Alison Greenberg
Alison Greenberg
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GREENBERG: More sex walk, less sex talk
David Lilienfeld (“Stuck in the frosh pit,” Feb. 2), who has made many such references, commits a bit of hypocrisy, though certainly not the first in the recent media storm on “sexual culture.”
scene | The new world of ChatRoulette
Meet Chatroulette, a cult of randomization emboldening online predators with the prospect of virtual gratification, and too frightening to brave alone. A Web site that pairs users at random through audio, video and text chat with other visitors around the world.
The clubs of Crown Street: Static
From beneath the ashes of Oracle Resto-Lounge scuttles Static, New Haven’smost-recently-opened nightclub.The Crown Street discotheque has proven itself ineligible for the title of“newest."
New Web site provides retail info
John Shi ’12 spent more than three hours one weekend this fall combing New Haven retailers for wine glasses. That frustrating experience, he said, inspired him to streamline the way Yalies shop.
Student productions vie for space
Today is the deadline for applications to stage performances at the OBT for the spring semester, and the process has left student producers and directors worried about securing one of the limited number of performance spaces on campus.
Students and profs shop-weary
This week, lunch joined the endangered species list. The first pleasantries of the New Year echoed across campus between course tastings. Students returned to their dorms each night desperately seeking suitemates’ counsel, or simply corroboration of their sanity — via their class selections.
Foreign Yalies face scrutiny in travels
After years of international travel, some foreign students have developed, by necessity, means of adapting to what they perceive as more thorough checks in airports, more than a half-dozen students interviewed said.
Justice on display at Law Library
While students bemoaned the injustice of their workloads during finals week, the Lillian Goldman Law Library welcomed the “Images of Justice” exhibit, showcasing a set of the library’s rare illustrated law books.
Style Rookie
Thirteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson has wide eyes, growing pains and gym class angst, and she's not afraid to use them. Her cute yet incisive runway commentary capitalizes on these and other ironies of a little girl with comparatively big industry awareness. While "Style Rookie" has already spent over a year in the fashion blogosphere, its diminutive author has refined her voice and tastes. She's proving herself a dark horse among tired steeds like
Notable Quotables: 12.18.09
"I have two epigraphs for this essay ... The second is a report by the Wolf-Man of what he thought to himself shortly after he met Freud for the first time: 'this man is a Jewish swindler, he wants to use me from behind and shit on my head.' This paper is dedicated to the proposition that the Wolf-Man got it right." -- Stanley Fish, "Withholding the Missing Portion: Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric" As for the grass, it grew as scant as hair In leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mud Which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, Stood stupefied, however he came there: Thrust out past service from the devil's stud -- Robert Browning, Childe Roland To the Dark Tower Came, London : 1850 A message from Gabriel Barcia-Duran: "Treating cocaine hydrochloride with sodium hydroxide and extracting it into ether converts it back to the volatile 'free base' for smoking [...] A simpler alternative is to mix a paste of hydrochloride with sodium bicarbonate and let it dry into 'rocks.'"