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Cause for Alarm: Swatting at Yale and Beyond
It was the Monday night before classes were set to begin for Yale’s spring semester. Many of the students living in Bingham Hall, one of the first-year dorms on Yale’s Old Campus, had made an effort to sleep early in…
Between Yale and Net Zero: Yale’s Power Plants Pose a Climate Challenge
“We are driving off a cliff and need radical change,” said Chris Schweitzer, the head of the New Haven Climate Movement, a grassroots climate justice organization. “Yale has two massive power plants, each running off natural gas, that each produce…
Oversubscribed: Yale’s Residential Colleges Struggle with Record Class Sizes
This year, Eliza Lord ’24 is a junior in Davenport College. For the first time since she started at Yale, Lord will spend the entire academic year living within Davenport’s walls. Her suite, a well-lit configuration of four singles and…
Hard Soil: Megachurches Work to Evangelize New England
Lisa, a 58-year-old transit officer, grew up in the Catholic tradition. When she moved to New Haven eight years ago, she bounced around from church to church, but none really felt like home. Then, Lisa found Vox, an evangelical megachurch…
Strengthening a Sanctuary: A Connecticut Abortion Fund Prepares for a Post-Roe Nation
In 2016, Jessica Puk had a second-trimester abortion for a wanted pregnancy that was not viable. She described it as “one of the worst days of my life.” “It was a terrible loss,” Puk said, “But I was very, very…
The Grand Occupation: Confronting Crime in Fair Haven Through Community Organizing
On a Tuesday evening in early September 2021, Karen Dubois-Walton ’89 got a text from her friend Sarah Miller ’03. Someone had been shot in their Fair Haven neighborhood in a parking lot just down the street from DuBois-Walton’s home….
In the Sacklers’ Backyard: The Future of Connecticut’s Opioid Epidemic Response
Liz Fitzgerald had been waiting for this. It was March 10th, 2022, and she suddenly found herself speaking before the family that had upended her life and robbed her of two children. Fitzgerald has lost two sons to opioid addiction….
Yale Hybridize Now: Advocating for the Immunocompromised at Yale
At the start of the 2021-2022 school year, Katie Trumpener’s colleagues in the Yale English Department were preparing to welcome students back to the classroom after more than a year on Zoom. But Trumpener, an immunocompromised professor, would be staying…