Author Archives: Paul Ramirez

Freelance journalist Jake Halpern’s ’97 life is a story of persistence in the face of rejection. In a Morse College Master’s Tea on Thursday, the 28-year old Halpern admitted that his life has been no different from that of the typical writer — grueling and unpredictable. But now Halpern, who receives regular calls from the »

Forget terms like “city,” “suburb” or “countryside.” Welcome to the age of “mall glut,” “snout houses” and “zoombergs.” Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture and American studies, has provided a guide to new terminology used to describe the changing American landscape with an inaugural exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, now located in its »

Elizabeth P. Williams insists that her middle initial be included whenever her name appears in print. There’s another custodial worker also named Elizabeth Williams, and she doesn’t want there to be any mix-ups. But most of the time there is no confusion at all, because around Pierson and Davenport colleges and in a new photography »