Yale Daily News

It’s difficult for me to offer any sort of retrospective regarding my triumphant, white-knuckled thrill-ride with the Yale Daily News. Half of the articles I […]

May 1, 2002

This is my last column as the King of New Haven. As of May 27, I will be known as the King Emeritus. I am […]

April 26, 2002

I love Yale. People sometimes doubt it and act confused when I say it, but it’s true. I love Yale because I am Yale. More […]

April 24, 2002

Yale foreign language departments know how to have fun. The Spanish students have Cinco de Mayo. I hear the German department screens movies every week […]

April 24, 2002

An ever-vigilant watchdog to guard against all things lacking sense, I write yet again to remind you of an impending crisis. This time, it is […]

April 23, 2002

I’m never going to McDonald’s again in my life. I hate the place. I’d rather eat sawdust and shoe leather like a stranded sailor and […]

April 19, 2002

Four years down and 27 days to go, and I finally figured it out: Yale lies. When I got my golden ticket of an admissions […]

April 18, 2002

You really have to hand it to The New York Times. This past Saturday, page A27 featured a story about a 12-year-old boy who smuggled […]

April 17, 2002

  I slid a dollar bill into the machine. Then a quarter. I waited for my classic lemonade Snapple to shoot out and provide me […]

April 17, 2002

Princeton is doomed. With Cornel West now spreading his brand of academic “brilliance” at the eating clubs of Nassau, there’s even less of a reason […]

April 16, 2002

In two Headstart Centers on James and Cedar Streets, any day of the week, you can find classrooms full of 19 three-to-five year olds engaging […]

April 15, 2002