Meanwhile, at Harvard...
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People getting really worked up over words. Sticks and stones are real... but not at these silly college campuses right now.
ANYWAY....... curious if @Ivorythumper 's tree neighbor (lawyer at Penn?) is involved?
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I went to a college graduation a few months ago where the black students got a special sash that said "Black Excellence". Nobody else got sashes. I wondered whether they would get pats on the head as they received their diplomas, but sadly, none were offered. Racist.
I'm nonplussed that any of this is surprising. These are dead center mainstream popular culture antics at colleges.
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@jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
@George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
No Lithuanians either.
Though, one could make the case that Buddhists, Mormons and Lithuanians are not a "race."
Neither are LGBTQwxyz
Simple math. The Human Race has 2 genders. Many of these individuals donât fit within those 2 genders. Therefore they must be some other type of raceâŚ
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Technically, since they canât naturally breed with each other, Iâm not sure they are even the same species as each other, let alone a race within that speciesâŚ
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@LuFins-Dad said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
Technically, since they canât naturally breed with each other, Iâm not sure they are even the same species as each other, let alone a race within that speciesâŚ
Actually the Ls can breed with the Gs just fine.
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Harvard forces a Jewish student group to hide its menorah each night after its lighting over fears of vandalism that âwonât look goodâ for the Ivy League school, the rabbi of Harvard Chabad said.
âOn our campus in the shadow of Widener Library, we in the Jewish community are instructed, âWeâll let you have the menorah, you made your point, OK. Pack it up, donât leave it out overnight because there will be criminal activity we fear and it wonât look goodâ,â Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi said at a Hanukkah lighting Wednesday night.
Zarchi, the founder and president of Harvard Chabad, said the university has asked the group to take in the menorah each night since the first Hanukkah lighting on campus.
But amid a rise in antisemitism across the world and on college campuses due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, the rabbi said the message is even more poignant.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
Harvard forces a Jewish student group to hide its menorah each night after its lighting over fears of vandalism that âwonât look goodâ for the Ivy League school, the rabbi of Harvard Chabad said.
âOn our campus in the shadow of Widener Library, we in the Jewish community are instructed, âWeâll let you have the menorah, you made your point, OK. Pack it up, donât leave it out overnight because there will be criminal activity we fear and it wonât look goodâ,â Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi said at a Hanukkah lighting Wednesday night.
Zarchi, the founder and president of Harvard Chabad, said the university has asked the group to take in the menorah each night since the first Hanukkah lighting on campus.
But amid a rise in antisemitism across the world and on college campuses due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, the rabbi said the message is even more poignant.
It's nice they're kickin' it old-school with a little pre-emptive victim-blaming.
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Anyhow, Iâm picking on this particular offering because it contained this passage, which jumped out and smacked me in the forehead:
Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill called the investigation âshocking and dangerousâ on Thursday and questioned why members of Congress are spending their time probing Harvard rather than passing a border bill or aid to Ukraine. âWhen you challenge the independence of private institutions, you are challenging a core element of our democracy. We should be on alert,â Ifill told CNNâs Brianna Keilar on âThe Source.â
"If Harvard wants to do its own investigation, it is free to do so. But for members of Congress to decide that they want to meddle into the private affairs of a private institution in order to score political points and to target a Black president is incredibly dangerous,â added Ifill, the former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
This is absurd on every level. Why are members of Congress âprobing Harvardâ? Because Harvard receives hundreds of millions of dollars from Congress, thatâs why. Per Harvardâs own financial reports, the college was given $625 million by the federal government in 2021 â a number that âaccounted for approximately 67 percent of total sponsored revenue.â Between 2018 and 2022, records show, Harvard was handed more than three billion federal dollars. If Harvard wishes to be completely âindependentâ of Congress â as, say, Hillsdale is â then it must also become completely independent of Congressâs wallet. It cannot pick and choose. With subsidy comes oversight. That isnât a threat to âour democracyâ; that is our democracy.
Are we really to believe that Ifill, who used to work for the NAACP, wishes to abolish the current rules that come along with the federal funding of universities? As PEN America records, âprivate institutions that receive federal funding must also adhere to federal anti-discrimination laws, such as those applicable under Title IX.â Is that âmeddlingâ? Or does that term only apply when Congress asks questions that Ifill doesnât like? Whereâs her limiting principle? It is interesting that Ifill mentions âaid to Ukraineâ in her list of things that Congress should be doing instead. Does she think that Congress should write a blank check in that realm, too? Do questions asked of those beneficiaries represent a challenge to the âcore element of our democracy,â or, perhaps to Ukraineâs sovereignty? Or do these standards apply to Harvard alone?
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DONâT let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:
Quote of the day:
"I'm not surprised that Hamas is hiding in a school. I'm just surprised that school is Harvard."
LOL.
