story | Nicholas Lua, Features Editor photo | Public Affairs Richard Charles Levin will be the commencement speaker at Yale-NUS College’s inaugural graduation ceremony. In choosing a commencement speaker, Pericles Lewis, President of Yale-NUS College, said he wanted someone associated with the college who had “a message relevant to our graduates.” Mr. Levin currently sits […]
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Story | Yasunari Watanabe, Contributing Reporter Image | David Zhang Panel discussions with the Yale-NUS College Governing Board held on Aug. 14 as part of their ongoing search for President Pericles Lewis’s replacement, gave students an opportunity to give their input for the next president, but recorded poor turnout. Brian McAdoo, Professor of Science and […]
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Story by Dave Chappell, Managing Editor, and Spandana Bhattacharya, Editor-in-Chief | Picture credit to Dave Chappell Respondents to a recent campus-wide survey expressed disatisfaction with the reaction of the media and members of the student-body to recent comments made by Ambassador Chan Heng Chee. Respondents were asked to rate how satisfied they were with […]
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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 recently growing in popularity—the “illiberal liberal” argument. This line of thought goes something like this: liberals, a label lazily used to group together a broad range of actors and realities […]
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Story by David Chappell, Managing Editor, and Spandana Bhattacharya, Editor-in-Chief | Picture credit to David Chappell By an overwhelming margin, the student body of Yale-NUS College support Ambassador Chan Heng Chee’s continuation on the Yale-NUS Governing Board, suggests a survey conducted by The Octant. The Octant conducted a campus-wide poll, following the publication of an opinion […]
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Story by Nicholas Carverhill, Guest Columnist On Jan. 27, 2016, Yale-NUS Governing Board Member Ambassador Chan Heng Chee spoke at the Universal Periodic Review of Singapore’s human rights, hosted by the United Nations. At this review she defended Singapore’s position on gay rights and the existence of Section 377A—institutionalized inequality—in the Penal Code. No less […]
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