Lifted from a progressive Yale leaflet:
"It is the country's fourth poorest city, where the ghetto laps at the walls of a university worth $11 billion in tax-exempt endowments, educating America's next generation of rulers...Students have been given special maps, and advice not to venture past the CITGO gas station, where the ghetto begins. Houses are boarded up and gas stations take cash only - payable up front - and have bullet proof glass and bars at the pay point. Yale is exempt from paying city taxes, except on commercial property it owns. But a consortium of community groups asked the university to donate a single day's interest on its invested endowment - that's $5.2 million - to the city's public schools. So far, no response...."
Fuck Yale.
Inspired simultaneously and erratically by the blog thoughts of both Stanley Lee and Ned Rorem.
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