Symphony in blue
Amid change and transition in the world of classical music, composers have found a space at Yale for the development of new concert music, both at Yale College and the Yale School of Music....
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Making the grades
In effect, Yale has kicked the can down the road until November. These unpopular measures could be passed when they come up again in seven months. Conversely, in seven months, the grading system of...
A new kind of cop
New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman's solution lies in an old-but-also-new approach called community policing. Old, because America had community policing for hundreds of years before it didn’t, and old because New Haven already...
A time to lead
It should not come as a surprise that Yale’s new political elite has a sense of the giants that came before them. They understand the history that permeates this place—the names of senators, justices,...
Bio haven
Extensive research endeavors at 333 Cedar St., where the Yale School of Medicine is housed, are hardly surprising. But over the last 20 years, that research has permeated far beyond its sealed doors...
God is in the neighborhood
There is an email in my inbox, subject line: “from the desk of Gideon Mausner.” The irony (and for all his profound sincerity, Gideon does do irony) is that the sender doesn’t spend much...
A critical distance
These theories were dominant intellectual forces on campus for several decades, but now they’ve faded into the fabric of what we learn rather than being the lens through which we learn...
A cure for the community
In September, Yale-New Haven Hospital acquired the Hospital of St. Raphael, a small, non-profit Catholic hospital that has been a landmark of healthcare provision in this city for over a hundred years. The consolidation...
Shooting in silence
In the quiet lanes of Newtown, how safe the young victims were from harm was not a function of how cared for or cherished they were. But on the streets of New Haven, there...
Applying yourself
Again and again, Yale students sell themselves on paper and in person, learning the language of persuasion and developing ideas into fully-fledged proposals. As the end of the semester approaches, one set of applications...
Major promotion
"Could we make Yale declare a major in comic books if we spent enough time marching in front of President Levin’s house?”[...]ER&M was created as a “secondary” major, meaning that students could only major...
Pinning down Connecticut
The race between Murphy and McMahon is one of the most important in the country, and it remains very close. Neil O’Leary, mayor of Waterbury, opened the Democratic rally on Sunday with something of...
For art’s sake
On Saturday, Oct. 13, Pamela Franks was excited. Standing directly across from the Yale University Art Gallery’s entrance, the museum’s deputy director of collections and education had strategically placed herself in the center of...
Naming a new Yale
As it stands today, Yale has seen two rounds of residential college naming handled almost exclusively by the administration, and each with an ideologically troubled legacy. And whether Yale can offset this legacy largely...
Nobody’s business
Like most of Yale’s other great embarrassments, this one happened at The Game. This time, in November 1988, it wasn’t a blowout or a fumble. It came from the sky, but it wasn’t a...
The town and the city
For Jon Mygak and many of his neighbors, the Brookside fence is the only thing that stands between their tranquil neighborhood and what they believe are the harsh realities of the inner city.
Piping up
The story of New Haven in the last decade is a tale of two cities. And since the recession took hold, with its high unemployment rates, the development of a New Haven jobs pipeline...
The limits of local power
By a combination of grassroots organizing, community-City Hall interactions and top-down directives, the city of New Haven has expanded the rights of undocumented immigrants further than any other town in America. Here, police have...
Acting up
On Tuesday morning, Yale panlists began circulating a website. It ran a large headline, “Choosing a president,” before a letter to alumni concerning the Yale Corporation’s presidential search committee.
BREAKING: Dept. of Education closes investigation of Yale’s Title IX compliance
President Richard Levin announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has closed its investigation with no findings of noncompliance. The investigation began in March 2011, when several students and...
