This time it’s Sterling Professor of Economics, Robert Shiller for his work on the role of the irrationality in creating market bubbles. Sharing the prize with Eugene Fama, and Lars Peter Hansen from the University of Chicago, Shiller, who has long been rumored to be a top candidate to take home this prize, will receive a cool $1.23 million.

In the past, Shiller has taught popular undergraduate courses such as his famed Financial Markets (ECON 252), located here on Open Yale Courses. This spring, non-econ majors will be able to indulge in his wisdom, as this newly-crowned Nobel Prize winner will teach the popular Introductory Macro Economics (116) lecture.

We’re not kidding. This is the best idea for an event since the Inaugural Dog Party!

Go get a coffee!

It looks like the U.S. Federal Government is probably going to shut down at midnight tonight when Congress fails to authorize a new budget, which obviously means I’m going to start pregaming now. I’ve been told that the way this works is loosely akin to the plot of The Purge, but the Bullblog can neither confirm nor deny these reports. We’ve also been told that this may have something to do with the fact that Breaking Bad’s series finale and Homeland’s season premier aired at the same time last night, but again we can neither confirm nor deny.

The last time the federal government shutdown was in 1995, so as a nod to those zany pre-Y2K days I’m going to sign up for an AOL account while I watch the Parent Trap and listen to Aaron Carter and Moby, except I’m not going to listen to Moby. And I’m going to buy a Hit Clips thing. Remember Hit Clips?

(Jokes aside, I do want to say that the prospect of a government shutdown is pretty fucked up. It means 800,000 federal employees will be immediately furloughed while millions of others—from post office workers to employees at the FBI—will be asked to work without pay, according to the New York Times. There’s just no good reason for that.)

But I’ll see you all tomorrow—I’ll be the one wearing denim shorts. And also, if this interferes in any way with me being able to see Gravity on Friday I’m going to lose it. I don’t know why that would be an issue but I think it’s worth mentioning. That movie is gonna be so chill.

The Yalestation bartending resource is a little known feature on the Yalestation website that shows you how to make any number of cocktails, ranging from a regular old Long Island Iced Tea to the exotic, i.e. a Flaming Dr. Pepper. To make the  Flaming Dr.Pepper, one must be at least somewhat skilled at both drinking alcohol and lighting things on fire, so it makes sense that this guidebook is only an online supplement to  and not a required part  of the alcohol education class that is now mandatory for all incoming Yale freshmen.

Also, you need not be 21 to check out this little guidebook. The only reason I can think of for why this gem exists is either because: 1) Yale station was made before the legal drinking age was 21 and at least before grain alcohol was prohibited on campus; or, 2) The dude who runs the website was like “DGAF… I’m doing it.”

Either way, it’s incredible that this exists. Here are some gems directly from the guide. You should check ‘em out before someone in the administration sees this, either realizes how absurd the Yalestation bartending resource actually is, or that it even exists, and pulls it down.

It’s official! Marc DeWitt, ES ’15, is currently in the process of pulling this semester’s first all nighter. But unlike most dark nights of the soul, DeWitt is spending his next 24 hours hanging with his buds, broadcasting his chilling through the WYBC website as a kick-off to the semester of his radio show, “Sonic Meditations.”

Godspeed, Marky D.

CLICK THIS TO TUNE IN!

Bump it loud in shower.

Sources have confirmed that  Ella Wood, ES ’15, will contend for current Alder Douglas Hausladen’s Ward 7 seat. Located in downtown, Ward 7 surrounds much of Ward 1, or the “Yale Ward,” which is currently represented by incumbent Sarah Eidelson, JE ’12.

At this point, it is not clear if Wood has filed enough signatures in time to make the Ward 7 Democratic primary ballot in September, or if she will just challenge in November. More on this to come.

Hausladen, a Democrat, is an outspoken critic of the current Board and its union ties and a founder of a new slate of six Democratic politicians bent on targeting New Haven’s new  labor “machine.”

Wood is the Chair of the Independent Party of the Yale Political Union.

More information to come, but you heard it here first!

Yale University, say hello to the Sterling Memorial Hallway! or Mineshaft! or Above Ground Basement!

On Mon., June 3, a 15-month restoration project of the Sterling Memorial nave began in Yale’s “Cathedral to Learning.” For now, and for at least until fall 2014, the power-inspiring stone atrium that freaks you out into submitting to your work  will look like a hallway in any 80s office building, low security prison, or psychiatric hospital.

According to an email from University Librarian Susan Gibbons to the Yale community in early June, the construction will restore the nave’s full interior, including its stained glass windows, masonry and woodwork.

Fortunately, this new hallway leads to all of SML’s first floor reading rooms, which aren’t undergoing any renovations at the moment. These rooms will remain open over the next year, although Gibbons did tell the Yale Daily News last February that the “noise level of the construction is the real unknown,” so who knows who you’ll run into in Starr this fall.

At 301 Elm Street, a day after French-style bakery Au Bon Pain shut its doors for good, workers weld together the interior frame of what will be a new European-style bakery, this time the Belgian Maison Mathis (MM).

Located behind Davenport, next door to Ivy Noodle, we’re happy to report that the eatery is slated to open over the next 60 days, according to an email from the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications. Serving sandwiches, chocolates, Belgian waffles, breads, salads, and much more, former ABP patrons will find MM to be strangely familiar.

Owned by local restaurateurs, Omer Ipek and Skel Islamaj, who also own Rudy’s, located on Chapel and Howe, the new venture is the start to a New Haven restaurant empire for the two entrepreneurs. In a release, Ipek and Islamaj stated that they seek to hire New Haven residents to work in their restaurants, and have encouraged former ABP employees to apply for positions in their new establishment.

Although the two Euro bakeries are easily compared, you should think of MM as a higher brow ABP. You won’t find a classic turkey sandwich on the MM menu, just as you would be hard pressed to find Croque Monsiuer at ABP. To get an idea of what I’m saying,  here are some MM menu highlights via their website:

Bread:

• Tiger bread
• Sugar bread

Salads:

• Tomato stuffed with North Sea shrimps
• Goat Cheese with crispy bacon and honey mustard dressing
• Parma ham with rock- and cantaloupe melon and mixed green salad (sic)
• Potato salad with green beans, bacon, and mustard vinaigrette

Sandwiches:

• Melted Brie and cranberry dressing
• Open sandwich with melted goat cheese, nuts and honey mustard dressing
• Toast with steak tartar
• Croque Monsiuer

Soups:

• Tomato cream soup with meatballs
• Clear vegetables soup (not sic)

Quiches:

• Broccoli, bacon, and blue cheese
• Cheese and onion

Pastries:

• Opera cake
• Tiramisu with biscof speculoos
• Chocolate pasta

Cakes:

• Black forest cake
• Seasonal fruit cake
• Triple chocolate cake

Desserts:

• Dame blanche, vanilla ice cream with warm Callebaut chocolate sauce
• Fresh fruit salad
• Waffles and pancakes with ice cream and strawberries
• Waffles and pancakes with cream and banana
• Waffles and pancakes with chocolate sauce

Beverages:

• Coffee Americano
• Iced coffee
• Cappuccino
• Macciato
• Fresh pineapple juice
• French melon juice
• Chocolate milkshake
• Red berries milkshake
• Cherry smoothie

Uniformed employees hanging around outside; baking racks more than mostly empty of sugary pastries; movers with boxes in transit: the scene in ABP this afternoon is somber. According to two ABP employees, the York St. marketplace and popular student meeting spot will very soon be shutting its doors for good….like VERY soon.

If the golden rule of real estate is “location, location, location” ABP can credit at least some of its success to its proximity to campus. On the corner of York and Broadway, its closing will create a vacancy in what is quite possibly Yale’s best piece of real estate and a void of cheap coffee and sandwiches.

What will take its place?
 

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