Yale Daily News

With The Game just around the corner, Yale football faces an all too-familiar problem: we’ve won just once in the last twelve years, and that was in 2006—when I was a freshman in high school. But if popular Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that, on any given day, anyone anywhere is capable of pulling out a win.

November 15, 2013

Fifty-two minutes ago, I got an email from Martha Stewart with the subject line “14 Ways to Enjoy Parsnip + Fall Party Essentials.” Thanks, Martha! I don’t remember subscribing to your panlist, but now I will never need to worry again about how to eat parsnips or enjoy parties in a seasonally appropriate manner. But seriously, thank God Martha has gotten in touch. As we speak, we’re standing on the cusp of a new season — and both you and I need her guidance for it. It’s the start of fall party season — or, as we call it at Yale — screw time.

November 8, 2013

Critics love to hate Malcolm Gladwell.

November 8, 2013

I walked into the Brooklyn Museum Saturday afternoon with high expectations.

November 8, 2013

Left, right. In, out. That’s all there is when you’re on the mountain. The steady rhythm of your feet. The soothing sound of your own […]

November 1, 2013

By the time you read this, Halloween will have passed, and hopefully you enjoyed a nice fright or two. After all, the popular point of […]

November 1, 2013

Although it is officially November today, let’s be honest: We still have two more nights of Halloween. But, if you’re looking for a slightly more […]

November 1, 2013

And, so I wonder, whom do you ask when things like this happen to you? Well, the words above my byline say this column is called “Ask Rebecca,” so I’d like to propose that you send your questions to me. I’d like to think that I’m better with people than plants.

October 18, 2013

At the end of the day, though, I know I’m not going to convince you to love something you didn’t. I’m not going to change the way a given song resonates in your brain, whether or not its waves and yours have the same tempo. That’s the whole point of music: if loving it could be reduced to a column-length argument, it would be boring. But I will close with a list of things I think about music. Which, I guess, is kind of what I’ve been doing this whole time.

October 18, 2013

When I told friends or family I was currently engrossed in a book about college football, the reaction I always received was: “Really?” Yeah, I’ll admit it; I’m less than even a casual college football fan. I’ll root for Yale over anyone else and I’ll support the University of Pittsburgh out of hometown pride, but I’d be hard-pressed to name a single player or coach. My ability to follow a sports team begins and ends with the Steelers.

October 18, 2013

Last weekend, I hung out with the Yale University Art Gallery Guides in an abandoned factory and wandered through tall fields of grass in upstate New York. Art would never be the first word to come to mind when considering these two seemingly opposite spaces. Yet, both the factory and the 500-acre meadow display permanent collections that seem to have been made for them, and in some cases actually were. Dia:Beacon, located in Beacon, NY and the Storm King Art Center, in New Windsor, NY are perfect escapes from the often overwhelming Yale bubble.

October 18, 2013