Baala Shakya
Staff Reporter
Baala Shakya covers Student Life, Campus Politics and Men's Crew for the News. She is also a staff photographer and writes for the WKND. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, she is a first-year in Trumbull College majoring in History.
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Gryphon’s Pub to close for seven-month renovation, future uncertain

Planned renovations are a win for accessibility, but students brace for lost income and community spaces as Yale’s only graduate and professional student bar faces a future in jeopardy.

Yale Youth Poll reveals deep nationwide splits on protester deportations, institutional neutrality

Student-led survey highlights support for political statements from universities, taxing elite university endowments and widespread rejection of deporting student. protesters.

Yale adds new Indigenous, endangered languages to DILS program

With more endangered languages offered, students and language partners stress the importance of linguistic identity, access and institutional support for credit.

MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT CREW: Y150 falls to Penn in clash over Dodge, Colgan Cups

The Elis placed second in all three races over the weekend as they battled with Penn and Columbia.

“Yale’s Facemash”: Students react to site ranking Yalies’ popularity

As students voted on the 100 most popular classmates in each year, questions of visibility and social capital come to mind.

An Ode to Old Campus

Old Campus smells like cigarette smoke and memories dipped in candle wax, like stale beer clinging to cobblestone and the warmth of someone’s hoodie thrown […]

That whole “Yale thing”

We’ve all seen it — in passing, in pieces, flickering across a tiny airplane screen somewhere over Florida. Maybe it glowed drowsily from a TV […]

Yale GPSS adopts first-ever policy platform, clarifies advocacy priorities

From housing to healthcare, the new policy platform passed by the Graduate & Professional Students Senate outlines official stances on key issues in the graduate community.

Yale Political Union celebrates 90 years of debate and dialogue

Celebrating its 90th anniversary, the Yale Political Union welcomed alumni back to reflect on nearly a century of debate, tradition and community.

“A new day at Yale”: Nowruz celebration unites Central Asian, Iranian and Middle Eastern Communities

In a burst of spring color and song, nearly 200 members of the Yale and New Haven communities gathered to celebrate the Persian New Year.

Ranking Sterling’s Reading Rooms

Sterling is a city within a city, a collection of spaces that each tell a different story. Some rooms welcome, embracing you with warmth and […]