Posts Tagged ‘yale’

cringingly accurate

Monday, January 18th, 2010

My junior year roommates had one of those “For God, For Country, and For Yale” banners on the mantle of our drafty, ant-infested common room. My non-Yale friends thought the banner was ironic, and maybe it was, but not in the way they thought. It’s the same with the new admissions video. Carve out sixteen or so minutes and see what I went through.

youth and LGBT rights round-up

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

For ordinary news about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights in schools, I highly recommend the GLSEN blog. (Check out the GLSEN website for gay-straight alliance resources and more.) But this week’s LGBT youth news is so wild that I would be remiss not to recap it for you myself. Ranging from the sublime to the horrifying:

A 10-year-old Arkansas boy decides that the Pledge of Allegiance conflicts with discrimination.

A much cuter version of me represents her residential college in my alma mater’s Mr. Yale competition.

An Georgia teacher allegedly tries to order a hit on a gay student. Yes, you read that right!