Yale Looking For Face-Saving Way to Oust Talibani Student

Posted on April 23, 2006

Evidently Yale doesn’t like the negative publicity it’s received since welcoming Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the unreconstructed Taliban knuckle-dragger admitted under their non-traditional student program. Writing in the WSJ Opinion Journal, John Fund reports that Yale plans to toughen up admission standards for non-traditional degree students, which currently accept three quarters of applicants (compared to the 10% of applying high school students).

This will allow Yale to reject Hashemi’s application to a degree program without admitting that they were utterly stupid and morally bankrupt for admitting him in the first place. Or maybe they’re just afraid they’ll be beheaded.

Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto, Vince Aut Morire, and The Jawa Report.

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One Response to “Yale Looking For Face-Saving Way to Oust Talibani Student”

The Bosun on April 24th, 2006 12:38 am

Just checked out Juan Cole’s website, Informed Consent http://www.juancole.com/

Boy, is he a piece of work in progress.