Baobao Zhang
Baobao Zhang
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Cross Campus Presents: 2011 through the Lens
Photos of 2011's top stories. It's been a busy year for Yale and New Haven. Scroll through this gallery to see some of the year's lasting images.
A portrait of Mr. X
In his new book “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” Yale history professor John Lewis Gaddis paints an engaging and detailed portrait of his subject.
Stephen Gyllenhaal: accidental director, hip-hop enthusiast, situational lawbreaker
At one point, film director Stephen Gyllenhaal (“Waterland,” “A Dangerous Woman,” “Losing Isaiah”) chose wrestling over Yale. His latest movie production, “Grassroots,” about two slackers running for office in Seattle, Wash., will premiere at the Whitney Humanities Center today at 7 p.m. WEEKEND managed to only mention his children once, tangentially.
Irene Dispatch: Stocking up at Stop & Shop
Even though it was only 8:00 am, the Stop and Shop was already bustling with shoppers stocking up for the hurricane.
There’s no VPN in your Jasmine Revolution
The policeman inched towards me with a cold, methodical gaze.
OCI is live for 2011-2012 school year
UPDATED: 6:17 p.m. Yalies, start blue-booking because courses for fall 2011 and spring 2011 are available on Yale Online Course Information (OCI). A big change to this year's OCI is listing for classes in the new Global Affairs major, which include "Gateway to Global Affairs," "Violence and Cvil Strife," and "Water, Disease & Global Health."
Harold Koh defends U.S. involvement in Libya
Has Harold Koh flip-flopped? The former Yale Law School dean, now serving as the State Department legal adviser, is defending U.S. involvement in Libya without Congress's approval. On Tuesday, he will appear in front of the Senate Foreign Relations to argue the White House's actions are lawful.
WEEKEND | Who needs Tyco?
A young man came into the narrow print shop with a 300-page book in his hand.
WEEKEND | PKU Bikin' Blues
In 1991, Fred Strebeigh, who now teaches non-fiction writing at Yale, wrote about how students and citizens used bicycles to mobilize for the Tiananmen Square protests. He described China as "a country with only a few thousand privately-owned cars but some 220 million cycles."
Dream deferred
Instead of turning to Undergraduate Career Services — like students interested in pursuing careers in business, medicine, law, non-profit, or education — Yale’s proto-wordsmiths largely rely on other, more informal resources. Although Yale has improved and expanded the writing concentration within the English major, the program does not offer practical preparation for the writing profession. Students depend on unofficial social networks, writing professors and their own determination to succeed in the literary arts.
