Ruth Kim
Ruth Kim
Recent Stories
Election’s entrepreneurs: Working for ‘change’
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama was the muse behind Obama Girl, who continues to sing about her crush on youtube.com. He is red, white and blue in artist Shepard Fairey’s poster that now overlooks York Street through a window of the Yale Art and Architecture building. A few blocks away, his face appears on graphic T-shirts announcing “Progress” and “Obama For Yo’ Mama,” at the markedly left-leaning Urban Outfitters.
They've got GAME
With their competitive drive and need for stress-relief, Yalies are a prime gamer demographic. Could escaping into alternate reality actually be cool?
Butterflies? A few, for Blair
After all the hoopla and hype over former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s arrival on campus, seeing him standing, in person, three feet away is a little like meeting the Queen of England: Behind the fame and the British charm, they are human.
Abandon Wall Street dreams? Not just yet.
With the recent collapse of major banking firms, recruiters disappearing from the Yale campus and the threat of more bankruptcies looming on the horizon, job prospects are looking grim for those Elis planning to enter finance.
Students stung by Lehman crash
Even 80 miles from New York City’s financial district, dozens of Yalies felt the aftershocks of investment bank Lehman Brothers’ decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy early Monday morning — especially those who received letters of intent from the company after stints as summer analysts.
Commons fare: Getting beyond General Tso’s
In a visible — pungent, really — departure from standard dining-hall fare, the student-favorite Chinese restaurant Ivy Noodle has brought stir fry to Commons Dining Hall. Are students in search of some Asian “soul food” willing to navigate the long lines?
JE’s Omni 15 'get a room'
With renovations to JE incomplete, 15 students enjoy a month of little luxuries and free laundry
On a sunny post-Labor Day afternoon, Simone Berkower ’09 parted the curtains behind the treadmill in her room, turned the air conditioner on maximum power and sat back against the five pillows on her queen-size bed, freshly showered and dressed in summer garb.
Elis make the most of Beijing hosts
Many Yalies bound for Beijing this summer found a way to make it happen by being resourceful: by maximizing connections and minimizing costs.
Furry, feathered creatures bring home back to Yale
Despite prohibition on animals in dorms, students find ‘anchor’ in pets
April opens her window and makes a clicking noise with her tongue. Ten meters outside the Yale residential college, a plump female squirrel named Lucky perks her ears and scampers over to the third-floor window.
On path to learning obscure languages, Elis play it by ear
But Berlin is one of many Yale undergraduates who take up lesser-known languages — categorically called “less commonly taught languages” by the Modern Language Association — such as Basque, Tibetan, Estonian or Oromo.