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Pointing to Nothing: The Promise and Failure of New Haven’s Civilian Review Board
After Emma Jones’ son Malik was murdered by police in 1997, she spent the next 23 years working to create a Civilian Review Board for police accountability. But now that one exists, she thinks it’s time for New Haven to go back to the drawing board.
A Crisis of Delays: Navigating Yale’s Overrun Mental Health Services
When James Hutchinson ’24 called Yale’s Acute Care Emergency Line and told the operator that he was considering suicide, he was told to expect a counselor assignment in a month. For now, however, he was advised to “go for a walk.” Hutchinson, who requested a pseudonym to remain anonymous, was assured that his counselor assignment process would be expedited, given the urgency of his situation. By the time Hutchinson spoke to The Politic in January, it had been over two months since Hutchinson first called the Acute Care Emergency Line. At the end of February, he still did not have a counselor.
The End of Ideas: Liberation, Liberal Arts and The Closure of Yale-NUS
On August 25, 2021, Luke Davies YNUS ’23 got an email from the Yale-NUS administration. There would be a town hall the next day at 9 a.m. Classes were canceled. “Imagine they’re going to tell us the school is closing,” he joked to a friend.
The State of State Prosecution in CT
During the next gubernatorial primary, we can make criminal justice a sticking point by stressing the Governor’s power to shape the criminal justice landscape.
Waiting for a Haven: Homelessness in Yale’s Backyard
Inside Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s Drop-In and Resource Center, Alvin* was sitting at a small, tucked-away table in front of a booth where a young woman was cheerily handing out coffee. He had laid out a black and gray camouflage…
A Campus Heritage: Voices of Latinx Faculty at Yale
Over two weeks, I interviewed several Latinx faculty and staff at Yale about their experiences. I was curious to find out what obstacles they had encountered and overcome, and sought to learn how their identity influenced their careers, if at all.
Mental Health Roundtable
On August 5, Yale students and faculty came together to participate in The Politic’s first ever mental health roundtable, moderated by Sophia Hahn ’24, to discuss the mental health crisis among young adults.
Concrete Dreams: One Hotel Portends a New Future for Long Wharf
“There’s an idea behind this building—using common materials for ordinary people but levitating them [and] making dreams out of the mud.”