[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] In the midst of its fight for autonomy, how has protest shaped Hongkongers’ collective identity? When I was little, my grandmother would teach me old Chinese idioms on afternoons that my dad had to lecture. We’d sit side by side in my airy, wood-paneled apartment — the blue of Hong Kong’s […]
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After Life: Muslim Deathcare in New Haven
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Secular regulations hinder Muslim burial practices in Connecticut When a Muslim woman dies in New Haven or a nearby town, Sana Fatima Farooqi is informed by the local imam. She finds someone to take care of her sons for the hours that she will be gone. Then she messages one of […]
SMOKE RISES
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] The KBT fire wiped out years of research. Scientists in the building say it could have been avoided. It started in the basement. Unnatural flames spread through the building’s electrical transformer, cutting off power to priceless biological specimens. Kline Biology Tower would soon go dark for days. Floors above, the skyscraper’s […]
Miye Oni ’20 Pursues the Pros
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] The once-overlooked Ivy League Player of the Year went from no looks to New Haven. Now, he might soon find himself in the NBA. Miye Oni ’20 did not make the Viewpoint School’s varsity basketball team until his junior year of high school. A 5-foot-8-inch point guard on the junior varsity […]
I SAW WHAT I SAW: On this island, a Yale professor sexually harassed a Yale student. Did the University do enough?
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] A Yale student endured serial sexual harassment during a summer internship. The perpetrator — a School of Medicine professor — retired quietly. Five months later, the University announced an investigation — but did Yale do enough? Editor’s Note: This article contains sexually graphic descriptions of misconduct. The student who experienced the misconduct […]
AFTER THE BAN
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Two years in, Trump’s immigration policies continue to disrupt the lives of internationals at Yale. In January 2017, Mohamed Eltoum ’19 said goodbye to his family, placed his bags in the back of his uncle’s car and headed to the airport to return to Yale for his sophomore spring semester. As […]
Stained, Lacquered, Checkered: Elihu and I in Chennai
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Yale traded slaves in my father’s hometown. Where does that leave me? St. Mary’s Church is stained a clean white that balances out the blues and greens of the landscape. Nothing in the building’s architecture suggests how close it is to the Hindu temples 15 minutes away, let alone to the […]
Cold Cases, Open Wounds
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Closure feels out of reach for families of New Haven’s unsolved crimes. In the break room at work, Sherell Nesmith watched televised news coverage of a mysterious discovery — along the Metro-North Railroad tracks at the State Street train station, someone had scattered dismembered human limbs. On July 15, 2015, the […]
In Between Homes
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] Michaelle Gonzalez used to be part of the twenty-three percent of youth experiencing homelessness in Connecticut who are LGBTQ+. Now she’s advocating for them. When she was 15 years old, Michaelle Gonzalez came out to her parents as queer. To her surprise, her mother, a member of a Pentecostal cult with […]
Figure of Speech: Jamie Kirchick’s Run for the Yale Corporation
[raw num=”1″ align=”stretch”] [bylines] “I assumed college kids didn’t want to be policed and coddled and now we have a situation where students are basically begging for the administration to micromanage their lives,” said James Kirchick ’06, leaning back in the desk chair in his D.C. office at the Brookings Institution. Two months ago, Kirchick […]