[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] On Saturday morning, two groups of more than 600 freshmen each were ushered into a sunlit Woolsey Hall by the deep tones of an organ playing, among other pieces, Maurice Durufle’s “Fugue on the Soissons Cathedral Bell Theme.” The program went on to include a hymn, “Oh God, beneath Thy […]
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2019 by the numbers: First impressions
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] Moving trucks and minivans crowding Elm Street, sweaty upperclassmen in colorful t-shirts, tearful parents not yet ready to let go — such are the hallmarks of freshman move-in. Today, hundreds of new undergraduates will begin their four years at Yale. They were carefully chosen from a pool of 30,227 applicants […]
2020 — Chronicling Ivy League recruitment: The summer months
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] At 6:30 a.m. on April 15, 2015, the Hartmanns’ phone rang. It was the first day of the NCAA’s spring evaluation period, and Princeton University wanted to be the first to call defensive end Carter Hartmann, a current junior at Mission Viejo High School in Southern California. They were indeed […]
2020 — Chronicling Ivy League recruitment: Meet the recruits
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] Recruiting is the lifeblood of any college football team, and in his first three years as Yale’s head coach, Tony Reno has embraced this philosophy. He has lured high-profile transfers away from larger football programs, such as incoming wide receiver Bo Hines from North Carolina State and quarterback Morgan Roberts […]
Harassment at SAE and its fallout
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] The pledges of Yale University’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, or SAE, are required to wear a uniform of a blazer, button-down and tie — conspicuous garb for teenagers on a college campus, though they wear it proudly. The night of Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, was no exception. Twenty-two men clamored into the fraternity’s off-campus house at 35 High […]
Our HIV crisis: Reclaim the spotlight
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] T wo weeks ago, I was talking to history professor George Chauncey ’77 GRD ’89 when he reached back into his memory to describe the late professor John Boswell. He couldn’t find words of his own, so he relied on a story. One day while walking out of Boswell’s […]
“Constructively Occupied”
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] For Michaela Macdonald ’18, it started in elementary school. In and out of treatment for a depressive disorder she discovered early on, she was pleased when, after her senior year of high school, she was feeling better. She stopped treatment before starting at Yale, but soon into freshman fall, […]
Our HIV crisis: PrEP is not a cure
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] T ake a pill daily and prevent the contraction of HIV 99 percent of the time. That is the narrative presented to many young men who have sex with men (MSM) by their peers regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). And, as is normally the case with anything framed in such […]
[section headline=”Moving beyond the arc” subhead=”” credit=”” src=”https://features.yaledailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/1KenYanagisawa_JMMassiveSportFrontPage.jpg” align=”full” ] By James Badas and Ashley Wu — Staff Reporters Video by Peter Chung and Raleigh Capozzalo [pullquote credit=”” align=”right” ]Jack Montague ’16 can knock down shots from beyond the arc, and he can do it better than anyone in the Ivy League.[/pullquote] A basketball revolution is underway with no signs […]
Our HIV crisis: What if?
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch” ] [bylines] I would venture a guess that, for those who undergo routine STI testing, it is not uncommon to play the “What if” game — “What if I have an STI (be it gonorrhea, chlamydia, whatever)?” [inline_comment uuid=”” charlimit=”” prompt=”Has society effectively confronted issues emerging from ‘Our HIV crisis’? What role […]