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April 25, 2007
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“Weapons will be permitted on a case-by-case basis with the approval of the dean of students’ office.”
What an invitation. Yalies, line up with your favorite weapons and make an appointment with the dean! Pillows, shoelaces, and human hands are especially encouraged to apply.
JBM, at 8:50 am EDT on April 25, 2007
As a 1969 Theatre Ph.D. and long-time respecter of Yale University as one of the great schools of drama, I find the overreaction by the Yale administration to be one of the silliest, stupidist pieces of administrative overreaction that I have seen in a long time. What next? “Warning: some of the people on stage may be pretending to be persons other than they are in real life"? Yale was one of the big jokes in my department yesterday.
Norman Boyer, Associate Professor of English at Saint Xavier University, at 9:10 am EDT on April 25, 2007
If you want your community to be “nuclear free,” then stop enriching uranium. Violence is violence. Since when is a stage play exempt from warning labels. It has been said that ROTC on campus promotes feelings of aggression. Why would a fake sword not do the same?
BCS, at 9:20 am EDT on April 25, 2007
“Weapons will be permitted on a case-by-case basis with the approval of the dean of students’ office.”
Glad to see the Dean of Students has so little to do.
Jack, at 9:35 am EDT on April 25, 2007
Since the pen is mightier than the sword, the Dean of Students should be seeing every student on campus, as well as faculty, staff, etc.
Vic, at 11:20 am EDT on April 25, 2007
Careful the way we manifest our emotions, even more careful how we exert our collective “sick-n-tired-of-being-sick-n-tiredness”. Mr. Burnette got it totally wrong by expressing that the “facts don’t matter”. Please know that those against the African in America have used that statement to pillage the WORLD. Example; 1) It was once said Africa was a land of savages and needed to be colonized 2) The (now) United States was once said to be a undiscovered land
Believe it or not Solomon there are a lot of whites and other humans who absolutely deplore the situation in this country relative to race relations. From your pulpit statistics are your best weapon. As a journalist one needs the stench of numbers and there implications of which you did not present thus opening your argument to attack.
Solomon if it were you or me on the chopping block like those lacrosse players we would love to have heard that test showed she had multiple DNA/semen samples on/in her. I’m not saying those guys were angels but the evidence does not (currently) show they were rapist. They now have to deal with the same trumped-up ugliness black males deal with every day and I don’t wish that on anyone.
There is merit in your emotions Solomon, but we cannot become what we loath. Although, I do agree that an unchecked increase in violent activity against blacks is very troubling!
Walker, Analyst, at 1:55 pm EDT on April 25, 2007
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“we will do no harm with our swords” — MND III.i.
Shakespeare anticipated Yale’s new policy of advising audiences via a Prologue that there would be (oh dear) weapons upon the stage: see Act III scene i of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where the “hard-handed men of Athens,” rehearsing their play, decide to write a set of prologues to inform their viewers that Pyramus is not killed, no harm will be done with swords, and the lion is just a guy in a costume.
The joke, of course, (need I explain it?) is that everyone except the would-be actors already knows these things. Have Yale administrators even less understanding of how theater works than Peter Quince and Nick Bottom?
John Marlin, The College of St. Elizabeth, at 7:25 am EDT on April 25, 2007