Will Kletter
Will Kletter
Recent Stories
Kletter: Volunteering is its own reward
Members of Yale for Change, a group uniting the Yale College Democrats and Yale for Obama, were upset at the News last week for an article that they felt diminished their get-out-the-vote efforts in the election.
Kletter: Stay inspired, stay active
Nov. 5, 2008: Millions of student activists around the country wake up to a crushing hangover after an all-night celebration of an Obama blowout.
Yalies cannot afford to overlook social security
When politicians come around courting our vote, we should demand a plan for our financial future and the future of our generation.
Dem_talk rakes more muck than primaries
The truth is that someone will lose and many will be angry. We can argue forever about the broken processes. We can blame the other side and continue to throw bombs at the winning candidate. Or we can stop trying to think rationally with the emotional sides of our brains; we can realize that Hillary and Obama’s similarities far outweigh their differences — and certainly outweigh the differences between Democrats and Republicans.
To save energy at Yale, incentives do the trick
Incentives used to be immediate. Our parent’s environmentalism of the 1970s involved air too dirty to breathe and water too dirty to drink; their incentives were all around them. Today’s problems are more distant.