We all know Yale’s student body comprises a diverse and interesting array of people, but meet those students you might overlook on campus. Some of them have been to Iraq and back, and one of them even pulled a stint as a used car salesman for a time. Let us introduce you to some of Yale’s most alternative students, who might just pop up in your next seminar.

When Yalies move off campus, they lose the basic support network that Yale’s residential college system provides. So, who do they turn to? As this point, students trade masters and deans for landlords and property managers. These are relationships that can turn sour at the flip of the switch or the breaking of a pipe.

Every night, thousands of Yalies have the potential to change the world from the comfort of their duvet covers. But even after heading to bed, the realities of Yale life drive our subconscious realities. And when we awake, we carry our dreams into our daily routines, for better or for worse. It goes to show that dreams are far more than mere fairytales concocted by tired minds. Dream on.

A recent front-page article in the News informs us that the Yale Center for British Art suffers from a lack of visibility: Many undergraduates, apparently, do not know it exists.

The ’80s were a quarter century ago, but yet again Safety Dance is upon us. Is our
obsession with the decade healthy?

With the University encouraging its sickly students to self-isolate for fear of a mass H1N1 outbreak, scene explores the measures Yale has taken throughout its history to contain past pandemics.

Every so often, even at a place like Yale, we are reminded that some people are smarter than others. Someone, like Thomas Steitz — a Sterling professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and, as of Wednesday, the winner of a Nobel Prize for Chemistry — will come along and make us wonder what makes these people different from the rest of us.
Some people call them “geniuses.” But genius is just a label — a word for people who seem to have a natural talent for one thing or another, such as learning birdsong, investigating why elderly people fall or crystallizing cellular organelles smaller than we could even imagine.
“Genius is a useful human construct,” said music professor Craig Wright, who has taught the freshman seminar “Exploring the Nature of Genius” for three years. “It’s just an idea like justice or liberty.”

One morning, I (Eve Binder) awoke from troubled dreams to discover that my life had been transformed into an epic cliché. Not, sadly, the kind of cliché where drunk people wake up married, and talking animals hem your pants for you, and you fell in a barrel of toxic waste, and now you have superpowers. More like the cliché where you wake up from Kafkaesque dreams to realize that your life’s plans are totally unoriginal, and you’re just treading a road that’s been trod by a million before you, and you are an unspecial little turd in a big trite world.

Zachary Fuhrer is in a band. And he’s pissed off. With just a little help from Yale, students could get the music they want, and they could get it every damn day.

Good morning. Before you is a big, happy bowl of Yale “curios,” courtesy of scene. Enjoy, friend.

Life is strange for those seeking readmission to Yale. Profiling students unsure of their relationship to the University, Jay Dockendorf explores what it means to be stuck between college and the outside world. Page 3

When he was 4 years old, Mert Altinok ’13 was so confused. “No, sweetie, Emre is not trapped on the other side” is probably what his mother told him about his identical twin, Emre Altinok ’13, whenever she found Mert talking to his own reflection in a mirror and wondering why his usually playful brother wouldn’t follow him outside after a long chat.

I deeply and completely accept myself.

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On March 25, The Princeton Review released survey results ranking the “Top 10 Dream Colleges” according to college applicants and their parents. Among high schoolers, Yale was ranked No. 6, behind Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and — sad but true — New York University. Just as the Yale Facilities freed a Lanman-Wright freshman from bedbugs, Zachary Fuhrer shall free Yale from mediocrity. Here’s how.

While you stumble out of Toad’s on a Saturday night, student CEOs are working upstairs. But your noise does not disturb them. They are in their element. Many of them have even dropped out of Yale to pursue their passion. But at what cost?

No longer bounded by stone and ivy, Yale will soon be constrained only by HTML. Whose university is this, anyway?

AMMAN, Jordan — Every undergraduate who sets her heart on studying abroad tells herself (and her family, and her friends, and her professors, and the guy standing next to her in line) that she’s looking forward to experiencing a new culture, making friends with the locals and learning to say more in the local language than “a little” in response to the question: “Do you speak [insert language]?”