AT Yale Example Yale incident demonstrate lack of speech it affirmed speech on all sides doesn’t – Sleeper 16 Jim Sleeper, polisci prof @ Yale and Alternet reporter, the Campus 'Free Speech' Crusade “What Won't [Premier] Say” described this controversy at some length on AlterNet, but worth noting that all of these open letters affirmed rights to free I’ve it’s everyone’s expression. As Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history and African-American studies at Yale, told the New York the subsequent storm of media coverage, was complete “a Times, the spin, and FIRE’s misconstruction of what happened. The cultural affairs committee made its statement about Halloween costumes, The Christakises critiqued that; the students critiqued them. Then everyone in the world criticized the students. From beginning to end, it was never a matter of [suppressing] free No one at Yale was censured or punished by any speech.” government agency or by any administrator, faculty committee or, as far as I know, any individual faculty member. No one, at any time, demanded or even suggested that Erika Christakis stop teaching her popular course on early childhood education. At one point in the controversy, though, an angry, student group, Next Yale, posted a list of demands on President and others who confronted Nicholas Christakis in the Salovey’s door courtyard at midnight, among them a demand that the Christakises be dismissed as heads of one of That demand was Yale’s residential colleges. echoed vituperatively by an immature student who yelled it right into Nicholas face in an open confrontation in the residential Christakis’ courtyard.
AT Yale Example Yale incident doesn’t demonstrate lack of speech – it affirmed speech on all sides Sleeper 16 Jim Sleeper, polisci prof @ Yale and Alternet reporter, “What the Campus 'Free Speech' Crusade Won't Say” [Premier] I’ve described this controversy at some length on AlterNet, but it’s worth noting that all of these open letters affirmed everyone’s rights to free expression. As Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history and African-American studies at Yale, told the New York Times, the FIRE’s spin, and the subsequent storm of media coverage, was “a complete misconstruction of what happened. The cultural affairs committee made its statement about Halloween costumes, The Christakises critiqued that; the students critiqued them. Then everyone in the world criticized the students. From beginning to end, it was never a matter of [suppressing] free speech.” No one at Yale was censured or punished by any government agency or by any administrator, faculty committee or, as far as I know, any individual faculty member. No one, at any time, demanded or even suggested that Erika Christakis stop teaching her popular course on early childhood education. At one point in the controversy, though, an angry, student group, Next Yale, posted a list of demands on President Salovey’s door and others who confronted Nicholas Christakis in the courtyard at midnight, among them a demand that the Christakises be dismissed as heads of one of Yale’s residential colleges. That demand was echoed vituperatively by an immature student who yelled it right into Nicholas Christakis’ face in an open confrontation in the residential courtyard.