Yale Daily News -Last fall, Benjamin Gonzalez ’09 was reading the Yale Record’s “Blue Book” — a parody of the Yale College course catalogue — when one description stopped him cold.
“Practical Applications of Spanish for WASPs” promised to teach students “how to interact with gardeners, housekeepers and other low-income workers” using phrases such as “Rosa, are you stealing change again?” Although the Record is a humor magazine, Gonzalez, the political action chair of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, was not amused.
“They’re talking about my mother,” Gonzalez said. “They’re making a joke about my family, and I take personal offense to that.”
Those jokes and others printed in several Yale publications prompted a fierce student outcry, protests and weeks of open-forum discussions last fall. One year later, campus journalists and humorists say they have made tangible changes to their work in response to the criticisms, although some students say a certain degree of unease about race, gender and sexuality will always exist at Yale.
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