Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week. The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — appears to provide an answer to...
Students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity who were involved in January’s “Yale Sluts” incident stood before the Executive Committee of Yale College three weeks ago and were found “not guilty” on a charge of intimidation and harassment, sources close to the proceedings confirmed this weekend. The group featured in the photograph that sparked the...
I would like to submit an official request for the shitty version of New Haven to come back. The gray skies heavy with depression, the iced sidewalks claiming victims right and left, the wind that makes me bitch. I would even settle for the urain. I call it urain because isn’t dry but it isn’t cathartic thunderstorm rain either; it just goes on and on, peeing on us...
“I WANT TO WATCH SOME PORN!” declared Kathryn Olivarius, Women’s Center board member and porn virgin. “Google it,” I said. “Google what?” she replied. “Porn,” I told her. Kathryn giddily selected “18 year old French-Canadian slut.” “This is ridiculous,” she laughed. Thirty seconds later she stopped the clip. “I’m not old enough for...
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. Lucky, whose hazelnut coat is shaggy from recently giving birth, climbs a nearby tree and expertly crosses a bathrobe belt that April — whose name has been...
It is Bulldog Days once again, which means that thousands of prefrosh will flock to the Lanman Center this afternoon for the semi-annual extracurricular bazaar. Expect lots of flyers, free candy, and sign-up sheets. I admit that I will be among the crowd, losing my own voice as I make a sales pitch for the Yale Public Health Coalition. With hundreds of student...
Slouching on a futon in the middle of a Monday afternoon. Half-watching “The Royal Tenenbaums.” Pawing at a half-eaten bag of lime-flavored Tostitos on the table. On one side of the room, Dan Frank ’10 – wearing a torn ski team T-shirt and a jump cord as a belt – has his laptop out, finishing up some programming homework. Everything about the scene is decidedly...
Business owners in the Broadway District are hoping their collective discounts during Thursday’s College Night will bring the same crowd of students to the strip that it has in the past — even if most Yale students interviewed said they do not plan to attend. Tonight’s event — during which most businesses will offer a 10- to 20-percent discount between 6 and 9...
Jeff Brenzel has a lot of applications. When not sorting through this year’s record 22,528 candidates for admission to Yale College, the dean of undergraduate admissions occupies some of his spare time with quizzes, movie compatibility tests and videos on his crowded Facebook profile. Facebook connects him to another Yale administrator, Director of Public Affairs...
Yale’s admissions officers were not the only ones duped by Akash Maharaj’s alleged deceptions. He fooled everyone he met at Yale, too — until his boyfriend discovered his secret. Interviews with some of Maharaj’s former professors and classmates reveal a portrait of a smart, pleasant, sometimes shy, politically minded student — a lot like most Yalies. That was...
Facebook’s News Feed home page could have been described as a personalized CNN without the commercials — until last Tuesday, when the popular social network launched SocialAds, which now has ads, too. SocialAds — the latest brainchild of Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg and his Silicon Valley-based Facebook — allows companies to develop profiles that feature...
While Yalies put last-minute touches on their Halloween costumes this week, high school seniors are facing a more daunting task: finishing up their early applications to college. A new Facebook application named College Planner — introduced last week by the educational services company Embark — aims to relieve some of that stress and streamline the admissions process...
