August 11, 2011
Ruby Rae Spiegel’s play Carrie & Francine debuted Off Broadway last week. It has been reviewed in the New York Times. Spiegel is an accomplished woman, having won numerous prizes and received accolades for her …
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July 28, 2011
One of the things I was most excited about in going to Cambodia this summer was the promise of being in Phnom Penh while the The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia was in …
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June 26, 2011
I am spending this summer in Cambodia working with Khmer Legacies and Youth for Peace to take video testimony of genocide survivors near Phnom Penh. Cambodians suffered a horrific genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, …
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May 28, 2011
As reported by the Yale Daily News, on May 23rd, 2011 the Department of Education wrote to President Levin that it had found Yale in violation of the Cleary Act. This finding brings …
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April 28, 2011
Having never been to the Netherlands before my study abroad experience, all I knew upon arrival about the prevailing attitudes towards women relied on a historical and stereotypical, rather than experiential, knowledge. I am aware of …
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April 4, 2011
Today, Vice President Joseph Biden in conjunction with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan of the Department of Education announced new guidelines to help educators—from elementary schools to universities—address sexual violence. Biden, who has been deeply involved with government …
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April 2, 2011
Christopher Yuan visited Yale’s campus yesterday evening, and spoke for just over one hour at the Afro-American Cultural Center (Af-Am House) to an audience of students including self-identified LGBTQ allies and members of the Christian …
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March 13, 2011
Before studying abroad, I lived in Berlin for four months in 2009. Therefore my experiential knowledge of the city was cemented before I went this past year. When I lived in Berlin, my apartment and all of my friends’ …
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February 22, 2011
For my study abroad program, we had to write “Situated Feminist” papers, in which we mused about the culture that we would find in our next location before arriving. Because of these papers, I have a …
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