By Treston Codrington When the organizers of Yale’s Religion and Film Series selected “Religion and Social Change” as this year’s theme last spring, co-organizer Dr. Briallen Hopper says, “we couldn’t have foreseen the way these movements for social change would come to Yale.” In fact, the series screened the documentary A Time for Burning the…
by Isadora Milanez originally published in Broad Recognition On March 7, 2016, Students Unite Now launched a website demanding the elimination of the student income contribution at Yale. The website contains the efforts of over two months of conversations about financial aid in which students whose situations ranged from full financial aid to no aid at…
by Nicole Chavez On Thursday, February 18th, the International Students’ Organization hosted an event called Race in Global Context. During the two-hour long event held in Linsly Chittenden Hall, about fifty students listened in on three panels in which international students along with faculty discussed the various racial dynamics found in spaces outside of the United…
by Karen Marks January 24th began recruitment for Yale’s four sororities: Kappa Kappa Gamma (Kappa), Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta), Pi Beta Phi (Pi Phi), and the newest chapter of Alpha Phi. On entering the rush process, sophomore Theta pledge Celeste Dushime said that she knew for sure that she would be in a minority of rushes,…
by Arturo Pineda On February 16th, President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak announced the establishment of a Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). The new center will continue the work of the Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Program by focusing on the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality but aim…