The things we hate this week, every week.
September 22, 2022
Calendar Uncategorized by Yale Herald Looking Up at a Shared Sky Arts by Elena Unger In Search of Grace at Graceland Features by Sylvie Goldner I Wish I Had Baos for Brunch: On Chinese Food at Yale Culture by Patrick Kho Keep the Scraps Between the Cushions Inserts by Daniella Sanchez The Windham-Campbell Prizes: Then
Calendar Uncategorized by Yale Herald Looking Up at a Shared Sky Arts by Elena Unger In Search of Grace at Graceland Features
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I came to New Haven fully prepared to never eat Chinese food again. Getting off the bus at Phelps Gate was the
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As a self-proclaimed collector, I can appreciate Yale’s commitment to what others may consider hoarding. Sterling Memorial Library boasts more than two
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Napping at Yale is a strategic business, one that the Academic Strategies Program should cover in an upcoming workshop. If you’re a
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Note: All names have been changed. Evan is always in the bathroom. It’s where we met, and then introduced ourselves again the
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“So, where are you from?” “Maine.” “That’s like, the super northeast one, right?” Being from one of the lesser-known states in the
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Grace Hopper’s face on Hopper’s windows is a refreshing sight compared to the baleful glares emanating from the murals in other dining
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Elm City Scrapbook is a column alternately written by Daniella Sanchez (MC ’25) and Catherine Kausikan (GH ’25) which each week tells
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Dummy Dining is a collection of recipes by Carmen Lopez Villamil (JE ’25) for delicious dishes made primarily from scavenged dining hall
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Today and Everyday by Lucy Santiago (MC ’24) is a bimonthly column about faith and ritual. This is no kind of church.
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Graceland is Disney World without the rides and Magic Kingdom. Opened to the public in 1982, Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis,
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Walking through a never-ending maze of trifold boards, I searched in vain for a breath of air in the sea of anxious
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One time, I am in my roommate’s room. I am Picking up underwear with by far the most Retractile finger-pincer you’ve ever
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Nestled in the walnut chair I am a buried louse. I’ve proudly chomped on this hard wood And made a wooden house.
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She lies on the dock—back pressed firmly against the uneven wooden planks, dry hair matted against the wet edges of her hairline,
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When I lie under the night sky, I feel a combination of awe and menace that allows for a moment of self-transcendence.
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The passage of time feels most palpable during the autumn. “A darkness gathers though it does not fall,” Wallace Stevens writes in
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Read the accompanying history of the festival here. Henry James once told Edith Wharton to “be tethered in native pastures, even if
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Read the accompanying profiles of this year’s festival participants here. When Donald Windham—an author better known for being friends with Tennessee Williams
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Not All That Foreign is a biweekly column about life as an international Yalie by Irene Colombo (BF ’25). International students inevitably
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Elm City Scrapbook: Is The Women’s Table Feminist Inserts by Catherine Kausikan I Wanted to Burn Some Bridges. I Decided to Rank
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Since I’ve started college, my social interactions can be categorized into two flavors of fireworks: the sparkles of joy that come after
MoreElm City Scrapbook is a column alternately written by Daniella Sanchez and Catherine Kausikan, which each week reflects on a different artwork
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On occasion, a peculiar phenomenon has been noticed in the New Haven Green: the appearance of human bones. Such a sight should
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Maybe you’ve seen (or smelled) the mess left behind after a night on Lake Place or High Street. The broken plastic cups,
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The Yale Fall 2022 semester began on Wednesday, September 7, kicking off another year for undergraduate students. Multiple administrative changes promise to
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Dear Lil Wenker is Lil Wenker (SY ’23)’s advice column! Send your most pressing questions and pleas for help to lillian.wenker@yale.edu. Dear
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Is That Fruity offers biweekly analysis and arbitration of the fruitiness of various pop culture Moments by Zelda Barnz (TC ’25) and
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You know the one. Gorbachev walks into a Pizza Hut restaurant, instigating an argument between two patrons about his legacy. “Because of
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The first week of school this year was very different from the first week of school last year. Instead of running around
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In my experience, the start of a semester spawns more resolutions than New Year’s Eve. Gaggles of students convene in the dining
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The year is 2019. Murmurs of the Iron Throne, House Stark, and White Walkers flood high school hallways across the globe. The
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Carbs, meat, Granny Smith apples, and ice cream: a perfectly balanced Yale diet. What’s that? I won’t get my requisite vitamins and
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Fall Semester COVID-19 Guidance: Healthy Yale I took the liberty of including the above text in bold so that you might actually
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Twelve-year-old me sat restlessly in the office of Dr. Lee, one of Manila’s most notorious oral surgeons. Perched on the stool a
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Home feels sticky when it is never fully yours. Two corrosive Command strips chewing the wall a ribbon beneath the radiatorand three plastic
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The Yale Art Gallery’s collection of over 120,000 rare coins, banknotes, and medals is the largest and most impressive of its kind,
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Hey. Grab a seat. Get comfy. Welcome to the Yale Herald. We’re glad you’re here. We want to hear about you later,
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Lucky DrawArden Yum, BF ’25, Herald Staff In my application to Yale, eighteen-year-old me promised my suitemates watercolors and H-mart snacks in
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Hey you, It’s good to see you again. And your legs. And the birds. What have I been doing? Missing you, mainly.
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Friday, April 8th was one of this spring’s first truly “outdoor” days. In the afternoon, the sun was out, and, at least
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Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has inspired much equivocation between the current Russian Federation and the Soviet Union. Indeed, both states subordinated their
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I’ll paint the scene: You’re a Yale College student. It’s midterm season. You aren’t usually a procrastinator, but the beautiful spring weather
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Two seats down from a pair of thirty-somethings who whistled anytime Catwoman appeared onscreen, I watched The Batman and wondered why Warner
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I’m only slightly embarrassed to admit that I found myself at Yale’s new on-campus bar, The Well, on its opening night. Every
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What were you doing last Wednesday morning? Did you have three consecutive existential crises about the state of your course registration worksheet?
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I remember the first time I felt desire, and I remember the first time I felt fear. I have pages upon pages
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In recent years, there has been an increasing acceptance of the open relationship: couples who agree to seek sexual or romantic fulfillment
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Sex education for Catholic school girls is actually pretty simple. Imagine the scene from Mean Girls where the gym teacher warns the
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Orgasm: 4/10Sure, it can be nice, but sometimes you just don’t want it. For example, when the TSA guy pats you down
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Close your eyes: you’re out on the town, looking perfect, smelling like heaven. Skip ahead. Keep your eyes closed. You’re stumbling through
MoreDear reader, You’re probably thinking to yourself, Are they really doing an entire sex-themed issue? We sure are. Is it a ploy
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Ghosted. A lot. Enough motivation to finally get an IUD, which was so painful upon implantation that I vomited on the OB-GYN.
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Since ancient times, the human desire for sex has been coupled with an equally deep anxiety about our abilities to satiate this
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You have to strain your neck to look him in the eye, and stand on your tiptoes to kiss him. He says
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Priapus, god of sexWith throbbing sword-like groin,You mesmerize and vexMy mind, and then my loin. As she would not take your lance,You
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“A body is always twisting and changing form, and looking at it from different angles, you see different things, and there are
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MAKE PEOPLE WONDER WHAT KIND OF SEX YOU ARE HAVING. The message displays proudly across the first slide of Professor Kathryn Lofton’s
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Dearest readers, Can you believe this is the last Herald issue before spring break? We’ve made it! Although it did snow only
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As a Middle Eastern woman-child (it’s weird because by the standard definition I am an adult, but by my parents’ definition I
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It started with overnight oats. Sam’s* recipe was simple enough: rolled oats from the Bow Wow, almond milk and maple syrup from
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An Interview with SESH, DIY Tattooer, Yale Med Student, and Comics Artist Cathryn Seibert, JE ‘22 This past September, comics artist SESH
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I spent my winter break visiting family across Budapest, tracing the concentric streets that encircle the heart of the city and venturing
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“DECORUM.” Press play on the album’s first song. A grainy keyboard jazzily takes off before taxiing smoothly into the beginning of R.A.P.
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I hope I’m not alone in saying that America’s obsession with pizza psychologically disturbs me. I’m still recovering from the traumatic experience
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Thank you feet for carrying me across garbled waves and scorching concrete. For carrying a girl who didn’t want to exist in a woven basket of
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A shield of plain brown corduroy,Just strung along the arm.It insulates my weary heartAnd cloaks me in its charm. A vulture’s ruff
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My mother laughed as she pointed at the quilt. In the center, a dog was doing its best to separate a man
MoreHello fellow dilettantes, We’ve returned. Another week, another issue. We churn these things out like crazy if you really think about it.
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Aminé for Spring Fling: we back and better than ever. Squardle: better than Wordle. Sedecordle: better than Squardle. Worldle: better than Sedecordle.
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In Russian director Sergei Balabanov’s Brother (1997), Danila, a baby-faced former soldier from a Russian village, goes to live with his successful
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I spent my junior year of high school touring colleges that proudly boasted to have abolished Greek Life decades ago—or, better yet,
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What is, or rather, what was Librex? I know the formal answer: an anonymous online discussion platform for Ivy League students, founded
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One afternoon eight years ago, Juliette Watt received a very important email in her inbox. It read: “Dear Mrs. Watt, this is
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A few weeks ago, I found myself alone in the Branford College TV room asking myself the immortal question: What do I
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Problem: So many reading rooms, so little time. Which is the best study room in Sterling Memorial Library? Methodology: My friend Cat
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