Yale To Remove 88-Year-Old Carving Of Puritan Pointing Gun At Indian

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Political pressure has forced authorities at Yale to remove a doorway carving because it depicts a Puritan with a gun.

Temporary stonework will cover a carving of a Puritan colonist pointing a musket at a Native American, the Associated Press reported. The carving itself will eventually be removed because it was labeled “problematic.”

It will be put in an historical display on campus – something Yale’s president emphasized.

“We cannot make alterations to works of art on our campus,” Yale President Peter Salovey said in a statement. “Such alteration represents an erasure of history, which is entirely inappropriate at a university. We are obligated to allow students and others to view such images, even when they are offensive, and to study and learn from them.”

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The carving has been on display over the entrance to the Sterling Memorial Library at the Ivy League School, in New Haven, Conn., since 1929. Yale’s Committee on Art in Public Spaces chose to cover the carving during renovations last year after faculty and experts concluded it depicted warfare and colonial violence against Native Americans.

Yale maintained it was not censoring history, as some critics claimed.

“Covering over the problematic aspect of this carving is not consistent with the principles subsequently adopted by the university,” a Yale statement said. “Therefore, when the carving is relocated, the covering stonework will be removed.”

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Yale Psychiatrists Just Warned There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Trump

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“I’ve worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognize dangerousness from a mile away. You don’t have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is.”

Those words came from the mouth of James Gilligan, psychiatrist and professor at New York University. The man he is speaking of is the president of the United States.

Gilligan’s comments were one of many from a group of psychiatrists who gathered at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday. The message presented was that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be in the White House.

Dr. John Gartner, practicing psychiatrist and founding member of Duty to Warn, a group of several dozen mental health professionals who feel it’s their obligation to inform the public about the president’s mental state, says the warning signs have been there from the beginning.

“Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking, and he proved that to the country the first day he was president,” Dr. Gartner said.

Earlier in the year, claiming Trump is “psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President,” Dr. Gartner started a petition calling for Trump to be removed from office. So far, that petition has received nearly 47,000 signatures.

Dr. Bandy Lee, who chaired the conference and is an assistant clinical professor in Yale’s department of psychology, thinks Trump’s mental state is an issue people are beginning to become concerned about:

“As some prominent psychiatrists have noted, [Trump’s mental health] is the elephant in the room. I think the public is really starting to catch on and widely talk about this now.”