By DEMETRA HUFNAGEL
November 12, 2011
On November 10th, President Levin released an email update to the Yale community on the status of the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate that was formed last spring. This update included the full report of …
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By HANNAH ZEAVIN
November 9, 2011
2011 is an off-year election. The New York Times appeared to overlook the races until results started coming in as polls closed this evening. Yet, several important contests were decided and referendums voted upon. From …
By ELLIE MONAHAN November 7, 2011 At the end of October I came across a Yale Daily News Op-Ed piece, “For A Women’s Center for all Women,” that attacked the Center for its “obvious contempt” for pro-life proponents on campus. …
By MARY CHRISTENSEN November 4, 2011
I am almost certain that the campus organization called “Yale Tango” is not an escort service, a brothel, bordello, or prostitution ring. But it has distributed full-color advertisements around campus that suggest otherwise, a flyer that creates …
By SEX WEEK 2012 EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS November 4, 2011
In recent months, Yale has been made–and has made itself–into an object of inquiry for those concerned with sex and sexuality on college campuses. Discussions of sexual cultures at Yale have …
By EMILY RAPPAPORT November 3, 2011
Emily Bazelon ’93, LAW ’00, is a journalist, a senior editor at Slate magazine, a Senior Research Fellow in Law and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. …
By HANNAH ZEAVIN November 1, 2011
The treatment of persons as objects has a long history. The main feature of this violent trend involves the specious manipulation of science and rational thought in order to subjugate persons of supposedly inferior races, …
By JULIA CALAGIOVANNI October 28, 2011
“Are you, like, offended when guys hold doors for you?” In the two months I have been at Yale, almost every male classmate to whom I have identified myself as a feminist has asked me …
By ROSIE DUPONT
October 10, 2011
The face of revolution is changing. This past Friday, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, her compatriot and Liberian peace organizer Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni women’s rights activist Tawakkul …