The Value of a Yale Education

The Value of a Yale Education

19 September 2006 · No Comments

This story in today’s Hartford Courant brings a smile to my face for so many reasons….

An obscure college in Canada lacking the prestige, wealth or political clout of Yale University has one selling point it wants to share with the world:

President Bush didn’t go there.

Lakehead University featured George W. Bush in an ad last month that mocked the president’s intelligence and brought a flood of publicity to its small campus in northwestern Ontario, at the head of Lake Superior. The ad showed Bush staring solemnly from a black void. “Yale Shmale,” it proclaims. “Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart.”

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