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@Herald this week


For years, Yalies have been yelling at the paper at dinner time. "What a dumb pick!" sports fans would say when one of our sports editors would screw up on our weekly Smack Zone. Well, tough guy, now's your chance to show them who knows sports. Pick ten games. If you beat out the rest of Yale, then you get to star on the pages of the Herald as the next week's guest in the Smack Zone. Can you handle it? Try it out.

The debut of @Herald Comics, your source for over 50 of your favorite comics, updated every day. We've got everything from Peanuts to Doonesbury to Frumpy the Clown. Yes, Frumpy the Clown.


Expanded Ivy Notebook

The print edition's Ivy Notebook tells you what is going on at other Ivy League schools. On @Herald, our version gives it to you in their own words. Check it out.

Music reviews

Want to buy some music? We've compiled every album review we've ever put online in one convenient index. So be sure to check here before you hop over to Cutler's to pick up Tori Amos' Boys For Pele.

Also, be sure to check out the reviews of the new Weezer, Archers of Loaf, and Robyn Hitchcock albums -- all three feature downloadable sound samples that let you hear the music we're writing about.


In the print edition this week

Radio Free Yale



Student radio station WYBC charts a course for the future in troubled waters.

See the complete story.




In News: Jack Kemp comes to town to campaign; The Herald speaks to him and chats up his wife on the potential of Second Ladydom. We take a look at the big role Yale is playing in finding justice in Cambodia. There's a new way to get to the local airports, and it isn't Connecticut Limo. The University is sticking by affirmative action despite the threats to its future at other colleges. Science Park looks to expand, and the Sierra Club's 23-year-old president speaks on campus. And a wild, wacky look Around the Globe.


In A&E: A look at the difficult road to getting into the Yale School of Drama; an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Dillard; reviews of movies (Synthetic Pleasures), books (Ivy League Stripper), albums (from Weezer, the Archers of Loaf, and Robyn Hitchcock), and plays (Translations at the Dramat Ex, Fun at the Cabaret). Whew! Don't you need a little trout to help you relax? Minor Threats sure does.


In Sports: Men's soccer finds trouble in overtime, while volleyball gets ready for the rigorous season to come. Baseball aims high at the city series, but our editors say the Yankees are aiming even higher. Short people, unite! This week's top matchup's a doozie, a bunch of teams are playing at home, and Smack! goes the weasel. Would you like to smack?


In Opinion: John Helzer would have sex with David Bowie, he's proud to say. Heather Hammer defends the class with the zeros after its name. Alex Zubatov says Clinton is what he eats (a Big Mac, but squishy like a jelly donut). Ilan Mochari points out that spitting on other people is bad. Darcy Miller reminds us of those soon-to-be-formerly on welfare; Elbert Lin responds to last week's Hong Kong article; and Laura Siegel writes on the upcoming winter for the homeless.


In the rest of the paper: Our poetry this week is by Dana Goodyear. And, for the first time, we've got all of our comics online this week. Yes, that means Wide Gauge, too.


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