story | Jim Sleeper, Guest Writer
photo | StockSnap.io
Long before Yale trustees ever thought of co-founding a liberal arts college with NUS, some of them...
story | Yip Jia Qi, Editor, Jiang Haolie, Contributing Writer
photo | Yip Jia Qi
Last semester, the student-run forum “Occupy: The Politics of Youth and...
story | Terence Anthony Wang, Arts Editor
photo | Terence Anthony Wang, Dave Chappell and amCharts
A few days ago, digitally-native news outlet Quartz published an...
story | Shawn Hoo, Guest Contributor
photo | Conal Gallagher and Dave Chappell
“We still fly our kites
In designated parks.”
(Alfian Sa’at, “Apathy,” A History of Amnesia)
In...
story | Neo Huiyuan, Arts Editor
photo | Lynn Voight
What happens when the very institutions you trust for protection turn against you? What happens when...
Story | Daryl Yang
Illustration | Yang Xuerui
Last week, our college was involved in a passionate discussion after a student posted on the Yale-NUS College...
Opinion by Francesca Maviglia, Guest Columnist | Illustration by Roger Ko
There’s a tendency to attack left-wing individuals as the ones with authoritarian attitudes that has been...
story Raeden Richardson and Kaushik Swaminathan
Dear Class of 2019,
There are upperclassmen who will graduate from Yale-NUS College with a degree but no education. Some have...
story Yonatan Gazit
A breach of academic freedom on Yale-NUS College’s campus could put its future in jeopardy. In an interview with The Octant, President of...
column Dennis Chiang
"We cannot tolerate intolerance.”
This aphorism best encapsulates the current attitude in academia towards controversial areas of research, which are often labeled as ‘intolerant’....
story Kaushik Swaminathan | Tee Zhuo
On Jan. 7, two masked gunmen attacked the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in apparent response to the...
Guest columnist || Nicholas Carverhill
Photo from the Sultan Knish blog
My moral sensibilities are profoundly influenced by the recognition that I live a deeply privileged life....
Rakesh Prabhakaran || Guest Columnist
Photo from 343 Industries
In a community which is so accepting of all religions, sexual orientations, and cultures, we sometimes commit...
Spandana Bhattacharya
Photo by Christopher Khew
Early morning on Oct. 10, David Chia ’17 saw an official from the NUS Office of Housing Services (OHS) remove...
Kaushik Swaminathan
The last week at RC4 featured a barrage of cryptic, and equally intriguing posters along the walls and elevators of the building. G...
story Kaushik Swaminathan
Yale-NUS is an infant born from the womb of over four hundred years of collective academic excellence in Asia and the United...
