Yale Daily News

Elihu Yale made his fortune as an employee of the British East India Company. That much you’ll find on Yale’s Web site. Somewhat less publicized, […]

April 21, 2009

“Do you want to be a student leader?” I had been walking along, enjoying the spring and minding my own business, when the man behind […]

April 6, 2009

Chocolate-brown and larger than a football, the cow patty had lain undisturbed on the parched soil of a nameless New Mexican ghost town. Undisturbed, that […]

March 26, 2009

I appear to have an ulcer. A stress ulcer. The test hasn’t confirmed it yet, but all the evidence suggests that the twisting in my […]

February 23, 2009

Earlier this year, a friend of mine e-mailed an administrator with a routine question about an event he was planning. Despite several follow-ups, it took […]

February 9, 2009

Yale is tribal. Generally speaking, we eat, drink and come to know that small sliver of Yale that resembles us, that tribe with which we […]

January 26, 2009

Computer science is tragically misunderstood. Popular opinion notwithstanding, my major is not preprofessional. It does not teach how to fix a printer — though I […]

January 12, 2009

Fraud. Impostor. Fake. An acquaintance recently used those words to describe himself. We were in an economics lecture, skimming articles on our laptops while barely […]

November 21, 2008

Casino Night, that annual role-playing spectacular, is tomorrow. Hundreds of Yalies will put on our best renditions of old-world gentry as we gamble and dance […]

November 7, 2008

I would like to invent a stressometer. A barometer of sorts, it would quantify campus stress levels. The semester’s jittery curve would inch downward from […]

October 23, 2008

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? The same goes for morality: if a deed is […]

October 8, 2008