OPINION
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In defense of the Yale College Students for Democracy

To the Editor: I was disappointed to read professor James Sleeper’s perhaps unintentional mischaracterization of Yale College Students for Democracy in the Yale Daily News […]

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Moving now past the hate, and the anti-hate

In the past week, there has been much discussion about the series of violent and intimidating acts committed at Yale, the administration’s response to these […]

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Hanging the flag upside-down is not a defamation

To the Editor: Alex Hetherington ’06 (“The offense of an upside-down flag,” 4/11) and others don’t seem to know the conventional meaning of displaying the […]

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Music thieves: Here’s a way out

I was shocked by the recent actions of the Recording Industry Association of America, which call for damages exceeding $150 billion in a lawsuit against […]

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Keep the anti-war rhetoric out of the issue

To the Editor: As a staunch supporter of free expression, and as someone who has twice been the victim of hate crime, I support much […]

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Intimidating exactly the wrong people

Almost every Yale student condemns the recent hateful and at times violent actions committed over the last week. While it might be tempting to overlook […]

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Looking ahead to Levin’s next decade

Today Richard Levin begins what could be his second decade in Woodbridge Hall and, we hope, the second phase of his Yale presidency. For the […]

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Let’s pray that Fred Phelps may find God’s love

I don’t think of Fred Phelps as a fellow Christian. Let me clarify. For my purposes here, a Christian means a follower of Jesus of […]

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The violent obliteration of art and memory

This past week, as Saddam Hussein’s 24 years of rule over Iraq came to an apparent end, 7,000 years of human history vaporized along with […]

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Stop the reckless use of the term ‘hate crime’

To the Editor: Posters and e-mails around campus list a number of violent and intimidating actions under the heading “Hate Crimes on Campus.” Upon closer […]

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Curb this hysteria before we have a witch hunt

I am sick and tired of reading article after article and e-mail after e-mail describing the “state of emergency” in which our student body is […]