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Secretive Harvard Corporation That Backed Claudine Gay Facing Pressure
Daily Wire ^ | Dec 26, 2023 | Hank Berrien

Posted on 12/26/2023 2:17:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The secretive board called the Harvard Corporation that decided to retain Harvard president Claudine Gay after revelations about her repeated plagiarism had surfaced and she had made controversial statements about anti-Semitism on campus is facing increased pressure to address the problem more actively.

Two of the board members, nonprofit founder Tracy Palandjian and the private-equity executive Paul Finnegan, met with academics demanding they do more to counter the damage done to the school’s image after a growing number of donors said they were through with the school.

“You need to be more out front of this,” Jeff Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School, said he told the board members, according to The New York Times. “If people are saying the university is making mistakes — they are talking about you!”

Palandjian reportedly said replacing Gay was not enough, that the university required “generational change.”

Board member Penny Pritzker, who championed Gay’s hiring, served as secretary of commerce in the Barack Obama administration.

Although revelations of Gay’s plagiarism blew up in mid-December after her appearance before Congress about anti-Semitism on campus, the Times noted that the Harvard Corporation had been investigating Gay’s academic work since October after a New York Post reporter contacted the board with the allegations.

“Asked on Saturday whether the board would publicly reaffirm its support for Dr. Gay, the Harvard spokesman said the corporation had nothing to add beyond the Dec. 12 statement in support of Dr. Gay, which preceded the latest wave of plagiarism allegations,” The Times reported.

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1 posted on 12/26/2023 2:17:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Harvard’s endowment is 10 billion $$$. Cut off contributions from alumni and they’ll just laugh,


2 posted on 12/26/2023 2:21:00 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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Pritzker and Gay getting it on.

3 posted on 12/26/2023 2:21:28 PM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Board member Penny Pritzker, who championed Gay’s hiring, served as secretary of commerce in the Barack Obama administration.

There’s the problem.


4 posted on 12/26/2023 2:21:44 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Harvard is in a nose dive and they cannot pull out. Harvard is going down to the bottom of the deep blue sea.


5 posted on 12/26/2023 2:24:30 PM PST by Gnome1949
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ve - ri - tas


6 posted on 12/26/2023 2:25:35 PM PST by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Criticize Gay all you want; she deserves it.

But don’t forget our primary mission is to cripple Harvard and other rotting elite universities - and to eliminate them since they are too far gone for rehabilitation.

The best way to do that is to keep the damaged Gay in charge and in a highly visible position. She is very polarizing although I suspect her keepers tell her she is loved by all.

If she goes away, Harvard will just hire another anti-American with a more PR skills. They certainly are not going to find someone with less.

We need to keep Gay at the helm to help us complete our agenda. Yay Gay!


7 posted on 12/26/2023 2:31:35 PM PST by jeffersondem
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8 posted on 12/26/2023 2:32:55 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Wikipedia: Harvard University endowment
The Harvard University endowment, valued at $49.444 billion as of June 30, 2022, is the largest academic endowment in the world. Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending the year with its largest sum in history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment


10 posted on 12/26/2023 3:29:55 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why does a secretive organization bankroll such a low IQ loser?


11 posted on 12/26/2023 3:38:28 PM PST by chopperk
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To: MAGAthon

The endowment should be seized and shared with every white male in America as reparations for Harvard’s decades of hate.


12 posted on 12/26/2023 3:41:27 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Two of the board members, nonprofit founder Tracy Palandjian and the private-equity executive Paul Finnegan, met with academics demanding they do more to counter the damage done to the school’s image after a growing number of donors said they were through with the school.

When you appoint, endorse, and stand by a plagiarizing anti-Semitic academic fraud as the face of your institution, it does damage your image.

13 posted on 12/26/2023 4:24:02 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man on)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

With WEF on speed dial?


14 posted on 12/26/2023 4:27:45 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!!!


15 posted on 12/26/2023 4:34:17 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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16 posted on 12/26/2023 4:46:14 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: rdl6989; ping jockey

Penny Pritzker has also been appointed in charge of the reconstruction of Ukraine.


17 posted on 12/26/2023 4:58:58 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hahvahd: “Yes we know she’s a lying incompetent affirmative action hire plagiarist. But she’s OUR lying incompetent affirmative action hire plagiarist!”


18 posted on 12/26/2023 5:22:22 PM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Liz

Photo of hugging....

Aren’t you glad....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZASJF3i4Vd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-1bdpiuwKA


19 posted on 12/26/2023 5:53:33 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Leftist foundations will pick up the slack without breaking a sweat. Alumni who donate are just chumps.


20 posted on 12/26/2023 6:13:27 PM PST by Romulus
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