The News' View
Welcoming a new slate of YDN staffers
On Monday, the Oldest College Daily held its spring-semester staff inductions. It is with great pride that we announce the newest inductees to the Yale Daily News.
Staff Reporters
Lawrence GipsonSilver Spring, Md.
Zeke MillerLawrence, N.Y.
Basak OtusIstanbul, Turkey
Kaitlin PaulsonLos Alamos...
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Staff Column
Yalies must join with community to reform city schools
On Monday, the New Haven Board of Education terminated its food-service contract with the notorious firm Aramark and decided instead to run all food services in-house. Parents, workers, teachers and public-school students have fiercely criticized the company for putting profits before kids by serving poor-quality food and cultivating bad labor-management relations...
Staff Column
In public debate, theology may still have a place
A week ago, before I began my afternoon trek back up Prospect Street and the hill that literally elevates the Divinity School above the rest of the University, I stopped off at the Law School to hear Harvard professor Michael Sandel deliver a lecture on the ethics of human genetic engineering. Sandel’s book on the subject, published last year, is entitled “The Case...
Guest Column
Campus misogyny enshrined in online comment threads
It is hard to believe that, within a university that is seen as one of the most prestigious in the country — one that has been the focus of a forgery scandal in Korea, one that has seen applications increase wildly in the past few years — there still exists an atmosphere of tacit misogyny. I’m not talking about the fact that fraternity brothers gathered around the...
Guest Column
Toppling Chinese government no cure for human-rights woes
This past Saturday, the New Haven Green witnessed a scene that has become all too common: two rallies at loggerheads over the Beijing Olympics, both making overblown claims and neither willing to listen to the other’s perspective. The anti-Olympics rally fell victim to extreme viewpoints and name-calling, while the pro-Olympics rally missed the point altogether.
Those...
More News' Views
- In retrospect, a year unresolved
- Before 14 colleges, cultivate sciences (1)
- Welcome, 2012 (1)
- Endorsement: Richard Tao for YCC President (12)
- Endorsement: Emily Schofield for YCC Vice President
- Endorsement: Colin Leatherbury for YSAC Chair (2)
- Endorsement: Jasper Wang for YCC Secretary
- Endorsement: Jonathan Wu for YCC Treasurer (3)
- Endorsement: Anne Xu for UOFC Chair (1)
- Gender should not dictate Yale housing (18)
- All The News' Views
More Staff Columns
- Bioethanol: A shiny penny for the U.S. economy (4)
- Despite surname, Cuba’s new Castro may upset low expectations (9)
- In relations with Middle East, Yale must talk religion (2)
- Artist's Alley
- Poetry, a reminder of what we are, not what we do
- Artist's Alley
- Yale officials prolong circuitous blame game (8)
- All the world’s a … performance-art show? (8)
- By banning exhibit, Salovey upholds Eli values (18)
- Artist's Alley
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More Guest Columns
- ‘Not guilty’ emblematic of flawed justice system (40)
- By reneging on protest, officials let values slide (2)
- Rethinking Shvarts’ corporal interrogation (12)
- In Cuba, a self-sustaining, repressive machine (still) (46)
- Yalies cannot afford to overlook social security (5)
- Versify the fisticuff, begin the poetic revolution
- A poet is born even before she knows the word
- The highest water-mark of ‘elitist crud’ (2)
- University only obligated to support safe expression (1)
- Casualty of controversy: The pro-choice movement (6)
- All Guest Columns
Letters to the Editor
- The News will accept summer op-ed submissions
- From Yale women to Shvarts: Consider the repercussions
- Shvarts’ stunt disregards human life, embarrasses Yale
- Yalies give back to city beyond Community Service Week
- Pro-choice groups: Shvarts within her rights, but wrong (12)
- Shvarts’ self-aggrandizing art project is evidence of a brain without a conscience (1)
- Shvarts’ actions offensive on multiple levels, trivialize ‘right to choose’ to boot (2)
- All Letters