Yale Daily News

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

Since I will regrettably not be writing my own “Letters From Cambridge” column next year, this will be my last piece for most of y’all. […]

April 25, 2001

In many ways, 2000-2001 was the year before: The year before Locals 34 and 35, the unions representing clerical, maintenance and dining hall workers, enter […]

April 25, 2001

My two most indelible Yale memories both involve Yale football — watching, not playing. Perhaps my greatest moment of triumph came at The Game in […]

April 25, 2001

On the alternate Wednesday when the Yale Daily News runs my columns, I only tentatively make eye contact with people at breakfast. I never quite […]

April 25, 2001