Akhil Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, Scoop08 advisory board

Scoop08 is the idea to involve a network of students around the country (and the globe) to cover the election from a young voter’s perspective. Andrew sees the potential of new technology to cover and change political discourse.

In addition, he will go down as one of the most significant editors in the history of the Yale Daily News -- quite an accomplishment when you consider the long line of journalists that have risen from that office.

Allison Battey, Former News Editor at Yale Daily News

Andrew stands out from other student journalists because he is willing to go beyond the call of duty to get a story. When Andrew covered politics for the Yale Daily News, one of the biggest stories of the year involved a city alderman who was accused of several crimes, including being the owner of what essentially amounted to a crack house. Most reporters, especially students, would simply have quoted police reports and other politicians, but Andrew actually went to the house, hung out with its residents, and tried to find out what was actually going on. He wrote a great story describing the atmosphere of the house, a story that cleared up for the first time what was really happening.  

As a reporter, he was ballsier than any other student I've encountered in approaching important people to comment for his stories. After he got William F. Buckley to talk to him, Andrew developed a close relationship with him that lasted up until Buckley's death.

David Shieh, former city editor for the Yale Daily News

Three months after Andrew started the New Haven City Hall beat, council member The Rev. Drew King found himself embroiled in the midst of a scandal that seemed too ridiculous to be true. King, a prominent community member, had allegedly assaulted a woman after a fight broke out over a "Georgia Hot" hot dog, beating her with a stick while high and drunk. Local newspapers were positive that King was guilty, but Andrew had gotten to know him well in the few months he had been covering City Hall and thought the story needed a little more investigation. He told us that he was going to do a little more snooping around. We thought he would just be placing a few phone calls to his sources — the next thing we knew, Andrew was calling us from the house where the assault happened, telling us that he had found evidence that the entire thing may have been a set-up; that King might be innocent. Yale students rarely venture into the seedier New Haven neighborhoods, but here was Andrew, fearlessly knocking on the door of a property that neighbors considered one of the most dangerous houses in the area and an epicenter of heroine and crack use. With his characteristic disregard for personal safety and dogged determination to get to the bottom of every story, Andrew held extensive interviews with residents of the house and neighbors, coming back with sourcing that cast light on evidence that the local newspapers had missed, turning the entire scandal on its head.

Though Andrew has a million exceptional qualities that deserve mention — his superhuman ability to gain the trust of the most difficult of sources; his relentless energy; his fanatic obsession with astrology and star charts — it is his fearlessness and willingness to sacrifice almost anything (sleep, personal safety, sanity) to chase the story that really sets him apart.

Nicholas Brown, English/journalism teacher at Andrew Mangino’s high school, adviser to The Caldron

Several years ago, our newspaper was moribund. Of 800 or so students in our school, only a dozen worked on The Caldron, all year. Along came Andrew, and as a sophomore, he was editor-in-chief.

The first meeting of The Caldron convinced me that the next three years would be unique: 100 students showed up. The revolution had begun. Two years later we are publish­ing eight issues a year – up from three or four. Certainly, many students have had a hand in this revolution, but without Andrew’s vision, passion, and leadership they never would have succeeded.

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Sometime on the eve of the Roaring Twenties, two Yale seniors enter Skull and Bones.

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