Posted on 05/28/2024 11:44:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Harvard University announced yesterday (Tuesday) that it would no longer comment as an institution on issues that do not relate to its “core function” following the controversies surrounding the school's statements on the massacre of October 7 and the subsequent war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization.
Interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber wrote in an email that Harvard would adopt the recommendation of a working group that the school not “issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.”
“There will be close cases where reasonable people disagree about whether a given issue is or is not directly related to the core function of the university,” the report by the Institutional Voice working group stated. “The university’s policy in those situations should be to err on the side of avoiding official statements.”
The report further advised that when students make controversial statements on public issues, such as the student statement blaming Israel for the massacre committed by Hamas, "the university should clarify that they do not speak for the university and that no one is authorized to speak on behalf of the university except the university’s leadership.”
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Won’t last long.
I’ll believe that when I don’t see it occurring for at minimum three consecutive months. They will struggle greatly to stay in their academic lanes.
Worry Not, all those angry students will be in Uniform soon learning new skills like how to operate a flamethrower and fire a 155 mm Cannon. This time men and women, will go and shoulder arms. Those who do not go will be slaving in the ammunition factories and building drones. Many will be in the Home Guards keeping down spies and saboteurs. See you at the Victory Rally Citizen patriot.
I would reckon that Harvard’s historical “core function” would be within teaching the classic STEM technologies, Law Humanities, Medical Tech, and pretty much everything else that *ISN’T* some screwball leftist radical nonsense intended to disrupt our American culture .... but maybe I ask too much of modern day Harvard .... /sigh
No, they won’t, and they haven’t.
This is just a head fake move to get people off their ass.
So. I’m guessing their endowment donations are down enough for them to realize that tacit endorsement and support of radical, leftist or even terroristic dogma isn’t profitable.
IMO, they really are a bunch of money-grubbing hypocrites. They’ve already got over $50B in endowments and likely are thinking “that’s still not enough.” It must be a really, really sweet gig being in on the controlling end of a place like Harvard.
Depends on the context.
Unlikely. They have not shut their traps in 80 years.
It never does.
Harvard’s core function as defined by too many of the faculty is to indoctrinate young minds and slam the US.
“Won’t last long.”
Once rich Arabs start threatening the university with pulling funding, this will change.
Do they still require fluency in Latin and Ancient Greek?/Rhetorical question
Will they start inviting conservatives to speak at the campus again? No, I did not think so. They are only doing this because they’ve offended one of their donor groups.
Liberals can’t live without expressing an opinion.
Let’s see if they can hold their tongue during a second Trump administration.
Removing politics from liberal institutions is impossible, but I applaud their efforts.
This is about the funding from wealthy Jews, not a sudden epiphany to repent.
Until liberalism is wiped out of the educational system it’s doomed to repeat history. When you want to change history by destroying it then you’re bound to repeat it.
Teaching basics produces great results. Teaching opinion and woke liberal BS produces idiots.
They are simply saying they are going to ride the fence on Israel/Palestine.
Woopdeedoo.
Hey. That was a Twilight Zone episode. Rich guy offers to pay mucho dinero to a young blabbermouth to shut up for a whole year.
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