Large Rally at Yale Follows Week of Racial Tensions

“If they can get the president of the university to resign, I think we can get these much smaller demands addressed”, Fonsecca said Monday in a phone interview. An article from Yale News notes that Holloway ended the event by “promising to more fully embrace his responsibilities as a prominent black administrator and professor of African American Studies”. During the march, students chanted, “We out here!” I laud those goals, in theory, as most of us do. Students at Berkeley High School in California walked out of classes this week to protest a racist message that another student apparently left on a public computer.

At Yale, concerns about the school’s tolerance of racism briefly flared up in September – focused on names and symbols with connotations a few believed are steeped in racism.

The discussion came two days after about 1,000 students briefly shut down traffic around the university in a rally to protest against an alleged Halloween incident in which a fraternity turned away black guests from a party. The fraternity has denied the allegations. SAE at Yale has not confirmed the incident and has thus not apologized to the additional frustration of the students. Such “safe spaces” are areas where the tender students can protect their precious eyes and ears from being exposed to ideas that could possibly upset them.

Shortly after the email was followed up with a response from Erika Christakis, an associate master at Silliman College at Yale, claiming that students shouldn’t be told what they can and cannot wear.

Another video that mirrors the tension was taken at the University of Missouri, showing a student journalist being viciously berated by protesters for attempting to log the event.

“In your position as master it is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students who live in Silliman”, one student says to him in a video of the incident on November 5. And when students actually did try to engage with people, they were harassed, they were mocked, they were, you know, physically intimidated. “You should not sleep at night”.

Mrs Christakis responded with an email of her own, suggesting that this was heavy-handed, and that perhaps students should negotiate their own responses to perceived insult. It is not! Do you understand that?

One faculty member didn’t agree with the sentiment.

“The words were strong and scary enough that the students who saw it were shaken and scared”, Nelson said. “Specifically improving diversity in the faculty, uplifting ethnic studies and also have sensitivity training for all Yale students and faculty”, said student Katie McCleary. On Thursday, Salovey and Holloway emailed the student body in support of the original email, saying that the campus must be respectful of everyone.

“It is painful for me – as someone who has a vested interest in supporting you – to hear what you have just told me, but I am glad you did…” .

“Remember that Yale belongs to all of you, and you all deserve the right to enjoy the good of this place, without worry, without threats, and without intimidation”, Holloway wrote.

“I’ve long kept quiet about the recent developments at Yale”, Philipp Arndt, a Yale student wrote on his Facebook page. “Maybe should just look away if someone is doing something that is completely disrespectful to you and your entire culture and tradition”. He also said he was deeply troubled by the atmosphere on campus. Now is a time to work toward healing and mutual understanding.

Protesters disrupted a forum about the future of free speech held by Yale University’s William F. Buckley, Jr.

“I have a different position than you”. “And I’ll do better”.

According to Zachary Young, president of the Buckley Program-writing at the Yale Daily News-the disruption at the conference began when a student rushed to the front of the lecture hall during a panel and began taping posters across the wall of the room.