Jingyi Cui, Author at Yale Daily News

First Whiff woman is accomplished composer

“It’s very light, it flows very well. But it also has an element of strength and power.”

February 21, 2018

A coalition of about 50 students and local activists gathered near the new residential colleges on Tuesday morning to demand that Yale cancel its Puerto […]

February 21, 2018

JINGYI CUI & ADELAIDE FEIBEL

For first time ever, Whiffs admit a woman

Now, 109 years later, the world’s oldest collegiate a cappella group is no longer an all-male show. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Sofía Campoamor ’19 became the first female singer ever admitted to the Whiffenpoofs.

February 21, 2018

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Whiffenpoofs break with all-male tradition

In 1909, five Yale men came together to form a group of gentlemen songsters, the Whiffenpoofs. But 109 years later, the world’s oldest collegiate a […]

February 20, 2018

JINGYI CUI & BRITTON O'DALY

Yale radio suspends operations

WYBCx, Yale’s student-run online radio station, has temporarily ceased operations after discovering it does not have licensing agreements for the music it plays.

February 19, 2018

JINGYI CUI

Will grad students ever get their union?

If the sight of eight graduate students starving themselves outside Woodbridge Hall wasn’t enough to force labor negotiations with Yale, will the University’s graduate students ever get their union?

February 15, 2018

JINGYI CUI

Columbia refuses to bargain with grad students

In New York last month, Columbia announced in a campuswide email that it will not bargain with graduate students who won a schoolwide union election more than a year ago.

February 13, 2018

JINGYI CUI & HAILEY FUCHS

Local 33 withdraws petitions for recognition

Graduate student union Local 33 has withdrawn its petitions to represent students in the eight departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that voted to unionize a year ago.

February 12, 2018

JINGYI CUI

SUN calls for meeting with Chun

The murmurs of disappointment were audible on Friday afternoon as student activists emerged from the Yale College Dean’s Office and announced to the 100 or […]

February 12, 2018

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Whiff, Whim alumni praise new gender policy

The Whiffenpoofs and Whim ’n Rhythm announced in a joint statement last Thursday that they would consider accepting singers of all genders, prompting an overwhelmingly positive reaction from alumni affiliated with both organizations.

February 6, 2018

JINGYI CUI

Students criticize University investments at teach-in

Yale’s Linsly-Chittenden Hall 102 was filled to the brim Saturday afternoon, as students took the stage one-by-one to criticize Yale’s investments in areas ranging from the fossil fuel industry to the debts of distressed government.

February 5, 2018