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  • Flying colors

    On Cross Campus, a show of support for Ukraine hangs from a Calhoun College window. ___________________________________________ The Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 8 2014 02:20pm

  • Props from the Bag Monster

    It's not like you want a medal every time you pick up an item at the store and say “no thanks” to a plastic bag. But it might be nice... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 7 2014 09:36am

  • See Yale—from under an umbrella

    It’s a beautiful sunny fall day today, but tour groups on Saturday had to put up with some rain as they heard the legend of President... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 6 2014 09:52am

  • The art of sound

    Music from Indonesia rang out in the lobby of the Yale University Art Gallery yesterday evening. The Yale Central Javanese Gamelan Ensemble played in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 3 2014 08:55am

  • Throwback Thursday: where’s the tailgate?

    Our December 1969 cover featured an unidentified Old Blue outside the Bowl after The Game. Though you wouldn't know it from his sober countenance, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 2 2014 11:02am

  • Gallows, lollipops, and leaves

    The trees in Hewitt Quadrangle (aka Beinecke Plaza) are competing with Alexander Calder’s Gallows and Lollipops for our attention this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 1 2014 09:12am

  • Larger than life

    This banner appeared mysteriously on the tower of the Yale Repertory Theatre yesterday. Parodying a series of “New Haven Notable” banners in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2014 11:22am

  • Room with a view

    It’s hard to go through Yale College without taking at least one course in LC 102, the largest lecture room in the Old Campus’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 29 2014 03:53pm

  • Come on in

    The number and variety of Yale's courtyards is always rewarding for an architectural explorer. Does anyone recognize this particular spot on the campus?... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 26 2014 10:38am

  • Throwback Thursday: here come the cadets!

    On Saturday, a thousand or so West Point cadets will march to the Yale Bowl for the Bulldogs’ first game against Army since 1996. The scene may... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 25 2014 10:51am

  • Al fresco

    It's the kind of weather where you just have to be outside—like these folks lunching at the School of Medicine's Harkness Hall yesterday.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 24 2014 09:18am

  • The show begins

    On the first day of autumn, there are only scattered hints of fall foliage on campus. But this tree outside Rose Alumni House isn't wasting any time.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 23 2014 10:30am

  • Áshe!

    All summer on our Facebook page, we’ve been featuring a different residential college every week on what we call “College Chauvinism... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 22 2014 08:40am

  • No standing?

    Parking spaces all over downtown are being taken over today as part of Park(ing) Day, "an annual worldwide event where artists, designers and citizens... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 19 2014 02:05pm

  • Throwback Thursday: harvest time

    More than a few Yale students will go apple-picking this month at nearby Connecticut orchards, but it’s usually just for fun. In 1942, when these... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 18 2014 08:55am

  • How it all began

    On Constitution Day, a class meets beneath John Trumbull’s iconic paintings of our nation’s founding at the Yale University Art Gallery.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2014 11:17am