In 1907, four nuns converted a Victorian home on New Haven’s Chapel Street into a 12-bed hospital. Over a century later, the Hospital of St. Raphael sustains its early founders’ legacy as a 511-bed hospital providing care to the people of the greater New Haven area in accordance with the Ethical and Religious Directives of …

“You’re going to burn in hell,” a woman told Ben Healey, BR ’04, FES/SOM ’12.
It was early May 2003. The woman speaking to Healey was one of many who had come to a New Haven Board of Aldermen meeting in City Hall to protest an amendment that would have acknowledged the legitimacy of domestic partnerships …

As I slap my way up Prospect St. in a brand new pair of flip flops—the weather application on my new phone has promised the first 60-degree day of the year—my loyal friend and guide, Duckie, points out thrusting towers and identifies them by various acronyms. She regales me with anecdotes (horror stories) of the …

Dear World,
We began this semester welcoming you to the future. It was a different time, a simpler time: We were bright-eyed and bushy-tailed; Froyo World was still in the throes of its winter hours. Things are different now: The end of the world is drawing closer (2012, everyone!), Samuel Sullivan, JE ’13, has a …

Credit: Spring Fling committee
The Spring Fling committee hasn’t been getting much credit lately. B.o.B. canceled on them, then Major Lazer, and now Patrice “Pato” Wilson—from the “Friday” video, for chrissake—is too busy to show up. What all the fling-haters don’t know, though, is that this was all part of the master plan. Let me explain: …

The final three remembrances in this article were  omitted in the print version. They are shown here in their intended form.
Michele was one of the most thoughtful, humble, honest, and intelligent people I knew. She was immovably devoted to her work. She always took on tons of it, but she always found time for her …

Credit: Samuel Vanderhoop Lee
Wednesday: Your face is on the cover of 7,500 copies of the Yale Daily News. You are wearing a curly, brown wig. You are famous. 
Thursday: Your face is on the cover of the YDN again. Once again, you are wearing a curly, brown wig. You are now a notorious cross-dresser. You are …

A picture of a fractured bill in the Elm City Echo shows you “where your dollar goes”—25 percent pays for printing costs, and the remaining 75 percent goes toward the vendor who sold you the newspaper. This vendor is either a homeless or low-income member of the New Haven community. He or she has likely …

An earlier version of this article misrepresented the mission of the Yale Sustainable Food Project. YSFP’s intent is to be an educational garden and teaching institution, and not primarily  a business endeavor. The article appears in its corrected form below.
A mottled green braid of a scarf snakes around Melissa Goodall’s neck. A folded scooter, the …

Next Friday is Yale’s seventh annual Relay for Life fundraiser. Relay has been a thriving venture since its inception in 1985, collecting nearly 400 million dollars a year on behalf of the American Cancer Society. The Yale team, established in 2005, has raised a total of 900,000 dollars. Relay for Life is a team-driven fundraiser, …

Jonathan Schell is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Before coming to Yale, Schell was an accomplished journalist, writing for the New York Times, the Nation, and the New Yorker, among other publications. He is an expert on nuclear weapons, and teacher of “Dilemmas of the Nuclear Age” …

3.83
Cost of total expenditures in the 2011 Federal Budget, as proposed by President Obama in Feb. 2010 (in trillions of dollars)
6
Number of consecutive continuing resolutions passed by Congress to fund the government over the interim as it continued to negotiate the budget.
4/8/11
Date on which the sixth continuing resolution was set to expire, leading many to …

Credit: Campus tours
As the weather grows warmer and the new prefrosh crawl around campus like bacteria on a piece of deli cheese, excellent opportunities for mischief arise. I am eagerly awaiting my opportunity to impersonate a tour guide and offer hidden wisdom to the eager masses. For example, did you know that from an aerial …

The new Stop & Shop will open April 15 at 150 Whalley Ave. and become a major employment opportunity for the New Haven community.
Opening just over a year after Shaw’s closed in the same location leaving New Haven without a major grocery store and many workers unemployed, the new store will have everything from fresh …

We’ve all heard Yale historian George Pierson’s famous words, “Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, and a society of friends,” but these words remain an abstraction at best, disconnected from the everyday exchanges of our academic and social lives. At some point, every Yalie is confronted with the question of how …

At Yale, there are plenty of opportunities to gain knowledge­—but what about know-how? Recognizing this lack of emphasis on practical skills, a group of students has come together to organize The Yale Skillshare. It teaches Yalies informal skills through a series of hands-on workshops.
Skillshare was founded in the Fall of 2009. From meatball making to …

Last Sunday evening, as the light fell behind the buildings, a large crowd gathered on Pitkin Plaza just outside The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop. Among the throng: Bike enthusiasts wearing cycling jerseys, hardcore rockers wearing skinny jeans and large plastic glasses, two children who ran around a tree in a concrete planter, a middle-aged man …

Miss Bea looks ready to talk—even more than she usually does. But she isn’t totally sure if she should, or if spilling to a reporter would somehow compromise her employer’s reputation. 
I have no choice but to indulge Miss Bea, who is so controlled in her speech and so gratified by her work that I can’t …

Michael Frame is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and a student-favorite for his introductory Calculus courses. Much of his own work has centered on fractals, and he worked with Benoit Mandelbrot, the mathematician widely known as the father of fractal geometry. 
 Yale Herald: Why did you choose to become a math professor?
Michael Frame: I knew from …

Michael Knowles, DC ’12, is one of 250 applicants remaining in the competition to become Charlie Sheen’s personal social media intern. There were a total of 81,898 applicants for the position, which Team Sheen is calling #TigerBloodIntern.
What better way to celebrate your admission to the Ivy League than with a new car? Problem: Mom says …