Paige Austin
Paige Austin
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Benny Morris's talk last Thursday was billed as a history lesson. But as he addressed a full auditorium in Luce Hall, Morris quickly ceded history to politics and even to ignoble vilification. The fact that "Jewish Israel is light years ahead of...
Silencing Finkelstein is the easy way out
It is understandable that listening to Norman Finkelstein can be difficult for those raised in Zionist households, just as it was difficult for us to listen to him speak of the failures of the Palestinian resistance movement and its leaders over dinner...
Students shortchanged by revolving-door professors
Today may be the first morning in months when GESO garners headlines that don't smack of satire most commonly seen in the Rumpus or the Yale Record. That's because the union has at last reasserted its significance at Yale by publishing a half-dozen...
Hurled insults, secret shuttles: life as a "scab"
A crowd of the so-called "scab" workers filling in for striking members of Local 35 received a new instruction from their West Haven-based employer yesterday -- none of them were to reveal the location of the parking lot where they're now gathering...
Next stop Syria? Bush had better stop fanning the flames
When the Bush administration began spewing ominous threats toward Syria a week and a half ago, peaceniks like me were in the awkward position of expressing outrage that our assessment of the administration's priorities had been proven correct: war...
Dyson laments state of civil rights
State Representative William Dyson did not have a lot of encouragement to offer the Yale College Democrats Monday night. The 14-term representative has been advocating civil rights for over 40 years, since he was arrested in South Carolina for...
Local residents protest drugs on Rosette St.
Candlelit procession to demand an end to dealing and violence
Hundreds of New Haven residents held candles and posters aloft on Wednesday, demanding an end to drug dealing and violence on Rosette Street. Led by community organizers from the Amistad Catholic Workers House and Elm City Congregations Organized, the...
National frat looks to open Yale chapter
When two recruiters from Sigma Phi Epsilon's national headquarters arrived at Yale to open a new chapter of the fraternity, they knew just where to look for strapping Yale men to become the first Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers: sororities. "The fact of the...
DeLauro wins seventh term
The gulf between New Haven's powerful Democratic party and its fledgling Republican counterpart was only as wide as Chapel Street last night. But the two camps might as well have been in different states. By the end of the night, Democratic incumbent...
Activists protest police brutality in West Haven
Braving the frigid autumn air, over 100 people gathered on the West Haven green Monday night to protest police brutality and support the family of Gary "Chris" Tyson, who was killed in a West Haven police chase on September 23, just three weeks after...