OPINION
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AMAR & LIPKA: Seize the day

The very idea of a university is on the line. Can Yale defend it — not just with words but also with deeds? 

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HATCH: Special operator advice for Yale undergrads


As someone who has walked the paths of Yale both as an undergraduate and now as a lecturer, I’m often asked, “What lessons from your time in the special operations world would be helpful for us to know here?”


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ATTANASIO: A refresher course on conducting research responsibly

A little over two weeks ago, Akiko Iwasaki and colleagues published “Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after Covid-19 Vaccination” on medRxiv. You […]

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PAN: Deafening silence

Yale ought to deploy its resources to speak up and speak loudly. It should coordinate with other schools in the legal fight against the Trump administration on science, vaccines, funding and civil rights. Yale should vocally call out the Trump administration’s worst excesses. If universities band together, they cannot be picked off one by one. 

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RIFFI: NIH funding cut is impacting students

This year, I was selected as one of the seven American Cancer Society scholars here at Yale, as part of the Yale BioMed Amgen Scholars […]

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MOHAN: On the politicization of astrophysics

If the goal is to depoliticize universities, why are we making federal support for apolitical, educational goals contingent on agreement with inherently political positions? 

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WARRIOR: Yale must protect its students. Here’s how

Liberal values like free speech and open discourse are anathema to authoritarians like Trump; free universities cannot exist in unfree societies. For Yale to pursue its mission of “improving the world through scholarship,” it must stand up to Donald Trump. President McInnis and the Board of Trustees must act.

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AKHTAR: In defense of MAPHR

While there are many valid critiques of human rights, having a consistent, interdisciplinary space to discuss the possibilities and limits of this framework has been invaluable to shaping my worldview and better understanding the kind of impact I might want to have in my career.

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DANZIGER: Yale, keep hot lunch

If the University truly values the sense of community it promotes, they should invest in strengthening it — not slowly undermining college dining to save money. If Yale can afford to keep hot lunch, it should.  

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LETTER 2.21

An alumnus reflects on police-student relations, based on his own experience with Yale Police in 2010.

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BOSTEELS: Argue more

As college students, everyone in the dining hall is a peer: someone you can engage with at an equal level and who has no authority over your life or your beliefs. And specifically as Yale students, we talk obsessively about dialogue; just open the opinion section of the Yale Daily News website and every third article — including this one — is a meditation on the ways to reach a better quality of speech at Yale.