Amid the chaos of the first post-affirmative action application cycle, we saw an increase in the number of Latine or Hispanic students to a record-high 19 percent of the class of 2028. These students are faced with a decades-old question: how can we make sense of our Latinidad at an institution that, for centuries, was bent on keeping us out? 

The challenge of finding our footing as Latine Yalies is an ongoing one. But over the past month, students focused on an equally important endeavor: celebrating the talents and accomplishments of our community. 

Afro-Brazilian philosopher Djamila Ribeiro and journalist Alana Casanova-Burgess, who has Dominican and Puerto Rican roots, shared insights with students at campus events. La Casa Cultural and the Yale University Art Gallery guided visitors through a collection of Mexican photography. 

Efforts to uplift Latine voices aren’t limited to the ivory tower, however. From a joint boycott by Mecha de Yale and Unidad Latina en Acción, to a collaborative event between Yale Lawtinas and Mexican indigenous activist — and New Havener — Denisse Cruz-Contreras, students are set on bridging the gap between themselves and New Haven’s Latine community.

We’re so grateful for our hardworking staff reporters and writers who contributed to this spissue. But most of all, thank you to our readers for helping us amplify Latine voices at Yale. 

Con todo nuestro cariño,

Maia Nehme ’27 and Tristan Hernandez ’26, special issue co-editors

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Vance, the junior Ohio senator elected in 2022, will join Trump in challenging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in November. 

“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump wrote. 

Who is J.D. Vance?

Vance, a 39-year-old native of Middletown, Ohio, was elected senator in 2022, beating Representative Tim Ryan after former Senator Rob Portman announced his retirement.

Before his election, Vance had never held political office. He was a venture capitalist, best known for his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which became a New York Times bestseller.  

After graduating high school, Vance served in the Marine Corps. He received his undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio State University.  

Later, Vance attended Yale Law School, where he met his wife Usha Vance ’07 LAW ’13. While at Yale, law professor Amy Chua, herself an author, encouraged Vance to write his memoir about his life in rural Ohio.

In 2017, Vance returned to Yale for an event sponsored by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program. At the talk, Vance discussed his personal experiences growing up in a poor family in the Midwest and a discussion of the American working class. 

An attendee at the event previously told the News that the turnout for Vance was “unprecedented” for a speaker event at Yale that did not feature a major political figure as Vance was not elected to political office at the time.  

With Vance’s selection, both Republicans on the ticket have connections to the Ivy League, as Trump graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Though both have advanced degrees, neither Biden or Harris attended Ivy League institutions. 

Before running for political office, Vance was a Trump critic but has since become a staunch ally of the 45th president. 

When competing in the Republican primary for Ohio senator, he gained a key endorsement from Trump that helped to clinch the nomination, and he is one of the former president’s strongest allies in the Senate. 

In office, he has stuck with a tough conservative brand, opposing abortion and foreign aid for Ukraine while promoting an “America First” political agenda. 

Out of the people on Trump’s VP shortlist, which also included Florida Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Vance has been most loyal to Trump and his “Make America Great Again” political movement.

The Republican National Convention will last until July 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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McInnis is president of Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, and has served as a successor trustee of the Yale Corporation since 2022. She received her bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Virginia in 1988 before earning her master’s and doctorate degrees from Yale in the History of Art in 1990 and 1996, respectively. She held several academic and administrative positions at the University of Virginia before serving as provost of the University of Texas at Austin from 2016 to 2020 until she was appointed as Stony Brook’s president. 

McInnis will be Yale’s first female president to serve in a non-interim capacity. 

“I’m so honored and humbled to be able to be Yale’s next leader, the chance to come back to my alma mater, to an institution that has such a positive impact on people across the world,” McInnis told the News Wednesday morning. “I do understand that the fact that I will be the first non-interim woman serving in that role means that I can play an important role as a role model.”

Previously, Hanna Holborn Gray served as interim president from 1977 to 1978 after the former president Kingman Brewster ’41 resigned from office.

The announcement concludes a nearly nine-month search process that began when Salovey informed the Yale community last August that the 2023-24 academic year would be his last at Yale’s helm. 

The search occurred in a year fraught with backlash against college presidents and comes at a time of increased leadership turnover in American higher education, as the role of university presidents becomes more complex and the subject of intense scrutiny by an institution’s various constituents, the media and the public. Three other Ivy League institutions — Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University — are looking for a new president.

In her announcement, McInnis wrote that she looks forward to meeting the University’s students, faculty, staff and alumni and “continuing the spirit of listening and collaboration.” McInnis wrote that she intends to hold listening sessions and individual meetings in the months ahead.

During a Wednesday morning interview, McInnis reiterated her commitment to “tackle the world’s most pressing challenges” by working alongside the Yale community to create a vision for the ways in which Yale will improve the world now and in the future.    

McInnis’ appointment comes as leaders at Yale and higher education institutions across the country have faced heightened scrutiny about campus antisemitism, Islamophobia and their responses to the student activism in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Prior to the summer recess, Yale’s campus was rocked by unprecedented student demonstrations calling for divestment from University investments in military weapons manufacturers. Following a three-night encampment on Beinecke Plaza, police arrested 48 individuals — among them 44 students — on the morning of April 22.

“There’s no doubt that this is an incredibly complicated moment, not just for higher education, but in the world,” McInnis said. “And I look forward to working with this community on those challenges as we build our collaborative response.”

Joshua Bekenstein ’80, senior trustee of the Corporation, told the News that the search committee received nominations for 128 leaders in higher education and other sectors. 

Bekenstein added that this is the first time in recent history that Yale’s president has come from the Corporation.

“In the end, all 15 trustees were extremely excited and it was a very, very unanimous vote with extreme levels of excitement about the future,” Bekenstein said. “Peter Salovey has done a fantastic job for 11 years, putting Yale where we are today, and we believe that Maurie will be a fantastic leader on a go-forward basis.”

During McInnis’s tenure as president of Stony Brook, she has excelled as a fundraiser for the school, securing a $500 million unrestricted endowment donation from the Simons Foundation, a historically large gift, especially for a public university.

Some faculty members at UT Austin and Stony Brook have criticized McInnis’s leadership as overly authoritative and dismissive of faculty concerns. At Stony Brook, critics have called into question her record on campus free speech. In late March, a group of students and faculty members participated in a demonstration in response to the arrests of nine Stony Brook students the day before during a pro-Palestine protest at the University’s Administration Building. In the following weeks, over 600 Stony Brook faculty members and students signed an open letter calling for McInnis to revise the school’s free speech policies and increase administrative transparency.

More recently, Stony Brook’s faculty senate voted to demand that all charges be dropped against 29 individuals — including students and faculty — arrested for their participation in a pro-Palestinian encampment on May 2, and to investigate Enterprise Risk Management – a campus police operation formed by McInnis.

When first contacted by the News about these criticisms in April, McInnis declined to comment. However, in an interview with the News Wednesday morning, she said that such criticism comes with leadership positions.

“Being in a leadership position usually means you can’t please everybody all the time,” McInnis said. “There’s always going to be a multiplicity of opinions about how a variety of different issues should be addressed.”

Although McInnis has been a trustee since 2022, her initial appointment to the board was controversial among University alumni and graduate students. McInnis lost the 2020 alumni fellows election yet was appointed to the Corporation as a successor trustee two years later. At the Corporation, she serves on the institutional policies, School of Medicine, finance and educational policy committees, the latter of which she is the chair of.

McInnis told the News that she gained insights about university governance as both the Corporation trustee and president of Stony Brook. 

“One of the great things about being a trustee is the breadth of vision you get in that position to the governance aspects of an institution — you really understand an institution’s strengths and its strategies for moving forward. That is very different from actually being in a leadership role,” McInnis said. “My experience at Stony Brook has given me extraordinary insights into many of the management issues that as president you face at large, complex institutions.”

The Presidential Search Committee consisted of eight Corporation members — not including McInnis — and four faculty members, as well as a 12-member Student Advisory Council that gathered student input on the process. 

Salovey will step down on June 30, taking a sabbatical before returning to the faculty where he is currently the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology.

Read the News’ past coverage of the presidential selection process here.

Ben Raab, Yurii Stasiuk and Ariela Lopez contributed reporting.

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The letter, which has amassed 2,322 signatures as of Thursday night, expresses support for the student protesters who erected a three-night encampment on Beinecke Plaza, as well as the 14 students who staged an eight-day hunger strike that ended on Sunday. 

“Given the turnout of hundreds of students at the days-long occupation and protests, as well as the number of signatories on the letter in just four days, it is observable that there is a growing critical mass calling out Yale’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians while calling for the University’s divestment from these weapons manufacturing companies,” Minh Huynh Vu ’20 GRD ’26, one of the writers of the letter, told the News.

On Oct. 7, Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 people as hostages. In response, Israel formally declared war on Hamas and launched a military offensive in Gaza. Israel’s forces have killed at least 34,000 Palestinians across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which the letter cites, though experts believe this death toll to be an underestimate by thousands. Hamas currently holds 133 hostages, 36 of whom are confirmed dead, Israel reports. 

The letter was written on April 18 and was first circulated the morning of April 19, hours before protesters began the encampment. According to Vu, a group of alumni wrote the letter and then shared it through posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. 

In a Monday press release, which was posted on Yalies4Palestine’s Instagram page, the group of alumni also wrote in support of the 48 protesters who were arrested for trespassing on Monday morning.

“As a current graduate student, I am deeply disturbed by, and have witnessed, the University’s intimidation and surveillance tactics using administrative policies and police arrests,” Vu said in the press release. “Yet I continue to be profoundly moved by the protesters’, hunger strikers’, and occupiers’ steadfast hearts, principles, and commitments.”

On Wednesday, April 17, amid a surge in student protests, the University announced that it would not divest from weapons manufacturers.

Vu wrote that the impetus for writing the letter was to “echo the demands of” student protesters at Yale and universities across the country. Vu also pointed to the heightened stakes of pro-Palestine organizing at these universities, including at Columbia University, where U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson recently demanded that President Joseph Biden send the National Guard to arrest pro-Palestine protesters. 

“While Yale students put their bodies on the line to stand in solidarity with Gaza, the least we can do as alumni is pledge our support for their cause and urge Yale to accept its students’ demands,” Ryan Gittler-Muñiz ’20 said in the press release. “As a Jewish alumnus, it heartens me to see the unity among Palestinian and anti-Zionist Jewish student organizers of the encampment, which held interfaith singing and prayer each day.”

The letter received 600 signatures in its first 24 hours of circulation, according to Vu. It comes in the  wake of various groups, including the Endowment Justice Coalition, sending over 2,800 total letters to University President Peter Salovey in various ongoing letter-writing campaigns advocating for divestment from weapons manufacturers. 

The News reached out to multiple signatories of the letter but received no response.

A separate letter to Salovey from Yale students, parents, alumni and professors that opposed divestment has amassed 161 signatures, including 133 in its first 24 hours last week. 

In response to the letter pledging to withhold donations, a University spokesperson directed the News to Salovey’s previous messages to the Yale community issued throughout the week. In an April 24 email, Salovey directed Yale community members to voice concerns regarding investments in military weapons manufacturing to the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, which reviews and makes recommendations on Yale’s investment policies based on the University’s ethical investment guidelines. 

“Any member of the Yale community is invited to write to the ACIR or to attend future open meetings,” Salovey wrote. “There are available pathways to continue this discussion with openness and civility, and I urge those with suggestions to follow them.”

Multiple pro-divestment groups and individuals, including Lukey Ellsberg, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Religious Studies, as well as members of the Endowment Justice Coalition at Yale, gave presentations or attended the ACIR’s annual open meeting in November 2023. Pro-divestment organizers previously expressed that they have “exhausted” every official means of communication with the ACIR and the Yale Corporation.

The ACIR was established in the 1972–73 academic year.

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Students installed the wooden structure as part of Monday’s “Books not Bombs” protest. Per a press release posted to Instagram account “Occupy Beinecke” — the name of the student coalition responsible for the structure — the group took inspiration from shanty towns built in 1986 to rally for Yale’s divestment from companies operating under South Africa’s apartheid regime. These structures were torn down at the mandate of Yale administrators but were rebuilt and left in place until 1988.

Just after noon, when the fixture was first installed and administrators began asking students to remove it, the News asked Montalvo at the scene under what protocol the fixture was not permitted; she asked that reporters “send an email” as she was “responding to the situation.” Around 12:30 p.m., she redirected all requests for comment to the University spokesperson and declined to individually weigh in.

“Following guidelines around free expression and peaceful assembly, and the use of outdoor spaces, Yale staff members asked that the bookcase be removed to allow free and unfettered access,” the University spokesperson later wrote to the News at 3:41 p.m.

According to the spokesperson, staff offered to have students remove the display themselves, and when the students chose not to do so, the protesters were told facilities staff would remove it. At the protest itself, however, Montalvo said that if protesters took it down themselves, they could keep it, but if administrators took it down, they could not promise to maintain the integrity of the structure nor have a storage space for it.

Yale’s spokesperson also wrote that staff offered to help organizers with the application process for putting up an art installation.

The University claimed late on Monday night that the bookcase had spanned across the entirety of the staircase leading up from Beinecke Plaza to the Schwarzman Center, thus blocking pedestrian access — but pedestrians were still able to walk around the structure to reach the other side of the Plaza, including the entrance to the Schwarzman Center. 

The University did not directly address further questions, sent around 2 p.m., on the University’s policies on required access to buildings or updated status of the shelves that were taken by Yale Facilities, nor to follow-up questions sent around 5 p.m., 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. about the specific definitions of access to University facilities or of what blocking transit entails. 

University policy for use of outdoor spaces states that “registered groups and organizations from Yale’s schools who want to use the University’s outdoor spaces for an event must apply for and obtain permission” and that “pathways and entryways to buildings must be kept clear and accessible.” 

To apply for proper consideration and approval of requests, permission should be requested 72 hours prior to the event. Monday’s demonstrators did not inform University administrators of their intention to build the structure in advance, according to an organizer. 

In September, Montalvo informed a student they could not construct a Sukkah — a hut-like temporary structure for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot — according to an email exchange obtained by the News. 

“Buildings of this sort may not be constructed on campus,” she wrote. 

The takedown of the structure is also not the first time Montalvo has cited University regulations in dismantling the work of protesters. 

In December, Montalvo gave a student permission to take down a banner that listed the names of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. Later, she told the News that there were “administrative errors” made in allowing the poster to go up and in authorizing the student to take it down. 

If Yale were to change its policies, it wouldn’t be the first Ivy to do so.

At Columbia University, administrators announced in February changes to their demonstration policy that reduced the protest approval window from 15 business days to two business days and created designated times and spaces for campus protests. The policy change came amid criticism of the University for its enforcement of policies regarding protests and demonstrations since the onset of Israel’s formally declared war against Hamas in Gaza, according to the Columbia Spectator.

Specifically, Columbia suspended its student chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace in November, seventeen days after revising its events policies to hand Columbia administrators “sole discretion” to determine “final and not appealable” sanctions against student groups and their individual members, per the Spectator. 

Now, under policies enacted in February, Columbia “may not deny registration or approval of an exception for any Demonstration based on the viewpoint of the individual or group seeking to hold the Demonstration.” 

University President Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis, Dean for Student Affairs Melanie Boyd and Montalvo all did not respond to immediate requests for comment following the protest. Montalvo told the News to route all questions through to the University spokesperson.

Update, April 16: This article has been adjusted to clearly attribute the assessment that the bookshelf spanned the full stairway to the Schwarzman Center to the University.

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The associate professor of New Testament and Early Christian literature at the Divinity School will begin her five-year term on July 1, 2024, after the current Head of College Mary Lui announced she would step down following nine years in the role in January.

“When you choose curiosity and compassion over judgments, courage and connectedness over suspicion and fear — this is the work of community,” Dinkler told the crowd in the TD dining hall. “We can build trust and pull together through all of our beautiful challenging differences.”

Dinkler began at the University as a professor ten years ago, and her work focuses on religious studies and contemporary literary theory. She received her bachelor’s and master’s from Stanford University, her master’s of divinity from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and her doctor of theology from Harvard University. She is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church. 

Alongside Head Dinkler, her husband, John Dinkler, will become the associate head of college. Dinkler is a cardiologist with a doctorate in health policy and practices at Consulting Cardiologists, PC in Wallingford and is the director of outpatient quality at Hartford Healthcare’s Heart and Vascular Institute. Living in the college, the Dinklers will also be joined by their two children, 15-year-old Alethea and 12-year-old Daelen, and the family’s puppy, Atticus. 

“Professor Dinkler has had years of experience supporting students from vastly diverse backgrounds as they have prepared for vastly diverse futures,” Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis wrote to the TD community in an email. “She is equally at home mentoring high school students and advising PhD students as she is guiding YDS students for careers as religious and nonprofit leaders, social justice and climate activists, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and more.”

Lewis also wrote that, in recent years, Dinkler has served on the Divinity School’s inaugural Antiracism Task Force and overseen the grant implementing “the first-ever antiracist pedagogy trainings for YDS Teaching Fellows.”

Lewis ended his message by thanking Lui and Associate Head of College Vincent Balbarin, who led the TD community through the COVID-19 pandemic and some of the college’s “best moments.”

“It’s way way way too early for me to be saying goodbye,” Lui told the crowd. “It’s only April 8, people April 8, you have classes to go to, papers to write, exams to study for, so we’re not there yet.”

In her speech, Dinkler shared the story of whitewater rafting in Uganda with her husband and her raft flipped over in the Nile River, punctuating her anecdote that TD is the “life raft for all of us.”

She explained that current events on and off-campus can make life feel like when she was “alone in the rapids,” but the TD community can build trust with one another, and Dickler said she already sees this in TD with their confidence and creativity.  

Timothy Dwight College is located at 345 Temple St.

Correction, April 13: This article has been updated to specify that Dinkler traveled on the Nile River in Uganda, not on the Niger River.

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During the fair, students explored various booths from mental health advocacy groups as well as campus mental health organizations — among them, Elis for Rachael, the Good Life Center and Yale College Community Care, or YC3.

“It’s about having people come and see what resources are available to them, what they could potentially have access to, in a more interactive way,” Karen Ayoub ’25 told the News. “I think the most important thing for us and the reason we host this every year is to destigmatize mental health.”

Ayoub explained that YSMHA wants students not to see how mental health resources are not only useful for a moment of crisis but can also help support wellness and self-care throughout the school year.

In addition to the fair, YSMHA has also been partnering with YC3 and other organizations to host events like a social work workshop, gratitude letter writing and study breaks, according to Ayoub. 

“I think that this fair gives [students] a sense of what is possible during their time at Yale,” Ayoub said. “I think that for the YSMHA board, we definitely see this as a value that we want to impart on Yale’s campus like mental health awareness and community building.”

The Mind Over Matter event comes as mental health ranked as the top student concern in the presidential search report published by the Student Advisory Council in January. 

University President Peter Salovey told the News in February that while presidents do not usually make policies for services, they can raise funds and bring awareness to mental health. He added that the University has increased its mental health support to residential colleges through the expansion of YC3.

Other University programs focused on wellness and mental health include the Good Life Center, which provides space for meditation, rest and gratitude. The Good Life Center has two locations — Silliman College and the Schwarzman Center.

“I think a big part of us being here is bringing awareness to the fact that the Good Life Center is there and can help with mental health,” said Catherine Santiago ’24, a representative from the Good Life Center.

Santiago explained how the Good Life Center partners with other organizations throughout the year to help students, including with YC3 for Wellness Wednesdays and workshops focused on mindfulness and gratitude. 

Elis for Rachael, a mental health advocacy group, who, along with current students, filed a class action lawsuit against the University’s mental health policies in November 2022. The lawsuit was settled in August 2023, and its settlement came after sweeping changes to the leave policies. 

“What’s most important for Elis for Rachael is connection to students,” Paul Johansen, an organizer with Elis for Rachael, said. “We see ourselves as advocates for students, and so if we don’t know what’s on students’ minds, we can’t do our job.”

Johansen said that at the event, he heard about how the new leave of absence policies, instituted in January 2023, have improved students’ experiences. The changes included a reclassification of medical withdrawal as medical leave of absence and relaxed reinstatement requirements for students who take time away.

Johansen also noted the University’s new dean’s extension policy and questioned the amount of time it took to convince the administration to make the change. Starting this fall, mental health will be explicitly included as a valid reason for requesting a dean’s extension.

“It’s sad in a way to see how long it takes for some of the [student organization’s] specific recommendations,” Johansen said. “Some of [the changes] are mere policy changes, and they don’t cost Yale anything. They’ve changed it by literally posting a new policy on the internet.”

Yale Mental Health and Counseling is located at 55 Lock St.

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Bilsky, who is a lecturer in the English department, is resigning to begin as the associate provost for academic affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy. She was appointed in 2018 to replace outgoing Dean Renita Miller. 

“Change is rarely easy,” Bilsky wrote in an email to Berkeley students. “However, it is a natural part of life, and sometimes the right opportunity simply comes along at the right time. I believe that is the case now, but I know that was the case in 2018 when I was selected to be the Dean of Berkeley.”

Bilsky received her bachelor’s degree in English from Washington & Jefferson College and her English doctorate from Stanford University. 

She also was an assistant professor of English at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. In her email, Bilsky wrote that she is “excited” that the next step in her career will once again contribute to the “nation’s future military leaders.”

“This is in a way a homecoming for Brianne, since she worked at the U.S. Military Academy before she came to Yale,” Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis wrote to the Yale College staff. “Although this is bittersweet news for the Berkeley community, which has benefited so much from Brianne’s leadership and service, this move is a wonderful opportunity for her.”

In her email, Bilsky also wrote that it was an “honor” to work in Berkeley College, and said that the residential colleges are “special places” that not only impact students, but those who work in them as well. She ended by thanking Berkeley College staff, including Head of College David Evans and Berkeley facilities and dining hall staff.

In his own message to the Berkeley community, Evans wrote that he “thoroughly enjoyed” working with Bilsky through college administrative tasks, and that Bilsky has taught him a lot through those experiences. 

“The Residential College Dean job is uniquely challenging in that one must provide compassion but also occasionally the kind of straight-talk advice that we all need from time to time,” Evans wrote. “Dean B has navigated this balance as well as anyone I know.” 

Evans added that he will soon begin the process of nominating students and college fellows to the search committee for the next Berkeley dean. The search will join the ongoing committees for Timothy Dwight College’s Head of College and Jonathan Edwards College’s dean. 

Hannah Nashed ’26, co-president of the Berkeley College Council, wrote to the News that Bilsky served as a “hub of knowledge” for Berkeley students as she helped them navigate class conflicts, housing crises and uncertainties of the future. 

“To me, she was always somewhat of an intimidating figure: composed, convicted, and confident,” Nashed wrote. “She exuded very calm energy and always handled everything with a kind of precision and decisiveness that could only be admired.” 

Berkeley College is located at 205 Elm St. 

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The Chancellor James Kent Professor of Law and History will begin his term on July 1, 2024, after current Head of College Julia Adams announced that she would step down following ten years in the role.

“No home that we have together is going to be safe if it doesn’t let us be ourselves and explore challenging differences and learn from each other and once in a while change our minds,” Moyn said to the crowd gathered in the Hopper dining hall. “A home has to be a space of kindness and solidarity and we promise to do everything we can with your health to continue to make it the college you aspire and deserve to have.” 

Moyn started at the University in 2017 after serving as a professor of European legal history at Columbia University and then professor of law and history at Harvard University. He is an intellectual historian of modern Europe and global affairs, and his legal scholarship includes international law, human rights, the law of war and legal thought.

Alongside Moyn, ​​Alisa Berger will serve as associate head of college. Berger is the executive director of Deeper Learning Dozen, a public school innovation project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. They will be joined by their daughter, Madeleine, and their nine-year-old dog, Floxy. Moyn and Berger have a second daughter, Lily, who is a first-year student at Reed College.  

Also at the announcement, Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis praised the tenure of Adams, who he said led the college through its renaming from Calhoun to Grace Hopper College and the COVID-19 pandemic, and presented her with a certificate for her “leadership and service.”

“For the past 10 years Grace Hopper College has had incredible leadership from Professor Adams and associate head, Hans van Dijk, who made this a home for a whole generation of the Grace Hopper community,” Lewis said. 

The welcome ceremony took place in the Hopper dining hall, and Moyn’s announcement was met with applause from Hopplites. 

Moyn punctuated his speech with humor, joking that he would be asking serious questions such as one of his “current obsessions: why do some other colleges have soft serve ice cream?”

However, Moyn also underscored more serious topics, including the importance of accepting differences within the college, especially amid the upcoming national presidential election next fall. 

Madelyn Mao ’25 emphasized how Moyn will have big shoes to fill at Grace Hopper College. 

“I think that we are all going to be really sad that Head Adams is leaving because she was such a great head of college,” Mao told the News. “She always let us into her home, she always talked with us and got to know us and I feel like we also really got to know her. As Professor Moyn said, he is going to kind of play the same role as Head Adams did for us.”

After his speech, Moyn lingered in the dining hall to interact with students and staff who attended the announcement. As attendees left the dining hall they were given jam-filled cookies featuring Yale’s signature Y.

Grace Hopper College is located at 189 Elm St.

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In response, Yale Internet Technology Services has instituted a policy change to reduce storage on individual student accounts, which previously had unlimited storage. Accounts created since Aug. 15, 2023, are allotted five gigabytes, and all other accounts will transition to holding five gigabytes of storage by Oct. 1, 2024. Users can purchase more storage at a rate of $144 for one terabyte of storage — equal to about 1,000 gigabytes — through the University. 

“These changes will necessitate adjustments to the way Yale students and faculty store their data,” Jeremy Rosenberg, assistant vice president for IT, wrote to the News. “We are in the process of launching a campaign to help people navigate the change and land on the right alternative option where their needs no longer align with Google’s policies.”

Google’s storage is split between Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos. University recommendations for those who have storage over the limit include reviewing and removing unnecessary data, as well as moving data to other applications like Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox. Students have access to OneDrive for free and can submit an application for a Dropbox subscription.  

Additionally, in July 2025, all Box@Yale accounts  — a cloud-based file-sharing and storage service — will phase out and support for the service will end.

Rosenberg also confirmed to the News that first years, whose accounts are newer, have been under the five-gigabyte limit since their accounts were created. He wrote that ITS is currently creating a plan with explicit deadlines and options for students and faculty above the quota.

The News spoke to several students about the change who expressed concern about how the storage limits would affect classes or data-intensive projects.

“I personally don’t use a huge amount of data, but I have a lot of classes where we have to make movies and projects that are big,” Lucas Aurore ’26 told the News. “[This change] would make my classes harder and it would make me have to delete older projects that I’ve done, which I don’t want to do.”

Ashley Sottosanti ’26, who currently uses 12.19 gigabytes of Google storage, also said that the change could affect students’ academics.

She said that she hopes IT will inform students of multiple options and plans for users who use more than five gigabytes.

“I get why [Google] made the decision, but it sucks because students need the storage for classes,” Sottosanti said. 

Google did not respond to a request for comment. 

All Yale College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students are automatically given a Google Education account upon matriculation. 

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