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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Breaking News:  Looks like the students got most of what they demanded - http://www.boston.com/news/education/2015/11/17/yale-president-responds-student-demands/zOJkcdZKtIFEyZCym0xZxM/story.html[/quote]

The President provided a thoughtful response which granted the protestors reasonable requests that could be accommodated in a short time period, ignored or explicitly denied a few (such as firing the Master and his wife over the Halloween email or building the monument about Yale being on land stolen from indigenous peoples),   in significant ways offered alternative approaches to what the students requested that may be more effective or at least possible in the near term, and kept open a dialogue and process for a continuing evaluation of some other issues that can only be addressed by the board (Yale Corporation to which the President answers), the Faculty, or that the President wants input on from a variety of campus communities before deciding on a course of action.  Some of the more immediate changes will go into effect in the Spring Semester and others not until the Fall Semester.   Interestingly, Yale used this as an occasion to announce a new academic center devoted to the study of race and other social issues impacting underrepresented minorities.  At least the initial response judging from on line posts are positive from a large majority of students, although the protest leaders will no doubt keep a close eye on things.  
, [/quote]I believe the new academic center had been in the works before the recent events.  That said, I think the name change (John C. Calhoun) is most definitely a step in the right direction.  There isn't one building on any university campus that receives any type of funding (and that includes student loans) that should be named after anyone associated with enslavement or war crimes.[/quote]

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