[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Strolling Cross Campus at this time of year typically treats passers-by to a warm sight — frisbee games, prospective students touring the grounds, friends sitting together on the grass with pages of reading. This semester, the front lawn of Sterling Memorial Library looks the same at first glance, with people scattered […]
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UP CLOSE: Athletic recruiting in the year without sports
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Every head turned toward Director of Athletics Vicky Chun as she advanced across Reese Stadium on March 11 toward Andy Shay, the Yale men’s lacrosse head coach. It was a clear, mild afternoon in the stadium, and attackman Matt Brandau ’23 stood beside a teammate, exchanging nervous glances. Five minutes later, […]
UP CLOSE: A curatorial evolution
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Walking down Chapel Street is a different experience today. Quaint and bustling a mere seven months ago, the street now exudes a sense of slow resurgence with half-shuttered stores and delivery-only restaurants. For a moment, a ray of sunlight streaks across the Starbucks crosswalk, rendering edges of the intersection blurry. Things […]
Survey shows first years support social movements
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Throughout the summer, incoming Yalies marched. One of those marchers was Ruhi Khan ’24, who demonstrated in May to support Black Lives Matter in her predominantly white hometown of Newark, Delaware. The march was peaceful, she said, and she was “moved” to see that many non-Black people like her — Khan […]
UP CLOSE: Transforming interpretation at Yale New Haven Hospital
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] The changes to Yale New Haven Hospital’s interpretation services, used by thousands of local residents each year, came suddenly in October of 2019. That month, the hospital system’s Department of Patient Experiences and Operations implemented a series of critical changes to internal policy on interpretation services. The hospital reduced the types […]
UP CLOSE: Circuit breaking and contact tracing at Yale-NUS
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Nearly 17 years before COVID-19 would rattle Wuhan and the world at large, another coronavirus wreaked havoc throughout Asia, infecting over 8,000 and killing 774. SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — landed in Singapore in 2003 after a former flight attendant was exposed to the disease during a shopping trip to […]
UP CLOSE | Credence to whom: Who votes for Yale’s trustees
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] L ast May, as students finished up their online classes and finally shut their laptops, Yale’s alumni booted up their own computers for one annual ritual that wasn’t halted by the pandemic: the Yale Corporation election. The process was simple: read about the two candidates — both alumni themselves — in a […]
UP CLOSE | Yale and the City: A pandemic and a plan
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Looking out onto Chapel Street from behind the closed Vanderbilt gates, a quarantined Yalie might spot off-campus students enjoying ice cream from Arethusa Farm Dairy, buying a gift to send home from Ten Thousand Villages, or emerging from Sushi on Chapel with takeout rolls ready for dinner. To many Yale, city […]
UP CLOSE: Confronting costs during COVID-19
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] When Eugene Thomas ’22 received an email from Yale College announcing the closure of residential colleges in March, he knew he would have to look for a job to replace the earnings from his student job on campus, while also continuing his spring classes online. A first-generation, low-income student, Thomas receives […]
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: Fighting for food, housing and health
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Editor’s note: Jason and Mandy requested to use their first names for this story in order to protect their privacy. Jason, a 33-year-old living on the streets of New Haven, was sitting under an overhang just off Yale’s campus, charging his phone and trying to stay out of the rain. The […]