Tyler Ibbotson-Sindelar
Tyler Ibbotson-Sindelar
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Ibbotson-Sindelar: City living helps the planet
The moment was an unlikely one for the dawning realization that great cultural divides exist even between developed nations. I was sitting idly on an airplane, looking out the window as it started its decent into Frankfurt.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: Mix gender for best results
Some advocates of gender-neutral housing have argued that our current housing discriminates against homosexuals, while others have argued that everyone deserves the option to live with whomever they want.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: Fear in the way of progress
Quotas on immigration to the United States are not only xenophobic; they are pragmatically backfiring.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: Yale doesn’t need my money
Yale just ended a three-week campaign to raise money for the Senior Class Gift. For seniors, this is just the beginning of a long relationship with the Development Office — and with Yale’s fundraising machine.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: End varsity for club sports
The debate over varsity athletics has become tiresome. Some criticize athletes and the admissions office for putting athletics over academics. Athletes respond that they are no different from the many other committed Yalies who sacrifice academics for extracurricular activities like music, drama or political activism.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: Grade inflation for the best
Why do students at Yale focus so much time and effort on extracurriculars while often arriving unprepared for class? That’s just the Yale culture, or so I often hear. After all, when you get here, you’re immediately bombarded by the freshman bazaar. There are so many exciting activities, and your roommate just signed up for three a cappella groups, two club sports and a theater production, so you do, too.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: In search of better sections
Seminars and sections often fail to achieve their potential as places for engagement, passion and communication. It’s not for any lack of intelligence in the student body.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: Minors would be a foolish addition
In recent debates, academic minors have come to represent freedom and choice.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: You’re as responsible as they are
We Yalies are good at thinking about what is right, pondering genocide and even going to vote, but we have trouble taking responsibility for the world immediately around us. When it comes to fixing problems we didn’t create, it is the rare Yale student who steps up to the challenge.
Ibbotson-Sindelar: Free speech through funding
The first Yale publication I ever read was Rumpus. It was Bulldog Days, and I was shocked that Yale would condone the distribution of a tabloid featuring nude and imbibing students on the front page, and much worse inside. Beyond shocked, I was impressed. Rumpus is a testament to Yale’s commitment to free speech — even when that speech blatantly denigrates Yale students and, by association, Yale’s name. To let Rumpus reveal (and invent) the seediest and most perverse campus goings-on is to take a risk on unbridled expression.