Playing with our Food — Goggles and Gloves Required
All the evidence points to one fact: human beings are always seeking exciting new ways to stimulate our palates and fill our bellies. Cue Nathan Myhrvold and his team at Intellectual Ventures, a prototyping/research laboratory featured heavily in “Superfreakonomics.” These engineers, inventors, chefs, and artists recently completed a 30-year project: a six-volume cookbook entitled “Modernist Cuisine.”
Bridalplasty
Unlike many reality shows, “Bridalplasty” did not originate in some Scandinavian entertainment think tank. It’s probably a twisted creation that could only ever take place in the United States, running for one season in 2010 on the E! Network. If the name of the show hasn’t given it away, then here’s the premise: twelve women compete over eight episodes to win a dream wedding –– and dream plastic surgery procedures.
My totally scrupular and feminist cartilage
Intermission
Let us begin with a few propositions: Mr. Gassó, Teenage Boy Wonder and adequate tennis player, once lacked the time to worry about women’s rights. He had few scruples. My 18-year-old self had no sense of tact.
Yale raised $580 million in 2011, report says
Behind only Harvard and Stanford. An annual report released by the Center for Aid to Education on Wednesday showed that 14 Connecticut universities raised a combined $746 million in 2011, with Yale receiving more than three quarters of all donations.
At Drama School, young program finds its footing
With the Drama School's production design program filled for the first time, the 18-month-old concentration is still seeking to define itself.
We’re sexy, and you know it
My “Big Sib” freshman year told me coming in that I might have a problem with romance at Yale because I’m black. I was like nahhhh, racism is so passé, but after three years at Yale, I had lunch with her and I was like, man I’ve given up. I’ve actually given up.
Transmission to life on Mars
Playing off the beat
Here are two nuggets about astronomy, kids: the universe hums a steady B-flat, and outer space reads binary. The former, I learned in sixth grade music class and wrote down on the “To Be Used As a Vague Yet Evocative Metaphor In Future Poetry” page in my journal. The latter, I suppose, was the assumption made when, in 1974, a binary sequence known as the Arecibo message was transmitted into space to celebrate the Arecibo radio telescope’s remodel. Radio waves shimmied up and out, and in about 25,000 years, the kind residents of globular star cluster M13 will get to learn all about human DNA and what our solar system looks like, if they bother to check their inbox.
W. BASKETBALL | Elis gear up for Ivy foes
As the race for the Ivy League title heats up, the Bulldogs prepare to face Harvard for the second time this season.
M. HOCKEY | Bulldogs angle for home-ice advantage
If you have not made your way to Ingalls Rink for a men’s hockey game yet this season, this weekend is the time to go. The Bulldogs (10–13–2, 7–10–1 ECAC) could be playing their last home games of the season when they take on Dartmouth and Harvard on Friday and Saturday. After this weekend’s homestand, the Elis will finish up the regular season next weekend when they travel to Princeton and Quinnipiac.
M. BASKETBALL | On the road again
The men’s basketball team says that every weekend in the Ivy League is equal, but to take a page from George Orwell, this weekend just might be “more equal.”
M. FENCING | All-Ivy Honoree talks fencing
Last weekend, the men’s fencing team took fifth place in the Ivy League Championships at Coxe Cage. Despite their disappointing finish, two of the Bulldog fencers earned the All-Ivy Honors, foilist James Broughton ’15 and epeeist Peter Cohen’14. Now with the NCAA National Championship looming ahead next month, the News sat down with Cohen. Hailing from Irvington, N.Y., last season’s All-American talked about the state of the Eli fencing, his fencing career and the team’s prospects for the future.
MERCER-GOLDEN: Gratitude this winter
Parenthetically
My mother, who is a wise woman, sent me a column a week ago that she had cut out of the newspaper. The column had been written by a grief counselor, someone who works closely with the dying and their loved ones in the face of terminal diagnoses. While she identified five lessons that she had learned from the dying in the column, I want to draw on the last one, particularly because it was just Valentine’s Day and it’s still winter.
EDWARDS: A gift, not a statistic
Once, while walking down York Street next to my beloved Jonathan Edwards college, a homeless man shouted to me and asked, “Hey you! What’s the best nation in the world?”
GREENBERG: Leaving a legacy
I’m not majoring in anything remotely quantitative, but even I know there’s a simple reason why the senior class gift participation numbers keep getting forwarded, posted and retweeted: They matter. The whole point of the campaign is numbers — not dollar amounts, but participation.
SCHLOSSBERG: Investing in our state
We, as Yale students, pride ourselves on being bright, curious and engaged citizens. We are part of an institution that aims to educate its students to better the world. We tend to think that we do not fit the stereotype of ignorance and apathy that is all too often associated with America. But Yale students often forget the most accessible outlet to effect change: state politics.
AL-ALUSI AND HAMID: Fighting Islamophobia at Yale
Since the end of the Jim Crow era, politicians have dressed racism in the rhetoric of food stamps and illegal aliens. But as the past ten years have shown, it seems that politicians need no such disguise for Islamophobia.
LUND: Bucket List: Library science
I worry a lot about not taking advantage of Yale’s library resources. Early in my Yale career, I quit every panlist I’d been strong-armed into and signed up for the e-newsletter Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library.
ANBINDER AND MORRISON: Crime in Dixwell is real
No Yale student should ever walk in fear of the city he or she lives in. Yet by the time our four years in New Haven are up, far too many of us will have gone through our time at Yale having barely ventured beyond the so-called bubble. And most Yale students will admit — some openly, others tacitly — that the reason is simple: crime.
Howard Dean ’71 commends young generation
Former governor of Vermont Howard Dean ’71 told students Thursday afternoon that they are better positioned to enact political change than previous generations.
Morse master search ongoing
Roughly one month after Morse College Master Frank Keil announced that he would leave the post at the end of the spring semester, the search for his successor is underway.
Email migration waiting on majority of Yalies
Information and Technology Services is still waiting for the majority of students to switch their email accounts to EliApps.
City begins jobs ‘pipeline’
With the latest figures from City Hall showing 12.9 percent of New Haveners without a job, the city’s proposal to open a vocational school lies at the heart of the “jobs pipeline” which seeks to align education change with job opportunities.
Global Zero arrives at Yale
This weekend, anti-nuclear weapon activists will be on campus talking about ways to make the atomic bomb a thing of the past.
Connecticut invests in startups
Gov. Dannel Malloy is investing $250 million in startup technology companies.
Sex Week navigates sponsorship ban
Even without corporate sponsors, Sex Week offered twice the events of its predecessor.
MFA thesis show defies expectations, easy answers
A piece of art is generally regarded to be self-evident, a transcendent object rather than documentation of an artist’s personal growth. The Painting and Printmaking Thesis show, the first part of which opened on Feb. 8 in Green Hall, is the culmination of the nearly two-year process of obtaining an MFA.
Rushern Baker: A middle ground
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Evan Nesbit: A Trip and some “Gardening”
Joy Shan ’15 sits down with painter Evan Nesbit ART ’12.
A Peculiar Institutional Memory
The year is 2001 and Yale’s relationship to slavery is summarized thusly in its 300th anniversary brochure: “Yale graduates and faculty have had a long history of activism in the face of slavery and a modern history of scholarship about it.”
And Music for All
Inspired by President Obama’s recently released campaign playlist, whose tunes so accurately capture America’s national climate (e.g., “Green Onions,” by Booker Ts & The MGs), we compiled a soundtrack for the every day of Yale life.
Valerie Plame Wilson: ex-spy, activist, global player
She spent years lying to everyone but her family about her job, she publicly shamed the Bush administration, she moved to Santa Fe because she was receiving too many threats at her home in DC — Valerie Plame Wilson has led a complicated life, but she’s not done fighting yet. The ex-spy who infamously had her cover blown, allegedly as political revenge for an anti-Iraq-war article by her diplomat husband, has a new mission.
Off-(Lincoln) Center
Among the presentations outside of the main tents is Gant by Michael Bastian. Titled “The Lucky Ones,” Bastian’s collection for Gant is independent of his eponymous label. Each season has a specific sports theme, and draws on a particular set of inspirations. Winter ’12 draws on Bastian’s college years and the Mod revival that took place at that time, all set to a boxing theme. As always, Bastian maintains a strong connection to Yale and New Haven, through Gant.
“Dracula” brings the absurd to the Yale Cabaret
Dim red stage lights and candlelit tables turn the Yale Cabaret into a smoky barroom for the play “Dracula,” written by Mac Wellman and directed by Jack Tamburri DRA ‘13. The hazy, bizarre and slightly seedy impression given by the lighting is more than fitting, because Wellman’s “Dracula” speeds past descriptions such as “strange” and “baffling” without a second glance, ending up somewhere on the border between “disturbing” and “incomprehensible.”
The “Folly” of love
“Whatever time there is in a life is a lifetime.” So declares Matt Friedman (played by Keith Rubin ’12), one of only two characters in “Talley’s Folly,” as he proceeds to explain the span of a worker bee’s life. “Talley’s Folly” is about neither bees nor economics: rather, it is the dance between two people stricken by love.
A Nobel story
In the 111-year history of the Prize, Yale has been rich with the lore of Nobel laureates. But their journeys from the Elm City to Stockholm are far from predictable. “One never expects to win a Nobel,” George Akerlof ’62, like most laureates, will be quick to dispense. WEEKEND delves into the commonalities that have guided them to achieve the highest of all academic honors, and the aura around the laureates begins to demystify.