Author Archives: Claire Stanford

They are the best-kept secret at Yale. Their mission is to supervise extra-nonsensical activity on Cross Campus. They are our best, last and only line of defense. They work in secret and exist in shadow. They fight with foam. So proclaims the Web site of Yale’s very own Freestyle Dueling Association, better known by many »

While most Yale students were moving boxes from storage, decorating their rooms, and catching up with friends on Sunday, Miranda Jones ’06 and Abe Koogler ’06 were marching along the streets of New York City, decked out in their finest despite the 90 degree heat. Dressed facetiously as “Billionaires for Bush,” Jones and Koogler were »

Jacob Jou ’06 has a to-do list posted next to his computer. The list includes going to a teaching assistant’s office hours and attending a meeting with the director of undergraduate studies of his major. Among these chores is the one Jou is most preoccupied with: finding a sublet to live in this summer. With »

Deep in the basement of every residential college, amid piles of clothing and chunks of lint and dust, lies the darker side of Yale. Late at night and all through the weekend, students converge on the laundry room with the common purpose of restoring a semblance of order to their lives by at least having »

While many political Yalies spend their summers on the Hill in Washington D.C., this year, some students will try to forward their political interests the old-fashioned way: knocking on doors and talking issues with community members. This summer, the new Yale group 2004ward will send approximately 55 students to work with local community organizations in »

Samantha Henderson ’07 chased her target down the hall of the fourth floor of Bingham, brandishing her weapon while other Trumbull freshmen looked on with a mix of horror and amusement. The confrontation culminated in a wrestling match for the gun on the floor of the target’s suite. No blood was shed. It was a »

Maren Ludwig ’05 will be calling lots of friends on her cell phone today. But Ludwig — the registrar of voters for the Yale College Democrats — will not be relating a party invite or a piece of juicy gossip. She will be reminding them to vote. Today, while Connecticut and nine other states vote »

According to the photos uploaded on YaleStation’s Dating Web site, Yale students are drunk people, people wearing silly hats, humorous animals, babies, or celebrities ranging from Lucy Liu to Bing Crosby. Since the Web site’s debut on Feb. 12, over two-thirds of Yale undergraduates have registered on the site, far exceeding expectations. Many users have »

At 227 Church St., located diagonally across from the Whitney Humanities Center, a signboard advertises, “Now Leasing Luxury Apartments.” The building, formerly the home of telephone company SNET, has a nondescript exterior that belies an historic art deco lobby. Go up the elevators to the apartment units, and the “luxury” appears in the form of »

Friday night, Liz Jordan ’06 and her friends were trekking through the rain from Swing Space to Ingalls Rink, the site of the Yale-Harvard hockey game. They were making slow progress because of the puddles and ice, when suddenly a vision in blue spandex tights appeared in the wintry mix, waving a Yale flag. This »

Last spring, the coaches of the men’s basketball team asked manager Josh Greenberg ’06 what jersey number he wanted. Greenberg thought the question was a joke. This year, he is on the Bulldog roster wearing No. 2. Greenberg, who was cut during basketball tryouts his freshman year, took a more circuitous route to joining a »

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Outside the Muddy River Smokehouse, Jonathan Vandenburgh ’04 and Brad Lipton ’05 wave signs for Gen. Wesley Clark Saturday afternoon, inviting anyone who cares to come inside the opportunity to meet the former NATO commander and current Democratic presidential candidate. But despite Vandenburgh’s tongue-in-cheek offer of “Wesley Clark and beer,” most pedestrians »