Davi Bernstein
Davi Bernstein
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Senior Perspective: Davi Bernstein
Yale has always been a battle for me. This spring's crisis is finishing my work even as the library tries to ruin me. My privileges are suspended and my dear father wants to know if he has to mortgage our home to pay my $16,000 in library fines.
Get ready kids: It's Thomas L. Friedman!
It's difficult to believe Thomas L. Friedman was the first choice for Class Day speaker. I hope the committee invited Donald H. Rumsfeld, my Nobel Peace nominee, to expound on our exciting new doctrine of pre-emption. Or Colin L. Powell, to proclaim a...
Finally, giving true peace a chance
It's difficult to know what's happening in Iraq now -- physically, on the ground -- beyond precision bombing and the deliberate march toward Baghdad. Spiritually things are clearer. America's essential benevolence and Iraq's absolute tyranny continue.
If only this man were here now
Eugene Rostow used to quip that despite his 10 years in the Yale administration, he still believed in reason. He was analytical, judicious, and one of our greatest bipartisan patriots. Rostow died this past Thanksgiving, at age 89. Born in Brooklyn in...
Yale professors doubling as thought-police
I opened the Yale Daily News one morning to find three opinion columns written by faculty on the possibility of war with Iraq. One, by history professor Glenda Gilmore ("Variations on Iraq," 10/11), stood out. "Instead of standing up against tyranny,"...
It's time: three angles, one war
On Wednesday morning, I received an email from a friend of mine suggesting a few rounds at the Anchor. It was necessary to get smashed, she wrote to a bunch of us, because of the previous evening's Republican sweep. Or, in her words, "the triumph of...
UCS fairs: fantastic free pens and mini Snickers, but jobs?
"Great numbers!" I overheard the man who runs Undergraduate Career Services babble these words, not very discreetly, at a recent fair, expressing that his priority is quantity, not quality. I'd never been to a UCS event before, mostly because I...
Iraq attack has precedent in our long tradition of liberty
My mother and father did not come to New Haven this weekend. That's fine, I love them for reasons bigger than Yale Parents' Weekend. They taught me that life is sacred, that liberty is great, and that America is good. Almost 16 years ago to the day...
Gay life at Yale shaped by initiative, community
To no great surprise, Yale is not a difficult place to be gay. I urge you to come out -- yes, it is scary and tedious -- but it is also necessary and, in the final analysis, the only way to live. There is little to fear; our culture of relativism...
Bombing Taliban must be precursor to broader war
The criminals who vandalize New Haven's sidewalks with the shibboleth "No More Victims" apparently do not grasp that if the perpetrators and enablers of Sept. 11's attacks on America are not brought to justice, there will undoubtedly be more victims...