Yale Daily News

In working on the opinion page these past two years, first as the page’s editor, then as one of its columnists, I must say that […]

April 30, 2003

Kudos to this year’s YCC. In my four years, the Yale College Council has steadily transformed itself from a student government mired in endless debate […]

April 23, 2003

Yesterday, I was discussing the war with a pacifist friend of mine and she said something striking: “It’s weird, I find myself strangely attracted to […]

March 26, 2003

Monday’s op-ed page would have made John Stuart Mill weep. Littered with a letter, column and editorial censuring the Afro-American Cultural Center for inviting Amiri […]

February 26, 2003

Two years ago, AIDS activism catapulted Yale into the national spotlight. Doctors Without Borders, a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian group, had asked the University to relax […]

February 12, 2003

This spring, for the first time since 1978, the Supreme Court will issue a new ruling on affirmative action in higher education — the practice […]

January 30, 2003

When I first set foot on Old Campus, I couldn’t wait to stick it to the man and topple his evil capitalist empire. Hardly settled […]

January 15, 2003

When Lawrence Summers was first interviewed for Harvard’s presidency, he made it clear to the search committee that he wouldn’t be your typical college president. […]

November 20, 2002

Imagine this. Sometime in the next two weeks, President Richard Levin unveils a bold, new plan to alter forever the face of Ivy League admissions. […]

November 6, 2002

My sister is applying to Yale early decision, as I did four years ago. Like me, she’s applying from a posh single-sex private school in […]

October 25, 2002

When David Letterman asked New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to analyze how the Muslim world reacted to the Sept. 11 hijackings, Friedman pointed out […]

February 4, 2002