October 2009
Yale landmarks pan across the screen to the romping beat of Kings of Leon: Phelps Gate, Harkness Tower, Old Campus… and the Women’s Table – a montage of its cascading font. Fade out.
At this fall’s Freshman Orientation, the film Relationships: Untitled replaced the traditional “Sex Signals” program. After 2008′s Zeta Psi incident, when a group of fraternity pledges posed outside Yale’s Women’s Center with the sign “We Love Yale Sluts,” the Women’s Center submitted a report to the administration critiquing the sexual culture on campus. One chapter urged reform of sexual harassment/assault prevention training.
A committee was formed. Another report was written. The cogs of the Yale Machine creaked forward. A year and a half later, a new sexual harassment and assault prevention program filled two hours of the freshmen’s first few dizzying days.
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by BlueBalls
October 2009
Around this time of year, BlueBalls gets a little nostalgic. And nostalgia, as always, shall be visited upon the freshmen. Most relationship advice to frosh takes the form of knowing grins about long-distance high school relationships. …
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by ALICE BUTTRICK
October 2009
Adrienne Wallace, a junior fellow in the Sociology Department, is forming an all-University Reproductive Justice Coalition with the aim of uniting pro-choice minds across the campus towards actionable issues on Yale’s campus. Her agenda currently includes consent …
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by SOCHIE NNAEMEKA
October 2009
Director Roman Polanski’s recent arrest in Switzerland has stirred the international community. The terms of the debate are nebulous. Polanski’s “artist” status has, in some minds, exempted him from punishment. Others believe that his very identity as …
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By RISHI CHAUDHURI
In her 1999 article in The New Republic[1], Martha Nussbaum tells us that Judith Butler has “led …many to adopt a stance that looks very much like quietism and retreat.” She tells us that Butler gives us no …
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by SABINA FRIEDMAN-SEITZ
October 2009
“My dick is bigger than his,” quips demon-infused Jennifer in Diablo Cody’s new horror/comedy flick Jennifer’s Body.
Jennifer’s one-liner reveals the real point of this attempted feminist re-write of the horror movie script: that, in order for …
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