November 3, 2010
Yesterday, I discovered totalfratmove.com. Today, I am an addict.
Reading Total Frat Move (TFM) is somewhat akin to (forgive the cliché) watching a train wreck. Only here, the train conductors are the hundreds …
October 14, 2010
Yale is not new to fraternities acting in despicable, misogynistic ways. The Women’s Center has tried to deal with horrible forms of chauvinistic actions conducted under the guise of fraternity rush processes. Yale’s female …
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 …
August 23, 2010
On a recent afternoon, a friend of mine was walking to work across the New Haven Green when a stranger decided he needed her. “Needed me,” she stressed, incredulous, as she recounted the story over the …
April 2, 2011
Christopher Yuan visited Yale’s campus yesterday evening, and spoke for just over one hour at the Afro-American Cultural Center (Af-Am House) to an audience of students including self-identified LGBTQ allies and members of the Christian …
October 25, 2010
If Yale University is an American narrative, the Yale Man is its protagonist. He is not without a noted personality. F. Scott Fitzgerald compared him to November in This Side of Paradise: unlike the wretched …
December 30, 2011
TRIGGER WARNING: This is a personal essay about depression and suicidal thoughts.
On January 12, 1982, Maya Tanaka Hanway, then a Yale undergraduate, jumped off of the Arts and Architecture building. When I walk home …
November 16, 2010
“You don’t really have a choice.” These are the words of my mother. On the contrary, I do have a choice: have a stranger take a photo of my naked body, or have a stranger …
November 15, 2010
I know that most of you don’t watch Fox News… ever. Its penchant for reporting factual inaccuracies is abhorrent to (almost) any Yale student. But I’ve recently made it one of my hobbies to keep …
September 19, 2011
Every single daydream starts with there being less of me. It doesn’t matter what it is: I’m sleeping with Michael Fassbender, I’m Poet Laureate of the Universe, Sleater-Kinney gets back together and adds me …
February 9, 2011
On Wednesday, February 9, Yale’s Chief of Police Ronnell A. Higgins sent the student body an email that an “acquaintance rape involving two undergraduates that occurred at the end of January” had been reported anonymously to …
By MARY CHRISTENSEN November 4, 2011
I am almost certain that the campus organization called “Yale Tango” is not an escort service, a brothel, bordello, or prostitution ring. But it has distributed full-color advertisements around campus that suggest otherwise, a flyer that creates …
By SAMUEL HUBER
February 20, 2011
If there’s anything Lady Gaga can unequivocally be said to have mastered, it’s the art of the grand entrance. At the 53rd Grammy Awards last week, Gaga was carried down the red carpet in a …
April 14, 2011
I hope you’re in the mood for a vignette, because I’ve got a good one. Last week, in a particularly edifying moment of the debate over Title X that has raged nationally for weeks, Arizona …
By DEMETRA HUFNAGEL January 16, 2012
Yesterday morning Yale students received an email notification without precedent: Ronnell Higgins, Chief of Yale Police, explained that a Yale undergraduate had reported being raped by another Yale undergraduate in the early hours of Saturday …
April 18, 2011
Meghan Clyne ’03, managing editor of National Affairs for the New York Post, would have you believe that issues of sexual harassment on Yale’s campus are in large part due to the presence and message of …
April 2009
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Dean of Graphic Design and Senior Critic at the Yale School of Art, is one of today’s most prominent feminist graphic designers. In 1971, she founded the California Institute of the Arts, the …
By ANNIE ATURA
October 21, 2010
One of the take-away lessons from the DKE controversy recalls the old adage: many a true word is spoken in jest. The Yale Daily News unfortunately did not learn that lesson from their fraternity brothers …
December 3, 2010
On the night of May 7, 2006, 19-year-old Dominican college freshman Megan Wright was raped by three men. The next morning, a friend took her to the hospital, where the nurse on duty said that …
By GEORGIA LILL
March 10, 2011
On March 8th The New York Times published an article titled, “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town,” in which reporter James C. McKinley covered the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Cleveland, Texas.
The crime is …