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NANCY WALECKI
Love Thy Neighbor: Yalies Keep the Faith in a Pandemic

For Juan de Yepes y Álvarez, the most difficult part was the darkness. Although one day he would be canonized as Saint John of the […]

October 15, 2020

MADISON HAHAMY
“I Personally Don’t Feel Safe On Campus”

As a first-year counselor, Grace Kang ’21 lives in Saybrook College with the rest of on-campus and first-year Saybrugians. During Camp Yale, she met with […]

September 17, 2020

Lily Dorstewitz
ELLA GOLDBLUM & ANDREW KORNFELD
The Hidden Charge: Connecticut’s Fight for Free Prison Phone Calls

During Jovaan Lumpkin’s 11 and a half years in prison, his mother never missed the phone bill. Jovaan, a 34-year-old Hartford resident, was incarcerated for […]

March 6, 2020

JOHN BESCHE & OLIVIA TUCKER
“Welcome to a New Haven Urban Oasis!” : The battle over a Fair Haven power plant’s future

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and we’re ankle-deep in litter and dead leaves in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven. A […]

February 28, 2020

MADISON HAHAMY
Living with the Lizzie

The Elizabethan Club, like most exclusive places on campus, is inconspicuous. I found it by accident a few months ago, when I was looking for […]

February 20, 2020

KYUNG MI LEE
Settling Down: Romance in the Era of Gen Z

A woman of the 21st century smashes and dashes. This is the calling of modern femininity, or so it has always seemed to me as […]

February 14, 2020

WILLIAM MCCORMACK
‘He just had a plan’: An oral history of Yale men’s basketball in its first season under James Jones

As Yale prepares to host Harvard and Dartmouth at the John J. Lee Amphitheater this Friday and Saturday, James Jones — the winningest head coach […]

February 7, 2020

AMANDA THOMAS
No Jewelry, No Lotion, No Exceptions: Pole Fitness in Wooster Square

Overshadowed by Sally’s Apizza and Wooster Square Farmers’s Market, New Haven’s Polefly Aerial Studio LLC is a concealed building on a dead-end road. Its waiting […]

January 31, 2020

HANA DAVIS
No Lux or Veritas

Emblazoned in bold capitals beneath Yale’s navy coat of arms, hangs a banner that reads “Lux et Veritas” — the University’s official motto. With these […]

January 24, 2020

JOHN BESCHE
Making New Haven “Ideal”

In the history of New Haven — a city anchored by three Protestant houses of worship at its center — the intersection of religion and […]

December 6, 2019

ELLA ATTELL
With a Pep in Their Step

The Yale cheerleading team is cheerful, and they don’t care who knows it. This past Tuesday, I took the elevator up to the sixth floor […]

November 22, 2019