Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Student impostor dupes Harvard, then Yale

Shaw claimed to be undergraduate in Ezra Stiles College

Staff Reporters, Staff Reporters
Published Thursday, February 13, 2003

Two days ago, the public facade Philip Shaw had built for himself as a Yale undergraduate came tumbling down. It was not the first time.

Shaw, who misled several students into thinking he was junior enrolled in Ezra Stiles College, successfully joined a Yale fraternity and the Yale Political Union, wrote four columns for the Yale Daily News, and penned an article for The Politic.

Shaw was in fact enrolled in the Special Students Program, which allows non-resident students to take Yale courses for credit. Last year, he was involved in a similar situation at Harvard...

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