Ivy League rivalries come in all shapes and sizes. This weekend, the battle for campus pride invaded the chess world, as two dozen Ivy Leaguers faced off in the first Ivy League Chess Championship. The event, sponsored by the Chess Club of Fairfield County, brought four-player teams — representing Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Dartmouth — »
Critics across Connecticut are weighing in on “Good Goods,” a new play written by playwright Christina Anderson DRA’ 11 and staged by acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company director Tina Landau ‘84. Good Goods, which opened Feb. 3 at the Yale Rep, follows a young black man named Stacey as he returns to his southern hometown to »
Whether you are a true cinephile or just sometimes end up watching “Roseanne,” you have one more reason to watch the Golden Globes this year. On Thursday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominees for the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards — and several Yalies, listed below, were nominated to take home Oscar’s shining, »
Yalies are gearing up to support the Occupiers. At a Monday night meeting at Dwight Hall, about 30 Yale students, mostly undergraduates, discussed strategies to bring aid to the protesters camped on the Green. But the spectre of danger has come up again for Yale students trying to get involved after disorder bubbled up among »
Hey activists! You’ve only got a few more hours to sign up for YHHAP Fast. Organized every semester by the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, the YHHAP Fast allows Yalies to donate their meal swipes for the day to programs that fight hunger and homelessness in New Haven. Last semester, over 2,000 Yale students »