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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Ever since I saw that video of a mob of Yale students attacking a professor for having the temerity to suggest students are responsible for their own Halloween costumes, I realized that Yale is basically Oberlin these days. [/quote]

So many people don't understand what was going on in that clip Every residential college at Yale has a dean and a master. The master of each college is responsible for the social life of the college. Harvard has a somewhat similar "house" system. At Harvard, both members of a couple are interviewed for the job.

I don't know if it's changed or not, but Yale only screened and interviewed the master himself /herself. In this case, the master at the time was new and there was wide spread dissatisfaction in Silliman --the college where he was master--regarding his poor performance. His wife was some sort of researcher in Yale's early childhood research program; it's not a position in which you have much interaction with undergrads.

The wife sent out an email to Silliman students--this wasn't a Yale wide email --but an email about Silliman's planned Halloween social events from the master's office-- saying students should be able to wear what they wanted for Halloween, even if they upset others by what they were wearing. If a regular professor had expressed that opinion, there may or may not have been backlash.

But it was the master's WIFE who wrote the email and sent it to Sillimanders--that's what residents of Silliman are called. She's the one who is supposed to help plan social events which should emphasize diversity and inclusion. She'd basically done NOTHING and neither had her H to foster social life in the residential college since taking the job at the beginning of the year. This was the first or at least one of the first emails she'd sent out to college residents.

It's like Larry Summers, former president of Harvard. He expressed the opinion that females just aren't as good at math and science as men. Now, yes, people are entitled to free speech. But do you want a professor who thinks that as president of a co-ed university? NO.

And neither did Sillimanders, especially URMs, want a master's wife sending out an email saying that students in that particular college should feel free to provoke other residents by wearing outrageous Halloween costumes. The students didn't want someone who had these views running social events within the college. The internal email system for a residential college is not designed for people to express political views.[/quote]

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