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"I believe this is a first for Yale." White supremacist '73 alum brags in class notes… http://is.gd/Kng5REFri Jul 29 18:24:53 via Tweetie for MacBen Smithbenpolitico
"Sam Taylor sent this intriguing note: 'Did you know one of your classmates is officially considered a hate-monger by the Southern Poverty Law Center?'" Oh Yale alumni news!
"When Ice Cube says 'your plan against the ghetto backfired,' and it gets turned into 'you're playing against the ghetto black fly,' more has happened than just a simple error in transcription; you've made an important song perplexing and impenetrable—while staking a claim, backed by institutional power and market presence, that your version is canonical." —The struggle with Yale University Press' Anthology of Rap goes on!
Caesar Storlazzi has been the chief financial aid officer at Yale since 2005. Back in November, he made the decision to work with the government's direct student lending program, in anticipation of the disembowelment of Sallie Mae and the other mega-lenders. And now, he tells the Times, he's regretting it. "'It really felt like the administration was just shoving this down our throats,' he said. 'It feels a bit like a federal takeover.' With competition among lenders, he said, 'We get better prices and services.'" What a strange and amazing thing for a senior official at Yale to say!
The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism is donezo, according to Yale, with the rationale that Jews just weren't interesting enough, or something? Actually it was very vague! The head of the program basically said they weren't doing good enough work and not getting published enough. Now Jews are mad.
Meanwhile, while they're beefing about this stuff, Harvard beat Yale in the Regatta again this year. PRIORITIES, PEOPLE.
Considered a menace to student life, public safety and townie relationships, bladderball did not come to occur during Saturday's Yale-Dartmouth football game, as is the tradition. Do you have no idea what I'm talking about? Then I welcome you to the world's best Wikipedia entry: "Once each year, at 11 a.m. the Saturday before the Yale-Dartmouth game, the inflatable six foot ball was rolled through Yale's Phelps Gate onto Old Campus, where a throng of Yale students waited. At the sound of a whistle, teams from each residential college and various extracurricular organizations would fight for possession of the ball…. in 1971 the ball rolled a six [...]
A committee of the American Bar Association has come up with the unthinkable: how about we rate law schools based on what students learn to prepare them for practicing law? This is CRAZY, according to everyone who runs a law school. There are at least three arguments against this being presented now, none of which are well, uh, argued. First: it seems to be that "this is a very bad time," what with lawyer unemployment running rampant. (Yes, why would we want schools to have evaluation when the provenance of a law degree actually may begin to matter in hiring? Oh right, for value for employers in hiring-and [...]
"A Hamden, Conn., resident rapped about his genitalia and struggled with police officers, drawing a crowd on Cross Campus Tuesday morning." —Oh indeed yes. And? “'It was kind of scary because I hadn’t seen something like that incident before in New Haven,' Kavita Kapadia ’13 said." Ugh, KIDS TODAY.
"Yale's endowment may have shed nearly a quarter of its value last year, but three of the men charged with managing it earned a combined $10.1 million in salary and benefits during the same time period, according to the University's most recent tax filings." -Business is good even when business is bad at Yale. Meanwhile, Harvard has, unfortunately, painted over the graffitied walls of the women's room at Adams House, which documented young womens' "fears, phobias, and questions in different colors."
People keep asking me this week about some fellow with a funny, stuffy name, and I am always like, "I'm sorry, who?" There is some story that is in all the papers-all of them-that I have been avoiding, because there is no reason at all for me to read it. It is about a tragedy, which, from what little I have heard, sounds terrible! And we are hearing about it because it took place at a famous university. Jack Shafer trots out a number of reasons for this coverage, among them: "Members of the elite press identify with Harvard and Yale-even if they didn't go there. They may work [...]
