Prefrosh aware of, not dissuaded by, Shvarts saga
As the future members of the class of 2012 descend on campus this week, they will have endless concerns — how to locate Commons, which classes to attend, where to find the most crowded Bulldog Days party. But, despite worry expressed by students and administrators throughout the week, the now-infamous art project of Aliza Shvarts ’08 is not one of them.
Outside Commons on Monday evening, many prospective students and their parents said they were aware of Shvarts’ senior art project, which has grabbed national headlines and proliferated over the Internet during the past week. But...
“I think it might actually be a good thing,” Zwerling said. “It might make people take themselves a little less seriously.”
What???
We who work hard, produce goods and services, contribute to our communities and charities, and hire employees, look upon the endless nonsense at Yale with resignation and bemusement. A Yale degree once meant something special, however for a long time - and moreso now - it is an embarrassment. You have again cheapened the diploma.
I'm so glad to see that these high schoolers have more sense than most Yalies/alumni/the public at large. Maybe we're not doomed, after all.
I guess it's because they haven't learned that expressing tons of exaggerated "I'm so horrified!" outrage at little things that have nothing to do with us and we know little about is what passes for morality in this day and age -- social conscience for the 21st century.
Here's hoping the class of 2012 never falls into that "wonderful" Yale culture in which there's nothing "cooler" than being appalled by something different (Fulmer sucks! Racist cartoons! Sexist fratboys!) every day of the week while mostly ignoring the community's real problems.
of course, yale students and alums do not themselves pay taxes, work hard, produce goods, contribute to charities, or hire employees. we are also not real. thanks for your insights on this complicated topic.
Let's hope Aliza didn't scare the bejesus out of the little bullpuppies, or ... horrors !! THE YIELD RATE MIGHT FALL!!
Just shut up until you gain a coherent grasp of logic and reality. Please.
Many Yalies "produce goods and services", "contribute to our communities and charities", and "hire employees". That one art major is a little crazy says nothing about the group as a whole.
If any of the visiting bullpups are reading, here's a note to them. Wherever you go to college, you will be challenged by alot of stuff - whether it's an oddly stratified social scene, or a drug or alcohol culture, or a parade of people who want to over-politicize everything (and I mean everything). Your job will be to find a a few genuine mentors and some excellent friends, and with them to spend four years deciding how to separate the important from the trivial - & in the process figuring out your own integrity, with humility and joy. Yale will be a great place to do that.
I just hope no members of the class of 2012 are inspired by Señorita Shvarts.