Posted on 03/24/2006 2:50:27 PM PST by george76
Something is very wrong at our elite universities.
Last month Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard; today Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi will speak by video to a conference at Columbia University that his regime is cosponsoring. (Columbia won't answer questions about how much funding it got from Libya or what implied strings were attached.)
Then there's Yale, which for three weeks has refused to make any comment or defense beyond a vague 144-word statement about its decision to admit Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi--a former ambassador-at-large of the murderous Afghan Taliban--as a special student.
The three backers of the foundation that, along with Yale, is subsidizing Mr. Hashemi's tuition have told the Yale Daily News that they are withdrawing their support.
But the university remains mute and paralyzed.
"The intelligentsia haven't told Yalies what to think yet, because even they haven't made up their minds," says Daniel Gelernter, a Yale freshman whose father is a Yale professor.
He clearly has: He calls the Taliban "an evil and macabre terrorist group. . . . The fact that Hashemi didn't do actual killing does not absolve him.
Goebbels didn't shoot anyone either."
Never has the moat separating elite universities from the rest of America been wider than in the case of Yale's Taliban Man.
Hashemi has told friends he is stunned Yale didn't look more closely into his curriculum vitae. "I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay," he told the New York Times.
So how did he end up in the Ivy League? Questions start at the State Department's door.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the Judiciary Committee's border security panel, has asked the State Department and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to explain exactly how Mr. Hashemi got an F-1 student visa.
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Understatement of the decade.
"Goebbels didn't shoot anyone either."
Incorrect. He shot his wife.
Why'd you spam your own keywords?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
it will prove nothing -- the imbecils will do it and love it.
a few events like the one pictured above might finally galvanize someone's resolve...somewhere...
He should be in Gitmo.
"There is a line beyond which tolerance and political correctness become willful blindness. Eli Muller, a reporter for the Yale Daily News, was stunned back in 2000 when the lies of another Taliban spokesman who visited Yale "went nearly unchallenged." He concluded that the "moral overconfidence of Yale students makes them subject to manipulation by people who are genuinely evil." Today, you can say that about more than just some naïve students. You can add the administrators who abdicated their moral responsibility and admitted Mr. Hashemi."
I think you can say that about most liberals.
He should be in Gitmo.
That's what I was wondering. Shouldn't he be in jail?
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So how did he end up in the Ivy League? Questions start at the State Department's door.
Forget Yale. Given the fact that the 48 and 53 refugee acts bar entry for those associated with regiemes which have persecuted civilian populations, I'd like to know how he got into the country, period. If he can come in, so can Osama and Mullah Omar. Sadaam too.
Couldn't they just scoop the Yalie talaboon to Gitmo?
"Yale can prove its sincerity by requiring all female faculty,students and ancillary staff members to wear a burkah."
Or design a new school uniform: towel on the head, dynamite across the chest, and under it a "Vote For Hillary" t-shirt.
This is accurate...IMHO...
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Universities are places where free inquiry, debate and information sharing are supposed to be guiding lights.
In reality, the ivory towers too often now resemble dark castles, which raise their drawbridges at the first hint of criticism or scrutiny.
"Just living here he can learn our values."?????? Then why didn't the 19 9-11 guys learn our values? What about the Screaming Imams? What about the guy who attended Duke and then drove into the pit full of students? Yale is a pigsty.
Poor guy, he's going to be repeating an awful lot of subject matter he's already learned.
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