Yale Daily News

As the blue construction tarps were lifted off of the Yale University Art Gallery this December, across the street the Yale Center for British Art revealed a new face, too. A photo of its 25 student guides laughing with their arms in the air invites pedestrians into the steely Louis I. Kahn building (the serious one is on their website). This scene of the neighboring galleries reflects their respective images in the Yale community. The YCBA program actively maintains a strong presence among undergraduates, while the YUAG program has been known more by word-of-mouth. As the YUAG leaps into its new future as an expanded museum and has received more attention, this casts a light on its often conspicuous student guide program, and its more visible cousin on the same block.

February 1, 2013

I’m the only one who was ever able to interview Stella Hart about Ajit Agarkar’s disappearance, something I now understand they did on purpose. It took Agarkar being gone for six years and my buying Hart a cup of tea at the teashop on Apollo Street every day for a year in order for her to allow me to step into her sunroom with my tape recorder.

February 1, 2013

On Wednesday, bird watchers flocked — see what I did there? — to the Peabody Museum despite the frigid weather to par- ticipate in guided […]

January 25, 2013

The application process for the Yale Women's Organization scholarship is not especially arduous. But first, Yale employees need to be aware of its existence

January 25, 2013

For those in the counterinsurgency, it’s a bad time for public relations.

January 18, 2013

Like all of the 19 New Haven Magnet Schools, the only way to get into the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School is by a lottery which takes place in February of each year. But though no one can audition or submit a writing portfolio, students must select one of the school’s five arts departments to apply into: creative writing, visual arts, music, dance and theatre.

January 18, 2013

From the Toad's dance floor, the Yalies-turned-swinging go-go dancers don’t look like they have ideal job: amidst the pungent odor of sweat and stale beer, they shake their hips for hours at the intoxicated crowd of button-down boys and greasepaint girls. But for most of the dancers, there’s no other place they’d rather spend a Saturday night.

December 7, 2012

The Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) identifies with an academic approach, whereas Students Unite Now (SUN) is still consolidating its interests into a whole and defining its strategies. And while the groups may come closer to working together, they remain conscious of staying true to their own distinct identities.

December 7, 2012

Today, the same idiosyncrasies that have made this University’s future president —Peter Salovey— a recognizable figure on campus are also those that have rendered him more persona than person.

November 30, 2012

As some of you may be aware, each year Yale and Harvard engage in a storied sporting competition.

November 16, 2012

Museum displays of century-old food and more.

November 16, 2012