Rumpus used to be really funny. No more. Sharp jabs at YD"N" elitism have been replaced by that dope "cavalcade of assholes" cartoon in the herald, and now rumpus is a site of anti-union, arrogant, elitist, CRAP. In addition to three or four pages of antiunion propaganda, this issue also manages to accuse me of being a klansman, because
I argued that what Yale teaches, and how Yale manages has been and remains inflected with racialized understandings of difference, privilege, and work. I'm frustrated that a column i used to love reading in a paper I used to think filled a valuable niche at this university has somehow become another Yale Free Press - a site at which overprivileged neoconservatives can get their jollies by ridiculing the struggles of those in whose oppression they actively work to become complicit in. (How's that for bad grammar, you rich assholes!)