Yale President Peter Salovey: ‘The Most Effective Way To Combat Speech You Don’t Like Is With Speech’

Yale President Peter Salovey spoke on free expression on campuses, reflecting on a recent incident at the University of California, Berkeley, where students protested comedian Bill Maher’s appearance at a graduation ceremony because of controversial comments he made about Muslims.

“It’s very difficult. You see this controversy playing out on many different campuses over the last couple of years,” Salovey said.

Salovey said he thinks people want to live in an environment where others are respectful and civil, but being offended can be a learning experience.

“It’s fine to protest, it’s fine to raise one’s own voice,” Salovey said. “The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.”

Below, live updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:

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“After we completed the [yoga] course, the results were amazing,” Bertolini said, saying in addition to weight loss and happier employees, there was an increase in productivity by 69 minutes a month.

“We think it’s about a ,000 a year savings,” Bertolini said, noting his company’s health care costs actually went down after implementing mindfulness practices.

Mark Bertolini said a number of CEOs at Davos have asked him how he made the major changes at his company.

“Not everybody should be at an hour, there may be people who need to be higher,” Bertolini said, noting people’s lifestyles are directly impacted by how they are paid.

Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, explained how he increased wages for his workers, arguing that taking better care of his employees would in turn lead to better care for Aetna’s customers.

“We started to say, well, that’s going to take away some of their benefits… so we also made a benefits change,” Bertolini said.

Balkin addressed the negative feelings many people have about the failures of banking.

“I think we’ve been in a really unique period of history where we’ve had moral and ethical failure… the difference is, we feel finance much more because it’s an empty pocket, it’s money… these other ethical failures, the tangible results of those failures we don’t necessarily feel as directly,” Balkin said.

“I think optimism.. matters, because unless we’re optimistic we give up,” Sandberg said.

Sandberg said people connecting with others all over the world leave her optimistic about progress we can make.

“The opportunities have never been better,” Sandberg said. “Look at what’s happening with just 40 percent of people getting connected.”

“I think we can connect more people and we can be optimistic,” she added.

Sandberg said she’s been working at getting more sleep, noting she watched how her kids act when they’re lacking sleep and realized she often has the same kind of reaction.

“I really do prioritize sleep and it made a huge difference,” Sandberg said.

Sandberg said it’s an issue that women do more work than men.

“Women do more everywhere they are,” Sandberg said.

Sandberg noted women do more work even in the office, saying “office housework” often falls to women in the workplace.

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