Scott Stern
Staff Columnist
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STERN: Knocking out racist myths

With so many cases of random street violence, to interpret a few isolated instances of Knockout as a national trend is simply wrong.

STERN: A scholar’s kiss of death

Top-notch scholarship is imperative, but Yale is not designed just to churn out wonderful research. It is intended to enrich young minds.

STERN: Beyond the referendum

Clearly, the power of the referenda is limited, and that’s fine.

STERN: Misdirected studies

We need to question why D.S., and D.S. only, exists as a yearlong humanities program in the first place.

STERN: Yale’s glass floor

From the moment we arrive on campus, Yale’s remarkable safety net kicks in.

STERN: Race discussion now

There should be a response to a call for a race war at Yale.

STERN: Poopetrator’s media circus

Sure, the poopetrator is a funny story — but it is not one about which people across the world need to be kept updated.

STERN: Rethinking Johnson’s gift

The story I keep hearing seems too easy. I have always been taught — by some of the best professors in the world, no less — to challenge simple, one-sided narratives.

STERN: ROTC’s prejudice, Yale’s complicity

It is clear that ROTC still discriminates, and by welcoming it back to campus Yale is endorsing the military’s prejudice.

STERN: Fix the Corporation

We are a university governed by an unelected, unrepresentative, unconnected and unknown body, meeting in private. This has to change.

Forum: Yield Rate

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