Yale Professor Cancels Exam for Snowflake Students Distraught at Election Result

Via Heatstreet

Liberal students across the nation watched in shock as Donald Trump clinched victory from Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.

But some wiped their tears, and pulled themselves together enough to ask their professors to cancel their exams because they were so upset by the results.

And one Yale economics professor heard the cry, and decided to protect his snowflake charges by making the test optional.

He wrote to them saying: “I am getting many heartfelt notes from students who are in shock over the election returns” and “fear, rightly or wrongly for their families” and are “requesting that the exam be postponed.”

It isn’t clear who the professor was, but Yale publishes a list of its economics faculty members here.

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John Victor, editor of the Yale News, published the extraordinary message, and noted that many more snowflake students were demanding similar treatment:

BREAKING: Yale Econ 115 professor makes midterm exam optional after students write in expressing shock about presidential election:

Meanwhile, BIO 114 will have a midterm tomorrow, despite pleas from students to cancel it in light of the election’s “emotional toll:”

 

The professor, in charge of the Econ 115 “introductory microeconomics” unit, acknowledges that many students sacrificed their time preparing for it, and were welcome to take it anyway.

But he said that said anybody who could not face going it that day could skip it with no consequences.

Apparently not everybody was so lucky, though:

 

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motley
motley

If this is the emotional caliber of the nation’s future leaders and citizenry in general, then amurika is F.U.C.K.E.D. …… FUCKED!

Dutchman
Dutchman

Not to make excuses but they are children / monsters that have been created by the government schools / liberalism / and the MSM. Unless they wake up – they will be useless fucks for the rest of their lives.

It seems like the age of maturity is getting higher and higher – looks like maybe 26 – 30.

Andrew G.
Andrew G.

That’s what happens when you coddle your children.

They can’t function in the real world when you’re not there to save them from every little freakin’ thing…

Jus sayin…

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

Ha! The Ivy League is nothing but a puppy mill for rich spoiled brats, conniving Jews, and pitiful affirmative action cases like Obama. All of them should be nationalized and converted into research institutes and advanced degree institutions – no undergrads at all! In the meantime, Trump should ban all Ivy League grads (except advanced degree holders or people with degrees in the hard sciences) from all senior posts, unless it can be proven that they are patriots. Let the rest eke out a living as barristas.

MuckAbout

And this generation of pussies are supposed to ‘grow up’ and take on adult responsibilities and work? How, may I ask?

Honestly, if I hadn’t read it I would not have believed it.

Muck

Anonymous
Anonymous

We have very hard times ahead of us.

These effeminate overgrown children are not going to be among the survivors.

When times get tough, only the tough survive.

Jenny R.
Jenny R.

This is what is wrong with academia today. I can guarantee you Mr. Professor did not make that exam optional due to caring. It was about 1) salving his own butthurt — aka. “making a statement”; 2) being a lazy git who didn’t want to process a slew of exams.

Honestly, nobody likes grading papers and exams (although if this is a tenured prof, he’s probably slubbed it off on some grad assist. Honestly, profs like that need to be unemployed, and never get employment again. To be blunt: this is horseshit.
I like to tell my classes: there is no make-up work and no, I will not cancel an exam or a project assignment (ok, deaths, traumatic accidents or illnesses, prior scheduling that you inform me of…possible alien abduction but only if you bring Elvis to vouch for you… anything that can be documented as a good reason why you can’t make it…I may make some sort of allowance; I’m not a complete jackass). I can’t remember anyone doing that when I was a student; it was a good policy, why change it?

overthecliff
overthecliff

It sucks to be them.

James the Wanderer

There were mighty few events that could make a STEM professor cancel an exam – and national elections were NOT one of them. Personal disaster, local weather calamity, power failure before / during the exam (no windows in some exam rooms) – that might do it. Being butthurt because your candidate lost would NOT qualify!

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