Geng Ngarmboonanant
Geng Ngarmboonanant
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NGARMBOONANANT: Leave Zimmerman to the law
It’s time to stop crucifying Zimmerman. It’s time to move on.
NGARMBOONANANT: Give Kony 2012 a chance
If you had told me before break that a video about a Ugandan warlord, in seven days, would get more views on YouTube than Coldplay’s The Scientist, ZBB’s Chicken Fried and Carly Rae Jepsen’s extraordinary hit Call Me Maybe had amassed — combined — I would have called you a lunatic.
NGARMBOONANANT: Bring MSA outrage to Singapore
Moments like last Monday night make me proud to be a Yalie. It’s rare for a university president to speak out so forcefully against the government, but that’s exactly what President Rick Levin did in a Monday email to the Yale community. He was clear and unambiguous; even when Mayor Mike Bloomberg attacked him the next day, Levin stuck to his conviction that Yale remain free and tolerant.
NGARMBOONANANT: Show protests some respect
On Saturday night, a number of Yale students raided Occupy New Haven. Sure, it’s college, and we sometimes do stupid things. But it’s frightening to me that we can have such disregard for a movement, so much apathy towards the Occupiers, that we go out of our way to harass them.