Elizabeth Gunnison
Elizabeth Gunnison
Recent Stories
Tattooing Tue
"I am a sweet, law-abiding citizen -- with bad-ass tendencies," Tue says matter-of-factly in the cab on the way to New Haven Tattoo. "My parents told me they would never speak to me again if I got a tattoo." Meet Hoang-Tuoc Le '03. Friends call her...
'Glamour-oriented' say YES to fashion at Yale
It's rare to walk into a Yale Entrepreneurial Society event and find as your fellow audience members a few dozen fashion-forward Yale women. Maybe that's because YES has up to now narrowly defined "entrepreneur" in terms prescribed by the traditional...
A quick and dirty guide to Parents' Weekend
You're a good girl, everyone you know tells you so. You wear underwear and never expose it (on purpose). You don't drink before noon (usually). You have a few commandments left to break (one). You insist porn "offends you" and so does "Girls Gone Wild.
A plague on both your colleges
Students, an early warning: if you plan on walking through Saybrook College on the evenings of Oct. 26 or 27, you may inadvertently find yourself in the middle of a Shakespearean tragedy. This fall, Sarah Weiss '05 and Nathan Kitada '05 have taken it...
Cooking a la Lieberman
Back in high school, I had a boyfriend who could only cook two things: toast and cinnamon toast. Since the likes of Martha Stewart and Julia Child had brainwashed me into thinking of cooking as a patently feminine skill, I saw his inability to use a...
'Gleaming': just cause for your (first) visit to Beinecke Library
Art
Admit it: even though the treasures of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are mentioned in 95 percent of University President Richard Levin's speeches, you've never been inside the building. In fact, the closest you've come to walking in the...
Abundance of art, culture in Elm City
You're in college now -- a parallel universe in which pizza is a food group, beer pong a sport, and "MTV News" a legitimate source of investigative reporting. While I have no qualms about ice cream for breakfast and breakfast at 3 p.m., it's important...
Diverse 'Drum' lives up to mission
Dance
A Different Drum is nothing if not ever-consistent with its mission statement: "sharing as wide a variety of dance styles as possible, both with our audiences and each other." This time around, ADD has assembled an enterprising 18 piece Spring...
You're a big boy now: Off-campus housing
You say tomato, I say "tomahto." Where you see overcrowding and lack of home-cooking, I see lifelong dorm memories and a hot meal with no dishes to clean. Maybe that's why you moved off campus and I hope to stay on for a fifth year. As with so many...
Student designers focus on theatrical costumes
Student Fashion
She yanked a worn binder out from beneath a pile of fabric, placed it in front of me, and began skimming through pages of 1940s era advertisements. "I have been saving old ads, patterns, and pictures since forever," Ramona Rose '03 said, "I can...