As for the moral vaccum created by intellectuals at Yale, that was noticed by William F. Buckley in the early 1950s, in his God And Man At Yale. And he was right, Yale produced morally bankrupt defenders of McCarthyism like William F. Buckley.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [from Peter Appelbome's column in the NYT]
>
> Then, in a decidedly less consequential matter, Yale
> hit an unwanted
> news jackpot after a blog called IvyGate reported on
> a titillating,
> if somewhat inscrutable, e-mail message sent by the
> master of Yale's
> Calhoun College to its residents.
>
> Under the subject line "Shower Stalls Are for
> Showering," he gently
> took an unidentified couple to task for repeatedly
> using the showers
> for more intimate acts than applying soap to wet
> skin.
>
> "Last night, the shower flooded and the bathroom
> could not be used
> for over 90 minutes," he wrote, raising more
> questions than he
> answered. He added, "This may be pleasurable and
> exciting for you,
> but it is a violation of community standards. Please
> stop."
>
> The tale shot up the media food chain and to the
> Internet. On one
> conservative Web site, a Yale student, Dan
> Gelernter, said the story
> reflected "the moral vacuum that has been created by
> Yale
> intellectuals," where "students seem to be left
> without even the most
> basic guidelines for proper and decent behavior."
>
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