Yale Daily News

If the goal is to depoliticize universities, why are we making federal support for apolitical, educational goals contingent on agreement with inherently political positions? 

March 16, 2025

Liberal values like free speech and open discourse are anathema to authoritarians like Trump; free universities cannot exist in unfree societies. For Yale to pursue its mission of “improving the world through scholarship,” it must stand up to Donald Trump. President McInnis and the Board of Trustees must act.

March 15, 2025

While there are many valid critiques of human rights, having a consistent, interdisciplinary space to discuss the possibilities and limits of this framework has been invaluable to shaping my worldview and better understanding the kind of impact I might want to have in my career.

March 2, 2025

If the University truly values the sense of community it promotes, they should invest in strengthening it — not slowly undermining college dining to save money. If Yale can afford to keep hot lunch, it should.  

February 27, 2025

An alumnus reflects on police-student relations, based on his own experience with Yale Police in 2010.

February 25, 2025

As college students, everyone in the dining hall is a peer: someone you can engage with at an equal level and who has no authority over your life or your beliefs. And specifically as Yale students, we talk obsessively about dialogue; just open the opinion section of the Yale Daily News website and every third article — including this one — is a meditation on the ways to reach a better quality of speech at Yale.

February 25, 2025

Rage, especially that of the young and idealistic, is proximate. When there’s an injustice in the world people often get mad at what’s close to them and not what’s really to blame. Yale students upset about Israel’s conduct in Gaza get mad at Yale; Yale students upset about climate change get mad at Yale; Yale students upset about New Haven get mad at Yale.

February 25, 2025

If Yale’s mission is to “train future leaders,” as per its mission statement, then Yalies better understand the three in four Americans that are of faith. If Yale is to be George Pierson’s “society of friends,” then we ought to understand our friends’ most closely held beliefs. Either way, we need to talk about religion.

February 25, 2025

Some people use GCal. Others use pretty planners and agendas. Truth be told, I never did get good enough at using either.

February 25, 2025

Yale is a shadow of its former self. The Yale Daily News only publishes print on Fridays. Clementines were removed from Commons. And, for the past 43 years, students have been deprived of a quintessential Yale tradition: bladderball.

February 25, 2025

A senior chronicles his journey first in, then out of Big Finance.

February 17, 2025