Harvard has decided to defend President Claudine Gay, despite her horrible answers and performance at the congressional hearings about anti-Semitism on campus, not to mention new allegations of plagiarism on her part.
In response, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and other members of the GOP are calling for the school to lose billions in federal funding.
The New York Post reports:
GOP calls to strip Harvard of billions in federal cash, tax breaks over ‘antisemitism shame’Harvard is facing demands to be stripped of billions of dollars in federal payments and tax breaks over its failure to tackle antisemitism on campus.The university benefits from hundreds of millions of dollars in direct federal payments — and even more in sweeping tax breaks which have helped make it the world’s richest academic institution.Harvard, led by controversial president Claudine Gay, is being investigated by the federal Department of Education over whether it has breached the civil rights of Jewish students, which are protected under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.Elise Stefanik, the New York Republican whose questioning of Gay at the House Education and Workforce Committee last week left the college leader’s career in crisis, told The Post she wanted to “defund.”“We must defund the rot in America’s higher education,” she said.“It is unacceptable and un-American that any taxpayer dollars are going to universities propping up their promulgation of antisemitism by supporting professors, students and staff many who have openly called for the genocide of Jews.
Others and I have often said that if you want this madness on campus to end, start by shutting off the cash. Harvard’s endowment is worth billions. Let them spend it.
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air suggests that this doesn’t go far enough, and I am inclined to agree with him:
Nevertheless, the scope and intent on this is too limited, and too constrained to one particular diseased outcome. The issues in Academia go well beyond anti-Semitism; they go directly to the heart of what it means to be educated rather than indoctrinated. For the last several decades, progressive activists have transformed the former into the latter and imposed tribalism via DEI. That has created an environment on most campuses of extreme intolerance to differing points of view, and created leadership that quashes debate and dissent from the progressive-woke orthodoxy.The proper approach is to defund Academia entirely, at least at the federal level. The federal government had no business goosing Academia’s business model in the first place, and the six-decade experiment has utterly failed. It has not improved education, but contributed to its destruction. The federalized loan program has turned at least two generations into debt paupers, and incentivized “debt forgiveness” at the expense of taxpayers who pay their own bills. And the tuition-support flood has created a massive administration class that operates politically rather than scholastically.
To her credit, Elise Stefanik says she is just getting started:
Republicans have a golden opportunity to make some real change here. They should not hesitate.
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