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Yale’s Central Asia Initiative, the centerpiece of its offerings on the increasingly important region, is falling short of its true potential. Luce Hall at Yale, which houses Yale’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. (Credit: Buckley Institute) Benjamin NulandContributor, The Buckley Beacon For many Americans, Central Asia remains a distant periphery, a vague space between Russia, China, and the Middle East. Yet this assumption misses its status as of the most consequential geopolitical laboratories of the 21st century. Yale’s Central Asia Initiative (CAI), one of the few institutions of its kind in the United States, is uniquely positioned to transform how students engage with the region, not simply as a historical and cultural relic, but as an...

Why letting go of Professor Feng Zhang was a mistake. 46 Hillhouse Avenue at Yale, home of Yale’s International Security Studies program. (Credit: Buckley Institute) Benjamin NulandContributor, The Buckley Beacon Yale College has long shaped how Americans understand China, with generations of scholars like Professor Jonathan Spence training undergraduates like Joe Tsai and Tim Steinert who went on to influence business and policy. But at the undergraduate level, that legacy feels increasingly hollow, especially in the study of contemporary Chinese geopolitics.  While peer institutions like Harvard and Brown have built accessible ecosystems like the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, at Yale, much of...

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,...

Yale’s drinking culture is completely out of touch with reality. A Saturday night party on High Street. (Credit: Jack Olson) Jason CaoStaff Writer, The Buckley Beacon Before Yale students step foot on campus as freshmen, all of them complete a mandatory “Work Hard, Play Smart” online course on the dangers of alcohol and the importance of drinking responsibly. Like all mandatory trainings, no one really pays attention to this course, and upon arriving on campus, students newly endowed with personal independence are largely left to fend off the temptation of intoxication by themselves.  As the regular occurrence of ambulances and stretchers on and around Old Campus suggests, many of them fail. The danger of alcohol cannot be understated. Scientists classify alcoh...