by Ashia Ajani Trigger warning: sexual assault, rape I am on the Yale shuttle. I’m scrolling through Facebook aimlessly, when a video my friend shared catches my eye. The title is “See the College Acceptance Letter That’s Shocking High School Seniors”. Nothing more, nothing less. It is decision season, so I’m intrigued. I open the…
by Matt Thekkethala On the afternoon of Friday April 29th, 2016, I celebrated my first Holi. I ventured to the Swing Space courtyard with a group of friends decked out in white t-shirts and sunglasses, joyfully threw colored powder at said group in addition to many other strangers, took several photos with said group in…
by Carlene Ervin I didn’t know that private schools existed. Within my sphere of knowledge in Oakland, CA of public and charter schools battling for state funding, private schools were a dreamland. For all I knew private schools were Hollywood’s inventions in order to sell the stories of rich kids’ childhood drama. Where I’m from,…
by Dhikshitha Balaji It is clear that the Yale English Department’s major for undergraduates must be restructured. A few weeks ago, Adriana Miele published an article in the Yale Daily News observing that “the department educates its students in venerating the English canon” and thus “actively contributes to the erasure of history.” As a sophomore English major…
by Ellie Pritchett and Karen Marks On April 29th at 3 pm, Yale students of color held a renaming ceremony for Calhoun College on Cross Campus. The ceremony, attended by approximately 600 people, rechristened the residential college provisionally as “the college formerly known as Calhoun.” It did not specify a new name. The renaming comes…