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Thursday, January 13, 2005
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YALE: IGNORANT AND HYSTERICAL, BUT CORRECT
I. Ignorant: In a Yale Daily News article about a new federal mandate that universities give lectures to their students about the Constitution on Constitution Day, the Yale reporter writes: “Constitution and Citizenship Day [marks] the anniversary of the first meeting of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.“ The 17th of September 1787 was not the first, but the last meeting of the convention, the meeting at which the Constitution was signed. II. Hysterical: The article quotes one Yale historian saying that the new mandate proves the American government is becoming the “thought police.” UD is confident that even if pressed to offer some form of instruction about the Constitution on September 17 (the staff of the newspaper, at least, could use it) Yale can come up with something amusing and subversive. It could invite a group of flag burners to demonstrate constitutionally protected speech. III. Correct: But yes, Yale is right to protest the provision, inserted into a spending bill by icky Robert Byrd. |