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Friday, October 12, 2007

Mysteries of
Ivy League
Admissions
Committees














From the New York Post:


'...[Josh] Drimmer [above,
walking naked in Times Square]
is a playwright
and Yale alum from Greenpoint,
Brooklyn. In 2003, he earned
a byline in the Daily News
covering a funeral story.

"He was a strange guy," said
a man who lived in Drimmer's
Yale dorm during freshman year.
"He would do weird things.
He would eat scraps of food
people left around for a
couple of hours." ...

The strip show ended when
the police showed up.

"You got ID on you?" one
cop asked Drimmer.

Someone brought over a pile
of Drimmer's clothes - which
included plaid boxers, a blue
polo shirt, and brown ankle-high
boots - but he refused to put them on.

Drimmer was taken to Bellevue Hospital
for evaluation, police said.

"I have no knowledge" of why this
happened, his father said from his
Chicago home.'