Like most students on this campus, I’ve been having lots of difficult conversations over the past week with people both in and outside of Yale—family, friends, Facebook friends, Facebook acquaintances. Some of these conversations have been infuriating (shout-out to my racist Facebook friends!), some have been frustrating (shout-out to my dumb Facebook friends!), and some of which have been uplifting, enlightening, and heartwarming. This latter group of conversations tends to end by raising the same core question: How do we make Yale better?

In this week’s front, Joyce Guo, SM ’17, looks at one answer to this question. She examines a committee in the Physics department that aims to improve the department’s climate around diversity, and serves as a model for how Yale can work to make classrooms a safe and accepting place. Elsewhere, in Opinion, Carly Lovejoy, BR ’16, considers the importance of shame in creating social change.

In Voices, Annelisa Leinbach, CC ’16, presents portraits of the incredible individuals who have shaped the past two weeks, and we feature a poem that Sarah Pearl Heard, ES ’18, performed at Monday’s March of Resilience.

An infographic in Features tracks the range of media coverage of the past two weeks at Yale. We’ve seen that, frequently, the most reliable voices come from on our own campus. Let’s keep on adding to the conversation.

With love,

Charlie Bardey

Inserts Editor