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 Sebastian Medina-Tayac, Camila Guiza-Chavez, Oscar Garcia-Ruiz, and Laura Plata Rain slid down Alicia Camacho’s face as a police officer started to cuff her red-gloved hands Tuesday afternoon. Camacho, the associate master of Ezra Stiles College and a professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration, wore the gloves to dramatize the message of the banner she…
by Holly Chung The Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) is used to opposition from Yale’s top administrators, who don’t want to negotiate with yet another labor union. But recent public criticism among its own constituents has catapulted GESO into the spotlight in an unprecedented way. An “Open Letter to GESO Leadership” expresses profound concerns…
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 Ashia Ajani During lunch, where some of the most uncomfortable conversations take place, one of my peers brought up the death of Justice Scalia, who in my opinion, need not be spoken of anymore than necessary. Despite Scalia’s bigotry, his history of habitually flunking Black students under his instruction when he was a law…