STAFF COLUMN
SARAH MERRIMAN
Tercentennial lame but merry

I admit it: I am but a willing cog in the Yale 300 machine. I’ve ordered my tickets, printed my schedules, attempted to make sense […]

October 4, 2001

NICOLE LIM
Yale campus unifies after tragedy disturbs normalcy

American flags sway in the breeze, patriotic anthems ring through the night and forwards of prayers flood e-mail boxes. Usually, this show of unabashed nationalism […]

September 27, 2001

JP NOGUES
Ma vie en grise: Growing old

Freshman year, my suitemates and I routinely stayed up past 4 a.m., trying to impress each other with our argumentative abilities and our knowledge of […]

September 27, 2001

MOLLY WORTHEN
Pee-wee wishes and playbook dreams

My father is a pee-wee football coach, and this month he is deep in the throes of the Glen Ellyn Golden Eagles’ football season. When […]

September 26, 2001

NANCY LEVY
The temporary unemployment of a humor columnist

When I took on a position as a Yale Daily News columnist, I decided that my pieces would be “humorous, somewhat apolitical, but always relating […]

September 26, 2001

JUSTIN ZAREMBY
Dwight Hall must reject guilt and accept thought

Today’s Dwight Hall has rejected its historic past. Instead of providing a forum for debate and thought, supplemented by community activity, it offers a chance […]

September 25, 2001

SARAH WEISS
Through tie-dye and tragedy, Yale quickly became home

I never knew that I like tie-dye. I never knew that I like ska a little too. I found myself standing in the middle of […]

September 25, 2001

WILLIAM EDWARDS
Seeing the forest and appreciating America

“Experience,” it has been said, “is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson afterward.” In the aftermath of the most heinous […]

September 24, 2001

DONALD WAACK
Virtue of the vicious, conquest of the uncivilized

There was a fleeting moment on the morning of Sept. 11, before politicians saturated the airwaves and diplomatic language became even remotely relevant, when nothing […]

September 24, 2001

JACOB REMES
America’s first casualties of war: its civil liberties

Sitting on my desk is a pin that reads “For President: Convict No. 9653.” The man pictured is bald, and his expression looks like a […]

September 19, 2001

FRANCES BROWN
The Yale Ballgame: Four years, you’re out

Like many seniors, these past few weeks have comprised the summer of my life-plan discontent. Luckily for me, Major League Baseball was there to save […]

September 11, 2001