We must reject good options.
January 17, 2013
This morning, I stepped out from the Pierson Master’s Office and gasped. I watched, enchanted, from under the overhang as snow drifted gently towards the […]
November 8, 2012
Freshman year, my roommate was fond of a saying attributed to Winston Churchill: “Sometimes it is not enough to do your best. You must do […]
October 16, 2012
Every year, approximately 1,300 students graduate from Yale College. We have no idea how many of those students care deeply about Yale. We have no […]
October 5, 2012
On Wednesday night, I was in Battell Chapel with several other Yale students, sipping barley tea and watching the flickering candles as Omer Bajwa, […]
September 21, 2012
This is not the beginning of the end. I’ve had to remind myself this as I assemble my shopping list junior year, painfully passing over […]
August 31, 2012
A lot of us grew up in places where homeless people didn’t live on the street. If we knew anyone who was homeless, it was […]
April 13, 2012
Set in a darkening 1930s Berlin and rife with references to homosexuality and the Holocaust, the musical “Cabaret” does not shy away from heavy subject […]
April 4, 2012
It’s common knowledge that smoking is addictive and bad for your health. That’s why I was baffled freshman year to find that many of my […]
March 29, 2012
When Roya Hakakian set out to tell the story of eight assassinations ordered by the Iranian government 20 years ago in her book “Assassins of […]
March 28, 2012
Home decoration has serious artistic value, as the Tuesday presentation on “The Homes of William Morris” at the Yale Center for British Art made clear. […]
March 21, 2012