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February 27, 2006
Yale's Prized Student
John Fund reports on the kind of student our elite universities are competing with each other to enroll. 1600 SAT scorers? Valedictorians with perfect grades and community service? No way. Yale is battling Harvard over the likes of Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban.
That's right, boys and girls, a prized Yale student is a former leading member of a regime that thought nothing of dragging a woman into the middle of a packed football stadium and shooting her in the back of the head with an AK-47, at point blank range, in front of her husband and children.
But corrosive postmodernist relativism continues its drip through the liberal arts academy and into mainstream culture. Fund:
Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century--the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few years from now Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi is on the faculty of a major university--I'm sure he'd be welcomed into the academy by fellow colleagues like Angela Davis and Billy Ayers.
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