Ali Weiner
Ali Weiner
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Weiner: Seminars this spring
The second meeting of “Foreign Correspondence,” a residential college seminar I took in during the spring of 2009, was canceled unexpectedly. War had broken out in Gaza that winter.
SOM students put school skills to work
Two weeks in Colombia filled with broken English, fresh coffee and social change — this spring break was a considerable change of pace for School of Management students accustomed to analyzing revenue streams and organizational structures in a Yale classroom.
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The Spice Girls returned to Madison Square Garden on Monday night in all their girl-power-British-accented-matching-gold-lame glory. The packed stadium of about 20,000 fans — probably 18,000 of them girls — felt so much like a throwback to their glory days of the late ’90s that it was hard to believe they hadn’t toured in 10 years.
Yale professors discuss cultural basis of hatred
Hate does not deserve a place in the Yale community or in the world, Graduate School Dean Jon Butler said Tuesday evening. About 50 members of the Yale community gathered in Sudler Hall last night for a panel discussion about the sociology of hate, the third in a series of four discussions sponsored by Butler and Yale College Dean Peter Salovey following several racially charged incidents on campus last semester.
Brisben talks sex toys, lube, vibrators
Vibrators, lubricants and dildos — Yale’s Becton Center for Engineering had never seen so much action in one night. On Tuesday night, Patty Brisben, founder and CEO of the adult retailer Pure Romance, spoke to a full auditorium of about 250 in Davies Auditorium at a Sex Week at Yale event titled “Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know about Sex (but were too afraid to ask).”