg is our very own dear Editor-in-Chief. When she’s not slaving over the ancient computers of the Herald office and giving orders to us minions, Tatiana takes classes. Here’s her list:
Reading and Writing the Modern Essay — Richard Deming — ENGL 120 — TTh 1.00-2.15
Calculus of Functions of One Variable I — …