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  • Throwback Thursday: sex talk

    Fifty years ago this week, in 1970, students arriving on campus for the fall semester were greeted with a 64-page pamphlet called Sex and the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2020 07:55am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Mess tent

    Students living on Old Campus didn't have access to the residential college dining halls during a two-week quarantine period, so Yale Dining brought... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 11 2020 08:00am

  • Sign of the times

    All Yale undergraduates—and graduate and professional students who live in campus housing—are being tested twice a week for COVID-19.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 4 2020 07:57am

  • Go outside and play

    These are not easy times for singers and players of wind instruments. But these three trombone students from the School of Music (left to right: Ben... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2020 07:58am

  • Welcome! Go to your room.

    Today is the second day of a week-long move-in process for Yale College students. Each student has a prearranged dropoff time, after which... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 25 2020 08:00am

  • Coming soon

    This coming academic year will be far from normal, but despite online classes, social distancing, and a likely reduction in extracurricular... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 7 2020 08:45am

  • Love letter

    As the long moveout of 2020 continues, the staff of Berkeley College has left a message for its students. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 30 2020 07:56am

  • One last look

    Many students are returning to their rooms on campus for the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak in order to pack up and move out. Kelly Cailette... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2020 11:28am

  • Empty rooms

    Classes in most of Yale’s schools start up again today after spring break, but they’ll be meeting online through platforms such as Zoom... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 23 2020 08:20am

  • Keeping their distance

    Max Dewolf ’23 loaded a car with his belongings Saturday as students were sent home for the rest of the term. Yale College and the Graduate... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 16 2020 07:35am

  • Recommended reading

    Bass Library solicited suggestions of books and other art by and about people of color. Who’s got further suggestions? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 27 2020 08:00am

  • Take one, leave one

    There are 15 million books in the Yale library—15,000,002 if you count Ezra Stiles College’s new Little Free Library. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2020 09:54am

  • Say cheese

    Yesterday was National Pizza Day, but every day is pizza day in Pauli Murray College. Along with Morse, Stiles, and Franklin Colleges, Murray has a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 10 2020 10:03am

  • Still the Oldest College Daily

    Happy Birthday to the Yale Daily News, which turns 142 today! We’re especially grateful to the News for founding the Yale Alumni... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2020 08:36am

  • Guiding principles

    Can you walk backwards effortlessly? Can you keep a straight face while relating campus legends of dubious veracity? Recruiters are out on Cross... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 24 2020 02:35pm

  • By the book

    Yale College alums might be pleased to know that while the printed course catalog known as the Blue Book is no more, its name lives on in verb form... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2020 08:17am

  • Good shopping weather

    Today is the first sunny day of the new semester. Things are looking brighter for students as they shop classes. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2020 01:43pm

  • Shop around

    Classes begin today for most Yale students, and for undergrads (like these heading into Linsly-Chittenden for class) it’s shopping period.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 13 2020 09:47am

  • Time to read

    Today is the last day of classes in Yale College, which means study space in places like the Starr Reference Room at Sterling Library will soon be... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 6 2019 07:54am