Posted on 10/20/2016 6:11:26 AM PDT by 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 Yales campus is not of one mind on the significance of a colleges 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 Corporations decision to honor another slave-owning white male.
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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.
..students who were both confused....
An understatement.
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!
Wow. Times have changed since I was in college.
How weak these young people are.
We’re almost down to “here’s your official demographic identity, here’s your assigned school”.
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