YaleNailGate

Remember the letter by the Yale alumnus saying she'd helped students who were trying to get into Yale? Evidently that doesn't have any value to the university.

Also, her great good humour at enlisting those who oppose the choice of a Taliban official as a student - by sending the president red plastic press on nails has been categoried by a Yale alumnus as a "terrorist tactic". What, as opposed to the actual ripping off of fingernails or the chopping off of fingers with nail polish on them.

Edited highlights from an interesting article:

"Mr. Surovov, a Yale alumnus who has worked in its development office for three years and is on the board of the Yale Club of New Haven, wrote Mr. Taylor and Ms. Bookstaber at their private email addresses with the subject heading: "Y [sic] do you hate Yale." Here is his email in its entirety: "What is wrong with you? Are you retarded? This is the most disgraceful alumni article that I have ever read in my life. You failed to mention that you've never contributed to the Yale Alumni Fund in your life. But to suggest that others follow your negative example is disgusting." "

"Intrigued that someone had looked up his wife's giving record, David Bookstaber, a Yale computer science graduate, used Columbia's publicly accessible IT account database to trace the anonymous email. The trail led straight to Mr. Surovov's Yale office. On Thursday Mr. Taylor phoned Mr. Suvarov, who told him he was angry because the furor over the Taliban official was hurting fund raising and could lower Yale's rankings in the next U.S. News & World Report college survey. He also accused Mr. Taylor and Ms. Bookstaber of "terrorist tactics," which when challenged he amended to "terror tactics." "

Well, he can't be that stupid if he thinks Yale's Taliban student is going to effect the university's ranking and fund raising. But maybe they can sell on the plastic nails...Or rethink admissions...or get a sense of humour?