STAFF COLUMN
FRANCES BROWN
The monkey approach to senior essays: Just write it

To state the painfully obvious, many senior essay drafts are due this week. Hundreds of important papers are due in the coming days. All this […]

February 26, 2001

NICOLE LIM
Rusty razors, pricey tickets and my first spring break

Two weeks ago, the bitter blizzard blinded me with blistering snow and cockily ripped apart my quality $3.50 umbrella. A week ago, the winter permafrost […]

February 23, 2001

PHIL FORTINO
Good Clinton, Evil Clinton conspire in pardons

I wish Bill Clinton would go hibernate somewhere, so I wouldn’t have to keep writing about him. As much as I agree with President George […]

February 23, 2001

SARAH MERRIMAN
While it may still be February, at least we don’t go to Harvard

When I was five I had a tendency to say precocious things. I once gravely told my preschool teacher, “February is the longest month.” A […]

February 22, 2001

MILAN MILENKOVIC
Bush taps Yale graduate to head UN mission

This weekend, President George W. Bush promised John D. Negroponte ’60 some new office space. The address is 799 United Nations Plaza, the corner of […]

February 22, 2001

JENNIFER B. WANG
Being John Milton and the struggles of learning

I just realized this is my last column before Yale’s spring break, from which you will return with just a month and a half to […]

February 21, 2001

JOHN SCHOCHET
Serving in Prince Hal’s loyal party opposition

In an episode of “The West Wing” recently rerun by NBC, Ainsley Hayes, a Republican lawyer, is hired by the fictional Democratic president, played by […]

February 21, 2001

BEN TRACHTENBERG
Perils and promise of dumping the SAT I

Richard Atkinson has had enough of the SAT. And he’s doing something about it. As the president of the University of California system, Atkinson oversees […]

February 20, 2001

WILLIAM EDWARDS
Richie Rich and President Clinton

We want to forget Bill Clinton, really we do. But he simply refuses to go away. In one of his latest returns to public discourse, […]

February 19, 2001

MOLLY WORTHEN
Pure pandemonium in Yale rooming frenzy 2000

Right after winter break, the leaks in the dike were almost imperceptible. I’d sit down at dinner and overhear someone wonder aloud about the pros […]

February 19, 2001

MICHAEL ZIMMER
Exploiting the human psyche for McNuggets and profit

Last week, my introductory psychology class read a book called “Remembering Satan” by Lawrence Wright. I read it too. I mention that not just to […]

February 15, 2001