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Post by jay57 on May 18, 2017 11:38:39 GMT -5
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Post by jay57 on May 18, 2017 11:40:48 GMT -5
Yale dean is placed on leave over offensive Yelp reviews
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A Yale University dean has been placed on leave over offensive reviews she made on Yelp, including one in which she refers to customers of a local restaurant as "white trash."
Pierson College Dean June Chu issued a public apology Saturday after reviews from her personal Yelp account began circulating at the Ivy League school.
Pierson Head Stephen Davis sent an email Thursday informing members of the residential college that Chu had been placed on leave after he discovered there were numerous "reprehensible posts," not the two he had been led to believe existed.
"If you are white trash, this is the perfect night out for you!" Chu wrote in a review of a local Japanese steakhouse.
Davis, who is in charge of the college's administration, said that review and another that described movie theater workers as "barely educated morons" were "deeply harmful to the community fabric."
He said he discovered on Saturday night that there were other "reprehensible posts" that represented a more widespread pattern, compounded the harm of the first two and damaged his trust in Chu and her ability to lead the college.
"Let me be clear," he wrote. "No one, especially those in trusted positions of educating young people, should denigrate or stereotype others, and that extends to any form of discrimination based on class, race, religion, age, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation."
Chu did not immediately return phone and email messages Thursday seeking comment.
On Saturday, she wrote to students that she was wrong to make the remarks.
"There are no two ways about it," she wrote. "Not only were they insensitive in matters related to class and race; they demean the values to which I hold myself and which I offer as a member of this community."
Chu was appointed Pierson's dean in May 2016 after serving as an assistant dean of undergraduate students at Dartmouth College and before that as director of the Pan Asian American Community House at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her biography on the Yale website said that during her career she has "sought to help students not only succeed academically but to support their holistic academic experience and multifaceted identities."
Davis said Chu will not participate in any activities related to the university's May 22 commencement or work with students through the end of this academic year.
He did not directly address her long-term future with the school.
But he wrote that while he had envisioned a future before Saturday that included healing and reconciliation over Chu's remarks, "Today I am grieving because I no longer can envision such a way forward."
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Post by flushingjet on May 18, 2017 12:16:15 GMT -5
They need to hire someone who can wok and Chu gum at the same time
NB: Notice I did not say "sub gum" - I'm sensitive that way
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Post by 32Green on May 18, 2017 12:39:24 GMT -5
Fuck her. Her white trash restaurant comments are akin to a white guy saying "Blacks will love this place because it has fried chicken". And guaran-fucken-teed she is a lib cvnt that would never dare insult black folks with a similar comment. The academia in this country is as infested with liberalism as the media is. There was a time people would have laughed it off (and rightly so) , but because of the climate in this country now...people are tired of the double standard and hypocrisy.
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Post by jetstream23 on May 18, 2017 12:42:23 GMT -5
I thought it was only racism if a white person did it. Interesting to see that people are being a little more evenhanded these days.
But yeah....people need to turn down their sensitivity meters a little. I've seen much worse things said by people leading bigger institutions and nations.
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Post by Ff2 on May 18, 2017 12:56:16 GMT -5
Who uses their real name on the internet?
Dumb.
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Post by 2foolish on May 19, 2017 7:47:34 GMT -5
Who uses their real name on the internet? Dumb. u calling an Asian dumb?...Hate crime...
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Post by DDNYjets on May 19, 2017 7:57:42 GMT -5
Gotta love when they eat their own.
But we should cut her some slack. She's a career academic that probably never met anyone that actually works for a living. Complete culture shock.
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