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New Haven Gets That Much Lovelier

by Nick Summers | September 5, 2006 at 10:55 am

New Haven Gets That Much Lovelier You're never exactly glad that summer is over, but still, there's something happy and hopeful about arriving back to campus for the first day of school. The weather is changing; you've got a slate as blank as your new Five Star^TM notebooks. You're taking an exciting Harold Bloom seminar, that cute Kevin might ask for a date, and maybe you'll even try out for OH MY GOD WEST NILE VIRUS IN NEW HAVEN!!

As if everyone's favorite urban hellscape wasn't charming enough, it's now a cesspool of disease-carrying mosquitoes, the YDN reports. Two New Havenites have been diagnosed, including one fatality, and on Thursday a new case was reported in nearby West Haven. Some quick IvyGate math tells us that means a) there's a 50 percent death rate and b) THE TERROR IS SPREADING.

Yale RAs freshman counselors handing out back-to-school kits might do well to include some DEET with the usual off-brand condoms and anorexia brochures.

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