OPINION
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CHANDRA: Rhodes to prestige

Should Yale really celebrate a student’s ability to massage his own ego? Should it highlight its most brazenly and successfully prestige-seeking students?

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GRAVER: Waiting for Hillary

From a “Ready for Hillary” chapter formed three years from Election Day to an elaborate award ceremony at the Law School, Clinton has taken on a larger-than-life aura.

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GABR: Life during the revolution

It’s very easy to get comfortable and feel as though everything in your life is concrete. But that’s rarely the case.

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POSNER: For better crisis communication

Beyond ensuring that students are receiving emergency messages, the Yale Alerts themselves can be improved.

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ROSEN: Quiz the achievement gap

If Yale wants to provide quality education for all its students, it must focus on tangible social science research that has been proven effective elsewhere.

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BARRETT: A Thanksgiving Tradition

Soon the men returned to watching TV. But for me, something didn’t sit quite right — and it wasn’t anything I’d eaten.

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SHAFFER: Replacing “The Game”

Yale and Harvard administrators should meet this year and agree to cancel The Game for 2014. Instead, we’ll have a Yale-Harvard regatta, with men’s and women’s races on the Charles River the weekend before Thanksgiving.

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BLACKMON: The sequester kills

Until both Republicans and Democrats come back to the table and negotiate a real solution to the sequester, perhaps my mother is right — maybe we should be afraid to ride Metro North

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LARSON: Education’s 1 percent

Yale’s largest gift to us is our degree, or, more accurately, the enhanced earnings, increased security and expanded freedom that our degrees carry.

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WRIGHT: The state of online education

MOOC mania indeed! MOOCs — massive open online courses — have dominated the national headlines about online higher education.

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STERN: Knocking out racist myths

With so many cases of random street violence, to interpret a few isolated instances of Knockout as a national trend is simply wrong.