Sahm Adrangi
Sahm Adrangi
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Senior Perspective: Sahm Adrangi
In working on the opinion page these past two years, first as the page's editor, then as one of its columnists, I must say that there are few things as entertaining and educational as watching Yalies gripe at each other. In terms of my own griping...
YCC knows how to make the world a better place
Kudos to this year's YCC. In my four years, the Yale College Council has steadily transformed itself from a student government mired in endless debate on issues it has little control over, to one focused on tangibly improving student life. This year...
After the fighting, will Bush follow through?
Yesterday, I was discussing the war with a pacifist friend of mine and she said something striking: "It's weird, I find myself strangely attracted to Bush's idealism." Oddly enough, so do I. Now that we're stuck with war, I find myself more and more...
Not just another conspiracy theory: manipulating anger
Monday's op-ed page would have made John Stuart Mill weep. Littered with a letter, column and editorial censuring the Afro-American Cultural Center for inviting Amiri Baraka, the page was living proof that 150 years after Mill wrote "On Liberty,"...
Picking the right fight as a Yale activist
Two years ago, AIDS activism catapulted Yale into the national spotlight. Doctors Without Borders, a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian group, had asked the University to relax the patent for its famous AIDS drug, d4T, in South Africa, because the prices...
The day we won't need affirmative action
This spring, for the first time since 1978, the Supreme Court will issue a new ruling on affirmative action in higher education -- the practice of granting special treatment to blacks and Latinos in college admissions. As the hearing dates draw nearer...
Fair-trade coffee: a cause not just for the left
When I first set foot on Old Campus, I couldn't wait to stick it to the man and topple his evil capitalist empire. Hardly settled in, I joined the ranks of STARC and helped organize Yale's national Socially Responsible Investing conference.
Summers vs. Levin: just in time for The Game
When Lawrence Summers was first interviewed for Harvard's presidency, he made it clear to the search committee that he wouldn't be your typical college president. He'd spend less time fund-raising and more time enhancing academic scholarship.
The immorality of legacy in deciding Yale admissions
Imagine this. Sometime in the next two weeks, President Richard Levin unveils a bold, new plan to alter forever the face of Ivy League admissions. Despite being condemned by a fierce, entrenched opposition, Levin convinces Harvard, Stanford and other...
Levin's suspect stance against early decision
My sister is applying to Yale early decision, as I did four years ago. Like me, she's applying from a posh single-sex private school in Vancouver, Canada. As President Richard Levin pretends to have it, she and I are what's wrong with early decision.