Has Yale Become a PC Joke?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the U of Minnesota has stopped a 9/11 acknowledgement/moment of silence because some students feel it will 'upset' them. While I can understand the insanity at Yale, where the heck is that mid-western sensibility?

Apparently? Link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the U of Minnesota has stopped a 9/11 acknowledgement/moment of silence because some students feel it will 'upset' them. While I can understand the insanity at Yale, where the heck is that mid-western sensibility?

Apparently? Link?

PP here. I am posting the link so people can draw their own conclusions.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6974

[Anonymous]

And another from the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/16/u-minnesota-student-government-votes-against-annual-911-ceremony-some-didnt-want-to-spread-islamaphobia/

[Anonymous]

This thread should be renamed "when has college become a PC joke".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread should be renamed "when has college become a PC joke".

There's always Liberty, Oral Roberts, and BYU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a university becomes a bit of a joke if the students and faculty have to walk on eggshells and be super careful about what they say lest the get shouted down by a small grow of students, and called racist for even innocently intended comments. Let’s not forget the whole flap exploded over the e-mail in which the assistant master said she did not think the university should be in the business of telling students what Halloween costumes to wear. That certainly could have generated some useful discussion, but to demand she be fired for expressing her opinion is just wrong, it makes the students look like they are against freedom of speech, on a college campus no less. Either you agree with our views or we will shout you down and call you names. Some climate for the free exchange of ideas.

God help Biff and Muffy if they wear "Black Labs Matter" shirts to class!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The protests main issue is not about costumes though that has become the primary theme here. The email about costumes was the tipping point. The costumes issue were just the catalyst, right or wrong, for everything that had previously happened on the campus. No amount of dissertations can change that fact.

Though the issues could've and should've been handled differently by a FEW students, there is no getting around the fact there are problems that need to be addressed and resolved by administration.

The latest is where a bunch of AA militant students occupied the Dartmouth library and hurled racist obscenities at students who were trying to study. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Wow..what happened at Dartmouth is disgraceful.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/dartmouth-protesters-disrupt-students-in-library-fck-you-you-filthy-white-fcks/

In a critical editorial, the conservative Dartmouth Review listed some of the epithets hurled by the protesters: “Fuck you, you filthy white fucks!” “Fuck you and your comfort!” “Fuck you, you racist shits!”
In addition, the Review reports that some of protesters became physically violent: “Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group. ‘If we can’t have it, shut it down!’ they cried. Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting ‘filthy white bitch!’ in her face.”
One of the protesters posted online, saying they were ashamed of what the protest turned into. “After making a girl cry, a protester screamed ‘Fuck your white tears,'” he reports. “I was startled by the aggression from a small minority of students towards students in the library, many of whom were supporters of the movement.”

There's a video online from the webpage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow..what happened at Dartmouth is disgraceful.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/dartmouth-protesters-disrupt-students-in-library-fck-you-you-filthy-white-fcks/

In a critical editorial, the conservative Dartmouth Review listed some of the epithets hurled by the protesters: “Fuck you, you filthy white fucks!” “Fuck you and your comfort!” “Fuck you, you racist shits!”
In addition, the Review reports that some of protesters became physically violent: “Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group. ‘If we can’t have it, shut it down!’ they cried. Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting ‘filthy white bitch!’ in her face.”
One of the protesters posted online, saying they were ashamed of what the protest turned into. “After making a girl cry, a protester screamed ‘Fuck your white tears,'” he reports. “I was startled by the aggression from a small minority of students towards students in the library, many of whom were supporters of the movement.”

There's a video online from the webpage.

This was horrendous. Absolutely awful. BUT you cannot and should not vilify all the AA students just as you would NOT want all white students vilified for horrendous, awful, disgusting acts done by some white fraternity members. Keep that in mind, please.

The students who harassed, hurled racial epithets, and got up in peoples faces, black and white (it wasn't just white students who were harassed either) should be expelled or at a minimum suspended for a semester/quarter. No exception. Again, this was a SMALL MINORITY OF STUDENTS who perpetrated these disgusting acts.

[Anonymous]

While I understand the numerous posts discussing their 'disgust' with the incidents happening on campuses and AA students involved, there is very little discussion on what provokes (right or wrong...what happened at Dartmouth was deplorable) the need to march and demand racist acts addressed.

Here is a link listing campus racial incidents. The 2014 incident at San Jose State University is very upsetting. I would've fought back. Not the response I would want but everyone has their limit.

https://www.jbhe.com/incidents/

[Anonymous]

The inmates are running the asylum for sure. Sad that no true debate exists anymore at the college level. It's just screaming and hurt feelings.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the ivies need to take a page out of caltech's adcom playbook

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the ivies need to take a page out of caltech's adcom playbook

what’s that, admit more Asians?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the ivies need to take a page out of caltech's adcom playbook

what’s that, admit more Asians?

no. factoring race as the very last attribute and comparing candidates to the entire applicant body and not just in racial 'buckets'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the ivies need to take a page out of caltech's adcom playbook

what’s that, admit more Asians?

no. factoring race as the very last attribute and comparing candidates to the entire applicant body and not just in racial 'buckets'.

What does this have to do with the subject at hand? And please don't use that weak argument that all minorities are admitted because of skin color conveniently dismissing the farm kid in Iowa who's first generation college.