Author Archives: Liane Membis

When you were gearing up to head off to the Ivy League this school year, you felt it in your bones: I’m in the big league, no more playing kindergarten games. You stocked up on school supplies because you knew that with being president of the debate team, taking graduate level courses at the School »

So you’ve been enjoying Sex Week at Yale, worrying your butt off about Valentine’s Day and learning about different ways that you can please your partners and yourself. But one thing that seems to be a running theme is that if you want to spice up your love life, you’ll most likely have to drop »

As winter brings the blistery New Haven chill, there’s nothing better to keep your mind warm than a little History section day-dreaming of ways to keep your special someone wrapped around your finger. I couldn’t help myself — it’s February and thoughts are all abuzz about how to make him shout with joy or make »

The phrase “don’t tase me, bro” would probably stop you from hurting a meager weakling on the street — but it probably wouldn’t stop passengers that were under a terroristic attack in a plane. Lampered Less Lethal, Inc., a Candian-based company that provides training and manufactures specialized civil defense equipment, is in talks with the »

The final curtain call. $21.3 million in sales. Top of the box office. If the near penniless Michael Jackson were alive to perform the scheduled 50 concerts, his comeback would be riveting, a class act frozen in time; as young viewers, our emotions would mirror those of our parents in the 80s as we realized »

I never ate alone. It’s one of those funky networking adages that needy employees use to get ahead in their companies. As an unpaid summer intern, I was granted a grand opportunity: to wake up at inhumane hours, reek of mass transit, and do little to nothing each day in the office. But I was »