I am a chronic start-er. Which is to say, I’m someone who constantly starts things only to leave them unfinished. My Google Drive is filled with numerous documents that contain the opening sentences to short stories I will never finish, movies that will never be made. Some things that I’ve started (but will most likely never finish) just this week: the second season of Battlestar Galactica, two books, the creation of a magazine composed solely of temporary tattoos.

Am I the only Yalie with this problem? Other universities have plenty of startups, but it seems that Yale might be dragging behind. Stanford has Snapchat and Insta, Harvard has Facebook. What’s coming out of Yale’s entrepreneurial scene? In this week’s cover story, Lara Sokoloff, TC ’16, examines how the University and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute are attempting to foster start-up culture in the Elm City, taking a look at several up-and-coming Yale organizations.

Elsewhere in the issue, Leland Whitehouse, SM ’14, explores the New Haven club scene in light of a growing police presence. In the Culture section, Alessandra Roubini, JE ’16, looks into the lack of  spaces in which Yale’s alternative student bands can perform. And, in a very special, election-themed edition of the Opinion section, Gareth Imparato, SM ’15, and Fish Stark, JE ’17, explain why you should vote for Toni Harp and Justin Elicker, respectively.

Read it, love it, and then go get crazy (but not too crazy) for Halloweekend and the first week of November. (That can be something to celebrate, right?) I, for one, hope that by the time you’re reading this, I will have debuted my Beinecke Library costume—if I ever finish making it, that is.

XOXO,

Andrew Wagner

Opinion Editor