Allison Battey
Allison Battey
Recent Stories
Rehab with God
Trading chemical dependency for divine inspiration, recovering addicts at New Haven’s Village of Power rehabilitation center embrace religion as their new fix. But will faith be enough to keep them clean?
Health center helps women mend troubles, build careers
Rosalind Bryant-Shipman sat at a sewing machine in the basement of the Hill Health Center on Dixwell Avenue, eyes on her hands as a length of colorful fabric slipped through her fingers, under her needle, and back out onto the table in front of her.
Poll finds Yalies divided on E.A.
In the wake of Harvard and Princeton’s recent announcements that the universities will eliminate their early admissions programs, Yale students have mixed feelings about the idea of adopting a single admissions deadline, according to a Yale Daily News poll of more than 300 randomly selected undergraduates.
Elis mourn 9/11 in personal ways
Flags flew, prayers were issued and a few tears were shed Monday evening on Beinecke Plaza, as about 150 people gathered to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Students caught up in Hezbollah conflict
Elis experience war’s hardships first-hand
Like many of his fellow Yalies, Moshe Sarfaty ’08 planned to spend the summer working in finance. For the first part of his summer at home in Tel Aviv, he filled his days (and many of his nights) working for a local hedge fund.
Summer break means slow business
Late on a Saturday night in mid-April, Yorkside Pizza and Restaurant is bustling with students. The doors are open, the tables are full, and the waiters shuttle from kitchen to dining room bearing trays of pizza, chicken fingers and milkshakes.
Societies find their secret niche
This week, they are hard to ignore. Cloaked figures huddle at the doors of Au Bon Pain; blindfolded juniors hunch in the drizzly Swing Space courtyard; a boy stands with a megaphone on Broadway and tells a girl across the street to "Swing on that pole.
Final clubs provide controversial social outlet
Since late 1800s, single-sex clubs have given Harvard students an alternative to room parties
Harvard senior Julia Lewandoski paints a bleak picture of a weekend night in Cambridge. "What happens on a Friday night at Harvard is that a lot of groups of drunk people wander around looking for places to go," she said. There are sometimes room...
Taking it to 'The Street'
Saturday night, Prospect Avenue, Princeton, N.J.: Students filter down a row of mansions, flash their IDs, and enter a different world. Inside, the floors are lacquered hardwood, the walls are crisp white, the beer is on tap -- and it is free.
Ivy housing continues to evolve
Harvard, Princeton poised to implement significant changes
The residential college system is often said to be the backbone of Yale. The population of each college is handpicked to reflect the composition of the entire student body, college deans and masters act as parental figures to many Yalies, and the Tyng...