Posted on 09/14/2017 12:20:20 PM PDT by servo1969
Harvard University was lambasted Wednesday after it announced former U.S. Army soldier-turned convicted felon Chelsea Manning will be a visiting fellow for Harvard's upcoming academic year -- an appointment that caused former CIA acting director Michael Morell to resign as the school's senior fellow.
Manning will take on the role at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the school said on its website.
“She speaks on the social, technological and economic ramifications of Artificial Intelligence,” the announcement said. “As a trans woman, she advocates for queer and transgender rights as @xychelsea on Twitter.”
Morell announced on Thursday he will be resigning as a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center because of Manning's appointment, saying he couldn't be part of an organization "that honors convicted felon and leaker of classified information."
"Senior leaders in our military have stated publicly that the leaks by Ms. Manning put the lives of U.S. soldiers at risk," Morell said. "I have an obligation in my conscience -- and I believe to the country -- to stand against any efforts to justify leaks of sensitive national security information."
Of all the veterans who honorably served...Harvard hires Chelsea Manning who was convicted of espionage. Unbelievable. https://t.co/3jo7vTdKUb
— Jessie Jane Duff (@JessieJaneDuff) September 14, 2017
Many people were flabbergasted the university gave Manning the title, calling it “unbelievable” that a person convicted of espionage could be considered a “fellow.”
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Mr. Obama only commuted his sentence. He’s still a convicted felon. BTW, how much does that gig pay?
Harvard is now an official laughing stock.
Standards?
They don’t need no stinkin’ standards.
They’are Havaaaad.
This seems a step too far even Harvard.
Executive order forbidding recruiting/hiring of Harvard graduates across all branches of government.
Disqualification of Harvard from all federal grants and contracts.
Elimination of eligibility of students attending Harvard for all federal grants, loans and student aid.
The traitorous administration and faculty of Harvard should be brought to justice, tried, convicted, sentenced, and then publicly hanged for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
You can always tell a Harvard man.
Unbelievable?
Nope.
Totally believable..........................
Despicable.
Harvard is long past finished as a serious university. It’s only relevance is a big bag of money, and the ability to let the right kids kiss the kings ring so they can move into government.
Its reputation is that its extremely hard to get into, and then easy as cake after that.
Obama is a -classic- example of their product. From selection, to low quality of education, to being advanced for reasons other than academic achievement, and then moving into government.
Sad to see this happen to what was once an institution.
It was a travesty calling her a fellow.
More of a travesty calling that fellow a her.
“Obviously a Yale woman.”
Thurston Howell III
The tumult at Harvard University that culminated in the resignation of the university’s president Lawrence H. Summers yesterday, provides a good opportunity to be reminded…
The tumult at Harvard University that culminated in the resignation of the university’s president Lawrence H. Summers yesterday, provides a good opportunity to be reminded of that university’s founding vision and mission — and for a reflection on how far it has strayed from that vision.
Here is the text of Harvard’s founding statement, known most commonly as “New England’s First Fruits,” (1640):
AFTER GOD HAD carried us safe to New England, and we had built our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and led the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman and a lover of learning, there living among us) to give the one-half of his estate (it being in all about £700) toward the founding of a college, and all his library. After him, another gave £300; others after them cast in more; and the public hand of the state added the rest.
The college was, by common consent, appointed to be at Cambridge (a place very pleasant and accommodate) and is called (according to the name of the first founder) Harvard College. The edifice is very fair and comely within and without, having in it a spacious hall where they daily meet at commons, lectures, and exercises; and a large library with some books to it, the gifts of diverse of our friends, their chambers and studies also fitted for and possessed by the students, and all other rooms of office necessary and convenient with all needful offices thereto belonging. And by the side of the college, a fair grammar school, for the training up of young scholars and fitting of them for academical learning, that still as they are judged ripe they may be received into the college of this school. Master Corlet is the master who has very well approved himself for his abilities, dexterity, and painfulness in teaching and education of the youths under him.
Over the college is Master Dunster placed as president, a learned, a conscionable, and industrious man, who has so trained up his pupils in the tongues and arts, and so seasoned them with the principles of divinity and Christianity, that we have to our great comfort (and in truth) beyond our hopes, beheld their progress in learning and godliness also. The former of these has appeared in their public declamations in Latin and Greek, and disputations logic and philosophy which they have been wonted (besides their ordinary exercises in the college hall) in the audience of the magistrates, ministers, and other scholars for the probation of their growth in learning, upon set days, constantly once every month to make and uphold. The latter has been manifested in sundry of them by the savory things of their spirits in their godly versation; insomuch that we are confident, if these early blossoms may be cherished and warmed with the influence of the friends of learning and lovers of this pious work, they will, by the help of God, come to happy maturity in a short time.Over the college are twelve overseers chosen by the General Court, six of them are of the magistrates, the other six of the ministers, who are to promote the best good of it and (having a power of influence into all persons in it) are to see that everyone be diligent and proficient in his proper place.
R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Are any so blind that they cannot see that something is wrong?
Not my type, thankfully.
There was another thread earlier today about a convicted killer in Indiana who served 20 years for killing her child. She might be going to Harvard to work on a PhD in history.
Bradley has no credentials for this
The photo is nauseating.
I still think he will off himself within 2 years.
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