Yale's False Supporters

Hirsi Ali in Yale on September 15, 2014
She is surrounded by wood panels of The Sheffield-Sterling-Strachona Auditorium
in Yale, a testament to architect Clark Zantzinger, who fashioned
this after traditional wainscot paneling.


The Sheffield-Sterling-Strachona Auditorium in Yale,
where Hirsi Ali gave her recent lecture


View of the auditorium from the stage
More information on the hall at Yale's website
[scroll down the linked page]

Here is some background on the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall:

Until 1860 the Medical Institutions was situated in a hotel built by James Hillhouse, at the corner of what are now Prospect and Groves Streets. This building, which Yale purchased for $12,500, later became Sheffield Hall and remained part of the Yale scene until it was removed in 1931 to make way for the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathchona Hall. The location of the new school in this spot marked the beginning of the spread of the college to the north.

Yale: A History
Brooks Mather Kelley:
P. 132
Google books

The architect for the current building is Clark Zantzinger of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, Architects, who also built:

- 1917: Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge National Historical Park, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
- 1926-27: Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Now part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- 1927-28: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
- 1932-35: Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.

With her forceful, but ambiguous message of "freedom of choice," Hirsi Ali stands in the elegant halls of Western academia, but she is not a trustworthy champion of the West.

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Here are some recent posts I did on Hirsi Ali:
- Creed vs. Conscience
- Hirsi Ali is no Spokeswoman for the West
- Ferguson in America: And His Wry Belief in the Fall of American Power
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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