by Ishrat Mannan In 2011 the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney who is currently Canada’s Minister of National Defense and Multiculturalism, introduced the ban on niqabs, a piece of cloth used to cover a Muslim woman’s face. Kenney along with the past Prime Minister of Stephen Harper justified the ban by claiming that…
by Fernando Torres With the Ward 1 alder election approaching this Tuesday, incumbent Democrat Sarah Eidelson discusses her work with the New Haven community and the Ward 1 Alder’s role in the struggles of people of color on and off Yale’s campus. The main purpose of the campaign, she said, is to motivate student involvement…
by Fernando Torres With crime rates as high as 40,000 crimes+ per year, the Bronx in the 1990’s was not a safe place to live. Ugonna Eze, PC ’16, recalls not being able to walk safely through the streets without the fear of getting shot at or getting caught in the middle of gang warfare….
In anticipation of the Halloween weekend soon to arrive at Yale, an email was sent out by Dean Burgwell Howard and the Intercultural Affairs Committee in which they implored the Yale body to “avoid those circumstances that threaten our sense of community or disrespects, alienates or ridicules segments of our population based on race, nationality,…
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…