AH, THE IVY LEAGUE – AT 10:13 A.M. ET:  There is deep thought going on at Yale.  I must tell you about it, as it will elevate your cultural consciousness.  From the College Fix: 

It’s not enough for the Yale Women’s Center that the university took the name of a slaveholding vice president off a building.

It criticized the school for renaming Calhoun College after an accomplished alumna, computer-science pioneer and Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, because she was white.

The Yale Daily News reports:

However, while the renaming may represent an affirmation of the power of both student and New Haven activists to enact change, the Yale Women’s Center has argued that more remains to be done. In a Facebook post last weekend, the Women’s Center wrote that the decision to “change the name from a white supremacist to a white woman, as amazing as she may be, is an act of whitewashing.”

In its post, the center tried to walk the line between celebrating “the second honoring of a woman for Yale’s residential colleges” and denouncing another white name on a building:

We feel the name change still does not reflect the issues raised by students and alumni for the years of Change-the-Name activism. …

[T]he decision to rename the college after another white person seems like an attempt to end this discussion on the history of white supremacy and its active and continued role in this institution and on our campus. …

We wish to call upon Grace Hopper College to become a center of resources and action for marginalized peoples and their accomplishments to this campus and to the nation at large.

COMMENT:  The word "crisis" is vastly overused.  But if we in America have a real crisis, it's an immaturity crisis.  The words above are evidence of it.  These kids are going to be America's leaders in 25 years.  They are getting a terrible start.  They think like children, and want to remain children.  It makes me worry for the future of the country...although I know there are many institutions and groups out in the heartland that aren't going the route of juvenile delinquency, and will step up when needed.  But will an immature nation realize when they're needed?

February 19,  2017