耶鲁大学学生星期一在校园举行游行示威，抗议常春藤大学校园存在的种族问题

 

（后继报道）

Melissa Cronin
Filed to: yale12/07/15 10:47pm

 

A Yale professor who argued for students’ right to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes and triggered outcry on campus has announced her intentions to resign from teaching at the university.

Erika Christakis made a “voluntary decision not to teach in the future,” according to a statement from the university obtained by The New York Times on Monday. Nicholas Christakis, her husband and a professor of sociology who defended her argument, also announced that he will go on sabbatical for one semester.

The issue began last October, just before Halloween, when the school’s Intercultural Affairs Committee sent an email to the student body encouraging students not to wear culturally appropriative or insensitive Halloween costumes for the upcoming holiday. Shortly after, students also received a response from an Associate Master at the school, Erika Christakis, also a child development specialist. Christakis argued that students should be allowed and even encouraged to wear costumes, regardless of whether the garb was offensive or made fun of others. It read in part:

    “Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious … a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?...Whose business is it to control the forms of costumes of young people? It’s not mine, I know that.”

Christakis’ email (as well as a reportedly racially charged incident at a frat party on campus) sparked protests and outcry over racial insensitivity at the school. Footage of the protests showed students having heated exchanges with Nicholas Christakis over the issue.

Yale issued a statement over the news calling Erika Christakis “a well-regarded instructor,” and adding that the university’s leadership was disappointed by her choice, and she is welcome to resume teaching at Yale at any time.

The couple will continue in their posts as master and associate master of Silliman College—positions similar to overseers of student residence halls.

 

 

 

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数百名耶鲁大学学生星期一在校园举行游行示威，抗议他们所说的常春藤大学校园存在的种族问题。

 

这次游行叫做“永不退却”（March of Resilience）。

 

学生们喊的口号和标语有： “我们不会离开”、“我们应该得到爱”以及“不要视而不见”。

 

最近耶鲁大学发生了几起与种族有关的事件，包括一个校园兄弟会涉嫌拒绝一名非白人女性参加他们的派对以及最近一位学校管理人员拒绝学生们要求的禁止在万圣夜穿戴可能引发种族争议的服装等等。

 

就在星期一，密苏里大学校长沃夫在学生和教师们围绕种族问题的抗议声中辞职。

 

密苏里大学和耶鲁大学的种族问题争议都引发了全国关注。

 

耶鲁大学校长彼得·索洛维（Peter Salovey）上星期向全校发送电邮表示他对于校园的气氛感到困扰。他呼吁耶鲁社区团结一致实现包容、相互尊重和理解。

 

(文字来源：美国之音 2015.11.10 07:57 杨晨)

 

 

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