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  • Most Harvard Students Do Not Feel Comfortable Sharing Controversial Opinions in Class, Survey Finds

    02/10/2025 9:02:10 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 14 replies
    Harvard Crimson ^ | 2/10/25 | Samuel A. Church and Cam N. Srivastava, Crimson Staff Writers
    Only one-third of Harvard’s last graduating class felt comfortable expressing their opinions about controversial topics during their time at the College, the University’s 2024 senior survey found, reporting a 13 percent decrease from the Class of 2023. The full survey results are not public, but were partially included in a report issued last week by the Classroom Social Compact Committee, convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra last spring in response to questions about the state of free speech on campus. The committee — co-chaired by Economics professor David I. Laibson ’88 and History professor Maya...
  • Ibram X. Kendi is a racist, not an antiracist, because he thinks black plagiarists should not be held to the same standard of accountability as white ones. This is called the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”

    01/03/2024 5:32:25 PM PST · by grundle · 20 replies
    Twitter ^ | January 3, 2023 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
    Ibram X. Kendi is a racist, not an antiracist, because he thinks black plagiarists should not be held to the same standard of accountability as white ones. This is called the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
  • KENDI DÉGRINGOLADE

    02/01/2025 8:31:57 AM PST · by Rummyfan · 7 replies
    Powerline ^ | 1 Feb 2025 | Steven Hayward
    Well, well, well: We have reported previously about the race-hustling academic fraud Ibram X. Kendi (here and here, for starters), whose lavishly funded Center for Anti-Racist Research at Boston University came under scrutiny for not producing any research, and being mismanaged in the extreme leading to massive staff layoffs. An audit by Boston University found “no wrongdoing,” though it is hard to resist the ironic suspicion that this was a whitewash.And now the other shoe drops: Kendi, who was seldom seen on the Boston University campus and apparently taught no classes, is leaving BU for Howard University, and—surprise—starting a new...
  • Three suspects in connected killings had prestigious academic backgrounds

    01/29/2025 10:21:59 AM PST · by bitt · 38 replies
    Three young people with prestigious, accomplished academic backgrounds are suspected in at least two brutal, connected killings. Maximilian Snyder, 22, and Teresa Youngblut, 21, sought a marriage license in Washington State in November. They have each been charged by authorities in separate January killings that claimed the lives of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont and an 82-year-old landlord in Vallejo, according to police and court records obtained by Open Vallejo, a California news outlet. Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old data scientist arrested in Northern California on Friday on suspicion of murder, and Teresa Youngblut, the 21-year-old computer science student charged...
  • MAGA: Harvard President Privately Concedes University Must 'Rethink Messaging' After Trump Win

    12/15/2024 12:27:07 PM PST · by george76 · 34 replies
    Red State ^ | December 14, 2024 | Mike Miller
    In this episode of "The No-Longer-Hallowed Halls of Academia"... In a bit of a surprise move, Harvard University president Alan M. Garber reportedly told faculty members in a closed meeting that they need to rethink their messaging following President-elect Donald Trump's decisive win in the 2024 general election, which also saw multiple down-ballot GOP wins, resulting into regaining control of the Senate and retaining the House. Translation: Garber reads the writing on the wall. Garber reportedly described his take on the post-election mood in Washington, D.C., which he said was the greatest threat to the university in recent memory, the...
  • Harvard Poll: Trump Finally Gets a Honeymoon; Job Approval High (54%)

    11/18/2024 9:40:41 PM PST · by dangus · 13 replies
    Based on Harvard/HarrisX poll. | 11/18/24
    Donald Trump never broke 50% job approval ratings in his first term, but he's smashing that barrier now... and the Senate had better pay attention. He's not in office, so the visible job he has is largely putting together his cabinet and establishing his strategy, but voters are loving it. 54% approve, and only 40% disapprove. This indicates that a substantial portion of voters who voted against him are warming up to him. https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/HHP_Nov2024_KeyResults.pdf A high initial approval rating normally doesn't mean much more than some of the people who voted against a new president are hopeful that the unfamiliar...
  • How America's Accurate Election Polls Were Covered Up

    11/18/2024 9:45:35 AM PST · by EnderWiggin1970 · 40 replies
    Racket News ^ | 11/15/24 | Matt Taibbi
    John McIntyre couldn’t believe it. The publisher of the Real Clear Polling National Average, America’s first presidential poll aggregator, woke on October 31st to see his product denounced in the New York Times. Launched in 2002 and long a mainstay of campaign writers and news consumers alike, the RCP average, he learned, was part of a “torrent” of partisan rubbish being “weaponized” to “deflate Democrats’ enthusiasm” and “undermine faith in the entire system.” “They actually wrote that our problem was we didn’t weight results,” says an incredulous McIntyre. “That we didn’t put a thumb on the scale.” The Times ended...
  • Donor backlash devastates Ivy League as Harvard, Columbia seek bailouts

    11/15/2024 5:39:59 PM PST · by Twotone · 54 replies
    The Blaze ^ | November 9, 2024 | Buck Throckmorton
    Ivy League universities, particularly Harvard and Columbia, have faced a crisis since October 2023, when both institutions revealed themselves as places where blatant anti-Semitism openly flourishes. Amid the anti-Semitic uprisings on campus, the presidents of both schools also faced academic plagiarism charges. Alumni and donors, who expected more from the schools’ leaders and did not share the apparent tolerance for Jew-hatred, have stopped contributing financially. As reputational and financial damage mounted, Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned in disgrace last January, and Columbia President Minouche Shafik followed in August. But with those poison Ivies still trying to find a way to...
  • Harvard and Princeton Professors Cancel Classes to Let Students ‘Recover’ from Election

    11/07/2024 4:35:00 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 47 replies
    National Review ^ | November 7, 2024 | Abigail Anthony
    Professors at Harvard and Princeton have canceled classes following Trump’s victory, and other units within the universities are offering “spaces” to process the election results. At Harvard University, the courses “Sociology 1156: Statistics for Social Sciences,” “Applied Math 22a: Solving and Optimizing,” and the general education courses “The Ancient Greek Hero” and “Popular Culture and Modern China” canceled Wednesday class sessions, made attendance optional, or extended assignment deadlines, according to the student-run paper the Crimson. An undergraduate student at Harvard told National Review that the first 30 minutes of a section meeting for the class “Gov 1790: American Foreign Policy”...
  • Is the New York Times gunning for a color revolution if Trump wins?

    10/29/2024 7:39:46 AM PDT · by Twotone · 32 replies
    The Blaze ^ | October 29, 2024 | Joseph Mackinnon
    The New York Times published a think piece last week strategizing how leftists might be able to thwart the will of American voters and rescue democracy from President Donald Trump should he win on Nov. 5. Using the term "democracy" euphemistically for a state of things in which Democrats or leftists of other stripes are in power, the authors — a pair of Harvard University professors hostile to Trump, the Constitution as written, and the Electoral College — recommended "societal mobilization" should the powers that be fail to get their way. Daniel Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky's call to action, which...
  • Harvard professors argue that America needs a 'militant democracy' to stop Trump

    10/25/2024 2:27:56 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 65 replies
    Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt advised pushing a "militant democracy" to ensure an "authoritarian figure" like former President Trump never rises to power again. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Levitsky and Ziblatt describe how they spent the last year "researching how democracies can protect themselves from authoritarian threats from within," lamenting how close Trump remains to getting a second term. "How could such an openly authoritarian figure have a coin flip’s chance of returning to the presidency? Why have so many of our democracy’s defenses seemingly broken down, and which, if any, remain?" they wrote....
  • Former Harvard President Claudine Gay Receives 'Leadership And Courage' Award Despite Controversy-Plagued Tenure

    10/12/2024 8:53:42 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | 10/12/2024 | Patrick McDonald
    Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, was recently given a “Leadership and Courage” award despite her controversial response to anti-Semitism and the plagiarism allegations that surrounded her time in Harvard’s leadership.The Harvard Black Alumni Society granted the award to the former Harvard president on Sept. 28 at a gathering of the school’s black alumni. Harvard Black Alumni Society President Monica M. Clark praised Gay and said: “This reunion — all these people who were expressing all this support for her — they were all there. Celebrating her, and clapping for her, and cheering her on.”One alumnus, Thomas G....
  • Alexander Solzhenitzyn Harvard Address

    10/10/2024 3:15:01 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 6 replies
    Solzhenitzyn Center ^ | 8/6/78 | Alexander Solzhenitzyn
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Commencement Address at Harvard University—8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation audio overlay; and English subtitles.} PLEASE NOTE: THERE DOES NOT EXIST A VIDEO WITH ONLY ONE LANGUAGE AUDIO. SORRY. THIS IS HOW IT WAS RECORDED. PLEASE TURN ON CC/SUBTITLES TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE ENGLISH.
  • Judge Dismisses Francesca Gino's Defamation Charges Against Harvard

    09/30/2024 6:48:32 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    The Harvard Crimson ^ | September 12, 2024 | Kyle Baek
    A federal judge dismissed the defamation charges in a lawsuit filed by Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino against the University, dealing a major blow to the embattled professor's efforts to rehabilitate her reputation and win millions from the school.In a Wednesday ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Myong J. Joun partially granted Harvard's motion to dismiss the lawsuit, writing that Gino had failed to plausibly allege that the University defamed her, violated her privacy, or unlawfully interfered with her relationships with publishers.Still, Joun allowed one key plank of the lawsuit to proceed: Gino's claim that Harvard breached its contract with...
  • Harvard cancels over 30 courses; far-left History & Literature classes hardest hit

    09/29/2024 12:16:45 PM PDT · by george76 · 39 replies
    College Fix, ^ | September 28, 2024 | Dave Huber
    Goodbye to ‘Marx at the Mall,’ ‘Global Transgender Histories,’ Dua Lipa Harvard has canceled over 30 fall semester courses encompassing 20 departments, but the History and Literature department took it on the chin the hardest. According to The Crimson, Hist-Lit Director of Studies Lauren Kaminsky said class offerings dropped from 19 to 13 classes after five lecturers either departed or chose to do something else. The canceled Hist-Lit courses include “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa,” “Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics,” “Global Transgender Histories,” “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” “The Making of...
  • Aliens May Be Walking Among Us, Harvard Scientists Claim

    09/27/2024 6:30:22 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 51 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | September 27, 2024 | Abdul Moeed
    Researchers suggest aliens could be walking among us on Earth. Credit: kingofthebigmacs / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Researchers from Harvard University recently explored the possibility of aliens walking among us on Earth. Although the study is independent and not directly linked to the university, it looks into the renewed fascination with UFOs. The government refers to these as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAPs. The United States is keeping an eye on over 650 possible UFOs, according to a Pentagon official last year. Harvard researchers Tim Lomas and Brendan Case, along with Michael Masters from Montana Technological University, have a...
  • Four years ago, a study said white doctors were effectively killing black babies. The study was wrong.

    09/19/2024 4:31:17 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 33 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 18 Sep, 2024 | Andrea Widburg
    Scientists finally re-analyzed the study and found that it was riddled with errors—but that didn’t matter then because it furthered the narrative. In America, an inordinate number of so-called “scientific” studies are subject to what’s called the “replication (or reproducibility) crisis.” If someone publishes a study that feeds into leftist shibboleths, no matter how poorly done the study is (small sampling, foolish assumptions, bad math, etc.), the results are widely trumpeted and become embedded in the popular consciousness. That the study cannot be replicated (run again from scratch) or reproduced (subject to a new analysis of the study’s data)—and often...
  • Cornell prof who lauded Hamas attack as ‘exhilarating’ is back at school after dodging punishment

    09/17/2024 3:05:13 PM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    New York Post ^ | Sep. 15, 2024 | Carl Campanile
    The radical Cornell University prof who lauded the Hamas terror attack on Israel as “exhilarating” and “energizing” dodged any punishment and is now back teaching at the upstate Ivy League school. Shamed history Professor Russell Rickford was out for the past year on “voluntary leave” after widespread public outcry when he was recorded at an off-campus anti-Israel rally cheering Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. ““It was exhilarating, it was energizing ….I was exhilarated,” Rickford said at the time — before apologizing for applauding the mass murder of innocent civilians. ... Rickford is now teaching at least...
  • Harvard Finally Releases Enrollment Data, Results Less Dire Than Predicted

    09/11/2024 9:13:34 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/11/2024 | John Sexton
    Yesterday, I pointed out that while a number of elite colleges and universities had released data on their enrollment after the end of Affirmative Action, Harvard had not. This seemed strange given that a) Harvard was one of two defendants in the case which eventually ended Affirmative Action and b) Harvard said it would release the data after the deadline to commit in May and yet four months later it hadn't done so.Today, Harvard finally released that data and the results do show a decline in black enrollment but also an uptick in Hispanic enrollment.The share of Black students declined...
  • Remedial math at Harvard University

    09/07/2024 6:01:12 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/07/2024 | Mike McDaniel
    Teaching was my second career. I enjoyed teaching high school and college English, but there were frustrations. Among them were college teachers and administrators complaining about how unprepared incoming freshmen were. I know what you’re thinking: plenty of high school teachers are awful. It’s their fault when kids entering college can’t read or write or do math. Without question, there are some poor teachers out there. After all, 50% of people in every endeavor are below average. However, there are two arguably more important factors to consider. The first is the effort of each student. The greatest teacher in the...