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In the last days before first-year move-in, when my dreams of Yale were still fanciful and blurry, I watched Mystic Pizza. The rom-com follows the lives and loves of three young waitresses — Jojo, Kat and her sister Daisy — on the threshold of girlhood. But the main character of the movie is the quaint seafaring town of Mystic, CT itself. The rustic parlor perched atop the hill, where the girls begrudgingly sling pizzas and buss tables. The docks where Jojo spars with her on-and-off-again ...

“Oppressed, doesn’t show her ankles, only reads the Bible, is not edgy,” Amelia Dilworth ’23 lists off when I ask her about popular perspectives on […]

Yale’s cultural groups organized a variety of events last week, from a “Moonlight Mingle” to a movie screening, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Hongkongers and Singaporeans most tend to associate DEI with 'ethnicity', while for those in India and Indonesia, DEI issues around 'class' and 'religion' tend to be top-of-mind respectively.

Colleges all across the U.S. welcome retirees with inexpensive classroom opportunities to grow and learn.

With new traders flocking to the market, can firms keep up? We test how well they serve clients of all stripes.

 for The 74’s daily newsletter. When I grew up, the media offered very few Asian-American role models to look up to; but when the occasional Asian girl frequented a couple minutes of TV or pages of a book, the character would exude racial stereotypes. Take the short-lived (2007-14) American Girl Doll Ivy Ling, the white girl’s best friend who loves STEM and strives to satisfy her parent’s weighty ambitions. Consider the darling of Harry Potter’s “yellow fever”, Cho Chang, because a...