Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?
In dismissing Dr. Bandy X. Lee, the university cited the Goldwater Rule, which has been shown to be scientifically untenable.
By Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance DodesUpdated April 14, 2021, 12:59 p.m.
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Recent news that Yale University declined to reappoint Dr. Bandy X. Lee as a professor in the psychiatry department has stirred broad concern in the mental health care community and academic world. Yaleâs disciplinary actions against Lee arose in the wake of a complaint from Alan Dershowitz, at the time an adviser to Donald Trumpâs impeachment defense. Echoing Dershowitzâs complaint, Yaleâs actions against Lee were explicitly grounded on her alleged violation of the widely disputed Goldwater Rule. The decision ultimately to terminate her appointment fueled letters of protest, including one from the three of us.
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Amy Chua Denies Dinner Party Allegations
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A Yale Law School professor said the institution is punishing her over false allegations that she continued to host private dinner parties with students after being told not to,
An article published last week in the
Yale Daily News, a student newspaper, included allegations that Amy Chua, a law school professor and author of the controversial parenting book
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, held multiple dinner parties at her house this academic year. Some alumni alleged Chua drank multiple alcoholic beverages at the gatherings. Former students told the student newspaper that Chua’s husband, Jed Rubenfeld, also a Yale professor, who is on a two-year suspension following misconduct allegations including unwanted touching and attempted kissing, was present at the dinner parties.
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Amy Chua denied recent allegations laid out against her by an independent student newspaper.
The law school professor, famously known as Tiger Mom, also stated that she couldn’t imagine that any other member of the faculty would be treated the way she had been in response to the allegations. According to the report in the student-run news outlet, Chua had been accused of having private dinner parties at her home despite a previous agreement to cease such actions.
The allegations appeared in a story in the Yale Daily News, which reported that Chua had lost a position leading one of the school’s first-year small groups in response to her violating a 2019 agreement with the school to stop having out-of-class-hours interactions with students.