UPDATE Mar. 15: Michelle Malkin has the latest on Yale's welcome to Taliban on campus.
Yale’s Alma Mater, written more than a century ago, ends:
For God, for country, and for Yale.How inappropriate for the Yale of today.
God? Yale enrolls a Taliban leader. His religion tells him to kill gays, treat women as slaves, and blow up statues of Buddha. He's a campus celeb.
Yale students who want to join the ROTC are told it's not permitted on campus. America's military just doesn't treat gays right. But the students are free to hang out with the Taliban.
Country? Read a little of this Powerline post by Scott Johnson:
When Navy Judge Advocate General recruiter Brian Whitaker visited Yale Law School (on October 9,2003) to meet with students interested in serving as Navy lawyers, his reception was not unlike that of the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail; if it weren't for the honor of the thing, he’d probably rather have passed on it.That gives an idea of how Yale treats our military. But Taliban are welcome as long as they don't try to join the ROTC.
Virtually all law students signed a petition that they would not meet with Whitaker or other JAG recruiters. The petition was publicly displayed inside the law school as part of a protest display that included black and camouflage wall hangings. To top off the warm reception, the one law student scheduled to meet with Whitaker cancelled the interview.
And Yale? It once stood for intelligence, reason, and service in defense of America. Now it's best symbolized by a Law School faculty so enamored of its own ideology and so out of touch with the Constitution, that it brought before The U. S. Supreme Court a claim (FAIR v. Rumsfeld ) the court rejected in a stinging 8-0 rebuke.
Here’s a last Alma Mater line I think is appropriate for the Yale of today:
For clods, for Taliban, and hypocrisy.
3 comments:
Public petitions?
Wonder how many people silently signed that to avoid the hassle....
-AC
Probably alot of people did sign that petition to get rid of any possible trouble. I was an undergraduate at Yale and transferred out. It is not what you think it is. The school is too out of touch with modernity and the rest of the world. As a result, the school becomes self-absorbed. It develops a twisted reality that consumes most of the students and faculty.
It's not just Yale. I have a sister who is a Dr. of Education and her world is so small and she is so ignorant that I thank God every day for my high school drop out wife who is my sister's intellectual superior in every way. I have someone with whom I can engage in an intelligent conversation without all the irrationality that the insular academic community worships.
You see, my wife never learned group think. She had to use logic, rationality, experience and knowledge to form her own, yeah, no kidding, her own opinions and thoughts. She doesn't have one, no, not even one, that has been assigned her. She won't even accept my opinions, she does her own thinking. We can actually have an intelligent conversation, even when we hold opposing views.
Something I can't do with my sister the doctor or her husband the vaginally enhanced masters degree holder. I think his masters is in "political correctness and determination of how to be acceptable to largest number of ignorami", not sure, though.
The truly sad thing is my sister and her vaginally enhanced husband have the raw materials to be intelligent. But actually learning something about the subjects they pontificate on proves to be too uncomfortable for them. Knowledge keeps destroying their preconceptions and putting them at odds with the self-anointed elite of which they are members. So, they just learn the buzz words and phrases and drop them indiscriminately like cow patties, alas without the beneficial fertilizer for growth of the cow pattie.
No, this problem isn't unique to Yale. Since their faculty is more generously remunerated than most,though, it puts the lie to the bromide "You get what you pay for", doesn't it?
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