Courtney Long
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Drama student debt to decline
Boosting financial aid is dean’s priority
Upon graduation, current first-years at the Yale School of Drama will have $10,000 less debt than last year’s graduates, thanks to an expansion of the school’s financial aid program.
Cabaret begins 40th anniversary season
Venue offers Drama School students a chance to experiment, with little oversight
While most drama groups on campus are lucky to get four or five shows off each year, the Yale Cabaret has regularly produced a staggering number of productions — for 40 years running.
Drama grads face tough path
Most Yale School of Drama graduates do not have a straight shot to success like Yale law or medical school alums; instead, drama grads face serious financial challenges coming out of school that can even be compounded by their education. To survive, they must often band together, drawing on parties, mentorships and the Yale brand to connect with the famous names.
Music’s apps drop from high last year
School saw spike in apps after going tuition-free
Applications to the Yale School of Music dropped this year, following a spike in the number of applicants the previous year that was attributed to the school’s elimination of tuition.
Weapons to go offstage
Trachtenberg cites Virginia Tech attack
In the wake of Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech in which a student killed 32 people, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg has limited the use of stage weapons in theatrical productions.
Drama School focuses on aid
Loan burden still concerns students
Despite recent improvements to financial aid at the School of Drama, many students say that worries about cost remain prevalent.
New Sudler rules affect theater
Following an addition to the Sudler funding application guidelines this semester clarifying that productions may only apply to one college for support, some theater students have experienced increased difficulties with getting the funds.
Casting of prof. is controversial
Theater studies professor Joseph Roach will take the stage in an April production of “Our Town,” a casting decision that has drawn fire from some in the undergraduate theater community.
Pixar techie shares experience
V.P. of Advanced Technology Cook speaks on challenges, future of animation
Imagine working in a building with a NASCAR car in its main atrium and aquariums filled with clownfish throughout its offices. For Rob Cook, vice president of advanced technology at Pixar Animation Studios, this is reality, not fantasy.
Mmmbaby: Zac chats with scene
Last night, we fulfilled our fifth-grade dreams: Zac Hanson now has our cell phone numbers. But our attempt to return to the simpler days of crushes, curfews and spelling tests has been made more complicated: Hanson hit puberty, all three brothers married, and the group committed itself to fighting AIDS. Though Hanson will release “The Walk,” their latest album, on May 22, and proceeds from the single “Great Divide” will go to benefit an AIDS hospital in South Africa, Yalies will undoubt