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A New Yorker's Opinion: Yale's Nightlife Class Amusing, or 'Amusing Ourselves to Death?'

Dateline Yale--$40,000 a year, two-drink minimum. Yep, the prestigious gateway to the CIA, a career as a thespian and the U.S. Presidency for Both Bush, father and son, and Clinton, now offers a course on New York nightlife. College is a fine time to party, and I support a liberal amount of irrational exuberance mixed in with cramming for grades, but somehow, in these difficult economic times, I find a college course about the history of partying a bit...disconcerting.

A New Yorker's Opinion: Yale's Nightlife Class Amusing, or 'Amusing Ourselves to Death?'

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Dateline Yale--$40,000 a year, two-drink minimum. Yep, the prestigious gateway to the CIA, a career as a thespian and the U.S. Presidency for Both Bush, father and son, and Clinton, now offers a course on New York nightlife. College is a fine time to party, and I support a liberal amount of irrational exuberance mixed in with cramming for grades, but somehow, in these difficult economic times, I find a college course about the history of partying a bit...disconcerting.
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