Geraldo Rivera Resigns From Yale Post After Renaming Of Calhoun College

NEW HAVEN, CT — Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera has resigned from his position as associate fellow of Calhoun College at Yale University after the university announced it would be removing John C. Calhoun's name from the college, saying such insistence on political correctness was "lame."

In a letter to the campus community on Saturday, university president Peter Salovey wrote that "John C. Calhoun’s legacy as a white supremacist and a national leader who passionately promoted slavery as a 'positive good' fundamentally conflicts with Yale’s mission and values."

In the same letter, Salovey informed the community that the college would be renamed for Grace Murray Hopper, whom the university described as one of its most distinguished graduates. Hopper was "a trailblazing computer scientist, brilliant mathematician and teacher, and dedicated public servant," according to her official biography provided by Yale.

Rivera announced on his Twitter account that he would be resigning from his position.

"Been an honor but intolerant insistence on political correctness is lame," he tweeted.

In follow-up tweets, Rivera wrote that Calhoun's ideas are repugnant and slavery was an abhorrent sin, but would students now petition to change the name of the nation's capital?

The renaming of the college came after months of student protests demanding the college be renamed.

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