5/21/2023 0 Comments Campusland by Scott JohnstonWhat the video didn’t show were the hundreds of white students having their first frank conversations about race with minority classmates. Johnston was shot by Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which the Daily Caller then reposted under a headline, “Meet the Privileged Yale Student Who Shrieked at Her Professor,” with photos of her and her parents’ suburban Connecticut home. That mission has just been reaffirmed in a University of Chicago letter to incoming freshmen that rejects “trigger warnings” about discomfiting course material, “safe spaces” for the hypersensitive and cancellations of invitations to controversial speakers.īut it isn’t the protests per se that damaged open inquiry and expression, but the frenzied way they have been portrayed by the right. More than a brand, however, a college has a mission: to teach young people the arts and disciplines of open inquiry and expression. “I don’t think anything has damaged Yale’s brand quite like that” video, he said. Johnston and other alumni to cease funding what they see as coddled children and weak-kneed administrators. Soon after, he watched an online video of a black Yale student hurling imprecations at a professor who headed her residential college for failing “to create a place of comfort and home.” Program at his alma mater when student protesters disrupted it. Johnston, a 1982 Yale graduate, was attending a conference organized by the William F.
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