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...varieties: bucolic small towns whose postcard streets are overrun with bed-and-breakfasts, all-vegan cafes and Williams-Sonomas (Ithaca, Princeton), and famous big cities theoretically inhabited by yuppies and sitcom characters, even if the actual neighbors have to be kept at bay with swipe cards and rent-a-cops (New York, Philadelphia). New Haven doesn’t do bucolic. New Haven has no elegant skyscrapers or swooping, glittery bridges which can be artfully photographed for the covers of admissions brochures. The closest we’ve got is the “Q-Bridge” to East...
...Haven were just the sum of its galleries and martini bars, it would be just a low-rent Soho with a suspiciously large quantity of parking. What defines the place—what makes you really root for this city—are the overwhelming challenges it’s managed to vault...
Show-stealer status was unequivocally won, however, by the person-eating plant Audrey II. The Currier House Musical Society scored a coup by somehow managing to rent a set of awesome-looking puppets from a New York supplier (sources tell me that only five groups of such puppets exist), and made splendid use of them onstage. As the play progressed and scenes changed, Audrey II grew larger and larger, finally ending up the size of a small Volkswagen, equipped with fangs and a mouth full of purple feathers. The puppeteering was fabulous: Sarah D. Ronis...
...there was wall-painting to be done. “Having Dorm Crew is a big plus,” says Davis. Despite the fact that living in the dorm is a neatly packaged deal, Davis believes it is cheaper to live off-campus, arguing that while the rent in the dorms is well subsidized by the University, the cost of board far exceeds what it costs to buy and make food off-campus. The reason to move off campus extends beyond the simple logistics of grocery shopping and cooking; for Davis, it is a reflection of a different lifestyle...
...this year—20,080 ballots were cast compared with 17,688 two years ago—a trend widely attributed to both DeBergalis’ voting registration drive on campuses and to the fact that voters came out to weigh in on a controversial ballot question on rent control...