Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 1:11am
Stand-up comedians Dat Phan and Cory Kahaney will perform at this year’s Fall Show on Nov. 8th, the Yale Student Activities Committee announced in a campuswide e-mail Wednesday night. Both Phan, who will headline the show, and Kahaney, who will be the opening act, have spent less time on the stand-up circuit than previous Fall Show headliners but come with cheaper...
“I don’t wear a Tron costume or a Guy Fawkes mask,” the guest said, by way of introduction. “I don’t use numbers in place of letters, and I’m not the guy who stole your credit card. My name is Randall, and I’m from the Internet.” Specifically, he is from xkcd.com. Randall Munroe, the site’s founder, was on campus Tuesday for a Pierson College...
The fall semester has come into full swing. We students have settled into classes and done our reading diligently. It’s beginning to get cold and football season has just kicked off. But, amid the business of the new semester, perhaps we haven’t taken the time to celebrate Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week began valiantly in 1982 by, among other groups, the...
Amusement parks showcase a cross section of humanity that I really like. I like tube tops, fanny packs cinching stomachs, the constant input of food and the output — meaty splat (RIP DFW) — birds snatching crumbs, boyfriends clutching girlfriends, sunburned good old boys. My dad and I totally fit in the Kentucky amusement park scene, in the sense that nothing you...
New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Three years ago: CCL had not been renovated, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows had not yet been published, Beta was still a fraternity. I arrived at Phelps Gate for the first time, a wide-eyed freshman eager to experience all that Yale had to offer, mistakenly understanding four years to be an eternity. Reveling in my newfound freedom and...
An interview with R.L. Stine, known as the “Stephen King of children’s literature,” who spoke at the master’s tea on Tuesday sponsored by the Yale Undergraduate Magazine. Q:What is your writing process like? A: I write six days a week, usually from about ten to about two-thirty or three. But I don’t really go by time; I go by pages. I set a goal for myself...
It was early September, 1968. A tall, lanky junior wandered into 202 York St., home of the Yale Daily News, holding a handful of hand-drawn comics — a series about the football team called “Bull Tales.” Nervously, the young man greeted Executive Editor Reed Hundt ’69 LAW ’74. After rifling through the first three or four comic strips, Hundt shrugged. He was...
Robert Sturtevant Howard Fye ’08 used to love talking philosophy. Fye took several philosophy classes at Yale and would chat about the subject for long periods of time to Edwin Forman, his primary oncologist. One of Fye’s favorite stories, Forman said, was that of Socrates, who, found guilty of corrupting Athenian youth, ended his life surrounded by wailing friends...
Posted Thursday 9:38 p.m. Robert Sturtevant Howard Fye ’08 passed away in his Middletown, R.I., home Tuesday following a nine-year battle with cancer. The Silliman College senior, 23, died peacefully after a recent relapse from osteosarcoma, a common type of bone cancer, which he battled since being diagnosed at the age of 14. Fye was originally a member of the...
Anyone can move to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, but Bob Gale said he thinks the secret to silver screen success is more than just an address change — it is perseverance, both in self-promotion and in one’s craft. The Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of “Back to the Future” discussed the ideas that inspired his work at a Pierson College Master’s...
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