For some, college name impacts transfer choice [Yale Snowflakes]

Yale News ^ | October 18, 2016 | Jingyi Cui and Britton O'Daly

[C19fan]

Student response to the recent announcement that transfers into the two new residential colleges will be randomly placed into either Pauli Murray or Benjamin Franklin college has shown that Yale’s campus is not of one mind on the significance of a college’s name to its community. When its name was announced last April, Pauli Murray College — which honors civil rights activist and 20th century intellectual Anna Pauline Murray LAW ’65 — became the first residential college named after a woman or a person of color. Under the shadow of a yearlong debate over the name of Calhoun College, the decision to pair Murray with Benjamin Franklin drew condemnation from students who were both confused by the choice to recognize an individual who did not attend the University and disappointed by the Yale Corporation’s decision to honor another slave-owning white male.

[C19fan]

Yale snowflakes offended Benjamin Franklin is going to be named for a new college, Yale speak for dorm. Snowflakes object to him because he a Dead White Male and one timed owed slaves. The little Snowflakes are ignorant Franklin freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. The reason Yale is using Franklin, who had no connection to Yale, was the white male who donated $250 MM to build the dorms requested one of the dorms be named after Franklin. The other person Murray checked off two out of the four letters in LGBT.

[tbw2]

Given how many kids cannot get into college or select the program that gives them the most financial assistance, to be able to say “not that one, I don’t like the name” is the ultimate petty luxury.

[Sasparilla]

..students who were both confused....

An understatement.

[JimRed]

Under the shadow of a yearlong debate over the name of Calhoun College, the...

Why are they objecting to a college being named after a black lawyer? Algonquin J. Calhoun, esq., for you younger folks who never heard the radio show or saw the TV series, was the lawyer on the old Amos n' Andy show!

[proud American in Canada]

Wow. Times have changed since I was in college.

How weak these young people are.

[golux]

“She is an important figure for visibility for queer women of color, and I think that’s important for Yale, more so than Franklin, who is similar to a lot of the other honorees of other buildings and Yale events,” said Sara Harris ’19.

Finally, a college less desirable than Morse and Stiles.

[tbw2]

We’re almost down to “here’s your official demographic identity, here’s your assigned school”.