RagTime September 12, 2007: The Sixth Anniversary of That Day When School Was Cancelled
Brown: New $15 million Campus Center to be "inviting." Too bad it looks like a cold, corporate, office building- Cornell: Lots of campus relocations, lots of complaints
- Harvard: Harvard's endowment chief from stepping down for "family reasons"
- Penn: OMG! Ben Kweller is coming to campus!
UPDATE 10:22 a.m.: Oh, and Columbia: [Silence]
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September 12th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Did you actually read the Herald article? That photo is of an existing building that will house administrative offices and the mail room. The campus center will be in Faunce House, which is across the street.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:29 am
FFS, lame title.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Kagan, spoken like a true little Eichmann.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
the ydn article from the day before clearly elucidated the students’ complaints with their former dean: he’s conservative, so therefore he must be divisive. i suppose that that is true only in the sense that his political beliefs are different from those espoused by the majority of yale students. would a liberal speaker have been acceptable? somehow, methinks that that would have flown without complaints from anyone at yale.
September 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
There was this one time when Donald Kagan was present at a dinner where the #3 guy in the Pentagon was invited to speak about the situation in Iraq. Along with Kagan, Profs John Gaddis and Paul Kennedy were in attendance. The dinner is already coming to an end, when Kennedy suddenly says:
- Um, Prof. Kagan, you’ve really been keeping quiet today. Wouldn’t you like to add something?
- No, no, Paul. Don’t want to say anything, I better keep silent. My opinions are too radical.
- No, Prof. Kagan, please.
- Well, if you insist…
And Kagan goes on a five minute monologue about how the current administration is basically a bunch of incompetent idiots that completely bungled Iraq. What is the Pentagon guy to do? He just sits there looking a bit shell-shocked and keeps nodding silently throughout Kagan’s diatribe.
That was awesome.
But choosing Kagan as a speaker for an event connected to 9/11 - not wise.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:23 am
jale - Kagan spoke about something irrelevant to the attacks, Osama, memory of the victims, etc, etc. Iraq has nothing to do with all that unless you believe the conspiracy theories, in which case it is even more inappropriate. It’s a memorial for 9/11 victims, few of whom would have supported the Iraq war. It is not a memorial for soldiers who died in Iraq, and not a Patriot Day rally, as Kagan would have us believe.