Jerelyn Luther has been identified as the student who yelled at Yale professor Nicholas Christakis for not letting Yale be a safe space, The Daily Caller reported. The protest occurred after Christakis’ wife said that she thought students shouldn’t be so sensitive about Halloween costumes. During Luther’s speech at the Yale student protest last week, she yelled out: “Who the **** hired you?” It turns out that she was on the search team that brought Christakis to Yale.
The protest was sparked not only by the email about the costumes, but a series of racially tense events that have occurred at Yale. Since the protest, the president of Yale, Peter Salovey, has vowed to be more sensitive to racial tensions at Yale. He said that before Thanksgiving, he’s going to unveil a plan to improve the college experience for students of color via both form and informal practices, The Washington Post reported.
Here’s what you need to know.
1. Jerelyn Luther Was on the Search Team that Hired Nicholas Christakis
Jerelyn Luther was on the search team that hired Nicholas Christakis for his current job that she doesn’t think he should have. (Creative Concepts/cache)
Jerelyn Luther, Class of 2016, was actually part of the search team that hired Nicholas Christakis as the Master of Silliman College at Yale. During the protest, she was recorded yelling at Christakis: “Who the **** hired you?” In February, Christakis was appointed to his new position, MyScience reported, and the job started on July 1, 2015. Christakis, a social scientist and physician, is a professor of social and natural science at Yale and a 1984 graduate of Yale.
In the article that discusses Christakis’ appointment, the members of his search committee are listed. Luther was one of eight people on the committee. Regarding his appointment, Christakis said at the time:
It is my hope to really get to know the students and give them a secure attachment to a Silliman community that lifts them up and fosters a spirit of adventure that comes from this sort of understanding.”
2. During the Protest, She Told Christakis That He Shouldn’t Be Master of Silliman College If He Doesn’t Believe In Making the Campus a Safe Space
A screenshot from the second video of the Yale protest, showing Luther in attendance. (YouTube)
The protest took place on Friday, with more than 100 students gathering to talk to Christakis about an email this his wife sent to the students at Yale about Halloween costumes, Yale Daily News reported. During the protest, Luther had a lot of things to say to Christakis, and she was often applauded and encouraged by the other students. She accused Christakis of creating an unsafe space at Yale. When he protested, she yelled, “Be quiet!” She then said that in his position, it was his job to create a place of comfort and a home for students. He protested that job description and she began yelling. “Then why the **** did you accept the position?” She continued, telling him that he should step down because his job wasn’t just about creating an intellectual space.
The protests were about not just the Halloween costume email, but other racially tense situations that have occurred at Yale recently, where students believe the college doesn’t support a racially diverse culture. A fraternity at Yale, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, is accused of turning away black women from a recent party, which the fraternity’s president has denied, The Washington Post reported. Students have posted signs urging Yale to support students and faculty of color and to support ethnic studies. In a closed-door meeting, Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, told students that the university had failed them and will release a plan before Thanksgiving that will help students of color feel more welcome.
3. The Protest Occurred After Nicholas and Erika Christakis Disagreed With the Idea of Censoring Halloween Costumes
The protest focused on an email sent by Nicholas’ wife, Erika Christakis, who is associate headmaster of Silliman College at Yale. The email suggested that students should not be overly sensitive about Halloween costumes that play on minority cultures, The Daily Caller reported. She advised students to look away or voice discomfort in the costumes. In her email, Erika wondered if there was still room for a young person to be a bit obnoxious, inappropriate, or offensive. She wrote, in part:
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…”
Students at Yale fired back, saying that her email created an unsafe environment. They called for the couple’s resignation. The professors initially responded by posting news articles on Twitter (such as the one linked above) about free speech and the coddling of American college students:
Nicholas Christakis has since apologized for any role he played in the controversy that erupted from his wife’s email, The Washington Post reported. He said that the encounter at the protest broke his heart and he cares about the same issues that they care about.
4. Luther Is a Journalist Who Loves the Outdoors
Luther is a college journalist who writes about foreign affairs. (webcache)
Luther is a journalist who has worked with a number of student publications, including serving as an online editor and writer for The Yale Globalist. She wrote for The Globalist while traveling in Israel and then moved on to becoming an editor. She oversees beat bloggers who cover foreign events around the world.
She also worked for a time for her mother’s PR agency, Creative Solutions. Although Luther’s biography is no longer on the website, you can see a cached version here. Her work included writing blogs for clients, researching, helping with payroll, and participating in community outreach. According to The Daily Caller, Luther comes from a wealthy background and lives in a family home worth $760,000.
A now deleted page about Master’s Aides at Silliman College describes her as a senior who loves eating chocolate chip cookies, according to the cached version of the page. She’s also a head coordinator for FOOT (Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips.) The biography says that she enjoys hiking, yoga, and anything to do with good food.
5. She Describes Herself as Having a Passion for Social Justice And Volunteers to Help the Homeless
Jerelyn Luther has a passion for social justice. (PresentTense/Jerelyn Luther)
Much of Luther’s information is lost, as she’s taken down her Twitter and Facebook profiles and her Instagram page is private. However, what remains shows that she’s a coordinator for Project Homeless Connect, which offers social and health care services to the homeless. According to her bio at The Globalist, she also works with the Yale Refugee Project. Her bio on PresentTense describes her as having a passion for social justice and helping others.
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November 11, 2015 4:20 pm
Jerelyn is really one of the nicest kids I know. I believe shes been exposed to leftist group think is all.
Except for being a loud mouth, subliterate, self important, self righteous Stalinist yes… I’m sure she’s a real sweetee…
What I would like to know is why you are sitting on the internet making completely arbitrary character judgments without any background knowledge whatsoever. You have only seen one small part of this story. You know NOTHING about this girl or her family. Liberal, conservative, whatever. Forget whatever message she may be advocating for that you apparently so strongly disagree with. Ad hominem attacks make *you* look like the foolish, uneducated, and petty person. Think before you type. Yes, her comment may have been rash, but it was in a highly emotionally intense situation in which it would be easy for ANYONE to make a poor judgment call. You, however, had ample time to think about the comment you posted and its potential ramifications. No excuses there.
“What I would like to know is why you are sitting on the internet making completely arbitrary character judgments”
“*you* look like the foolish, uneducated, and petty person.”
Please Student16, go on….
Ha! This made me laugh. Well ‘s, my friendid. “you’re making judgments but I’ll judge the shit out of you”.
Great retort. What kind of crap is Yale producing these days? Admission standards must have been lowered.
Jerelyn is everything that is wrong with this country today. As a parent, I would be ashamed if I saw my kid speaking like that to anyone. Her conduct was disgusting and I hope this video lives with her forever. As an employer, this is exactly why I look online before I hire anyone. Jerelyn, welcome to the real world. Your words and actions have consequences. Time to grow up. I love your video because it shows the world exactly what you are and you did it all to yourself.
Oh, she’ll get plenty of job offers and a job for life with some taxpayer -funded PC NGO. where there is little to zero hope of objectively judging her “work”
A lack of talent, ability or character has little to do with it- she be a Black woman, , y’all know what ah mean?
Agree
what an idiot.
So student16, you admit her comment was “rash” and a “poor judgment call.” Does that mean you believe this Yale student regrets the content of what she said, or the manner in which she said it? Or both? Are you trying to say she didn’t mean a word of what she said? That it doesn’t reflect what she believes?
When you grow up, you’ll learn that’s how the world works. Unlike your education until now, you don’t get end endless series of do-overs.
How is a discussion about Halloween costumes a highly emotional, intense situation. I don’t think it’s easy for ANYONE to make that poor judgement call over the age of 12. That’s why everyone is laughing. She’s acting like a damn 12 year old over an email telling students to use their own critical thinking when choosing a costume rather than relying on faculty to hold their hands for them. It’s not even a real problem.
We have seen her actions. That is all that is needed to make conclusions about her character
student 16, do you have a mirror?
Don’t get me wrong, I love this Social justice shit that’s eating its own tail. It’s typical and just like the 3rd wave feminist movement, full of hypocrisy and wallowing in being privileged victims who lie and embellish. My fists and I look forward to the physical manifestation it ultimately brings, where the sissies will learn their place.
Actually, we know pretty much NOTHING about our President, either.
Not even his Grades or SAT’s. Clearly they are so stellar he simply does not wish to embarrass we lesser creatures.
The you should climb out from under that rock you’ve been keeping yourself these past 8 years.
You are an idiot…What we know is that she is a jungle cunt…
Well, apart from looking like an idiot yourself – you sound pretty classy.
Thanks,Jerelyn
One need really only look at what one sees to make character comments on arrogant, thoughtless (as in without much thought), loudmouthed, impolite, intimidating, theatrical and overly dramatic entitled children acting out in a public forum.
Grow Up! …….”a highly emotionally intense situation.” What?? over a debate about free speech??…really??? Your statement is a gross over dramatization about the situation….in fact all of this seems so totally manufactured.
this is an ill thought-out comment.
You see people, if a liberal becomes emotional, it should be excused and understood. Anyone else is accused of showing their true colors and forced to resign, quit, make a humiliating public apology, be blacklisted, etc. But not this little cupcake, she’s just had a long day so we should all just shut-up and excuse her. I’ll forgive and forget when she publicly apologizes to Professor Christakis for her behavior and to Yale for the embarrassment she has caused them. I won’t hold my breath waiting for that. Even more disturbing than her behavior is the fact she is a Journalism major! What wonderful irony. A journalism major (graduating this next year, remember) that doesn’t seem to understand the most basic point of free speech. Only her point of views matter….like anyone is going to take her journalism serious now. What a little communist.
You get one opportunity to make a first impression.
Your user name could lead one to thinking your were a 16- year old student.
Your post, however, casts doubt upon that assumption.
!4-year-old would be more likely.
As to your post, when you are older, you will perhaps come to realise that certain behaviours are often clear indicators of character traits.
She is from an excitable and pandered to race, many of whom negotiate life with a gigantic chip on their shoulders and a self-righteous sense of entitlement.
She is also in a like-minded mob, which makes those of her ilk even more excitable.
…post by Jerelyn Luther
student16 – BE QUIET!!
Arbitrary? The damning evidence against Ms. Luther (and others) is directly from the video, which exposed her as being a bully. I love how people like her (no matter their ethnicity) can only feel empowered when backed by a mob. Notice they circle around him, forcing him to remain trapped unless he declares wrong doing (not that there was any). The mob only becomes more enraged when they see their shameful tactics failing.
All this frenzy over Halloween costumes- or rather the refusal of the professor to submit to censorship.
What these students want is not a “safe space”, but a place to be insulated from the 1st amendment. They exploit the 1st amendment to further their flavor-of-the-month cause, but demand others give up their right to exercise theirs.
Anyone?
She is a raging angry bitch and she will get no where in life despite her bulling
Rash? Poor Judgement? I seriously doubt that you or any of the Millennials really know what it is like to be discriminated against or be dehumanized or what it is to be treated as if you have no brain. I did not take shrapnel in the ass so some hyped up kid from Yale, an over priced school that really does not produce any thing different than most other universities. I am a liberal yes, but yelling at someone saying they cannot make campuses :”safe:” because of Halloween costumes is STUPID. If you want a cause there are plenty of them out there. It is one thing to be socially liberal but there is more to it than that. Her generation will probably be responsible for bringing about the future and most violent and vile President we will ever have because if itis not your way, then it can’t be. So, I guess you all need to take your dolls or footballs and go home. I raged against the machine and was a very rebellious kid, but screaming the way she did made a total jackass out of her. Instead of being smart and doing what other students who are not Yaleys would do is to be smart about how, when, where you confront someone. I have gotten two attorneys disbarred, helped get a judge debenched, got my Company Commander kicked out of the Army on a dishonorable discharge and got most of my Company chain of command reemed out without raising my voice or my blood pressure going up. You see, I have fought city hall and have won, but I would not have by yelling with all this passion and looking like a complete lunatic doing it. And, that is exactly what she looked like, a total loony, mad as a hatter freakazoid.
So, tel me this, what did she accomplish by yelling at him? If anything people like her give a bad name to liberals and give a very bad name to feminist for which I have been since the age of five when they would not allow me to play little league because I was a girl and would not allow me to do other things because I was a girl and yelled at me when the boys were going after the girls lifting their skirts up and I confronted one of them and punched him dead in the face resulting in him getting a bloody nose. I got yelled at, not the boys. Hell, they never even got a strict talking to, but no boy ever attempted to do that to me, and then I was labeled like many of us were and we lived with it.
Sorry but I do not see any issue or fight here. So, if you would please explain what the issue was then maybe the rest of us who saw that video of her screaming in someone’s face will have a better idea of just the the hell she was going on about. She was screaming in that shrieking kind of voice and I could not understand a word she said. You see, you may not know this, but when you do that, people will tune you out because they are the calm ones and the screamer is being so loud that they look like stereotypical, hysterical little girls. She could be a reincarnation of one of the Salem Witch Trial accusers, not the women who were burned or thrown in prison but the actual accusers.
The subject (introduced by Jessie) is: Jerelyn is a “nice” person. Student16’s comment is neither “arbitrary” nor an “attack.” It is his/her observation based on the only information available to the public about Jerelyn. And, in this case, “ad hominem” is appropriate, because the subject IS the person.
Student16: Background knowledge? Just look at the video. She was extremely rude, obnoxious and ill mannered. In addition, she’s espousing views that are clearly anti freedom of speech. Hopefully, after the video was posted, she realizes how wrong she was… but I doubt it.
Blackball her
this girl is horrible. look at how she treats this professor. she shouldn’t be at Yale. She’s clearly unstable. She shouldn’t be anywhere near a job where she has to work for or with other people. she has absolutely no respect for others or any sort of grasp on reality.
You must not know many nice kids then….
No doubt she’s probably polite and rational 99% of the time and it’s only 1% of the time that she’s throwing infantile tantrums and cursing professors and threatening their livelihoods in public. Give us a break. She made her bed–let her lie in it. I’m sure there are plenty of government agencies that will hire her even if any sane private company would run the other way.
fact #6 she’s a cunt
She sure as hell is far from nice now. Leftist groupthink eventually poisons all who accept it, and turn them into what she is now– as shrieking, bullying harpie made bold by the supportive mob.
Disrespect is disrespect. It’s not political, it’s about being brought up to be a decent human being which clearly she was not.
@jessie – so u know jerelyn luther? does she realize that acting all ghetto, throwing down her backpack, but then walking away crying like a whining baby makes her look like a punk bitch?
She’s a KUNT!
She is absolute embarassment to Yale among about a million other groups.
Love how this little tart “stepped up” to the professor in such a threatening manner, dropping her book bag as if she was going to whack him, only to run away crying after her little rant. How dare you oppress me with your imperialist costumes! These liberal millennials are such thin skinned, hateful little monsters. I am embarrassed to say that I also grew up in Fairfield, CT… if you only knew the opulence with which this girl grew up you would vomit. To be born in Fairfield, CT with black skin is truly winning the genetic lottery, as long as you can put up better than a 60th percentile SAT score and B average you literally get to pick your free ride from any of the ivy’s. Due to my evil white skin, my near perfect SAT scores and perfect grades didn’t get me even close. Some privilege heh?
Jasper, her dropping her book bag bought her serious street cred. You can’t put an price tag or an education from Yale up against that. Yo, she be liv’n da thug life and fight’n da man!
Throwing a bag down (or object) is immature behaviour found in all culture and ethnic backgrounds.
There are thug blacks and thug whites.
What we have here is a girl campaigning for the abolishment of diversity by demanding each race only identifies with its own stereotypes. Halloween costumes in her mind will undermine their efforts of bringing back segregation.
Yea
typical privileged negress. a piece of shit.
Judging by her reaction, she is clearly a quota student who was accepted to Yale not for her accomplishments but rather for the circumstances in which she was born. Unfortunate for those who earned the spot with their own efforts, but were denied it for her.
I wonder what advice her mothers PR firm would tell her daughter? Most likely it included deleting any shred of your existence on the Internet and then to go into hiding since she will be the star of everyone’s blog for the next month. I just hope this doesn’t do any damage to her families business and that clients like Bigelow Tea don’t drop them. Apparently she used to have some sort of employment with them until she opened her mouth in such a well articulated rant. I’m sure that she will be getting calls from the Yale Debate team, her eloquence is impeccable. Nice job Yale you should be proud. Forget the Bush family we need more from the Luther family!
The real crime here is that she hasn’t been expelled for her actions. Of course Yale is run by a bunch of cowards who would never court controversy by expelling a minority black female student. I know, i just recently graduated from Yale. This girl’s verbal assault on the teacher is a clear violation of Yale’s code of conduct which forbids anyone from intimidating a fellow member of the community. Taking off her book bag and getting in the teacher’s face while screaming at him is clearly intimidation. If this was a white student yelling the same thing at a black faculty member, he would’ve been instantly expelled. As a senior, the white person would’ve lost several hundred thousand dollars in tuition not being able to graduate. Being a black minority, she probably could’ve belted him and got away with it. Of course she’s allowed to, her actions are justified after a century of white tyranny against african-americans.
Take this down now. Providing personal information about her online is an invasion of her privacy and puts her at risk. No matter what you think of her actions, this is inhumane and deplorable, and you, as a media source, should be ashamed.
After you behave like a predator and go around intimidating people, it is sort of ironic to beg for your privacy and complain about being put at risk. I feel sorry for the professor who has to deal with this being made public. He is having to suffer the consequences for the parents lack of teaching. If a white person did this to a black they would be expelled.
This girl has no right to demand other students to dress to her satisfaction. No more of this “african royalty” scam.
“african royalty?” Really? Or just trying to be insulting in a bigoted sort of way? How would you have described this and insulted the antagonist if she were Italian or Irish?
An Irish or Italian (white) person would have been expelled from Yale. But because she is black, years of affirmative action and race baiting from main stream media have given people like her an insulated soap box on which to stand.
SnapSnapSnap
A simple Google Cache Search will show the same information…thanks for save us the time by putting this together!
Are you Anonymous or are you Professor Mellisa Click ?
Maybe Luther will let you and Chip crash at her Mansion, since with no job you’ll be having a time paying the rent now.
Oh Please Anonymous-Who-Ever-You-Are . . . Hello! The Internet! Her info is everywhere – including her own mother’s firm. “Invasion of privacy”?! Are you for real?
The internet is great for some things and horrible for others. One of the things I dislike the most is when a person gets defined forever because they were caught on camera at a bad moment. So yes, I have some sympathy for this student, who perhaps is polite and rational 99% of the time.
But not that much sympathy either, because it is difficult and hypocritical to ask for understanding when you are not willing to offer the same courtesy to others.
The video is getting a lot of attention because the student was acting absurdly and aggressively against a man who was behaving civilly. But even if she didn’t, she was taking part of a demonstration in which people were not interested in hearing anything other than (at best) a full apology, but preferably a letter or resignation. For the sin of mildly taking students out of their comfort zone, by suggesting that they could try sort the Halloween custom business by themselves, and recall that free speech is in itself an important value.
So this brings us back full circle: it would go better for all of us if we were willing to give the benefit of the doubt to others, and engage them in honest and tolerant discussion whenever possible, as part of the process to find pragmatic solutions to our problems.
Seriously? You think this young woman, Jerelyn Luther. might be polite and rational 99% of the time? After that public meltdown over a memo suggesting that perhaps college students might benefit from being treated like adults on the subject of Halloween costumes? What are the odds that the cameras only caught Ms. Luther’s 1% moment? That 99% of the time she’s perfectly reasonable, and 1% of the time she’s throwing infantile tantrums and cursing professors in public? Give us a break.
Quota student 100%
Not necessarily. For all we know she could have been at the top of her class. But Yale certainly included her in their diversity statistics, and probably love it that she didn’t qualify for a free ride. A two fer. They get to show how progressive they are, and charge her parents $60k+ per year. An administrator’s wet dream.
She needs to have her mouth washed out with soap. An idiot and so far out to the left she can’t handle adversity. Probably not a good fit for a journalist who are exposed to everything. If a Halloween costume of any sort offends her she may be better off living with her mama and papa. Absolutely the stupidest hing I’ve ever heard and she alone has taken Yale to new lows.
Note to all you kids at Yale. Go ahead and try this with your employer and report back. And this may be one of the “nicest kids I know” but she should be suspended pending her written apology for demanding other people to dress to her satisfaction. Who does she think she is?
Nobody has the right to not be offended.
This little entitled brat would be fired before her book bag hit the ground in the real world. Of course, she’d then file a discrimination law suite. What a child. Hopefully she learns something from this and grows up before graduating and entering the big “scary” world of employment and Halloween costumes.
LOL! Employment and Halloween costumes!!
What an eloquent speach, I’m sure Jerelyn with enjoy a long distinguished journalistic career.
In four years, she can moderate a Republican debate on CNBC.
OMG, if she shrieked all the way through it would be hilarious.
I so hope SNL parodies this. Or South Park !
I can’t believe they found a picture of this girl smiling. She does not seem like the type that smiles. Ever.
She just kicked a dog.
What the heck does that even mean, “she kicked a dog?” Nonetheless, what a despicable act on her part – so devoid of respect, simply because someone had a different point of view than her own.
Jerelyn Luther is a Stalinist pig…..just remember…THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS….She makes about as much sense as that ass Obama.
Hilarious that she’s been outed as a uncivilized punk kid and now she’s deleting all her social media profiles. If she believes in what she did, she’ll meet the criticism head on rather than hide. Along with being some rich, privileged kid, she’s a coward too.
Where’s the WHITE HOUSE invite ?
You seem to have missed the fact that Obama has said that people like Jerelyn are wrong, and that it is counterproductive to create these “safe spaces” that this current generation demands. So in other words, you agree with Obama on this. Ha-ha.
We all do things that maybe we shouldn’t have. Give the girl a break
FINE. Written apology ?
Why? Give the girl a break? Why – does she deserve one? Seems she should know better. Gee – you’re easy.
Give the girl a break? Oh you mean like she did for the Christakis? This girl deserves the shit she gets. Let’s not bullshit ourselves, she damaged people’s lives and made it where Yale is now in question not for itself but for the disgusting behavior of it’s students and the weakness of the administration to immediately stand up to this little self entitled princess along with her regressive thinking lackeys. She is no victim, she is in fact a villain. Wrong side of history princess.
Black + anger + mouth = stupidity
I thought Yale was for smart people. I guess now it’s for smart people and n3r60oz.
She is a spoiled, self entitled little bitch. She is typical of the level of narcissism displayed by a lot of Millennials.
On the positive side, she’s probably paying full tuition based on her family background. Her mom has a mid sized PR company and lives in an $860k home. At least they a putting their money where her mouth is.
Just add a couple of thoughts. She is not the archetypal low income survivor of a disadvantaged background. She comes from a home with significant family privilege.
This is why schools should stop using race as a factor, but economic diversity. Then the real talent from disadvantaged backgrounds would be the beneficiaries of societal redress. She’s more privileged than most Americans.
Truly a horrid person, in the video, she is clearly having a great time, she grins from ear to ear. She deserved to be kicked out for treating someone so disrespectfully. Funny how liberals never treat others with the same respect they demand.
>>————————-> There’s no hero to this story, and the only victims are the American people for losing another great, historic institution. Jerelyn Luther, like many of her generation, have an insidious idea virus, a thought worm that hampers the reasoning section of the brain. Her logic neuron gates are being slammed so tight with clouded anger, that they’re not re-opening.
It’s a self-destructive, self-genocidal virus that has been intravenously injected into America’s youth, via these newly formed inoculation centers that we used to call higher education. Jerelyn Luther’s rant showed us one of the side effects of this sickness – a hot-headed fever of the brain invoking a childlike thought process, mixed with the onset of tourette syndrome.
With a face only a mother could love, I sympathize with the shrieking cow. Her disposition puts her at a disadvantage for finding a mate, landing a job, or any other function in life where you need to look to impress.
Cameron Albert:
Jerelyn Luther should be punished for breach of the peace, which is a misdemeanor criminal offense and in this case is not protected by the First Amendment. To go along with the violation of a CT state law she also violated her undergraduate regulations under the general conduct and discipline section. When Jerelyn decided to attend Yale she chose not to violate “Its commitment to protect free expression and peaceful dissent and to preserve mutual respect and charitable relations among all members of the Yale community”. Jerelyn’s approach to this situation could have been handled maturely without her jeopardizing Nicholas Christakis and other student’s rights to peace and tranquility. Since Yale is technically in charge of dictating her punishment I feel they should make it a harsh one, since students of other schools have been expelled for way worse. Talking to a professor like that is completely disgusting and needs to be addressed by Yale immediately.
Since her mother is white, was that her “white privilege” side of her that thought she could yell at a professor like that or her black side? Anyone?
This stuff is pretty normal at Yale… but then again, it’s Yale. Harvard holds itself to a higher set of standards.
This girl is an idiot. The Professor was right. If you want a safe environment, go to school in a plastic bubble. Freedom of speech means that occasionally we have to see and hear things that we don’t agree with. Case in point, I think everything this girl said is offensive and stupid, but I do not wish to pass a law that requires her to wear a muzzle. She has the right to say it, I have the right to disagree with it or even better, ignore it. P.S. Also, you are in college. If seeing a Halloween costume is going to make you feel unsafe maybe you should act your age and stop going to Halloween parties! Harvard rules, Yale sucks.
I hope that she is stigmatized forever and not employed. What a useless POS!
If you read her blog you will see while she was in Israel she spent her time there visiting Palestinians and writing about the evils of the Israeli occupation
Jeleyn will be branded by her antics forever. What future boss would want to have this hellion on his staff? It will follow her like a felony conviction.
what a pos smelly c^nt. the prof should’ve told that b!tch to go f herself.
awww…poor under privileged Yale student…I’ll assume that her two year old behavior will affect future opportunities in the work place but then I’m sure if she can’t find a job she will literally scream RACISM!!!! Disgusting!!!
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Wow. This is really pathetic. These Ivy League schools are supposed to represent the brightest and best and the future of academia. These kids, so narcissistic and and self-centered, who are they to demand such a ridiculous apology. What is wrong with these brats? How did they get so precious? What kind of upbringing did this girl have that she feels she can behave so abhorrently and arrogantly, and what the hell is wrong with her that she would become so filled with rage that she was on the edge of tears and obviously not in control of her emotions? I fear there is a generation of emotionally crippled, entitled idiots that will soon be filling positions of great responsibility but completely lack the skillset to handle them. How is she going to be an effective attorney for anybody if she is so unstable? Pull up your socks, millennials, or the world will chew you up and spit you out.
This always makes me wonder if the secret societies at Yale like Skull & Bones will face protests for being too white & male.
A journalist with no respect for free speech?? Her behavior is disgusting and she appears to be and should be ashamed of it….
She should be embarrassed! She looks like a spoiled brat! The way she spoke to the professor was terrible…. but it’s all about her! I also read somewhere that he lost his job!
I hope she gets aids and die.
Hearing this obnoxious, aggressive girl screaming reminds me of Fleming Rose – “If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission”.
“Well, if everybody in North America is forced to attend at school training in sensitivity on Holocaust awareness and is taught to study the Final Solution–about which nothing was actually done by this country, or North America, or by the United Kingdom while it was going on–but let’s say as if in compensation for that, everyone is made to swallow an official and unalterable story of it now, and it’s taught as the great moral exemplar, the moral equivalent of the morally lacking elements of the Second World War, a way of stilling our uneasy conscience about that combat–if that’s the case with everybody, as it more or less is, and one person gets up and says:
“You know what, this Holocaust, I’m not sure it even happened. In fact, I’m pretty certain it didn’t. Indeed, I begin to wonder if the only thing is that the Jews brought a little bit of violence on themselves.” That person doesn’t just have a right to speak, that person’s right to speak must be given extra protection. Because what he has to say must have taken him some effort to come up with, might contain a grain of historical truth, might in any case give people to think about why do they know what they already think they know. How do I know that I know this, except that I’ve always been taught this and never heard anything else?
It’s always worth establishing first principles. It’s always worth saying, what would you do if you met a Flat Earth Society member? Come to think of it, how can I prove the earth is round? Am I sure about the theory of evolution? I know it’s supposed to be true. Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.”
(CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS – FREEDOM OF SPEECH MEANS FREEDOM TO HATE)