memeorandum: Students confront Christakis about Halloween email (Yale Daily News)

6:40 PM ET, November 7, 2015

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Haley Hudler / FIRE:

Yale Students Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email — Tensions at Yale University hit a boiling point yesterday after an email about Halloween costumes created a week-long controversy on campus. — Students called for the resignation of Associate Master …

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Yale Daily News:

Students confront Christakis about Halloween email — This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Last updated at 6:36 p.m. — Following a three-hour-long impromptu confrontation on Cross Campus with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway about the lack of administrative response …

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Ollie Gillman For / Daily Mail:

The moment Yale students encircled and shouted down professor who told them to just ‘look away’ if they were offended by Halloween costumes — Dozens of Yale students encircled a professor after he said he would not stop people from wearing offensive Halloween costumes

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Detroit News:

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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:

Ben Carson's Past Faces Deeper Questions — In harsh light of presidential politics, parts of his inspirational biography are questioned — The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968, Ben Carson's black classmates unleashed their anger and grief on white students who were a minority at Detroit's Southwestern High.

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David French / National Review:
Sorry, Media, You Won't Destroy Ben Carson

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Jory Rand / abc7.com:

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al.com:

How far is too far? Controversial Alabama-LSU sign decried on social media — It's our understanding that the banner was hung at an off-campus apartment complex and it has been removed. — This message was issued to UA students by UA Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. David Grady:

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Marc Caputo / Politico:

New Rubio credit-card data show less spending — Marco Rubio must have something to hide. There was a reason the presidential candidate wasn't letting people see his long-secret Republican Party of Florida American Express bills. He spent too lavishly and frivolously, and used his party card for personal business.

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Evan Perez / CNN:

Hackers breach FBI-run site, email account of top bureau official — Person who claims to have hacked CIA chief talks to CNN — Washington (CNN)Hackers who breached the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan have not only evaded arrest, but now are suspected of another embarrassing set …

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New York Times:

As U.S. Escalates Air War on ISIS, Allies Slip Away — AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar — As the United States prepares to intensify airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, the Arab allies who with great fanfare sent warplanes on the initial missions there a year ago have largely vanished from the campaign.

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Ana Radelat / Hartford Courant:

Murphy Slams Pro-Cruz Ad Over Sandy Hook Reference — aradelat@ctmirror.org … WASHINGTON — Sen Chris Murphy said a third-party ad supporting Sen. Ted Cruz's White House bid “makes me want to throw up” because it said the GOP presidential candidate “stopped Obama's push for gun control laws” in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings.

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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:

Reid, Pelosi pushing for repeal of ObamaCare's ‘Cadillac tax’ — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are working behind the scenes to repeal one of the most controversial taxes in ObamaCare, multiple sources tell The Hill.

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