Decommissioned?
A Latino, a senior citizen, a women’s rights activist, and a child walk into a conference room. It sounds like the opener to a bad joke. But soon it might be a reality if Connecticut...
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Stores of XS
It’s a scene we’re all familiar with: cops arrive to shut down a Yale party. But an art exhibition? Such was the fate of the XS collaborative exhibition, which aimed to transform four abandoned...
The hundred-dollar difference
On Mar. 12, Yale announced a series of changes to its cost per term and its financial aid budget for the 2013-14 school year. Tuition will rise by $2,200 next year, and students on...
Students in solidarity
If all has gone according to plan, when you receive this letter we will be under arrest.” That’s the beginning of the letter Greg Williams, DIV ’15, sent to the Yale Divinity School community...
On call
“Dispatch calls and you grab your Toughbook, take that last bite of food, lace up your boots and hop in the front seat,” Paul Wasserman, SM ’14, said, describing his work as a volunteer...
Countdown to year one
Last year, Carmen Denia worked four jobs, planned a wedding, and learned to bake. Ijechi Nazira polished her Spanish and watched TED talks. Regina Hong traveled, volunteered, and discovered “the simple charms of Jane...
Sequester cuts take flight
On May 5, 2013, the air traffic control tower at Tweed New Haven Regional Airport will shut down. Tweed is of one of many small airports across the country whose towers will be shut...
Up in the air
It’s a quiet Wednesday morning for Tweed New Haven airport when I visit. A few cars dot the short-term parking lot, a single security guard patrols the lobby. Tweed sits in East Haven’s backyard:...
High stakes
Gambling is like cocaine,” Bob Cavenis told me. “It most closely mirrors cocaine, that is.” He was discussing the nature of a gambling addiction, a problem that affects more than two million Americans, according...
Earth and the endowment
As last week’s sun did its best to erase all evidence of the previous season, Old Campus became a mess of disappearing snow and soggy earth. The warm air and expanding islands of grass...
Funding lit
Early one morning in February, nine unsuspecting writers received a phone call. The speaker on the other line had news that would prove to entirely alter their paths in the literary world. On the...
Community cooks
Repurposing an unused industrial kitchen might not seem like the kind of high-energy proposal that would generate an “enormous amount of excitement,” but that’s exactly the kind of atmosphere surrounding New Haven’s new Food...
TEDx take two
On Sat., Feb. 23, the New Haven Shubert Theater hosted TEDxYale’s second annual conference, presenting 22 speakers and performances throughout the day. Those acts were split into four sessions and included Yale professors, political...
Bridging the gap
Alejandro Gutierrez, CC ’13, first began thinking about the experiences of first-generation college students in 2009, when he arrived at Yale for his freshman year. “There’s a culture of silence around the issue of...
Faith, family, football
Fleet-footed on the gridiron and quick-witted in conversation, National Football League safeties Hamza and Husain Abdullah know they can make a difference. On Tuesday evening, about 50 students forewent studying for impending midterms to...
Know-it-all: President elect Salovey answers all of your questions
Peter Salovey wants to be your friend. And, maybe, you should want to be his friend too. Monday night, the Yale College Council held an open forum with Yale’s president-elect. Salovey, who will officially...
Circles of support
If you make the trek to 55 Lock St. and take the elevator to the lower level, you’ll find, tucked into one of the building’s odd angles, the new home of Yale’s Sexual Harassment...
Fifty shades of green
In a hallway of William L. Harkness Hall, an elderly man in red polyester pants and a blouse decorated with lemons, oranges, apples, mangos, grapes, and flowers talked animatedly to a man in a...
Booking it
Before journalist Barbara Walters took the stage to deliver last year’s Class Day speech, this year’s Class Day co-chairs Jonny Barclay, MC ’13, and Chantal Ghanney, SY ’13, were already searching for their graduating...
