The News' View
Welcoming a new slate of YDN staffers
On Monday, the Oldest College Daily held its spring-semester staff inductions. It is with great pride that we announce the newest inductees to the Yale Daily News.
Staff Reporters
Lawrence GipsonSilver Spring, Md.
Zeke MillerLawrence, N.Y.
Basak OtusIstanbul, Turkey
Kaitlin PaulsonLos Alamos...
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Staff Column
Yalies must join with community to reform city schools
On Monday, the New Haven Board of Education terminated its food-service contract with the notorious firm Aramark and decided instead to run all food services in-house. Parents, workers, teachers and public-school students have fiercely criticized the company for putting profits before kids by serving poor-quality food and cultivating bad labor-management relations...
Staff Column
In public debate, theology may still have a place
A week ago, before I began my afternoon trek back up Prospect Street and the hill that literally elevates the Divinity School above the rest of the University, I stopped off at the Law School to hear Harvard professor Michael Sandel deliver a lecture on the ethics of human genetic engineering. Sandel’s book on the subject, published last year, is entitled “The Case...
Guest Column
Point/Counterpoint: Seniors debate Blair protest
Standing on Class Day — for peace
By Yonah Freemark and Lea Krivchenia
We are two Yale seniors against the war. We will graduate in the year 2008, the fifth year of the conflict in Iraq. Like many of our fellow Yalies, we ended our high school years with an energy and determination to speak out against a war that we considered unjust. We both went...
Guest Column
From Senior Class officer, a response to Class Day protest
It is unfortunate that members of our class seek to politicize Class Day, putting a negative spin on what would otherwise be a purely festive and celebratory occasion ("Stand on Class Day — for peace" 5/24).
The Senior Class Officers, in conjunction with the Yale President’s Office and the Yale College...
More News' Views
- In retrospect, a year unresolved (1)
- Before 14 colleges, cultivate sciences (1)
- Welcome, 2012 (2)
- Endorsement: Richard Tao for YCC President (13)
- Endorsement: Emily Schofield for YCC Vice President
- Endorsement: Colin Leatherbury for YSAC Chair (2)
- Endorsement: Jasper Wang for YCC Secretary
- Endorsement: Jonathan Wu for YCC Treasurer (3)
- Endorsement: Anne Xu for UOFC Chair (1)
- Gender should not dictate Yale housing (19)
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More Staff Columns
- Bioethanol: A shiny penny for the U.S. economy (8)
- Despite surname, Cuba’s new Castro may upset low expectations (11)
- In relations with Middle East, Yale must talk religion (2)
- Artist's Alley
- Poetry, a reminder of what we are, not what we do
- Artist's Alley
- Yale officials prolong circuitous blame game (8)
- All the world’s a … performance-art show? (9)
- By banning exhibit, Salovey upholds Eli values (18)
- Artist's Alley
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More Guest Columns
- Standing on Class Day — for peace (2)
- Campus misogyny enshrined in online comment threads (31)
- Toppling Chinese government no cure for human-rights woes (7)
- ‘Not guilty’ emblematic of flawed justice system (40)
- By reneging on protest, officials let values slide (2)
- Rethinking Shvarts’ corporal interrogation (12)
- In Cuba, a self-sustaining, repressive machine (still) (47)
- Yalies cannot afford to overlook social security (5)
- Versify the fisticuff, begin the poetic revolution
- A poet is born even before she knows the word
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Letters to the Editor
- 'Safe Streets' to Levin: Improve traffic, pedestrian safety (19)
- The News will accept summer op-ed submissions
- From Yale women to Shvarts: Consider the repercussions (1)
- Shvarts’ stunt disregards human life, embarrasses Yale
- Yalies give back to city beyond Community Service Week
- Pro-choice groups: Shvarts within her rights, but wrong (12)
- Shvarts’ self-aggrandizing art project is evidence of a brain without a conscience (1)
- All Letters
