Comments on: Student defrauds Yale, fakes identity, forges transcripts, is probably inking deal for made-for-tv movie as we speak

By: WhoMissedThisGuy

WhoMissedThisGuy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:53:52 +0000

I’m surprised no one has heard that the recently outed president of the Columbia GS student council, Niko Cunningham, fraudulently claims Yale alum status. It’s up on his Facebook profile for all to see.

By: @Y11

@Y11 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:24:39 +0000

why don’t you run along and go do some homework now?

By: EvilYalie @ Correction

EvilYalie @ Correction — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:59:10 +0000

Too true. That and having to maintain an air of superiority when there is no evidence that Harvard is even worthy of sucking Yale’s proverbial dick (or even P-ton’s for that matter).

By: Correction

Correction — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:16:57 +0000

Attending Harvard is the worst punishment Harvard offers.

By: Chas

Chas — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:10:52 +0000

Back in the sixties I heard that three or so Harvardians had once been expelled…actually, expunged…after financing a Harvard education for the dog of one of them. The dog apparently took classes the roommates had taken the previous year, and the roommates took turns taking the dog’s exams. I think they got away with it for a couple of years. Expungement, quite rare at Harvard and is the worst punishment the institution offers.

By: @@jackson5

@@jackson5 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:18:47 +0000

Agreed. His name is news. What really confirmed it for me was when I facebooked him and saw that we had friends in common. Don’t the people who *knew* him at Yale deserve to know what’s up? Given that he sounds like a very unstable, deceptive person, I wonder what other interpersonal messes he got himself into.

By: @jackson5

@jackson5 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:01:56 +0000

it’s news. his name is news. the details are news. when you commit a crime and are arrested, your name is public. journalism tends to revolve around publishing concrete facts, not vague skeletons of stories.

By: miraculous

miraculous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:23:53 +0000

Akash Maharaj, English Major
I’ve wanted to visit Ghana ever since I read Ayi Kewi Armah’s “The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.” In that wonderful novel Ghana is rendered the perfect symbol of the post-colonial state – ceaseless revolutions, the insidiousness of capitalism, the alienation of the individual and at the end, the faint promise, the ignis fatuus of something better. I was so moved by the novel that I always wanted to visit Ghana and my interest increased after learning about this course and being very much interested in the experience of the Middle Passage. To me, African American history IS American History and while I’ve had the pleasure of pursuing this interest in Literature and History courses, I fear that my experience has been largely abstract. There is something visceral, and far more emotional, about this kind of tragic history. A response that you cannot get from just sitting in a classroom analyzing and interpreting, but rather through experience. So I wanted to go to Ghana to add that missing element to my undergraduate career – to add the visceral to the abstract, to allow for a real emotional response that cannot be easily contained, dissected or explained. There’s an element of the miraculous at the end of Armah’s novel that cannot be understood in any literary or academic sense, and I would like to experience that myself.

By: jacksonfive

jacksonfive — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:20:42 +0000

I disagree. There’s absolutely nothing relevant about publishing his name even if it’s public record. Let the courts deal with him. And he’s not even convicted yet. You don’t really feel threatened, do you?

By: bahaha

bahaha — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:16:54 +0000

he also told the spec that he had originally attended yale, then transferred to columbia, then applied to transfer back to yale.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/20656

also: he’s been mentioned in ivygate comments before. as the ex boyfriend of bonesman victor cazares.