Jen Harris
Jen Harris
Recent Stories
Shameless Nostalgia
The Gak Odyssey
I was about eight years old when I received a starfish-shaped plastic container full of squelchy, rubbery, yellow matter. It was utterly baffling. The label simply identified the stuff as "Nickelodeon Gak," and provided no instructions for how one...
Coltrane and Monk, alive at Carnegie
In the fall of 1957, John Coltrane had suddenly overcome long and devastating addictions to heroin and alcohol, and was in the midst of a fascinating period of transition into a decade-long burst of creativity. Thelonious Monk, perhaps the greatest...
Contention ensues over Minority Advisory pool
Charged with filling three open undergraduate seats on the University's Minority Advisory Committee, the Yale College Council has already submitted a list of candidates to Yale President Richard Levin. But though Levin has not yet announced his...
Yale to revisit Game policy
University seeks alternatives to drinking
Nearly 10 months after last year's Harvard-Yale football game in Cambridge, Mass. ended in several arrests and dozens of citations for underage drinking, the Yale administration is discussing whether to change its policy for the tailgates at the Yale...
Fall Show taps Sanz and Helms
Comedians Ed Helms and Horatio Sanz will perform at the Fall Show Oct. 14, the Yale College Council announced late last night. Helms, a correspondent on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and Sanz, a cast member of "Saturday Night Live," will perform...
YCC sees large fee opt-out
Activities fee will raise 24 percent less than YCC had originally projected
About 37 percent of Yale's undergraduate student body has opted out of the optional $50 student activities fee, a surprising figure given that 78 percent of student voters supported it in a referendum last spring. At least 1,958 students opted out by...
Get your fill of classics (and drinks)
The closing of York Square Cinemas this summer was a crushing blow to Yale cineastes. At least it seemed like it at the time. But New Haven rallied valiantly to make sure we don't have to resort to $40 cab rides to Orange to get our fix. Criterion...
Groups renew aid reform push
UOC and YCC call for smaller student contribution
Seven months after the University announced substantial changes to undergraduate financial aid, the student groups that were most active last year in pushing for change say the reforms were not enough and are drafting proposals for further additions to...
YCC says a comedian to likely perform at show
This year's Fall Show will most likely be headlined by a comedian, Yale College Council officers said Thursday. The council has an offer out to one of the comedians listed in its YaleStation survey last month and YCC officers said they are currently in...
Ellis' new novel is dark, but it shines
Bret Easton Ellis is not an author for the faint of heart. At his most sedate, Ellis merely subjects his characters to alienation and despair, along with rapid self-destruction (fueled by quantities of drugs that would daunt even the late Hunter S.