I have a Hong Kong visa in my traveling passport. I set my debit card so it could be used in Hong Kong. I had a uber-prestigious corporate paid internship in Hong Kong. And then one person at Yale decided I couldn’t go. I will vent extensively later, when I have all the complete information.
And so I needed something to do in Russia over the summer. I showed up at a local TV station and told them they want me to be their intern. The magic of Yale University helped. Now I write news for the local radios, write texts for the evening news, and make completely my own features shown on the evening news at the local (but large) TV station. Oh, and I am an anchor - just occasionally. So much for wanting a corporate internship.
PS: I am also writing for a local newspaper. Apparently, not all of us Yalies go on the cool internship in exotic locales (who would have thought, right?)
Guess where I will be on April 22? At the Undergraduate Senior Art Show, probably amongst many other students - trying to find my way to Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project. Because what can be more attractive than videos of an undergrad undergoing miscarriages?
Not really; I just want to see her exhibit for myself.
According to Jonathan Schell, an author and an intellectual, who is my professor in a seminar on non-violence (how very relevant!), “Watch presidential candidates being asked questions about this.” And, according to my classmate in that class, “Too bad Huckabee dropped out, he would have made a couple of interesting comments.” Another added, “How will she apply for a job?” Another one wanted to know who was filming her videos (”Would you mind holding a camera while I am having a self-induced abortion in my bathtub?”). Another one was curious as to how she got men to be her inseminators (”Um, so I am working on this senior project…would you mind providing me with some sperm?”)
According to Yale, Shvarts did not have any pregnancies/miscarriages/sperm donors - it was all a made-up story.
According to Shvarts, who wrote a guest column for today’s issue Yale Daily News, it is all true.
Go figure.
Yale’s message boards are full of anti-abortion posters; a Facebook ad invites the Yale community to attend a candlelight vigil to honor abortion victims.
I am pro-choice, so I believe she had a right to do that to herself; at the same time, I feel overwhelmed that someone would be so ruthless (if her story is indeed true) to their body.
What do you think?
