GUEST COLUMN
MAUNI JALALI
JALALI: Treat international students as you’d want to be treated

To my fellow members of the Yale community, I offer these reflections not as criticism but as an invitation to reciprocity.

April 25, 2025

OWEN HANNON
HANNON: After Francis

Pope Francis’s death, for me, is more than political. It is a question of whether anything can really change and stay changed.

April 23, 2025

LIAM HAMAMA
HAMAMA: Shabtai, don’t platform terrorism supporters

Imagine a Yale-affiliated organization inviting a white supremacist speaker who, for years, displayed a photo of Dylann Roof — the man who murdered nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston — on the wall of his living room.

April 22, 2025

SAM YANKEE
YANKEE: Yale has faced this test before

“It is not the disclaimer affidavit that will make our colleges and universities bulwarks of our security, nor even the oath of allegiance which they accept. It is our trust in them to pursue the course the nation has set for them—a course they can pursue in freedom and in no other way.” 

April 18, 2025

JAKE SIESEL
SIESEL: Ward 1, built together

I am running to represent Ward 1 on the Board of Alders to fight for a justice system that listens, delivers and responds to every New Haven resident. Here’s who I am and the values I stand for.

April 16, 2025

GRIFFIN SANTOPIETRO
SANTOPIETRO: You should read Thoreau

In class, learn to appreciate how difficult it may be to listen to your professor. Close your browsers and lower your laptop screen. Next time a friend hits you with the classic Yale nicety “let’s get a meal” maybe try to take a walk somewhere new.   

April 16, 2025

ROHIL MOHAN
MOHAN: Yale needs rejection

I am sure the Class of 2029 is basking in the joy of their selection. They should be. There is much to be excited about. But they will soon learn what we grizzled almost-sophomores now know: the choosing is just getting started.

April 16, 2025

CARTER DEWEES & PAM NEWTON
DEWEES & NEWTON: Don’t go with your “gut” on CourseTable

As you register for courses this week, remember that the numbers on CourseTable don’t tell the whole story

April 10, 2025

BRIAN MOORE
MOORE: Take a chance

Last week, I took a chance. I declared my solo campaign for Yale College Council President. Now, I’m asking you to take a chance — on me.

April 10, 2025

DIEGO PAZ & EMILY NGUYEN
PAZ & NGUYEN: A better Yale for all

Our platform: make laundry free and make lunch great again.

April 9, 2025

ED HIRS
HIRS: Yale Hospitality continues assault on residential colleges

As an associate fellow of Timothy Dwight College, I have seen firsthand the decline of the residential college system under the guise of efficiency or expediency for decades.

April 8, 2025