Sammy Landino
Staff Columnist
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LANDINO: Status quo(ta)

Edward Blum is many things. Unfortunately, shrewd is one of them. The highly anticipated Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case began last Monday in […]

LANDINO: Elis deserve more

Yale began the Eli Whitney Students Program in 1982. The program offers an education to students from nontraditional backgrounds who have had a significant break […]

LANDINO: The zeal of youth

The accusations raised against Brett Kavanaugh ’87 LAW ’90 paint a horrifying and disqualifying picture. But the defense of Kavanaugh’s character, in light of his […]

LANDINO: All the lonely people

At the close of last semester, and at the beginning of this semester, Yale was reminded of and rocked by the suicides of Hale Ross […]

LANDINO: Stop obsessively GCal-ing

The onslaught began before I stepped foot on campus. The postscripts to a handful of clubs’ welcome back emails read out in manic colorful letters, […]

LANDINO: Making Yale count

Yesterday, while I was sitting on a Bulldog Days panel about student life at Yale, a prefrosh asked a question that struck me deeply. “With […]

LANDINO: Yale’s competing incentives

Right before spring break, I was having a conversation with a friend about how we were finding our classes thus far. “I just feel like […]

LANDINO: The masculinity paradox

One of the many lessons that the school shooting in Parkland, Florida has taught us is that we need to radically redefine American manhood. To […]

LANDINO: The Eagles and Yale

On Jan. 23, New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni claimed that, “Football, like Trumpism, likes to believe that it’s about working-class folks in the […]

LANDINO: Misguided stress

“Dude. I was there on day one and around 300 people showed up. The next week? Twelve hundred,” said one of my friends about Yale’s […]

LANDINO: Oprah: our American anxiety

The 20th-century psychologist Wilfred Bion made a fascinating behavioral hypothesis. When groups work to accomplish a task, they remain largely grounded to a rational level […]