Jerry Gao
Staff Reporter
jerry.gao.jg2988@yale.edu
Jerry Gao covers facilities and dining for the News. A sophomore in Pauli Murray College, he previously covered student policy and affairs.
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JERRY GAO & HANNAH LIU
Students call for Yale to join ‘Fair Food’ workers’ rights initiative

The Yale Student/Farmworker Alliance has collected over 150 signatures so far in an effort to pressure Yale Hospitality to join the Fair Food Program, a group focused on protecting workers’ rights.

November 12, 2025

JERRY GAO & HENRY LIU
In Charleston, McInnis delivers art history lecture about leadership

The Yale president spoke at an event hosted by the Gibbes Museum of Art on her background as an art historian and how it prepared her for university leadership.

November 6, 2025

ASHER BOISKIN & JERRY GAO
Commons bringing back cookies after students’ complaints

After not serving cookies for half a semester, Commons will begin rotating between clementines and cookies for dessert in response to feedback from students.

October 30, 2025

KIVA BANK, OLIVIA CYRUS & JERRY GAO
Restored Morse lipstick sculpture ‘vandalized’ with chalk graffiti

The letters “ATB” were inscribed in chalk around Morse courtyard and on the recently restored Morse lipstick sculpture.

October 28, 2025

ISOBEL MCCLURE, JERRY GAO & ASHER BOISKIN
McInnis creates ombudsperson role for employee, grad student concerns

Yale will be the last Ivy League institution to hire an ombudsperson — a position geared towards handling concerns from University employees and graduate and professional students.

October 21, 2025

JERRY GAO & SARAH RIVAS
Widespread web service outage disrupts Canvas for hours on Monday

Early Monday morning, an Amazon Web Services outage caused widespread disruptions to websites such as Canvas. Access to the course management site was restored by Monday evening.

October 21, 2025

JERRY GAO
Local chapter of once-national food advocacy organization holds steady

New Haven is home to the last chapter of Witness to Hunger, eight years after it had sites across six states. It has received money from the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, which is limited this year to one fundraising fast through Yale Hospitality.

October 14, 2025

JERRY GAO & ASHER BOISKIN
Students vote to determine Commons menu after October break

The Yale College Council sent a form for students to vote on menu options at the Lotus and Pasta e Basta stations at Commons.

October 9, 2025

JERRY GAO & EMILY AKBAR
Yarvin argues for American monarchy at closed-door debate

Curtis Yarvin, who is known for his anti-democratic views, argued to “end the democratic experiment” against Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld in front of the Yale Political Union Tuesday evening.

October 8, 2025

JOLYNDA WANG & JERRY GAO
Reduction in meal plan donation fundraiser leaves nonprofits frustrated

Yale Hospitality is reducing the number of times Yale students can donate the value of their meal plans to local nonprofits, which criticized Yale’s decision to limit the fundraiser.

October 3, 2025

OLIVIA CYRUS & JERRY GAO
Yale anticipates few disruptions amid government shutdown, Strobel writes

H-1B visas and new federal grant applications will stop being reviewed during the shutdown, Provost Scott Strobel wrote in an email to the Yale community.

October 3, 2025