GUEST COLUMN
HOWARD HAN & TED WITTENSTEIN
The USAY petition: a step toward meaningful change

As individuals who have spent the better part of our time working with administrators and representing the student body at Yale, we are among the […]

February 27, 2002

KURTLAND MA
Activism deserves a more prominent role on campus

Attending a university like Yale, it is easy to forget just how much hate and intolerance exists in the world. Last week, the Alabama Supreme […]

February 27, 2002

WILLIAM LICHTEN
The future of Advanced Placement testing

The Advanced Placement program of the College Board has suffered heavy blows recently. The Harvard University faculty recently voted to accept only 5s, the highest […]

February 26, 2002

LEAH ZIMMERMAN
USAY represents the unions, not the students

I have spent the better part of my three and a half years at Yale working with administrators and representing the student body, but you […]

February 26, 2002

BRAD LIPTON
Tuition hikes OK if shouldered by rich students

No one I know was pleased to hear that Yale was raising tuition for next year by 3.9 percent, least of all my parents. But […]

February 25, 2002

BOBBY PELGRIFT
Living wages fail to solve income inequality

Yale liberals have an annoying tendency to write as if a “living wage” is tantamount to a free lunch. Last week, for example, Victor Corona […]

February 25, 2002

JED MELTZER
North Korea’s regime deplorable, but not terrorist

President Bush’s inflammatory rhetoric against North Korea is counterproductive, and will not help to achieve peace on the Korean peninsula anytime soon. Labeling the country […]

February 22, 2002

VICTOR CORONA
Working to build a better New Haven

In the debates over the current status of town-gown relations and student voice within the University, various perspectives have been articulated as to how students […]

February 21, 2002

ALEXANDER RIVES
Science departments must educate the public good

We live in an important moment in the history of science and the humanities. Biology has reached a point where it has moved beyond the […]

February 21, 2002

STEVEN STARR
Take Pico’s advice: Pick a fight in section

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola was the quintessential Renaissance humanist. By the age of 24, he had mastered Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Arabic, reading all the […]

February 21, 2002

LUIS POZA & BOBBY WOMACK
Granting Yale the home-court advantage it deserves

True fans will never forget the sight of Bryce Drew embracing his father at mid-court after a Valparaiso upset of Mississippi in the 1998 NCAA […]

February 20, 2002