Author: Hannah Owens Pierre

The Women’s Center purports itself to be a safe space on campus, but is it doing more harm than good? The Yale Women’s Center is located in the basement of Durfee Hall on Old Campus. (Credit: The Buckley Beacon). Hannah Owens PierreStaff Writer, The Buckley Beacon Recently, the Yale Women’s Center has come under scrutiny by the Yale administration. According to the Yale Daily News, last December the Yale Dean’s Office offered the Women’s Center the option to either represent the political neutrality of Yale’s mission or become a purely student organization, rather than a campus-sponsored organization with a paid student staff. The first question one should ask is what is the Yale’s Women’s Center? If you guessed a space to uplift and represent all women at Yale,...

Institutional neutrality is a common-sense policy, yet some students still don’t get the point. Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. (Credit: Buckley Institute) Hannah Owens PierreStaff Writer, The Buckley Beacon On Wednesday, President McInnis sent an email to the Yale community announcing findings from the Committee on Trust in Higher Education, a coalition she convened to examine “declining trust in higher education.” The results are damning: The committee admits that Yale bears responsibility for this lack of trust, due to rising tuition costs, lack of clear standards for admission, and, most importantly, promoting political bias and censorship.  This last point has been the focus of much student discourse, from myself included. To combat the clear ...