Yale Taliban May Be on His Way Out

Some time ago I posted on the former Taliban spokesman who was admitted as a student to Yale. John Fund has been following up on the story, and his latest update makes it look like the Taliban's Yalie days are soon to be over:

Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi's luck is running out. Eight weeks ago the Taliban diplomat turned special Yale student made a media splash on the cover of the New York Times magazine in which he proclaimed: "In some ways I'm the luckiest person in the world, I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."

But the continued outrage over the news that an unrepentant former official of a criminal regime whose remnants are still killing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan is part of the Ivy League is catching up with him. Yale is about to establish tougher standards for the program under which he is applying to become a degree-status sophomore next fall, and the consensus is that Mr. Hashemi won't measure up.

Not all the news is good for Yale, though. As Fund reports later in his article the university is considering the notoriously anti-Israel professor, Juan Cole. Some universities just never learn.