Expelled Art Student to Sue Yale
Never tiring of a good art school scandal, Yale University has expelled a 19-year-old graduate art student, who claims she was told she was being dismissed because she wasn't mature enough, the New Haven Register reports. Annabel Osberg, the youngest master of fine arts student at Yale by about 10 years, is planning to sue the university, accusing it of age discrimination.
Osberg was home-schooled through high school and graduated from California State University-San Bernardino at age 18. She was accepted into Yale's top-ranked graduate art school the next year, and some $52,000 in tuition later, she was dismissed. "My parents were very proud about my acceptance at Yale. Now, everything is lost," she said.
While Osberg seems to be telling her story to pretty much anyone who will listen (check IvyGate for the video; stop looking at the camera!), Yale has not commented on the accusations, obviously taking a cue from that other art school fiasco.
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Yale Age Discrimination
Age discrimination laws were enacted for a very specific purpose: to protect certain groups of employees in the work place. They apply in cases of failure to hire or discharge after many years of service when passing certain age points. For a 19-year-old college student to claim age discrimination is absurd, frivolous and deprecating to the useful purpose of these laws.
As the previous posted noted, without knowledge of all the facts, it is difficult to comment further. However, if a 19-year-old student in a graduate-level program was subsequently claimed by the university to be "immature," then the admission committee would appear to have been negligent in its evaluation. She should be refunded the tuition.
Yale Age Discrimination
Age is only one determinant of maturity. We have all seen incredibly immature chronological adults and incredibly mature chronological youngsters.
Without knowing the facts that led Yale to make this decision we should acknowledge that we are all unable to either condemn nor endorse it.
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