"The Yale Taliban"
Well, I've always said that the Ivy League is a really . . .er, interesting sort of place.
First there was the mess at Harvard about Larry Summers, and now there's this news out of Yale. The flap is about a former Taliban spokesman who is now a Yale student.
Here is an interesting piece on the situation from today's edition of the Yale campus paper. It's written by a student, who has this to say about new Yale student Rahmatullah Hashemi, and the opinion is admittedly hostile:
In a letter to the News, Eric Knibbs GRD '10 wrote, "I was not aware that ideology could disqualify a Yale applicant" ("Students' ideologies should not play role in admissions decisions," 2/28). I believe it should not. But an applicant's employment as an agent for a declared enemy of the United States that abetted a terrorist attack that took the lives of some 3,000 civilians is another matter. |
What do you think?
The Telegraph has this priceless quote from the 27-year-old new Yalie: "In some ways I'm the luckiest person in the world . . . I could have ended up in Guantánamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."