Yale Students Upset That School is Working on Settlement With Trump DOJ
“I just feel like the current Yale student body is so passionate about not making a deal with Trump, and I just feel like the administration needs to hear that”
These people are adult babies who have no idea how the real world works.
Yale Daily News reports:
Undergraduates fear settlement with Trump may cause Yale lasting harm
Amid widespread backlash to a potential settlement between Yale and the Trump administration, some undergraduates expressed concern that the University’s lack of transparency around negotiations might sow distrust in its leaders.
Since late June, when reports of Yale’s settlement talks with the Trump administration first emerged, administrators have largely declined to speak on the matter — until Yale President Maurie McInnis acknowledged ongoing negotiations in a schoolwide email on Monday. Last week, backlash from students, faculty and alumni groups culminated in a campus press conference, at which Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 said that Yale had proposed a second settlement offer after the Trump administration rejected the first.
“I just feel like the current Yale student body is so passionate about not making a deal with Trump, and I just feel like the administration needs to hear that,” incoming student Andres Alvarez ’30 told the News after speaking at last Friday’s conference. “They need to hear what ‘Lux et Veritas’ means. They need to know that ‘Light and Truth’ is not about hiding their dealings in closed doors, but to actually respond to the active student body that’s arguing against this.”
In an email to the News, Luca Shakoori ’29 wrote that while he is worried about how federal influence might threaten academic freedom, he is most concerned with “the lack of transparency around the negotiations, which only further erodes trust in the university.”
“Depending on what course Yale decides to take, it could take a long time for the resulting scars of distrust to heal,” Angel Ortiz ’29 wrote in an email to the News.
Ortiz said that negotiations might harm the perception that past, present and future students have of Yale, adding that he would not blame a high school student for choosing to attend another university that would “represent them better.”
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Clearly, they need to DEMAND something — then they’ll all feel better.
US Justice Department suspects that Yale University is guilty of racially discrimination concerning its admissions.
If Yale believed it had no exposure on the issue it could just tell Justice to POUND SAND.
If Yale knows it has hazards, it should negotiate a resolution.
“I just feel..”
Poor delicate sensitive snowflake morons.
It gets even worse.
Several Democratic lawmakers have now THREATENED YALE. Saying that if Yale settles with the Trump administration to actually follow the law and the Supreme Court mandate, the State of Connecticut will attack Yale’s non-profit status, take away State funding or support of any kind and revisit a pact between the State and Yale entered into some 300 years ago.
Their claim is that Yale should not allow politicians to tell it how to run the school.
Except, of course, if it is leftist Democratic politicians issuing threats!
For nearly 40 years I have taught medical students and residents part time in public and private institutions. There has always been a very vocal relatively small cadre of attention seeking academics who use their positions to virtue signal to each other. Sometimes they compete to see who can be the most outspokenly radical, and this can get pretty ridiculous. No one takes them seriously and administrators tolerate it up to a point. But occasionally some dumb chump or faction will get carried away with themselves and attract enough negative attention to generate financial consequences for the university, and will have to be put in their place. This is done quietly and quickly, under an obligatory layer of academic gobbledygook that attempts to placate as many ruffled egos as possible, while still keeping their funding sources from bailing out. Some administrators are quite good at this kabuki theater, and can successfully restore the status quo. Yale seems to be fairly adept at this, and will probably get themselves back in good graces after some ritual obeisance that will be loudly denounced by the usual suspects. Then things will settle down for a while, at least until the next prima donnas demand their turn on stage. But the 2% who crave such spotlights do not speak for the vast majority and their malignant influence does not extend nearly as far as they would have you believe.