Yale Daily News

The project of Jamie McSpadden ’08 is fantastic. Anyone who read about or recalls the angst and controversy relating to attempts to name streets after Marlene Dietrich particularly the powerful and ultimately successful resistance in Berlin-Schöneberg, followed by the actual siting of the named streets, will understand instantly the richness of this topic. Anyone trying to read the naming will immediately be led to the very center of issues intertwined deeply -- and emotions right on the surface -- in the troubled waters of German History and tortuous path of the German Conscious or Unconsciousness. What a brilliant topic!

KT

Yale Daily News -- given the tenor of the "debate" about the place of Yale athletes, perhaps it would be nice if you, YDN showed some balance on this issue also. You, YDN, have an entire section devoted to "Sports." You cover the trials, successes and failures of various Yale sports -- whether or not they are "competitive" etc.

Yet here, where the story is "world class" scholars and their scholarship you cannot seem to manage picture of even a majority of the recipients, you cannot spare even 20 paragraphs, you cannot at least describe each of the 11 recipients and their proposals, you cannot, incredibly even seem to fix the number accepting firmly: "At least 11 Yale seniors accepted Fulbright Scholarships this year..." "At least?" I know that you are the journalists, YDN, but pray permit me the liberty of one direct question about the topic of your article: "How many accepted?"

From the looks of the meager bits you have doled out, these Fulbright scholars, or at least the few you apparently interviewed, sound truly accomplished. It's hard to believe the other recipients can't handle an interview -- I assume (but do not know for sure as the article never speaks to the issue) that these candidates were interviewed for the Fulbright. You took the photo of Mr. Gummess, yet you did not interview him? And you talked to Hallett, Huang and McSpadden, but did not take their photos? All told you appear to have talked to only 5 of the "at least" 11. So another question, a request really -- could you do a little more coverage?

And, I would note for the record (since you, YDN, chose not to, the much much larger size of the Michigan student population when compared to Yale.

The recipients in the your photograph look Amish.