Easha Anand
Easha Anand
Recent Stories
Diurnal theater tests cramming, creativity
This is what is happening in the Yale Cabaret 20 hours before opening night:
City schools beef up security measures
Gold and silver glint from all over Nancy Zito’s outfit: From her neck, where “Nancy,” engraved in curlicued letters on a dog tag, hangs; from her wrists, covered in slim gold bracelets; and from her belt, where a massive buckle dwarfs the slim 17-year-old’s waist.
Fitting in on frat row: Yale's gay Greeks
The a cappella T-shirt says gay and the cargo shorts say Greek; the pillar candles and coffee table books say gay, the “College: The Best Seven Years of My Life” calendar and list of consulting job application deadlines say Greek.
Elis mourn 9/11 in personal ways
Flags flew, prayers were issued and a few tears were shed Monday evening on Beinecke Plaza, as about 150 people gathered to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Lamont, Lieberman draw committed Eli staffers
“Oh, man,” Lamont staffer Kevin Bock ’08 remembers thinking, “Ned Lamont is a truly terrible speaker.”
Elm City faces immigrant influx
Legal or not, immigrants change the fabric of local neighborhoods
Maurice Harris, 29, wheels his bike around Veronica Eichler, 22, at a bus stop on Grand Avenue, tilting his handlebars to stay upright and stuffing McDonald's fries into his mouth. Harris' homemade pin says "RIP Auntie," and his hat is camouflage.
Pulitzer roster has Eli pedigree
"There are obviously two educations," wrote John Truslow Adams, coiner of the phrase "the American dream." "One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." Adams GRD 1900 was the first Eli to nab a Pulitzer, which he won for a...
Learning to love archi-torture
They file in with coffee, this Wednesday night. With Starbucks cupholders and Atticus bags. With laptops and headphones, stopping to check out viciously markered posters and notes from TAs. Corner of York and Chapel, up seven flights, past the grad...
YPMB seniors make push for democracy
Faculty director opposes move for direct election of marching band's student leaders
Once upon a time, long before computers and Xeroxed formation sheets, the Yale Precision Marching Band had no drum major, at least not in today's sense of the word. Thomas Duffy, director of Yale Bands, swung his arms like a pendulum atop a tottering...
In Beantown, committed lesbians seem to be Wilde
Metaphors, if you ask Anna (Sara Holdren '08), protagonist of David Mamet's Boston Marriage, are to be embroidered upon, fleshed out, turned into apples of gold in pictures of silver by one highfalutin' croupier. This sort of wordplay permeates the...