Daniel Weisfield
Daniel Weisfield
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Arson trial shouldn’t involve outside issues
Like anyone, these three students should be held accountable for the immediate ramifications of an action that they committed of their own volition. But three larger pathologies will likely surface during their trial — and the inevitable media frenzy — making an objective judgment difficult to render and potentially implicating them as scapegoats for problems they did not cause.
In praise of print: Periodicals will endure
The media has been all over the media this week. The good news is that this narcissism may be justified. On April 8, The New York Post reported allegations that Jared Paul Stern, one of the paper's contributors, extorted $220,000 from a California...
'Lion King' Generation waits to take throne
Our generation needs a name. The slacker generation got their X. Our parents got their Boom. We've been preceded by the Silent Generation, the Beat Generation and somewhere deeper down those marble halls, the Greatest Generation. I've got a proposal...
Exceptionalists fill college, Capitol Hill
If you want to know why President George W. Bush '68 thinks it's okay to wiretap U.S. citizens without a warrant, just ask a transfer student. I recently challenged Daniela Berman '07, who transferred to Yale after her freshman year at Brandeis...
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Is sexual immoderation the new marijuana? When my boss from a summer internship at the State Department was here in the late '70s, the Branford College Council was fond of using official funds to purchase marijuana for shared consumption at social...
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The sun never sets on the Levin empire. In 2006, with the opening of a new Yale-in-Beijing program to complement the Elizabethan chic of Yale-in-London, Levin will become the first president in the history of the University to preside over campuses on...
Some spell out a social class
Is spelling ability Yale's new litmus test for social class? For my grandmother's generation, teeth were a good enough giveaway. Access to orthodontics in this country is, like most things all-American, stratified. Unless a child's parents are...
Yale comes out of closet, into synagogue
In 1929, Robert Corwin, Yale's admissions chairman, griped that the list of names of recently admitted students "reads like some of the 'begat' portions of the Old Testament and might easily be mistaken for a recent roll call at the Wailing Wall.
What's the real lure of 'Grand Strategy'?
It's mid-October, the air is turning crisp, and a certain breed of undergraduate is already whispering about the application for "Studies in Grand Strategy." The course, taught by Yale's reigning triumvirate of international history gurus -- Paul...
Why CCL should be a Yale exclusive
If the Yale administration wants to do something to improve student life, I have a suggestion: Ban the townies from the computer clusters in CCL. Before the proselytizers of town-gown harmony start reaching for their pitchforks, allow me to present my...