Lol Funny news...

T26E4
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:28:36 +0000

quark: While it can only be speculation as to why the three set ablaze the flag, please don’t be ignorant of the impact of what the action does in the eyes of Yale and its context in CT and in the country in general. Rightly or wrongly, it will be perceived as snotty Yalies (and foreigners to boot) pouring contempt on a symbol of America.

I’d invite you to go to a non-campus coffee shop and poll the average person and see what he/she thinks about it. Although Yale is located in New Haven, often Yale students forget that and feel they’re an island.

While you declare it has no greater political significance, perception can be reality. All I’m saying is be sensitive to why people would be outraged.

What would have happened if instead of three drunk international Yale students that it had been three Caucasian frat guys from UConn, hanging out before the Yale-UConn football weekend. They stroll by the Afro Am house and see an ethnic-themed banner hanging on a pole. They light it up. Or they stroll by a Yale apartment and there’s a GLAD banner outside. Any political significance? U tell me…