Baala Shakya
Staff Reporter
BaalaShakya | baala.shakya@yale.edu
Baala Shakya covers Central Administration & Institutional Standing for the News. She previously covered Student Life and Campus Politics. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, she is a sophomore in Trumbull College majoring in History & Political Science.
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BAALA SHAKYA
IN PHOTOS: Hats off: Class of 2025 celebrates with humor and fun

As the class of 2025 gathered on Old Campus for Sunday’s Class Day ceremony, tradition was on full display with fun, colorful hats bobbing above the crowd of seniors.

May 19, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
IN PHOTOS: Hats off: Class of 2025 celebrates with humor and fun

As the class of 2025 gathered on Old Campus for Sunday’s Class Day ceremony, tradition was on full display with fun, colorful hats bobbing above the crowd of seniors.

May 19, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
Af-Am House celebrates Black graduates in Woolsey Hall

Black graduates gathered on Saturday afternoon for the House’s 26th stoling ceremony, even after Harvard scrapped affinity group celebrations under financial pressure from the Trump administration.

May 18, 2025

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Recent student activism focused on endowment, Supreme Court

At Yale, the class of 2025 joined campus protests on reproductive rights, climate change and global conflict.

May 18, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
‘All that you have is your soul’

Jun Luke Foster ’14 LAW ’25 on music, justice, and the long road back to Yale.

May 17, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
WOMEN’S HOCKEY: Four years

After four years of grit and growth, the Yale women’s hockey team is closing the book on four record-breaking seasons. In 2021, the Bulldogs opened […]

May 16, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
MEN’S HOCKEY: Four years

When the puck dropped on the 2021-22 season, it had been nearly 600 days since the Yale men’s hockey team had taken the ice for […]

May 16, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
LIGHTWEIGHT CREW: Four years

As the class of 2025 prepares to graduate, the Yale lightweight crew team can look back on four seasons of camaraderie and comebacks. In the […]

May 16, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
Magill, pushed out from Penn presidency, is appointed as Branford fellow

Liz Magill’s appointment as a volunteer associate fellow in Branford College comes nearly a year and a half after she resigned from the Penn presidency amid controversy about her response to antisemitism.

May 16, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
Yale undergrad appointed as senior advisor in Trump administration

Physics major Peter Bowman-Davis ’25+1 will direct AI policy under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

May 10, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
At Buckley dinner, Pence criticizes higher education but praises Yale

At the Buckley Institute’s ninth annual Disinvitation Dinner, the former vice president backed the Trump administration’s financial pressure on universities, and he told the News that Yale stands as a model.

May 9, 2025