It takes a city
Old McDonald had a farm,” a teacher sings. “E-I-E-I-O!” It’s 9:12 a.m., and class is in session at New Haven’s Wilbur Cross High School. But no one has a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. They’re not...
View ArticleA bold venture
The old Winchester Repeating Arms factory sits just a block away from the Yale Divinity Quadrangle. Nestled in a new, modern industrial park, the recently refurbished space is the result of a concerted...
View ArticleFathering in practice
The Male Involvement Wall of Fame used to be hard to miss, plastered loudly on neon poster board in the entrance of Helen Grant Head Start on Wexler Avenue. At least 40 photographs of teenage fathers,...
View ArticleFood for thought
‘There is no militancy in this room!’ ‘Who cares about your iPhones and blog posts?’ ‘What is this resistance?’” Justine Appel, ES ’15, recites back to me some of the things she recently heard at...
View ArticleUphill from here
In terms of students, the math is simple. Yale’s creation of two new residential colleges means 800 new undergraduates, bringing the total number of Yale College students from just under 5400 to...
View ArticleStepping on the scale
Parents, students, and faculty had begun to gradually fill the Fair Haven Middle School auditorium. I chose a seat in the center towards the back, behind a row of boys and girls who looked and acted...
View ArticleProcessing misconduct
On Wed., Oct. 15, 2014, 28 Harvard Law professors co-signed an editorial in the Boston Globe, in which they criticized a newly instated policy regarding Harvard’s approach to complaints of sexual...
View ArticleStarting small
The bottom floor of Calvin Hill Child Care Center, a few blocks past Science Hill, is silent. The lights are off, and the low-ceilinged room is completely dark. There are no children in sight. It’s...
View ArticleRedefining mastery
A bespectacled man in a gray blazer and a navy blue tie sits on a couch, flanked by two students. He smiles magnanimously as the students around him sing. “A master brings us all together as our senior...
View ArticleShell liquor
I didn’t mean to intrude, but he told me not to be late—the boat’s going to leave at 6:30, and the captain might not wait for me. They have to work by the sun. So I’m up early, thinking I’ll get lost,...
View ArticleIt takes a city
Old McDonald had a farm,” a teacher sings. “E-I-E-I-O!” It’s 9:12 a.m., and class is in session at New Haven’s Wilbur Cross High School. But no one has a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. They’re not...
View ArticleA bold venture
The old Winchester Repeating Arms factory sits just a block away from the Yale Divinity Quadrangle. Nestled in a new, modern industrial park, the recently refurbished space is the result of a concerted...
View ArticleFathering in practice
The Male Involvement Wall of Fame used to be hard to miss, plastered loudly on neon poster board in the entrance of Helen Grant Head Start on Wexler Avenue. At least 40 photographs of teenage fathers,...
View ArticleWhat’s Next?
On Mon., Nov. 8, 2015, about 1,200 bodies stood on Cross Campus. Most had gathered in the narrow walkway between the Afro-American Cultural House and the Yale Cabaret before spilling onto Park...
View ArticleBurnt bone
“I’d like to watch a cremation,” I tell Beth on my first visit to Trail’s End Pet Crematory in Westbrook, Conn. Beth is a soft blond who works in the main office. A devout animal lover, she would...
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Drug developers
On Jan. 19, 2016, Alexion Pharmaceuticals officially moved their headquarters into a new flagship building at 100 College Street. The structure towers over downtown New Haven, 11 stories of gleaming...
View ArticleThe bend point
The bend point is the place on a strand of hair that dictates where a hairdresser should cut. It is the furthest place at which a strand can be held away from the scalp and still fall towards the...
View ArticleThe electoral high school
The first time I ever voted was in the last midterm election at the McGaw YMCA in Evanston, IL. I bounced into the silent carpeted room ready to check off the names I wrote down on a Post-it and feel...
View ArticleFrom trash to treasure
It’s hard to see all the way inside the large barn at New Milford Farms. On this cloudy Monday, not much light made it in through the plastic roofing, and the air was filled with rising steam. I...
View ArticleLife with parole
When Governor Dannel Malloy first announced his Second Chance Initiative in December, Dan Jusino was skeptical. Malloy argued that by diverting ex-offenders into programs of “rapid attachment” to the...
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