STUDENT LIFE
After one year at new location, Good Life Center affiliates herald success

One year since the Good Life Center expanded from its original Silliman College location into the Schwarzman Center, students and staff say the new space […]

In the midst of a five-year IT revamp, Wi-Fi outages cause campus-wide disruptions

Disruptions to campus network services due to weather-related issues impact student learning as Yale enters year four of a five-year plan to update campus network infrastructure.

Controversy at summer program sparks conversation on FGLI belonging

First-generation, low-income students and counselors spoke to the News about controversies that negatively impacted the First-Year Scholars at Yale program in the wake of the College Council’s first statement of the year.

Competing anonymous apps Fizz and Sidechat vie for student favor 

Students are starting to take to the new platforms to anonymously share memes, polls, GIFS and other content with each other, while Fizz and Sidechat compete for their customer base.

First-years reflect on inaugural year of mandatory pre-orientation programs 

First-year students spoke to the News about their experience with the inaugural Camp Yale pre-orientation programs, which are mandatory and free for all students for the first time ever.

MENA students kick off year with celebrations of new space on campus 

MENA student leaders held their first event of the school year in their newly designated room in the Asian American Cultural Center — one student leaders have worked for years to obtain.

Chinese students at Yale continue to face challenges getting visas

Continued visa restrictions have left Chinese graduate students at Yale unable to return home without the risk of being denied entry back into the United States.

City, University infrastructure overwhelmed with month’s worth of rain over eight hours

Since Tuesday at midnight, the city of New Haven received five inches of rain. The storm affected libraries, classrooms and residential colleges across Yale and […]

Zoe Berg
Cultural centers kick off year with Intercultural First-Year Mixer

The University’s four cultural centers welcomed first-year students to campus on Sept. 2 at the annual Intercultural First-Year Mixer, an event born from the growing collaboration between the cultural houses.

Students weigh in on primary results and their hopes for midterm elections

As the midterm elections approach, student organizations aim to boost youth voter turnout, even as the University has declined to cancel classes on Election Day.  […]

Extracurricular Bazaar kicks off busy club recruitment season 

Hundreds of students stopped by the Schwarzman Center for the bazaar, kicking off club recruitment season and prompting conversations over how to make club applications more accessible and welcoming.