Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
“Money doesn’t make us happy.” We’ve all heard it from parents who drive Mercedes, innovative musicians who sell out to big labels, and Yale grads in their third year at Goldman Sachs. The mass consumerism that drives our economy — encouraging you to buy that new cell phone with the built in PDA and GPS and that pink argyle sweater from J. Crew — is harming...
Students milled around in the grass, finding and tossing broken glass, beer cups and assorted pieces of metal into a 40-gallon trash bag, triple bagged so that the 23 pounds of debris would not tear through it. Students were not dealing with the remnants of the previous night’s party; rather, the two Yale Ultimate Frisbee teams were cleaning up the Intramural fields...
The number four seemed to be the theme for the men’s and women’s swimming teams this weekend. The men finished the ECAC Championships in fourth place Sunday, while the women also finished fourth in the Ivy League Championships which concluded the day before. While the Bulldogs wrapped up the Ivy tournament, another group of Eli women competed in the ECAC...
Both the Yale men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams handily defeated Brown this past Saturday, giving the teams momentum going into the upcoming EISL, ECAC and NCAA championships. The men dominated Brown, 178-122, winning 12 of 16 events in the process. On the women’s side, the Elis pulled off a similarly impressive win, 183-116, winning 11 of the total...
In the last home meet of the season, the Bulldogs sank their local opponents. The men’s and women’s swim teams both defeated UConn on Saturday in a meet that honored the seniors in their career home finale. The men’s squad took first in 13 of the 16 events to win 199-99, and the women’s team won 164.5-133.5. “It’s tough to come back after a big meet like...
The Robert J.H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool was just not big enough for the three of them. The Bulldogs hosted both Harvard and Princeton this weekend, only to be defeated by both in their home pool. The men’s team fell to Harvard, 125.5-227.5, and to Princeton, 140-213. The dual meet brought the Elis their first two conference losses of the season. The women’s team did...
The razors are out as the men’s swim team attempts to cut extra seconds off its times in tonight’s Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. In preparation for HYP, which kicks off tonight, many members of the men’s team shaved for the meet, teammates said. Harvard and Princeton bring undefeated Ivy League records for the season in both men and women’s competition. “I...
Imagine standing among hundreds — maybe even thousands — of fans, cheering on the Yale Bulldogs as they strive for a national championship. There’s not an unoccupied seat in sight, save for those emptied by fans standing up and cheering. The roaring of the crowd is deafening. Yale football versus Harvard at The Game? Nope. This was the scene that greeted Yale...
Los equipos nadaron mucho en Puerto Rico. The men’s and women’s swim teams could probably translate that phrase after their annual training trip in Puerto Rico, but for those who do not know Spanish: “The teams swam a lot in Puerto Rico.” The Bulldogs spent their vacations down in the Caribbean vigorously practicing and preparing for their upcoming seasons. Upon...
Demonstrating their depth, both the men and women’s swim teams split over the weekend to compete in two separate meets. One men’s squad headed down to Chapel Hill, N.C. for the Nike Cup and the other traveled to Boston for the Terrier Invitational. The Bulldogs placed fifth in a pool of seven teams in the tournament down south with 340 points. In the competition...
After a preseason full of preparation, the men’s and women’s swim teams finally got their feet wet over the weekend. Both squads traveled to New York to compete against Columbia for their first meets of the season. The men started off strongly by defeating the Lions, 164-136, placing first in nine of the 16 events. The women lost the opener, 173-127, but still...
Stroke it Swimmers compete in four strokes. Freestyle is generally the fastest, followed by Butterfly or Backstroke, and Breaststroke is the slowest. The shortest event is 50 yards long, which only requires one lap up and down the pool. (The collegiate pool is 25 yards long as opposed to Olympic size, which is 50 meters.) The longest event requires 66 laps — nearly a...
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