GUEST COLUMN
TREVOR MACKAY
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.

May 17, 2025

KARLEY YUNG
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.

May 17, 2025

ASHER ELLIS
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.

May 17, 2025

ISHIKAA KOTHARI & ABBY MOOS
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.

May 17, 2025

PETER TRAN
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?

May 17, 2025

NETANEL SCHWARTZ
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.

May 17, 2025

EVAN KWONG
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.

May 17, 2025

JUSTIN CROSBY
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.

May 17, 2025

AYA OCHIAI
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.

May 17, 2025

SAFRAZ HAMID
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.

May 13, 2025

GRETA LAFLEUR & CATHERINE NICHOLSON
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.

April 30, 2025