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An interview with YCC slate candidates Celene Bennett and Juan Borrego
Tell us about your background. Where are you from? What is your major at Yale? What are your primary activities outside of class? Celene: I’m a sophomore in TD from Peachtree City, Georgia, majoring in Sociology. Outside of YCC, I…
Paving the Road: How Yale is making New Haven into a college campus, street by street
New Haven gets an extra $52 million, and Yale gets to close a single block to traffic. The city’s mayor and the university’s president shook hands on these terms in November of 2021, cementing a deal to significantly increase Yale’s…
Uninvited Ears: The Debate over Audio Surveillance on New Haven Buses
On a brisk November evening in New Haven, the bus was on time. On a CT Transit bus, a young man clad in a fast food uniform was asleep. A middle-aged mother gripped tightly onto a stroller where her daughter…
Unresolved: Affective Polarization in the Yale Political Union
“People from the Right were just hissing at me and hissing at me and that made me very nervous and it honestly kind of ruined my first speaking experience… It kind of made me realize that maybe I wasn’t going…
New Haven Line
These stills are taken from Super 8 footage shot between New York City and New Haven in 2021, during the pandemic. I recorded these trips with the intention of remembering the often monotonous passages that would otherwise be forgotten. The…
Happy at Yale?
For many Yale students, spring break is a much-needed time for rest and recovery. The jolt back to a busy routine following the break reminds students how little time is available for relaxation during schooltime. One of the students affected…
Something, Somewhere: The Struggle to Create Space for Asian Americans in the Performing Arts
Upon arriving at Yale in 2020, Sam Ahn, who has always been interested in theater, couldn’t help but notice the absence of a prominent Asian American theater community at Yale. Now a junior, Ahn spends his Friday evenings in a…
Lux et Veritas?
In 2021, Victor Ashe ’67, former Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee and American Ambassador to Poland, had his heart set on joining the Yale Corporation’s Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is the governing body that holds primary power over…