SMALL TALK
THERESA STEINMEYER
A Pitch for Peace

“At all times, you should be listening.” This is Micah Hendler’s ’12 advice to his teenage choristers as they warm up their vocal cords with […]

January 28, 2013

CAROLINE SYDNEY
Winter Growing

The pizza oven is closed for the season, and the workday planned for this wintry afternoon has garnered a dismal turnout — four volunteers, myself […]

January 28, 2013

ELEANOR MARSHALL
The Lucky Ones

When the Hassoon family left Baghdad for New Haven in late August, they carried little from a house that Fatima Al Yasari, Amer Hassoon’s wife, […]

January 28, 2013

NIKITA LALWANI
Three Concerts

Nov. 11, 1951 On an unseasonably warm evening in the late fall, Battell Chapel filled with people waiting to hear the new Holtkamp organ. Its […]

January 28, 2013

ANNA WALTON
Yale’s Southern Comfort

When I packed away my cowboy boots and sundresses and left Shreveport, La., to come to Yale, I had no idea I was following in […]

November 27, 2012

JULIA ROTHCHILD
What’s in a Name?

When I looked up my soon-to-be suitemate Nicola Soekoe ’16 on Facebook before freshman year started, I found her profile brimming with photos from South […]

November 27, 2012

SCOTT STERN
Innocents in Prison

I began my summer certain that innocent people are sometimes wrongfully convicted, but believing that when authorities are faced with irrefutable proof — DNA evidence, […]

September 20, 2012

ARIELLE STAMBLER
Jupiter on Broadway

I’m weaving through a tattooed crowd outside of Toad’s on York Street one November night, trying to reach the York-Elm intersection before the 20-second crossing […]

September 17, 2012

JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
Coffeehouse with a Beat

On a Saturday night in November, I’m sitting in a balcony that overlooks a basement-level theater. The Saybrook College Orchestra practiced here only yesterday, but […]

February 22, 2012

SCOTT STERN
A Walk in the Woods

I had been told that this area was swampy, but somehow I hadn’t quite envisioned getting my feet wet. As I walked through the woods, […]

February 22, 2012

JACQUELINE SAHLBERG
The 5:48 to Fairfield

5:40 p.m., Grand Central It’s Friday. A whisper-thin man in a tailored suit leads the stream of New York commuters down the platform. His rolled-up […]

February 22, 2012