Oct 21 2008
Dear Readers,
The Yale Globalist is excited to present our new blog for the season: The World Weighs In: International Perspectives on the US Elections! Jeania Ree Moore, a freshman in Saybrook College at Yale, is blogging about the 2008 United States elections as seen by the international community. If you are tired of the same news about the elections and want a new twist on them, you’ll enjoy this new blog.
The blog can be found at:
Jul 21 2008
The Yale Globalist is proud and thrilled to have Paull Randt, a Yale senior, reporting from China throughout all the craze surrounding the 2008 Olympic Games. His blog is available at http://olympics.tyglobalist.org.
More information about Paull can be found after the jump.
May 04 2008
As our maintenance continues, we’ll be posting articles from our newest issue on the blog. First up is the issue’s featured Focus piece on Christian missionaries in the former Soviet Union, written by Maria Blackwood (JE ‘10).
Oksana is a 25-year-old Russian woman who works as a supervisor at the career-advising department of the local government’s employment center. aresident of Yekaterinburg—a city located deep inside Russia’s heartland—she was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church when she was 11 at her aunt’s insistence.
A few years ago, Oksana started to attend the local services of the Boston Church of Christ and Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. These experiences, however, were more social than religious, she said. “I never believed in God. I was raised in a family where nobody did.”
May 02 2008
Dear Readers,
Disappointed to find that the Globalist website is under construction? Please accept our sincerest apologies.
I promise you, though, you won’t be disappointed with the changes. With new ed-boards come new ideas–and our newest ed-board is no different. We’re revamping our website to bring you more news and more articles with an even better look.
Stay tuned. In the meantime, we’ll do our best to keep the blog up to date–so keep reading!
Apr 21 2008
This past Friday, April 18, Yale hosted the 2008 Conference of Governors on Climate Change to sign a declaration to push for better state and federal legislature to fight against climate change. The Conference was attended by the governors of Connecticut, Kansas, New Jersey, and California, as well as by representatives from Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and Washington. There were various international observers including the Premier of Quebec and Manitoba, the Environment Minister of the Czech Republic, and the Minister of Ecology of Sonora. Other notable attendants included Yale President Richard Levin and Nobel Laureate Dr. R.K. Pachauri.
Special guests included US Governors and foreign leaders
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Apr 17 2008
We received a letter in response to Pete Martin’s article (Coal Nation), from a source that played a major role in the article. It is from Mike Murphy, a farmer who lives in Marissa, Illinois, and whose farm is threatened by the construction of the Prairie State power plant.