Posted on 09/28/2023 10:09:01 AM PDT by John Semmens
Saifullah Khan was kicked out of Yale in 2019 after he had been both accused of rape and acquitted in 2018. He is now suing the school and his accuser for defamation of character. The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that his accuser, a fellow student, does not have "qualified immunity" for her unpersuasive testimony in a school hearing that Khan raped her after a 2015 Halloween party.
Yale University President Peter Salovey denied he was directly involved in the matter, but admitted that "it seems odd that the university expelled Mr. Khan after he was acquitted. Before he was acquitted would be easier to explain. Rape is a very serious charge. Any university would be humiliated to have a person charged with such a crime among its student body. If he had been kicked out in 2015 that would've made sense. But in 2019? It defies explanation."
Harvard, the oldest and now the wealthiest university in the United States, was founded by persons fleeing England in search of tolerance. This year, Harvard scored zero out of a possible 100 points on the College Free Speech Rankings compiled by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). This was the first zero recorded by any university since FIRE began assessing how respected freedom of speech is at these institutions of higher learning. Another Ivy League school--the University of Pennsylvania--finished next to last with a rating of 11 out of a possible 100 points.
Sean Stevens, FIRE's director of polling and analytics, attributed Harvard's abysmal rating to "their vigorous persecution of faculty members who dissent from woke orthodoxy. Nine faced sanctions and seven ultimately were punished for expressing 'misleading or inappropriate opinions.'"
Harvard University's President Claudine Gay was not the least bit embarrassed by the rating, saying "we have higher standards than the run-of-the-mill universities open to the expression of incorrect political views. Our donors and graduates expect us to adhere to these higher standards. Every professor must demonstrate their fitness to co-mingle with the best-and-brightest minds in the world. If they don't they will be chastised and given the opportunity to recant. Those who do recant are given a second chance to demonstrate that they are worthy of inclusion. The nattering of free speech anarchists like those at FIRE is not going to divert us from our principles."
In related news, lawyers representing Students for Fair Admissions sued West Point for race and ethnicity discrimination in admissions decisions, said "the US Supreme Court has already disallowed race to be used to exclude otherwise qualified applicants from attending a publicly funded university. West Point is not exempt from this ruling, yet its director of admissions brags that race is wholly decisive for whether hundreds if not thousands of applicants will be admitted to the Academy."
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