Dara Lind
Dara Lind
Recent Stories
Lind: So long, schedule
Last Saturday, I missed the Safety Dance again. During my time here I have attended exactly one Safety Dance — sophomore year — and missed the other three. And, yes, I’ve been keeping track. If I were a less honest woman, I’d try to persuade you that I’ve been taking a stand against classism.
Lind: Faces may change, but ideas persist
The real world doesn’t have the Mellon Forum, and Twitter’s the next best thing.
Lind: Pondering police presence
We don’t necessarily mind getting letters from you that aren’t mandated by federal reporting requirements, and we certainly don’t want to wait until we’re the ones apprehended by courtyard patrols to figure out who and what they’re looking for.
Lind: Self-defeating academia
The beginning of each year provides plenty of reminders of just how many regulations Yale has: from the “Undergraduate Tenant Manual” that awaited me in my common room upon arrival to the friendly note in my registration packet reminding me that I won’t be able to graduate in May without taking another science class this year.
A healthier four-year strategy: unapologetic awe
Admittedly, it doesn’t seem that Yale needs to get any more caught up in its own wonder; after all, we’re talking about a school whose president enters its convocation ceremony bearing a jeweled mace. But to those of us who have seen it all before, both such ritual and the starry-eyed freshmen themselves are cute at best, grating at worst.
Falsifying campus unity lowers value of its diversity
For no discernible reason, I’ve paid an embarrassing amount of attention to this year’s board elections for Yale College Council.
Elis graduate with no skills — and few prospects
March Madness isn’t over yet. Who cares? The admissions game is the most closely followed varsity sport at Yale, and this week brought us some great news: Our team has bounced back from an off year to place second in the division. Well done.
In creating dialogue, Elis should raise the bar
The next time you hear a passing reference to the liminal or the strange loop, ask about it or look it up. We shouldn’t strive for a dialogue so universal that nobody feels comfortable speaking at all.
Change your Prospect of campus with the times
If we start now to expand our collective definition of the heart of Yale’s campus, we may find, when we return for our 20-year reunions, that students in the new colleges feel less isolated than we feared they would — and we might feel oddly comfortable on Prospect Street ourselves.
Yankee Doodle, Barack Obama: Two peas in a pod?
And just as student activists interested in national politics are recycling their voter lists and washing their Obama ’08 T-shirts for the first time in days, another kind of movement is picking up speed and the attention of various economic players in New Haven: The “Save the Doodle” movement, fueled mostly by Yale alumni and current students, in an effort to get the Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop to reopen the doors that “closed for good” last week.