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September 2, 2016 The Octant1

What’s happening on campus? Love the Gov?: After a comparatively serious elections campaign, Yale-NUS College’s third student council was elected on Friday, September 2. While the results weren’t released when The Octant went to press, the Presidential campaign is set to start on Monday, Sept. 5 with voting taking place three days later on Thursday, […]

Professor Barney Bate (1960-2016): A Death in the Family

March 29, 2016December 2, 2016 The Octant1

Story by Dave Chappell, Managing Editor “What is family?” This was the title of Professor Barney Bate’s (Or Barney, as he preferred to be known) Comparative Social Institutions (CSI) lecture on Sept. 9, 2013. But as the lecture came to a close Barney had another, perhaps more appropriate, question for the class of 2017: “who are family?” It […]