By Jim Shelton
January 19, 2021
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Seven months and a lifetime ago, Anna Martinelli-Parker had a major decision to make.
Should she leave her parents’ home in Washington, D.C., and start college at Yale in person on campus? Should she live at home and take classes remotely? Or should she take a gap year?
“I knew I wanted to come to New Haven, but it was very hard,” said Martinelli-Parker, a first-year student. “I had to think about my own health … There was a lot of deliberation.”
December 21, 2020
A limited group of student mentors gathered in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Student Center to help test safety protocols.
By Steve Nakata, Division of Student Affairs
Recognizing many students are struggling with feelings of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Compton Union Building (CUB) staff are working with campus safety experts to expand the building’s capacity for students, particularly on the fourth floor.
During a normal year, the fourth floor is one of the busiest spots in the CUB with hundreds of students gathering daily inside the various student cultural centers, the Gender/Identity Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center (GIESORC), and the Center for Undocumented Initiatives.