I imagine the way this will work is fairly simple. If it’s a speaker the left doesn’t like, the new rule will apply.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard refuses to explain the meanings of any terms in its new ‘moderator’ policy
Harvard University announced a new set of guidelines for student groups hosting “controversial”...
This has been a closely watched case for months. Now a judge has ruled in Harvard’s favor.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Judge Upholds Harvard’s Admissions Policies
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard University’s admissions policies do not discrim...
You can read the back story on this here. As the former mayor of Chicago once said, never let a crisis go to waste.
How awkward. What could Lawrence Bacow have been thinking to make such a comparison?
Newsweek reports:
Harvard President Apologizes for Comparing Rich Donors to Freed Slaves in Alumni Meeting
Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow is being criticized as “tone deaf” for his Tuesday comparison between slavery and the school’s fundraising efforts among alumni.
Bacow...
There’s absolutely no way this policy will be used for political purposes, right?
The College Fix reports:
New Harvard policy may require ‘moderators’ for ‘controversial’ speakers
Harvard University this year has instituted a new policy regarding campus speakers, stating that certain speaking events may require a moderator to be present if the orator is...
This story includes quotes from the activists which make it clear that they don’t believe being a student is their first priority. So why are they at Harvard?
The College Fix reports:
Harvard climate activists protest ‘destruction of planet’ in front of president’s house
Several members of the group Divest Harvard “pass[ed] around a...
Does everyone remember the hatred directed at Trump supporters following rallies in 2016? That’s the only hate I can recall after such events.
They told us there would be flying cars in the future. Instead, we got a tree that tweets about climate change.
The Harvard Gazette reports:
A red oak live tweets climate change
Would it plead for rain in a drought? Fawn over a neighbor’s foliage? Crack jokes about how fast another tree loses its...
Stacker released a list of the richest schools in America with Harvard coming out on top. This is not a shock, but it did shock me that its 2018 endowment of $38.3 billion made it wealthier than 109 countries in the world.
UT-Austin c...
If you know anything about Laurence Tribe, you know that he was for impeachment long before this past weekend. He’s using the shootings for purely political purposes.
FOX News reports:
Harvard Law prof accuses Trump of ‘terrorism,’ calls for impeachment after shootings
Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe has a history of passionate opposition to...
Professor Ron Sullivan was stripped of a residential deanship by Harvard for agreeing to represent Harvey Weinstein, but they’re keeping Epstein’s money.
Campus Reform <...
This is all about the fact that Rick Snyder is a Republican. Do you think the Democrat mayor of Flint would have gotten the same treatment?
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Ex-Michigan Governor Out at Harvard
Rick Snyder, the Republican former governor of Michigan, told Harvard University he won’t be heading there for a fellowship...
The thrust of this professor’s critique is the school’s ban on single-gender clubs.
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard prof: School is ‘reprogramming students’ into ‘right-thinking’ grads it ‘wants them to be’
A Harvard pr...
We covered this story in a full post. Here are some additional thoughts from Kevin Petersen.
He writes at the Washington Examiner:
Before Kyle Kashuv, Harvard wasn’t so picky about applicants’ personal character
Kyle Kashuv, the well-known Parkland school shooting survivor, came under fire last month for racist and anti-Semitic comments he made online...
Harvard Law School professor Ron Sullivan Jr. and his wife Stephanie Robinson, who also teaches at the school, were removed from their positions as residential deans for Harvard’s Winthrop House this spring.
They were targeted by social justice warriors on campus who claimed...
Kyle Kashuv survived the Parkland school shooting massacre. He was later admitted to Harvard.
Monday morning, Kashuv tweeted that his acceptance had been rescinded over text messages he made when he was 16-years-old. Kashuv explained the comments were private and meant to be extreme.
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You just knew that Gore wouldn’t be able to get through this event without bashing Trump.
Campus Reform reports:
Al Gore calls Trump ‘would-be-autocrat’ in Harvard speech
Al Gore used his 2019 Harvard Class Day speech to indirectly criticize President Donald Trump...
