by Nicole Chavez At the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) Welcome Reception last Thursday, music and students flowed out of the wooden doors of 295 Crown Street. Balancing their teetering paper plates piled with Asian cuisine, the students who call this old house home talk animatedly with friends. An hour into the event, after everyone…
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Yale students remember the Ayotzinapa 43
by Sonny Stephens Forty-three desks covered Cross Campus on Saturday in recognition of the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 Mexican students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College. A candlelit vigil was held that evening, where Yalies stood in solidarity with the disappeared students and called for what organizers described as “memory, truth, and…
Not Your Ratchet
Each time that I hear a Yale student use the word “ratchet,” I die a little on the inside. They’re appropriating a word that has a specific and serious cultural context in Louisiana, where I’m from. The first time most Louisiana natives hear the word ratchet is not in a frat house, but in their…
NACC Debuts Choctaw Language Classes
At precisely seven o’clock Sunday night, the disembodied head of instructor Nicholas Charleston peers out from the screen at eight expectant students. Skype carries his voice from Oklahoma. Of those in attendance, six sit behind thick copies of A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language. Nearly all are Choctaw themselves. Dr. Angela Gleason, director of the…
The Time is Now: Reexamining Ahmed’s Story
On September 13th, 2015, fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed from Irving, Texas effortlessly constructed a digital clock in the span of twenty minutes. For a young NASA fanboy whose passion is to engineer and innovate, this was just another Sunday night. Before going to bed, he placed it in his book bag, eager to share his latest…