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After Orange

It was 6 a.m. on an unseasonably warm, humid November day as I waited for the white van I knew was due to arrive sometime before 7:30 a.m.

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Exceptions to the Rule

On Nov. 5, 2015, seven black students took the stage for the premier of “Exception to the Rule,” the first play at Yale with a cast and crew entirely composed of people of color.

In Search of Daughters

The Daughters of Isabella’s International Board meets every two years at 375 Whitney. In the daytime, the board members sit around a linoleum-topped table on […]

Jane Balkoski
Food For Thought

“First question — who’s hungry?” This is Anne Gallagher’s opening line as she addresses the small group huddled before her around a kitchen table. Clad […]

Kaifeng Wu
AUDIO: What’s Next for Next Yale?

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Shabbat at Yale

I missed my Freshman Assembly. I spent the first Saturday morning of my time at Yale in a small chapel instead, praying; rather than the splendor […]

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The Myth of the Dumb Jock

For exclusive audio content by Sarah DiMagno that accompanies this story, click here. With 836 names listed on 33 varsity rosters, athletes make up just […]

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An Act and Action

Editor’s note: After this story had gone to print, Alpha Phi formally declared their opposition to the Safe Campus Act. The NPC and the NIC retracted […]

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Doing your dreamwork

On March 30, Chareeni Kurukulasuriya ’16 found herself trapped inside a castle. Out the windows, she could see a mountain and a wintry forest. Inside the castle were a flashing orange light and a playful yet threatening dragon that had transformed itself into a human.

Pipes

Not long after my father died, a pipe under our kitchen sink must have burst. Leave it, Mom said. Her reasoning changed from one day […]

Left on the margins

On the second floor of the glass book tower in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, there are two unremarkable-looking volumes of Shakespeare’s works. […]