Rebecca Dana
Rebecca Dana
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Users reveal their trials with cocaine
Student Life
The first time he tried it, he was bitterly disappointed. "Anyone up close to it for the first time would be surprised by how tame it is," he said. "The first time you do it you'll be so underwhelmed, you won't know what the big deal was.
Grossman '04 takes time to soul search in NY subway
Student Life
There is a real live Yale bohemian in Brooklyn, N.Y., with tweed earflaps dangling and a copy of the Upanishad at his feet. Sam Grossman -- Class of 2004 for sure, he said, because he promised his parents he'd come back to graduate -- is living...
A year after tragedy, Yale reflects on Sept. 11 attacks
One year ago this morning, from a yellow Harkness Tower window, Kenneth Shevlin '03 didn't notice the smoke rising in the distance. That afternoon, he learned the tiny cloud was the twin towers of the World Trade Center turned to dust and smoke.
Porn 'N Chicken
The movie that never was...is
This is not a Yale story. This is a Comedy Central original picture about four 20-somethings at, well, call it Ivy League University X. The soon-to-be-sellout seniors love porn and Popeye's so much they decide to make a skinflick of their very own.
Sudler Fund project probes ephemerality
Brown '02 covers Studio 56 with candy
Next week, Ames Brown '02 will bring Reality to Davenport College. Today, M&M Mars Inc. will bring the 80,000 individually wrapped Starburst Brand Original Flavor Fruit Chews he requires in order to do so. Brown's specific brand of "Reality," as...
Tang returns with drunken vengeance
Four score and two years ago, as the legend goes, the gentlemen of two rival residential colleges took time away from their studies to engage in a little healthy Bacchanalian competition. Hallowed, alongside countless time-honored traditions, the small...
Raindrops fall on campaigners' heads
The tennis ball-colored posters were stamped and hung. The campaign lollipops sat wrapped and waiting in boxes. The table tents had been pitched. Yale College Council hopefuls rose early Monday morning, ready to spend the first day of the last week...
Grad pens erotic award-nominated prose on gay sex
Books
Award-winning author Lawrence Schimel '93 counts among his earliest influences "Gilgamesh" and the Yale polo team. The former he read for RLST 407b, a senior seminar in comparative epics whose themes recur throughout the 30-year-old's prodigious 45...
Students enjoy 'Moby' marathon
Seniors organize 18-hour reading of Melville classic
Call them Ishmael -- all 45 of them -- or, better yet, call them amateur whalers with senior essays due in a week. Call it procrastination or one of hundreds of crackpot ideas hatched in a freshman suite in Bingham Hall. Or call it the oral literary...
Cleavage fails to beat out UVA
When she was a sophomore in Davenport seven years ago, Teresa Dahl-Bredine '97 let the boys down the hall in Davenport College talk her into posing for Playboy's Ivy League issue. She signed a contract for the pictures, which gave Dahl-Bredine a lot of...