Finnegan Schick
Staff Reporter
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Graduate students voice security concerns

Several leaders of the Graduate School Assembly voiced their concerns regarding student safety to the Yale Police Department, the New Haven Police Department and Yale Transportation at a security meeting Wednesday afternoon.

Jazz festival unites Yale, New Haven music communities

From the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New England, several distinguished musicians are coming this weekend to fill Yale’s campus with music.

Two grad apartment buildings to close

Starting next semester, graduate students will have two fewer apartment buildings in which they may choose to live.

Embattled Brandeis president leaves for law school

Brandeis University President Fred Lawrence LAW ’80 is returning next year to his alma mater, Yale Law School, as a senior research scholar specializing in civil rights law.

Hundreds flock to Commons for housing fair

Over 1,000 members of the Yale community visited Commons on Saturday in search of affordable housing in the Elm City.

GESO, GSA spar over credit for sixth-year funding

After decades of conflict between the University and GESO — the unrecognized graduate student union — a new battle can be added to the list: Who gets credit for a sixth year of funding for graduate students.

External review finds cultural houses in need of support

A report released to the campus community Tuesday afternoon said the University needs to dedicate more financial and administrative resources to the four cultural centers: the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Native American Cultural Center and La Casa Cultural: Latino Cultural Center.

Konowaloff claims ownership of Night Cafe, again

“The Night Cafe,” the painting Yale University Art Gallery Chief Curator Laurence Kanter called one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most “personal and profound achievements,” is yet again the subject of an international legal dispute.

Committee approves land easements

At their first meeting of the year last night, the New Haven Community Development Committee approved a series of measures permitting the development of privately owned land.

Wang ’17 remembered as brilliant, selfless

As news spread of the death of Luchang Wang ’17 Tuesday evening, classmates, friends and mentors remembered a young woman whose intellect was matched only by her compassion, whose care for her academic work ran as deep as her concern for the injustices she observed in the world around her. Wang died in an apparent suicide on Tuesday.

Grad students assess housing plans

With significant changes coming to graduate housing, many students are discussing the kinds of spaces that should be available for graduate students, on and off-campus.