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Meet members of the Class of 2024 who distinguished themselves in the classroom, on the field of play, and in their communities.

Following a post-class discussion in which students learned that Schettini’s contract would not be renewed, current and past students began collecting testimonials and signatories in a document submitted to the FAS last week in support of renewing his contract.

Yale’s Pericles Lewis is helping to edit the latest edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature, an acclaimed series with deep ties to the university.

As the end of December rolls around and the task of finding an empty room in the Humanities Quadrangle gets progressively more fraught, the binary […]

They say that the only ‘A’ that matters is the one between the ‘Y’ and the ‘L’. And according to a recent faculty report, there […]

The Yale College Council has proposed several academic policies to reform the course registration and advising process, including extending add/drop period and implementing retroactive Credit/D/Fail.

The Yale College Council is spearheading a proposal for three new certificates at Yale College, though faculty expressed uncertainty about the plausibility of the proposal.

It is August, and I am arriving at a lecture hall far below the stairs of the Humanities Quadrangle. Plato and Gilgamesh shroud my mind, and the Hebrew Bible is somewhere in the back knocking on the front door; hours in attempt of pouring over their meaning weigh heavily over me. The lecture hall’s interior is a lowly-lit labyrinth of nervous, but enthusiastic students, full of an inviting presence that I did not previously associate with Directed Studies.

A few weeks ago, my therapist broke up with me, if that’s even something that can be legally done. Apparently, she no longer felt adequately prepared for my personal problems that were “near unsolvable” and recommended a few local fortune tellers and that girl in Silliman with tarot cards as a last resort. But before we called it quits, she taught me something that I shall now teach you: that it’s of the utmost importance to talk through your fears. In fact, simply speaking about one’s...

A Black Yale student worries his acceptance was just due to Affirmative Action. With that as a possibility, he now overworks to prove his merit.