Dear readers,
In 1967, The New Journal’s third-ever issue printed a feature on students and professors protesting the Vietnam War alongside a “magazine screenplay” about a businessman whose foot gets stuck in the sidewalk. On its black and white pages, light and dark collided.
The same is true in our first issue as a managing board. Miles Zaud ’26 moseys through a cheese factory in North Haven, peeling apart mozzarella slices and family history. Other writers roam a scrappy rock climbing gym, the Lost in New Haven Museum, and an illustrious doggy daycare. In our cover story, Ryne Hisada ’27 follows a donor-conceived woman in her fight for legal and psychological restitution against fertility fraud. October of 1967 saw dramatic escalations in anti-war protests as students were drafted to fight in Vietnam. The same month, Yalies twisted into pretzels at the new yoga studio on Elm Street.
As we produced Volume 57, Issue 5 of The New Journal, over 1,000 professors and 6,200 alumni signed open letters calling for Yale to publicly defend academic freedom amid the federal government’s assault on higher education. The Trump administration temporarily revoked the visas of four Yalies, as well as those of 1,500 students nationwide, as of writing. And the weekend before finals, Ken Carson played to a sea of dancing, rain-soaked students.
As in life, the tragic and playful coexist in The New Journal of 2025.
With hope,
The Managing Board
Chloe, Calista, Mia, Tina
