Black women matter." "History is watching." "I refuse to be complicit." Dozens of messages like those were scrawled in chalk on a wide swath of stone in front of Yale University's largest library on Thursday. By Friday evening they had begun to fade, rubbed out in places by the steady stream of students' shoes. But the tensions that have flared on the campus for the past week and a half seem likely to leave a more permanent mark on this elite institution, which finds itself roiled by a heated debate about race relations and free speech.

November 9, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education