"Yale faculty member at center of protests will leave teaching role"

"Do you remember the Yale professor getting yelled at by a student because his wife, who also taught there, sent an email some students considered offensive? Well, she's "leaving her teaching role". Whatever that means."

Erika Christakis, the Yale faculty member who sent an email defending students’ rights to wear potentially offensive Halloween costumes, such as turbans or blackface, as an expression of free speech, has decided to leave her teaching position.

“I have great respect and affection for my students, but I worry that the current climate at Yale is not, in my view, conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems,” she told The Washington Post .

Hundreds of members of the Yale community called for her resignation after her email, in which she wrote, “American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience. Increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”