<p>when I was at Yale last Spring I fell in love with the Campus and I felt at home right away. It’s awesome, and I would do practically anything to go there. The thing that I noticed was that there is sort of an invisible wall dividing Yale and the rest of New Haven. My hotel was on the border of the “wall” and to the right you see mostly white people, and it is really nice, and to the left there were, not to sound racist, but there were mostly african americans. It’s just the way it seemed where we were, which was the Marriot’s Courtyard-at-Yale. Down toward the stores, and south of Morse and E.S.</p>
<p>What you’re talking about is what’s often called the “Yale bubble.” To your right were the Broadway shops (the property is owned by Yale), and to your left were businesses catering more to New Haven residents (Shaw’s grocery store, Popeye’s - now featuring a rather amusing walk-up window). I think that it’s good that you’re noticing this divide now because it’s far too easy to be too absorbed in Yale life to notice the rest of New Haven. Just make a conscious effort not to insulate yourself, and you’ll be set.</p>
<p>Heh, and on the Yale Corp.'s helping less fortunate people - that’s why students must pressure the University do all that it can/should :).</p>
<p>Ok, Shaw’s is the name of that Grocery Store. I went there to get fingernail clippers, and when I was writing my post I asked my dad what it was called and couldn’t remember. We don’t have those here. When was the walk-up window installed? When we were there we noticed that there were people out there at all hours of the night.</p>
<p>A building can be architectually boring. A campus can be aesthetically boring. On the flip side, it can be architectually or aesthetically stimulating. Duh.</p>
<p>Very true. But that has nothing to do with the point you were supposedly refuting: that the campus SOCIAL SCENE was boring, not the campus ARCITECHTURE.</p>