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The Scene
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The Scene
Last year, Ian Dallas, SM '00, created Scenelink, a website devoted to "the scene," the Internet's underground culture. Read about the scene, in which speed is everything, and how Dallas tries to make sense of it all. This week's online exclusive.

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Your Mind

Don't just sit there, react. Sound off about articles in the Herald, and read what other people have to say.

Planet of
Sound

Listen to what you've been reading about. Visit the Planet of Sound to listen to songs from albums discussed in this week's Arts & Entertainment section. This week: The Handsome Family: Through The Trees.

Yale grads make New Haven home
DAVID A. MOORE/YH

"I used to be in jail, now I'm free/ I used to go to Yale, now it comes to me."

Dushko Petrovich, DC '97, and I-Huei Go, CC '97, who both chose to stay in New Haven after graduating from Yale, are singing me their collaborative commentary on post-graduate life. As they discuss their experiences in New Haven, they oscillate between self-effacing comments about still being here and sincere analysis of their decision to stay. "I have an idea for a headline for your story," Go says. "How about, 'What are you doing here?'"

More than a few Yalies have resisted the conventional move to New York or Boston in favor of settling in the Elm City after graduation. The range of what they are doing--getting involved in politics or social action, working for an organization connected to Yale, participating in the artistic culture of the city, or just taking time to figure out what they want to do next--suggests that their decisions to stay stem more from insight than inertia. During a decade when the public conception of young adult zeitgeist seems to center on little more than widespread apathy, New Haven offers more than enough options for action.

The cover story for this week's print edition of the Yale Herald.


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