THE NEWS’ VIEWS
Taking a closer look at the slavery report

When three Yale doctoral candidates published “Yale, Slavery and Abolition,” a strongly worded essay intended to uncover Yale’s sordid and tangled past relationship with slavery, […]

Time for a new era in Yale labor relations

For more than 50 years, Yale and its unions have been unable to transcend the inherent tension between a rich world-class institution and many of […]

Annex upperclassmen to Swing Space

From afternoon frisbee scrimmages on its lawns to late night conversations atop its bunk beds, Old Campus provides the perfect setting for the boundless energy, […]

University should reinstate ROTC

In the days of the late 1960s, in the throes of the Vietnam War, friction between campus anti-war activists and ROTC cadets drove the administration […]

A new understanding of gay life at Yale

Today’s article in the scene section marks the end of the Yale Daily News’ four-part series on gay life at Yale. The mere existence of […]

Introducing the News’ academic review

As the committee performing Yale’s first academic review in three decades warms up for a year of inquiry into the University’s undergraduate curriculum, all members […]

Stipend increase should not be divisive

With Monday’s announcement that Yale will again increase graduate student stipends, the University made its most recent move aimed at remaining competitive with other elite […]

Measure grade inflation before discussing it

As Yale students return from Thanksgiving break and enter the last weeks before finals, there is at least one thing for which almost all are […]

Patience essential as war moves forward

For many Yale students, Thanksgiving break will be their first trip home since the world changed on Sept. 11. Whatever means of transportation they rely […]

Defending the right to waste time, money

According to nearly all rankings, Yale University has the best law school in the world. Its brilliant faculty is world-renowned, and its students are among […]

Dwight Hall plaque an unnecessary response

For a social justice organization like Dwight Hall, the revelation that its namesake, former Yale President Timothy Dwight, was a supporter of slavery poses an […]