Frances Brown
Frances Brown
Recent Stories
A modest proposal: Campus-wide Open Bars
I will be honest: mob scenes are no fun. I avoid football games, fraternities and mosh pits for that very reason. That, and because I hate warm beer cesspools. This weekend, though, I tried to attend two bona fide mob scenes: the Senior Masquerade...
The Yale Ballgame: Four years, you're out
Like many seniors, these past few weeks have comprised the summer of my life-plan discontent. Luckily for me, Major League Baseball was there to save the day. Tough times arrived with the Senior Dues letter, cheerfully informing me that my Senior Dues...
Branford
Entering Branfordians in the Class of 2005: to echo my sixth-grade math teacher, you all don't know just how good you've got it. The gloomy pre-renovation days are over. Beautiful, newly-renovated Branford College opened this past fall, and you've got...
It takes a spy plane: academic secrets safe
It has recently come to our attention that the Yale University history department, previously an exemplary withholder of academic information, has allowed a substantial leak. In an unprecedented move last Friday, Essie Lucky-Barrows, the history...
Transplanting Tulane, studying abroad American style
We just got back from spring break, which means many different things to different people. But let's talk about me. I went to Spain. I wandered lots of nameless streets and drank lots of labelless wine. I chit-chatted with German housewives in...
The monkey approach to senior essays: Just write it
To state the painfully obvious, many senior essay drafts are due this week. Hundreds of important papers are due in the coming days. All this compounds the greatest problem Yale students currently face: Five days before spring break, we're uninspired...
Hard times make bright college years dim
Remember Yale's Alma Mater, "Bright College Years?" (Hint: You have mumbled the lyrics at least once, during freshman assembly your first week at Yale). It says that these are the "shortest, gladdest years of life." Bah. I'll be honest: Yale's...