GUEST COLUMN
MACKAY: Reviving Yale and America

Today, Yale is rightfully held in suspicion and distrust for its shameful discarding of the past, as evidenced by Yale’s negative relationship with its own namesake.

YUNG: Overcoming nihilism at Danbury Correctional Institution

Every week during my senior year, I’d drive an hour away from New Haven to the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, weaving through a small neighborhood and up a hill overlooking miles of trees before arriving.

ELLIS: Wearing the uniform at Yale

Yale celebrates academic freedom and encourages exploration; military training demands discipline and adherence to standards. We rarely talk about this tension explicitly.

KOTHARI & MOOS: Graduating seniors say to support U-ACT’s People’s Budget

Though we might not have grown up in New Haven, we are grateful for the love, care and support we have received from community members.

TRAN: Seniors, have faith in the journey ahead

Several years ago, Father Ryan Lerner of St. Thomas More gave a homily in which he invited us to contemplate what kind of legacy we want to leave behind. When our obituaries are written, would we want our loved ones to harp on about the wealth and prestige we had accumulated or would we want to be remembered by the lives we have touched?

SCHWARTZ: Of time

I will celebrate that I came to Yale in part to escape my Orthodox upbringing, only to find myself writing my last papers on Jews in English literature.

KWONG: Will the Son of Man find faith at Yale?

To the casual observer, Yale may appear as just another secular institution, where religion faded away generations ago, never to return. But beneath the surface, something more nuanced, more mysterious, is unfolding.

CROSBY: All this beautiful noise

I’m a little worried that life has peaked, that I’ll never find a better way to spend Halloween than huddled with everyone in Woolsey Hall, dressed in costume, listening to the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

OCHIAI: Tulips of past, present and future

I graduated from an incredibly average American high school in rural-ish Washington, where football players and cheerleaders reigned, and most kids didn’t go to college, much less fancy schools like Yale.

HAMID: Yale’s late payments threaten the fabric of community engaged research

For many Yale scholars engaging in community engaged research, or CEnR, this is unfortunately an ongoing reality: the process of paying community partners is needlessly slow and this undermines the strength and effectiveness of critical community partnerships.

LAFLEUR & NICHOLSON: Yale’s dangerous double standard on Palestine

We write on behalf of concerned faculty and staff who attended the April 22 protest and who are committed to protecting freedom of expression.