Yaseen Eldik
Posted on 11/12/2021 6:31:15 PM PST by MarvinStinson
A prominent Yale Law School professor on Friday blasted the administration’s treatment of law student Trent Colbert and the Federalist Society, calling it "dishonest, duplicitous, and downright deplorable."
Akhil Amar, one of the most frequently cited legal scholars in the country, called on the administration to apologize for its actions toward Colbert, the Yale Law student who invited classmates to his "trap house."
"I am not and have never been a member of the Federalist Society," Amar said, adding that he is a life-long liberal Democrat. But "ideological diversity" is important for challenging "implicit bias"—not just against members of other races, but those of other political persuasions, he said.
His remarks came at the Federalist Society’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. On a panel titled "Classrooms, Curricula, and the Law," he said Yale Law School was "not living up to its highest standards" of open debate.
Amar also spoke of the tension between "real professors" and "administrators," who now outnumber faculty at Yale, and took a tacit shot at the law school’s diversity director Yaseen Eldik, who took the lead in the school’s conversations with Colbert.
People "who aren’t themselves educators are playing an increasingly large role in universities," the Sterling professor of law said, adding that administrative bloat is a "real problem."
Law school dean Heather Gerken has announced an investigation into the situation but has thus far taken no concrete action. It is not clear when that investigation will conclude or whether the law school will make the results public.
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"People who aren’t themselves educators are playing an increasingly large role in universities."
Amar also spoke of the tension between “real professors” and “administrators,” who now outnumber faculty at Yale.
For all of you who were not raised in a city similar to Detroit in the 70’s and 80’s, a Trap House is a place where illegal drugs are sold. It’s an old term, not used much anymore.
I don’t know why a student would openly invite his classmates to come visit him at such a place. I don’t know why YALE would approve of it, assuming they were told.
New term for me. Thanks for the definition. I still can’t really figure out what happened here. Poorly written article. I won’t give it a click.
Yaseen Eldik
Appropriate last name.
The student rightly refused.
I had never heard the term. I am amazed other students even knew _what_ he was talking about...
Ah thanks—this falls into the “no good deed goes unpunished” file.
New term to me too.... and I don’t think the other students knew what it means either, that’s why the got all butt hurt and called it racist. The meaning I thought was it was a “Trap” to catch people. Guess black people feel like people are only trying to catch them??? I dono..
You’re probably correct in how it was used in this instance.
In ref. the word “Party”, I went to college in the mid 70’s. I quickly learned that when someone used the word ‘Party’ not as a pronoun, but as an action verb i.e., ‘Do you want to party?”
That meant, do you want to drink alcohol, smoke a spliff, bong or other.
When did college stop being fun?
>> In college parlance, a “trap house” us.just a place where there is a party, not some sort of opium den. What happened is that a Federalist Society student advertised a party, and the diversity Nazi said that using that word had racist connotations. He demanded that the student apologies to any “students of color” who may have been offended.
I read elsewhere that he compounded his racism by saying that they would serve fried chicken...
Defund and disendow the universities that have such administrators.
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