Jordan Fitzgerald
Staff Reporter
@jordtwitzgerald | jordan.fitzgerald@yale.edu
Jordan Fitzgerald serves as a University editor for the News. She previously edited for WKND and wrote about admissions, financial aid & alumni. She is a senior in Trumbull College majoring in American history.
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JORDAN FITZGERALD
Hurricane Halloween

When I was young, just a few years old, I wore the same Cinderella costume for three straight Halloweens. I would put on my princess […]

October 29, 2020

JORDAN FITZGERALD
Yale Library exhibit ‘12 Portraits: Studies of Women at Yale’ honors Yale women

Portraits of dead white men, says Tanya Marcuse ART ’90, look down on students across Yale’s campus. To change this narrative, she and George Miles […]

October 18, 2020

JULIA BIALEK & JORDAN FITZGERALD
YCC creates new athletics chair position

The Yale College Council announced Esha Bhattacharya ’24 as the new athletics chair on its executive board. This year, the YCC restructured its policy positions, […]

October 14, 2020

OWEN TUCKER-SMITH & JORDAN FITZGERALD
Mourning Our Losses and Yale Undergraduate Prison Project host vigil mourning detention center deaths

The crowd-sourced memorial Mourning Our Losses partnered with the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, a social justice organization that seeks to challenge the inequity of the […]

October 12, 2020

CHRISTIAN ROBLES & JORDAN FITZGERALD
Wilbur Cross High School teacher honored as New Haven’s Teacher of the Year

The New Haven Board of Education presented Wilbur Cross High School teacher Kristin Mendoza as New Haven Public Schools’ ‘Teacher of the Year’ last Monday.  […]

October 4, 2020

JORDAN FITZGERALD
Sophomores are living in Lanman-Wright Hall, but some colleges are trying to bring them back

With the class of 2024 living in their residential colleges, on-campus sophomores have found an unlikely home in the Lanman-Wright Hall courtyard on Old Campus. […]

September 29, 2020

JORDAN FITZGERALD
With socially-distant intramurals back, Timothy Dwight takes early lead

The Yale Undergraduate Intramural program introduced new activities in compliance with public health protocols, including CupCheck, HORSE, cornhole, pickleball and spikeball.

September 28, 2020

JORDAN FITZGERALD
First House

Yale inspires comparisons to Hogwarts. Gothic towers loom overhead while secret tunnels hide for the most clever to find. Residential colleges, like Hogwarts houses, define […]

September 24, 2020

JORDAN FITZGERALD & VANIKA MAHESH
Yale professor Beverly Gage featured in new MLK documentary

History and American studies professor Beverly Gage has lent her expertise on former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover to the […]

September 24, 2020

JORDAN FITZGERALD
New Scantlebury Skate Park thrives despite initial backlash

After a tumultuous fight for community support, the Scantlebury Skate Park opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Aug. 27.  Located in New Haven’s Dixwell […]

September 18, 2020

JORDAN FITZGERALD & ISABELLE QIAN
Yale Bookstore charges students late fees, despite pandemic and inability to access books

Amid complications and confusion due to the coronavirus pandemic, several students are facing late fees and backlogs at the Yale Bookstore. When students were barred […]

September 14, 2020