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The student's concerns about costumes were heard, some advice was given apparently, and that's all any academic organization or otherwise should have to contend
by sonnyblarney 8y ago
The student's concerns about costumes were heard, some advice was given apparently, and that's all any academic organization or otherwise should have to contend with.
That's the end of the story.
There's no reason for the faculty to have to address it further.
Whether or not responses were 'tone deaf' it subjective, and certainly besides the point with respect to anyone being fired.
Students who bullied the staff should have been admonished (or possibly expelled), not the other way around.
- krastanov 8y agoThe whole costume thing was a minor part of the conversation (and went more or less as you described). It was a convenient chance to start a conversation. Students had legitimate complaints about documented casual racism on campus, and initially they received only dismissal. This is the source of all the anger.
- doe88 8y ago> documented casual racism on campus Please provide any link on this, i'm curious about these problems.
- krastanov 8y agoThis would be a good start (mostly self reported though, shows significant differences in the experience of some students) https://nursing.yale.edu/gpss-report-race-diversity-inclusion-yale https://nursing.yale.edu/gpss-report-race-diversity-inclusio... This story is rather ridiculous (and it would have been funny if it was an isolated incident, but a subset of the students face this more often than others): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/05/10/a-black-yale-student-fell-asleep-in-her-dorms-common-room-a-white-student-called-police/?utm_term=.7859dd2fed41 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/05/1... YDN from around that time would probably have testimonials.