Leah Libresco
Leah Libresco
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LIBRESCO: Rebuilding more than skyscrapers
The Freedom Tower has been in construction since 2006, and will likely take at least two more years to complete.
Libresco: Know your foes, know yourself
Apocalypse Next
Here’s my old, wise senior advice: learn how to imitate your ideological enemies. By the time you graduate from Yale, you should be able to imitate your opponents well enough to pass unnoticed among them.
Libresco: Exposing our committees
Apocalypse Next
I didn’t know I had been appointed to the Yale Standing Committee on Science and QR until about eight months after my term as a committee member began, because that’s how long it was before I was ever contacted about scheduling a meeting.
Cho, Libresco and Pagliarella: For a frugal Fling
The YCC has been very effective in bringing student concerns and reforms to the Yale administration, making progress on crucial issues like student mental health and helpful fixes like Summer Storage. However, there are some roles the Council does not need to fill.
Libresco: The meaning of glorious consent
Apocalypse Next
Media outlets have emphasized Yale’s poor response to several high-profile incidents of harassment (the DKE chant, the Zeta sign, the theft of the Take Back the Night shirts, etc.) and have neglected the more important issue on campus: Yale’s persistently inadequate institutional response to reports of rape and sexual harassment on campus.
OPINION | We are one what?
Dozens of panlist reminders, two News articles, and a couple of conversations with protesters later, I still have no idea what Wednesday’s “We Are One” rally on the New Haven Green was meant to accomplish. The leaders claimed that there was no political agenda and that they were simply uniting people “hungry for a voice” but an incoherent, inarticulate voice isn’t much better than no voice at all.
Libresco: My man Manning
Apocalypse Next
Bradley Manning, the alleged source of the WikiLeaks cable, has gotten a lot of press coverage — and little help.
Libresco: The offense of disengagement
Apocalypse Next
In Krav Maga, the martial art used by the Israeli Defense Forces, offense is the only defense. The Israeli instructor hosted last week by Yale Friends of Israel, Yale Espionage Society and the Yale Karate Club opened his class by explaining “Self-defense is just a legal term. If you want to get out of a fight, you have to be on the attack or you’ll lose.”
Libresco: What’s wrong with a little spam?
Apocalypse Next
This week, the News reported that the surge in panlist spam had prompted ITS to freeze the creation of new lists and consider junking the system altogether. The second thing I thought when I saw the article was, “How terrible!”
OPINION | Libresco: Take time for activism
Riley Scripps Ford gave a terrible portrait of activism and engagement in his column stumping for the Senior Class Gift (“Giving Back, Paying Forward,” Feb. 16).