Jessica Feinstein
Jessica Feinstein
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Mad impressive bling
Hey you! Yes, you. Are you about to be a Yale Graduate? We thought so. We could tell. You have Success written all over you. Hey, Lifeguard '06 -- you're our type of man, sitting there on the third floor of the gym on a Saturday afternoon, watching to...
The Best Romanian Pop Song Ever
It's not over until the fat lady sings. But if it's a fat dude, and he's lip-synching to an Eastern European pop song with lyrics about linden trees and Picasso, "over" will likely turn into "over-and-over." Case-in-point: After discovering the...
Adderall: The academic steroid
Raskolnikov. Rodya. Rodion. Svidrigailov. Zossimov, Zamyotov, Lebezyatnikov. Those crazy Russians and their patronymics, their confusing nicknames, their horribly long and dreary novels. Awash in a sea of consonant clusters at 4 a.m., a student...
DKE & YPU: Filling precedential shoes
Before they were presidential candidates in 2004, they were presidents at Yale in the 1960s. Years before he would move onto the White House, George W. Bush '68 ruled the roost as President of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. And before John Kerry '66...
Dinner crowding leads to exclusion
Annette Tracey is not a bouncer at a club. But as a dining hall worker in Berkeley College, she is the next closest thing. Swiping ID cards at the exclusive, all-organic dining hall, she frequently finds herself turning away hordes of Yalies anxious...
Coalition tries to stop demolition
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. "It's like a massive footprint, it's like a giant fortress when you come into the city," North Haven resident Kevin Tennyson said, waxing poetic on the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum. "I always enjoyed going...
It's a bitter pill, and you don't have to take it
Ahoy, matey! This Halloween, there will likely be more pirates than usual walking the streets. Wearing patches (but not the eye kind) and rings (but not ear kind), you'll probably have difficulty distinguishing these pirates from the usual rabble of...
Fencing coach rides donkey with dignity
Somewhere on the seventh floor of Payne Whitney Gymnasium, beneath piles of sabres and gloves, sits the desk of fencing head coach Henry Harutunian. Only the desk's general form can be made out beneath papers, broken fencing gear, old rosters...
For '05, 9/11 is an early Yale memory
As the wind on Cross Campus Saturday night threatened to extinguish the flames lit in remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001, students shielded their candles and drew support from groups of friends. It was a smaller gathering than in years past, the raw...
English class edits usual format
At first glance, the class that met in Saybrook College's Lyceum Room Tuesday afternoon seemed like a typical seminar. The topic of discussion -- how literature becomes part of the canon and ends up on a college syllabus -- did not raise many eyebrows...