Yale University

New series of protests at Yale accompany start of academic year

New series of protests at Yale accompany start of academic year

Evan Lips

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With a new academic year underway at Yale University, activists are picking up where they left off last spring.

The focus, again, is on the name of one particular college at the prestigious Ivy League university — Calhoun College, named after American statesman John C. Calhoun, who advocated for slavery more than 200 years ago.

Election legitimacy at risk, even without a November cyberattack
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Election legitimacy at risk, even without a November cyberattack

Herbert Lin

We've heard a lot in recent weeks about the potential for Russian meddling in the presidential election. A lot of circumstantial evidence – and the fact that Russia has the means, motive and opportunity to conduct these attacks – suggests an important Russian role in the leaks of confidential emails from the Democratic National Committee, the release of opposition research on Donald Trump compiled by the DNC and personal contact details of many prominent Democrats. And just this week, news broke that the FBI has found evidence of foreign penetrations of voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois and warned officials in every state to improve the cybersecurity of election-related systems.

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