Tyler Blackmon
Staff Columnist
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BLACKMON: Refuse to come out

When I saw several national organizations celebrate National Coming Out Day over the weekend, I couldn’t shake the feeling that we are going about it all wrong.

BLACKMON: What happens to us?

For nearly 25 percent of us, giving up will mean one of two paths: finance or consulting.

BLACKMON: Malloy is America’s progressive governor

Election Day is Nov. 4, and this race will be extremely close.

BLACKMON: Charity isn’t about you

The social craze around dumping ice water on one’s head has perverted the otherwise pure intention of charity into something unrecognizable: self-aggrandizement via others’ misfortune.

BLACKMON: Don’t index us to unaffordability

Regardless of whom you vote for in the runoff election for Yale College Council president, your candidate of choice supports the idea of indexing the student income contribution portion of Yale’s financial aid package to a consistent standard that would make future increases in the SIC predictable from year to year.

BLACKMON: Your campus job is in danger

The provost’s office is about to end student employment as we know it, and they really did not want you to find out about it.

BLACKMON: The Flappy Bird Test

Rewiring the brain to consider your impact when evaluating your goals requires you to ask yourself the same question over and over again: Does this pass the Flappy Bird Test?

BLACKMON: YCC’s broken promise

The YCC soiled both its rebranding process and its legitimacy with Yale undergraduate students when it made perhaps its most important decision of the year on Saturday.

BLACKMON: An apology to Sochi

Last Friday, I secretly wanted nothing more than the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympic Games to collapse into a complete and utter disaster.

BLACKMON: You won’t fool me twice

Making such crucial administrative decisions without any student perspective is dangerous for the future of student life at Yale.

BLACKMON: Reject the Utah strategy

When a court hands down a ruling from above, it denies LGBT activists the opportunity to organize politically around queer issues and prevents many phone calls and face-to-face conversations about gay rights from occurring.