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We Don’t Talk About It

When Leonard Thomas ’14 got to Yale, he realized that the kids at parties didn’t know how to dance. Back home in inner-city Detroit, people […]

Baxter the Friendly Robot

Nine faces gather around a conveyor belt watching miniature plastic cups roll by. One of these faces belongs to Baxter. Baxter is a robot. He […]

Get Happy

On West 113th Street, on a hill in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, the former convent of the Community of the Holy Spirit is undergoing construction. […]

Your Professor is Now Online

At 10 a.m. on June 5, 2012, Molly Lucas ’14 logged into her seminar. Though it was the first class of the semester, there were […]

Inside Newtown

To get to Newtown, Connecticut, drive on Interstate 95 to Bridgeport and take Exit 27A onto Route 25, then go straight for 20 miles. The […]

In Excess

During one of the final days of reading week last spring, fraternity presidents sat around a table with Deans Marichal Gentry and John Meeske to […]

How We Grieve

First comes the email. Sent from the address of a top administrator, such as Yale College Dean Mary Miller or now- Vice President Linda Koch […]

Close to Home

“Afghanistan doesn’t deserve to be in the U.N.,” he said on the third day of class. “It’s too primitive.” All the heads in the room […]

Glorious, Consensual, Safe

[ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”86″ ] I could count on one hand my memories of people at Yale talking to me about sex. By “talking” I don’t mean […]

The Children Left Behind

On a Tuesday afternoon in February, the gym at Domus Academy echoes with the sound of jumping jacks. Hands clap in unison. Polished Nikes squeak […]

Unfinished Business

[ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”209″ ] [ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”208″ ] [ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”206″ ] Yale’s first goal of the North Dakota game last March could have missed the net in […]