Don’t Do it Harvard
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Anonymous
NP, but I would expect that he/she would advocate for some of the leading Catholic schools that have remained respectful of different viewpoints, like Notre Dame, Boston College, Marquette, Providence, to name a few. Georgetown unfortunately is on its way to becoming another Columbia or Harvard in terms of left leaning ideology. |
Anonymous
Isn’t the racial discrimination in admissions well documented? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard |
Anonymous
Nonsense. All of this is nothing more than a smokescreen for Trump and billionaires to launder money through Harvard to Israel. I'm glad that you consider the Harvard Crimson to be a credible source because I'm not in the mood for you to handwave the evidence in support of my assertion. Let's kick off with today's edition of the Crimson: Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School on Monday in a dramatic expansion of the University’s academic and institutional ties to Israel. The Office of International Education added BGU to its roster of approved-term time study abroad partners earlier this month. The program will begin in spring 2026 and offer Harvard College students credit-bearing opportunities for spring, full-year, or summer study in Israel. The Medical School fellowship — funded by the Blavatanik Family Foundation and the Dorot Foundation and backed by the Kalaniyot Foundation, which has a chapter at HMS — will support Israeli researchers in conducting two to three years of basic biomedical research at HMS or one of its affiliated hospitals in Boston. . . . The announcements were also made just weeks after Harvard reopened negotiations with the Trump administration, which has withheld nearly $3 billion in federal funding since April amid ongoing concerns of campus antisemitism. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/29/harvard-israeli-university-partnerships/. This comes on the heels of the creation of another funnel of money to Israel: Among the other proposals surfaced in the memo is a recommendation to launch a “Legacy of Antisemitism” initiative — a project that appears to draw inspiration from Harvard's embattled $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, which drew criticism after researchers alleged they were instructed to slow their work and avoid overly ambitious findings. The memo offers no detail about what the proposed antisemitism initiative would involve. But another document released on Monday — an undated 10-page report authored by an unidentified individual or group whose relationship to the Trump administration remains unclear — provides a more detailed vision. It called for the creation of a Center for Antisemitism Research, led by a director jointly appointed by Harvard and religious leaders at Harvard Chabad and Hillel. The center would be tasked with investigating the historical roots of antisemitism at Harvard and analyzing declining Jewish student enrollment. Beyond the initiative, the report leveled wide-ranging accusations of “antisemitism and anti-Americanism” against the University and includes a laundry list of proposed reforms. It urged Harvard to suspend student government operations for five years, sever ties with Palestinian institutions including Dar-al-Kalima University as well as Birzeit, and establish a conservative academic center modeled after the nonpartisan Hoover Institution at Stanford University." https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/23/harvard-trump-memo/. Wait, the Legacy of Slavery Initiative? That sounds familiar. One month after identifying 100 living descendants of black slaves owned by Harvard, the university abruptly ended that program in January within one week of settling an antisemitism lawsuit. What the hell does the American slavery have to do with antisemitism? Well, as always, it's clear that one penny spent on anything that even remotely benefits a black person is too damn much for some people. Anyhoo, with all that money Harvard wasn't spending on the Slavery Initiative, did the university do anything with it? Of course they did! The Harvard Management Company reinvested $150 million in Booking Holdings Inc., a company under fire for its operation in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, according to the HMC’s 2024 third quarter filings. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/28/HMC-reinvests-booking-holdings/. Yeppers! That happened! So, to recap, on January 21st, the Crimson reported that the university settled an antisemitism lawsuit. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/21/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits/#:~:text=Updated%20January%2021%2C%202025%20at%2010%3A05%20p.m.&text=Per%20the%20settlements%2C%20Harvard%20will,Remembrance%20Association%20definition%20of%20antisemitism. The next week, on the same day that Harvard reinvested in Israeli companies, the university effectively shuttered the Slavery Initiative. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/28/hsrp-december-report-descendants/; https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/12/antigua-garber-message/. And now, Harvard promises to bring back a program identical to the Slavery Initiative, but not for those pesky blacks. And you call this progress? Of course you do. And you want me to believe this is about discrimination? You're right. It is, but you're dead wrong about the people who are being discriminated. Follow the money. That's the real reason every single critic of Claudine Gay wanted her gone. |
Anonymous
Don’t fall for her stupid gimmicks. She’ll keep asking the same questions again and again no matter how many times you’ve answered. Then she’ll say l, see you don’t have any documentation? |
Anonymous
I’m a guy, and I acknowledged the Supreme Court case referenced in the Wikipedia article. That was two years ago, so I’m asking about racial discrimination since that case. |
Anonymous
We’ll see. It takes a while to build a case but admissions is certainly being watched. Some groups allege that the encouragement to discuss one’s racial experience in essays simply replaces what was there before. Time will tell. |
Anonymous
Harvard hasn’t been punished for that discrimination finding. So it’s like committing crime with zero consequences. If I don’t get caught, I’ll keep doing the crimes. If I do get caught, I’ll just say oops but nothing else happens. |
Anonymous
My South Asian relatives are still pretty steamed. But, I’ll tell them to relax, that was all of 24 months ago. |
Anonymous
It's exhausting to fight this gigantic bully armed with the immense power of the U.S. government, and unafraid to use that power to punish his enemies, in fact anyone or anything that's insulted his teensy hands and weenee peenees or even bumped into his hyper-fragile ego. Harvard has to go on as an institution. Yes, it has the means to fight, but a four-year fight with this monster will involve enormous energy and cost to the university, which depends on federal funding for much of its research. It kills me to see this happening, but the will to fight is not there in our country. All the institutions are rolling over and letting the bully rape them with no consequences whatsoever. It's hard to digest. I didn't live through Nazi Germany, but I'm starting to feel I know what it was like back then in the early 1930s. The evil seeps in and takes over. Only a brave few stand up and fight, and most of them get killed. Where is hope now? The US was a shining beacon, and now it's filthy and corrupt. I dread the future. RIP Harvard that I knew. |
Anonymous
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Mon shake down Harvard is ridiculous to pay this
Columbia too |
Anonymous
| Omg more money from Trump no money going to paying the National debt |
Anonymous
It was indeed exhausting to read your post, for sure. 
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Anonymous
| Ivy League is cooked. Universities are an obsolete institution. Donors can directly build their own institution now. Super successful people bypass college. MAGA hates Harvard and everyone else hates people who work with Trump. Donations will collapse and never recover. |
Anonymous
You mean that 18 Nobel Laureates in medicine, among others, produced Harvard. |
Anonymous
However you wish to look at it. Talent attracts talent. |