FEATURES
FEATURE: Slouching Towards Moderation

For thirteen years, the Peace and Dialogue Leadership Initiative has brought students from Yale and West Point to Palestine and Israel for a week of intimate dialogue. Are these fleeting encounters enough?

PROFILE: Weavers of Art

It takes almost eight months for the Elm Shakespeare Company to bring their summer Shakespeare In the Park production to life.

FEATURE: The Salvaging of Wrecked Things

The 70s were the “wasteland years” of Upper State Street.  In the 50s, a six-lane elevated freeway was built a few steps off the street’s east end, cutting it off from residential Fair Haven and the gentle banks of the Mill River. In the 60s, the neighborhood’s large Marlinworks firearms factory closed, moved north, and brought much of the neighborhood with it. Much of what made State Street was lost in those decades — but some have stayed, in the brick and the concrete, in the things left behind. 

The Oil Spill and the American Imagination

An oil spill can have disastrous material consequences for workers, habitats, and, but the true initial strength of the spill is visual. You couldn’t have built a better theatre for a spill than Santa Barbara in 1969.

Art by Sophia Chmelar
FEATURE: Under the Rail Bridge

I hardly knew New Haven until I started fishing it.  In August of my freshman year, I made my first visit to Dee’s Bait and […]

FEATURE: Warming the Soul

Brother Elder Amado Jimenez-Diaz enters the front of the room of the church. Blue and white tiles and lavender walls blush slightly under the light, […]

FEATURE: In Search of a Green Place

Heidi Herrick has a reverence for East Rock Park.  I meet her in the green, sunlit classroom space in East Rock’s Trailbridge Environmental Center. She’s […]

FEATURE: The Bodies up on Science Hill: The Spotted Lanternfly and My Qualms on Killing

Rustle. Rustle. Flash of red.  I shuddered walking down Hillhouse Ave, recalling that battlefield, that slaughterhouse. My fingers balled up deep within my pockets. There […]

FEATURE: FLOWERS for SU6

Sarah Feng ’25 knew her rats intimately. She worked as an undergraduate researcher at the Arnsten Lab, a neuroscience lab at the Yale School of […]

FEATURE: What’s in a Yale Education?

A year of student protests prompts questions regarding Yale's role in society, the educational value of campus activism, why arrests were made, student safety, and the future of Yale activism when the University won't budge.

FEATURE: Trash Birds

Like many birders, I have a particular fondness for hawks. Each fall, migrating raptors often gather by the dozens or hundreds, and dedicated observers count […]