Yale Daily News

Aside from the obvious problem that this article uses outdated racist stereotypes, it's also poorly edited. People who live in El Salvador are called "Salvadorans," not "El Salvadorians." Look it up in the AP Stylebook -- if you YDN editors even have a copy.

1, 2, 3... SOLD TO YALE UNIVERSITY!!!

Hilarious. Love it. In a time when the YDN op-eds have been moody and abrasive, Yale needs some satire.

I realize the article is satire, and really it is superbly written and incredibly hilarious, but don't you think it's a bit insulting to El Salvador? Such a charged article could cause not only a rift with the El Salvadorian student population at Yale, but also could hamper relations with the country itself. Perhaps you'd be better off proposing something serious the university could do with its $5 billion windfall.

Zink, you have too much free time.

The Yale Corporation has already considered this. The proposal was voted down because the Yale Club of Langley already had plans for that piece of real estate, with neighboring parcels being occupied by its tenants.

El Salvador's population, with a median age of 22, would likely be receptive to college town life.

I agree with PP this is insulting. Although it doesn't surprise me at all that a Yale student would use El Salvador for whatever benefit, including the benefit of writing witty satire. Problem is, it kind of undermines the witty satire to be doing the thing you are satirizing. Don't you think?

Maria, from El Salvador (ie. I am a SALVADORAN)

Satire or plain arrogance by a student with an over abundance of literary creativity but zero life experience?

Your sense of humor belittles many my fine feathered friend and I a Salvadorian would have rather hoped to see you put your creative juices to writing your message without offending a developing country, whether it be El Salvador, Burma, or Ivory Coast.

Your analysis does illustrate two things: a university with a budget it may be ill spending and a student who will undoubtedly benefit from an "internationalization" campaign at Yale.

What is he insulting about El Salvador? That they are not all that wealthy? Oh the horrors!

Apart from the fact that he specifically cited the good nature of the people, the entire article is based on the premise of El Salvador being a good place.

Posters 1,8,9: Your outrage over the incorrect nomenclature is laughably petty. But the best chuckle is that "Ernesto", in jumping on the band wagon didn't quite make it all the way on: Salvadorian? Salvadoran. How could you not know!

Laughably petty? It is our NATIONALITY thank you very much. Try being called "United Statesian" by someone making a satire out of YOUR contry and then we'll talk. I thought Yale was supposed to be full of intellectually stimulating people, not columnists making pathetic attempts at being "witty" at the expense of other students' countries.

Greetings to all, I was born in El Salvador, I am Salvadorian by birth but proud to be an American citizen. I am sorry to read that one of your students can think very poorly about El Salvador to the point of suggesting to buyout the military. I was questioning the fact why he did not choose another country where we read and hear about governments and leaders killing their own people in the name of race cleansing. It is very sad!

Beware satirists, multiculturalists have no sense of humor and will use any excuse to shriek racism.

As a Salvadoran-American I find this article not very insulting, but still distasteful. I recognize my country of roots is small but I cant get completely angry at someone who at least recognizes it. He didnt insult us, but the picture about our government and militia is an inaccurate one.

Racism and stereotypes aside (and it really CANNOT be put aside), this is really just not a clever satire. There's never any unsurety about whether the author is serious, and there is not a moment where we reflect back and say, "Oh my god, I see what he means." It's all too obvious.

El Salvador? Costa Rica has much better beaches and is not yet tired of leftist Yalies tromping through every jungle path.

This is an insulting article indeed.

~A SALVADORAN

Que cosas dicen!

A Salvadoran!?

A Salvadorian!?

People from El Salvador are SALVADOREÑOS!