Prodigygate Part II: Osberg Speaks Out!

by Mike Bechek | July 10, 2008 at 11:09 am

She may not be old enough for an MFA, but she is old enough to know how to start a media storm.

On Tuesday, we brought you the story of Annabel Osberg, the 19-year-old painting star who convinced Yale to let her into their MFA program – only to kick her out a year later for having demonstrably failed to, um, age at a fast enough rate. There is clearly something else going on, but Yale isn’t commenting on the matter. (The poor public affairs people at the school apparently haven’t figured out that trying to clamp down on a hot art-student scandal is a losing strategy.)

In this exclusive interview with WTNH-TV in New Haven, Osberg’s got just five words for her former school: I’ll see you in court.

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20 Responses to “Prodigygate Part II: Osberg Speaks Out!”

  1. crunknellian Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    “hot art-student scandal”

    For a second there, I thought you were commending the rather homely Osberg’s ladybits.

  2. Y11 Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    Let’s just get rid of the art school (though Shvartz was undergrad) and save ourselves approximately 2.5 scandals per year.

  3. 18thCFox Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    re: Y11 Says:

    yeah, about that…is it possible that the MFA people decided to boot Osberg to make the program look more grown-up and “serious” after the Shvartz thing?

  4. obamasnutsalonegotmorevotesthanjackson Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    Just five words, editor? ‘I’ll see you in court’ is six.

  5. IvyLeagueGrunt Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    I say take em for all their worth. I mean its the Art school so that’s probably only $20 and a box of shoe strings, but still, its the principle of the matter. Git em!

  6. fourleague Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    1. I’ll
    2. see
    3. you
    4. in
    5. court

    ?????

  7. obamasnutsalonegotmorevotesthanjackson Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am

    @fourleague…

    1. I
    2. ‘ll = will (I + the apostrophe is a contraction of two words)
    3. see
    4. you
    5. in
    6. court

    Hope you’re not paying too much for the degree…

  8. obamasnutsalonegotmorevotesthanjackson Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    @fourleague…

    1. I
    2. ‘ll = will (the apostrophe is there to form a contraction of two words)
    3. see
    4. you
    5. in
    6. court

    Hope you’re not paying too much for the degree…

  9. hilarious Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    hahaha jokes on you because although “I will” is two words, contractions are considered one word! Hence you know contraction, i.e. becoming small, two words=>one word. I hope YOU are not paying too much for the degree.

  10. obamasnutsalonegotmorevotesthanjackson Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    @hilarious

    No.

    Although in colloquial usage, it seems a ’singular word’, it in fact contains two words. The second word doesn’t disappear with the abbreviation, but the written form contracts (shortens) what is an oral choice to speed up speaking. That’s one of the many reasons that the form is not regarded as appropriate for formal writing. It’s quite different from contraction within one word, which is I think the intuitive sense of ‘becoming small’ that you’re appealing to.

    If you’re attempting to assume superiority, you rather undermine your point with ‘jokes on you’, by the way.

  11. Princeton 10/11 Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Oh my god, this little debate is just sickening.

  12. classicist Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    According to The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, edited by James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, a contraction is: “A word produced by running two or more words together and leaving out some of the letters or sounds. For example, isn’t is a contraction of is not.” [Emphasis mine.]

  13. classicist Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Oh, and to verify my quote, please see

  14. classicist Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    http://www.answers.com/library/Grammar%20Dictionary-cid-18154

  15. P10 Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Speaking of Ivy yutes, was anyone aware that hip hopper Ryan Leslie graduated from Harvard at 19? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Leslie

  16. brrrrrrrown Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?

  17. crunknellian Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    @brrrrrrrown: where does an oxford comma even come into play?

    they are debating about whether a contraction is one word or two. (which is fucking retarded–it’s obviously ONE FUCKING WORD standing for two. would COCKBLOCK be two words because it’s a compound word? FUCKING IDIOTS.)

    so the debate is about APOSTROPHES, not COMMAS.

  18. d2010 Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    “who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?” is a line from a vampire weekend single. i am pretty sure brrrrown knows the difference between commas and apostrophes.

  19. Reactions to Annabel Osberg controversy « ~Yale Arts Library Blog~ Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 11:44 am

    [...] are also some amusing comments at Ivygate too. So far they’re more about punctuation than art, [...]

  20. brrrrrrrown Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    @d2010: respek