Yale Daily News

During my first-ever week as a Yale student, sitting alone in a large, empty ‘dingle’ — a room with two beds but one inhabitant — I closed the tab containing a YouTube video titled “President Salovey’s Address to Yale College Class of 2024,” and submitted my first-ever piece for the News. It was titled “In Pursuit of the Perfect Goodbye.” Four years later, I am still in pursuit. And further away than I’ve ever been.

May 20, 2024

Recently, I reflected on what I could have done differently at Yale, and what I can do differently as an alumnus to improve my life. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, scaling the ranks of academia or another field was not one of them. Nor was writing a good book. I’ve chosen to focus, instead, on intimacy.

May 20, 2024

On April 2, University President Peter Salovey emailed the Yale community under the subject line “Your Yale, Your Voice,” asking us to complete the 2024 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct and Resource Awareness. The third in a series of quadrennial surveys administered by the Association of American Universities, it aims to collect data on patterns of sexual misconduct on campus and shed light on possible strategies officials can take in response.

May 20, 2024

On Sunday, May 19, alumni will have their final chance to vote David Millstone onto the Board of Trustees. This is no presidential election, but the future of Yale may depend on it given the power of the board to shape university policy and operations. The question remains to be addressed in earnest: does Mr. Millstone have what it takes to be a good steward of the University?

May 17, 2024

Millstone’s ties to conservative efforts to stifle the free exchange of ideas and the teaching of complex historical narratives, alongside his company’s investments in the military-industrial complex, demonstrate that he is the wrong person to serve as Yale’s next trustee. He is ill-equipped to protect the free speech of students, faculty, staff and community members, much less engage in good faith in the ongoing conversations at Yale surrounding disclosure and divestment. To Yale’s alumni: please consider voting against indoctrination and corruption. Vote against Millstone. 

May 13, 2024

Welcome to Beinecke Plaza, or as it’s now affectionately known, Gaza Solidarity Plaza. If you look to the left, you’ll see posters idolizing terrorists, like Leila Khaled, who hijacked two planes, and Walid Daqqa, who was convicted of leading the terrorist ring that kidnapped, castrated, gouged out the eyes of, tortured and murdered a 19-year-old Israeli. 

May 2, 2024

My name is Zack Thibodeaux and I am a senior at Yale who is blind. I am writing this column to give the Yale community another perspective on the protests and their effects on people with disabilities. I would like students to understand that their actions have severe consequences on others.

May 2, 2024

“So you are going to show the lives of young, poor, African, gay sex workers to the world. Why? And who wants to watch that?” That stung. Twelve years later, it still stings.

April 29, 2024

For the past week and the past six months we’ve seen protests, marches, rallies, as well as courses, seminars, and panel discussions on campus from a variety of viewpoints involving hundreds, if not thousands of participants. Some Yale community members have been directly affected by the events of Oct. 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza. Some have had family members killed or taken hostage on Oct. 7, and others have had to deal with several generations of family killed in the bombing of Gaza. Still, the violence over there has not translated to violence here at Yale. Such claims are disingenuous and endanger us all.  

April 28, 2024

Does representational politics matter in class photos when there’s a mounting body count of tens of thousands in occupied Palestinian lands, enabled by U.S. taxpayers in complicity with our government and its political and financial investors? Perhaps we’re missing the students’ point entirely, and there is no use in soul-searching within an institution that has proven soulless at best and complicit at worst. 

April 28, 2024

How do we enter into these tumultuous times as environmentalists and human rights advocates? What connections exist between environmentalism and the movement for freedom in Palestine? What can the environmental movement learn from the mobilization that has rocked our campus?

April 28, 2024