Yale Grapples With Ties to Slavery in Debate Over a College’s Name
By NOAH REMNICK
SEPT. 11, 2015
NEW HAVEN — When Maya Jenkins was accepted to Yale, her family erupted in joy. Still, her mother confessed one concern: that her daughter might be assigned to Calhoun College ...
... These days, as she eats lunch in the dining hall or studies in the common room, the historical association feels inescapable ...
Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, concentrated his address to the incoming freshman class – a speech customarily studded with bromides about knowledge and friendship – on the Calhoun controversy ...
Yale reports that in its Faculty of Arts and Sciences, less than 3 percent of its faculty members – 32 out of 1,145 – are black. Among the roughly 5,400 undergraduates, 11 percent identify themselves as black or African-American ...
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and that never even occurred to me. 
Of course, Yale was, believe it or not, the place where I became radicalized, so I was only starting to become aware of stuff like that.
Yale is building two new colleges (you know them as "dorms" 
; I was in Saybrook); perhaps one could be named for Frederick Douglass.
