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Author: Contributing Writers

Questioning home through essay assignments

Posted on February 10, 2017October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Marina Tinone -1- Write about your most comfortable place. It doesn’t have to be your home, though many choose to write about their home. It can be your favorite place, a place you feel at peace, or a place that you want to return to. Why is it important to you? Think of the…

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Counting the Fallen

Posted on February 3, 2017February 3, 2017 by Contributing Writers

by Dhiksha Balaji photo: India Water Portal We must account for the treelessness. Cyclone Vardah has uprooted more than 13,600 trees in Chennai, according to an early official count of the Tamil Nadu government. Some experts will tell you that it was, for the most part, only the trees that were never meant to grow…

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Thinking About the Report of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming

Posted on December 13, 2016October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Sohum Pal It may be that we are trapped in some self-parody of university bureaucracy. That seemed the case to me when I opened President Salovey’s email this past Friday, which stated that after reviewing the Report of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming, Salovey had appointed yet another committee to reexamine the…

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Don’t Worry Just About Yourself

Posted on December 13, 2016October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Tran Dang “You have to worry about yourself first. Don’t worry about anything else,” my mother told me over the phone one evening last November, in response to my attempt to explain the protests that defined the campus. Although my Vietnamese often splinters under the weight of topics with substantial social commentary, my mother…

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Revolution: An Ongoing Struggle for Liberation

Posted on December 11, 2016October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Azaria King, Amani Hill, Me’Lena Laudig, Chevonne Parker, Ambre Dromgoole, Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes, and Ikenna Nzewi In attending the Black Panther Party 50th Anniversary conference, we as students from Yale reclaimed part of the Party’s history and a legacy of resilience. Nowadays, we are constantly reminded of how much further we have to go…

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