Michael Kolber
Michael Kolber
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Voice mail order driving you crazy? Try reading this!
Problem Solver
But clearly they are in a position to tell us how we hear our voice mail. "We, being a university, are not in a position to force anyone to use a particular e-mail system," Dannheim said. That, of course, wouldn't work here. Most of the unified...
Not just a middle-age issue, ergonomics affects students
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I'm in pain while I'm talking to Alan Hedge, but it's OK -- he's a professor of ergonomics at Cornell, and he knows about pain. Hedge is talking about the subtle sort of pain you feel from sitting too long in one place, doing one activity, with bad...
Beat CT Limo's monopoly: Take the train to the plane
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By now even the hardiest Cancuner has returned to New Haven and has been reminded of how dismal the options are for getting back to campus from the airports -- or are they? It's common sport at this newspaper to write a "students really hate...
Disentangling the web of Yale Transit buses
Scharff wrote me to complain that she couldn't figure out how to get Yale Transit to take her to a meeting at Sacred Heart Church. Her understanding of the system -- and mine -- was that after dark, Yale buses would take students and employees to any...
Traffic 'czar' wants to ticket jaywalkers and erect fences
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Brian McGrath is on a roll. New Haven's traffic director -- some say "czar" -- is talking about drivers who make illegal rights on red, pedestrians who cross mid-block, anyone who doesn't play into his techno-totalitarian view of the orderly city.
On labels and arbitrage in the Law School dining hall
For Troy Jackson and Johna Pompano, Snickers are a daily struggle. Jackson and Pompano are the cashiers at dinner at the Law School dining hall, and they waste plenty of time each night recalculating undergraduates' orders to get under the $7.
Oversleeping? A louder alarm is not the answer
Julian Revie '02 is a typical Yalie -- but supersized. His friends call him an overachiever in a college full of them. He's the president of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, but he's going to start a doctoral program in biochemistry next year.
In the dark? We'll help you see the light in this column
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0kamari Clarke taught a course last term on the anthropology of religion, in a classroom that proved the gods just might be crazy. The lights of WLH 208, the classroom in which Clarke lectured, are controlled by a motion detector. When no one is in...
Yale senior returns home after disappearance in South Africa
NEW YORK -- Natasha Smalls '02 returned to her native Queens and her mother's embrace early Sunday morning, but her parents are only beginning to piece together what happened to the 20-year-old in Africa over the past month. While complaining that Yale...