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.'"
A decade in the News
The past decade of controversy saw Yalies make national news with encounters from the appalling to the absurd. Theft, fraud and presidents popularly charged with both have put the Yale name into headlines. scene invites you to take a trip through the past 10 years atop the outrage of millions — the expenditures of Yale’s staggering endowment in public dispute.
Toad’s hosts sex forum
Toad’s Place swapped dancers and penny drinks for activists and open discussion during Wednesday afternoon’s “Sex at Yale: The Toad’s Edition” forum hosted by the Yale Women’s Center.
Twilight and Susan Boyle, the quintessence of our generation
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" just had the third most successful opening weekend in box office history. Susan Boyle's debut album "I Dreamed a Dream" accrued the largest pre-sale Amazon.com has ever seen. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO? Have pseudo-erotic teen novels and reality TV washed up on YouTube's shores really become our national tastemakers? This might all seem significantly more preposterous had William Hung not received a $25,000 advance on a record deal soon after shaking his ill-fitted-cargo-khaki-clad ass to his own howl,s in a manner slightly less artful than that of operatic schoolmarm Boyle. As for Twilight, 12-year-old girls and 46-year-old pedophiles have proven themselves a choice market. Perhaps this year's epic special effects sideshow 2012 could have topped a few more charts with cameos by a pair of fangs and some lanky, pallid necrophiliac?
scene | Harvard’s music scene doesn’t suck?
As shoulder-padded, helmet-laden titans of Yale and Harvard clash on the field this Saturday, few will be worrying about who’s laying down tracks at the evening’s festivities. Fewer will be wondering which independent, student-musician supporting venue to hit up for the after-party. Music, it seems, will merely offer a backdrop for Yale-Harvard carousing; the competitive spirit and excitement of The Game takes precedence over Yale Precision Marching Band cacophony and Lady Gaga dance hits alike.
Yalie filmmaker dishes on new movie
Though his first drama production debuted in the Timothy Dwight College dining hall in 1999, David Brind ’00 is taking a much bigger stage this month.
Twins team up, split up
They are both Computing and the Arts majors in Silliman College and have roomed together since freshman year. At the start of each semester, they pore over the Blue Book together and decide which classes to take — they have had identical schedules all five semesters they have been at Yale.
Pilot Pen drops tournament
City could lose $26 million if event ends
Pilot Pen Corporation of America will pull its sponsorship New Haven’s Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament after 15 years — a move that puts the city’s most attended professional sporting event in jeopardy and could cause the city to lose millions of dollars.
Yale’s latest art acquisitions
Last February, feet of snow obscured Yale’s walkways. But thousands of miles south, beneath ancient blankets of ice, Professor Thomas Near braved the Antarctic chill in pursuit of rarely-seen sea creatures — dead or alive.
Franco breaks hearts
“I love you!” screamed a girl seated in the buzzing crowd when James Franco made his way to the small stage in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday afternoon.
Franco arrives, Yale swoons
Franco, who has garnered critical acclaim for his roles in “Milk” and “Pineapple Express,” spoke about his newer roles as a writer in Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program and as a director at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. “I enjoy film, but I’ve been doing it for twelve years now ...
The Costumer’s Manifesto
Yale is a brain-eat-brain world. We think to survive, wrack our consciousness to clarify slight nuances in class or exhume an elusive point yet to be made over dinner. It’s not uncommon to feel like all the big cases have been made — and intellectualized to death.
British Art Center seeks more undergraduate visitors
The Yale Center for British Art is amping up efforts to increase visibility among students.
Monsters of the Deep Blue
No maritime experience is complete without a mythical creature or two. From the classic hero Nessie to those Siren sluts, the high seas play host to all sorts of bizarre beasts. Consider this a primer on which ones to adore, which to ignore and which would make a nice allegory for oppression in your next term paper.
Yale gets a taste of Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole, the son of Britain’s first prime minister, an 18th-century antiquarian and one of the first British art historians, just moved in on the corner of Chapel and High streets.
Just post-party detritus?
Lost dignity aside, the remnants of a weekend party never get any glory.
Headlights dim
Tristan Wraight sounds passionate — over the phone. He addresses his fractured band and sick father in expectedly somber tones. Yet his stated devotion to making “gorgeous, poignant music” comes off livelier than anything on his band Headlights’ latest release.
Fields program lacks applicants
Yale’s Fields Program, which offers interdisciplinary resources for students interested in international careers and studies, has begun reviewing applications for the 2009-’10 academic year.
Cartoonist’s visit causes stir
Four years and a day after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad appeared in a Danish newspaper, Yale’s campus was abuzz with disagreement over those very cartoons.
The ’toons that got away
This book was inevitable. When 12 debatably offensive cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad were published in the Danish newspaper “Jyllands-Posten” in September 2005, the ensuing international controversy, moral crusade, civic violence and political strife demanded more than press coverage; this story begged, and will continue begging, for an explanation.
Cartoonist ‘was provoked’
Defending his controversial cartoons of Muhammad published in 2005, Dutch cartoonist Kurt Westergaard said, “I don’t want to run away in this situation.”
Bad songs go bad
What do drunken Yale girls want on Saturday at 1 a.m. nearly as much as Yorkside pizza and/or cock? To dance, of course! What do their plastered male counterparts desire? In many cases, sloppy chicks/other men rubbing up on their genitals — to a beat! Sadly, too many weekend dance parties, particularly those of the dorm variety, feature flaccid sound tracks. This sub-music, from such luminaries as Drake and Jay Sean, could make sober ears bleed and sober minds seek lobotomies.
‘A Winter’s Tale,’ remixed
Shakespeare has ditched the ruffles for fishnets and studs. This is the reality the cast and crew of “A Winter’s Tale” — the experimental, punk-rock spin on a complex five-act Shakespeare play — will soon bring to the stage of the Yale Repertory Theatre.
'Butch Cassidy' archives come out of hiding
Forty years ago, the world premiere screening of the western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” starring Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, and Robert Redford, mobbed New Haven’s bygone Roger Sherman Theater with thousands of actors and fans.
Anti-fashion week
The eager members of the class of 2013 invade campus, tantalized by prospects of fresh identities. The first-day outfit is laboriously selected, the obscure lingo haphazardly lands in conversations to maximize coolness and accessories abound. Welcome to Yale. Define yourself hard and fast. Embrace the many faces of a desperate aesthetic.