Emily Anthes
Emily Anthes
Recent Stories
The Hunt for the Uterine Truss
Earlier this month, with my senior essay deadline looming, my procrastination attempts reached a heroic new level of heroism. I set out on a mission, running around Orange Street one freezing morning, ringing buzzers and rattling locked doors and...
Quiet Americans face tensions abroad
Student travelers confront stereotypes and anti-Americanism during the summer months
Andrew Goldberg '04 received an unexpected orientation session when he arrived in London for his internship this summer. "I was just taking pictures of Big Ben and Parliament before work and all of a sudden these cops came and took me into an alley,"...
Famous Failures
How Yale Quitters Become Heavy Hitters
Forty-five years ago, an ambitious young man from the West Coast arrived on Old Campus as many freshman do: homesick, underconfident and missing his high school sweetheart (Lynne). Fewer than two years later, the freshman football player, a future vice...
Singing hopefuls improvise for rush meals
Rush meals expand to include takeout, restaurants as strike disrupts traditional setup
At 6 p.m., the height of the dinner rush, the Broadway restaurant strip is the place to see and be seen -- especially for the a cappella community. Last Tuesday, inside a packed Au Bon Pain, where the line just to pick up orders is over 20 students...
Administrators 'AIM' to communicate better
The door squeaks. Your residential college dean "has entered." Years ago, AOL Instant Messenger revolutionized communication and procrastination for students across the nation. But now, even administrators working from within Yale's gothic towers are...
Yale Icecapades comes to Ingalls
Michael Schulman '03 and Allysha Powanda '03 want to make you hot. And they want to do it on ice. On May 3, the seniors will give their final college performance in a show they spent all year creating -- the first ever Yale Icecapades. "To call it a...
Avoiding Yale's graveyard of failed publications
In a corner of Sterling Memorial Library, through two sets of double doors and behind the rattling glass, a few dusty bookshelves hold a history of student publishing ambition. There, the small, white, unassuming first issue of The Yale Journal of...
This time, a different campus reaction to war
As bombs fell in Iraq and dusk fell on New Haven on Jan. 19, 1991, students congregated on Beinecke Plaza to express their outrage over the U.S. bombing campaign in Iraq. A smaller group of students, including Simone Albeck '93, formed a semicircle...
Popularity of dance exceeds resources
After two nights of performances in the space she spent a week painstakingly preparing, Camele-Ann White '03 went to bed happy. But early the next morning, with two performances scheduled for that evening, she rolled out of bed to help another group...
With new activism, a rise on the right
Traditionally liberal Yale sees right-wing rise in activism
When she first stepped onto campus, Jennifer Barnes '06 was bombarded with evidence of political activism. During her first three months at Yale, hundreds of students protested the "don't ask, don't tell," policy of the U.S. military; made the trek to...