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…
Beasts of No Nation: A Nation of Broken Child Soldiers
by Hawa Adula Cast: Idris Elba, Abraham Attah, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Richard Pepple Director: Cary Fukunaga It is easy to lose track of events that are happening outside our own little bubbles. There are so many horrific events happening around the world that we desensitize ourselves to in order to avoid becoming a jumble of emotions….
Imagine: An LGBTQ Schwarzman Center
by Ashia Ajani My name is Ashia Ajani, and I’m casually pansexual. I like poetry, cats and basic human rights, as well as safe queer spaces. I usually operate on a “if you ask, I’ll answer” system, which often backfires into a slew of intimate questions which I would rather avoid in the first place….
Those Who Came Before
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon During his talk “Hispanics in the Legal Profession” at La Casa two weeks ago, alum Manuel del Valle (Law ’74) proclaimed the following to a packed house: “It’s something you need to know, because it’s part of your history. A history of what? Of struggle.” The “it” in question is Gonzalo v. Westminster,…
To Preserve and To Persevere
by Ishrat Mannan and Didem Kaya “It is Palestine. Not a dream, but a people. Not a refugee camp, but a country alive in its people’s hearts.” – Vijay Prashad “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be…