Yale cancels classes to allow students to protest Kavanaugh on campus and in Washington, DC

Hot Air ^ | September 24, 2018 | John Sexton

[detective]

Students held a sit-in today at Yale Law School to protest the Kavanaugh nomination while some of their classmates traveled to Washington, D.C. for a similar protest. Classes were canceled to make time for all the protesting. From the Cut:

Today, 115 YLS students bussed down to the U.S. Capitol, while dozens of others are occupying their school’s halls in a sit-in to demand that the Senate committee conduct a fair and impartial investigation into the mounting sexual-assault allegations against Kavanaugh.

By early Monday morning, members of the law school faculty had already cancelled 31 of the day’s scheduled classes in anticipation of the planned student actions, which follow last week’s silent protest. Law student Dana Bolger, who’s among the 115 YLS students protesting at the Supreme Court and meeting with senators in Washington, D.C., today, told the Cut that everyone is “mad as hell.”

Meanwhile, in New Haven, students dressed in black filled YLS’s halls, where an organizers told protestors that as a community, they were there to “discuss the very real threat that Brett Kavanaugh poses to this country” and “to show that we take allegations of sexual assault and harassment seriously.” Connecticut senator and Yale graduate Richard Blumenthal also made an appearance at the sit-in, where he told students, “There is no way that the US Senate, in good conscience, can vote on this nomination without a full investigation.”

The protest at Yale Law School included a moment of silence with students dressed in black sitting on the floor

[Jim Noble]

Yale cancelled classes?

No great loss.

[Jack Hammer]

Used to be a respectable school, long, long ago.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Yale is very hypocritical.

Do you think they would oppose the wall (border wall)? Just curious......

[The_Media_never_lie]

Wait a minute....

Don’t you think there is a CHANCE they cancelled classes to SUPPORT Kavenaugh?

He being an alumni and all?

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Are some at Yale Law supporting Kavanaugh?

[x]

I guess that's just the law school.

I thought maybe undergrads would commemorate the day with a mass nude-in in the old campus quadrangle.

[x]

Yale law professors took it on themselves to counsel students as to what kind of people judges wanted as clerks - what kind of women appealed most to male judges - so that the students could get the valued clerkship positions.

Typical careerist get-ahead move by Tiger Mom go-getter Professor Amy Chua.

Now the professors are accused of "grooming" students for judges who are made out to be pervs.

So Yale feels implicated in what's not really a sexual scandal but a mess of their own making.

I suppose there are a few conservative professors and students, but the school is even less inclined now to listen to them now.

[Daffynition]

WFB was instrumental in my conversion to Conservatism. Watching Firing Line with a note pad, writing down every other word he used b/c I hadn’t heard that word before, and looking it up later; he and Bill Ssfire were masters. God rest their souls.

And Yale was deeply rooted in our family tradition; all the men were *Elis* and Aunt Margaret was a grad of Yale Medical; even great Aunt Mary was the first woman grad of the New Haven Paint & Clay Club [later Yale Art School], an accomplished artist in her own right in the late 1800s.

I must say, it breaks my heart that the long held values of Yale are subverted by the radical left. But that is not unique to Yale.

[reg45]

Protecting baby seals in Northern Alaska.

[simpson96]

I’ll bet the “fugly” was off the charts in that place.