Professor leaves Yale because Millennials don't get a safe space for Halloween

[ballzdeepx]

Worst generation ever?
Good on the Professor for getting out of that situation. How much longer will universities paint themselves into a corner, taking money over doing what's right before they are all forced to resign?

http://www.babwnews.com/2015/12/yale-professor-calls-it-quits-after-halloween-debate/

The Yale professor accused of failing to create a 'safe space' for students following an e-mail sent regarding Halloween costumes will step down from her post this coming spring semester.

You may have seen a video circulating in recent weeks of a Yale student berating a teacher in a university yard for failing to create a 都afe space in her dormitory, sparked by an incendiary e-mail from the professor痴 wife to the student residents. According to a report from the Associated Press, the professor who sent the e-mail, Erika Christakis, will step down from her post and refrain from teaching in the coming spring semester.

Christakisç—´ e-mail to the student body focused on the appropriateness of Halloween costumes that some people could potentially find offensive. Christakis suggested that as young adults and students at one of the countryç—´ most revered educational institutions, residents of the dormitory had the intellectual capacity and wherewithal to decide what costumes to wear during Halloween celebrations.

Her e-mail was written in response to a request from the Intercultural Affairs Committee that students be reminded not to wear racially insensitive costumes, like sombreros, Native American headdresses, or even blackface. Christakis held the stance that students should be allowed to wear whatever they wanted, though she hoped that they would make the decision to avoid immature costumes on their own accord.

The e-mail sparked a massive reaction from the student body, who claimed that the professors in charge of their residence hall had failed to create a safe space by not specifically discouraging costumes that could be considered offensive. Hundreds of students and faculty marched on November 9th this year in protest of perceived racial insensitivity.

According to Christakis, çš„ have great respect and affection for my students, but I worry that the current Yale climate is not, in my view, conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems.

Yale is sad to see Christakis go, stating that her teaching is å¡—ighly valued and that she is always welcome at the University.

 

[norton9478]

According to the article, she wasn't forced to resign.

 

[hyper]

yale was at one point a prestigious ivy league college

 

[ballzdeepx]

According to the article, she wasn't forced to resign.

No, she just had enough integrity to get out.

 

[NeoTurfMasta]

I feel we need a safe space here at ng.com

 

[evil wasabi]

yale was at one point a prestigious ivy league college

And then in the 80s became known as that "gay ivy" school, as 1:4 of the students were in fact homosexual.

 

[alphagamer]

I feel we need a safe space here at ng.com

We have the war room.

 

[Marek]

Worst generation ever

 

[MattBlah]

They held a march against being given the freedom to make their own decision? Wow.

 

[evil wasabi]

Let me tell you how fucking stupid American university aged students are.

We have instances of police violence happening in this country not because police are "doing their job", but because they are using their badge to do jobs that not theirs. Telling a junior high student to get out of her desk, telling a middle aged man to get down without him committing a crime, etc. When authority is charged with policing things outside their realm of logical operation, bad things happen.

And these kids want to make some institution take the reins on policing behavior?

So that they can feel safe?

Safe from what? Provoked thought?

These kids should have just stayed home and saved themselves the yoke of student loans.

 

[neo_mao]

Have you guys ever been to New Haven? Those Yale-ites need all the safe places they can get.

 

[Jibbajaba]

Have you guys ever been to New Haven? Those Yale-ites need all the safe places they can get.

Can confirm. I drove past the campus on my way from Shelton to Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, and that bitch is in the fucking ghetto.

 

[norton9478]

Worst generation ever

Baby Boomers man.

 

[ballzdeepx]

It's messed up to think not too long ago people of their age were fighting in World War II and now they are uniting over safe spaces for a dress up holiday.
Really puts things in perspective.

 

[BLEAGH]

Here is a pretty good article about what is happening at colleges and universities these days.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

What are we doing to our students if we encourage them to develop extra-thin skin just before they leave the cocoon of adult protection?

Wouldn't want victims of physical abuse to read The Great Gatsby and have to relive all that trauma.

 

[norton9478]

I will not judge any person only as a teenager. You will constantly remind yourself that some of my generation judges people by their race, their belief, or the color of their skin, and that this is no more right than saying all teenagers are drunken dope-addicts or glue-sniffers.

 

[ballzdeepx]

I will not judge any person only as a teenager. You will constantly remind yourself that some of my generation judges people by their race, their belief, or the color of their skin, and that this is no more right than saying all teenagers are drunken dope-addicts or glue-sniffers.

I'm curious when will you concede that they need to grow up, when they are 20?, 30? What's the cutoff? Sure everyone is different and grows up to a degree and of course you can't blanket everyone into acting like this but do you really think kids that are groomed their entire life to act this way, get rewarded for it, and be prepped by supposed facilities who's job is to ensure they are ready to handle the real world will change their stripes?
These people are being brought up to further perpetuate the belief that if something doesn't go their way, they can deflect any opposing viewpoints (the world is full of them, so is any conversation worth having) while slinking back into the safety of other like-minded individuals feigning assault/oppression/etc.

It's a byproduct of being spoiled and raised poorly, there is no higher intellect obtained by what they are doing here. It's devolving and diluting ones self in order to continue being self centered.

 

[roker]

check your privilege.

Safe space is there to protect people from microagressions committed by entitled people.

 

[StevenK]

Protests? Marches?

Anyone who treats university as anything other than a 3 year alcohol and drug fuelled bender is a total gaylord.

 

[norton9478]

I'm curious when will you concede that they need to grow up, when they are 20?, 30? What's the cutoff? Sure everyone is different and grows up to a degree and of course you can't blanket everyone into acting like this but do you really think kids that are groomed their entire life to act this way, get rewarded for it, and be prepped by supposed facilities who's job is to ensure they are ready to handle the real world will change their stripes?

You think its strange, that there's a way of how you looked, and how you act, and how you think pretend they're not the same as you? Do you know about their strength in convictions or how they puts all their faith in religion? Did we take the time to really discover, how little we know about each other? Keep us from saying anything. Can't separate from everything. And all this really means is you're one in a crowd and you're paranoid of every sound.

 

[Jibbajaba]

check your privilege.

Safe space is there to protect people from microagressions committed by entitled people.

That's a lot of SJW buzzwords for such a short post. Nicely done.

 

[StevenK]

Sounds like poor song lyrics?

 

[norton9478]

Sounds like poor song lyrics?

Next time I'll go with something a bit more British sensible like Spice Girls or "Take That".

 

[StevenK]

Next time I'll go with something a bit more British sensible like Spice Girls or "Take That".

Was I right?

 

[Earthquake24]

http://www.okwu.edu/blog/2015/11/this-is-not-a-day-care-its-a-university/

This is Not a Day Care. It's a University!
November 23, 2015
Dr. Everett Piper, President

Oklahoma Wesleyan University

This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt victimized by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. It appears this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love. In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable.

I'm not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic. Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims. Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them feel bad about themselves, is a "hater", a "bigot", an "oppressor", and a "victimizer".

I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience. An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad. It is supposed to make you feel guilty. The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins---not coddle you in your selfishness. The primary objective of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession, not your self-actualization.

So here's my advice:

If you want the chaplain to tell you you're a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you're looking for. If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place.

If you're more interested in playing the "hater" card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don't want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn't one of them.

At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don't believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don't issue "trigger" warnings before altar calls.

Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a "safe place" but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn't about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that龍 wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that's wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.

This is not a day care. This is a university.