National Catholic Register: The “whisper campaign” became public the day before the April 18 vote. Andre Manuel, Yale’s American Civil Liberties Union representative to Dwight Hall, announced in a column for the campus paper that he would be voting against CLAY’s (Choose Life At Yale) membership — and other constituent representatives should as well.
“The pro-life, anti-choice agenda stands in the way of gender equity, and thus in the way of social justice,” he wrote. “If you come to see the importance of the movement for gender equity and reproductive freedom in any larger pursuit of social justice, then vote no on CLAY.”
McEachon said the events leading up to the vote and the vote itself were marked by “confusion,” as CLAY was not even informed what time the vote would take place and was given no meaningful opportunity to make its case before the assembled representatives. Read more here.
Although the defeat of CLAY’s membership bid was aggravating enough, MacEachon was particularly disappointed that no one from Dwight Hall even spoke to CLAY leadership following the vote to tell them how to proceed.
