GEORGE WILL: On American Campuses, Freedom From Speech. “Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, dealt with the Crisis of the Distressing E-mail about Hypothetical Halloween Costumes about as you would expect from someone who has risen to eminence in today’s academia. He seems to be the kind of adult who has helped produce the kind of students who are such delicate snowflakes that they melt at the mere mention of even a potential abrasion of their sensibilities.”
His behavior was embarrassing, and unworthy of the office. Or, these days, emblematic of it.
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