It would be hard to imagine climate change hijinks more hilarious than the protest at Saturday’s Harvard vs Yale football game.
Harvard Divestment Activists Pour Molasses on Themselves to Symbolize an Oil Spill
This is one of those instances where the protest is really performance art and the spectacle matters more than the issue.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard fossil fuel divestment group stages mock oil spill on campus
In a bid to convince the university to divest its holdings in fossil fuels, activists at Harvard on...
Harvard Student Council Sides With Activists Against Student Paper Over ICE Flap
Last month the student paper, the Harvard Crimson, did a report on anti-ICE protests and asked ICE for comment. This simple act of journalism set off a firestorm against the paper.
Now the student council has sided with the activists.
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Demands Harvard Pay Slavery Reparations
This case would set quite a precedent if Harvard were to follow through. Can you even imagine what would come next?
The College Fix reports:
Foreign prime minister demands slavery reparations from Harvard
The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda recently sent a letter to the president of Harvard University demanding that the Ivy...
Scientists at Harvard Achieve ‘Breakthrough’ in Production of Fake Meat
Does anyone else find the notion or ‘fake meat’ a little gross?
The College Fix reports:
Harvard scientists achieve ‘breakthrough’ in manufacturing fake meat
The Harvard Crimson reports that scientists at the Ivy League university have achieved a “breakthrough” in the production of lab-grown fake meat, reportedly creating a mock meat substance with a...
Union for Harvard Graduate Students Votes to Authorize Strike
They’re demanding more money and better benefits. Here’s hoping Harvard enjoys lying in the bed they made.
WBUR reports:
Harvard Graduate Students Union Votes To Authorize Strike Against University
Graduate students at Harvard University have voted to authorize a strike, but no date has been set for any walkout.
The Harvard Graduate Students Union represents...
Harvard Crimson Faces Campus Backlash for Asking ICE to Comment on a Story
In September, students at Harvard held a protest against ICE. The student newspaper The Harvard Crimson covered the protest and as part of their story, asked ICE for comment.
Now the campus left has focused their outrage on the paper.
Harvard Business Group Cancels Event With Tech Company Over Ties to ICE
The constant demonizing of ICE on college campuses is purely political and unfair to the hardworking Americans who make up the agency.
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard business group spikes event with ICE contractor after student outcry
Harvard’s Undergraduate BGLTQ Business Society (HUBBS) recently canceled a sponsorship from Palantir Technologies because its products are used...
Science! Harvard Disputes the Idea That Testosterone and Masculinity are Connected
When stories like this come up, don’t you think someone at Harvard Medical School should be asked to go on record with a response?
The College Fix reports:
Harvard says masculinity and testosterone are not ‘connected’
Last week we learned that the University of California instructs staff in the Office of the President that...
Harvard Won’t Explain Terms of New Plan to Have ‘Moderators’ for Controversial Speakers
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”...
Federal Judge Sides With Harvard in Discrimination Case Brought by Asian Applicants
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...
Activists Use Harvard President’s Slavery Gaffe to Demand Divestment from Prisons
You can read the back story on this here. As the former mayor of Chicago once said, never let a crisis go to waste.
President of Harvard Apologizes for Comparing School’s Rich Donors to Freed Slaves
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...
New Policy at Harvard Could Require Moderators for ‘Controversial’ Speakers
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...
Climate Activists at Harvard Protest in Front of President’s Home and Office
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...
Harvard Students Debunk Study Claiming Hate Crimes Rise Following Trump Rallies
Does everyone remember the hatred directed at Trump supporters following rallies in 2016? That’s the only hate I can recall after such events.
Harvard Now Has a Tree That Live-Tweets About Climate Change
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...
