Appears now only approved candidates may run for election. Need to keep the rustics in their place. No Lux | RealClearPolitics
Too bad about Victor; he would have brought some valuable perspective to the Yale Corporation.
Yet weirdly, neither you nor the author mention the fact that the rules were actually only changed after Andrew Lipka ’78, Gail Lavielle GRD ’81, and Zoraya Hightower ENV ’16 announced their candidacies, and these three, unlike Ashe, will not be able to run.
But of course Real Clear Politics paints this as yet Another Nefarious Conspiracy By The Liberals Who Control Everything…
@MWolf So again tell me why changing the rules and restricting people from running is a good idea. Guess Yale alumni aren’t smart or sophisticated enough to figure out who is a good trustee and who is not.
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You seem to be misreading or misunderstanding my comment, which was addressed to the failure of Victor Ashe to be elected, not to the change of rules.
I do have an opinion about the change of rules, but it was neither expressed nor implied in my comment about Victor’s election loss.
@gandalf78 Sorry I was not responding to your comment but the one below it.
My point is that the story is providing a false narrative of Evil Liberals Change Rules So Conservatives Cannot Be Elected.
As for why they changed it or whether it was a good idea? Well, they are a private corporation, and they actually can do what they want. I’m not getting my knickers in a knot because of what Yale Corporation are doing.
Unless somebody is a Yale alumnus, I fail to see why they should care one way or another. What is the worst thing that could happen? Yale’s prestige drops? Whoop-de-doo, Harvard alumni will celebrate, and CC will have to change the HYPSM acronym to something else. Maybe HCPSM like another poster suggested (though they didn’t remove the “Y”).
That being said, most of what Ashe was demanding was echoed by the nominees who were banned from running for election. So again, Ashe’s politics had nothing to do with the reasons that the process was changed.
University administrators have been removing power from the hands of faculty for decades already, so why should anybody be surprised if they also removed power from the hands of alumni?
I was responding to the article and the OP, not to your comment. The article claimed that the change of the rules was triggered by Ashe running.
BTW, I do not think that he would have added any new perspectives, really. He is a typical Bush era Republican politician, though he is somewhat more like a first Bush era politician. I don’t think that adding another pro-business White Boomer would add any new or different perspectives. If anything, it would be a throwback to perspectives that were common in 1990-2000.
Now Zoraya Hightower, she would bring new and valuable perspective to Yale corporation, and be somebody who is more representative of the Yale student body today, not the student body as it was in 1967 or 1981.
Perhaps not the sort of perspective that RCP would like to see anywhere, though…
BTW, RCP chose the wrong person to make their claims about. Ashe tended to be pretty bipartisan in today’s terms, and both stayed as Ambassador to Poland during the first two years of Obama’s presidency, and then was appointed by Obama to the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Not a person who would be scary to Democrats.
Not a problem, and no offense taken; I understood exactly who you were engaging in dialogue.
Yes, I"m quite familiar with Victor; and he is also an anti-Trumper. Whether he “would be scary to Democrats” depends on which Democrats you are talking about.
Noted Democratic strategist and former top Clinton advisor criticizes Yale’s decision to change rules and prevent non"approved" candidates from running for election to the Yale Corporation. A Darkness at Yale - WSJ
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