https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQkXXBqj_U
south park does a song about safe space.
Bill Maher had a piece on the Yale student yelling at the Silliman Master. While I don’t always agree with him, he did make some good points. Kinda surprised it took him this long to discuss it.
Oh my god I saw the video with that crazy screeching girl and literally wanted to push her off a cliff. Tens of thousands of students around the world would kill to be in the position you are right now and you’re standing screaming bullcrap at a faculty member for trying to uphold your first amendment right.
The students seemed to have a narrow-minded, selfish, and over-sensitive perception of what the email was about. She was not supporting hostile intention but simply implying its not in the university’s say so to enforce things like that.
The students were way too oversensitive and immature.
That is a funny skit by Maher re the Yale student. She is immortalized as the person who thinks that Yale is not about being an intellectual place. I wonder what Yale thinks about that meme. Also wonder if interviewers will make this part of the interview questions - Do you think Yale is an extension of your home or a place to study and be challenged intellectually?
The militia part is funny as well, assuming one ignores the particulars of the issue though. I come down on the side that standing up to government on what one’s sees as excessive taxes and fees is not remotely comparable to some declared microaggression by a private citizen.
But still very funny though how he equated the two people.
Yale was one of the recipients of a Muzzle Award:
As a cap to this episode, Nicholas and Erika Christakis stepped down as House Masters this past week.
Some commentary.
That seems like a wise move. They didn’t seem all that into being house masters in the first place. They’re both still professors, which seems a better fit.
The Atlantic article provides a good take. OHMomof2, they were well-regarded heads of house at Harvard before moving to Yale, a position in which they were available for support in the daily lives of students (including one who was assaulted at gunpoint, if I remember correctly). They were raising their children there and then moved the family to Yale, being there for three months before this happened.
They were scapegoated for a whole movement’s experiences of years of racism – for which they were held personally, solely and individually accountable. Whatever one thinks of the email, the explosive reaction saddened me because there was no respectful way forward. S has been close to the situation and concurs with the article.