Yale Daily News

During my first years at Yale as a classics major, classical language courses consistently outbid modern languages for space in my schedule. Semester after semester, […]

September 8, 2017

The first time I tried my hand (and two left feet) at swing dancing during a summer at Yale, I was absolutely floored. Or at […]

April 18, 2017

Generally, when we think about shattering glass ceilings, we don’t usually start with “orchestra conductor” as the career in most dire need of feminist reform. […]

March 28, 2017

The decision to rename Calhoun College marked a new chapter in a decadeslong debate on the commemoration of racist figures at Yale. Despite protests that […]

February 23, 2017

Time is indeed ticking on, and we can’t skimp on giving our loved ones their due diligence.

February 7, 2017

By premising solidarity on an assumed common experience of systemic racism, the use of this term admits of little nuance, obscuring other sources of inequality.

January 24, 2017

Homer. Dante. Cervantes.These names and hundreds more dazzled me in gold from the ornately painted walls and ceiling of a soaring chamber. With my eyes […]

November 29, 2016

Today, we are faced with two questions: What happens when “dux femina facti”? And what happens when this “feminist experiment” fails?

November 8, 2016

The media tends to situate trigger warnings in the context of colleges and universities, but the same debate has played out for much longer in secondary education. Parents of high school students are increasingly vocal about what should be taught or done in schools, fueling the trope of the obsessive “helicopter parent.” In the aftermath of the suicides at my school, it was anxious parents who agitated for a form of “trigger-conscious” censorship — in essence, the erasure of violence and other sensitive subjects from the curriculum

October 25, 2016

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been flagrantly marked by bigoted invectives and allegations of sexual assault. Despite moral outrage mounting against him from liberals and conservatives alike, the defensive vanguard of the Republican Party has held firm before their candidate. That is, until Friday, when The Washington Post exposed a 2005 video of Trump describing his history of sexual predation to Billy Bush.

October 11, 2016

Imagine this: You’re at a party. You’re there with one of your suitemates who has been drinking throughout the night.

September 27, 2016