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What a piece of vomit....
After the university changed its residential colleges name, Rivera said Yale was too politically correct for him.
On Sunday, media personality Geraldo Rivera announced he had stepped down from his role as an associate fellow at Yale, following the universitys decision to rename a college that had once been dedicated to a staunch slavery supporter.
Yale University announced it would change the name of Calhoun College to instead honor Grace Murray Hopper, who was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer during World War II and also helped develop the Mark II and Mark III computers. The school had originally been named for John C. Calhoun, who held several high-profile positions in government, including vice president, senator, and secretary of state. Calhoun called slavery a positive good.
Rivera described the universitys decision to cease honoring a champion of slavery and instead recognize a female computer scientist as intolerant and lame.
https://thinkprogress.org/geraldo-rivera-resigns-resigns-from-yale-post-over-calhoun-college-rechristening-fa8e252fc2d8#.5mupjuiik
spanone
(135,844 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)She deserves the recognition.
Turbineguy
(37,342 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)I guess he's a bit of an expert about intolerant and lame.
Raster
(20,998 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)and what is an associate fellow? Is that an honorary title for people who don't really have fellowships there?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)catbyte
(34,402 posts)What conviction!
What a jackass.
He probably was canned.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...the likes of Geraldo Rivera?