The News’ Views

There is no shining star in this year’s Yale College Council presidential race. The three candidates all have similar platforms and similar enthusiasm. One candidate, though, showed most convincingly his ability to inspire all of the YCC — not just the executive board — to work hard and achieve meaningful changes, small and large. For »

Because of her thorough roster of concrete ideas and her experience on the YCC, we endorse Debby Abramov ’14. Abramov has served on several committees on the YCC this year, and that sort of institutional knowledge will allow her to step easily into the vice president’s role. She knows that a large part of the »

Having already proven his determination and acumen in dealing with the Yale administration, Joey Yagoda ’14 has plans for major initiatives next year. He has proposed that the University provide meals during Camp Yale and fall break, and he wants to negotiate discounts for Yalies at local restaurants. He’s rightly criticized some of this year’s »

The YCC secretary is not a glamorous position. The secretary sends campus-wide emails, takes minutes at meetings and manages the YCC’s website. The work is repetitive but crucial to the functioning of the YCC. Leandro Leviste ’15 understands this: He calls the secretary “the workhorse of the YCC.” Both Leviste and Kyle Tramonte ’15 are »

This year’s events director candidates are both enthusiastic about ensuring that Yalies have a good time next year. Although we are impressed by the energy of Marissa Pettit ’14, Bryan Epps ’14 is the candidate with the experience to translate his ideas into reality. Current events director Katie Donley ’13 set the bar high. She »

Candidates for Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee chair are running for a new role this year, since administrators have granted additional responsibilities to the committee and stricken the F from its acronym. For her understanding of specific issues that hindered the old UOFC and her grasp of how the new committee will operate, we endorse Aly »

The Yale College faculty will vote today on a resolution proposed by political science professor Seyla Benhabib that calls for Yale-NUS College to commit as Yale does to the “ideals … at the heart of liberal arts education.” The resolution is an attempt to have the faculty clearly state that the Yale name stands for »

Yale-NUS College will open in 16 months. No amount of criticism from faculty, alumni or others will stop Yale’s first-ever international franchise from welcoming its inaugural class of students in fall 2013. The school’s opening will be the keynote of University President Richard Levin’s efforts to globalize Yale. It is also clearly a boon for »

At a monthly Yale College faculty meeting yesterday, professors debated a resolution submitted by political science professor Seyla Benhabib that demanded that Yale-NUS “respect, protect and further the ideals of civil liberties for all minorities, the principles of non-discrimination and full political freedom, both on the Yale-NUS campus and in Singapore as a whole.” Yale’s »

The Secure Communities program that took effect in Connecticut last week has met overwhelming resistance from citizens, scholars and city officials. The program — under which the FBI must share fingerprints of anyone arrested with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for review, and ICE may in turn request that local prisons detain suspects — has prompted »

It is easy to take information for granted these days. A few keystrokes and clicks give us the world. But knowledge carries a price tag, even if we don’t see it. This week, we paid for our knowledge. Marie Colvin ’78, of England’s Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed by a rocket »

In the wake of reports that the New York Police Department monitored the Muslim Students Associations at Yale and other schools, University President Richard Levin emphasized Yale’s support for its MSA on Monday and condemned “police surveillance based on race, religion, nationality or peacefully expressed political opinion.” Creating an environment that encourages open expression is »