Disaffiliation at Yale: Rethinking Community Beyond Greek Life
At Yale, four groups have severed ties with their national organizations, a move driven, in part, to rethink the rigid structures of Greek life rather than simply reproduce them.
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On the Sidelines of Democracy: Yale’s International Students Reflect on Election Day
On an election day that saw one of the most divisive and high-stakes contests for the presidency, an electric mood of political excitement suffused campus. Student groups such as Yale Votes led hundreds of students to City Hall to vote,…
Rising US-Chinese Tensions Chill Academic Collaboration at Yale and Beyond
There is no doubt that deep ties exist between Yale and its Chinese students, alumni, and peer institutions. But these bonds exist in a world of geopolitical maneuvering.
Waiting for a Haven: Homelessness in Yale’s Backyard
Inside Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s Drop-In and Resource Center, Alvin* was sitting at a small, tucked-away table in front of a booth where a young woman was cheerily handing out coffee. He had laid out a black and gray camouflage…
More Than a Job
The Rust Belt is coming to grips with the changing world of work. Automation, international competition, and industry consolidation eat away at steel and coal production. As manufacturing jobs lose ground to white-collar or low-wage service work, a new work ethic is developing and threatening to replace the work culture that sustained a blue-collar middle class. Economic security now demands a college education, but many resist what seems foreign to blue-collar values based on manual labor. From joining gangs to opting out of work entirely, resistance to the cultural transformation of the post-industrial economy takes on many forms, most of which hinder the transmission of a work ethic from parent to child. Now, people in the Rust Belt are not just worried about the future of work; they are uncertain if there will even be one.
Agnes Budzyn (Yale Club Finance Committee), ConsenSys Managing Director for the Office of the CEO
“It’s new, it’s emerging, it’s changing, and because of that, there’s so much opportunity to not only create and grow in the space, but actually to strategize, to influence its future development, and to become an expert in a very short period of time.”
Antonio Simeone (Financial Markets Certificate ’14), Co-Founder and Algorithmic Trader at Euklid
“If you give legal value to information that is registered immutably on the blockchain, then you don’t need to pay $50 thousand every year just to have another company reconciling numbers.”
Eliminate the Contribution
Participating in the rally was, for me, uplifting and inspiring. The student income contribution is an undue burden on low- and middle-income students, and it’s got to go.