If he had chosen another target in the mobile-mad city state, he might have got off the hook.
The school student paper, Yale Daily News, also raised the perceived lack of academic freedom in Singapore schools to argue against Yale’s expansion in the prosperous city state.
Emma: Yes.. It is a city state. But Singapore is a huge city with diverse cultural attractions and amazing sights for travelers.
The city state streams pupils rigorously and is unashamedly elitist: one school claims to send more students to Ivy League universities than any other secondary school in the world.
In the past few years, the base has grown into a sizeable town, sustaining itself behind its 20km (13-mile) fortified perimeter like a city state of old.
It bought three Sime Darby properties in the city state: two malls and a car showroom.
It was built by the grandest Sun King, of the grandest city state, of the grandest civilization of the Americas, the Mayas.
