Yale Daily News

Despite my best efforts to evade it, the “Day That Would Not Happen” is upon me. For months, I have refused to acknowledge Commencement: I […]

May 17, 2001

If you are a graduating Yalie, you have likely accrued no small portion of uppityness during your bright college years. Unsurprising. Aside from partaking of […]

May 17, 2001

Most all of us Yalies “do” something besides studying and socializing — crew, drama, the YDN, whatever. That is the cause of one of the […]

May 17, 2001

Congratulations, Yale Class of 2001! As you head out into the real world, you go with four years of our support behind you. We’ve worked […]

May 17, 2001

My favorite band from high school sang: “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning,” and in many ways that song encapsulates our Yale careers. […]

May 17, 2001

Half a millennium ago, my Modoc paternal ancestors lived near the lava flats of northern California. They went about their lives — hunting, fishing, falling […]

May 17, 2001

As this is the commencement issue of the Yale Daily News, and since my name will be called sometime on Monday afternoon, this is my […]

May 17, 2001

In 17th century France, the Catholic Church excommunicated actors and playwrights for their ties to the all-too-profane stage, yet Moliere trudged on. Indeed, for thousands […]

May 17, 2001

My younger sister begged me not to sing when I came to Yale. She had no prophetic insight into the impossibly strange world of Yale […]

May 17, 2001

Prior to this football season, the attitude within our team was that we expected to be 10-0. It was not arrogance or hollow rhetoric, but […]

May 17, 2001

When they came to Yale four years ago, the Class of 2001 football players and the newly hired coaching staff shared a dream of returning […]

May 17, 2001