By ANNIE ATURA
April 29, 2010
It’s hardly surprising that George W. Bush’s tactics to de-fang Title IX failed to attract the media coverage they deserved. Bush was at the helm of a smorgasbord of treacherous projects, and those gruesome endeavors …
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By ANNIE ATURA
April 28, 2010
The following interview is unedited. It took place at seven o’clock on April 27, 2010 in the Branford College Master’s House, minutes before the Ying Yang Twins took the stage at Spring Fling. When I …
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By ANNIE ATURA
April 21, 2010
Wilma Mankiller was not unaware of the satirical possibilities of her surname. In a 1993 speech at Sweet Briar College, she quipped, “I told [my driver] it was a nickname, and I’d earned …
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April 19, 2010
In the year of the 40th anniversaries of coeducation and African American studies, and the 30th anniversary of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Yale College, The Student Body tries to render …
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April 19, 2010
Conversation about the IUD (intrauterine device) is limited and often based on a series of falsehoods. I had never heard of a safe IUD until three months ago, when I was sitting in my …
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April 18, 2010
Under the best of circumstances the Yale community has poor perceptions of the Panhellenic sororities. This January, however, was a particularly low point. After the conclusion of the rush process, Pi Beta Phi and Kappa …
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April 18, 2010
Sometimes Yale decides to speak up in the face of injustice, but right now it’s a little too quiet outside. This year, the campus has been disturbingly silent about the Spring Fling line-up, almost completely …
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By ANNIE ATURA
April 16, 2010
The premise of The Nine Rooms of Happiness, a book written by the editor of Self magazine and her psychiatrist friend, is that a woman’s mind is like a house. It needs to be tended …
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April 14, 2010
Last Tuesday at the Law School, Professor Reva Siegel and famed legal journalist Linda Greenhouse presented on their latest collaboration, a collected history of pre-Roe politics and materials. Addressing the two major popular narratives surrounding …
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