Increased Sensitivity Needed–Yale Dean Yelps at Whites
It is awfully tempting to laugh at the case of Yale dean June Chu, for writing Yelp reviews of restaurants and food stores that referred to customers as “low class…
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Universities, Free Speech and the Rise of the Spit-Viper Left
…Court Justice William O. Douglas, Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff, Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, University of North Carolina President…
The Seven Deadly Sins of Higher Education
…possessing an extraordinary fount of knowledge and moral virtues. Thus historical and wrathful ignoramuses at Yale insisted that John C. Calhoun’s name be taken off a college, despite the fact…
Do Free Speech Students Outnumber the Snowflakes?
…however, came a recent poll from Yale. Sponsored by the William F. Buckley, Jr. program, the poll found that by a more than 4-to-1 margin, Yale students opposed speech codes;…
Self-Censorship Is Easy to Learn, Particularly in Dormitories
…Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter. He was born in Englewood, N.J. in 1964, graduated from Columbia, taught at Scripps and Yale and now is a full-time writer living…
Panic Over Sex Assault ‘Crime Wave’ Overtakes Yale
…than accusers—filing sexual assault complaints against Yale undergraduate students. These moves came despite severe restrictions in the Yale guidelines regarding the filing of these complaints. One of the victims of…
Can America Survive Its Elites?
…distasteful contact across class lines. As Frank Bruni writes in The New York Times, only four veterans now attend Yale: One studies at Princeton, and Harvard refused to provide data….
The Campus Left Discovers Free Speech
The data are beginning to bear out the popular theory that free speech on campus is in steady decline. A study commissioned by the William F. Buckley Center at Yale…
There Is No Campus Rape Epidemic, But a Lot of Media Malpractice
…that Yale quarterback Patrick Witt was a liar and a rapist. Pérez-Peña implied that Witt and Yale’s officials had misled the public when they said that Witt had withdrawn from…
Why Millennials Are So Fragile
…trauma and psychological distress. Indeed some of the most privileged campuses– Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Berkeley, Oberlin – have been in the forefront of campaigns that focus attention to the emotional…
Unfairness in the Minnesota Football Rape Case
…of Due Process Protests The timeline of the Minnesota football team’s response resembles that of the Yale basketball team’s response to the Jack Montague case. In both instances, the team…
Can We Save Public Universities?
…held their own against competition from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite private institutions. Berkeley’s reputation for academic excellence in the 1950s and 60s was unsurpassed; indeed, in the…
Yale President Thumbs His Nose at Federal Law
Peter Salovey, president of Yale, posted this in the Yale Daily News Since last week’s presidential election, many in our community have expressed concern about the new administration’s proposals to…
The Title IX Mess—Will It Be Reformed?
…frenzy stimulated by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and by the unfair procedures that OCR has championed. (Consider events at Amherst or Yale or UVA or Brandeis,…
Trump Win Prompts Student Protests and “Cry-Ins”
…they will be especially vulnerable and unwelcome in Trump’s America. At Yale, no organized crying, but the Yale Daily News reported that an election “primal scream,” organized by the Freshman…
Did ‘Deplorable’ Prof Unmask Extreme PC Culture at NYU?
…the suggestion at some colleges that students report to authorities on inappropriate Halloween costumes, and the disaster last year at Yale where a house master was as abused and threatened…
Yale Defends Its Star Chamber Hearings
…Montague lawsuit, offered to the Hartford Courant, by a Yale public relations staffer: “Yale always respects the privacy and confidentiality of all students involved in a disciplinary process. Yale’s procedures…
Surprise! Conservative Opinion Not Welcome at Yale
Yale remains deeply unwelcoming to students with conservative political beliefs, according to a new but massively unsurprising Yale Daily News survey distributed in October and reported last week. Of the…
Halloween Is Now a Beat for the Bias Police
…poster displays five threat levels, all assigned a different color. Students worried about the possible threat level of their costumes were told to check with SCREAM in advance. At Yale,…
Will Princeton Change Its Name?
…administrators, determined to change the language by decree. At Yale and Harvard, the undergraduate residences are overseen by faculty members known as “masters of residential housing.” Oops. Not anymore. The…
The Age of Liberal Education Is Ending
…in gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, or postcolonial studies. At Yale, a group of students and faculty recently demanded that the English department “decolonize” the major by abolishing its required…
2017 US News Top Ranked Colleges
National Universities (in order of rank or tie) Princeton University (NJ) Harvard University (MA) University of Chicago (IL) (tie) Yale University (CT) (tie) Columbia University (NY) (tie) Stanford University (CA)…
How Diversity Came to Mean ‘Downgrade the West’
…and Silverglate). Related: Race-baiting in the Name of Justice At Yale University, to take another recent example, in 2016, in the context of the numerous protests across the nation that…
Explaining Black Rage on Campus and in the Inner-City
…ties. Related: How Yale Tries to Dodge New Protests The anger and frustration that resulted from dashed hopes and failed dreams led to a situation whereby minor irritants previously endured….
More on the Sex Panic at Yale
The bizarre procedures of Yale’s sprawling sexual assault bureaucracy may well be the worst in the nation. We have come to realize this because Yale is the only university to…
Why Colleges Don’t Have Fair Hearings on Sexual Assault
…the students. The Yale Executive Committee declared that the statements “had threatened and intimidated others, in violation of the Undergraduate Regulations of Yale College as they pertain to ‘harassment, coercion…
Rare Court Ruling for an Accused Campus Male
…opinion here. The decision also will apply to pending lawsuits throughout the Second Circuit, including at Cornell, Colgate, and (perhaps most importantly) Yale. A note on what wasn’t decided. This…
Why Do Our High Schools Teach Grievance and Oppression?
…high school” (see Haidt’s The Yale Problem Begins in High School). While Haidt discusses experiences he had with faculty and students at elite schools, as an English teacher at a…
A Big Campus Trend: Ignorance of U.S. History
…next step of ensuring that all graduating majors have taken one of these courses. Look at What Yale Does This only-if-you-want-to approach will undoubtedly lead scores of history majors to…
Progressive Policing of Speech Moves Off Campus
…the federal bureaucracy. Under the direction of Catherine Llhamon, Amherst, ‘93, Yale Law, ‘96, the federal Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has continued conflating sexual harassment (including speech) and…