Yale students demand end to ‘hostile’ English Lit courses

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 prere

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 prere…