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As an undergraduate at Duke University in the early 2000s, Kelly Fayard was a solitary voice each Columbus Day as she attempted to bring awareness to indigenous people’s deaths at the hands of European explorers.

October 11, 2016

ADELAIDE FEIBEL

Buckley survey polls students’ political views

A recent survey of political opinion, sponsored by Yale’s William F. Buckley, Jr. Program, found that while a majority of college students across the country […]

October 11, 2016

RACHEL TREISMAN

History department expands hiring search

Starting this fall, Yale’s History Department is increasing its number of senior faculty after several years of hiring mostly untenured ladder faculty.

October 10, 2016

BRITTANY SMITH

Clinton advisor talks election, women’s issues

Jennifer Klein, advisor on women’s issues to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, discussed how these issues are at stake in the current presidential […]

October 10, 2016

LUKE CIANCARELLI

OCS survey sees record high response rate

Hitting a record 81 percent response rate, this year’s Office of Career Strategy Summer Activities Survey garnered the most representative data ever collected about students’ […]

October 10, 2016

LUKE CIANCARELLI & ZULFIQAR MANNAN

SUN rallies on Cross Campus

Over the past two weeks, the organization has managed to obtain 1187 signatures from the student body in support of the full elimination of the student effort, a yearly sum that students on financial aid must contribute to their educations.

October 7, 2016

SHUYU SONG & DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY

Div School honors Yale’s first African-American student

The first African-American to study at Yale, an escaped slave named James Pennington, was honored in a formal ceremony at the Divinity School Wednesday afternoon.

October 7, 2016

ISHAAN SRIVASTAVA

With low interest, universities turn to bonds

Harvard University announced plans last week to pay off more than two billion dollars of debt through a bond issuance, employing a funding strategy already […]

October 7, 2016

ANDREW BALLARD & CAITLIN WESTERFIELD

Times general counsel talks Trump, WikiLeaks

The New York Times’ top lawyer spoke to students Thursday about his 30-year career helping the paper improve its coverage of sensitive stories, from the […]

October 7, 2016

DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY

Graduate Student Assembly rejects Local 33

At its biweekly meeting in the Hall of Graduate Studies, a deeply divided Graduate Student Assembly voted for two resolutions opposing the overall organizing efforts of Local 33 and the election strategy the unofficial union is currently pursuing in court.

October 6, 2016

BRITTON O'DALY & AMY XIONG

Leo rolls out diversity policies

Leo, the Yale fraternity formerly known as Sigma Alpha Epsilon, is undergoing changes in internal culture as it adopts new policies on diversity and inclusion after the group dissociated itself from the national fraternity chapter in May.

October 6, 2016

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