COMMENCEMENT 2024: NEWS
THE YALE DAILY NEWS
IN PHOTOS: 2020–2024

May 20, 2024

EMILY KHYM
Cannabis legalization boosts local business, sparks debate

Post Connecticut’s 2021 legalization of cannabis, New Haveners debated cannabis distribution and racial equity in drug policy while the state cracked down on illegal cannabis sales.

May 19, 2024

KARLA CORTES
Yale students protest Israel-Hamas war, University response and call for divestment during fall semester

Throughout the 2023 fall semester, Yale students organized protests across campus targeting the institution's involvement in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

May 19, 2024

BEN RAAB
Bulldogs pull off historic March Madness upset over Auburn

Yale stunned Brown with a buzzer-beating floater to win Ivy Madness, and then followed it up with an upset win over the No. 4 Auburn Tigers in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

May 19, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
Mass pro-Palestine protests in support of divestment shake campus during spring semester

Throughout the spring semester, student dissent against Israel’s war in Gaza focused increasingly on Yale’s weapons investments. Divestment discourse and protests on campus came to a head in April with two pro-Palestine encampments and over 50 arrests.

May 19, 2024

KAMINI PURUSHOTHAMAN
New Haven tenants unions advocate for improved living conditions, communication with landlords

The formation of tenants unions against landlords including Ocean Management and a smaller landlord have revealed widespread frustrations with poor living conditions.

May 19, 2024

CHRIS TILLEN
Local 33 wins recognition, ratifies historic contract following 33 years of activism

Following official union recognition in January 2023, Local 33 — Yale’s graduate and professional student union — ratified its first contract with the University later that year in December, winning pay raises, expanded healthcare and long-term union recognition.

May 19, 2024

EMILY KHYM
Students, faculty advocate for reproductive care post-Dobbs

After the overturning of Roe v. Wade shook the nation, many Yale student organizations and professors rallied in support of the right to an abortion. Today, efforts on campus to raise awareness for reproductive justice continue.

May 19, 2024

ADA PERLMAN
Students, professors reflect on efforts to support Ukraine since 2022

Since the initial days of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Yale community has responded through organizing, fundraising and increasing course offerings on the topic.

May 19, 2024

ADAM WALKER
Ted Cruz visits Yale to talk free speech, faces student backlash

Texas Senator Ted Cruz discussed free speech controversies at Yale Law School, the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and the intellectual diversity of Yale’s campus with political commentator Michael Knowles ’12, but was met with some backlash from student protesters.

May 19, 2024

ADA PERLMAN
Marvin Chun steps down, Pericles Lewis appointed as Yale College dean

As the Class of 2024 passed through Yale College, both Marvin Chun and Pericles Lewis served as deans, working to improve the undergraduate experience.

May 19, 2024