Tristan Hernandez
Staff Reporter
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Tristan Hernandez covers student policy and affairs for the News. He is also a copy editor and previously reported on student life. Originally from Austin, Texas, he is a sophomore in Pierson College majoring in political science.
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MIRANDA WOLLEN & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
The strengths — and pitfalls — of Yale College advising

The News spoke to eight students and faculty members about how college and major advisers work across Yale College

December 9, 2022

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
“The Criminal Mind” course caps enrollment, drops over 200 students

The psychology department’s most popular course for the spring 2023 semester received over 700 instructor permission requests, resulting in over 200 students getting dropped to fit into Yale College’s lecture halls.

December 7, 2022

ANIKA ARORA SETH, TRISTAN HERNANDEZ & HANNAH KURCZESKI
Yale College pushes for more small-town, rural students

Over the last six years, Yale Admissions has worked towards greater geographic diversity. Past and present members of the Rural Students Alliance at Yale expressed support for expanding on-campus support through a new peer liaison program.

November 30, 2022

YURII STASIUK & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
Yale students reflect on midterm elections

The News spoke to six students on an unusual night in political history.

November 13, 2022

ANIKA ARORA SETH & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
Yale welcomes largest-ever cohort of Eli Whitney students

Twenty-three students matriculated this fall in the Eli Whitney Students Program for non-traditional undergraduates

November 11, 2022

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
I’ve got 2,384 problems

I would like to preface this entire story by saying that I am extremely indecisive. Like the kind of indecisive where for my first semester […]

November 10, 2022

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
Students prepare voting plans in midterm elections

With the help of Yale Votes, students send in absentee ballots and prepare to vote in-person.

November 4, 2022

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
“As Prescribed” To Play at New Haven Documentary Film Festival

Producer Holly Hardman will show her new documentary at NHDocs Festival that showcases the dangers of benzodiazepines.

October 18, 2022

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ & JOANNE LEE
First year goes viral on Fizz for Japanese cooking

An anonymous user posted a viral video of Naho Abe ’26 cooking Japanese dinners. Now, Abe is a prominent Fizz figure herself.

October 14, 2022

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
LGBTQ+ Steering Committee plans in-person events for semester

On Sept. 20, faculty LGBTQ+ affinity group met to plan a range of LGBTQ+ centered events this semester, including a pickleball tournament and an improv performance.

October 6, 2022

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ & PETER WILLIAMS
Payne Whitney sauna to be removed despite student petition

A petition to reopen the University’s sauna drew almost 1000 signatures — but an administrator said the shuttered space would be permanently converted into changing rooms.

October 2, 2022