Dear Reader, The Diacritic has a few exciting announcements to share! This year we’ll be expanding The Diacritic. We welcome a team of new editors to our editorial board — Ashley Tan (‘26), Darren Teo (‘25), and Kriti Andhare (‘25). We are moving to a monthly publication schedule! So keep a lookout for interesting, insightful,…
Brought to you by Ashley Chin, Cindy Huang, Danan Lee, Rebekah Nix, and Qian Zilan. Over the course of one year, from Jan 2021 – Jan 2022, The Diacritic has published over 18 articles, including: an interview with a Nobel Prize Laureate, an analysis of Tik Tok, and most recently—a digital museum in collaboration with…
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….