David Yaffe-Bellany
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ANALYSIS: Community skeptical of renaming committee

The renaming committee — whose task represents the latest administrative attempt to shape a year-and-a-half-long naming debate — has raised new questions in the Yale community about the University’s decision-making process.

ELECTION 2016: Just five percent of students support Trump

According to a News survey distributed earlier this month, Yale students overwhelmingly support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton LAW ’73.

GPSS report reveals racial disparities among graduate students

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate released a report Monday documenting racial disparities in graduate and professional students’ experiences at Yale.

Local 33 drops department petition

Yale’s unofficial graduate student union Local 33 has withdrawn its petition for a labor election in the Comparative Literature Department.

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New college transfer policy raises concerns

Students looking to transfer into one of Yale’s new residential colleges next fall will not be able to choose between the two, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway announced in a community wide email Thursday.

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Employees call for presence on naming committee

The petition calls for University President Peter Salovey to appoint Shirley Lawrence, a veteran dining hall worker in Davenport College, to the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming as a representative for blue-collar workers at Yale. As of Wednesday night, 150 Yale Dining employees and nearly 400 students had signed the letter.

GASO, an anti-Local 33 group, revives

After about a decade of inactivity, GASO — which emerged in opposition to the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, known as GESO — has new leadership and a new website.

Public naming discussions continue

Josh Williams ’08 was always bothered by the name of Morse College, but never during his four years at Morse — named for the American […]

Yale celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day

As an undergraduate at Duke University in the early 2000s, Kelly Fayard was a solitary voice each Columbus Day as she attempted to bring awareness to indigenous people’s deaths at the hands of European explorers.

Yale Republicans stand with Trump

The Yale College Republicans said they will continue to endorse the GOP presidential nominee, even as dozens of Republicans across the nation disavow his candidacy.

Div School honors Yale’s first African-American student

The first African-American to study at Yale, an escaped slave named James Pennington, was honored in a formal ceremony at the Divinity School Wednesday afternoon.

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