Yale University faculty member Erika Christakis will not teach at the school from the spring semester.
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Two Yale professors have resigned after protests condemning the wife's comments that students should be free to push boundaries with Halloween costumes.
Faculty member Erika Christakis, who runs courses on child development and psychology, has decided not to teach classes from the start of the spring semester, the Ivy League university announced via its website on Monday.
'I have great respect and affection for my students but I worry that the current climate at Yale is not, in my view, conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems,' Mrs Christakis said in an email to The Washington Post.
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After the march, dozens of faculty members contributed to an open letter showing support for Christakis.
University President Peter Salovey held a four-hour forum with students to hear their grievances and then sent a campus-wide email saying he was deeply troubled by the atmosphere there.
One student launched into a expletive-ridden rant at Nicholas Christakis (above), after he was trying to tell her why he felt the university should not censor what people wear with regard to Halloween costumes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3350471/Yale-teacher-resigns-offensive-Halloween-costume-email.html
Husband-and-wife Yale professors resign in the wake of Halloween costume scandal: Couple driven out of politically correct campus
Faculty members Nicholas and Erika Christakis have chosen not to keep teaching their courses, the university announced
Mrs Christakis came under attack in October for her response to a request from a campus group that students avoid wearing insensitive costumes
She wrote an email saying students should be be able to wear any costume
Her husband, a professor of social and natural science, defended her when confronted by students in an incident that was caught on video
Was one of several incidents that prompted large protest march last month
By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 23:16 EST, 7 December 2015 | UPDATED: 17:31 EST, 8 December 2015
'I have great respect and affection for my students but I worry that the current climate at Yale is not, in my view, conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems,' Mrs Christakis said in an email to The Washington Post.
[. . .]
After the march, dozens of faculty members contributed to an open letter showing support for Christakis.
University President Peter Salovey held a four-hour forum with students to hear their grievances and then sent a campus-wide email saying he was deeply troubled by the atmosphere there.
One student launched into a expletive-ridden rant at Nicholas Christakis (above), after he was trying to tell her why he felt the university should not censor what people wear with regard to Halloween costumes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3350471/Yale-teacher-resigns-offensive-Halloween-costume-email.html
Husband-and-wife Yale professors resign in the wake of Halloween costume scandal: Couple driven out of politically correct campus
Faculty members Nicholas and Erika Christakis have chosen not to keep teaching their courses, the university announced
Mrs Christakis came under attack in October for her response to a request from a campus group that students avoid wearing insensitive costumes
She wrote an email saying students should be be able to wear any costume
Her husband, a professor of social and natural science, defended her when confronted by students in an incident that was caught on video
Was one of several incidents that prompted large protest march last month
By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 23:16 EST, 7 December 2015 | UPDATED: 17:31 EST, 8 December 2015
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The school is ultimately responsible for the chill on free speech, according to Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
"While Yale did eventually get around to issuing a statement in favor of free expression, it’s hard to imagine that Erika or Nicholas Christakis would have decided to quit teaching at Yale and take a sabbatical, respectively, had Dean Holloway or President [Peter] Salovey consistently shown their support for free expression through their words and actions on campus," said FIRE's Robert Shibley.
The issue of free expression on campus has come into sharp relief on several campuses, with students calling for “safe zones” and speech codes where words and deeds deemed offensive are barred. Erika Christakis provoked outrage when she sent an email to Silliman residents questioning the desire to find offense in Halloween costumes.
“Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious… a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Christakis wrote. “American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”
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Yale couple flees classroom amid free speech chill
Published December 08, 2015
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