by Alejandra Padín-Dujon Framed by a portrait of Yale graduate Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university in 1854, Timothy Dwight Master Mary Lui outlined the institutional barriers to promoting Asian American Studies. Perhaps the most significant is the mechanics of the hiring process. Yale’s social scientists, whose departments hold much…
by Ashia Ajani My name is Ashia Ajani, and I’m casually pansexual. I like poetry, cats and basic human rights, as well as safe queer spaces. I usually operate on a “if you ask, I’ll answer” system, which often backfires into a slew of intimate questions which I would rather avoid in the first place….
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon During his talk “Hispanics in the Legal Profession” at La Casa two weeks ago, alum Manuel del Valle (Law ’74) proclaimed the following to a packed house: “It’s something you need to know, because it’s part of your history. A history of what? Of struggle.” The “it” in question is Gonzalo v. Westminster,…
by Ishrat Mannan and Didem Kaya “It is Palestine. Not a dream, but a people. Not a refugee camp, but a country alive in its people’s hearts.” – Vijay Prashad “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be…
by Nicole Chavez Like most of its Ivy League peers, Yale has never been the front-runner on diversity. Established in 1701, the college’s founding purpose was to serve as an institution of higher education where the white, wealthy elite would send their sons to be groomed into polished politicians and stoic stockbrokers. Given the great…