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Reporter Nicole Narea ’16 interviews Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

Yale undergraduates frequently grapple with the tradeoff between pursuing careers in the arts and giving up these dreams for potentially more pragmatic careers — and Adela Jaffe ’13 believes Anton Chekhov might have some answers. Jaffe is the director of an all-undergraduate production of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” — the second staging of the play at »

Every time Matthew Chrislip ART ’13 enters his living room, he is reminded of the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Since beginning a design residency with the orchestra in September, Chrislip designated a wall of his apartment for sonic and visual experiments. Today a six-and-a-half foot tall scaffold occupies the space, which Chrislip called “a physical diagram »

As a freshman in 2009, life-long Democrat Diana Enriquez ’13 registered to vote in Connecticut. That November, her home state of Massachusetts elected Scott Brown, its first Republican senator since 1972. “I was shocked,” Enriquez said. “Everyone assumes Massachusetts is a monolithic democratic machine, but a lot more people vote for the Republican party than »

Amidst reports of tension between the Yale Police and administration, sources with close ties to Yale Security have accused the University of altering deployment policies to penalize the security force for unionizing — a change the sources said jeopardizes student safety. Multiple sources with close ties to Yale Security — who asked to remain anonymous »

Before last weekend, David Burt ARC ’14 said he barely noticed the sounds that occur around him on a daily basis. But walking up the stairs in the School of Architecture’s Loria Center on Friday, he said he was aware of every noise his footsteps made. Burt had just finished listening to the keynote address »

Staff reporter Sophie Gould ’15 interviewed U.S. Senator and former Republican Presidential nominee John McCain.

When Daniel Magaziner wakes up in his Brooklyn apartment, he hopes it is not raining. An assistant professor in the History Department, Magaziner faces a two-and-a-half-hour commute to his office in the Hall of Graduate Studies every Tuesday and Thursday. When it rains, Magaziner said, he cannot use his bike to get to the subway, »

When Chisara Asomugha MED ’09 stepped into her new office on the second floor of City Hall in late August 2009, the Community Services Administration was undergoing a transformation. Asomugha assumed the reins of the New Haven’s CSA amid a series of spending cuts in the department triggered by drying federal and state funds. The »

Over the summer, 125 Harvard students and recent alums received notice that they had been accused of unauthorized collaboration on the final exam for “Intro to Congress,” a class they took last spring. They are scheduled to begin appearing individually before the school’s Administrative Board, which determines disciplinary action, over the next few weeks. If »

In 1843, a group of Yale students decided to form a boat club in the New Haven harbor — creating the first collegiate crew organization in the United States. Competitive rowing quickly became an integral part of New Haven’s culture. Nine years later, in 1852, the Harvard-Yale Regatta became the nation’s first intercollegiate athletic competition. »

Shortly being accepted to Yale, Jay Wong ’16 joined the Yale College Class of 2016 Facebook group, a page that provides a platform for online discussion among all admitted freshmen. Wong commented on several posts regarding Yale-related topics, totaling 37 posts in the week after he joined the group. He also commented on posts that »