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You Can Dance If You Want To (But Not at Silliman College at Yale Anymore)
A previous year’s Safety Dance Wikipedia’s entry on Yale’s Silliman Residential College reads: Each fall, Silliman hosts a Yale-wide 80s theme party called the Safety Dance, the largest dance at Yale....
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If I’d Been There, I’d Have Rooted For Dartmouth
Dartmouth’s water bottle kicking tee. Cringe-making behavior by the Yale football coach. USAToday: Dartmouth arrived at its game against Yale on Oct. 6 with a full complement of players, all in...
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Damn! This Photo Is Going to Gain Votes For the Democrat
Amy Biviano, née Nabors, posed as one of the “Women of the Ivy League” for Playboy in 1995. SBS-Seattle.com reports: Amy Biviano, Democratic candidate for Spokane Valley’s 4th District House of...
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“One Night Stand of a Life”
Elizabeth Wurtzel grew up in the New York projects, but got herself a scholarship to private school and went on to graduate from Harvard. She later attended Yale Law School, graduating at age 40,...
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David Brooks To Teach Humility at Yale
Who could possibly be better qualified than the New York Times’ resident token conservative to teach a college course on Humility? Presumably Mr. Brooks is working on a follow-up seminar for next Fall...
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Scandal Strikes Yale Egyptology Department
Professor John C. Darnell, former chairman of Yale’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department John C. Darnell was a romantic figure on campus looked upon as Yale’s own answer to Indiana...
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Elite Universities and Money
The Berkeley College Dining Hall at Yale The Yale Daily News recently did a feature exploring what life is like for meritocratic recruits from financially disadvantaged backgrounds at Yale. MacBooks....
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Bones Goes PC
Bones’ delegation, then and now. I prefer then. The Atlantic smiles approvingly and congratulates that dreadful conspiratorial society formerly comprised nearly exclusively of elite white males for...
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Measuring One’s Own Yalieness
Teo Soares ‘13 did some recent navel-gazing in the Oldest College Daily on the perennial sterotype of the classic Yale man, against which Yale undergraduates have unsuccessfully compared themselves...
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Yale’s Sex Week Prostitution & Bestiality Poll
Earlier this month, it was revealed that the management of this year’s Sex Week at Yale circulated a questionaire inquiring about Yale students’ sexual histories, whether they’d ever had sex for...
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New Word of the Week: SWUG
Esther Zuckerman poses as a SWUG. The Urban Dictionary provides the definition: Senior Washed-Up Girl. The term goes back a couple of years, but the SWUG concept only recently attracted major...
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On This Date in 1924
Yale Beinecke Library collection. Postcard dated July 13, 1924, from Ernest Hemingway in Spain to Gertrude Stein in Paris. Hemingway, identifying himself in the picture as Number 2, says: “July 13...
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Tail at Yale Situation Not Really Different Today
Harkness Tower at Yale Weekend before last, the Times Magazine published one of those heavy-breathing, “We’ve got trouble right here in River City” sorts of articles about Ivy League hook-up culture,...
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Yale President Comforts Incoming Freshmen on Inequality
Fatuous imbecile in action. New Yale President Peter Salovey, in his address to incoming freshmen, described his own “modest upbringing”, admitted that there is inequality at Yale, but assured...
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Manson Hale Whitlock, 1917-2013
Manson H. Whitlock, proprietor of the last prominent typewriter repair and sales shop in the United States, and the last of Bethany, Connecticut’s renowned Whitlock brothers passed away August 28 at...
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College Laundry Incidents at Yale
Certain Yale residential colleges whose names begin with S have started the term this year experiencing a wave of laundry room terrorism. Ivygate posted a letter from the Master of Saybrook and...
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Largest Donation in Yale History
Charles Bartlett Johnson, Y ‘54 But it’s not all bad news at Yale this week, 1954 alumnus Charles B. Johnson, chairman of Franklin Resources, aka Franklin Templeton, is celebrating his recent...
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Yale Renovates President’s House
43 Hillhouse Avenue, built for Henry Farnum by architect Russell Sturgis in 1871. Victorian features were removed in 1934. It has been the home of Yale’s presidents since 1937. If the US Department of...
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Yale May Access Student (and Alumni and Faculty) Emails
The Oldest College Daily recently advised the Yale community of a potential downside to the use of free University-provided email addresses. Yale students’ email accounts are subject to search without...
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Yale on Lockdown After Reports of Gunman
One of those armored vehicles (with unmanned machine-gun turret) can be seen sitting just outside the campus. Around 9:30 A.M. this morning, an anonymous caller phoned New Haven Police warning them...
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