Guest Columns
Guest Columns
VAZQUEZ: CPAC smitten by Mitt, Marco
Last weekend, I traveled to Washington, D.C. with about twenty other Yalies to attend to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). I wasn’t sure what to expect. The week before, I had grown disillusioned with the infighting present in the GOP and the dragged out contest the primaries seemed to become after a string of Santorum victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.
COHEN: Palin’s mob mentality
While I disagree with just about every single thing that was said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. this weekend, I do agree that these types of gatherings are healthy for political movements—they offer a chance to hash out ideas, test new lines of attack, showcase rising stars and provide energy and inspiration to the movement’s followers.
KESSLER: Put those clothes in the bucket
Around this time last year, I went to my first naked party. In many ways, the experience was exactly what I had expected.
LIN: No Right Answer
I’ve never seriously dated anyone at Yale. As I near my 21st birthday, I realize I possibly never will. Yet my own acceptance of this — based mostly on the patterns I’ve become familiar with as an upperclassman — does not preclude a sense of curiosity for the distinctive way men and women interact on this campus.
GREENBERG: More sex walk, less sex talk
David Lilienfeld (“Stuck in the frosh pit,” Feb. 2), who has made many such references, commits a bit of hypocrisy, though certainly not the first in the recent media storm on “sexual culture.”
HARP: Yale’s overlooked history
In a society that separates groups of people for extended periods of time, two distinct cultures often emerge. Yale is no different. In the early 20th century, African Americans made up about one percent of Yale’s student body and were scattered among the University’s various schools.
NGARMBOONANANT: Show protests some respect
On Saturday night, a number of Yale students raided Occupy New Haven. Sure, it’s college, and we sometimes do stupid things. But it’s frightening to me that we can have such disregard for a movement, so much apathy towards the Occupiers, that we go out of our way to harass them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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