Lily Belle Poling
Staff Reporter
@lilybellepoling | lily.poling@yale.edu
Lily Belle Poling is the Managing Editor of the Yale Daily News. She previously covered housing and homelessness and was a production and design editor. Originally from Montgomery, Alabama, she is a junior in Branford College majoring in English.
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LILY BELLE POLING & ISOBEL MCCLURE
Debbie Allen, Henry Louis Gates Jr. spotted at honorary degree reception

The University holds an annual dinner for honorary degree recipients on the Sunday night of Commencement weekend before publicly announcing the recipients.

May 18, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
SOFTBALL: Four years

In 2022, the Bulldogs had a tough string of losses to Ivy foes, falling to Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton and Brown. However, they managed to trounce […]

May 16, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
FIELD HOCKEY: Four years

The field hockey team opened their 2021 season with smashing wins over Merrimack, Colgate, Brown and Drexel. Although the team fell short to a few […]

May 16, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
GYMNASTICS: Four years

In a 2021 preseason poll, Yale’s gymnastics team was slated to be the second best team in the Gymnastics East Conference. The Bulldogs opened their […]

May 16, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY: Four years

At the 2021 New England Championships, the men’s cross country team’s three fastest finishers — Varun Oberai ’25, Calvin Katz ’25 and Winslow Atkeson ’25 […]

May 16, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
Administrators decline to meet with Yalies4Palestine on hunger strike’s fourth day

Hunger strikers and other demonstrators dispersed from a Tuesday gathering after being told that they would otherwise face disciplinary action and potential arrest. Although many hunger strikers have reached low blood sugar levels, they declined medical attention.

May 14, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
Six Yalies4Palestine members begin hunger strike

The group — which includes five undergraduates and one recent alum — plans to strike until Yale meets a list of demands, which includes divesting from weapons suppliers, not punishing student protesters and ending partnerships that fund student travel to Israel.

May 11, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING & ORION KIM
Girl posing as prospective student stayed in Saybrook for multiple nights

During Bulldog Days, an individual pretended to be an admitted student and convinced a group of sophomores to let her sleep in their suite.

May 1, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
IN PHOTOS: New Haveners protest far-right Israeli minister

April 24, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING
IN PHOTOS: Thousands gathered on the New Haven Green and downtown streets for national “Hands Off!” rally

April showers did not stop roughly 2,000 people from convening Saturday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

April 7, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING & ELIJAH HUREWITZ-RAVITCH
Thousands rally in downtown New Haven in national anti-Trump demonstration

On Saturday afternoon, locals gathered in the New Haven Green before taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration, demanding they take their “hands off.”

April 7, 2025