Isaac Arnsdorf
Isaac Arnsdorf
Recent Stories
Weenie Bin C62F
Small Talk
Weenie Bin C62F is just like the 43 other weenie bins in Bass Library, except that it isn’t.
Do You Speak Yeah-Lie?
Linguistics Professor Claire Bowern is currently working on the largest study of North American English dialects ever conducted. To start, she’s doing a dry run with a subset of data from Yalies.
Yale fights the war on ivy
Yale, it may be said, is the quintessential Ivy League school. So where, then, is all the ivy?
Departments struggle with new budget cuts
As the cuts to this year’s budget run deeper, department heads say the savings are becoming harder to find.
Demolition begins to make room for new colleges
Defying both economic headwinds and local critics, the University has begun clearing space for the 13th and 14th residential colleges.
Yale-backed wind plan incites controversy
A proposed wind farm in the rural town of Ira, Vt., has drawn the ire of local residents, and a state lawmaker says Yale is among the investors financing the project.
Part 2 of 2: The unmaking of a haven
On June 6, 2007, federal immigration agents raided eight homes in New Haven, making 29 arrests. The raid received national attention and shocked the city, which, two days earlier, had approved the controversial Elm City Resident Card. But the details of the agents’ raids, and what prompted them, may never be fully revealed. This story, the second of two parts, reconstructs the events of that day, relying on hundreds of pages of legal documents and more than 50 interviews.
Part 1 of 2: A safe haven, raided
The federal agents came at dawn on June 6, 2007, pounding on doors, yelling in an unfamiliar tongue, storming bedrooms, lining up the men on one side of the room and the women on the other. In three hours, they raided eight apartments and homes in New Haven’s predominantly Latino neighborhood of Fair Haven, making 29 arrests. Five of them were the intended targets; the rest were detained along the way.
Univ. may cut classes to save money
Budget constraints are forcing administrators to consider an idea they have long spurned: eliminating classes to save money.
YaleNext reforms already underway
The first batch of reforms under the banner of YaleNext appeared over the summer, and more are on the way this fall.