James Cersonsky
James Cersonsky
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Cersonsky: On privilege at Yale
Disagreeing with someone who has given you a lot makes for some tough love.
Cersonsky: Two New Havens
At 1:50 yesterday afternoon, Assistant Chief of Yale Police Ronnell Higgins finally sent students something they, and their newspaper, wanted: a campus-wide email stating what many already knew. “There was a serious incident involving gunfire on College Street between Crown and George early Sunday morning.”
Cersonsky: Why I should’ve chosen Yale
If you want to hear angry groans from either side of the Yale Political Union, just stop halfway through a speech and tell the body that the topic at hand is really “a question for social science.”
Bronstein, Cersonsky, Crosby and Eidelson: For financial aid reform
This month, 1,940 students will decide whether to accept their offers of admission to Yale. On Monday, many will come for Bulldog Days. They’ll attend lectures by Shelly Kagan, Marvin Chun and David Blight. They’ll eat s’mores in courtyards; braving the chaos of the extracurricular bazaar, they’ll each sign up for 25 student organizations.
Cersonsky: Life, death and scholarship
Over spring break, I headed downtown from my Baltimore hotel for the International Conference on Infant Studies where I’d be presenting a poster on my summer monkey research. A few minutes en route, the drizzly mid-morning was pierced by collective chants emanating mysteriously from behind a skyscraper.
Cersonsky: Saintly values
All Possible Words
In the midst of a reading response or an essay, I have a bad habit of clicking to ESPN.com and checking sports statistics. No matter my timetable, the mesmerizing stream of box scores is hard to resist. There’s no meaning to it; it’s a compulsion — a game.
Cersonsky: Democracy in New Haven
All Possible Worlds
The local fruits of a $16 billion dollar endowment and of innovations in social policy are worthy of praise. Yet fundamentally, it doesn’t matter what Yale does, or what City Hall does. If we want to rebuild, diversify and make desirable our private sector and our neighborhoods, our governance must come not from government but from communities.
Cersonsky: The end of the end of ideology
Last year in The Wall Street Journal, Sen. Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 lamented the ideological fall of what was once an “unhesitatingly and proudly pro-American” Democratic Party (“Democrats and Our Enemies,” May 21).
Cersonsky: Rogue, reconsidered
Behind the verbal dexterity and endearing moderateness that have earned him 30-plus-comment praise on the News’ Web site, Matthew Shaffer (“Going rogue,” Nov. 16) is secretly a tool of the vast right wing conspiracy — and so are we.
Cersonsky: Step it up, Dwight Hall
At 8:15 on Sunday morning, the Party of the Left concluded its inaugural 12-hour charity debate-a-thon. For me, the appeal of the event was obvious — besides the average sleep-deprived revelry that you’d expect, ample donations were collected for Shelter Now, an organization for which I served as co-director and whose work, I believe, is critical to the homeless of New Haven.