Thank (bleep) We Got Him ...

That's the reaction from Richard Shaw, Yale's dean of undergraduate admission, upon signing up a former Taliban spokesman to their roles. The New York Times reported that Yale "had another foreigner of [Sayed] Rahmatullah's caliber apply for special-student status ... we lost him to Harvard," and "I didn't want that to happen again." Journal columnist John Fund wrote yesterday:

Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century--the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.

Indeed. Diversity is becoming a nuisance on our college campuses. Not that it's a problem, but when you try to make a big deal of something that really never was, it becomes a problem. And now someone has to take the role of "bad guy" and deal with it ...