Op-eds

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Dealing with drink

As the school year ends, Yale University’s policies surrounding alcohol look remarkably similar to how they did at the end of the year prior. Despite a yearlong conversation on campus about the administration’s grip...

Facing ourselves

Mon., Apr. 15, 2:49 P.M.: a bomb detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Thirteen seconds later, another. At an event—a moment—meant to celebrate the strength and ability of the human body,...

Actually finally

Sometimes if I have done myself a “favor” for the semester and signed up for a class that lets me think about some capital-letter liberal-arts-important-life-Subject, -ism, or theory in some “critical” method that provided...
(Madeline Butler/YH Staff)

A generation of voices

The trend is clear: the only people willing to write on behalf of entire generations are, more often than not, very stoned. And yet alarmingly, I’ve noticed a number of people on this campus...

Life in compartments

I’ve always eaten my peas and carrots together. If there are multiple components of a dish, I’ll mash them up to synthesize one balanced, delicious mix (as far as stands to culinary reason). I...

Money side up

For years, I’ve thought of myself as having a healthy relationship with money. By all measures, I’ve lucked out big time. My dad’s dad made a hell of a lot of money a long...

Finding a center

I never thought I would join a fraternity. I vividly remember watching as my older siblings’ friends got involved with Greek life here at Yale, and being incredibly confused. Why would anyone need to...

Raising a ruckus

It is a sad fact of life that those we count on sometimes let us down. It is a happy fact of 2013’s miserably depressing political scene that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has not....
(Julia Kittle-Kamp/YH Staff)

Greater than marriage

I want to argue, as a queer person who wishes to challenge multiple vectors of oppression and who has a vested interest in the elimination of discrimination, that though the extension of marriage to...

Planning for Korea

When Kim Jong Un succeeded his father, Kim Jong Il, as North Korea’s head of state in 2011, some hoped that this young, Swiss-educated leader would prove to be different from his predecessor and...

After the sequester

On Mar. 1, Congress threw up its hands and said, “Forget it.” After two years of kicking the can down the road, the sequester is finally upon us. Listening to the Democrats, you would...
(Zachary Schiller/YH Staff)

A scanner scary

What does a scanner see?…I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days,...

Talking violence

Intimate partner violence straddles the personal and political in a way that proves those two spheres cannot be separated cleanly. However, being a survivor of domestic violence isn’t necessarily a politically galvanizing experience. Indeed,...
(Julia Kittle-Kamp/YH Staff)

Hang with me

Damnit all, Yale, I wanna talk about farts. I want to hear about the time your shorts fell off in the pool and the good-looking lifeguard laughed at the mole on your butt cheek....

Queer our housing

Second semester is getting underway, which means housing draw is coming up very soon. Underclassmen are talking about the struggles of blocking in the correct suite configuration for their year and residential college, and...

Leave profs alone

Yale is worried about grades. It’s worried that the grades it gives are too good, that it’s giving too many A’s, and that its professors are too lenient. In order to combat this tendency,...

Federalize the vote

You do not have a right to vote, strictly speaking. Nowhere does the Constitution positively assert the right of Americans to cast their ballots. Do not panic. The Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments ensure that...
(Lian Fumerton-Liu/YH Staff)

Scout pride

The idea that a 5th grade boy entering Boy Scouts should be able to determine his sexuality and exclude himself from the organization is, I would say, absurd.

The art of stumbling

I am sitting on my boyfriend’s futon, and we are discussing potential questions for his upcoming investment banking interviews. We are laughing about what would happen if someone were to answer the dreaded “greatest...

Rethinking drones

On Mon., Feb. 4, NBC published a leaked Justice Department memo that “set forth a legal framework” to justify the use of lethal drone strikes, without due process, against U.S. citizens abroad working with...