by Katie McCleary feature photo courtesy of Alex Zhang Yale University Indigenous Peoples’ Day at Yale University received an unprecedented amount of local press not because Indigenous peoples spent two days radically resisting settler colonialism by celebrating each other and their ancestors’ resistance, but rather because of the controversy surrounding the circulation of racist imagery….
by Marina Tinone Professor John Witt (TD 94, LAW 99, GSAS 00) is the head of the Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming (CEPR). On October 4, I sat across from Professor Witt in his office at the Sterling Law Building. Surrounded by his full shelves of law and history books, I spoke with the…
by Carlene Ervin Yale is a high-pressure place, and even the calmest of people can often be swept into feeling pressure to recieve perfect grades, be in the right clubs, and attain the perfect resume booster. Midterms only serve to exacerbate these issues, making students more stressed, sleep-deprived, and sick than before. Over the past…
by Katie McCleary (Staff Columnist) 1. Learn About Indigenous Peoples’ Day (IPD) IPD takes place annually on the second Monday in October. IPD is the largest celebration of survivance and unity for Indigenous peoples around the world. It’s a time to celebrate our 500+ years of resistance to colonialism and continued resilience against U.S. imperialism….
by Ahmed Elbenni (Contributing Writer) Something profound happened last Tuesday, during the Eid banquet. That night, standing before a crowd of over five hundred Muslims, Christians, Jews, agnostics, and atheists under a portrait of George H. W. Bush in the largest dining hall of my secular university, I recited verses from the Quran, the Islamic…