Former President Jimmy Carter criticized Yale’s response to sexual assaults on campus Tuesday night while speaking in a forum moderated by the university’s president.
The former President cited a Huffington Post report that pointed out Yale allowed six male students who were found guilty of “nonconsensual sex” in the first half of 2013 to continue their studies.
“You can just warn a boy and chastise him, that doesn’t help,” Carter said. “Expulsion is a very difficult thing for universities to accept as a policy.”
Carter’s comment was met with loud applause. Yale President Peter Salovey, who was moderating the talk with Carter, said that the university’s policies with regard to sexual assault “have changed over the last year or two” before moving on to another topic.
The U.S. Department of Education fined Yale $165,000 last year for underreporting sex offenses.
The problem with that women’s story is that she was raped by white kids. If they where black they would all be looking at life sentences.
My first POTUS vote was for President Carter.
Jimmy Carter is a great man.
And he doesn’t care whether anyone knows or not.
A big part of what makes him so.
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Awesome. Gotta love Jimmy Carter. Yale, just like most of the “elite” things in this world, is just another bastion of institutionalized misogyny. I would’ve paid to see Salovey’s face as a former POTUS shat in his coffee.
Indeed. I’ve always thought that to be one of the differences between the pretenders and people like him. I think his legacy will be writ large despite the shit he took from those in the ever-jealous former category.
Yale, like nearly any other human institution on the planet, has serious problems (which I don’t intend to diminish in the least) when it comes to dealing with these issues. They’re also the university that produced thinkers like Murray Gell-Man and Paul Krugman and leaders like Samatha Power and HRC. Call out the misogyny of its leadership all you like, but I it’s unfair to wholly dismiss Yale as an entirely elitist and corrupted institution. Higher education gets enough vitriolic hate from the right as it is.