Second thoughts about Harvard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not a safe or tolerant environment for Jewish students.

Are you Jewish? Do you know any Jews currently at Harvard? Or are you just repeating the ignorant garbage Fox News tells you?

I'm a Jew. I know a lot of Jewish Harvard alums, as well as several Jews currently there. They are doing perfectly fine. They wish Trump would stay out of it. Perhaps he could help the Jews who were attacked in Colorado if he cared so much about us? But that doesn't make as good headlines for the ignorant lemmings who follow up and believe everything Fox News tells them.

The dumbing down of this country as the idiot class genuflects in front of Trump is truly frightening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and I have started giving to Harvard again.

From the perspective of an outside, unconnected person, this seems like a time when Harvard can actually show the leadership that its brand automatically connotes. I'm more used to hearing things about Harvard that are negatives. Like Larry Summers mouthing off about women.

I like to see institutions prove their value and not coast on wealth and history.

Every major institution in American life can be criticized for racism, sexism, political missteps, etc. But retrospectively, one can tell that there are moments in history where institutions truly lead.

I believe t5his is such a moment for Harvard.

I wouldn't care if it looks messy on the ground. Even if I were a student and had to live through the messiness.

Larry Summers was at MIT before Harvard and a bunch of us at MIT called very loudly for his removal for his women-are-lesser comments and he was removed!

That’s not what he said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone actually enjoys going to Harvard undergrad these days. They go for the brand and the network.

How would you know? And religion doesn’t belong in education. The Northeast is not the Deep South.

The great seats of learning were started by the church.

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Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and I have started giving to Harvard again.

From the perspective of an outside, unconnected person, this seems like a time when Harvard can actually show the leadership that its brand automatically connotes. I'm more used to hearing things about Harvard that are negatives. Like Larry Summers mouthing off about women.

I like to see institutions prove their value and not coast on wealth and history.

Every major institution in American life can be criticized for racism, sexism, political missteps, etc. But retrospectively, one can tell that there are moments in history where institutions truly lead.

I believe t5his is such a moment for Harvard.

I wouldn't care if it looks messy on the ground. Even if I were a student and had to live through the messiness.

Larry Summers was at MIT before Harvard and a bunch of us at MIT called very loudly for his removal for his women-are-lesser comments and he was removed!

That’s not what he said.

He had a LOT of negative things to say about women for not being an expert on women and he most definitely said that underrepresentation may be due to having less of an innate ability in math and science.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jan/18/educationsgendergap.genderissues

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard is more attractive now.

Yup. Knowing that MAGA people won't go near it makes it much more appealing. Good riddance.

Amen, sister

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and I have started giving to Harvard again.

From the perspective of an outside, unconnected person, this seems like a time when Harvard can actually show the leadership that its brand automatically connotes. I'm more used to hearing things about Harvard that are negatives. Like Larry Summers mouthing off about women.

I like to see institutions prove their value and not coast on wealth and history.

Every major institution in American life can be criticized for racism, sexism, political missteps, etc. But retrospectively, one can tell that there are moments in history where institutions truly lead.

I believe t5his is such a moment for Harvard.

I wouldn't care if it looks messy on the ground. Even if I were a student and had to live through the messiness.

Larry Summers was at MIT before Harvard and a bunch of us at MIT called very loudly for his removal for his women-are-lesser comments and he was removed!

That’s not what he said.

I concur. Summers expressed an unpopular opinion regarding biological differences between people when considered as classes. Moreover, the degree of overlap of these classes was not specified, which suggests that individuals can place anywhere along a wide spectrum. For scientific and social reasons, his comments may have been unsupported by evidence or, simply, inappropriate. In either case, people can choose to evaluate such comments with an intellectual, rather than a reflexive, response.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is not a safe or tolerant environment for Jewish students.

Are you Jewish? Do you know any Jews currently at Harvard? Or are you just repeating the ignorant garbage Fox News tells you?

I'm a Jew. I know a lot of Jewish Harvard alums, as well as several Jews currently there. They are doing perfectly fine. They wish Trump would stay out of it. Perhaps he could help the Jews who were attacked in Colorado if he cared so much about us? But that doesn't make as good headlines for the ignorant lemmings who follow up and believe everything Fox News tells them.

The dumbing down of this country as the idiot class genuflects in front of Trump is truly frightening.

Thank you! My kid is at Harvard and has many Jewish friends, including significant other and roomie. Kids in their friend group too. All doing perfectly fine and have been — I have been worried about how they were doing and texted asking after them several times since Oct 7.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is not a safe or tolerant environment for Jewish students.

Are you Jewish? Do you know any Jews currently at Harvard? Or are you just repeating the ignorant garbage Fox News tells you?

I'm a Jew. I know a lot of Jewish Harvard alums, as well as several Jews currently there. They are doing perfectly fine. They wish Trump would stay out of it. Perhaps he could help the Jews who were attacked in Colorado if he cared so much about us? But that doesn't make as good headlines for the ignorant lemmings who follow up and believe everything Fox News tells them.

The dumbing down of this country as the idiot class genuflects in front of Trump is truly frightening.

Thank you! My kid is at Harvard and has many Jewish friends, including significant other and roomie. Kids in their friend group too. All doing perfectly fine and have been — I have been worried about how they were doing and texted asking after them several times since Oct 7.

Fox News says that Jews are being treated badly there so all of the lemmings believe it is true and something they should worry about. I wish Fox News would tell them all to take a one way trip to El Salvador or North Korea and stop ruining our country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and I have started giving to Harvard again.

From the perspective of an outside, unconnected person, this seems like a time when Harvard can actually show the leadership that its brand automatically connotes. I'm more used to hearing things about Harvard that are negatives. Like Larry Summers mouthing off about women.

I like to see institutions prove their value and not coast on wealth and history.

Every major institution in American life can be criticized for racism, sexism, political missteps, etc. But retrospectively, one can tell that there are moments in history where institutions truly lead.

I believe t5his is such a moment for Harvard.

I wouldn't care if it looks messy on the ground. Even if I were a student and had to live through the messiness.

Larry Summers was at MIT before Harvard and a bunch of us at MIT called very loudly for his removal for his women-are-lesser comments and he was removed!

That’s not what he said.

I concur. Summers expressed an unpopular opinion regarding biological differences between people when considered as classes. Moreover, the degree of overlap of these classes was not specified, which suggests that individuals can place anywhere along a wide spectrum. For scientific and social reasons, his comments may have been unsupported by evidence or, simply, inappropriate. In either case, people can choose to evaluate such comments with an intellectual, rather than a reflexive, response.

Women know what he meant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone getting cold feet?

I know one kid who got in and has a trumper parent. If DC is the same, they might want to rethink going to Harvard. If DC is okay with Harvard fighting back against this nonsense then go.

Why would you think a Trumper's kid wouldn't enjoy Harvard?

Seriously. Kids craft their own schedules, clubs, alumni connections, etc. They find people who are like themselves to hang with. I'm sure there are still plenty of DeSantis types to hang out with. And faculty do teach facts, even at "woke" places.

It's possible to go to college and not care if your professors have different views than you. Likewise, performative outdoor protests don't really actually prevent most people from enjoying college. The exception is if the protests result in people physically fighting or yelling racial slurs. But just making a messy campground in front of a library is no big deal for the enjoyment of the typical student.

Oldheads and MAGAs are always focusing on the wrong thing instead of what is really important. Think about your college years. How high would you rate "quiet and order in front of university buildings" as a priority.

Mature people just "go around" if they don't want to interact.

What people don't enjoy is becoming part of an ugly MAGA-inspired controversy that kneecaps the institutions they want to study at. That can be bipartisan.

Yeah, MAGAs aren’t openminded & inclusive like the people who spit on Jews & needed coloring books to cope with Trump getting elected.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a no for me, dawg.

I will not abide by terrorists knocking on a library door. And I will certainly not abide by those terrorists having the audacity to assemble and exercise free speech to criticize genocidal policies and actions when the target of those criticisms is a foreign nation 5 - 6 thousand miles away!

Enough is enough with these documented actions meant to annihilate my child!

Loud noises and protesting genocide - the 21st century’s sticks & stones …

The protests at harvard are not unique.

They are everywhere.

Anti-zionism is just how anti-semites repackage antisemitism to underinformed people.

What gets me is that the same people who want a nuanced separation of anti-zionism and anti-semitism cannot apply the same sort of nuance to separate anti-affirmative action and racism and anti-URM.

They are literally flying the colors of Hamas and claiming they are just opposed to some alleged genocide while acting like the anti-affirmative action crowd are walking around in white hoods.

Or … Zionism has been revealed to be a diseased, repugnant, hateful and racist movement that was packaged to convince uninformed and under-informed people that “it only stands for the establishment of a Jewish homeland where Jews can be safe”.

You’re never going to get that horse back in the barn, brother. Never.

Spoken like a true supporter of Hamas!

+1 So much antisemitism on this board.

And yet somehow not quite as much as the genocide denial and cheering on of a new holocaust by Zionists!

This all ends tomorrow if Hamas unconditionally surrenders.

This is not a genocide or a Holocaust.
The Jews could not surrender to the Nazis. Hamas can surrender today.

How do you even muster the energy to tap away at your device with such drivel?

You know, of course, that continuing to play games with this des exigenes impossibles horseshit is a joke, right?

Holding a gun to the heads of millions of innocent men, women, and children and demanding that they stop a madman from being a madman just validates the belief of reasonable people that YOU are, in fact, the root of the actual problem.

Have some more Kool-Aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and I have started giving to Harvard again.

From the perspective of an outside, unconnected person, this seems like a time when Harvard can actually show the leadership that its brand automatically connotes. I'm more used to hearing things about Harvard that are negatives. Like Larry Summers mouthing off about women.

I like to see institutions prove their value and not coast on wealth and history.

Every major institution in American life can be criticized for racism, sexism, political missteps, etc. But retrospectively, one can tell that there are moments in history where institutions truly lead.

I believe t5his is such a moment for Harvard.

I wouldn't care if it looks messy on the ground. Even if I were a student and had to live through the messiness.

My kid is a rising senior. We were talking about his college list this past weekend. He is a good student (high rigor, high GPA) and a decent athlete (but not recruitable). No special awards or activities. He showed me his list of schools and I was impressed. It was well balanced and he had thought about it. Then he said “I also plan to get rejected from Harvard”. I asked him to explain and he said he had never had any interest in Harvard and also knew he wasn’t the kind of kid they admitted. However, seeing them stand up to presidential bullying gave him respect for the school. Non political, mildly left leaning straight white guy who is big into sports and probably seems like many other boys in America. He is going to put an app into Harvard next year that he hadn’t been planning on doing before all this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and I have started giving to Harvard again.

From the perspective of an outside, unconnected person, this seems like a time when Harvard can actually show the leadership that its brand automatically connotes. I'm more used to hearing things about Harvard that are negatives. Like Larry Summers mouthing off about women.

I like to see institutions prove their value and not coast on wealth and history.

Every major institution in American life can be criticized for racism, sexism, political missteps, etc. But retrospectively, one can tell that there are moments in history where institutions truly lead.

I believe t5his is such a moment for Harvard.

I wouldn't care if it looks messy on the ground. Even if I were a student and had to live through the messiness.

My kid is a rising senior. We were talking about his college list this past weekend. He is a good student (high rigor, high GPA) and a decent athlete (but not recruitable). No special awards or activities. He showed me his list of schools and I was impressed. It was well balanced and he had thought about it. Then he said “I also plan to get rejected from Harvard”. I asked him to explain and he said he had never had any interest in Harvard and also knew he wasn’t the kind of kid they admitted. However, seeing them stand up to presidential bullying gave him respect for the school. Non political, mildly left leaning straight white guy who is big into sports and probably seems like many other boys in America. He is going to put an app into Harvard next year that he hadn’t been planning on doing before all this.

Makes sense. The colleges standing up and fighting for higher education will attract students that value higher education.

[Anonymous]

I was the 5th best student in my country when I graduated in 2004 and Harvard still rejected me. I think Harvard will be fine. The people going after Harvard though I feel bad for them because they are wasting their time and energy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was the 5th best student in my country when I graduated in 2004 and Harvard still rejected me. I think Harvard will be fine. The people going after Harvard though I feel bad for them because they are wasting their time and energy.

Niue?