Colleges Go Oprah At Harvard, students just want to be infantilized (except when they want to drink beer); at Yale, the deans want to treat students like children.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Yale dean Betty Trachenberg just banned a student theater production from using swords and daggers as props.

Yale deans should not be in the business of censorship. Nor should they be idiots. When every newspaper and broadcast network is showing a photo of a campus killer waving a gun in each hand, she's worried about a swordfight on stage?

Perhaps this confirms the wisdom of her decision to retire....  ¶ 1:16 PM