The Endless Muddle of Transgender Policy
…of privacy would prevent opening the bathroom door to members of the opposite sex. Typical was an influential 1971 Yale Law Journal article by four Yale professors, led by Thomas…
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Transgender and the Transformation of Civil Rights
…Justice and Education of course must ensure that the nation’s schools and colleges comply with applicable anti-discrimination laws, but Yale law professor emeritus Peter Schuck calls their interpretation “novel” in…
Basketball Star Sues Yale
Yale has brought controversial charges against two star athletes in recent years, both on the eve of their biggest games: quarterback Patrick Witt in 2014 just before the Yale-Harvard game…
Yale Lets the Abusive Protesters Win
…op-ed entitled “How the Yale Halloween Vigilantes Finally Got Their Way,” an undergraduate named Zachary Young records the final episode of the whole affair in New Haven. The Christakises have…
4 Well-Known Universities With No Integrity
…the classroom. Related: IS YALE USING TITLE IX TO TRUMP FREE SPEECH? Nonetheless, the tenure denial triggered protests, holding signs with such sayings as “RU for Black Tenure.” (Imagine the…
Voices in the Harvard Final Club Debate
…my own observation, delighted….Someday, most Harvard final club alumni will look back and wonder how we could accept gender discriminatory membership for so long. Our colleagues at Yale and Princeton,…
An Interview with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield
…meaning, still deserve to be smoked out, reproached and told that they are wrong. JOHN LEO: At Yale it was the taking of offense at a very polite email from…
Yale Tries to Dodge New Protests
Last fall, Peter Salovey, president of Yale, badly botched the student protests that broke out over the insignificant issue of proper campus Halloween costume. Now he has made a few…
Suing the Office for Civil Rights
…only non-athlete case from the Bush years that foreshadowed the Obama policies—the Kelly case at Yale—featured a judge who seemed to ignore the provisions of the Supreme Court’s 1999 Davis…
Why Not Use Endowments to Lower Tuition Costs?
Connecticut is going through the motions of trying to tax Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment to help relieve the state’s $266 million shortfall. That effort will fail, but public opinion is…
Yale’s Case against Montague Looks Shaky
Max Stern, the lawyer for the expelled Yale basketball captain Jack Montague, has spoken out, announcing that he will sue Yale on behalf of Montague in April, and clarifying some…
BDS: Jew-Hating Propagandists on the March
…essay, “The Free-Speech Fallacy,” by Puar supporter Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale. Stanley praises Puar as “an agenda-setting scholar” whose work has had “a level of impact few…
Montague and Yale’s Poisoned Campus Culture
…sexual assault from a third party—who claimed that an unidentified person had sexually assaulted another unidentified person. Yale’s Imaginary Crime Wave Beyond the question of campus culture, Yale’s procedures deny…
Accused, Expelled, and Smeared as a Rapist—at Yale
The case of Yale basketball player Jack Montague, who was expelled from Yale, allegedly because of a rape charge, has gotten a lot of press in the last few days….
Yale’s Imaginary Crime Wave
…a Title IX Coordinator that one Yale undergraduate “reported that another [Yale undergraduate] student engaged in sexual penetration without consent.” Rumor-mongering is now acceptable at Yale, as an unidentified administrator…
Times Sees Shift Against Student Protesters
The New York Times published an article Sunday on how painful it was at Yale for Erika Christakis, whose harmless opinion on Halloween costumes triggered non-negotiable demands by enraged black…
How the Leftist Monoculture Took Over the Campus
…to the problem of recent student protests and the spineless reactions of presidents of prestigious universities like Yale. As temperatures rise this spring, protests will mount (our fragile students don’t…
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
…over and give in. JOHN LEO: So you got a lot of attention. JONATHAN HAIDT: Since Halloween, especially. Look, I graduated from Yale in ’85. Yale is very devoted to…
America’s ‘Soft Civil War’ Is Here
…for college. Students today, Paglia explained in 2015, are “utterly uninformed,” and colleges are responsible for the lack of intellectual discourse in America: “I’ve encountered these graduates of Harvard, Yale,…
How MOOCs Foil Distraction
…will disappear. Oakley calls them the “MOOC deniers.” Among them is Professor David Bromwich of Yale, who recently wrote an article entitled, “Trapped in the Virtual Classroom.” Bromwich argued that…
Another Illegal ‘Diversity’ Scheme at Michigan
By John S. Rosenberg In my first year of graduate school at Yale, the debate over admitting women to the college was still raging. A joke (or maybe it wasn’t)…
Sheldon Award Fans Hail 2015 Winner
Jack Fowler, on National Review Online’s “The Corner,” wrote, “Congratulations to the 2015 Sheldon winner. And condolences to the students.” Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) said naming Peter Salovey of Yale the…
What Candidates Can Do For Higher Education Now
…to see students at Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, and other elite institutions protesting against free speech—and college presidents bowing down before little ripped-jeans, tuition-subsidized junior-league totalitarians. Now would be a good…
How Title IX Became a Policy Bully
…Know Your IX, SurvJustice, and End Rape on Campus, started filing complaints. Related: The Hunting Ground—An Ethically-Challenged Tainted Documentary The Title IX complaint against Yale—which produced the grossly unfair procedures…
Worst College President of 2015—Who Wins the Sheldon?
…Peter Salovey, Yale: In the biggest collapse of the year, Yale President Salovey committed millions of dollars to appease racial protesters with a basket of goodies likely to enlarge the…
Campus Turmoil Begins in High School
…victimhood culture? The “Next Yale” that activists are demanding will make today’s Centerville High look like Plato’s Academy by comparison. The only hope for Centerville High — and for Yale…
Too Many Hollow Men on Campus
…a university whose Liberal Arts Education webpage boasts, “There is no specific class you have to take at Yale…Yale is one of the only universities in the country that lets…
Three Men Unfairly Branded as Campus Rapists
…at Yale “If colleges and universities don’t comply with the nation’s civil rights law, their federal funding can be withheld,” Ali said. “The guidance though, was exactly, Martha, as you…
Caving in to Bullies
Not all Yale students agree with the tactics employed by the bullies. Freshman Connor Wood said, “The acceptance or rejection of coercive tactics is a choice that will literally decide…
How Political Correctness Corrupted the Colleges
…clear violation of the Constitution. Related: The Modern Campus as North Korea The brouhaha at the University of Missouri and at Yale, for example, perfectly illustrates the shift: what a…