In the spirit of Thanksgiving, today we’ll be celebrating Saybrook Dining Hall Appreciation Day. Even though our Dining Hall was ranked last among all the residential college in an unscientific poll, a 3.19 out 4 isn’t bad by any means. Our Dining Hall staff was really dismayed by the rankings and needs some encouragement from [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Freshman Sustainability Study Break
by admin / November 18th 2009 / No Comment
Be there: Tuesday Night, 11/17/2009 11:00 PM Take the pledge, CFL exchange, learn how to defrost your fridge, unplug yo’ stuff before break. Get the facts, get some food, get green! -Emmy “Charleston Chew” Arntson and Jeff “Mad Dawg” Perrella
DJ R.J.’s Picks 11/17
by admin / November 17th 2009 / No Comment
Hey Saybrook, Sorry I’m late with my blog post, my bad. I just hope you don’t take it out on the great songs I’m about to share with you. 1. Wale: “Mirrors” First up we’ve got Wale. Most likely you were doing “other things” when he played early in the afternoon during last year’s Spring [...]
Saybrook Assassins Highlights
by admin / November 12th 2009 / No Comment
Day 1 of Saybrook Assassins was an absolute bloodbath, with 27 Saybrugians dying at the hands of their fellow Saybrugians. Here’s some of the highlights: Rick Caraballo ’13 was killed right before taking his Chem midterm. His last recorded words: “I didn’t know you were in the class.” Shunori Ramanathan ’13 was rudely awakened by [...]
Marty Keil ’12 on Wheel of Fortune!
by admin / November 9th 2009 / No Comment
Yes, it’s really true. Cancel your meetings, reschedule your dates, and abandon your books tonight because our very own Marty Keil ’12 will appear on tonight’s episode of Wheel of Fortune at 7:30pm on Channel 8. He’ll be competing against students from Boston University and the University of Rhode Island. Will the former #1 Scrabulous [...]
IM Update: 11/7
by admin / November 7th 2009 / No Comment
From the Yale Herald: “Many teams have found it was tougher than they anticipated to defend a championship, even with high expectations. The 1997 Packers were 11 point favorites to repeat as Super Bowl champs, but couldnt pull it off. USC was four minutes away from repeating as BCS champs with a 12 point lead [...]
Dusky Corners of the Internet 6: Beard Edition
by imriederer / November 5th 2009 / No Comment
Hey all, A Special Note: In order to raise awareness of my facial hair, I’ve decided to grow out my beard for November. If you can’t notice this, don’t say anything. Beard growth will continue until it is deemed too disgusting and needs to be shut down. Today’s Dusky Corners is beard-themed, with a little [...]
Tuesday is Election Day
by admin / November 2nd 2009 / No Comment
Hey Saybrook, As you may know, Tuesday is election day. You can cast your vote at the New Haven Free Public Library (the site of last spring’s endorsement vote) from 6:00a-8:00p. The library is located at 133 Elm Street (pictured on the left), which is at the corner of Temple and Elm Streets. You can [...]
DJ R.J.’s Picks 11/02
by admin / November 2nd 2009 / No Comment
Hey Saybrook, My name is R.J. Rico (’12) and I’m gonna be writing a weekly music post on this site. Maybe I’ll come up with a witty, ironic title, but for now, let’s just call it R.J.’s Picks. With these posts I have two goals: 1. To expose you to great (and oftentimes new) indie, [...]
Hiking in Vermont with Master Hudak
by admin / November 1st 2009 / No Comment
Word of caution to the readers: I have taken the liberty to be sarcastic and/ or superfluous at a few limited places in the space of this text. Please understand that everything below has been written in good humor. If nothing else, please disregard these places, and the text contained there within, as instances of [...]