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What I don't understand is the late announcement by the General Counsel that Casino Night is not allowed. This event is held annually. Why did this decision have to arrive two days before an event when Casino Night is always held in the fall? It just seems unfair to these colleges.

I'm sorry, am I missing something here? Gambling laws are enacted to prohibit gambling.

Casino nights generally do not involve gambling, everything's either fake or for charity.

The state has no right to tell anyone what card games they can or cannot play, it would be the same as telling a 5-year-old they're not allowed to play Go Fish. Yale or its students should take this one to the Supreme Court.

Casino cancellation is fine by me! Life is too damn soft at the Boola Boola Country Club anyway. By scaling down the hedonism at Yale, it will help you get real about the rougher world that awaits you upon graduation: fewer cushy Wall Street jobs, fewer six figure salaries to pay off those $80,000 tuition debts. As you know, your splended Yale experience (with its lifetime of fond memories) leaves most of you - the less affluent - pretty much indentured to the same sharpies who corrupted Wall Street and destroyed the world's financial system. Now its time to put the world back together again, if it's not too late to do so.

Yale seems morally corrupt from the articles coming from Yale news: drunk date rape, casinos, abortion as art...
Does the school care about the image they present to the world ?

Dear Alum 1966:

Cheer up.

I'm no less sickened by Yale grads making a mess of the world than you are, from Vietnam to Wall St. And I appreciate your visceral disgust at all the injustices in the world.

But, Casino Night has absolutely nothing to do with that. (In fact, it's now called "Elite," so pick your poison.) No one is going to "get real." It's called college, and having a dance party isn't a sin.

You sound like an acquaintence back home who argued that no one should do anything fun, or let loose in anyway, until every one had enough to eat. It's a great sentiment, but it would be a pretty depressing world (yes, even more than this one.)

And, since you left here, Yale actually foots much of the tuition, so very few people leave with the debt you're talking about.

But, as we put the world back together, I hope you'll be there with us.

Stay out of our lives, Hartford.

Alum '66, what's your point? If we live like puritans at least we'll be ready for the "rougher world that awaits us?" We are in no way "indentured" to the corporate world. Why don't you get real about what life at Yale is actually like. We're not all future ibankers on financial aid. The world is open to us.

As the old saying goes, if we're too loud, you're too old. Now please go decompose somewhere else. you're spoiling our hedonism

I think that is just an absolute joke and a sign that CT officials have too much time on their hands--students gambling with fake monopoly money at an event that is university sanctioned, has a carding policy stricter then Toad's (only Yale IDs, which have your actual birthdate, are accepted, not some random state ID that you bought near Times Square), is supervised both by lots of Yale cops, and is attended by the masters of both colleges, clearly demonstrates a major threat to public safety.

Give me a freaking break. What's next--suing monopoly game players for conducting real estate transactions without a license?

If this is the conclusion made by the General Counsel, I think Yale needs a new one. One who actually knows the law.

#5 Spherical, thanks & I will be there with you.

#7 goldie, have fun & I would not wish the lifestyle of Puritans on anyone. But is it not true that many grads leave Yale with huge tuition loans to pay off?

families making under $200,000 pay on a sliding scale, approximately 5-10%

families making less than $60,000/year pay absolutely nothing

no Yale student is ever required to get a loan through the new financial aid policy, which is extremely generous, as are the student jobs, which pay minimum of $10.50/hour

so no, huge loans are not really happening now

80,000 tuition debts? Most students will have about $150k in debts. Should have gone to a public school.

I would have to disagree with those saying that people aren't leaving with huge loans. I recently graduated with $57,000 of debt. I got no financial aid from Yale because my parents own our house. My dad agreed to pay for half of my tuition/room and board. The only reason that I got out with $57,000 was that I paid off some before I graduated. Otherwise, it would have been over $60K...and yes, I'm stuck on Wall Street trying to pay down my loans.

Reply to Spherical Cow: Tell your acquaintence back home that you cannot make yourself poor enough to help other poor people in the world. You cannot go without food enough to help hungry people in the world. And you cannot avoid fun enough to help other people's misery. Only by fulfilling your maximum potential can you achieve positive change on whatever level.

Just put the damn loans on a 30 year repayment plan and deal with them as they come due. You're missing the real point here: a great party tradition at Yale is being squashed by an inane state law that shouldn't be applied to an event with FAKE MONEY. Who is advising the General Counsel? And who is going to enforce this law??