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A White Student Called the Police on a Black Student Who Was Napping. Yale Says It’s ‘Deeply Troubled.’

May 24, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Katherine Mangan

May 10, 2018

Yale University officials said on Thursday they were "deeply troubled" by an incident in which a white graduate student called the campus police on a black graduate student who was napping in a common room of their dormitory. The incident, which blew up into a national controversy after the black student posted videos of the encounters on Facebook Live, is prompting Yale officials to double down on commitments to make the campus more welcoming to diverse students.

Lolade Siyonbola, a 34-year-old graduate student in African studies, said she was writing a paper when she nodded off shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning on a couch in a common area of the Hall of Graduate Studies, a Gothic-style dorm near the campus’s center.

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