THE NEWS’ VIEWS
Armmand bows out and students lose

Her motives aside, Ward 7 Alderman Esther Armmand’s decision to vacate her seat at the end of the month is ill-timed and will disenfranchise a […]

Getting a seat at the tercentennial table

There is something almost schizophrenic about the upcoming second tercentennial weekend, a three-day meeting of illustrious minds that includes more than 52 panels, speakers and […]

The Kramer affair comes to a close

In 1997, when Yale first spurned an offer from strident gay author and activist Larry Kramer ’57, he launched vicious attacks on University administrators, calling […]

The incredible, shrinking Ward 1 race

We had hoped it would not come to this. But in Ward 1, where a tortured Democratic Party endorsement process saw candidates leaping in and […]

Colonel William Lanman’s final salute

In 1996, when the Yale Alumni Association offered Colonel William K. Lanman ’28 — navy pilot, investment manager and professional golfer — the Yale Medal, […]

It could have been an April Fools’ joke

Asking students to bid farewell to their Animal House posters and their Starry Nights is one way to ensure the safety of those living on […]

Gourmet Heaven opens and ups the ante

To put it charitably, the naysayers were wrong. Gourmet Heaven, the New York-style grocery store that opened this week on Broadway, is University Property’s biggest […]

Hillary Clinton comes back to campus

The commencement ceremony for the Wellesley College Class of 1969 found a young Hillary Diane Rodham behind a tall podium offering a stern rebuke to […]

Defining diversity down: the job left undone

Diversity, it turns out, is easy enough to talk about on paper, in committees and in speeches from Woodbridge Hall. It is quite another thing […]

The newspaper brouhaha at Brown

David Horowitz must be happy. For $750, the ’60s liberal agitator turned new millennium conservative bought a full-page advertisement titled “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for […]

Dining services’ deceptive quality surveys

Though it has cut corners at Yale by buying low-quality fresh fruits and eliminating shrimp, tenderloin steak, white meat chicken breast and spring rolls from […]