While I am delighted to see that Mory’s is moving along toward reopening, its receiving from the IRS 501(c)(3) “charitable tax-exempt” status is a disturbing symptom of the essential corruption of our tax system.
Biomedical research at Yale University is a costly endeavor and not simply in financial terms (“Medical School sees spike in NIH grants” Sept. 4). More than 150,000 animals — from fish to mice to monkeys — are confined throughout the city of New Haven in Yale’s laboratories.
After reading Lindsey Jackson’s guest column yesterday (“Why don’t we have paper towels?,” Sept. 10), I was struck by the attitude that somehow the best way to prevent the spread of H1N1 is to trick Yale students into washing their hands because we’re too lazy to dry them ourselves. In the author’s view, we would never keep ourselves clean and healthy if left to our own...
Every morning I am amazed at the new headlines that show zero progress on appropriately addressing the issue of the “Preseason Scouting Report.” This is neither an issue of free speech nor an unsolvable mystery.
Re: “Conservative alums criticize Yale Press” (Sept. 3). I agree with John Bolton ’70 LAW ’74 that the Yale Press’s refusal to print controversial cartoons of Muhammad in a book it is releasing on the controversy generated by those very same images is an act of “intellectual cowardice.”
I am misrepresented in Monday’s article, “Why Yale labors on Labor Day” (Sept. 7), as “a member of the committee that draws up the academic calendar.” I do not hold and never held such a position. When approached for this article, I responded as I have always responded: as an individual faculty member concerned about keeping classroom teaching our highest priority.
Re: “Elm City toughens car taxes” (Sept. 2). I would like to present another perspective: It is quite easy to live in New Haven without a car.
Re: “Vulgar e-mail targets freshmen” (Sept. 3). I was the senior administrative assistant for the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Yale for 25 years. Every year that I worked for Yale, there were similar incidents of women being dissed, insulted, harassed and disrespected in public ways. (Worse assaults went on in private.) Every year there would be an...
In his column, “Dodd should step aside” (Sept. 4), Matthew Ellison asked us to trust in arbitrary percentages concocted by the “completely intuitive political judgment” of a twenty-year-old as we decide whether to support Sen. Chris Dodd in 2010. I’d rather look at the facts.
The Sept. 3 column, “On behalf of 47 million …,” cites a figure of 47 million uninsured Americans. This oft-quoted statistic is actually a gross overestimation of the problem, as recent research suggests the number of Americans who cannot currently afford health insurance is much lower.
I hope I am not the only one who finds it ironic that during the same week that Yale reveals its intention to take serious steps to improve students’ ability to understand and prevent instances of sexual harassment and assault, Dean Mary Miller drops the ball, big time.
Re: “Vulgar e-mail targets freshmen” (Sept. 3). Pretty much everyone who’s heard about the “Preseason Scouting Report” is outraged by it. Outrage is a good starting point, but it’s not enough.
Also being a 2009 alum, I’d like to offer two quick responses to Tyler Hill’s column (“Practice what you teach,” Aug. 28) bemoaning Yale’s decision to omit the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a book its press is publishing.
At the risk of belaboring the subject, I can’t help but recall that at my freshman assembly three years ago the Yale administration saw fit to use Professor Kenji Yoshino to suggest that the class of 2010, America at large and American institutions were guilty of systematic oppression against Muslims.
