Harvard Students Protest Changes to ‘Diversity’ Policies
“These actions that the University has taken are showing us who gets to speak and who is punished for speaking”
The left knows these policies are aimed at keeping them in power. That’s what this protest is about.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
Students Rally Against College Diversity Changes in Cambridge Common
A small group of Harvard students accused the University of implementing policies to silence minority students in response to the Trump administration at a rally in Cambridge Common on Sunday afternoon.
The event drew a crowd of roughly 40 people and was the first protest led by Harvard’s chapter of Amnesty International, a charity human rights organization, since it gained official recognition from the Dean of Student’s Office last year.
Speakers at the event argued that recent changes at Harvard, including the shuttering of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May and the decision to deny tenure to an associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies, were evidence of the University caving to pressure from the Trump administration.
Krupali M. Kumar ’27, co-president of the Harvard Amnesty chapter, said the rally served to “expose the disconnect between our University’s values and their behaviors” as officials reshape, and in some cases, end programming for minority students.
“These actions that the University has taken are showing us who gets to speak and who is punished for speaking,” Kumar said.
Harvard, she added, “is actively eroding the very institutional systems and functions that help minority students thrive and feel supported at this University.”
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has attempted to punish Harvard for its response to antisemitism on campus, challenging its ability to enroll international students and use federal funds. Though Harvard initially refused to meet a series of demands from the White House in April, changes in faculty leadership and diversity office closures have attracted outrage as quiet capitulation.
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Its time to tell ALL college students that they are not expected nor should they deign to spend the rest of their lives in college. The amount of idiocy by supposed “college educated” students is simply WRONG. It is also obvious that the majority of tenured “teachers” prove that getting a college degree doesn’t imply intelligence. Students, if you don’t like how your college spends their (not yours) money THEN GO TO ANOTHER COLLGE. Any policy that only allows one point of view should be immediately discarded. Students and faculty that support violence should be expelled. Faculty that support violence should be fired and not be allowed to publish anything. Debate societies should spring up at EVERY COLLEGE and make it MANDATORY that students take at least two years of it to graduate. Any students who interrupt speakers and try to silence them should be given ONE chance with a forfeit of that semester’s money and class work. A second time should result in immediate expulsion. Faculty who do the same should be fired and made to pay for the speaker’s fees. Really simple folks. And I only have a Bachelor’s degree.
>>“These actions that the University has taken are showing us who gets to >>speak and who is punished for speaking,” Kumar said.
The fact they are speaking proves them wrong. Logic is lost on them.
When I speak, my lips move and sound comes out.
When they “speak,” tents go up, services get blocked, offices get occupied, and other students get assaulted.
Why do they talk about “caving to pressure” and not “following the law?”
Oh, that’s right. Because no one ever taught them that the law matters. Or that it’s not the same as whatever their personal beliefs about right and wrong might be. Or that it doesn’t change just because someone had a passing whim.
Or anything else about it.
Someone should tell Kumar she is not a minority student but a white affiliated student so she should probably sit down and shutup.
Or maybe ask her whether she was ever involved in heckler vetoes of speakers with whose viewpoints she disagrees.