2019 in Review in Accused Student Litigation
…Jack Montague’s lawsuit against Yale, the court denied summary judgment on both breaches of contract and basic fairness, and in a variety of areas—including whether Yale found Montague guilty despite…
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Cuomo and the Lack of Fairness in New York Title IX Stats
…not be truthful—and therefore would be “at fault.” A system that rules out such a possibility is biased from the start. [Is Yale More Dangerous than Detroit?] The Cuomo administration…
‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values
…To which one can only respond: if only! Leave aside such student abuse of the adults in charge as the scourging of Nicholas Christakis at Yale, of Bret Weinstein at…
How to Cope With Your Prof’s Left-wing Bias
…can’t find a job as a professor at a good university. One of my former bosses had a degree from the highest-ranked law school (Yale) and had published scholarly articles…
It’s Time to Purge Your Universities of Anti-Semitism
…decide what can be said and what speech is allowed and what must be suppressed; it is what former Yale University president Bartlett Giamatti characterized as the “tyranny of group…
The Slow and Tortuous Death of the GRE
…had done the same thing. History at Yale, English at Cornell and Harvard, and philosophy at Penn, it added, had already decided to skip the GRE. [Columbia Adds Multiculturalism to…
Why Harvard’s Affirmative Action Victory Should Be Overturned
…academic quality or any of the other measures of excellence valued by Harvard.”(This reminds me of the position attributed to critics of Yale’s decision to go co-ed: they didn’t object…
Should We Abandon the Concept of Merit?
…Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite. Markovits is a professor of law at Yale, and while he paints a much broader canvas of American inequality, he is especially…
Is Yale More Dangerous than Detroit?
…Nine allegations, meanwhile, were filed against Yale professors. The increased number of complaints filed by female graduate students (who are a smaller percentage of the overall Yale community than female…
Fake Claims of Rape Due to Trauma Are Under Scrutiny
…trauma-informed approach as an antidote to the criminal justice process—a remark that revealed more than perhaps she intended. [After Vilifying Its Basketball Star, How Much Did Yale Have to Pay?]…
The Garden of College Excellence Is Growing Weeds
Anthony Kronman, my long-time Yale Law School colleague and perhaps the most eloquent individual I know personally, has written a brave, high-minded, argumentative, and largely persuasive book about the values…
Teaching That America Is Hopelessly Racist
…new edition of the study “Neo-Segregation at Yale” in New Haven on September 23rd and launching their next edition of Beach Books, which tracks these college reading programs, at First…
Harvard Law Professors Challenge Unfairness of Title IX
…risk. If you find for her, no one is likely to complain.” Gertner expanded on her perspective in a 2016 article for Yale Law Journal. Elizabeth Bartholet, meanwhile, accurately predicted—in…
A Federal Court Takes on Title IX
…sexual assault, not alcohol. [After Vilifying Its Basketball Star, How Much Did Yale Have to Pay?] The CARE statement was forwarded to Purdue dean Katherine Sermersheim, who oversaw an “investigation.”…
A Confusing Racial Decision for Harvard
…Princeton, Columbia, Yale Harvard drew them not only because of its prestige, but because, as the college brochures and the president’s speeches told them, Harvard is a wondrous domain of…
After Vilifying Its Basketball Star—How Much Did Yale Have to Pay?
…by David Post, chair of Yale’s Title IX tribunal, At the meeting, Yale told the accuser they’d set up a special process for her—in which Yale’s Title IX office would…
Are the Doors to Elite Universities Still Open to Jewish Students?
…percent of the students at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania are now Jewish. At Yale, Harvard and Cornell, the Jewish student number between 20 and 25 percent, while between…
Yet Another Attack on Due Process by Title IX
…UMass school hearing was played.” Nevertheless, jurors found Amara guilty, and the judge sentenced Amara to five years in prison. [Major Victory for Montague in Yale Lawsuit] Perhaps Amara would…
Goodbye Humanities—Hating White Males Is Not a Curriculum
…one might assume that Berkeley-Yale-Hopkins-Chicago-et al had formed a conspiracy to keep anyone not-white and not-male out of the faculty ranks. They truly believe that. Their version of the past…
The Final Corruption of the SAT’s
…when it broke the story about Adversity Scores. Coleman himself is the very model of resourcefulness, or resourcefulness melded to privilege. The son of the president of Bennington College, Yale-educated,…
How Nine Universities Pander to Campus Radicals
…standing up to college’s feckless administration, “Cowardice and Courage at Middlebury.” Yale University Yale’s follies in the last few years are kaleidoscopic. AEI’s Michael Rubin, writing in the Washington Examiner…
Major Victory for Montague in Yale Lawsuit
…to serve as the complainant, so Yale’s Title IX office, desperate to see a case against Montague proceed, filed the charges itself. Once the hearing commenced, however, Yale allowed the…
Harvard Flinches and Admits a Few More Asians
…same pattern regarding Jewish admissions documented by Jerome Karabel’s impressive 2005 book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In fact, Unz noted…
The Bullying and Silencing of Students
…fearful of questioning the prevailing attitudes and ideas is fairly common nationwide. In 2018, the Buckley Program at Yale asked a national sample of undergraduates, “[Have you felt intimidated in…
The Four Unspoken Rules for Getting Into College
…my opinion. The extreme irony of this is demonstrated by Jerome Karabel in another superb book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton….
Why Not Create a Great Conservative University?
…these places can seriously claim to be a leading university—that is, an elite institution comparable in quality and ambitions to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford. Not only I but several…
Today’s College Admissions Scandal Started Years Ago
…the scandal. But that is because most of the early reporting has been from Hollywood. Yale has been tagged a few times, but the east coast establishment is pretty well…
How Diversity Hijacked History 101 and All the Humanities
…Yale took down a picture of Shakespeare? The only real news is which program is going to disappear next. The hard question is why the cuts are happening. That makes…
Title IX Has a Cross-Examination Crisis
…against DeVos’ cross-examination provision. First, they contended that it would deter reporting by campus victims of sexual assault. Yale President Peter Salovey and University of California chancellor Janet Napolitano were…
Heather Mac Donald: In the Crosshairs of a Progressive Campaign
…all before (Gleason goes back to William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale). The “afraid” trait nicely reduces Diversity Delusion to generic status. We can ignore it. Now, here…