Why are Generation Z obsessed with and relate to a royal from another life? In The Diacritic’s first multimedia piece, Vivien Sim examines the social media mania over Princess Diana….
The Diacritic has been on hiatus since the news on Friday 27 August of the merger of Yale-NUS College and the University Scholars Program into New College. No merger is painless, and in this case this merger has meant the closure of Yale-NUS College as an institution. This merger takes place amidst a series other mergers that impact up to half of the National University of Singapore. What is common about the nature of these mergers is that the affected parties—students, faculty, staff—were only informed after the decisions were made, and were given no say in any of the decisions affecting their lives….