9. Place like Yale, rich in "traditions" & lore, is much easier to navigate if your dad & granddad went there than if your a scholarship kid
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10. Current struggles over dorm rules & Halloween make much more sense if you realize same dynamic at work of "tradition" vs minority kids
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11. Carson's tendency to embellish stories to the point of fabulation is troubling, but the human story of his struggles worth sympathy
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12. Same with current Yale students -- who many are so quick to dismiss as PC crybaby bullies. There's a human story at the core there too.
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13. Even Yale students are human beings. That's what I'm trying to say. It's a hard truth, but still true.
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14. Ivy League pranks are the kind of humor that are funnier if you're part of the culture they come from. Otherwise they can seem just mean
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15. These stories stir a personal memory. I went to University of Toronto's Trinity College, our sad attempt to imitate Oxbridge.
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16. I only actually "went" to Trinity for a few days at orientation because I found the whole Brideshead Revisited thing off-putting.
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17. For the rest of my university career didn't really participate in Trinity life. Now of course my reaction was a personal one.
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18. There are lots of other people, like the current mayor of Toronto, who took to Trinity like ducks to water. That's okay. Takes all kinds
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19. Anyways, I don't really have a political program growing out of this. I don't want Yale or Trinity to change that much.
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20. To extent I have any program it's just for people to be a bit more aware that these institutions have a very peculiar culture
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