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Bill Ackman Letter to Harvard
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Posted on 12/05/2023 12:06:16 PM PST by Tench_Coxe

Dear President Gay,

I am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have to write a letter to the president of my alma mater about the impact of her actions and inactions on the health and safety of its student body in order to help catalyze necessary change. For the past four weeks since the horrors of October 7th, I have been in dialogue with members of the corporation board, other alumni, as well as students and faculty sharing and comparing our concerns about the growing number of antisemitic incidents on campus, as we wait for you and the University to act. Four weeks after the barbaric terrorist acts of October 7th, I have lost confidence that you and the University will do what is required.

Last Wednesday, I spent seven hours on campus meeting with Jewish, Israeli, and non-Jewish students and faculty at the Law School, at HBS and in a 90-minute town hall in Aldrich 112 with 230 Jewish college students (coincidentally, one for each hostage held by Hamas), research staff, and faculty from the University at large, organized by Harvard Chabad. Over the course of the day, it became clear that the situation at Harvard is dire and getting worse, much worse than I had realized.

Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted. Student Slack message boards are replete with antisemitic statements, memes, and images. On-campus protesters on the Widener Library steps and elsewhere shout “Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free!” as they knowingly call for violent insurrection and use eliminationist language seeking the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: billackman; butler; covidstooges; dei; greenmail; pennsylvania; williamackman
More at the link.

He dug into the specifics, but I don't think he's quite "mugged" yet. But its a start.

Hopefully he and others start to realize (for better or worse) that Harvard and other Ivy League schools are 'feeders' into business and government, and those attitudes are carried into corporate and government policy. That is the bigger danger, and I would argue we as a nation are suffering for it.

1 posted on 12/05/2023 12:06:16 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

2024 election will be interesting, to say the least................


2 posted on 12/05/2023 12:10:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I am very surprised and pleased with bill’s stance on this subject

Very happy


3 posted on 12/05/2023 12:13:00 PM PST by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: Tench_Coxe
President Gay...


4 posted on 12/05/2023 12:17:01 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

President Gay should have already been fired.


5 posted on 12/05/2023 12:19:52 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

“2024 election will be interesting, to say the least................”

I bet anything the majority of the jews will still vote for the Rats.


6 posted on 12/05/2023 12:20:39 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Whatta Laff

He probably put her in the slot

She’s qualified to be an inner city elementary school teacher

Ackman and the rest of the Wall Street Red Diaper gangsters from Harvard have spent the last 100 years destroying the academic credibility of that “school”


7 posted on 12/05/2023 12:21:39 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: aquila48

“President Gay...”
Undoubtedly!!! 😉


8 posted on 12/05/2023 12:21:44 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Tench_Coxe

Congratulations Bill. You got the exact world you created.

“Since 1998, with few exceptions to select Republicans, Ackman has mainly donated to Democratic election candidates. 26 Ackman has donated more than $600,000 to Democratic campaigns including those of Barack Obama, Al Gore, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee”


9 posted on 12/05/2023 12:22:04 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Get real!

The first black, Gay, woman president of Harvard is going to be fired?

Hell will freeze over before that happens.


10 posted on 12/05/2023 12:23:44 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Excellent letter.

The hypocrisy and double standards rampant in academia today is frightening. Along with everything else going on there, parents will increasingly question sending their kids at all.


11 posted on 12/05/2023 12:27:57 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

He’s a tool. Going after the Harvard President as though she dreamed this up. She is nothing but an idiot puppet, put there by the tidal wave of laws, policies etc of the political class he supports wholeheartedly.

Make no mistake, the Democrat party created her in every way. If there was an honest DOJ, they would be all over Harvard for dozens of reasons and civil rights violations.
Their permanent endowment would get the microscopic “Trump” treatment. Their graduates would be poison for DC positions.

I’ll believe him when he donates to Trump. Until then, this assclown is just Trotsky vs Stalin.


12 posted on 12/05/2023 12:30:23 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

He’s a trashy short seller who tries to use dirty deals and influence to collapse companies he goes short on. Now he is upset about Jewish kids at Harvard.

But unless I see him support MAGA, and ending immigration, etc. He’s nothing but a parasite. His concerns are not mine. Harvard stopped being respected long ago.


13 posted on 12/05/2023 12:39:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The left has openly embraced racism and hate. Their accusations against others of hate and racism should not, and need not, be tolerated. We are done with them.


14 posted on 12/05/2023 12:58:05 PM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: Tench_Coxe

He’s a liberal. He’s supported this, funded this and voted for this. Now let him stew in it.


15 posted on 12/05/2023 1:25:51 PM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: DesertRhino

Yup. Get rid of the carried interest deduction. Sorry lefties, shouldn’t have given so much money to the democrats.


16 posted on 12/05/2023 1:31:40 PM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Comments BUMP. “But it’s a start.”


17 posted on 12/05/2023 2:35:26 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Tench_Coxe

First they came for the Whites, but Ackman said nothing ...


18 posted on 12/06/2023 11:13:27 AM PST by Angelino97
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