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“You’ve got some of the most affluent neighborhoods in the nation in this area, but you also have some of the highest pockets of poverty in the nation and they’re next door to each other. As of today, we haven’t figured out how to do a better job educating all kids.”

December 15, 2016

The land sat unused until its rediscovery by a small group of citizens in Hamden. At the time, this group was protesting the construction of a mall on Dixwell Avenue. While protesting, they discovered that the abandoned railroad, part of which ran through the mall’s future lot, was in the public domain. Even though the railroad was privately owned, the underlying land belongs to the state. The group of mall protesters petitioned to keep the land in the hands of the people.

December 15, 2016

Yale’s online index of public art recognizes over 30 different works stationed across the campus. Ranging from traditional memorial statues to more contemporary oeuvres, it is hard to traverse the campus without passing at least a few.

December 15, 2016

On one wall of the Brady Squash Center, a motto hangs: “The number nine player is as important as the number one player.” Integration is a core tenet of Coach Talbott’s philosophy. “There’s no separation,” he told me. “I don’t care. Within 24 hours, nobody knows you’re a walk-on.”

November 23, 2016

Jack and Sally offer an inside look at the vibrant culture and tradition of clowning, which was appropriated by the masked pranksters that haunted city streets and social media this fall.

November 23, 2016

A space as historical and well-recognized as the Green can have trouble claiming its own identity. Despite being the geographic center of the original city plan, the Green is not necessarily the heart of the downtown, nor the heart of government, nor a residential park. Nor is it at all a grove of academe.

November 23, 2016

It was an unusually clear day in Beijing as I stood on the 36th floor of the IFC Tower B, looking out at a city […]

September 26, 2016

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is the guy in the Sox cap with the sunglasses perched on the brim center fielder-style. The one in the neon-and-turquoise […]

September 26, 2016

Sally Weiner ’18 opens her pocket-sized medical kit with care. Inside the pouch are a pair of blue medical gloves, a set of graphic instructions […]

September 26, 2016

Ishrat Mannan ’17 stood by a lonely table, pamphlets in hand. Her disinterested classmates streamed past her, lining up to attend the event of the […]

April 28, 2016

Last October, hundreds of members of Yale’s Graduate Employees and Students Organization — now known as GESO-Local 33 — marched toward Woodbridge Hall, the office […]

April 28, 2016