In August 2020, Jisoo Choi sat down with Camille Delaney-Mcneil, Director of Programs with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra OrchKids. Jisoo Choi: Could you briefly describe what OrchKids does with respect to its programs and the impact it seeks to have? Camille Delaney-McNeil: OrchKids, in short, is a “music...
Written by Isabella Yang, SY 21' Edited By Lica Porcile, BF 21' Tucked in the corner of a mezzanine-level bookshelf in Sterling Library’s East Asia Reading Room is an aged book with dark covers; on its spine are printed the simple words “Gifts of Yale Association...
Written by Nadean Alnajjar, JE 22' Edited by Alexandra Halberstam, TD 22' The Black Panther Party (BPP) only exists in our recollection today either as an evocation of the Marvel Universe’s Wakanda, or a radically militant Black organization from the 1960s. Representations of the BPP falsely characterize...
Volume 12: December 14, 2020 Ophelia's Distraction By London Johns In Act IV, Scene 5 of Hamlet, Ophelia enters distracted. She sings suggestive folk songs and speaks in riddles. Two scenes later she has died, quietly and offstage. Ophelia’s madness, as brief as it is in the...
By Heidi Katter, Yale University '20 Edited by Oona Holahan and Louie Lu Introduction In July 1889, the United States government sent a commission to northwestern Minnesota to counsel with the Ojibwe of the White Earth and Red Lake Reservations. The object of these visits was straightforward: to negotiate...
Written by Polly Moser, Stanford 22' Edited by Fiona Benson, Yale 22', Meghan Gupta, Yale 21', and Mary Tate, Yale 21' For many, an image of the archetypal eating disorder patient is easy to bring to mind; she is female, White, young, and painfully thin. This...
