[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Suzan Malcolm, a 43-year-old New Haven resident and single mother of four, worked at Goodwill for 17 years before losing her job in a wave of layoffs. In her “strenuous” former role at the nonprofit, Malcolm provided home care to those recovering from brain injuries — struggling patients would sometimes throw […]
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UP CLOSE | “The narratives of Yale-NUS were not shaped by us”: the history and unraveling of Yale-NUS
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] In the days following the August announcement that Yale-NUS College would merge with the National University of Singapore’s University Scholars’ Programme, Yale-NUS students received an email from their student government telling them to express their frustration in “a way that does not jeopardize your safety and the community’s safety,” according to […]
UP CLOSE | Yale communities feel the pandemic’s effect on music making
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] If there were to be a medium of communication across boundaries, it would be the universal language of music. There is something magical about listening to live music while swaying your body, synchronized with those around you — an experience that all but disappeared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
UP CLOSE | Yale’s FGLI community: fact or fantasy?
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] When Lucas Shepard ’24 and his twin sister arrived at Yale in 2019, their parents gave them each $100, which was to be all the spending money they would have during their first year on campus. But despite being deemed low-income based on U.S. tax brackets, Shepard rejects the label. Shepard, […]
Is Yale seeing the decline of the residential college?
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] When Yale’s residential college system was founded in the 1930s, longtime administrator Sam Chauncey ’57 said the colleges were intended to be locales for faculty and student interaction. Senior history lecturer Jay Gitlin ’71 added that the residential colleges were originally founded to have an “egalitarian impact” and bring students of […]
Figures of Speech
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] “Universities do not pursue knowledge and truth — they pursue deceit and lies,” thundered J.D. Vance LAW ’13, the former “Never Trump” conservative who, over just a few short years, has metamorphosed into a lib-owning pugilist running for Senate in Ohio. Vance was speaking at the second-ever National Conservatism Conference, a […]
MEN’S BASKETBALL: March Madness coverage 2022
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] By beating Princeton in the Ivy Madness championship, the Yale men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in school history and the third time since 2016. Playing in Milwaukee, the No. 14 Bulldogs fell to No. 3 Purdue in the first round. Here is a compilation […]
Finding Home
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] On the evening of Dec. 1, 2021, a group of students began to gather in the upper level of the Native American Cultural Center. A sense of comfort infused the room, despite all of the end-of-semester stress. Coats were piled in one corner, puffers stacked higher than the couches. Some students […]
‘I had to choose between my education and my safety’: How Yale’s Withdrawal and Readmission Policies Leave Students No Choice But To Stay.
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Protest and Progress
ya[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] The Yale Bowl does not have stadium lights – even the rare games that go into double overtime have ended before sundown. But the extended halftime of the 2019 Yale Harvard game left players on the field well into the dark. Immediately after the second period of the 2019 Yale Harvard […]