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This is an edited excerpt of new footage that recently surfaced of the Yale Halloween Costume incident that went viral at the time.
Source videos:
Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=ELzUfKWTvI0
Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=05LMHnlLoGI
Part 3: youtube.com/watch?v=u-q3Y8pRoj8
Part 4: youtube.com/watch?v=es1W9cREZAs
Viral "Shrieking Girl" clip (filmed by Greg Lukianoff of FIRE: the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): youtube.com/watch?v=9IEFD_JVYd0
=========== Event chronology ===========
On Oct 27/28, 2015 (the exact date isn't clear), the Yale Intercultural Affairs Committee sends out a mass email to the student body that includes guidelines on what kinds of halloween costumes to avoid. thefire.org/email-from-intercultural-affairs
On Oct 30, Erika Christakis (who is an early childhood development specialist, and "Associate Master" of Silliman College, one of Yale's twelve residential houses) emails a thoughtful response to Silliman students, questioning the appropriateness of the university micro-managing student lives, and suggested that students are adult enough to handle potential conflicts in a productive manner. goo.gl/lIovu1
Yale students respond by losing their collective minds. They protest, they cry, they demand the resignation of both Erika Christakis and her husband Nicholas Christakis.
On Nov 5, 2015, a group of students confront Nicholas on the campus quad and subject him to several hours of abusive public shaming worthy of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
December 2015 - The Christakises cancel their upcoming Spring semester courses. Nicholas takes a "sabbatical" while Erika resigns from teaching altogether.
May 2016 - The Christakises resign from their administrative positions as Master and Associate Master of Silliman College.
=========== Further Reading ==========
Yale Intercultural Affairs Committee email: thefire.org/email-from-intercultural-affairs
Erika Christakis response email (this is what started all the drama): goo.gl/lIovu1
"The New Intolerance of Student Activism" (The Atlantic, Nov 9, 2015): goo.gl/QlPRiq
"The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt (The Atlantic, Sept 2015): goo.gl/jx2Xa5
Erika Christakis' Washington Post op-ed reflecting on the incident one year later (Oct 28, 2016): goo.gl/33fsL5
"New Videos Show How Yale Betrayed Itself By Favoring Cry-Bullies" (Sept 12, 2016): goo.gl/VTFzyx
This is an edited excerpt of new footage that recently surfaced of the Yale Halloween Costume incident that went viral at the time.
Source videos:
Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=ELzUfKWTvI0
Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=05LMHnlLoGI
Part 3: youtube.com/watch?v=u-q3Y8pRoj8
Part 4: youtube.com/watch?v=es1W9cREZAs
Viral "Shrieking Girl" clip (filmed by Greg Lukianoff of FIRE: the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): youtube.com/watch?v=9IEFD_JVYd0
=========== Event chronology ===========
On Oct 27/28, 2015 (the exact date isn't clear), the Yale Intercultural Affairs Committee sends out a mass email to the student body that includes guidelines on what kinds of halloween costumes to avoid. thefire.org/email-from-intercultural-affairs
On Oct 30, Erika Christakis (who is an early childhood development specialist, and "Associate Master" of Silliman College, one of Yale's twelve residential houses) emails a thoughtful response to Silliman students, questioning the appropriateness of the university micro-managing student lives, and suggested that students are adult enough to handle potential conflicts in a productive manner. goo.gl/lIovu1
Yale students respond by losing their collective minds. They protest, they cry, they demand the resignation of both Erika Christakis and her husband Nicholas Christakis.
On Nov 5, 2015, a group of students confront Nicholas on the campus quad and subject him to several hours of abusive public shaming worthy of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
December 2015 - The Christakises cancel their upcoming Spring semester courses. Nicholas takes a "sabbatical" while Erika resigns from teaching altogether.
May 2016 - The Christakises resign from their administrative positions as Master and Associate Master of Silliman College.
=========== Further Reading ==========
Yale Intercultural Affairs Committee email: thefire.org/email-from-intercultural-affairs
Erika Christakis response email (this is what started all the drama): goo.gl/lIovu1
"The New Intolerance of Student Activism" (The Atlantic, Nov 9, 2015): goo.gl/QlPRiq
"The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt (The Atlantic, Sept 2015): goo.gl/jx2Xa5
Erika Christakis' Washington Post op-ed reflecting on the incident one year later (Oct 28, 2016): goo.gl/33fsL5
"New Videos Show How Yale Betrayed Itself By Favoring Cry-Bullies" (Sept 12, 2016): goo.gl/VTFzyx