Entry: Yale admits error

Would the Deans have declared the project unacceptable and pledged to reassess senior projects and how they are mentored if Shvarts’ project had not gained notoriety and caused public outrage? Call me a cynic, but I doubt it. I doubt also that the Dean of the School of Art didn’t have at least a passing familiarity with this senior project, and all senior projects. I suspect he knew about it but looked the other way, assuming it really bothered him, because of PC non-judgmentalism. If not, let him explain how he didn’t know about a senior project in his own department that was both dangerous and disgusting, to say nothing of being intellectually contemptible. Despite the cringe inducing unwholesomeness of this project, some good has come of it: Public pressure, that is political pressure, and not the threat of legal action, forced a major university to admit to a serious mistake and to promise to take steps to insure that it isn’t repeated. Let those who exposed this and those who denounced it, take credit.

Posted by dossier at April 21, 2008 9:28 AM

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