BOLD stands for “Bulldogs of the Last Decade” and is a Yale Alumni Association initiative to bring young graduates of Yale College and the Yale graduate schools into the alumni community.
Colorado BOLD alums ( 2011-20) and current Yale students are invited to join CYA board members Ben Jacobs ’17, Bo Reynolds ’14, and Samantha Lichtin ’16 in conversation on core issues of our generation. In times that make us question everything Yale taught us the world would, could, should be, we harken back to late night philosophy in the stacks, dining halls, and off-campus. The hope is this will be a space to explore and challenge our thoughts, fears, and dreams, and to just enjoy an intensity of our own making in the company of others who keep asking “but why?”. BOLD Conversations will take place the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 7 to 8:30ish pm on Zoom. The series starts Sept 10th (one week later due to Labor Day) with “What I Wish Yale Taught Me” followed by “What Does It Mean to be a Citizen” on the 17th.
Future topics may include:
– State of the World
– Civic Duty
– Personal Responsibility
– Making Community
– What is Science? Does it matter?
– What is Law? Does it matter?
– The Public Good
– Textual Originalism
– To be “Well Read”
– Leadership Vacuum
– Climate Anxiety
– Is Democracy in Danger?
– All Men are Created Equal
– Equity and Equality
– Social Capital
– Classism (and the other isms, too)
– My Hometown is Segregated
– High School Never Ends
– Arrested Development
– Indebtedness
– Work / Life Balance (lol)
– I Love / Hate Technology
– Am I a Cog?
– I am Enough
– I Promise I’m not Crazy
– A Good Life
Please email Ben at benjamindouglasjacobs@gmail.com if you would like to join the BOLD Conversation, and you’ll get the url before the zoom meeting. We look forward to exploring with you soon.
The photo shows Trumbull dining hall where in 1968 Kingman Brewster announced that college residents would be expected to cede their rooms to incoming freshwomen. “All hell broke loose. By the end of the four hour meeting, Brewster had admitted defeat and agreed to listen to an alternative plan offered by the students. In the end, most of the 250 freshwomen were housed in Vanderbilt Hall on Old Campus and the 380 transfer students were distributed equally among the colleges.” visitorcenter.yale.edu