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April 2015

  • Spin control

    Joel LaChance, aka the Goatville Cyclesmith (shown here in front of Sterling Memorial Library) maintains the fleet of bicycles used in the campus-wide... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 29 2015 08:39am

  • Golden days

    Alongside the Farmington Canal Trail at Hillhouse Avenue, forsythia blooms greet cyclists and runners. (That’s the Malone Engineering Center at... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 28 2015 08:42am

  • Living color

    The last day of classes in Yale College on Friday coincided with the Hindu Students Council’s celebration of Holi. Students gathered on the lawn... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 27 2015 08:34am

  • In bloom

    Today is the last day of classes in Yale College: the beginning of an annual struggle between studying for finals and enjoying the long-awaited New... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 24 2015 09:12am

  • Wet Willie

    “The quality of mercy is not strain’d; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.” Happy 451st birthday to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 23 2015 08:38am

  • Artistic Stiles

    A new addition to the Ezra Stiles College common room—a mural called Rise—was unveiled yesterday at a reception with the artist, Odili... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Eric Stern ’15</span> | April 22 2015 08:32am

  • Welcome committee

    Prospective Yalies in town for Bulldog Days have been greeted with gray skies, but the daffodils outside the Art Gallery are doing their part.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 21 2015 08:29am

  • Up in the air

    Metaphorically speaking, a third-year law student has plenty to juggle this time of year, but Adam Adler ’15JD found time for the real thing on a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 20 2015 08:30am

  • Spring sing

    With temperatures in the 60s, students are starting to emerge from their rooms. We promise that we happened upon this group on the Old Campus naturally;... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 17 2015 09:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: inside Connecticut Hall

    Nathan Hale slept here, as did countless other Yale students from 1750 until 1953, when Connecticut Hall was renovated as office, study, and meeting... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 16 2015 08:15am

  • Farm fresh pizza

    Another sure sign of spring: last Friday, the Yale Sustainable Food Program fired up the brick pizza oven at the Yale Farm on Edwards Street. Students... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 15 2015 10:05am

  • Flowers to go

    Sunday was our first warm, sunny spring day, with the sidewalks and courtyards suddenly full of people. A day later, we spotted a Yale Grounds... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 14 2015 08:22am

  • Slide show

    The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library became the canvas for a student–curated installation this weekend that celebrated research across the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 13 2015 08:39am

  • Sitting in

    Students from the group Fossil Free Yale staged a sit-in at Woodbridge Hall yesterday morning to demand that the university consider selling its... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 10 2015 08:19am

  • Throwback Thursday: the campus awakes

    Fifty years ago, in our April 1965 issue, we reported for the first time on student activism at Yale—a two-week-long protest over the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 9 2015 08:15am

  • Remembrance

    Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appamattox, which ended the American Civil War. Yale’s memorial to its... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 8 2015 08:30am

  • A call to arms

    Posters went up around the campus yesterday promoting the effort to name Yale’s new residential colleges “after facets of the Yale community... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 7 2015 10:20am

  • Way down

    The restored nave of Sterling Memorial Library, glimpsed from the stairway that leads to the subterranean Bass Library. This stair was built in 2007 as... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 6 2015 08:30am

  • Faith and fire

    To prepare for Passover, Jewish law requires that homes be rid of chametz—foods made from leavened grains. At the Slifka Center for Jewish Life... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 3 2015 10:32am