From the College Fix: Jack Montague held his tongue for weeks after he mysteriously left Yale – right as the basketball team he led was blazing toward the NCAA Tournament. Now his lawyer says Montague “intends…
Topic: Yale
Yale Basketball Player Forced Out of School Based on Questionable Standards
From the College Fix: The Yale Daily News has confirmed what everyone suspected: Basketball team captain Jack Montague mysteriously left Yale last month because the school found him responsible for sexual assault, despite him not…
66% of Yale College Students Agree Free Speech is Threatened on Campuses
Well, how about that result? A majority of students who attended a debate on free speech at Yale University Tuesday left convinced that First Amendment rights are threatened on college campuses, especially their own. According…
Yale to Spend $600,000 on ‘Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration’
This isn’t a joke, apparently. But $600,000 to study this field? Photo by thomas autumn photography
Some Yale University Officials are Silent over Title Change
Mum is the word, at least that’s what it seems like from top university officials. Photo by thomas autumn photography
Disabling Dickens
Truly, some authors are just too important to be left to academia. Charles Dickens is one of them. Yet and still, the Modern Language Association (MLA), at its annual conventions, regularly tries to modernize the…
Academic Animal Studies/Farm
George Orwell might have been amused. Academia is well on its way to quite literally becoming Animal Farm. Indeed, the very first day of the latest Modern Language Association (MLA) convention featured a panel on…
Still Halloween at Yale
Academics are still using the Halloween costume controversy at Yale as a teachable moment. One wonders what they will learn. “A white Ivy League lecturer has resigned following an uproar over an email she sent…
Satirist Gets Yale Students to Sign Petition to Ban Free Speech
We really have no hope for our future in America, do we?
Embattled Yale Professors Quit Teaching Classes after Halloween Comment Outcry, for now
Via the College Fix: The associate master of Yale’s Silliman College, whose controversial email about Halloween costumes sparked vociferous campus protests, has decided to quit teaching classes at the school. In emails to Business Insider…