500 Professors at Harvard signed a statement saying they supported the current President, despite her anti-semitic remarks in front of Congress. Since the testimony, it has also come out that she plagiarized her PhD thesis. Not only that, but the role of academics is to publish peer-reviewed research and write books. She’s never written a book and has published very few papers and the research in them cites papers written by another discredited academic.
Okay.
Let it Burn Down to the Ground. Does the world need Harvard? No. Harvard needs the respect of the world and it has lost it. Not only has it lost it, but Harvard is so smug it thinks it towers above the rest. Harvard needs the world to think it’s credible. Is it? No. In this day and age, it’s about merit. Do stupid things, and pay the consequences.
If Harvard wants to attract and indoctrinate a bunch of anti-semitic Marxists, let them. Let’s see how long a “Harvard man” can get a high-profile job in a capitalistic society. Before, we all had to pretend. Now that Pandora’s Box has been opened and the curtain pulled down, we don’t have to pretend.
Who are you hiring from? Harvard Law, University of Chicago Law, or Notre Dame Law? What’s an MBA from Harvard worth if you can’t get a gig?
“Oh, there are fine people at Harvard”, you will say. Uh-huh. Those fine people, if they are so fine, can get tenure at another prestigious university that doesn’t promote anti-semitism and Marxism. If they aren’t in demand, then they weren’t so hot to begin with so maybe you ought to question why they are teaching at Harvard in the first place.
We know why President Gay is in the position she is in. It’s obvious since she certainly isn’t qualified.
Penny Pritzker the Board Chair isn’t there because she is some hotshot intellectual or magnificent leader. She’s got a checkbook. Her positions have all been appointed. She’s never done the dirty work of actually going out and building a company or anything like that. She is a hard-left person, just like her brother who is Governor of Illinois. The only reason he’s in his position is he has a checkbook. No one actually loves him. It’s not like people on a random Saturday night back in the day said “Gee, I sure do want to go out with him because he’s so personable and fun.” Only if he buys the drinks. They are people born on third base with no outs and don’t realize it.
At this point, the world would be far better off if Harvard didn’t exist in its present form. So, let the free market take it out. That goes for any institution that embraces values Harvard’s President and faculty agree with.
HA just as I sent this out, I saw this tweet. The title of this should read The 650!! You know what, GFY and the horse you road in on.
I get the feeling that many in academia think that this is just another academic exercise -- a jostling match of sorts. The honorable, virtuous Left against the bigoted, intolerant, know-nothing Right.
One thing they are champions at is smugness. I'm guessing that they don't really feel threatened, nor do they feel that the reputation of Harvard is truly threatened.
Like many employers, I now consider anyone from these Universities as potentially having the "progressive crazy" in them, and I will avoid that at all costs.
It will be interesting to see if 1) this reputational hit on their students sustains on a large scale over time and 2) if they notice.
The rot goes far beyond the (poison) Ivy League schools. Pretty much every university in the country is contaminated with the same crap you are condemning at Harvard, MIT and Penn. I can't see any way to 'fix' it. Instead I encourage everyone to work for the complete government defunding (Federal, state, student loans and government research grants) of all of 'higher' education. Let the market decide what, if anything, survives.