Yale (Kind of) Bans the Taliban Man

[DRJ4]

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A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student’s financial supporters said yesterday.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06yale.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06yale.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;

Good for Yale. On a less positive note, the NY Times article also contains a statement of continuing support from the Taliban man’s financial supporters:</p>

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<p>“Rahmatullah found out that he was not accepted,” Mrs. Maxwell said, “but we believe that he is still allowed to continue in the nondegree program.” Mrs. Maxwell said she did not know whether Mr. Hashemi wanted to remain at Yale after the outcry over his presence there last spring and after being rejected for the Eli Whitney Program. “We hope he will come back and continue to do what he was doing,” she said. “We really still feel strongly about the bridge he can be between two cultures that desperately need to understand each other.”</p>

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<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>“We would definitely try to help him,” Mrs. Maxwell said.

Why can’t these people use their money to help educate someone more deserving?</p>

[SuNa]

<p>I agree that there are lots of people more deserving, but imagine the transformative power of four years of college in the U.S.</p>

[Just_Browsing]

<p>I actually read a very interesting article on him in the New York Times magazine a few years ago… He’s a young guy who has underwent a big transformation after 9/11. </p>

<p>He’s got famous after Farenheit 9/11, he was the guy who was being pestered by a woman about the Taliban’s treatment of women and he goes “I feel sorry for your husband.”</p>

<p>Interesting stuff.</p>

[pyroclastic]

<p>I’d be interested to know what the guy’s academic profile (SATs, etc) was like. If he couldn’t hack it at Yale, then I think it’s good they got rid of him since no one should benefit from special treatment to such an extent. But if Hashemi was a bona fide genius, he should have stayed. He’s clearly changed enourmously from the man he once was. Personally, I don’t see much of a difference between him and the many Western intellectuals who were once communists/Christian fundamentalists/druggies/what-have-you before mellowing out with age.</p>

[Dadguy]

<p>He was in the Taliban. How good could his EC’s have been? :(</p>

[momrath]

<p>DRJ4, Your title put me in mind of this refrain from the Tempest (proving once again that Shakespeare said it all ).
“Ban, Ban Ca-Caliban has a new master. Get a new man!”</p>

[ejr1]

<p>As I recall from a prior thread about him, he has a fourth grade education.</p>

[Scom]

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I agree that there are lots of people more deserving, but imagine the transformative power of four years of college in the U.S.

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<p>4 years of college in the US?</p>

<p>you’re right…he would definitely transform.</p>

<p>he’d become even MORE radical… ::eyes rolling::</p>

[iloveagoodbrew]

<p>This is good for diversity!</p>