[Xmca-l] Re: Halloween, Yale and other complications

[Peter Smagorinsky]

In case anyone's interested, I recently was a guest on the Atlanta NPR station, talking about political correctness (the implicit theme of David's article on Yale).
2015 WABE (NPR) 90.5FM Atlanta: College PC Culture: It’s Not About Offending But Respecting http://news.wabe.org/post/college-pc-culture-it-s-not-about-offending-respecting 

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From: xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of David Preiss
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 2:22 PM
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Subject: [Xmca-l] Halloween, Yale and other complications

And so it goes with Halloween... It seems that this holiday is becoming a college issue. Here, a college master (I never liked the term because of the slavery implications it has), got in trouble because it did something different than the other university president: she asked the students to think independently. And the students were, of course, disgusted because of the request.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/