Posted on 11/01/2024 4:38:52 AM PDT by Libloather
Yale has decided to kill its “institutional voice” and quit issuing statements on controversial issues.
After years of making statements on hot-button topics from abortion to Black Lives Matter, the Ivy League school will adopt a standard of “institutional neutrality,” in a bid to stay out of the culture wars.
University president Maurie McInnis announced Wednesday the school would keep its mouth shut and “refrain from issuing statements concerning matters of public, social, or political significance, except in rare cases.”
Who cares what a college as a collective thinks about the latest election results or faddish protest cause? And since when is it up to a college president to speak for everyone in the community, assuming they’re all on the same page? What ever happened to diversity of opinion?
Yale made the right move — and it’s time for other colleges to follow suit.
McInnis appointed a Committee on Institutional Voice to determine what — if any — stances the school should take on current events and, after seven weeks of meetings, the committee concluded: just about none.
What schools should and shouldn’t opine about came into sharp focus in the wake of Hamas’ October 7th terror attack on Israel. Many colleges and universities remained uncharacteristically silent, hesitating to condemn the atrocities that took place for fear of agitating campus activists.
This selective silence, understandably, left many Jewish students feeling abandoned.
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So they won’t say the quiet part out loud anymore.
Whoopee.
“ Yale will be quick to say, “From the river to the sea ...”
From the river to the sea is the only way this ends. What’s unknown is who the winner is going to be.
There’s no scenario where these two diverse communities co-exist on the land they both claim. And, not for nothing, the US is heading for the same conflict.
Yep, you got it. This is but a brief self-imposed silence of convenience. Their propaganda spouting machine will be back up and running in short order, probably soon after the election is over.
Good point. A conspiracy of silence. LOL
guess a drop in enrollment will do that...
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