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Why the Yale President got it wrong in leaving the name of the slavery apologist Calhoun on the residential college

An apt commentary by a Yale undergraduate philosophy major in Boston Review.  President Salovey's decision is so bizarre on its face that one can only surmise how many threats from rich alumni must have poured into his office.  But even if Yale isn't quite as filthy rich as Princeton, it's surely filthy rich enough to be able to do the obvious thing in a case like this and tell a few alumni fat cats, "Sorry."

(Thanks to Jason Stanley for the pointer.)

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