I wish Yale actually had the backbone to take a principled stand and be “subversive” once in a while.

haha wow, iran. clearly yale is out to get you. glad you figured that out.

What is sad is that Yale actually, at least tacitly, supports radical Islamic positions by not publishing disparaging images of the Prophet.

Iran must be completely clueless if they think Yale is antagonistic toward them, maybe Bob Jones University, but not Yale.

Even a broken clock is right now and again…

An “honor” that, unfortunately, Yale does not deserve; would that it did.

http://yjhr.wordpress.com/tag/iran/

“Ahmadinejad called us dust, we showed him a sandstorm.” #iranelection About 14 hours ago, Twitter

Wait a minute.

Yale does SOME things right.

Didn’t it divest itself of South African stocks when Bishop Moore was on the Corporation? Didn’t it have the first African American Ph.D. (Physics, I think)?

Didn’t it give birth (albeit traumatically) to Doonesbury?

Didn’t it NOT FIRE William Sloane Coffin as Chaplain during the Civil Rights/Viet Nam era?

Give credit where credit is due.

BTW—I notice the latest Westerfeld article (about his attempted murder) has been removed from your web-edition. (At least, I am unable to locate it) Is that caution or did the debate over the definition of the term “Islamists” actually frighten you?

Paul Keane
M.Div. ’80

#13,

Could you explain why the firing of William Sloane Coffin is a correct move? Are you implying that his involvement in the anti-war & civil rights movements is morally indefensible?

# 13:

(I say this respectfully, perhaps with envy):
Maybe you’re too young to remember Yale circa 1960-75.

I was a super-REPUBLICAN conservative bastion of moneyed-alumni who abhorred Coffin’s activism, Henry Luce and William F. Buckley to name only two among many.

In fact, back then, activism was equated with communism in Republican minds. When the Kent State Students were shot in 1970 many people said they should have shot MORE of the students: And they didn’t mean just in Ohio.

It is impossible to recreate with words the polarizing hatred and fear which existed in the country during those days between activists (long-haired hippies) and what Nixon would later succesafully name and exploit as The Silent majority. A former YDN editor, Henry Luce and his magazine empire (Time/Life) didn’t help much to diminish this polarization. Quite the contrary.

The older I get the more I see how history is a kind of grotesque taxidermy.
In recherche du temps perdu becomes the futility of futilities.

Paul Keane
M.Div’ 80

The US has been making increasingly threatening noises towards Iran for the past two years. What has Iran ever done to the US? You were great friends with the Shah of Iran, helping him to build nuclear plants and indulging in his torture chambers and death squads. Iran has not invaded another country for the past three hundred years, and the US has invaded forty countries for the past forty years. You go into Vietnam for absolutely no reason and slaugtered three million Vietnamese, the residual of chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) is still disfiguring and killing infants in Vietname. Nixon and Kissinger committed genocide of a million Cambodia, making the ravaged country ripe for the killing fields. You don’t even have the decency to pronounce the word “Vietnam,” calling it “Nam” instead. That is the morality of your country and Yale is part of the cheerleading team.

The recent Obama rant against Iran saying that she has “hidden” nuclear facilites, and the chorus of the British lap dogs yapping in his wake is just one example why Iran fears the worst from western agression. Those facilities were entirely in line with international nuclear protocl and of course they have to be located at a secluded location with Isreal straining at the leash to flatten Iran. Why does the YND not report the politics and reality behind a headline such as this.