Author Archives: Gillian Gillers

When Dale Herbeck was in college and was “hot for a girl,” he would make her a mixed tape using his collection of tapes and records. Today, Herbeck can download music from the Internet and burn CDs for the target of his affection. “Boom! You can have the songs you want, the quality you want,” »

One toddler sat quietly in a chair, still wide-eyed from her afternoon nap. Another patiently let a daycare worker change her diaper. Teyonna, 21 months old, followed along as her mother, Jasmine Langley, read aloud from a picture book. “We have three meals a day,” Langley read as she sat in the Blue Room at »

Professor of geology and geophysics Steven Sherwood resembles Indiana Jones in the photograph on his Web site: he wears a cowboy hat, a strap-on canteen, a five o’clock shadow and a charming half-smile. John Williams ’05, who has taken two classes with Sherwood, was surprised when he saw the picture. “I imagined him working at »

Deputy Registrar Diane Rodrigues inherited a list from her predecessor matching veteran professors with their preferred classrooms: economics professor William Nordhaus likes the Law School Auditorium, Graduate School Dean and history professor Jon Butler — “a VIP” — requests William L. Harkness Hall 119, and English professor Harold Bloom insists on teaching in WLH 203. »

Kevin McMahon, an admissions counselor at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, distributed a brochure to 12 students in the library of Wilbur Cross High School. At one table, students read the brochure and raised their hands to ask questions: Can we have a car? How many years does it take to be a vet? Students »

Bush fans turned off their televisions Tuesday night thrilled and smug, while Kerry supporters went to bed shocked and disappointed. At two o’clock in the morning, it seemed likely that “four more years” would be more than just a slogan. The outcome was far from certain Tuesday night at dinner, when the Hall of Graduate »

It’s 11:44 on a Friday morning, and the hallways of Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood are flooded with students rushing to class. “Get inside, everybody. Let’s go!” Principal Robert Canelli shouts good-naturedly. “There’s nothing to worry about. The late bell didn’t ring yet.” The 1,468 faces in this stampede — »

The verdict was clear last night at an open forum on Cultural Connections: reactions to the orientation program that year opened its doors to white students this year, were overwhelmingly positive. The meeting was organized by Realizing Race, a group founded last year to promote dialogue about race on campus. Several students at the meeting, »

Six children in pajamas and slippers gathered at Vincent E. Mauro Elementary School this Saturday to learn about nutrition and exercise. The event, which included sessions on eating, Pilates and kickboxing, was organized by Jene Flores — the school’s family educator — and run by Yale student volunteers. “We need to emphasize how important nutrition »

While the Patriot Act has come under fire in America for tampering with civil liberties, a similar piece of legislation in Hong Kong — Article 23 — was repealed this fall following mass protests by the city’s inhabitants. Article 23 was one of four topics addressed by eight New Asia College students at a symposium »

Sarah Clark built a pile of wooden blocks at her booth in the Peabody Museum. She removed one block, and the pile collapsed. “If each block is an endangered species, this gives you an example of how interconnected we all are,” Clark, a volunteer at the Sierra Club, said to the crowd of onlookers. Clark’s »

Passengers riding the public bus can now climb aboard with improved ease, thanks to the deployment of 42 new Connecticut Transit buses in New Haven this month. The buses, which are blue and feature low floors and no stairs, will replace nearly half of those currently serving the area, said David Lee, general manager of »