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Crime Issue Countdown, T minus 2 days: Immunities to Build Up for When Civilization Collapses into Crime

By Adam Bildersee '09

  • AK-47s
  • Radioactive fallout
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Heat
  • Ebola
  • Land mines
  • Amputation

Crime Issue Countdown, T minus 4 days: Famous Jury Duty Excuses

By Eric Purington '09
  • Michael Jackson: "The role of the jury is to judge its peers. There is no one in this solar system who is remotely similar to me. Except Bubbles, and he's innocent."
  • John Kerry: "One is disqualified by toolbaggery, isn't one?"
  • Harold Bloom: "Because the rape of Jane Doe fails to live up to Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece."
  • Jerry Seinfeld: "It's too hard to squeeze situational humor out of a murder-suicide."
  • Richard Levin: "I am a Chinese citizen."
  • Det. John Shaft: "It's my duty to protect that booty. And last I checked, over 80 percent of lawyers, judges, bailiffs, and the indicted are male."
  • Chuck Norris: "Because a roundhouse to the nuts is considered 'cruel and unusual.'"
  • Bill Clinton: "I did not have sex with that stenographer. Yet."
  • William Hung: "A Hung jury is a bad thing, right?"

Leisure Activities of Fallujah Residents

By Michael Thornton '09
  • Building sandcastles
  • Watching the television station
  • Paper-mache with inflated currency
  • Imagining playing golf
  • Going to the bazaar to try on the spring line of flak jackets
  • Not getting tortured
  • Thinking of synonyms for "Godless infidel"
  • Recharging one's batteries--of rage
  • Choking back tears

Upcoming Yale Construction Projects

By the Record Staff
  • "Yale Bubble" force field
  • 2 new residential colleges in China
  • Golden calf for Divinity School
  • Ski lift up Science Hill
  • Quinnipiac-Toad's Skybridge
  • Making the Art & Architecture building uglier
  • Women's Tablecloth
  • A Starbucks closer to campus
  • 500-foot-tall Jenga tower
  • $150 million Construction Memorial Monument

Things Which Will Neither Kill You Nor Make You Stronger

By Adam Bildersee '09
  • Reading Dickens
  • Boxing Muhammad Ali
  • Getting shot in the foot
  • The common cold
  • Exposure to radioactivity
  • Global warming
  • Skipping your workout

Unexpected Consequences of Global Warming

Ice caps melting, polar bears drowning, STEP coordinators urinating on themselves out of panic... same old, same old. But as climate change worsens, what else can we expect? The Record staff has the apocalyptic answers:

  • Premiere of Day After the Day After Tomorrow
  • Barbara Walters No Longer Frigid Bitch, Now Merely Bitch
  • Elderly Jews Must Learn to Flee Polar Bears
  • Law and Order: SVU Canceled After Ice T Melts
  • Season Four of Lost Reveals the Island to be Antarctica
  • Vanilla Ice Nostalgia Sweeps Nation
  • Thawed Ted Williams Helps Red Sox Capture Division
  • NatiIce Gets Worse
  • Frozen Food Section Renamed Food Section
  • Kevin Costner Wins Lifetime Achievement Award for Waterworld
  • Icey-Hot Deemed Prophetic
  • California Roommates Stop Bitching About the Weather

Superheroes' Lesser Known Sidekicks

Eradicating evil from the planet isn't a one person task. The Record exposes little-known sidekicks who help superheroes get the job done.

  • Captain America -- Private the Philippines
  • Spiderman -- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • The Green Lantern -- The Mauve Flashlight
  • The Human Torch -- The Amphibious Menorah
  • Captain Planet -- Lieutenant Pluto
  • The Invisible Woman -- Guy with a Forgettable Face
  • The Thing -- That Other Thing
  • Daredevil -- Seatbelt Man
  • Cyclops -- Favorite Ram
  • Wolverine -- Nectarine 
  • Professor X -- Associate Lecturer Z
  • Storm -- Tropical Depression
  • Beast -- PBR

 

Things You Don't Want To Hear From Your Roommate on the First Night

It took all of Camp Yale for us to forget the sting of these cheerful introductions from our freshman-year roommates. Make sure you're prepared by reading this list, written by Record staffers. (And stay tuned in for more list features in the future!)
  • You're a lot cuter than my last cell-mate.
  • Can my kids stay here?
  • My water just broke.
  • Awww...I thought there was gonna be one queen-sized bed.
  • My girlfriend goes to Qpac.
  • Hey, my name's Jeff Hitler, what's yours?
  • What's your World of Warcraft name?
  • I think every dude should learn to live with another's man stench at some point, don't you?
  • Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
  • What residential college are you in?




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