"No, I don't agree with that" , "THEN WHY IN THE FUCK DID YOU ACCEPT THE POSITION!"

[snooper2]

I feel bad for adults working at any capacity at Universities these days. Oh, and this is YALE. Fucking Yale LOL...

You want a home, go home and save your parents a shitload of money.


Yale Students Whine and Moan About a Lack of Safe Space

[Hoppy]

1. I would like to know more background on this.

What is his position in the university?

What has been happening?

What might he have done that he didn't do?



In the absence of this information, I agree, go home and grow up. The attitude of the confrontational students is, I am louder than you so shut up and quit.

[brush]

2. OP needs more background. We don't know what the issue is.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Here

The moment Yale students encircled and shouted down professor who told them to just 'look away' if they were offended by Halloween costumes
7 November 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308422/Students-rage-professor-sent-email-telling-students-just-look-away-offended-Halloween-costumes.html

Erika Christakis leaves teaching role (and husband takes Spring sabbatical)
|Dec 07, 2015
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/12/07/erika-christakis-to-end-teaching/

[brush]

6. Thanks for the links. It's about blackface Holloween costumes in 2015

Why is there even a question that that is inappropriate?

That one student maybe went too far in her reaction to the prof but the prof and his wife certainly didn't handle the issue of allowing blackface costumes well.

[mercuryblues]

12. yeah

according to the professor that is just free speech. If you are offended, just look the other way. Or start a dialog? is he shitting me? If you protest that idea you are considered intolerant of free speech.

This also happened at the same time Yale's SAE frat refused to let 4 minority students into a party, saying it was a white girls only admittance.

[davidn3600]

18. Well he's half-right

Going blackface is not a crime. You can't arrest someone for going blackface. Going blackface would be a freedom of speech protection. No matter what you opinion on it is....it's protected by the first amendment. Simple as that. So the professor is right in that sense.

But that doesn't mean one that speech is free from consequences. You can confront the persons....you can't assault them, but you can confront them. The school can make rules on what kind of speech is permitted in their environment since it is the school's property. So you dont have to sit there and take it. You have the freedom to confront that speech with your own.

Should the school be forbidding this kind of racial expression on their property? That might be something that may need to be discussed because there have apparently been a few racial incidents at Yale lately. But one professor is unlikely the issue here. This is something that concerned students need to be taking up with the administration and boards.

[mercuryblues]

22. that is

why the professor sent the email. The school's Intercultural Affairs Committee sent an email to discourage students from wearing costumes that are "culturally unaware and insensitive" Specifically mentioning feathered headdresses, war paint, turbans, black face, red face.

Here are some more college students practicing their 1st amendment rights.

High school students harassed and peppered with racial slurs during a visit to Texas A&M

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027604695

[ryan_cats]

4. They have it so

They have it so tough going to an inner school ghetto like Yale.

Luckily my father had WWII as a lucky option and my generation had Vietnam.

[whatthehey]

5. Because the "that" is nothing more than one blissninny snowflake's opinion

And not a condition of the position

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. Try teaching about the evolution of the portrayal of sexuality in literature and cinema

I know an english professor who has been suffering the last couple of years as she is confronted by students firmly of the opinion most works of english literature and film are too offensive for public airing.

[CanSocDem]

8. Indeed.

There seems to be a generation of "students" that have no idea of the public purpose of education. As far as they care, university is where you go to feel good about yourself. In the USA that doesn't necessarily mean 'becoming educated', as we are regularly entertained with 'students' devolving intellectually, as they try to fit into a job and a marriage.

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[hfojvt]

9. that sounds horrible

For one thing, I would not have the slightest idea what I was talking about.

Then again, when has that ever stopped me?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. You just have the man... uhh... operate the pause button

so you can give a "trigger warning" before Jack Nicholson slaps Faye Dunaway.

[snooper2]

13. All students should be forced to watch Fear and Loathing on their first freshman day

If they can't handle this then they can't handle college LOL

[KamaAina]

10. In my day, we would have found much more creative ways to express our displeasure with her

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she would have been satirized in many if not all of the campus humor magazines, for instance. The times, they are a-changin', and not for the better.

go home and save your parents a shitload of money

A common misconception. Yale and most of the other Ivies offer much better aid packages than other schools, thanks to their YUGE endowments. I would wager, though, that most of those poor souls whose delicate fee-fees were hurt by the prof are trust-fund types.

K-A, Y'85.

[HuckleB]

21. I wanted to go to Brown, and I got in, but social anxiety kept me close to home.

Of course, a full ride to a state school meant no debt at all, uh, until I went back to get my Masters, of course. Still... ah, the good old days.

Still, I ended up in a "feud" of sorts with the university president, via the newspaper, because I also worked for the electrical and learned about some rather fraudulent perks he was appropriating for himself. Still, I can't imagine this approach with anyone, especially over something that is not related, oh, say hunger, actual abuse, etc...

Still, thanks for your perspective. I appreciate it.

[KamaAina]

24. Actually, Brown is one of the few Ivies that doesn't play

smaller... um.... endowment.

[WillowTree]

14. Just once I'd like someone to tell one of these precious babies to grow the eff up & not back down.

"It is your job to create a space of comfort and home for the students......."

Where do they get this shit? I have a 7 year old special needs nephew who doesn't expect this kind of coddling. These children will last about 5 minutes in the real world.

[Matrosov]

15. Yale Daycare?

[Skittles]

16. they sound like brats

[NobodyHere]

17. What was with the finger snapping?

I thought an episode of the Addam's Family was about to start.

[HuckleB]

19. Hold the applause: Millennials think we should stop clapping – and start finger snapping

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3323166/Some-college-students-Yale-Brown-prefer-finger-snapping-applause.html

'Finger-snapping is done delicately, respectfully, democratically, always in the middle of an event, whereas hand-clapping, which is by definition louder and more disruptive, is invariably reserved for the end.

Clearly, none of these people have ever been to a jazz show, much less a rock show, where solos get serious clapping and shouting throughout the performance.

The snapping seemed rude and lame, to me.

[Egnever]

25. Good lord

it keeps getting worse.

These kids parents need to be slapped.

[AngryAmish]

20. Clapping can trigger people with PTSD.

So a snapping we will go.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. I hope it's not gang-related:

When you're a Jet,
You're a Jet all the way,
From your first cigarette
To your last dying day.

Much finger snapping there.