Assume the Position: Yale Political Union
Initiation Insanity at Yale
Noah Mamis ’08 was in a corner — literally and figuratively.
His inquisitors demanded that he name the three most influential philosophers in his life. He replied: “Zeno, Epicurus and Thomas Varnes,” the third being his high school Latin teacher.
The Party of the Right was dissatisfied. Under pressure from his interlocutors, Mamis improvised by changing his third choice to Descartes.
“If they had actually started asking me questions about Descartes, they would have fucked me over,” said Mamis. “Luckily they let me off the hook.”
Mamis, a member of the...
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