Posted on 02/08/2024 4:44:48 AM PST by george76
Harvard University is obstructing a congressional probe into campus-wide anti-Semitism, leading lawmakers to warn the Ivy League school that it will face a deluge of subpoenas if it continues to stonewall the investigation.
"Harvard's responses have been grossly insufficient, and the limited and dilatory nature of its productions is obstructing the Committee's efforts," Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, wrote to interim Harvard president Alan Garber on Wednesday.
Harvard has until Feb. 14 to produce documents outlining its internal response to a growing wave of anti-Semitism on campus, including records that could show the school failed to adequately protect Jewish and pro-Israel students. The committee initiated its probe in December, following then-Harvard president Claudine Gay's testimony before Congress, in which she failed to denounce violence and hateful rhetoric against Jews. Since then, "Harvard has produced only one document of significance in response to the Committee's request," according to Foxx. Gay ultimately resigned her post.
"If the above priority requests are left unfulfilled by the deadline set above, the Committee is prepared to issue a subpoena," Foxx wrote to the school.
The warning is likely to further inflame tensions between Harvard and Republican lawmakers, who have been locked in a battle with the Ivy League school over accusations that anti-Semitism on campus has spiraled out of control, threatening Jewish students' safety.
"Somehow, almost two months after the Committee first informed Harvard of its intent to request production of specific documents, and a month after the Committee provided particularized requests, Harvard provided only a single meaningful document to the Committee in its antisemitism investigation," Foxx wrote. "Harvard’s failure to produce documents requested by the Committee in a timely manner is unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
Though Harvard has turned over scores of publicly available documents to the committee, it heavily redacted many of them, causing confusion at the House committee.
"Harvard provided more than a thousand pages of student handbooks, university rules, and letters from external stakeholders. Every document in this production was publicly available in unredacted form," Foxx wrote. "Yet, these documents contained numerous bewildering redactions, even going so far as to redact the name of the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League from his signing of a public letter."
Harvard retained two law firms after the House committee launched its probe last year. The school has said it will aid the investigation into anti-Semitism.
Uh oh, I feel a strongly-worded letter coming on…
Libs are shaking in their very expensive boots, no doubt.
Subpoenas followed by freezing of nearly $1B in federal funds, followed by strict scrutiny of the 14,000 funds that make up Harvard’s $50B endowment.
Why any university (they all are for profit) can keep and make billions in tax free money is beyond me.
EC
Take away thier funding and prevent them from getting it for other sources like china
Nothing can be done. Funding can not be removed.
True story: years ago I dated a graduate of Radcliffe College,a very elite women's college located next door to Harvard Yard (and which was eventually "absorbed" by Harvard).
She told me that a classmate of hers who had become a Vice Chancellor of Admissions at Harvard told her that if it weren't for their "special" (my word) admissions policies every Freshman class at Harvard would consist entirely of Asians and Jews.
They have been actively teaching and acting against whites for decades.
F both parties involved.
https://www.hillel.org/college/harvard-university/
Nepotism.
Dear House Committee:
It has become obvious that you don’t know who we are. We’re Harvard, so screw off.
Yesterday I spent some time with an Asian ethnic engineer from Canada. He told me that half of the current population of Canada was born elsewhere. He avoided telling me where he was born.
That is the progressive goal.......... pollute the white population with Black and Hispanic riff raff.
There can be no coexistence.
The Senate will not allow it. House control of funding is a theoretical myth
And no, we at Harvard don't allow expressions of hatred towards the hook nosed, blood sucking, yids and kikes. That is nonsense and we resent it!
“Somehow, almost two months after...Harvard’s failure to produce documents requested by the Committee in a timely manner is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”
You know, it’s hard for the Harvard bunch to STOP LAUGHING long enough to produce documents, when you wait 2 months before complaining.
I’m well aware. Many here think the US is still 1950’s demographically and morally, with the 80’s military. They are deluded.
The black chick got fired because Jews were going to withhold donations.
Jews were an even greater percentage of Harvard previously.
They made the bed in which current students lay.
75% Democrat voters.
Here is bert being wrong again. If the House doesn't include funding in a bill the only thing the $inate can do is sit and spin.
Make Hahhhhvahhhhd pay taxes on their endowments. And then remove their “ivy league” status and turn them into a DEI community college.
BTTT
They’re called “subpoenas”, Congresswoman.
Use them.
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Remember the old football cheer of “push ‘em back, push ‘em back, waaaay back?” At Harvard they cheer:”reverse their progress, reverse their progress, considerably.”
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