Today, the Yale corporation announced that the name of Calhoun College will be changed to honor instead the legacy of Grace Murray Hopper ‘30 M.A, ‘34 Ph.D. The decision was made yesterday during the Corporation’s scheduled February meeting. The perception of Calhoun’s historical legacy as one that promoted slavery as a “positive good” was a…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon (Editor-in-Chief) This Friday, September 23rd from 2-5pm, Yale’s newly-created Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) will hold its inaugural Summer Student Research Symposium in Luce Hall. The symposium – the first of its kind since student advocates for comprehensive ethnic studies brought about the Center’s creation last year – takes place amid a…
by student affiliates of the Schell Center Lowenstein Clinic, Yale Law School Human Rights Record of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda to Be Subject of Yale Teach-In Tuesday, September 20, at 3 p.m., outside Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall On Tuesday, September 20, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, will deliver the Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture at Yale. Yale characterizes President Kagame…
by DOWN’s Editorial Board 1. Race & Gender in American Literature will get enough TAs 2. ER&M will get departmental status 3. We’ll finally know what the Schwarzman Center is for 4. Yale will have as many tenured Native faculty members as it has war criminals 5. Hillary Clinton will successfully hit the quan 6. Macklemore…
DOWN Voices Staff Because the social media accounts of Yalies of color give us life. Shoutout to all the white cis men in Race and Gender in American Literature. Facts. Check out more gems from Javier here. Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright, we’re looking at you. Some things just need to be Facebook…