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Once again our government decides to shut down another school. Last time this happened, it was to Nanyang University which closed its doors in 1980 to “merge” with NUS. Now, they are shutting down “Yale-NUS”, also to “merge” with NUS. Following the announcement, some Yale-NUS student has already started a …

I refer to the Straits Times article today, which carries the headline "Nearly half of Yale-NUS pioneer grads have job offers". You read it once, without putting any thoughts to it, it sounds nice. Then you realise that this means more than half of the Yale-NUS pioneer grads actually have no job offers. I know the media wants to make this sound nice, and that liberal arts are gaining a foothold in Singapore, but if more than half still have not got job offers, then we are not there yet in acceptance of liberal arts graduates. Article did go on to say another one-fifth have received offers to pursue graduate studies. This means the number of graduates without any concrete future is still much more than other graduates. And the article says observers indicates that employers here believe in the value of a liberal arts education, though it is still viewed by many as a "minority" option.

I read this article https://qz.com/965680/yale-nus-in-singapore-is-now-harder-to-gain-admission-into-than-the-yale-harvard-or-any-of-the-ivy-league/ with astonishment at the level of self-entitled elitism that some Yale graduates put on display for the whole world to see.

My cousin from Yale NUS been dating her bf from NTU since uni. When the bf graduated, he started working as a RM at a bank, but had some self esteem issues while dating my cousin. They were supposed to go Kyoto to see the cherry blossoms together but he was feeling emo and decided to offer his ticket to the mutual friend, to go Kyoto with my cousin.

Currently, students in a suite have to be of the same gender, and male and female students stay on opposite ends of corridors. But when students move into three residential colleges in their new campus in July, they can choose suitemates of the same or opposite gender. The latter option is described as "open housing" by the college.

In recent months, campus discussion regarding freedom of expression at Yale-NUS has been focused on Singaporean laws limiting free speech. But on Wednesday when, Singapore’s highest court upheld a law — Section 377A — criminalizing sex between men, questions arose regarding whether students at Yale-NUS are free to explore their sexual orientation.

Yale-NUS backtracks on reassurances to show the film. In a Facebook post last night, director of the documentary, Tan Pin Pin clarified that she has not given permission to any institutions to any screenings in Singapore.

Despite a national ban in Singapore, Yale-NUS is pressing ahead with its plans to show a film that has been deemed by the Singaporean government as a threat to the country’s security. The banning of the film quickly raised ire amongst Yale professors, including longtime Yale-NUS critics including English professor Jill Campbell and political science lecturer Jim Sleeper, who characterized the ban as a threat to freedom of expression at a college stamped with Yale’s name. The ban, as well as Lewis’ reassurance about the film’s screening at Yale-NUS, comes on the heels of Yale President Peter Salovey’s full-throated defense of free expression during his freshman address in August.

Yale-NUS College issued a statement on Tuesday (17 Jun) [Link] revealing that it had offered 177 outstanding students from around the world to form the Class of 2018. This is the second batch of students it is admitting. These students come from 35 different countries. In all, Yale-NUS attracted over 12,000 applications compared to 11,400 applications last year. It did not reveal how many of the applications were from Singapore.