On a gray Thursday last November, a group of Yale students huddled on the corner of York Street and North Frontage Road, standing underneath the massive Air Rights Garage that straddles downtown New Haven and the city’s medical district. Two students, members of EnviroAdvocates, a politically-oriented project group that operates within the Yale Student Environmental …
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Andrew Miranker studies proteins. With a Ph.D. from Harvard, an associate professorship in the molecular biophysics and biochemistry department at Yale, and a namesake lab in the Bass Center on Whitney Avenue, he knows a bit more about polypeptide chains than your ninth grade biology teacher. Yet Miranker starts his week off in the same …
One thing is clear: the Flatiron district of Manhattan is not Silicon Valley. Not downtown enough to be cool and not midtown enough to be opulent, the area still shows evidence of rising real-estate prices. Small stores and restaurants with generic logos line the streets, most of them looking like they opened last week. Their …
Several days before Patrick J. Witt, JE ’12, announced that he had withdrawn his Rhodes scholarship application, the Rhodes Trust had suspended his candidacy, the New York Times reported today. The Trust learned “through unofficial channels” that a Yale student had accused him of sexual assault, according to the Times article.
People with knowledge of the …
When she was 17 years old, Cheryl Haworth won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Though I wasn’t aware of the significance of her victory at the time, it was and is shocking that she managed to pull this off. Unlike other Olympic sports, where, say, prepubescent gymnasts …
We talk a lot here at the Herald about things we don’t like. Peanutty tofu, thumbs down. Snowstorm in the middle of October, double thumbs down. You get the point. Some may call that attitude—we bring the hammer down, it’s all in a day’s work, just doing our job as the arbiters of truth. Others, …
Yale is America’s happiest undergraduate campus… according to Forbes. The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which provided the research for this ranking, defines “happiness” by “retention.” Putting the problematic nature of that equivalence aside, this superlative invites us to think about what it means to be happy at Yale, and whether or not students …
Samuel Robbins Brown, YC 1832, took his first trip to China in 1838. He was on a mission with the Morrison Education Society, a group that intended to bring the Western religious and humanistic tradition to the Orient. Brown was especially impressed by one of his primary school students, Yung Wing. He recommended Yung to …
In April 1861, Uriah Parmelee dropped out of Yale. Having matriculated as a member of the class of 1863, Parmelee left Yale to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers to join the Union Army. To get to war, Parmelee had to join a New York regiment because Connecticut’s regiments were already full with volunteers even …
It’s 7:30 a.m. on an October morning in New Haven. Most Yale University students are still nestled under their blankets. But about 80 are awake. They’re quietly entering St. Luke’s Chapel at the Berkeley Center on the corner of St. Ronan and Canner Streets in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven. Some bow to …
How much money do you make?”
In a Monday morning lecture early this month, “Introduction to Programming” Professor Daniel Abadi demonstrated how to build a basic program that started by asking this question, and finished by generating the user’s post-tax income. When pre-tax income was equal to zero, Abadi instructed the machine to spit back not …
The so-called conservative, uncomfortably disdainful of controversy, seldom has the energy to fight his battles, while the radical, so often a member of the minority, exerts disproportionate influence because of his dedication to his cause.” So writes William F Buckley, Jr, DC ’50, in the foreword to his seminal work God and Man at Yale, …
Things began badly for Yale Polo. In May 1904, 14 months after the team’s founding, H.D. Babcock, Jr., YC ’06, a sophomore from New York City, died from injuries sustained in a match against Princeton in the Bronx. “The serious nature of the accident, however unavoidable, cannot help but cast a shadow over intercollegiate polo …
The Greek myth involving a labyrinth doesn’t have the heroic ending most think it does. Sure, the valiant Theseus masterminds a route around the dungeon, kills the Minotaur patrolling it, and rescues some damsel he wishes to marry. After all of that footwork, however, Theseus leaves his betrothed on an island as she dozes off. …
“Big Momma Choppa: All I Can Eat.”
So reads the title of a provocative collage on the Facebook profile of New Haven rapper Toney-B (all the individuals in this story chose to be referred to by their stage names for the purposes of this article), a member of a local rap group called the Reaperz and …
The story of New Haven is the story of post-industrial America. A mid-size city that flourished in the era when America made things, New Haven is a city that falters as it tries to navigate between old traditions and new realities.
Some of the problems are endemic to cities like New Haven: a high unemployment …
Like many other students on campus, we here at the Herald often find ourselves frustrated by the few outlets for creative literary expression. As editors of a publication deeply dedicated to showcasing, preserving, and lauding the individual voice, we figured it was time to broaden our horizons, to include different kinds of writing that uphold …
West Campus? Have I been there?” a friend said when I mentioned where I was headed. “Isn’t that where the medical school is?” This ignorance is not uncommon among undergraduates, so I set out to educate myself.
West Campus is located in West Haven and Orange, seven miles from central campus, but I had never heard …