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Everyone’s a Freak: What Fetishes Can Teach Us about Male Sexuality
Perhaps the real nature of physical attraction is some characteristics about someone that, for whatever crazy set of reasons and non-reasons, you are obsessed with.Our most recent round of public male...
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Are Ivy League Colleges Misrepresenting How Diverse They Really Are?
“The trouble with diversity … is not just that it won’t solve the problem of economic inequality. It’s that it makes it hard for us to even see the problem.”Lisa Hickey had no sooner published her...
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Is Yale QB Hamlet or Rapist?
Patrick Witt was suppose to be the answer to Penn State. A transfer from Nebraska to Yale, he had stellar GPA, football record, and character. The only problem was that the final interview for the...
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Should Anyone Earn a Billion A Year?
Tom Matlack invites discussion around a simple question: Should the mega rich be admired or vilified?Perhaps the most important business ethics question of our era—and economic issue for that...
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It’s About More Than Titillation: Don’t Give Up On College Sex Week
Eric Henney examines how the “Sex Weeks” being held at universities such as Harvard fail, and also how they succeed.College sex weeks are all about hyperbole, which makes their execution tricky and...
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The Disease of More
In a much read column, WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ claims that Wall Street bankers are ten times more likely than the average citizen to be “clinical psychopaths,” exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy...
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The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan ’12. Photo by Facebook.Marnia Keegan died tragically in a car accident, days after graduating from Yale. Before she died, she wrote of the connections that keep us together.—-The piece...
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The Perfect Match: When Love Means Giving an Organ
Joshua Taylor had already given his heart to his boyfriend of 15 years, Ryan Doughty. Then Ryan needed a kidney.It was straight out of an episode of House. Late in the summer of 2010, Ryan Doughty...
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We’ll Always Have Chicago [Video]
Thomas G. Fiffer remembers Julia: “Fingers that penned intense love poems … Fingers that were skilled in other arts as well.”Thomas G. Fiffer originally told this story live for MouseMuse, Ina...
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GOP Co-Sponsor of DOMA Has Change of Heart After Son Comes Out as Gay
So after two years and much prayer, Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has decided to change his mind regarding the issue of gay marriage.You see, two years ago Senator Portman’s son, who is now a junior at...
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An Excerpt from THE FRACKING KING
This weekend we have an excerpt from James Browning’s The Fracking King. When the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been...
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Sports and Math Collide at Yale and UConn: Upset Loss to Yale Spawns Complex...
As if an upset loss weren’t enough. Mike Kasdan is sad to report that UConn math students are being forced to relive the loss in probability class: “Thanks a lot Professor Chen!”—- Earlier this...
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Say ‘I Love You’
An encounter with a teammate reminds Isa Qasim that saying ‘I love you’ isn’t limited to romantic relationships or your immediate family.___One winter day my sophomore year, a senior on the track team...
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What Binds Us
View image | gettyimages.comReflecting on the recent tragedies of this past week, we must be reminded of our need for connection to each other as human beings, and that we must call ourselves and each...
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From Jousting to Football: The Ideal Man Hasn’t Changed Much Since Medieval...
Embed from Getty ImagesThis comparison between NFL players and Tudor jousters are all too apt, because both pastimes represent the pinnacle of masculinity for their day.____By Emma LevittAnyone with a...
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Harvard, Yale, Stanford: Are They Truly Worth The Cost?
This week, I spoke to a select group of students at Kutztown University.Eight years ago, I was the student. It was quite a surreal experience to be again on the other side of the classroom. Words...
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Comment of the Day: We are all racist regardless of the color of your skin
Embed from Getty ImagesThis comment was by Don in reference to the post – White Fragility and the Question of TrustMy question is do you ever have these groups with other than white groups? In my...
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“There Is A Gay, Queer, Pakistani Kid Who Loves Wearing Makeup And Is...
—Traveling from Pakistan to Yale, Zulfiqar Mannan was seeking “queer Heaven”, a place he could openly question and experiment with gender. He soon realized no such place exists but discovered the next...
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How Far Will Parents Go To Get Their Kids Into a Great University?
— Tuesday morning I woke up, made some coffee, and tossed a bagel into the toaster before turning on CNN as I ate my breakfast and got ready for a day of writing, editing, and podcasting. Dominating...
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Community Ecology: Feel the Love – Crash Course Ecology #4
— Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly...
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