NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The latest social-justice crusade bubbling up among "oppressed" undergraduates at prestigious Yale University comes in the form of a student petition asserting that a "Major English Poets" curriculum requirement features too many major poets from England who are white and male. The petition claims the course is "hostile to students of color."
The document, which went online late last month, calls on administrators to dump "the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study." And putting it more bluntly – to "decolonize, not diversify, its course offerings."
Describing a dysfunctional MBTA inventory system that does not meet industry standards, transit authority officials and a consultant made the case Monday to outsource the operations.
"We have a completely broken system," MBTA Chief Procurement Officer Gerard Polcari told reporters Monday ahead of an MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board meeting. He said the problems was "decades" in the making and outsourcing would be a "game-changer."
