The Compromise
A college-wide debate about grading has unearthed a deeper conversation about sacrifice and inequity on Yale’s campus. Keep Reading
Editors’ Note — Volume 51, Issue 4
Dear readers, The time? April 2015. The place? Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Dazed by the floodlights overhead and the pearly-white smiles of our high-achieving peers, we wandered the extracurricular bazaar at Bulldog Days. Ballroom dancers besieged us. We could have become stars of the polo team. Every single improv group wanted us, bad. Instead, we each… Keep Reading
How to Solve Everything
Yale's effective altruists strive for an ethical lifestyle. Keep Reading
Best Video
A portrait of Best Video in Hamden, Connecticut, a video store withstanding the digital age. Keep Reading
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Pedalling Politics
I have butterflies in my stomach,? Charlie Pillsbury tells us, smiling hopefully as he guides his bicycle into the street. In spite of his silver beard, khaki shorts, and bike helmet, he speaks to the cluster of reporters and carries himself in a way that reminds me of Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch in To… Keep Reading
A Separate Peace
A few weeks ago, I watched from a distance as an eclectic group of New Haven residents bearing homemade signs and banners gathered on the courthouse steps to file a war crimes indictment. Their list of alleged war criminals included George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell, and they were pressing for… Keep Reading
Black and Blue
Today?s sermon is on the burden of hopelessness. To begin, the Reverend Dr. W. David Lee?pastor of New Haven?s most distinguished and most ancient black congregation, Varick Memorial ame Zion Church; graduate of Syracuse University, Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary; and most recently a candidate for a seat on the Yale Corporation?quotes not… Keep Reading