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...campus. Given that many students who live off the Yale campus cite housing restrictions as a motive for leaving the residential college system, it is reasonable to assume that the proposed changes may encourage students to move back on campus and cause fewer students to leave in the first place...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Right to Choose | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...sample from a song and continuously repeating it. This craft enables DJs to build up slowly to a long-awaited chorus or, in VanMiddlesworth’s case, create an entirely new beat or transition altogether. A dedicated DJ will also work hard in advance of a gig to place a series of good cue points for all of his songs—that is, find and mark a set of perfect moments to launch into a track. Finally, VanMiddlesworth also has an extensive collection of exclusively instrumental and vocal tracks...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dutiful DJ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Effectively, DJs like VanMiddlesworth and Zisiadis are specialty acts; the more an artist knows about DJing techniques and music, the less inclined they are to do the basic stuff that the vast majority of a crowd wants to hear. “You have to be at a place where people are expecting a DJ to do DJ things,” said VanMiddlesworth...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dutiful DJ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...bunch of people entering a club to drink, hook up, whatever." However, unlike other forms of service, DJing puts you in an empowered, controlling relationship with those you are trying to help. "You’re sort of a shaman in a secular ritual to bring people to a place of ecstasy.” This moment, she elaborated, embodies the term “communitas,” or an “über-community feeling: [the] feeling of in a moment being boundaryless, being connected to everyone around you. The DJ is trying to maintain that...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dutiful DJ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

There is no greater spectacle in the hamburger universe than the annual Rachael Ray Burger Bash, held at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami. At this year's gastronomic gathering, which took place on Feb. 25, I tried all the burgers and talked to all the chefs, and one thing is clear: the hamburger is at a creative crossroads. (See pictures of Rachael Ray's culinary career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Improve Upon the Classic Burger? | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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