Andrew Cramer
Staff Reporter
andrew.cramer@yale.edu
Andrew Cramer is a former sports editor, women's basketball beat reporter, and WKND personal columnist at the YDN. He still writes for the WKND and Sports sections. He is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College and is majoring in Ethics, Politics & Economics.
Author Archive
ANDREW CRAMER
Gone but not forgotten: a few words on Bulldog Hotdogs

“It wasn’t just a bulldog hot dog. It was a bulldog home dog.” In those two sentences, Joel Banks ’25 captures a common sentiment around […]

September 8, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Bulldogs pick up first road win since 2019

For the first time since 2019, the Yale women’s soccer team won a game away from Reese Stadium, beating Seattle University 4–0 in the second game of their West Coast road trip.

September 8, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
Against advice

Yalies — especially the older ones — love to offer advice. The pretentious ones might even refer to it as imparting wisdom. That’s all well […]

August 31, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
Closing a Window

My second-floor bedroom window looks out over York Street — and coincidentally, the YDN building itself. Pulling back the curtains every morning, I check the […]

April 27, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
Should we silence the shower singer?

We have classrooms. We have common rooms. And we have a gleeful abundance of library reading rooms. Yet, when it comes to a space for […]

April 22, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
Allergic to Joy

No, I am not high. Nor have I been sobbing. It’s allergies. In the past week, seemingly every tree and flower in New Haven have […]

April 14, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
Espressin’ some thoughts on coffee

For years, I’ve held out. All the cool kids around me started doing it. I resisted, remembering my mom’s reminders not to cave to peer […]

April 7, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
Coming home… to campus

After a Spring Break that featured lots of showers without flip-flops and sleeping in my own bed, I returned to Yale with fears of rats […]

March 31, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
In defense of the dwindling, dawdling, doodling distractions

Over the past two semesters, several of my professors have outlawed technology in the classroom because it’s too distracting. I support their crusade. They are […]

March 10, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
“Smackdown” and the value of sibling violence

The so-called Dishes Dilemma: my parents were out for the night, so we had ordered in Chinese food. It was delicious. But now, someone had […]

March 2, 2023

ANDREW CRAMER
Geronimo Stilton and the Mysteries of the Mousetiverse

SHHHHHH!!! Be very, very, very quiet. I can explain. Who am I to shush you? By cheese, I’ve forgotten my manners, haven’t I?!? My name […]

February 24, 2023