Shira Telushkin
TELUSHKIN: Apply now, decide later

We must reject good options.

TELUSHKIN: A harsh, charming gift

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 […]

TELUSHKIN: Is this good enough?

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 […]

TELUSHKIN: Knowing our place

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 […]

TELUSHKIN: Clothing has consequences

  On Wednesday night, I was in Battell Chapel with several other Yale students, sipping barley tea and watching the flickering candles as Omer Bajwa, […]

TELUSHKIN: Learning doesn’t stop at 36 credits

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 […]

TELUSHKIN: Learning to give

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 […]

In ‘Cabaret,’ taking an unfiltered approach

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 […]

TELUSHKIN: Between smokers and vegans

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 […]

Exiled author sheds light on Iranian assassinations

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 […]

A place for arts and crafts at the YCBA

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. […]