‘I know that many decent people have proposed guidelines on Halloween costumes from a spirit of avoiding hurt and offense. Many said they did not believe the university was attuned to the needs of minority students.
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In your email, you ask students to “look away” if costumes are offensive, as if the degradation of our cultures and people, and the violence that grows out of it is something that we can ignore.
As Erika Christakis wrote in her email, “American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition”.
Nicholas says, if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended.
‘Talk to each other. When Slate argues that Christakis and her husband are being “scapegoated for defending the crucial liberal tradition of free speech”, it’s hard not to despair of the whole sorry business.
Soon after, all hell broke loose in New Haven. In other words, it appears that Christakis is saying students at Yale should act like adults and not rely on the school to police the activities of all students. Isn’t that what a university is: an intellectual space? I hope you will join me in this effort.
Nicholas Christakis: No, I don’t agree with that. But, as for Halloween costume non-controversy and refusing to accept diplomas from the Master of Silliman on graduation day because he’s for free speech-you’re going to torpedo the once in the lifetime event of graduating from college because of it. That is ridiculous. That they have. She also bluntly chastises the student in the video who yells at Nick “Be Quiet!” as being a “shrieking girl” and most definitely not an adult. You should step down. If that is what you think about being a Master, then you should step down. The students’ complaints were that the school’s administration was not doing enough to create a “safe space” for them. “It is not!” she cried out.
This is an entirely different issue, and one that has very little to do with Halloween costumes; no one’s intellectual growth has ever been fundamentally impacted by the answer to the question of whether or not they can make asses of themselves at a dress-up party.
This essentially amounts to making the suggestion, “Don’t be a dickhead” – a request that is, admittedly, apparently beyond the capacity of large swathes of today’s student bodies, but a reasonable one nonetheless. “Specifically improving diversity in the faculty, uplifting ethnic studies and also have sensitivity training for all Yale students and faculty”, said student Katie McCleary. “Both asked to remain anonymous because they were afraid of attracting backlash”.
Meanwhile, Yale’s Divinity School is now home to Black Lives Matter movement agitator DeRay Mckesson who was awarded a sinecure to promote the violent racist movement. I have heard and I acknowledge the pain these students expressed. Another way to dissolve consent.
Isaac Stanley-Becker is a senior at Yale University and a former editor of the Yale Daily News.
Yale University is embroiled in a Halloween costume crisis.
Insisting how ‘racial intolerance should never be accepted, the SAE released a statement insisting how its Yale chapter ‘is comprised of a diverse group of brothers and the event, likewise, was attended by a diverse group of students’. Instead, he ripped it apart with his bare hands outside while being interviewed. “You are a poor steward of this community”, the student said.
Notably, Cornell praises PC, claiming it “doesn’t crush creativity and fuels idea sharing”, and an undergraduate student claimed “political correctness is an incredibly awkward but necessary way to foster inclusion in public spaces”.
“It is a culture in which students and faculty are afraid to voice their opinions”, he added.
One campus group had been demanding that Wolfe write “a handwritten apology” to demonstrators and read it aloud at a press conference.
Christakis, who asserted she was “misquoted and misunderstood by a few people”, has stood by her letter and even tweeted a link to an article in The Atlantic titled, “The Coddling of the American Mind”.
As unrest built at Mizzou, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) pandered to the mob, just as he did during the Michael Brown saga in Ferguson previous year.
He said he would continue to seek the input of students without placing the burden on them to fix the university.
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Mass hysteria and racial hypersensitivity: this is what President Obama has wrought with his incessant race-baiting. “They’re about real experiences with racism on this campus that have gone unacknowledged for far too long”.
