Yale University Students Protest Halloween Costume Email (VIDEO 2)

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On November 5, 2015, students at Yale University gathered on campus to protest an email sent by Associate Master of Silliman College Erika Christakis on October 30. Christakis’ email responded to a separate email from the school’s Intercultural Affairs Council that asked students to be thoughtful about the cultural implications of their Halloween costumes.

Christakis argued that the council’s email was infantilizing and threatened free expression on campus. There was also a concern that because the email was long, detailed, had 13 signatories, and links to acceptable and unacceptable costumes, it would not be interpreted as a suggestion. But rather it had the “color of law” implicit within it.

FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff was on Yale’s campus during the protests on November 5 and captured this footage on his cell phone of Christakis’ husband, Nicholas, meeting with the protestors. By the time Lukianoff arrived on the scene, Nicholas had been speaking with the protesters for about an hour.

The Washington Post reports that students have begun to organize formal demands for the resignation of Christakis and her husband.

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I for every day every week and have to
stand here in the courtyard and say this
is my home I look up there
my master fair my teen i love my college
and I can't say that anymore not a
moment it's no longer a screen and i
find that incredibly depressing for the
freshman year and don't know any better
don't know that this was me where I was
out when i'm proud to be a part of me
I feel about your role and faster and
faster after and imagine after not
having appropriate respond that our
opinion husband
not that I hear you I hear that you're
hurting and i'm sorry that i feel i have
not got it
and that is what I was here I don't want
to hear anymore
okay look away just horrible
I'm doing my best everyone I'm doing my
best I'm doing my best okay i'm trying
to address directly and interviewing
being face-to-face
I don't want to turn my back to her and
I want to yell at her on this card I
raised my voice you can hear me
the doctors jumping anything like a
little bit shocking right as i was
telling me i'll speak up a little so i
won't Gallagher but there is alright
okay alright so what I wanted to tell
you is that you have spent time you've
been in plastic me have those
experiences that you described and
what's amazing to me is despite all of
that you weren't able to form an opinion
of me as a human being what my beliefs
are and to see the extent to which
they're an agreement with our believes
that you you seem to think that somehow
i don't agree with the concentrator
beliefs that's not what's happening from
my perspective my I don't get you and
that can I can I say something
can I can I just interject quickly
the moral of McCain's comments now the
world of the story is that she was an
apology
yet you respond now that's four that's
Mike what I'm just thinking are you
gonna are you gonna fuck tonight
one minute are you going to address the
heart of the comment that's all I want
are you gonna come apologize are you
gonna say that you're you are you gonna
been going to the length that she wants
to go to which to me don't seem very far
but still think we're not making a
judgment on masters are inherently bit
like we just want and the management of
hurt and we have yet to get a teaching
him my question . or not cause then i
get to sleep if you're not gonna think I
without the discussion here i'm gonna
bid on Sunday and I'm gonna listen but
like what i'm using flat like it hurt so
I'm just gonna provide better not to
the idea of a project apologize right
now
other obligations to other students
other person has been thinking about
what it is that you're asking what would
be my question you want to tell me what
it is okay to drink and I'm thinking
about you have