Posted on 04/17/2006 7:55:12 AM PDT by george76
Yale now doesn't even attempt to claim that Mr. Hashemi has changed.
In conversations with donors, president Richard Levin has fallen back on two arguments: that Mr. Hashemi currently is a nondegree student, and that the State Department issued him a visa.
But Mr. Hashemi's application to become a sophomore in Yale's full degree program, the same type of program that Mr. Farivar graduated from at Harvard, is pending before Mr. Levin.
That makes his continued presence at Yale especially relevant as Yale's Board of Governors, the body that supposedly runs the university, prepares to meet this week.
Many in the Yale community are appalled at the damage university officials have caused by their failure to address the Hashemi issue after seven weeks of controversy.
"That silence has provoked bewilderment and anger among many," David Cameron, a Yale political science professor wrote The Wall Street Journal last week.
"Yale appears to have no convincing response to those who ask why, given the nature of the Taliban regime, his role in it, its complicity in the 9/11 attacks, and his apparent failure or refusal to disavow the regime, Mr. Hashemi has been allowed to study at the university."
Even some who defend the right of Yale to make its own admissions decisions now say it went too far with its Taliban
Man. Mark Oppenheimer, a Yale grad who edits the New Haven Advocate, an alternative weekly, says he has "finally come to the conclusion" that "Yale should not have enrolled someone who helped lead a regime that destroyed religious icons, executed adulterers and didn't let women learn to read.
Surely, the spot could have better gone to, say, Afghani women, who have such difficulty getting schooling in their own country."
(Excerpt) Read more at instapundit.com ...
Does anyone know if there were any Yale Alumni murdered on 9/11?
Thanks a lot of freepers sent me this terrible reminder of how evil the Islamofascists are.
I finally found this from the yale daily news.
Six Yale alumni died when the first hijacked airplane hit the north tower at 8:46 that morning.
Is that a great alma mater or what?
> Thanks a lot of freepers sent me this terrible reminder
I guess some of us could read the rest of the thread before posting.
FReegards
I never read a whole thread before posting. Why start something radical!:)
What does Yale look for?Students and parents often look for a specific answer to the following question: If a candidate presents A, B, and C, will he or she be admitted to Yale? Unfortunately, so many factors are at play in the selection process that outcomes for most candidates in the pool are impossible to predict. We estimate that over three quarters of the students who apply for admission to Yale are qualified to do the work here. Between two and three hundred students in any year are so strong academically that their admission is scarcely ever in doubt. The great majority of students who are admitted, however, stand out from the rest because a lot of little things, when added up, tip the scale in their favor. The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful candidate at Yale is often painfully small....
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In the end, everything in an application matters. The good news is that so many little things figure in an admissions decision that it is fruitless to worry too much about any one of them.
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