Author Archives: Easha Anand

Gold and silver glint from all over Nancy Zito’s outfit: From her neck, where “Nancy,” engraved in curlicued letters on a dog tag, hangs; from her wrists, covered in slim gold bracelets; and from her belt, where a massive buckle dwarfs the slim 17-year-old’s waist. But as she is pointed toward the entrance of Hill »

Flags flew, prayers were issued and a few tears were shed Monday evening on Beinecke Plaza, as about 150 people gathered to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Eighteen hundred twenty-eight days after the tragedy, the evening seemed designed for a memorial: Blue sky floated over white marble, a quiet »

“Oh, man,” Lamont staffer Kevin Bock ’08 remembers thinking, “Ned Lamont is a truly terrible speaker.” The place was the unassuming New Haven Free Public Library, the time an “ungodly hour” for a Saturday morning last January, and the percentage of Connecticut voters who recognized Lamont SOM ’80 a measly 4 percent (within the statistical »

Maurice Harris, 29, wheels his bike around Veronica Eichler, 22, at a bus stop on Grand Avenue, tilting his handlebars to stay upright and stuffing McDonald’s fries into his mouth. Harris’ homemade pin says “RIP Auntie,” and his hat is camouflage. Eichler keeps touching her hair, though it’s slicked back tight and glossy, because she »

“There are obviously two educations,” wrote John Truslow Adams, coiner of the phrase “the American dream.” “One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” Adams GRD 1900 was the first Eli to nab a Pulitzer, which he won for a historical tome called “The Founding of New England.” »

Once upon a time, long before computers and Xeroxed formation sheets, the Yale Precision Marching Band had no drum major, at least not in today’s sense of the word. Thomas Duffy, director of Yale Bands, swung his arms like a pendulum atop a tottering ladder, limbs outstretched, to conduct the YPMB during basketball and football »

Seventy-two hours minus 24 hours is 48 hours. Twenty-four hours is how long it took one Yale sophomore, who wished to remain anonymous, to find out from her (now ex-) boyfriend that the condom had broken. Seventy-two hours is how long, conventional wisdom has it, emergency contraception, commonly known as Plan B, would be effective. »

Danielle Carter ’08 is lucky, she says. Thanks to a lucrative internship last summer at Morgan Stanley and jobs filing papers at the Registrar’s Office as well as tutoring through America Reads, she hopes to start paying off her federal loans before she graduates. And the sooner she can start paying, the better, because she »

The $225,000 figure heading professor John Wysolmerski’s grant application to the National Institutes of Health is one of four grants he will need to keep up his study of the interface between bone metabolism and breast cancer. Out of the $225,000 would come 95 percent of Wysolmerski’s salary and 100 percent of his postdocs’ salaries »

Paula Akbar MUS ’75 hails from D Flat, Oregon. She hails from food stamps and a rural town where she stuck with the same violin teacher for 12 years because the alternative was to play the clarinet. Nowadays, she also hails from the National Symphony Orchestra, which has a violin section that’s 30 percent Yale »

Aldermanic President Carl Goldfield has a deep, abiding and somewhat unorthodox love for New Haven. He insists, for instance, that it is the absolute best place he can think of to raise his kids. Hannah, now 19 and taking a year off from Columbia University to work at the Paris Review, and Nora, a 15-year-old »

It is early when the construction crew arrives, marking off a 5-by-5 square of sidewalk in white paint and examining the excavation site. Alan Greenberg, who owns the Acme Office Furniture Co. one block west of the site, notices the scene. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” he says to the crew trucking down Crown »