Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:52 p.m.

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Welcome to Yale; Welcome to New Haven

Published Friday, August 31, 2007

A few blocks from Old Campus, on Elm Street, hangs an electric orange traffic sign. For the past few days, the sign has warned passing motorists of the dangers they will happen upon a scant few blocks ahead.

Freshman Move-in Friday. Congestion ahead. Warning.

Surely, the sign is accurate. Freshman move-in is a hectic mass of traumatized parents, hyper upperclassmen movers in college-appropriate color-coordinated T-shirts, freshmen eager to finally be on Yale’s hallowed grounds. Thru-traffic beware, indeed. Warning: Yale ahead.

But the sign is also a sadly apt, if...

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