NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 4 (UPI) — Yale University is feeling increased pressure over the presence on campus of a student with a Taliban past.

The student, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, 27, identified by The New York Times as a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, has been taking non-degree courses at Yale since the summer. He has applied for admission to a degree-granting program.

Yale has been the subject of intense debate in publications and on TV and Web sites, including criticism by some families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Some students and professors, however, support his presence as mutually beneficial.

Now, Yale must decide on the question of admitting him to a degree-granting program and the debate rages anew.
upi.com

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