From: "Mark" 

I actually do understand your position and it does have merit to a degree.
However, we're still at war and the Taliban is still lurking in the caves
of Afghanistan and their ilk are still trying to destroy the lives of
Iraqis, so I think this particular "experiment" is ill-advised.

I think that Yale will eventually come around to my position, but not for
what I think, or what the WSJ thinks, or what any other unrelated entity
thinks, but it will be countenanced by what their alumni does in regards to
gifts/pledges/endowments -- I think they'll dry up in short order. The
alumni with the most bucks are from another era and would never accept
having an enemy spokesman enrolled in say, 1944, while the war raged.


"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
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>I don't see any folly. I see an educated risk being taken which may or may
>not turn out well. One of the purposes of higher education is to expose
>young adults to the world at large and this would seem to fit the bill to a
>tee.
>
> To my mind risk taking is (should be) one of the virtues of privately
> funded universities. They can take risks that public institutions might
> avoid. That so many private universities seemed smothered in political
> correctness and treat their students as innocent waifs needing
> intellectual coddling is a great shame.
> --
> Regards,
> Dave Ings,
> Toronto, Canada
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>>
>> Well it's too bad then, isn't it, that Yale outbid the University of
>> Toronto so as to be blessed with his inspiring presence?
>>
>> Perhaps Toronto will get a second chance now that Yale's folly has
>> publicity.
>
>

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