I try to sit still. Unfortunately, my leg, propped up on a small black office stool that rolls around with alarming ease, is shaking visibly. I force myself to make conversation with two men standing nearby (who are trying hard to distract me, bless them), and the next thing I know the stencil is on …

The following statements are true:
1. Yale won seven Ivy League championships last year, the most in its history.
2. Yale varsity athletes, almost universally, despair for the future of Yale athletics.
In light of the first statement, how can we interpret the second? As the Yale Daily News recently reported, the university failed to fill 53 out …

Farmers. That’s what they’re called. Overalls, pitchforks, tractors, and all. This is the age-old conception. This is how city folk like me were raised to think of farms and the folks on them, E-I-E-I-O. Sure. But then there are the hippies, the folkies, the folksters, the hipsters. They’re farming now, too. And the modern conception …

Given societies’ clandestine nature and the especially sensitive timing, survey respondents, junior candidates, and senior participants were all granted anonymity. This reporter, a senior himself, is not affiliated with a society and did not go through the tap process.
The juniors lined up on Old Campus were scared to death. You could even hear them breathing.
A …

John Stillman is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Barry, a freshman, is a proud Ravens fan. His Old Campus suite has been known to host a game or two of beer pong. When he arrived on campus last fall and learned more about his suite, Barry became a happy new Yalie. His suite’s bay …

The cars zipping down I-95 South don’t notice Hallock Avenue, or the mass of white cinderblock, stamped with the words “New Horizons School,” which buffers this quiet residential street from highway traffic. Just past the New Haven Register building and Gateway Community College, and a stone’s throw from the Long Island Sound, New Horizons doesn’t …

If you stand on the concrete island between Elm Street and Broadway, near the intersection with York Street, you can see a row of two-story facades. On the left, the Philadelphia-based chain Urban Outfitters sits behind a sheet of glass bounded with gray stone. In the middle, a quaint brick building with limestone accents houses …

On a gray Thursday last November, a group of Yale students huddled on the corner of York Street and North Frontage Road, standing underneath the massive Air Rights Garage that straddles downtown New Haven and the city’s medical district. Two students, members of EnviroAdvocates, a politically-oriented project group that operates within the Yale Student Environmental …

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Andrew Miranker studies proteins. With a Ph.D. from Harvard, an associate professorship in the molecular biophysics and biochemistry department at Yale, and a namesake lab in the Bass Center on Whitney Avenue, he knows a bit more about polypeptide chains than your ninth grade biology teacher. Yet Miranker starts his week off in the same …

One thing is clear: the Flatiron district of Manhattan is not Silicon Valley. Not downtown enough to be cool and not midtown enough to be opulent, the area still shows evidence of rising real-estate prices. Small stores and restaurants with generic logos line the streets, most of them looking like they opened last week. Their …

Several days before Patrick J. Witt, JE ’12, announced that he had withdrawn his Rhodes scholarship application, the Rhodes Trust had suspended his candidacy, the New York Times reported today. The Trust learned “through unofficial channels” that a Yale student had accused him of sexual assault, according to the Times article.
People with knowledge of the …

When she was 17 years old, Cheryl Haworth won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Though I wasn’t aware of the significance of her victory at the time, it was and is shocking that she managed to pull this off. Unlike other Olympic sports, where, say, prepubescent gymnasts …

We talk a lot here at the Herald about things we don’t like. Peanutty tofu, thumbs down. Snowstorm in the middle of October, double thumbs down. You get the point. Some may call that attitude—we bring the hammer down, it’s all in a day’s work, just doing our job as the arbiters of truth. Others, …

Yale is America’s happiest undergraduate campus… according to Forbes. The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which provided the research for this ranking, defines “happiness” by “retention.” Putting the problematic nature of that equivalence aside, this superlative invites us to think about what it means to be happy at Yale, and whether or not students …

Samuel Robbins Brown, YC 1832, took his first trip to China in 1838. He was on a mission with the Morrison Education Society, a group that intended to bring the Western religious and humanistic tradition to the Orient. Brown was especially impressed by one of his primary school students, Yung Wing. He recommended Yung to …

In April 1861, Uriah Parmelee dropped out of Yale. Having matriculated as a member of the class of 1863, Parmelee left Yale to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers to join the Union Army. To get to war, Parmelee had to join a New York regiment because Connecticut’s regiments were already full with volunteers even …

It’s 7:30 a.m. on an October morning in New Haven. Most Yale University students are still nestled under their blankets. But about 80 are awake. They’re quietly entering St. Luke’s Chapel at the Berkeley Center on the corner of St. Ronan and Canner Streets in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven. Some bow to …

How much money do you make?”
In a Monday morning lecture early this month, “Introduction to Programming” Professor Daniel Abadi demonstrated how to build a basic program that started by asking this question, and finished by generating the user’s post-tax income. When pre-tax income was equal to zero, Abadi instructed the machine to spit back not …