Raleigh Adams, a student at Yale Divinity School, who experienced first-hand this orientation ceremony, recounts how the students were sat down in a circle and told to recite a spell written by a self-professed witch, Adrienne Maree Brown, someone who is described in contemporary literary covens as a “mixed race Black queer American writer, community organiser, facilitator, witch and - may I say - goddess.”
The puritans who founded Yale and Harvard have long rolled over in their graves.