Ariela Lopez
Staff Reporter
ariela__lopez | ariela.lopez@yale.edu
Ariela Lopez is the 148th Editor in Chief and President of the Yale Daily News. She previously covered Cops and Courts and City Hall for the City Desk and laid out the weekly print paper as a Production & Design editor. Ariela is an English major in Branford College, originally from New York City.
Author Archive
ARIELA LOPEZ
WOMEN’S TENNIS: Four years

When the women’s tennis team won this year’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship, senior Mirabelle Brettkelly ’25 described it as “a moment that’s been four […]

May 16, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ
Hunger strikers meet with Yale College dean

Yalies4Palestine demonstrators had a sit-down meeting with Dean Pericles Lewis on Wednesday, but decided to continue their “hunger strike for Gaza,” now on its fifth day.

May 14, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ
University invokes possible Trump cuts in police union negotiations

At a bargaining session with the Yale Police Benevolent Association, top Yale administrators raised the possibility of federal policy-related cuts with police union leadership.

April 25, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ
Police union slights University labor relations at Bulldog Days rally

The union is in its 28th month of negotiations for a new contract.

April 22, 2025

YURII STASIUK & ARIELA LOPEZ
Three New Haven residents sue Trump administration over revoked student visas

Over a dozen lawsuits allege international students across the country lost visas without due process, often over minor or dismissed criminal charges or for no apparent reason at all.

April 18, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ & MAIA NEHME
At “Justice for Malik” corner, an anniversary and a fundraising kickoff

New Haveners gathered on Monday to commemorate Malik Jones’s death in a 1997 police shooting.

April 14, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ & REETI MALHOTRA
Future of Donut Crazy’s downtown store uncertain

The York Street donut shop has been shuttered since March 5.

April 14, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ
Arrested Yale police officer released from custody, in home incarceration

The Yale Police Department’s Otilio Green, who faces federal and state charges for possessing child pornography, must stay in Connecticut as he awaits trial.

April 8, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ
Yale Police officer charged with child pornography possession

Otilio Green, now on leave from the Yale Police Department, faces state and federal charges for child sexual abuse material linked to his Verizon Wireless account.

April 8, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ & ISOBEL MCCLURE
Individual arrested in Bass for carrying two fake weapons

Yale Police Department Lieutenant Jay Jones said that the arrested individual was “probably not” a Yale affiliate, though the police chief said their identity is yet undetermined.

April 4, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ
Arrested Berkeley trespasser charged with burglary, possessing burglary tools

A judge ordered the arrested suspect to stay off all Yale properties at their arraignment on Thursday.

April 3, 2025