Sherry Lee
Staff Columnist
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LEE: Classics, reoriented

At long last, I was giving back to my mother country, using my native tongue to pass on the language I had received from an Ivy League education to aspiring scholars in the East.

LEE: It starts with us

"Zootopia" reveals an uncomfortable but urgent truth about the dangerous capacity to alienate and otherize that lies within us all — and our concurrent responsibility to overcome it.

LEE: A skin deep partnership

The claim of accessibility, however, has proven false for a significant number of the Yale population. Students on financial aid are required to fulfill a “student income contribution” by working a campus job. The inflexible, mandatory 10 hours that so many of my peers and I work each week directly jeopardize everything else that Yale promises to be. Caveant prefrosh.

LEE: A labor of love

A specter is haunting Yale’s campus — the specter of the Emotionally Stunted Male.

LEE: In all modesty

When I arrived as a freshman, I found the Yale community billing itself as proudly, fervently capital-F feminist. My first few weeks here did not disappoint — I was surrounded by strong, brilliant female role models, all the communities that I joined declared themselves feminist spaces and my conversations were passing the Bechdel test on a regular basis. Left and right, women were validating each other, insisting that they had the freedom to do whatever they chose.

LEE: The myth of solidarity

“You’re damn right, Hollywood is racist!” proclaimed host Chris Rock at the Oscars Sunday night to an overwhelmingly white audience.

LEE: Fire your secretary

It’s a familiar game by now at Yale. Every day, you bump into two, maybe three acquaintances with whom you exchange a series of well-meaning platitudes culminating in the phrase, “We should get coffee sometime!” Most of the time, you do mean it, but almost never do you actually do it. If you genuinely want to spend time with someone, maybe you try subversively messaging, “Wait, do you mind if I violate a social convention and actually follow up on getting coffee?” (True story.)

LEE: Reorient the classics

I was only two years old when I first encountered Yale’s Classics Department — entirely by accident.

LEE: Drop the bass (strip)

At 11:30 p.m. on the night of Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, I was sexually harassed by members of Yale’s student body.

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LEE: Say it right

Fire is catching in the Ivy League. This past week, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown seethed with protests and demonstrations against racial discrimination. At Yale, what […]

LEE: Raising the bar for everyone

Yale does, indeed, need an intervention. The one that currently exists, however, is in itself quite troubling.