(Hint: Being a pro at PC-lingo is the key)
Richard Levin, president of Yale, is the longest-lasting president of an Ivy League university, and following Gregorian’s sage advice is surely one reason why. Whenever a serious incident occurs at Yale, Levin’s first instinct is to put out a resonant but off-key statement stoutly defending a point not really at issue.
• In the Patrick Witt case, how would Yale deal with the destruction of a student’s reputation, after it sponsored a leaked “secret” hearing on a rape accusation at which he wasn’t allowed to testify? Levin: the Yale administration “thought it was important to provide greater transparency about the entire array of concerns–including verbal harassment and sexual assault….” “there is no place for any form of sexual misconduct on our campus.”
• On the decision by the Yale University Press to censor pictures of the Danish cartoons in a book on the subject. Levin: “The Yale Press is not a platform for anyone to speak their mind. Any book accepted goes under a scrupulous process for review. Access to publication on the University’s press is not like the opportunity to speak on Beinecke Plaza.”
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