Yale Daily News

Students and faculty invested in the debate over the name of Calhoun College said recent protests have had a chilling effect on free speech on campus.

May 7, 2016

Austin Strayhorn ’19, a student in Calhoun College, was napping in his dorm room when the University announced Wednesday evening that it would retain the name of the college.

April 29, 2016

As a shower of fake $1 million bills rained down upon him, University President Peter Salovey found himself confronted with questions about race, money and historical memory on Thursday at a town hall held in Battell Chapel.

April 29, 2016

In 1931, the University named a residential college after John Caldwell Calhoun, one of the fiercest advocates of slavery in American history. Eighty-five years later, following heated campus protests and more than two decades of debate over the college’s namesake, the University reaffirmed its decision.

April 28, 2016

The University announced on Tuesday that expanded access to Payne Whitney Gymnasium during the academic year will become permanent, and a one-year pilot program will test out increased access to Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library over the summer and during the October and spring breaks.

April 27, 2016

The Harkness Hall bedbug infestations, which at the moment have subsided, have generated fierce debate within the graduate and medical student community, fueled by the activism of angry residents who insist that housing officials have badly mishandled the problem.

April 22, 2016

Christy Thomas GRD ’16, a seventh-year music student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has taken an extra job this year at the Center for Teaching and Learning to support herself as she finishes her dissertation — “a recipe,” she says, “for instant insanity.”

April 18, 2016

The decision by Yale’s 13 graduate and professional school deans not to publish school-specific data on the prevalence of campus sexual misconduct has provoked widespread debate in the University community.

April 7, 2016

A brewing controversy over the management of bedbug infestations in a medical student dorm has forced the Yale School of Medicine to relocate dozens of visitors for an upcoming admitted-students event.

April 5, 2016

Around 25 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences gathered in a mostly empty Linsly-Chittenden Hall classroom Tuesday night to discuss newly available data on the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment at the Graduate School.

March 30, 2016

The student assembly of the School of Medicine met with administrators on Monday to advocate for free health insurance for the families of medical-student parents, a benefit currently available only to student parents in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

March 10, 2016