The things we hate this week, every week.
New Haven’s Hunt for Policing Alternatives
“I want to burn down a police car,” S. told me, his body simmering with an anger I had never seen before. S. is one of my closest friends, and one of the most collected people I know. S. is Black, but grew up outside the United States, and had admitted to never fully understanding
“I want to burn down a police car,” S. told me, his body simmering with an anger I had never seen before.
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Requiem for a Team Culture by Zachary Groz The Unremarkable Alchemist: What one blue-eyed Ivy League originalist can teach us about ourselves
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Dear Readers, Conjure the smell of mildew in your nose and dry radiator heat blasting your skin. Imagine an array of old,
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It was the eve of my 21st birthday, and I was caught in the whirlwind of party prep. The speaker was plugged
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I kissed a girl for the first time when I was fifteen, perched on a picnic table during a game of Truth
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It’s September 2005, Bush is president, and John Roberts is surrounded by senators. His polka-dotted red tie and light blue eyes pierce
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The morning of September 17, 2018, excavators gathered at Harbor Yard, the former home of the Bridgeport Bluefish, Connecticut’s now-defunct affiliate in
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This essay was completed to fulfill requirements for HSAR 460 with Dr. Margaret Spillane. Students were invited to choose a work of
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“I think we should break up.” Just as Thom* said this, close to a dozen tourists began to take pictures of us.
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A recent poll conducted by the Yale Daily News definitively concludes the following two findings: Most Yalies now believe life is inherently
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Palm Springs and First Cow Up late after finishing a paper, I decided to engage in one of my favorite pastimes: binge-watching
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1. Yale Marriage Pact The straight women took an L on this one. 2. Timothée “wandering” Wait till you get to the
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In 1837, Louis Daguerre finished his first prototype for the humbly named daguerreotype and incidentally birthed the medium of photography in the
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“Whether from St. Louis or East Atlanta/Whether from a savage land or a booming metropolis/Whether they are two or two billion, the
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Getting LIT with the Elm City: Shining Light on Black Narratives and the Yale-New Haven Divide Arts by Nyeda S Passive Psychological
MoreFrom: editors@yale-herald.com To: Herald readers Subject: Our Oct 9 issue!!! Dear readers, We hope this letter finds u well! Now that midterm
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According to their website, the Elm City LIT Fest is “an annual celebration of books, LITerature and LITerary artists with the purpose
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It’s the peak of lockdown—some hour in the blurry line between night and day. A coffee cup is left here, a half-eaten
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5. Wall-E: This film’s unapologetically-savage social commentary leaves audiences shook to their core. The muted color palette and apocalyptic overtones earn this
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Rainy day. Rainy breeze.Malaisical trees and tent-tarp leavesSnot it’s not snot Deciduous, how dare you dye? I feel cheatedof August, like a raincoat
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Five words. One question. Say it, and my fight-or-flight response is activated: “Ni shi na li ren?” — “Where are you from?”
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Due to COVID-19, Yale’s dining halls have moved away from their usual free-for-all spreads of food; now, the only hot options are
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Editor’s note: This piece was written in response to McKinsey Crozier’s article “Harper’s Dilemma” published in the Sept. 18th, issue of the
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When the live-action Mulan film was first announced in 2018, I was thrilled. Growing up, Mulan was my favorite Disney princess. She
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1. Bald Child Alignment Chart 2. Agüita New album by Gabriel Garzón-Montano offers reggaeton bangers and ambient ballads 3. The Wild Iris
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The present style of mainstream American film resembles plastic, as even the most intimate industry films often feel inorganic by design. It
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On October 8th, Louise Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Glück is an Adjunct Professor of English and the
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It’s no wonder that altruism has captured the interest of historians, philosophers, and psychologists alike; experts spanning the academic gamut have consistently
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2 p.m. and it’s time to resume Today’s dose of my online gloom. At least no more treks Up WLH steps, I
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“The Authors of Our Own Educations”: High Schoolers Reimagine New Haven History Features by Yale Herald Playing Pretend Voices by Lydia Kaup
MoreHello lovely readers, It’s October second, meaning it’s officially spooky season! It’s time to dress up whacky and eat candy and ummm…
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Unprecedented times call for unprecedented attention to the minutia of our lives. And, if the COVID-induced toilet-paper fiasco has taught us anything,
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On the night of Friday, September 25, I found myself facing a dilemma. The details are irrelevant; what you need to know
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Countless acts have performed on MTV’s ‘Unplugged’ in the 1990s and early 2000s, saturated with groundbreaking performances from the greatest in live
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Sufjan Stevens understands what it means to be alive in September, 2020. Many of his past albums are defined by folk-guitar laden
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Statement from the Yale Herald Editorial Board In light of Cambridge University’s divestment from the fossil fuel industry and Yale Forward’s successful
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Three months ago, I was desperate. I couldn’t talk to my parents. My therapist had been MIA since the beginning of the
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From “active motion” massaging seats to near-autonomous driving systems, the car user experience is constantly evolving. Programs like Apple CarPlay allow cars
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her bookshelf held little bird nests and chipped mugs and a key that unlocked nothing objects balanced precariously above novels that smelled like her grandmothershe stacked spines
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“We hope that you notice, with sites on this tour spanning […] from the 1700s to the 2010s, that history never stops
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Spoon Topping our list is the humble but incredibly powerful spoon. The sheer versatility of the spoon is unmatched. Hot drinks? Rice?
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I enter this school year with the luxury of life as a non-enrolled student. Taking time off from school has taught me
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The Gallery Guide program at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) provides Yale undergraduates with the opportunity to learn to teach from objects in
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I wasn’t expecting the weather to wake me up before my 3:45 alarm. It wasn’t the sounds of pouring storms. It
MoreIn this inaugural episode, Kahlil Greene (TD ’21), Kennedy Bennett (DC ’22), Aaron Magloire (TD ’23) and Malia Munley (SM ’23) discuss
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Sex and Hasidism in Unorthodox and Shtisel Reviews by McKinsey Crozier Copy/Paste Evolutions Culture by Kapp Singer Three Year Poem Voices by
MoreDear reader, wherever you may be, With one week left before October, soon all media outlets will be publishing articles with titles
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A little less than a year ago, the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts released its decision in Students For Fair Admissions v.
MoreFirst drafted February 24th, 2017 at 5:34pm tasting water is infancy. drinking and drinking and drinking rolling over onto all fours, baptism
More1. AUNTIE by Ian Isiah ♫ A funky album by the one and only singer, artist, and fashion icon. Produced by Chromeo and
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200,000 American lives have been lost to COVID, racial violence goes unchecked, our democracy teeters toward despotism, and everything feels broken. How
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Oh, Yalies. Always working! Always so ambitious! Always organizing Gcals and furiously typing emails, storming through this meaningless world towards inevitable death!
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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, security issues with the popular video conferencing application Zoom have given rise to a new
MoreRhinebeck— the summer of ticks, of mom’s wrath and dad’s denial. At dusk, my sister and I were stripped naked and searched
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Tahj Lakey, TC ’21, is a singer-songwriter. He is an Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major and an Education Studies Scholar. During his
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I originally clicked on Julie and the Phantoms out of curiosity. I wanted to see what G-rated programming in 2020 looked like,
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I just got off of a Zoom meeting with Disability Empowerment for Yale (DEFY), and I am left in awe of the
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Unorthodox is hot. In Netflix’s critically-lauded pandemic hit, Esty Shapiro (Shira Haas) leaves her Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to pursue
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On Mon., Aug. 24th I joined “Sitka Chatters,” a Facebook group for the eponymous coastal Alaskan town where I’m spending my semester
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First-years were scheduled to move into Yale over the course of three days. On August 26th, I left my hometown of New
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It may seem obvious that Republicans and Democrats harbor different opinions, but recent studies in psychology show that these ideological differences may
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Dumpster Fire: Waste in the Time of COVID-19 Fronts by Melanie Heller A Talk with The Neo Collective, Yale’s First Black Arts
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The Neo Collective is the name we gave to the Black Arts Collective that will run for Black Yale and New Haven
MoreCleopatra Mavhunga, TD ’23, is an actress and director. She is a rising junior in Timothy Dwight College and a Theater &
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When a friend tells you that they love Phoebe Bridgers, the right thing to ask is, “Have you tried therapy instead?” I’m
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we were moving the highway rushed before us in a great swell car conversation churning slowly with future voices echoing softly from
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I’m back home, where the mood is reminiscent of high-school senior spring and the theme is escapism—anything to catch a breath from
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We are walking forward into a new decade. What few steps Americans have taken thus far have brought sobering realities to light:
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Editor’s note: Tommy Schacht responds to this piece in “A Tale of Two Liberalisms,” published in the Oct. 9th issue of the Herald.
MoreIt was in the late summer, when the nights were getting cool and the count was nearing two-hundred thousand, that I got
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All food gets better warmer or wetter; there are no exceptions. It is a travesty that more people don’t have custom ringtones.
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When you’re scrolling through Instagram and one of those cute little self-care infographics pops up on someone’s Story, how do you react?
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My cheers as I rewatch the “Top 5 Guido Pitstops in the Cars Franchise.” Guido performs the fastest tire changes in Piston
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The world is different now, but you already knew that. Instead of smiling as we pass each other on the street, we
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“I never thought hyenas essentialThey’re crude and unspeakably plainBut maybe they’ve a glimmer of potentialIf allied to my vision and brain”– Scar,
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“Big movies are back!” proclaims the most recent trailer for Tenet, urging people to return to the cinema. However, if the desolate
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The First-Year Issue little fish in a big pond Dear readers, old and frosh, Welcome to the big pond. Except this year,
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Protagonists need not be moral, and stories need not have action points attached; part of stories’ utility is their ability to give
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Sitting on a lake in the center of an eastern Montana plain, you would think their approach would be obvious: “Just keep
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These days it is hard to look anywhere without seeing COVID-19. Our fixation is justifiable. Hospitals are overwhelmed, over four billion people
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“You want a timeless song, I wanna change the game. Like modern architecture, John Lautner coming your way.”
MoreIt’s too bad I like words.I find myself staringat this page-screentrying to achieve lexical beautyto Shakespearize my modern qualmsto romanticise my digital
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Other statements from No Fail Yale and the joint statement from the Asian American Students Alliance, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán de Yale,
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February 28th,2020 Making Up Lost Time Fronts by Robert Samec and Kapp Singer Standing on the platform in Emeryville waiting to board
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Standing on the platform in Emeryville waiting to board the California Zephyr at its origin station, we heard a crackling intercom announcement
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In a Hollywood flush with soulless prequels, sequels, and reboots produced for financial solvency rather than creative fulfillment, the news of a
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1. Schmear & Loathing in Lox Vegas from Book Trader A midterm guilty pleasure with a fantastically crafted name! 2. The Boring
MoreIn the streaming-obsessed all-you-can-eat digital world we live in, there are few films we cannot watch one way or another; we can
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Tucked away in the basement of the New Haven Free Public Library are frames filled with colors and calaveras. The works brighten
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While New Haven celebrated the Lunar New Year at the Yale-China Association’s annual Lunarfest, its sister city across the world—Changsha, China—braced for
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