Jeremy Kutner
Jeremy Kutner
Recent Stories
Drained
For years, the closest this child came to angst was having to pout during photo shoos in the California sunshine. Then one day his skin betrayed him, forcing him to endure weeks of medication, surgery
I was encrusted. Flat-backed on a padded examination table, I confined my hands to my pockets and stared at the ceiling, tracing the outlines of the antiseptic white tiles with my eyes. The left side of my face had been nicked over and over by a...
Gone Fishing
New Haven's illegal immigrant population has swelled in recent years. a look at Fair Haven, where legal, illegal, joy, work and routine exist side by side
A man stood alone by the side of the road, still and calm, facing the water. He arched his back slightly, arms sweeping backwards, his hands clutching a warped metal pole. The metal, cold and grey, glided forward, the tip bending gently as he cast.
Meshuggeneh
The end of a life in a game of chess
Well, you were never a saint, that's true. No one's questioning you on that. When you put it that way, ha, yes, of course, you never did make the list of the 10 most faithful husbands (Oh that incorrigible glint in your eye, no way you're as pure as...
Strike's legacy is in eye of beholder
A year brings progress, but no bets on future
One year ago, Torrance Greene walked out. Green, a worker in the Berkeley College dining hall, has been on the job for five years. He walked the picket line for 23 days. He is a 40-hour-a-week regular, and he is in labor grade 3, on the lower end of...
Athletes wrestle with issues raised by injuries
After missing all of the 2002 soccer season due to a knee injury, Jon Skalecki '05, a defender, was determined to rejoin his team. Not long after his return, however, Skalecki sprained his ankle. He played anyway. "I played the whole season with a...
Yale's slavery link remains touchy
Since Brown University announced it was forming a committee to investigate the institution's ties to slavery, questions about the role and responsibility of academic institutions in slavery have forcefully reentered the public vocabulary. The Brown...
Vietnam lingers in Elis' hearts, politics
When Larry Gwin '63, a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Yale, fought in Vietnam after graduation, he saw combat at its harshest. A newly-minted infantry lieutenant, Gwin and his men were plunged into the first major clash of the war.
Tracing Vietnam's footprints
The war that changed a generation left a lasting legacy on Yale's campus
For some, it was the land of falling napalm. For others, it was the final resting place of a former student. For still more, it was the freeze-frame moment when a close friend was hit by a fatal bullet. Vietnam continues to occupy a singular place in...
'Sexpert' Dr. Ruth schools students in college seminar
When Dr. Ruth Westheimer walks by a bookstore and sees a book with "sex" in the title, she has but one option: she must buy it. "God forbid there's anything I don't know about sex," she said in a lecture to professors Naomi Rogers and Janet Henrich's...
Eli athletes on the Rhodes again
The phrase "Yale athlete" sometimes elicits certain stereotypes: intellectual mediocrity, astounding connoisseurship of repulsively cheap beer and aversion to wearing anything but Boathouse jackets. And, as recent experience has shown, continuing...