Caroline Massad
Caroline Massad
Recent Stories
For some, contraception holds stigma
Students praise otherwise liberal policies on sexual health, education
She still doesn't know whether or not the condom broke. Just after spring break her freshman year, a female student, who declined to give her name, said she was drinking with a friend and "suddenly came to discover" that they were having sex.
The death of the great Yale party
Sometimes -- and not just in action movies -- your greatest strength can turn out to be your greatest weakness. Look at the recent cancellations of two of Yale's most notorious parties, the Pierson Inferno and Exotic Erotic. The wild, all-campus...
Love the bag, love the shoes, love the you
I had a vague notion of what the term "metrosexual" meant: trendy men with tailored shirts in their closets and hair pomade in their bathrooms, image- and culture-conscious guys who can tell you about "Sex and the City," interior design and musical...
Strike over, a return to normalcy
Some Yalies spent the extra money from their strike rebate checks on alcohol. Some went shopping. But Santanov Chaudhuri '06 is going home for the holidays. By eating out for only one meal a day, Chaudhuri managed to save around $10 every day, he...
Life on the fringes: 'Kowtow' hits New York
Kirschenbaum, Duruz and Guando survived the Great Blackout of 2003 but there's no big break so far
After a Tuesday night performance of their play "Kowtow Rapsody" this August, James Duruz '03 sat in a bar answering audience members' questions. He was "really feeling like [he] was onto something, and [he] told a friend, 'You know, maybe I am a...
Dean rallies 1,000 in support of unions
Presidential hopeful is third high-profile political figure to visit campus
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean '71, in a Friday evening speech on Beinecke Plaza, became the third prominent national figure to speak out this week in favor of Yale's unions. Dean's speech followed those by fellow presidential hopeful...
Hundreds of Yale workers go on strike
Leaders promise protracted walkout as negotiations stall
Yale and its workers opened another chapter in their fitful 40-year relationship Wednesday, as hundreds of union members took their places on campus picket lines in search of higher wages and better pension benefits. On the same day that...
New frat Sig Ep seeks diverse brotherhood
Brian Korchin '05 wants to get back to the root of what "fraternity" means. So far, he seems to have been successful. "A lot of the essence of what a frat is has been lost, I think. It's sort of turned into a gentlemen's drinking club," Korchin, the...
Brei's selflessness remembered
When Brandon Brei GRD '06 was an Eagle Scout in middle school, he went to Philmont, a Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico. The troop was on a two-week survival mission for which they had to carry their food and supplies in backpacks. But even though...
STDs at Yale: One in four, maybe more?
This weekend, many Yalies will be playing sexual roulette
Let me put it this way: there was no reason for me to think I had anything. But I was still antsy sitting in the waiting room (maybe it's something about being in a clinic) and I only got more nervous when they started asking me questions (maybe it's...