In the NYT, of course:
Yale Sets Policy That Could Allow Renaming of Calhoun College
… “This isn’t about symbolic politics, but about the mission of the university,” said John Fabian Witt, a historian at Yale Law School and the chairman of the committee. Fostering an inclusive campus, he said, “is the best way to approach the project of research and learning.” The report acknowledges “a certain exhaustion” with the whole issue.
… As an example of an overly broad policy, Mr. Witt cited guidelines recently adopted at the University of Oregon allowing for potentially renaming buildings honoring anyone who demonstrated “discriminatory, racist, homophobic, or misogynist views that actively promoted systemic oppression” or who “failed to take redemptive action,” among other expansive criteria. “There’s a real risk that would catch up anyone alive before 1950,” Mr. Witt said.
Yes, research and learning can be exhausting, Professor Witt. But maybe you should have tried a little harder to understand the importance of redemption. Here are some references:
the perceived need for redemption seems facile in this judgmental and hypocritical world.
But redemption is indeed a hard concept to properly understand and often takes simultaneously profound and subtle forms
No Beast so fierce knows but some touch of pity, but I know none and am therefore no beast
Is what Shakespeare would say.
Led Zeppelin said it different in Stairway to Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSW4YP1lnB8 also
is about redemption, an old Joy Division song, made better by Moby
Is there any other kind of Yalie twit? Or pompous Yalie?