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| October 2005 | |
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No Sarah, you’re awesome “This is by far the most mature approach to your ex-hookups…seeing each other naked has had no impact on your relationship, and seriously, you are awesome.” —Sarah Minkus, YDN, September 30 Weed out the breeders “Women who plan to be stay-at-home mothers and never go back to work world should not be admitted to Yale. Other women would make better use of the education.” —Anonymous Letter to the Editor, Yale Herald Friday, September 30, 2005 No, I would not like to buy your flower for a dollar “Touched by the sweet simplicity of this folksy little green rose, I continued down the street feeling triumphant and benevolent, as though I’d done something honorable.” —Rachel Newman, Yale Herald, September 30 Lesson 1: Don’t sleep with bed-wetters “after a particularly regrettable hookup, one of my good friends actually threw out her sheets. Frankly, this could become an expensive habit, but damn it’s funny.” YDN Friday, September 30 —Sarah Minkus Most informative headline of the month “Exhibit shows diverse subjects” —Felicia Resor, YDN Sept. 30 NHPD SCREWED! “Connecticut court says police promotions are unjust.” —YDN headline, Sept. 22, Marcel Przymusinski Child molesters need not apply “Discrimination on the basis of sex- including sexual harassment- is illegal under Title IX of the Education Ammendments of 1972.” —Sarah Mishkin, YDN Sept, 30 Research Shows Women Are OK “The stereotype of the gossipy woman-the nosy-neighbor, the rumor-spreader- is damaging both to women and to gossip. Neither, in reality, is necessarily bad.” —Helen Vera, YDN Sept. 30 Resume empowerment “We’re about empowerment” said Jesse Wolfson, ’07, the president of the Yale Roosevelt Institution chapter.” —Chris Young, YDN Sept. 20 The incest that should be Yale “But the problem is that we are not “Yalies” in the same way that we are daughters and uncles and sons.” — Daniel Weisfield, YDN Sept. 20 The Saybrook Strip is pretty primordial “We will never be Yalies essentially, act on our “Yalieness” primordially, or make sacrifices for this imaginary clan.” —Daniel Weisfield, YDN Sept. 20 We could be ficas trees in the admissions office “We are only Yalies insofar as we imagine ourselves as such.” —Daniel Weisfield, YDN Sept. 20 My Spidey sense is tingling! “I also know that racial profiling is no substitute for using your instinces and common sense to avoid becoming the victim of a crime.” —Mena Cammett, YDN Sept. 26 Try Donald Duck? “I’d recommend eating Mickey Mouse, but the price on his head exceeds the GDP of several third world countries.” —Michael Giardina, Current Fall 2005 Never been in a weenie bin “The endowment of higher education is no place for funding prisons.” Sarah Haley, YDN October 7 Holy bellies Batman! It’s Ramadan! “With new halal offerings, more religious students fill their holy bellies.” —Yale Herald Headline, October 7 Oedipus, the Yale years “Any other designation will just get Mom hot and heavy imagining that Ivy-league wedding down the road.” —Dana Schuster, Yale Herald October 7 Your mom thought so “YTV is like a baby nobody cares about. It’s worth having because of that.” —Emereson Davis, Yale Herald October 7 |
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