GUEST COLUMN
MICHAEL EASTMAN
African health care needs traditional African healing

Peruse any popular publication that happens to chronicle the work of a development project on the African continent, and chances are that you will see […]

November 2, 2007

JOSHUA COX & SHARIFA LOVE
White Yalies in blackface reveal racism on campus

Happily walking around in our respective Halloween costumes during this week’s festivities, we were mortified to see several white people whose costumes included blackface. They […]

November 1, 2007

LOUIS FRANKENTHALER
Dershowitz ignores Israel’s state-sponsored torture

During the question-and-answer period of his recent speech on “Antisemitic Hate Speech” at Yale University, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz asserted, once again, that torture […]

November 1, 2007

NICHOLAS GOODBODY
Graduate students need meaningful mentor program

This week, Mentoring Week in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences should serve to remind us that good mentoring is critically important to graduate […]

October 31, 2007

MATTHEW KLEIN
Counterpoint: Illegal aliens do not deserve state services

When we examine the question of illegal immigration and the provision of city services, there are two important angles to consider: principle and practice. From […]

October 30, 2007

SAM BAGG
Point: City must service large undocumented population

City Community Services Administrator Kica Matos made few extreme propositions when she addressed the Yale Political Union on this topic last week. She didn’t call […]

October 30, 2007

DAVID BROOCKMAN
Yale should raise quality of students, not quantity

This weekend, some friends of mine from Brandeis who were visiting Yale for a Model UN conference asked me to dinner. On the way out […]

October 30, 2007

NATHAN HARDEN
Increasing student body dilutes current resources

I recently attended a student forum concerning the proposed expansion of Yale College. As most of us know by now, the plan calls for the […]

October 29, 2007

ALLISON NESWOOD
Native American stereotypes persist at Yale

The last thing I want to do is offend the African-American students, faculty or staff on this campus by invoking a stereotype. I know how […]

October 26, 2007

JUSTIN CHEN
Awareness defeats stigma of mental disorder

Oct. 11 marked two important events: National Coming Out Day and National Depression Screening Day. This overlap was a mere coincidence of timing and probably […]

October 26, 2007

RHIANNONN BRONSTEIN & ELISA GONZALEZ
Western canon interrogated by Diversified Studies

Diversified Studies. The name itself invites controversy and discussion and could imply a criticism of the Directed Studies curriculum. While we were mostly interested in […]

October 25, 2007