M. HOCKEY | Yale loses to St. Lawrence
Despite a comeback, Yale falls to St. Lawrence in sudden-death overtime, 4-3.
Dating in the dark
“Inside this secluded house, a most unusual dating experiment is about to take place…” Intrigued? You should be. If the James Bond-esque music brooding behind this voice over didn’t have your heightened attention, then this reality show’s title will: “Dating in the Dark.”
TEDxyalexweekend
This weekend, TED talks have come to Yale. TED, a non-profit organization that began in California with the motto “Ideas Worth Spreading,” solicits world leaders and thinkers to give roughly 20-minute talks on a topic of their choice.
SCHWARTZ: Masters and role models
The Gadfly
Yesterday morning, Pierson Master Harvey Goldblatt sent an email to the students of his college explaining his decision to host Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield for a master’s tea on “Manliness.” Last night, Branford College unveiled a new portrait of its long-serving former master Steven Smith and hosted a reception in his honor.
Once in a blue Newt
Say what you will about Speaker Gingrich. Go ahead: there are a lot of things to say about him, and most of them are pretty mean. But don’t say that he doesn’t have some pretty awesome moon-related ideas. It seems to me there are two groups of people to whom a base on the moon sounds appealing.
MERCER-GOLDEN: The right questions
Parenthetically
As I look at the recent headlines in national newspapers and in the Yale Daily News, two words come to mind: sex and responsibility. The two are, of course, profoundly connected, and each is devastating in its own way.
BEIZER: Mugs, shot
In September, Yale Dining Services introduced something truly beautiful: a new coffee mug. These mugs were vast improvements over their predecessors. More aesthetically pleasing and, more importantly, larger, these mugs could hold twice the amount of coffee as the old mugs and, in doing so, they revolutionized my mornings. I really, really love coffee.
HEFFERON: The Yale I know
I have been gone from Yale for eighteen months. For eighteen months I’ve missed every part of it: weekend brunch, Nemerov’s lectures and even the rainy spring break I spent locked up with a jar of peanut butter and my senior essay. I think I could miss the post office if I tried.
ER&M becomes stand-alone major
Students interested in ethnicity, race and migration will no longer have to pursue it along with a second major.
SCHIFFRES: Kill the language requirement
When Yale was founded, students were allowed to converse only in Latin – even in dorms. Nearly a century later, a member of the Yale Corporation moved “dead languages” be made elective in favor of courses “more meaningful and useful for contemporary life.”
The Scottish Play comes to America
The Yale Drama Coalition’s new production of “Macbeth,” directed by Sam Lasman ‘12, reimagines the Scottish play in “a timeless landscape of American mythmaking,” according to the Coalition’s website. And while the transitions between different scenes and time periods are disorienting at times, when taken together they manage to carve out a unique time and a setting for the play.
A tale of two
I live in an old apartment building on the corner of Elm and Howe called the Elmhurst. This means several things.
Gambling facility reopens
With it’s grand reopening earlier this week, New Haven’s gambling epicenter now offers a more refined experience for greyhound and horse racer betting.
Kline prepares for renovation
Though Kline Chemistry Laboratory was scheduled for demolition a year ago, administrators have altered their plans and decided to begin renovations of the building this summer.
The morning after
The morning after a hook-up can be awkward, uncomfortable, sneaky, sleepy, and even mind-blowing. We all must contend with morning etiquette after spending the night with someone, and there are four main categories of how such a morning can transpire.
M. BASKETBALL | Big weekend ahead for Bulldogs
Three times under head coach James Jones Yale has beaten Penn and Princeton back-to-back at home. It would behoove the Bulldogs to make it four times this weekend.
YES-W to return this month
Yale’s Science and Engineering weekend is set to continue on a trial basis this month.
Manliness talk incites debate
Harvey Mansfield sparked controversy among students Thursday afternoon when he outlined his beliefs about “manliness.”
Too good to be blackout
The TLC Tip
I know that Freshman Me didn’t anticipate Senior Me — an old person who would rather put on a bulky sweater and have a calm, nice, Belgian beer in a well-circulated bar playing Feist than “go out.” But I also know that Freshman Me wanted to learn Latin, claimed her favorite drink was Black Velvet whiskey straight-up, and was bummed when she didn’t get into the Exit Players.
M. HOCKEY | North Country foes come to Ingalls
The men’s hockey team will be looking for revenge this weekend when it hosts St. Lawrence and Clarkson in a repeat of the Bulldogs’ visit to the North Country three weeks ago.
A Dominican Abroad
As someone who grew up in the Dominican Republic listening to The Four Seasons, hearing about my father’s alleged adventures at the Woodstock Festival and rooting for Ross and Rachel, I consider myself incorrigibly Americanized. Despite my proclivity for Americana, I am no rebel intending to stab the back of my motherland.
Ladies talk Ghosh
Natasha confused
I’ve always been the kind of girl who can transition from Lucretius to Cosmo within the same hour.
Bespoke plans rebirth
Bespoke will close its doors this Saturday, ending the restaurant’s nearly six-year run in New Haven.
YCBA chronicles British history
The Yale Center for British Art opened a new exhibit called “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain” on Thursday.
SWIMMING | Bulldogs head to H-Y-P meet
The undefeated record (4-0,5-0) of the men’s swimming and diving team is on the line this weekend when it takes on Harvard, Yale and Princeton in Cambridge.
W. BASKETBALL | Yale preps for Princeton, Penn
Two milestones are in sight as the women’s basketball team hits the road this weekend to take on Penn and Princeton.
The LC Testament: Religion in the classroom
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Yalies talk TED
As the semester wears on, Yalies may feel they are stuck in a grind. But organizers of TEDxYale believe Yale brainpower, channeled through the experience of the group’s debut conference this weekend, can shake them out of their own ruts.
Sex Week 2012 organizers: educational, courageous, sexy
Among the eight leaders of Sex Week at Yale, it is safe to say that one can find most, if not all types of students of our campus.
All the news in fits of print
Upon arriving at the New Haven Register’s 13-acre property and walking into their building by Long Wharf, we saw just what we had expected: rows and rows of reporters’ desks piled with papers and people busily chatting on phones and typing on their computers.
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ listens for sounds and silences
The Calhoun cabaret theater is small and bare, and on this particular occasion the set is surprisingly prosaic: a bed, a sofa, a cabinet and a few chairs are the only furnishings used throughout the two-and-a-half-hour show. But even if the performance took place in a bare concrete cell, it would make little difference, because this is Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and it is dominated by sound — and by silence.