Rachel Payne
Rachel Payne
Recent Stories
Payne and Skilton: Seeking to serve our ward
As co-chairs of the Ward Committee, we will confront the challenges that come with being the Yale Ward. Increasing voter registration and turnout will be our top priority, and we’re already making plans to work with campus political groups and other organizations to get Yale students registered in Connecticut and to the polls in New Haven.
Payne: Calling to counter coal
This is the time to play the Yale card.
Spizzwinks(?) bring Burmese choir on tour
When the Yale a cappella group Spizzwinks(?) journeyed across Asia on its 2007 summer tour, a trip to the nonprofit school Gitameit Music Center in Rangoon, Burma, struck a memorable chord. Visiting Burma’s only community music school, the students were moved by the performances of the Gitameit choir, Spizzwinks(?) member Nathaniel Granor ’09 recalled.
A cappella group mocks Madoff in an original musical
Magevet, Yale’s coed Jewish a cappella group, did its part to shame America’s latest white-collar crook on Sunday night with its spring jam, “Bernie Madoff: The Musical.”
Alexander: 'A lot of people stop me in the street'
Jan. 20, the first day of the Obama presidency, marked the return of poetry to American life, Elizabeth Alexander ’84 said.