The next generation of leaders and elites will be educated at Yale. Meanwhile nobody can even find this town in Tennessee on a map.
But this isn't a decision about material that Yale will stock in libraries or allow in curriculum, but what Yale University Press will publish.
I also don't think that the actions of a random rural K-8 district 45 minutes outside of Chattanooga is all that important, except to the extent that it got a whole bunch of new people to read Maus, and created more fodder for the obligatory bookstore "Banned Books" displays.
Neither incident seems all that impactful, but the Maus incident seems clearly more ignorant and intolerant.
Failing to realize you're kowtowing to political Islam is clearly more ignorant than having completely ordinary attitudes about nudity and profanity in a book meant for 8th graders.
Maybe it's because I'm Catholic and grew up during the whole "Piss Christ" debacle, and recognize that there's nothing all that unusual about observant religious people being upset by art deliberately meant to provoke them, and thus --- like I said, I dont't think Maus and comic depictions of the Prophet Muhammed are all that comparable.
You've read Maus, right?