Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, pushed for an end to the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel on Tuesday night at the Yale Political Union’s first debate of the year.
Just days after Yale officials threatened to ban a Yale senior art major’s final project involving “self-induced miscarriages,” abortion has become something of a touchy subject on campus. But Yale Political Union members aimed to prove otherwise at Monday’s debate.
It is impossible for journalists to be completely objective, according to Katrina vanden Heuvel, at least.
Growing increasingly frustrated with the difficulty of reserving University space for debates and other meetings, members of the Yale Political Union gathered Friday afternoon to discuss the possible acquisition and renovation of a building for the Union within the next few years.
Amid a chorus of condemning hisses, supportive banging and outright laughter, former Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum argued for war with radical Islam at the Yale Political Union debate Thursday night.
Yale Political Union debate that he headlined Tuesday night. Speaking on the resolution, “Resolved: Power to the People,” Gravel said America can solve the grave problems it faces — among them the war in Iraq, health care, education, taxes and the environment — only by enlisting citizens as lawmakers through ballot initiatives and other reforms that would expand direct...
Yale students representing all parts of the political spectrum — from the Tory Party to the Party of the Left — met to watch the president outline his plans for education, the Middle East, earmark spending and the economy.
As the Union approaches its 75th anniversary, to be celebrated in 2009, it has launched an in-depth investigation of its founding and evolution.
Two weeks before New Haven Solidarity Week, when several campus groups will encourage Yalies to sign up for the city’s new municipal identity card, members of the Yale Political Union debated Tuesday night whether cities should provide services to illegal immigrants at all.
The New York Times has long been a vocal advocate for press freedom, and on Monday, Times executive editor Bill Keller brought that debate to campus.
