At first I felt frustrated. I hated the idea that so many articles had been written about Mandela’s death here before South Africa, which is seven hours ahead of the east coast, had even woken up to the news.

In the case of breaking news — and not just on Twitter — journalists need to report on an event accurately and quickly, and let readers know about any ambiguity in their reporting.

You wouldn’t know it, but we’ve embarked upon the biggest gamble in 20 millennia. By continuing to profligately burn fossil fuels, humanity is courting disaster.

Yale is known for its progressive culture, yet it still lacks female leadership presence in both its administration and its undergraduate organizations.

Most Americans do not even hear stories of the political struggles and ongoing violence in Honduras. But it is our duty as a campus, a community and a part of humanity to seek out information about the country.

Should Yale really celebrate a student’s ability to massage his own ego? Should it highlight its most brazenly and successfully prestige-seeking students?

It’s very easy to get comfortable and feel as though everything in your life is concrete. But that’s rarely the case.

Beyond ensuring that students are receiving emergency messages, the Yale Alerts themselves can be improved.

The goal of Yale’s divestment is symbolic: It will have an almost negligible financial impact on the fossil fuel companies.

Justin Elicker, the face of a new brand of politics, is our choice to steer this city.

Neither Sarah Eidelson nor Paul Chandler possesses the combination of skill and vision necessary for their role. We do not, therefore, endorse either candidate for the office.

For a successful Africa initiative, Salovey must focus on academics.

The inaugural celebrations usher in the official start of the “Salovey Era.”

This past weekend, the News elected the Managing Board of 2015.

Ella Wood’s ’15 campaign reflects the assumptions troubling our New Haven relationship.

Yale has needed an adequate system to punish perpetrators of sexual assault for far too long.

Letters from Young and Fisher.

Letter from Speth

Letters from Smith, Conroy.

TFA empowers minorities On Thursday, Teach For America and the Afro-American Cultural Center will be hosting a conversation on a topic that’s deeply personal for me. When I was a senior at Yale in 2011, I was weighing whether I should choose a career path that would ensure the economic stability of my family back »

Inaugural pomp Although I was quite glad to see Marissa Medansky’s name (“The Ball in Salovey’s court,” Oct. 11) on this page once again, she is wrong. A presidential inauguration should be an occasion marked by pomp. Pomp is one of Yale’s great features, and an expression of the school’s uniquely democratic elitism. Yale takes »

Being Grateful Monday’s article (“Rethinking Johnson’s Gift,” Oct. 7) suggested that Charles Johnson’s ’54 extraordinary gift could have been better spent. Offering the example of a Filipino businessman who gave millions to USC instead of his own country’s cash-strapped schools, the author implied Johnson’s gift could have gone to better use at institutions with “fewer »

A diverse ROTC Yesterday’s article (“An unjust ROTC,” Oct. 2) argued that ROTC’s exclusion of transgender individuals should be a reason to remove military training from campus. It could not have been more wrong. Having a military presence on campus adds a commitment to diversity that is distinct from the rest of Yale. President Peter »

Letters from Yerramilli, Teo.