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As pro-Palestinian protests continue across the U.S., some colleges have struck deals with students to consider divestment in exchange for packing up encampments. As pro-Palestinian protests have spread across college campuses nationwide two key demands have emerged: that colleges disclose how endowment funds are invested, and that they divest from weapons manufacturers and other businesses profiting off of the war in Gaza.

Encampments and protests led by student activists supporting Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war have taken over college campuses in the last week. What are the students demanding?

The US military’s switch to an all-volunteer force in 1973 led to a series of magazine ads that sought to portray military service as a way for women and people of color to move up in society.

With a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, YPEI now has the capacity to offer a wider range of courses, establish a fellows program and partner with the University of New Haven.

<p>Although the future Supreme Court Justice did lay out a plan to contest ideological control over universities, Chamber of Commerce attorney Lewis Powell was concerned above all with the power of big business to dominate society without opposition or criticism. </p>

"Pride was, and always will be, about our people, and taking a moment to breathe while we fight to celebrate our very existence and how far we come. I can carry my critiques of the whitewashing and co-opting of Pride, and I can celebrate my community at the same time," writes Lazarus Nance Letcher.

Carrying critiques of rainbow-washed corporations and a sanitized history while still embracing real community

This LGBTQ+ History Month, we investigate how the legacy of the 1969 riots at Stonewall have been mythologised to the detriment of the wider queer community.

May 10, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this (Photo: Dan Renzetti) Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees. They are: Sarbani Basu, whose discoveries have changed our understanding of the structure of the sun and the properties of stars, has been appointed the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Astronomy. Read more Fran...