Blind Itemz: Did Al Franken Get His Son Rejected From Harvard?

by Max Wasserman | June 16, 2009 at 3:57 pm

al_frankenIn a Daily Beast blog post, students, parents, and admissions officers share their advice for prospective students and parents regarding college visits. (Tour guides are not typical students? ZOMG!) But included among the "no duh" suggestions and Cornell student bitching is a juicy piece of Ivy League gossip. This less than subtle quote from an anonymous alum is listed as an example as why prospective students should "ditch their folks" on the tour:

“[There was] the tour of a certain Ivy League campus wherein a certain B-rate comedian turned almost-senator (and alumnus of said institution) huffed, sighed, squatted, and wisecracked his way through said tour—to his son’s chagrin, and everyone else’s disgust.” — a 2007 Yale alumnus

It's clear from the amount of information provided that this nameless Eli can neither provide a proper blind item nor accept the fact that Norm Coleman lost the Minnesota Senate election. However, this tidbit does produce some questions. Al Franken is a Harvard alum. His son Joe--seen here being embarrassed by his father back in 1999--attended Princeton and, just like anonymous Eli, graduated in '07. [Gasp!] DID HAVARD REJECT JOE FRANKEN CUZ HIS DAD IS LAME!? How could they do such a thing? The 1990s were his decade!

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