Yale Daily News

Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm

The News will resume publication on August 28, 2009.

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The News congratulates its newest staffers

On Saturday, 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

Casey BlackwellFloyd, Va.

Nora Caplan-BrickerNorthampton, Mass.

Anna Sophie CreagerSan Francisco, Calif.

Katie FalloonPittsburgh, Pa.

Lindsay...

Editorial Cartoon

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Zero Like Me

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Staff Column

White: Lingering on process

The switch of Sen. Arlen Specter LAW ’56 from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party has left me with a bittersweet feeling: some genuine happiness, lots of schadenfreude, a fair amount of cynicism.

Or maybe graduation’s rapid approach is sparking a similar bittersweet tinge (minus the schadenfreude, of course), and I’m projecting my own emotions into, of all...

Staff Column

Maloney: Teach For America prioritizes students

As an often inspired and sometimes scared college graduate, I had the privilege of leading a 7th grade classroom in Philadelphia as part of Teach For America. Now, as an always excited and mostly overwhelmed graduate student and teaching assistant, I work with Yale undergraduates and do research on educational inequity. These two experiences give me a unique perspective...

Guest Column

Lawrence: Songs of time and change

Now at the end of my time at Yale, I’ve thought back to a lunch in Venice I enjoyed with friends in the Yale Glee Club while we were on concert tour after my sophomore year. As we talked, our conversation came to childhood. One friend observed that in childhood, gifts were things, like toys; but now, gifts are experiences, like a dinner or concert with friends. The...

Guest Column

Sleeper: Yale lessons in ’69 and ’09

BERLIN

Forty years ago I spent the weeks between final exams and my Yale Commencement in Israel on an Arab-Jewish relations project. That country had recently won the Six-Day War and seemed morally and physically indestructible. But Yale had taught me to look for undersides, and I went to find them and help if I could.

As a graduating senior I, too, seemed morally and...