[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] nI late August, 2021, in an eight-sided gazebo at the corner of New Haven’s Edgewood Park, 41-year-old Alex Speiser joined a new organizing drive in what he described as a “leap of faith.” It was early evening, humid, and the weather was soupy. Speiser, a high school English teacher in Darien, […]
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New Haven on the Mend
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] “On Dixwell Avenue in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood, a large billboard reads: “STOP THE APT FOUNDATION FROM RELOCATING TO NEWHALLVILLE.” When the APT Foundation, a Connecticut not-for-profit organization that provides addiction treatment services, purchased 794 Dixwell, a building at the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Elizabeth Street, in January of this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reconsidering the Summer Internship
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] To those who know her, Michelle Bao’s July 13 tweet was both totally expected and a complete bombshell. “very excited to announce that i got so burnt out from this year of remote work that today i dropped nearly all of my commitments to visit friends and live out of a […]
Losing Track
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] It is January 2018, and Emma T.* is at the north end of Yale’s campus for an organic chemistry lab class. She synthesizes a tawny powder of anthraquinone from benzoylbenzoic acid using a chemical procedure known as Friedel-Crafts acylation. After class, she hurries to physics office hours, where she spends the […]
Vaccine Hesitancy Isn’t the Whole Story
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] On Feb. 5, I listened in as members of the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ bantered about the impending snowstorm. From the comfort of their homes, they asked about each other’s days, shared how their family members were doing and complained about laying salt and shoveling snow. I was […]
The Church at the End of the World
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] M ark Colville is relaxed for someone expecting to be sentenced to federal prison in a few weeks. He stands in front of a stove, white hair sticking out from under his hat, cracking eggs on the stove and piercing the yolks with the shells. As he cooks, he talks about […]
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 […]