GUEST COLUMN
THOMAS HSIEH
From Mr. Yale to Spring Fling, YSAC ripens

It’s the moment that we’ve all been waiting for — the day we get to finally announce who’s performing for Spring Fling. I’ll spare you […]

April 10, 2008

WILL KLETTER
Dem_talk rakes more muck than primaries

“Your link-posting skills are as effective as Biden’s campaign.” Ah, primary season on the Yale Dem_talk panlist (a political discussion forum associated with the Yale […]

April 10, 2008

EDWIN EVERHART
Use of ‘exotic’ in date auction degrades contestants

Across campus this week, students are being asked, “Wanna go on an Exotic Date?” by posters for a charity fund-raiser. Despite the good intentions and […]

April 9, 2008

ROBERT LI
Boycotting Olympics vitiates global harmony

As riots rage in Tibet, the call for boycotting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing is becoming increasingly popular among politicians. Earlier this week, following […]

April 9, 2008

ADAM LIOR HIRST
National spirit rooted in athletic competition

At Yale, we jeer at Harvard in the same way that Bostonians do the City of Angels; that Yankees do the Red Sox; and that […]

April 8, 2008

GREGORY CHASE
Only Obama can disinter party’s forgotten voters

“There’s no point in voting. It won’t change my life any.” As I looked around the neighborhood of the woman who spoke these words to […]

April 8, 2008

LEA KRIVCHENIA & TINA WU
For Yalies, New Haven youth offer ‘unmediated’ education

Every student trained at the New Haven Police Academy is required to watch a movie called “Know Me: Re-examining Police Perception and Treatment of Youth.” […]

April 7, 2008

THAMEKA THOMPSON
After epic race speech, Black Church still misunderstood

“The most segregated hour of Christian America is 11 o’clock on Sunday morning.” The Jeremiah Wright controversy coloring presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign has highlighted […]

April 7, 2008

MICHAEL ZINK
Christian ideology can save would-be criminals

Lately, there has been much discussion on these pages about the U.S. prison system, centered around the alarming statistic that a whole percent of our […]

April 4, 2008

YONAH FREEMARK
Johnston misjudges Great Society’s strides

A commonly held misperception regards the social policy solutions implemented by President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society as unsuccessful. Johnson’s failure allegedly proved that the liberal […]

April 4, 2008

JERRY GUO
Brush twice daily for a healthier economy

  I was planning to write about the Federal Reserve’s bailout of Bear Stearns, but it may come at a surprise that the required reading […]

April 4, 2008