Three cheers for “normative” Yale

There has certainly been a mountain of chatter about one Yale University student's thesis project. I've read lots of it, good, bad, and ugly. While not teaching any such graduating students myself, I wonder what I would have said if such a project had been proposed to me? Knowing my own reactions when students do come up with wild ideas, I probably would have been against it but, I'm also willing to let students slept in the bed of their own making even if they've soiled the sheets.

Three cheers for “normative” Yale:

"In the post below I wrote that Aliza Shvarts ‘probably knew she wasn’t having abortions’ and that her project was likely the result of laziness and lack of imagination abetted by faculty irresponsibility. Looks like I spoke too soon. Ms. Shvarts has written an op-ed insisting, despite Yale’s reassurances to the contrary, that she did [...]"

(Via The New Criterion.)