<p>I just found out ok in Davenport next year and I'm siked!!! Can someone please tell me how it is? Also can someone tell me some of the traditions, trips, facilities, and overall personality and atmosphere of the college? Thanks!!</p>
<p>You are so lucky. I have morse.
But i think the best one is pierson because elkus is in it 
jk</p>
<p>Davenport and Pierson are really cool architecturally. From the outside they blend in with the rest of Yale. However, once you go through the gate, inside each of them have colonial architecture - totally different. That is what is so unique about them. I graduated in 1982 but D’Port was our reunion headquarters so I spent a lot of time there. The renovated rooms are very nice. You should be happy.</p>
<p>Lol on the Elkus line haha</p>
<p>I’m actually thrilled to be in Morse now that I know more about it. And for Elkus . . . he can go take his inflated ego somewhere else, please :)) </p>
<p>Plantation college with a master and dean who think all the GSAs and other staff are there to wait on them hand and foot and reserve the right to met out punishment like the slave masters they think they are, legacy kids left and right who still have their silver spoons dangling from their mouths, a lenient attitude on the part of nearly everyone there and quite especially from the mentioned dean towards rapists and sexual violence, All-American macho, and dunces everywhere. </p>
<p>“Really cool architecturally”" means it’s built to look like the estates of the landed gentry, which probably half the families in Davenport can claim to be or have been. </p>
<p>“Traditions” include mocking those who are not well-off, black, or both.</p>
<p>The “overall personality and atmosphere” is what was mentioned–myopic All-Americanism, a distinct sense you live on a plantation with a plantation master, and snobbery.</p>
<p>But hey, I guess you get free trips to New York to watch Broadway plays and a weight room, so that makes up for all that, right? Beer Beer Beer Beer Beer Beer Beer!</p>
<p>Wow. @AntiDeweyring,</p>
<p>You sure hate Yale. It’s sad that you have such hostility & deep seeded hate towards the school. Every post has been all about Yale bashing. Did you graduate from Yale? If so, why did you stay? Had you no other options?</p>
<p>Ok @AntiDeweyring is clearly ■■■■■■■■ here but @NewHavenCTmom there is an element of truth to the references to slavery and Yale architecture: </p>
<p><a href=“Residential colleges of Yale University - Wikipedia”>Residential colleges of Yale University - Wikipedia;
<p>Several good schools (Oberlin, Bates) were strongly abolitionist at the time that Yale (and Harvard and Princeton) was generally opposed:</p>
<p><a href=“Slave Traders In Yale's Past Fuel Debate On Restitution - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/13/nyregion/slave-traders-in-yale-s-past-fuel-debate-on-restitution.html</a></p>
<p>Brown was founded by slave traders; not sure what you can do about it now except discuss it head on. They are certainly not going to rename the school.</p>
<p>@ormdad </p>
<p>I’m sure it’s safe to say that MOST buildings that were built back then were built by slaves, whites also profited off the backs of slaves. It’s a fact of life. One that we cannot escape. But @AntiDeweyring felt okay with it when he attended right? Did he protest openly when he was on the campus? We can’t have it both ways…my own DD will matriculate in the fall. She knows that money from the slave trade built the school. </p>
<p>So should she not go and earn a great education? Should she turn down the wonderful FA package? Should she
Protest? Hell no! She will go and put history in its place. </p>
<p>Move along, nothing to see here. 
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<p>I’m just going to throw this out there, but Calhoun College is named after John C Calhoun who was an avid advocate of slavery and a hero to the Confederacy. Most of the colleges are names after slave owners or supporters of slavery (Jonathan Edwards, Ezra Stiles,Timothy Dwight, Berkeley, Davenport, Pierson, etc). No one can deny Yale’s history with slavery and it’s mostly a function of the fact that Yale is a very old school and was entirely white for most of it’s history.</p>
<p>That being said, Dport is a great college. Super pretty, the freshman housing is great, and everyone I know in Dport seems to be happy with it.</p>
<p>Hah! All nice and good to focus on Yale’s past dealings with slavery while gliding over everything contemporary, you can discuss one comfortably from the inside while the other might make you a bit anxious.</p>