All right, we get it

This is a pretty stupid story, but there are a few paragraphs which caught my attention.

Essentially, Yale University finally broke down and will now provide soap in their dormitories.
Excellent. There is no real indication of why soap was never provided, but my hunch is that Yale wanted its students to live without some of the things that they take for granted. Same reason there are no minorities. You have to bring your own from home. Or purchase them at a CVS.

Being that it was an article about Yale, I was not surprised to find the requisite flagellating, which is noted in these lines:

"Victory at last!" Ted Wittenstein, a 2004 graduate who went on to analyze weapons of mass destruction intelligence for Congress, wrote in an e-mail to his friend, Andrew Klaber.

"We both knew that Yale would eventually come around!" Klaber, who is studying at Oxford, replied...

..."At the time, it was a complete head-scratcher. It seemed completely obvious," said James Ponsoldt, a 2001 graduate and soap proponent who spoke this week from the Sundance Film Festival, where a movie he directed premiered. "It's pretty gross to not have soap in the bathrooms."

All right, we get it. Smart students. Pretty good school. A few lines later the author noted that President Bush was an alumnus, but neglected to mention that the soap was banned from Yale because Bush tried to snort it. Ba dum bum.