Eamon Murphy
Eamon Murphy
Recent Stories
Newly beyond the gates of Yale …
Four former columnists who graduated in May write about their lives these days, and share perspectives they have gained since leaving Yale.
Murphy: The art of Basic Drawing
When I came back to Yale this fall after having sat out spring 2008, I wanted variety in my class schedule. In my previous semester I had taken four English classes, which proved disastrous.
Murphy: End the double standard
What a contrast between last Tuesday and Election Night four years ago. Back then, the entire celebration consisted of two or three guys running around Old Campus shouting, “We won!!! We WON!!!!” The rest of us responded, as I recall, with silence.
How the other half pongs
It’s Wednesday, Oct. 29, and Hula Hank’s is host to the New Haven stop of the World Beer Pong Tour. I’m here to play, and to assess the game’s legitimacy outside of college.
Murphy: Fake Yale weekend
I just saw my fifth Parents’ Weekend. My parents stayed home, sensibly stopping at four. In their absence, I observed the holiday the way we used to — by doing an on-campus activity that would have never occurred to me otherwise. I went on a student-led tour of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Murphy: We’re still at war
At 9 a.m. on Election Day 2004, I was sitting in the basement of the Whitney Humanities Center, waiting for my Directed Studies literature section to begin, when a girl in the class entered wearing a red, white and blue hockey jersey, emblazoned with the words “Team Bush” and the number 43.
Too much talk about differences
Early Tuesday morning, someone spray-painted “White Guilt” on Dwight Hall. While I want to call this graffiti disturbing, I don’t want to give it that kind of power. It’s just so ugly: It sounds ugly, it looks ugly and the act of writing it is a forfeiture of human reason and dignity.
Murphy: Professors vanish, but the problem won’t
I took last semester off to get my act together; now I’ve got this one left. But no amount of academic atonement can reach back and touch my past mistakes: Professor Frost is gone, and when she left she took with her a finished picture of me as a student.
After perpetuating ambiguity, News must find truth
Will someone on this newspaper please go out and get to the bottom of this? Don’t just report what both sides are saying and then throw up your journalist hands. Investigate: End this charade.