Yale's David Swensen Gets Into Spat With Student Paper Over Endowment
- Endowment chief says decision to edit his column ‘inexcusable’
- Swensen asks editor ‘don’t you understand simple English?’
Yale's Swensen Has Spat With Student Paper Over Endowment
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David Swensen, head of Yale’s $27 billion endowment, rarely speaks publicly about the fund’s enviable track record and investments.
Now he’s found himself in an ugly spat with the student newspaper over coverage of the endowment and subsequent publication of an email exchange in which Swensen called the editor-in-chief a “coward” and asked if she understood “simple English.”