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Article: Passion among ivypersons. (Yale Daily News policy of egalitarianism)
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- National Review
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- April 24, 1987
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PASSION AMONG IVYPERSONS
IF ONE WERE to ask, What are the youngpeople who run the Yale Daily News majoring in? the answer would surely be, Toleration. So engrossed are they in the subject that probably they would not answer the question, What is your minor?-- because the word minor is too close to the word "minority,' and those who major in Toleration can't risk suggesting that there is anything minor about minorities.
The purpose of the endless drive towardequality ought to be a relaxed sense of security. But the seizure of equalitarianism has exactly the opposite effect. One thinks of women at Yale University, for example, as pretty well secure ...