Author Archives: Harry Larson

The narrative that American higher education has devolved since the 1960s into an ideologically self-reinforcing attack on American values — one that shuns Western achievements and accomplishments in favor of minority groups — is no longer the pet story of a few grumpy conservatives.

The Preliminary Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading has failed spectacularly to research and justify its centerpiece proposal: the imposition of a 59-100 point grading system.

If every student worked some number of hours for Yale unpaid, Yale might be able to realize savings while creating an ethos of collective contribution.

The reason more people aren’t dating at Yale is because, as with academics and future careers, Yalies don’t want to settle for less than what they know is possible.

Reading the YCC’s own 2013 Mid-Year report reveals a totally depressing lack of real accomplishments.

The current iteration of our culture that enables and elevates extracurriculars has its strengths. But it also disadvantages STEM students seeking the full Yale experience.

Outside of historical facts, the part Lewis really played — and which I found to so completely correspond to preexisting notions of Lincoln I didn’t even know I had — was that of a perfect leader and perfect man.

The social sciences, 457 majors last year, now claim far more undergraduates than either the humanities or the sciences. But while the makeup of the student body — and the person in Woodbridge Hall — signals an increased recognition of the role of social sciences in modern life, a large segment of the Yale community denigrates them as an academically inferior, largely contrived field of scholarship.

Our campus is almost uniformly supportive of gay marriage and is strongly, if not universally, in favor of a woman’s right to choose. Nonetheless, it’s become almost chic to identify as a “fiscal conservative.” Identifying as a fiscal conservative allows such Yalies to contrast themselves with idealistic, yet allegedly impractical, liberals. Romney supporters claim that »

I was a little taken aback when I received the first of several emails exhorting me to donate my meal swipes to the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project. Since I am not currently on a meal plan, I found myself without any meal swipes to give. That didn’t matter — I could just click »

Since Silliman College Master Judith Krauss’ decision to cancel all future Safety Dances, student response has ranged from outrage at the decision — “Why is the whole college being punished because of eight kids?” and “What happened to treating alcohol as a health issue?” — to the sense that we got what we deserved. Eight »

News travels faster than ever. People used to wait for the postman, then the evening news. Now, my iPhone pushes me the latest New York Times headline before I have a chance to look at the newspaper. This was not the case when I woke up to the news that Chris Stevens, the United States’ »