Posted on 04/24/2006 5:38:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi created a firestorm of controversy when it was revealed in February that the former Taliban official was enrolled as a student at Yale University.
Now it appears Hashemi’s days at Yale may be numbered.
In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, John Fund writes: "The continued outrage over the news that an unrepentant former official of a criminal regime whose remnants are still killing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan is part of the Ivy League is catching up with him. Yale is about to establish tougher standards for the program under which he is applying to become a degree-status sophomore next fall, and the consensus is that Mr. Hashemi won't measure up.”
Hashemi is a beneficiary of Yale’s Special Student Program, which consists of two parts, Fund explained. The first, under which Hashemi was admitted last year, allows "nontraditional" students to attend classes for credit they can use at other colleges, but it doesn't lead to a Yale degree.
The second serves older students who are seeking a Yale degree. Hashemi, who was the Taliban’s "ambassador-at-large,” has applied for admission in the fall under that program, even though he has only a fourth-grade education and a high school equivalency certificate.
Last week, Yale's president Richard Levin issued a statement saying that a review had "raised questions whether the admissions practices of the non-degree Special Student Program have been consistent with the published criteria, let alone the standard that should prevail."
He added that "in recent years, while fewer than 10 percent of the applicants to the regular undergraduate program have received offers of admission, more than 75 percent of the applicants to the non-degree program have been admitted."
According to the Yale Daily News, Levin made it clear that Hashemi's pending application in the degree program will be held to the same standard as that of a regular applicant.
Clinton Taylor and Debbie Bookstaber, two young Yale grads who were outraged by their alma mater's actions in admitting Hashemi and launched a protest called NailYale, say they are encouraged.
"Without admitting or confronting the full error of its decision, I think Yale is laying the groundwork to reject him, without looking like they were pressured into it,” Taylor told Fund.
Bookstaber notes that if Yale now admits Hashemi as a full-degree seeking student, it will be inviting new outrage from the 19,300 students who applied to Yale's 2010 undergraduate class but were rejected.
But controversy at Yale might not end with Hashemi’s departure. According to Fund, the university may soon hire Juan Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan, as a professor of contemporary Middle East studies.
Cole has called Israel "the most dangerous regime in the Middle East," and argues that the Israeli lobby effectively controls Congress and much of U.S. foreign policy.
In February, Cole told the Detroit Metro Times that the federal government should close Fox Cable News, saying Fox "is polluting the information environment.”
...of any sort, it seems.
Watch Princeton scoop him up now.
Yale university seems to love every Anti-American organisation.Espechially there Hero That came from Communist China.So whats wrong with having a murdering terrorist in their midst. As long as he's not killing the student's and faculty at Yale they don't care.
Some day its going to come back and bite them bad.
New benchmark for how far is too far when it comes to "promoting diversity." Admitting a senior Taliban official is too far. Less senior America-haters welcome.
LOL! Hashemi is fine company for Yale...what's all the whoopla about? He'll fit in just perfectly with the administrators and faculty.....and it's FREE! Truly, I thought this is what every good commie and socialist wants, so why not?
Have the military authorities arrest him as an active terrorist (which he is) and shag his ass to another american location -- Gitmo.
Kudos to John Fund, who has been all over this abomination from day one.
New Haven is a dump.
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal editorial page has published a large number of falsehoods about me. The most egregious is this: ' He calls Israel "the most dangerous regime in the Middle East." '(BTW, it seems the wackiest of liberal nutcase professors have tons of time for long elaborate indulgent blogs.)
Now, Juan may have said this aloud in a speech, but if you doubt that this accurately reflects the measure of the man, here are things he posted on said blog:
Maybe it's not right for Fund to have used quotations, but it should be interesting that Cole, in the current post, does not attempt to clarify what he did write. And Juan Cole is a contributor to that bastion of anti-Israel pleasantries antiwar.com.If it goosesteps like an anti-Semite and it heils like an anti-Semite...
Ask him where he heils from.
I'm not registering just to post on his self-indulgent onanistic blog.
Neither am I and I can't use big words either. :)
Yale doesn't have standards in the conventional sense -- at least none that would bar anti-American terrorists -- but it does have financial interests.
Look up "onanistic". It'll make you smile.
Oh geezzzz....
Appropriate, no?
Yes, and thanks for a new work to use in some way. HEHE. I'll use it in one of my BS paragraphs.
You think maybe it was his 4th-grade education level that tipped them off?
Standards? How dare you require standards! Standards are the exact polar opposite of DIVERTHITY! /sarcasm
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