Meet Lance!
Flaunting a flowing blond bowl cut, Cody Ross Pitts stars as Lance in Yale’s new security video. Pitts may be Phi Beta Kappa material, but massive chunks of the video’s inception and intention still remain a mystery, even to him.
Dispatches from shopping period: Total War
HIST 273 Europe in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945 MW 11:35-12:25 LORIA 250 From Prof. Jay Winter, during his first lecture: "Thinking that the present is the only thing that matters is what goldfish do."
scene recommends: Camp Yale (Monday, August 30)
COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATORS INFORMATION SESSION DWIGHT HALL LIBRARY // 8:00 AM Come watch the Community Health Educators display their skills, namely putting a condom on a wooden penis and scaring the pants back onto kids who might otherwise contract STIs. ROWING TANK B, BASEMENT OF PAYNE WHITNEY GYM // 1:00 PM Are you tall, slightly athletic and in awe of the crew team after its Saturday night party? Why not walk on to the team, act like your really into it for a while and then quit, realizing that you can’t handle the hours spent behind a rowing machine, floating on cold waters and caressing faces with calloused hands. SSS ROOM 114 // 2:00 PM Judson Brewer, MD, PHD tells you how to identify stressors and resist their ulcer- and hemorrhoid-causing charm. Expect the doctor to give you great tips on reconnecting with your love affair with prescription pills, long-distance running and masturbation. Don’t let the event’s title stress you out. WOMEN’S CENTER // 10:30 PM Learn about LGBTQI living at Yale with smores, cookies, gummies, popcorn and milk! YUMMY! THE CALHOUN CABARET // 11:00 PM This is the open mic night of the Yale Record (the humor magazine). You’ve heard of humor? You’ve heard of stand up? Watch or participate. Be brave.
scene recommends: Camp Yale (Sunday, August 29)
DKE LATE NITE 79 LAKE PLACE // 2:00 AM Arguably more entertaining than Toad’s, DKE Late Nite features large shirtless men dancing on a wooden bar, as nearly-expired girls grind away their envy for the youthful, wrinkle / cellulite-free freshman class. OLD CAMPUS GREEN // 7:00 AM Start out your Sunday right with a yoga course for experienced, flexible, balanced and mentally strong students. Follow up with an intense Boot Camp with the tight-assed equivalent of General McChrystal. If only Dean’s Office liaison Therese Barbuto knew that nobody wants to wake up early to sweat through high-intensity cardio after a late-night of Obama-era Yale parties. CALHOUN COURTYARD // 9:15 AM After that Power Yoga and Boot Camp, you might want to nourish your exhausted body with a smorgasbord of finger foods and a bottle full of Jesus. Eat, Pray, Love. TBD // 3:30 PM Come learn about all the wonderful theatrical options at Yale before quitting your career as a valuable high school actor as a surprising voice crack eliminates your chances of getting a callback for Rent the Musical. Or succeed. 211 PARK STREET // 8:00 PM A beautiful mystery on campus, these jazz era ZEALOTS carry the torch of a ghostly tradition that will surely find an audience at Toad’s or DKE Late Nite. Basically they’re not drunken idiots. Probably. WOOLSEY HALL // 10:30 PM Nothing says awesome Sunday night like 2.5 hours inside Woolsey wondering why singers ever perform without instruments. Everyday is “College Musical” when you join a cappella. No, just kidding. Everyday sucks when you join a cappella. WOMEN’S TABLE // 4:00 PM This group has devoted its existence to preserving the legacy of Lil’ John and having good skin. We hope. It sounds like they will be checking in with each other for a while on Sunday afternoon. The mystery of this group’s name exceeds our interest in tracking down their actual function. Good luck guys.
scene recommends: Camp Yale (Saturday, August 28)
BOOKS ARE BETTER THAN KEVIN SORBO (AKA CROTONIA LITERARY SOCIETY) BERKELEY COMMON ROOM // 7:30 PM In the past, whenever we attended this charming group’s charming literary fêtes, everyone brought a copy of their favorite books and poems and read it aloud. Snaps. One girl read the entire proposal scene from Pride and Prejudice. Someone else read Tom Waits lyrics. Someone else read Dorthy Parker and then read an entire chapter of Harry Potter. So it’s a mixed bag of well-meaning oddballs and certainly not as serious as the Yale Lit, whom we always strive to impress with every fiber of our existence always. (Side note: Books may be better than Kevin Sorbo -- but they are not better than Lucy Lawless. #goddammit.) LOCAL 269: NEW YORK, NY // 9:30 PM Two great bands we haven’t heard enough from yet, Yale / NYC power duo Gets the Girl and Columbia’s Life Size Maps, are playing this weekend in NYC. The Internet says they’re “back from a six month hiatus,” which makes sense because Ellis Ludwig-Leone has been working hard on his other band, Sic Inc. You can dig all of that. Plus, New York is not very far from here, and if you make the trip, the concert is at a Union headquarters, The Local 269. And unions are cooler than you are. AND HEY BRING A DATE AND YOU MIGHT EVEN GET THE...[nervous panting]. DAVENPORT COMMON ROOM // 10:30 PM With all of the madness over improv and a cappella at Yale, many kids overlook the likes of sketch comedy groups Red Hot Poker and The Fifth Humour. While The Fifth Humour lost some major players in Claire Gordon, Streeter Phillips and Ross Uhrich, Red Hot (not to be confused with “Jazz-themed” a cappella group Red Hot and Blue) is standing strong with ex-Whiffenpoof Jerry Lieblich, Kristia Wantchekon, Jason Richey and former YCC president Jon Wu. 216 DWIGHT STREET // 11:30 PM Radio at Yale has a new, sleek and sexy feel thanks to Sean Owczarek and his executive board of 80 kids who’ve built a digital station, basement concert series and magazine that is Volume’s contentious baby cousin, featuring “experiential” writing. If you’re interested in becoming a radio deejay or acquiring a leadership position in a well-endowed organization during your first year of membership, show up to the WYBC mixer Saturday at 9:30 in Calhoun College Suite K11. There will surely be some PBR on hand to hold you over before the main event later that night, an 11:30 pm hootenany at 216 Dwight Street. Very sustainable. 300 YORK STREET // 11:00 PM “Why are frogs so happy? They eat whatever bugs them.” – Anonymous. The infamy! All roads obviously lead to this hallowed York Street dancehall and concert venue that hosts the impious saliva-swapping and heavyweight grinding of Yale’s most devoted clubkids like a legendary irresponsible parent. We recommended Wednesday nights more than the Saturday cattle call, but witness this awesome weekend staple once and you will have lived.
scene recommends: Camp Yale (Friday, August 27)
THE YALE RECORD OFFICE // ALL DAY It’s not very funny and shouldn’t be labeled as an event on Yale Station. If you really want to read it, just access it online at http://www.yalerecord.com/bluebook. 37 EDGEWOOD AVENUE // 7:30 PM Get the year started right with a l’chaim and a free and delicious shabbat dinner. The dining halls are closed, so why not open yourself up to a room chalk full of swinging singles and challah bread! DAVENPORT COMMON ROOM // 11:00 PM Abbreviated improv shows are great, as hit jokes from last year’s shows are recycled before naïve freshman ears. Don’t miss Purple Crayon’s performance. They are long-form masterminds. And get pumped for your first in-flesh interaction with “That’s Why I Chose Yale” director Ethan Kuperberg '11 and his best Just Add Water comedy buds Will Stephen '11 and Matthew George '11 (who’s totally writing a musical alongside James Franco)!
scene recommends: 4.29.10
The countdown begins. We all need a little sunshine. Researchers found it in Turkey, or so they think! 99.9 percent sure! Stay tuned for updates… Fat cats are ruining the nation, and you know it. Write to your senator/representative to ask for a policy that holds bankers accountable for the recession. This ultra-secret Disneyland society is a dining room above the Pirates of the Caribbean ride that counts 483 big-wallas as its members. scene salutes you.
Live-blogging Spring Fling
Spring has sprung, and that means it's time for Yale's annual Spring Fling concert. Rain or shine, scenesters will be out on Old Campus, sending dispatches and covering the revelry.
scene recommends: 4.23.10
Because, more than anyone else, his comic characters Zero and Nyao have embodied the collective imaginations, hopes and fears of Yalies. scene salutes you! Won’t she be scene’s friend even though we’re in “lesser societies”? The Seven Sisters, or the seven “sailing ones,” are possibly the most beautiful of all celestial bodies. Make time for these lovely ladies come summer. Today, 3 p.m. at the Yale Farm, come get some fantastic pork at the third annual Jack Hitt Last Day of Classes Pig Roast! More pop, less tie. What else is there to do? The Invisible Committee published “The Coming Insurrection.” Nine were arrested in France. Glenn Beck called their book “the most evil book.” They are awesome. They come out everyday. Whether nude or fully clothed, Edward Hopper always manages to capture the inner soul of his female subjects. Lord Byron, Mulan and Robin Williams did it. Why shouldn’t you? Romantic poetry and an early death are the makings of a chaste, but epic love story.
Will Alden as Fischer King
Loyal scene readers will know that there are few words in the English language finer than: “In this issue, an investigation by William Alden.” Well that’s exactly what we’ve got for you.
scene Wrap-up: 4.02.10
Liane Membis highlights all the big stories from this week's
scene recommends: 3.26.10
The Nancy Pelosi of Indian soft drinks, this dark cola-beverage is both delicious and as ubiquitous as stray dogs on the streets of Delhi — also available at Sitar on Grove! Gone are the nights of hands-to-hip, endless swaying most romantic. Gone is the dream once true, the sententious grove. Resurrection time. Where sincerity meets irony: There is scene’s appreciation of Rip Torn, the unmistakable actor whose long career holds as many bizarre shenanigans as real classics. They’re scrunchy, small and oh so difficult to peel soft boil. But when you get it right and they explode in your mouth, these green bombs of goodness are simply … perfect. It's scene's diet beverage of choice. This Marxist theorist of “Aesthetic Theory” fame says music has become a fetish object; scene’s not sure about that, but we sure fetishise his hottt looks! An all-female team of some of Yale’s most talented DJs will bring the sickest, freshest beats at Yale’s oldest frat tonight from 12 to 4 a.m. Worlds will collide. Who says you can’t continue your spring break tropical drink binge? The memories will come flooding back. Fresh off an Oscar win, this documentary will make you think about your next trip to Sea World … or Japan. Exquisite peek-a-boo plumage from the occult genius of James Merrill.
Scenic View: GET THEE TO A HAIRCUTTERY
GET THEE TO A HAIRCUTTERY...AND HAVE A SUBLIME WEEKEND (NOTICE: YOUR BREAK AND CHILDHOOD MAY BE OVER (THANKS Monsiuer Rudnick ’09), BUT YOUR DISCERNING FACULTIES REQUIRE ATTENDING—Consider the QU WISELY, AND UNPACK JORDAN’S ARTICLE WITH CARE.) ALL LOVE AND WARMTH, YOUR BUDDIES AT SCENE
We recommend: Leon, Nicaragua
Nicaragua in Four (okay, three) Hotel Shampoos $55/Night scene didn't use shampoo here, because you don't provide any. You ripped us off for a hundred Cordobas and your overflowing toilet — it covered scene's bags in chlorine-smelling water. Little wonder scene didn't inform you "Es un gran problem con la toileta" until the second it left.
scene recommends: 3.04.10
The chill and gloom are ideal conditions for getting work done, breaking spirit. This guerilla Central American state is a sweet hotbed of Left Wing politics: a veritable Spring Break haven!!! This Indian festival took place last week, but what could be better than bathing in tomato juice and throwing paint around? Would that Holi could come to the ‘Have! Gorgonzola gives you vampire nightmares. ’Cause it’s America’s hat. It’s just rude. No one wants to see you mash up that food. They’re spicy. They’re crunchy. They’re weird. Anyone with midterms hasn’t had enough of it. Spring break is (almost) here. Enjoy.
scene recommends: 2.26.10
Not the Mariah Carey sludgebomb but the tiny iridescent aluminum flecks of joy. Throw it into faces. Never have a bad date again. Meet matches by suggesting your ideal date. The possibilities are endless. Because you’ll thank us afterward. Make a poster! Freud, Lenin and Clemenceau owned prints of this Symbolist painting by Arnold Böcklin. Does death = greatness? “WAR IN FIVE VOICES” a reading tonight! JE Theater, 5:15 It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Plus, when this Marxist theorist of periodisation steps int to the club, the club goes wild. Don’t mistake this fiery rocket for Halley’s Comet, its mere shadow (but Mark Twain’s favorite comet). No, the brightest and most widely-viewed ever, Hale Bop made the rounds in 1997 and even inspired a mass suicide! Watch out in 4385. Canadian cassanova, poet-hearthrob-hallelujah. It’s loaded with essential fatty acids and tastes divine. But, don’t buy the farm-raised stuff, it’s just loaded with hormones. Ezra Stiles Dining Hall — Picture Plane & Teengirl Fantasy — 10 p.m. — IF YOU LOVE MUSIC, BE THERE Drinking blood is in. It’s better than being late. Well, sometimes.
scene's view 2.26.10
it is scene’s opinion that University dining hall workers should be allowed to take and consume the food they produce daily.
scene Wrap-up: 2.26.10
Liane Membis highlights all the big stories from this week's
If Snooki comes to Spring Fling, will it be CONTROVERSIAL?
Stirrings of Snooki's first landing on collegiate soil launch a THOUSAND racist comments! Will you be pissed if the bronze bombshell materializes at this year's Spring Fling?
We Recommend: Student-Written Plays
Get ready for an incredible weekend of student-written plays. Not only is Matthew George's '11 "Commandments" being produced by the Yale Dramat at the Iseman Theater, but the Theater Studies department is hosting readings of six new student-written plays, as part of the annual Yale Playwrights Festival. Stop making excuses and go see some incredible new plays! All readings take place in University Theater, 222 York Street, New Haven. Admission is free. 2:30 p.m. SWEETIE by Cordelia Istel '10. Directed by Maya Seidler '11. Mentors: Rinne Groff and Margaret Spillane. 4:30 p.m. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS by Tessa Williams ’10. Directed by Gary Jaffe ’10. Mentors: Edwin Sánchez and Paul Walsh. 11 a.m. SITTING DUCKS by Cory Finley '11. Directed by Elizabeth Sutton-Stone ’10. Mentors: Itamar Moses and Joseph Roach. 2:30 p.m. THE PATRON SAINT OF JELLY BEANS by Courtney Sender '10. Directed by Kate Berman '11. Mentors: Barbara Hammond and Deb Margolin. 5 p.m. KING’S COFFIN by Will Alden ’10. Directed by Cordelia Istel ’10. Mentors: Donald Margulies and Raphael Martin. 7:30 p.m. HERO COLLAGE by Sinead Daly ’10. Directed by Danielle Tomson ’12. Mentors: Patrick Catullo and James Leverett.
scene Wrap-Up: 2.19.10
Liane Membis highlights all the big stories from this week's
Not being possessed.
Isabelle Adjani is in this horrid scene from Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 film Possession. Doesn't it look terrible?
scene loves: Adult Movie Star and Actress SASHA GREY
This afternoon, Ms. Grey spoke to a crowded Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall auditorium and answered scene's questions about nuclear proliferation and hardcore movie stars. The young woman's candidness and ability to regard problems from a different viewpoint were refreshing in a world where pornography is a subject either vehemently decried or defended in absolutist terms. She spoke with a humanity that one has not come to expect, after hearing stories of the almost alien "glaze" that besets experienced porn actresses' face; despite the fact that some in the audience may have disagreed with her views (or use of the word "jail," at one point), scene feels that Miss Grey's message of feminine empowerment is an important one and one that deserves to be heard.
Kevin Peel '12 has sick flow.
'Nuff said.
scene recommends: 2.12.10
This week, Early Attenborough masterpiece: time-lapse blooms, sporesposions and ultimate proof plants will one day kill us all. Hear Schlosberg’s latest opus. Also: the Scriabin meant to summon the apocalypse. Life is a burning house; step outside for a minute. It's good for your back. Only if you like them sour: Peel slowly (away from tender nearby eyes) and see. This is a good year for citrus. It’s so much more useful than you would ever imagine. This 20th century Marxist theorist advocated making Marxism into a science ... and separating elements of Hegel from Marx’s texts. Very jokes. Aleph zero is a number bigger than infinity (Omega). Wrap your head ’round that! She walked on broken glass with John Malkovich and Hugh Laurie in 17th century garb. Get out of here. Just go. Anywhere. This 1977 Japanese horror flick combines mind-splitting special effects, an inappropriate soundtrack and gallons of fake blood. You’ve gotta see it. Playing at the IFC.
scene's view
scene salutes Lee McQueen, founder of Alexander McQueen, who died tragically in his London apartment Thursday. Rest in Peace.
scene recommends: 2.05.10
This week, William Empson’s 1935 classic exposes links between classes that are made possible by the use of pastoral in literature. Et in Arcadia ego. This sexy, single London gentleman, often described as “something very particular,” is only around for this semester before he heads back to Albion. Grab him while you can. It keeps you warm on these cold winter nights, and who doesn’t love a little Dicken’s brew? In the words of Dr. Seuss: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Many times we’ve wondered what the title means. We wonder endlessly, yet scene revisits this seminal Stones LP with the dawn of every new day. A rich ambiguity. Proctor Silex makes a great product, and The scene Memorial Tea Kettle in CTH is for everyone’s use. Bring a bag, turn on, drop out. This Marxist poet and critic is one of the intellectual left’s leading young voices. We recommend his poem “Hot White Andy” and his essay “Marx in Jargon." On 2 February 2010, this Los Angeles femme and mother hen won “first place in the golf tournament today." scene salutes you. He is the tenderest of the Three Tenors. It’s cheap. It tastes good. It can be hickory-smoked, turkey-flavored or spreadable. Somewhere between fire vagina and psychedelic mood drawing, it sees into your soul. They deliver groceries, like, to your door! You won’t have to bug your friends for their cars ever again.
scene's view
In history, moments repeat themselves on a blueprint of blurry facts and images. Tragedies of the past come back again and again, cloaked in different guises, but the message remains the same: we are trapped in a web from which we cannot extricate ourselves.
SCENECAMESCENEBLOGGED SCENEBLOGGERS
With that in mind, we are excited to introduce to you a set schedule of wonderfully imagined blogs centering on everything from fashion analysis to bathroom reviews and movie preview reviews. We'll still sprinkle in timely arts and entertainment updates, and may add to our initial schedule, but the days of random unexplained YouTube links are done. Or at least relocated to our Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/ydnscene). Madison Moore Max “Costanza” Hendrickson Lauren Motzkin Jennifer Parker Danny Serna Madison Moore Liane Membis Erica Blonde/Eva Galvan Matthew Claudel Madison Moore Cora Lewis Max Lanman Sanjena Sathian Jordan Schneider Madison Moore Jordi Gasso Cora Lewis feat. Lauren Motzkin Various Eliza Brooke Madison Moore Gabriel Barcia-Duran Amir Sharif/Grace Patuwo Austin Bernhardt Danny Serna Maria Yagoda Baobao Zhang Raphael Shapiro Cora Lewis Austin Bernhardt Amir Sharif Sam Duboff “
Volume announces concert lineup
Volume, Yale's undergraduate music magazine and winner of the Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee's 5k Competition, has announced the lineup for its Feb. 26 concert: Pictureplane of Denver, Colo., and Oberlin juniors Teengirl Fantasy will perform. A location has yet to be announced.
Thomas Kinkade puzzles, chicken couscous dinner, 'Apocalypto' and more
This week, scene recommends the following: Think about sex. Then ttthhhiiinnnkkk aaabbbooouuut hhhaaavvviiinnnggg iiittt rrreeeaaalllyyy sssslllloooowwwwllllyyyy. Sound fun? Try K. It’s all his art is good for. They inspire love even in robotic Spock. They are born pregnant. They have no faces. If the gods spoke, they would speak in ska. They got a microbrewery, so no room for tomfoolery. In the ’30s, Robert Johnson met the Devil on a Mississippi crossroads at midnight. The Devil tuned his guitar in return for his soul, and Johnson invented the blues. Go figure. Remote JStor access, you must touch this (Yale Software Library) Venture at the crest of day, Kasbah Garden on Howe Way, and order, as they say, a glorious heap of coucous — with chicken! It’s wicked, wild, wonderful fun. The sim version of Tiger Woods and Jaimee Grubb is subtitled with, “Two days later they had their first sex.” Human sacrifice and tapir killing. James Horner. Mel Gibson. You can describe a wiener-mobile as a “cock car.”
John Milton, animated films, Claire Gordon's bunny and more
This week, This Bavarian beer has been around since 1567, so you know it’s gotta be good. They’re so good now they’ll even make you cry. “Up” anyone? Forget “The Cove.” Did you know that Flipper committed suicide out of misery? This funky Hungarian professor of “Infinity” is taking some students to the great beyond every MW 11:30-12:25. A prolific scholar of geology, Ussher most famously published a theory that Earth was created on the night preceding 23 October, 4004 BC -— a Saturday night. “In the late 1990s, Martin McDonagh enjoyed the most auspicious theatrical debut since that of Oscar Wilde.” (Joan Fitzpatrick Dean) Age 21: Didn’t drink alcohol. Didn’t eat meat. Didn’t masturbate. Didn’t sex. “I am at two with nature.” Woody Allen The 1966 revision of Kenneth Anger’s classic 1954 short film was called “The Sacred Mushroom Edition”; this was taken a little too much to heart in the ’60s. Lewis is fluffy, friendly and in need of a home. Contact Christopher Plummer is still sexy 45 years later. There are just not enough of them.
Talk sexxx with scene
This week, scene is looking to YOU (readers), who are sexually curious, repressed, overwhelmed or apathetic. This FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY, one glorious gentleman will be answering your deepest darkest questions and concerns about sex @ Yale and around the world. Our columnist, Please write to xoxo, scene
Jersey Shore comes to the Elm City
Ladies, wanna hook up with a 21-year-old mama's boy guido Staten Islander? Guys, need a reason to fist-pump? Fear not, because Vinny Guadagnino, one of the eight cast members of the MTV show "Jersey Shore," will be partying in New Haven at Elevate Thursday night. The reality series features Italian Americans partying in Seaside Heights, N.J. To stay unbiased, let's just say some of the cast members are ... interesting. (One cast member, Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola, introduced herself as "the sweetest [expletive] you'll ever meet." Another cast member, Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio, said he has a tanning bed installed in his house and takes 25 minutes to prepare his hair, which is "windproof, waterproof, soccer-proof, motorcycle-proof.") The television program has become a cable hit in recent weeks, as the viewership has steadily increased to about 3.2 million for the Jan. 7 episode from about 1.35 million for the series premiere last month, according to viewership records Web site TVbytheNumbers.com. Guadagnino, who said he likes to fist-pump "like a champ," admitted in the first episode that being a guido has a connotation of "being stupid," but he remains adamant that he graduated college. To meet him that night, e-mail Katie Lenihan, a Quinnipiac University student affiliated with the event, at
scene blog | A little nugget of Yuletide cheer
I love Christmas. I love Christmas like a child loves Christmas — more, probably, because my happiness no longer depends on my chances of getting a Digimon Assault Zoid, or whatever the craze is this year.
The Gentleman's Hour
Any attempt to describe Nothing in this world is a better study break.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is the comic genius brainchild of David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The premise: two bums are convinced they are secret agents and their thievery is saving humanity from an evil nemesis.
Yale librarian's quote list brings out the best in humanity
Heroes, complainers, capitalists and liars (often all of the above, simultaneously): these are the types of people behind 2009's most important quotes. Today, Fred Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School, took history into his own hands and announced his top 10 quotes of the year. It's kind of like
I Can Talk
Is indie back? The folks over at super-hip Parisian record label
Now! (1965)
Santiago Alvarez's classic 1965 short film deals with representations of racist and repressive state action by the United States military and police. A great film that emphasizes the dialogue between text and image in order to get its message across.
The 2009 Naked Run
It's the Sunday night after reading period. That means Bass library, naked people and individually wrapped, non-chocolate candy. And scene nabbed a prime seat to cover the mayhem. Were you there, you caught it; If you missed it, besotted. Jubilee is a twice yearly event, so Stake your seat now For next year's Advent. The live blog wasn't meant to stay, scene has only one thing to say: Study naked, study hard. New Haven, en garde! --scene **The Naked Run isn't meant to be a peep show, and some parts of the live-blog scene posted made it out to be. The run is about the runner, just as much as it is about the voyeur. We all have privates — next time join the ensemble.**
Naked Run TONIGHT!
This e-mail appeared in inboxes yesterday: All the students were cramming, and hoping to pass The books were all piled on tables with care With hopes that final papers would soon arrive there. Procrastinators nestled all snug in their bins Writing to make up for time-wasting sins, While George checked their bags, Jeff took a nap, Student pecked at their laptops, neck deep in crap. When up in the stacks there arose such a clatter, Kids looked up from their Facebook to see what was the matter. Down past the books we flew past with panache With *wrapped candy* for all on our biannual dash. Harsh light on the breasts of the revelers shone as they swept through the shelves like a naked cyclone. We had earlier gathered at *11.15*, filled with joy, liquid cheer, and beaucoup caffeine. We'd brought *bags for our clothes *to the *top of the stacks*. Then removed shirts, jackets, bras, dresses, and slacks. The revelers all were so filled up with glee that they shouted as they ran - "TBIYTB!" _*Sunday (tomorrow), 11.15 at the top floor of the SML stacks (7M) *_ _*Bring individually wrapped, non-chocolate candies *_ _*Bring a backpack for your clothes *_ T.B.I.Y.T.B.
Happy Birthday, Taylor!
Taylor Swift, the best singer ever and the love of our lives, turns 20 today.
CT Hall Grems are where it's at
Around finals week each semester, it is well know that Yalies start to hibernate — but perhaps one of the most intense hibernation spots is in Connecticut Hall, Yale's oldest building. The students that collectively head down to the basement computer cluster to live, sleep (/not sleep for days on end) and commune with great works of philosophy and literature are now known collectively as the Connecticut Hall Gremlins (CT Hall Grems) and are even mentioned in So if you're astray on the winds of that 15-page paper due tomorrow, head downstairs and work-work-work/party-party-party!
Quirky design and expensive paper: another Yale Lit Mag
The Yale Literary Magazine just hit dining halls across campus this afternoon. Composed of a large poster of "artwork inspired by the Yale Literary Magazine" or this issue's seven poems and single short story and a small booklet glued to the inside of the poster, the Yale Lit is a beautiful snippet of Yale writing that will keep you entertained throughout finals week. scene is particularly a fan of
Everybody's jumpin' jumpin'
Check out the
Edan - Echo Party
Echo out the last two weeks of Yale with these sweet tunez.
Prev Next