While a student at Yale through May 2001, I wrote for The Yale Herald, a weekly student paper.
The Yale Herald: yaleherald.com
Opinion columns
Front-page articles
Online exclusives: Technology
Sports beat: Football
Sports beat: Basketball
Sports columns
Sports, A&E, News articles
Opinion columns: Sacrilicious
(Name pilfered from this Simpsons incident.)
Required housing worsens crunch, April 14, 2000
I argued that Yale's policy requiring that students live on campus in their first two years was hypocritical, in light of the shortage of available housing and the need to annex upperclassmen from their residential colleges.
When a jail becomes a sweatshop, March 31, 2000
In the midst of a campus-wide debate about what Yale should do to ensure Yale clothing was not made in overseas sweatshops, I argued that an equally important issue was the use by many Yale-contracted companies of sweatshop-like domestic prison labor.
The current CR/D/F policy is a failure, March 2, 2000
I started by examining the question: why are so few Yale classes offered pass/fail? The answers I found explained why both students and professors decry the pass/fail policy.
Let my people go, February 18, 2000
This column revisits an old issue: Yale keeps many gates to Old Campus locked, thereby inconveniencing students. I argue there is no defensible rationale for this policy.
Yale tuition increases are unjustified, January 21, 2000
I wrote this soon after Williams College announced that its huge endowment growth would allow the college to keep tuition flat for the following year. I argued that Yale, with its much larger endowment, should do the same.
Withdrawl policies lack compassion, September 10, 1999
In my debut column, I argued that Yale's inflexible policies on withdrawing force students in crisis to make impossibly difficult decisions.
Losing the point behind the rules, December 4, 1998
In my first Opinion piece, written while I was a Sports editor, I argued that Yale administrators hide behind irrational, self-imposed rules when defending their conservative endowment-spending policy.
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Front-page articles
Fundraising: for Yale, for Yale, and for Yale, February 4, 2000
Profiling Yale's huge fundraising operation: how it works, and how it wields considerable, though subtle, influence over donors. Mirrored in the November 2000 issue of the webzine The Difference.
Where have all of Yale's leaders gone? November 6, 1998
Why are decreasing numbers of Yale graduates entering political careers?
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Monster.com CEO Jeff Taylor on his company's monster success, April 14, 2000
An interview with Jeff Taylor.
Putting Yale sports on the 'net, February 25, 2000
A follow-up to the previous article.
The Game meets the 'net, November 19, 1998
Putting broadcasts of Yale sporting events online.
The Future of the ID card, October 23, 1998
A feature on what Yale ID cards would be equipped to do in the future.
Hacked! March 27, 1998
An analysis of Yale's computer security in the wake of a break-in to the geology department's network. Co-written with Ayon Nandi.
Art Sound Machines, December 5, 1997
Profiles and samples from some of Yale's computer artists and musicians.
The school of the future, October 10, 1997
The School of Management's mandatory laptop policy for all students.
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Sports beat: Football
Co-written with David Goldenberg, unless otherwise indicated.