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Asian Recipes at Yale - an Undergraduate Organization (ARAY) aims to share and celebrate Asian flavors and stories within the Yale community and beyond. We want to help connect people who love food and are interested in Asian cuisine. by:

1. facilitating conversations and bonding through food events,
2. sharing our recipes with the community,
3. and providing a space for navigating Asian identity through food and food-related arts and media.

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Our organization hopes to build community around our shared loves of fruit and hot beverages and create a space dedicated to starting the day off right. We will exist to help early risers find community in the wee hours of the morning by sojourning for breakfast and creating a warm space for any who needs a pick-me-up before their day of work begins.

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We are a group dedicated to cubing – the art of solving Rubik’s Cubes and other similar puzzles. Our goal is to provide a fun and friendly environment for those interested in cubing to harbor their passion and to teach people who want to learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. Absolutely no experience or knowledge is necessary to join!

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This organisation has been formed to create opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students at Yale to jointly curl socially and competitively, to preserve the traditions of curling and to encourage the camaraderie and sportsmanship of the game. All graduate and undergraduate students at Yale University are invited to participate. This club will be an integration of collegiate curling within the USCA with traditional social and competitive aspects of curling which centre around the spirit of curling. The spirit of curling, specifically the canon of respect for others irrespective of their background, beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, disability or race, shall be honoured and actively pursued by all members.

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The mission of the Film and Fine Foods Club is to build a strong, enthusiastic community of Yale undergraduates who meet regularly and bond through group activities like cooking, baking, and film.

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Few students today know how to play classic card games such as Cribbage, Euchre, Gin Rummy, and Pinochle. In order to solve this problem, our organization aims to provide a welcoming environment for people to learn these games and make new friends.

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The Mahjong Undergraduate Society for Students at Yale will introduce mahjong to the greater Yale community. We will accomplish this goal by providing meeting spaces, mahjong equipment, and experienced players to both novices and veterans of the game throughout the semester. Further, we aim to enrich the cultural experiences of Yalies, current and future by sharing the customs and traditions that have surrounded mahjong.

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You get to play so much mahjong.

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The goal of OCAY is to foster a climbing-focused outdoor culture and community. In order to do this, OCAY aims to create a community of Yale students, faculty and staff who are already outdoor climbers, mountaineers or alpinists, and to provide safety workshops and other training opportunities for new and experienced climbers alike in a safe and controlled environment. In addition to on-campus events including workshops and social events, OCAY's ultimate goal is to lead outdoor climbing trips where members can learn from each other. As OCAY is expressly focused on outdoor climbing, we can focus our resources on providing the highest-quality climbing workshops, events, and outdoor trips.

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To promote a healthy love of kinky/coily and curly hair in an environment where people learn to care for their God-given hair.

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The Veritas Search commemorates Yale’s undergraduate community along with its beautiful campus and spirit of longstanding tradition. The capsule search and unique set of rewards offers something fresh and exciting to instill a sense of wonder as students progress through daily life on campus. This project involves ongoing collaboration between various Yale faculty and affiliates.

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The purpose of the club is to explore the world through culinary dishes, cooking and eating meals from all round the world and different cultures. It is through this exploration that its members can expect to be culturally educated and to improve the life skill of cooking.

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Around the world, tea is a symbol of warmth, hospitality, and connection. Through globally-inspired tea sampling events, World T.E.A. (Tea Enthusiasts Association) aims to highlight the diversity of tea cultures around the world, foster cross-cultural learning, and create a community of fellow tea enthusiasts at Yale.

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We aim to help our members discover new cooking techniques, connect with other students interested in food, and promote cuisines and food cultures that are healthy and sustainable for individuals and the planet. We operate a full service, student run pop-up restaurant every other Friday open to Yale students, parents, friends, and professors.

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The Yale Birding Student Association (YBSA) is an educational organization dedicated to fostering a campus-wide community for students interested in birding, ornithology, and avian conservation at the local, state, national, and international level. Our events are open to all students regardless of past birding experience. All are welcome to bird with us without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, national or ethnic origin, politics, or veteran status, or any other status.

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The purpose of the Yale College Anime Society is to allow people to appreciate East Asian culture--especially Japanese culture--through the lens of media and entertainment. We hope to give people the opportunity to explore genres and mediums they may have never explored. We primarily hope to do this through exposure to, discussion of, and analysis of Japanese Animation and Comics (i.e. "anime" and "manga"), Japanese music, and Japanese culture in general but will also look at manhwas, webtoons, light novels, and a variety of other mediums and genres . Through this, we aim to broaden the overall appeal and awareness of Eastern Asian media and entertainment, such as anime and manga, and increase the presence of this unique art form in the mainstream consciousness.

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"It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. It's a game of a million inferences. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time."
- Warren Buffett (in 'Buffett on Bridge')

"Bridge is such a sensational game that I wouldn't mind being in jail if I had three cellmates who were decent players and who were willing to keep the game going 24 hours a day."
- also Warren Buffett (in Forbes 1997)

"The real test of a Bridge player isn't in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he's in."
- Alfred Sheinwold

"I can always tell a good man by the way he plays Bridge: hard and long."
– Mae West

"Bridge is too important to take seriously."
– Oscar Wilde

"Bridge is the most entertaining and intelligent card game the wit of man has so far devised."
– W. Somerset Maugham

Bridge is a game of wit and flair, and has been a staple recreation of the brightest minds since the 19th century. Just as Yale is steeped in history, so is Bridge, which has been the fixation of the highest intellects throughout Europe and North America. The key to Bridge's longevity and distinction amongst card games is its unique blend of the social and the strategic. Played with a partner, it induces immediate camaraderie, requiring precise cooperation as you seek to outplay your opponents. A shrewd mind can take complete control of a hand of Bridge, designing and executing a faultless plan with agility and tact, and ensuring a victory through sheer finesse.
The Yale College Bridge Club looks to create the kind of environment in which such an esteemed game as Bridge can be enjoyed. Most importantly of all, it is a tight-knit, jovial friend group which warmly welcomes all who would try their hand.

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Yale College Chess Club promotes chess in the Yale-New Haven community through educational outreach and hosting tournaments. We furthermore represent Yale at intercollegiate chess competitions on the local, national, and international stages.

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Our mission is to promote the growing sport of disc golf in the Yale community and beyond. We aim to make the sport more accessible to those familiar with it and excitedly introduce it to those eager to learn about it for the first time. We meet casually for a round of disc golf every week either on campus or at a local public course to make the most of the sport’s inherent community dynamic, to savor the gorgeous New England outdoors, and to chuck frisbees, in a perfect world, right down the center of the fairway.

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Yale Outdoors serves the Yale community with high-quality and safe trips to explore the outdoors and develop wilderness skills. Yale Outdoors creates a community for students to meet and learn from others who are interested in the outdoors hoping to make the outdoors accessible to all at Yale. We provide affordable wilderness skills training sessions and outdoors equipment for the Yale community. Above all, Yale Outdoors spreads the love for the outdoors and appreciation for nature with the rest of the Yale community.

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The Yale Padel Club is dedicated to fostering a vibrant community for Padel lovers and people looking to learn a new sport. Our mission is to create a welcoming space where players of all levels come together to enjoy this sport and forge lasting connections. We aim to introduce padel to newcomers, offering expert instruction and a supportive learning environment. As one of the world's fastest-growing sports, we strive to elevate Padel's profile on campus. We seek to promote cultural exchange, physical fitness, and the spirit of friendly competition through regular tournaments, social events, and outreach programs.

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Yale Polo is dedicated to the promotion of the sport of Polo and of interest in equestrianism across Yale's campus and in the greater Yale community.

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Spring Fling is Yale's annual spring music festival, and one of the largest live music events in Connecticut.

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Teach students how to play Go, create a space for people to play Go together

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Yale Student Magic: the Gathering Club seeks to promote and facilitate the card game Magic: the Gathering within the Yale-New Haven community and to provide a space for learning, friendly competition, and collaboration.

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The Yale Student Puzzle Club aims to promote puzzles, puzzle hunts, and related activities at Yale. We hope to host collaborative puzzle-solving events for large annual puzzle hunts such as the MIT Mystery Hunt, Galactic Puzzle Hunt, CMU Puzzle Hunt, Brown Puzzle Hunt, and other similar events, as well as increasing awareness and interest in puzzle hunting at Yale. We also hope to write and host an online puzzle hunt as a club, which will be open to everyone interested in participating.

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Our mission is to bring the world of esports and gaming into Yale through a Valorant organization. Esports is a growing phenomenon in the world, and Yale students should have the opportunity to join this impactful and teamwork-oriented hobby and environment. In Yale Valorant, students will learn how to work together and play as a team both casually and maybe competitively, gaining important life skills through the world of esports.

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Yale's Ultramarathon Club is open to all undergraduate and graduate students interested in ultrarunning regardless of experience. Ultrarunning entails running for distances further than a marathon, spanning up to multi-day, continuous running endeavors where one's will to keep moving forward supersedes all other predisposed genetic and skill factors. As an appreciation group, we host meetings and invite guest speakers to discuss training, nutrition, gear, and race strategies to grow the sport throughout the Yale community.

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Bring together undergraduate students with a love for barbecue and host events that would promote both mastery of the craft and educate students on barbecue's complexity.

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The Yale Coffee Club (YCoC) is a student organization focused on the appreciation and study of coffee, from its origins and production methods to the brewing process. The club aims to deepen the appreciation of coffee and its science for coffee enthusiasts on campus through activities such as coffee tastings, brewing workshops, and discussions on topics like the engineering of coffee production tools. The club also serves as a social space for students to connect over shared interests.

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The Yale Undergraduate Dungeons and Dragons Organization is a community dedicated to the game and the art of Dungeons and Dragons and other TTRPGs, promoted to the skills of leadership, communication, and team-building it builds, with love for the lifelong friendships tables can spark. We roll together.

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