For some professors, Obama trumps classes
History professor Matthew Jacobson’s midday lecture, “The Formation of Modern American Culture, 1920 to the Present,” among other 11:35 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. classes, will be canceled today. Instead, he said, Inauguration Day itself will serve as the lecture.
Jacobson’s students are assigned to “study the day,” he said, by interviewing people, analyzing the media coverage and reading news reports by different sources, including the international press and the black press.
According to Yale’s online course selection system, 113 undergraduate classes are scheduled to be in...
Elis pay way too much for these professors to be canceling classes. If they cancel classes, they should give students a partial refund.
Come on, it's Formac, it's not like the lecture has any content anyway. :)
Go FORMAC yourself, Bob.
This isn't about a liberally biased university, this is about an historic moment that should be celebrated for what it represents, and studied for what it tells us.
And our attending classes doesn't help the national economy one bit. Not attending classes doesn't hurt it one bit, either.
This was a dog and pony show. No more, no less. I would expect my fellow Yalies to be able to see beyond the rhetoric.
Well written piece on a potentially problematic topic - the slobbering over obama by all institutions liberal - including universities and newspapers.
Did professors cancel class for Bush?
This makes no sense.
Adding another national holiday following MLK Day is not what our nation needs in the midst of a recession.
Get back out and work people.