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.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
This is accurate too..
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.
This has been mentioned every now and then, but does anyone actually know who this other foreigner of Mr. Hashemi's 'caliber' at Harvard is?
Heck, I thought all this was going to be about a talibani Yale had hired- not admitted as a student.
I don't see any "moral" question about admitting anyone to college. It's just school.
Even inmates in prison for awful crimes take college courses.
Perhaps the government should have kept him out. Maybe they had their own reasons to let him in.
Two women who will join voices at Yale tonight.
Natalie Healy lost her Navy SEAL son Dan in Afghanistan last year when a Taliban rocket hit his helicopter. Ms. Healy, who notes that her son had four children of his own, is appalled at Yale's new student.
"Lots of people could benefit from a Yale education, so why reward this man who was part of the group that killed Dan?" she told me.
"I want to tell [Yale President] Richard Levin that his not allowing ROTC on campus is one thing, but welcoming a former member of the Taliban is deeply insulting to families who have children fighting them right now."
Ten days ago Ms. Healy met Malalai Joya, a member of Afghanistan's parliament, when she spoke near her home in Exeter, N.H. Tonight, Ms. Joya will speak at Yale on behalf of the Afghan Women's Mission.
She is appalled that many people have forgotten the crimes of the Taliban...
next week, Yale will mail out 19,300 rejection letters to those who applied to be in its class of 2010.
"I can't imagine it'll be easy for Yale to convince those it rejects that the Taliban student isn't taking a place they could have had,"
Looks like a ACLU recruitment picture......Thanks
Wow! I surmise that photo came from the NYTimes (via "properties")...
but when was it printed?
That's certainly an image NO MSM operative wants to get widely distributed!
Google is (mostly great)...
Sept. 19, 2001 publication date...as noted here, about 2/3 down the page:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21781
The immediate source of the NYT photo was linked in my post number one.
But later is was removed...not by me.
On the properties is the date...right after 9-11 when he was the Taliban spokesman with Christian books they were using as a prop.
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