April 12, 2012
A few blocks west of Yale’s campus proper, where students crowd into apartment buildings and late-night eateries abound, a group of students lives a decidedly different life. A naked, headless mannequin stands …
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April 2, 2012
Head into this week with a recap of last week’s news in feminism—the good, the bad, and everything in between.
No poetry will serve. Adrienne Rich, feminist, poet, …
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March 25, 2012
In a March 1st email to the Yale College student body, Deans Mary Miller and W. Marshal Gentry announced that freshmen would no longer be able to rush fraternities and sororities in their first semester. …
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By JULIA CALAGIOVANNI March 7, 2012
Rush Limbaugh is wrong, Rush Limbaugh is wrong, Rush Limbaugh is wrong. Rush Limbaugh is wrong—we’re all tired of saying it. He’s wrong not only in his hypocrisy and his misogyny but also his facts. …
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February 22, 2012
Real talk: last week was a frustrating week to be a feminist. We saw abusers glorified, women silenced, and reproductive rights denied. A look back:
Chris Brown’s “comeback:” The week got off to a bad …
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February 10, 2012
The recent news about the real reason Yale quarterback Patrick Witt “turned down” a Rhodes Scholarship interview to play in this November’s Harvard/Yale football game has, inevitably, prompted another look at Yale’s much-discussed policies for handling …
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February 9, 2012
On Saturday, Dr. Ann Olivarius, YC ’77, SOM ’86, JD ’86, delivered Sex Week 2012’s “For God, For Country, and Sex Week: How Sex Education Fights Sexual Misconduct in Court and On Campus” keynote address. Olivarius’s …
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July 26, 2011
If you haven’t heard of Internet semi-sensation “whitegrlproblems,” think of her as the oversharing Sylvia Plath of the Twitter age. Sassy and self-absorbed, Babe Walker’s “whitegrl” offers a daily complaint – about her …
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