by Marina Tinone Professor John Witt (TD 94, LAW 99, GSAS 00) is the head of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming (CEPR). On October 4, I sat across from Professor Witt in his office at the Sterling Law Building. Surrounded by his full shelves of law and history books, I spoke with the…
How to Get Away with Too-High Stakes
by Sohum Pal How to Get Away with Murder is one of ABC’s most popular shows–and for good reason. It is a “prestige drama” in every sense of the phrase: its characters inevitably embody wealth and privilege, if sometimes hard-earned; the primary plot device, training in the work of the law at a upper-tier university,…
A Weekend for Rain
by Janis Jin (Contributing Writer) It’s a weekend for rain. Stefani Kuo’s Architecture of Rain, the Yale Dramat’s first Fall Ex, opened on Thursday night to a nearly sold-out audience. Directed by Gregory Ng, Architecture of Rain is a story about grief and loss set in a glass house made of memory. The play follows…
Pop the Yale Bubble
by Carlene Ervin Yale is a high-pressure place, and even the calmest of people can often be swept into feeling pressure to recieve perfect grades, be in the right clubs, and attain the perfect resume booster. Midterms only serve to exacerbate these issues, making students more stressed, sleep-deprived, and sick than before. Over the past…
Portraits of an American Rebel
by Ryan Wilson cw: police brutality, murder, suicide, depression My tears look like Kids Bleeding out on asphalt and in playgrounds They are brightly colored skittles Falling from limp hands into a scattered red rose plucked as buds for having the audacity to grow through the cracks in the sidewalk They feel like bent spines…