Legacy

Jack Kyono, PC ’20, explores his family’s unseen history at Yale.

Handsome Dan, Ugly History

Last Friday, the Yale community came together to celebrate a day of immense importance: the first birthday of beloved mascot, Handsome Dan XVIII. The party spanned the entirety of Cross Campus and was nothing short of extravagant, boasting its own Snapchat story and bulldog themed…

Solving the equation

Around 6:30 p.m. on Halloween, which fell on a Tuesday this year, students filed into a brightly lit classroom on the…

Affirmative Inaction

Examining the new role Asian Americans play at the center of an old debate

Claudia’s Classroom

A few weeks ago, I found myself at a fancy dinner at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, for which I felt both…

ABCDs

When I am a young, slight, brown baby girl in Pennsylvania, I learn my ABCDs. I like the tune, the singing. I like the way it is always followed by crisp warm apple pie and vanilla ice cream. My parents packed dal and rice, the food of our people. The daycare advisor liked to dip her fingers into my food. “Too…

If the Shoe Fits: the shifting landscape of Yale a cappella

Its pleasures are simple; its politics are not. Brittany Menjivar, ES ’21, presents two visions for the future of a cappella at Yale.

Hypervulnerability

At 2:43 p.m one bright September afternoon, I lay down on my dorm room floor and cried. At 3:40 p.m I tweeted about it. The tweet read like so: “*spends 20 minutes crying on the floor then gets up and shotguns a la croix* this is coping”.

Cart-ography

I was five steps out of the shuttle when I saw the line. In the two minutes it took me to walk from the Red Shuttle stop to Dr. Jung’s…