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No soap for you! More bang for our bucks

On Monday, Provost Alison Richard rejected the Yale College Council’s proposal to install soap dispensers in undergraduate bathrooms. She said she had been intrigued by […]

Crystallizing lessons learned abroad

As expected, I have learned quite a few things while studying abroad. First, the United Kingdom is not European. I decided to come here because […]

I have but two front teeth to give to Jonathan Edwards College

The other day I complained to a friend that I don’t know enough kids in my college. He suggested I play intramurals once in a […]

Is the age of bipartisanship, patriotism over?

It might be that a rare breath of fresh air can be taken in Washington, D.C. After lengthy debate, the evenly divided Senate has reached […]

Yale finally comes clean on sweatshop policy

And last week, we learned it had all been lies. For the past year and a half, Yale President Richard Levin has refused to allow […]

Quelching some rumors, propagating others

Yes children, the end has finally arrived for me. You are witnesses to the last Yale Daily News column that the Fifth Columnist will ever […]

The Eubank guide to student whining

So you are a Yalie reading the Yale Daily News Opinion-Editorial page and, a priori, you wish to whine. But without the proper guidance you […]

The Red Sox, the YCC and Earth Day

Well, judging by the weather, spring has finally sprung in our fair Elm City. The tulips are making their first appearance in the Jonathan Edwards […]

It takes a spy plane: academic secrets safe

It has recently come to our attention that the Yale University history department, previously an exemplary withholder of academic information, has allowed a substantial leak. […]

New Haven just might be a fun place after all

This being my last full Yale Daily News column, I’m going to take the opportunity to be old and crotchety, and to complain about the […]

Reflections on halcyon Bulldog Day antics

Determined to get a head start, I am trying to think a topic to fulfill the 10–15 page final essay requirements for Environmental Studies, Gender […]