Opinion
Opinion
LARSON: Don’t let Open Yale Courses close
Unsurprisingly, my math textbook was written by an MIT professor. More surprisingly, the lectures I watch to learn the material are taught by that same professor.
ROSS: Curb prostitution demand
Gangbuster
It’s Sex Week, so it seems a fitting time for a crime column to turn to a discussion of sex crimes. Argh! Isn’t there anywhere we can escape discussions of sex? you might be groaning to yourself . I sympathize, but nope, sorry, not this week. The least I can do is offer up a one-liner to ease you into it.
REVESZ: No academia is objective
ER&M’s critics err when they assert that the major — along with others broadly thought of as “area studies” — is different in kind from anything else the university offers. Indeed, nearly all of Yale’s seventy-nine majors are inherently and inextricably linked to a political worldview.
SOARES: At home in the workplace
Are you firm-minded and not warmhearted? Not an applauder, but a dissector? An analyzer and not a sympathizer, and more of a judge than a peacemaker? Would most people say that you’re a very open person, and do you usually speak freely about your feelings? If so, you may be on your way to a summer internship with a multi-billion dollar asset management firm. Good luck.
DE WOLF: The art of cutting corners
During the summer before I started college, I was filled with anticipation and expectations. Ahead of me were four years when I could pursue my academic interests in an environment dedicated to learning. I would meet smart, engaging professors and students who had novel and creative thoughts and ideas. In classroom discussions and conversations over dinner, we would share and cultivate these new ideas, building ambitious plans for the future.
LASMAN: Acting, nationally
Beartrap
Most of us support free speech and artistic expression. As enlightened, creative and (largely) liberal young people, we value the right of artists to produce whatever they want. Should this prove awful, objectionable, even offensive, we trust that wider cultural forces will react accordingly, contesting bad art and relegating it to obscurity or infamy.
SCHWARTZ: Sex Week and sensibility
The Gadfly
We are, of course, in the middle of Yale’s legendary Sex Week. Remembering that evening two years ago when half of participants in a meeting I was attending disappeared for a massive “how-to” workshop on oral sex (titled “Babeland’s lip-tricks: blowjobs and going down”), I found myself dreading this week. This year, however, I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The tone just seems more normal. I’m not quite sure how, but the organizers seem to have reasonably navigated the perilous path between prurience and Puritanism.
BAIG: The anatomy of the kiss-in
When I entered the talk entitled “The Person as a Gift” by Providence College Professor Anthony Esolen last night, I was aware of two things. Esolen had written a ten-part manifesto decrying homosexuality, and I had been sent an email detailing a “kiss-in” demonstration to disrupt Esolen’s lecture.
SCHLOSSBERG: Rally behind the president
Democrats, more often than not, do not play the game of politics correctly. While Democrats may never adopt the policies Ronald Reagan, they should look to his “golden rule” of politics and follow it closely. Reagan adamantly instructed his party members to never publicly criticize another Republican. Democrats should, especially this year, live, eat, sleep and die by this rule.
ZELINSKY: ER&M’s got problems
On Point
Last week, Yale got a new major: Ethnicity, Race and Migration. It was already a possible double major, but students now can take ER&M as their sole course of study. This development should raise eyebrows for several reasons, some of which the department may be able to address.
WENTWORTH: Processing the informal complaint
Yale’s sexual harassment complaint system has gotten a hefty share of press recently. Following the Pat Witt debacle, people around campus are searching for ways to wrap their heads around what happened. Did he really do it? Didn’t he? How can we possibly know if there was never a formal investigation and trial?
COHEN: Do something, Yale
We like to pride ourselves at Yale for being well-informed, sophisticated and scholarly. If Yalies don’t know about something, the rest of America probably doesn’t know either. Well, here’s a statistic many of us are not aware of: The Syrian government has murdered 7,000 Syrian men, women and children since the unrest began there last March.
BEIZER: Mugs, shot
In September, Yale Dining Services introduced something truly beautiful: a new coffee mug. These mugs were vast improvements over their predecessors. More aesthetically pleasing and, more importantly, larger, these mugs could hold twice the amount of coffee as the old mugs and, in doing so, they revolutionized my mornings. I really, really love coffee.
HEFFERON: The Yale I know
I have been gone from Yale for eighteen months. For eighteen months I’ve missed every part of it: weekend brunch, Nemerov’s lectures and even the rainy spring break I spent locked up with a jar of peanut butter and my senior essay. I think I could miss the post office if I tried.
SCHWARTZ: Masters and role models
The Gadfly
Yesterday morning, Pierson Master Harvey Goldblatt sent an email to the students of his college explaining his decision to host Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield for a master’s tea on “Manliness.” Last night, Branford College unveiled a new portrait of its long-serving former master Steven Smith and hosted a reception in his honor.
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