<p>"Yale has its Taliban, Princeton gets its Red Army Faction thug"</p>
<p>a rather inapt comparison, considering the latter was, as german minister, top diplomat of a rather more progressive country.</p>
<p>If Yale's Taliban Guy doesn't get in, and Afghanistan, isn't an option, then perhaps the DNC will give him a position.</p>
<p>As for Princeton's leftist thug - who will be a professor, no less (!) - he seems by all accounts to be a far more dispicable character than the Taliban Guy.</p>
<p>In each case, the principal "academic" qualification seems to be a reflexive anti-American outlook, and commitment to the fierce leftist bigotry commonly found in most elite faculties.</p>
<p>Alright, all I can say is that it looks like a decision has been made, but I am definitely not going to say anything until something more official comes out. It wouldn't be my place to essentially break the news that he did/didn't get in...</p>
<p>GuitarManARS, what are you basing that on? I can't see anything on his profile (it's said Yale'09 for a long time....since March at least).</p>
<p>Guitarman, its one thing to know and not tell us, its quite another to tell us that you know and wont tell us, so now I think its time to tell us what you know (assuming you can parse this post). ;)</p>
<p>Yeah I actually realized after the fact what an idiot I was for just saying that. Sorry :p I said earlier I'd give some info and I didn't want to just ignore that, but again, I really don't think it's my place to announce anything so...publicly. Again, I feel terrible, I realized after the fact, haha sorry :</p>
<p>I guess we have an answer (of sorts) courtesy of Byerly:</p>
<p>and the New York Times:</p>
<p>From the NYT article:</p>
<p>"Mrs. Maxwell said she and Mr. Hashemi's other backers hoped he could apply again next year to the degree-granting program. </p>
<p>If he ultimately cannot pursue a degree at Yale, he will probably try to do so at another university in the United States, she said, adding that a number of alumni and others not connected to Yale had come forward to offer to help Mr. Hashemi after he became a controversial figure this spring."</p>
<p>If they rejected Hashemi this year (due, most likely, to all the political/media pressure), why on earth would Yale accept him next year? Practically any American university he applies to (esp. an Ivy League) is going to be slammed the way Yale has been if they accept him in the future. They'd therefore most likely want to avoid accepting him.</p>
<p>They are under equal pressure from liberals and Democrats hostile to the Bush Administration to "send a message" of support for those opposed to American foreign policy initiatives who think support for the Taliban is a good way to send that message. </p>
<p>They'll probably take another poll or survey next year to see if it will be politically correct to admit him, on balance - perhaps waiting to see the outcome of the fall Congessional elections.</p>
<p>Here's a follow up story from AP (via the Boston Globe):</p>
<p>Yale refused to comment specifically on Hashemi, but did say that only two of the 29 people who applied to the degree-granting Eli Whitney program this year were admitted. According to the Yale Alumni Magazine story that I linked earlier in this thread, in the past about 8-12 people were admitted under the Eli Whitney program each year. So it looks like all the applicants to the program this year suffered from the Hashemi fallout.</p>
<p>I like the quote from Levin.
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While University President Richard Levin would not comment specifically on Hashemi, he said the fact that only two students were taken into the Eli Whitney program this year demonstrates the heightened admissions criteria for the program.</p>
<p>"The smaller size of the Eli Whitney program reflects the fact that the admissions committee followed the instructions I gave them in the spring, which was to apply the same standard for the Eli Whitney program that is used in the regular Yale College admissions process, adjusting for stage of life," Levin said.
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If Summers were as politically astute as Levin, he'd still be President of Harvard. ;)</p>