Asian Yale dean is placed on leave over offensive Yelp reviews

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"A dean at Yale University who championed cultural sensitivity has apologized for her ?insensitive? Yelp reviews of restaurants, gyms and movie theaters, including hot takes on what ?white trash? customers would find tasty and employees she blasted as ?barely educated morons.?

June Chu, dean of Yale?s Pierson College, apologized for the offending reviews, which had been circulating among students for several months, after the Yale Daily News published screenshots on Saturday.

?To put it quite simply: If you are white trash, this is the perfect night out for you!? Chu wrote in one review of a Japanese restaurant. ?This establishment is definitely not authentic by any stretch of any imagination and perfect for those low class folks who believe this is a real night out. Over salted and greasy food. Side note: employees are Chinese, not Japanese.

Chu, whose Yelp account has since been deleted, sent an email to students at Yale?s largest residential college to apologize for her ?insensitive? reviews and admitted they were out of line.

Chu, according to her Pierson biography, has a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California-Davis. She joined the college after serving as an assistant dean of undergraduate students at Dartmouth College. During high school, Chu also worked in a summer program at the Yale Daily News, the same student newspaper that exposed her controversial review."

Source:http://nypost.com/2017/05/17/yale-dean-loves-diversity-except-for-white-trash/



 
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